Intermediate-tensor distillation support

[AAnoosheh]

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Collection: LLM

Changelog

• Allow distillation losses to be specified on non-logits feature tensors

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python scripts/llm/gpt_distillation.py \
      --name ${NAME} \
      --teacher_path ${TEACHER} \
      --student_path ${STUDENT} \
      --tp_size ${TP} \
      --cp_size ${CP} \
      --pp_size ${PP} \
      --devices ${GPUS} \
      --num_nodes ${NODES} \
      --log_dir ${LOG_DIR} \
      --max_steps ${STEPS} \
      --gbs ${GBS} \
      --mbs ${MBS} \
      --data_paths ${DATA_PATHS} \
      --index_mapping_dir ${DATA_CACHE} \
      --seq_length ${SEQ_LEN}

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Loss curves between Megatron and Nemo for Llama-3.1 8B->4B

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[sharathts]

@AAnoosheh add the additional loss curves.

Approved to merge. TODO: check individual losses match after logging gets fixed in nemo.

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[chtruong814]

The failed ASR test should be optional. I'm going to go ahead and merge this.