Pytorch-pfn-extras

Enhancements and bug-fixes
This release includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

* Add `distributed` option to the `create_evaluator` function to support creating `DistributedEvaluator` (675, 733)

See the list of [merged pull-requests](https://github.com/pfnet/pytorch-pfn-extras/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av0.7.3) for the details.

Enhancements and bug-fixes
This release includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

* Add `wait_for_first_optimizer_step` option to `LRScheduler` extension that prevents stepping LR schedulers before stepping optimizers. 737
* Fix `IntervalTrigger` trigger to correctly handle an epoch number given in float. 738
* Fix `Snapshot` extension to only trigger the cleanup process in the saver rank. 732
* Improve `ppe.cuda.stream` to propagate PyTorch's device ID to CuPy. 745
* Add [Quick Start](https://pytorch-pfn-extras.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/quick_start.html) documentation. #743
* Improved [API Reference](https://pytorch-pfn-extras.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/index.html). #731

See the list of [merged pull-requests](https://github.com/pfnet/pytorch-pfn-extras/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av0.7.2) for the details.

Enhancements and bug-fixes
This release includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

* Fix CUDA profiling with `ppe.profiler` to respect the current device 726

See the list of [merged pull-requests](https://github.com/pfnet/pytorch-pfn-extras/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av0.7.1) for the details.

Enhancements and bug-fixes
This release includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

* `ppe.compile` API to produce computational graphs with joint backward and optimizer steps 714
* Snapshot support for objects with `state_dict` passed in the options kwarg to `Trainer` and `Manager` 702
* Evaluator with `float16` support 698
* Multiple fixes to `pfto` 669 684 687 715
* Fixed a problem in which autoload of snapshot could not be read when a Writer is specified. 692
* Fixed a problem that caused model train/eval mode switching after Evaluator execution to not work correctly. 697

No compatibility changes

* Support for PyTorch 1.9 and Python 3.7 has been removed from the code base 706

See the list of [merged pull-requests](https://github.com/pfnet/pytorch-pfn-extras/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av0.7.0) for the details.

Enhancements and bug-fixes
This release includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

* Use state_dict to decide name of initializers 670
* Fix `autocast` options consumption with trainer 668
* Various PFTO fixes

See the list of [merged pull-requests](https://github.com/pfnet/pytorch-pfn-extras/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av0.6.7) for the details.

Enhancements and bug-fixes
This release includes the following enhancements and bug fixes:

* Support PyTorch 2.0 645
* Add a Logic class for clousure mode optimization 657
* Enable new PyTorch autocast options 649

See the list of [merged pull-requests](https://github.com/pfnet/pytorch-pfn-extras/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av0.6.6) for the details.