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Signed-off-by: Harry Mellor <19981378+hmellor@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Michael Goin <michael@neuralmagic.com>

Signed-off-by: Tyler Michael Smith <tyler@neuralmagic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Rahul Tuli <rahul@neuralmagic.com>
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add VLLM_OPTEST_MODELS_PATH/OPTEST_MODELS_PATH  to load models from local path instead of Hugging Face Hub

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Signed-off-by: Daniël de Kok <me@danieldk.eu>
Signed-off-by: luka <luka@neuralmagic.com>
Co-authored-by: Daniël de Kok <me@danieldk.eu>

Signed-off-by: Hoang Cong Duc <hoangcongducltt@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Joe Runde <Joseph.Runde@ibm.com>

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[Misc] Refactor linear layer weight loading; introduce `BasevLLMParameter` and `weight_loader_v2` (#5874)

Co-authored-by: Michael Goin <michael@neuralmagic.com>