Improve argument validation for Flash-attn + SWA #1162
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As raised by @malteos , Flash attention requires not 2.0.0+ but version 2.3.0+ to support sliding_window_width. However also, sliding-window attention is supported in the absence of Flash.
This PR changes the argument validation to 1) check for version 2.3.0 and 2) only perform this check if "flash" type attention is used. Also, it doesn't pass window_size kwarg when not required, meaning we'll never give the invalid kwarg to flash versions < 2.3.0 .