Cherry-pick PR#2581 and PR#2776 to main

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Cherry-pick two merged PRs from dev branch to main.

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PR#2581

The condition if self.config.mtp_num_layers is not None evaluates to True when mtp_num_layers=0, causing the code to enter the MTP branch and crash on labels.clone() when labels=None.

Since range(0) produces an empty loop and torch.chunk(..., 1) is essentially an identity operation, entering this branch with mtp_num_layers=0 does nothing useful but requires labels to be passed.

PR#2776

Add a None check for current_max_attn_logits in clip_qk.

When virtual pipeline is enabled with size > 1, in the first iteration step, only some model chunks have initialized the current_max_attn_logits, other chunks remain with current_max_attn_logits = None, which would lead to a TypeError when all_reduce is called in the following step.

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[maanug-nv]

Since these are both bug fixes, it seems a good idea to add unit tests to this PR to ensure same things don't happen again. For example, test model creation with mtp_num_layers=0 doesn't crash.