[Misc] Add transpose optimization in the linear layer #280
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What this PR does / why we need it?
In order to improve performance, extract the internal transpose operation and optimize it by transposing the Linear layer's weights after the model weights are loaded, when performing the forward inference of the Linear layer using the default non-quantized method.
Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
No.
How was this patch tested?
Comprehensive unit tests have been performed in another PR.