Impact Score: 5/10
Hugging Face Transformers: Patch release v5.20.2
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Analysis updated: 2026-10-31.
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Hugging Face Transformers v5.20.2. Source highlight: Patch release: v5.20.2
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🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (4)
- Fix inputs dict casting in generate (#49731)
- Fix zero expert gradients in bfloat16 with expert parallelism and ep_size < fsdp_size (#49688)
- Declare the input modalities of the VLMs that report text only (#49677)
- Avoid a host-to-device copy in eager_mask (#49684)
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# Patch release: v5.20.2
This patch notably solves an issue where some inputs could loose their original type inside `prepare_inputs_for_generation` in `generate`, leading to problems with multimodal models. It also fixes some other issues listed on the below commits.
It contains the following commits:
- Fix inputs dict casting in generate (#49731) by @Cyrilvallez
- Fix zero expert gradients in bfloat16 with expert parallelism and ep_size < fsdp_size (#49688) by @qgallouedec
- Declare the input modalities of the VLMs that report text only (#49677) by @qgallouedec
- Avoid a host-to-device copy in eager_mask (#49684) by @hmellor
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