v1.38.0

1.38.0 (2023-12-11)

Features

• Release GenerativeModel support for Gemini (cd233ef)
• Add explicit constraints for update_ray_cluster (979a4f3)
• Check if dataset exists before creation for Ray on Vertex BigQuery Write (544d6fe)
• LLM - Added support for the logprobs, presence_penalty, frequency_penalty, and logit_bias generation parameters (1449344)
• Support read_index_datapoints for private network. (c9f7119)
• Support custom batch size for Bigframes Tensorflow (7dc8771)
• Update the v1 service definition to add numeric_restricts. (d0c2ffa)
• Verify client and cluster Ray versions match (10c6ad2)

Bug Fixes

• read_index_endpoint private endpoint support. (3d8835e)
• Fix exception message to use vertexai when project is not provided. (0cb1a7b)
• Update test assumption for streaming endpoint of chat-bison@001 (f9a5b69)
• When user is not logged in, throw more intuitive message (a8b24ad)

Documentation

• Add default value to optional field parameter_values (0a4d772)

v1.37.0

1.37.0 (2023-12-05)

Features

• Add additional parameters to Model.upload(). (7b7d7d2)
• Adding support for concurrent explanations (8e2ad75)
• Allow configuring container logging settings on models when deploying. (beae48f)
• Support user provided api endpoint. (92f2b4e)
• Add grpc_ports to UploadModel ModelContainerSpec, add DirectPredict, DirectRawPredict, StreamingPredict, StreamingRawPredict to PredictionService. (6dfbad7)

Bug Fixes

• Clarify wording when Ray on Vertex cluster is missing head node ip (4a71c8c)
• Fix error when allowed_plugins is set to None. (6f2860a)
• Fixed INTEGER and BOOL parameters casting issue. Fix conversion bug where INTEGER and BOOL parameters are not cast to the correct type. (9a204c4)
• Make PipelineJobSchedule propagate labels to created PipelineJobs (a34533f)

Documentation

• Add upload Tensorboard profile log to Experiment sample. (5780513)
• Update the documentation for the image_dataset class (8562368)

v1.36.4

1.36.4 (2023-11-16)

Features

• Add numeric_restricts to MatchingEngineIndex find_neighbors() for querying (6c1f2cc)
• Add remove_datapoints() to MatchingEngineIndex. (b86a404)
• Add upsert_datapoints() to MatchingEngineIndex to support streaming update index. (7ca484d)
• LLM - include error code into blocked response from TextGenerationModel, ChatModel, CodeChatMode, and CodeGenerationModel. (1f81cf2)
• Populate Ray Cluster dashboard_address from proto field (dd4b852)
• add CountTokens API, ComputeTokens API, and ModelContainerSpec features (ba2fb39)

Bug Fixes

• Add check for empty encryption_spec_key_name for MatchingEngineIndexEndpoint create. (7740132)
• Fix server error due to no encryption_spec_key_name in MatchingEngineIndex create_tree_ah_index and create_brute_force_index (595b580)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Release 1.36.4 (1fd7b4e)

v1.36.3

1.36.3 (2023-11-14)

Features

• Add option to not use default tensorboard (a25c669)
• Add preview HyperparameterTuningJob which can be run on persistent resource (0da8c53)
• Add Featurestore Bigtable Serving, Feature Registry v1, November bulk GAPIC release (9f46f7c)

Documentation

• Fix documentation for obsolete link to GCS formatting (95184de)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Release 1.36.3 (fdee5cb)

v1.36.2

1.36.2 (2023-11-10)

Features

• Add encryption_spec_key_name to MatchingEngineIndex create_tree_ah_index and (1a9e36f)
• Add encryption_spec_key_name, enable_private_service_connect,project_allowlist to MatchingEngineIndexEndpoint create. (750e17b)
• Add index_update_method to MatchingEngineIndex create() (dcb6205)
• Expose max_retry_cnt parameter for Ray on Vertex BigQuery write (568907c)
• LLM - Grounding - Added support for the disable_attribution grounding parameter (91e985a)
• LLM - Support model evaluation when tuning chat models (ChatModel, CodeChatModel) (755c3f9)
• LVM - Added multi-language support for ImageGenerationModel (791eff5)

Bug Fixes

• Async call bug in CodeChatModel.send_message_async method (fcf05cb)

Documentation

• Add Bigframes remote training example to vertexai README (8b993b3)
• Update the documentation for the tabular_dataset class (6f40f1b)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Release 1.36.2 (01be0c9)

v1.36.1

1.36.1 (2023-11-07)

Features

• Add per_crowding_attribute_neighbor_count, approx_num_neighbors, fraction_leaf_nodes_to_search_override, and return_full_datapoint to MatchingEngineIndexEndpoint find_neighbors (33c551e)
• Add profiler support to tensorboard uploader sdk (be1df7f)
• Add support for per_crowding_attribute_num_neighbors approx_num_neighborsto MatchingEngineIndexEndpoint match() (e5c20c3)
• Add support for per_crowding_attribute_num_neighbors approx_num_neighborsto MatchingEngineIndexEndpoint match() (53d31b5)
• Add support for per_crowding_attribute_num_neighbors approx_num_neighborsto MatchingEngineIndexEndpoint match() (4e357d5)
• Enable grounding to ChatModel send_message and send_message_async methods (d4667f2)
• Enable grounding to TextGenerationModel predict and predict_async methods (b0b4e6b)
• LLM - Added support for the enable_checkpoint_selection tuning evaluation parameter (eaf4420)
• LLM - Added tuning support for the *-bison-32k models (9eba18f)
• LLM - Released CodeChatModel tuning to GA (621af52)

Bug Fixes

• Correct class name in system test (b822b57)

Documentation

• Clean up RoV create_ray_cluster docstring (1473e19)

Miscellaneous Chores

• Release 1.36.1 (1cde170)

v1.36.0

1.36.0 (2023-10-31)

Features

• Add preview count_tokens method to CodeGenerationModel (96e7f7d)
• Allow the users to use extra serialization arguments for objects. (ffbd872)
• Also support unhashable objects to be serialized with extra args (77a741e)
• LLM - Added count_tokens support to ChatModel (preview) (01989b1)
• LLM - Added new regions for tuning and tuned model inference (3d43497)
• LLM - Added support for async streaming (760a025)
• LLM - Added support for multiple response candidates in code chat models (598d57d)
• LLM - Added support for multiple response candidates in code generation models (0c371a4)
• LLM - Enable tuning eval TensorBoard without evaluation data (eaf5d81)
• LLM - Released CodeGenerationModel tuning to GA (87dfe40)
• LLM - Support accelerator_type in tuning (98ab2f9)
• Support experiment autologging when using persistent cluster as executor (c19b6c3)
• Upgrade BigQuery Datasource to use write() interface (7944348)

Bug Fixes

• Adding setuptools to dependencies for Python 3.12 and above. (afd540d)
• Fix Bigframes tensorflow serializer dependencies (b4cdb05)
• LLM - Fixed the async streaming (41bfcb6)
• LLM - Make tuning use the global staging bucket if specified (d9ced10)
• LVM - Fixed negative prompt in ImageGenerationModel (cbe3a0d)
• Made the Endpoint prediction client initialization lazy (eb6071f)
• Make sure PipelineRuntimeConfigBuilder is created with the right arguments (ad19838)
• Make sure the models list is populated before indexing (f1659e8)
• Raise exception for RoV BQ Write for too many rate limit exceeded (7e09529)
• Rollback BigQuery Datasource to use do_write() interface (dc1b82a)

v1.35.0

1.35.0 (2023-10-10)

Features

• Add serializer.register_custom_command() (639cf10)
• Install Bigframes sklearn dependencies automatically (7aaffe5)
• Install Bigframes tensorflow dependencies automatically (e58689b)
• Install Bigframes torch dependencies automatically (1d65347)
• LLM - Added support for multiple chat response candidates (587df74)
• LLM - Added support for multiple text generation response candidates (c3ae475)

Bug Fixes

• Duplicate logs in Colab (9b75259)
• LLM - Fixed tuning and evaluation when explicit credentials are specified (188dffe)
• Resolve Artifact Registry tags when creating PipelineJob (f04ca35)
• Resolve Artifact Registry tags when creating PipelineJob (06bf487)

Documentation

• Add probabilistic inference to TiDE and L2L model code samples. (efe88f9)

v1.34.0

1.34.0 (2023-10-02)

Features

• Add Model Garden support to vertexai.preview.from_pretrained (f978200)
• Enable vertexai preview persistent cluster executor (0ae969d)
• LLM - Added the count_tokens method to the preview TextGenerationModel and TextEmbeddingModel classes (6a2f2aa)
• LLM - Improved representation for blocked responses (222f222)
• LLM - Released ChatModel tuning to GA (7d667f9)

Bug Fixes

• Create PipelineJobSchedule in same project and location as associated PipelineJob by default (c22220e)

Documentation

• Add documentation for the preview namespace (69a67f2)

v1.33.1

1.33.1 (2023-09-20)

Bug Fixes

• Lightning trainer fails to be unwrapped in remote training (8271301)