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* Add fused attention unit tests
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* Use NVTE_* enums
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* Use NVTE_Mask_Type and remove FMHADescriptor
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* Move common functions to utils
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* Change namespace to fused_attn
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* Move fused_attn_max_512_fwd_qkvpacked under the general APIs
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* Add fused_attn_max_512_bwd_qkvpacked
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* Move fused_attn_max_512_bwd_qkvpacked under the general APIs
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* Remove redundant blank line
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* Fix a potential bug for cu_seqlen converter
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* Reformat fused_attn_max_512
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* Refine the unfused attention warning message
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* Rename to fused_attn_max_512
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* Remove the deprecated header
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* Fix flax import
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* Rename to fused attn
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* Add attention related mask
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* Add attn_mask_type and attn_bias_type
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* Refactor jax primitive API
* Merge q_cu_seqlen and kv_cu_seqlen
* Remove is_causal_masking
* Replace seed with rng_state
* Add is_training argument
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* Remove dsoftmax from the customcall
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* Add None guard for bias and dropout_rng
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* Add version guard
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* Add is_fused_attn_kernel_available() to correctly dispatch the attention impl
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* Fix the merge conflict
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* Adjust the code style
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* Add the missing blank lines
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* Change the order of FADescriptor members
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* Enhance the readability of fused_attn_max_512.cu
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* Generalize the input dimension unpacking
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* 16 bits fused attention requires 8.9.1
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* Update fused attention support matrix
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* Handle None type when sharding
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* Change to the padding ratio
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* Performance optimization for non-bias cases
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* Revert the cudnn-frontend PRIVATE keyword which was used for debugging
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* Revert "Update fused attention support matrix"

This reverts commit 4effe67d0f08f733919a329ce5ab421958740f4a.
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* Treat b * s as total_seqs to align ragged cases
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* Add FP16/BF16 max_seqlen <= 512 fused attention to the support matrix
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* Refine test_fused_attn.py

* Replace reference code with flax.linen
* Remove unnecessary comments
* Use AttnMaskType
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* Unify the cuDNN compile version
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* Add dropout to the support matrix
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* Slightly adjust the headers
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* Typo fix: remove redundant either
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* Consolidating fused attention requirements
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* Replace cudnn_frontend::throw_if with NVTE_CHECK for the better error line report
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* Rename to fused_attn_fp16_bf16_max_seqlen_512 for the better readability
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* Remove CUDNN_FRONTEND_UNUSED
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* Add more annotations to the custom calls
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* Use NVIDIA Sans font in Transformer Engine documentation
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* Use NV font for the names in the API
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correct cuDNN version requirement
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* Adjust Module Structure.

1. Collect Flax related modules to a sub-folder, flax.
2. Add a function to unify scale_init for zero-centered-gamma LN.
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* Make changes be compatible to previous versions.
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* Adapt jax/examples to the new module structure.
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* Update jax/docs and Add deprecated warning.
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* Update README
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* Adding deprecated_wrapper
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* Adding deprecated warning to flax modules which imported via transformer_engine.jax
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* Fix CI errors and update docs.
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* Removing unnecessary deprecated warning in docs.
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* Implementing __iter__ to DeprecatedEnum.
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* Recursively checkout submodules
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* Fix
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* Add guide to build from source
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* Fix
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* Add FP8 fused attention to TE for PyTorch
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* add license for cudnn-frontend, modify installation requirements, and refactor some headers for aesthetics
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* add c api docs for fused attention
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* add exception for unsupported precision/sequence length combinations
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* fix installation requirement for non fused attn use cases
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* fix docs for fused-attn
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* prefix enums with NVTE_ and replace old MHA_Matrix with NVTE_QKV_Matrix
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* minor fixes based on PR comments
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* fix description for kvpacked fwd
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* fix description of Bias in C api
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* minor fixes for cudnn requirement and description for QKV tensors
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* fix QKV layout description and support matrix for C api
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* add asserts to cpp_extensions for qkv layout/bias type/attn mask type
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* fix typo precision
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* Clean up the installation instruction. We where telling to install the dev version in the README.
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* Typos
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* Update installation instructio for JAX and add some depenencies.
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* Bring back support for none pip installed pybind11.
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* Apply suggestions from code review
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* Changes following review.
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* Change order to make it more clear.
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* Add other reviers suggestion.
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* pybind11 is needed for all FW.
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* Add flax as a dep
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* Update README.rst
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* Updated TE/JAX docs
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* Adding TE/JAX docs' rst files
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* Set DType as pybind11::module_local() to avoid generic_type errors.
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* Updating license and exporting more modules
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* Adopting autoapi and removing enum_tools.
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* Fix typo
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* Make jax.rst be style consistent.
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* Fixing doc statements as the suggestion from review.
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* Fixing doc statements as the suggestion from code review.
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* Update the description of Softmax
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* Removed categories in catalog as PyTorch
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* Change from AutoDoc to AutoAPI
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* Fixes
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* WAR for the wrong autosummary generation
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* Change common to be in line with pytorch API docs
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* Add GitHub Action to build docs
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* Fix
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* Trying to fix the versions
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* Remove redundant amax AR for SP case
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* update advanced docs
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* add flash attention to TransformerLayer
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* Add docs for FP8 calibration (#61)
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* Fix the integer overflow in fused softmax (#60)
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* prefix flash attn env var with NVTE_
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* Address steady memory increase and bloated checkpoints (#63)
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* fix env var logic
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* fix flash attn env var logic again
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* remove d2d copies (#64)

* remove d2d copies
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* cleanup
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* Increase number of FP8 tensors per GEMM (#22)

* Increase number of FP8 tensors per GEMM
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* Enable FP8 output tensor for fp8_gemm
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* [BERT FP8] Initial TE review comments
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* Temporary fix for cuda graph non convergence
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* Address review comments-2
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* Review comments-3
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* Cleanup
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* Change for New API
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* Remove unnecessary clone for D_scale, D_amax
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* Avoid Roll for AMAX history size = 1
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* Update onnx_te_gemm API
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* Fix Lint errors
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* Bug fixes from PR 22 (#65)

* Bug fixes from PR 22
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* Add FP8 tests to ci
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* bundle unittests for ci
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* replace rearrange with transpose
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* QKV parameters unfused path fixes and optimization (#66)

* Bug fixes from PR 22
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* Add FP8 tests to ci
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* Better QKV parameter fusion
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* small fix
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* keep original param for unfused case to retain externally set attrs
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* lint fix
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* Fix ONNX exports
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* improve arg naming
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* No need to set data pointers
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* lint
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* Assert memory loc in NoopCat
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* Handle case of different memory in param and buffer
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* fix assert always true
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* Reassign params memory to avoid more concats
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* Fix gradients when using AMP (#70)

retain grad related attrs while casting
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* fix pylint violations 

fixed pyline violations such as trailing white spaces and too long lines 
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* fix pylint violation on line 264 with R1719
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* fix two more pylint violations
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* DotProductAttention API
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* Add docs for attention
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* fix assert always true
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* check for correct flash-attn version
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* address review comments
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* lint+build fixes, correct settings for default flash-attn
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* correct version
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* review comments and fixes
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* fix onnx and disable flash-attn export test
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* remove einops dependency
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* cleanup internal API; rm duplication
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* fix
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* only install TE wheel (exclude flash-attn to rm conflicts)
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* forgot to change install wheel path
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* next round review comments
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* fix flash_attn output
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* fix QK layer scaling
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* update docs
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* review comments and fixes to selective checkpointing
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* docs: remove build warnings and add FP8 caching note
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* add comment about amax history
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* Softmax docs and type fixes
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* lint whitespace
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* change API, better naming, const fixes
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* Documentation for advanced perf optimizations

Fix bug where we were doing backward passes inside fp8_autocast in example notebooks.
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* Minor tweaks to advanced perf optimization docs

Review suggestions from @ptrendx
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* Rewording sequence parallelism in advanced perf optimization docs

Review suggestion from @ksivaman
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Signed-off-by: Tim Moon <4406448+timmoon10@users.noreply.github.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>

* Fix bugs for full activation recompute in FP8
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* Ensure identical numerics in recomputation for pipeline parallelism
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

* expose checkpoint API and add docs
Signed-off-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>

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

Signed-off-by: Przemek Tredak <ptredak@nvidia.com>

Co-authored-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Przemek Tredak <ptredak@nvidia.com>