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* Experimental FP8 tensor
Co-authored-by: Tim Moon <tmoon@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Sudhakar Singh <sudhakars@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Przemyslaw Tredak <ptrendx@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* Add fp8 tensor to ci test
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* review comments and tests
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* Minor changes
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* Default to FP8 usage
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* Fix docs
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* Naming changes
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* minor fix
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* Fix transpose caching
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* Debug transpose caching

Handle case where transpose cache is updated externally.
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* Rename FP8GlobalStateManager.with_fp8_parameters
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* remove Float8Tensor from import API
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* Avoid caching FP8 transposes if not required
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* Fix import error in FP8 tensor tests
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* Fix tranpose caching and checkpointing bug
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* Improve caching and fix distopt case
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* Update transformer_engine/pytorch/float8_tensor.py
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* Remove recursive logic
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* Fix cache reset bug
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* Store FP8 attributes in dict

Easier for multiple tensors to share, e.g. detached tensors.
Signed-off-by: Tim Moon <tmoon@nvidia.com>

* Make sure scale_inv is 1D tensor
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* Make sure scale_inv is 1D tensor
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* Fixes and detach recipe
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* Set default fp8 data type
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Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Moon <tmoon@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Moon <4406448+timmoon10@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Sudhakar Singh <sudhakars@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Przemyslaw Tredak <ptrendx@gmail.com>