1.8.6

Summary

• Reenable support for PyTorch 1.11 (after Pyro's 1.8.5 release had narrowly required torch>=2.0)
• Improve docstrings of Pyro's distribution wrappers around torch distributions #3246

What's Changed

• Refactor ProvenanceTensor to use pytree by @ordabayevy in #3223
• Create FUNDING.yml by @fritzo in #3224
• Remove DataParallel container in SS-VAE model by @martinrohbeck in #3227
• Fix jit ELBO sign error by @fritzo in #3229
• Replace flake8+isort with ruff by @fritzo in #3231
• fix _loc_scale method in AutoMultivariateNormal by @martinjankowiak in #3233
• Revert to support torch>=1.11.0 by @francois-rozet in #3242
• Concatenate torch docstrings at end of distribution wrappers by @fritzo in #3246
• Disable pdf builds on readthedocs by @fritzo in #3250
• Disable pdf and epub build on readthedocs by @fehiepsi in #3251
• Fix #3245 bug in poutine.trace(graph_type="dense") by @fritzo in #3247
• Bump version to to 1.8.6 by @fritzo in #3252

New Contributors

• @francois-rozet made their first contribution in #3242
• @rtviii collaborated with @fritzo in #3246

Full Changelog: 1.8.5...1.8.6