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* Drop Python 3.8 support.

* Formatting

* Sketch out first custom op registration

* Add note

* Initial int8 op registration

* Cleanup some deprecated functions.

* Int8 ops updates; tests

* Implement 4bit quant/dequant ops

* Fix nested quant

* cleanup

* Test improvements

* Clean up and improve tests

* Add higher level custom op for int8 matmul + dequant + bias

* Add gemv 4bit custom op

* Cleanup

* Implement out kwarg overloads for custom ops

* Update PyTorch minimum to 2.1

* Deprecation updates

* Deprecation updates

* Cleanup; rename int8_linear_dequant -> int8_scaled_mm

* Bump min pytorch to 2.2

* cleanup

* Test reorganization

* Remove deprecated supports_igemmlt

* More cleanup

* Cleanup obsolete C++/CUDA code

* Cleanup

* Create 'default' backend for fallback op implementations; initial CPU nf4 work

* Stub out for multi-platform

* Fix serialization tests for torch>=2.6.0

* Add example for torch.compile e2e inference

* Test update

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* Fix example int8_inference_huggingface.py

* Update examples/int8_inference_huggingface.py
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