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* Avoid updating real during param cast
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* Review comments
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Do not allocate FP8 workspace buffers when params are FP8
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* added missing parameter materialization on real device for LayerNorm and RMSNorm
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* added new unittest for deferred initialization and modified parameter materialization to support standalone execution outside of FSDP
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* restored tensor parallel attributes that were being wiped out by the parameter reset
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* fixed incorrect order of fp8 metadata initialization
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* added deferred init unittest to the QA script
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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.
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* correcting Float8Tensor initialization and fixing linting errors
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* removed duplicate code from upstream rebase, local tests passing
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* improved comments/documentation for FSDP example
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* converted reset_parameters() into a base module function
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* fixed Float8Tensor creation with deferred init, all tests passing locally
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* extended deferred initialization to all TE modules
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* fixed linting errors
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* removed unnecessary reference to the parent module of parameter, added clarifying comments in parameter reset
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* Refactor parameter split in Linear module

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* Make noop_cat a standalone operation
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* Update parameter splits in LayerNormLinear
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* Debug case without bias

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* Remove unused import
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* fix lint
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* fix jax/paddle for unit tests
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* fix jax/pytorch lint
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* simplify stride generation
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* fix and/or logic in get_backend
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* fix flag_max512 and test_numerics
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* remove v.contiguous() since get_qkv_layout covers it
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* skip fp8 tests for sm89
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* further fix jax CI
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* fix jax CI
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* revert mask type to comma-separated list
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* fix lint
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* fix last two commits
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* integrate v1/pre-release-5
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* cleanup prerelease5 integration and fix FA2.1 commit
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* force dropout to 0 if not training
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* fix Jax CI
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* testing bias/alibi and padding+causal; add alibi to unfused DPA
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* set flag_arb to false when non determinism is not allowed
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* followup on prev commit; remove redundant python env var setting
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* WIP: minor tweaks for tests
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* prepare for tests
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* fix determinism logic for fused attn
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* add bias to bwd
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* fix gpt_checkpointing/dpa_accuracy problem
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* fix some seg fault issues
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* add failure notes
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* remove use of non-deter var for backend selection
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* minor fix for lint and CI
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* fix workspace size in bwd and uncomment bias test
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* fix get_alibi and remove check_support
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* update tests status
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* remove workspace_opt from FADescriptor_v1
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* disable arbitrary backend + post scale bias in Jax; waiting on PR 525
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* clean up bhsd order
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* swap bias/rng_state order in aux_ctx_tensor and add bias to aux_ctx_tensor in _qkvpacked/_kvpacked API
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* remove support for padding_causal + cross for max512
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* change alibi bias to float32 for bias_1_4/5 tests
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* further clean up tests
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* fix thd fwd output shape for FlashAttention and add backend info for DPA
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* fix definition of workspace limit when dbias is present
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* further tweak DP_WORKSPACE_LIMIT definition
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* disallow alibi+no_mask for sdpa flash and update alibi tests
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* update jax/paddle after PR525 and fix DP_WORKSPACE_LIMIT for dbias Jax tests
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* disable dbias for non-hopper archs
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* fix layernorm lint
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* remode unused arg for lint
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* remove build dir in setup.py
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* change selection logic to prefer fused attn on sm90
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* fix distributed jax test
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* fix h and s order in header
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* update to cudnn fe v1 branch
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* remove manual setting of workopt path due to dbias after v1 update
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* fix paddle CI
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* add post_scale_bias and alibi to sdpa flash support matrix
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* fix support matrix in header files
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* move headers back to .cu and change seed/offset to int64
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* update Megatron commit in L1 test and remove all prints in fused attn test
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* fix L1 Megatron test
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* fix fp8 arg in L1 Megatron script
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* print only when debug flag is on
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* remove checkpointing loading to avoid loading other tests results
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* Float8Tensor uses cached transpose if available
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* Fix bug with non-2D transpose
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* Custom pickling for Float8Tensor
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* Debug test for pickling Float8Tensor
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* Fix merge conflict
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* Review suggestions from @sudhakarsingh27

Avoid FP8 casts when copying between Float8Tensors. Make make_like a class function.
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* Add unit test for checkpointing model with FP8 params

Debugged pickling and copy functions.
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* Experimental FP8 tensor
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* Add fp8 tensor to ci test
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* 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

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* 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
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* Set default fp8 data type
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* Drop eval for selective checkpointing tests
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* Remove redundant recompute for FA
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* CI fix; Decouple fused attention and numerics tests
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* Repro for RS output mismatch with Single GEMM + Split pipelined RS
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* minor changes for AG->GEMM pipelined overlap
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* Add Atomic Gemm cublasApi attributes and initial implementation of AG->Atomic GEMM
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* AtomicGemm+RS functional with workaround
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* add amax update to layernorm_linear for FP8 unit test accuracy
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* Enable reducescatter2_userbuff_strided variants
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* Bug fix
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* AG+AtomicGemm overlap functional but gemm doesnt overlap with comm
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* Add userbuffers_sendrecv kernel variants
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* TransformerLayer API changes to enable AtomicGemm+RS overlap
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* Code cleanup
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* Code cleanup2
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* [UB] AllGather Atomic GEMM overlap using userbuffer_sendrecv kernels
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* Code cleanup + bug fix for multiatomic sendrecv kernel
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* cleanup
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* Bug fixes
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* [UB] Add shuffling for better AG AtomicGEMM overlap
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* Bug fix for AG AtomicGemm overlap
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* Bug fix for multiAtomicAG and singleAtomicAG
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* Use chunk_i+1 as recv_chunk for multiatomic_AG with shuffling
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* Launch AtomicGEMM after first-chunk AG
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* Rebase to main
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* Add FP8 ReduceScatter kernels, AtomicGEMM+FP8 RS not functional
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* Revert "Add FP8 ReduceScatter kernels, AtomicGEMM+FP8 RS not functional"

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* Add support for NVLS-MC and FP8 Reduce Scatter
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* Bug fix
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* Atomic and Multiatomic FP8 RS functional
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* Remove debug print
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* UB comm initialization hang fix
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* Code cleanup
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* Create new GEMM API for Atomic GEMM
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* CI ready
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* license
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* Revert NVLS-MC
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* Cleanup
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* Add experimental warning
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* Better wording
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* Add warning to c api
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* [PyTorch] Implement GQA based on fused q, k, v projection. Additionally fixes #392
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* [PyTorch] Extend parameters_split option in Linear and LayerNormLinear to support splitting with different sizes as required by unfused GQA.
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* fix parameters split
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* fix noop cat to bypass torch.cat and support uneven split
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* fix unit tests
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* fix torch.split args
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* fix cuda graph due to noop_cat
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* fix lint
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* remove the use of enumerate when possible
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* fix strides in SplitAlongDim
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* Enable the model to be change precision between iterations
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* Add test
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* Fix for the test
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* Reorder methods by purpose
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* Save full global state
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* Fix
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* Fix tests
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* More fixes to test
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* Optimize calls to .cpu() during checkpointing
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* Fixes for ONNX
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Bug fix for checkpointing
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* Ignore IDE files
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* Fix typing errors
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* Ignore devcontainer files
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* Avoid import from private module
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* Apply @timmoon10 's suggestions
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* extend fp8 weight placeholders logic for Linear, LNLinear, LNMLP
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* Update transformer_engine/pytorch/module/base.py
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* Update transformer_engine/pytorch/module/base.py
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* Update transformer_engine/pytorch/module/base.py
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* Update transformer_engine/pytorch/module/base.py
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* Update transformer_engine/pytorch/module/base.py
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* Update transformer_engine/pytorch/module/layernorm_linear.py
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* Update transformer_engine/pytorch/module/layernorm_mlp.py
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* Update transformer_engine/pytorch/module/linear.py
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* Update linear.py
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* Update layernorm_linear.py
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* Update layernorm_mlp.py
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* lint
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* Clearer error messages for dtype and shape assertions
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* Update transformer_engine/pytorch/utils.py
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* Update transformer_engine/pytorch/utils.py
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* Initial refactor
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* refactor attention out of transformer.py
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* Fix ONNX export
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* linting
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