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* Add Linear layer (FP16)
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

- Add BF16 training example
- Add fp8_autocast (only supports non-fp8 for now)
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Remove FP8 stuff
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Simplify Linear layer forward
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Add LayerNorm layer (BF16)
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* Add LayerNormLinear layer
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Store weights in BF16
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* Add LayerNormMLP layer
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* Add BF16 MNIST example
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* Remove in-place cast for compatibility with Paddle AMP mechanism
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* README correction
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* Add Paddle op as a backend option
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* Fix code format
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* Fix dtype change between iterations
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* Minor fixes
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* Move forward function out of base layer
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* Use Paddle nvtx bindings
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Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>