* origin/master: (48 commits)
  Fix autotune to support Triton 2.1  (deepspeedai#4340)
  Fix skipped inference tests (deepspeedai#4336)
  Suppress noise (deepspeedai#4310)
  Fix a bug in the implementation of dequantization for inference (deepspeedai#3433)
  DS-Chat BLOOM: Fix Attention mask (deepspeedai#4338)
  clear redundant timers (deepspeedai#4308)
  Add release version checking (deepspeedai#4328)
  Fix Zero3 contiguous grads, reduce scatter false  accuracy issue (deepspeedai#4321)
  Clean up modeling code (deepspeedai#4320)
  Handle empty parameter groups (deepspeedai#4277)
  Update README.md (deepspeedai#4316)
  README update (deepspeedai#4303)
  Update release and bump patch versioning flow (deepspeedai#4286)
  added a bert-model check for triton (deepspeedai#4266)
  ZeRO-Inference v2 release
  bump to 0.10.4
  Update index.md (deepspeedai#4297)
  fix user args parsing of string with spaces on runner (deepspeedai#4265)
  ZeRO-Inference refresh (deepspeedai#4197)
  AMD Kernel Compatibility Fixes (deepspeedai#3180)
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