experimental buffered_fwd
quantize control
#1205
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experimental:
model.quantize(.., buffered_fwd=True)
which may save vram for large models at the expense of longer quant time.Tests show signficant peak vram reduction but also much longer of quant time. Good choice to enable quantization on low vram gpus for larger models.