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This looks awesome! Let's merge it after the tests clear.
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Column-wise quantization for tensors stored in a column-major layout. This is used when one or both inputs are passed transposed (in
qqmmbackward):ntlayout: used in the VJP to computedL/dx(the second argument is transposed)ttlayout: used in the VJP to computedL/dw(both argument are transposed)Overview:
Input
[M, K]M-major.group_sizeelements in a column[M, K/group_size]K-major[M, K/elements_per_byte]K-majornvfp4
qqmm:Probably can be optimized further.
Note: fixed small bug in
QQMatmul::output_shape+ removed unusedreorder