Litdata

What's Changed
* Update README.md by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/143
* Performance improvement for processing by sritterginkgo in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/146
* Fix: Resolve drop_last not passed down from the StreamingDataLoader to the datasets by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/147
* Bump pytest from 8.2.0 to 8.2.1 by dependabot in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/148
* LitData release version bump 0.2.8 by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/153

New Contributors
* sritterginkgo made their first contribution in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/146

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.7...v0.2.8

What's Changed
* Fix the NoHeaderTensorSerializer for 1D tensors (other than tokens) by enrico-stauss in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/124
* Fix infinite sleep when loading local compressed dataset. by wzf03 in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/127
* Fix configuration of a custom serializers for one of the predefined types by enrico-stauss in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/125
* Add dist env detection via env vars by gkroiz in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/95
* Fix empty tensor deserialization by enrico-stauss in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/131
* Bump JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action from 4.5.0 to 4.6.1 by dependabot in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/132
* Prevent race deletion by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/136
* Add support for exact iteration by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/139
* Bump LitData version 0.2.7 by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/142

New Contributors
* enrico-stauss made their first contribution in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/124
* wzf03 made their first contribution in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/127
* gkroiz made their first contribution in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/95

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.6...v0.2.7

What's Changed
* Bump pytest from 8.0.2 to 8.2.0 by dependabot in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/115
* Bump coverage from 7.4.4 to 7.5.0 by dependabot in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/117
* Bump pytest-cov from 4.1.0 to 5.0.0 by dependabot in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/116
* Resolve some bugs by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/121
* Add support for `iterate_over_all` for the CombinedDataset by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/122
* Update version 0.2.6 by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/123


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.5...v0.2.6

What's Changed
* Remove condition on torch installation by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/110
* Bump version 0.2.5 by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/111


**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.4...v0.2.5

What's Changed
* Update LitGPT references in README.md by rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/90
* Don't raise a runtimeError if the downloader doesn't exist. by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/98
* Added call to setup function of serializer class to set data format by vgurev in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/96
* Fix `map()` failing to create dataset when `input_dir` is None by awaelchli in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/100
* Streamingdataset torch compatibility by yhl48 in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/108
* Move to version 0.2.4 by tchaton in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/109

New Contributors
* rasbt made their first contribution in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/90
* vgurev made their first contribution in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/96
* awaelchli made their first contribution in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/100
* yhl48 made their first contribution in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/pull/108

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.3...v0.2.4

**Full Changelog**: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litdata/compare/v0.2.2...v0.2.3