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TP/quantization/weight loading refactor part 2 - Refactor quantized linear logic and extend quantization support to all models (#1622)

Refactor the tensor parallelism, quantization, and weight-loading codes.

Summary of the new features enabled by this PR:
- **All models** are able to be quantized with AWQ and SqueezeLLM, and [soon GPTQ](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/1580).
- Model loading code became much simpler.
- Support model parallelism for all MQA/GQA models when the number of key/value heads is smaller than the tensor parallel size.

Co-authored-by: Robert Irvine <robert@seamlessml.com>
Co-authored-by: root <rirv938@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Casper <casperbh.96@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: julian-q <julianhquevedo@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: Jasmond Loh <Jasmond.Loh@hotmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Zhuohan Li <zhuohan123@gmail.com>