[WIP] Add autocast in torchax #9361
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How
torch.autocast
works:When you do
torch will do the following:
device_module.py
file) which is registered here: https://github.com/pytorch/xla/blob/master/torchax/torchax/__init__.py#L92; on what dtypes are supported for autocast.a. Above, L332 registers fallback meaning every op to AutocastCPU will automatically fallback to next (presumably to CPU), i.e. unless otherwise specified, it will be no-op. This line prevents errors. and then lines 329 and beyond defines those op that do have additional behavior; these are generated by a cpp macro + templates.
What we need to do to support autocast:
to tell torch that we do support autocast. At this point it will run but will not actually do autocast yet