Add TransformerEngine FP8 for image encoder #45
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This PR enables FP8 ViT attention using TransformerEngine with cuDNN backend.
It makes the following changes:
TE_FP8as a newAttentionBackendEnumand register it in the CUDA platform's supported ViT backends and Qwen3-VL's allowed backends_forward_te_fp8in MMEncoderAttention using TE'sDotProductAttentionwith BSHD format, FP8 autocast viaDelayedScaling, head-dimension padding (to multiples of 16), and seqlen bucketing to avoid cuDNN graph recompilationgpu_model_runner.py(_execute_encoder_one_by_one_eager) because TE does not support THD format for FP8 — we reinterpret each single-sequence THD tensor as BSHD with B=1, S=T to avoid expensive layout conversion