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* Add FP8 support

- Add FP8 recipe
- Add FP8 path for nn layers
- Add MNIST FP8 example
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Update README
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* Fix LayerNormMLP FP8 backward
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* Fix FP8 training in float32 accumulation
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* Fix FP8 checkpointing for non forward execution cases (same as #323)
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Refactors and improvements for better code stype, readability and organization
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* Remove unnecassary pylint override
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Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Add Linear layer (FP16)
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

- Add BF16 training example
- Add fp8_autocast (only supports non-fp8 for now)
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Remove FP8 stuff
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* Simplify Linear layer forward
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* Add LayerNorm layer (BF16)
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* Add LayerNormLinear layer
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* Store weights in BF16
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* Add LayerNormMLP layer
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Add BF16 MNIST example
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Remove in-place cast for compatibility with Paddle AMP mechanism
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* README correction
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* Add Paddle op as a backend option
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* Fix code format
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* Fix dtype change between iterations
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* Minor fixes
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* Move forward function out of base layer
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* Use Paddle nvtx bindings
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Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* First step of PaddlePaddle integration
- Add build option for paddle
- Add basic test framework
- Add 3 basic operators: cast_from_fp8, cast_to_fp8, gemm
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Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Fix review comments
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* Support paddle build
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* Add paddle build support for new building framework
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* Fix review comments
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* Clean up build process for Paddle stub file
Signed-off-by: Tim Moon <tmoon@nvidia.com>

* Minor fixes
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>

* Fix pylint "wrong-import-order" warning
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* Fix review comments
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* Skip BF16 GEMM tests for unsupported arch
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Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng <tizheng@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tian Zheng (Engrg-Hardware 1) <tizheng@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tim Moon <tmoon@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim Moon <tmoon@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Tim Moon <4406448+timmoon10@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Kirthi Shankar Sivamani <ksivamani@nvidia.com>