* Improve the handling of quantized weights
Handling of quantized weights was split between two mechanisms:
- For quantized checkpoints, we used the new weight loader
infrastructure.
- For quantization while loading (EETQ, FP8, bitsandbytes) we
instead relied on conditional in `get_linear`.
Weight loaders support context managers to selectively load
particular layers with different weight loaders, which is useful
for models like Idefics2 AWQ, which uses a quantized text model,
but unquantized vision and connector models. However, the context
manager would be overrided by `get_linear`, which string-checks
`quantizer`. Also, the context manager would not work with
EETQ, FP8, and bitsandbytes.
This change migrates all quantizers to the weight loader infrastructure.
This has several benefits:
- We can use context managers with all quantizers.
- All the implementation details move down to the quantizer layers,
`get_linear` does not need to know how to handle quantizer linear
layers.
- All quantizer weights are strongly typed, we don't pass around
raw tensors.
- We don't have to pass around the `quantizer` string everywhere.
* Exclude non-MLP layers when using FP8 quantization with Llama
Quantized weights were loaded in the `Weights` class, but this was
getting quite unwieldy, where every higher level method to load weights
was a long conditional to cover all the different quantizers.
This change moves loading of quantized weights out of the `Weights`
class. This is done by defining a simple `WeightsLoader` interface
that is implemented by `Exl2WeightsLoader`, `GPTQWeightsLoader`,
and `MarlinWeightsLoader`. These implementations are in the quantizers'
respective modules. The `Weights` class provides the low-level load
operations (such as loading tensors or sharded tensors), but delegates
loads that need quantizer-specific weight processing to a loader. The
loaders still use the low-level functionality provided by `Weights`.
I initially tried making a hierarchy where a class like `GPTQWeights`
would inherit from `Weights`. But it is not very flexible (e.g. does
not work well with the new weight storage mock used in tests) and
the implicit indirections made the code harder to follow.
Daniël de Kok