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* Implemented deferred initialization via `device='meta'` option for te.Linear and added new PyTorch example to demonstrate its use with FullyShardedDataParallel execution.
Signed-off-by: Alp Dener <adener@nvidia.com>

* correcting Float8Tensor initialization and fixing linting errors
Signed-off-by: Alp Dener <adener@nvidia.com>

* removed duplicate code from upstream rebase, local tests passing
Signed-off-by: Alp Dener <adener@nvidia.com>

* improved comments/documentation for FSDP example
Signed-off-by: Alp Dener <adener@nvidia.com>

* converted reset_parameters() into a base module function
Signed-off-by: Alp Dener <adener@nvidia.com>

* fixed Float8Tensor creation with deferred init, all tests passing locally
Signed-off-by: Alp Dener <adener@nvidia.com>

* extended deferred initialization to all TE modules
Signed-off-by: Alp Dener <adener@nvidia.com>

* fixed linting errors
Signed-off-by: Alp Dener <adener@nvidia.com>

* removed unnecessary reference to the parent module of parameter, added clarifying comments in parameter reset
Signed-off-by: Alp Dener <adener@nvidia.com>

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Signed-off-by: Alp Dener <adener@nvidia.com>

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

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

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

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

* Initial commit for fp8 calibration.
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@dlcluster.nvidia.com>

* Fixes to make unit tests pass
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@dlcluster.nvidia.com>

* Added test and finished implementation
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>

* Cleaning up handling of save_for_backward in Linear
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>

* Removing commented lines
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>

* Minor fix to mnist test.
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>

* Pylint cleanup
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>

* Moving stats computation to the forward pass instead of pre_forward, and extending to all other layers
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>

* Pylint cleanup
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>

* Pylint cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>

* Fixing unit test failures.
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>

* Misc changes
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>

* Fixing bad indentation from master merge and moving some code into the needs_stats conditional
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@dlcluster.nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: schetlur-nv <116769508+schetlur-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Sharan Chetlur <schetlur@dlcluster.nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Przemek Tredak <ptredak@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>