* rename model parameter and internam model attribute in ExtractiveReader
* fix tests for ExtractiveReader
* fix e2e
* reno
* another fix
* review feedback
* Update releasenotes/notes/rename-model-param-reader-b8cbb0d638e3b8c2.yaml
* first draft for ranker
* same for the reader
* consider also bnb_4bit_compute_dtype
* dtype serialization in hugging_face_local_generator
* add release note
* address dtype defined in huggingface_pipeline_kwargs
* test quantization options in reader
* fix
* serialize quantization_config
* test quantization_config serialization
* address feedback
* fix typo
* Add answer deduplication
* Fix test
* Handle None case
* Release notes
* Handle cases where documents or answer spans could be None
* Adding checks for Nones and satisfying mypy
* Add option to turn off deduplication
* Adding unit tests
* Refactored tests to use fixtures
* Added overlap_threshold to run
* Update test
* Fixes related to the merge
* Remove casting, use direct variable names
* Move out if statement and add new test for it
* Update if statement to match comment
* Update how if statements work
