use empty_like to reduce model loading time #16577
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use
empty_like()
instead ofzeros_like()
in theLoadStateDictOnMeta()
we don't have to initialize params with zeros, It will be overwrittened byparam.copy_(input_param)
, (https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/torch/nn/modules/module.py#L2441 )Checklist: