v1.2.0

Improvements

• Flash-BEATs: rewrite BEATs attention to use PyTorch SDPA and add a batched fbank frontend — faster inference, AMP-safe fp32 frontend, with SDPA-equivalence and batched-fbank regression tests (#191, #192, #160, #174)
• V2 part 1: relax dependency constraints and clean up the public API (#191)
• Support integer layer indices in addition to layer names for embedding extraction (#168)
• Add Python 3.13 support (#178)

Bug fixes

• Fix empty esp_aves2_eat_* checkpoints on Hugging Face (#183)

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.2.0

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who opened issues, reviewed pull requests, and contributed commits that made this release possible.

Issue reports: @eharris128

Code & commits: @nkundiushuti, @david-rx, @GaganNarula, @mil-ad

Reviews & discussion: @GaganNarula

We are grateful for your time and feedback.