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Signed-off-by: Hongkuan Zhou <tedzhouhk@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Hongkuan Zhou <tedzhouhk@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: jothomson <jwillthomson19@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Ryan McCormick <rmccormick@nvidia.com>

- Stop advertising a model when it's last instance stops. Previously was when any instance stops.
- Faster locks on model manager.
- Move discovery code out of http, as it is used by all inputs.

Implements OpenAI embeddings (interface only).

- Adds ModelType::Embedding
- Adds OpenAI embedding request/response structs
- Adds support for embedding model discovery

Adds support for specifying default request parameters through a json template file that can be applied across all inference requests. This enables consistent parameter settings while still allowing per-request overrides.

Changes:
- Add --request-template CLI flag to specify template file path
- Integrate template support in HTTP, batch and text input modes
- Template values can be overridden by individual request parameters
- Example template.json:
```
{
    "model": "Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct",
    "temperature": 0.7,
    "max_completion_tokens": 4096
}
```

"echo_core" is an engine that echoes the post-processed request back to you so you can see the template. Good for testing. It needed an extra flag set to work correctly.

Co-authored-by: Biswa Panda <biswa.panda@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: Graham King <grahamk@nvidia.com>

Co-authored-by: Graham King <grahamk@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Neelay Shah <neelays@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Ryan McCormick <rmccormick@nvidia.com>

Signed-off-by: Ryan Olson <ryanolson@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Ryan McCormick <rmccormick@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Neelay Shah <neelays@nvidia.com>