[OMNIML-6079] [20/21] Add the Kimi-K3 expert-parallel adapter by shengliangxu · Pull Request #2749 · NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer

shengliangxu · 2026-10-12T00:57:12Z

What does this PR do?

Type of change: New feature

Kimi-K3's text backbone, kimi_linear, has no native transformers modeling to swap in, so the adapter patches the checkpoint's remote code in place:

It replaces the MoE block's per-expert ModuleList with fused experts that dispatch through the experts interface, keeping K3's latent expert space and its custom SwiGLU.
It registers converters that fuse the checkpoint's per-expert w1/w3 into gate_up_proj and stack w2 into down_proj. The MXFP4 experts are decompressed as they load ([18/21]).
It fixes the parts of the remote model that the expert-parallel load and calibration trip over:
- KDA's A_log shape, and its sigmoid(beta), which fla-core silently skips; real weights then blow the recurrent state up to inf;
- the causal-mask and cache signatures;
- the kwargs newer transformers pass to tie_weights.
It keeps K3's latent-expert projections (routed_expert_down_proj / routed_expert_up_proj) and its scalar residual gates (self_attention_res_proj, mlp_res_proj, output_attn_res_proj) unquantized in every built-in format.
- vLLM builds them unquantized and refuses a checkpoint that quantizes them.
- The checkpoint-mirror recipe behind nvidia/Kimi-K3-NVFP4 already keeps them in BF16.
It adds Kimi's mm_projector to the default unit's vision block.
- That block is meant to keep every multimodal projector in BF16, but it named only gemma's and Llama-4's spellings, so --recipe runs, which keep the whole VLM, quantized Kimi's.
- The published Kimi-K2.5 and Kimi-K3 NVFP4 checkpoints keep it in BF16.

It needs transformers 5.8, for the decompression. Its spec states the plan prepare attaches, as [19/21]'s do, so a run at an EP degree of 1 still finds its experts ([13/21]).

The adapter is over the ~500-line budget (~690 lines) because it is a self-contained model drop with no working intermediate state. Every patch is needed before K3 loads expert-parallel at all, and about a third of the lines are the docstrings that record why each patch exists.

Usage

Picked automatically by apply_distributed_support for kimi_k3 configs under torchrun; see [21/21].

Testing

New tests/unit/torch/models/test_kimi_k3_ep.py (+710 lines), against a stand-in remote module that follows the checkpoint's own code, covering:
- the fused experts through the experts interface;
- the patched MoE block against the remote one, with latent and plain experts and with the situ activation. The block derives latent MoE from routed_expert_hidden_size, as the checkpoint's modeling does; the config has no use_latent_moe field;
- each KDA, causal-mask, cache and tie_weights shim, including a beta passed positionally. The stand-in kernels take use_beta_sigmoid_in_kernel through **kwargs, as fla-core 0.5's do;
- the w1/w3/w2 conversions;
- the plan naming exactly the fused params;
- prepare patching the defining module once, and failing loudly when none defines the MoE block;
- the plan prepare attaches equal to the one the spec states;
- prepare leaving the loader alone for bf16 experts, which now runs without compressed-tensors installed;
- the conversions' registration raising when transformers' conversion API is missing. Before, it only warned, and the experts loaded as missing.
tests/unit/torch/utils/test_resolve_distribution_plan.py: a remote-code Kimi-K3 left whole on every rank at an EP degree of 1 is refused, as [19/21]'s Kimi models are.
tests/unit/recipe/test_presets.py: the fp8 and nvfp4 presets leave those five projections and mm_projector unquantized.
Mutation-checked: each test fails on at least one deliberate break of the code.
Each checkpoint revision loaded in one process patches its own remote module, found in the package of the class its auto_map loads.
Duplicates fold into the tests that cover them: the per-expert reference into the patched-block test, the two beta tests into one, the mm_projector preset into the Kimi projections preset. Each drop is checked by mutation.
Locally on this revision, the reordered series rebased on main 200011e: the full unit suite on transformers 5.18, and on 5.5 apart from the tests whose ONNX, TensorRT or diffusers packages that environment lacks; CI's transformers-free unit lane; pre-commit over the whole PR against main; and the Sphinx docs build. The same at every PR of the stack.
The GPU results here were measured on earlier revisions of this branch; this revision's GPU tests run in CI only.
On GPUs (16 GB200 nodes, EP64, dense FSDP2-sharded), Kimi-K3 NVFP4 loads and calibrates with no NaN, and its export checks out against the source checkpoint:
- all 92 router correction biases match the checkpoint, to BF16 rounding of its F32 values;
- routed experts export as experts.N.w1/w2/w3 and shared experts as gate_proj/up_proj/down_proj, the naming vLLM 0.28's Kimi-K3 loader reads;
- the latent-expert projections, the residual gates and mm_projector (373 modules) come out BF16, matching nvidia/Kimi-K3-NVFP4;
  - every other weight and weight scale is byte-identical to the export made before this change, in 120 hashed tensors;
  - only calibration-derived input scales vary, within run-to-run noise;
- vLLM 0.28 loads the export and starts serving at TP=32. It cannot serve one with an FP8 KV cache, however:
  - its Kimi-K3 FP8-KV path needs an FP8 prefill query, which its NVFP4 linears reject;
  - nvidia/Kimi-K3-NVFP4 ships without a quantized KV cache.
  TBD: generation from the checkpoint-mirror recipe models/moonshotai/Kimi-K3/ptq/nvfp4_experts-fp8_pb_attention, with [3/21]'s expert weight-scale fix.

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Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ Additive; runs only on the expert-parallel path.
If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP dependency, did you follow guidance in CONTRIBUTING.md: N/A. flash-linear-attention is a runtime requirement of the checkpoint's own remote code, not of ModelOpt.
Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
Did you update Changelog?: N/A. The feature's entry lands with [21/21].
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Additional Information

Part 20 of 21 of expert-parallel PTQ for Hugging Face MoE models; merges after [19/21].

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added support for running Kimi-K3 models with expert parallelism, including supported remote model implementations.
- Updated FP8 and NVFP4 quantization presets for Kimi-K3. Selected projections and multimodal components remain unquantized by default, while other layers can still be quantized.
Compatibility
- Kimi-K3 checkpoint support requires Transformers 5.8 or later. Loading checkpoint-specific remote code requires explicitly enabling trusted remote code.
Bug Fixes
- Improved compatibility with compressed model weights and remote-model loading.

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📝 Walkthrough

This change registers Kimi-K3 remote-code modeling and adds an expert-parallel adapter with fused experts, checkpoint weight converters, and remote API compatibility patches. It also updates default-disabled quantizer rules for Kimi-K3 projections and adds adapter and preset tests.

Changes: Kimi-K3 expert parallelism

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fused expert execution and weight conversion `modelopt/torch/models/kimi_k3/ep.py`, `tests/unit/torch/models/test_kimi_k3_ep.py`	The adapter defines the expert-parallel plan, replaces per-expert modules with fused experts, and registers checkpoint converters. Tests validate expert execution and converted weight targets.
Remote model compatibility `modelopt/torch/models/kimi_k3/ep.py`, `tests/unit/torch/models/test_kimi_k3_ep.py`	The adapter adds wrappers for KDA functions, causal-mask arguments, cache mask sizing, and `tie_weights`. Tests cover the wrapper behavior.
Preparation and model registration `modelopt/torch/models/kimi_k3/*`, `modelopt/torch/models/__init__.py`, `tests/unit/torch/models/test_kimi_k3_ep.py`, `tests/unit/torch/utils/test_resolve_distribution_plan.py`	The preparation function loads and patches remote model classes, configures expert parallelism and conversions, and handles quantization configuration. The model package imports the spec that selects the preparation function. Tests cover preparation, loading, failure cases, and distribution-plan handling.

Kimi-K3 quantizer defaults

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Quantizer rules and preset checks `modelopt_recipes/configs/ptq/units/default_disabled_quantizers.yaml`, `tests/unit/recipe/test_presets.py`	Default-disabled rules cover specified routed-expert, residual, and `mm_projector` layers. FP8 and NVFP4 tests check these placements and verify that `self_attn.o_proj` remains quantized.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ModelSpec
  participant Prepare
  participant RemoteModel
  ModelSpec->>Prepare: select Kimi-K3 preparation
  Prepare->>RemoteModel: load and patch remote classes
  Prepare->>Prepare: configure expert-parallel plan and conversions

Possibly related issues

NVIDIA/Megatron-LM#6757: The issue describes planned Kimi-K3 MoE support and expert parallelism; this change adds Kimi-K3 expert-parallel support.
NVIDIA/Megatron-LM#8427: The issue describes routed-only MegaMoE extensions, latent paths, and expert-parallel integration; this change adds expert-parallel support with latent-expert handling.

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CodeRabbit's outside-diff finding of 10-16, "Fail fast when Kimi-K3 converter APIs are unavailable": fixed in f4581d8.
- _register_kimi_k3_conversions no longer prints a warning and returns when the import fails; the import now raises, and a test covers it.
- Before, the experts would have loaded as missing, newly initialized at full size. prepare() already requires transformers 5.8, where the API exists.
CodeRabbit's nitpick of 10-16, "Cover the Kimi-K3 packed-expert load path": postponed. A unit test of the packed path needs a packed-expert fixture (weight_packed plus scales), which the stack does not have yet.

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Kimi-K3's text backbone, kimi_linear, has no native transformers modeling to swap in, so the adapter patches the checkpoint's remote code in place: - it replaces the MoE block's per-expert ModuleList with fused experts that dispatch through the experts interface, keeping K3's latent expert space and its custom SwiGLU; - it registers converters that fuse the checkpoint's per-expert w1/w3 into gate_up_proj and stack w2 into down_proj, and has the MXFP4 experts decompressed as they load; - it fixes the parts of the remote model that the expert-parallel load and calibration trip over: KDA's A_log shape and its sigmoid(beta), which fla-core silently skips, the causal-mask and cache signatures, and the kwargs newer transformers pass to tie_weights. It needs transformers 5.8, for the decompression. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

The experts read use_latent_moe off the config, but Kimi-K3's config has no such field: the model derives it from routed_expert_hidden_size. So every stock K3 config built the experts at the hidden width (7168) instead of the latent one (3584), and the expert-parallel load failed on the size mismatch. The block's own __init__ already decides latent MoE, and the patched forward follows that decision, so the fused experts now take their width from the block. The test stand-in derives the flag the same way instead of carrying a config field the real checkpoint does not have, which is how the tests missed this. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

fla-core's chunk_kda and fused_recurrent_kda have no use_beta_sigmoid_in_kernel parameter: the flag lands in their **kwargs, which is why they ignore it. Binding a call to the kernel's signature therefore filed the flag under 'kwargs', the wrapper never saw it, and beta reached the recurrence raw. On Kimi-K3 the state overflowed and the first calibration forward produced NaN out of the first KDA layer. The flag is read off the call's keywords again, as before the binding; beta is still found by name or by position. The test kernels now take the flag through **kwargs, as fla-core's do, which is how the tests missed it. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

The module skipped below 5.6, but the code under test requires 5.8 and raises below it, so a 5.6 or 5.7 run failed instead of skipping. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

…zed by default vLLM's Kimi-K3 model builds routed_expert_down_proj, routed_expert_up_proj and the self_attention, mlp and output_attn residual gates with quant_config=None, so it refuses a checkpoint that quantizes them. The default formats quantized all 371 of them in a Kimi-K3 export. The [1, hidden] gates gain nothing from quantization either. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

The default unit means to keep every multimodal embedding projection in BF16, but it names only gemma's embed_vision and Llama-4's multi_modal_projector. Kimi-K2.5 and Kimi-K3 call theirs mm_projector, so every --recipe run, which keeps the whole VLM, quantized it. The published Kimi-K2.5 and Kimi-K3 NVFP4 checkpoints both keep it BF16. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

prepare patched the remote modeling only while a process-wide flag was unset, and found the module to patch as the first one in sys.modules that defines the MoE block, so a second checkpoint revision in the same process kept its per-expert layout, or had another revision's module patched in its place. Look the modules up in the package of the class the checkpoint's auto_map loads, and patch on every prepare: each patch is idempotent. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

Kimi-K3's prepare patches the checkpoint's remote MoE block and attaches the plan for its fused experts. An EP degree of 1 skips prepare, so its spec supplied no plan there, and a checkpoint, whose config carries none, loaded whole on every rank with a replicated dense part instead of being refused. Its spec now states the plan prepare attaches, which finds the experts the checkpoint's own code builds, at the same paths. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

Its skip predates the decompressor looking up the quantization config before it imports compressed_tensors, so a bf16 checkpoint no longer needs the package and the test passes without it. The skip kept it from running anywhere the package is missing, a plain dev-test install included. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

- The per-expert reference test becomes the situ case of the patched-block test, which compares with the remote block itself. - The patch-twice test goes: the revisions test fails on a non-idempotent block patch. - The two beta tests become one, parametrized by how beta is passed, for both KDA entry points. - The A_log test goes: the prepare-with-checkpoint test checks the checkpoint's shape and now the dtype it keeps. - The tie_weights-shim-once test goes: the prepare test checks that the shim absorbs the kwargs and delegates exactly once, and the revisions test that it wraps once. - The mm_projector preset test joins the Kimi projections preset test. - The spec-routing test keeps only the prepare identity, which nothing else checks; test_specs_vs_transformers checks modeling_source. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

Like the Kimi-K2.5 and Kimi-VL adapters, Kimi-K3's prepare loads the checkpoint's own modeling through get_class_from_dynamic_module, which runs it without checking trust_remote_code. Refuse unless the caller passed trust_remote_code=True, before anything is staged or patched. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

When transformers' weight-conversion API failed to import, _register_kimi_k3_conversions printed a warning and returned. The checkpoint's per-expert weights then loaded as unexpected and the fused experts as missing: newly initialized, at full size on every rank. prepare() already requires transformers 5.8, where the API exists, so the import now simply raises. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

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Skip the tests below the transformers release the code requires

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The module skipped below 5.6, but the code under test requires 5.8 and raises below it, so a 5.6 or 5.7 run failed instead of skipping. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

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