docs(paged): record W4A16 scale broadcast rejection

Record the Phase 3 scale-broadcast experiment, its md5 and MUL_MAT_ID gates, the prefill regression, and the decision to ship no 0050 patch.

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Ettore Di Giacinto
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@@ -235,6 +235,41 @@ Mirror invariant after patch `0049`:
`7dfa0e17548c5f04f83d2cc2a057b0a9941b599a`.
- Tree hash after patch application: `dabe225efbf20ec047b8309d1e1f19b34fc7c5c9`.
## W4A16 Scale Broadcast Phase 3
Goal: reduce duplicate FP4 scale conversion inside `w4a16_grouped_kernel` by
having one lane per 4-lane group convert the `ue4m3` scale and broadcast it with
`__shfl_sync`.
Artifacts:
- Build: `~/llama-w4a16-phase3`
- Logs: `~/bench/w4a16_phase3`
Gates:
- Canonical paged MoE md5: `8cb0ce23777bf55f92f63d0292c756b0`.
- Canonical dense md5: `5951a5b4d624ce891e22ab5fca9bc439`.
- Forced W4A16 `bm32` and old `base` shape md5s matched each other:
`07db32c2bcb78d17a43ed18bc22705cd`.
- Forced W4A16 `MUL_MAT_ID`: `806/806` on CUDA0.
Performance:
| Shape | 512 S_PP t/s | 2048 S_PP t/s | Decision |
|-------|--------------|---------------|----------|
| Phase 2 `bm32` | 1442.28 | 1471.77 | baseline |
| Phase 3 scale-broadcast `bm32` | 1392.46 | 1422.74 | rejected |
| Phase 2 `base` | 1310.13 | 1336.02 | baseline |
| Phase 3 scale-broadcast `base` | 1201.69 | 1221.25 | rejected |
Result:
- Rejected. No fork commit and no LocalAI patch `0050`.
- The local fork experiment was reverted.
- Do not retry this exact scale-broadcast approach; on GB10 the shuffle and/or
scheduling cost exceeds the saved duplicate scale conversion.
## Clean Build
First clean build attempt: