Refactor huggingface config support

garak/configurable.py

@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ def _apply_config(self, config):
                     )
                 ):
                     continue
+                if isinstance(v, dict):  # if value is an existing dictionary merge
+                    v = getattr(self, k) | v
             setattr(self, k, v)  # This will set attribute to the full dictionary value
 
     def _apply_missing_instance_defaults(self):
@@ -96,6 +98,9 @@ def _apply_missing_instance_defaults(self):
             for k, v in self.DEFAULT_PARAMS.items():
                 if not hasattr(self, k):
                     setattr(self, k, v)
+                elif isinstance(v, dict):
+                    v = v | getattr(self, k)
+                    setattr(self, k, v)
 
     def _validate_env_var(self):
         if hasattr(self, "key_env_var"):

garak/generators/base.py

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ class Generator(Configurable):
 
     active = True
     generator_family_name = None
+    parallel_capable = True
 
     # support mainstream any-to-any large models
     # legal element for str list `modality['in']`: 'text', 'image', 'audio', 'video', '3d'