pymc-devs/pytensor: rel-2.29.0

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What's Changed

Major Changes 🛠

• Deprecate batched blas helpers by @ricardoV94 in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1215
• Modify atleast_Nd to accept only one positional argument by @Abhinav-Khot in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1291
• Remove Unbroadcast Op by @ricardoV94 in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1286

New Features 🎉

• Add numpy-like vecdot, vecmat and matvec helpers by @twiecki in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1250
• Allow more specialized linalg.solve assume_a cases by @ricardoV94 in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1273

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix einsum failing with repeated inputs by @Abhinav-Khot in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1260

Maintenance 🔧

• Allow passing numpy arrays to transpose by @velochy in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1258
• Speedup import time with lazy import of scipy.stats by @ricardoV94 in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1268
• Allow broadcasting in specialized numba dispatch of AdvancedIncSubtensor by @ricardoV94 in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1272
• Speedup Scan in different backends by @ricardoV94 in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1281

New Contributors

• @velochy made their first contribution in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1258
• @Abhinav-Khot made their first contribution in https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/pull/1260

Full Changelog: https://github.com/pymc-devs/pytensor/compare/rel-2.28.3...rel-2.29.0