[WIP] Speed up fp8 linear convert by skipping weight initialization

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Thanks for asking me to work on this. I will get started on it and keep this PR's description up to date as I form a plan and make progress.

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speedup the fp8 linear convert by skip weight init

from transformers.modeling_utils import no_init_weights as skip_weights_initialize

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