Michael Feil ef5a2dfc5d feat: Baseten contrib third-party-dataset support (#851)
## What does this PR do?

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feature, new example, new tests, documentation. -->

**Overview:** ?
Background: the outage on `cnn_dailymail` has a couple of issues with
out platform, with 20+ customers asking about breaking support for own
datasets.
- We still require trt-engines to support, which means e.g. the modelopt
version cannot be upgraded to latest easily.
- Applying the chat template on short context or out-of-distribution
material leads to a stronger degradation on harder or generation tasks.
This is visible when e.g. running bfcl benchmark, where the model is
generating a lot of tokens, the degration with modelopt is large, e.g.
5%+ tokens.

Going forward, we are looking to get stable support for customer-brought
datasets into modelopt, because the existing options do not suffice. A
hard validation is not desirable, many baseten users will see things
like `abisee/cnn_dailymail` is not in supported datasets, because we use
modelopt 0.35.x.

## Usage
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`llm_ptq --dataset baseten/quant_calibration_dataset_v1`

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Extended dataset loading to support third‑party and custom datasets,
including message-style, prompt, and text formats.
* Tokenizer-aware processing and an option to apply a chat template for
message-style datasets.
* Data-loading pipeline now propagates tokenizer context through sample
retrieval.

* **Bug Fixes / Improvements**
* Improved warnings and validation for datasets that lack expected
structures or chat-template support.
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NVIDIA Model Optimizer (referred to as Model Optimizer, or ModelOpt) is a library comprising state-of-the-art model optimization techniques including quantization, distillation, pruning, speculative decoding and sparsity to accelerate models.

[Input] Model Optimizer currently supports inputs of a Hugging Face, PyTorch or ONNX model.

[Optimize] Model Optimizer provides Python APIs for users to easily compose the above model optimization techniques and export an optimized quantized checkpoint. Model Optimizer is also integrated with NVIDIA Megatron-Bridge, Megatron-LM and Hugging Face Accelerate for training required inference optimization techniques.

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Pruning Reduce your model size and accelerate inference by removing unnecessary weights! [PyTorch] [docs]
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