[AutoDeploy][chore]: Deprecate and remove transformers mode
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Description
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Deprecate and remove the mode="transformers" path in AutoDeploy. The graph mode is now the maintained and default path. The transformers mode was an early lightweight alternative that only applied cached-attention transforms without full-graph capture, but it is no longer actively tested or developed.
Removal scope:
- Remove
"transformers"from themodeLiteral inLlmArgs - Remove
config/transformers.yaml - Remove any transformers-mode-specific code paths or branches
- Update documentation referencing transformers mode
Alternatives
Keep transformers mode as a legacy escape hatch, but this adds maintenance burden and test surface with no clear user demand.
Additional context
https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/pull/12209 introduces agentic onboarding for models into the graph mode pipeline, thus eliminating the need for a lightweight transformers mode for testing.
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