v8.0.16: Bug fixes

✨ New features and improvements

• Make Ops.asarray implementations more robust.

🔴 Bug fixes

• Fix issue #624: Support CPU inference for models trained with gradient scaling.
• Fix issue #633: Fix invalid indexing in Beam when no states have valid transitions.
• Fix issue #639: Improve PyTorch Tensor handling in CupyOps.asarray.
• Fix issue #649: Clamp inputs in Ops.sigmoid to prevent overflow.
• Fix issue #651: Fix type safety issue with model ID assignment.
• Fix issue #653: Correctly handle Tensorflow GPU tensors in tests.
• Fix issue #660: Make is_torch_array work without PyTorch installed.
• Fix issue #664: Fix out of-bounds writes in CupyOps.adam and NumpyOps.adam.

⚠️ Backwards incompatibilities

• The init implementations for layers no longer return Model.

📖 Documentation and examples

• Add notebook demonstrating Bloom embeddings.
• Fix LSTM benchmark example.
• Update installation instructions.

👥 Contributors

@adrianeboyd, @danieldk, @honnibal, @ines, @kadarakos, @koaning, @notplus, @richardpaulhudson, @shadeMe