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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe changes update layerwise export lifecycle handling, add structural expert-indexed MoE support, expand export validation, and add or revise model-specific PTQ recipes. ChangesLayerwise export lifecycle
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Calibrator
participant LayerwiseExporter
participant Model
participant Checkpoint
Calibrator->>LayerwiseExporter: Bind calibrated layers
LayerwiseExporter->>Model: Export layers and materialize tail state
LayerwiseExporter->>Checkpoint: Write mapped extra state
LayerwiseExporter->>Model: Remove exporter attributes
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participant Calibration
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Calibration->>_QuantFusedExperts: Iterate expert weight quantizers
_QuantFusedExperts->>_QuantMoELinear: Execute selected expert in FP32
_QuantMoELinear->>Export: Reconstruct the MoE wrapper
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to This PR enables per-layer NVFP4 export for large MoE models like Kimi-K3, but if the Hugging Face checkpoint name-reversal step fails during export, the code currently only logs a warning and still writes out a checkpoint whose tensor names may not match the original model's naming convention. That checkpoint could then fail to load correctly with standard loaders, which is a serious but fixable issue that should be resolved before merging. A previously flagged concurrent file-write issue in an example script also remains open. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Curious to know if Kimi-K3 can be loaded with a single B200 node? It seems difficult given its size. |
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We are able to do that with layerwise, the tradeoff is calibration speed |
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/layerwise_export.py`:
- Line 156: Add export_parent to the layerwise export module’s __all__ and
re-export it from the matching package initializer using the existing wildcard
API pattern, so consumers such as examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py can import it
publicly.
- Line 203: Update build_legacy_name_mapper to normalize lookaround groups in
legacy checkpoint replacement values before constructing and applying compiled
patterns, matching Transformers save_pretrained behavior so Qwen2-VL mappings
produce valid Hub shard keys. Preserve safely reversible mappings and add a
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build_legacy_name_mapperuses a regex as a literal replacement (layerwise_export.py:202-205). The hub side of_checkpoint_conversion_mappingis a pattern, not a name — this repo applies it as one in the forward direction (model_load_utils.py:157), and transformers' own reverse step insave_pretrainedstrips regex groups out of the replacement (re.sub(r"\(.*\)", "", replacement)) before using it. The helper copies thelstrip("^")but not the group strip, so for the Qwen2-VL / Qwen2.5-VL / GLM-4V mapping shape (r"^model(?!\.(language_model|visual))") exported keys becomemodel(?!.(language_model|visual)).layers.0...— silently, and diverging from the whole-modelsave_pretrainedoutput that this PR's own equivalence test pins. The Gemma3 fixture's mapping is paren-free, which is why the new test does not catch it. Fix is two lines; suggested patch is in the inline comment.
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export_parentcovers only themtq.quantizebranch (hf_ptq.py:762-767). Thecalibration_only→mtq.calibratebranch drives the same layerwise export (model_calib.py:2095still builds aLayerwiseExporterfromquant_cfg["algorithm"]) with the contextvar unset, so--low_memory_mode+--calib_with_images+ a layerwise-export recipe silently produces submodel-namespaced shards with no towers — the exact failureexport_parentexists to prevent. Hoisting thewithover theif/elsefixes it; refusing the combination inassert_layerwise_export_compatibleis the alternative.
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- Decoder-layer descent no longer checks
layersbefore descending — a level holding bothlayersand amodel/language_modelchild is now walked past, silently yieldingNoneor a deeper unrelatedModuleList. A one-line guard keeps the iterative fix and the old precedence. - The new recipe's only delta from
nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_layerwise_export.yamlis dropping the two*block_sparse_moe*globs — thealgorithmblock is byte-identical and the existing recipe already documents offload use, so the_offloadname promises settings that are not there. - The VLM test skips the disabled-quantizer preparation that
extract_and_prepare_language_model_from_vlapplies to the towers in the real path, so the arrangement the exporter actually meets on the parent is not covered.
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_resolve_export_parent's identity check, and the exporter re-derivingself._layersfrom the parent while calibration derives them from the submodel: a mismatch raises loudly inexport_layerrather than mis-filing tensors.- Skipping the
AutoConfig.from_pretrained(...).save_pretrained(export_path)overwrite under layerwise export —finalize()has already written the quantized config via_write_hf_export_config, and the processor save that follows does not touchconfig.json. - Tower
exclude_modules: passing the parent toget_quant_configgives the same result the whole-model path gets, so no divergence there. '*.experts.*'scoping —.experts.genuinely does not matchshared_experts./routed_expert_*under fnmatch, andblock_sparse_moe.experts.*is still covered, so the narrowing is not a Mixtral regression.ptq.md's "All 26" matches the 26 files inmodelopt_recipes/general/ptq/.
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The "What remains here" list does not match the diff: item 2 describes an EXPORT_PARENT_ATTR model attribute (the code uses a contextvars.ContextVar) plus explicit tower exclude_modules work, and item 3 (offloaded weights read outside their own forward / _apply_attn_res) has no corresponding hunk in any of the 7 files. Presumably rebase fallout — worth reconciling, since it sets reviewer expectations about what to look for.
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Moderate, and well contained by the draft status. Three of the four source changes are narrow and read correctly; the risk concentrates in the legacy name mapper, which is the one place a defect produces a silently unloadable 1.65 TB checkpoint rather than an error. The PR already flags that the K3 validation predates the rebase — that re-run is the right gate, and it would be worth extending the equivalence test to a Qwen2.5-VL-shaped mapping, since Gemma3's paren-free mapping does not exercise the mapper's hard case.
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- Line 202: Update the replacement logic in the layerwise export mapping around
re.subn() to decode escaped Hub literals before doubling backslashes, so
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…2303) ### What does this PR do? Type of change: New feature **Layerwise export now supports multimodal and MTP models.** Both were refused outright, and both were refused for the same reason: `finalize()` was called from inside `layerwise_calibrate`, which is the wrong scope for it. **1. Calibration does not know which model the checkpoint describes.** It only sees the module it was handed. A VLM calibrates its *language model*, so the shards, the exclusions and `config.json` all came out describing that submodel rather than the whole VLM. Moving the call out lets the caller root the exporter at the parent — and without the key prefixing, tower collection or ambient parent handle an earlier attempt needed, because the decoder layers are the same objects from either root. **2. Calibration runs before things the export needs exist.** Orphaned MTP weights are loaded *after* calibration, by which point every shard had already been written, so they could not be passed at all. After the move they are an ordinary argument to `finalize()`, with no staging attribute stashed on the model. ### How it works The exporter is created by whoever owns the export and **announced on the model** that `mtq.quantize` is given. Calibration picks it up, binds it, and drives it per layer; the export that follows reads it back and finishes the checkpoint: ```python LayerwiseExporter(full_model, export_path).announce(language_model) mtq.quantize(language_model, quant_cfg, forward_loop=loop) ... getattr(full_model, LAYERWISE_EXPORTER_ATTR).finalize(extra_state_dict=mtp_state_dict) ``` Calibration and export are handed *different* models, so `announce()` publishes the exporter on each end separately: the caller announces on the model being calibrated, and `bind()` announces on the export root. Neither side has to know where the other looked, and the lookup stays an O(1) `getattr` rather than a `named_modules()` scan — worth avoiding at roughly 1.65 µs/module, or ~500 ms on a Kimi-K3-sized model. For a non-VLM both roots are the same object and the second announcement is a no-op. `finalize()` clears every attachment it recorded, so the module graph does not retain a live exporter afterwards. `mtq.quantize` and `mtq.calibrate` are **unchanged** — a layerwise-only feature does not belong in the public quantization API. The attribute follows `_mtp_layer_prefixes`, which crosses the same calibration→export boundary the same way (`hf_ptq.py:538` sets it, `unified_export_hf.py:870` reads it back). Construction is inert: `__init__` records only the export root and the directory, because the caller builds it before `mtq.quantize`, when there are no quantizers yet to validate or read a config from. `bind()` does that, called from calibration after quantizer insertion and before any layer is converted — the only window where both hold, and the same instant the exporter used to be constructed, so unsupported models still fail in seconds rather than hours. Only the calibration pass that sets `export_dir` drives the exporter: a list-form algorithm runs one pass per entry, and an earlier one must not convert layers a later one still has to calibrate. ### Usage Nothing changes for a plain layerwise-export recipe: `layerwise.export_dir` still drives it. Pre-attaching an exporter is the opt-in for the two cases that need it — a checkpoint whose root is wider than the calibrated model, and orphaned tensors to merge at the end. The one behaviour change for a config-only caller is that `mtq.quantize` now writes the layer shards but no longer finishes the checkpoint. Both exit paths warn with what is still owed, and `LayerwiseConfig.export_dir`'s description has been corrected — it previously promised "a complete, loadable checkpoint when the last layer lands" and still listed multimodal and MTP as raising `NotImplementedError`. ### Testing `tests/gpu/torch/export/test_layerwise_export.py` — **29 passed**. Beyond the 24 inherited from #2136, five new ones, each with a negative control confirming it fails without its fix: - orphaned MTP tensors reach the tail shard *and* the index - an exporter rooted at the parent widens the checkpoint's namespace - the config-only path announces an exporter that can be finished, and finalize clears it - only the pass that sets `export_dir` drives the exporter - an exporter whose root holds a different number of layers is refused at `bind()` Full suites: `tests/gpu/torch/export` + `tests/gpu/torch/quantization` **1012 passed / 55 skipped**, `tests/unit` **3318 passed / 15 skipped**, pre-commit clean. Both suites also report failures in `test_implicit_gemm.py` (FP4 conv kernels), `test_triton_fa_p_qdq.py`, `test_autocast_quantize_int8` and `test_engine_builder.py` collection; all reproduce unchanged on `main` and none touch the paths in this diff. Measured against the whole-model exporter on a tiny Gemma3-VL, towers prepared exactly as `hf_ptq` does: ``` keys: baseline=80 layerwise=80 only-baseline=[] only-layerwise=[] differing values: 0 vision tower present: True VLM namespace: True config.json is the VLM: True hf_quant_config match: True exclude_modules: ['language_model.lm_head', 'vision_tower.vision_model*'] (both sides) ``` #### End-to-end through `hf_ptq.py` Same FP8 recipe both sides; the baseline drops `layerwise.export_dir` and is exported by `main`, so the diff isolates this PR. Every tensor matches in key, dtype, shape and value, and `config.json` / `hf_quant_config.json` match too. | Model | Covers | Keys | Differing | |---|---|---|---| | Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct | multimodal | 1254 = 1254 | 0 | | GLM-4.7-Flash | MoE + MTP | 28119 = 28119 | 0 | The VLM checkpoint keeps the vision tower unquantized (351 `model.visual.*` keys, no `weight_scale` among them) while the language model is FP8. The MTP run reports 212 orphaned tensors; all 212 land in `model-tail.safetensors` and in the index, with `model.layers.47*` in `exclude_modules`. **Not yet validated:** an accelerate-offloaded run, and a serving canary on the exported checkpoints. ### Refusals `export_dir` without `enable`, and an exporting algorithm entry with no calibration method, are both refused before calibration starts — neither reaches the per-layer pass, so both would otherwise export nothing. The early gate is a heuristic on the recipe, so `hf_ptq` also raises a plain `RuntimeError` at export time if calibration turned out not to have run; that backstop, not the gate, is what makes the failure legible on paths the recipe check cannot predict. `bind()` requires the layers calibration will drive and refuses a root that discovers a different number of them. Only the count is checked here: `export_layer` already rejects a reordering or a substituted module on its first call, and a length difference is the one mismatch it structurally cannot catch — every call would pass and `_write_index` would then open a shard that was never written, at the very end of the run. Orphan tensors are merged into the tail with no collision check, matching the whole-model path (`unified_export_hf.py:1623`). `load_mtp_weights` returns exactly the keys absent from `model.state_dict()`, so a collision with an exported tensor is not reachable through the only producer, and a guard would only make the two export paths diverge. ### Why not reuse `export_hf_checkpoint` It was the first idea and it is the most expensive one. Its transformers path is whole-model at every step — `_prepare_moe_inputs`, `requantize_resmooth_fused_llm_layers` (which runs a dummy forward that would fail on already-converted layers), `_process_quantized_modules`, a full `model.state_dict()` in host RAM, then `save_pretrained` rewriting shards already on disk — and it raises outright under `has_accelerate_offload`. `save_pretrained(state_dict={})` is not an escape either: safetensors' shared-storage check fires on MoE even with an empty dict. The natural consolidation target is the **streaming** exporter, which is already most of `finalize()`: 122 lines vs 74, sharing `decoder_owned_ids`, `enable_weight_access_and_writeback`, `_dispatch_export_handler`, `_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear`, `_add_mtp_exclusions`, `_postprocess_single_tensor`, `requires_weight_materialization` and `save_non_weight_artifacts`. Folding them together needs roughly four knobs: skip the whole-model prep, skip layers already written, seed the index with the existing shards, and inject the quant config. That is a separate change and deliberately not in this one. ### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*" - Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ — `mtq.quantize`/`mtq.calibrate` signatures are unchanged, and a recipe that only sets `layerwise.export_dir` behaves as before. The one behaviour change is that `mtq.quantize` no longer finishes the checkpoint on its own: callers must now call `finalize()` on the exporter, which calibration leaves on the model. - If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A - Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ - Did you update Changelog?: ❌ — pending. - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ — the last review's findings are all addressed; needs a re-run. ### Additional Information Follow-ups this enables: #2259 (MTP) reduces to close to nothing, and the multimodal work in #2218 no longer needs `export_parent`, the key prefixing, or the tower collection. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Layerwise export now supports clearer control over export locations and calibrated layer handling. - Export workflows provide improved support for resuming, sharded checkpoints, mixture-of-experts models, and nested model namespaces. - **Bug Fixes** - Improved handling of exported checkpoint shards and extra tensors. - Added clearer warnings when exports require completion before loading. - **Documentation** - Clarified that layerwise exports write shards during calibration and require an explicit finalization step. - Documented that the in-memory model is not suitable for inference after layerwise export. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Signed-off-by: Fridah-nv <201670829+Fridah-nv@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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main()runsquantize_main()on every distributed rank.export_quantized()then callssave_processor_config()on every rank and callssave_source_config()on every rank whenargs.layerwise_exportis false. Both helpers write to the sameexport_path, so concurrentsave_pretrained()calls can overwrite shared configuration files and leave the export incomplete.Proposed fix
def save_source_config(args, export_path) -> None: + if not args.dist_state.is_main: + return print(f"Saving original model config to {export_path}") ... def save_processor_config(args, export_path) -> None: + if not args.dist_state.is_main: + return try:🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 169: Normalize _checkpoint_conversion_mapping keys before
build_legacy_name_mapper passes them to re.subn(). Apply the same Transformers
normalization by removing the leading anchor and matcher groups, then escape
backslashes for replacement strings so LayerwiseExporter.export_layer and
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- Line 1160: Update export_quantized so save_processor_config() and
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build_reverse_name_mapper()raises, this exporter still writes a completed checkpoint. Its tensor names can then differ from the original Hugging Face checkpoint namespace. A loader can report missing and unexpected weights.Raise an export error instead of continuing after this exception.
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try: self._name_mapper = build_reverse_name_mapper(model) except Exception as exc: - warnings.warn( - f"Reverse name mapper unavailable ({exc}); exported tensor names may not " - "match the original HF hub checkpoint." - ) + raise RuntimeError( + "Layerwise export cannot reverse the Hugging Face checkpoint-name mapping." + ) from exc🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Claude review passed — no blocking issues found. LGTM
Scope: full review per procedure (trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). 5 changed files, +112/-20; reviewed all of them — modelopt/torch/export/layerwise_export.py, modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/huggingface.py, the new K3 recipe, modelopt_recipes/ptq.md, tests/gpu/torch/export/test_layerwise_export.py. (Note: the local checkout's two-dot diff against origin/main also shows the experiment.json/MLflow work as removals — that is main having moved ahead of this branch, not part of this PR, and I excluded it.)
Findings — CRITICAL: 0, IMPORTANT: 0, SUGGESTION: 4
Traced the two code changes end to end:
- Decoder-layer path table (
huggingface.py) — behaviour is equivalent-or-better than the old unwrap chain for every shape I checked.model.layers,model.language_model.layersand barelayersall resolve as before;language_model.model.layers(K3, and older-layout VLMs wherelanguage_modelis a full CausalLM) previously returnedNone, andmodel.model.layerswith alanguage_modelsibling lacking.layerspreviously returnedNonetoo. Both now resolve. The addedisinstance(node, nn.ModuleList)check is a tightening consistent with the return annotation. The one caller,is_homogeneous_hf_model, is unaffected; the exporter derives shard key prefixes fromnamed_modules()identity matching (layerwise_export.py:238-242), not from a hardcodedmodel.layers.prefix, so a decoder atlanguage_model.model.layersproducesstate_dict-matching keys in both the layer shards and the tail. - Widened tie refusal (
layerwise_export.py) — the refusal itself is sound: both sides of atie_word_embeddingspair own their parameter, so the name-basedTiedWeightMappath catches them whether or not conversion quantized them, and the reasoning in the message (whole-model merges amaxes viasync_tied_input_amax;save_pretraineddedups where direct shard writes do not) matches what the code does. - Recipe — verified the
fnmatchclaim the recipe and docs both rest on:*.experts.*weight_quantizerrequires the literal.experts., andshared_expertspresents_experts., so it is genuinely excluded. Otherwise identical togeneral/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_layerwise_exportminus the two*block_sparse_moe*patterns, same schema keys.
Most impactful of the non-blocking items:
_DECODER_LAYER_PATHSis authored in the reverse of the order it is tried (reversed(...)), and the comment reads as if tuple order is try order. Appending a path — the thing the PR body invites as "a line" — makes it the first candidate tried, which for an ambiguous double-layersVLM changes which ModuleList gets calibrated. The PR body records this exact mismatch already biting once.- Dropping the
_is_quantized_modulegate meansgetattr(module, "weight", None)now reaches modules that forward a weight rather than own one (PEFTbase_layerwrappers — a shapeunified_export_hf.py:840handles — andparametrized modules), where wrapper and child share adata_ptrand would be reported as a tie that does not exist.module._parameters.get("weight")closes that without weakening any real tie. - Not inline (unchanged line):
modelopt/torch/quantization/config.py:770still documents the restriction as "weight-tied quantized modules raise NotImplementedError" in the user-facing description of thelayerwise.export_dirconfig field. This PR is precisely what makes that wrong — worth dropping "quantized" there so the public schema matches the new behaviour, since that string is the documentation users read before hitting the error. - The new recipe is documented under
ptq.md's "Checkpoint mirrors" section, whose stated invariant is "reproduces a single published checkpoint's quant config verbatim" — it mirrors nothing, and "the in-memory counterpart to the above" reads as numerically equivalent tonvidia/Kimi-K3-NVFP4when the two differ on expert activation scales, attention format and KV dtype.
Risk: low. Two narrow, well-motivated changes plus a recipe. The only behaviour narrowing (tied models refused even when unquantized) is deliberate, has a working alternative in export_hf_checkpoint(), and is covered by an updated test. No mode registration, modelopt_state schema, or public API surface is touched, so nothing here affects checkpoint restore. Worth noting the PR's own caveat stands on its merits: the K3 numbers predate #2303's exporter redesign, so the full-model reconfirmation is the real gate before this leaves draft — not anything in this diff.
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Brings per-layer fused export up on moonshotai/Kimi-K3 -- 1.5 TB, 896 experts, 93 layers -- quantized to NVFP4 on a single B200. Three pieces. Decoder discovery is a path table. The walk unwrapped `.model` then `.language_model` once each, so it only found layers exactly two wrappers deep in that order. K3 keeps its decoder at language_model.model.layers, so the walk stopped on the intermediate wrapper and reported the architecture unsupported. Listing the known locations says what is supported without encoding a search order, and adding one is a line. Not K3-specific. Weight ties are refused whether or not the tied modules are quantized. The refusal only looked at quantized modules, but the failure is not limited to them: save_pretrained drops the duplicate key and writing shards directly does not, so an unquantized tie ships twice. Widening it caught the tiny Gemma3-VL fixture, which ties lm_head to the embedding through shared storage while the test only cleared the name map; it now unties for real. Recipe. Experts-only NVFP4 + FP8 KV, scoped `*.experts.*` rather than `*block_sparse_moe*` -- the broad glob also matches shared_experts.* and routed_expert_*_proj, 552 modules the vendor left unquantized -- plus its ptq.md row. The narrower scope is why it sits under models/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/ rather than the general tier. checkpoint_dir is left unset so it derives <export_path>.layerwise_resume beside the shards, instead of a container-local /tmp path that a run outlasting its GPU session comes back to find wiped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <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 + new feature
Brings per-layer fused export up on a model that genuinely needs it —
moonshotai/Kimi-K3:1.5 TB, 896 experts, 93 layers — quantized to NVFP4 on a single B200.
Multimodal support is no longer part of this PR. This branch originally carried its own
VLM implementation built on an
export_parent()ContextVar the caller set aroundmtq.quantize. #2303 has since landed a different design for the same problem — the exporterannounces itself on the model, and
export_hf_checkpointdispatches to it — so that work isdropped rather than rebased on top of a design it conflicts with.
examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.pyis untouched by this PR.
Two other pieces were dropped as out of scope for K3 enablement: a transformers-4 hub-name
mapper fallback, and re-applying
--attn_implementationafter__init__to work around K3'sremote code. Both can come back on their own merits.
What remains — two code changes, neither K3-only in effect, plus the recipe:
.modelthen.language_modelonce each, so it only found layers exactly two wrappers deep in thatorder. K3 keeps its decoder at
language_model.model.layers, so the walk stopped on theintermediate wrapper and reported the architecture unsupported. Listing the known
locations says what is supported without encoding a search order, and adding one is a
line. Tried longest-path first, because a VLM has both
model.layersandmodel.language_model.layersand the decoder is the inner one.only looked at quantized modules, but the failure is not limited to them: quantized, the
whole-model path merges their
input_quantizeramaxes viasync_tied_input_amaxso bothsides share one
input_scale, which a per-layer pass cannot do; unquantized,save_pretraineddrops the duplicate key and writing shards directly does not, so the tieships twice.
tie_word_embeddingsmodels still needexport_hf_checkpoint().*.experts.*rather than the generalrecipes'
*block_sparse_moe*— on K3 the broad glob also matchesshared_experts.*androuted_expert_*_proj, 552 modules the vendor left unquantized, one of them an RMSNorm.That narrower scope is why it sits under
models/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/rather than thegeneral tier.
checkpoint_diris left unset so it derives<export_path>.layerwise_resumebeside the shards, instead of a container-local
/tmppath that a run outlasting its GPUsession comes back to find wiped.
Usage
python examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py \ --pyt_ckpt_path <bf16_ckpt> \ --recipe models/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/ptq/nvfp4_experts-kv_fp8_layerwise_export \ --export_path <out> \ --qformat nvfp4 --trust_remote_code --attn_implementation eager \ --offload_folder <scratch> --max_gpu_memory_gb 140 --max_cpu_memory_gb 1700 \ --calib_size 256 --batch_size 8 --skip_generate # Re-running the same command IS the resume path: it reads the manifest beside the # shards, skips finished layers, and continues.Testing
Scoped to what this diff can reach:
test_layerwise_export.py+test_layerwise_calibrate.py: 39 passedtests/unit/recipe: 410 passedvalidate modelopt recipesTwo failures found and fixed along the way, both worth calling out because neither was
visible from the GPU suite alone:
so
test_is_homogeneous_hf_vlm_language_modelgot the outer decoder instead of thelanguage model's. Only the unit test for the discovery function itself has the ambiguous
double-
layersshape; every layerwise fixture passed either way.test_vlm_export_follows_the_documented_flow:the tiny Gemma3-VL fixture ties
lm_headto the embedding through shared storage, and thetest only cleared the name map. It now unties for real — config flag, both tie maps, and a
cloned
lm_head.weight— so it stays on the namespace/dispatch behaviour it exists for.Previously validated on the real model, before this rebase and before #2303 redesigned the
exporter underneath:
projections (= 92 × 896 × 3) carrying a calibrated
input_scale.printed
Checkpoint: resuming layerwise calibration from layer 13/93and skipped thefinished work.
quant_algo=NVFP4,kv_cache_dtype=fp8_e4m3, andselects the
FLASHINFER_TRTLLMNvFp4 MoE kernel (not the emulation fallback).Those numbers need one full K3 run to reconfirm before this leaves draft. What remains
here is much narrower than what was validated then, but the exporter beneath it has changed.
Not validated: generation and accuracy. The checkpoint is 1.65 TB against 1.46 TB of HBM
on 8× B200, and vLLM's
cpu_offload_gbis a no-op for this model (80 and 200 givebyte-identical on-device memory). That is a hardware gap, not a checkpoint defect.
Before your PR is "Ready for review"
weight-tied models are now refused by layerwise export whether or not the tied modules are
quantized. They were already refused when quantized, and
export_hf_checkpoint()handlesthem either way.
guidance in
CONTRIBUTING.md: N/A — no new dependencies, no copied code.layerwise.export_dir's entry is already in 0.48 from feat(export): export each decoder layer as layerwise calibration finishes it #2136and feat(export): support multimodal and MTP models in layerwise export #2303; these are fixes to an unreleased feature, so no separate entry.
Additional Information
#2136 and #2303 have both merged, so this sits directly on main with no dependencies.
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