[Kernels] Use empty for modular MoE workspaces (#19667)

Signed-off-by: Bill Nell <bnell@redhat.com>

Author: bnellnm

vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/fused_batched_moe.py

@@ -716,6 +716,9 @@ def apply(
         intermediate_cache2 = _resize_cache(workspace2,
                                             (E, max_num_tokens, N // 2))
 
+        if self.use_fp8_w8a8:
+            intermediate_cache1.fill_(0)
+
         # MM1
         invoke_moe_batched_triton_kernel(A=hidden_states,
                                          B=w1,

vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/modular_kernel.py

@@ -426,10 +426,10 @@ def forward(
 
             # We can reuse the memory between cache1 and cache3 because by the
             # time we need cache3, we're done with cache1.
-            workspace13 = torch.zeros(prod(workspace13_shape),
+            workspace13 = torch.empty(prod(workspace13_shape),
                                       device=a1.device,
                                       dtype=workspace_dtype)
-            workspace2 = torch.zeros(prod(workspace2_shape),
+            workspace2 = torch.empty(prod(workspace2_shape),
                                      device=a1.device,
                                      dtype=workspace_dtype)