* Handle dynamo function without input (#5565) (#5577)

* Make cpu tensor on XLA dynamo backend a warning instead of error (#5549) (#5576)

* [author: jluntamazon] Adding more explicit HLO lowering control by exposing LoweringContext… (#5431) (#5580)

* Adding more explicit HLO lowering control by exposing LoweringContext (and utilities) to python for Neuron

* fixing linter issues

* fixing spacing

* apply comments and fix compilation errors

* add test for new apis

* fix linter

* update test

* update test

* modify test

* reverse back to GetIrValue()

* update test inputs with random numbers

* skip unittest because it only fails in CI

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* fixing num_local_processes typo (#5573) (#5579)

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* Move where clear pending IR is called to avoid crash (#5552) (#5582)

* Move where clear pending IR is called to avoid crash

* fix CI

* fix CI and add some debugging messages

* Fix release branch and tag patterns for GitHub Actions (#5587) (#5590)

* Improve bernoulli rng-bit-generation memory footprint (#5581) (#5589)

* Allow downcasting RngUniform genenration for Bernoulli

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* Enable xla:gpu autocast for bfloat16 if not restricted (#5570) (#5591)

* Enable autocast for XLA:GPU

* linter fix

* XLA autocast test for GPU and TPU

* linter fix

* Ensure that xla autocast is properly enabled for GPU and does not crash when torch cuda is not available.

* linter fix

* Add tests

* Support bf16

* linter fix

* exclude unsupported test cases

* increase GPU test timeout to 300

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* Cherry-pick: Don't trigger CI build on release tag push (#5595)

Copy of #5594 on release branch

* formatting

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