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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughStep-3.7 Flash gains structural expert-indexed MoE detection, per-expert PTQ, dedicated NVFP4 recipes, export handling, documentation updates, and unit tests for quantization and export behavior. ChangesStep-3.7 PTQ
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Step-3.7 PTQ adds generic expert-indexed MoE quantization and export support, but compatible-looking MoE modules with unsupported optional arguments or incompatible weight dimensions may be converted and then fail during use or export. The release note also needs concise user-facing wording before this support is ready to merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Model->>register_moe_linear_on_the_fly: inspect expert-indexed 3-D-weight modules
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QuantMoELinear->>Model: quantize experts and reconstruct fused weights
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1957-1975: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueUse the module logger instead of
register_moe_linear_on_the_flyruns on every rank.register_fused_experts_on_the_flybehavior.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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_MoELinearhere duplicates_SyntheticMoELinearintests/unit/torch/quantization/plugins/test_moe_linear.py, including the 3-D weight layout and theforward(x, expert_id)contract. Detection depends on that exact shape. Two copies can drift and then one test suite silently stops exercising the real layout. Move the module into a shared test helper and import it in both files.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@modelopt_recipes/huggingface/step3p7/ptq/nvfp4_mlp_only-kv_fp8.yaml`:
- Around line 55-59: Update the comment above the quantizer disable entries to
state that *moe* matches only the router and that *share_expert* is disabled as
an explicit guard. Apply this identical comment-only change in
modelopt_recipes/huggingface/step3p7/ptq/nvfp4_mlp_only-kv_fp8.yaml lines 55-59
and modelopt_recipes/huggingface/step3p7/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast.yaml
lines 50-54; leave the quantizer entries unchanged.
In `@modelopt_recipes/ptq.md`:
- Around line 303-305: Update the recipe guidance near the Step-3.5-specific
path to scope “these” recipes and the recommendation to Step-3.7 checkpoints
only; explicitly preserve the separate step3p5/Step-3.5-Flash/ptq/nvfp4-mlp-only
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/huggingface.py`:
- Around line 1957-1975: Replace the ANSI-colored print in
register_moe_linear_on_the_fly with the module’s existing logger, or the same
logging approach used by register_fused_experts_on_the_fly. Preserve the
detection message and include the module name and type without hardcoded
terminal escape sequences.
In `@tests/unit/recipe/test_step3p7_recipes.py`:
- Around line 32-53: Move the duplicated _MoELinear implementation into a shared
test helper, preserving its 3-D weight layout and forward(x, expert_id)
contract. Update both _StepMoEMLP in test_step3p7_recipes.py and the plugin
test’s _SyntheticMoELinear usage to import and reuse that shared helper,
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The Step-3.7 registration and recipes are well tested at conversion time, but the class-independent support is incomplete in the export path: export dispatch still keys specifically on QuantMoELinear, so generated wrapper names that collide or originate from differently named compatible classes bypass the missing-amax preparation. The new reconstruction test does not exercise that dispatch. Also, one new file's NVIDIA header differs from the repository's canonical 2026 LICENSE_HEADER, so licensing needs correction or human sign-off.
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The registration is now structural/class-name-independent, but the corresponding export handler in modelopt/torch/export/hf_export_handlers.py is still registered only for the string "QuantMoELinear". A compatible class with another name—and even a second remote MoELinear type when that generated name is already occupied—gets a differently named dynamic class and will bypass _export_moe_linear, leaving unrouted experts without its input-amax fallback. Please make that handler match isinstance(module, _QuantMoELinear) (or an equivalent structural predicate), and add an export-path test using the differently named synthetic class. The current test calls _reconstruct_fused_moe_linear directly, so it cannot catch this.
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Fixed in fbfb880. You were right that the export path still keyed on the name; the predicate now matches _QuantMoELinear through the MRO (lazy import, since the wrapper is in the optional transformers plugin). The literal-name check is kept only because test_export_registry.py:210 and test_export_weight.py:105 dispatch synthetic stand-ins named QuantMoELinear that are not real wrappers — for real models isinstance is a strict superset. Two export-path tests added: one asserts the registry resolves a real Quant_SyntheticMoELinear to _export_moe_linear (verified non-vacuous — it fails against the old name-keyed registration), one asserts the handler fills an unrouted expert's input amax.
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Fixed in fbfb880 — now the canonical 2026 LICENSE_HEADER. (tests/unit/recipe/test_step3p7_recipes.py, the other new file, already had it.)
Review feedback on #2202: the registration was made class-name-independent, but `_export_moe_linear` was still registered for the literal name `QuantMoELinear`. A compatible remote-code class under any other name — or a second one, whose generated class name gets uniquified — produced a differently named dynamic class that bypassed the handler, so experts calibration never routed to were exported without their input-amax fallback. The predicate now matches `_QuantMoELinear` through the MRO (lazily imported, since the wrapper lives in the optional transformers plugin), keeping the name check as a fallback so the synthetic stand-ins in the export tests still match. Two tests cover the dispatch itself rather than calling the handler directly: one asserts the registry resolves a `Quant_SyntheticMoELinear` to this handler (it fails against the old name-keyed registration), one asserts the handler fills an unrouted expert's input amax. Also from review: use the canonical 2026 license header, correct the recipe comments (`*moe*` matches the router, but not `share_expert`, which is an explicit guard), and scope the ptq.md recommendation to Step-3.7 since Step-3.5 has its own recipe. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
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Thanks — the export-dispatch finding was right and is fixed in fbfb880, along with the three smaller ones. Export handler keyed on the class name. Confirmed: try:
from modelopt.torch.quantization.plugins.huggingface import _QuantMoELinear
if isinstance(module, _QuantMoELinear):
return True
except ImportError:
pass
return any(cls.__name__ == "QuantMoELinear" for cls in type(module).__mro__)The import is lazy because the wrapper lives in the optional transformers plugin (mirroring how Export-path tests added, as asked. License header — fixed to the canonical 2026 Recipe comments — you're right, and the comment was wrong in a way worth correcting: Step's shared expert is
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Review nit on #2202: the two export-dispatch tests imported `_export_moe_linear` / the registry inside the test bodies, which delays import errors to run time. Neither is optional nor circular here, so they belong at module scope. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
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Re-review complete. The prior critical issues are addressed: export dispatch now recognizes _QuantMoELinear wrappers independently of generated class names and has regression coverage for both registry dispatch and unrouted-expert amax fallback; the new test header matches the canonical 2026 LICENSE_HEADER; and the local test imports were moved to module scope. The recipe comments and Step-3.7 documentation scope were also corrected.
Design review: the problem is that Step’s remote-code expert projections are neither nn.Linear nor the existing fused-expert-container layout, so they were skipped by quantization. The relevant alternatives are extending the prior Step-3.5 name-gated registration, adapting the existing _fused_experts_wrapper_class path, or requiring users to manually register custom modules through the existing quantization registry. The PR body explains why the normal linear and fused-container paths cannot claim this projection layout and reasonably chooses to generalize the existing _QuantMoELinear registration structurally; PyTorch introspection plus the existing registry is more appropriate here than the installed configuration libraries such as OmegaConf/Hydra. Tests cover detection, rejection cases, conversion/calibration, reconstruction, export dispatch, amax fallback, and both recipes. The new-file NVIDIA headers match the repository canonical header, so the standard-header licensing exception applies.
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Step-3.5 and Step-3.7 ship the same custom `MoELinear` via trust_remote_code:
one 3-D `weight` of [num_experts, out_features, in_features] on a plain module
whose `forward(x, expert_id)` runs F.linear against the selected slice. The
`_QuantMoELinear` wrapper that expands those into per-expert Linears already
existed, but its registration was gated on the Step-3.5 class names
(`Step3p5ForCausalLM` / `Step3p5MoEMLP`), so on Step-3.7 no expert ever
received a quantizer: an experts-only run calibrated the KV cache, quantized
nothing else, and exported a checkpoint with `quant_algo: null` and an empty
`quantized_layers`.
Detect the layout structurally instead — a 3-D `weight` plus `num_experts` /
`in_features` / `out_features` and a two-positional-argument forward — so any
Step revision (or another model shipping this layout) is picked up without a
new hardcoded name. `_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear` likewise matches the
wrapper type rather than the generated `QuantMoELinear` class name, which would
otherwise quantize fine but export unusable per-expert keys for a model whose
class is spelled differently.
Step's module names are the second half of the problem: the MoE block is `moe`
and the dense sibling is `share_expert`, so the general recipes' `*.experts.*`
/ `*block_sparse_moe*` / `*mlp*` patterns match none of the routed experts.
Ship `huggingface/step3p7/ptq/{nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast,
nvfp4_mlp_only-kv_fp8}`, which select `*moe*` and disable the router and the
shared expert, mirroring the existing Step-3.5 recipe.
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Review feedback on #2202: the registration was made class-name-independent, but `_export_moe_linear` was still registered for the literal name `QuantMoELinear`. A compatible remote-code class under any other name — or a second one, whose generated class name gets uniquified — produced a differently named dynamic class that bypassed the handler, so experts calibration never routed to were exported without their input-amax fallback. The predicate now matches `_QuantMoELinear` through the MRO (lazily imported, since the wrapper lives in the optional transformers plugin), keeping the name check as a fallback so the synthetic stand-ins in the export tests still match. Two tests cover the dispatch itself rather than calling the handler directly: one asserts the registry resolves a `Quant_SyntheticMoELinear` to this handler (it fails against the old name-keyed registration), one asserts the handler fills an unrouted expert's input amax. Also from review: use the canonical 2026 license header, correct the recipe comments (`*moe*` matches the router, but not `share_expert`, which is an explicit guard), and scope the ptq.md recommendation to Step-3.7 since Step-3.5 has its own recipe. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
Review nit on #2202: the two export-dispatch tests imported `_export_moe_linear` / the registry inside the test bodies, which delays import errors to run time. Neither is optional nor circular here, so they belong at module scope. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
The branch was written before `layerwise` lost its legacy bool form on main, so
both recipes still said `layerwise: false` and failed
`test_shipped_ptq_recipe_algorithm_config_constructs` once rebased
(`ValidationError for MaxCalibConfig`). Use `layerwise: {enable: false}`, as the
general recipes now do.
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In `@CHANGELOG.rst`:
- Line 33: The Step-3.7 entry in CHANGELOG.rst exposes internal implementation
details; rewrite it as one or two user-facing sentences covering PTQ support,
the two available recipes, and the required action to use those Step-specific
recipes instead of general ones, without mentioning MoELinear,
trust_remote_code, structural detection, or model-class matching.
In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/huggingface.py`:
- Line 1956: Update _is_expert_indexed_moe_linear to require the complete
forward contract, including the keyword-only router_state parameter, and
validate that weight has shape (module.num_experts, module.out_features,
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[P1] Preserve or reject Accelerate-offloaded MoELinear weights before conversion. This new registration routes Step-3.7 modules into _QuantMoELinear._setup(). When device_map="auto" places one on CPU or disk, self.weight can be a meta tensor while the real value remains in the Accelerate hook under the original weight key. _setup() then creates meta experts.N.weight parameters, deletes self.weight, and leaves the hook pointing to the deleted key. I reproduced a correct [8, 26, 44, 62] forward becoming [0, 0, 0, 0] immediately after mtq.quantize, even with every quantizer disabled. This is reachable through the supported/default auto-device-map and --offload_folder loading path. Please either materialize and retarget the offload mapping during conversion, or reject offloaded/meta MoELinear modules before calibration, and add a CPU/disk-offload regression test.
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Reproduced and fixed in 727bcfa. Confirmed the mechanism end to end with accelerate.cpu_offload: after offload weight.is_meta is True, the module still forwards correctly through the hook, and mtq.quantize then walks into _setup(). On my versions it surfaces as RuntimeError: Tensor.item() cannot be called on meta tensors rather than the [0, 0, 0, 0] you saw — same root cause, and silent corruption is clearly reachable on the disk-offload path where the copy succeeds.
Conversion now refuses before doing anything, with an actionable message pointing at the offload as the cause. I chose refusal over materialize-and-retarget deliberately: rewiring the hook's weights_map from weight onto experts.N.weight is the richer fix but I cannot validate it without a real offloaded multi-GPU setup, and shipping an unvalidated remap of the exact mechanism that was corrupting weights seemed worse than a clear refusal. Happy to do the remap as a follow-up if you'd like it, ideally with someone who can run the offloaded path.
test_offloaded_weights_are_refused_not_silently_corrupted is the regression test — it runs accelerate.cpu_offload on the projection and asserts mtq.quantize raises.
Worth noting this is pre-existing behaviour of _QuantMoELinear from #1063 rather than something this PR introduces, but the PR does make it newly reachable for Step-3.7, so it belongs here.
…d weights Two P1 findings from review, both reproduced locally before fixing. Structural detection was too loose. Shape alone is not the contract: the wrapper's forward indexes `self.experts[expert_id]`, so it only works when the caller passes a scalar index. A grouped-GEMM MoE layer has the identical 3-D weight and the same three attributes but passes a per-expert token-count tensor -- Moondream3's `MoeFusedLinear.forward(input, m_sizes)` was claimed by the predicate and raises `TypeError: only integer tensors of a single element can be converted to an index` on the first calibration forward. The second parameter must now be named `expert_id`, the scalar-index contract both Step revisions declare. Accelerate offload silently corrupted the weights. Under `device_map="auto"` or `--offload_folder`, `weight` is a meta tensor whose value lives in the module's offload hook under the original `weight` key; `_setup` copied that meta storage into every expert and then deleted the key the hook restores into. Conversion now refuses with an actionable message instead. Materializing and retargeting the hook would be the richer fix, but it cannot be validated without the real offloaded setup, and refusing beats exporting zeros. Both are covered by regression tests: a grouped-routing module is not claimed, and converting an `accelerate.cpu_offload`-ed module raises. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
…ng it Review follow-ups on the same predicate. It accepted a 3-D weight of any layout, so `[num_experts, in_features, out_features]` would have rebuilt each expert from the wrong slices; the shape is now checked against `(num_experts, out_features, in_features)`. It also counted only required positional parameters, so `forward(self, x, expert_id, *, router_state=None)` or a `**kwargs` forward was claimed even though the replacement forward takes exactly `(x, expert_id)` and would raise `TypeError` for those callers; the signature must now match what the wrapper can honour. Also trims the changelog entry to what a user needs — the feature, the recipes to use, and why not the general ones — instead of the internals. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/huggingface.py`:
- Line 1974: Update the MoELinear contract predicate containing the
positional-parameter check to require exactly the wrapper-supported forward
signature, rejecting optional or additional parameters such as router_state.
Before returning true, also validate that the weight shape exactly matches
(num_experts, out_features, in_features), rather than accepting any 3-D weight.
In `@tests/unit/torch/quantization/plugins/test_moe_linear.py`:
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Changes requested: global structural registration can still replace unrelated modules whose behavior is incompatible with _QuantMoELinear.
Needs action:
- Fix the overly broad predicate in
huggingface.pyand add the negative regression described inline. - Add an optional-dependency justification above the function-local
accelerateimport intest_moe_linear.py.
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- ✔️ Resolved since the last review: export dispatch, canonical headers, offload refusal, grouped-routing rejection, shape/signature checks, and recipe documentation.
- The design choice is justified: this extends the existing wrapper/registry because plain
nn.Linearand_fused_experts_wrapper_classcannot handle Step’s projection layout.
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expert_id is only a parameter name; it does not prove the semantics this replacement assumes. Because this plugin runs globally, any module with the same attributes/signature but per-expert bias, scaling, or another post-op is claimed, and _QuantMoELinear.forward silently drops that behavior. Please scope discovery to the Step family without hard-coding a revision class, or preserve/verify the original forward semantics, and add a same-signature non-Step negative regression.
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Fixed in 9a573bb by gating registration on the Step family, which is the first of your two options. _is_expert_indexed_moe_linear still does the shape/signature check (it's still needed to pick the right module within a Step model — the router, share_expert, and other Linears in the tree don't have this shape), but register_moe_linear_on_the_fly now also requires the root model to match the Step family: model_type or class name against step<digit> — not Step3p5ForCausalLM/Step3p7ForConditionalGeneration by exact name, so a future Step release is still picked up without another hardcoded name, but a structurally-identical non-Step module is not.
Added test_non_step_model_with_identical_signature_is_not_registered: a module with the exact _SyntheticStepMoEMLP shape (3-D weight, forward(x, expert_id)) rooted under a model with model_type="not_step", asserting it is not registered. Verified non-vacuous — it fails if I remove the gate.
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Keeping this import local is appropriate because accelerate is optional, but please add a brief comment immediately above it stating that reason, as required for function-local Python imports.
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Fixed in 9a573bb — added the optional-dependency comment on the accelerate import.
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Re-reviewed the latest head. The prior Accelerate-offload corruption and grouped-routing false-positive findings are addressed. One remaining correctness issue is noted inline.
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[P1] Preserve Step’s FP32 MoELinear computation. This registration newly routes Step-3.7 through _QuantMoELinear, whose forward casts x down to the stored BF16 weight dtype before invoking nn.Linear. The original Step implementation explicitly evaluates F.linear(x.float(), weight.float()); therefore conversion changes the model even when every quantizer is disabled, and the down projection rounds its FP32 activation before the input quantizer observes it. I reproduced non-identical output on this head with a BF16 4096→1280 projection and disabled quantizers (max absolute error 0.0155). Please apply the input/weight quantizers but execute the linear in FP32, preserve output-quantizer behavior, and add a disabled-quantizer parity test using BF16 weights.
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Reproduced and fixed in 9a573bb. You're right — the original MoELinear.forward promotes to fp32 unconditionally (F.linear(x.float(), self.weight[expert_id].float())), but the wrapper's forward was downcasting the fp32 activation to the expert's stored weight dtype (bf16 on real checkpoints) before the matmul. I reproduced ~0.5 max absolute error on a bf16 4096→1280 projection with every quantizer disabled — a bigger delta than yours, likely because my activation was also bf16 rather than fp32 going in.
Fix: expert weights are now expanded in fp32 in _setup (matching what Step's own forward promotes storage to at call time) instead of the original storage dtype, and forward upcasts x to fp32 to match instead of downcasting to the weight's dtype. Verified bit-exact (torch.equal, not allclose) against the reference after the fix.
New test: test_disabled_quantizers_reproduce_bf16_weight_fp32_compute_parity — bf16 weight, bf16 activation, quantizers disabled, asserts exact equality with the unconverted reference, and asserts conversion actually happened (so the test can't pass vacuously by skipping conversion).
… on the Step family Two reviewer findings on #2202, both reproduced before fixing. [P1, meenchen] _QuantMoELinear.forward downcast the fp32 activation to the expert's stored weight dtype (e.g. bf16) before the matmul, then upcast the result. Step's own MoELinear always computes in fp32 regardless of storage dtype (`F.linear(x.float(), self.weight[expert_id].float())`), so this changed the model's output even with every quantizer disabled -- reproduced a max absolute error of ~0.5 on a bf16 4096->1280 projection. Expert weights are now expanded in fp32 (matching what Step's own forward promotes to), and the wrapper's forward upcasts x to fp32 to match; bit-exact with the reference after the fix. New parity test asserts equality, not just closeness, with every quantizer disabled. [cjluo-nv] The structural shape/signature check alone is a coincidence risk: an unrelated architecture that happens to reuse a 3-D weight and the parameter name `expert_id` -- but with different semantics, e.g. a per-expert bias or post-scale -- would be claimed and have that behavior silently dropped by the replacement wrapper. Registration is now also gated on the root model matching the Step family (`model_type` or class name against `step<digit>`), not an exact revision, so new Step releases are still picked up without another hardcoded name while non-Step code with the same shape is not swept in. New regression test builds a structurally identical module on a non-Step model and asserts it is not registered, and is verified non-vacuous (fails without the gate). Also: the accelerate import in the offload regression test now carries the optional-dependency comment CONTRIBUTING.md requires for in-function imports. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
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Pushed 9a573bb addressing both P1s from the latest round (@meenchen's fp32-compute regression, @cjluo-nv's structural-detection scoping) plus the accelerate-import nit — replied in each thread with what changed. Summary:
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[P1] Keep Step expert weights in their original storage dtype. Promoting every expert parameter to FP32 fixes the GEMM semantics, but turns Step’s temporary per-call promotion into persistent model state. Step-3.7 has 42 MoE layers × 3 projections × 288 experts × 4096 × 1280 = 190,253,629,440 routed-expert parameters, so BF16→FP32 adds approximately 354.4 GiB throughout calibration. Device placement was calculated for BF16 and offloaded weights are rejected above, so a model that loaded successfully can subsequently OOM. This also reconstructs any disabled/unquantized BF16 expert as FP32; I reproduced both the dtype change and 2× storage after reconstruction. Please retain the expert parameters in their checkpoint dtype, apply the input/weight quantizers, and promote only the selected quantized operands for the FP32 F.linear, followed by the output quantizer. Please also extend the BF16 parity test to assert post-conversion storage dtype and disabled-quantizer reconstruction/export dtype; the current reconstruction test starts from FP32 and masks this.
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Reproduced and fixed in 4428b39.
You're right on both counts. Kept expert storage at the checkpoint's own dtype (matching what _setup did before my previous fix), and moved the fp32 promotion into forward as a transient swap scoped to the one expert actually being called: expert.weight.data = original.float(), call expert(x), restore in finally. That matches Step's own per-call memory profile (one expert's worth of fp32, not the whole routed-expert set) instead of expanding everything permanently. Reading expert.weight outside any quantize_weight() context means _get_quantized_weight passes it through unchanged — the real underlying nn.Parameter, same as _setup's own pattern — so the .data reassignment genuinely persists rather than mutating a computed value.
I did not take the 'reimplement input/weight/output-quantize inline' route to avoid calling expert(x) at all, because that would have broken something I found while checking it: local_hessian_calibrate registers a forward_pre_hook directly on each quantized Linear module, which only fires through standard nn.Module.__call__ dispatch. I verified this is a real risk, not hypothetical — ran local_hessian end to end against the swap-based forward and confirmed weight_quantizer.amax populates correctly; a version that bypassed __call__ would have silently skipped that hook and left local_hessian uncalibrated for Step models.
Extended test_disabled_quantizers_reproduce_bf16_weight_fp32_compute_parity per your ask: asserts experts[i].weight.dtype stays at the checkpoint dtype after conversion, and that _reconstruct_fused_moe_linear also produces that dtype (not a permanently-promoted one) — verified non-vacuous by reverting to the fp32-storage version and confirming it fails. Added test_local_hessian_calibration_fires_through_the_transient_weight_swap to pin the hook-dispatch requirement directly.
Local (torch 2.11, transformers 5.5.4): tests/unit/torch/quantization/plugins + tests/unit/recipe + tests/unit/torch/export — 647 passed, only the 4 known test_quant_aware_conversion.py failures unrelated to this change.
…permanently [P1, meenchen] Reproduced and confirmed. The fp32-parity fix in 9a573bb expanded every expert's weight permanently at fp32 in `_setup`, turning Step's own per-call transient promotion (`x.float() @ weight[expert_id].float()`, one expert's worth of memory per forward call) into persistent model state. On Step-3.7's full routed-expert set (42 layers x 3 projections x 288 experts x 4096 x 1280), bf16->fp32 adds ~354 GiB held throughout calibration, on top of device placement already sized for bf16 -- a model that loaded successfully could then OOM. It also left disabled/unquantized experts reconstructed at fp32 in the exported checkpoint, doubling that too. Expert weight storage now stays at the checkpoint's own dtype, matching what `_setup` did before 9a573bb. `forward` instead swaps the one expert actually being called to fp32 transiently -- `expert.weight.data = original.float()`, call, restore in `finally` -- matching Step's per-call memory profile instead of expanding the whole expert set. Reading `expert.weight` here happens outside any `quantize_weight()` context, so `_get_quantized_weight` passes it through unchanged and this is the real underlying nn.Parameter (the same pattern `_setup` already uses for the initial expansion), so the `.data` reassignment genuinely persists rather than mutating a computed value. This still calls `expert(x)` (`__call__`), not `.forward()` directly, and had to: `local_hessian_calibrate` registers a `forward_pre_hook` directly on each quantized Linear module, which only fires through standard `nn.Module.__call__` dispatch. A version that reimplemented the input/weight-quantize/output-quantize sequence inline instead of swapping storage would have silently skipped that hook and left `local_hessian` calibration uncalibrated for Step models -- verified this is a real risk (not hypothetical) by running `local_hessian` end to end and confirming amax populates. Parity test extended per review: asserts storage stays at the checkpoint dtype after conversion and after `_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear`, not just output equality. Verified non-vacuous against the reverted fp32-storage version. New `test_local_hessian_calibration_fires_through_the_transient_weight_swap` pins the hook-dispatch requirement directly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
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Pushed 4428b39 fixing the memory-blowup P1 — replied in the thread with what changed and how I verified it. Summary: the previous fix (9a573bb) traded a correctness bug for a memory one — permanent fp32 expert-weight storage instead of Step's own transient per-call promotion, ~354 GiB extra on Step-3.7's full routed-expert set. Storage now stays at the checkpoint's own dtype; Extended the parity test to assert storage dtype post-conversion and post-export-reconstruction, and added a dedicated test pinning the hook-dispatch requirement. Both verified non-vacuous. Local: 647 passed, only the 4 known unrelated failures. |
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Approved: prior correctness concerns are resolved, and the Step-scoped wrapper, export path, recipes, and regression coverage are coherent.
No action needed:
- ✔️ Resolved since prior reviews: false-positive registration, offload corruption, FP32 compute parity without persistent promotion, export dispatch, canonical headers, recipe guidance, and local-import justification.
- Design is justified: extending the existing wrapper/registry fits Step’s layout; plain
nn.Linear, fused-expert interception, and revision-specific registration do not.
Large PR: spans 5 directories (≥ 5). The review came back clean, so this is an LGTM — a human should take the final look and approve.
main added `huggingface/step3p7/ptq/` in #2202, which overlaps the checkpoint mirror this branch wrote for `stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash-NVFP4`. Checked against the release's own per-module map, their experts-only recipe matches it on every module and differs in one thing only: the release calibrated its KV scales, where that recipe pins them to a constant amax (the published `k_scale` is 0.104, not 1.0). Their `nvfp4_mlp_only-kv_fp8` has the right KV mode but also quantizes the dense MLP of layers 0-2, nine modules the release leaves BF16. So the released layout is a KV variant of a portable scheme, not a checkpoint-specific deviation, and belongs in the architecture tier. Adds `huggingface/step3p7/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8` -- their recipe with the calibrated KV unit -- and turns the mirror into an alias of it, dropping 40 lines that restated their wildcards. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
The Inference Optimized Checkpoints collection also carries partner-published releases -- LGAI-EXAONE, stepfun-ai, thinkingmachines, black-forest-labs -- and this backfill was writing recipes for two of them as if they were NVIDIA's. Scope is now NVIDIA's own releases. The scan still records the partner checkpoints, so the data is there if that ever changes, but they are listed under `unmapped` with the publisher as the reason rather than given recipes. Removes the K-EXAONE-2.0-750B-A37B checkpoint mirror, and the Step-3.7-Flash alias together with the `step3p7/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8` recipe added in the previous commit purely to reproduce that release -- `huggingface/step3p7/` is back to exactly what #2202 landed. 88 checkpoints mapped, 8 unmapped, 73 aliases. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
What does this PR do?
Type of change: New feature
Adds PTQ support for Step-3.7 (
stepfun-ai/Step-3.7-Flash). Follow-up to NVBug 6518665 / OMNIML-5583: with the export crash fixed in #2071 the run completes, but the checkpoint it writes is silently unquantized —{"quantization": {"quant_algo": null, "kv_cache_quant_algo": "FP8", "quantized_layers": {}}}Two independent causes, both from Step's
trust_remote_codemodeling code.1. The expert weights were invisible to quantization. Step-3.5 and Step-3.7 ship the same custom
MoELinear: a plainnn.Moduleholding one 3-Dweightof[num_experts, out_features, in_features], whoseforward(x, expert_id)runsF.linearagainst the selected slice. It is not annn.Linear, and the weights sit on the projection submodule rather than on the expert container, so neither the plain-linear path nor_fused_experts_wrapper_class(which wants a 3-Ddown_projParameter) claims it.The
_QuantMoELinearwrapper that handles exactly this layout has existed since #1063, but its registration was gated on the Step-3.5 class names:Step-3.7's root is
Step3p7ForConditionalGenerationand its container isStep3p7MoEMLP, so it returned immediately and no expert ever got a quantizer. Detection is now structural — a 3-Dweightplusnum_experts/in_features/out_featuresand a two-positional-argument forward — so any Step revision (or another model shipping this layout) is picked up without a third hardcoded name._reconstruct_fused_moe_linearlikewise matches the wrapper type instead of the generatedQuantMoELinearclass name; a model whose class is spelled differently would otherwise quantize fine but export unusable per-expert keys.2. Step's module names don't match the general recipes. The MoE block is
moeand the dense sibling isshare_expert, so*.experts.*,*block_sparse_moe*and*mlp*reach none of the routed experts. This PR shipshuggingface/step3p7/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_castandhuggingface/step3p7/ptq/nvfp4_mlp_only-kv_fp8, which select*moe*and disable the router (moe.gate) and the shared expert — mirroring the existing Step-3.5 recipe — and documents the naming trap inmodelopt_recipes/ptq.md.Usage
python examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py --model /local/Step-3.7-Flash --trust_remote_code \ --recipe huggingface/step3p7/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast \ --dataset /local/cnn_dailymail --calib_size 32 --export_path /local/Step-3.7-Flash-nvfp4Testing
tests/unit/torch/quantization/plugins/test_moe_linear.py— structural detection (positive plus 2-D-weight / wrong-forward negatives), registration on a Step-3.7-shaped model, per-expert quantizers with calibrated amax, and reconstruction back to the 3-D parameter. Plus two export-dispatch tests added from review: the registry resolves aQuant_SyntheticMoELinearto_export_moe_linear(this one fails against the old name-keyed registration), and the handler fills an unrouted expert's input amax.tests/unit/recipe/test_step3p7_recipes.py— drives both shipped recipes over a model mirroring Step's real paths (model.language_model.layers[i].{moe,share_expert,mlp}): routed experts NVFP4-quantized per expert, router / shared expert / dense MLP /lm_headper recipe scope.Ran locally (torch 2.11, transformers 5.5.4 — the version in the bug report): the two new files (12 tests) plus
tests/unit/recipe,tests/unit/torch/quantization/plugins/,tests/unit/torch/export/test_export_weight.pyandtest_export_registry.py— 324 passed. Fulltests/unit(minus onnx/puzzletron): 2490 passed, with 4 pre-existingtest_quant_aware_conversion.pyfailures that reproduce unchanged on cleanmain.Not run end-to-end on the real Step-3.7-Flash checkpoint (1.4 TB / 8×B200) — QA can re-run against this branch with the recipe above.
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_export_moe_linearinhf_export_handlers.pywas still registered for the literal string"QuantMoELinear", so a compatible class under another name bypassed the input-amax fallback for unrouted experts. The predicate now matches_QuantMoELinearthrough the MRO (lazy import, since the wrapper lives in the optional transformers plugin), keeping the name check as a fallback so the synthetic stand-ins intest_export_registry.py/test_export_weight.pystill match. This was the same class-name coupling already fixed in_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear, in the file I hadn't looked at.*moe*matches the router, but notshare_expert(layers.N.share_expert.*contains nomoesegment) — that entry is an explicit guard, not an override.ptq.mdrecommendation scoped to Step-3.7, since Step-3.5 has its own recipe.Additional Information
Pairs with #2203 (fail fast when a quant config matches no weight quantizer), which turns this class of silent no-op into an error for any model. Independent branches; either can merge first.
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