Outlines

What's Changed
* Fix typo in llama.cpp documentation by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/835
* Add azure_openai to models __init__.py by lassiraa in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/840
* Add phone number and zip code custom types by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/849

New Contributors
* lassiraa made their first contribution in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/840

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/compare/0.0.40...0.0.41

What's Changed
* Exclude escape character in JSON string fields by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/829
* Add tweets about Outlines by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/830
* Add `model_name` as an optional parameter for `azure_openai` by HerrIvan in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/825
* Force dates, uuid, datetimes, times to be between quotes by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/831


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/compare/0.0.39...0.0.40

What's Changed
* Add page with projects from the community by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/816
* Add documentation vLLM for multiple GPUs by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/817
* Add `torch` dependency in installation instructions by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/818
* Add DirectMerge article by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/819
* Add cookbook to run Outlines on the cloud with Modal by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/803
* Fix torch optional import by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/821


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/compare/0.0.38...0.0.39

What's Changed
* Improve documentation of generation methods by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/769
* Small typo fix in cookbook example by mkretsch327 in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/775
* allow json ints to be negative by posionus in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/777
* Add vLLM integration by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/772
* Add nvidia to list of companies using Outlines by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/783
* Add nvidia logo by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/784
* Add SGLang as a user of outlines by merrymercy in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/786
* Fix missing text module from json documentation by ibndias in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/791
* Change white space pattern in llama.cpp test by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/793
* Update the `llama.cpp` integration by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/782
* Switched order of AzureAsyncOpenAI to AsyncAzureOpenAI by gfade in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/798
* Add downloads badge by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/801
* Add a small grammar guide by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/802
* Remove unused dependencies by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/804
* Update the README with articles on structured generation by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/805
* Make `torch` and `transformers` imports optional by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/815

New Contributors
* mkretsch327 made their first contribution in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/775
* merrymercy made their first contribution in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/786
* ibndias made their first contribution in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/791
* gfade made their first contribution in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/798

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/compare/0.0.37...0.0.38

What's Changed
* Refactored exl2 method to add LoRA, 8bit cache, and other features supported by exllama by psych0v0yager in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/729
* Update the docstring of `exl2` by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/742
* Added model_kwargs by isamu-isozaki in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/744
* Fix generation of multi-token unicode characters by ai-and-i in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/738
* Make `model_kwargs` dictionary by default by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/747
* Check if the given token is a string by silverriver in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/745
* Add BibteX citation by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/755
* fixed parsing token vocabularies for gemma and gpt-sw3 models by ai-and-i in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/763
* fix: Do not reset `RegexLogitsProcessor._fsm_state` by saattrupdan in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/760

New Contributors
* psych0v0yager made their first contribution in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/729
* ai-and-i made their first contribution in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/738
* silverriver made their first contribution in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/745

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/compare/0.0.36...0.0.37

What's Changed
* Restore FSM interface for backward compatibility by rlouf in https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/pull/741


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines/compare/0.0.35...0.0.36