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[ExecuTorch][WebGPU] Add linear_dq8ca_q4gsw + choose_qparams_affine (8da4w)#21229

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Problem: WebGPU lacked the dynamic-8bit-activation x 4-bit-group-weight linear (the 8da4w path real LLMs use for dynamic quant). Vulkan registers et_vk.linear_dq8ca_q4gsw + torchao.choose_qparams_affine; WebGPU delegated neither, so any Int8DynamicActivationIntxWeightConfig model fell back to CPU.

Solution: Author the reachable pair. torchao.choose_qparams_affine computes per-row asymmetric int8 activation scale/zp; et_vk.linear_dq8ca_q4gsw folds that dynamic activation quant into the existing q4gsw 4-bit-group GEMM. Both mirror the Vulkan reference (ChooseQParams.cpp, QuantizedLinear.cpp:760); the activation-quant + weight-dequant math was CPU-de-risked exact against torchao before authoring.

Impl: choose_qparams_affine.wgsl does a cooperative per-row min/max reduction (one workgroup per block of 4 rows so the 4 int8 zps pack into one u32 with no write race) then calculate_scale_and_zero_point mirroring Vulkan. linear_dq8ca_q4gsw.wgsl is the register-tiled q4gsw GEMM with out[m,n] = s[m] * sum_k (xq[m,k]-z[m]) * dequant(w), reading the packed-int8 zp. int8 zp (elem_size 1) is bound word-aligned; num_rows must be <=4 or a multiple of 4 (int8 buffers alloc max(nbytes,4)) — arbitrary-M prefill is a documented follow-up.

Differential Revision: D112257680

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