v0.0.17: AWS Neuron SDK 2.16, Mistral, sentence transformers, inference cache

What's Changed

AWS SDK

• Use AWS Neuron SDK 2.16 (#398)
• Use offical serialization API for transformers_neuronx models instead of beta by @aws-yishanm (#387, #393)

Inference

• Improve the support of sentence transformers by @JingyaHuang (#408)
• Add Neuronx compile cache Hub proxy and use it for LLM decoder models by @dacorvo (#410)
• Add support for Mistral models by @dacorvo (#411)
• Do not upload Neuron LLM weights when they can be fetched from the hub by @dacorvo (#413)

Training

• Add general support for generation on TRN with NxD by @aws-tianquaw (#370)

Tutorials and doc improvement

• Add llama 2 fine tuning tutorial by @philschmid (#390)

Major bugfixes

• Skip pushing if the user does not have write access to the cache repo by @michaelbenayoun (#405)

Other changes

• Bump Hugging Face library versions by @JingyaHuang (#403)

New Contributors

• @aws-tianquaw made their first contribution in #370
• @aws-yishanm made their first contribution in #387

Full Changelog: v0.0.16...v0.0.17