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Release Mon, Oct 19, 2026 1 min read

Hugging Face Transformers Patch 5.20.2

Original release notes

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