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* refine docs for multi-backend alpha release

* docs: further tweaks to multi-backend alpha docs

* docs: further tweaks to multi-backend alpha docs

* docs: further tweaks to multi-backend alpha docs

* docs: add multi-backend feedback links

* docs: add request for contributions

* docs: small fixes

* docs: small fixes

* docs: add info about `main` continuous build

* docs: further tweaks to multi-backend alpha docs

* docs: further tweaks to multi-backend alpha docs

* CI/CD: Add step to publish wheels on tag creation

* Remove file

* Restrict pre-release workflow branches

* Update PyPI publishing

* Update PyPI publishing

* Update package workflow name

* continuous pre-release only on main

* cpu benchmark

* try to fix formatting

* cleanup

* cleanup

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* Change 8bit optimizer blocksize 2048->256; additional bf16 support
* Update tolerances for 8bit optimizer tests

* Add AdEMAMix optimizer

* Add PagedAdEMAMix32bit, AdEMAMix32bit

* Add PagedAdEMAMix32bit, AdEMAMix32bit

* AdEMAMix: add support for alpha/beta3 scheduling

* Update paged AdEMAMix

This makes it possible to load an optimizer checkpoint without
automatically moving the optimizer's state to the GPU.

Updates the requirements on [matplotlib](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib) to permit the latest version.

Updates `matplotlib` to 3.9.2
- [Release notes](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/releases)
- [Commits](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/compare/v3.9.1...v3.9.2

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Updates the requirements on [pytest](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest), [wheel](https://github.com/pypa/wheel) and [scipy](https://github.com/scipy/scipy) to permit the latest version.

Updates `pytest` from 8.3.2 to 8.3.3
- [Release notes](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)
- [Commits](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/compare/8.3.2...8.3.3)

Updates `wheel` to 0.44.0
- [Release notes](https://github.com/pypa/wheel/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/pypa/wheel/blob/main/docs/news.rst)
- [Commits](https://github.com/pypa/wheel/compare/0.43.0...0.44.0)

Updates `scipy` from 1.14.0 to 1.14.1
- [Release notes](https://github.com/scipy/scipy/releases)
- [Commits](https://github.com/scipy/scipy/compare/v1.14.0...v1.14.1

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* Update for VS2022 17.11 compatibility with CUDA < 12.4

* Try again

* remove kcompress

* fix initial template call

* fix function name

* remove vector load

* cleanup reduce  & rearrange

* format

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* Done

* fix format

* fix format

* fix format

* fix format

* Address format error and fix default arg bug

* Refine stream argument passing mechanism

* Fix bug

* Delete unused code

* Embedding4bit and Embedding8bit implementation

* lint

* Update bitsandbytes/nn/modules.py
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* Update bitsandbytes/nn/modules.py
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* Update bitsandbytes/nn/modules.py
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* saving -> Saving

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[FSDP] Enable loading prequantized weights with bf16/fp16/fp32 quant_storage

Bumps the minor-patch group with 1 update: [pytest](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest).


Updates `pytest` from 8.3.1 to 8.3.2
- [Release notes](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/releases)
- [Changelog](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)
- [Commits](https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/compare/8.3.1...8.3.2

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