* Getting device_map working to support 8bit loading and multi device inference
* Update to take account the device specified by the user
* add release notes
* Add device_map support for ExtractiveReader
* Update test
* Update to model that doesn't have issues
* Update test
* Update pytest approx
* Update release notes
* Start supporting device map
* Update ExtractiveReader to use new ComponentDevice
* Update similarity ranker to follow extractive reader implementation
* Fixing pylint
* Make mypy mostly happy
* Add new unit test to test device_map
* Adding unit tests
* Some refactoring
* Add more tests
* Add more tests
* Add another unit test
* Update first_device property to return a ComponentDevice to be able to use the to methods
* Updating tests for test_device
* Update tests and now explicitly modify device_map in model_kwargs
* Update haystack/utils/hf.py
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* Make mypy happy
* mypy
* Remove unneeded optional flag
* Update ExtractiveReader with new logic
* Update ranker to follow new logic
* Removing unneeded code
* Make mypy happy
* fxi pylint
* Fix test
* Adding unit tests for device_map="auto"
* Add unit tests for ranker
* PR comments
* Make util method
* Adding unit tests
* Fix type annotation
* Fix pylint
* Fix test
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* rename model parameter in the openai doc embedder
* fix tests for openai doc embedder
* rename model parameter in the openai text embedder
* fix tests for openai text embedder
* rename model parameter in the st doc embedder
* fix tests for st doc embedder
* rename model parameter in the st backend
* fix tests for st backend
* rename model parameter in the st text embedder
* fix tests for st text embedder
* fix docstring
* fix pipeline utils
* fix e2e
* reno
* fix the indexing pipeline _create_embedder function
* fix e2e eval rag pipeline
* pytest
* support single metadata dict in markdown2document
* reno
* unwrap list
* direct key access
* typing
* add example of indexing pipeline using Multiplexer
* reno
* replace metadata w meta in tests/examples
* do not touch already broken e2e tests
* Revert "do not touch already broken e2e tests"
This reverts commit 1f911920d98954b57daacfe8d8ed02fd77d136db.
