Weekly Progress Summary

Group Accomplishments:

• Continued work on individual issues.
• Shared debugging strategies and provided peer feedback on active pull requests.
• Reviewed progress on previously discussed issues and clarified ongoing tasks.

Individual Contributions:

• Haocheng Lu: Continued improving PR #37350 based on reviewer suggestions.
• Yufeng Xu: Explored implementation strategies for issue #37345 and reviewed related GitHub discussions.
• Haochen Yang: Investigated a state dict bug in IterableDataset (in datasets), tested a local fix, and documented findings in the issue thread.
• Minjun Zhu: Offered guidance on breaking down issue #36310 into smaller, actionable tasks.

Challenges Faced:

• Some PRs are still pending maintainer review, causing delays.
• Debugging complex internal behaviors in datasets (e.g., lazy loading and state restoration) remains time-consuming.

Next Steps:

• Finalize current pull requests and ensure they pass review.
• Submit fixes with full test coverage for datasets issues.
• Start implementing selected features from issue #37345.
• Plan a short demo or walkthrough for the next session.