Don't pickle an empty dict in LayerNorm and pt base modules #2253
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Description
Currently the
LayerNorm
layer doesn't inherit fromTransformerEngineBaseModule
, and so it doesn't have the updated process of using an empty tensor to denote no fp8 metadata in the state_dict. This change adds this logic to theget_extra_state
method ofBasicOperation
.