Add Flex Attention Monkey Patch for LLAMA #540
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Summary
We need flex attention for custom attentions/masks to achieve better performance (for example, shared prefix)
Two ways to enable flex attention in liger:
attn_implementationofModelConfigfrom PyTorchsdpa/eagertoflex_attention(for instance, LlamaConfig). By doing so, we'll switchconfig._attn_implementationto use flex attention impl.sdpa(however now it'sflex_attentioninstead).Testing Done
make testto ensure correctnessmake checkstyleto ensure code stylemake test-convergenceto ensure convergence