What's Changed

• Disable "validating ..." comment if initial_validation is False by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1499
• Add simple issue templates by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1501
• Add note about dependencies by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1502
• Update test_readme.py by @Andrei-Aksionov in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1505
• Print message when unnecessary can't be deleted by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1507
• Bumb version by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1509
• LitGPT Python API v1 by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1463
• Fix pip upgrade command on windows by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1513
• add LLM.generate with streaming by @aniketmaurya in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1511
• Fix and update Python API docs by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1514
• Update LLM import and make stream/non-stream option consistent by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1515
• Extend Python API to initialize model with random weights by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1512
• Add Python API download option by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1516
• Add Rope group size as constexpr to fix thunder tests by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1520
• Explain how to access pretraining dataset options by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1510
• Bump thunder by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1519
• Add automatic checkpoint downloading in Python API by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1521
• Tokenizer: prefer HF Tokenizer by @Andrei-Aksionov in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1518
• iterate response from streaming server by @aniketmaurya in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1523
• Add new python API to readme by @williamFalcon in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1525
• Remove init="local" option by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1524
• Readme improvements by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1526
• Add evaluate to Readme by @rasbt in https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/pull/1528

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Lightning-AI/litgpt/compare/v0.4.1...v0.4.2