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[ExecuTorch][WebGPU] Add q4gsw training kernels (backward, weight-grad, requant) to the WebGPU backend#20931

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Add the 4-bit fine-tuning weight-path custom ops — et_vk.linear_q4gsw_backward (input grad dX), et_vk.linear_q4gsw_dw (weight grad dW), and et_vk.q4gsw_requant (STE re-quant of fp32 latents → 4-bit codes) — that close the on-device training loop through a frozen 4-bit base.

Key changes:

  • runtime/ops/quantized_linear/{QuantizedLinearBackward,QuantizedLinearDw,QuantizedLinearRequant}.cpp + q4gsw_{backward,dw,requant}.wgsl — the three training kernels
  • custom_ops_lib.py — 3 custom-op defs (linear_q4gsw_backward + register_autograd on linear_q4gsw, linear_q4gsw_dw, q4gsw_requant)
  • op_registry.py — 3 OpFeatures
  • CMakeLists.txt WEBGPU_SRCS — wire the sources

Training-only, WebGPU-only custom ops registered under the shared Vulkan partitioner; Vulkan has no kernels for them yet (a separate Vulkan-kernel track covers that). Guards mirror the sibling Dw/Requant ops (scales-rank + K==0).

Co-authored-with: Claude Code.
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Differential Revision: D111755130

Differential Revision: D111755130

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