Fix hybrid stack spec serialization in Megatron-Bridge checkpoints - #2452
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HybridProvider->>MegatronBridge: set MoE expert layout
MegatronBridge->>HybridProvider: assign grouped-GEMM or sequential-MLP specification
Test->>RunConfigYAML: serialize specification
RunConfigYAML->>HybridProvider: re-instantiate specification
HybridProvider-->>Test: expose reconstructed MLP and expert implementation
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Scope: full review; the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions. All 7 changed files reviewed (134 additions / 25 deletions) — modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/{mbridge.py, megatron_layer_specs.py, __init__.py}, modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron.py, CHANGELOG.rst, and both test files. megatron.core / megatron.bridge are not installed in the review environment, so upstream internals (_resolve_hybrid_stack_spec, register_allowed_target_prefix matching semantics, get_moe_module_spec's expert shape) were reasoned about from the diff and the PR's own verification notes rather than executed.
The root-cause analysis is correct and the core idea — store a named zero-argument factory instead of a built ModuleSpec, so the YAML writer never has to represent a dataclass nested in a functools.partial keyword — is the right fix at the right level. The module move out of nas/plugins/megatron.py is clean and the justification for utils/plugins/ over mbridge.py holds up: grep confirms get_te_hybrid_stack_spec has no production caller, only tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py, which must stay bridge-free.
Most impactful finding
The fix is asymmetric between the two MoE layouts, and only the grouped-GEMM half works with stock tooling. moe_grouped_gemm=True serializes a megatron.bridge target that stock scripts/conversion/convert.sh resolves on its own. moe_grouped_gemm=False serializes a modelopt.* target whose resolution depends on register_allowed_target_prefix("modelopt.") having run — and that call lives at import time in mbridge.py, which stock convert.sh never imports. So SequentialMLP-layout hybrid checkpoints still fail there, trading the MLPSubmodules TypeError for an opaque disallowed-target error. The PR description mentions the registration but does not draw out that the convert.sh path, one of the two paths named as broken, remains broken for that layout. export_distilled_megatron_to_hf.py is fine — it imports mbridge directly.
This also leaves the NOTE at the bottom of modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/__init__.py stating a premise that is no longer true ("We dont register anything so this isnt a problem").
Second: the CHANGELOG migration instruction for existing checkpoints says _call_: true, while the PR's own verified dump is _call_: false — the difference between storing the factory and storing a built spec, i.e. between the fix and the bug. It also points every old hybrid checkpoint at the grouped-GEMM factory, which builds TEGroupedMLP experts against a moe_grouped_gemm=False checkpoint's SequentialMLP weights.
Both are inline with suggested fixes.
Suggestions (non-blocking)
- Narrow the allowlisted prefix from
modelopt.to the one module that needs it. get_te_hybrid_stack_specis now test-only yet stays in__all__of a star-imported plugin module, publishing a helper documented as non-serializable on the public surface.
Risk assessment
Low-to-moderate. Behavior at model-construction time is genuinely unchanged (the provider already called a callable spec), the blast radius is confined to hybrid providers, and the manual verification described under Testing is thorough for the grouped-GEMM path. The residual risk is that the SequentialMLP path is verified only through ModelOpt entrypoints, where the allowlist registration happens to be in place — which is precisely why the stock-tooling gap did not surface. Please run the new tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_mbridge.py and one test that goes through tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py before merge, as the PR description already asks; the test's expert assertion (getattr(moe.experts, "func", moe.experts).__name__) depends on whether MCore 0.19 builds experts as a partial or a ModuleSpec in each layout, and that is unverified either way.
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In `@modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron.py`:
- Line 89: Preserve the public get_te_hybrid_stack_spec API by re-exporting it
from modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs through the megatron
plugin module, or document its replacement import under Backward Breaking
Changes with the exact new path.
In `@modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/__init__.py`:
- Line 27: Define package-level __all__ in the plugins package, initialize it
with the intended base exports, and extend it with the public names from every
conditionally loaded plugin, including megatron_layer_specs. Keep the existing
from .module import * re-exports and ensure internal names such as import_plugin
are excluded.
In `@modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/mbridge.py`:
- Line 49: Replace the broad modelopt. registration in the plugin allowlist with
the specific modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs. prefix. Keep the
existing grouped-GEMM factory path unchanged.
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| - Hybrid (e.g. Nemotron-H) checkpoints saved by the ``examples/megatron_bridge`` scripts now record a complete layer spec in ``run_config.yaml``, so they can be converted to HuggingFace; a checkpoint saved by an earlier release still needs its ``model.hybrid_stack_spec`` block replaced by hand. ``get_te_hybrid_stack_spec`` moved from ``modelopt.torch.nas.plugins.megatron`` to ``modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs``. |
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] The migration instruction tells users an edit is required but not what to write.
"a checkpoint saved by an earlier release still needs its model.hybrid_stack_spec block replaced by hand" leaves the reader to reconstruct the replacement from scratch — and the correct replacement is neither obvious nor uniform:
- it must be the factory, i.e.
_call_: false, not a built spec (a built spec is the bug this PR fixes); - the target differs per layout —
transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_specformoe_grouped_gemm: true,te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlpforfalse.
A user who picks the grouped-GEMM target for a checkpoint that was trained with --no_moe_grouped_gemm builds TEGroupedMLP experts against SequentialMLP weights. That fails at load in the best case and, since the two layouts differ in weight fusion rather than in key names for every tensor, is the kind of mismatch worth steering people away from explicitly. This is the same hazard flagged last round in weaker form: removing the incorrect _call_: true value fixed the wrong instruction but left no instruction.
Suggest naming both targets inline, e.g.:
- Hybrid (e.g. Nemotron-H) checkpoints saved by the ``examples/megatron_bridge`` scripts now record a
complete layer spec in ``run_config.yaml``, so they can be converted to HuggingFace. A checkpoint
saved by an earlier release needs its ``model.hybrid_stack_spec`` block replaced by hand with
``{_call_: false, _target_: megatron.bridge.models.hybrid.hybrid_provider.transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec}``
if it was saved with ``moe_grouped_gemm: true``, or with
``{_call_: false, _target_: modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs.te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp}``
otherwise -- match the ``model.moe_grouped_gemm`` value already in the file.
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Pushing back on this one: the migration isn't applicable to any known user.
Hybrid support in these scripts is recent enough that the only checkpoints known to carry the broken
spec are ours, and they have already been repaired. Nobody is expected to follow this instruction, so
the entry deliberately states that a pre-fix checkpoint needs a hand edit -- enough for someone who
hits it to understand why -- without carrying a two-branch recipe in the changelog for a migration
with no audience.
The detail is not lost: the correct replacement is _call_: false plus the layout-appropriate
_target_ (transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec for grouped GEMM,
te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp for SequentialMLP), and it is recorded in this thread and in the
PR description for anyone who needs it.
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Scope: full review; the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions. All 7 changed files reviewed (140 additions / 26 deletions). Note that git diff origin/main HEAD is misleading here — main has advanced ~16 commits past the PR base, so a two-dot diff shows unrelated CHANGELOG entries as deletions and appears to revert model_type/step3p7 back to huggingface/step3p7. Scoping the diff to the 7 files in the PR's own file list confirms the CHANGELOG change is the single added Bug Fixes line, nothing else. megatron.core / megatron.bridge are not installed in the review environment, so upstream internals (_resolve_hybrid_stack_spec, dump_dataclass_to_yaml's signature, get_moe_module_spec's expert shape, whether bridge's transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec is the provider default) were reasoned about from the diff and MCore conventions rather than executed.
Prior review round — resolved
The three blocking items from the previous round are addressed at 4caf3f1:
- the
__init__.pyNOTE no longer claims "We dont register anything so this isnt a problem" and now names the allowlist registration; - the grouped-GEMM / SequentialMLP asymmetry and its stock-
convert.shconsequence are documented atmbridge.py:47-51; get_te_hybrid_stack_specis out of__all__;- the CHANGELOG no longer prescribes the incorrect
_call_: true.
The core fix continues to hold up. Storing a named zero-argument factory so the YAML writer never has to represent a dataclass nested in a functools.partial keyword is the right fix at the right level, and grep confirms the module move is clean: get_te_hybrid_stack_spec has no production caller, only tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py, which must stay bridge-free. __all__ = [] in nas/plugins/megatron.py is correct — DynamicModule registration is an import side effect, unaffected by __all__.
I also checked the new test's placement: it is the only file under tests/gpu_megatron/ that hard-imports megatron.bridge, but the gpu_megatron matrix entry in gpu_tests.yml runs on nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08 — the same image as the megatron_bridge example-test job — so collection will not error for want of bridge. No finding there.
Most impactful finding
The CHANGELOG migration instruction is now actionable-in-principle but not in practice. Removing the wrong _call_: true value fixed the wrong instruction and left no instruction: a user with a 0.46/0.47 hybrid checkpoint is told the model.hybrid_stack_spec block "needs to be replaced by hand" without being told what to write. The correct replacement is a _call_: false factory reference, and the target differs by layout — pick the grouped-GEMM one for a moe_grouped_gemm: false checkpoint and you build TEGroupedMLP experts against SequentialMLP weights. Inline with proposed text naming both targets and pointing at the model.moe_grouped_gemm value already in the file.
Suggestions (non-blocking)
test_mbridge.py:56probably errors rather than asserts.getattr(moe.experts, "func", moe.experts).__name__covers a partial and a bare class, but MCore'sget_moe_module_spec— called byte_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlpitself — puts aModuleSpecinMoESubmodules.experts, and aModuleSpechas neitherfuncnor__name__. Worth fixing before the first CI run given the test is unexecuted; a three-shape unwrap is inline.get_te_hybrid_stack_specis now test-only dead code in a shipped plugin module — no caller inmodelopt/, kept out of__all__, documented as unusable for the provider. Moving the two-line body intotests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.pywould also make the relocation purely internal, retiring the public-symbol-moved caveat and CodeRabbit's backward-compat comment onnas/plugins/megatron.py.
I did not re-raise narrowing register_allowed_target_prefix("modelopt.") — CodeRabbit has that thread and it is a judgment call for you.
Risk assessment
Low. Model-construction behavior is genuinely unchanged (the provider already called a callable spec), the blast radius is confined to hybrid providers, and the grouped-GEMM path has thorough manual end-to-end verification. The one remaining product-facing gap is documentation of the migration for already-saved checkpoints. Residual test risk: please run the new tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_mbridge.py and one test that goes through tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py before merge, as the PR description already asks — beyond the expert assertion above, dump_dataclass_to_yaml({"spec": value}) is called with a plain dict rather than the dataclass the manual verification used, and that call shape is unverified.
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For SequentialMLP checkpoints, importing
modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/mbridge.pyregisters the serialized factory target. The repository requires a ModelOpt entrypoint, not stockscripts/conversion/convert.sh. Without that registration, stock tooling may fail to resolve the factory and complete conversion. State that the supported ModelOpt exporters must be used.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Scope: full review; the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions. All 7 changed files reviewed at 3266fb1b (144 additions / 31 deletions). Two method caveats: (1) git diff origin/main HEAD is actively misleading on this PR — main has advanced well past the PR base and the checkout is shallow, so a two-dot diff renders ~20 unrelated commits as deletions and appears to revert model_type/step3p7 back to huggingface/step3p7. I scoped the diff to the 7 paths in the PR's own file list; the CHANGELOG.rst change is the single added Bug Fixes line and nothing else. (2) megatron.core / megatron.bridge are not installed here and gh api is not permitted, so I could not execute upstream internals or read the inline reply threads from the previous rounds. Findings are judged against the code at 3266fb1b; where a claim depends on upstream internals I say so.
Prior rounds — what is now resolved
Everything from the three previous rounds is addressed except one item:
te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlpnow carries the docstring line making its fully-qualified name an explicit on-disk contract, and thenum_experts=8placeholder is annotated as such (megatron_layer_specs.py:29-40). Last round's suggestion, closed.get_te_hybrid_stack_specis gone rather than left as test-only dead code in a shipped module, with a real production caller inset_moe_expert_layout.- The
__init__.pyNOTE no longer asserts the now-false "We dont register anything so this isnt a problem". - The grouped-GEMM / SequentialMLP asymmetry and its stock-
convert.shconsequence are documented atmbridge.py:47-52. - The incorrect
_call_: trueis out of the CHANGELOG.
What I re-verified independently this round
The core fix continues to hold up — storing a named zero-argument factory so the YAML writer never has to represent a dataclass nested in a functools.partial keyword is the right fix at the right level. Five checks that could have produced a finding and did not:
- The symbol removal is clean. Grep for
get_te_hybrid_stack_specacross the whole repo returns exactly one hit, the CHANGELOG line documenting its removal. No production caller, no test caller, no docs/apidoc reference.__all__ = []innas/plugins/megatron.pyis correct — DynamicModule registration is an import side effect, unaffected by__all__. - No import cycle from the new plugin.
mbridge.py:45importingmodelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specsexecutesutils/plugins/__init__.py, but none of the plugins that file loads importsmbridge(which is why the pre-import stays commented out), so the new edge is acyclic. - The broad
register_allowed_target_prefix("modelopt.")matches existing repo convention, not just this module's convenience:modelopt/torch/puzzletron/plugins/mbridge/base.py:48already registers the same"modelopt."prefix. Narrowing only this one to...megatron_layer_specs.would leave the two inconsistent, so I would leave it as-is and consider CodeRabbit's thread on that answered. - The unguarded import of
register_allowed_target_prefixis safe here.puzzletron/.../base.py:46wraps the identical import intry/except ImportErrorwith "nemo:26.04.01 onwards needs this fix", which made me check whethermbridge.py:35could break older installs — it cannot:CHANGELOG.rst:97bumped the M-Bridge minimum tonemo:26.08. (The puzzletron guard is now dead weight, but that is outside this PR.) - The test-util change is behavior-equivalent.
models.py:450splitting intote_hybrid_stack_spec if moe_grouped_gemm else te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp()reproduces the oldget_te_hybrid_stack_specsemantics exactly, including returning MCore's module-level singleton unmodified for the grouped-GEMM branch. Two modules now hold a reference to that singleton, but the factorydeepcopys before mutating, so neither can corrupt it for the other.
The one open finding (carried, not re-posted inline)
test_mbridge.py's [False-SequentialMLP] parametrization still looks unable to reach its assertions. I am not posting a fourth inline comment on this — it was raised as a suggestion two rounds ago and as an IMPORTANT last round, and I cannot read your replies to those threads from this environment, so you may well have already answered it. I restate the argument only because it is unchanged in the code, and it follows from this PR alone with no MCore lookup needed:
test_mbridge.py:49 and :53 use one access path, .keywords["submodules"], for both parametrizations. But the two layouts do not build moe_layer.submodules.mlp the same way. For moe_grouped_gemm=True it is whatever upstream MCore's hybrid_stack_spec holds — a functools.partial, which is the entire premise of your root-cause analysis — so .keywords resolves. For False, te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp() overwrites that attribute with get_moe_module_spec(...)'s return value (megatron_layer_specs.py:43), and your own signature annotates that as a ModuleSpec, which has no .keywords. If that holds, line 53 raises AttributeError before any assertion runs, and line 56's getattr(moe.experts, "func", moe.experts).__name__ has the same shape problem one level down. A shape-tolerant unwrap covers both:
def _submodules(spec):
"""MCore holds a layer's mlp as either a partial(ModuleSpec, ...) or a built ModuleSpec."""
return spec.keywords["submodules"] if isinstance(spec, partial) else spec.submodules
def _name(spec):
return getattr(spec, "func", getattr(spec, "module", spec)).__name__then mlp = _submodules(spec.submodules.mlp_layer.submodules.mlp), moe = _submodules(spec.submodules.moe_layer.submodules.mlp), and assert _name(moe.experts) == expected_experts.
This matters more than a normal test nit for two reasons: it is the only automated coverage of the bug being fixed, and the PR notes the test has never been executed. The good news is that the /ok to test you just ran on 3266fb1b settles it definitively — if [False-SequentialMLP] comes back green, disregard the above entirely and I will stop raising it. Worth watching that specific parametrization rather than just the job's overall status, and also dump_dataclass_to_yaml({"spec": value}) at line 27, which is called with a plain dict rather than the dataclass your manual verification used.
Suggestion (non-blocking, previously raised — noting the judgment call, not pressing it)
The CHANGELOG migration instruction still tells the owner of a 0.46.1/0.47.0 hybrid checkpoint that the model.hybrid_stack_spec block needs to be replaced by hand without saying what to write, and a wrong guess fails quietly (the grouped-GEMM target over a moe_grouped_gemm: false checkpoint builds TEGroupedMLP experts on SequentialMLP weights). You have edited that entry twice since this was first raised and left it as-is, so I read that as a deliberate call against inlining a YAML block in an entry the coding guide caps at one or two sentences — which is reasonable. If you want both, a bare pointer ("see PR #2452 for the replacement block") costs a clause and makes the instruction followable. Same for CodeRabbit's adjacent point that "can be converted to HuggingFace" is only unconditionally true for the grouped-GEMM layout.
Risk assessment
Low. Model-construction behavior is genuinely unchanged — the provider already called a callable spec, the SequentialMLP factory body moved byte-identically, and the grouped-GEMM path has thorough end-to-end verification (6 exports, exact 5139-key match, all weights finite). The blast radius is confined to hybrid providers, the field-type change has no in-repo consumer, and the symbol move is clean by grep. The single open item is a guard rail rather than the fix: an unexecuted test that may error on the one path it is meant to protect. That is now in CI's hands, so this is a comment rather than a request for changes — approve-on-green from my side once test_set_moe_expert_layout_survives_run_config_round_trip[False-SequentialMLP] passes and one test through tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py is run, as your description already asks.
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Scope. Full review; the trigger comment added only the CI link. All 7 changed files reviewed (modelopt/ 4, tests/ 2, CHANGELOG.rst). Nothing deliberately skipped.
Assessment
The diagnosis in the PR description holds up against the code, and the fix is the right shape: the provider field is the thing that gets serialized, so storing a named zero-argument factory instead of a built ModuleSpec sidesteps _partial_representer entirely rather than patching around it. Choosing Megatron-Bridge's own transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec for the grouped-GEMM layout is the detail that makes stock convert.sh work without importing ModelOpt, and the asymmetry for SequentialMLP is documented honestly rather than papered over.
Things I checked and found correct:
- Module move is clean.
megatron_layer_specs.pyimports onlymegatron.core(nomegatron.bridge), which is what lets the 16 test files reach it through the bridge-freetests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py. Grepped forget_te_hybrid_stack_specacross.py/.rst/.md— zero stale references remain. - Plugin laziness. The new module is gated behind
import_plugin("megatron_layer_specs")inutils/plugins/__init__.py, matching the sibling entries, andmbridge.pystays out of the pre-imports. __all__ = []innas/plugins/megatron.pyis safe.nas/plugins/__init__.pydoesfrom .megatron import *, which now imports no names but still executes the module, so the DynamicModule registrations are unaffected.- Registration timing.
register_allowed_target_prefix("modelopt.")runs atmbridge.pyimport, which precedes anyinstantiatecall on the ModelOpt entrypoints that import it.
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| 1 | IMPORTANT Compatibility | CHANGELOG.rst:35 |
Removal of the public get_te_hybrid_stack_spec (it was in __all__, so also reachable as modelopt.torch.nas.plugins.get_te_hybrid_stack_spec) is documented only as a trailing sentence under Bug Fixes, not under the Backward Breaking Changes section this block already has. Users scanning that section for import breakages will miss it. |
| 2 | SUGGESTION | mbridge.py:53 |
The "modelopt." allowlist prefix could be narrowed to "modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs." at zero functional cost. Noting there is already precedent for the broad form at puzzletron/plugins/mbridge/base.py:48, so this is consistency-neutral either way. |
| 3 | SUGGESTION | mbridge.py:137-145 |
(a) The docstring's "needs its stack spec rebuilt" no longer describes the moe_grouped_gemm=True path, which now assigns the native bridge factory. (b) That branch overwrites the provider's own default, discarding any custom hybrid spec — including one passed via provider_overrides, which load_mbridge_model_from_hf applies before calling this function. Pre-existing, and no in-repo caller hits it. |
One thing I could not verify locally
megatron.core / megatron.bridge are not installed in this checkout, so I could not introspect the upstream spec structures the new test asserts on — specifically spec.submodules.moe_layer.submodules.mlp.keywords["submodules"], which depends on whether get_moe_module_spec() returns a functools.partial or a plain ModuleSpec in the SequentialMLP branch. The linked gpu_megatron run covers this: that job runs in nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08, and tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_mbridge.py is the only file under tests/gpu_megatron/ that imports megatron.bridge, so a structural mismatch there would have surfaced as a failure rather than a skip. That closes the gap the PR description flagged as "not yet run".
Risk: low. Behaviour-preserving at model-construction time by construction (the provider already resolved a callable spec), narrowly scoped to hybrid providers, and the one genuine break — the moved/removed helper — has no in-tree callers. Finding 1 is a release-notes discoverability defect rather than a code defect, but it is the kind users only discover after upgrading, so worth fixing before merge.
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[SUGGESTION] This assertion path looks like it only holds for the moe_grouped_gemm=True parametrization.
.keywords["submodules"] requires moe_layer.submodules.mlp to be a functools.partial — which it is in the untouched upstream spec (that partial-wrapping is the root cause this PR works around). But for the False parametrization, te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp() replaces that node with the return value of get_moe_module_spec(use_te=True, num_experts=8, moe_grouped_gemm=False), which is a plain ModuleSpec. A ModuleSpec has no .keywords, so line 53 would raise AttributeError before reaching the expert-name assertion; and line 56's getattr(moe.experts, "func", moe.experts).__name__ assumes experts is a class or partial, whereas get_moe_module_spec nests it as a ModuleSpec (no __name__) too.
Why it matters: this test is the PR's only automated coverage for the fix, and the PR notes it has not been executed — if it errors on the SequentialMLP case, the half that exercises the new ModelOpt factory (and the register_allowed_target_prefix resolution) is the half that does not run.
Suggested fix: normalize the node shape before asserting, e.g.
def _submodules(node):
"""MoE/MLP nodes are a functools.partial in the upstream spec and a ModuleSpec once replaced."""
return node.keywords["submodules"] if hasattr(node, "keywords") else node.submodules
def _name(node):
"""experts is a class, a partial of one, or a ModuleSpec wrapping one."""
node = getattr(node, "module", node)
return getattr(node, "func", node).__name__and use _submodules(spec.submodules.mlp_layer.submodules.mlp) / _submodules(spec.submodules.moe_layer.submodules.mlp) plus assert _name(moe.experts) == expected_experts. Please run both parametrizations before merge — per the PR description this file has not been executed yet.
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Both parametrizations have now been run, and both pass. gpu-tests (gpu_megatron, nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08) went green on 3266fb1b (job, 38 min) — that job collects tests/gpu_megatron/ by directory and this file carries no skip marker, so a collection error or a failing parametrization would have failed the step. The test file is byte-identical at the current head (the rebase replayed the same commit), and it is re-running now on 7e71211b8.
The premise does not hold in megatron-core 0.19: get_moe_module_spec() returns a functools.partial, not a plain ModuleSpec, for both values of moe_grouped_gemm. Measured directly:
moe_grouped_gemm=True -> moe experts: TEGroupedMLP
moe_grouped_gemm=False -> moe experts: SequentialMLP
MoESubmodules(experts=functools.partial(<class '...TEGroupedMLP'>, submodules=GroupedMLPSubmodules(...)), ...)
The run_config.yaml in this PR corroborates it — that node serializes as _partial_: true, which is precisely the dataclass-inside-a-partial loss the PR fixes. Leaving the shape-normalizing helper out, since it would guard a shape MCore does not currently produce.
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Full-scope review (the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). 7 files changed; reviewed all 4 source/test files that matter (modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron.py, modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/{__init__,mbridge,megatron_layer_specs}.py, tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py, tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_mbridge.py) plus CHANGELOG.rst.
Findings: CRITICAL: 0, IMPORTANT: 1, SUGGESTION: 2
Most impactful
[IMPORTANT Compatibility] The grouped-GEMM path changes which stack spec builds hybrid models (mbridge.py:141-145). The moe_grouped_gemm=True branch moves from megatron-core's hybrid_layer_specs.hybrid_stack_spec to megatron-bridge's transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec. Since use_moe_grouped_gemm() returns True for NemotronH and for all dense models, that is the default path for essentially every hybrid run. The validation in the PR description confirms the resolved mlp_layer/moe_layer submodules match, which is the subset that would agree even if the attention / Mamba / norm layers diverged. Worth a structural diff of the two specs (or extending the new test to cover the non-MLP layers) so an upstream divergence in the bridge factory can't silently change model structure — and make pre-fix checkpoints load into a differently-composed model.
Also raised
- [SUGGESTION]
test_mbridge.py:53-56— the.keywords["submodules"]/.__name__access path assumes afunctools.partial, which holds for the untouched upstream spec but not for the SequentialMLP layout, wherete_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp()replaces that node with the plainModuleSpecreturned byget_moe_module_spec. Likely anAttributeErroron themoe_grouped_gemm=Falseparametrization — i.e. the half that actually exercises the new ModelOpt factory and the allowlist resolution. Inline comment has a shape-normalizing helper. The PR already flags this file as unexecuted; please run both parametrizations. - [SUGGESTION]
mbridge.py:53—register_allowed_target_prefix("modelopt.")is broader than the single target ModelOpt writes; narrowing tomodelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs.keeps the trust surface proportional.
Checked and clear
- The factory-instead-of-built-spec fix is the right shape for the root cause, and the docstrings explain why at both ends (including the "moving or renaming this breaks saved checkpoints" note, which is the important one).
- Module move is complete — no remaining references to
get_te_hybrid_stack_specoutside the changelog; the new module imports onlymegatron.core, so gating it throughimport_plugininutils/plugins/__init__.pyintroduces no circular import, and thenas/plugins/megatron.py__all__ = []leaves no stale star-export. CHANGELOG.rst: both entries are in the right sections (removal under backward-breaking, fix under bug fixes) and are user-facing and appropriately short.- The dense-hybrid case is covered by
use_moe_grouped_gemmreturningTruefor non-MoE configs, so a dense hybrid checkpoint keeps a bridge-resolvable target and is unaffected by the documented SequentialMLP limitation (only--no_moe_grouped_gemmopts into it). - The known asymmetry limitation is documented accurately in the PR body, the module docstring and the inline comment — no objection to landing it that way.
Risk: low-to-moderate. The change is narrow and behavior-preserving by construction on the SequentialMLP side. The residual risk is concentrated in the grouped-GEMM spec substitution above and in the fact that the only automated coverage has not been executed.
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Scope. Full review; the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions. All 7 changed files at a7881d99 (148 additions / 32 deletions): modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/{mbridge.py, megatron_layer_specs.py, __init__.py}, modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron.py, CHANGELOG.rst, tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py, tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_mbridge.py. Nothing deliberately skipped. Caveat: megatron.core / megatron.bridge are not importable in this environment, so upstream internals were reasoned about from the diff plus your verification notes and the CI result you linked, not executed.
Prior rounds — all previously raised items are now closed
get_te_hybrid_stack_specremoval is documented under the right heading.CHANGELOG.rst:58is inside Backward Breaking Changes (confirmed by reading the section from line 30), not trailing under Bug Fixes, and it names both replacement imports. Last round's one IMPORTANT, resolved.test_mbridge.py's.keywords["submodules"]access path. Raised across three rounds as possiblyAttributeError-ing on[False-SequentialMLP]. Your linkedgpu_megatronrun settles it against the realmegatron-core 0.19.0— my reading ofget_moe_module_spec's return type was the wrong one. Dropping it; not re-raised.- The grouped-GEMM spec substitution (mcore
hybrid_stack_spec→ bridgetransformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec) is now stated explicitly atmbridge.py:139-141, and the evidence behind the claim is stronger than a submodule spot-check: 6 end-to-end exports producing exactly the source model's 5139 tensor keys across a 52-layer hybrid would not survive a divergence in the attention / Mamba / norm layers, only in the MLP subset. Downgraded from last round's IMPORTANT to accepted. - The
__init__.pyNOTE no longer asserts the false "We dont register anything"; the SequentialMLP /convert.shasymmetry is documented atmbridge.py:47-52; the factory's fully-qualified name is called out as an on-disk contract; the_call_: trueerror is out of the CHANGELOG;register_allowed_target_prefix("modelopt.")matches the existing precedent atpuzzletron/plugins/mbridge/base.py:48, so I consider CodeRabbit's narrowing thread answered rather than open.
Re-verified independently this round
- The allowlist registration actually reaches the path that needs it.
examples/megatron_bridge/export_distilled_megatron_to_hf.py:68imports frommodelopt.torch.utils.plugins.mbridgeat module scope, soregister_allowed_target_prefix("modelopt.")(mbridge.py:53) runs beforeexport_bridge.export_ckpt(...)at line 136 readsrun_config.yaml. The SequentialMLP target resolves on the ModelOpt entrypoint; the documentedconvert.shlimitation is confined to that one layout, which requires an explicit--no_moe_grouped_gemm. - Both call sites are consistent.
mbridge.py:197(beforeprovider.finalize()) andexamples/megatron_bridge/distill.py:393(before the recompute/parallelism overrides) both assign the factory while the field is still unresolved, so_resolve_hybrid_stack_spec()does the calling in both cases — no path stores a built spec. - The new plugin import is acyclic and correctly gated.
megatron_layer_specs.pyimports onlymegatron.core, which is what lets the bridge-freetests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.pyreach it;import_plugin("megatron_layer_specs")inutils/plugins/__init__.py:26matches the sibling entries.mbridge.py:45importing the submodule directly still raises loudly ifmegatron.coreis too old, rather than silently yielding a missing name — the right failure mode. - Symbol removal is complete. Grep for
get_te_hybrid_stack_specacross the repo returns one hit: the CHANGELOG line documenting the removal.__all__ = []innas/plugins/megatron.pyis correct — the previous__all__held only that one name, and DynamicModule registration is an import side effect unaffected by__all__. - The test-util rewrite is behavior-equivalent.
models.py:450reproduces the old two-branch semantics exactly, including returning MCore's module-level singleton unmodified for grouped GEMM; the factorydeepcopys before mutating, so the two modules holding a reference to that singleton cannot corrupt it for each other.
The one finding
[SUGGESTION] test_mbridge.py:25-28 — the round trip never asserts the _target_ string it goes through, so the contract megatron_layer_specs.py:35-36 declares to be on-disk ("moving or renaming it breaks every SequentialMLP hybrid checkpoint already saved") is not pinned by any test. A rename or module move of te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp — exactly the refactor this PR just performed on get_te_hybrid_stack_spec — keeps the test green while making saved checkpoints unloadable. Inline comment has a three-line change to _round_trip plus the parametrize tuple. Non-blocking.
Risk: low
Model-construction behavior is unchanged by construction on the SequentialMLP side (the factory body moved byte-identically and the provider already resolved a callable), the grouped-GEMM side has key-exact end-to-end export evidence, the blast radius is confined to hybrid providers, the field-type change has no other in-repo consumer, and the one genuine break has no in-tree caller and is documented under the right CHANGELOG heading. The automated coverage that the description flagged as unexecuted has now run green in CI, which closes the last guard-rail gap.
Approving. Worth filing the upstream Megatron-LM issue against megatron/training/config/yaml_utils.py as your description suggests — this PR stops ModelOpt stepping on the defect, but every other caller that nests a dataclass in a functools.partial keyword still hits it.
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Megatron-LM's YAML writer drops the fields of a dataclass nested inside a
functools.partial keyword, which is how the default hybrid stack spec
holds MLPSubmodules / MoESubmodules. Storing a built ModuleSpec on the
provider therefore wrote them empty into run_config.yaml, and such a
checkpoint could not be reloaded or exported:
TypeError: MLPSubmodules.__init__() missing 2 required positional
arguments: 'linear_fc1' and 'linear_fc2'
set_moe_expert_layout now stores a named, zero-argument factory, which
serializes losslessly; the provider calls it at build time, so model
construction is unchanged. The grouped-GEMM factory is Megatron-Bridge's
own transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec so that stock tooling such as
scripts/conversion/convert.sh can resolve it without importing ModelOpt.
Move the stack spec builders out of the NAS plugin, which never used
them, into utils/plugins/megatron_layer_specs.py alongside the other
Megatron-Core-only helpers. Keeping them out of mbridge.py leaves them
importable without Megatron-Bridge.
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: Bug fix
Hybrid (e.g. Nemotron-H) checkpoints saved by the
examples/megatron_bridgescripts could not be reloaded or exported to HuggingFace:Root cause. Megatron-LM's YAML writer represents a
functools.partialvia_partial_representer, which passes each keyword value throughrepresent_data. A dataclass instance has no representer, so it falls through to_safe_object_representer, which emits only{_target_, _call_}and drops every field. The default hybrid stack spec builds its dense-MLP and MoE layers as exactly such partials, andset_moe_expert_layout()stored the builtModuleSpecon the provider — which is serialized into every checkpoint'srun_config.yaml. SoMLPSubmodules/MoESubmoduleswere written with no fields at all. Both export paths hit it:convert.shviafrom_auto_config, andexport_distilled_megatron_to_hf.pyviaexport_ckpt → load_megatron_model. Every hybrid provider is affected, dense or MoE.Fix.
set_moe_expert_layout()stores a named, zero-argument factory instead. The provider already calls a callable spec at build time (_resolve_hybrid_stack_spec), so model construction is unchanged — only the serialized form differs:The grouped-GEMM factory is Megatron-Bridge's own
transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec, so stock tooling (scripts/conversion/convert.sh) resolves it without importing ModelOpt.Known limitation — the two layouts are not symmetric. The SequentialMLP layout has no bridge-side equivalent (the upstream TE hybrid spec hardcodes
TEGroupedMLP), so it serializes a ModelOpt target, whichinstantiateonly accepts in a process that has importedmbridge.pyand thereby runregister_allowed_target_prefix. A SequentialMLP hybrid checkpoint therefore converts through the ModelOpt entrypoints but not through stockconvert.sh, where it fails on the disallowed prefix instead of onMLPSubmodules— no regression, but that path stays broken for this one layout. The reach is narrow:use_moe_grouped_gemm()returns True for any architecture with a grouped-expert export rule, NemotronH included, so SequentialMLP requires an explicit--no_moe_grouped_gemm. Closing it properly needs an upstreammoe_grouped_gemm-aware factory in Megatron-Bridge.Both spec builders also move out of
nas/plugins/megatron.py, which never used them, into a newutils/plugins/megatron_layer_specs.pybeside the other Megatron-Core-only helpers. Not intombridge.py: that module needsmegatron.bridge, whileget_te_hybrid_stack_specis reached by 16 test files throughtests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py, which is bridge-free.The underlying defect is upstream in
megatron/training/config/yaml_utils.py; this only stops ModelOpt from stepping on it, so it is worth a separate Megatron-LM issue.Usage
No API change — hybrid checkpoints saved after this fix convert with the existing commands:
torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 examples/megatron_bridge/export_distilled_megatron_to_hf.py \ --student_hf_path <student_hf_model_or_path> \ --megatron_path <distill_out>/checkpoints \ --hf_export_path <hf_out> \ --export_iterations allTesting
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nemo:26.08(megatron-core 0.19.0) against a 30B-A3B Nemotron-3.5-Lightning pruned+distilled run:set_moe_expert_layouton a realHybridModelProvider, dumped it throughdump_dataclass_to_yaml(the writer used forrun_config.yaml), reloaded viainstantiate, resolved.moe_grouped_gemm=True→TELayerNormColumnParallelLinear/TERowParallelLinear+TEGroupedMLP;False→ same MLP +SequentialMLP. The field stays callable afterfinalize()and_resolve_hybrid_stack_spec(), so a saved config cannot regress.run_config.yamlfix to 32 iteration checkpoints: all 32 rebuild the provider (52 layers, hidden 2304, 104 experts) with populatedMLPSubmodules/MoESubmodules.convert.shCPU,convert.shGPU (4×GB300, TP=4), andexport_distilled_megatron_to_hf.py. Same iteration and wrapper: CPU 123 s vs GPU 134 s — GPU is not faster, since with TP=4 each rank still builds 20.9 B of 22.3 B params and the cost is I/O plus CPU-side conversion.ruff check/ruff format --checkpassed on the source files before the module move.Not yet run:
tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_mbridge.py(added here) — the GPU allocation expired. It asserts the round-trip property verified manually above, but itsHybridModelProvider(num_layers=2, hidden_size=64, num_attention_heads=4)construction is unverified. The module move is verified only by reference grep and syntax check, so please also run one test that usestests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py.pre-commitwas not run either (unavailable in the environment used).Before your PR is "Ready for review"
get_te_hybrid_stack_specmoved module (modelopt.torch.nas.plugins.megatron→modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs), and a checkpoint from 0.46.1/0.47.0 needs therun_config.yamledit described in the changelog.CONTRIBUTING.md: N/A/claude reviewbefore marking ready.Summary by CodeRabbit
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