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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Expanded quantized model export support for MXFP4, MXFP8, FP8, and additional block-quantization formats.
    • Added quantization support for GPT-OSS and Step-family models, plus export support for native FP8 experts.
    • Added chat JSONL data preparation for Megatron workflows and an option to freeze the student MTP head during distillation.
    • Added model recipes for Kimi, Gemma, DiffusionGemma, and GLM variants.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved ONNX quantization and export compatibility, distributed calibration consistency, and handling of packed attention caches.
    • Improved safe model loading and low-precision quantization accuracy.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the 0.48.0 changelog and guidance for data preparation and quantization recipes.
    • Clarified FP8 vision-merger recipe coverage and KV-cache-only export validation.

Also includes a partial backport of #2656 (only the _validate_fold_weight hook and the mtq.fold_weight pre-check), which #2820 depends on.

shengliangxu and others added 30 commits October 16, 2026 22:00
…Gemma-4 MoE releases (#2647)

### What does this PR do?

**Type of change:** New recipes (checkpoint aliases)

Continues the 2026 published-checkpoint backfill started in #2643, with
three more NVFP4 releases. Each entry is a thin alias importing an
existing general recipe wholesale — no duplicated `quant_cfg`, and
editing a base recipe flows through to every alias pointing at it.

| Source model | Recipe | Published as |
|---|---|---|
| `moonshotai/Kimi-K2.7-Code` |
`general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only_input_scale1-kv_fp8_cast` |
`nvidia/Kimi-K2.7-Code-NVFP4` |
| `google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it` |
`general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast` |
`nvidia/Gemma-4-26B-A4B-NVFP4` |
| `google/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it` |
`general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast` |
`nvidia/diffusiongemma-26B-A4B-it-NVFP4` |

#### How these were verified

Unlike #2643, where each engineer named a recipe file outright, these
three were described in prose ("NVFP4 experts only, input activation
scale 1.0, calibration free"; "nvfp4 experts only, default dataset, 1024
samples"). So the mapping was checked against the published checkpoints
before being recorded:

- **Format and method.** All three are NVFP4 with an FP8 KV cache, and
every model card documents post-training quantization with no mention of
quantization-aware training or distillation. That check matters because
QAD retrains the weights while leaving the quantization layout identical
— a PTQ recipe could match every module and format and still not
reproduce such a release.
- **Scope.** Both Gemma releases list dense MLPs, router, attention,
vision tower and `lm_head` in `exclude_modules`, leaving only the routed
experts quantized. Kimi-K2.7-Code additionally excludes its shared
experts.
- **`input_scale1` vs plain experts-only.** This is what separates the
Kimi recipe from the Gemma one. The `input_scale1` recipe pins expert
activation amax to a constant 2688.0 (`E2M1_MAX * E4M3_MAX`), so the
exported `input_scale` is exactly 1.0. Kimi-K2.7-Code's sampled expert
`input_scale` tensors are exactly 1.0; the Gemma releases' are
calibrated values, so they take the plain recipe.
- **KV mode.** Neither Gemma release exports `k_scale` tensors, which is
what cast mode produces (`use_constant_amax`, no KV calibration) —
consistent with the already-merged `GLM-5.1`/`Kimi-K2.6` entries, which
use `-kv_fp8_cast` recipes and likewise export none. A calibrated KV
cache exports a non-1.0 `k_scale`.
- **A naming quirk worth knowing:** `diffusiongemma` nests its decoder
under `model.decoder.layers` rather than `model.language_model.layers`.
The recipe's `*.experts.*` patterns match either way, so no
model-specific body is needed.

**What this cannot establish: calibration.** A checkpoint does not
record whether max, MSE, or something else was used, so that rests on
what each engineer said — the Gemma pair used the default, which is max.
Kimi-K2.7-Code is calibration-free on the activation side by
construction.

#### Second commit: name the release in the Qwen3.8-27B description

`models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/nvfp4_w4a4_mlp_fp8_attn_local_hessian`
already reproduces `nvidia/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4`, and `ptq.md` says so —
but the recipe's own `metadata.description` did not, so on its own the
file reads like an unrelated AutoQuantize artifact. Every other
checkpoint entry names its release, so a coverage audit that reads the
recipes can miss this one. (It missed mine.)

Checked against the published checkpoint before asserting it: MLP
`gate`/`up`/`down_proj` NVFP4, `self_attn` and `linear_attn` projections
FP8, `lm_head` NVFP4, `mtp*` excluded, no KV quantization — and the
model card names local-Hessian calibration on 2,048 samples. All
matching, including the unusual NVFP4 `lm_head`.

### Usage

```bash
python examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py \
    --pyt_ckpt_path google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it \
    --recipe models/google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast \
    --export_path <output>
```

### Testing

- `tests/unit/recipe/` — 460 passed. All three aliases load through
`load_recipe`, inherit `algorithm: max` from their base, and resolve to
32 `quant_cfg` entries.
- The aliases are swept by the shipped-recipe discovery in
`tests/unit/recipe/test_loader.py`, which finds every PTQ recipe from
disk, so they are covered without a bespoke test.
- `pre-commit` passes on all changed files.
- The 14 failures in the local run are pre-existing and environment-only
— a broken `transformer_engine` `.so` in the dev venv; they reproduce
identically on unmodified `main`.

Not covered: **numerics**. Nothing here asserts accuracy or that running
a recipe reproduces a released checkpoint's weights bit-for-bit.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ — purely additive. Three new
alias files plus a docs and changelog entry; no existing recipe path,
body or API changes.
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: ✅ — no new
dependencies, no source changes.
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ — covered by the
shipped-recipe sweep.
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
✅
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ — not yet run.

### Additional Information

Three more releases from the same tracking list are verified for scope
and KV mode but still need their calibration method confirmed by the
engineer who produced them (a checkpoint cannot reveal it):
`moonshotai/Kimi-K2.5`, `Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B` (the non-V2 release),
and `zai-org/GLM-5.1`. They will follow separately.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added checkpoint recipes for Kimi-K2.7-Code, Gemma 4 26B A4B, and
DiffusionGemma 26B A4B, with NVFP4 quantization and FP8 KV-cache
options.
* Added documentation identifying the published checkpoints and their
available recipe configurations.
* Updated the Qwen 3.8 27B recipe description to identify its published
checkpoint.

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Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…rries its prefix during export (#2700)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

Unified HF export misnames tensors that are **copied from the source
checkpoint rather than loaded
by the model**, when the checkpoint's conversion mapping renames a
module to a suffix of its
original name.

`revert_weight_conversion_quant_aware` runs over the whole export state
dict. That dict includes
passthrough tensors — `unified_export_hf` logs them as `Carrying N
source weight(s) the model never
loaded into the export`. Those keys never went through the *forward*
conversion, so they arrive at
the reverse pass already in hub naming, and a reverse rule whose
replacement still contains its own
pattern adds its prefix a second time.

C-RADIO remote code registers
`WeightRenaming("radio_model.input_conditioner", "input_conditioner")`.
The derived reverse is `input_conditioner` ->
`radio_model.input_conditioner`, so the passthrough
buffer is exported as:

```
got:      vision_model.radio_model.radio_model.input_conditioner.norm_mean
expected: vision_model.radio_model.input_conditioner.norm_mean
```

The tensor is present but misnamed, which is worse than missing: a
strict deployment loader sees an
unexpected key *and* a missing one.

Only rules shaped `pattern` -> `<prefix> + pattern` can do this.
`encoder.layer` ->
`radio_model.model.blocks` cannot re-match its own output, so most
mappings are accidentally
idempotent — which is why this cost 2 names out of 43,079 and went
unnoticed.

**Fix:** when the replacement is exactly `<prefix> + <pattern>`, compile
the pattern with a negative
lookbehind for that prefix, so an already-reverted key is left alone.
The prefix is a literal string,
so the lookbehind is fixed-width. Replacements that do not end with the
pattern, including
group-reference forms such as `(\.experts\.\d+\.)up_proj` ->
`\g<1>up_proj`, compile unchanged.

### Usage

No API change. Affected checkpoints need re-exporting to pick up the
corrected names.

### Testing

```bash
PYTHONPATH=. python -m pytest tests/unit/torch/export/test_quant_aware_conversion.py -q -o addopts=''
```

**57 passed** (3 new, 54 existing), transformers 5.13.0 / torch 2.12.0a0
on one node.

End to end: a NemotronH omni VL checkpoint with a C-RADIO vision tower,
NVFP4 PTQ via
`examples/hf_ptq` on 4x184 GiB, before and after the fix.

| | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| tensor names matching the BF16 hub checkpoint verbatim | 43,077 /
43,079 | **43,079 / 43,079** |
| occurrences of `radio_model.radio_model` | 2 | **0** |

Everything else in the artefact is unchanged: 0 duplicates, 42,179 NVFP4
scales, 4,120 MTP tensors,
8 shards, 457 vision tensors, 69.86 GiB. GSM8K on the re-exported
checkpoint: 93.18 (1,319
questions, 5-shot, `invalid_rate` 0.0), in line with what we see for
this checkpoint.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Is this change backward compatible?: Yes. Exported names move toward
the hub layout; checkpoints
  already exported with the doubled prefix should be re-exported.
- If you copied code from other sources or added a new PIP dependency,
did you follow CONTRIBUTING.md?:
  N/A; no new dependency or copied code.
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: Yes, 3 unit tests covering the
doubling case, an
  already-reverted key, and a rule that cannot re-match.
- Did you update Changelog?: Yes, under **Bug Fixes**, next to the
related RADIO export entry.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
Type of change: Bug fix

Pins two `examples/gpt-oss` dependencies that broke
`tests/examples/gpt-oss/test_gpt_oss_qat.py::test_gpt_oss_sft_toy` on PR
CI on 2026-10-08 (19 failed runs across 16 PRs). The example installs
`requirements.txt` with open ranges, so each run picked up whatever was
newest.

- **`trl<1.15`**: TRL 1.15.0's `SFTTrainer.compute_loss` always calls
`model(**inputs, fused_lm_head=True)`, which runs the Triton
`ChunkedLogProbFunction` kernel (`trl/trainer/utils.py`). The only
fallback is when Triton can't be imported, so there is no device check
and no opt-out. The toy test trains on CPU (`--use_cpu True`,
`CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=""`), so Triton fails with `RuntimeError: 0 active
drivers ([]). There should only be one.` Example:
https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/actions/runs/37836855877/job/113524251231
- **`trackio>=0.41`**: some runs resolved `trackio` 0.20.2, whose
`commit_scheduler.py` imports `CommitOperationAdd` from
`huggingface_hub.hf_api`; with `huggingface_hub` 1.33.0 that fails with
`ImportError`. Example:
https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/actions/runs/37816170339/job/113447734730

The last passing runs had exactly `trl` 1.14.2 and `trackio` 0.41.0
(e.g.
https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/actions/runs/37828686284/job/113490544527).

The `trl` cap should be lifted once TRL skips the fused head for CPU
training. Longer term, PR CI could install example dependencies from a
bot-maintained constraints file (like `bump_uv_lock.yml` does for
`uv.lock`) with nightly runs on unpinned latest, so an upstream release
doesn't break every open PR at once.

N/A

- `pip install --dry-run -r examples/gpt-oss/requirements.txt` resolves
to `trl` 1.14.2 and `trackio` 0.41.0, matching the last passing CI runs.
- Read the TRL 1.15.0 wheel to confirm the fused-head path has no CPU
fallback or opt-out.
- `pre-commit` passes on the changed file.
- The `trtllm (gpt-oss)` example job on this PR is the end-to-end check.

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: N/A
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
N/A
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌

Unblocks the `trtllm (gpt-oss)` example check on open PRs, e.g. #2440.

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* **Chores**
* Updated setup configuration for the GPT-OSS example. This change does
not alter the example’s user-facing features or behavior.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…dels [3/4] (#2578)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Refactor

### Summary of the series

Model-specific PTQ modeling moves out of
`modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/huggingface.py` into the per-model
packages under `modelopt/torch/models/<model_type>/modeling_ptq.py`,
next to each model's `specs.py`. By the end of the series
`huggingface.py` shrinks from ~1880 to ~1500 lines and keeps only the
code shared across models: sequential/fused MoE auto-detection,
attention, `FP8Linear`, `CompressedLinear`, parallel linears, and the
transposed-quantization helpers that gpt_oss and llama4 share. Model
types that gain PTQ modeling but had no `ModelSpec` get one.

- Class and function bodies move verbatim. The only rewrites: on-the-fly
callbacks are added to `CUSTOM_MODEL_PLUGINS` by their own module, and
`is_homogeneous_hf_model` imports `is_nemotron_h_model` lazily.
- `huggingface.py` imports every `modeling_ptq` from an explicit list.
The list sits after the generic wrappers these modules build on and
before the homogeneous decoder discoverer is registered, so Nemotron-H's
more specific discoverer still matches first.
- Each package's `__init__.py` keeps importing only `specs`, so `import
modelopt.torch.models` does not pull in quantization or transformers.
- No public API or quantization behavior changes; only private
(`_`-prefixed) names change module.

Merge in order. #2576 and #2577 have merged; #2578 now targets `main`,
and #2580 targets #2578's branch.

1. #2576 — Add model specs for llama4, qwen3_vl_moe, falcon, step3p5 and
step3p7 (merged)
2. #2577 — Add the `modeling_ptq.py` convention; move Nemotron-H, Falcon
and Llama4 (merged)
3. #2578 — Move GPT-OSS  ← **this PR**
4. #2580 — Move the Step family (step3p5, shared by step3p7)

The DBRX slice (#2579) was dropped: #2649 removed DBRX support, so there
was nothing left to move. Likewise, the Qwen3-VL-MoE half of [3/4] was
dropped: #2670 removed its pre-5.12 wrapper.

### This PR [3/4]

Moves `_QuantGptOssExperts` and its registration into
`gpt_oss/modeling_ptq.py`, adds `gpt_oss` to the import loop, and
extends the registration test to it. This slice originally also moved
the pre-5.12 Qwen3-VL-MoE wrapper; #2670 removed that wrapper, so that
half was dropped.

### Usage

No API change. To add PTQ support for a new model, put its wrapper in
`modelopt/torch/models/<model_type>/modeling_ptq.py` and add
`<model_type>` to the import loop at the end of
`quantization/plugins/huggingface.py`.

### Testing

Each branch of the stack checked out and tested on `main` at 90ba9fb,
CPU, torch 2.11. With transformers 5.18: `pytest tests/unit/torch/models
tests/unit/torch/quantization tests/unit/torch/export
tests/unit/recipe`, 2371 passed, 1 skipped. With transformers 5.5 (the
new floor): `tests/unit/torch/models` plus `test_moe_linear.py` and
`test_huggingface.py`, 206 passed, 1 skipped. GPU tests are left to CI.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ Only private (`_`-prefixed)
names change module; public API and quantization behavior are unchanged.
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: N/A (verbatim move; existing
tests re-pointed)
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
N/A (internal refactor)
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌

### Additional Information

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
  * Added post-training quantization support for GPT-OSS models.
* Added support for quantizing legacy Qwen3-VL-MoE layouts, while
retaining support for newer fused layouts.
* Quantization support now accommodates both legacy and newer
Qwen3-VL-MoE model layouts.
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Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…dels [4/4] (#2580)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Refactor

### Summary of the series

Model-specific PTQ modeling moves out of
`modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/huggingface.py` into the per-model
packages under `modelopt/torch/models/<model_type>/modeling_ptq.py`,
next to each model's `specs.py`. By the end of the series
`huggingface.py` shrinks from ~1880 to ~1500 lines and keeps only the
code shared across models: sequential/fused MoE auto-detection,
attention, `FP8Linear`, `CompressedLinear`, parallel linears, and the
transposed-quantization helpers that gpt_oss and llama4 share. Model
types that gain PTQ modeling but had no `ModelSpec` get one.

- Class and function bodies move verbatim. The only rewrites: on-the-fly
callbacks are added to `CUSTOM_MODEL_PLUGINS` by their own module, and
`is_homogeneous_hf_model` imports `is_nemotron_h_model` lazily.
- `huggingface.py` imports every `modeling_ptq` from an explicit list.
The list sits after the generic wrappers these modules build on and
before the homogeneous decoder discoverer is registered, so Nemotron-H's
more specific discoverer still matches first.
- Each package's `__init__.py` keeps importing only `specs`, so `import
modelopt.torch.models` does not pull in quantization or transformers.
- No public API or quantization behavior changes; only private
(`_`-prefixed) names change module.

Merge in order. #2576, #2577 and #2578 have merged; this last slice,
#2580, now targets `main`.

1. #2576 — Add model specs for llama4, qwen3_vl_moe, falcon, step3p5 and
step3p7 (merged)
2. #2577 — Add the `modeling_ptq.py` convention; move Nemotron-H, Falcon
and Llama4 (merged)
3. #2578 — Move GPT-OSS (merged)
4. #2580 — Move the Step family (step3p5, shared by step3p7) ← **this
PR**

The DBRX slice (#2579) was dropped: #2649 removed DBRX support, so there
was nothing left to move. Likewise, the Qwen3-VL-MoE half of [3/4] was
dropped: #2670 removed its pre-5.12 wrapper.

### This PR [4/4]

Moves `_QuantMoELinear`, `_is_expert_indexed_moe_linear`,
`_is_step_family_model`, `register_moe_linear_on_the_fly` and
`_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear` into `step3p5/modeling_ptq.py`, which
also serves `step3p7`. This carries over #2569's switch of
`_is_step_family_model` to `hf_model_type`; `huggingface.py` drops its
now-unused `hf_model_type` and `re` imports.

Export (`hf_export_handlers.py`, `layerwise_export.py`,
`unified_export_hf.py`, `unified_export_hf_streaming.py`) imports these
names from the new module. The imports stay deferred, because
`modelopt.torch.quantization` imports `modelopt.torch.export` and
importing at module scope would risk an import cycle; the comments now
give that reason. The PTQ skill references (`unsupported-models.md`,
`checkpoint-validation.md`) now point agents at
`modelopt/torch/models/<model_type>/modeling_ptq.py` for model-specific
patches.

Rebasing onto #2649 also replaces the README's DBRX example of a
model-specific wrapper with Llama4's fused BMM experts.

`step3p7` also gets its own `modeling_ptq.py`, which imports the
Step-3.5 module: Step-3.7 remote-code checkpoints use the same
`MoELinear`, and today they are covered only because the HF plugin
imports every `modeling_ptq`. With its own module, a future loader that
imports PTQ modeling by model type finds it too.

### Usage

No API change. To add PTQ support for a new model, put its wrapper in
`modelopt/torch/models/<model_type>/modeling_ptq.py` and add
`<model_type>` to the import loop at the end of
`quantization/plugins/huggingface.py`.

### Testing

Each branch of the stack checked out and tested on `main` at 90ba9fb,
CPU, torch 2.11. With transformers 5.18: `pytest tests/unit/torch/models
tests/unit/torch/quantization tests/unit/torch/export
tests/unit/recipe`, 2372 passed, 1 skipped. With transformers 5.5 (the
new floor): `tests/unit/torch/models` plus `test_moe_linear.py` and
`test_huggingface.py`, 207 passed, 1 skipped. GPU tests are left to CI.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ Only private (`_`-prefixed)
names change module; public API and quantization behavior are unchanged.
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: N/A (verbatim move; existing
tests re-pointed)
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
N/A (internal refactor)
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌

### Additional Information

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* **New Features**
* Added post-training quantization support for Step-family models with
expert-indexed MoE layers.
* Checkpoint exports preserve the original layout of quantized expert
weights and scales.
* **Documentation**
* Updated MoE architecture examples and guidance for configuring
model-specific quantization support, including Step model revisions.
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Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
### What does this PR do?

**Type of change:** Bug fix (checkpoint alias pointed at the wrong
recipe)

`models/zai-org/GLM-5.1/` aliases
`general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only_input_scale1-kv_fp8_cast`. It should
alias the plain `general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast`.

The `input_scale1` recipe pins the expert activation amax to a constant
2688.0 (`E2M1_MAX * E4M3_MAX`), so every exported expert `input_scale`
is exactly 1.0 and no activation statistics are collected. That is a
visible property of the published checkpoint, and GLM-5.1 does not have
it:

| Release | Expert `input_scale`, 8 randomly sampled | |
|---|---|---|
| `nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4` | 8 of 8 exactly `1.0` | matches `input_scale1`
|
| `nvidia/GLM-5.1-NVFP4` | 0 of 8 equal to 1.0, spanning `3.4e-4` …
`1.3e-2` | ordinary calibration |

So GLM-5.1 used ordinary activation calibration and takes the plain
experts-only recipe. **GLM-5.2 is correct and is not touched.**

Scope and KV mode were re-checked against the release and are unchanged
— routed experts only, FP8 KV cache in cast mode. Only the activation
handling was wrong. Verified after the change that the alias now
resolves identically to its base, that the pinned `2688.0` amax is gone
from the resolved config, and that GLM-5.2 still carries it.

#### How this happened

The recipes were collected by asking the engineer behind each release.
GLM-5.1 and GLM-5.2 were answered together in one line naming
`input_scale1`. That was recorded for both without checking the one
property the recipe is named for. #2643 merged it.

#### One thing left open

**Max versus MSE is not recoverable from a checkpoint** — calibration
leaves no trace in the exported tensors, which is why the sampling above
can settle `input_scale1` but not this. The `max` variant here reflects
the general default, not a confirmed fact. If GLM-5.1 used MSE, the
follow-up is a one-line change of the import to
`general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only_mse-kv_fp8_cast`; scope, KV mode and
activation handling all stay as they are in this PR.

This PR is still strictly closer to the release than what is on `main`
today, which misstates activation handling outright.

### Usage

```bash
python examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py \
    --pyt_ckpt_path zai-org/GLM-5.1 \
    --recipe models/zai-org/GLM-5.1/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast \
    --export_path <output>
```

### Testing

- `tests/unit/recipe/` — 461 passed.
- Verified the new path resolves to a config identical to
`general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast`, that `constant_amax:
2688.0` no longer appears in it, that the old path now raises
`ValueError`, and that GLM-5.2 still resolves with the pinned amax.
- `pre-commit` passes on both changed files.
- The 14 failures in the local run are pre-existing and environment-only
— a broken `transformer_engine` `.so` in the dev venv; they reproduce
identically on unmodified `main`.

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stops resolving and becomes `.../nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast`. That
is the fix: the old path named a recipe that does not produce this
release.
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: ✅ — no new
dependencies, no source changes.
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ — covered by the
shipped-recipe sweep in `tests/unit/recipe/test_loader.py`.
- Did you update
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❌ — corrects an alias added in the same unreleased cycle (#2643), which
`CONTRIBUTING.md` says to skip. Happy to add one if you would rather it
be recorded.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Clarified that GLM-5.1 uses calibrated expert activation scales, while
GLM-5.2 pins them to 1.0.
* Updated the GLM-5.1 recipe description to note max calibration and an
FP8 KV cache in cast mode.

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Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: bug fix

**HF export with FSDP2 deadlocks at 2 or more ranks.** It hangs with
rank 0 in `collect_export_tensors` and every other rank at the barrier
after it. This hits both the streaming export (`owner="share"`) and the
gather-to-rank-0 export (`owner="rank0"`). In practice that's `hf_ptq
--use_fsdp2` with more than one rank, and the nightly 2-GPU `gpu` job,
which has hit its 60-minute limit every night for at least a week:
`test_fsdp2_streaming_export_matches_reference[nvfp4]` and `[fp8]` each
time out at 120s. PR CI runs GPU tests on a 1-GPU runner, where these
tests skip, so it never saw this.

**Root cause:**
1. A forward pass leaves the root FSDP module's parameters unsharded,
because FSDP2 skips the root's post-forward reshard. Calibration and the
export's own dummy forward both do this.
2. FSDP2 registers a `state_dict()` pre-hook on every module that holds
FSDP parameters, and the hook reshards that module's whole parameter
group.
3. In `collect_export_tensors`, only a unit's owner calls
`state_dict()`. So the owner of the non-layer unit (`embed_tokens`,
`norm`, `lm_head`) reshards the root on its rank alone.
4. At the next module, the gather window all-gathers a parameter on that
rank which the other ranks still hold as a plain tensor. The others
never join the collective.

A per-rank trace of every collective shows the two ranks agreeing up to
that one extra all-gather.

**Fix:** before the loop, every rank reshards every FSDP module. That's
a local operation, so the owner's pre-hook becomes a no-op.

### Usage

No API change.

### Testing

- **New unit test:** `test_streaming_export_two_cpu_ranks` in
`tests/unit/torch/export/test_fsdp2_parallel_export.py`. It shards a
tiny Llama over two CPU ranks with Gloo, calibrates it (which leaves the
root unsharded), runs the streaming export, and compares the merged
checkpoint with a single-process export.
- It runs in PR CI, which so far had no multi-rank FSDP2 export
coverage.
- Without the fix it deadlocks. The worker dumps its stack and exits
after 45s, so the test fails in about 50s instead of hanging the job.
- With the fix it passes in about 10s on torch 2.12 and torch 2.8 (the
oldest in the CI matrix).
- **GPU tests:** all 38 of `tests/gpu/torch/export/test_fsdp2_export.py`
pass in CI's image (`nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:26.05-py3`) on 2× RTX PRO
6000, the nightly runner's GPU. That includes
`test_fsdp2_streaming_export_matches_reference[nvfp4]` (4.5s) and
`[fp8]` (3.0s), which time out without the fix.
- **Rest of the unit file:** the other 5 tests in
`test_fsdp2_parallel_export.py` (world=1) pass.
- **Pre-commit:** passes.

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[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
N/A (the round-robin FSDP2 export and this deadlock both arrived in the
unreleased 0.48 cycle)
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### Additional Information

Found while adding FSDP2 coverage to an earlier revision of #2710.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved reliability of distributed model exports with FSDP2 by
resharding modules across all ranks before collecting export tensors.
* Multi-rank exports are checked against an unsharded reference to help
ensure the exported tensors are consistent.
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Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…stead of fork (#2726)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

`megatron_preprocess_data(..., workers>1)` built its tokenization pool
with the default
`multiprocessing.Pool`, i.e. the **fork** start method on Linux. Forking
a process that has already
initialized CUDA is unsafe. In the failing `gpu_megatron` CI jobs the
forked worker died with
`Fatal Python error: Segmentation fault` in garbage collection while the
pool `initializer` loaded
the HF fast tokenizer
([example
job](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/actions/runs/37437843465/job/112188656139)).
The pool kept respawning the dying workers and the main process hung
until `pytest-timeout` fired at
120 s. The crash is state-dependent: roughly 4% of lane runs in
10-02..10-08 and none before, because
the tests run late in the lane, after in-process CUDA tests.

**Fix:**

- Create the pool from a **`forkserver`** context and preload this
module into the server
(`_worker_context()`). Each worker is forked from a separate server
process that never held the
parent's CUDA objects, and the server imports torch/megatron **once**
instead of once per worker.
Windows has no `forkserver`, so it falls back to `spawn`, which is what
the default context already
  used there.
- The server's first start cold-imports torch/megatron, and `Pool()`
blocks until that is done, so
the wait would land inside the caller. `_prestart_forkserver()` starts
the server without waiting:
at the top of `megatron_preprocess_data` when `workers > 1` (overlapping
the tokenizer and dataset
loading), and in a session fixture in `tests/gpu_megatron/conftest.py`
(overlapping the earlier
tests; the repo sets `timeout_func_only`, and
`_prebuild_quant_cuda_extensions` already uses this
  pattern).
- The `workers` docstring notes the `if __name__ == "__main__":`
requirement (see Usage).

Why not `fork` or `spawn`:
- `fork`: the segfault above.
- `spawn`: safe, but every worker cold-imports the full torch/megatron
stack. In CI that took about
  1.6 min per pool

([job](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/actions/runs/37981490141/job/113998426449)),
and
the two `*_stops_at_max_tokens` tests, which build two pools each, timed
out at the 120 s cap.

### Usage

No API change. Behavior notes:

- With `workers > 1`, call from under `if __name__ == "__main__":`.
Workers re-import the main
script, so a script without the guard now hangs (the pool keeps
respawning workers that die on the
  re-import), where it ran under fork. In-repo callers are guarded.
- The first multi-worker call in a process starts a forkserver (about 1
GB resident) that stays until
  the process exits.

### Testing

CPU only (Python 3.13, CUDA hidden, tiny local tokenizer plus the cached
`gpt2`):

- Pre-commit hooks on the changed files: ruff, ruff-format, mypy,
bandit, license.
- `workers=2` output is byte-identical to `workers=1`: full run over
three files, `max_tokens` early
  stop, two calls in one process, and the `python -m` CLI.
- `test_megatron_preprocess_data.py` under pytest on CPU:
`with_jsonl_path`, `jsonl_stops_at_max_tokens`
(`workers=2`), `with_gzip_input`, and the two new `_worker_context`
tests pass.
- Early start: with 25 s of earlier tests, the `workers=2` test's call
took 1.8 s with the fixture and
15.0 s without. With a simulated 20 s tokenizer/dataset load,
`megatron_preprocess_data` took 20.3 s
with the early start and 41.5 s without. (The import takes about 14 s on
a dev box; the lane is slower.)
- Spawn fallback (`get_all_start_methods` reporting only `spawn`):
identical output, no forkserver
  started.

Not run yet: the `gpu_megatron` lane on GPUs (Python 3.12, nemo:26.08).
Kept in **draft** until that
validates the change. Given the roughly 4% crash rate, one green run
proves little, so it needs
repeated runs.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

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now hang (documented in the docstring)
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ <!-- `_worker_context`
tests; the existing `workers=2` tests cover the multi-worker path -->
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
✅
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ <!-- draft; will run
/claude review before ready -->

### Additional Information

Addresses the intermittent `gpu_megatron` failure in
`test_megatron_preprocess_data_*_stops_at_max_tokens` (fork after CUDA
initialization). Whether it
fails depends on what ran earlier in the lane's process, which is why it
passes on some runs and
segfaults on others.

---------

Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…ntion packed KV cache support (#2697)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

Fixes FlashInfer skip-softmax calibration and serving with packed KV
caches, including the layout used by vLLM 0.30.0 and 0.31.0. The adapter
assumed a five-dimensional `[blocks, 2, page, heads, dim]` cache, but
these versions provide `[blocks, heads, page, 2 * dim]`. As a result,
calibration fails during engine warmup with:

```text
ValueError: FlashInfer KV cache must have logical shape [blocks, 2, page, heads, dim]
```

A shared helper now extracts logical `[blocks, page, heads, dim]` K/V
views for both calibration and serving. Packed caches use `transpose(1,
2).split(head_size, dim=-1)` without copying the cache; legacy
five-dimensional caches retain their existing indexing.

### Usage

Use the existing FlashInfer calibration command. `<CKPT_COPY>` should be
a private writable checkpoint copy/view because
`--update_checkpoint_config` updates its `config.json`;
`<RULER_DATA_DIR>` is the prepared calibration data directory.

```bash
python examples/vllm_serve/calibrate_sparse_attn.py "<CKPT_COPY>" \
  --calib_data_dir "<RULER_DATA_DIR>" \
  --calib_samples 64 --calib_max_seqlen 16384 \
  --target_sparse_ratio 0.5 --decode_tokens 32 \
  --max_model_len 32768 --dtype bfloat16 \
  --attention_backend FLASHINFER --tensor_parallel_size 4 \
  --update_checkpoint_config
```

### Testing

Environment: BF16 Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, 4 H200 GPUs, TP4, `FLASHINFER`,
with 32 decode steps.

**Before the fix:** [Jenkins
#4044](http://dlswqa-nas:18880/job/modelopt_release_testing/4044/)
reproduced the cache-shape error during engine warmup with vLLM 0.30.0.

**With the fix:** the FlashInfer calibration-and-serving E2E passed on
both versions:

| vLLM | CI run | Result |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 0.30.0 |
[#4045](http://dlswqa-nas:18880/job/modelopt_release_testing/4045/) | 1
passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped |
| 0.31.0 |
[#4047](http://dlswqa-nas:18880/job/modelopt_release_testing/4047/) | 1
passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped |

Each run completed prefill/decode calibration, exported and merged the
sparse configuration, then loaded the checkpoint in a fresh HTTP server
and generated a response. The 0.31.0 artifacts also confirm
`ModelOptSparseFlashInferImpl` during calibration and serving on all 32
attention layers.

Both passing runs used commit
`698154ff0d0266270235f98d57246f616e20eeff`. Current PR head
`92c48f240781dd70af4581f1a059089d4d288c2d` contains the identical fix
patch and an identical `plugins/vllm.py` file after rebase; the rebased
head has not been rerun. Pre-commit checks passed on the tested,
pre-rebase fix.

The E2E validates the calibration/serving flow; it does not measure
actual serving tile skips, accuracy, or performance.

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- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ — preserves the legacy
five-dimensional cache layout.
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A — no
copied code or new dependency.
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ❌ — no tests added in this PR;
external QA E2E validation is listed above.
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
❌ — no changelog entry included.
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ — not yet obtained.

### Additional Information

- Related feature: #1992.
- Tracking: [NVBug 6886263](https://nvbugspro.nvidia.com/bug/6886263).
- The legacy cache writer remains appropriate for older vLLM versions.
In [vLLM
0.30.0](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.30.0/vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py#L551)
and
[0.31.0](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/v0.31.0/vllm/v1/attention/backends/flashinfer.py#L555),
`forward_includes_kv_cache_update=False`, so native vLLM cache updates
run before the adapter and the legacy writer is bypassed.

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* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved compatibility with FlashInfer KV caches using supported
layouts, helping calibration and regular operation handle more cache
configurations.

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Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…tention gradients (#2769)

Type of change: Bug fix

Right-pad labeled calibration samples per tokenizer call to avoid fully
masked causal
attention rows that can produce non-finite cuDNN gradients during
AutoQuantize. The
tokenizer's generation padding setting and unlabeled calibration
behavior remain unchanged.
Generation previews remove either left or right padding before decoding.

cuDNN stays enabled, and the existing non-finite-gradient fail-fast
guard remains intact.
A separate documentation change explains that KV-only recipes correctly
leave the weight
quantization algorithm null and should be validated through KV metadata
and scaling tensors.

No caller changes are required. Labeled calibration now selects right
padding:

```python
from modelopt.torch.utils.dataset_utils import get_dataset_dataloader

calibration = get_dataset_dataloader(tokenizer=tokenizer, include_labels=True)
```

- Split branch: 99 dataset and HF PTQ model-type/preview tests passed.
- Applicable pre-commit hooks and `git diff --check` passed.
- GB200 and GB300 operator probes reproduce non-finite query gradients
with left padding
and cuDNN, while right padding keeps gradients finite with cuDNN
enabled.
- Prior full-model validation of the original combined patch used four
GB200 GPUs,
Transformers 5.5.4, 32 calibration samples, batch 1, and sequence length
512.
Unmodified main reproduces the non-finite-gradient diagnostic. The
corrected composed
recipe completes gradient scoring, weight optimization at 5.40 bits, KV
search, and export.
- KV-only export succeeds with null weight algorithm, an empty
weight-layer map, and
  mixed-precision KV metadata for 16 attention layers.
- The composed-export validation also included the companion
export-accounting fix.
Both fixes are needed for the fully corrected release checkpoints. GPU
validation was
  not repeated solely for the split; executable changes are unchanged.

Make sure you read and follow [Contributor
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(e.g. avoiding hardcoded `trust_remote_code=True`, `torch.load(...,
weights_only=False)`, `pickle`, etc.).

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dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: Yes
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
Yes, under 0.48.0 bug fixes
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: Not run

The KV-only documentation describes existing correct behavior, not a new
weight-quantization
feature. A validator that requires a non-null weight algorithm for
KV-only recipes needs to
check `kv_cache_quant_algo`, `kv_cache_quantized_layers`, and exported
K/V scales instead.

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* **Bug Fixes**
* AutoQuantize calibration with labeled samples now uses right padding
to avoid fully masked causal rows and non-finite attention gradients.
* Generation previews now remove padding before decoding, including for
left-padded inputs.

* **Documentation**
* Clarified how to verify KV-cache quantization in exported
configuration when model weights are not quantized.

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**Companion PR:**
[#2768](#2768).

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Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…2770)

Type of change: New feature

Adds `freeze_mtp` to the Megatron `DistillationConfig`, exposed as
`--freeze_mtp` in
`examples/megatron_bridge/distill.py`. With it, the student's MTP head
keeps its input weights
during distillation: its loss is skipped and its parameters are frozen.

Today the plugin skips the MTP loss only when the MTP head is left out
of quantization. A recipe
that quantizes it, such as
`model_type/nemotron_h/ptq/nvfp4-aggressive-mse` (MTP block-1 experts in
NVFP4), keeps the MTP cross-entropy even at `kd_loss_alpha=1.0`. That
loss trains the MTP head and,
because the head reads the backbone's hidden states and shares the
embedding and output layer, it
trains the rest of the student too: QAD is then no longer
distillation-only.

`freeze_mtp` keeps the MTP head out of training: the student trains on
the distillation loss alone,
and the MTP head is exported with its PTQ weights. The default behavior
is unchanged.

```bash
python examples/megatron_bridge/distill.py ... --freeze_mtp
```

```python
DistillationConfig(kd_loss_alpha=1.0, freeze_mtp=True)
```

`tests/gpu_megatron/torch/distill/plugins/test_distill_megatron.py`
passes on GB300 (23 passed):

- `test_skip_lm_loss_with_mtp` gains `freeze_mtp` cases, with and
without the LM loss. In both, the
  MTP head's parameters are frozen and its loss is zero.
- New `test_freeze_mtp_with_quantized_mtp` covers the motivating case,
with the MTP head quantized
as well as the body. It runs a forward pass, KD backward and an AdamW
step. The total loss follows
`kd_loss_alpha`, and the backbone gets gradients. With `freeze_mtp`, the
MTP head gets no
gradient and is bit-identical after the step. Without it, the MTP head
trains.

In progress: QAD of a NemotronH omni VL checkpoint quantized with the
recipe above (8 nodes),
checking that the log reports the frozen MTP head and that the MTP
tensors of the QAD checkpoint
match the PTQ checkpoint.

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- **New Features**
- Added an option for Megatron distillation to freeze the student’s MTP
head and skip its loss, allowing distillation to update the rest of the
model.

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Signed-off-by: Yue <yueshen@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

Prevent a broken optional Megatron dependency from aborting ModelOpt
initialization for unrelated workflows. Target: `release/0.48.0`.

`import modelopt.torch.opt` also initializes quantization, whose
compression module imports the Megatron plugin. In the reported
environment, the dependency chain reaches Transformer Engine,
FlashAttention 4 and Quack, where accessing the unavailable
`cutlass.cute.core.ThrMma` raises `AttributeError`.

The plugin initializers already contain this failure through
`import_plugin`, but `compress.py` retries the import with an
`ImportError`-only handler. This second import allows the exception to
escape.

Reuse `import_plugin("megatron")` at that optional import boundary.
Initialize `mcore_available` to `False`, setting it to `True` only after
all required classes load. This follows the existing warning and
exception policy without introducing a duplicate handler or a
package-version-specific workaround.

Successful Megatron imports retain their existing behavior. A broken
backend remains unavailable and emits a warning; this change does not
fix the underlying Quack/CUTLASS incompatibility. No dependency
versions, public APIs or quantization algorithms change.

### Usage

No new API or flag. The existing `import modelopt.torch.opt` entry point
is unchanged.

### Testing

- During development, local CPU import checks covered successful import,
missing dependency and dependency AttributeError. Before the fix, the
AttributeError case failed; after the fix, all three passed, including
on the release branch.
- These checks were development-only validation. The test file has been
removed from the final PR; only the production import fix remains.
- Targeted pre-commit hooks passed for the unchanged production code,
including Ruff, mypy, license checks and Bandit.
- After removing the test file, `git diff --check` and local SSH
commit-signature verification passed.
- The failing TRT-LLM container and real Megatron GPU workflows have not
been validated with this patch.

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* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved compatibility when loading optional Megatron support,
including in environments where Megatron is unavailable. This helps
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Signed-off-by: joe-nv <222375587+joe-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
Type of change: Bug fix

Loading a TensorRT plugin library during ONNX preprocessing raises
`AttributeError` on TensorRT 11 because `get_custom_layers()` evaluates
a debug f-string using the removed `IPluginRegistry.plugin_creator_list`
property, even when debug logging is disabled.

Use `IPluginRegistry.all_creators`, which is available in TensorRT 10
and 11. Add a real-runtime GPU regression test that loads the shipped
TensorRT plugin library and verifies ONNX parsing and returned tensor
metadata at WARNING and DEBUG log levels. Add a changelog entry for the
compatibility fix.

Existing ONNX preprocessing calls with `trt_plugins` continue without
API changes:

```python
from modelopt.onnx.trt_utils import get_custom_layers

custom_layers, tensor_info = get_custom_layers(
    "model.onnx", trt_plugins=["/path/to/plugin.so"]
)
```

- TensorRT 11.1.0.106: `python -m pytest -o addopts= -o
cache_dir=/tmp/pytest-cache tests/gpu/onnx/test_trt_utils.py -q` — both
cases failed at the removed property before the fix and passed after the
fix.
- TensorRT 10.16.1.11: the same test with `--noconftest` — 2 passed.
Suite conftests were disabled because that environment lacks unrelated
Hugging Face dependencies.
- Reran the original minimal reproduction with the fixed source on
TensorRT 11; plugin loading and ONNX parsing completed without the
reported exception.
- All applicable pre-commit hooks passed for the three changed files,
including Ruff, mypy, and Bandit.
- Full custom-op PTQ and engine validation were not run.

Make sure you read and follow [Contributor
guidelines](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
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(e.g. avoiding hardcoded `trust_remote_code=True`, `torch.load(...,
weights_only=False)`, `pickle`, etc.).

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dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
✅
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* **Bug Fixes**
* Fixed ONNX preprocessing with custom TensorRT plugin libraries on
TensorRT 11.
  * Improved reporting of registered TensorRT plugin creators.

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Signed-off-by: ajrasane <131806219+ajrasane@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

The ONNX PTQ custom-op plugin fails to compile with TensorRT 11 because
`isOutputBroadcastAcrossBatch` and `canBroadcastInputAcrossBatch` no
longer override methods in the base interface. Guard their declarations
and definitions with `NV_TENSORRT_MAJOR < 11`, preserving the legacy
callbacks for older TensorRT versions.

Add a regression in the existing TensorRT example test lane that runs
the real CMake build and checks that it produces
`libidentity_conv_plugin.so`.

### Usage

```bash
cmake -S examples/onnx_ptq/custom_op_plugin/plugin -B /tmp/identity-plugin-build
cmake --build /tmp/identity-plugin-build --parallel 2
```

### Testing

- Confirmed the new build regression fails before the fix with both
callback override errors on TensorRT 11.1.
- Ran `python -m pytest --noconftest -o addopts=
tests/examples/torch_trt/test_custom_op_plugin.py -q`: passed with
TensorRT 11.1 and TensorRT 10.13.3. This isolates the C++ build test
from unrelated Python suite fixtures and options.
- Reran the documented CMake configure/build commands on the `0.48.0rc0`
source with only this fix applied: passed.
- All applicable pre-commit checks passed for the three changed files.
- No GPU inference, engine building, or INT8 calibration was run.
Validation covers plugin compilation and linking.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved compatibility of the custom operation plugin with TensorRT 11
and later.

* **Tests**
* Added an automated build check for the custom operation plugin when
the required build tools are available.

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Signed-off-by: ajrasane <131806219+ajrasane@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

Fix native NemotronH exports retaining legacy remote-code config/model
mappings.
PTQ selects the built-in Transformers implementation, which serializes
`layers_block_type`, but the retained `auto_map` directs trusted config
reloads
to a legacy class exposing that field as a read-only property. This
reproduces
`AttributeError: property 'layers_block_type' of 'NemotronHConfig'
object has no setter`.

Remove only the stale `AutoConfig`, `AutoModel`, and
`AutoModelForCausalLM` mappings
when the loaded config is native Transformers NemotronH. Preserve the
native
layer schema, genuine remote-code exports, tokenizer mappings, copied
sidecars,
and the in-memory config. Add offline export/reload regression coverage.

### Usage

No new API or flags. Re-export affected checkpoints with the existing
PTQ recipe
(for example, `general/ptq/fp8_default-kv_fp8`) before deployment.

### Testing

- Reproduced the exact error on main `2758c046fbe0` with NVIDIA's
published
Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16 config files. Config-only reproduction
needs no GPU.
- Tests-only on unmodified main: two native export cases fail with the
reported
error; two remote-code cases pass. All four pass with the fix, including
  tokenizer-map and source-config preservation.
- 150 focused checkpoint/export/load tests passed on each of
Transformers
  5.5.4 and 5.18.0. The four final regression cases were rerun on 5.5.4.
- Published 52-layer config export/reload passed on 5.5.4, preserving
all layer
  types and FP8 KV metadata.
- Tiny native NemotronH Mamba/MoE/attention CPU smoke on 5.18.0: BF16
export/model
reload preserves all 31 source state tensors; the reported FP8/KV recipe
calibrates, exports weight shards, and reloads its native config
successfully.
- Pre-commit hooks and `git diff --check` passed.

```sh
python -m pytest -q --tb=short \
  tests/unit/torch/utils/test_hf_checkpoint_utils.py \
  tests/unit/torch/export/test_unified_export_hf.py \
  tests/unit/torch/export/test_convert_hf_config.py \
  tests/unit/torch/utils/test_model_load_utils.py
```

Full 30B PTQ, GPU inference, and TRT-LLM serving were not run. The FP8
smoke
validates calibration/export/config reload, not FP8 inference. The 5.5.4
tiny-model
smoke cannot initialize the HF MoE adapter on macOS without Triton; the
config
reproducer and offline regression tests are unaffected.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

Contributor and security guidelines reviewed. Remote-code execution in
the new
tests is confined to generated local fixtures with
`local_files_only=True`.

- Is this change backward compatible?: Yes; genuine remote-code exports
and tokenizer mappings are preserved. Previously affected native exports
need re-exporting.
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A; no copied
third-party code or new dependency.
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: Yes; four offline
export/reload regression cases.
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
Yes; 0.48 bug-fix entry with re-export guidance.
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: N/A; not requested or run.

### Additional Information

NVBug: 6914119.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Fixed Nemotron-H exports for use with the built-in Transformers
implementation by removing incompatible legacy model mappings from
deployment configuration. Affected checkpoints must be re-exported
before deployment.

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Signed-off-by: weimingc <17592131+meenchen@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…tic NVFP4 blocks) (#2787)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

Fixes [NVBug 6918092](https://nvbugspro.nvidia.com/bug/6918092): static
NVFP4 fake quantization (`NVFP4StaticQuantizer`) silently zeroes every
block of a tensor whose global amax is small.

**Root cause.** The FP8 fake quant `scaled_e4m3_impl` (CUDA extension
`fake_e4m3fy` / `fake_e4m3fy_with_axis` and the eager fallback) treats
any `amax <= 2**-24` as zero and normalizes with a unit amax. Static
NVFP4 FP8-quantizes its per-block scales through it with `amax =
global_amax / 6` (`compute_fp4_scales`). So when `global_amax < 6 *
2**-24` (~3.6e-7), every block scale rounds to 0 and the whole tensor
fake-quantizes to zeros, without an error. The dynamic NVFP4 Triton
kernel (after #2549), the CUDA mx fallback and the NVFP4 export path
only treat a zero global amax as degenerate.

The same floor also hits the other callers that pass a small but nonzero
amax:
- **LSQ NVFP4 block scales**
(`StaticBlockScaleQuantizer._block_scale_from_amax`): the same 2^-22
block is zeroed.
- **Plain FP8** tensors or channels with `0 < amax <= 2**-24`: fake
quant zeroes them, while HF/TRT-LLM export only clamps amax at fp32's
smallest normal (`export_amax`) and keeps them.

**Fix.** Lower the zero-amax threshold in `scaled_e4m3_impl` (both CUDA
functions and `_fp8_eager`) from `2**-24` to `448 / FLT_MAX`, the
smallest amax whose FP8 scale `448 / amax` is still finite. An amax of
exactly zero still uses the unit-amax fallback, and NaN/inf amax behave
as before. Nothing else in the arithmetic changes, so results are
bit-identical wherever the old floor did not apply.

The INT fake-quant path keeps its own `2**-24` floor, which
`test_cuda_ext_tiny_amax` pins; it is out of scope here.

### Usage

```python
# Reproducer from the bug: one constant 2**-22 block, exact amax / global_amax.
x = torch.full((1, 16), 2.0**-22, device="cuda")
q = NVFP4StaticQuantizer(quant_attribute_cfg=QuantizerAttributeConfig(
    num_bits=(2, 1), block_sizes={-1: 16, "type": "static", "scale_bits": (4, 3)})).cuda()
q.amax = x.abs().amax(-1)
q.global_amax = x.abs().amax()
assert torch.equal(q(x), x)  # was all zeros before this PR
```

### Testing

The B200 nodes on computelab were unavailable, so this was run on a B300
(sm_103) in `nvcr.io/nvidia/tensorrt-llm/release:1.4.0rc0` (torch 2.14,
triton 3.8):

- **Repro:** the reporter's unchanged `static_probe.py` against `main`
(2758c04) reproduces the bug exactly. The 2^-22 block comes out as 16
zeros with block scale 0 in FP32 and BF16, while the dynamic kernel
returns the input. With this PR, all four cases return the input, with
the expected block scale of 3.97e-8. The LSQ path (tied and untied amax)
also returns the input now.
- **Bit-exactness against `main`:** 192 outputs were dumped with both
builds, covering FP8 `scaled_e4m3` per-tensor, per-channel, multi-axis
eager and CPU, plus `compute_fp4_scales` and static NVFP4 fake quant
with `fp8_max_for_normalization` 448 and 256, for magnitudes 2^-30 to
2^39. 174 are bit-identical. The other 18 are exactly the cases where
`main` returned all zeros (FP8 amax <= 2^-24, NVFP4 global amax < 6 *
2^-24).
- **New tests**, all failing on `main` and passing here:
- `TestScaledE4M3::test_small_amax_scales_output`: per-tensor,
per-channel and multi-axis, on CUDA and CPU.
- `Testfp4::test_static_fp4_kernel_scales_with_small_inputs`: FP32 and
BF16; it also checks that an all-zero tensor still gives zeros.
  - `test_lsq_fp4_small_global_amax`: tied and untied amax.
- **GPU suites:** `tests/gpu/torch/quantization/`
`test_tensor_quant_cuda`, `test_nvfp4_static_quantizer_cuda`,
`test_nvfp4_fp8_sweep_kernel`, `test_lsq_cuda`, `test_gptq`,
`test_qtensor_cuda`, `test_gpt_oss_mxfp4_nvfp4_cast_cuda`,
`test_quantize_cuda`, `test_real_quantize_cuda`,
`test_tensor_quantizer_cuda`, `test_quantize_mxformats_cuda` and
`test_torch_export`, plus
`tests/gpu/torch/export/test_export_weight_gpu` and
`test_export_fp8_linear`: 793 passed, 34 skipped. In the first run, 56
`TestCudaExt` tests (the unchanged INT extension) failed while that
extension was building for the first time; rerunning the file with it
built gives 147 passed, 2 skipped.
- **CPU:** `tests/unit/torch/quantization` (excluding plugins): 1254
passed, 1 skipped.
- **Performance:** the kernels and arithmetic are unchanged.
`compute_fp4_scales` on 4M blocks takes 60.3 us before and 62.4 us after
(run-to-run noise), with the same 32 MiB peak.
- **Not run:** the ONNX export tests (the container lacks `onnxruntime`
and `onnx_graphsurgeon`), multi-GPU and FSDP2 paths (no distributed code
changed), and B200 (no allocation available).

The CUDA extension source changed, so `modelopt_cuda_ext_fp8` rebuilds
once on first use, as with any change to it.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ (bit-identical except for a
positive amax <= 2^-24, which goes from all zeros to correct values)
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dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
✅ (0.48.0 Bug Fixes; the bug is committed for 0.48.0, labeled
`cherry-pick-0.48.0`)
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌

### Additional Information

- NVBug: https://nvbugspro.nvidia.com/bug/6918092
- Related: #2549, which removed an equivalent floor from the dynamic
NVFP4 Triton kernel.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Corrected FP8 fake quantization for very small positive values,
improving consistency with exported checkpoints across tensor and
channel quantization.
* Improved handling of small-scale static FP4 weights, including cases
where all inputs and scales are zero.

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Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
#2682)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: new feature

Part 1 of the four-PR Dynamo ONNX export stack replacing #2418. Adds
export metadata as optional trailing custom-op schema arguments, keeps
amax detached during compiler capture, and routes CPU integer carriers
through the existing tensor implementation. Legacy positional calls and
eager numerical behavior are preserved.

This is capture plumbing only; the supported quantized ONNX helper
workflow is enabled in part 4. Automatic CPU INT8/INT4 carrier routing
is deferred until the ONNX helper supplies its translation table. CPU
integer quantizers retain the existing tensor-math path; the registered
carriers can be captured explicitly.

### Usage

No new public interface in this prerequisite. Existing quantization
calls remain unchanged.

### Testing

With CUDA hidden on PyTorch 2.14 development: **91 passed** across CPU
quantization and ONNX helper tests.

```bash
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="" python -m pytest -o addopts= -p no:cacheprovider \
  tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_tensor_quant_cpu.py \
  tests/unit/torch/deploy/utils/test_torch_onnx_utils.py -q
```

On PyTorch 2.9 development, the focused CPU quantization suite also
passed **40 tests**, and both INT8/INT4 Dynamo helper calls retained
their working legacy fallback.

Coverage includes legacy positional schemas, CPU numerical parity, real
strict `torch.export` capture of the registered INT8/INT4 carriers, and
FP8 `TensorQuantizer` capture. Changed-file pre-commit checks and `git
diff --check` passed. GPU and full multi-version CI were not run for
this revision.

Compatibility probes compared the original PR with its pinned `main`
base on PyTorch 2.9, 2.13, and 2.14 development builds. For fixed-amax
CPU INT8/INT4 quantizers, the original PR captured a carrier but failed
ONNX translation; the base failed earlier on data-dependent capture. The
PyTorch 2.9 helper succeeded for both through legacy fallback. These
probes do not establish that nobody uses CPU Dynamo export, so this
revision preserves the existing CPU routing instead of relying on that
assumption.

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- Did you update Changelog?: N/A — private prerequisite for the same
unreleased feature; the user-facing feature entry lands with the helper
in part 4.
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: Review feedback addressed;
awaiting re-review.

### Additional Information

Merge order: capture → lowering → normalization → integration. This PR
targets `main`; part 2 targets this branch. Parts 1–3 intentionally do
not expose a new export workflow. The complete feature remains
helper-owned and supports FP8, INT8, INT4 AWQ, MXFP8, NVFP4, and mixed
FP8 + NVFP4.

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### Replacement stack

Merge in order; each PR targets the preceding branch. Retarget the next
PR when its dependency merges.

1. [#2682: capture and CPU
routing](#2682)
2. [#2683: private ONNXScript
lowering](#2683)
3. [#2684: canonical weight
normalization](#2684)
4. [#2685: helper and deployment
integration](#2685)

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Dynamo ONNX export now supports quantization and dequantization for
FP8, INT8/UINT8, INT4, NVFP4, and MXFP8 formats, with validation for
supported configurations.
* Quantization operators accept optional TensorRT dtype, block-size,
axis, and ONNX quantizer metadata.
* **Bug Fixes**
* CPU quantization now matches eager fake-quantization behavior for
supported inputs.
  * Quantization scale values are detached during export.

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Signed-off-by: ajrasane <131806219+ajrasane@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Ajinkya Rasane <131806219+ajrasane@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…annels survive compress (#2793)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

Fixes [NVBug 6918319](https://nvbugspro.nvidia.com/bug/6918319): INT8
real quantization (`mtq.compress`) silently zeroes small FP16 weight
channels.

**Root cause.** `INT8QTensor.quantize` computes `scales = amax / 127.0`
in the weight dtype, and `dequantize` casts the scale to the output
dtype before multiplying. For FP16 weights:

- a channel with amax < 2^-18 gets a zero scale; it is divided by zero,
saturates, and dequantizes to zeros;
- a channel with amax < 127 * 2^-14 (~7.75e-3) gets a subnormal FP16
scale with few significant bits. At amax = 1e-5 the scale rounds down by
~25%, so the largest values are clipped by ~24% (fake quant: 0.6%).

Even an FP32 scale underflows at dequantize. Separately, with a 0-dim
(per-tensor) scale `input / scale` stays in the input dtype, so BF16
quotients are rounded before `round()` and some codes are off by one (4
/ (7/127) = 72.57 -> 72.5 -> 72). Fake quantization computes in FP32 and
keeps all of these, so the compressed model diverged from the calibrated
one.

**Fix** (`INT8QTensor`):

- compute and store the scales in FP32 (`amax.float() / 127`), as the
INT8 HF export already does (`amax.float() / maxbound`);
- quantize an explicit FP32 copy of the input (in-place div/round/clamp,
so the peak stays at one FP32 copy);
- dequantize by multiplying in FP32 and writing straight into a `dtype`
output (`torch.mul(..., out=...)`), so each product is cast as it is
stored and no FP32 copy of the weight is materialized;
- divide all-zero channels or blocks by 1 instead of 0 (previously NaN
-> int8, which is undefined).

Checkpoints compressed before this change still load: their FP16
`_scale` dequantizes bit-identically, because an int8 x FP16 product is
exact in FP32 and is rounded once, like the old FP16 multiply.

INT8 real quantization now equals fake quantization on the BF16
per-channel and 2D-block cases in `test_qtensor_cuda.py`; their
hard-coded expected outputs carried the old BF16 rounding errors and are
updated.

### Usage

The reproducer from the bug:

```python
import copy

import torch

import modelopt.torch.quantization as mtq

model = torch.nn.Sequential(torch.nn.Linear(4, 2, bias=False)).half().cuda()
with torch.no_grad():
    model[0].weight.copy_(torch.tensor([[2**-20, -(2**-20), 0, 2**-21], [1, -1, 0, 0.5]]))
x = torch.tensor([[1.0, 0, 0, 0]], dtype=torch.float16, device="cuda")

mtq.quantize(model, copy.deepcopy(mtq.INT8_DEFAULT_CFG), lambda m: m(x))
print(model(x))  # [2^-20, 1]
mtq.compress(model)
print(model(x))  # before: [0, 1]; after: [2^-20, 1]
```

### Testing

- New `tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_int8_tensor.py`: FP16/BF16
real quantization equals the FP32 result cast to that dtype (per
channel, per block and per tensor, with tiny and all-zero channels), and
`mtq.compress` keeps a small FP16 channel. 4 of its 7 cases fail on
`main`.
- NVIDIA B300 SXM6 AC, TRT-LLM 1.4.0rc0 container: the reproducer gives
`[0, 1]` after compress on `main` and `[2^-20, 1]` with this PR; FP32
and BF16 are unchanged. `test_int8_tensor.py`,
`tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_qtensor_cuda.py` and
`tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_real_quantize_cuda.py`: 250 passed, 3
skipped.
- CPU: `test_tensor_quantizer_cpu.py`, `test_tensor_quant_cpu.py`,
`test_quantize_cpu.py` and `test_q8_0.py` pass; pre-commit is clean.
- Cost on B300 for one 8192x28672 FP16 weight (448 MiB): quantize peak
extra memory 1120 MiB (`main`: 896), 2.6 ms (1.7), once per layer at
compress; dequantize 448 MiB, i.e. only the output (`main`: 896), 0.75
ms (1.06). The `out=` dequantize is bit-identical to `(int8 *
fp32_scale).to(dtype)` on B300 for FP16/BF16/FP32 with per-channel,
per-tensor and full-size scales; the B300 test run above was repeated on
the second commit with the same result.

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Practices](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/SECURITY.md#security-coding-practices-for-contributors)
(e.g. avoiding hardcoded `trust_remote_code=True`, `torch.load(...,
weights_only=False)`, `pickle`, etc.).

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ (previously compressed
checkpoints dequantize bit-identically; newly compressed INT8 weights
store an FP32 `_scale`)
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
✅
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ (not run yet)

### Additional Information

- Bug is committed for 0.48.0, hence `cherry-pick-0.48.0`.
- Related, not fixed here: `FP8QTensor.dequantize` casts its scale to
FP16 the same way. With a calibrated FP32 amax a small FP16 channel
dequantizes to zeros; without one, the FP16 scale underflows and the
channel becomes NaN. #2694 is open on the same file, so this will be a
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* **Bug Fixes**
* Fixed INT8 quantization of FP16 and BF16 weights, which could
underflow scales and zero or clip channels. Low-precision weights now
retain values more accurately through quantization and dequantization,
including zero values and channel outputs.
* Improved consistency between low-precision quantization results and
FP32 reference results across per-channel, block, and per-tensor
layouts.
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Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
)

Type of change: New feature

`prepare_megatron_data_blend` writes tokenized `.bin`/`.idx` data, which
has no loss mask, so `--data_paths` training computes the loss on every
token. Recipes that distill only on assistant responses use
Megatron-Bridge's chat path instead (`distill.py --sft --sft_hf_dataset
... --sft_loss_mode assistant`), which reads chat JSONL and applies the
model's chat template and assistant mask itself. Until now each such
recipe needed its own blend script.

`output_format: chat_jsonl` writes the same YAML-defined weighted
sources as `train.jsonl` / `validation.jsonl` (one `{"messages": [...]}`
per line) for that path:

- `target_samples` sets the row budget; each source contributes
`round(target_samples * weight / sum(weights))` rows. It is required,
since the selected rows are mixed in memory.
- `content_field` must be `messages` or `text`. Rows are kept only if
Megatron-Bridge's `is_text_only_chat_example` accepts them, judged on
the converted conversation plus the source row's top-level media keys. A
`text` row without markers becomes one assistant turn, so all of it is
trained. A `text` row with the `<extra_id_1>User` / `Assistant` /
`System` markers is split into turns. It is dropped if it has text
before the first marker, a marker has any other role (a Tool turn, a
SteerLM label line), a role name is not followed by a newline, or a turn
other than `System` is empty. Any row with no assistant turn is dropped,
since assistant-only loss trains nothing in it.
- `messages` go through `prepare_messages_for_chat_template`, like the
tokenizing mode, so `tool_calls` arguments are normalized, and a row's
`tools` list and top-level `system` prompt are kept for the chat path.
`reasoning_content` (`native` / `inline` / `strip`) defaults to
`native`, unlike the tokenizing mode's `inline`: Bridge applies the
model's chat template at training time, and templates such as Nemotron
3's render `reasoning_content` themselves. Use `inline` for a template
that ignores the field.
- `shuffle: false` takes the first rows of each split in order (default:
a buffer shuffle); `seed` seeds that shuffle, the cross-source mix and
the `min(1000, n // 20)` validation hold-out. `files` may be `.jsonl` or
`.jsonl.gz`; malformed records are skipped with a warning, as in the
tokenizing reader.
- A source that fails to load, has no usable rows or runs short stops
the run; a source whose weight rounds to zero rows is skipped. Each
source is cached atomically under `<output_dir>/parts`, keyed by the
settings that select its rows, so an interrupted run resumes and a
changed configuration selects afresh. `parts` can be deleted once
`train.jsonl` is written.

The tokenizing mode is unchanged, except that it now rejects the
chat-only keys instead of ignoring them. Each entry point rejects a
config whose `output_format` belongs to the other.

This is [1/2]; #2720 [2/2] uses it for the NemotronH omni VL QAD
tutorial (replacing that tutorial's `build_qad_blend.py`) and merges
after this one.

```yaml
output_dir: /path/to/chat_blend
output_format: chat_jsonl
target_samples: 36_800
shuffle: false
seed: 1234
sources:
  - hf_dataset: nvidia/Nemotron-Pretraining-SFT-v1
    config: Nemotron-SFT-General
    split: train
    content_field: text
    weight: 20
  - hf_dataset: nvidia/Nemotron-SFT-Math-v3
    config: default
    split: train
    content_field: messages
    weight: 17
```

```bash
python -m modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.prepare_megatron_data_blend --config blend.yaml
python examples/megatron_bridge/distill.py ... --sft --sft_hf_dataset /path/to/chat_blend/train.jsonl \
    --sft_hf_validation /path/to/chat_blend/validation.jsonl --sft_loss_mode assistant
```

-
`tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_prepare_megatron_data_blend.py`:
28 passed in the NeMo 26.08 container with Megatron-Bridge `main` (2
existing, 26 new, consolidated per review). They cover the row shapes
(leading text, unknown-role and label markers, roles without a newline,
empty turns, rows without an assistant turn), `tools` and
`reasoning_content` handling, the text-only filter and give-up rule,
sources without usable rows, `.jsonl.gz` and malformed records in
`files`, the weighted split with a zero-weight source, config validation
(budgets, weights, a missing `target_samples`, `content_field`,
`output_format`, the other mode's keys), cache reuse and rebuild, no
reuse after a changed selection, atomic writes, and failing or short
sources. Reverting each review fix of the last three rounds (14 in all)
one at a time makes at least one test fail.
- End to end: the 11-source blend of #2720, built from scratch with this
mode, is byte-identical (sha256 of `train.jsonl` and `validation.jsonl`)
to the data that tutorial's published QAD run trained on; re-checked on
the latest commit.

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ The default output and the
tokenizing path are unchanged; only configs that set the new chat-only
keys without `output_format: chat_jsonl` are now rejected.
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
✅

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* **New Features**
* Added chat JSONL output for weighted dataset blends, creating
`train.jsonl` and `validation.jsonl` files for chat training workflows
with assistant-only loss configuration.
* Supports conversations from message or text fields, configurable
sample targets, shuffling, seeds, and reasoning-content handling.
* Reuses cached source selections and filters unusable records. Reports
errors when sources or output splits lack usable data.

* **Documentation**
* Added guidance and configuration examples for preparing chat JSONL
blends.
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Signed-off-by: Yue <yueshen@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
## What does this PR do?

**Type of change:** Documentation

`experimental/dms/README.md` links to `scripts/train_small_debug.sh`,
which does not exist in `experimental/dms/scripts/` (only `train.sh`,
`train_small.sh`, `evaluate.sh`). `train_small.sh` is the single-GPU,
limited-memory debug launcher the note describes (its header: "Example
debug launch script for single-GPU training with limited memory"), so
the link now points there.

## Testing
Docs-only, one line. Confirmed the target file exists at
`experimental/dms/scripts/train_small.sh`.

Commit is signed and signed-off (DCO).

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Documentation**
* Updated the training guide to direct users with smaller compute
budgets to `scripts/train_small.sh`.

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Signed-off-by: ColinM-sys <cmcdonough@50words.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…the source checkpoint lacks (#2766)

## What changed and why

A transformers conversion mapping is reversed on save so a quantized
export keeps the
original hub checkpoint's names. That reverse must be a **no-op on names
already in
source form** — the invariant `_idempotent_pattern` already enforces for
prefix rules.

A model breaks it by declaring a backwards-compatibility *load* rename
as a reversible
`WeightRenaming`. NemotronH does exactly this:

```python
register_checkpoint_conversion_mapping("nemotron_h", [
    WeightRenaming("backbone.", "model."),
    WeightRenaming("embedding.weight", "embeddings.weight"),   # BC-only, but reversible
], overwrite=True)
```

The second rule mirrors a transformers-4 `load_hook`, which was
load-only. Under
transformers 5 it is bidirectional, so reversing it rewrites the
canonical
`backbone.embeddings.weight` to a legacy `backbone.embedding.weight`
that the published
checkpoint never used. vLLM's NemotronH loader maps the substring
`embeddings` to
`embed_tokens`, so the singular name reaches it unmapped and serving
fails at load:

```
ValueError: There is no module or parameter named 'model.embedding' in NemotronHForCausalLM
```

The published checkpoint is plural, so the reverse was not restoring a
name — it was
inventing one. This surfaced on a 0.48.0rc0 export of a 120B NemotronH
checkpoint
(NVBug 6914213); 0.47 was unaffected only because it did not reverse the
mapping at all.

### The fix

`_source_checkpoint_keys()` reads the tensor names of the checkpoint the
model was loaded
from. `_SourceAwareRenamer` then resolves **each key** against them:

```
apply the rename chain
  result is a name the checkpoint carries?             -> use it      (unchanged behavior)
  result absent, but the chain without the
  name-inventing rules gives one it carries?           -> use that    (the fix)
  neither names a source tensor?                       -> use the chain (unchanged behavior)
```

Reversing a rename is genuinely ambiguous: given a canonical in-memory
name, both the
canonical and a legacy spelling are valid pre-images of the forward
rule, and nothing
inside the model breaks the tie. The source checkpoint does, which is
why the evidence
has to come from it.

The decision is **per key, never per rule**. No rename is ever
discarded, so a rule that
is required for one namespace keeps applying there even if it would
invent a name
elsewhere — see the mixed-namespace case under Testing. Tensors the
export adds, such as
quantizer scales, are resolved by the weight of the module they belong
to, so a module is
never split across two namespaces.

Rules are flagged as name-inventing only on positive evidence: a rule
must rewrite at
least one source key, *and* every source key it rewrites must land on a
name absent from
the checkpoint. When the source checkpoint cannot be read (a
config-built model, a hub id
never materialized locally, an unrecognized layout) behavior is
unchanged.

The same resolution drives `build_reverse_name_mapper`, so
`exclude_modules` /
`quantized_layers` move with the tensors and stay aligned.

## Testing

**Unit** — `tests/unit/torch/export/test_quant_aware_conversion.py`: 74
pass, of which 17
items cover this change — the suppression, the two apply-anyway cases,
the inert path, the
mixed-namespace case (weights, scale tensors and the config mapping),
the sharded-index and
single-file reads, the malformed-index fallback, the cached-hub-id
resolution and its
revision pinning, the empty-conversion-mapping early return, and the
resolution end to end
through `_build_reverse_rules` (asserting the exported tensor name,
`quantized_layers` and
`exclude_modules` all stay canonical while an unrelated prefix rename
still reverses).

**Mixed-namespace checkpoint (review follow-up)** — a published
checkpoint can store one
container name for some layers and the in-memory name for others, so a
single rule is both
needed and wrong within the same model. Resolving per rule would discard
it wholesale.
Checked against a real published 23,416-key index whose sparse layers
are stored under
`block_sparse_moe` while its dense and vision layers are already stored
under `mlp`,
driving every published key through the reverse chain:

```
round-trip of all 23,416 published keys: ALL CORRECT

layers.N.mlp.experts.0.w1{.weight,.weight_scale,.input_scale}
                              -> layers.N.block_sparse_moe.experts.0.w1{...}   (renamed)
layers.M.mlp.down_proj{.weight,.weight_scale,.input_scale}
                              -> unchanged                                     (already canonical)
```

Every key lands on a name the checkpoint actually carries, and a
module's scale tensors
follow its weight.

**Real checkpoint, before/after** — tiny NemotronH built from the
published
`nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16` config and its own
remote code, with
`name_or_path` pointing at that checkpoint so the guard reads its real
42,683 names. Same
tree, same venv (transformers 5.17.0), one file apart:

```
BEFORE  (b) modelopt reverse : ['backbone.embedding.weight']    exclude_modules: backbone.embedding
AFTER   (b) modelopt reverse : ['backbone.embeddings.weight']   exclude_modules: backbone.embeddings
        source keys read: 42683   canonical in source: True   legacy in source: False
```

Renaming that key in the real 119 GB failing artefact clears the
reported error: weight
loading completes (`Model loading took 28.72 GiB memory and 33.76
seconds`).

**Hub-id `name_or_path`** — `from_pretrained("nvidia/...")` leaves
`name_or_path` as the
repo id, which is not a directory, so the first revision of this guard
read no keys and
silently did nothing. Resolved through the local HF cache and re-checked
on the same
checkpoint, two arms one file apart:

```
without the resolver : hub resolver unavailable -> no keys
with the resolver    : local snapshot dir  : keys=42683  canonical=True  legacy=False
                       hub id via HF cache : keys=42683  canonical=True  legacy=False
```

**Full export, end to end** — the 120B re-quantized from the published
BF16 checkpoint with
this commit on `PYTHONPATH`, same recipe as the original report
(`general/ptq/fp8_default-kv_fp8_cast`),
4×GPU, 119 GB out:

```
backbone.embeddings.weight (canonical) in export : True
backbone.embedding.weight  (legacy)    in export : False
source names absent from export : 0
export-only non-scale names     : 0
quantization_config exclude_modules embedding entry : backbone.embeddings
```

125,147 export tensors against the source's 42,683, reconciling exactly:
every published
name present, none invented. vLLM's `nemotron_h` mapper turns
`backbone.embeddings` into
`model.embed_tokens`, which exists, so the reported `ValueError` cannot
arise from this
artefact. Not booted in vLLM — the environment used for the export has
no nvcc, so a serve
would stop in FlashInfer JIT for unrelated reasons.

**No-regression on an unaffected model** — a separate model whose
conversion
mapping carries several reverse renames, all of which do restore real
source names, was
re-exported end to end from an identical tree plus this commit:

```
tensor-name delta vs the pre-guard export : 0
source-checkpoint names absent from export: 0
shard md5                                  : all shards byte-identical
```

No rule is dropped when every rename is sound, so the export is
unchanged.

## Note for maintainers

This guards ModelOpt's export path. A plain `save_pretrained` round-trip
of that checkpoint
under transformers 5 still produces the legacy name, because HF's own
`revert_weight_conversion` is unguarded — the model card's
`WeightRenaming` is worth fixing
separately at the source.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Fixed unified Hugging Face exports so tensor names and quantization
configuration references are not incorrectly renamed when reversing a
rule would produce a name absent from the source checkpoint.
* Reverse renaming rules are checked against known checkpoint contents,
helping preserve valid names for local and cached checkpoints. If
checkpoint contents are unavailable or cannot be read, existing renaming
behavior remains unchanged.
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Signed-off-by: Juhi Mittal <juhim@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
Type of change: Bug fix, new tests (test cleanup)

The `Unit tests / linux` job (serial, `timeout-minutes: 20`) was taking
13–19.5 min on main, and two recent main runs were cancelled at the
limit. This cuts CPU unit-test time without dropping meaningful
coverage.

- **Bug fix:** `_source_checkpoint` returned `""` for models built with
`from_config`, so `Path("")` resolved to the cwd and every export
globbed the whole working tree (in CI, including the nox venv).
`tests/unit/torch/export` went 718s → 15s locally. Regression test
added.
- **Multi-rank tests:** new session-scoped `cpu_dist_workers` fixture
(two persistent gloo ranks) replaces a ~20s-on-CI spawn per test for
autoquant (2), shapley, quantize indexer, `test_dist`, FSDP2 two-rank
export.
- **Moved to `tests/gpu`:** the 6 `ensure_local_checkpoint` spawn tests
and `test_modeling_ptq_registration` (8 interpreters).
- **Removed/deduped:** dropped the `test_presets` subprocess test (the
`FutureWarning` test beside it covers it); `test_auto_quantize` matrix
60 → 9 cases (every model, format list and method still appears).
- **`manual` (run on push/nightly):** slow AutoNAS-only cases and the
two ONNX entropy-calibration cases (FastNAS representatives stay
enabled).
- **Guidelines:** AGENTS.md / CONTRIBUTING.md now say to check existing
coverage first, avoid tests that restate the implementation or assert on
mocks, and keep unit tests well under 5s.

Clean CI-like venv (py3.12, torch 2.14 CPU, CPU-only): full `tests/unit`
on the working tree was 1181s with local-only failures before, 217s and
4791 passed after (CI runners are slower, so expect roughly a 4–6 min
saving, not these exact numbers). On this branch: affected unit dirs
3276 passed; moved `tests/gpu` tests run on CPU with gloo, 7 passed. New
`_source_checkpoint` test fails without the fix. Not run: the moved
tests on a GPU runner.

The `linux` job now passes `--run-manual` on every non-PR event (push,
nightly, dispatch) (nox `unit` session forwards extra args to pytest);
all 17 `manual` unit tests pass locally (87s). Caveat: pinned ONNX
entropy scales are no longer checked per-PR, only after merge.

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update Changelog?: N/A
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌

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* **Bug Fixes**
* Checkpoint source detection now handles models with an empty source
path correctly, avoiding an unintended fallback to the current
directory.
* **Developer Experience**
* Unit-test commands can pass additional arguments to pytest. The Linux
unit-test workflow runs manual tests for events other than pull
requests; pull-request runs remain unchanged.
* Contributor guidance now clarifies test coverage, runtime
expectations, and where to place slower tests.
* **Testing**
* Added distributed checkpoint-resolution coverage and streamlined
several CPU distributed tests. Some slower tests now run manually rather
than by default.
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Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: New feature and bug fix.

Part 1 of 2: expose exact per-weight quantizer-state capture and
metadata-only export specs. Capture is non-mutating and handles numbered
grouped weights and supported transposed layouts. Callers can inspect
deployment metadata without retaining tensor state.

This also fixes shared format detection, grouped quantizer restoration
and HF export metadata, including unquantized-layer exclusions in mixed
configurations. Existing offline packing remains on its current path.

Existing scale helpers are reused. The opaque snapshot also records
logical weight shape, quantization axes, block sizes and packing layout,
which a quantizer-buffer dictionary alone does not provide. It is
detached in-memory state, not a new serialized configuration model.

### Usage

For a converted and calibrated module:

```python
from modelopt.torch.export import (
    capture_quantized_weight_export_state,
    get_quantized_weight_export_spec,
)

spec = get_quantized_weight_export_spec(module, "weight")
state = capture_quantized_weight_export_state(module, "weight", cpu=False)
```

Capture returns `None` for an unquantized weight. The second PR adds
consumers of these snapshots. Recapture state for each export when
quantizer values may change.

### Testing

Frozen-source container run: 169 focused CPU/GPU tests passed, no skips.
Covers capture/spec, known scale values and axis/block metadata,
detached-clone independence, required-calibration failures, ordinary
offline export, GPU packing and TE grouped restoration. All changed-file
pre-commit checks pass. This validates the extracted API and existing
export paths, not training convergence.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Backward compatible: Yes; additive APIs and shared export fixes.
- New dependency or externally copied code: None.
- Necessary tests: Capture/spec, exact grouped-weight resolution,
detector, grouped restore and ordinary HF export regressions.
- Changelog: Updated.
- Claude approval: Not requested; independent agent review found no
issues.

### Additional Information

Split of #2251; the original PR is unchanged. Merge this first, then
#2778 ([2/2]), which targets this branch. Megatron-Bridge and NeMo-RL
integration require both.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added export specifications for supported quantized weights, including
deployment metadata and non-mutating capture of quantizer state.
* Expanded Hugging Face quantization metadata support for MXFP4, MXFP8,
FP8 activation schemes, and block/group sizes, including mixed-format
models and excluded layers.
  * Added support for the W4A16 MXFP4 format.
* **Bug Fixes**
  * Preserved grouped weight calibration values during model restore.
* Unsupported non-square FP8 block layouts are now rejected explicitly.

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Signed-off-by: Meng Xin <164952785+mxinO@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
Type of change: Bug fix

GPTQ accumulated each linear's Hessian on the local rank only. Megatron
PTQ shards calibration data across data-parallel ranks, so with DP > 1
every replicated module (attention, dense MLP, shared experts, and
routed experts when EP < DP) ran GPTQ on 1/DP of the calibration set,
and its replicas reached different quantized weights (the checkpoint
keeps one of them). It affects every GPTQ recipe (NVFP4, INT4, GGML
IQ*/Q8_0); max/MSE/AWQ already sync across DP.

Fix: after the Hessian collection pass,
`GPTQHelper.sync_hessian_across_dp()` sums the token-weighted Hessian
and the token count over the module's
`parallel_state.data_parallel_group` (the expert-DP group for routed
experts), then renormalizes. It is a no-op when the group is
uninitialized or has one rank, so single-process HF PTQ is unchanged.
CPU-offloaded Hessians are moved to the GPU only for the all-reduce, one
at a time. All ranks in a group build handles from `named_modules()` in
the same order and reduce every handle, including experts that got no
tokens, so collectives stay matched.

`local_hessian` has the same gap but already warns that it is
single-rank only; not changed here.

Tracks OMNIML-6117.

- New
`tests/gpu_megatron/.../test_megatron.py::test_gptq_hessian_sync_across_dp`
(2 GPUs): GPTQ at DP2 with different data per rank must produce the same
Hessians as a run on the union of both ranks' data, and identical
weights on both ranks. Fails with the fix reverted; passes with it (2×
RTX 6000 Ada). Existing `test_gptq_mamba_hybrid`,
`tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_gptq.py` and `test_ggml_gptq_cuda.py`
pass.
- GLM-5.3-Flash mini model (4 layers, 16 experts), IQ2_XS layerwise GPTQ
recipe, Megatron-Bridge `quantize.py` at EP4 on 4 GB300 GPUs, 128 ×
4096-token samples: shared-expert Hessians now cover 524288 tokens (was
131072 = 1/4); routed experts unchanged (expert-DP size 1); total GPTQ
time 145.0 s vs 145.2 s before.
- Full GLM-5.3-Flash (91 layers, 288 experts) IQ2_XS PTQ at EP16 over 4
GB300 nodes, 512 × 4096-token samples: completes; shared-expert Hessians
cover 2097152 tokens (was 131072 = 1/16); total GPTQ time 309 s vs 304 s
before (+1.5%).

Not run: TP > 1 or PP > 1 with GPTQ, HF FSDP2 multi-process GPTQ (its
modules default to the world group as DP, which this now syncs, matching
how amax is synced).

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
✅
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌

Found while running GLM-5.3-Flash IQ2 PTQ with Megatron-Bridge (EP16 ⇒
DP16 for non-expert modules: dense MLPs and shared experts saw 32 of 512
samples each).

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* **Bug Fixes**
* Fixed GPTQ quantization with Megatron data parallelism so all replicas
use calibration data from across the data-parallel group. This prevents
differences caused by replicas processing separate calibration batches
and keeps their resulting quantized weights consistent when multiple
data-parallel ranks are active. Single-rank behavior remains unchanged.
Calibration data is combined across replicas before quantization.
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…rts (#2813)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix.

Passing `components` to `export_hf_checkpoint` rebuilds
`model_index.json` and drops pipeline settings such as Wan 2.2's
`boundary_ratio` and SDXL's `force_zeros_for_empty_prompt`. Preserve
public, non-component pipeline configuration while listing only the
components actually exported. The default full-export path is unchanged.

The regression test constructs tiny Wan and SDXL pipelines entirely from
local components, saves and reloads the source, exports it, and verifies
the exported configuration and reload. It covers Wan
default/all/single-component export and SDXL all-component export,
including a non-default SDXL setting.

### Usage

```python
export_hf_checkpoint(pipe, export_dir="exported", components=["transformer_2"])
```

The selected-component manifest now retains the pipeline settings needed
when loading it with the omitted components supplied separately.
Re-export affected checkpoints.

### Testing

Focused test file: `tests/unit/torch/export/test_export_diffusers.py`.

| Platform | Diffusers | Transformers | Result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Windows, CPU | 0.40.0 | 5.5.4 | 15 passed, 0 skipped |
| Windows, CPU | 0.41.0 | 5.18.0 | 15 passed, 0 skipped |
| Linux, CPU | 0.40.0 | 5.5.4 | 15 passed, 0 skipped |
| Linux, CPU | 0.41.0 | 5.5.4 | 15 passed, 0 skipped |

All runs used fresh Hugging Face caches and offline mode; caches
remained empty. Linux runs also used containers with networking
disabled. The Linux 0.41 environment includes its declared minimum
`huggingface-hub==1.32.0`.

- Negative control with the original exporter: the two explicit Wan
exports and the SDXL export fail on missing configuration keys; default
export passes.
- The previous network-dependent fixture reproduces three setup errors
with an empty offline cache. The replacement fixture eliminates that
dependency.
- Real B100 validation on ModelOpt 0.48.0rc0: full Wan2.2-A14B and SDXL
component exports lose their pipeline setting before the exporter fix
and retain it after the fix. These checks cover export metadata, not
image/video quality.
- Applicable pre-commit checks pass, including Ruff, mypy and Bandit.

These are focused local/node results. The full upstream GitHub CI matrix
is pending.

### Before your PR is "Ready for review"

- Is this change backward compatible?: Yes.
- Third-party code or new PIP dependencies?: None added.
- Did you write necessary tests?: Yes, one parameterized regression test
with offline fixtures.
- Did you update Changelog?: Yes, under 0.48.0 for the requested release
backport.
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: Formal PR review pending; the
offline-fixture issue identified in local review has been addressed.

### Additional Information

Requested backport: `cherry-pick-0.48.0`. The PR targets `main`; release
inclusion is pending maintainer cherry-pick.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added imatrix calibration support for GGML formats and a Nemotron 3.5
Super VL AutoQuantize recipe.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Fixed TensorRT 11 ONNX preprocessing and LayerNorm input quantization
in affected presets and recipes.
* Fixed Diffusers exports so pipeline settings, including Wan 2.2’s
boundary ratio, are preserved when exporting all or selected components
without an existing configuration file.
* Existing exports are not updated automatically. Re-export affected
checkpoints to a new directory to include the preserved settings.
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Signed-off-by: yingguo-trt <244492186+yingguo-trt@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix (CI / tests)

Follow-up to #2823. Its auto-merge landed before the last two commits
were pushed, so main is missing them and every push-triggered `Unit
tests / linux` run now fails.

- **noxfile.py:** with `--run-manual`, the `manual` unit tests run in a
second pytest process (no coverage).
`test_transformers_load_with_multi_thread` is documented as flaky and
leaves BF16 default-dtype state, which broke later tests when
`--run-manual` shared the process with the regular suite (`BFloat16 !=
float` in `test_accelerate`, `test_fused_experts`,
`test_auto_quantize`).
- **tests/gpu/.../test_hf_dflash.py:** fixes the nightly 2-GPU failure
(3 nights in a row). With 4 layers and 2 draft layers `target_layer_ids
== [1, 1]`, so the test's own precondition (target layers straddle the
shard split) could never hold; 8 layers gives `[1, 5]`.

- **tests/_test_utils/.../distributed/utils.py,
tests/gpu_megatron/conftest.py, gpu_tests.yml:** stop one hung test from
timing out the rest of the `gpu_megatron` nightly job (cancelled at the
60-min limit on 5 of the last 8 nights, with 18-28 pytest timeouts of
120 s each). When a job hangs or a failed rank leaves its peers blocked
in a collective, the shared worker pool stayed stuck and every later
test in the module waited out its own timeout. `DistributedWorkerPool`
now prints the workers' stacks and kills them (job interrupted, or peers
not done 30 s after a rank failed) and marks itself broken; the
gpu_megatron fixtures respawn a fresh pool; job timeout 60 -> 90 min (a
healthy run takes ~47 min).

### Testing

- Reproduced the dtype pollution locally with `pytest tests/unit
--run-manual` (1 failure); the `manual` tests alone pass (17 in 87s) and
the regular suite passes without `--run-manual`.
- DFlash test: fails with `AssertionError: [1, 1]` before, 14
speculative GPU tests pass on 2 GPUs after.
- gpu_megatron: reproduced the cascade in the `nemo:26.08` CI image on 2
GPUs (RTX 6000 Ada); with the change `test_megatron.py` takes 5m42s (127
passed, 3 failed) instead of cascading into timeouts, and the 2 new pool
tests pass. The first hang (nightly: `test_fp8_real_quantize` on the RTX
Pro 6000 runner) did not reproduce, so it can still occur; it now costs
~2 min instead of ~30 and its worker stacks go to the log. The 3
failures here are `test_te_grouped_vs_sequential_default_loss` x2 and
`test_auto_quantize_moe_ep` on 48 GB cards (likely memory pressure, not
confirmed).
- Not yet run end to end: the new nox flow in CI (will dispatch `Unit
tests` on this branch).

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- Did you write any new necessary tests?: N/A
- Did you update Changelog?: N/A
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
* Improved reliability of distributed test runs by detecting failed or
unresponsive workers, ending stalled jobs, and replacing unusable worker
pools.
* Added a way to run manual unit tests separately when requested, while
keeping the standard test run’s coverage settings intact.
* Expanded GPU test coverage for sharded hidden states across devices
and generation output placement.
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Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
…2795)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

ONNX AutoTune's TensorRT Python benchmark fails during initialization on
TensorRT 11 because it accesses the removed
`NetworkDefinitionCreationFlag.EXPLICIT_BATCH` enum. Create the network
with `STRONGLY_TYPED` alone: explicit batching is already implicit in
TensorRT 10 and 11, and strong typing remains enabled on both versions.

Add a parametrized GPU regression test that constructs the real
benchmark, verifies its network creation flags, and builds and measures
tiny INT8 and FP8 Q/DQ MatMul candidates. Update the AutoTune guide's
TensorRT Python example to use the same supported network flags, and
document the integration-test fixture. The same constructor exists in
ModelOpt 0.47, so this also includes a changelog entry.
`BuilderFlag.DIRECT_IO` remains available in the tested versions and
needs no change.

### Usage

```python
from modelopt.onnx.quantization.autotune import TensorRTPyBenchmark

benchmark = TensorRTPyBenchmark(warmup_runs=1, timing_runs=2)
latency_ms = benchmark.run("model.onnx")
```

### Testing

- Before the fix, both new regression cases fail at the real constructor
with the missing `EXPLICIT_BATCH` AttributeError.
- TensorRT **11.1.0.106**, RTX 6000 Ada: `pytest
tests/gpu/onnx/quantization/autotune/test_benchmark.py -q` — **36
passed**, including INT8/FP8 candidate builds and measurements, Python
benchmark bytes/path/callable cases, and trtexec smoke tests.
- TensorRT **10.13.3.9**, RTX 6000 Ada: `pytest
tests/gpu/onnx/quantization/autotune/test_benchmark.py -k
TestTensorRTPyBenchmark -q` — **5 passed**.
- Re-ran the original minimal constructor reproduction on TensorRT 11:
initialization succeeds.
- Repository pre-commit checks on the changed files pass, including
Ruff, mypy, and Bandit.
- Verified the corrected guide's network creation on TensorRT 11.1.0.106
and 10.13.3.9; both initialize successfully with strong typing enabled.

Full standalone AutoTune searches and quantization CLI accuracy
evaluations were not run. Candidate measurements here validate the
shared benchmark path, not model accuracy.

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### Additional Information

[TensorRT 10-to-11 migration
guide](https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/tensorrt/latest/api/migration/tensorrt-10x-to-11x.html)

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added imatrix calibration for GGML formats, including weighted
calibration using per-column and per-expert statistics. Existing final
codes remain unchanged, allowing calibration of weights skipped by GPTQ.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Fixed ONNX AutoTune benchmark initialization with TensorRT 11 while
retaining strongly typed network support for TensorRT 10.
* Fixed LayerNorm input quantization in presets and recipes that enable
input quantizers.
* **Documentation**
* Updated the TensorRT Python API example to use strongly typed network
configuration.
* **Tests**
* Added GPU integration coverage for INT8 and FP8 quantized MatMul
benchmarks, including finite, positive latency checks. FP8 coverage is
skipped on unsupported GPUs.
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Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: new feature

Part 3 of the four-PR Dynamo ONNX export stack replacing #2418. Adds a
private canonical static-weight normalizer: initializer → optional
constant reshape → format marker → optional restoring
views/cast/transpose → one MatMul/Gemm weight input. It validates
provenance and layout, materializes independent scales, and rejects
shared weights, fanout, arbitrary views, or mismatched Q/DQ paths.

Adds 484 source lines (1,175 total additions including tests). Final
validation, metadata synchronization, and the packer integration hooks
land together in part 4 so this slice stays below the source budget. No
new helper behavior or changes to legacy packers are enabled here.

### Usage

Internal prerequisite only. The normalizer is not a supported public
export API; part 4 connects it to `get_onnx_bytes_and_metadata(...,
dynamo_export=True)`.

The normalized graph is an intermediate representation for the format
packers and is not valid standalone ONNX. NVFP4 normalization removes
the export-only Cast, so an fp16 Gemm can temporarily receive an fp32
weight. INT4 normalization removes restoring views and can leave blocked
weights feeding MatMul directly. Part 4 runs the packers to restore the
final layout and dtype, then performs final ONNX validation.

### Testing

Ran the focused suite with CUDA hidden in the PyTorch 26.08 development
container (PyTorch 2.14) on a source snapshot verified against the
checkout: **93 passed**.

```bash
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="" python -m pytest -o addopts= -p no:cacheprovider \
  tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_tensor_quant_cpu.py \
  tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_dynamo_onnx_export.py \
  tests/unit/onnx/test_dynamo_adapter.py -q
```

Covers canonical paths; INT4 last-axis/full-block validation, prefix
reshapes, restoring transpose and Cast rewiring; independent INT4/MXFP8
scales and packer name prefixes; NVFP4 Gemm transB toggling; unchanged
FP8 attention Q/K/V and projected activations; unchanged INT8
convolution paths; and fail-closed static/dynamic weight-view errors.
The original PR implementation fails 12 of the new axis/block and
activation regression cases. Changed-file pre-commit checks and `git
diff --check` passed. GPU and full multi-version CI were not rerun for
this split.

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dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A — neither
added.
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update Changelog?: N/A — private prerequisite; part 4 contains
the single user-facing feature entry.
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: Pending — follow-up changes
address the review; re-review is still required.

### Additional Information

Merge order: capture → lowering → normalization → integration. This PR
targets `ajrasane/dynamo-onnx-lowering` and must merge after part 2. Its
tests call the normalizer without any dependency on later helper/packer
changes.

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### Replacement stack

Merge in order; each PR targets the preceding branch. Retarget the next
PR when its dependency merges.

1. [#2682: capture and CPU
routing](#2682)
2. [#2683: private ONNXScript
lowering](#2683)
3. [#2684: canonical weight
normalization](#2684)
4. [#2685: helper and deployment
integration](#2685)

CI note: repository pull-request workflows target `main`, `release/*`,
and `feature/*`. They do not automatically run for this stacked base.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added support for exporting quantized models through Dynamo for INT4,
INT8, FP8, NVFP4, and MXFP8 formats.
* Improved CPU quantization support, including per-tensor, per-axis, and
block quantization.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved handling of quantized weights and scales during ONNX export,
including supported reshapes and shared scales.
* Preserved correct quantization behavior for FP8 attention activations
and INT8 convolution weights.

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Signed-off-by: ajrasane <131806219+ajrasane@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

The Qwen3-VL and Qwen3.5 FP8 vision recipes previously quantized
vision-block Linears whose 3D attention inputs are flattened by vLLM's
FlashInfer FP8 GEMM, causing vision encoder initialization to fail.
Narrow the shared visual quantizer rules to primary and deepstack merger
Linears, whose inputs are 2D. Update both recipe descriptions, the
recipe guide, the 0.48.0 changelog entry, and the quantizer-selection
and checkpoint-export tests. This changes existing recipe output: vision
blocks now remain in high precision and affected checkpoints must be
regenerated.

### Usage

```python
from modelopt.recipe import load_recipe

recipe = load_recipe("model_type/qwen3_5/ptq/fp8_vision-kv_none")
quant_cfg = recipe.quantize.model_dump()
```

### Testing

- Verified the four Qwen3-VL/Qwen3.5 recipe-selection cases fail with
the previous quantizer rules and pass with this change (4 passed).
- Ran the four GPU calibration and unified-HF-export cases for
vision-only and joint FP8 recipes (4 passed).
- Exported a Qwen3.5 vision-language checkpoint after four
image-calibration samples on a GB300. The export marks vision blocks as
excluded and retains FP8 merger scales. Unmodified vLLM 0.31.0 started
successfully, returned HTTP 200 from `/health`, and answered an image
prompt correctly.
- Ran all applicable pre-commit hooks on the changed files, including
recipe validation.

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weights_only=False)`, `pickle`, etc.).

- Is this change backward compatible?: ❌ — rerunning either existing
recipe now leaves vision blocks in high precision; previously exported
checkpoints are unchanged.
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[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
✅

### Additional Information

This avoids the failing 3D FP8 path by reducing vision quantization
coverage. It does not change vLLM's FP8 kernel or repair already
exported checkpoints. End-to-end serving used four calibration images; a
full-size calibration run with the changed recipe was not repeated.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Bug Fixes**
* Updated Qwen3-VL and Qwen3.5 FP8 vision recipes to quantize primary
and deepstack vision-merger layers while keeping vision blocks and patch
embeddings in high precision for vLLM compatibility.
* Recipes that also enable language-model FP8 quantization retain that
option while keeping vision blocks and patch embeddings in high
precision.
  * Calibration checks now account for vision-merger input quantizers.
* Re-quantize affected checkpoints before deployment to apply the
updated settings.
* **Documentation**
* Clarified which model components are quantized by the FP8 vision
recipes.
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Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
)

Type of change: Bug fix

`get_concat_eliminated_tensors` groups every input of a quantized
`Concat` so the inputs share one
scaling factor. It also grouped constant (initializer) inputs. The
calibrators only collect ranges
for activation tensors, so applying the group raised
`KeyError: '<tensor>_ReduceMin'` in `_compute_data_minmax_calibrator`.

A ViT hits this: constant folding leaves the class token
(`/Expand_output_0`) as an initializer that
feeds `Concat`, and when the Concat output is quantized the default
`concat_elimination` pass puts it
in a group. With `--autotune` the crash came after the whole search had
finished.

The fix skips `gs.Constant` inputs when building the group. The constant
keeps its own scale, so
TensorRT may keep one Q/DQ pair at that Concat that concat elimination
would have removed.

```sh
python -m modelopt.onnx.quantization --onnx_path model.onnx --quantize_mode fp8 --autotune default
```

- New unit test
`tests/unit/onnx/quantization/test_concat_elimination.py`
- Real model: ViT-tiny (timm), FP8 `--autotune default`, H100, TensorRT
10.16.2.11. Before: crash
after 2.0 h. After: completes in 2.0 h (ModelOpt keeps the FP16 model,
since FP8 measured 0.895x).

```python
import timm
import torch

import modelopt.onnx.quantization as moq

model = timm.create_model("vit_tiny_patch16_224", pretrained=False).eval()
torch.onnx.export(
    model, torch.randn(1, 3, 224, 224), "vit_tiny.onnx", input_names=["input"], opset_version=17
)
moq.quantize("vit_tiny.onnx", quantize_mode="fp8", autotune=True)
```

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dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update Changelog?: ✅
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ (not run yet)

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* **Bug Fixes**
* ONNX calibration no longer crashes when a concatenation includes a
constant input.
* Constant inputs are excluded from shared-scale grouping, while
eligible activation inputs continue to be grouped.
* **Documentation**
* Updated the changelog with release highlights, including GGML imatrix
calibration, a Nemotron 3.5 Super VL AutoQuantize recipe, and
external-draft speculative decoding.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
kevalmorabia97 and others added 2 commits October 16, 2026 22:40
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

`broadcast`/`allgather` in `modelopt/torch/utils/distributed.py` and the
Megatron expert-parallel (EP) export gather handled peer-supplied
buffers with unrestricted pickle (`torch.load(..., weights_only=False)`
and `torch.distributed.gather_object`), so a compromised rank could
execute code on the others.

- `_deserialize` and the EP export load use `torch.load(...,
weights_only=True)`, passed explicitly so
`TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD=1` cannot re-enable pickle.
- The EP export gathers raw bytes with a new `gather_bytes` (root-only,
chunked tensor gather) instead of `gather_object`, which unpickles the
outer object before any restricted load.
- `Hparam`/`TracedHp` (broadcast by the Megatron pruning path) are
registered as safe globals, and `Hparam` pickles its default importance
estimator as a marker instead of a bound method (which needs `getattr`).
- Not covered: `DistributedProcessGroup.get_dist_syncd_obj` uses
`all_gather_object`; left for a follow-up.

**Why not `utils/serialization.py::safe_load`, JSON or safetensors?**
`safe_load` deliberately honors `TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD` so
users can trust a local checkpoint; trusting a local file must not also
trust every peer, so peer payloads pin `weights_only=True`. Payloads are
small heterogeneous Python objects (bools, dicts, tensors, hparams),
which JSON/safetensors cannot carry without a larger redesign.

### Usage

No API change. Custom classes sent through `broadcast`/`allgather` must
be registered with `torch.serialization.add_safe_globals`.

### Testing

- `tests/unit/torch/utils/test_distributed.py`: a `__reduce__` gadget is
rejected by `_deserialize`, with and without
`TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD=1` (fails when the fix is reverted); a
`TracedHp` subclass (`DepthHparam`) round-trips through
`_serialize`/`_deserialize`.
- `tests/gpu/torch/utils/test_distributed.py`, run locally on 2 GPUs (8
passed): real `broadcast`/`allgather` round trip (incl. `TracedHp`);
`gather_bytes` (uneven sizes, empty sender, small chunks);
`gather_state_dicts` (the EP export's gather-and-load) accepts ordinary
state dicts on the root only and rejects a gadget sent from a non-root
rank without running it, with and without the env override.
- The `gather_*` tests need 2 ranks and use `need_2_gpus`, so they skip
on CI's single-GPU `gpu` runner; checked locally with
`CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0` (4 passed, 4 skipped).
- `tests/unit/torch/{nas,opt}`: all pass locally except 4 `opt/plugins`
collection errors that also occur without this change (broken package
metadata in the local env).
- CI: `gpu_megatron` (real Megatron EP export and NAS/prune paths, which
the local env cannot import), `gpu_vllm`, `linux` unit and example jobs
passed on 1661191.

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* **New Features**
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Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
Chad's Agent

Type of change: Bug fix.

Native Transformers `FP8Experts` store fused FP8 weights with inverse
scales. The generic wrapper exposed raw values to weight calibration and
packing, while native FP8 dispatch bypassed ModelOpt's fake
quantization.

Dequantize one expert projection at a time for forward, calibration, and
export, keeping scale multiplication in FP32 until the output cast.
Export removes consumed inverse/activation scales. Native packed FP4
inputs are rejected.

Explicit `unpack_weight()` materializes floating parameters before
folding, matching FP8Linear's interface. Folding is inherited from the
fused wrapper. Native forward still reads scale attributes after
unpacking, so export removes them. Ordinary PTQ/export keeps per-expert
dequantization without unpacking entire modules. Raw FP8 folding retains
FP8Linear's existing unsupported behavior; shared folding code is
unchanged.

Independent of recipe PR #2817; analogous to #1962. FP8Linear is
unchanged.

Use a recipe matching native expert names; M2.7 validation also needs
Call `experts.unpack_weight()` explicitly before permanent or temporary
folding.

- Current revision: 99 focused fused-expert/FP8Linear plugin tests pass
on both Transformers 5.5.0 and 5.18.0. Gated/non-gated temporary-fold
tests verify parameter identity, dtype, exact values, quantizer state,
and forward results after normal and exceptional exits. The new tests
fail on the previous head without explicit unpacking.
- Six real native FP8Experts GPU cases pass across gated/non-gated
layouts and FP32/FP16/BF16 inputs, with NVFP4 calibration/export and
independent decoding.
- Fresh full MiniMax M2.7 PTQ/export passes with #2817: 512 samples,
batch 8, 64/64 calibration batches, 14 shards (134.52 GB versus 230.12
GB source payload). All 47,616 expert projections have correct
packed/block-scale shapes. All 191,087 tensor headers and shard extents
agree with the index; no stale inverse/activation scales or declaration
mismatches; reverse naming succeeds.
- 27 crops (layers 0/30/61, experts 0/127/255, gate/up/down) have
9.28–9.53% relative L2 error and norm ratios 0.997–1.003 against the
**scaled FP8 source**. Independent E2M1 and ModelOpt NVFP4 decoders
agree within FP32 rounding. Both generation previews complete.
- Controlled environment: four GB300 GPUs, aarch64,
`nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:26.08-py3`, Transformers 5.18.0,
compressed-tensors 0.19.0, kernels 0.17.0, datasets 5.0.1; original
ModelOpt 0.48.0rc0 source plus backend and recipe patches. Wrapper
ASTs/export code match this PR. Model revision
`d494266a4affc0d2995ba1fa35c8481cbd84294b`; CNN/DailyMail revision
`96df5e686bee6baa90b8bee7c28b81fa3fa6223d`, config 3.0.0. The
weight-quantizer guard remained active.
- Fresh calibration: 26m10s; export: 150.1s; peak memory: 62.75–65.32
GB/GPU. Tokenizer/vocabulary/merges/chat-template files are
byte-identical; generation settings differ only in the recorded
Transformers version. Native config normalization and the
loader-generated expert-parallel scale-sharding plan are accounted for.
- Changed-file pre-commit hooks and `git diff --check` pass. Current
repository CI: 32 successful checks, 1 skipped, 19 GPU/example jobs
queued without assigned runners; no failures. Earlier revision:
full-model smoke/full512 and 54 CI checks passed; the full512 results
above are from the fresh rerun.

- Backward compatible: ✅
- Copied code/new dependencies: N/A
- Necessary tests: ✅
- Changelog: ✅
- Claude approval: N/A

Full-model PTQ uses a four-GPU device map. FSDP2, offload, serving, and
benchmark accuracy are untested. Excluded attention projections export
as BF16, routers as FP32, and the LM head as BF16.

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Signed-off-by: Chad Voegele <cvoegele@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
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tests/gpu/torch/utils/test_distributed_worker_pool.py: 1

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Move the pure get_live_pool test to tests/unit.

test_a_killed_pool_is_replaced_and_a_live_one_is_reused uses only SimpleNamespace objects. It needs no GPU or worker processes, so it does not belong in tests/gpu. The path instructions mark "Tests placed in the wrong directory for their cost profile" as an issue. As per path instructions, move this test to a matching unit-test module.

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The PR-CI run no longer covers test_search_constraints.

This change marks the last enabled parameter manual. Before the change, (False, True) was the fast representative case for pull requests. After the change, all four cases are manual. A regression in ConstraintsFunc latency interpolation will not show up in PR CI. A missing test alone is not a defect. However, if this case is too slow for tests/unit, move it to tests/gpu* or nightly. Do not remove its only PR-time coverage without a stated reason.

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Compare dst with the rank inside group, or document that dst is a global rank.

torch.distributed.gather(dst=...) expects a global rank. torch.distributed.get_rank() also returns the global rank, so the code is consistent. The sizes/bufs indexing assumes that group-local order matches the result order. For a subgroup, out[i] is indexed by the group-local rank. The docstring states "global rank dst" but does not say that the list is ordered by group-local rank. Callers that use subgroups can then map the payloads to the wrong ranks. Document the ordering in the docstring.

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Review comments at @modelopt/torch/distill/plugins/megatron.py:
- Around line 720-726: Update the `elif` condition in the MTP warning logic to
require `distill_cfg.freeze_mtp` as well as
`parallel_state.is_pipeline_last_stage()`, so the “freeze_mtp is set” warning is
emitted only when freezing was requested.

Review comments at @modelopt/torch/sparsity/attention_sparsity/plugins/vllm.py:
- Around line 847-852: Update _flashinfer_cache_write to use layout-aware
writable K/V views, matching the layouts handled by _flashinfer_kv_cache_views,
instead of assuming dimension 1 selects K/V. Preserve correct cache writes for
both separate K/V and packed layouts, including caches with one head.

Review comments at @tests/gpu/torch/utils/test_distributed.py:
- Around line 192-194: Update _test_gather_state_dicts_rejects_gadget to restore
TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD after its existing body completes. Preserve the
prior environment value, set the override only when requested, and use
try/finally to restore the prior value or remove the variable if it was
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Review comments at @tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_gptq.py:
- Around line 143-145: Update the test invoking _gptq_hessian_dp_sync_helper to
use the session-scoped cpu_dist_workers pool for its two-rank run instead of
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Review comments at @modelopt/torch/utils/distributed.py:
- Line 168: Update the docstring for the function containing `is_dst` to state
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Review comments at @tests/gpu/torch/utils/test_distributed_worker_pool.py:
- Around line 69-81: Move
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if num_frozen:
warn_rank_0(
f"MTP head is frozen ({num_frozen} params) and its loss is skipped"
+ (" (freeze_mtp)." if distill_cfg.freeze_mtp else ": it is outside quantization.")
)
elif parallel_state.is_pipeline_last_stage(): # earlier stages never hold the MTP head
warn_rank_0("freeze_mtp is set but the model has no MTP head: nothing to freeze.")

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the warning text when the automatic skip finds no MTP parameters.

Assume freeze_mtp is False and skip_lm_loss is True. In that case skip_mtp_loss is true only when _mtp_excluded_from_quantization returns true, and that function also requires MTP modules. A model can still have modules named mtp that hold no parameters. Then num_frozen == 0, and the elif branch warns "freeze_mtp is set" even though the user did not set freeze_mtp. Add a distill_cfg.freeze_mtp check to the elif condition.

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-        elif parallel_state.is_pipeline_last_stage():  # earlier stages never hold the MTP head
+        elif distill_cfg.freeze_mtp and parallel_state.is_pipeline_last_stage():
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Update the `elif` condition in the MTP warning logic to require
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def _flashinfer_kv_cache_views(kv_cache: torch.Tensor, head_size: int):
"""Return logical [blocks, page, heads, dim] K/V views for FlashInfer."""
if kv_cache.ndim == 5 and kv_cache.shape[1] == 2:
return kv_cache[:, 0], kv_cache[:, 1]
if kv_cache.ndim == 4 and kv_cache.shape[-1] == 2 * head_size:
return kv_cache.transpose(1, 2).split(head_size, dim=-1)

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Update the cache-write path for packed caches.

When FlashInferBackend.forward_includes_kv_cache_update is true, _flashinfer_forward calls _flashinfer_cache_write before reading either new view. That writer still uses kv_cache[:, 0] and kv_cache[:, 1]. In the packed layout, dimension 1 selects heads, not K/V. The writer can corrupt the cache or fail when it has one head. Use layout-aware writable K/V views in _flashinfer_cache_write as well as in the read paths.

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def _test_gather_state_dicts_rejects_gadget(rank, size, marker, force_no_weights_only):
if force_no_weights_only:
os.environ["TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD"] = "1"

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Restore TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD in the persistent worker processes.

dist_workers reuses its worker pool for the whole session. This function sets os.environ["TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD"] = "1" and never removes it. After the True parametrization runs, later tests in the same workers still have the override set. Plain torch.load calls in those tests then accept full pickle. Those tests can also stop catching weights-only regressions. Remove the variable in a try/finally block.

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-    if force_no_weights_only:
-        os.environ["TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD"] = "1"
+    prev = os.environ.get("TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD")
+    if force_no_weights_only:
+        os.environ["TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD"] = "1"
+    try:
+        ...  # existing body
+    finally:
+        if prev is None:
+            os.environ.pop("TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD", None)
+        else:
+            os.environ["TORCH_FORCE_NO_WEIGHTS_ONLY_LOAD"] = prev
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Use the shared CPU worker pool for this unit test.

spawn_multiprocess_job starts workers for this test instead of sharing the session-scoped cpu_dist_workers pool. Run the two-rank helper through that pool, or move the test to tests/gpu*. As per coding guidelines: “anything spawning processes/subprocesses, multi-step training or large models goes to tests/gpu* (except tests sharing the session-scoped cpu_dist_workers).”

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#2820 overrides QuantModule._validate_fold_weight() and relies on
mtq.fold_weight() validating every module before folding any. Both come
from #2656 (mergeable LoRA QAD), which is not on release/0.48.0, so the
#2820 native FP8 expert unit tests fail with "'super' object has no
attribute '_validate_fold_weight'" and partial folds.

Backport only those two pieces from #2656: the no-op base hook in
QuantModule and the validation pass in mtq.fold_weight(). The LoRA
feature itself is not included.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Rohan Joshi <rohjoshi@nvidia.com>
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rohansjoshi merged commit 06c70b3 into release/0.48.0 Oct 17, 2026
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rohansjoshi deleted the cherry-picks/release-0.48.0 branch October 17, 2026 04:05
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