Merge pull request #2724 from benediktjohannes/patch-7

Follow-up for last commit of Balandat

Merge pull request #2698 from cornellius-gp/svgp_caches

LargeBatchVariationalStrategy caches triangular solves for test time

Update conda deploy task

Fix the shape bug in `RQKernel` when using deep GPs

There was a shape mismatch bug when using the rational quadratic kernel in deep GPs; see #2674. The root cause is that the `alpha` parameter was not unsqueezed into a correct shape.

* Unsqueeze `alpha

* Revise comments for fix to RQKernel

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Co-authored-by: Kaiwen Wu <37524685+kayween@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Kaiwen Wu <kwwu2015@gmail.com>

Fix failing example

RFF/linear prediction strategy fix (#2671)

* [Bugfix] reduce number of Cholesky calls with RFF models.

* Use RFF prediction strategy for linear kernels; add tests

* Fix failing tests

* Rename cached items in LinearPredictionStrategy

* Rename test_rff_gp_regression -> test_lowrank_gp_regression

Version bump (#2627)

Fix conda deploy

Merge pull request #2541 from cornellius-gp/pre-commit-config

Corrected configuration of ``exclude`` statements in ``pre-commit`` configuration

Deprecate checkpointing (#2361)

* Deprecate checkpointing

* Remove checkpointing from test