v0.17.6 Patch Release

What's Changed

• Update version.txt after 0.17.5 release by @loadams in #7502
• Support DeepSpeed offload and reload states with ZeRO1 and ZeRO2 by @LYMDLUT in #7421
• CI funding shout out to modal.com by @stas00 in #7503
• Fix assert when 'pp_int' object has no attribute 'custom_print_str' by @aeeeeeep in #7507
• Update TSC Committers by @PKUWZP in #7517
• Enabling Muon Optimizer in DeepSpeed by @PKUWZP in #7509
• Enable non-ZeRO mode by @sfc-gh-truwase in #7515
• Update README with ZenFlow release blog featured by PyTorch. by @Antlera in #7520
• Add riscv64 cpu support in deepspeed_shm_comm op by @heyujiao99 in #7519
• ZeRO3: Improve mismatch detection by @sfc-gh-truwase in #7525
• fix typo s/1014 /1024 by @digger-yu in #7528
• undo the revert by @stas00 in #7536
• [logging] less startup noise by @stas00 in #7526
• [doc] fixing moe tutorial by @stas00 in #7538
• docs typo: lrrt.md, reference to cycle_min_lr should be cycle_max_lr by @jakehemmerle in #7530
• fixed DeepSpeedCPULion with ZeRO-Offload bug by @qibin0506 in #7531
• Fix scaling and allgather with torch.autocast by @tohtana in #7534
• Fix zenflow_torch_adam.py by @stas00 in #7544
• Relax restrictions of torch.autocast integration by @tohtana in #7543
• Autotune ZenFlow affinity by @delock in #7506
• fix get_cuda_compile_flag by @mingjielu in #7521
• avoid setting device_id to init_process_group by @kaixuanliu in #7542
• Improve error message and reduce validation in autocast test by @tohtana in #7547
• Revert "Add index to HPU devices (#7497)" by @deepcharm in #7545
• [ALST tutorial] support bs>1 by @sfc-gh-sbekman in #7550
• [MoE] Fix misuse of num_experts as expert parallel group size (ep_size) by @Flakes342 in #7551
• Limit random seed range in tests by @tohtana in #7553
• Fix gradient buffer access for DeepCompile Z1/2 by @tohtana in #7548
• Move modal tests to tests/v1 by @tohtana in #7557
• Add dependency for deepcompile test by @tohtana in #7558
• deepcompile: Create dummy inputs using empty_strided by @eternalNight in #7564
• deepcompile: Record graph order using OrderedDict by @eternalNight in #7563
• deepcompile: Create a full list of no-copy ops by @eternalNight in #7562
• fix npu device_id AttributeError issue by @we1sper in #7560
• Make Muon optimizer easier to enable by @delock in #7555
• scripts: Check .is_cuda only in non-C++ files by @eternalNight in #7561
• [bugfix] fix partition context unpatch by @hjh0119 in #7566

New Contributors

• @LYMDLUT made their first contribution in #7421
• @aeeeeeep made their first contribution in #7507
• @heyujiao99 made their first contribution in #7519
• @jakehemmerle made their first contribution in #7530
• @qibin0506 made their first contribution in #7531
• @mingjielu made their first contribution in #7521
• @kaixuanliu made their first contribution in #7542
• @sfc-gh-sbekman made their first contribution in #7550
• @Flakes342 made their first contribution in #7551
• @we1sper made their first contribution in #7560
• @hjh0119 made their first contribution in #7566

Full Changelog: v0.17.5...v0.17.6