Speedup quantization in refit for FP8 GRPO
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Track the effort of accelerating the in-flight quantization in refit when vllm uses FP8 precision weights.
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Quantize before transfer and do weight transfer in FP8 format; Currently we are quantizing after transfer and transfer is in BF16 format
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