Fix gradient checkpointing + fp16 autocast for most models (#24247)

* fix gc bug

* continue PoC on OPT

* fixes

* 🤯

* fix tests

* remove pytest.mark

* fixup

* forward contrib credits from discussions

* forward contrib credits from discussions

* reverting changes on untouched files.

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Co-authored-by: zhaoqf123 <zhaoqf123@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: 7eu7d7 <7eu7d7@users.noreply.github.com>

tests/models/vit_mae/test_modeling_vit_mae.py

@@ -208,6 +208,12 @@ class ViTMAEModelTest(ModelTesterMixin, PipelineTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
         config_and_inputs = self.model_tester.prepare_config_and_inputs()
         self.model_tester.create_and_check_for_pretraining(*config_and_inputs)
 
+    @unittest.skip(
+        reason="The model does not support GC + autocast + fp16: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/24247"
+    )
+    def test_training_gradient_checkpointing_autocast(self):
+        pass
+
     # overwrite from common since ViTMAEForPretraining has random masking, we need to fix the noise
     # to generate masks during test
     def check_pt_tf_models(self, tf_model, pt_model, pt_inputs_dict):