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**Stack (merge in order):** [1/3] #2840 GPTQ on HF fused MoE experts ← [2/3] #2864 speed-up ← [3/3] #2877 fused NVFP4 GPTQ kernel device fix. ### What does this PR do? Type of change: new feature GPTQ only collected Hessians for modules with a 2-D `weight` and one `weight_quantizer` (`is_quantized_linear`), so HF fused MoE experts (one 3-D `gate_up_proj`/`down_proj` parameter with a `ModuleList` of per-expert weight quantizers) were skipped. They fell back to round-to-nearest, or to imatrix in the IQ recipes, which gets only part of GPTQ's gain: on a dense model, imatrix alone closes 53–63% of the gap from the plain encode to GPTQ. In an MoE those experts are most of the weights. - `gptq()` now builds one `GPTQHelper` per expert and projection. Its Hessian comes from a forward hook on the projection's shared input quantizer, keyed by `_current_expert_idx`, so it holds exactly the tokens routed to that expert, after input quantization, as the dense path's Hessian does. - `GPTQHelper` takes an optional `weight_quantizer` and `weight`, gains `accumulate()`, and `update_weights()` writes the result back in place, so an expert's slice is updated inside the 3-D parameter. `GGMLGPTQHelper` pins each expert's codes to its own quantizer. - Native Transformers FP8 experts store weights in 8 bits and hand calibration dequantized copies, so an in-place update would be lost. GPTQ and imatrix now refuse them before any calibration state changes and ask for `unpack_weight()`, as folding already does. - An expert no calibration token reaches has a zero Hessian and gets the plain search, the same fallback a dense layer calibration never reaches already gets. - Each expert Hessian is `in_features²` float32: 22.5 GiB per MoE layer for GLM-5.3-Flash's experts and 13.3 GiB for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next's, 945 and 638 GiB for the whole model. Large MoEs therefore need layerwise calibration, which the IQ recipes already enable; `gptq()` reports the size and warns before allocating when it exceeds the free memory of the GPUs holding the experts. - Behavior change: the built-in IQ1/IQ2 recipes (`[gptq (layerwise), imatrix]`) now run GPTQ on the fused experts too, and imatrix then only encodes weights GPTQ leaves. The `<format>_experts_only` recipes stay imatrix-only. - Recipe comments, `ptq.md`, config docstrings and the changelog no longer say GPTQ skips the experts. The toy fused-MoE test model moved to `_test_utils` so the GPTQ and imatrix tests share it. ### Usage ```python import modelopt.torch.quantization as mtq from modelopt.recipe import load_recipe # [gptq (layerwise), imatrix]: fused experts now get per-expert GPTQ. config = load_recipe("general/ptq/iq2_xxs").quantize.model_dump() mtq.quantize(moe_model, config, forward_loop) ``` ### Testing - `test_gptq_quantizes_each_fused_expert_as_a_linear_fed_only_its_tokens`, run with IQ2_XXS (`GGMLGPTQHelper`) and INT4 (the base `GPTQHelper`): every expert's result, both projections, is bit-identical to dense GPTQ on an `nn.Linear` holding that expert's weight and fed only that expert's tokens; for IQ2_XXS the pinned GGML payload matches too. At the toy width a GGML weight is a single 256-column group, whose GPTQ encode does not use the Hessian, so the INT4 case is the one that checks routing: it fails if every token goes to expert 0's Hessian. Both fail on `main`. - `test_layerwise_gptq_calibrates_fused_experts_on_the_earlier_layers_output`: on a two-layer toy MoE, layerwise GPTQ writes every layer's experts, layer 0 matches a single pass, and layer 1 is calibrated on layer 0's quantized output. 3.8 s on CPU. - `test_native_fp8_experts_reject_packed_weight_updates` (GPTQ and imatrix): packed FP8 experts are refused with the state untouched, and the updates persist after `unpack_weight()`. Fails without the guard. - `tests/unit/torch/quantization/{test_ggml_gptq,test_ggml_imatrix,test_gptq,test_layerwise_calibrate,test_calib}.py`, `plugins/test_fused_experts.py` and `tests/unit/recipe` on CPU with transformers 5.18: 761 passed at the top of the stack. - Real MoEs on 4x GB300 with #2864 and #2877 on top: layerwise GPTQ on the routed experts of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and GLM-5.3-Flash at IQ2_XXS, IQ2_XS and IQ2_S, including Qwen's NVFP4 `down_proj` experts through the fused Triton kernel. 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Changes requested: the caller-level batching regression remains missing, and non-positive --calib_seq still reaches the new division unchecked.
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GPTQ ran a max-calibration forward before its own Hessian forward even when no activation quantizer needed it; weight amax comes from the weights. Skip it, as max and imatrix already do. Fold the Hessian's incremental average into one addmm, which runs once per expert per forward on HF fused-MoE layers. A Hessian whose GPU was over 65% used went to the CPU, so every update copied the whole matrix to the host and rescaled it there. A model sharded over several GPUs fills the one holding the current layer while others sit idle; a single process now puts the Hessian on the emptiest GPU it already uses that is under the limit, and the CPU only when none is. hf_ptq's layerwise default batch size becomes a token budget (8192 tokens, 16 x 512) instead of 1: a batch holds one layer's activations, and batch 1 made each MoE layer run its per-expert loop once per calibration sample. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
- A Hessian leaving a full GPU now goes only to a GPU that is under the usage limit and has the Hessian's bytes free, else to the CPU; a GPU that passes the usage limit but is too small would otherwise OOM. - Test the CPU fallback on two GPUs: the idle GPU full, the idle GPU too small, and any rank of a multi-rank run. - Move hf_ptq's default layerwise batch size into a helper and test its token budget, sample cap and long-sequence floor. - Describe that default in the single-GPU PTQ note as a token budget, not a memory probe. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
Fused-expert GPTQ helpers no longer log a Hessian-weighted error each: it cost two weight-by-Hessian matmuls and a host sync per expert. gptq() logs one line per experts module instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
The default layerwise batch divides the token budget by --calib_seq, so 0 raised ZeroDivisionError; argument parsing now rejects it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
Drive quantize_main with a layerwise recipe up to the calibration dataloader and check the batch it gets: the 8,192-token default, its sample cap and floor, and an explicit --batch_size kept as is. This replaces the helper-only test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Guard the new layerwise default batch against OOM.
At the default --calib_seq 512, the default layerwise batch is now 16 sequences, or 8,192 tokens per forward pass. The previous default was 1. If a layer fits one sequence but not 16, calibration can run out of memory. Layerwise calibration has no OOM retry, so the run can stop. The explicit --batch_size 1 flag restores the previous behavior.
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Review comment at @examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py at line 1003:
Update the layerwise calibration setup around _layerwise_calib_batch_size to
keep the default batch size at 1 instead of automatically assigning the computed
16-sequence batch; make the larger computed batch opt-in, while preserving an
explicitly supplied --batch_size.
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| elif is_layerwise: | ||
| print("Layerwise calibration enabled. Using default batch_size=1 for calibration.") | ||
| args.batch_size = 1 | ||
| args.batch_size = _layerwise_calib_batch_size(args.calib_seq, sum(args.calib_size)) |
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What's the reasoning behind to change the default BS for layerwise? For some algo like local-hessian we recommend BS=1 now to avoid data padding and ensure correctness.
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Maybe we can just set --batch_size flag explicitly for a specific experiment setting?
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Thanks. The reason is speed on HF fused-MoE models. Their experts run a Python loop over experts on every forward, so a forward costs about the same per call whatever the batch: on a Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-shaped layer, the calibration forward over 32 × 512 tokens takes 8.9 s at batch 1 and 1.0 s at batch 16. Batch 1 was the layerwise default only because the auto-probe runs a full-model forward. A layerwise batch holds one layer's activations, so the default is now 8,192 tokens per batch. An explicit --batch_size still wins, so the local-Hessian blog command (--batch_size 1) is unchanged.
On padding, batch size makes no difference in hf_ptq.py. get_dataset_dataloader tokenizes all calibration samples in one tokenizer(..., padding=True, truncation=True, max_length=calib_seq) call, so every row is padded to the same length before batching. Neither the forward loop nor the calibration code trims or masks pad positions. Measured at batch 1 and 16, with identical per-row pad counts:
| Calibration set | Rows × length | Pad tokens |
|---|---|---|
cnn_nemotron_v2_mix (hf_ptq default) |
128 × 512 | 5.7% |
nemotron-post-training-v3 (blog command) |
140 × 2,048 | 34.0% |
So batch 1 doesn't keep pad tokens out of the statistics today. That needs per-batch padding, packing, or masking pad positions in the Hessians; I can look at that in a separate PR.
Results change with batch size only through floating-point rounding; two batch-1 runs are bit-identical. phi-2, NVFP4 W4A4, layerwise, 128 × 512 cnn_dailymail calibration; KL to BF16 on wikitext-2 (40 × 512 tokens, second half scored), difference paired per chunk (± one standard error):
| Batch 1 | Batch 16 | 16 − 1 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPTQ | 0.1427 | 0.1369 | −0.0058 ± 0.0032 |
Local-Hessian (fp8_scale_sweep) |
0.1281 | 0.1339 | +0.0058 ± 0.0052 |
Neither difference is significant, and they go in opposite directions.
I'd like to keep the token-budget default so large MoE runs aren't slow by default. If you'd still rather keep 1, I'll revert it and pass --batch_size in the commands we publish.
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Type of change: new feature (performance)
Stack (merge in order): [1/3] #2840 GPTQ on HF fused MoE experts (merged) ← [2/3] #2864 speed-up ← [3/3] #2945 Hessian placement by measured headroom. The fused NVFP4 GPTQ kernel device fix, #2877, is standalone on
mainand can merge in any order.Layerwise GPTQ on a large HF fused-MoE model took about 25 minutes per decoder layer: 20 hours for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next's gate_up experts (512 experts, 48 layers) and over a day for GLM-5.3-Flash. Profiling one Qwen-shaped layer showed the GPTQ weight update was only 9 s of that. The time went to forward passes, for three reasons this PR removes:
gptq()ranmax_calibratewith the calibration forward before its own Hessian forward. Weight amax comes from the weights (weight_only_quantize), so the forward only feeds activation quantizers. GPTQ now passesskip_forward_without_activation_calib=True, asmaxandimatrixalready do, and weight-only recipes run one forward instead of two.GPTQHelpermoves a Hessian to the CPU when its weight's GPU is over 65% used. With the model sharded across 4 GB300s, the GPU holding the current layer was 79% used and two others were empty, so every expert Hessian went to the CPU. Each hook call then copied the whole matrix (26 MB for Qwen) to the host and rescaled it there. A single process now puts such a Hessian on the emptiest GPU it already holds memory on that is under the limit and has the Hessian's bytes free, and uses the CPU only otherwise. Only GPUs the process already uses are candidates, so no other job's GPU is touched; distributed runs keep the old rule, since another GPU may belong to another rank.update_hessianalso folds its incremental average into oneaddmm_instead of a separate scale pass and add pass over the matrix.hf_ptq.pypicked--batch_size 1for layerwise runs because its auto batch-size probe runs a full-model forward. A layerwise batch only holds one layer's activations, so the default is now a token budget: 8,192 tokens, 16 samples at--calib_seq 512. HF fused experts run a Python loop over experts on every forward, so per-sample cost is almost flat in batch size: 250 ms per sample at batch 1.gptq()logs one line per experts module with how many experts it updated and how many calibration never reached. Dense layers keep their line.Usage
No API change.
hf_ptq.pyusers who want the old batching pass--batch_size 1:Testing
Phase timing on one Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-shaped layer, measured locally on an RTX PRO 6000. The layer has 512 experts, hidden 2560, intermediate 640 and top-10 routing; gate_up is IQ2_XXS GPTQ with 32 samples of 512 tokens:
A GLM-5.3-Flash-shaped layer at batch 16 (288 experts, hidden 4096, intermediate 2048, gate_up and down quantized): 21.4 s, of which 19.8 s is the expert updates.
End to end on oci-jhb (GB300 x4, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, gate_up IQ2_XXS, layerwise GPTQ, 1,024 x 512 calibration tokens):
With only the first and third changes, a layer whose Hessians went to the CPU took 474 s against about 80 s for one whose Hessians stayed on a GPU, which is what the second change fixes.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next's 12 full-attention layers also need a fix outside ModelOpt. transformers' reference sparse-attention indexer (
Qwen4ExpTextQSAIndexer) loops in Python over every (sample, query) pair, which adds about 340 s per pass over 1,024 x 512 tokens at any batch size. At 512-token calibration, every visible token fits its 2,048-token budget, so its output equals the attention mask it receives. The run above patched the indexer to return that mask directly. The patch is bit-identical to the loop, checked on padded and float masks, and is not part of this PR. Without it, those layers took 374 s each instead of 33 s.KL divergence against BF16 for the same experiment (wikitext-2, 100 x 512 tokens, second half scored, 25,500 tokens; differences paired per chunk):
On GLM-5.3-Flash (all experts), GPTQ in this PR reaches KL 0.6298 against 0.7211 for imatrix and 0.7402 for max; both models' results are on #2840.
On GLM, the last 8 MoE layers took about 3x longer. By then every GPU this process uses was over the 65% limit, so their Hessians went to the CPU. A limit based on absolute headroom would keep them on a GPU: 65% of a 284 GB GB300 leaves about 100 GB unused. That is a possible follow-up.
There is no batch-1 KL to compare against: the batch-1 GPTQ runs kept being preempted and were cancelled. Batch size changes results only through floating-point rounding:
hf_ptq.pypads every calibration row to one length before batching, so batch 1 and batch 16 see the same pad tokens. On phi-2 (NVFP4 W4A4, layerwise, 128 x 512 cnn_dailymail calibration; KL to BF16 on wikitext-2, 40 x 512 tokens, paired per chunk), batch 16 minus batch 1 is -0.0058 +- 0.0032 for GPTQ and +0.0058 +- 0.0052 for local-Hessian, neither significant.Unit tests:
The related unit tests (
tests/unit/torch/quantization/{test_gptq,test_ggml_gptq,test_ggml_imatrix,test_layerwise_calibrate,test_calib}.py,plugins/test_fused_experts.py,tests/unit/recipe) andtests/examples/hf_ptq/test_hf_ptq_args.py: all pass on CPU with transformers 5.18.New
test_gptq_runs_a_max_calibration_forward_only_for_activation_amaxcounts the calibration forwards: 1 for weight-only, 2 with an input quantizer. It fails without the change.New
test_layerwise_calibration_batch_reaches_the_dataloaderdrivesquantize_mainwith the layerwisegeneral/ptq/iq2_xxsrecipe up to the calibration dataloader, without a checkpoint, and checks the batch it receives: 16 at 8,192 tokens, capped at the sample count, 1 for sequences over 8,192 tokens, and an explicit--batch_size 1kept as is. It fails with the old batch-1 default.--calib_seqmust now be positive (test_calib_seq_must_be_positive).New GPU tests, which need 2 GPUs. CI's GPU runner has one and skips them, so I ran them on 2x RTX PRO 6000:
test_hessian_of_a_full_gpu_goes_to_an_idle_gpu: a Hessian whose GPU reports over 65% used is allocated on another GPU and accumulates the same values. It fails without the change.test_hessian_of_a_full_gpu_falls_back_to_the_cpu: the Hessian goes to the CPU when the idle GPU is full, when it lacks the Hessian's bytes, and on any rank of a multi-rank run. The too-small case fails without the capacity check.tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_gptq.pypass, and all 15 with Launch the fused NVFP4 GPTQ kernel on its tensors' GPU #2877 on top.[1/3] Run GPTQ on HF fused MoE experts #2840's bit-exact fused-vs-dense GPTQ test still passes. The fused
addmm_changes the Hessian's float rounding for every GPTQ user, but both paths share it.Skipping the per-expert error log, on GLM-5.3-Flash (gate_up and down IQ2_XXS, layerwise, 1,024 x 512 tokens, 4x GB300): GPTQ time per MoE layer 41.4 s against 43.5 s before. KL to BF16 does not change: a Qwen3.8-Flash-Next run with this commit gives 0.249200, as before.
Not run: multi-rank GPTQ end to end (it keeps the old CPU rule), and
hf_ptq.pylayerwise on a dense model at the new default batch.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
hf_ptq.py's layerwise default batch changes from 1 to 16 at--calib_seq 512. Batches pad each sequence to the longest in the batch, and pad tokens feed Hessians and activation amax, so results move slightly, as they already do in non-layerwise runs.--batch_size 1restores the old behavior.CONTRIBUTING.md: N/AAdditional Information
The expert updates are now the largest remaining phase on GLM, about 20 s per layer. Encoding one 256-column group for all experts in a single call is bit-exact with per-expert calls and 18x faster per group. Batched Cholesky and batched GEMMs are not bit-exact, so a follow-up would batch only the encoder.
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--batch_size 1for the previous batch size.