Add a quantize_symmetric operation and the corresponding CPU kernel #83
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This is mainly to test the library design with a different operation.
The
quantize_symmetric
operation simply rescales and maps the source tensor to eitherint8
offloat8
.The pull-request also includes a minimal C++ kernel for CPU devices, that only supports per-tensor
int8
quantization for now.On a Macbook air, the optimized kernel is only 10 % faster than the default implementation using python torch operators.