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* Make amax reduction optional
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* remove setup for global amax redux for optional case
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* Improve documentation
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* Address documentation review
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* Documentation fix
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* better FP8 checkpointing
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* Making checkpointing backwards compatible
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* Add deprecation warning for old checkpoint loading
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* fix checkpointing for fp8 recompute case
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* improvements to deprecation warning
Co-authored-by: Przemyslaw Tredak <ptrendx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Przemyslaw Tredak <ptredak@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Przemyslaw Tredak <ptrendx@gmail.com>