What's Changed
* Enable using kwargs for selecting pad-to-max-length strategy for tokenizer in embeddings by kcirred in https://github.com/caikit/caikit-nlp/pull/393
* Update torch requirement from <2.5.0,>=2.3.1 to >=2.3.1,<2.6.0 by dependabot in https://github.com/caikit/caikit-nlp/pull/398
* [embeddings] extend kwargs to functions that call _encode_with_retry by kcirred in https://github.com/caikit/caikit-nlp/pull/400
New Contributors
* kcirred made their first contribution in https://github.com/caikit/caikit-nlp/pull/393
**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/caikit/caikit-nlp/compare/v0.5.7...v0.5.8