Hugging Face Transformers: Release v4.41.1 Fix PaliGemma finetuning, and some small bugs

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$ python -m pip install 'transformers==4.41.1'

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Hugging Face Transformers v4.41.1. Source highlight: Fix PaliGemma finetuning:

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# Release v4.41.1 ## Fix PaliGemma finetuning: The causal mask and label creation was causing label leaks when training. Kudos to @probicheaux for finding and reporting! - https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/a755745546779ae5c42510bc02a859bdac82b3b7 : PaliGemma - fix processor with no input text (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/30916) @hiyouga - https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/a25f7d3c12975fe21eab437dda7363e9024de7c0 : Paligemma causal attention mask (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/30967) @molbap and @probicheaux Other fixes: - https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/bb48e921868ac750417956de941606f7e2fa02ca: tokenizer_class = "AutoTokenizer" Llava Family (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/30912) - https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/1d568dfab262f76079eb4f3d05b606d51a0c9e4b : legacy to init the slow tokenizer when converting from slow was wrong (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/30972) - https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/b1065aa08ac0da11fcb9e3827cd7eafabe4beebd : Generation: get special tokens from model config (https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/30899) @zucchini-nlp Reverted https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/commit/4ab7a28216211571fdddba414d4edd8426ab6489

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