b11513: CUDA: improve top-k algorithm selection (#28713)

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Executive Summary

CUDA: radix top-k for large row counts Replaces CUB's per-row DeviceTopKKernel with a grid-over-rows radix select, gated on GGML_CUDA_TOPK_RADIX_MIN_ROWS. On qwen4exp at 34,816 tokens this cuts top-k from 1,671,253 launches / 5,761.8 ms to 2,329 / 941.8 ms. CUDA: select the TOP_K implementation by shape Replace the nrows/ncols special case with the decision boundary from #28547 (as implemented in #29278 ): bitonic for short rows, radix select for several long rows, and DeviceTopK or CUB argsort for a single long row.

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