* feat(huggingface-api): #9671 add image support to HuggingFaceAPIChatGenerator
* docs: add release notes for image support in HuggingFaceAPIChatGenerator
* Fixed comments on PR: implementation, testing, default value for validation
* refinements
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* Fix types in test_run.py
* Get test_run.py to pass fmt-check
* Add test_run to mypy checks
* Update test folder to pass ruff linting
* Fix merge
* Fix HF tests
* Fix hf test
* Try to fix tests
* Another attempt
* minor fix
* fix SentenceTransformersDiversityRanker
* skip integrations tests due to model unavailable on HF inference
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* 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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