v0.18.1 Patch Release

What's Changed

• Add ZenFlow code for Stage 3 by @JoshWoo2003 in #7516
• [XPU][CI] recover xpu-max1100 workflow by @Liangliang-Ma in #7630
• Take **kwargs in init of DeepSpeedZeroOptimizer subclasses by @eternalNight in #7634
• add support for tensor learning rate (vs scalar) by @NirSonnenschein in #7633
• Fix illegal memory access with multi_tensor_apply size above INT_MAX by @wangyan-mms in #7639
• No Muon optimizer for embeding and lm_head layer by @delock in #7641
• z2: report param name and not zero id in assert by @stas00 in #7637
• z2: don't pass dtype to report_ipg_memory_usage by @stas00 in #7636
• Ulysses HF Accelerate integration by @stas00 in #7638
• Add DataStates-LLM: Asynchronous Checkpointing Engine Support by @mauryaavinash95 in #7166

New Contributors

• @JoshWoo2003 made their first contribution in #7516
• @wangyan-mms made their first contribution in #7639

Full Changelog: v0.18.0...v0.18.1