BERTopic Files

Highlights:

* Add `.delete_topics` by [@shuanglovesdata](https://github.com/shuanglovesdata) in [#2322](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2322) * Allow execution without plotly by [@luismavs](https://github.com/luismavs) in [#2401](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2401) * Add tqdm to _litellm.py [@NFrnk](https://github.com/NFrnk) in [#2408](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2408) * Drop support for python 3.9 by [@afuetterer](https://github.com/afuetterer) in [#2419](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2419) * Make UMAP's init default to random on visualize_topics for reproducible visualization by [@makramab](https://github.com/makramab) in [#2412](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2412)

cuML:

Preparing for MEGA!-scale BERTopic with [Multi-GPU UMAP](https://github.com/rapidsai/cuml/issues/3330#issuecomment-3376951158) and the following necessary updates: * Update installation instructions for cuML with BERTopic by [@csadorf](https://github.com/csadorf) in [#2446](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2446) * Speed up `._create_topic_vectors` by replacing DataFrame .loc with NumPy masking [@jinsolp](https://github.com/jinsolp) in [#2406](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2406) * Modify _reduce_dimensionality to use fit_transform by [@betatim](https://github.com/betatim) in [#2416](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2416)

Fixes:

* Fix incorrect label in zero-shot svg in documentation by [@huisman](https://github.com/huisman) in [#2448](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2448) * Enable ruff rule RUF by [@afuetterer](https://github.com/afuetterer) in [#2457](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2457) * CI: bump github actions versions by [@afuetterer](https://github.com/afuetterer) in [#2427](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2427) * CI: prefer action-pre-commit-uv for lint job by [@afuetterer](https://github.com/afuetterer) in [#2434](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2434) * CI: switch to uv based project installation by [@afuetterer](https://github.com/afuetterer) in [#2445](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2445) * Chore: update pre-commit hooks by [@afuetterer](https://github.com/afuetterer) in [#2414](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2414) and [#2443](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2443) * Chore: remove obsolete `version_info` check by [@afuetterer](https://github.com/afuetterer) in [#2444](https://github.com/MaartenGr/BERTopic/pull/2444)