trunk/1b51ed6169475ed863f4ee43b7eaa52ecda0f862: Register fused AdamW Meta kernel for tensor learning rates (#200362)

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Executive Summary

Linked issue or supporting maintainer @sanketpurandare @tianyu-l @weifengpy Summary (human written only) To enable optimizer CUDA graph capture, we need to change learning rate to be a tensor. However, with fsdp2, the optimizer states are DTensor, which cause DTensor sharding propagation materializing the GPU tensors. The root cause is that there is no meta registration for optimizer with learning rate being a tensor.

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