in bitsandbytes/nn/modules.py [0:0]
def forward(self, x: torch.Tensor):
self.state.is_training = self.training
if self.weight.CB is not None:
self.init_8bit_state()
# weights are cast automatically as Int8Params, but the bias has to be cast manually
if self.bias is not None and self.bias.dtype != x.dtype:
self.bias.data = self.bias.data.to(x.dtype)
out = bnb.matmul(x, self.weight, bias=self.bias, state=self.state)
if not self.state.has_fp16_weights:
if self.state.CB is not None and self.state.CxB is not None:
# we converted 8-bit row major to turing/ampere format in the first inference pass
# we no longer need the row-major weight
del self.state.CB
self.weight.data = self.state.CxB
return out