Final SparseML (#2368)

* Update NOTICE

* Delete CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

* Delete DEVELOPING.md

* Delete CONTRIBUTING.md

* Update MANIFEST.in

* Update README.md

* Update setup.py

* Update .MAINTAINERS

suppress pydantic warnings for model_ fields (#2344) (#2345)

Fix for OOM Errors during Ultrachat200k Finetuning (#2180) (#2181)

* testing fix

* get rid of repeated log

* revert yaml

[Cherry-pick] Hotfix 1.6.1 for license changes (#1915)

* Update NOTICE (#1871)

* Update NOTICE

changed reference to DS LICENSE-NEURALMAGIC to LICENSE.

* Update NOTICE

fixed apache reference.

* Update NOTICE

Last fix

* pick up license change and update version to 1.6.1

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Co-authored-by: Rob Greenberg <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: dhuang <[email protected]>

[Cherry-Pick][Fix] Failing `test_save_zoo_directory` tests (#1869)

* "AttributeError: 'torch._C.Value' object has no attribute 'float'" sparseml.transformers.export_onnx for zoo:bert-base_cased-squad_wikipedia_bookcorpus-pruned80.4block_quantized (#1847)

* [Fix] Failing  tests

[Cherry Pick 1.5.4] Fix Index error with nm-transformers 1.5.1 upgrade (

#1708)

* Fix Index error with 1.5.1 transformers upgrade

* Deafult resolve_archive_file to None instead of empty list

* Update Hotfix version

* Remove failing tensorflow_v1 tests; they are outdated and not supported now

[cherry-pick 1.5.3] pin pydantic to <2.0 (#1645) (#1651)

* pin pydantic to <2.0 (#1645)

* bump version to 1.5.3

[1.5.2] restrict pandas to <2.0 (#1634)

* restrict pandas to <2.0

this fixes a bug in the latest NM 1.5 supported transformers datasets that is incompatible with pandas 2.0. Future releases will support later datasets versions

* bump version to 1.5.2

Adds back a required argument in default.yaml (#1620)

Updates the hotfix version

Set bias as optional for convolution folding. Needed for CLIP (#1581)

* Set bias as optional for convolution folding. Needed for CLIP

* Quality fixes

* Merge