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Type of change: bug fix

Cherry picks for 0.47 release

Merge order: #2287, #2219, #2276, #2298, #2296, #2309, #2318, #2332, #2320, #2180, #2358, #2300, #2334.

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  • New Features

    • Added PETR, VoVNet, and FAR3D ONNX post-training quantization and TensorRT evaluation workflows.
    • Added Qwen3.5-VL export support, expanded multimodal checkpoint loading, and new model-specific quantization recipes.
    • Added configurable MoE expert layouts and KV-cache scaling controls.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved ONNX Autotune precision selection and fallback behavior.
    • Fixed checkpoint validation, VLM calibration, expert exports, and KV-cache configuration.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified recipe locations, model export workflows, and Autotune behavior.
  • Breaking Changes

    • FAR3D decoder quantization and several deprecated quantization options were removed.

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…s PTQ script (#2287)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: new feature

The quantization config for `nvidia/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813-NVFP4` existed
only as Python inside `_build_nvfp4_experts_cfg()`, so the released
checkpoint had **no entry in `modelopt_recipes/`** and could not be
looked up by name the way every other published model can.
`modelopt_recipes/README.md` states the goal directly — a recipe is
*"the single, version-controlled source of truth for how a model is
optimized … expressed as data instead of code"* — and this model was the
exception.

This adds:

-
`modelopt_recipes/huggingface/models/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only.yaml`,
composed from the existing `configs/ptq/units/base_disable_all` and
`configs/numerics/nvfp4` units.
- An optional `--recipe` flag on `examples/deepseek/deepseek_v4/ptq.py`.

It follows **`examples/kimi/kimi_k3`**, the closest precedent: a very
large MoE whose source already ships MXFP4 routed experts, converted via
`--cast_mxfp4_to_nvfp4` rather than through `examples/hf_ptq`, and
already wired to `--recipe` with a published YAML.

### Usage

```sh
torchrun --nproc-per-node 8 deepseek_v4/ptq.py \
    --model_path  <mp8_checkpoint> \
    --config      <DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813>/inference/config.json \
    --calib_size  512 \
    --calib_seq   4096 \
    --output_path <amax_dump> \
    --recipe huggingface/models/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only
```

Omitting `--recipe` keeps the previous behaviour exactly.

### Testing

- `load_recipe` resolves the YAML and yields `num_bits (2, 1)` with
`block_sizes {-1: 16, type: dynamic, scale_bits: (4, 3)}` — identical to
the hardcoded config.
- **Equivalence checked behaviourally**, not by eyeballing dicts: both
configs were resolved against representative quantizer names using
last-match-wins, and agree on all of them.

  | quantizer | hardcoded | recipe |
  | --- | --- | --- |
| `...ffn.experts.17.w1_weight_quantizer` | enabled, NVFP4 | enabled,
NVFP4 |
| `...ffn.experts.17.w2_input_quantizer` | enabled, NVFP4 | enabled,
NVFP4 |
  | `...ffn.shared_experts.w1_weight_quantizer` | disabled | disabled |
  | `...attn.wq_weight_quantizer` | disabled | disabled |
  | `mtp.0.ffn.experts.2.w1_weight_quantizer` | disabled | disabled |
  | `lm_head_weight_quantizer` | disabled | disabled |

- `mtq.quantize` documents `algorithm` as a string **or** a dict keyed
on `method`, so the recipe's `{'method': 'max'}` needs no translation.
- `pre-commit` clean, including `validate modelopt recipes`.

No GPU run: this changes config plumbing only, and the default path is
byte-identical to before.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ — `--recipe` is optional and
defaults to `None`; without it `_build_nvfp4_experts_cfg()` is used
exactly as before.
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: ✅ — no new
dependencies; `modelopt.recipe` is already a first-party import.
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: N/A — no new logic;
equivalence to the existing config is the property that matters and is
documented above.
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
N/A — recipe library addition; recent recipe/example PRs add no entry.
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ — not yet run.

### Additional Information

The recipe covers the **quant config only**. `--calib_seq` — the setting
that mattered most for this checkpoint, since the 512 default does not
cover long-context activation ranges — is a dataloader argument rather
than part of the `mtq` config, so it stays on the CLI. Worth knowing if
the recipe is ever treated as a complete reproduction of the released
checkpoint: it is not, on its own.

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added post-training quantization support for DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813
routed experts using NVFP4.
* Added an optional recipe path for selecting equivalent quantization
settings.
* Preserved source formats for shared experts, attention, embeddings,
output layers, and MTP components.

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved validation for missing or malformed quantization
configurations.
* Added safeguards against unsupported formats, scopes, algorithms, and
enabled MTP quantizers.

* **Documentation**
* Documented checkpoint conversion behavior, calibration requirements,
and supported quantization workflows.
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Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Chad Voegele <cvoegele@nvidia.com>
…kpoint recipes (#2219)

### What does this PR do?

**Type of change:** Refactor (recipe-library layout) + documentation —
backward-breaking for saved `--recipe` paths.

Separate the two kinds of built-in Hugging Face recipes that were
previously mixed under `modelopt_recipes/huggingface/`:

- **`huggingface/<model_type>/`** — architecture recipes keyed by the
transformers `model_type`; one recipe covers every checkpoint of that
architecture. **Unchanged.**
- **`models/<org>/<model_id>/`** — a *new top-level tier* for recipes
that mirror one specific published checkpoint, keyed by its **model-hub
path** (as on the Hugging Face Hub, ModelScope, etc.) so the on-disk
path equals the hub path.

Concretely, the model-instance recipes move out of `huggingface/` to the
top level:

- `huggingface/models/mistralai/…`, `huggingface/models/nvidia/…` →
`models/mistralai/…`, `models/nvidia/…`
- `huggingface/step3p5/Step3.5-Flash/…` →
`models/stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash/…` (re-keyed to the canonical HF repo
id
[`stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash`](https://huggingface.co/stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash)
— org `step3p5`→`stepfun-ai`, id `Step3.5-Flash`→`Step-3.5-Flash`)

**Why:** `modelopt_recipes/README.md` already documented a top-level
`models/` tier, but the files lived under `huggingface/models/` and
instance-specific recipes were awkwardly nested under the
per-`model_type` tree. This aligns the filesystem with the documented
layout and makes the instance tier hub-addressable — given a checkpoint
id you can find (or place) its recipe with no lookup table.
`load_recipe` resolves paths directly under `modelopt_recipes/`, so a
top-level `models/` sibling of `general/` and `huggingface/` works
identically.

The move is metadata-only — all recipe YAML content is byte-identical
(`R100` renames). Everything else is updating references (nvidia
launcher YAMLs, `test_loader.py`) and docs: a new `models/README.md`,
plus `huggingface/README.md`, root `README.md`, `ptq.md`, and the
`10_recipes.rst` guide, which no longer describe instances under
`huggingface/`.

### Usage

Recipe paths for the moved checkpoint recipes lose the `huggingface/`
prefix (and Step 3.5 Flash is keyed by its hub id):

```python
from modelopt.recipe import load_recipe

# before
load_recipe("huggingface/models/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16/ptq/nvfp4_w4a16")
load_recipe("huggingface/step3p5/Step3.5-Flash/ptq/nvfp4-mlp-only")

# after
load_recipe("models/nvidia/Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16/ptq/nvfp4_w4a16")
load_recipe("models/stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash/ptq/nvfp4-mlp-only")
```

The same rename applies to `--recipe …` CLI values and launcher
`QUANT_CFG:` entries. Architecture recipes under
`huggingface/<model_type>/` are unaffected.

### Testing

- **Recipe resolution (torch-free):** parsed every recipe under
`models/` and confirmed all `$import` targets resolve against the recipe
root — 0 dangling across the tier.
- **Docs consistency:** re-ran the
`tests/unit/recipe/test_recipe_docs.py` logic; it now globs both
`huggingface/` and `models/`, and every model dir (incl.
`Step-3.5-Flash`, `Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16`, …) plus every `general/ptq`
recipe is still mentioned in `ptq.md`.
- **Reference sweep:** repo-wide grep confirms no remaining references
to the old paths outside the intentional historical CHANGELOG entries
(released 0.44 / 0.45).
- **pre-commit:** `markdownlint-cli2`, license-insert, and `bandit`
hooks pass on the changed files.
- Note: the full `pytest` suite was not run in my environment (no
`torch`), so `test_recipe_docs.py` / `test_loader.py` should be
exercised in CI.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Is this change backward compatible?: ❌ — `--recipe` / `load_recipe`
paths for the checkpoint-mirror tier change (drop the `huggingface/`
prefix; `step3p5/Step3.5-Flash` → `stepfun-ai/Step-3.5-Flash`).
Documented as a Backward Breaking Change in `CHANGELOG.rst` (0.47); the
only *released* old paths affected shipped in 0.45. A clean break was
chosen over a symlink or loader-alias shim.
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency …: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ — updated
`test_recipe_docs.py` to also glob the top-level `models/` tier so
instance recipes stay covered by the doc-consistency check.
- Did you update Changelog?: ✅ — added a 0.47 **Backward Breaking
Changes** entry.
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ <!-- run /claude review -->

### Additional Information

Design note: an earlier iteration nested everything under
`huggingface/model_type/` + `huggingface/models/`; the final layout
keeps `huggingface/` flat (per-`model_type`) and lifts instances to a
top-level `models/` tier, matching what `modelopt_recipes/README.md`
already documented. The `Step3p5*` architecture class names (from the
model's `trust_remote_code` modeling code) are unrelated to the recipe
path and are left unchanged.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added checkpoint-specific PTQ recipes for Kimi-K3, Mistral Medium 3.5,
and NVIDIA Nemotron models.
  * Added a Nemotron speculative-decoding warm-start recipe.

* **Documentation**
  * Clarified recipe selection and directory organization.
  * Documented checkpoint naming conventions and updated usage examples.

* **Bug Fixes**
* Updated launcher configurations and examples to reference the new
recipe locations and corrected model names.

* **Tests**
* Improved automatic recipe discovery and validation of documented
recipe paths.
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Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Chad Voegele <cvoegele@nvidia.com>
…atron-Bridge and verify exported checkpoints (#2276)

Type of change: Bug fix + new feature

Enables quantized **Qwen3-VL** and **Qwen3.5-VL** (dense and MoE) →
unified HuggingFace export from Megatron-Bridge, and fixes the bugs
found along the way (ten from testing, plus a further round from
review). Most of them produced a valid-looking checkpoint and a green
test run, so the PR also makes the export path verify its own output.

Review is easiest commit-by-commit — each of the eleven commits is
self-contained and independently green.

1. **The exporter rejected the Megatron-Bridge VLM wrapper.**
`GPTModelExporter` only unwrapped MCore's `LLaVAModel`, so
`Qwen3VLModel` raised `ValueError: Input to GPTModelExport must be a
megatron.core.models.GPTModel!`. It now unwraps any wrapper exposing
`.language_model`.
2. **A VLM QAD checkpoint couldn't be loaded back.** `distill.py` passes
`distill_submodule="language_model"`, so the checkpoint holds only the
language model and the load died on `KeyError:
vision_model.patch_embed.proj.weight`. The loader now reads the
checkpoint metadata and targets `.language_model` when there are no
vision weights.

3. **VLM QAD discarded all ModelOpt state** (shipped in 0.46).
`ModeloptStateManager` requires state on the **root** of whatever gets
checkpointed. `quantize.py` quantizes the VLM root, so PTQ anchors it
there — but QAD checkpoints only `language_model`, orphaning it. The
saved `modelopt_state_dict` was literally `[]`; the `*_quantizer._amax`
tensors were still present but got dropped on load
(`dist_ckpt_strictness="assume_ok_unexpected"`), and the export came out
plain BF16 with no `hf_quant_config.json`.
4. **Fused grouped-GEMM MoE experts were omitted entirely.** The MoE
dispatch had no `else`, so an architecture without an
`experts.linear_fc1` rule exported *zero routed experts*. This hit
**`Qwen3MoeForCausalLM`** — a registered, supported architecture with no
export test — not just VLMs. A tiny Qwen3-MoE exported 37 of 45 tensors,
exit 0, no warning.
5. **Qwen3.5's GatedDeltaNet output norm was off by exactly 1.0.**
Megatron stores that gamma zero-centered, HF centers it on 1. Correct
names, correct shapes, wrong values — invisible to any structural check.
Megatron-Bridge's importer confirms the convention
(`RMSNorm2ZeroCenteredRMSNormMapping`).
6. **The disabled-quantizer patterns silently no-op on Megatron paths.**
They are written against HuggingFace module names. `*mixer.conv1d*`
matches only because MCore and HF happen to agree on "mixer" for Mamba;
`*linear_attn.conv1d*` never matched (Megatron calls it
`self_attention.conv1d`), so the conv1d was calibrated.
`*linear_attn.in_proj_a/b*` **cannot** match at all — Megatron fuses all
six GDN sections behind one quantizer — so the alpha/beta gates the
recipe wants in BF16 were exported in FP8.

The tiny fixtures could not reach these; each came from a real model or
a real quant format.

7. **Routed experts were written in a layout no real Qwen3.5 checkpoint
uses.** Real Qwen3.5 stores experts packed as `[num_experts, out, in]`;
the mapping emitted per-expert names, so every routed expert was
dropped. The fixture actively hid this: transformers *unpacks* experts
on `save_pretrained`, so the saved reference agreed with the wrong
output. Fixed with a `transpose` kwarg on `_pack_name_remapping` plus a
`GroupedMLPPacking` rule, so fused `TEGroupedMLP` reaches the same
packed tensors — which is also what lets Qwen3.5 keep grouped GEMM
(**22.1 GB/GPU vs 38.9 GB/GPU** on a 20-layer, 256-expert model).
8. **`_grouped_mlp_packing` was broken for NVFP4.** It max-merged
`weight_scale`, but NVFP4 needs each expert's per-block scales *stacked*
with only the global `weight_scale_2` merged; it also dequantized packed
`uint8` against per-block scales, and passed `block_size=None`.
`weight_scale_2` is never populated in an FP8 run, so the whole branch
was dead code under FP8-only testing. `_grouped_mlp_slicing` gained
`quantize=False` so packing can quantize once over the stack, matching
`_pack_name_remapping`.
9. **`_mtp_prefix` corrupted every VLM's MTP tensor names.** It did
`prefix.replace("model", "mtp")` uncounted, so
`model.language_model.layers.{}` became `mtp.language_mtp.layers.0.*` —
tensors present and correctly valued, under names nothing loads.
LLM-only prefixes contain one occurrence, so this was invisible until a
VLM with MTP was exported.
10. **`load_multimodal_components` rejected HF repo ids.** `quantize.py
--hf_model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B` worked, but the documented
export step failed with *"It should be a directory"*. Its sibling in the
same file already resolved repo ids via `snapshot_download`; now it does
too. This affected **every** VLM export.

`Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration` (dense Qwen3.5-VL) is now registered
for export and vision passthrough, which bugs 9 and 10 were blocking.

`GatedDeltaNetSlicing` splits Megatron's fused `in_proj` (`[query, key,
value, z, beta, alpha]`) into HF's `in_proj_qkv` / `_z` / `_b` / `_a`,
taking sizes from the module's own `in_proj_split_sections` so TP
sharding falls out. Widening coverage to Qwen3.5's *gated
full-attention* layers then exposed a further split bug: gated attention
packs a per-head output gate beside each query head, so `_qkv_slicing`
split 192 rows as 96/48/48 instead of 128/32/32. It now derives the
group stride from `config.attention_output_gate`, matching
Megatron-Bridge's `split_qkv_weights`. The non-gated path is unchanged.

- `assert_exported_checkpoint_matches` compares an exported checkpoint
against the model it came from — key set, shapes (accounting for NVFP4
`uint8` packing), safetensors index consistency, and values — replacing
existence-only assertions in all three export tests.
- `GPTModelExporter.save_pretrained` now raises if the export dropped
tensors the source checkpoint has, so *user* runs on architectures CI
never sees are protected too, not just tiny models.
- Loading a checkpoint whose quantizer tensors have no restorable state
now raises instead of silently loading unquantized.
- `assert_has_modelopt_state` replaces `rglob("modelopt_state")`, which
passes on an empty state; `assert_no_quantizers_matching` fails on
future HF↔Megatron name drift.

The mapping is also table-driven now: vision-tower prefixes live in
`all_mcore_hf_vision_passthrough_mapping` and
`with_language_model_prefix` is shared, so adding a VLM no longer means
editing `unified_export_megatron.py`. Five call sites that answered "is
this a VLM" three different ways now share `get_language_model` /
`is_vlm_config`.

```bash
torchrun --nproc_per_node 2 quantize.py \
    --hf_model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct \
    --quant_cfg nvfp4 --tp_size 2 \
    --export_megatron_path /tmp/Qwen3-VL-8B-NVFP4-megatron

torchrun --nproc_per_node 2 export_quantized_megatron_to_hf.py \
    --hf_model_name_or_path Qwen/Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct \
    --megatron_path /tmp/Qwen3-VL-8B-NVFP4-megatron \
    --pp_size 2 --export_unified_hf_path /tmp/Qwen3-VL-8B-NVFP4-hf

```

All in `nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08` on 2x RTX 6000 Ada.

| Suite | Result | Time |
|---|---|---|
| `tests/examples/megatron_bridge/` (full) | 18 passed | 27m58 |
| `tests/gpu_megatron/torch/export/` | 38 passed | 2m13 |
| `tests/unit/torch/export/` | 186 passed | 1.5s |
| pre-commit (ruff, ruff format, mypy, bandit) | clean | — |
| `tests/examples/megatron_bridge/test_quantize_export.py` on **2 GPUs**
(`pp_size=2`) | 3 passed | 5m |

The export leg of `test_quantize_and_export` now scales with `num_gpus`
like its quantize leg
already did. Previously it was hardcoded to one process, so the
collective checkpoint load ran at
PP=1 on both the 1-GPU PR runner and the 2-GPU nightly — which is how a
guard that raised on only
some pipeline stages (and therefore hung the job) reached review. The
dense `qwen3` case was dropped
in exchange: `qwen3_moe` already covers the non-VLM script path,
`qwen3vl` covers a dense decoder,
and that case was the one exceeding the 300s cap in CI.

`tests/gpu_megatron` runs in-process and is cheap, so it owns
per-architecture **mapping**
correctness. The example tests spawn `torchrun` per step and are ~50x
slower per case, so they
cover **script wiring** only — CLI flags, recipe resolution, and
checkpoint hand-off between steps.

| Suite | Models |
|---|---|
| `test_unified_export_megatron` | llama, nemotron, nemotron_h, qwen3vl,
qwen3_moe, qwen3_5_moe_vl x {none, FP8, NVFP4, +/-KV} x {grouped GEMM,
SequentialMLP} + eagle / medusa / MTP (29 params) |
| `test_megatron_importer` | nemotron_h, llama export->import round-trip
|
| `test_moe_layout_choice` | per-architecture grouped-GEMM exportability
(6 architectures) |
| `test_distill_megatron` | KD loss mechanics |

| Model | prune | quantize+export | QAD | distill+export |
|---|:--:|:--:|:--:|:--:|
| qwen3 | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| qwen3_moe | - | **Y (new)** | - | - |
| qwen3vl | - | **Y (moved from QAD)** | - | - |
| nemotron_h | Y | **Y (new)** | - | - |
| qwen3_5_vl | - | - | - | Y |
| qwen3_5_moe_vl | Y | **Y (new, both expert layouts)** | Y | - |
| deepseek_v3 | Y | - | - | - |
| gemma3vl | Y | - | ~~manual~~ removed | - |

QAD's unique property is that ModelOpt state survives distillation,
which needs one LLM and one
VLM rather than one case per architecture. Moving the rest to
quantize+export drops a `torchrun`
launch each: QAD went from 3 CI cases to 2 while quantize+export went
from 1 to 4, adding two
architectures for about a minute.

Tiny fixtures cannot catch layout or scale bugs that only appear at real
dimensions, so the export
path was run end-to-end on released checkpoints. This is where bugs 7-10
came from.

| Model | Run | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B | NVFP4 4o6 PTQ → export → MMLU |
**0.7825 ± 0.0105** (gate 0.75) |
| Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B | Minitron pruning | 22.28B/3.00B
active, **0.5944** (gate 0.58) |
| Qwen3.5-0.8B (dense VLM) | FP8 PTQ → export → MMLU | BF16 0.4895 →
**0.4832** (±0.0127) |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, half-depth (20 layers, 256 experts) | FP8 + NVFP4 PTQ
→ export | keys + shapes + **values** match reference |
| Qwen3.5-35B-A3B, full | FP8 PTQ | OOM on 2x48GB (see below) |

The half-depth model keeps real weights, real dims and all 256 experts.
Both expert layouts produce
identical key sets, and all exports pass
`assert_exported_checkpoint_matches(..., check_values=True)`
— every tensor, including all 20 x 256 experts, dequantizes to within
tolerance of the BF16
reference, so a transposed or mis-ordered expert stack would fail. NVFP4
lands in the correct packed
layout (`gate_up_proj [256, 1024, 1024]` U8, `weight_scale [256, 1024,
128]` E4M3,
`weight_scale_2 []` F32). Its *accuracy* is not meaningful — truncating
to 20 of 40 layers leaves a
chance-level model (BF16 0.2322, FP8 0.2538) — so it validates
correctness, not quality.

**Re-validated on the final code.** The numbers above were first taken
mid-review; since then the
NVFP4 block-scale merge changed on both packed paths, the vision-tower
download became two-stage,
and an expert-layout load guard was added. Both gating runs were
therefore repeated end to end:
Nemotron went 0.7748 → **0.7825 ± 0.0105** and Qwen3.5-0.8B went 0.4678
→ **0.4832 ± 0.0127**, with
the rest of the Nemotron pipeline reproducing exactly (3519 quantizers,
69GB checkpoint, 21GB
export). Both deltas are inside their own stderr, so the claim is that
the rework costs no accuracy
— not that it improved it. The Nemotron export also runs at `--pp_size
2`, exercising the new
collective layout guard on a real 30B MoE across pipeline stages.

Two limitations worth stating plainly:

- **No quantized accuracy number for a full-size MoE.** The full 35B
OOMs at 47.37 GiB while
*constructing* the model on 2x48GB, with grouped GEMM already enabled,
so no calibration knob
  helps. Needs more GPUs than this setup has.
- **vLLM cannot yet serve packed FP8 Qwen3.5 experts.** `vllm
0.24.1.dev0` builds its fused expert
mapping weight-only, rewriting `experts.down_proj_input_scale` to
`w2_weight_input_scale` while the
parameter it registers is `w2_input_scale`. This is upstream and
independent of how the checkpoint
is produced — both of our export paths fail it identically. The 0.8B
numbers above are unaffected
(dense), and the packed exports are verified against the reference
checkpoint instead.

Each new guard was made to fire, not just to compile:

| Guard | Verification |
|---|---|
| Export self-check | Disabled the MoE guard, re-exported Qwen3-MoE -
independently reported all 24 dropped tensors. No false positives across
llama, nemotron, qwen3, qwen3-moe, qwen3vl, qwen3.5-vl, deepseek_v3
incl. eagle / medusa / MTP |
| Dropped-state raise | Deleted `modelopt_state` from a checkpoint with
50 quantizer tensors - raised instead of loading unquantized |
| NVFP4 value check | Flipped a `q_proj` - failed at `max_rel_err=1.74`
against a 0.3 threshold |
| Zero-centered gamma | Reproduced the off-by-1.0 on a good export -
caught as "not bit-exact" |
| Exclusion guard | Asserts no calibrated quantizer matches `conv1d` /
`mlp.router` / `output_layer` |

Exported artifacts are validated, not just their existence: 0 missing
keys vs reference, vision
tower bitwise-identical, dequantized weights within FP8 E4M3 error
(<=4.6%). The
`in_proj_a`/`in_proj_b` check is load-bearing - swapped alpha/beta would
still match on shape but
show ~100% error.

Also ran a tiny-Qwen3 **LLM** control through both steps to confirm the
exporter changes are a
no-op off the VLM path.

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ — the scripts now derive the
MoE expert layout from the model config, building SequentialMLP only for
architectures with no `experts.linear_fc1` rule, and the exporter raises
rather than dropping experts it has no rule for. Those runs previously
"succeeded" while writing a checkpoint containing no expert weights, so
no working behaviour is removed. `--no_moe_grouped_gemm` forces
SequentialMLP explicitly.
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**MoE expert layout is now chosen automatically.** Only Nemotron-H can
export fused grouped-GEMM experts, so every other MoE architecture would
otherwise need `--no_moe_grouped_gemm` on all four scripts or hit a wall
at export. The scripts derive the layout from the model config — grouped
GEMM unless it would not be exportable — so they agree without threading
a flag. This changes MoE activation scales from one shared scale to
per-expert for the affected architectures.

Known gaps, unchanged by this PR:

- **Gated MoE still cannot use fused grouped GEMM.**
`_grouped_mlp_slicing` emits one weight per expert with no gate/up split
— its only prior caller, Nemotron-H, is non-gated, so every other MoE
architecture is built as `SequentialMLP` (see below). Adding that split
would restore the faster layout, but it needs a deliberate call on
activation-scale semantics: grouped GEMM keeps **one shared** activation
scale across experts while `SequentialMLP` has **per-expert** scales, so
the two are not numerically equivalent. It also needs EP>1 coverage.
- **Qwen3.5's alpha/beta gates share Megatron's fused `in_proj`
quantizer,** so they can only be kept in BF16 at export, not excluded by
name. Full fidelity needs per-section quantizers on the fused
projection.
- **Anchoring ModelOpt state on `.language_model`** (which would let
`quantize.py` quantize the language model directly and drop its
name-based non-LM disabling) needs a coordinated Megatron-Bridge change:
`save_sharded_modelopt_state` is ModelOpt code, but the restore the
Bridge path uses is Bridge's own and unconditionally restores onto the
root.
- **Gemma3-VL** remains Megatron-checkpoint only (`OMNIML-5366`).

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* **New Features**
  * Added Muse Glimmer AutoQuantize and Alpamayo QAD workflows.
* Added streaming Kimi-K3 conversion and NVFP4 activation headroom
calibration.
  * Added SFT-masked distillation for Megatron-Bridge.
* Added unified Hugging Face export for quantized Qwen3-VL and
Qwen3.5-VL checkpoints.
* MoE expert layouts are selected automatically, with an option to force
sequential experts.

* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved export validation for tensor coverage, MoE mappings,
quantizer state, and NVFP4 scales.
  * Fixed Qwen3.5-VL GatedDeltaNet export handling.
  * Preserved visual-model weights exactly during export.

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### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

During QAT/QAD with quantized FP8 KV cache, Megatron export inherits the
HF export behavior of clamping FP8 KV scales to 1.0. This throws away
any scales learned during QAT/QAD. Instead we add a toggle to enable
disabling KV scale clamping during Megatron export.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Added an option for Megatron-to-Hugging Face exports to preserve
learned FP8 KV-cache scale values below 1.0.
* By default, FP8 KV-cache scales continue to be clamped to a minimum of
1.0.

* **Tests**
* Added coverage for default clamping, disabled clamping, and export
option handling.

* **Documentation**
  * Updated the 0.47 release notes with the new export option.

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Signed-off-by: Jennifer Chen <jennifchen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Chad Voegele <cvoegele@nvidia.com>
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Test infrastructure / CI time

`tests/examples/megatron_bridge` spends most of its time importing
Python, not testing. Each step of
a test spawns `torchrun`, and the new process spends **~25s importing
torch/megatron/modelopt**
before doing any work. A single `test_qad` run pays that **six** times —
three steps, plus a spawned
child per distributed checkpoint save, because Megatron-Core's async
writer uses `mp_mode="spawn"`
and spawn re-imports `__main__`.

Profiled with phase timers in the example scripts:

| | share of `test_qad[qwen3]` |
|---|---|
| Python imports (6 process launches × ~26s) | **~76%** |
| actual compute (`mtq.quantize` 4.2s, model build 0.24s, export 0.06s)
| ~5s |

`run_example_command` now dispatches each step internally instead of
shelling out:

- **single-rank steps** run directly in the pytest process, driving the
script's own `get_args()` +
  `main()` — no new interpreter, no re-import;
- **multi-rank steps** drive `torch.distributed.run.main()` in-process
with patched `sys.argv`,
  the same pattern Megatron-Bridge uses in its own functional tests.

### Results

| suite | before | after |
|---|---|---|
| `tests/examples/megatron_bridge`, **1 GPU** | **21m27** | **4m03 -
6m17** |
| `tests/examples/megatron_bridge`, **2 GPU** | 26m10 | 25m03 |

Both figures are on current `main` (17 tests). The 2-GPU number is up
from 20m41 before merging
#2276, which added a test and made one previously single-rank step
multi-rank.

The 1-GPU figure is a range, not a best case. Across ten runs on a
verified-idle box the suite
lands at ~4m most of the time and at ~6m otherwise, always with the same
result (17 passed).
Per-test durations show the entire spread is one test: `test_qad[qwen3]`
runs at ~15s or at ~149s.
It is 25s in isolation, 15s after `test_distill.py` and ~25s after
`test_prune_minitron.py`, so it
needs the full sequence and does not reproduce on demand — three
attempts to catch it under
instrumentation all landed on fast runs. In those, CUDA state
immediately before it is 46 MiB
allocated / 68 MiB reserved / 7 segments / 22 MiB inactive-split, and
the preceding test's 498/984
MiB is fully reclaimed, so a fragmented allocator is measured *not* to
be the cause in the fast
path at least. Left documented rather than guessed at: correctness is
unaffected across every run,
and the worst case sits inside the 30-minute PR budget (CI `Run tests`
902s).

The single-GPU path is the big win, and it is the one the per-PR runner
uses — that job now
finishes in **8 minutes** in CI. Multi-rank steps still launch worker
processes that re-import, so
the 2-GPU nightly improves far less.

This also fixes the timeouts under coverage. With `--cov` (how CI runs
it), on the same three tests:
in-process **3 passed in 1m15**, subprocess **3 failed on `Timeout
(>360.0s)` in 18m57**.

### CI timeout

The 2-GPU nightly runs every test multi-GPU and measured **58 minutes
against a 60-minute cap** —
too close to be reliable. `timeout_minutes` is now ref-conditional,
mirroring the `runner` line
directly below it: **30 minutes on PRs** (single-GPU, ~8 min) and **75
on nightly**.

Keeping the nightly at full multi-GPU coverage is deliberate. Making
individual tests single-rank
cut it to ~7 minutes, but it gives up the parallel-path coverage that is
the whole point of the
2-GPU job, and it surfaced a real fragility:
`test_prune_minitron[nemotron_h]` fails with
*"No scores collected for importance estimation"* when it runs
single-rank after the full distill
file. It passes alone and after any single preceding test — multi-rank
tests are immune because
`torchrun` gives them fresh worker processes. Nightly is the right place
to spend the wall-clock.

### What is and isn't covered

Each script's real `get_args()` still runs, so CLI flags, defaults and
recipe-string resolution stay
covered. Not covered for single-rank steps: the `torchrun` invocation
itself and the `__main__`
block (`dist.setup()` / `dist.abort()`). Multi-rank steps still go
through the real launcher.

**No test file changes.** The tests still read as "launch this torchrun
command" and their
assertions are untouched.

### Keeping it that way

There is no toggle and no fallback. Every step in this suite must be
`torchrun --nproc_per_node=<int> <script>.py` with the script exposing
`get_args()` + `main()`, and
`run_example_step` raises otherwise — it returns `str`, not `str |
None`, so a step cannot quietly
become a subprocess. That matters because a silent fallback still
*passes*, just ~6x slower, so a
new script or test could cost the suite its speed-up with nothing to
show for it.

Both guards verified by breaking them on purpose, each failing in ~1.4s
rather than burning a run:

| broken convention | result |
|---|---|
| `--nproc_per_node=gpu` | `AssertionError: --nproc_per_node must be a
plain integer: [...]` |
| step invoking `generate_vllm.py` (no `get_args`) | `AssertionError:
generate_vllm.py must define get_args() and main(args)` |

### Layout

The runner lives in
`tests/_test_utils/examples/megatron_example_runner.py`, next to the
`run_command.py` it plugs into and the other per-example helpers. It is
deliberately not under
`tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/`: both files there import megatron at
module top, whereas this
one must not, since importing `megatron.bridge` would initialise CUDA in
the pytest process and hold
a context on device 0 for the whole session.

### Isolation

Sharing one interpreter means anything global has to be put back between
steps, or one failing test
cascades into the next. Each of these was previously cleaned up by
`torchrun` simply exiting:

- **`NVTE_*`** — Transformer-Engine records its chosen attention backend
in the environment, so a
Mamba hybrid failed after an attention model ran. The environment is
restored wholesale rather
  than by naming variables.
- **Allocator** — `empty_cache()` frees nothing while a finished step's
model is still reachable; a
later test ran **9x slower** (162s vs 18s) against a fragmented
allocator until `gc.collect()` was
  added first.
- **Parallel state and the rerun state machine** — two separate
singletons; `destroy_model_parallel()`
  does not touch the latter.
- **Signal handlers** — `PContext.start()` installs its own
`SIGTERM`/`SIGINT`/`SIGHUP`/`SIGQUIT`
handlers and never restores them. With a subprocess launcher, process
exit did that for us;
in-process they are saved and put back, or pytest's Ctrl-C and CI
cancellation would break for the
  rest of the session.

Verified rather than assumed: injecting a failure mid-test (after a
model was built and parallel
state left live) gives **1 failed, 2 passed**, with the surviving tests
at full speed.

### Coverage

Coverage of the exercised code **improves**. In subprocess mode the
child imports modelopt as
`site-packages/modelopt/...` while pytest measures `modelopt/...`, so
the data never merges — which
is also why the subprocess report showed exactly double the statement
count.

| module | subprocess | in-process |
|---|---|---|
| `unified_export_megatron.py` | 8% | **43%** |
| `mcore_custom.py` | 34% | **44%** |

### Testing

All in `nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08` on 2x RTX 6000 Ada, with per-test
caps enforced.

| run | result |
|---|---|
| `tests/examples/megatron_bridge`, 1 GPU | 17 passed — 4m03 (6m17 worst
of 10 runs) |
| same, subprocess baseline | 15 passed, 1 skipped — 21m27 |
| `tests/examples/megatron_bridge`, 2 GPU | 17 passed — 25m03 |
| CI 1-GPU example job (`megatron / run-test`) | passed — `Run tests`
902s, job ~20m (30m cap) |
| CI 2-GPU nightly | passed — `Run tests` 3162s, job 58m (75m cap) |
| cascade check (injected mid-test failure) | 1 failed, 2 passed,
survivors at full speed |
| pre-commit | clean |

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…rt example images (#2309)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix (CI) + test coverage

**Fixes `onnx (torch_onnx)` and `onnx (diffusers)`**, which have failed
on every branch since
`torch 2.14.0` was published to PyPI today (2026-09-02 13:42 UTC), and
**adds torch 2.14 to the unit
test matrix as the new default** so the next torch release is caught
there rather than in an example job.

### Root cause

Every test in those two jobs failed with:

```
RuntimeError: CUDNN_BACKEND_TENSOR_DESCRIPTOR cudnnFinalize failed
  ptrDesc->finalize() cudnn_status: CUDNN_STATUS_SUBLIBRARY_LOADING_FAILED
```

`nvcr.io/nvidia/tensorrt:26.05-py3` ships cuDNN **9.22** and has no
preinstalled torch, so pip
resolved the newest one — and torch 2.14 pins
`nvidia-cudnn-cu13==9.24.0.43`. Loading 9.24
sublibraries against the image's 9.22 `libcudnn.so.9` is exactly what
that status reports.

| | last good run (08:55) | first failing run (13:34) |
|---|---|---|
| `torch` | 2.13.0 | **2.14.0** |
| `nvidia-cudnn-cu13` | 9.20.0.48 | **9.24.0.43** |
| image cuDNN | 9.22.0.52 | 9.22.0.52 |

### Why only these two jobs

- The **nemo** and **pytorch** images have a preinstalled torch that
already satisfies `torch>=2.8`,
so pip never resolves a new one — confirmed from the megatron job log,
where torch does not appear
  in `Successfully installed`.
- **`tensorrt:26.05-py3` has no preinstalled torch**, so pip takes the
newest from PyPI.
- **`onnx (torch_trt)`** shares that image but passes throughout,
because `torch-tensorrt<2.13`
  already holds torch below 2.14.

### The changes

1. **Constrain torch only where the incompatibility is.**
`PIP_CONSTRAINT=torch<2.14` in the example
runner, applied when the job's image is a `tensorrt` one. It also covers
the
`examples/*/requirements.txt` loop in the same shell, which matters
because `nemo_automodel`
pulls torch in too. Not pinned in `pyproject.toml`: torch 2.14 is fine
anywhere its own bundled
cuDNN is the one loaded, so that would constrain users to work around
one pinned image.
2. **Test torch 2.14.** `torch_214` added to `TORCH_VERSIONS`
(`torchvision~=0.29.0`) and promoted to
the unit-test default across the supported Python versions, with 2.13
demoted to the back-compat
row. `release.yml`'s basic unit test moves to the same default (it was
still on 2.12).
Nothing exercised 2.14 before — which is why a torch release reached us
through an example
   job instead of a unit test.

### Testing

- `actionlint` and YAML/TOML parse clean; pre-commit clean.
- Verified by this PR's own jobs: `onnx (torch_onnx)` and `onnx
(diffusers)` reproduce the failure on
`main` right now, and the new `unit-3.12(torch_214, tf_latest)` job is
the first run of ModelOpt
  against torch 2.14.

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Signed-off-by: Chad Voegele <cvoegele@nvidia.com>
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

This PR prevents integrated ONNX Autotune from saving an INT8/FP8 result
that does not improve TensorRT latency. Autotune search models now use
the same FP16/BF16 conversion path as the delivered model. After
calibration and existing Q/DQ post-processing, the exact candidate is
benchmarked against its precision-matched no-Q/DQ baseline.

- Keep Q/DQ when the measured speedup meets
`Config.performance_threshold` (`1.02x` by default, inclusive).
- Otherwise save the high-precision no-Q/DQ fallback at the requested
output path and report `no_qdq`.
- Reject already-quantized Autotune inputs because they cannot produce a
true no-Q/DQ baseline.
- Leave quantization without Autotune, standalone uncalibrated Autotune,
pattern search, caches, and state schema v1 unchanged.

### Usage

```bash
python -m modelopt.onnx.quantization \
  --onnx_path=model.onnx \
  --quantize_mode=fp8 \
  --calibration_data_path=calibration.npz \
  --high_precision_dtype=fp16 \
  --autotune=default \
  --output_path=model.autotuned.onnx
```

The output contains either the accepted Q/DQ placement or the
high-precision fallback. The log reports `qdq` or `no_qdq`, the two
measured latencies, the speedup, and the threshold.

### Testing

- Ran the CPU-only ONNX Autotune, runtime-precision, and quantization
API suites with no GPU visible and CPU execution providers: 199 passed.
- Ran all applicable pre-commit hooks on the 12 changed files, including
Ruff, mypy, Bandit, license, and RST checks.
- On an RTX 6000 Ada GPU with TensorRT 10.8, ran explicit
`--autotune=default` on a synthetic `Conv(128→128) → Relu → MaxPool →
Gemm` graph. The calibrated guard retained two Q/DQ sites from its
paired measurement (`0.066 ms / 0.064 ms = 1.023x`, threshold `1.020x`).
The selected, baseline, and candidate models all built with `trtexec
--stronglyTyped` without an output-type error. Five alternating
follow-up trials also favored Q/DQ (`1.016x` median speedup).

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### Additional Information

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
- ONNX Autotune now benchmarks candidates at the requested runtime
precision and supports custom model transformations during export.
- Calibrated INT8/FP8 quantization is retained only when it meets the
configured performance threshold (default 1.02×); otherwise, the
high-precision model is saved without Q/DQ.

- **Bug Fixes**
  - Improved runtime-precision handling across INT8 and FP8 workflows.
- Improved validation of inputs, pre-quantized models, failures, and
temporary resources.

- **Documentation**
- Updated Autotune guidance and command-line help to explain runtime
precision, performance validation, and fallback behavior.
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### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

Megatron-Core → HuggingFace export silently dropped KV-cache
quantization for every Qwen
architecture. A checkpoint calibrated with an FP8 (or NVFP4) KV cache
exported with
`kv_cache_quant_algo` unset, so the served model used an unquantized KV
cache while the recipe
and the Megatron checkpoint both said otherwise. Nothing warned.

`_GPTModelExporter` only emits KV-cache state for layers whose
architecture mapping defines a
`core_attention` rule:

```python
# modelopt/torch/export/unified_export_megatron.py
if hasattr(layer.self_attention, "core_attention") and "core_attention" in self.rules:
    self.rules["core_attention"](layer.self_attention.core_attention, layer_id, is_mtp=is_mtp)
```

`SelfAttentionScaling` was wired in `mcore_llama.py` and
`mcore_nemotron.py` but never in
`mcore_qwen.py`, so `_self_attention_scaling` never ran for Qwen:
`self.kv_cache_dtype` stayed
unset and `_gather_kv_cache_dtype()` returned `None`.

Adding the rule to `qwen3_causal_lm_export` and
`qwen25_causal_lm_export` covers all six Qwen
architectures — `qwen3vl_causal_lm_export` and
`qwen3_5_vl_causal_lm_export` derive from
`qwen3_causal_lm_export` through `with_language_model_prefix`, which
rewrites the prefix to
`model.language_model.layers.{}.self_attn.` automatically. GatedDeltaNet
linear-attention layers
have no `core_attention` submodule, so the existing `hasattr` guard
skips them.

**Known remaining gap, not addressed here:**
`deepseek_causal_lm_export`,
`gptoss_causal_lm_export` and `llama4_causal_lm_export` are missing the
same rule. I could not
validate those end to end, and DeepSeek's MLA uses different KV
projection names, so they need
their own change rather than a copy of this one.

### Usage

No API or flag change. The mapping now resolves for every Qwen
architecture:

```python
from modelopt.torch.export.plugins.mcore_common import all_mcore_hf_export_mapping

rule = all_mcore_hf_export_mapping["Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration"]["core_attention"]
print(rule.target_name_or_prefix)   # model.language_model.layers.{}.self_attn.
```

### Testing

New
`tests/gpu_megatron/torch/export/plugins/test_mcore_export_mappings.py`
(9 cases). It needs
no GPU but imports `mcore_common`, so it sits beside
`test_moe_layout_choice.py`, which is the
same shape. Confirmed the guard actually fires — reverting only
`mcore_qwen.py` gives
**6 failed / 3 passed** (the Llama and Nemotron controls pass either
way); with the fix,
**9 passed**.

End to end on a GB200 node in `nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08`: quantized
`Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B` with a
W4A16-NVFP4 MLP / FP8-attention / `kv_fp8_cast` recipe via
`examples/megatron_bridge/quantize.py`, then
`export_quantized_megatron_to_hf.py`.

| exported `hf_quant_config.json` | before | after | released
`nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4` |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `kv_cache_quant_algo` | `None` | `FP8` | `FP8` |
| `k_scale` / `v_scale` tensors | 0 | 0 | 0 |

The absent scale tensors are correct for `kv_fp8_cast`:
`use_constant_amax` pins the amax to the
E4M3 maxbound, so `export_amax()` returns nothing for
`get_scaling_factor` and the runtime uses
the implicit 1.0 scale, while `get_kv_cache_dtype` still reports FP8
from `num_bits`. The
released checkpoint has exactly this shape, which is what the "after"
column was checked
against.

The rest of the exported layer map is unchanged by this PR and was
spot-checked against the
released checkpoint: NVFP4 W4A16 on the MLP projections, FP8 on
`linear_attn.{in_proj_qkv,in_proj_z,out_proj}` and
`self_attn.{q,k,v,o}_proj`, with
`in_proj_a` / `in_proj_b` / `conv1d` / `mtp.*` excluded.

`pre-commit run --files ...` passes on all changed files.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

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checkpoints still load; re-export to gain the KV-cache field. -->
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- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
✅ <!-- 0.47.0 → Bug Fixes -->
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### Additional Information

Found while reproducing the `nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4` recipe
through
`examples/megatron_bridge/` rather than `examples/hf_ptq/`. Labeled
`cherry-pick-0.47.0`.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Bug Fixes**
- Fixed Qwen checkpoint exports so calibrated FP8/NVFP4 KV-cache scales
are preserved.
- Exported checkpoints now retain the correct KV-cache quantization
settings, preventing unintentionally unquantized KV-cache serving.
- Improved KV-cache quantization mapping support across Qwen, Llama,
Nemotron, and Qwen VLM exports.

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Signed-off-by: Chad Voegele <cvoegele@nvidia.com>
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

Reject INT4 and W4A8 AWQ export when a weight's input dimension is not
divisible by
the configured block size.

Nemotron-3-Nano-4B has weights with input dimension 3136, which is not
divisible by
the configured block size 128. Partial INT4/W4A8 blocks are not
supported. The
export path previously inferred an incorrect block size and reached an
out-of-bounds
CUDA scale index. It now raises a clear `NotImplementedError` before GPU
indexing.

### Usage

No API change. Unsupported partial-block INT4/W4A8 AWQ exports now fail
early with a
clear error instead of a CUDA device-side assertion.

### Testing

- `pre-commit run --files modelopt/torch/export/quant_utils.py
tests/gpu/torch/export/test_export.py` — passed.
- Focused GPU test for supported and partial-block INT4/W4A8 AWQ packing
— 2 cases passed.
- The reported Nemotron-3-Nano-4B failure was reproduced and localized
with
  `CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1` before applying the guard.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

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- 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?: N/A — this fixes behavior in the current
unreleased 0.47 development line.
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: N/A — the focused candidate
passed independent senior code review and test review.

### Additional Information

The check is format-generic and does not special-case Nemotron or any
architecture.

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* **Bug Fixes**
* INT4/AWQ and W4A8 AWQ checkpoint exports now validate block sizes
before processing weights.
* Exports reject block sizes that are non-positive, non-integer, or do
not evenly divide the input dimension.
* Improved validation for compressed INT4/AWQ weights, including
partially filled quantization blocks.

* **Tests**
* Added GPU coverage for valid and invalid INT4/AWQ and W4A8 packing
scenarios.
* Expanded quantized-model export coverage using larger test dimensions.
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---------

Signed-off-by: realAsma <akuriparambi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Chad Voegele <cvoegele@nvidia.com>
Type of change: new example, example simplification, and
backward-breaking example migration

Adds end-to-end PETRv1/PETRv2 ONNX PTQ and reduces PETR/FAR3D to one
shared workflow:

- quantizes the shared VoVNet image backbone/encoder to INT8 or FP8;
- runs both the selected historical and current PETRv2 six-camera sweeps
through the same precision-matched TensorRT backbone engine using
distinct execution contexts during accuracy evaluation;
- keeps the PETR head and FAR3D decoder in their exported mixed
FP16/FP32 precision;
- reuses one NPZ calibration format, VoVNet exclusion helper,
quantization entry point, and TensorRT runner;
- does not change generic Model Optimizer calibration behavior or its
public CLI.

Both examples use two targets from one Dockerfile, with no virtual
environments:

- `evaluator`: a digest-pinned `nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:22.06-py3` base
with the legacy PyTorch 1.13.1/OpenMMLab stack for source setup,
metadata generation, ONNX export, direct PyTorch calibration capture,
and final accuracy evaluation;
- `modelopt`: a digest-pinned `nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:26.07-py3` base
for Model Optimizer, ONNX Runtime CUDA, AutoCast, INT8/FP8 quantization,
and TensorRT engine builds.

Both targets use TensorRT `11.1.0.106`. Engines are built and evaluated
on the same GPU architecture. Final metrics remain in the evaluator
because they import the legacy model-framework postprocessing and
dataset code; only artifacts cross the container boundary through the
shared workspace.

PETR is used without patches. FAR3D applies only the official
`patch/far3d.patch` from the pinned NVIDIA DL4AGX revision. This PR
carries no patch files.

The dependencies intentionally installed without transitive dependencies
are listed in `requirements-evaluator-nodeps.txt`. Their pins rely on
runtime packages supplied by the digest-pinned PyTorch 22.06 evaluator
base.

`lyft-dataset-sdk` is required only by mmdet3d's eager dataset import;
neither PETR nor FAR3D uses Lyft data. `flash-attn` remains in the main
evaluator requirements because its compiled installation uses the
evaluator build step rather than the intentionally dependency-free
legacy package step.

Fresh setup and dependency approval is requested for the final reduced
dependency set.

The documented workflow mounts raw nuScenes read-only and creates a
writable dataset view using symlinks. It then runs the pinned
mmdetection3d converter and a temporary, untracked copy of PETR's pinned
sweep generator configured only for the validation prefix and writable
dataset root.

A clean run generated both metadata files with 6,019 validation records.
The referenced camera, lidar, and sweep paths are absolute and
resolvable through the writable dataset view.

The per-batch NPZ streaming and TensorRT runtime utilities remain
example-local because they execute in the legacy evaluator, where Model
Optimizer is not installed. The core `CalibrationDataProvider` consumes
one in-memory mapping of stacked arrays and does not provide this
streamed per-file workflow.

- Focused CPU tests: 10 passed.
- Broader ONNX quantization CPU tests: 326 passed.
- All applicable pre-commit and documentation checks, plus `git diff
--check`, passed.
- Rebuilt both Docker targets and verified their exact dependency
versions, imports, TensorRT `11.1.0.106`, GPU runtime initialization,
and absence of virtual environments.
- Generated both PETR metadata files from a clean writable dataset view
and verified 6,019 validation records plus resolvable data paths.
- PETRv1 passed a one-sample TensorRT regression smoke.
- PETRv2 passed FP16, INT8, and FP8 TensorRT smokes and full
6,019-sample validation. Both the selected historical and current sweeps
are computed by the matching backbone engine; accuracy evaluation no
longer extracts image features with PyTorch.
- FAR3D passed a recurrent two-frame TensorRT smoke covering plugin
loading and recurrent state.

TensorRT `11.1.0.106` mAP follows. PETRv2 was remeasured after
correcting its temporal feature path; the PETRv1 and FAR3D numerical
paths are unchanged.

| Pipeline | FP16 | INT8 | FP8 |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| PETRv1: 1 backbone pass + fixed typed mixed FP16/FP32 head | 0.3778 |
0.3707 | 0.3756 |
| PETRv2: 2 serial backbone passes + fixed typed mixed FP16/FP32 head |
0.4102 | 0.3982 | 0.4084 |
| FAR3D: 1 encoder pass + fixed mixed FP16/FP32 decoder | 0.241 | 0.235
| 0.239 |

Normalized engine-only performance improvement over each matching FP16
pipeline:

| Pipeline | INT8 speedup | FP8 speedup |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| PETRv1 | 1.49x | 1.29x |
| PETRv2 | 1.51x | 1.30x |
| FAR3D | 1.69x | 1.40x |

Performance was measured with TensorRT `11.1.0.106` on an NVIDIA RTX
6000 Ada Generation GPU using five interleaved trials per engine
component. Each component uses the median `trtexec`-reported GPU Compute
Time with data transfers disabled and CUDA Graphs enabled. Component
times are summed before normalization: PETRv1 uses one backbone pass
plus its fixed head, PETRv2 uses two serial backbone passes plus its
fixed head with no temporal cache assumed, and FAR3D uses one encoder
pass plus its fixed decoder. Absolute latency values are intentionally
not published.

Adapted files retain exact public-source references and upstream
notices, and the top-level license attribution is updated.

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### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Documentation (plus one small example-script fix)

An audit of `examples/llm_eval/README.md` against the current scripts
(nvbug 6701343) found several documented commands that no longer run as
written:

- **T5 / seq2seq.** `--model hf-seq2seq` is not a registered lm-eval
backend in any version this example supports — the string does not
appear in the 0.4.12 or 0.4.13 wheels, so the command fails at model
lookup. `HFLM` detects encoder-decoder models from `config.json`, so the
example now uses `--model hf` and mentions `backend=seq2seq` as the
override for checkpoints lm-eval cannot classify. No ModelOpt-side
change was needed: encoder-decoder calibration already works (verified
below).
- **auto_quantize format list.** `FP8_DEFAULT_CFG|NVFP4_DEFAULT_CFG` was
shown as a literal value in both README locations, but each
comma-separated entry is resolved with `getattr(mtq, ...)` and that name
does not exist. Now shows a valid list, spells out the choices, and
names the placeholder consistently with the surrounding block.
- **`vllm serve`.** A missing line continuation meant `--port` ran as a
separate shell command.
- **MMLU setup.** Dropped a stray `cd ..` left over from the 0.11
examples release. It leaves `examples/llm_eval`, where both `mmlu.py`
and its default `--data_dir data/mmlu` live;
`hf_ptq/scripts/huggingface_example.sh` correctly stays put throughout
its MMLU flow, so the README was the only thing out of step.
- **`run_simple_eval.sh`.** Documented the optional fifth argument
(`--examples`), which `huggingface_example.sh` already passes as
`$SIMPLE_EVAL_LIMIT`.

Two changes beyond the docs:

- **`quantization_utils.py`:** under `auto_quantize`, a `quant_cfg`
string was iterated character by character, so a single format failed
with the baffling `AttributeError: module 'modelopt.torch.quantization'
has no attribute 'F'`. Normalized `str -> list` at the point the list is
consumed, which covers both `mmlu.py` and `lm_eval_hf.py` rather than
one caller. This also honors the existing `str | list[str]` annotation.
- **`requirements.txt`:** added the missing `openai`. `modeling.py`
imports it unconditionally and `lm_eval[api]` supplies only `tiktoken`,
so every documented `mmlu.py` command died with `ModuleNotFoundError` on
a clean install of the stated requirements.

Note on the filed report: its item 3 claimed `mmlu.py` fails to split
the comma-separated config list. That does not reproduce — `mmlu.py`
uses `fire`, which already parses `A,B,NONE` into a tuple, and the
unmodified script completes `auto_quantize` fine. Applying the suggested
`quant_cfg.split(",")` would have *broken* the documented command with
`AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'split'`. The
`quantization_utils.py` change above addresses the real adjacent defect
instead. Pushback recorded on the bug.

### Usage

No new API or flag. The corrected commands:

```bash
# T5 / encoder-decoder (was: --model hf-seq2seq, which does not exist)
python lm_eval_hf.py --model hf --model_args pretrained=t5-small \
    --quant_cfg FP8_DEFAULT_CFG --tasks <comma separated tasks> --batch_size 4

# auto_quantize search list (was: W4A8_AWQ_BETA_CFG,FP8_DEFAULT_CFG|NVFP4_DEFAULT_CFG,NONE)
python mmlu.py --model_name causal --model_path <model> \
    --quant_cfg W4A8_AWQ_BETA_CFG,FP8_DEFAULT_CFG,NONE --auto_quantize_bits 4.8 --batch_size 4

# simple evals, optional 5th arg
bash run_simple_eval.sh <model> <evals> <max_tokens> <port> [num examples per eval]
```

### Testing

Ran on 2x RTX 6000 Ada with a tiny Qwen3 and a locally synthesized MMLU
tree (no download):

- **`mmlu.py --auto_quantize_bits` with the documented comma-separated
list** — completes quantization on both the unpatched and patched
script, confirming the reported item 3 is a false positive. Probed
`fire` directly: bare, quoted and `--flag=value` forms all yield
`('W4A8_AWQ_BETA_CFG', 'FP8_DEFAULT_CFG', 'NONE')`.
- **`mmlu.py --auto_quantize_bits` with a single format** — proved the
new guard fires by reverting it: without the change the run dies with
`AttributeError: module 'modelopt.torch.quantization' has no attribute
'F'`; with it, the run reaches a legitimate domain assertion
(`effective_bits 4.8` cannot be below FP8's 8 bits).
- **Encoder-decoder calibration** — quantized a T5 with
`FP8_DEFAULT_CFG` through `quantize_model` and confirmed encoder,
decoder and cross-attention (`EncDecAttention`) layers all calibrate
with real amax values. This is what settled keeping the T5 example
rather than deleting it.
- **`vllm serve` snippet** — parsed the fixed block with `bash`;
`--quantization`, `--port` and `--tensor-parallel-size` now all belong
to one command.
- **`run_simple_eval.sh`** — confirmed the 4-arg form is unchanged and
the 5-arg form emits `--examples 16`.
- **Lint** — `ruff-check`, `ruff-format`, `markdownlint-cli2`, `typos`,
`bandit`, `mypy`, `requirements-txt-fixer`, `mixed-line-ending` all
pass.

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(permissive), so no codeowners exception is needed. It is not a new
runtime dependency of the library, and `run_simple_eval.sh` already `pip
install`s it.
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: N/A — docs plus a two-line
defensive normalization in an example util. `mmlu.py` cannot be imported
without `openai`/`rwkv`/`tiktoken`, so a hermetic unit test would need
more stub scaffolding than the line it guards; verified by direct
execution instead, as above.
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
N/A — examples-only documentation cleanup, not a feature, breaking
change, deprecation, or a critical bug from a previous release.
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### Additional Information

Fixes nvbug 6701343 / OMNIML-5806. Item 3 of the filed report is a false
positive; pushback and evidence are recorded in a comment on the bug.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
- Auto-quantization now supports comma-separated format configurations.
  - Added an optional example-limit setting for Simple Evals.
  - Added OpenAI support for LLM evaluation examples.

- **Documentation**
  - Clarified encoder-decoder model usage with `lm_eval`.
- Added instructions for running MMLU from the evaluation examples
directory.
  - Corrected the vLLM command formatting.

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… engine (NVBug 6701763) (#2300)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

`scripts/huggingface_example.sh --kv_cache_free_gpu_memory_fraction` has
no effect on the `lm_eval` task: the value is parsed by `parser.sh`,
printed, and then dropped.

lm-eval's built-in `trtllm` backend
(`lm_eval.models.trtllm_causallms.TRTLLM.__init__`, which this example
switched to in #2066) accepts `**kwargs`, but builds
`KvCacheConfig(enable_block_reuse=False)` and passes `LLM(...)` a fixed
set of keys — `kwargs` is never merged in. So an extra `--model_args`
entry is accepted by the CLI and silently discarded, and the KV cache is
sized from TensorRT-LLM's default `free_gpu_memory_fraction=0.9`. There
is no way to fix this from the caller: `--model_args` only yields
scalars, so a `KvCacheConfig` object cannot be passed in either.

On a GH200 that means ~119.6 GiB of KV cache (`119.55 / 0.9 ≈ 132.8 GiB
free`), leaving 87.8 MiB free, and `prompt_logprobs` deserialization
then OOMs asking for 2.82 GiB.

`examples/llm_eval/lm_eval_trtllm.py` already exists to patch this
backend (its `_parse_logprobs` misaligns TensorRT-LLM's
`prompt_logprobs` by one). It now also injects the fraction into the
`KvCacheConfig` the backend builds, defaulting to 0.8 — the same default
`parser.sh` declares, and below TensorRT-LLM's 0.9.
`huggingface_example.sh` passes the parsed value through in
`--model_args`.

Scoped deliberately to the `lm_eval` path: the `quant` smoke test and
`mmlu` go through `modelopt.deploy.llm.LLM` (0.7, hardcoded) and
`simple_eval`/`livecodebench` through `trtllm-serve` (0.9); those are
left as they are.

### Usage

```bash
# Via the example script (parser.sh default 0.8)
scripts/huggingface_example.sh --model $HF_PATH --quant fp8 --tp 1 \
    --tasks quant,lm_eval --lm_eval_tasks mmlu --lm_eval_limit 50 \
    --kv_cache_free_gpu_memory_fraction 0.5
```

```bash
# Standalone, via lm-eval's --model_args
python lm_eval_trtllm.py --model trtllm \
    --model_args model=<ckpt>,tokenizer=<tok>,max_input_len=4096,kv_cache_free_gpu_memory_fraction=0.5 \
    --tasks mmlu --batch_size 8
```

### Testing

- `pytest tests/examples/llm_eval/test_lm_eval_trtllm.py` — 21 passed
(lm-eval 0.4.12, no GPU).
- The new tests instantiate the **real** upstream `TRTLLM.__init__`
through `create_from_arg_obj`, with `tensorrt_llm` and the tokenizer
stubbed, and assert the engine receives
`KvCacheConfig(enable_block_reuse=False, free_gpu_memory_fraction=0.5)`;
that an unset key still yields 0.8 rather than 0.9; and that the patch
does not outlive the constructor. Reverting the fix fails 3 of them.
- Tripwire test asserts upstream still neither declares nor forwards the
argument, so this shim gets deleted rather than silently kept once
lm-eval fixes it.
- `pre-commit run --files <changed>` clean (ruff, mypy, bandit,
markdownlint); `bash -n` on the modified script.
- Not run: the GPU end-to-end
`tests/examples/llm_eval/test_llm_eval.py::test_qwen3_eval_fp8`, which
exercises `lm_eval` through the modified script — no GPU in this
environment.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ — the `lm_eval` KV cache goes
from TensorRT-LLM's 0.9 to 0.8, which is strictly more conservative;
`parser.sh`'s declared default is unchanged.
- 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](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
✅
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ — not yet run.

### Additional Information

NVBug 6701763. The 0.9 default on this path arrived with #2066 and was
documented as a known limitation in `examples/llm_eval/README.md` ("the
KV cache uses 90% of free GPU memory rather than 70%"); that note is
replaced by the working knob.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Bug Fixes**
- Fixed the TensorRT-LLM evaluation workflow so
`kv_cache_free_gpu_memory_fraction` is correctly passed to the backend.
- The setting now defaults to `0.8`, providing more predictable GPU
memory allocation for KV-cache usage.

- **Documentation**
- Updated the TensorRT-LLM evaluation example and usage guidance to
describe the KV-cache memory setting and its default behavior.
- Updated the Hugging Face example to pass the configured KV-cache
memory fraction.
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Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Chad Voegele <cvoegele@nvidia.com>
…on fixes (#2334)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix

Everything that blocked running QAD on a quantized Qwen3.5 / Qwen3.6 MoE
checkpoint: two
Megatron-Core → HuggingFace export bugs that make it unservable (§1–2),
the dead code the first
leaves behind (§3), a no-op flag (§4), a multi-GPU calibration deadlock
(§5), and four
distillation / data-prep bugs that stopped QAD itself from running (§6).

#### 1. Routed experts were exported packed, and vLLM cannot load that

```
AttributeError: Layer language_model.model.layers.23.mlp.experts has no parameter
  'w2_weight_weight_scale_2' for checkpoint weight ...experts.down_proj_weight_scale_2
```

`mcore_qwen35vl.py` used `GroupedMLPPacking`, mirroring the **BF16
upstream** checkpoint, which
really is packed. But that mapping is only used for **quantized**
export, and vLLM's quantized MoE
loader needs per-expert scales — both released NVFP4 checkpoints
(`Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4` via
hf_ptq, `Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-NVFP4` via Megatron-LM) are
per-expert.

`_grouped_mlp_slicing` gains `gate_proj_name` / `up_proj_name` to split
each expert's fused gate+up
and slice its per-block `weight_scale`; `GroupedGatedMLPSlicing` wires
it up. The Megatron
checkpoint layout is unchanged, so affected checkpoints need only a
**re-export**.

`_verify_exported_keys` is relaxed to match: exported modules now
contribute their ancestor
prefixes, so expanding one source module into many is not reported as
~82 dropped tensors. A module
genuinely absent still has nothing beneath its prefix and is still
caught.

#### 2. A quantized `output_layer` (`lm_head`) could not be checkpointed

`GPTModel.sharded_state_dict` drops `output_layer._extra_state` and
asserts it is empty. ModelOpt
keeps quantizer state there, so saving raised and — since that method
also backs the load plan —
loading silently restored the layer **unquantized**.

`keep_gpt_output_layer_extra_state()` retains it, applied from
`megatron_replace_quant_module_hook` so **every** Megatron model gets it
(Megatron-LM and NeMo
users included, neither of whom can import `mbridge`, which needs
`megatron.bridge`). It matches
the upstream body by AST before replacing it and self-disables
otherwise.

[NVIDIA/Megatron-LM#7086](NVIDIA/Megatron-LM#7086)
is **closed, not
merged**: nemo:26.10 migrates `GPTModel` to `HybridModel`, whose
`sharded_state_dict` has no
pop-and-assert, so this side keeps the workaround.

Not cosmetic: `lm_head` is 248320×2048 = 509M params, **34.6% of
per-token weight traffic** on a
model with ~2.9B active params.

#### 3. Cleanup

Nothing maps `GroupedMLPPacking` once qwen3_5 is switched over; it is
removed with
`_grouped_mlp_packing` and the `quantize=` / `record_quant_config=`
parameters that existed only to
serve it. Llama-4's `PackNameRemapping` is unaffected.

Two smaller review-driven fixes: the gated-split shape checks raise
`ValueError` rather than
`assert` (stripped under `-O`), and per-expert quant metadata is
recorded for
`local_expert_indices` rather than every global id, fixing
non-contiguous EP.

#### 4. Remove the no-op `--moe_calib_experts_ratio` from the Megatron
quantize example

`examples/megatron_bridge/quantize.py` accepted the flag and threaded it
into the `mtq` config, but
`_moe_calib_experts_ratio` exists only in `plugins/huggingface.py` (9
refs) and never in
`plugins/megatron.py` (0); `mode.py:247` only assigns it to modules
already exposing the attribute.
On a Megatron MoE model it was accepted and silently ignored — a trap,
since on a 256-expert model
it reads like a major quality lever. `hf_ptq.py` keeps it, where it
works.

#### 5. Fix multi-GPU image-text (VLM) calibration deadlocking

VLM calibration hung for 30 minutes and died on a gloo timeout whenever
`world_size > 1`, with no
error until the timeout fired.

`NemotronTarPlusJsonlIterable` split its budget with truncating
division, so the stream supplied
fewer samples than requested (1024 over 3 subsets → 341×3 = **1023**).
`_ShardedIterable` gives
rank *r* items *r, r+W, r+2W…*, so a stream that is not a multiple of
`world_size` leaves the
trailing rank one short — it exits the forward loop early and the others
block on the next
collective. The arithmetic predicts both observed hangs exactly: 1024 →
stall at **255/256**,
512 (yielding 510) → **127/128**.

Fixed both ends: subset budgets are distributed with `divmod` so they
sum exactly, and
`_ShardedIterable` truncates every rank to `floor(len / world)` — which
also covers `num_samples`
not being divisible by `world_size`, as the first fix alone does not.

Verified on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (EP=4, `nemotron_vlm_dataset_v2`, 1024
samples): the configuration that
hung twice now completes 256/256 and exports. Unit tests cover both
fixes and fail without them.

#### 6. Fix the distillation path so QAD can actually run

Four independent bugs, all hit while running QAD end to end on
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. Each blocks a
different configuration, and together they made every sequence length
OOM or abort.

- **Context parallel aborts.** The DDP config derived
`average_in_collective` from `--sft` alone,
but context parallel also needs per-token loss reduction, so any
`--cp_size > 1` run died on
  `Cannot average in collective when calculating per-token loss`.
- **`TopKLogitsKLLoss` was not memory-efficient.** Despite documenting
"without gathering full
logits", it cast the *whole* vocabulary to FP32 before selecting the
top-k, allocating two
`[seq, vocab]` tensors — 30.3 GiB each at seq 32768 on this model's 248k
vocab. Reducing before
the cast is equivalent: widening is exact and temperature scaling is
monotonic, so the selected
  entries and the loss are unchanged.
- **MTP cross-entropy ran when it had nothing to recover.**
`skip_lm_loss` exempts the MTP heads
unconditionally, so their CE materialised another FP32 `[seq, vocab]`
tensor even when the MTP
head is excluded from quantization — as it is in every recipe here (775
of 906
`exclude_modules`, zero MTP `weight_scale` tensors exported). It is now
skipped **only** when the
model is quantized and MTP is left out of it; plain distillation such as
pruning recovery still
trains the MTP head. `test_mtp_excluded_from_quantization` pins all four
cases.
- **One bad record deadlocked data prep.** `megatron_preprocess_data`
re-raised chat-template
failures out of a pool worker, stalling the whole job until it timed out
— three malformed
records cost a multi-hour tokenization run. They are now skipped with a
warning, matching the
  existing handling of malformed JSONL a few lines above.

Also exposes `--logit_kl_topk`, which `DistillationConfig` has supported
for a while but the
example never passed through; `test_qad` now exercises that path.

§4, §5 and §6 are independent of §1–3; happy to split them out if
reviewers prefer.

### Usage

No API change. Exported names now match the released checkpoints:

```
model.language_model.layers.0.mlp.experts.<E>.{gate,up,down}_proj.{weight,weight_scale,weight_scale_2}
lm_head.{weight,weight_scale,weight_scale_2}
```

### Testing

- `test_mcore_export_mappings.py` — qwen3_5 mappings emit per-expert
rules. Verified these fail
without the fix (2 failed / 11 passed), with `Qwen3MoeForCausalLM` /
`NemotronHForCausalLM` as
  controls.
- `test_unified_export_megatron.py` — the gate/up split, per-block scale
slicing, the 0-dim scalar
fallback, and both directions of the `_verify_exported_keys` relaxation.
- `test_megatron.py::TestKeepGptOutputLayerExtraState` — 15 cases:
payload detection, no-op second
call, warn-and-skip on an unrecognised `sharded_state_dict`, and
`test_patches_stock_megatron_core`
which installs a replica of the real pre-fix upstream body (verified
against `be08ce5b1~1`) so the
  patched path is exercised whichever megatron-core is installed.
- `test_qad.py` — CI caught that its reference comparison still assumed
packed experts; fixed.

**End to end on `Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B` (35B MoE, 256 experts), 4×GB200,
nemo:26.08:**

| | before | after |
| --- | --- | --- |
| export self-check | `Export dropped 82 tensor(s)` | passes |
| expert tensors | `mlp.experts.gate_up_proj` (packed) |
`mlp.experts.<E>.{gate,up,down}_proj` |
| **vLLM v0.28.0 load** | **`AttributeError`, engine never starts** |
**`Loading weights took 25.61 s`** |
| **NEL eval (GPQA-D, MMMU-Pro)** | **FAILED** | **SUCCESS** |

### Results these fixes unblocked

The export fix is what made a Megatron-produced NVFP4 MoE checkpoint
servable at all, so it enabled
a full PTQ study on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B. Accuracy deltas are against a BF16
baseline measured on the
same harness, from **paired** per-question tests:

| recipe | throughput vs BF16 | GPQA-D | SciCode ×8 | MMMU-Pro | IFBench
|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **W4A16** (weight-only) | **0.64–0.86×** — *slower* | −0.06 | −0.15 |
+0.48 | −0.44 |
| **W4A4** | 8/12 shapes faster | −0.60 | −0.70 | −1.48 (p=0.019) |
−0.53 |
| **W4A4 + 4-bit `lm_head`** | **9/12 shapes**, up to **1.30×** |
**+0.03** (p=0.96) | −0.81 | **−1.16** (p=0.016) | −1.65 (ns) |

Repeats: GPQA-D is `pass@1[avg-of-16]`; SciCode is 8 pooled runs per
recipe; MMMU-Pro is 3 runs per
side and IFBench 2–3 for BF16 and the last row, 1 elsewhere. AA-LCR
(68.33 → 71.33, p=0.25, 3 runs
per side) and τ²-Telecom (94.25 → 94.25, 3 runs per side) are on par; at
100 questions and 114
tasks they cannot resolve below ~5 pp and ~3 pp, so they carry no claim
either way.

#### QAD status (what §6 unblocked)

With the §6 fixes in place, QAD runs end to end on this model: 32 nodes,
`TP=1 PP=1 CP=1 EP=8`,
seq 32768, gbs 512, ~38 s/iter, 124 GB/GPU peak. First accuracy read,
MMMU-Pro at iteration 50
(0.84 B tokens), 3 runs per side, paired per-question:

| | MMMU-Pro | vs BF16 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| BF16 | 74.55 | — |
| W4A4 + 4-bit `lm_head` (PTQ) | 73.39 | **−1.16, p=0.016** |
| + QAD, iteration 50 | 73.78 | −0.77, p=0.089 (ns) |

The PTQ deficit that motivated this work is no longer statistically
significant after 50 QAD
iterations. The improvement itself (+0.39 vs PTQ) is **not** significant
at p=0.41, and 50
iterations is 10% of the planned budget, so this is a direction rather
than a result. A full
six-benchmark sweep at iterations 50 and 300 is running; these numbers
will be superseded.

Two findings worth flagging beyond this PR:

- **Weight-only NVFP4 is slower than BF16 on Blackwell.** W4A16 leaves
activations in BF16, so vLLM
cannot use the FP4 tensor cores and falls back to
`MarlinNvFp4LinearKernel` / `'MARLIN'` MoE.
W4A4 selects `FLASHINFER_TRTLLM` + `FlashInferCuteDslNvFp4LinearKernel`
and beats W4A16 in
**12/12** shapes. The Marlin line count tracks the recipe exactly (one
W4A16 layer ⇒ one Marlin
  line ⇒ zero once `lm_head` is W4A4).
- **The only accuracy cost is multimodal**: **−1.2 pp on MMMU-Pro** for
the fastest recipe,
confirmed over 3 runs per side (p=0.016). GPQA-D, SciCode, IFBench,
AA-LCR and τ²-Telecom show no
  significant regression.

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- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update
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### Additional Information

Both export bugs were found while reproducing
`nvidia/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-NVFP4` through
`examples/megatron_bridge/`. Follow-up to #2332. Upstream counterpart

[NVIDIA/Megatron-LM#7086](NVIDIA/Megatron-LM#7086)
is closed — see §2.
Labeled `cherry-pick-0.47.0`.

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The PR updates 0.47 ONNX autotuning, Megatron export and quantization, checkpoint-specific recipes, ONNX PTQ examples, CI workflows, and validation infrastructure. It adds new model support, compatibility checks, calibration utilities, export validation, and documentation.

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Platform and release updates

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CI and package configuration
.github/workflows/*, noxfile.py, pyproject.toml, .dockerignore
CI adds Torch 2.14 coverage, TensorRT-specific Torch constraints, and conditional example-test timeouts. Package data and Docker context exclusions are updated.
Release documentation
CHANGELOG.rst, LICENSE
The changelog records new export, quantization, recipe, and ONNX behavior. A third-party copyright notice is added.

Recipe and model support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Recipe layout and compatibility
modelopt/recipe/loader.py, modelopt_recipes/*, docs/source/guides/10_recipes.rst, modelopt_recipes/ptq.md
Checkpoint-specific recipes move to models/<org>/<model_id>/. Legacy huggingface/models/ paths remain resolvable through compatibility logic and a symlink.
Published model recipes
modelopt_recipes/models/*, examples/deepseek/deepseek_v4/ptq.py
New DeepSeek, Kimi, Mistral, Nemotron, and Step-3.5 recipes are added. DeepSeek PTQ accepts and validates an optional recipe path.
Recipe validation
tests/unit/recipe/*, tests/unit/examples/test_deepseek_v4_recipe.py
Tests discover shipped recipes, validate path layouts and launcher references, and verify DeepSeek recipe constraints.

ONNX quantization and examples

Layer / File(s) Summary
Autotune precision flow
modelopt/onnx/quantization/autotune/*, modelopt/onnx/quantization/precision_utils.py, modelopt/onnx/quantization/quantize.py
Autotune applies runtime-precision transforms before benchmarking. It cleans temporary artifacts, rejects pre-QDQ inputs, validates latency and Q/DQ output, and selects the calibrated or high-precision result.
ONNX PTQ infrastructure
examples/onnx_ptq/quantization_utils.py, examples/onnx_ptq/trt_runner.py, examples/onnx_ptq/quantize_vovnet.py
Shared NPZ calibration readers and writers, VoVNet exclusion detection, and a TensorRT runner are added.
PETR and FAR3D workflows
examples/onnx_ptq/petr/*, examples/onnx_ptq/far3d/*, examples/onnx_ptq/Dockerfile
PETR gains export, calibration, TensorRT evaluation, and temporal inference support. FAR3D changes to encoder-only calibration and TensorRT 11.1 containers.
ONNX validation
tests/unit/onnx/quantization/*
Tests cover calibration data validation, temporal backbone inputs, runtime-precision conversion, autotune fallback, cleanup, and FP8 behavior.

Megatron export and runtime behavior

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Export mappings and unified export
modelopt/torch/export/plugins/*, modelopt/torch/export/unified_export_megatron.py
Qwen3.5-VL, GatedDeltaNet, grouped experts, vision passthrough, KV-cache scales, and checkpoint completeness validation are added.
Checkpoint loading and distillation
modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/mbridge.py, modelopt/torch/distill/plugins/megatron.py, examples/megatron_bridge/*
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Quantization compatibility
modelopt/torch/export/quant_utils.py, modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py
INT4 block-size validation, configurable KV-cache scale clamping, and preservation of populated output-layer quantization state are implemented.

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In-process example runner
tests/_test_utils/examples/*, tests/examples/megatron_bridge/conftest.py
Megatron examples can run in-process with output capture, distributed setup, state cleanup, signal restoration, and subprocess fallback.
Unified checkpoint assertions
tests/_test_utils/torch/export/unified_checkpoint.py, tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/modelopt_state.py
Utilities validate safetensor indexes, tensor shapes and values, packed quantized weights, ModelOpt state, and routed-expert completeness.
Megatron regression coverage
tests/gpu_megatron/*, tests/examples/megatron_bridge/*
Tests cover Qwen3.5-VL export, MoE layouts, VLM vision weights, MTP loss behavior, output-layer state preservation, and quantized checkpoint export.

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modelopt/onnx/quantization/quantize.py (1)

104-112: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider a try/finally block instead of the per-call cleanup wrapper.

_run_with_autotune_cleanup wraps seven individual calls. Statements between those calls are not covered, so an exception there leaks the temporary directory. A single try/finally around the whole autotune region guarantees cleanup and removes the repetition.

♻️ Sketch of the alternative structure
-def _run_with_autotune_cleanup(
-    context: _AutotuneContext | None, function: Callable[..., Any], *args: Any, **kwargs: Any
-) -> Any:
-    try:
-        return function(*args, **kwargs)
-    except BaseException:
-        if context is not None:
-            context.cleanup()
-        raise
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def _autotune_lifetime() -> Iterator[list[_AutotuneContext | None]]:
+    holder: list[_AutotuneContext | None] = [None]
+    try:
+        yield holder
+    finally:
+        if holder[0] is not None:
+            holder[0].cleanup()

The caller then sets holder[0] = _find_nodes_to_quantize_autotune(...) and drops every _run_with_autotune_cleanup(...) indirection.

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In `@modelopt/onnx/quantization/quantize.py` around lines 104 - 112, Replace the
per-call _run_with_autotune_cleanup wrapper with one try/finally covering the
entire autotune region in its caller, ensuring context.cleanup() runs whenever
an autotune context exists, including exceptions from statements between calls.
Remove the individual wrapper invocations while preserving the existing autotune
result assignment and exception propagation.
examples/onnx_ptq/trt_runner.py (1)

79-87: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Restrict new_context to TensorRTRunner or preserve subclass state. new_context creates type(self) without calling __init__ and copies only TensorRTRunner attributes. If Far3DDecoderRunner uses it, scene_token and timestamp_offset remain unset, so __call__ can raise AttributeError. The current PETR caller uses TensorRTRunner directly and does not trigger this path. Document this constraint or override new_context for subclasses with additional state.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@examples/onnx_ptq/trt_runner.py` around lines 79 - 87, Update new_context in
TensorRTRunner to either restrict its use to TensorRTRunner instances with clear
documentation, or ensure subclass instances preserve all required state when
cloned; specifically support Far3DDecoderRunner by retaining scene_token and
timestamp_offset so __call__ cannot encounter missing attributes.
modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_custom.py (1)

268-270: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve func_name when with_language_model_prefix copies a base mapping.

CustomModuleMapping.__init__ defaults func_name to "". The helper reconstructs type(m) with only target_name_or_prefix and func_kwargs. The exporter and importer then use method_map[mapping.func_name], so a base mapping can raise KeyError: ''. Copy the object, then update the two fields.

♻️ Proposed fix
-        result[key] = type(m)(
-            target_name_or_prefix=prefix, func_kwargs=copy.deepcopy(m.func_kwargs)
-        )
+        copied = copy.copy(m)
+        copied.target_name_or_prefix = prefix
+        copied.func_kwargs = copy.deepcopy(m.func_kwargs)
+        result[key] = copied
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_custom.py` around lines 268 - 270, Update
the mapping reconstruction in with_language_model_prefix to copy the existing
mapping object before changing target_name_or_prefix and func_kwargs, preserving
func_name and avoiding lookup failures in method_map.
modelopt/torch/utils/nemotron_vlm_dataset_utils.py (1)

139-139: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Skip subsets whose target is 0 before downloading shards.

subset_sample_targets assigns 0 to trailing subsets when num_samples < len(subsets). A zero-target subset still reaches the hf_hub_download loop at Lines 147-150 and downloads every tar shard. It then yields nothing, because lookup_limit is 0 and meta_by_image stays empty. Return early instead.

♻️ Proposed refactor
             per_subset_target = subset_targets[subset]
+            if per_subset_target == 0:
+                # No budget for this subset; skip before the shard downloads below.
+                continue
             if yielded_total >= self.num_samples:
                 break
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In `@modelopt/torch/utils/nemotron_vlm_dataset_utils.py` at line 139, In the
subset-processing flow, check per_subset_target immediately after retrieving it
from subset_targets and skip subsets with a target of 0 before entering the
shard-download loop. Preserve existing processing for positive targets and avoid
downloading or yielding data for zero-target subsets.
tests/unit/recipe/test_loader.py (1)

169-169: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move the _resolve_recipe_path import to module scope.

The import sits inside the test function. No circular import or optional dependency requires it. Module-scope imports make an import error surface at collection time.

♻️ Proposed change
-    from modelopt.recipe.loader import _resolve_recipe_path
-
     root = Path(str(files("modelopt_recipes")))

Add _resolve_recipe_path to the existing modelopt.recipe.loader import at the top of the file.

As per path instructions: "Imports inside functions or test methods without explicit justification. Imports belong at the top of the file so import errors surface at collection time, not mid-test."

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minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/unit/recipe/test_loader.py` at line 169, Move the _resolve_recipe_path
import from the test function to the module-level modelopt.recipe.loader import
block, keeping the existing test usage unchanged.

Source: Path instructions

tests/unit/recipe/test_recipe_docs.py (1)

189-189: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The launcher scan misses .yml files.

_resolves accepts both .yaml and .yml on the recipe side, but launcher_dir.rglob("*.yaml") only reads .yaml launcher files. A launcher example saved as .yml is never checked, so a broken recipe reference in it passes silently.

♻️ Proposed fix to scan both extensions
-    for yaml_path in sorted(launcher_dir.rglob("*.yaml")):
+    for yaml_path in sorted(
+        p for ext in ("*.yaml", "*.yml") for p in launcher_dir.rglob(ext)
+    ):
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In `@tests/unit/recipe/test_recipe_docs.py` at line 189, Update the launcher scan
around _resolves to include both .yaml and .yml files, while preserving the
existing sorted iteration and validation behavior.
modelopt/torch/utils/vlm_dataset_utils.py (1)

104-107: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Emit the padding warning on the affected rank.

Strided sharding can leave only a nonzero rank below _per_rank, so rank zero does not always observe the same shortfall. warn_rank_0 hides that diagnostic. Padding still keeps every rank in step, so this change affects observability only.

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In `@modelopt/torch/utils/vlm_dataset_utils.py` around lines 104 - 107, Update the
warning call in the calibration stream shortfall handling to emit on the
affected rank instead of using warn_rank_0. Preserve the existing count,
_per_rank, _rank, and padding message while ensuring any rank that receives
fewer samples can observe the diagnostic.
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Inline comments:
In `@examples/deepseek/deepseek_v4/ptq.py`:
- Around line 323-324: Update the entry filtering in the validation logic to
treat a missing enable field as enabled, matching _effective_enable: use the
effective default when evaluating entry.get rather than requiring enable to be
explicitly true. Preserve skipping disabled entries and ensure enabled
unsupported or *mtp.* formats are validated consistently with mtq.quantize,
export, and manifest behavior.

In `@examples/onnx_ptq/petr/evaluate.py`:
- Line 54: Update the configuration-loading flow around Config.fromfile so the
positional config argument cannot execute arbitrary caller-supplied Python;
restrict it to a verified, pinned configuration artifact or switch to a
non-executable format while preserving the evaluation behavior.
- Line 72: Update the checkpoint-loading flow around load_checkpoint and
checkpoint_path to reject unverified local legacy checkpoints before
deserialization. Require an explicitly verified trusted artifact or load only a
non-pickle format such as SafeTensors, and fail clearly when the supplied
checkpoint does not meet that requirement.

In
`@modelopt_recipes/models/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16/ptq/nvfp4-max-calib.yaml`:
- Line 52: Update both routed-expert weight quantizer configurations in the
calibration-only comparison recipe from type: dynamic to type: static, while
leaving the method: max settings and unrelated quantizers unchanged.

In `@tests/_test_utils/torch/export/unified_checkpoint.py`:
- Line 99: Update _scale_key to replace only the terminal ".weight" suffix,
preserving any earlier ".weight" segments in the key; retain the existing
suffix-appending behavior for keys without that ending.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@examples/onnx_ptq/trt_runner.py`:
- Around line 79-87: Update new_context in TensorRTRunner to either restrict its
use to TensorRTRunner instances with clear documentation, or ensure subclass
instances preserve all required state when cloned; specifically support
Far3DDecoderRunner by retaining scene_token and timestamp_offset so __call__
cannot encounter missing attributes.

In `@modelopt/onnx/quantization/quantize.py`:
- Around line 104-112: Replace the per-call _run_with_autotune_cleanup wrapper
with one try/finally covering the entire autotune region in its caller, ensuring
context.cleanup() runs whenever an autotune context exists, including exceptions
from statements between calls. Remove the individual wrapper invocations while
preserving the existing autotune result assignment and exception propagation.

In `@modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_custom.py`:
- Around line 268-270: Update the mapping reconstruction in
with_language_model_prefix to copy the existing mapping object before changing
target_name_or_prefix and func_kwargs, preserving func_name and avoiding lookup
failures in method_map.

In `@modelopt/torch/utils/nemotron_vlm_dataset_utils.py`:
- Line 139: In the subset-processing flow, check per_subset_target immediately
after retrieving it from subset_targets and skip subsets with a target of 0
before entering the shard-download loop. Preserve existing processing for
positive targets and avoid downloading or yielding data for zero-target subsets.

In `@modelopt/torch/utils/vlm_dataset_utils.py`:
- Around line 104-107: Update the warning call in the calibration stream
shortfall handling to emit on the affected rank instead of using warn_rank_0.
Preserve the existing count, _per_rank, _rank, and padding message while
ensuring any rank that receives fewer samples can observe the diagnostic.

In `@tests/unit/recipe/test_loader.py`:
- Line 169: Move the _resolve_recipe_path import from the test function to the
module-level modelopt.recipe.loader import block, keeping the existing test
usage unchanged.

In `@tests/unit/recipe/test_recipe_docs.py`:
- Line 189: Update the launcher scan around _resolves to include both .yaml and
.yml files, while preserving the existing sorted iteration and validation
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if not isinstance(entry, dict) or entry.get("enable") is not True:
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate entries that omit enable.

A missing enable value means enabled in _effective_enable, but this condition skips that entry. A recipe can therefore enable an unsupported format or *mtp.* without enable: true; mtq.quantize applies it while the export and manifest still assume routed-expert block-16 NVFP4. Treat entry.get("enable", True) as the effective value during validation.

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-        if not isinstance(entry, dict) or entry.get("enable") is not True:
+        if not isinstance(entry, dict) or entry.get("enable", True) is not True:
             continue
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def build_runtime(config_path, checkpoint_path, cfg_options=None):
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For MMCV 1.7.0, does Config.fromfile execute Python-based configuration files while loading them? Cite the MMCV source or documentation.

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Yes, in MMCV 1.7.0, the Config.fromfile method executes Python-based configuration files during the loading process [1][2]. When Config.fromfile is called on a.py configuration file, MMCV processes the file to parse its content into a dictionary, which includes executing the Python code contained within that file [2][3]. The implementation details of this process can be found in the mmcv/utils/config.py module, where the configuration content is parsed and handled to create the Config object [2][3]. Specifically, the library imports modules and evaluates the script to resolve configuration settings, which allows for dynamic configuration definitions [2][4]. Because this mechanism involves the execution of the Python file, it enables features such as inheritance (e.g., using base), the use of custom imports, and the inclusion of logic within the configuration files themselves [1][2][4].

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Do not load a caller-supplied Python config as executable code.

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model = build_model(cfg.model, test_cfg=cfg.get("test_cfg"))
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wrap_fp16_model(model)
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Reject untrusted legacy checkpoints before loading.

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def _scale_key(key: str, suffix: str) -> str:
"""Scale key for the dotted (``...proj.weight``) and packed (``...gate_up_proj``) layouts."""
return key.replace(".weight", f".{suffix}") if key.endswith(".weight") else f"{key}_{suffix}"

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Replace all-occurrence str.replace with a suffix-only strip.

The exporter preserves module-name segments when it registers weight_scale, so a reachable key such as model.layers.0.attn.weight_proj.weight can contain an earlier .weight. _scale_key converts it to model.layers.0.attn.weight_scale_proj.weight_scale instead of the actual model.layers.0.attn.weight_proj.weight_scale. When the exported and reference tensors have the same dtype, the missing scale lookup sends validation through the bit-exact branch and skips dequantization.

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-    return key.replace(".weight", f".{suffix}") if key.endswith(".weight") else f"{key}_{suffix}"
+    return f"{key.removesuffix('.weight')}.{suffix}" if key.endswith(".weight") else f"{key}_{suffix}"
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modelopt_recipes/models/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16/ptq/nvfp4-max-calib.yaml (1)

52-52: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use static scales for routed-expert weights. type: dynamic skips calibrated amax loading, so method: max does not set these weight scales. If this recipe remains the documented calibration-only comparison, set both routed-expert weight quantizers to type: static.

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In
`@modelopt_recipes/models/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16/ptq/nvfp4-max-calib.yaml`
at line 52, Update both routed-expert weight quantizer configurations in the
calibration-only comparison recipe from type: dynamic to type: static, while
leaving the method: max settings and unrelated quantizers unchanged.
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modelopt/onnx/quantization/quantize.py (1)

104-112: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider a try/finally block instead of the per-call cleanup wrapper.

_run_with_autotune_cleanup wraps seven individual calls. Statements between those calls are not covered, so an exception there leaks the temporary directory. A single try/finally around the whole autotune region guarantees cleanup and removes the repetition.

♻️ Sketch of the alternative structure
-def _run_with_autotune_cleanup(
-    context: _AutotuneContext | None, function: Callable[..., Any], *args: Any, **kwargs: Any
-) -> Any:
-    try:
-        return function(*args, **kwargs)
-    except BaseException:
-        if context is not None:
-            context.cleanup()
-        raise
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def _autotune_lifetime() -> Iterator[list[_AutotuneContext | None]]:
+    holder: list[_AutotuneContext | None] = [None]
+    try:
+        yield holder
+    finally:
+        if holder[0] is not None:
+            holder[0].cleanup()

The caller then sets holder[0] = _find_nodes_to_quantize_autotune(...) and drops every _run_with_autotune_cleanup(...) indirection.

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In `@modelopt/onnx/quantization/quantize.py` around lines 104 - 112, Replace the
per-call _run_with_autotune_cleanup wrapper with one try/finally covering the
entire autotune region in its caller, ensuring context.cleanup() runs whenever
an autotune context exists, including exceptions from statements between calls.
Remove the individual wrapper invocations while preserving the existing autotune
result assignment and exception propagation.
examples/onnx_ptq/trt_runner.py (1)

79-87: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Restrict new_context to TensorRTRunner or preserve subclass state. new_context creates type(self) without calling __init__ and copies only TensorRTRunner attributes. If Far3DDecoderRunner uses it, scene_token and timestamp_offset remain unset, so __call__ can raise AttributeError. The current PETR caller uses TensorRTRunner directly and does not trigger this path. Document this constraint or override new_context for subclasses with additional state.

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In `@examples/onnx_ptq/trt_runner.py` around lines 79 - 87, Update new_context in
TensorRTRunner to either restrict its use to TensorRTRunner instances with clear
documentation, or ensure subclass instances preserve all required state when
cloned; specifically support Far3DDecoderRunner by retaining scene_token and
timestamp_offset so __call__ cannot encounter missing attributes.
modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_custom.py (1)

268-270: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve func_name when with_language_model_prefix copies a base mapping.

CustomModuleMapping.__init__ defaults func_name to "". The helper reconstructs type(m) with only target_name_or_prefix and func_kwargs. The exporter and importer then use method_map[mapping.func_name], so a base mapping can raise KeyError: ''. Copy the object, then update the two fields.

♻️ Proposed fix
-        result[key] = type(m)(
-            target_name_or_prefix=prefix, func_kwargs=copy.deepcopy(m.func_kwargs)
-        )
+        copied = copy.copy(m)
+        copied.target_name_or_prefix = prefix
+        copied.func_kwargs = copy.deepcopy(m.func_kwargs)
+        result[key] = copied
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_custom.py` around lines 268 - 270, Update
the mapping reconstruction in with_language_model_prefix to copy the existing
mapping object before changing target_name_or_prefix and func_kwargs, preserving
func_name and avoiding lookup failures in method_map.
modelopt/torch/utils/nemotron_vlm_dataset_utils.py (1)

139-139: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Skip subsets whose target is 0 before downloading shards.

subset_sample_targets assigns 0 to trailing subsets when num_samples < len(subsets). A zero-target subset still reaches the hf_hub_download loop at Lines 147-150 and downloads every tar shard. It then yields nothing, because lookup_limit is 0 and meta_by_image stays empty. Return early instead.

♻️ Proposed refactor
             per_subset_target = subset_targets[subset]
+            if per_subset_target == 0:
+                # No budget for this subset; skip before the shard downloads below.
+                continue
             if yielded_total >= self.num_samples:
                 break
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In `@modelopt/torch/utils/nemotron_vlm_dataset_utils.py` at line 139, In the
subset-processing flow, check per_subset_target immediately after retrieving it
from subset_targets and skip subsets with a target of 0 before entering the
shard-download loop. Preserve existing processing for positive targets and avoid
downloading or yielding data for zero-target subsets.
tests/unit/recipe/test_loader.py (1)

169-169: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Move the _resolve_recipe_path import to module scope.

The import sits inside the test function. No circular import or optional dependency requires it. Module-scope imports make an import error surface at collection time.

♻️ Proposed change
-    from modelopt.recipe.loader import _resolve_recipe_path
-
     root = Path(str(files("modelopt_recipes")))

Add _resolve_recipe_path to the existing modelopt.recipe.loader import at the top of the file.

As per path instructions: "Imports inside functions or test methods without explicit justification. Imports belong at the top of the file so import errors surface at collection time, not mid-test."

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/unit/recipe/test_loader.py` at line 169, Move the _resolve_recipe_path
import from the test function to the module-level modelopt.recipe.loader import
block, keeping the existing test usage unchanged.

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tests/unit/recipe/test_recipe_docs.py (1)

189-189: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The launcher scan misses .yml files.

_resolves accepts both .yaml and .yml on the recipe side, but launcher_dir.rglob("*.yaml") only reads .yaml launcher files. A launcher example saved as .yml is never checked, so a broken recipe reference in it passes silently.

♻️ Proposed fix to scan both extensions
-    for yaml_path in sorted(launcher_dir.rglob("*.yaml")):
+    for yaml_path in sorted(
+        p for ext in ("*.yaml", "*.yml") for p in launcher_dir.rglob(ext)
+    ):
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@tests/unit/recipe/test_recipe_docs.py` at line 189, Update the launcher scan
around _resolves to include both .yaml and .yml files, while preserving the
existing sorted iteration and validation behavior.
modelopt/torch/utils/vlm_dataset_utils.py (1)

104-107: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Emit the padding warning on the affected rank.

Strided sharding can leave only a nonzero rank below _per_rank, so rank zero does not always observe the same shortfall. warn_rank_0 hides that diagnostic. Padding still keeps every rank in step, so this change affects observability only.

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In `@modelopt/torch/utils/vlm_dataset_utils.py` around lines 104 - 107, Update the
warning call in the calibration stream shortfall handling to emit on the
affected rank instead of using warn_rank_0. Preserve the existing count,
_per_rank, _rank, and padding message while ensuring any rank that receives
fewer samples can observe the diagnostic.
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Inline comments:
In `@examples/deepseek/deepseek_v4/ptq.py`:
- Around line 323-324: Update the entry filtering in the validation logic to
treat a missing enable field as enabled, matching _effective_enable: use the
effective default when evaluating entry.get rather than requiring enable to be
explicitly true. Preserve skipping disabled entries and ensure enabled
unsupported or *mtp.* formats are validated consistently with mtq.quantize,
export, and manifest behavior.

In `@examples/onnx_ptq/petr/evaluate.py`:
- Line 54: Update the configuration-loading flow around Config.fromfile so the
positional config argument cannot execute arbitrary caller-supplied Python;
restrict it to a verified, pinned configuration artifact or switch to a
non-executable format while preserving the evaluation behavior.
- Line 72: Update the checkpoint-loading flow around load_checkpoint and
checkpoint_path to reject unverified local legacy checkpoints before
deserialization. Require an explicitly verified trusted artifact or load only a
non-pickle format such as SafeTensors, and fail clearly when the supplied
checkpoint does not meet that requirement.

In `@tests/_test_utils/torch/export/unified_checkpoint.py`:
- Line 99: Update _scale_key to replace only the terminal ".weight" suffix,
preserving any earlier ".weight" segments in the key; retain the existing
suffix-appending behavior for keys without that ending.

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Outside diff comments:
In
`@modelopt_recipes/models/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Super-120B-A12B-BF16/ptq/nvfp4-max-calib.yaml`:
- Line 52: Update both routed-expert weight quantizer configurations in the
calibration-only comparison recipe from type: dynamic to type: static, while
leaving the method: max settings and unrelated quantizers unchanged.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@examples/onnx_ptq/trt_runner.py`:
- Around line 79-87: Update new_context in TensorRTRunner to either restrict its
use to TensorRTRunner instances with clear documentation, or ensure subclass
instances preserve all required state when cloned; specifically support
Far3DDecoderRunner by retaining scene_token and timestamp_offset so __call__
cannot encounter missing attributes.

In `@modelopt/onnx/quantization/quantize.py`:
- Around line 104-112: Replace the per-call _run_with_autotune_cleanup wrapper
with one try/finally covering the entire autotune region in its caller, ensuring
context.cleanup() runs whenever an autotune context exists, including exceptions
from statements between calls. Remove the individual wrapper invocations while
preserving the existing autotune result assignment and exception propagation.

In `@modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_custom.py`:
- Around line 268-270: Update the mapping reconstruction in
with_language_model_prefix to copy the existing mapping object before changing
target_name_or_prefix and func_kwargs, preserving func_name and avoiding lookup
failures in method_map.

In `@modelopt/torch/utils/nemotron_vlm_dataset_utils.py`:
- Line 139: In the subset-processing flow, check per_subset_target immediately
after retrieving it from subset_targets and skip subsets with a target of 0
before entering the shard-download loop. Preserve existing processing for
positive targets and avoid downloading or yielding data for zero-target subsets.

In `@modelopt/torch/utils/vlm_dataset_utils.py`:
- Around line 104-107: Update the warning call in the calibration stream
shortfall handling to emit on the affected rank instead of using warn_rank_0.
Preserve the existing count, _per_rank, _rank, and padding message while
ensuring any rank that receives fewer samples can observe the diagnostic.

In `@tests/unit/recipe/test_loader.py`:
- Line 169: Move the _resolve_recipe_path import from the test function to the
module-level modelopt.recipe.loader import block, keeping the existing test
usage unchanged.

In `@tests/unit/recipe/test_recipe_docs.py`:
- Line 189: Update the launcher scan around _resolves to include both .yaml and
.yml files, while preserving the existing sorted iteration and validation
behavior.

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