[LED][Longformer] Replace for-loop with unfold in _chunk ONNX-export path

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What does this PR do?

Removes a now-obsolete workaround in LEDEncoderSelfAttention._chunk
and the mirrored LongformerSelfAttention._chunk. Both files carry
the same blocking TODO:

# TODO replace this with
# > return hidden_states.unfold(dimension=1, size=window_overlap * 2, step=window_overlap).transpose(2, 3)
# once `unfold` is supported

The ONNX-export branch used a Python for loop because torch.unfold
was not supported by the ONNX exporter at the time. PyTorch's ONNX
exporters now handle aten::unfold, so the workaround can go.

Fixes the stale TODO in both modeling_led.py and
modeling_longformer.py — same change applied to both files.

Compatibility note (please read first)

This is technically a behavior change for one narrow export path, so
flagging it up front:

The legacy TorchScript ONNX exporter's unfold symbolic requires the
unfolded dimension to be statically known at export time. After this
change, anyone exporting LED/Longformer under the legacy exporter
with dynamic_axes on the sequence dimension will get a clear error:
"Unfold, input size not accessible".

Affected users have two paths forward:

1. Export with static sequence shapes under the legacy exporter (works
   without changes).
2. Switch to the dynamo-based exporter (default in PyTorch 2.9+;
   handles symbolic shapes natively).

The legacy TorchScript exporter is deprecated as of PyTorch 2.9, so
(2) is the documented migration path.

If you'd prefer to preserve a fallback for users still on the legacy
exporter + dynamic shapes, happy to add one, but I don't think a
PyTorch ≥ 2.9 version check is the right shape for it. Two reasons:

1. PyTorch 2.9 made dynamo=True the default for
   torch.onnx.export, but the legacy exporter is still callable and
   in active use. Users on 2.9+ pass dynamo=False for real reasons
   (avoiding onnxscript as a transitive dependency, older optimum
   pins, custom export wrappers that still drive the legacy path). A
   version-only check would silently break them.
2. There's no public PyTorch API I'm aware of to detect mid-trace
   which exporter is currently running.
   torch.onnx.is_in_onnx_export() tells you an export is in flight,
   not which one, so a runtime capability check isn't really
   available either.

The cleanest alternative I can see is an explicit opt-in config flag,
mirroring the existing config.onnx_export flag this function already
reads:

@staticmethod
def _chunk(hidden_states, window_overlap, onnx_export: bool = False, legacy_onnx_chunk: bool = False):
    """convert into overlapping chunks. Chunk size = 2w, overlap size = w"""
    if not onnx_export:
        # ... unchanged as_strided path ...
        return hidden_states.as_strided(size=chunk_size, stride=chunk_stride)

    # ONNX export path.
    #
    # PyTorch's modern dynamo-based ONNX exporter handles `aten::unfold`
    # cleanly, including with symbolic shapes. The legacy TorchScript
    # exporter's unfold symbolic requires the unfolded dimension to be
    # statically known at export time, so users on the legacy exporter
    # with `dynamic_axes` on the sequence dim need the slow-loop fallback.
    #
    # There is no public API to detect which exporter is currently
    # tracing, so we expose the choice as an explicit config flag.
    # Default is the fast `unfold` path; users hitting the legacy
    # exporter limitation can set `config.onnx_export_legacy_chunk = True`
    # to restore the original loop.
    if not legacy_onnx_chunk:
        return hidden_states.unfold(
            dimension=1, size=window_overlap * 2, step=window_overlap
        ).transpose(2, 3)

    # Legacy fallback: slow but symbolic-shape-safe under the legacy
    # TorchScript ONNX exporter. Allocates a fresh tensor per call.
    chunk_size = [
        hidden_states.size(0),
        torch.div(hidden_states.size(1), window_overlap, rounding_mode="trunc") - 1,
        window_overlap * 2,
        hidden_states.size(2),
    ]
    overlapping_chunks = torch.empty(chunk_size, device=hidden_states.device)
    for chunk in range(chunk_size[1]):
        overlapping_chunks[:, chunk, :, :] = hidden_states[
            :, chunk * window_overlap : chunk * window_overlap + 2 * window_overlap, :
        ]
    return overlapping_chunks

Call sites in _sliding_chunks_query_key_matmul would thread the flag
through alongside the existing onnx_export one:

query = self._chunk(
    query,
    window_overlap,
    getattr(self.config, "onnx_export", False),
    getattr(self.config, "onnx_export_legacy_chunk", False),
)

Why this shape:

• Default behavior is the fast unfold path, so modern users get the
  memory win and cleaner graph with no action required.
• Users on the legacy exporter with dynamic shapes have a one-line
  escape hatch (config.onnx_export_legacy_chunk = True) instead of a
  hard break.
• The flag lives next to the existing onnx_export flag, so it's
  consistent with the surrounding code rather than new API surface in
  an unrelated spot.
• When the legacy TorchScript exporter is eventually removed upstream,
  the flag and the loop can both be dropped without touching the fast
  path.

That said, I don't have strong feelings here, the legacy exporter is
deprecated as of 2.9 and the documented migration is the dynamo
exporter, so a clean break is also defensible. Happy to push the flag
as a follow-up commit on this PR if you want it, or leave the current
diff as-is. Let me know which you prefer.

Why make the change

• Memory: the for-loop allocates a fresh torch.empty(...) tensor
  on every call. For led-base-16384 production shapes
  (bh=24, seq=16384, w=512) this is ~195 MB per call. The unfold
  replacement is a view that shares storage with the input, allocating
  nothing, matching the zero-copy semantics of the non-ONNX
  as_strided path that already exists in the same function.
• Clarity: a one-line view replaces a 12-line loop, expressing
  intent directly.
• Exported graph quality: the resulting ONNX graph contains a
  single view op rather than N scatter writes into a freshly allocated
  tensor (N = 31 at xl shapes), giving downstream runtimes a cleaner
  graph to optimize.

Verification

Verified locally with a parametrized test covering 24 combinations:

• 4 shape configs: (bh=8, seq=512, w=64), (24, 2048, 256),
  (24, 4096, 512), (24, 16384, 512)
• ONNX opsets 14, 17, 20
• Both the legacy TorchScript exporter and the modern dynamo-based
  exporter (default since PyTorch 2.9)

Each case verifies (a) the exported model passes
onnx.checker.check_model, (b) runs under onnxruntime's CPU EP, and
(c) produces output numerically identical (atol=1e-6) to the existing
_chunk(..., onnx_export=True) reference computed on the same input.

The legacy exporter is tested with static shapes per its documented
unfold symbolic limitation; the dynamo exporter is tested with its
native symbolic-shape handling.

Testing code

# test_chunk_onnx_export.py
"""
Verifies that the unfold-based _chunk replacement:
(a) exports cleanly under both the legacy TorchScript exporter and the
    modern dynamo-based exporter, within each exporter's supported envelope
(b) runs in onnxruntime
(c) produces output numerically identical to the PyTorch reference
    (the existing _chunk(..., onnx_export=True) implementation)

Note on exporter coverage:
The dynamo exporter handles aten::unfold with symbolic (dynamic) shapes.
The legacy TorchScript exporter's unfold symbolic requires the unfolded
dimension to be statically known at export time, so this test exports
without dynamic_axes when use_dynamo=False.
"""
import io
import numpy as np
import onnx
import onnxruntime as ort
import pytest
import torch

from transformers.models.led.modeling_led import LEDEncoderSelfAttention


class ChunkModule(torch.nn.Module):
    """Mirrors the body of _chunk(..., onnx_export=True) after the fix."""

    def __init__(self, window_overlap):
        super().__init__()
        self.w = window_overlap

    def forward(self, x):
        return x.unfold(dimension=1, size=self.w * 2, step=self.w).transpose(2, 3)


CONFIGS = [
    (8, 512, 64, 64),
    (24, 2048, 64, 256),
    (24, 4096, 64, 512),
    (24, 16384, 64, 512),
]

OPSETS = [14, 17, 20]


@pytest.mark.parametrize("bh,seq,hd,w", CONFIGS)
@pytest.mark.parametrize("opset", OPSETS)
@pytest.mark.parametrize("use_dynamo", [False, True])
def test_chunk_onnx_roundtrip(bh, seq, hd, w, opset, use_dynamo):
    torch.manual_seed(0)
    x = torch.randn(bh, seq, hd)
    model = ChunkModule(w).eval()

    ref = LEDEncoderSelfAttention._chunk(x, w, onnx_export=True)

    buf = io.BytesIO()
    torch.onnx.export(
        model,
        (x,),
        buf,
        opset_version=opset,
        dynamo=use_dynamo,
        input_names=["x"],
        output_names=["chunks"],
    )

    buf.seek(0)

    model_proto = onnx.load_from_string(buf.getvalue())
    onnx.checker.check_model(model_proto)

    sess = ort.InferenceSession(buf.getvalue(), providers=["CPUExecutionProvider"])
    input_name = sess.get_inputs()[0].name
    (out_np,) = sess.run(None, {input_name: x.numpy()})

    np.testing.assert_allclose(out_np, ref.numpy(), atol=1e-6, rtol=1e-6)

Result: 24/24 PASSED on Windows 11 / PyTorch (current) / onnx /
onnxruntime.

I didn't add this to the repo because it would pull onnx and
onnxruntime into the test deps. Happy to add it gated behind
require_onnx / require_onnxruntime decorators (matching the
existing pattern for optional deps in transformers) if you'd prefer
it in-tree — one-line ask, just say the word.

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Who can review?

Small ONNX-export cleanup, applied identically in LED and Longformer.
Per the tagging guide:

• Text models: @ArthurZucker @Cyrilvallez

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[For maintainers] Suggested jobs to run (before merge)

run-slow: led, longformer