Add KV-Cache int8 quant support

[YanyunDuanIEI]

Add KV-Cache int8 quant support

Support [layer_level] and [group_level] KV-Cache int8 quant.

• [layer_level] use common scale factors for each layer.
• [group_level] group the head_size according to group_size, with each group_size, the scaling factor of key/value corresponding to the same value.

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KV-Cache int8 quant (Click to Expand)

Get the scaling factor by calibration

Support to calibrate the KV-cache by datasets:

• [examples/int8/calibrate.py] calibrate and save to pth.
• [export_kv_params.py] save scaling factors to json.

Using KV-Cache int8

• kv_cache_dtype="int8"
• kv_quant_params_path=kv_quant_params_path
• kv_quant_group=kv_quant_group

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