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.
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