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[frontend] allow var_mean to be implemented in one pass #1285

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Currently PyTorch inductor is forced to implement torch.var_mean as two passes over the input data, which causes a slowdown for batch norm. To allow single-pass computation we need a new reduction operator tl.welford(mean, m2, count) which implements the combination step of parallel Welford's algortihm.

A more general solution might be to instead add a tl.reduce which takes a function acting on scalars, so users can write their own reductions without needing to change the triton language.

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