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The fix looks correct for the leak it targets, but it adds a second cleanup mechanism next to the one unified_export_hf_streaming.py already has, and ships no test for the new public helper.
Needs action:
- Reconcile with the existing cleanup in
unified_export_hf_streaming.py(the per-layer loop that nulls CUDA buffers and params on hook-less modules) — either share one helper or explain in the PR body why two mechanisms are right. - Add a CPU unit test for
release_exported_fused_experts(holders dropped, marker cleared, return count, second call a no-op);tests/unit/torch/quantization/plugins/test_fused_experts.pyalready builds a fused-experts module. - Confirm the layerwise path does not also leak the scale buffers registered on hooked submodules (
weight_scale,input_scale) —AlignDevicesHook.post_forwardruns withoffload_buffers=False, which is exactly category 1 in the streaming path's comment. - Iterate
list(root.modules())inrelease_exported_fused_experts; deleting children mid-generator only works bynamed_modules()internals.
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[SUGGESTION] Two small things about the marker:
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Second source of truth for the child names.
tuple(str(idx) for idx in range(n))re-derives the names thatmodule.add_module(str(idx), expert)chose 5 lines up. If that naming ever changes (an offset, a skipped expert, a prefix), the marker silently drifts and thehasattrguard makes the drift a no-op rather than an error — i.e. the leak comes back quietly. Collecting the names as they are attached keeps one source:expert_names = [] for idx in range(n): ... name = str(idx) module.add_module(name, expert) expert_names.append(name) ... module._modelopt_exported_expert_children = tuple(expert_names)
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Never cleared on the whole-model paths.
unified_export_hf/unified_export_hf_streamingcall_export_fused_expertsand never callrelease_exported_fused_experts, so every fused-experts module on the user's live model keeps a private_modelopt_exported_expert_childrenattribute after export returns. Harmless today (plain tuple, not instate_dict), but it is dangling state whose only reader is a function those paths must not call. Worth either clearing it in those paths once the state dict is written, or dropping the marker entirely in favour of the hook-based test the streaming writer already uses (if not hasattr(sub_mod, "_hf_hook")), which needs no bookkeeping on the model at all.
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Full scope reviewed: both changed files (modelopt/torch/export/layerwise_export.py, modelopt/torch/export/moe_utils.py, 39 additions), plus the surrounding call chain — model_calib._layerwise_calibrate → persistent_materialization → export_layer, weight_access_and_writeback_context, _export_quantized_weight, _reconstruct_fused_moe_linear, _CheckpointState.save, and LayerwiseExporter.finalize.
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[IMPORTANT Performance] layerwise_export.py:327 — the fix covers only one of the two accumulation categories the streaming writer already enumerates at unified_export_hf_streaming.py:471-500. Category 2 (packed parameters on hookless holder modules) is fixed here; category 1 (CUDA buffers registered by the export handlers on pre-existing hooked sub-modules) is not, because AlignDevicesHook.post_forward runs with offload_buffers=False on the per-leaf hooks and never meta-ifies buffers. The consequence that matters: for _QuantMoELinear models, _reconstruct_fused_moe_linear restacks the per-expert scales into a register_buffer("weight_scale", ...) on the hooked wrapper two lines before the release call — by this PR's own accounting that is ~1.6 GB per layer at Qwen3.8 scale, and it survives the window. So the leak this PR fixes for the fused-experts MoE implementation persists for the other one. Details and a suggested shared helper in the inline comment.
[SUGGESTION] moe_utils.py:233-235 — _modelopt_exported_expert_children re-derives the child names instead of recording the ones add_module used (silent drift → the leak returns quietly), and it is never cleared on the whole-model export paths, leaving dangling private state on the user's live model.
[SUGGESTION] moe_utils.py:238-264 — the docstring carries the root-cause writeup that CONTRIBUTING's coding standards route to the PR description; released has no consumer; root.modules() is mutated mid-iteration (safe today, but only via a torch implementation detail).
What I verified as correct
- Release ordering is sound.
export_layerruns insidepersistent_materialization, so the release lands beforehook.post_forward, which is the only place it could help._collectalready.cpu()-copies every tensor, sotensorsdoes not pin the GPU allocations and the release frees GPU memory immediately rather than at function return. - Nothing downstream needs the holders.
ckpt.saveruns right afterexport_layerand would readlayer.state_dict()— butsave_layer_state=exporter is None(model_calib.py:2131), so with an exporter bound it skips layer state entirely.finalize()excludes decoder-owned module ids and layer-name prefixes, and_write_indexreads the shards back from disk. No path observes the deleted children. - No interaction with
_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear. It matches_QuantMoELinearand consumesmodule.experts, a separate mechanism from the_export_fused_expertsholders, so the release is not a no-op via that route (it is, however, the source of the residual buffer above). - No public API, mode-registration, config-schema, or
modelopt_statesurface is touched;release_exported_fused_expertsis a new module-level symbol with a single in-tree caller. Backward compatible, and the CHANGELOG skip is correct per CONTRIBUTING (introduced and fixed in the same unreleased cycle).
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Low-to-moderate. The diagnosis is accurate and unusually well evidenced, and the change is narrow and correctly placed — it cannot break the exported artifact, which your byte-identical checkpoint check confirms. The risk is not regression but incompleteness: a reader will reasonably conclude the layerwise offload leak is closed, when for _QuantMoELinear models it is not. Closing the buffer half in the same place — ideally as one helper shared with the streaming writer, which solved this first — would make the two offload paths agree and leave a single mechanism to maintain.
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Two leaks, one mechanism.
`_export_fused_experts` splits a fused MoE experts module into per-expert holder
submodules and attaches them to the live model. They are plain `nn.Module`s
built *inside* the weight-access window, so they carry no accelerate `_hf_hook`.
`weight_access_and_writeback_context` closes by iterating the modules it
collected at entry and calling `hook.post_forward()` through each one's own
offload hook -- the holders satisfy neither condition, so nothing ever returns
them to meta.
Separately, the export handlers `register_buffer` weight_scale / weight_scale_2
/ input_scale on the layer's pre-existing, hooked sub-modules, and
`AlignDevicesHook.post_forward` runs with `offload_buffers=False`:
after post_forward: {'weight': 'meta', 'weight_scale': 'cpu'}
The packed weight goes back to meta; the scales do not.
A whole-model export never notices: one pass, write the state dict, exit. A
layerwise export runs the same pass once per decoder layer, so every finished
layer stays resident and the run grows until it runs out of memory. The two
paths diverge because resident weights make `_delete_fused_moe_source_attrs`
free real BF16 tensors 4x larger than their packed replacements, while offloaded
ones were on meta and cost nothing -- so the packed tensors are pure new
residency.
Measured through unmodified `examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py` on a Qwen3.5-MoE-shaped
model (10 layers, 64 experts), printing `torch.cuda.memory_allocated()` after
each exported layer:
offload +0.052 GiB/layer (0.579 -> 1.047 GiB over 9 layers)
resident -0.135 GiB/layer (falls, as designed)
+0.052 GiB is exactly one layer's quantized experts: packed U8 100.7M/2 = 0.047
GiB plus FP8 block scales 100.7M/16 = 0.006 GiB. At real scale this is fatal
rather than wasteful. Quantizing Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (92 layers, 512 experts)
leaks 12.9 GB packed + 1.6 GB scales per layer, so 92 layers need 1.33 TB that no
budget on a 283 GB card or 952 GB host can absorb. The run died of CUDA OOM at
layer 16/92 with `--max_gpu_memory_gb 240`, and at `--max_gpu_memory_gb 30`
leaked the same 15 GB/layer onto the host instead.
Which half dominates depends on the MoE implementation. For fused experts the
holders carry the weight and the scales. For `_QuantMoELinear` the 3-D packed
weight is a parameter that `post_forward` does meta-ify, and the leak is the
buffer half alone -- `_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear` restacks every expert's
scales into one `register_buffer` on the hooked wrapper, ~1.6 GB per layer at
Qwen3.8 scale, ~148 GB over 92 layers.
Fix: `release_exported_tensors` is a context manager that snapshots each
sub-module's buffer names on entry and, on exit, drops the holders plus whatever
buffers the block added. Persisting inside the block makes the precondition
structural -- from the exit point the shard on disk is the artifact, and
`finalize()` indexes shards by reading them back, never the layer.
`unified_export_hf_streaming` had solved the same leak inline with a heuristic:
null every CUDA buffer, and every CUDA parameter on a hook-less module. It now
uses the shared context manager instead. Keying on what the pass added rather
than on device and hook presence drops two assumptions that only held for a
terminal, offloaded export -- it no longer nulls buffers the layer already had,
nor parameters of sub-modules accelerate simply did not hook -- which is also
what makes it safe for the layerwise path, where resident models are supported
and the model outlives the export. That trades 29 lines of inline cleanup and
comment in the streaming writer for 5 lines of context manager.
Verified:
- cuda_alloc over 10 offloaded layers 0.526 -> 0.518 GiB (-0.008), was +0.468
- exported checkpoint byte-identical to the unfixed run: 7841 tensors,
0 mismatches, max abs diff 0.0; hf_quant_config.json / config.json / index
identical
- full Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B PTQ then completed all 92 layers: peak GPU 117 GB of
283, peak host RSS 71 GB of 952, flat across 50 consecutive layers at
23-26 s/layer
- tests/unit/torch/export and tests/unit/torch/quantization: 1246 passed
The byte-identical check and the 92-layer run predate the buffer half and the
streaming refactor; both need a re-run on GPU before this leaves draft.
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winRetain CUDA-parameter cleanup for non-hooked modules.
_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear()assigns a new stackednn.Parameterto each existing_QuantMoELinearand then removes its expanded experts.release_exported_tensors()clears only new buffers and marked fused-expert child modules, so it does not clear this parameter. When the decoder layer has no_hf_hook,enable_weight_access_and_writeback()usesnullcontext; the packed CUDA parameter remains attached after streaming. Repeated layers can therefore retain export-created GPU parameters and exhaust memory.Restore the prior parameter cleanup, or add equivalent cleanup for non-hooked modules:
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Prior review items are all addressed; the one thing left is a behaviour change the unification introduced in the streaming path that the author should confirm.
Needs action:
- Confirm dropping the old
not hasattr(sub_mod, "_hf_hook")parameter sweep is intentional: the new helper releases only new buffers on pre-existing modules plus marked expert holders, so the 3-DweightParameter_reconstruct_fused_moe_linearrestacks onto_QuantMoELinear(plugins/huggingface.py) now stays resident per layer whereunified_export_hf_streaming.pyused to free it. - Clear
_modelopt_exported_expert_childrenon the whole-model export paths (unified_export_hf.py), or say why leaving the private marker on the user's live model is fine — raised last round, still open.
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- ✔️ Resolved since the last review: the duplicate cleanup in
unified_export_hf_streaming.py(now one shared helper), the missing buffer category (weight_scale/input_scalevia the before/after diff),list(root.modules()), and the missing CPU tests (test_offload_export.py,test_fused_experts.py). - Test edit in
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[SUGGESTION] release_exported_tensors lands in the public API by accident. modelopt/torch/export/__init__.py:20 does from .moe_utils import *, and this module has no __all__, so every non-underscore top-level name is re-exported — modelopt.torch.export.release_exported_tensors is now a public symbol.
That is almost certainly not intended: it destructively nulls buffers and deletes submodules on a live model, it's only meaningful inside an export packing loop, and it has no user-facing contract. It also reads oddly next to its own helper _release_exported_fused_experts, and next to _export_fused_experts / _delete_fused_moe_source_attrs — every other helper in this file is underscored. Once it's in the package namespace it shows up in dir() and the API docs, and removing it later is a breaking change for a function nobody meant to ship.
Renaming to _release_exported_tensors costs only the three import sites (layerwise_export.py:40, unified_export_hf_streaming.py:47, plus the two tests) — from .moe_utils import _release_exported_tensors works fine for a private name. Adding an explicit __all__ to moe_utils.py would fix it too, and would keep the next helper from leaking the same way.
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[SUGGESTION] The marker is never cleared on the whole-model path, so it outlives the export.
_export_fused_experts always sets _modelopt_exported_expert_children, but only the layerwise and accelerate-offload streaming loops wrap the pass in release_exported_tensors. unified_export_hf.py:1024 (whole-model) and _packed_units_for_rank (FSDP2) call the handlers with no release window, so after those exports every fused-experts module on the user's live model carries a dangling private tuple naming submodules that — on the whole-model path — still exist and are still the thing model.state_dict() was read from.
It's harmless state today (a plain tuple, so it stays out of state_dict() and modelopt_state), but it's misleading: the attribute's name asserts "these children are pending release" on a model where nothing will ever release them. A reader debugging residency will chase it.
Also, setting it after _delete_fused_moe_source_attrs means the holders are attached and the fused source is already gone before they become trackable — if anything between add_module and this line raises, the holders are unreachable by the release path forever. Recording incrementally inside the loop (or assigning the tuple immediately after the loop, before step 4) closes that window at no cost.
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Full scope: all 5 changed files (modelopt/torch/export/{layerwise_export,moe_utils,unified_export_hf_streaming}.py plus the 2 test files; +109/-55), and the call chain needed to judge them — _dispatch_export_handler, _export_quantized_weight, _reconstruct_fused_moe_linear, _export_fused_experts, LayerwiseExporter.export_layer/_collect/finalize, and _packed_units_for_rank.
What this revision gets right
The redesign since 7431523 is a real improvement, and it closes the IMPORTANT finding from the last round:
- Category 1 is now covered.
_reconstruct_fused_moe_linearregistersweight_scale/weight_scale_2/input_scaleon the hooked_QuantMoELinearwrapper, whichpost_forwardnever meta-ifies (offload_buffers=False). The entry-time buffer-name snapshot catches those — the ~1.6 GB/layer half of the leak the previous revision missed. - The name diff is strictly safer than the device sweep it replaces. The old streaming code nulled every CUDA buffer, which would have wiped
TensorQuantizer._amax(unified_export_hf.py:657moves it to fp32 in place) and thek_bmm_quantizer._amax/v_bmm_quantizer._amaxthatpostprocess_state_dictmaps tok_scale/v_scale. Those are pre-existing names, so the diff leaves them alone. The newrotary_emb_inv_freqassertion pins exactly this. - Dropping the hookless-parameter sweep is sound, not a narrowing.
AlignDevicesHook.post_forwardenumerates the module's live tensors rather than a map recorded at attach time, so the freshly-stacked 3-Dmodule.weightfrom_reconstruct_fused_moe_linearis meta-ified even though it did not exist when the hook was installed.recurse=place_submodulesis False, so the hookless holders are what remains — and deleting them by marker covers that exactly. I tracedproj.weight = wrapper.weight(a realnn.Parameter, so genuinely resident) and confirmedwrapperitself is never attached to the tree. list(root.modules())fixes the mid-iteration mutation flagged by CodeRabbit and the prior round. Stale entries revisited after deletion simply miss the marker andcontinue.- Release ordering and liveness check out. In streaming,
with (enable_weight_access_and_writeback(...), release_exported_tensors(...))enters left-to-right so the snapshot is taken post-materialization, and exits in reverse so the release lands beforepost_forwardand beforetorch.cuda.empty_cache(). In layerwise,_collectdoes.detach().contiguous().cpu(), sotensorsnever pins the GPU allocation and the release frees immediately. - Nothing downstream observes the released state.
finalize()skips decoder-owned module ids and layer-name prefixes,_write_indexre-reads shards from disk, andstate_dict()skipsNonebuffers. Consistent with your byte-identical checkpoint result. - No mode registration, config schema, or
modelopt_statesurface is touched; the CHANGELOG skip is correct per CONTRIBUTING (introduced and fixed in the same unreleased cycle).
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[IMPORTANT Performance] The FSDP2 packing loop has the same holder leak and is the one packing loop left uncovered
_packed_units_for_rank (unified_export_hf_streaming.py:591-607) runs the identical sequence this PR just wrapped twice over:
with enable_weight_access_and_writeback(module, model, names, writeback=True):
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_dispatch_export_handler(full_name, sub_module, ctx)
_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear(module)
for key, tensor in module.state_dict().items():
owned.append((full_key, tensor.detach().contiguous().cpu()))writeback=True redistributes module's own parameters. It does not remove child modules that add_module attached during the window, so the per-expert holders — proj.weight packed U8 plus the weight_scale/weight_scale_2/input_scale buffers — stay resident on GPU after the unit is packed, and accumulate across every unit in get_export_units(model). Same arithmetic as your table, against sharded GPU memory instead of an offload budget. The in-window comment ("packing rebinds the parameter, so the restore copies the untouched gathered data back and drops the packed tensor") is accurate for module's own parameters and simply does not reach the new children.
This is pre-existing, not a regression, so scoping it out is a legitimate call. I raise it as IMPORTANT because the helper now exists, the fix is one line in a file this PR already edits, and as it stands the PR makes the streaming writer look uniformly fixed when one of its two packing paths is not:
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enable_weight_access_and_writeback(module, model, names, writeback=True),
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):Note the interaction with if not is_owner: continue — non-owners never run the handlers, so the context manager is a no-op snapshot for them and the collective is unaffected. If you would rather not touch the FSDP2 path in a bug-fix PR, a one-line comment at that loop pointing at the gap would keep the next reader from assuming it is covered.
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moe_utils.py:249-259—before is None: continuesilently skips modules created inside the window (empty today only because_export_fused_expertsis the sole creator and its holders are deleted separately);buffers_before.get(name, set())is strictly safer. Separately,yieldsits outside atry/finally, which now also coverssave_fileon the resumable layerwise path.moe_utils.py:241—release_exported_tensorsbecomes public API viafrom .moe_utils import *(export/__init__.py:20, no__all__in this module). Underscore it, or add an explicit__all__.moe_utils.py:237— the marker is never cleared on the whole-model and FSDP2 paths, leaving a dangling private attribute that asserts a pending release which will never happen; and setting it after_delete_fused_moe_source_attrsleaves a window where attached holders are not yet trackable.
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pytest could not be executed in this review environment, so the suites you list are unverified here and this review is static. The new test_release_exported_tensors_drops_what_the_offload_window_leaves is well aimed: it asserts offload_buffers is False, demonstrates the leak inside the window, and pins both the release and the non-destructiveness. With the restructured test_fused_experts.py case (holders dropped on block exit), the prior round's request for a unit test on the new helper is satisfied.
Risk assessment
Low. The diagnosis is accurate and unusually well evidenced, the mechanism is both more precise and less destructive than the code it replaces, and it cannot alter the exported artifact — every tensor is copied out before the release, which your byte-identical check confirms. The unification the last round asked for happened: one helper, two call sites, the duplicated streaming block deleted. The remaining gap is coverage of the third packing loop, not correctness of what is here.
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Review follow-up. `modelopt/torch/export/__init__.py` does `from .moe_utils import *` and the module has no `__all__`, so `release_exported_tensors` had become a public symbol -- `modelopt.torch.export.release_exported_tensors` resolved, and it nulls buffers and deletes submodules on a live model. Renamed to `_release_exported_tensors`; the three import sites take the private name. Two edges on the name-keyed diff: - A module absent from the entry snapshot was created by the export pass, so every buffer on it is the pass's. Releasing those is strictly safer than skipping the module, which would have let a future handler that registers a buffer on a freshly created submodule leak with no signal. - `_export_fused_experts` records the holders before `_delete_fused_moe_source_attrs` rather than after, so they are trackable from the moment they are attached. The context manager still releases nothing when the block raises; the docstring now says why -- an aborted export leaves the layer intact to be inspected -- since `finally` is the reader's default expectation for a cleanup context manager. Not taken: restoring the streaming writer's `not hasattr(sub_mod, "_hf_hook")` parameter sweep to cover `_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear`'s restacked parameter. `dispatch_model` attaches an `AlignDevicesHook` to every submodule it dispatches, resident ones included (`offload=False`), and the streaming path is only reached when `has_accelerate_offload(model)` holds. Every pre-existing module therefore has `_hf_hook`, so that branch only ever matched modules accelerate never saw -- the fused-expert holders, which the marker now covers precisely. tests/unit/torch/export and tests/unit/torch/quantization: 1246 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Fridah-nv <201670829+Fridah-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
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Nudge: the fix and its tests look right, but the dangling expert marker on the non-layerwise export paths is still open and the PR is still marked draft.
Needs action:
- Clear
_modelopt_exported_expert_childrenon the whole-model (unified_export_hf.py) and FSDP2 (collect_export_tensors) paths, or say why leaving the private marker on a live model is fine — raised twice, still unanswered. - Decide on the FSDP2 packing loop in
unified_export_hf_streaming.py: wrap it in_release_exported_tensorsor add a one-line comment that per-unit holder residency is deliberately out of scope. - Confirm the checklist is complete and take the PR out of draft.
No action needed:
- ✔️ Resolved since the last review: the duplicated streaming cleanup (now one shared helper), the missing scale-buffer category,
list(root.modules()), the missing CPU tests, the accidental public symbol, and the re-derived expert names. - I verified dropping the old
not hasattr(sub_mod, "_hf_hook")param sweep is safe:_QuantMoELinear._setuprefuses accelerate-offloaded weights, so the offload streaming path never holds a hookless restacked 3-D parameter. - Test edit in
test_fused_experts.pyis justified: assertions moved inside the new block, coverage intact plus a holders-released check.
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Claude review — 1 IMPORTANT, 1 SUGGESTION
Full scope: all 5 changed files (modelopt/torch/export/{layerwise_export,moe_utils,unified_export_hf_streaming}.py + 2 test files, +107/−55), plus the call chain needed to judge them: weight_access_and_writeback_context, persistent_materialization, _writeback_params_to_weights_map, model_calib._layerwise_calibrate, _prepare_moe_inputs, _unify_shared_quantization_params, _reconstruct_fused_moe_linear, LayerwiseExporter.export_layer/_collect/finalize/_write_index, and _packed_units_for_rank.
Resolved since the last round
The head commit (2999d7c, "keep the release helper private and tighten its edges") closes all three SUGGESTIONs from round 2:
release_exported_tensors→_release_exported_tensors, so it no longer escapes throughfrom .moe_utils import *inexport/__init__.py.buffers_before.get(name, set())replaces thebefore is None: continueskip, so a module created inside the window no longer silently escapes the diff.- The marker is now set before
_delete_fused_moe_source_attrs, closing the window where attached holders were untrackable.
Newly verified this round
- The release cannot corrupt the artifact on either path. In layerwise,
_collectruns_postprocess_single_tensor(kv-cache_amax→k_scale/v_scale, name reversal) and.detach().contiguous().cpu()inside the block, and_write_indexre-reads the shards from disk — so every derived tensor is materialized before anything is nulled.finalize()skips decoder-owned module ids and layer-name prefixes, and_collectdropsNone/meta silently. Consistent with your byte-identical result. - The
writeback=Trueexit path is unaffected.persistent_materialization(layer, writeback=calib_mutates_weights)can pass True (AWQ/SmoothQuant), and its exit calls_writeback_params_to_weights_mapbeforepost_forward. That touches parameters only, so the nulled buffers can't reach it — and because the release runs first, the deleted holders can't be written intoweights_mapeither, which would have been a host-side leak. Ordering is right, not just harmless. - The buffer-name diff doesn't catch quantizer state.
_prepare_moe_inputsand_unify_shared_quantization_paramsrun outside the block inexport_layer, so any_amaxthey register for an uncalibrated expert is in the entry snapshot and survives. Therotary_emb_inv_freqassertion in the new test pins the same property for pre-existing buffers. - Marker-based deletion is exhaustive over the loop.
expert_namesrecords everyadd_modulename with nocontinuepath that would skip one, andhasattr/delattrresolve digit-named children correctly throughnn.Module.__getattr__/__delattr__. - No mode registration, config schema, public
__init__.pyexport, ormodelopt_statesurface is touched. The CHANGELOG skip is correct per CONTRIBUTING (introduced and fixed within the unreleased 0.48.0 cycle).
Findings
CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 1 · SUGGESTION: 1
[IMPORTANT Performance] The FSDP2 packing loop still leaks — third packing path, still uncovered and still unmarked
_packed_units_for_rank (unified_export_hf_streaming.py:592-607) runs the exact sequence this PR now wraps at the other two sites, and is unchanged at head:
with enable_weight_access_and_writeback(module, model, names, writeback=True):
if not is_owner:
continue
for sub_name, sub_module in module.named_modules():
_dispatch_export_handler(full_name, sub_module, ctx)
_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear(module)
for key, tensor in module.state_dict().items():
owned.append((full_key, tensor.detach().contiguous().cpu()))_dispatch_export_handler reaches _export_fused_experts here just as it does in the offload loop, so the per-expert holders get attached inside the window. writeback=True redistributes module's own parameters — it does not remove children that add_module attached during the window. So proj.weight (packed U8) plus the weight_scale/weight_scale_2/input_scale buffers stay resident on GPU after the unit is packed, and accumulate across every unit in get_export_units(model). Same arithmetic as your table, against sharded GPU memory instead of an offload budget. The in-window comment ("packing rebinds the parameter, so the restore copies the untouched gathered data back and drops the packed tensor") is accurate for module's own parameters and simply does not reach the new children.
This is pre-existing, not a regression from this PR, so scoping it out is a legitimate call. I keep it at IMPORTANT for the same reason as last round, which the intervening commit did not change: the helper now exists, the fix is one line in a file this PR already edits, and as the diff stands it deletes the streaming writer's cleanup block and replaces it with a helper applied to one of that file's two packing loops — a reader will reasonably conclude the file is uniformly fixed.
with (
enable_weight_access_and_writeback(module, model, names, writeback=True),
_release_exported_tensors(module),
):if not is_owner: continue is benign here: non-owners never run the handlers, so the context manager is a no-op snapshot for them and the collective is unaffected.
If you would rather not touch the FSDP2 path in a bug-fix PR, that is reasonable — but then please leave a one-line comment at that loop naming the gap, so the next reader doesn't assume coverage. Either resolution clears this finding.
[SUGGESTION] moe_utils.py:234 — marker never cleared on the non-releasing paths (posted inline, carried over)
Testing note
pytest was not run in this review environment, so the suites listed in the description are unverified here; this review is static. The new test_release_exported_tensors_drops_what_the_offload_window_leaves is well aimed — it asserts offload_buffers is False, demonstrates the leak inside the window, and pins both the release and its non-destructiveness toward rotary_emb_inv_freq. The restructured test_fused_experts.py case covers holder release on block exit.
Risk assessment
Low. The diagnosis is well evidenced, the mechanism is both more precise and less destructive than the device sweep it replaces, and it provably cannot alter the exported artifact — every tensor is postprocessed and copied to CPU before anything is released. The one open item is coverage of the third packing loop, not correctness of what is here.
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@sugunav14 Please take a look at the FSDP part and see if it makes sense and deserve efforts to fix it (buffer memory are small in most cases..) |
`_export_fused_experts` recorded `_modelopt_exported_expert_children` so the release helper knew which children to delete. Only the layerwise and offload-streaming loops release, so on the whole-model, streaming tail and FSDP2 paths the attribute was set and never cleared -- private state asserting a pending release that would never happen, left on a model the user may go on to save or re-export. The helper already decided what to drop by diffing buffer names against an entry snapshot. Extending that snapshot to child module names answers the same question for the holders, so the marker has nothing left to say: anything absent at entry was added by the pass. `_export_fused_experts` goes back to a plain `add_module`, `_release_exported_fused_experts` goes away, and no path leaves anything behind. This also retires the two review threads the marker was accumulating -- names re-derived from `range(n)`, and the window between attaching a holder and recording it -- since there is no longer a name to drift or a moment to miss. The FSDP2 packing loop in `_packed_units_for_rank` still keeps its per-unit holders. That predates this PR, which does not touch that loop, and is left to its own change. tests/unit/torch/export and tests/unit/torch/quantization/plugins/test_fused_experts.py: 277 passed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Fridah-nv <201670829+Fridah-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: Bug fix
_export_fused_expertssplits a fused MoE experts module into per-expert holder submodules and attaches them to the live model:Those holders are plain
nn.Modules built inside the weight-access window, so they carry no accelerate_hf_hook.weight_access_and_writeback_contextcloses by iterating the modules it collected at entry and callinghook.post_forward()through each one's own offload hook — the holders satisfy neither condition, so nothing ever returns them to meta.Whole-model export never notices: one pass, write the state dict, exit. Layerwise export runs the same pass once per decoder layer, so every finished layer's packed experts stay resident. The two paths diverge because resident weights make
_delete_fused_moe_source_attrsfree real BF16 tensors 4x larger than their packed replacements, while offloaded ones were on meta and cost nothing — so the packed tensors are pure new residency.Measured through unmodified
examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.pyon a Qwen3.5-MoE-shaped model (10 layers, 64 experts), printingtorch.cuda.memory_allocated()after each exported layer:+0.052 GiB is exactly one layer's quantized experts: packed U8 100.7M/2 = 0.047 GiB plus FP8 block scales 100.7M/16 = 0.006 GiB. What survives each layer's offload window is 768 tensors / 54.0 MiB, all of it
mlp.experts.{i}.{gate,up,down}_proj.{weight,weight_scale,weight_scale_2,input_scale}.At real scale this is fatal rather than wasteful. Quantizing Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (92 layers, 512 experts) leaks 12.9 GB packed + 1.6 GB scales = 14.5 GB per layer, so 92 layers need 1.33 TB that no budget on a 283 GB card or 952 GB host can absorb. The run died of CUDA OOM at layer 16/92 with
--max_gpu_memory_gb 240, and at--max_gpu_memory_gb 30leaked the same 15 GB/layer onto the host instead.Fix:
_export_fused_expertsrecords the holders it attached, andrelease_exported_fused_experts()drops them.LayerwiseExporter.export_layercalls it right aftersave_file— from that point the shard on disk is the artifact, andfinalize()indexes shards by reading them back, never the layer. The release is kept separate from the split because the whole-model path still needs the holders: it reads them out ofmodel.state_dict()at the very end.Usage
No API change. Existing layerwise export under offload just stops growing:
python examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py \ --pyt_ckpt_path Qwen/Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B \ --qformat nvfp4 \ --export_path /path/to/export \ --max_gpu_memory_gb 240Testing
cuda_allocover 10 offloaded layers: 0.526 → 0.518 GiB (-0.008), was +0.468hf_quant_config.json/config.json/ index JSON identicaltests/gpu/torch/export/test_layerwise_export.py— 31 passedtests/gpu/torch/export/test_offload_export.py— 4 passedtests/unit/torch/export/test_offload_export.py— 38 passedBefore your PR is "Ready for review"
CONTRIBUTING.md: N/Alayerwise.export_diris new in the unreleased 0.48.0, so this bug was introduced and fixed within the same cycle.Additional Information
Draft: opening for early visibility while the checklist above is finished.
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