v0.2.1: NxD refactoring

What's Changed

Inference

• Add qwen2 nxd by @dacorvo in #863
• Support Qwen3 by @jlonge4 in #847
• Add support for phi3 models using the nxd backend by @dacorvo in #867
• Add pixart models to cache CI by @JingyaHuang in #869
• Add granite nxd modeling and remove HLO backend by @dacorvo in #873
• chore(mixtral): align compile options to NXDi by @tengomucho in #875
• Refactoring T5 implementation for NxD support by @JingyaHuang in #876
• Improve diffusers cache CIs by @JingyaHuang in #872

Training

• Initial PR for peft by @michaelbenayoun in #839
• Support for PP with custom modeling by @michaelbenayoun in #857
• Cleanup legacy parallelism support by @michaelbenayoun in #866
• Fix workflows for training by @tengomucho in #874
• Remove optimum/neuron/distributed by @michaelbenayoun in #877

General

• feat: add a tool to decode binary HLOs by @dacorvo in #870

Documentation

• update guidellm version to reproduce examples properly by @jlonge4 in #852
• Tutorial for Qwen3 Fine-tuning by @tengomucho in #865

New Contributors

• @jlonge4 made their first contribution in #852

Full Changelog: v0.2.0...v0.2.1