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fix(hf_ptq): don't require extract_feature during Nemotron VL calibra…
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21 changes: 20 additions & 1 deletion examples/hf_ptq/nemotron_vl_calib.py
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Expand Up @@ -76,9 +76,20 @@ def safe_nemotron_vl_forward(full_model: torch.nn.Module, batch: dict[str, Any])
flat_ids = input_ids.reshape(b * n)
selected = flat_ids == full_model.img_context_token_id

# Vision embeddings
# Vision embeddings. InternVL-style Nemotron VL exposes `extract_feature(pixel_values)`, but
# newer omni wrappers (e.g. NemotronH_Omni_Reasoning_V3 / nemotron_h_omni) do not: they merge the
# vision embeddings via masked_scatter inside their own forward. Calling the helper
# unconditionally raises AttributeError on those, aborting calibration. Fall back to the model's
# own forward when the helper is absent.
if not hasattr(full_model, "extract_feature"):

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This check runs after full_model.img_context_token_id and language_model.get_input_embeddings()(input_ids) have already been used. Any wrapper that doesn't have those attributes still fails before it reaches the fallback, and the embedding lookup is wasted work. Move the check to just after the image_flags handling. Also, the fallback passes the original batch, so the dtype-cast pixel_values above is thrown away. It also doesn't pass use_cache=False. The module docstring says wrapper forward() is unsafe in calibration (dist.get_rank, past_key_values). Please add a short note on why that doesn't apply to omni wrappers, and add a unit test for this path using a mock.

full_model(**{k: v for k, v in batch.items() if v is not None})
return
vit_embeds = full_model.extract_feature(pixel_values)
vit_embeds = vit_embeds[image_flags_s == 1]
# Under a multi-GPU device_map the vision tower and the LLM embedding table can live on
# different devices, so the merge below would raise a cross-device error. Align explicitly.
if vit_embeds.device != flat_embeds.device:
vit_embeds = vit_embeds.to(flat_embeds.device)
try:
flat_embeds[selected] = flat_embeds[selected] * 0.0 + vit_embeds.reshape(-1, c)
except Exception:
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inputs_embeds = flat_embeds.reshape(b, n, c)

# Under a sharded device_map the LLM's first block may not sit on the embedding device.

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The comment says this aligns to the LLM's first block, but _lm_dev is the device of the embedding table, which is where inputs_embeds already lives. Either reword the comment, or use the device of the first decoder layer if that's what is actually needed. With accelerate hooks, the first block's pre-forward hook usually moves its inputs anyway.

_lm_dev = getattr(full_model.language_model.get_input_embeddings().weight, "device", None)
if _lm_dev is not None:
if attention_mask is not None and attention_mask.device != _lm_dev:
attention_mask = attention_mask.to(_lm_dev)
if position_ids is not None and position_ids.device != _lm_dev:
position_ids = position_ids.to(_lm_dev)

# LLM forward (drives activation stats)
full_model.language_model(
inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

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This is only the SPDX part of LICENSE_HEADER. Sibling recipes such as NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16/ptq/nvfp4-mse.yaml carry the full Apache text. Please use the canonical header. Also consider adding # modelopt-schema: modelopt.recipe.config.ModelOptPTQRecipe to match the sibling recipes.

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# NemotronH -- aggressive NVFP4 tier, weight-MSE calibration.
#
# For hybrid Mamba-MoE NemotronH checkpoints, including the omni VL wrappers. Broader FP8 weight
# coverage than the conservative tier; the MTP rules apply only when the checkpoint carries an
# MTP tail and are inert otherwise.
#
# MoE routed + shared experts NVFP4 W4A4, static weight scales
# attention q/k/v/o, Mamba in/out_proj, lm_head FP8
# MTP block-1 routed + shared experts NVFP4 W4A4, static weight scales
# latent MoE, embeddings, router, C-RADIO vision BF16
# KV cache FP8 (see the kv rules below)
#
# quant_cfg is ordered and the LAST match wins, so the blanket disable comes first and the
# vision / MTP rules come last. Only configs/numerics/* is imported, so every rule that
# applies to this model is visible in this file.

imports:
nvfp4: configs/numerics/nvfp4
nvfp4_static: configs/numerics/nvfp4_static
fp8: configs/numerics/fp8

metadata:
recipe_type: ptq
description: >-
NemotronH aggressive tier, weight-MSE calibrated: NVFP4 routed and shared MoE experts with
static weight scales and dynamic NVFP4 activations, the same for the MTP block-1 experts;
FP8 attention projections, Mamba in/out_proj and lm_head; BF16 latent MoE and vision tower.
FP8 KV cache, with the backbone cast at a fixed range and MTP calibrated.
quantize:
algorithm:
method: mse
# Sweeps the 128 e4m3 scale values; requires static weight quantizers (below).
fp8_scale_sweep: true
# Required for VLMs: decoder layers sit under `model.language_model.layers`,
# where layerwise_calibrate cannot find them.
layerwise:
enable: false
quant_cfg:
- quantizer_name: '*'
enable: false
- quantizer_name: '*.experts.*weight_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: nvfp4_static
- quantizer_name: '*.experts.*input_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: nvfp4
- quantizer_name: '*shared_experts*weight_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: nvfp4_static
- quantizer_name: '*shared_experts*input_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: nvfp4
- quantizer_name: '*[qkvo]_proj.weight_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: fp8
- quantizer_name: '*[qkvo]_proj.input_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: fp8
- quantizer_name: '*mixer.in_proj.weight_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: fp8
- quantizer_name: '*mixer.in_proj.input_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: fp8
- quantizer_name: '*mixer.out_proj.weight_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: fp8
- quantizer_name: '*mixer.out_proj.input_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: fp8
# Backbone KV casts at a fixed FP8 range: no _amax buffer, so no k_scale/v_scale is
# exported, matching configs/ptq/units/kv_fp8_cast. MTP KV below stays calibrated and
# keeps its pair.
- quantizer_name: '*[kv]_bmm_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: fp8
use_constant_amax: true
- quantizer_name: '*mtp.*'
enable: false
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Qualify the documented FP8 attention scope for MTP.

The FP8 projection rules run before *mtp.* disables all MTP quantizers. Later MTP rules restore only experts and KV quantizers, so MTP attention projections do not receive FP8 quantization. However, the recipe metadata and modelopt_recipes/ptq.md describe attention projections as FP8 without excluding MTP.

The selective MTP re-enablement indicates that this is an intentional unquantized exception. Qualify the recipe descriptions instead of restoring FP8 projections without a checkpoint contract.

Suggested fix 
-#   attention q/k/v/o, Mamba in/out_proj, lm_head   FP8
+#   backbone attention q/k/v/o, Mamba in/out_proj, lm_head   FP8
+#   MTP attention projections                         unquantized
...
-    FP8 attention projections, Mamba in/out_proj and lm_head; BF16 latent MoE and C-RADIO vision.
+    FP8 backbone attention projections, Mamba in/out_proj and lm_head; MTP attention projections
+    remain unquantized; BF16 latent MoE and C-RADIO vision.
-  - attention q/k/v/out, Mamba `in/out_proj`, `lm_head` → FP8
+  - backbone attention q/k/v/out, Mamba `in/out_proj`, `lm_head` → FP8
+  - MTP attention projections remain unquantized
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Update the recipe metadata and its description in ptq.md to clarify that FP8
attention quantization applies to backbone attention projections, while MTP
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- quantizer_name: '*mtp.layers.1.mixer.experts.*weight_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: nvfp4_static
- quantizer_name: '*mtp.layers.1.mixer.experts.*input_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: nvfp4
- quantizer_name: '*mtp.layers.1.mixer.shared_experts.*weight_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: nvfp4_static
- quantizer_name: '*mtp.layers.1.mixer.shared_experts.*input_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: nvfp4
# Restated so this rule cannot inherit the backbone setting above.
- quantizer_name: '*mtp.layers.0.*[kv]_bmm_quantizer'
cfg:
$import: fp8
use_constant_amax: false
- quantizer_name: '*embed_vision*'
enable: false
- quantizer_name: '*lm_head*weight_quantizer'
enable: true
cfg:
$import: fp8
- quantizer_name: '*lm_head*input_quantizer'
enable: true
cfg:
$import: fp8
- quantizer_name: '*vision_model*'
enable: false
- quantizer_name: '*vision_projector*'
enable: false
- quantizer_name: '*radio_model*'
enable: false
- quantizer_name: '*vision_tower*'
enable: false
- quantizer_name: '*visual*'
enable: false
- quantizer_name: '*multi_modal_projector*'
enable: false
- quantizer_name: 'mlp1.*'
enable: false
- quantizer_name: '*.mlp1.*'
enable: false
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Expand Up @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ that baseline. The deviations come in four kinds:
| Kind | What changes vs. the general recipe | Examples |
|------|-------------------------------------|----------|
| **Architecture-aware `quant_cfg`** | Per-sub-module format choices a single wildcard scheme can't express | `minimax_m3_vl`, `qwen3_vl`, `qwen3_5`, `qwen3_5_moe`, `qwen3_6_moe`, `vit`, `nemotron_llama` |
| **Architecture-aware `quant_cfg`** | Per-sub-module format choices a single wildcard scheme can't express | `minimax_m3_vl`, `qwen3_vl`, `qwen3_5`, `qwen3_5_moe`, `qwen3_6_moe`, `vit`, `nemotron_llama`, `nemotron_h` |
| **Algorithm override** | Same numerics & scope, but the *calibration algorithm* is tweaked because the default breaks or regresses | `gemma`, `gemma4`, `mpt` |
| **Extra exclusions** | Adds disabled-quantizer patterns so non-language branches stay full precision | `nemotron_vl`, `diffusion_gemma` |
| **Checkpoint mirror** | A mixed-precision map reproducing one published checkpoint exactly | `models/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-*`, `models/mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B` |
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load-bearing: selectors are Megatron-Core leaf names (`mlp.experts.linear_fc1`,
`self_attention.linear_qkv`), so under `hf_ptq.py` nothing matches and `mtq.quantize` raises.

- **`nemotron_h/ptq/nvfp4-aggressive-mse`** is the **aggressive** tier for hybrid Mamba-MoE
NemotronH checkpoints, including the omni VL wrappers:
- MoE routed + shared experts → NVFP4 W4A4, `group_size 16`, **static** weight scales
(`nvfp4_static`) with dynamic NVFP4 activations (`nvfp4`)
- attention q/k/v/out, Mamba `in/out_proj`, `lm_head` → FP8
- MTP block-1 routed + shared experts → identical treatment to the main experts; the MTP rules
are inert on checkpoints without an MTP tail
- latent MoE, embeddings, router and the vision tower → **BF16**
- KV cache → FP8, **asymmetric**: the language-model backbone casts at a fixed FP8 range
(`use_constant_amax`, as in `configs/ptq/units/kv_fp8_cast`, so no `k_scale`/`v_scale` is
exported) while MTP attention stays data-calibrated and keeps its pair

Calibration is weight-MSE with an FP8-scale sweep, which is why the weight quantizers are
`static`. Use `--calib_with_images` on VL checkpoints: the vision tower must see image batches
even though it stays BF16.

### Algorithm overrides — `gemma`, `gemma4`, `mpt`

These quantize the **same layers** as the general recipes; only the
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