Support checkpointing TE quantizations with new remat policies #2773
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Description
This PR allows us to avoid rematerializing TransformerEngine (TE) quantizations. TE supports fused kernels that compute both the forward and backward layouts in a single kernel, however, these are only useful if we are saving the alternate layouts for the backward.
This PR introduces two new remat policies,
minimal_with_quantizationandminimal_with_context_and_quantizationwhich extend the existing policies with additional support for checkpointing TE quantizations.Tests
Tested locally with E2E workloads and confirmed the quantization operations were saved and not rematerialized with these policies enabled.
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