[multimodal] add language_model_only flag for models like qwen3.5#1487
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language_model_onlyflag for multimodal models (Qwen3.5)Summary
language_model_onlyconfig flag across policy, ref, and inference engine configs to skip vision encoder initialization for multimodal models like Qwen3.5, reducing GPU memory usagemodel.layers.*) to vLLM's expected namespace (language_model.model.layers.*) via newweight_prefixinFSDPWeightExtractorflash-linear-attentionandcausal-conv1ddependencies; unblockcausal-conv1dinstall override -- required for performant GDN layer executionrun_qwen3.5_0.8b.shexample withuse_sample_packing=false(GDN layers are incompatible with packing)Runs
FSDP and megatron reward matching

Test plan
run_qwen3.5_0.8b.shon 4 GPUs -- verify weight sync, no GDN fallback warnings,avg_final_rewardstrends uplanguage_model_onlyacross policy/ref/generator