Update config.py to negate the dimension issue for FP8 support for AMD GPUs

[kailashg26]

Update the config.py file to fix (“negate”) the dimension mismatch issue that arises when enabling FP8 (8-bit floating point) precision support on AMD GPUs.

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[vkuzo]

could you share how this is related to AMD GPUs? From the screenshot in the PR summary, it looks like the shapes being fed through the network do not adhere to the requirements of scaled_mm, which seems like a GPU independent problem.

[kailashg26]

@vkuzo I agree, this is GPU independent problem. I just tried on MI300 and MI355 and this problem persists. But when I enable padding it works fine!
The issue related to this PR is meta-pytorch/torchtune#2833 (comment)

[vkuzo]

got it, can we just enable padding at the callsite for your use case instead of changing the default?

[kailashg26]

@vkuzo not sure how do we do that at the callsite. You mean before I run my script using something like this?

find /opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torchao/float8/config.py -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/pad_inner_dim: bool = False/pad_inner_dim: bool = True/g' \

I was just wondering if this might be very hacky

[vkuzo]

usually the user creates a Float8LinearConfig, like so

config = Float8LinearConfig(...)

in the place where that happens in torchtune, you could set the padding flag to True, or make that user configurable. Would that work?

[kailashg26]

But if we use upstream torchtune we have to submit PR to upstream one right? Not sure if they are actively accepting PRs