Support S32/U32 indices for BWD embedding & Neuron implicit downcast #8462
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In this PR, we extend embedding tensor operations to allow S32 indices. This follows suits with other operations, in order to add flexibility and potentially performance benefits for accelerator backends. Reference for embedding dense bwd: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/aten/src/ATen/native/Embedding.cpp#L117
In addition, we also re-introduce the implicit downcasting for Neuron S64/U64 types, since the Neuron compiler does not support 64 bits.
There is an ongoing effort to further extend this requirement to other tensor operations involving indices: pytorch/pytorch#142160. Once this is resolved, we adapt it on XLA as well.