Revert "Remove Pad op from data movement ops (#5982)" (#6215)

This reverts commit 21cddb6.


(cherry picked from commit 33725f5f374621417da298b77d46b9c8d54144e5)

Signed-off-by: Shivakumar, Shobitha <shobitha@qti.qualcomm.com>

Fix bug loading 1.0.0 per-channel encodings

Signed-off-by: Michael Tuttle <quic_mtuttle@quicinc.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Tuttle <quic_mtuttle@quicinc.com>

Add sequential fallback for Linear in aimet-torch seq MSE

Signed-off-by: Mehta, Hitarth <hitameht@qti.qualcomm.com>
Co-authored-by: Hitarth Mehta <quic_hitameht@quicinc.com>

Temporarily skip opset 21 large model export test to stabilize CI

Signed-off-by: Kyunggeun Lee <quic_kyunggeu@quicinc.com>
Co-authored-by: Kyunggeun Lee <quic_kyunggeu@quicinc.com>

Fix failing fp16 QDQ export tests

Signed-off-by: Michael Tuttle <quic_mtuttle@quicinc.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Tuttle <quic_mtuttle@quicinc.com>

Update release notes for 2.16.0 release (#5788) (#5789)

Signed-off-by: Abhi Khobare <quic_akhobare@quicinc.com>
(cherry picked from commit ebf1d92)

cherry pick adascale changes from develop (#5739)

* Changes for experimental feature AdaScale in aimet-onnx

Signed-off-by: Abhi Khobare <quic_akhobare@quicinc.com>

* Updated release notes and docs links

Signed-off-by: Abhi Khobare <quic_akhobare@quicinc.com>

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Signed-off-by: Abhi Khobare <quic_akhobare@quicinc.com>
Co-authored-by: Abhi Khobare <quic_akhobare@quicinc.com>

Add dummy action to make it easy to play with GH workflow (#5684)

Signed-off-by: Bhushan Sonawane <quic_bhushans@quicinc.com>
Co-authored-by: Bhushan Sonawane <quic_bhushans@quicinc.com>

[cherry-pick] add e2e accuracy tests for aimet-tf (#5640)

* add e2e accuracy tests for aimet-tf

Signed-off-by: Bhushan Sonawane <quic_bhushans@quicinc.com>

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Signed-off-by: Bhushan Sonawane <quic_bhushans@quicinc.com>
Co-authored-by: Bhushan Sonawane <quic_bhushans@quicinc.com>

Pin deepspeed to stabilize CI pipeline (#5602)

Signed-off-by: Michael Tuttle <quic_mtuttle@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Bhushan Sonawane <quic_bhushans@quicinc.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Tuttle <quic_mtuttle@quicinc.com>