iCo-authored-by: Asma Kuriparambil Thekkumpate <akuriparambi@nvidia.com>
## What does this PR do?
**Type of change:** New Feature
**Overview:**
This MR adds support for quantizing TE Ops in megatron, specifically
TERowParallelLinear, TEColumnParallelLinear and
TELayerNormColumnParallelLinear.
## Usage
It can be used by enabling TE spec in megatron
## Testing
Added unit tests for testing functionality
`test_homogeneous_sharded_state_dict_te_spec`
`test_convert_mcore_te_gpt_model`
`test_quantize_forward_backward`
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- **Is this change backward compatible?**: Yes
- **Did you write any new necessary tests?**: Yes
- **Did you add or update any necessary documentation?**: Yes
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Signed-off-by: Kinjal Patel <kinjalpravin@nvidia.com>
- CI tests for min transformers version (4.48) started failing since new
peft 1.18 was released yesterday blocking all new PRs from merging
- Transformers v5.0 is right around the corner so we should not
recommend too older version
- Set new minimum transformers to 4.53 instead of 4.48
- nemo:25.07+ and trtllm:1.0.0+ docker containers have transformers
4.53+
- ModelOpt will still likely work for transformers 4.48-4.52 for now but
going forward will not be tested in CICD
Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
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