Fix HF export crash when a dynamic-block quantizer has zero amax - #2438
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/nn/modules/tensor_quantizer.py`:
- Line 1095: Update _sanitize_export_amax() to return amax immediately when
amax.is_meta, before evaluating torch.isnan(amax) or zero-value predicates;
preserve existing sanitization for materialized tensors and add a regression
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420-443: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd NaN cases to
test_amax_export_zero_amax. The test covers only zeroamaxvalues. If_sanitize_export_amaxkeeps zero replacement but removes or changes its NaN replacement, all current assertions can still pass whileexport_amax()returns NaN to dynamic NVFP4 and regular per-tensor scaling. Add NaN fixtures for both configurations and assert that the exportedamaxis positive, preferably equal toquantizer.maxbound, while the stored NaN calibration state remains unchanged.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@tests/_test_utils/torch/quantization/tensor_quantizer_common.py`:
- Around line 420-443: Add NaN coverage to test_amax_export_zero_amax for both
the dynamic NVFP4 and static per-tensor QuantizerAttributeConfig cases. Set the
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| every downstream exporter divides by it, so substitute ``maxbound`` (i.e. a unit scale) | ||
| rather than emitting a scale of 0 that would fail export or produce inf at inference. | ||
| """ | ||
| if not bool(torch.isnan(amax).any() or (amax == 0).any()): |
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] The eager bool(...) guard makes export_amax() raise on a meta amax, where the old code did not.
CodeRabbit flagged this line too; adding the evidence that makes it concrete rather than theoretical: export_amax() already anticipates a meta amax — six lines below the second _sanitize_export_amax() call it invokes self.validate_attr(attr_name="_amax", attr_value=amax), and validate_attr opens with an explicit meta short-circuit (tensor_quantizer.py:758). modelopt/torch/export/layer_utils.py:261 and quant_utils.py:1854 guard _amax.is_meta in the same way, so quantizers carrying meta amax through the export flows (layerwise_export, unified_export_hf_streaming) are a supported state.
The previous body was branch-free — amax[amax == 0] = ... plus nan_to_num — both of which have meta kernels. bool() on a meta tensor cannot be evaluated and raises, so this is a behavior regression for that path, not just a missing guard. The same construct also adds a device sync per quantizer per export (the coding standards call out tensor-value-based Python branching), which for a large MoE checkpoint is thousands of syncs where there used to be none.
Both fall out if the substitution stays branch-free and only the warning is gated:
sanitized = torch.nan_to_num(torch.where(amax == 0, <maxbound tensor>, amax), nan=self.maxbound)
if not amax.is_meta and bool(...): # warn only
warnings.warn(...)
return sanitizedtorch.where also returns a fresh tensor, so the aliasing hazard the clone() exists to cover goes away on its own. Full sketch in the summary comment. Worth a regression case with a meta _amax alongside the new zero-amax test.
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Confirmed and fixed in 251f2e3. Reproduced it directly before changing anything — export_amax() with a meta amax raised RuntimeError: Tensor.item() cannot be called on meta tensors, and the old branch-free body did not.
_sanitize_export_amax now does torch.nan_to_num(torch.where(amax == 0, full_like(amax, maxbound), amax), nan=maxbound) unconditionally, with only the warning behind if not amax.is_meta. clone() is gone since torch.where returns a fresh tensor. New test_amax_export_meta_amax covers both export branches (the shape assertion had to be numel() == 1 rather than (1,) — the per-tensor path unsqueezes).
One correction on the sketch: it does not remove the device sync. bool(invalid.any()) still syncs for every materialized amax, which is unavoidable if the warning exists at all. Keeping it — one sync per quantizer at export time, not in a training loop.
| return self.amax | ||
| # Dynamic block quantizers keep a per-tensor amax (the NVFP4 second-level scale) that | ||
| # needs no reshaping, but it still has to be positive for the exporters. | ||
| return None if self.amax is None else self._sanitize_export_amax(self.amax) |
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[SUGGESTION] The sibling activation-scale path bypasses this sanitization entirely, so the same zero amax can still abort export under a slightly different recipe.
export/quant_utils.py:165-180 dispatches on get_quantization_format(module), which is decided by the weight quantizer (_get_quantization_from_layer returns QUANTIZATION_NONE as soon as the weight quantizer is absent/disabled, and otherwise keys off weight_quantizer.num_bits). So a recipe that puts dynamic NVFP4 on *input_quantizer while the weight quantizer is a different format — or disabled — does not take the NVFP4QTensor.get_activation_scaling_factor branch you fixed. It falls through to get_scaling_factor(input_quantizer), which uses export_amax() only for the None check and then, for num_bits == (2, 1), recomputes from the raw buffer:
amax = quantizer.export_amax() # sanitized value discarded for NVFP4
if quantizer.num_bits == (2, 1):
scaling_factor = NVFP4QTensor.get_weights_scaling_factor_2_from_quantizer(quantizer)
...
assert torch.all(scaling_factor > 0), f"scaling factor {scaling_factor} not positive."get_weights_scaling_factor_2_from_quantizer reads weight_quantizer._amax directly (nvfp4_tensor.py:109) when there is no global_amax, so a zero amax yields 0.0 and trips the assert one line later — the same crash with the scaling factor ... not positive. wording instead of activation scaling factor ... not positive.
The reported recipe happens to land on the fixed branch (its assert text matches nvfp4_tensor.py:224), so this isn't a defect in the diff. But since the stated root cause is "amax reaches an exporter unsanitized," it would be worth either having get_scaling_factor feed the sanitized amax into get_weights_scaling_factor_2_from_quantizer instead of dropping it, or noting in the PR description that this second path is knowingly left for a follow-up.
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Verified the analysis is accurate — get_scaling_factor discards the sanitized amax when num_bits == (2, 1) and recomputes via get_weights_scaling_factor_2_from_quantizer, which reads weight_quantizer._amax raw, so a zero amax trips assert torch.all(scaling_factor > 0) there.
Leaving it as a follow-up rather than widening this PR, for the reason you note: format dispatch is weight-driven, so reaching that path needs dynamic NVFP4 on an input quantizer whose weight quantizer is a different format or disabled — a combination the reported recipe does not produce, and one I have no repro for. Fixing it properly means deciding whether get_weights_scaling_factor_2_from_quantizer should take the sanitized amax as an argument, which touches the weight-side callers too.
Noted explicitly in the PR description so it is not lost.
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| f"{type(self).__name__} has zero or NaN amax entries at export time, which means " | ||
| "calibration never activated the corresponding layer (or saw NaN activations). " | ||
| "Substituting maxbound so the exported scaling factor is positive. Consider " | ||
| "increasing the calibration size if this layer is expected to be active.", | ||
| stacklevel=3, | ||
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[SUGGESTION] The warning can't be acted on, which undercuts the reason the PR gives for adding it.
The message is a constant — type(self).__name__ is TensorQuantizer for every quantizer in the model — and, as the PR description notes, Python's default filter dedupes per (message, category, module, lineno). Together that means a model with 200 dead experts emits exactly one warning, and it names neither the layer nor how many quantizers were affected. The PR positions this as "the signal to investigate," but there's nothing in it to investigate from.
Two cheap improvements:
- Include the affected-entry count and total (
f"{int(mask.sum())}/{amax.numel()} amax entries") so at least the scale of the problem is visible. That's already on a path that syncs, so it costs nothing extra. - Emit it once per rank at most, or prefer the repo's rank-aware warn helper — under an 8-rank export this duplicates 8×, which the "develop with distributed processing in mind" standard asks you to avoid.
If the module identity is genuinely useful (it is, for the "which expert is dead" question), the exporter call sites iterate named_modules() and could surface the name; TensorQuantizer itself has no way to know it.
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Partly adopted in 251f2e3. The warning now reports the affected count, e.g.:
1/1 amax entries of this TensorQuantizer are zero or NaN at export time, ...
Not adopting the rank-aware variant here. tensor_quantizer.py does not currently import warn_rank_0, and per-rank duplication of an export-time diagnostic seems a smaller problem than pulling a logging dependency into this module for it — happy to change if you disagree.
On module identity: agreed it is the more useful signal and agreed TensorQuantizer cannot know its own name. That belongs at the exporter call sites which already iterate named_modules(), so leaving it out of this PR.
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Scope: full review (trigger comment was a bare /claude review). 3 files changed (+54/−3); reviewed all three — modelopt/torch/quantization/nn/modules/tensor_quantizer.py, tests/_test_utils/torch/quantization/tensor_quantizer_common.py, CHANGELOG.rst — plus the consumer side needed to judge the fix: export/quant_utils.py (get_scaling_factor, get_activation_scaling_factor, get_quantization_format), qtensor/nvfp4_tensor.py, and export/transformer_engine.py.
Findings: CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 1 · SUGGESTION: 2
The diagnosis is right and the fix is in the right place. The dynamic-block early return genuinely skipped the zero/NaN substitution that the static path had always applied, consolidating it into one helper is the correct de-duplication, and catching that the old in-place amax[amax == 0] = ... was writing through to self._amax is a real find — export silently mutating calibrated state is the more insidious half of this bug. The test asserting quantizer.amax == 0 after export pins exactly that. Scoping to the activation path is well-argued in the description.
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[IMPORTANT] The new bool(...) guard regresses meta-tensor amax (inline). The old body was branch-free and both of its ops have meta kernels; bool() on a meta tensor raises. This isn't hypothetical: export_amax() calls validate_attr(attr_name="_amax", ...) six lines later, and validate_attr opens with an explicit meta short-circuit (tensor_quantizer.py:758) — the existing code already expects meta amax to flow through this exact function, as do export/layer_utils.py:261 and export/quant_utils.py:1854. The same construct also introduces a device sync per quantizer per export where there previously were none.
Keeping the substitution branch-free and gating only the warning fixes both, and drops the clone() since torch.where already returns a fresh tensor:
def _sanitize_export_amax(self, amax: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
"""Replace zero/NaN amax entries so exported scaling factors stay positive."""
sanitized = torch.nan_to_num(
torch.where(amax == 0, torch.full_like(amax, self.maxbound), amax),
nan=self.maxbound,
)
if not amax.is_meta:
invalid = torch.isnan(amax) | (amax == 0)
if bool(invalid.any()):
warnings.warn(
f"{int(invalid.sum())}/{amax.numel()} amax entries are zero or NaN at export "
"time, which means calibration never activated the corresponding layer (or saw "
"NaN activations). Substituting maxbound so the exported scaling factor is "
"positive. Consider increasing the calibration size if this layer is expected "
"to be active.",
stacklevel=3,
)
return sanitizedOther findings
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quant_utils.get_scaling_factordiscards the sanitized value fornum_bits == (2, 1)and recomputes from raw_amax, so a dynamic-NVFP4 input quantizer on a module whose weight quantizer isn't NVFP4 still tripsassert torch.all(scaling_factor > 0). Format dispatch is weight-driven, so that combination skips the branch this PR fixes. Not a defect in the diff; worth either plumbing the sanitized amax through or saying explicitly it's a follow-up. (inline) - [SUGGESTION] The warning is a constant string, so Python's per-location dedup collapses 200 dead experts into one message that names neither the layer nor the count — little to act on for something billed as the investigation signal. Also fires once per rank. (inline)
- Minor wording: the docstring's "substitute
maxbound(i.e. a unit scale)" and the CHANGELOG's "exports a unit scale" hold for the static path (amax / maxbound == 1) but not for the dynamic NVFP4 second-level scale, whereget_activation_scaling_factorcomputesmaxbound / (maxbound * E4M3_MAX)→1/448. Positive and harmless, but not unit — and the dynamic case is the one this PR is about. - CodeRabbit's request for NaN fixtures in
test_amax_export_zero_amaxis a fair ask: every current assertion passes if thenan_to_numcall is dropped.
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Low. Small, well-targeted, backward compatible at the API level, no modelopt_state or config-schema impact, and no restore-path exposure. The one thing standing between this and a clean approval is the meta-tensor branch — cheap to fix and cheap to test.
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/nn/modules/tensor_quantizer.py`:
- Around line 1087-1117: Update _process_quantized_modules() and the
scaling-factor consumers in the Hugging Face and Transformer Engine export paths
to handle meta-device amax tensors without calling item(), materializing
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| if not amax.is_meta: | ||
| invalid = torch.isnan(amax) | (amax == 0) | ||
| if bool(invalid.any()): | ||
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| f"{int(invalid.sum())}/{amax.numel()} amax entries of this " |
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[SUGGESTION] Three separate device syncs where one suffices.
bool(invalid.any()), int(invalid.sum()), and amax.numel() each launch/read separately, so a healthy model pays two syncs per quantizer (any() plus the numel() is free — it's metadata) and an affected one pays three. You already pushed back on removing the sync entirely, which is fair — it's export-time and unavoidable if the warning reports a count. But the count is the predicate: sum() > 0 iff any(), so any() is redundant.
| if not amax.is_meta: | |
| invalid = torch.isnan(amax) | (amax == 0) | |
| if bool(invalid.any()): | |
| warnings.warn( | |
| f"{int(invalid.sum())}/{amax.numel()} amax entries of this " | |
| if not amax.is_meta: | |
| num_invalid = int((torch.isnan(amax) | (amax == 0)).sum()) | |
| if num_invalid: | |
| warnings.warn( | |
| f"{num_invalid}/{amax.numel()} amax entries of this " |
Same behavior and same message, one sync instead of two, and it drops the intermediate invalid tensor allocation on the common (healthy) path.
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Adopted in 8154d46. You are right that the count is the predicate:
num_invalid = int((torch.isnan(amax) | (amax == 0)).sum())
if num_invalid:One sync instead of two on the affected path, identical on the healthy one, and shorter. 43 CPU + 43 GPU tensor_quantizer tests pass on GB300.
| The substitution stays branch-free because the export flows carry quantizers whose amax is | ||
| on the meta device -- see the ``is_meta`` short-circuit in :meth:`validate_attr` -- and | ||
| ``bool()`` on a meta tensor raises. Only the warning is gated on a materialized amax. | ||
| ``torch.where`` also returns a fresh tensor, so the calibrated ``_amax`` is never mutated. |
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[SUGGESTION] This paragraph is review-thread archaeology rather than source documentation, and it's the kind that rots.
CONTRIBUTING's Comment cautiously rule asks for "a one-line summary with optionally a short description," and says "root-cause analysis belong[s] in the PR description, not the source." Three of these four lines explain why the previous revision of this same PR was wrong — that bool() on meta raises, that torch.where returns a fresh tensor so _amax isn't mutated. A reader of the finished code doesn't need either: torch.where returning a new tensor is stock PyTorch semantics, and the is_meta guard on the next line is self-evidently a guard.
The one non-obvious thing worth keeping is the constraint: the sanitization must not branch on tensor values, because callers legitimately pass a meta amax. That's what a future editor could break. Suggest collapsing to something like:
def _sanitize_export_amax(self, amax: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
"""Replace zero/NaN amax entries with ``maxbound`` so exported scales stay positive.
A zero amax means calibration never activated the layer; downstream exporters divide by
the exported amax, so a zero would fail export or produce inf at inference. Kept
branch-free because export flows may pass a meta ``amax``; only the warning reads values.
"""The same applies to the two new test docstrings, which carry the NVBug ID and the same meta/validate_attr narrative — per CLAUDE.md internal bug numbers stay out of the tree, and the PR description already covers all of it well.
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Half adopted in 8154d46. The docstring point is well taken and matches CONTRIBUTING.md:64-70 — three of those four lines explained why the previous revision of this PR was wrong, which the finished code does not need. Collapsed to your suggested form, keeping only the durable constraint:
Kept branch-free because export flows may pass a meta
amax; only the warning reads values.
Test docstrings trimmed the same way.
Keeping the NVBug ID, though. CLAUDE.md scopes "no internal bug numbers" to CHANGELOG entries written for external users, not to source. In-tree the opposite convention holds — NVBug appears 14 times under tests/, in this exact form:
tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_calib_cuda.py:39: """Regression test for NVBug 6143871.
A bare "regression test for a zero amax" loses the trail back to the report. Happy to drop it if a CODEOWNER prefers otherwise.
| dynamic-NVFP4 input quantizer returned its raw 0.0 and crashed HF checkpoint export. The | ||
| NaN case pins the ``nan_to_num`` half, which the zero case alone would not catch. | ||
| """ | ||
| for quant_attr_cfg in self._unusable_amax_quantizer_cfgs(): |
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[SUGGESTION] The inner for loop over configs should be a second parametrize axis.
As written, the two configs share one test invocation: the static per-tensor case never runs if the dynamic-NVFP4 case fails, and when an assertion does fire the pytest report names only test_amax_export_unusable_amax[0.0] — you have to read the assertion's amax value to work out which export_amax branch broke. Since the whole point of _unusable_amax_quantizer_cfgs() is "one config per branch," losing the branch identity in the failure output costs exactly the information the test exists to give you. CONTRIBUTING's test principles also call for parametrize over looped near-duplicate cases.
QuantizerAttributeConfig instances are cheap and side-effect-free, so they can go straight in the decorator and _unusable_amax_quantizer_cfgs() disappears:
UNUSABLE_AMAX_CFGS = {
# dynamic NVFP4: the per-tensor second-level amax, exported without reshaping
"dynamic_nvfp4": QuantizerAttributeConfig(
num_bits=(2, 1), block_sizes={-1: 16, "type": "dynamic", "scale_bits": (4, 3)}
),
"static_per_tensor": QuantizerAttributeConfig(num_bits=4),
}
@pytest.mark.parametrize("cfg_name", [*UNUSABLE_AMAX_CFGS])
@pytest.mark.parametrize("bad_value", [0.0, float("nan")])
def test_amax_export_unusable_amax(self, bad_value, cfg_name):
quantizer = TensorQuantizer(self.UNUSABLE_AMAX_CFGS[cfg_name]).to(self.device)
...This gives four independently-reported cases, and test_amax_export_meta_amax can take the same cfg_name axis. Same coverage, four extra collected tests, and a failure names its branch.
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Adopted in 8154d46, including the cfg_name axis on the meta test. _unusable_amax_quantizer_cfgs() is gone in favour of the class-level dict. Failures now name their branch:
test_amax_export_unusable_amax[0.0-dynamic_nvfp4]
test_amax_export_unusable_amax[0.0-static_per_tensor]
test_amax_export_unusable_amax[nan-dynamic_nvfp4]
test_amax_export_unusable_amax[nan-static_per_tensor]
test_amax_export_meta_amax[dynamic_nvfp4]
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Claude review passed — no blocking issues found. LGTM
Re-review of 251f2e3. Full scope (all 3 changed files: modelopt/torch/quantization/nn/modules/tensor_quantizer.py, tests/_test_utils/torch/quantization/tensor_quantizer_common.py, CHANGELOG.rst).
Findings: CRITICAL: 0, IMPORTANT: 0, SUGGESTION: 3
Prior findings — all resolved
- Meta-tensor regression (IMPORTANT, last round). Fixed correctly. Verified every op in
_sanitize_export_amaxhas a meta kernel:amax == 0,torch.full_like,torch.where,nan_to_num. Downstream in the static path,torch.finfo(amax.dtype),.clamp,validate_attr(short-circuits onis_metaat tensor_quantizer.py:758), and theunsqueeze/squeezereshaping are all meta-safe.test_amax_export_meta_amaxpins it. - 'Unit scale' wording. Corrected, and the new wording is right —
amax / (maxbound * E4M3_MAX)withamax = maxboundgives 1/448, not 1. - Warning actionability. Count added. Declining rank-awareness is reasonable here:
warningsdedups by (message, location), and the message text is identical for every1/1dead expert, so per-rank volume is bounded at one line regardless of how many quantizers are affected. - NaN coverage (CodeRabbit).
test_amax_export_unusable_amaxnow parametrized over0.0andnan.
What I traced this round
The substantive question a re-review owes this diff is whether dropping the in-place amax[amax == 0] = self.maxbound silently removes a side effect something downstream relied on. The old write went through to self._amax (self.amax is the buffer itself when _amax_shape_for_export is unset, and Tensor.reshape returns a view otherwise), so export_amax() used to permanently sanitize calibrated state. I traced every consumer that re-reads _amax raw after an export_amax() call:
get_scaling_factor(quant_utils.py:151, then 157) callsexport_amax()and then, fornum_bits == (2, 1), discards the result and goes toget_weights_scaling_factor_2_from_quantizer— which only falls back to_amaxwhen_get_static_global_amaxreturnsNone(nvfp4_tensor.py:102-109), i.e. dynamic-block quantizers. Those took the un-sanitized early return before this PR, so there was no side effect to lose.get_weight_scaling_factor/get_weight_scaling_factor_2readweight_quantizer._amaxforW4A8_NVFP4_FP8(quant_utils.py:213, 254) without callingexport_amax()at all — never sanitized before either.transformer_engine.py:64,69andNVFP4QTensor.get_activation_scaling_factoruse only the return value.
So the no-mutation change is a clean improvement with no regression window, and it additionally makes export_amax() idempotent — repeated or multi-rank export no longer depends on call order.
Also checked that routing maxbound into the new dynamic branch cannot raise: maxbound falls through to (1 << (num_bits - 1)) - 1, which would TypeError on a tuple num_bits, but MX formats (scale_bits == (8, 0)) return amax is None via is_mx_format and exit before touching it, and every real NVFP4 config sets scale_bits=(4, 3).
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bool(invalid.any())is redundant withint(invalid.sum())— one device sync instead of two, without giving up the count you defended.- The helper docstring's second paragraph and the two test docstrings carry PR-thread rationale and the NVBug ID; CONTRIBUTING and CLAUDE.md both keep root-cause analysis and internal bug numbers out of the tree. The one durable constraint (must stay branch-free for a meta
amax) is worth one line. - The inner
forloop over_unusable_amax_quantizer_cfgs()hides the second config when the first fails and drops the branch name from the failure report; a secondparametrizeaxis restores both.
Risk: low. Behavior-preserving on healthy models (no invalid entries means torch.where and nan_to_num are identity, and the only added cost is one any() sync at export time), the previously-crashing path now warns and completes, and the known get_scaling_factor gap for mixed weight/input formats is accurately scoped and documented in the PR body as follow-up rather than glossed over. Reasonable candidate for the cherry-pick-0.47.0 label as suggested.
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TensorQuantizer.export_amax() early-returned self.amax unsanitized for dynamic-block quantizers, while the static path below it had always substituted maxbound for zero/NaN entries. The nvfp4 numerics unit sets type: dynamic, so a recipe that applies it to an activation quantizer (e.g. general/ptq/nvfp4_mlp_only-kv_fp8_cast, which targets *mlp*input_quantizer) fed a raw 0.0 into NVFP4QTensor.get_activation_scaling_factor, whose assert then aborted the whole export: AssertionError: Failed to export module '...mlp.gate_proj' (type=QuantLinear): activation scaling factor 0.0 not positive. Calibration leaves amax at 0 whenever a layer or an unrouted expert saw only zeros, so this is reachable on any released version that ships both the early return and an activation-side dynamic NVFP4 recipe. Factor the substitution into _sanitize_export_amax() and call it from both branches. The substitution is branch-free (torch.where + nan_to_num) so it also works on a meta amax, which the layerwise and streaming export flows carry and which validate_attr already short-circuits on; bool() on a meta tensor raises. Only the warning is gated on a materialized amax. torch.where returns a fresh tensor, so export no longer writes through a view of self._amax and silently mutates the quantizer's calibrated state, which the old in-place `amax[amax == 0] = ...` did. The warning reports how many entries were substituted, since a model with many dead experts otherwise collapses to one message naming neither the layer nor the count. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Yue <yueshen@nvidia.com>
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/nn/modules/tensor_quantizer.py`:
- Around line 1094-1097: Update the dynamic export amax sanitization in the
relevant tensor quantizer method to treat every non-finite or non-positive entry
as invalid, replacing those entries with maxbound while preserving valid values.
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| sanitized = torch.nan_to_num( | ||
| torch.where(amax == 0, torch.full_like(amax, self.maxbound), amax), | ||
| nan=self.maxbound, | ||
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Sanitize all invalid dynamic export amax values.
The public amax setter accepts negative and non-finite tensors without validation. With only nan specified, torch.nan_to_num() converts -inf to the dtype’s most-negative finite value and leaves negative finite values unchanged. The dynamic branch returns this value directly at line 1118, bypassing the later clamp and validate_attr() call. Export consumers require a strictly positive scaling factor, so they can fail on this value.
Treat every non-finite or non-positive entry as invalid. Update the warning text and count, and add +inf and -inf regression cases.
Proposed fix
- sanitized = torch.nan_to_num(
- torch.where(amax == 0, torch.full_like(amax, self.maxbound), amax),
- nan=self.maxbound,
+ invalid = ~torch.isfinite(amax) | (amax <= 0)
+ sanitized = torch.where(
+ invalid,
+ torch.full_like(amax, self.maxbound),
+ amax,
)
if not amax.is_meta:
- num_invalid = int((torch.isnan(amax) | (amax == 0)).sum())
+ num_invalid = int(invalid.sum())
if num_invalid:
warnings.warn(
f"{num_invalid}/{amax.numel()} amax entries of this "
- f"{type(self).__name__} are zero or NaN at export time, which means "
- "calibration never activated the corresponding layer or expert (or saw NaN "
- "activations). Substituting maxbound so the exported scaling factor stays "
- "positive. Consider increasing the calibration size if the layer is expected "
- "to be active.",
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/nn/modules/tensor_quantizer.py` around lines 1094
- 1097, Update the dynamic export amax sanitization in the relevant tensor
quantizer method to treat every non-finite or non-positive entry as invalid,
replacing those entries with maxbound while preserving valid values. Use the
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| return self.amax | ||
| # Dynamic block quantizers keep a per-tensor amax (the NVFP4 second-level scale) that | ||
| # needs no reshaping, but it still has to be positive for the exporters. | ||
| return None if self.amax is None else self._sanitize_export_amax(self.amax) |
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[SUGGESTION] The dynamic branch now shares the zero/NaN substitution with the static path, but not the clamp(min=torch.finfo(amax.dtype).tiny, ...) guard two lines below — so one residual underflow path stays asymmetric between the two branches of the function this PR just unified.
_sanitize_export_amax only rewrites entries that are exactly 0 or NaN. A denormal-but-nonzero amax survives it, and NVFP4QTensor.get_activation_scaling_factor then computes amax.float() / (6 * 448), which underflows a sufficiently small amax to 0.0 and trips the very same assert ... not positive this PR is fixing. The static path is immune because clamp(min=tiny) floors amax at 1.18e-38 (→ 4.4e-42, denormal but nonzero); the dynamic path returns before reaching it.
Reaching this needs activations below ~1e-38, so it is far less likely than the exact-zero case that motivated the PR — this is a consistency/robustness point, not a live bug. But routing both branches through the same floor is close to free and means "sanitized" has one meaning:
def _sanitize_export_amax(self, amax: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
sanitized = torch.nan_to_num(
torch.where(amax == 0, torch.full_like(amax, self.maxbound), amax),
nan=self.maxbound,
)
sanitized = sanitized.clamp(
min=torch.finfo(sanitized.dtype).tiny, max=torch.finfo(sanitized.dtype).max
)
...and dropping the now-redundant clamp at line 1129. torch.finfo and clamp both have meta kernels, so this keeps test_amax_export_meta_amax green.
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Scope: full review (trigger was a bare /claude review). 3 files changed (+74/−3); reviewed all three — modelopt/torch/quantization/nn/modules/tensor_quantizer.py, tests/_test_utils/torch/quantization/tensor_quantizer_common.py, CHANGELOG.rst — plus the consumer side needed to judge the fix: qtensor/nvfp4_tensor.py::get_activation_scaling_factor, export/quant_utils.py::get_scaling_factor, and the maxbound / amax / is_mx_format properties.
Findings: CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 0 · SUGGESTION: 1
Prior findings — all resolved
Third round on this diff. Verified each item from the previous two reviews against current HEAD (8154d46):
- Meta-tensor regression (IMPORTANT, round 1). Fixed and still correct.
bool(invalid.any())redundant withint(invalid.sum())(SUGGESTION, round 2). Collapsed to a singleint((torch.isnan(amax) | (amax == 0)).sum())— one sync, count retained.- Docstring carrying PR-thread rationale (SUGGESTION, round 2). Trimmed to the one durable constraint ("Kept branch-free because export flows may pass a meta
amax"), which is exactly the line worth keeping. - Inner loop hiding the second config (SUGGESTION, round 2). Now a real
parametrizeaxis overcfg_name, so both branches report independently.
What I verified independently this round
The load-bearing claim is that routing the dynamic branch through maxbound cannot itself raise or produce a bad scale. Traced it:
maxbound(tensor_quantizer.py:315) special-cases(4, 3)→ 448 and(2, 1)+scale_bits == (4, 3)→ 6.0, then falls through to(1 << (num_bits - 1)) - 1, which wouldTypeErroron a tuple. That fallthrough is unreachable for every real dynamic config: MX formats (scale_bits == (8, 0)) returnamax is Noneviais_mx_format(line 547) and exit at the newNoneguard before touchingmaxbound; intnum_bitsis fine; and NVFP4 always carriesscale_bits=(4, 3). The newNone if self.amax is Noneguard is what makes the MX case safe — worth noting it is doing real work, not defensive padding.- End-to-end on the reported crash:
get_activation_scaling_factor(nvfp4_tensor.py:222) computesamax / (maxbound * E4M3_MAX)=6 / (6 * 448)=1/448> 0, so theassert ... not positiveat line 224 now passes. The fix lands where the failure actually was. - Healthy models are untouched. With no invalid entries,
torch.whereandnan_to_numare identity and no warning fires; the only added cost is one D2H sync per quantizer at export time, which is noise against export I/O. - The no-mutation change is the quieter half of this fix. The old
amax[amax == 0] = self.maxboundwrote through toself._amax(self.amaxis the buffer when_amax_shape_for_exportis unset, andreshapereturns a view otherwise), soexport_amax()permanently rewrote calibrated state.torch.wherereturns a fresh tensor, which also makesexport_amax()idempotent — repeated or multi-rank export no longer depends on call order.test_amax_export_unusable_amaxpins it. get_scaling_factor(quant_utils.py:156) does discard the sanitized amax fornum_bits == (2, 1)and recompute from raw_amax, leaving a dynamic-NVFP4 input quantizer on a non-NVFP4-weight module still able to trip its own assert. Format dispatch is weight-driven so the reported recipe never reaches that branch — accurately scoped and explicitly owned as follow-up in the PR body rather than glossed over.
The one suggestion
_sanitize_export_amax rewrites only exact 0/NaN, so a denormal-but-nonzero amax underflows to 0.0 in the /(6 * 448) division and reproduces the same assert. The static path is immune via clamp(min=finfo.tiny); the dynamic path returns before it. Reaching it needs activations below ~1e-38, so it is a consistency point rather than a live bug — but folding the clamp into the helper is nearly free and gives "sanitized" one meaning. Inline.
Testing note
I could not execute the suite in this environment (test runs are not permitted here), so the reported 40/40 CPU + 40/40 CUDA and the GB300 end-to-end repro are taken as stated, not independently reproduced. My conclusions above come from static tracing of the diff and its consumers.
Risk: low. Correct diagnosis, minimal fix in the right place, backward compatible at the API level, no modelopt_state or config-schema impact, no restore-path exposure, and behavior-preserving on healthy models. The CHANGELOG entry is appropriately scoped (fixes a bug shipped in 0.46.x, so genuinely changelog-worthy) and reads for external users. The cherry-pick-0.47.0 label suggestion is reasonable.
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: Bug fix
TensorQuantizer.export_amax()early-returnsself.amaxunsanitized for dynamic-blockquantizers, while the static path immediately below it has always substituted
maxboundforzero/NaN entries. The
nvfp4numerics unit setstype: dynamic, so a recipe that applies it toan activation quantizer — e.g.
general/ptq/nvfp4_mlp_only-kv_fp8_cast, which targets*mlp*input_quantizer— feeds a raw0.0intoNVFP4QTensor.get_activation_scaling_factor,whose assert aborts the entire export:
Calibration leaves
amaxat 0 whenever a layer — or an unrouted MoE expert — saw only zeros, soone dead layer costs the whole run at the final export step.
This factors the substitution into
_sanitize_export_amax()and calls it from both branches. Twodetails beyond de-duplication:
amax.torch.where+nan_to_numboth have metakernels;
bool()on a meta tensor raises. The layerwise and streaming export flows carry metaamax—validate_attrshort-circuits onis_metafor exactly that reason — so only thewarning is gated on a materialized tensor.
amax[amax == 0] = ...wrote through aview of
self._amax;torch.wherereturns a fresh tensor, so that hazard disappears.calibration never activated that layer — worth surfacing rather than papering over. The message
reports how many entries were substituted, since per-location dedup otherwise collapses many
dead experts into one uninformative message. A healthy model emits none.
Scope: only the activation path is data-dependent and reachable this way. Weight-side
_amaxusesare left alone, since a weight amax of 0 would require an all-zero weight matrix.
Knowingly left as follow-up:
export/quant_utils.py::get_scaling_factordiscards the sanitizedamaxwhennum_bits == (2, 1)and recomputes viaget_weights_scaling_factor_2_from_quantizer,which reads
weight_quantizer._amaxraw — so a dynamic-NVFP4 input quantizer on a module whoseweight quantizer is a different format (or disabled) can still trip
assert torch.all(scaling_factor > 0). Format dispatch is weight-driven, so the reported recipedoes not reach that branch; fixing it properly changes a signature shared with the weight-side
callers and is out of scope here.
Not a regression. The dynamic early return, the
type: dynamicnumerics unit, and the recipe thatcombines them all ship in released 0.46.0 / 0.46.1.
Usage
No new or changed API. Exports that previously aborted now complete and warn:
Testing
test_amax_export_unusable_amax, parametrized over zero and NaN, covering thedynamic-NVFP4 and static per-tensor configs; asserts the exported scale is positive and that
export leaves the calibrated
amaxuntouched. Plustest_amax_export_meta_amax, pinning thata meta
amaxsurvives export rather than raising. Both run on CPU and CUDA via the shared tester.tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_tensor_quantizer_cpu.py— 40 passed.tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_tensor_quantizer_cuda.py— 40 passed (GB300).general/ptq/nvfp4_mlp_only-kv_fp8_cast: dead layerexport_amax()0.0→6.0, live layerunchanged at
3.921875, andexport_hf_checkpointgoes from theAssertionErrorabove towriting
model.safetensors.examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.pywith the reported recipe and flags on a healthy model(Qwen3-0.6B): exits 0 and writes the checkpoint, confirming the normal path is unaffected.
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Fixes NVBug 6768300, reported against 0.47.0rc1 on GB200. The reporter also notes it passed on
0.47.0rc0; that is not explained by code —
git diff 0.47.0rc0..0.47.0rc1touchesexport/quant_utils.pyonly inget_kv_cache_scaling_factor(newclamp_fp8_scalesargumentwhose default preserves the old behaviour) and the INT4-AWQ packing path, neither of which is on
the dense-HF NVFP4 activation-scale path. Whether
amaxlands on exactly 0 iscalibration/model-state dependent, which is what makes it look version-flaky.
Worth flagging separately: in the reported log the pre-PTQ sample output is already
gibberish, so that BF16 checkpoint looks broken independently of quantization. This change stops
the crash, but such a run will now export a valid-but-garbage checkpoint — the new warning is the
signal to investigate.
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