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* feat(fp8): add support for fbgemm

* allow loading fp8 weights directly

* update outlines

* fix makefile

* build fbgemm

* avoid circular import and fix dockerfile

* add default dtype

* refactored weights loader

* fix auto conversion

* fix quantization config parsing

* force new nccl on install

* missing get_weights implementation

* increase timeout

* Improve the handling of quantized weights

Handling of quantized weights was split between two mechanisms:

- For quantized checkpoints, we used the new weight loader
  infrastructure.
- For quantization while loading (EETQ, FP8, bitsandbytes) we
  instead relied on conditional in `get_linear`.

Weight loaders support context managers to selectively load
particular layers with different weight loaders, which is useful
for models like Idefics2 AWQ, which uses a quantized text model,
but unquantized vision and connector models. However, the context
manager would be overrided by `get_linear`, which string-checks
`quantizer`. Also, the context manager would not work with
EETQ, FP8, and bitsandbytes.

This change migrates all quantizers to the weight loader infrastructure.
This has several benefits:

- We can use context managers with all quantizers.
- All the implementation details move down to the quantizer layers,
  `get_linear` does not need to know how to handle quantizer linear
  layers.
- All quantizer weights are strongly typed, we don't pass around
  raw tensors.
- We don't have to pass around the `quantizer` string everywhere.

* Exclude non-MLP layers when using FP8 quantization with Llama

Quantized weights were loaded in the `Weights` class, but this was
getting quite unwieldy, where every higher level method to load weights
was a long conditional to cover all the different quantizers.

This change moves loading of quantized weights out of the `Weights`
class. This is done by defining a simple `WeightsLoader` interface
that is implemented by `Exl2WeightsLoader`, `GPTQWeightsLoader`,
and `MarlinWeightsLoader`. These implementations are in the quantizers'
respective modules. The `Weights` class provides the low-level load
operations (such as loading tensors or sharded tensors), but delegates
loads that need quantizer-specific weight processing to a loader. The
loaders still use the low-level functionality provided by `Weights`.

I initially tried making a hierarchy where a class like `GPTQWeights`
would inherit from `Weights`. But it is not very flexible (e.g. does
not work well with the new weight storage mock used in tests) and
the implicit indirections made the code harder to follow.