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Don't save fp8 q/k/v/out tensors when using bf16 bprop
Description
When using FP8_DPA=1 NVTE_FP8_DPA_BWD=0, the backprop uses BF16 q/k/v/out tensors and the fp8 q/k/v/o are not used. So we should avoid saving them for backprop, which reduces the peak memory footprint.
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