DeepSpeed v0.17.0

What's Changed

• Update next version in version.txt after 0.16.9 release. by @loadams in #7306
• Update COMMITTERS.md by @PKUWZP in #7305
• Fix AutoTP gathering replaced layer params when bias is not None by @HollowMan6 in #7257
• Fix the GPU memory usage of ZeRO-Offload (only update stage_1_and_2.py) by @arminzhu in #7309
• Fix: Update grad norm calculation for CPU offload by @therealnaveenkamal in #7302
• CI: prefer bf16 over fp16 by @stas00 in #7304
• tests/conftest.py: automatically add local deepspeed repo when running tests by @stas00 in #7317
• Update gaudi2 nightly,ci to latest 1.21.0 build by @raza-sikander in #7313
• anchor transformers version by @stas00 in #7316
• fix asymmetric in dequantize by @pencil-hub in #7283
• Ulysses SP for HF Integration by @stas00 in #7268
• Fix ci hang in torch2.7& improve ut by @inkcherry in #7321
• Bump to v0.17.0 by @sfc-gh-mwyatt in #7324

New Contributors

• @PKUWZP made their first contribution in #7305
• @arminzhu made their first contribution in #7309
• @therealnaveenkamal made their first contribution in #7302
• @pencil-hub made their first contribution in #7283
• @sfc-gh-mwyatt made their first contribution in #7324

Full Changelog: v0.16.9...v0.17.0