Feature/upgrade timm mlflow onnxconverter

[michele-milesi]

Summary

Describe the purpose of the pull request, including:

• Upgraded timm
• Upgraded onnxconverter-common
• Upgraded mlflow
• Added backbones
• Fixed properties initialization of SklearnMlflowClient

Type of Change

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• New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)

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• I have tested my changes locally and they work as expected. (Please describe the tests you performed.)
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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR updates core ML/experiment dependencies (timm, mlflow-skinny, onnxconverter-common), bumps the library version to 2.8.0, and expands the available timm backbone Hydra configs while adjusting a few code paths for the upgraded libraries (notably timm imports and MLflow logging/client initialization).

Changes:

• Upgrade dependencies and bump quadra version to 2.8.0 (incl. lockfile refresh).
• Add many new backbone configuration YAMLs and update a couple of existing backbone model names.
• Adjust timm imports and update MLflow logging/client initialization behavior.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
quadra/utils/models.py	Update timm import path for DropPath; tweak typing/casts around gradcam paths.
quadra/utils/mlflow.py	Change how models are logged to MLflow (switch to name=..., add step=-1) and initialize MLflow client properties earlier.
quadra/models/classification/backbones.py	Update timm import path for load_checkpoint.
quadra/configs/backbone/csatv2.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/dinov3_vitb16.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/dinov3_vits16.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/edgenext_s.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/efficientnet_em.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/efficientnetv2_b1.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/fasternet_t0.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/fasternet_t1.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/fasternet_t2.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/ghostnet_v3.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/hgnet_v2.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/mobilenet_edgetpu_v2.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/mobilenetv4_m.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/mobilenetv4_s.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/regnety_016.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/repvit.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/rexnet.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/shvit_s1.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/shvit_s2.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/shvit_s3.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/shvit_s4.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/starnet_s2.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/starnet_s3.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/starnet_s4.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/swiftformer_l1.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/swiftformer_l3.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/swiftformer_s.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/swiftformer_xs.yaml	New timm backbone config.
quadra/configs/backbone/resnet18_ssl.yaml	Update timm model name for SSL ResNet18.
quadra/configs/backbone/efficientnetv2_s.yaml	Update timm model name for EfficientNetV2-S.
quadra/init.py	Bump package version constant to 2.8.0.
pyproject.toml	Bump project version and pin upgraded dependencies (mlflow-skinny/timm/onnxconverter-common).
poetry.lock	Lockfile refresh for upgraded dependency set.
CHANGELOG.md	Add 2.8.0 release notes (new backbones + dependency upgrades + MLflow client fix).

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[lorenzomammana]

Nice