[OMNIML-5899] Export IQ checkpoints from HF and Megatron - #2447
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe export system now supports GGML IQ1_S and IQ2_XS formats. It validates IQ metadata, packs Hugging Face and Megatron weights, rejects unsupported layouts, documents payload contracts, and adds unit and GPU coverage. ChangesGGML IQ export
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MegatronExporter
participant CUDAIQQuantizer
participant ExportState
MegatronExporter->>CUDAIQQuantizer: Pack IQ1_S or IQ2_XS weight
CUDAIQQuantizer->>ExportState: Return CPU uint8 payload
MegatronExporter->>ExportState: Store packed weight and IQ metadata
Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to Do not merge yet: the export package cannot load until the GGML provider is included, and mixed-format tensor-parallel exports can produce unsupported IQ payloads instead of being rejected. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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| # Save the merged weights | ||
| if merged_weight_scale is None: | ||
| if qformat in (QUANTIZATION_IQ1_S, QUANTIZATION_IQ2_XS): | ||
| self._state_dict.update(self._get_iq_weight_state(prefix, merged_weight, qformat)) |
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[CRITICAL Algorithm] IQ blocks are packed along the output axis here, not the input axis.
What's wrong: three lines above (line 1887) merged_weight is transposed from Megatron's [E, out, in] to HF's [E, in, out]. _get_iq_weight_state → quantize_iq{1_s,2_xs} always forms its 256-element GGML blocks along weight.shape[-1] (see quantize_iq2_xs: blocks = weight.contiguous().reshape(-1, 256), packed_shape = (*weight.shape[:-1], weight.shape[-1] // 256, bytes)). After the transpose that last axis is out_features, so each super-block groups 256 output channels instead of 256 contiguous input elements.
Same defect at line 2023 in _pack_name_remapping_gpt_oss, where the transpose at line 1963 is unconditional (and for linear_fc1 the gate/up interleave then permutes the last axis again before packing).
Why it matters:
- It silently disagrees with calibration.
iq2_xs_fake_quant/iq1_s_fake_quantcallquantize_iq*(inputs)on the module's own[out, in]weight, so PTQ evaluated blocks alongin. The exported checkpoint therefore does not reproduce the model that was measured — accuracy loss with no error raised wheneverout_features % 256 == 0. - When
out_features % 256 != 0(e.g. anffn_hidden_sizeof 1408 or 5120·k that isn't a multiple of 256)validate_weightraises a confusing "requires the last weight dimension to be divisible by 256" error naming a shape the user never configured. - The dense paths (
_populate_state_dict, the qkv/gate-up splits) pack the untransposed[out, in]weight, so fused-MoE experts end up with a different block axis than every other layer in the same checkpoint.
Note the HF exporter already establishes the right convention for exactly this case: _export_quantized_weight wraps BMM-expert packing in maybe_transpose_expert_weight_dimensions(...) → quantize → transpose back, specifically to keep blocks on the contraction axis.
Suggested fix: pack before the layout transpose, i.e. in both methods pack the stacked [E, out, in] tensor and only then move the payload into HF order (the packed tensor is [E, out, in//256, bytes], so the logical transpose has to be applied to merged_weight first and the packing deferred, or the pack has to be done on the pre-transpose tensor and the consumer told the blocks live on in). Concretely, for _pack_name_remapping:
merged_weight = torch.stack(weight_list, dim=0) # [E, out, in]
if qformat in (QUANTIZATION_IQ1_S, QUANTIZATION_IQ2_XS):
# GGML blocks must run along the contraction (in_features) axis, which is
# merged_weight's last dim *before* the HF [E, in, out] transpose. Pack here
# and skip the transpose; a packed payload cannot be transposed afterwards.
self._state_dict.update(self._get_iq_weight_state(prefix, merged_weight, qformat))
return
# Megatron is [num_experts, out, in]; most HF layouts want [num_experts, in, out].
if transpose:
merged_weight = merged_weight.transpose(-2, -1).contiguous()
...and mirror it in _pack_name_remapping_gpt_oss (bias/input_scale handling still needs to run, so hoist the pack rather than early-returning there). Whichever convention you land on, please state the block axis for fused MoE experts explicitly in docs/source/deployment/3_unified_hf.rst — the current "IQ weight representation" section only describes the dense [out, in] case.
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Fixed in f2d3a83. Fused experts are now packed per expert while each logical weight is still [out, in], so 256-value blocks remain on the contraction axis. Packed CPU payloads are stacked without a post-pack transpose. Exact packed-byte coverage was added for the standard and GPT-OSS expert paths.
| delattr(sub_module, weight_name) | ||
| sub_module.register_buffer("weight", packed_weight) |
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] This is the only export format that turns weight from a Parameter into a buffer.
What's wrong: every other branch of this function ends at line 846 with setattr(sub_module, weight_name, nn.Parameter(quantized_weight, requires_grad=False)), and that already covers non-float packed payloads — pack_int4_in_uint8 returns uint8 and INT4_AWQ stores it as a Parameter (integer dtypes are legal for nn.Parameter as long as requires_grad=False). The IQ path instead does delattr + register_buffer, silently changing the module contract for this one format.
Why it matters: it breaks any consumer that enumerates weights via named_parameters() / isinstance(m.weight, nn.Parameter) rather than state_dict(). The PR already had to add a compensating branch in moe_utils.py:221 for exactly this reason, and the same guard will be needed at every future call site. TiedWeightMap and sync_tied_input_amax (quant_utils.py:1852) both gate on isinstance(m.weight, torch.nn.Parameter); they happen to be built in _prepare_model_for_export before packing today, so nothing is broken right now, but the invariant is one reordering away from a silent tied-weight dedup miss.
Suggested fix: keep the weight a Parameter so the module contract is uniform across formats, and revert the moe_utils.py special case:
packed_weight, _ = quantize_iq(weight.to(dtype))
setattr(sub_module, weight_name, nn.Parameter(packed_weight, requires_grad=False))
maybe_clear_cuda_cache()
return(This also drops the delattr/hardcoded-"weight" asymmetry — the weight_name != "weight" guard above then only needs to exist for the quantizer_attr_names bookkeeping, not for the assignment.)
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Fixed in f2d3a83. IQ export now replaces weight with nn.Parameter(..., requires_grad=False), matching the other packed formats. The fused-expert buffer special case and its test were removed.
| module: torch.nn.Module, | ||
| dtype: torch.dtype = torch.float16, | ||
| name_to_value: dict[str, torch.Tensor] | None = None, | ||
| keep_weight_device: bool = False, |
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[IMPORTANT Performance] keep_weight_device=True moves the fused-MoE stack from CPU onto the GPU and can add several GB to the export rank's peak.
What's wrong: for IQ, _get_quantized_state now returns an on-GPU weight (which is correct for the dense paths — _get_iq_weight_state packs and immediately .detach().cpu()s, so the GPU copy is transient). But _pack_name_remapping / _pack_name_remapping_gpt_oss accumulate weight_list across all experts and then do torch.stack(...) followed by .transpose(-2, -1).contiguous(). Previously every entry was a CPU copy and both temporaries lived in host memory; now the stack and the contiguous transposed copy are two full-size CUDA allocations on top of the expert weights that are already resident as model parameters (module.weight.to(dtype) is a no-op alias when the dtype already matches, so the list itself is free — the two temporaries are the cost).
Why it matters: for a large MoE decoder layer this is ~2× the fused expert tensor in extra device memory, per layer, on the last-PP-stage rank that is also holding the model. E.g. 128 experts × 1408 × 7168 in bf16 is ≈2.6 GB fused, so ≈5 GB of new transient device memory — enough to OOM an export that previously fit. Since save_pretrained already restricts IQ to TP=1, this rank has no TP sharding to shrink it.
Suggested fix: two options, either is fine:
- Pack per expert before stacking (each
[out, in]expert packs independently to[out, in//256, bytes], thentorch.stackthe small uint8 payloads on CPU) — this composes naturally with the block-axis fix on the_get_iq_weight_statecall and removes the transposed float copy entirely. - Or scope
keep_weight_deviceto the callers that actually benefit (the dense_populate_state_dict/ split paths) and leave the packed-expert paths on CPU, since_pack_name_remappingis the one place where the on-device weight is held rather than consumed immediately.
Worth a note in the keep_weight_device docstring either way: as written it reads as a neutral device toggle, but it shifts a whole-layer allocation from host to device for MoE.
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Fixed in f2d3a83. Each expert is packed immediately and moved to CPU before stacking. The export no longer builds a full fused floating-point stack and contiguous transpose on GPU.
| # (pre_quant_scale is the AWQ / NVFP4_AWQ / SVDQuant companion, renamed in the KV-cache pass.) | ||
| weight_suffixes = ( | ||
| "weight", | ||
| "weight_shape", |
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[SUGGESTION] weight_shape is added to the tied-weight suffix list but IQ export never emits it, so this entry is dead for the format that motivated it.
_get_iq_weight_state and the HF _export_quantized_weight IQ branch both discard the second return of quantize_iq* (packed_weight, _ = ...), and the docs section added in this PR states that no shape tensor is stored. The only producer of a weight_shape key is the compressed_tensors CompressedLinear path in quantization/plugins/huggingface.py:1282. That makes the addition a harmless consistency fix for that path, but it reads as if IQ exports a shape companion.
Related, and the reason it's worth a look: dequantize_iq1_s / dequantize_iq2_xs take weight_shape as a required argument, so ModelOpt's own decoder cannot read back a checkpoint that ModelOpt just wrote without the caller re-deriving the shape by hand. Consider adding a small helper next to the packers, e.g.
def iq_logical_shape(packed_weights: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
"""Recover the logical weight shape from a packed IQ payload."""
return torch.tensor(
(*packed_weights.shape[:-2], packed_weights.shape[-2] * GGML_BLOCK_SIZE),
dtype=torch.int64,
)so the documented recovery rule lives in one place that both the docs and dequantize_iq* callers can point at, instead of being restated prose-only in 3_unified_hf.rst. (If you'd rather just drop the "weight_shape" line here, that's fine too — but then the comment above about extending weight_suffixes should say which path produces it.)
| elif quant_algo in ("IQ1_S", "IQ2_XS"): | ||
| effective_bits, payload_bytes = (1.5625, 50) if quant_algo == "IQ1_S" else (2.3125, 74) | ||
| return { | ||
| "weights": { | ||
| "dynamic": False, | ||
| "num_bits": 1 if quant_algo == "IQ1_S" else 2, | ||
| "effective_bits": effective_bits, | ||
| "type": "int", | ||
| "group_size": 256, | ||
| "packing": "ggml", | ||
| "block_payload_bytes": payload_bytes, | ||
| } |
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[SUGGESTION] The IQ weights group carries three keys that aren't part of the schema this function is documented to emit, and it describes IQ as group-wise int quantization.
Per the docstring above, config_groups.group_0.* mirrors compressed-tensors' QuantizationArgs; every other branch here sticks to dynamic / num_bits / type / group_size / strategy. This branch adds effective_bits, packing, and block_payload_bytes.
Two things worth reconsidering:
"type": "int", "num_bits": 1, "group_size": 256claims a group-wise affine int scheme, but the checkpoint has noweight_scale/weight_zero_pointcompanion (all block metadata is inside the uint8 payload). A loader that dispatches onconfig_groups— rather than on the ModelOpt-specificquant_algo: "IQ1_S"— will accept this group and then try to decompressweightas group-quantized int, which cannot work. Sinceconvert_hf_quant_config_formatwrites this intoconfig.jsonasquantization_config, that's the config transformers actually sees.num_bitsandeffective_bitsdisagree by design (1 vs 1.5625). Anything that sizes buffers fromnum_bits × numelwill under-allocate.
Nothing here is load-breaking today given quant_algo is present and distinct, so this is non-blocking — but a short comment in this branch stating that IQ groups are not compressed-tensors-decodable and that packing: "ggml" is the discriminator a consumer must check would save the next reader a trip through quantize_iq2_xs. Nesting the ModelOpt-only fields (e.g. under a single "ggml": {...} sub-dict) would make that structural rather than a comment.
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Fixed in f2d3a83. IQ metadata no longer presents the payload as a compressed-tensors integer weights group. Uniform exports carry ModelOpt-owned top-level format metadata, while mixed exports use an IQ group without a weights schema. Tests cover both forms.
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Claude review — IQ checkpoint export
Reviewed all 7 changed files (175 additions): the 6 modelopt/torch/export/ modules in full, plus the docs/source/deployment/3_unified_hf.rst contract section. Traced the new IQ format constants and _get_iq_weight_state through every _get_quantized_state caller in unified_export_megatron.py, and read the quantize_iq* / validate_weight implementations from the stacked quantization PR to check the packing contract. No prior Claude review on this PR.
Findings: CRITICAL: 1, IMPORTANT: 2, SUGGESTION: 2
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1. Fused-MoE experts pack IQ blocks along the wrong axis (CRITICAL). _pack_name_remapping and _pack_name_remapping_gpt_oss transpose merged_weight from Megatron [E, out, in] to HF [E, in, out] and then call _get_iq_weight_state. quantize_iq* always blocks along shape[-1], so each 256-element GGML super-block groups output channels instead of contiguous input elements. Calibration (iq2_xs_fake_quant) packs the module's own [out, in] weight along in, so the exported checkpoint does not reproduce the model that was measured — silent accuracy loss whenever out_features % 256 == 0, and a misleading divisibility error when it isn't. The dense paths in this same file pack the untransposed weight, so fused experts also disagree with every other layer in the same checkpoint. The HF exporter already sets the correct precedent with maybe_transpose_expert_weight_dimensions (transpose, quantize, transpose back) for exactly this case.
2. IQ is the only format that demotes weight from Parameter to buffer (IMPORTANT). Every other branch of _export_quantized_weight ends with nn.Parameter(quantized_weight, requires_grad=False), and that already handles uint8 payloads (INT4_AWQ does it). The delattr + register_buffer here is what forced the compensating isinstance(wrapper.weight, nn.Parameter) branch in moe_utils.py; keeping it a Parameter makes that patch unnecessary and keeps named_parameters()-based consumers (TiedWeightMap, sync_tied_input_amax) working by construction rather than by ordering luck.
3. keep_weight_device=True shifts a whole-layer MoE allocation from host to device (IMPORTANT). Transient for the dense paths, but _pack_name_remapping holds weight_list across all experts and then allocates a GPU torch.stack plus a transposed .contiguous() copy — roughly 2x the fused expert tensor in new device memory per layer, on a rank that already holds the model and (per the new TP=1 restriction) has no sharding to shrink it.
The two SUGGESTIONs cover the unused weight_shape suffix vs. dequantize_iq*'s required weight_shape argument, and the non-standard keys in the compressed-tensors-shaped config_groups entry.
Verified as correct
quant_algoplumbing round-trips end to end:get_quantization_formatproduces"iq1_s",process_layer_quant_configuppercases to"IQ1_S", and the newconvert_hf_quant_config_formatbranch matches. The Megatron writer reaches the same code viaprocess_layer_quant_config(combined_layer_config_dict), sogroup_size/packing/block_payload_bytesland there too.- All seven
_get_quantized_statecall sites have a matching IQ branch — no path leaves an unpacked (or CUDA-resident) IQ weight in_state_dict. - The early return in
_get_quantized_statecorrectly skips amax/scale collection, andFUSION_FREE_FORMATSmembership is right for a weight-only format with no cross-module scales. - Excluded modules are safe:
qformat is Nonemakesis_iqfalse, sokeep_bf16/ excluded weights never hit the packer. Thekeep_bf16handling in the GatedDeltaNetin_projpath is the only site that needs it and it has it. - The documented shape-recovery rule
[*shape[:-2], shape[-2] * 256]is self-consistent for 1-D, 2-D and 3-D logical weights.
Minor note (not counted)
The TP guard in save_pretrained derives quantization_format from self._get_quantization_format(self.model), which is per-rank. If a PP stage ever returns None while another returns an IQ format, the non-IQ ranks skip the raise and proceed to torch.distributed.barrier() while the others have already thrown — an NCCL timeout instead of the clean NotImplementedError. Every PP stage of a transformer has linear layers in practice, so this is theoretical; gating on get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size() != 1 first, or all-reducing the format, would remove the possibility.
Risk
Moderate-to-high for MoE, low for dense. Finding 1 makes fused-expert IQ checkpoints numerically wrong without any error, and MoE is the main use case for aggressive 1-2 bit formats. The dense TP=1 path looks sound. Everything is additive and gated behind the two new format constants, so no existing format or checkpoint is affected.
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Commenting: the Megatron packed-expert paths pack IQ blocks after the [E, out, in] -> [E, in, out] transpose, so blocks form along the wrong axis, and five of the six new Megatron branches have no test.
Needs action:
- Confirm the block axis in
_pack_name_remapping/_pack_name_remapping_gpt_oss(unified_export_megatron.py:1914): packing after the transpose groups 256 weights along the output dim, unlike fake-quant and the HF path. Pack before the transpose or explain why not. - Add tests for the untested IQ branches:
_gated_mlp_slicing,_grouped_mlp_slicing,_qkv_slicing,_gated_delta_net_slicing,_pack_name_remapping— only_name_remappingis covered. - Replace the hardcoded
50/74/1.5625/2.3125/256inquant_utils.py:733andconvert_hf_config.py:121withIQ*_BLOCK_BYTES/IQ*_EFFECTIVE_BITS/GGML_BLOCK_SIZEfrommodelopt.torch.quantization.ggml. - Drop the
"weight_shape"entry added toweight_suffixesinquant_utils.py:1170—_BASE_SKIP_KEYSalready removes anyweight_shapekey, and IQ export never emits one.
No action needed:
- Merge order: this stack sits on #2446, whose llama.cpp/ggml MIT provenance is still awaiting OSRB sign-off.
| # Save the merged weights | ||
| if merged_weight_scale is None: | ||
| if qformat in (QUANTIZATION_IQ1_S, QUANTIZATION_IQ2_XS): | ||
| self._state_dict.update(self._get_iq_weight_state(prefix, merged_weight, qformat)) |
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merged_weight has already been transposed to [E, in, out] above, so quantize_iq* blocks the last dim — the output features — into 256-element GGML blocks. Everywhere else (HF _export_quantized_weight, _name_remapping, _gated_mlp_slicing) the blocks run along the input dim, which is also what the weight_quantizer used during calibration/fake-quant. That means the exported experts are quantized on a different axis than the model was calibrated for, and out % 256 != 0 would raise from validate_weight even when in is a valid multiple. Please pack before the transpose (and re-pack/reshape into the HF layout), or document why the output-dim grouping is correct here. Same applies to _pack_name_remapping_gpt_oss, where the gate/up interleave also happens on that last dim before packing.
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Fixed in f2d3a83 by packing each expert before any layout transpose. For GPT-OSS, gate/up interleaving happens on the logical output rows before packing, then the CPU payloads are stacked. Exact-byte tests cover both expert paths.
| # (pre_quant_scale is the AWQ / NVFP4_AWQ / SVDQuant companion, renamed in the KV-cache pass.) | ||
| weight_suffixes = ( | ||
| "weight", | ||
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_BASE_SKIP_KEYS already contains "weight_shape", so any key containing it is dropped before the tied-weight dedup runs and can never appear in post_state_dict — the members filter if ak in post_state_dict makes this entry dead. IQ export also discards the logical-shape tensor (packed_weight, _ = quantize_iq(...)), which the new test asserts. Suggest removing this line.
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Removed in f2d3a83. IQ export does not emit a separate weight_shape tensor, so the tied-weight suffix entry was dead.
| "group_size": block_size_value, | ||
| } | ||
| elif v in (QUANTIZATION_IQ1_S, QUANTIZATION_IQ2_XS): | ||
| payload_bytes = 50 if v == QUANTIZATION_IQ1_S else 74 |
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50 / 74 / 256 are re-derived here, again in convert_hf_config._quant_algo_to_group_config, and again in the docs. modelopt.torch.quantization.ggml already exports IQ1_S_BLOCK_BYTES, IQ2_XS_BLOCK_BYTES, IQ1_S_EFFECTIVE_BITS, IQ2_XS_EFFECTIVE_BITS and GGML_BLOCK_SIZE — importing them keeps the metadata in sync with the codec if a payload layout ever changes. Also note group_size is hardcoded to 256 here while the sibling branches use block_size_value from the recorded awq_block_size; asserting they agree would catch a misconfigured quantizer.
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Fixed in f2d3a83. Export metadata now imports the per-format block-byte, block-size, and effective-bit constants from the codec package. It also verifies that the recorded block size matches the format constant, with a mismatch regression test.
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To address the failing checks:
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| quantization_format = self._get_quantization_format(self.model) | ||
| if ( | ||
| quantization_format in (QUANTIZATION_IQ1_S, QUANTIZATION_IQ2_XS) | ||
| and get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size() != 1 | ||
| ): | ||
| raise NotImplementedError( | ||
| "Megatron IQ1_S/IQ2_XS unified export currently requires tensor model " | ||
| "parallel size 1" | ||
| ) |
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[IMPORTANT ModeState] This rejection is derived from local module inspection, so it can fire on some ranks and not others — turning a clean error into a collective hang.
_get_quantization_format(self.model) returns the first non-None format found in the rank-local model. That is not guaranteed to be rank-uniform:
- PP > 1 where one stage holds no quantized linear (layer-range recipes / "keep the first dense block in BF16") → that stage gets
None/QUANTIZATION_NONEand skips the guard. - A genuinely mixed model (e.g. FP8 attention + IQ experts) where the first hit on one stage is
fp8and on another isiq1_s.
In those cases the IQ ranks raise NotImplementedError and exit save_pretrained, while the non-IQ ranks continue into self._gather_exclude_modules() (all_gather_object, line 393) and torch.distributed.barrier() (line 442) and block until the NCCL timeout. Worse, the rank that skipped the guard silently writes TP-sharded IQ payloads for its own IQ modules.
This file already documents the convention for exactly this hazard (lines 462-467: "this is public API, and a lone raise would leave peers hanging in the next collective instead of surfacing the error") and provides the helpers for it (_gather_exclude_modules, _gather_layer_config_dict, _gather_kv_cache_dtype).
Suggested fix — make the decision global before raising, e.g.:
local_is_iq = torch.tensor(
[quantization_format in (QUANTIZATION_IQ1_S, QUANTIZATION_IQ2_XS)],
dtype=torch.uint8,
device=torch.cuda.current_device(),
)
if torch.distributed.is_initialized():
torch.distributed.all_reduce(local_is_iq, op=torch.distributed.ReduceOp.MAX)
if local_is_iq.item() and get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size() != 1:
raise NotImplementedError(
"Megatron IQ1_S/IQ2_XS unified export currently requires tensor model parallel size 1"
)The same reasoning applies to _reject_unsupported_fused_iq_export: it raises from inside _get_state_dict() only on ranks that own a fused-expert module, so a PP stage with no MoE layer keeps going into the next collective. Either share that flag too, or hoist the fused-MoE check next to this TP check so both rejections happen once, uniformly, before any collective.
| elif quant_algo in ("IQ1_S", "IQ2_XS"): | ||
| if quant_algo == "IQ1_S": | ||
| block_size = IQ1_S_BLOCK_SIZE | ||
| payload_bytes = IQ1_S_BLOCK_BYTES | ||
| effective_bits = IQ1_S_EFFECTIVE_BITS | ||
| else: | ||
| block_size = IQ2_XS_BLOCK_SIZE | ||
| payload_bytes = IQ2_XS_BLOCK_BYTES | ||
| effective_bits = IQ2_XS_EFFECTIVE_BITS | ||
| if group_size not in (None, block_size): | ||
| raise ValueError(f"{quant_algo} requires group size {block_size}, got {group_size}") | ||
| # IQ payloads are self-contained blocks, not compressed-tensors integer groups. | ||
| # Keep their format marker outside a ``weights`` quantization scheme. | ||
| return { | ||
| "quant_algo": quant_algo, | ||
| "effective_bits": effective_bits, | ||
| "group_size": block_size, | ||
| "packing": "ggml", | ||
| "block_payload_bytes": payload_bytes, | ||
| } |
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[SUGGESTION] Two things about this block, both about keeping one source of truth for the IQ block contract.
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Duplicated metadata table. This exact derivation (block size / payload bytes / effective bits, plus the
packing: "ggml"marker) is repeated verbatim inquant_utils.process_layer_quant_config(lines 740-759), and the two copies already validate differently: heregroup_size in (None, block_size)is accepted, thereblock_size_value != block_sizeraises (so a missingawq_block_size→0is a hard error). Adding a third IQ format, or changingIQ2_XS_BLOCK_BYTES, means touching both. A single helper next to the format constants (e.g.iq_block_metadata(quant_algo) -> dictinquant_format.py) would remove the drift risk, per CONTRIBUTING's "don't repeat yourself; keep a single source of truth". The same applies to the membership testin (QUANTIZATION_IQ1_S, QUANTIZATION_IQ2_XS), which is now spelled out ~10 times acrossquant_utils.py,unified_export_hf.py, andunified_export_megatron.py— a module-levelIQ_FORMATS = frozenset({...})alongsideFUSION_FREE_FORMATSwould make a future IQ3 a one-line change. -
Two different config shapes for the same information. For a uniform IQ export these keys land at the root of
quantization_config(line 242-244), which is whatdocs/source/deployment/3_unified_hf.rstdocuments. ForMIXED_PRECISIONthe same dict goes through line 286-288 and ends up insideconfig_groups["group_N"](withtargetsappended) — the shape asserted bytest_mixed_iq_config_group_does_not_claim_integer_weight_schema. A loader written against the new docs will look for root-levelpacking/block_payload_bytesand find nothing for a mixed export. Given this PR deliberately rejects layouts that no deployment loader owns yet (fused-MoE), consider either documenting the mixed-precision placement in the same doc section, or rejecting IQ insideMIXED_PRECISIONuntil a loader exists.
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| def _pack_iq_weight(weight: torch.Tensor, qformat: str) -> torch.Tensor: | ||
| """Pack one ``[out, in]`` weight and return its CPU payload.""" | ||
| quantize_iq = quantize_iq1_s if qformat == QUANTIZATION_IQ1_S else quantize_iq2_xs | ||
| packed_weight, _ = quantize_iq(weight) | ||
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| cls, weight_key: str, weight: torch.Tensor, qformat: str | ||
| ) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]: | ||
| """Pack one ``[out, in]`` weight into the IQ checkpoint representation.""" | ||
| return {weight_key: cls._pack_iq_weight(weight, qformat)} |
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[SUGGESTION] _get_iq_weight_state is a one-key-dict wrapper around _pack_iq_weight, and every one of its six call sites immediately unwraps it with self._state_dict.update(...) / local_expert_state.update(...). The dict round-trip hides what is really a single assignment:
self._state_dict.update(self._get_iq_weight_state(prefix + "weight", weight, qformat))
# vs.
self._state_dict[prefix + "weight"] = self._pack_iq_weight(weight, qformat)Dropping _get_iq_weight_state and calling _pack_iq_weight directly removes a level of indirection and makes the assignment target obvious at each site (CONTRIBUTING: "hide lower-level details behind well-named helpers" — but this layer adds a name, not information). Both docstrings also claim the same thing ("Pack one [out, in] weight"), which is a hint that only one helper is needed.
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Claude review — IQ export (HF + Megatron)
Scope: full review (trigger comment had no extra scoping). 9 changed files (+567/−11); reviewed all 5 modelopt/torch/export/ files hunk-by-hunk plus surrounding context, the deployment doc, and the three test files. Also cross-read the dependency PRs' public surface (#2446 modelopt/torch/quantization/ggml) to verify the packing API contract, and traced every caller of the touched helpers (_get_quantized_state — all 7 call sites, _export_quantized_weight — including the streaming, layerwise, and fused-MoE handler paths, FUSION_FREE_FORMATS, process_layer_quant_config).
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CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 1 · SUGGESTION: 3
| # | Severity | Location | Issue |
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| 1 | IMPORTANT ModeState | unified_export_megatron.py:319-327 (and _reject_unsupported_fused_iq_export) |
IQ rejections are derived from rank-local module inspection, so they can raise on some ranks only → peers hang in the next collective instead of getting a clean error |
| 2 | SUGGESTION | convert_hf_config.py:130-149 |
IQ block-metadata table duplicated in quant_utils.process_layer_quant_config with divergent validation; IQ format membership spelled out ~10× across 3 files; mixed-precision IQ emits a config shape the new doc does not describe |
| 3 | SUGGESTION | unified_export_megatron.py:1158-1170 |
_get_iq_weight_state is a one-key-dict wrapper that all 6 call sites immediately unwrap |
Most impactful
Finding 1 is the only blocking one. Everything else in the export dataflow checks out:
- Coverage of the packing path is complete. All seven
_get_quantized_stateconsumers in the Megatron exporter now branch on IQ (dense_name_remapping, gated MLP, grouped MLP expert shards, QKV, gated-delta-net, and both fused-expert entry points, which reject). No path silently writes an unpacked BF16 weight under anIQ*quant_algo. - HF paths agree. In-memory, streaming/offload (
hf_export_handlers→_export_quantized_weight), layerwise (layerwise_export.export_layer→ same handler) and fused-MoE (moe_utilssplits the 3-D params into per-expert 2-D wrappers before packing) all produce the documented[*logical[:-1], logical[-1] // 256, payload_bytes]uint8payload — i.e. the HF side never emits the 4-D fused layout that the Megatron side rejects, so the stated deployment boundary holds on both. - Shape contract is recoverable. Discarding the returned
weight_shapemetadata (packed_weight, _ = quantize_iq(...)) is safe becausevalidate_weightforbids a non-multiple-of-256 last dim, sopacked.shape[-2] * 256reconstructs it exactly — matching the doc and the tests. FUSION_FREE_FORMATS,keep_weight_device, and metadata plumbing are consistent. IQ is scale-free, so skipping resmooth/amax fusion is right; keeping the weight on-device until packing is what lets the CUDA packer run;awq_block_sizeis recorded unconditionally, soprocess_layer_quant_config's strict== 256check will not spuriously fire for the recipes in #2449 (block_sizes: {-1: 256}).- The IQ2_XS block description added to
3_unified_hf.rst(2-byte FP16d, 32 ×uint16with 9-bit grid index + 7 stored sign bits and parity-derived 8th, 8 bytes of 4-bit local scales, 512×8 codebook, 2.3125 bpw) matches the GGMLblock_iq2_xslayout.
Risk
Low-to-moderate. The change is additive and gated: every unsupported layout raises rather than silently mis-exporting, and the round-trip tests compare against weight_quantizer(weight) rather than just asserting shapes. The residual risk is the distributed one in finding 1, which only surfaces on multi-rank Megatron exports where the IQ format is not rank-uniform, and manifests as a hang rather than a wrong checkpoint.
One process note, not a code finding: modelopt/torch/quantization/ggml does not exist on this branch (it lands in #2446), so import modelopt.torch.export fails here and this PR's own tests cannot pass until the stated merge order (#2448 → #2446 → #2447) is respected. Worth re-running the 89 focused tests on a branch with #2446 applied before merge.
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## Summary - add native CUDA packing kernels for IQ1_S and IQ2_XS - load both extensions through the quantization extension module - validate caller metadata and launch bounds before contiguous materialization - normalize non-finite input elements consistently with the Python reference path - accept caller-computed IQ2_XS FP16 superblock scales to avoid a duplicate reduction - share common packing helpers and add direct extension compilation and boundary tests ## PR split This work is split into four focused PRs. Each PR targets `main` and owns a disjoint file set: 1. **Kernel** — [#2448: Add CUDA kernels for IQ packing](#2448) 2. **Quantization** — [#2446: Add IQ quantization codecs and backend](#2446) 3. **Export** — [#2447: Export IQ checkpoints from HF and Megatron](#2447) 4. **Recipes** — [#2449: Add IQ post-training quantization recipes](#2449) The required merge order is #2448, #2446, #2447, then #2449. ## Scope This PR owns only native kernel sources, shared packing helpers, extension loading and build registration, and direct extension tests. It does not contain Python codecs, export code, or recipes. ## GPU test coverage Direct kernel-boundary coverage is included in this PR: - [extension compilation, zero payloads, input validation, and row-alignment checks](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/74e94db9601870e3569c7c8e73506a2f08c29da8/tests/gpu/_extensions/test_torch_extensions.py) Pack/dequantize numerical, native/reference byte-parity, and non-finite-policy tests are owned by the quantization PR: [IQ1_S](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/e8d937081d8cd01cf8e44d43915df443b79deb17/tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq1_s_cuda.py) and [IQ2_XS](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/e8d937081d8cd01cf8e44d43915df443b79deb17/tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq2_xs_cuda.py). ## Dependency behavior On `main`, this PR provides optional CUDA extension loaders and direct extension tests. The Python encoders and fallback dispatch land in #2446. Until #2446 lands, no quantization path calls these getters, so a load failure reports only that the extension is unavailable. The IQ2_XS packer accepts one caller-computed FP16 scale per 256-value block. #2446 owns that predictor and passes the same values to the native and reference encoders. ## Provenance - The CUDA kernels were independently written. - They implement the packed-format contract and sign-parity convention from the pinned [llama.cpp definition](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/9b05354ec6fb58b4e665e9a39ebc40285c015638/ggml/src/ggml-common.h). - `16.875 = 15 × (1 + 1/8)` is a derived IQ1_S constant. - `0.125` is part of the encoded format. - `0.61` is our empirical IQ1_S scale predictor, not copied from upstream code. - The IQ2_XS predictor constants are owned by #2446 and are not duplicated in this kernel. Human review is still required to confirm that the attribution and license treatment are sufficient. ## Validation - repository hooks, including native formatting, pass for all changed files - extension loader and test modules compile as Python - all 20 direct-extension and CUDA integration test cases collect locally - CUDA runtime execution is delegated to GPU CI because the local host is macOS - restricted-term scan passes --------- Signed-off-by: Hung-Yueh Chiang <hungyuehc@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/quant_utils.py`:
- Around line 29-36: Add a runtime provider for the exact
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| from modelopt.torch.quantization.ggml import ( | ||
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| IQ1_S_BLOCK_SIZE, | ||
| IQ1_S_EFFECTIVE_BITS, | ||
| IQ2_XS_BLOCK_BYTES, | ||
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Add the provider for modelopt.torch.quantization.ggml. The checkout contains no such package, and pyproject.toml declares no runtime dependency that provides it. modelopt.torch.export.__init__ imports convert_hf_config, which imports this module at module scope. Therefore, importing modelopt.torch.export fails before the HF and Megatron entrypoints load. Those entrypoints also import the IQ functions at module scope, so the failure occurs before IQ export is invoked.
Add the provider for the exact modelopt.torch.quantization.ggml module to the base runtime dependencies, or include that package in this distribution. This shared correction covers quant_utils.py, convert_hf_config.py, unified_export_hf.py, and unified_export_megatron.py.
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### What does this PR do? Type of change: Code refactoring `#2448` added the GGML IQ packing kernels as **two** torch extensions, `modelopt_cuda_ext_iq1_s` and `modelopt_cuda_ext_iq2_xs`. This merges them into one, `modelopt_cuda_ext_ggml`. The existing per-extension split in `extensions.py` exists for reasons that don't apply to the IQ formats: `get_cuda_ext` gates on CUDA `>=11` while `_fp8`/`_mx` gate on `>=11.8`, and `_mx` needs `--use_fast_math`, which must not reach the base `tensor_quant` kernels. `get_cuda_ext_iq1_s` and `get_cuda_ext_iq2_xs` differed in none of that — same `>=11.8` gate, same `-O3` flags, same `common.cuh` — so the split only compiled the shared header twice, ran nvcc twice, and grew the loader, `__getattr__`, and `precompile()` once per format. With IQ2_XXS / IQ3_S / IQ4_NL plausibly following, that scales badly. Changes: - New `ggml/ggml.cpp` holds both host-side validation wrappers and the single `PYBIND11_MODULE`, binding `iq1_s_pack` and `iq2_xs_pack` (previously each module exported a bare `pack`). Deletes `ggml/iq1_s.cpp` and `ggml/iq2_xs.cpp`; the validation logic and docstrings carry over unchanged. - `get_cuda_ext_iq1_s` + `get_cuda_ext_iq2_xs` → `get_cuda_ext_ggml`, which builds `ggml.cpp`, `iq1_s.cu`, and `iq2_xs.cu` together. The retry-on-`raise_if_failed` semantics of the old getters are preserved. - Each format keeps its kernels in its own translation unit, so adding a format is a new `.cu` plus one `module.def` — no new extension, loader, or `precompile()` line. No caller outside `extensions.py` and its tests referenced the old getters on `main`, so nothing else changes. **Note for the follow-up PRs in the `#2448` series (`#2446`/`#2447`/`#2449`): the codec layer should call `get_cuda_ext_ggml().iq1_s_pack(...)` / `.iq2_xs_pack(...)` instead of `get_cuda_ext_iq1_s().pack(...)` / `get_cuda_ext_iq2_xs().pack(...)`.** ### Usage ```python from modelopt.torch.quantization.extensions import get_cuda_ext_ggml ext = get_cuda_ext_ggml(raise_if_failed=True) iq1_s_payload = ext.iq1_s_pack(weight, iq1s_grid) # uint8 [numel / 256, 50] iq2_xs_payload = ext.iq2_xs_pack(weight, iq2xs_grid, scales) # uint8 [numel / 256, 74] ``` ### Testing Ran on a single H200 NVL (TRT-LLM `1.3.0rc27.dev202609170000` container), building the merged extension from scratch: - `pytest tests/gpu/_extensions/test_torch_extensions.py` — **24 passed** (6:44). This is the full existing IQ suite (zero-block layout, encode, dtype rejection, row-straddling rejection, invalid/negative-zero scales, byte-exact dtype equivalence, and the brute-force optimality round-trip) reparametrized onto the merged module, plus the untouched `modelopt_cuda_ext` / `_fp8` / `_mx` load tests. - Verified `precompile()` loads all four extensions and that the merged module exports exactly `iq1_s_pack` and `iq2_xs_pack` with the expected arities. - Off-GPU: compiled the three sources directly and linked them into one `.so` to confirm no duplicate-symbol collisions between the two `.cu` translation units. - `pre-commit run --files ...` passes on all changed files (ruff, mypy, clang-format, bandit, license headers). ### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*" - Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ — the removed getters were added in `#2448` (merged today, unreleased) and have no callers outside this file's own tests. - If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A — no new code or dependencies; the moved wrappers keep their original attribution. - Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ — existing coverage reparametrized onto the merged module; no behavior change to test. - Did you update [Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?: N/A — internal refactor of an unreleased, not-yet-wired-up API. - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ — not yet run. ### Additional Information Follow-up to #2448. Merge before the remaining PRs in that series (#2446, #2447, #2449) land, so the codec layer is written against `get_cuda_ext_ggml` and no rename is needed afterwards. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Added IQ1_S packing support through the GGML CUDA extension. - Added a unified GGML extension loader for IQ1_S and IQ2_XS packing. - Improved extension loading reliability when a cached extension is unavailable. - **Changes** - Renamed the IQ2_XS packing binding from `pack` to `iq2_xs_pack`. - Consolidated IQ1_S and IQ2_XS extension access under the shared GGML loader. - Updated GPU validation and coverage to use the unified extension interface. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
## Summary - add IQ1_S and IQ2_XS reference codecs and a weight-only fake-quant backend - register and export both formats from the quantization package - cache compact packed weights across unchanged forwards and invalidate on tensor or config changes - use one Python-side IQ2_XS FP16 scale predictor for both reference and CUDA packing - validate packed payload metadata, normalize CUDA cache keys, and define a shared non-finite policy ## PR split This work is split into four focused PRs. Each PR targets `main` and owns a disjoint file set: 1. **Kernel** — [#2448: Add CUDA kernels for IQ packing](#2448) 2. **Quantization** — [#2446: Add IQ quantization codecs and backend](#2446) 3. **Export** — [#2447: Export IQ checkpoints from HF and Megatron](#2447) 4. **Recipes** — [#2449: Add IQ post-training quantization recipes](#2449) The required merge order is #2448, #2446, #2447, then #2449. ## Scope This PR owns the Python codecs, backend dispatch, package registration, license attribution, CPU codec/backend tests, and CUDA numerical/reference-path tests. The native CUDA layer and direct extension tests remain in #2448; export and recipes remain in their own PRs. ## Why the codecs are separate from `qtensor` The new `ggml/` package contains stateless reference codecs and fake-quant backend functions. They transform ordinary tensors into packed format payloads and reconstruct tensors for fake quantization; they do not define persistent runtime quantized-tensor objects. `BaseQuantizedTensor` subclasses under `qtensor/` own runtime tensor objects and execution dispatch. Keeping the codecs separate avoids claiming a runtime tensor contract that these formats do not yet provide. A `qtensor` type can be added later if a runtime execution path requires one. ## Compatibility boundary The Python encoders intentionally use fixed-scale, unweighted searches. They are not intended to reproduce another encoder's bytes for every input when that encoder performs iterative scale refinement or importance weighting. Compatibility is defined by the canonical codebooks, 50/74-byte payload layouts, and pinned dequantization formulas. IQ2_XS computes the FP16 superblock scale once in the Python predictor and passes it to the CUDA packer. This removes a duplicate floating-point reduction and makes native/reference byte parity use the same scale. Non-finite input elements are treated as zero during packing in both implementations. The unit tests construct nonzero payload fields independently and validate metadata, signs, local scales, and global scales. The CUDA tests compare native packed bytes with this Python reference encoder. ## Test coverage - [IQ1_S CPU codec tests](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/e8d937081d8cd01cf8e44d43915df443b79deb17/tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_iq1_s.py) - [IQ2_XS CPU codec tests](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/e8d937081d8cd01cf8e44d43915df443b79deb17/tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_iq2_xs.py) - [registered backend and cache tests](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/e8d937081d8cd01cf8e44d43915df443b79deb17/tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_backend.py) - [IQ1_S CUDA byte-parity, numerical, non-finite, zero-payload, and fallback tests](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/e8d937081d8cd01cf8e44d43915df443b79deb17/tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq1_s_cuda.py) - [IQ2_XS CUDA byte-parity, numerical, non-finite, zero-payload, underflow, and fallback tests](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/e8d937081d8cd01cf8e44d43915df443b79deb17/tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq2_xs_cuda.py) ## Licensing The embedded codebook data cites the pinned upstream MIT source, carries its license notice, and uses the repository's third-party license mechanism. Human OSRB/code-owner confirmation is still required; this PR does not claim that approval. ## Validation - focused lint, format, and type checks pass for all changed Python files - 36 focused CPU codec and backend tests pass locally - all 20 direct-extension and CUDA integration test cases collect locally; runtime CUDA execution remains delegated to GPU CI - restricted-term scan passes <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Added GGML quantization support for IQ1_S and IQ2_XS formats. - Added quantization, dequantization, and fake-quantization workflows with pass-through gradients. - Added CPU fallback when CUDA acceleration is unavailable. - Added validation for packed weights, tensor shapes, formats, and backend options. - Added configurable chunk processing and caching for repeated quantization. - **Tests** - Added comprehensive CPU and CUDA coverage for accuracy, validation, caching, fallback behavior, and edge cases. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: Hung-Yueh Chiang <hungyuehc@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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unified_export_megatron.py:319:_get_quantization_format(self.model)returns only the first non-NONEformat, so a mixed-format model whose IQ layers come after e.g. an FP8 layer bypasses it and packs TP-sharded weights. Scan per-layer formats, or state why mixed IQ cannot occur. - Reject an enabled
input_quantizer/_pre_quant_scalein the IQ branch of_get_quantization_from_layer(quant_utils.py:488); both export paths return beforeinput_scalecollection and the existingpre_quant_scaleguard, so W-IQ + A-FP8 exports silently as weight-only. - Forward the caller's
group_sizeinto_quant_algo_to_group_configatconvert_hf_config.py:242so an invalid value raises instead of being rewritten to 256; add a test alongsidetest_iq_quantization_config_rejects_mismatched_block_size. - Reword the
IQ1_S/IQ2_XSbullets in3_unified_hf.rst:53— "importance-aware" implies imatrix support these encoders do not have.
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Two of these let a wrong checkpoint out the door silently, which is the worst failure shape for a format nothing downstream validates. **TP>1 guard could be bypassed.** The Megatron guard keyed on ``_get_quantization_format(self.model)``, which by its own docstring returns only the first non-NONE format in the tree. A mixed-format model whose IQ layers follow, say, an FP8 one slipped past and packed TP-sharded weights as if they were whole. Add ``uses_iq_quantization``, which scans every layer, and guard on that. It reads ``num_bits`` directly rather than resolving each layer's full format, so an unrelated unsupported quantizer elsewhere in the model cannot turn the guard into an error. **W-IQ + A-FP8 exported as weight-only.** The IQ branch of ``_get_quantization_from_layer`` returned as soon as it validated the backend, while the neighbouring INT8 branch consults ``input_quantizer`` to tell SQ from WO. Both exporters then return before ``input_scale`` collection and before the ``pre_quant_scale`` handling, so an enabled activation quantizer vanished without a trace. Reject it instead; the GGML block payload has nowhere to put an activation scale. **group_size was not forwarded.** ``_quant_algo_to_group_config`` already validates it, and a test already covered that, but the top-level IQ branch in ``convert_hf_config`` called it without one, so a mismatched value was rewritten to the block size rather than rejected. The MIXED_PRECISION branch beside it was already correct. **Docs overstated the encoders.** "importance-aware" implies imatrix support these encoders do not have -- they neither refine the scale iteratively nor weight by importance, unlike upstream ``quantize_row_iq1_s_impl``. Call it codebook quantization. Four tests added. The two behavioural ones were mutation-checked: each fails with its fix reverted. That caught a first attempt at the group_size test which passed either way, because it exercised the MIXED_PRECISION path instead of the branch actually changed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Commenting: all four items from the last round are fixed, but the new uses_iq_quantization helper reads num_bits off a quantizer that may be a SequentialQuantizer, which has no such attribute.
Needs action:
- Unwrap
SequentialQuantizer(or usegetattr(..., "num_bits", None)) inuses_iq_quantization(quant_utils.py:468) —save_pretrainednow calls it on every Megatron export, so a W4A8_AWQ model raisesAttributeErrorbefore any format dispatch. See inline. - Add a non-IQ
SequentialQuantizercase totest_uses_iq_quantization_false_without_iq_layers; the current coverage is FP8/IQTensorQuantizeronly. - Confirm or fix rank-uniformity of the new guard (
unified_export_megatron.py:321):uses_iq_quantization(self.model)is rank-local, so a PP stage with no IQ layer skips the raise and blocks in_gather_exclude_modules()while its peers exit. Checking TP size first, or all-reducing the flag, closes it.
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- ✔️ Resolved since the last review: the TP>1 mixed-format bypass, the W-IQ + enabled-activation-quantizer silent weight-only export (plus
pre_quant_scale),group_sizeforwarding atconvert_hf_config.py:242with a test, and the "importance-aware" wording in3_unified_hf.rst.
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representative_weight_quantizer can return a SequentialQuantizer (W4A8_AWQ), and that class only delegates fake_quant / is_enabled / amax to its members — num_bits falls through to nn.Module.__getattr__ and raises AttributeError. is_enabled delegates to self[0], so the and chain does reach .num_bits for an enabled sequential quantizer.
This is now on the unconditional path: save_pretrained calls uses_iq_quantization(self.model) for every Megatron export, and W4A8_AWQ is otherwise supported there (process_layer_quant_config has a w4a8_awq branch, to_quantized_weight packs it). So a W4A8_AWQ Megatron export that works today would fail with an unrelated AttributeError.
The sibling helper in this file already handles it (get_weight_block_size: if isinstance(weight_quantizer, SequentialQuantizer): weight_quantizer = weight_quantizer[0]). Mirroring that, or getattr(weight_quantizer, "num_bits", None) in (...), is enough — IQ is never a sequential format, so either reads as "not IQ". Worth a regression test with a W4A8-style config alongside test_uses_iq_quantization_false_without_iq_layers.
…nk-uniform The helper added in the previous commit read ``weight_quantizer.num_bits`` directly. A ``SequentialQuantizer`` has ``is_enabled`` but no ``num_bits``, so this raised ``AttributeError`` on any W4A8_AWQ model -- and since ``save_pretrained`` calls the guard on every Megatron export, it raised before any format dispatch. A regression introduced by 106686d; read the attribute defensively instead. A SequentialQuantizer is never IQ, which is a single quantizer with backend="ggml", so ``None`` is the right answer for it. The guard was also rank-local, as it was before 106686d: under pipeline parallelism a stage holding no IQ layer skipped the raise and then blocked in ``_gather_exclude_modules`` while its peers exited -- a hang rather than a clean error, the same failure shape ``_check_weight_quantization_took_effect`` already warns about. Agree across ranks first via ``all_gather_object``, mirroring ``_gather_exclude_modules``, including its ``is_initialized`` guard for single-process export. Tests: a SequentialQuantizer case, mutation-checked -- with the defensive read reverted it fails with the exact AttributeError above. 30 tests in test_get_quantization.py, 246 across the export and ggml unit suites. The rank-agreement path is not covered here: it needs Megatron and more than one rank, neither available in this environment. ``_reject_unsupported_fused_iq_export`` still raises from rank-local inspection and has the same hazard; left alone as it is outside this round's findings. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Nudge: all three items from the last round are fixed, but the fused-MoE rejection still has the rank-divergence problem the author just solved for the TP guard.
Needs action:
- Make
_reject_unsupported_fused_iq_exportrank-uniform inunified_export_megatron.py: it raises from inside the per-expert loop, so a PP stage (or EP rank) owning no fused expert skips the raise and blocks in_gather_exclude_modules()while peers exit. Reuse the_any_rank_uses_iq_quantization()pattern, or hoist it next to the TP guard. - Confirm
save_pretrainedis entered by every rank before the new unconditionalall_gather_objectin_any_rank_uses_iq_quantization()— it now runs on every Megatron export, IQ or not. - Report GPU/Megatron CI green on the rebased branch, and confirm the #2448 → #2446 → this merge order now that
quantization/ggml/is onmain.
No action needed:
- ✔️ Resolved since the last review: the
SequentialQuantizerAttributeErrorinuses_iq_quantization(nowgetattr(..., "num_bits", None)), its regression test, the rank-local TP>1 guard,group_sizeforwarding inconvert_hf_config.py, and the "importance-aware" doc wording.
_reject_unsupported_fused_iq_export raises from inside the two per-expert loops, so a pipeline stage or EP rank owning no fused expert skipped it and then blocked in the collectives in save_pretrained while its peers exited -- the same divergence just fixed for the TP>1 guard, one layer down. Decide it up front instead. Whether experts are packed into one fused tensor is a property of the architecture's export rule table, not of which layers a rank happens to own, so it is identical everywhere: pair it with the already rank-agreed IQ flag and raise beside the TP check. The in-loop rejection stays as a backstop for paths that do not enter save_pretrained. The predicate is a module-level pure function over a mapping dict rather than a method, so it is testable without Megatron or a second rank -- four parametrized cases plus a non-CustomModuleMapping entry. Also confirmed, no change needed: save_pretrained has no early return before the all_gather_object added in 070baa5, and already contained _gather_exclude_modules, _gather_layer_config_dict, three barriers and an all_gather_object, one of which carries a comment about stranding peers. It already required every rank to enter; this adds no new constraint, it only moves the first collective earlier. 35 tests in test_get_quantization.py, 251 across the export and ggml unit suites. The rank-agreement path itself remains uncovered here: it needs Megatron and more than one rank. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Nudge: the rank-divergence fix from the last round landed cleanly, but the fused-expert guard is now broader than the problem it solves and CI/merge order still needs confirming.
Needs action:
- Confirm the over-rejection in
save_pretrainedis intended:_mappings_pack_fused_experts(all_mcore_hf_export_mapping[self.arch])keys off the architecture's rule table, so an IQ dense-layer export on any fused-expert arch (Llama4, GPT-OSS) raises even when the experts themselves are BF16/FP8. Narrow it to the experts' own format, or say why mixed IQ+fused cannot occur. - Add a test that
save_pretrainedraises the fused-MoENotImplementedError— only_mappings_pack_fused_expertsand the per-expert_reject_unsupported_fused_iq_exportpaths are covered today. - Report GPU/Megatron CI green on the rebased branch and confirm the #2448 → #2446 → this merge order.
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- ✔️ Resolved since the last review: the rank-divergent fused-MoE rejection (now hoisted next to the TP=1 guard on the rank-uniform rule table, with unit tests), and the
_any_rank_uses_iq_quantization()all_gather —save_pretrainedalready runs unconditional barriers/all-gathers, so every rank must enter it. - ggml/llama.cpp OSRB sign-off sits in #2446, outside this file set.
a232c1a hoisted the fused-MoE rejection beside the TP guard to make it rank-uniform, keying it off the architecture's export rule table. That is the wrong key: the table says whether an architecture *has* fused experts, not whether *those experts* are IQ. So an IQ dense-layer export whose experts are BF16 or FP8 was rejected outright on every fused architecture -- measured, that is GptOssForCausalLM and Llama4ForConditionalGeneration, exactly the two the review named. Blocking a working configuration is worse than the hang it was meant to prevent, which only affects a configuration that is unsupported anyway. Restore the per-expert rejection as the sole mechanism. It is precise: it fires on the expert's own qformat. It is still rank-local, so the divergence the previous round asked about remains open, and the docstring now records both the hazard and why the architecture rule table cannot close it -- a correct fix needs a rank-uniform way to know the experts themselves are IQ, which means resolving the fused rule keys against the local model rather than reading a static table. I do not have a way to test that here: it needs Megatron and more than one rank, and my two attempts at closing it from static information have each traded one failure mode for another. Worth the author's judgement on whether mixed IQ + fused-expert models can occur at all, which would settle it without any detection. 30 tests in test_get_quantization.py, 246 across the export and ggml unit suites. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Nudge: the fused-expert over-rejection is gone, but moving the guard back into the per-expert loop re-opens the rank-divergence hang the previous round had closed.
Needs action:
- 💬 Author reverted to a per-expert
_reject_unsupported_fused_iq_exportand documented why the arch rule table alone can't gate it — still needs rank-uniformity: an EP/PP rank owning no fused expert never enters the loop, skips the raise, and blocks in_gather_exclude_modules()while peers exit. Gate on the rank-uniformuse_packed_local_experts/pack_name_remapping*rule AND anall_gathered "experts are IQ" flag (the_any_rank_uses_iq_quantization()pattern), or state in the PR body that the hang is acceptable. - Report GPU/Megatron CI green on the rebased branch and confirm the #2448 → #2446 → this merge order.
No action needed:
- ✔️ Resolved since the last review: IQ dense-layer export on fused-expert architectures (Llama4/GPT-OSS) is no longer rejected, the guard now keys off the experts' own format, and both fused entry points are covered by tests asserting
_state_dict == {}. The earlier ask for asave_pretrained-level fused-MoE test is moot now that the check no longer lives there. - ggml/llama.cpp OSRB sign-off sits in #2446, outside this file set.
…iform The fused-MoE rejection raises from inside the per-expert loops, so it only runs on ranks that own an expert -- a stage without one skipped it and blocked in save_pretrained's collectives while its peers exited. My two attempts at detecting the condition up front each traded that hang for a worse problem, the second rejecting IQ dense exports on every fused architecture. Constrain the topology instead. IQ export already required TP=1; require PP=1 as well. Both sizes are identical on every rank and the IQ flag is already agreed across them, so these raise everywhere or nowhere. With PP=1 every rank holds the same layers and reaches the same loops, and expert parallelism shards a set of experts quantized alike, so the per-expert rejection fires on all ranks together. No detection needed, and nothing over-rejected. The residual gap is a rank holding no local expert at all, which needs expert-parallel size to exceed the expert count; recorded in the docstring rather than guarded, since no supported topology reaches it. TP=1 was already load-bearing for correctness, not just uniformity: packing happens during export, so a tensor-parallel shard would be packed as if it were a whole weight. The deployment doc now states both constraints. 246 tests across the export and ggml unit suites. The guards themselves stay uncovered here -- they need Megatron and more than one rank. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Nudge: last round's fused-expert rank-divergence hang is properly closed by the new rank-uniform PP=1/TP=1 guards, but the guard's detector looks blind to grouped-MoE quantizers.
Needs action:
- Confirm or fix
uses_iq_quantizationinquant_utils.pyforTEGroupedLinear: it iteratesweight_attr_names, which yields nothing for a module carryingweight0..Nplus aGroupedQuantizer, so an experts-only IQ model returnsFalseand TP>1 is never rejected. See inline. - Add a test for the new PP>1
NotImplementedErrorintests/gpu_megatron/torch/export/test_unified_export_megatron.py; onlytest_megatron_iq_export_rejects_tensor_parallelismcovers the TP branch. - Report GPU/Megatron CI green on the rebased branch and confirm the #2448 → #2446 → this merge order now that
quantization/ggml/is onmain.
No action needed:
- ✔️ Resolved since the last review: the fused-MoE rank divergence —
_any_rank_uses_iq_quantization()now decides TP=1 and the new PP=1 requirement uniformly before any collective, and the residualep_size > num_expertscase is documented in_reject_unsupported_fused_iq_export.
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This walk may not see grouped-MoE experts. weight_attr_names(module) yields "weight" only when module.weight is not None, and for other names only when representative_weight_quantizer(module, name) finds <name>_weight_quantizer. A TEGroupedLinear normally has no weight attribute (_grouped_mlp_slicing does has_weight = hasattr(module, "weight") and later delattrs the one it temporarily assigns) and holds weight0..weightN with a single weight_quantizer that is a GroupedQuantizer — so weight_attr_names yields nothing here, and the recursion into weight_quantizer / its child TensorQuantizers has no weight either.
Net effect: a model whose IQ quantizers live only on grouped MoE experts (an expert-only recipe is a plausible shape for 1–2 bit formats) returns False, save_pretrained skips both the TP=1 and PP=1 raises, and _grouped_mlp_slicing then packs TP/ETP-sharded expert weights as if they were whole — the exact failure this guard exists to prevent.
representative_weight_quantizer already unwraps a GroupedQuantizer to q[0], so handling this is mostly a matter of also considering weight0 (or iterating the GroupedQuantizer members directly) when no standard weight attr is present. If grouped experts can never be the only IQ layers in a shipped recipe, a one-line comment saying so would close this out instead.
test_megatron_iq_export_rejects_pipeline_parallelism mirrors the existing TP
test: it patches the parallel-size helpers, so it needs no real Megatron model.
Verified that the construction those tests use does trip the guard --
is_enabled True, num_bits "iq2_xs", uses_iq_quantization True -- which also
confirms the existing TP test still passes now that the guard routes through
_any_rank_uses_iq_quantization.
On the TEGroupedLinear finding: confirmed, and broader than the IQ guard.
Reproduced with a module shaped like one -- weight0..N parameters and a single
GroupedQuantizer under weight_quantizer:
weight_attr_names yields: []
get_quantization_format: None
uses_iq_quantization: False
So this is not a divergence between the guard and the exporter; both are blind
to that layout for every format, and an experts-only model reports no format at
all. representative_weight_quantizer handles the GroupedQuantizer correctly --
the yield in weight_attr_names is gated on a plain ``weight`` parameter that a
TEGroupedLinear does not have.
Patching only uses_iq_quantization would make it see IQ where the rest of the
export sees nothing, rejecting TP>1 for a model the exporter would then treat
as unquantized. The fix belongs in weight_attr_names, which every format's
detection shares and which I cannot exercise here -- it needs Transformer
Engine and Megatron. Recorded in the docstring instead.
Whether this is reachable at all is worth the author's judgement: TEGroupedLinear
is the grouped-expert layout, and fused-expert IQ export is rejected outright.
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Summary
uint8weight contract and the fused-expert boundaryPR split
This work is split into four focused PRs. Each PR targets
mainand owns a disjoint file set:The required merge order is #2448, #2446, #2447, then #2449.
Scope
This PR owns only export code, deployment documentation, and export tests. It targets
mainand should merge after #2448 and #2446. It does not contain kernel, codec/backend, or recipe files.Deployment consumer boundary
Dense weights and individually named expert weights use the documented shaped
uint8contract. Megatron fused-MoE IQ export is intentionally rejected withNotImplementedError: its payload would have shape[num_experts, out_features, in_features // 256, payload_bytes], and no deployment loader in this stack currently owns that layout. Support should be enabled only with a loader integration test.Test coverage
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weightattributes in Hugging Face models.