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Document installing flash-linear-attention for linear-attention models - #3003
Transformers runs the linear-attention layers of Qwen3-Next, Qwen3.5, Qwen3.8, GLM-5.x Flash, Kimi Linear and OLMo Hybrid through readable PyTorch reference kernels unless the flash-linear-attention kernels are importable. The reference path is slow and needs far more memory per sample, which caps the layerwise calibration batch. This adds a note to the hf_ptq README and one line to the ptq skill on installing the kernels: pip install fla-core.
fla-core alone is enough. The kernels Transformers looks for (fla.ops.kda.chunk_kda, fla.ops.gated_delta_rule.chunk_gated_delta_rule) live in fla-core, which depends only on einops. The flash-linear-attention package holds layers and models Transformers does not use, and pins transformers>=5.6.2,<6.
GPU only. Once the kernels are importable, Transformers uses them for every device, and a CPU forward of these models then fails (RuntimeError: 0 active drivers). That is also why the package is documented rather than added to examples/hf_ptq/requirements.txt, which the example CI installs.
Usage
pip install fla-core
Testing
Layerwise GPTQ on the routed experts at IQ2_XXS on 4x GB300 (oci-jhb), 1,024 x 512 calibration tokens, with #2945 and #3002, flash-linear-attention and fla-core 0.6.0:
Without the kernels
With them
GLM-5.3-Flash: batch the probe picks
16
64 (linear-attention layers fit 181-295 samples instead of 16)
With flash-linear-attention installed but not fla-core, nothing changed: Transformers could not import fla.ops.kda.chunk_kda and kept the reference path. With fla-core alone, it binds fla.ops.kda.chunk.chunk_kda for GLM-5.x and fla.ops.gated_delta_rule.chunk.chunk_gated_delta_rule for Qwen, and a tiny Qwen3-Next runs on GPU through them; on CPU it fails as described above.
The kernels compute slightly differently from the reference: the unquantized GLM-5.3-Flash under them is 0.018 KL from the reference logits, which were computed without them. KL to that reference after GPTQ: Qwen 0.2493 -> 0.2480 (not significant); GLM 0.6189 -> 0.6230 at batch 16 (+0.0041 +- 0.0045, p 0.36) and 0.6306 at batch 64 (+0.0118 +- 0.0050, p 0.02), paired per chunk over 100 x 512 wikitext-2 tokens.
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Added guidance for improving GPU calibration performance on models with linear-attention layers, including an example reporting over 2× faster calibration.
Clarified that enabling optimized kernels can cause these models to fail on CPU, so the guidance is intended for GPU environments.
Transformers runs the linear-attention layers of Qwen3-Next, Qwen3.5,
Qwen3.8, GLM-5.x Flash, Kimi Linear and OLMo Hybrid through its PyTorch
reference kernels unless the flash-linear-attention kernels are importable.
Those kernels are in fla-core, which installing flash-linear-attention with
--no-deps leaves out. Note the install in the hf_ptq README and the ptq
skill.
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The PTQ documentation names linear-attention models that use slow PyTorch reference kernels without flash-linear-attention. It advises installing fla-core for GPU calibration, warns that this can break CPU runs, and reports a GLM-5.3-Flash calibration-time reduction.
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The documentation names affected models, explains the fallback to PyTorch reference kernels, and advises using fla-core before GPU calibration. It warns that these kernels fail on CPU tensors and reports a GLM-5.3-Flash calibration-time reduction on 4× GB300.
NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer#2455: Adds GatedDeltaNet linear-attention kernels and uses the flash-linear-attention dependency.
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> *FP8 calibration over a large model with limited GPU memory is not recommended but possible with the [accelerate](https://huggingface.co/docs/accelerate/en/usage_guides/big_modeling) package. Please tune the device_map setting in [`example_utils.py`](./example_utils.py) if needed for model loading and the calibration process can be slow.*
> *Models with linear-attention layers (Qwen3-Next, Qwen3.5, Qwen3.8, GLM-5.x Flash, Kimi Linear, OLMo Hybrid) run those layers through Transformers' slow PyTorch reference kernels unless the [flash-linear-attention](https://github.com/fla-org/flash-linear-attention) kernels are installed. Install them without changing your torch and Transformers versions with `pip install --no-deps flash-linear-attention fla-core einops`; the kernels live in `fla-core`, so both packages are needed. On GLM-5.3-Flash over 4x GB300 they more than halved layerwise GPTQ calibration, mostly because the fused kernels need far less memory per sample, so a larger calibration batch fits.*
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L8: Bare `pip install flash-linear-attention` does not install them.\n\n## Usage\n\n### Token Mixing\n\nWe provide \"token mixing\" linear attention layers in `fla.layers` for you to use.\nYou can replace the standard multihead attention layer in your model with other linear attention layers.\nExample usage is as follows:\n\n```py\n>>> import torch\n>>> from fla.layers import MultiScaleRetention\n>>> batch_size, num_heads, seq_len, hidden_size = 32, 4, 2048, 1024\n>>> device, dtype = 'cuda:0', torch.bfloat16\n>>> retnet = MultiScaleRetention(hidden_size=hidden_size, num_heads=num_heads).to(device=device, dtype=dtype)\n>>> x = torch.randn(batch_size, seq_len, hidden_size).to(device=device, dtype=dtype)\n>>> y, *_ = retnet(x)\n>>> y.shape\ntorch.Size([32, 2048, 1024])\n```\n\nWe provide the implementations of models that are compatible with 🤗 Transformers library.\nHere's an example of how to initialize a GLA model from the default configs in `fla`:\n\n```py\n>>> from fla.models import GLAConfig\n>>> from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM\n>>> config = GLAConfig()\n>>> model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_config(config)\n```\n\n<details>\n<summary>Click to expand config and model structure</summary>\n\n```py\n>>> config\nGLAConfig {\n \"attn\": null,\n \"attn_mode\": \"chunk\",\n \"bos_token_id\": 1,\n \"clamp_min\": null,\n \"conv_size\": 4,\n \"elementwise_affine\": true,\n \"eos_token_id\": 2,\n \"expand_k\": 0.5,\n \"expand_v\": 1,\n \"feature_map\": null,\n \"fuse_cross_entropy\": true,\n \"fuse_norm\": true,\n \"fuse_swiglu\": true,\n \"hidden_act\": \"swish\",\n \"hidden_ratio\": 4,\n \"hidden_size\": 2048,\n \"initializer_range\": 0.02,\n \"intermediate_size\": null,\n \"max_position_embeddings\": 2048,\n \"model_type\": \"gla\",\n \"norm_eps\": 1e-06,\n \"num_heads\": 4,\n \"num_hidden_layers\": 24,\n \"num_kv_heads\": null,\n \"tie_word_embeddings\": false,\n \"transformers_version\": \"4.50.1\",\n \"use_cache\": true,\n \"use_gk\": true,\n \"use_gv\": false,\n \"use_output_gate\": true,\n \"use_short_conv\": false,\n \"vocab_size\": 32000\n}\n\n>>> model\nGLAForCausalLM(\n (model): GLAModel(\n (embeddings): Embedding(32000, 2048)\n (layers): ModuleList(\n (0-23): 24 x GLABlock(\n (attn_norm): RMSNorm(2048, eps=1e-06)\n (attn): GatedLinearAttention(\n (q_proj): Linear(in_features=2048, out_features=1024, bias=False)\n (k_proj): Linear(in_features=2048, out_features=1024, bias=False)\n (v_proj): Linear(in_features=2048, out_features=2048, bias=False)\n (g_proj): Linear(in_features=2048, out_features=2048, bias=False)\n (gk_proj): Sequential(\n (0): Linear(in_features=2048, out_features=16, bias=False)\n (1): Linear(in_features=16, out_features=1024, bias=True)\n )\n (o_proj): Linear(in_features=2048, out_features=2048, bias=False)\n (g_norm_swish_gate): FusedRMSNormGated(512, eps=1e-06, activation=swish)\n )\n (mlp_norm): RMSNorm(2048, eps=1e-06)\n (mlp): GatedMLP(\n (gate_proj): Linear(in_features=2048, out_features=5632, bias=False)\n (up_proj): Linear(in_features=2048, out_features=5632, bias=False)\…[truncated]</excerpt>
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L74: * [2025-10] 🌘 Add Kimi Delta Attention (KDA) implementation to `fla` (【44†paper†arxiv.org】).
L75: * [2025-09] 🌲 Add DeltaFormer implementation to `fla` (【45†paper†arxiv.org】).
L76: * [2025-09] 🐻 Thrilled to announce that 【30†GDN】 has been integrated into Qwen3-Next. Check out their 【46†blog post†qwen.ai】 for more info!
L77: * [2025-08] 🌲 Add Log-Linear Attention implementation to `fla` (【47†paper†arxiv.org】).
L78: * [2025-08] 🎓 Add MoM implementation to `fla` (【48†paper†arxiv.org】).
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L80: * [2025-07] 🛣️ Add PaTH Attention implementation to `fla` (【50†paper†arxiv.org】).
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L82: * [2025-06] 🐍 Add Comba implementation to `fla` (【52†paper†arxiv.org】).
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L85: * [2025-04] 🎉 Add FoX implementation to `fla` (【55†paper†arxiv.org】).
L86: * [2025-03] ~~We have changed the default `initializer_range` to the magic 🐳 0.006~~ The `initializer_range` was rolled back to the default value of 0.02. For actual training, we recommend trying both.
L87: * [2025-02] 🐳 Add NSA implementations to `fla`. See kernels 【56†here】.
L88: * [2025-01] 🔥 We are migrating to `torchtitan`-based training framework. Check out the 【57†flame†github.com】 repo for more details.
L89: * [2025-01] 🦅 Add RWKV7 implementations (both kernels and models) to `fla`.
L90: * [2024-12] Add `flash-bidirectional-attention` to `fla-org` (【58†repo†github.com】).
L91: * [2024-12] 🎉 Add Gated DeltaNet implementation to `fla` (【59†paper†arxiv.org】).
L92: * [2024-12] 🚀 `fla` now officially supports kernels with variable-length inputs.
L93: * [2024-11] The inputs are now switched from head-first to seq-first format.
L94: * [2024-11] 💥 `fla` now provides a flexible way for training hybrid models.
L95: * [2024-10] 🔥 Announcing `flame`, a minimal and scalable framework for training `fla` models. Check out the details 【57†here†github.com】.
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L97: * [2024-09] 🎉 Add GSA implementation to `fla` (【60†paper†arxiv.org】).
L98: * [2024-05] 🎉 Add DeltaNet implementation to `fla` (【61†paper†arxiv.org】).
L99: * [2024-05] 💥 `fla` v0.1: a variety of subquadratic kernels/layers/models integrated (RetNet/GLA/Mamba/HGRN/HGRN2/RWKV6, etc., see 【12†Models】).
L100: * [2023-12] 💥 Launch `fla`, offering a collection of implementations for state-of-the-art linear attention models.
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L0: {"info":{"author":null,"author_email":null,"bugtrack_url":null,"classifiers":[],"description":"<div align=\"center\">\n\n<img width=\"50%\" alt=\"Flash Linear Attention\" src=\"images/logo.png\">\n<br>\n\n[](https://huggingface.co/fla-hub) [](https://discord.gg/vDaJTmKNcS)\n\n</div>\n\n<p>\n 💥 Flash Linear Attention brings together hardware-efficient building blocks, training-ready layers, and components for modern sequence models, spanning linear attention, sparse attention, state space models, and hybrid LLM architectures.
L1: All implementations are platform-agnostic and verified on NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel hardware.
L2: Pull requests are welcome!\n</p>\n\n--------\n\n* [News](#news)\n* [Models](#models)\n* [Installation](#installation)\n* [Usage](#usage)\n * [Token Mixing](#token-mixing)\n * [Fused Modules](#fused-modules)\n * [Generation](#generation)\n * [Hybrid Models](#hybrid-models)\n* [Training](#training)\n* [Evaluation](#evaluation)\n* [Benchmarks](#benchmarks)\n* [Citation](#citation)\n* [Acknowledgements](#acknowledgements)\n\n## News\n\n- [2026-10] 🌊 Add [CyFA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.36259) (Cyclic Flow Attention) implementation to `fla` - a Linear RNN that partitions memory by relative time through learned cyclic transport.\n- [2026-10] 🎉 Add Stick-Breaking Attention kernels and models to `fla` ([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17980)).\n- [2026-07] 🐈 Add CAT (Compress and Attend Transformer) implementation to `fla` ([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05313)) - a _meta_-sequence mixer that unlocks test-time control of inference costs.\n- [2026-07] 🧱 Add a [Gluon](https://triton-lang.org/main/getting-started/tutorials/gluon/) backend for [AttnRes](fla/ops/attnres).\n- [2026-07] 🚀 Add [FlashQLA](https://github.com/QwenLM/FlashQLA) backend for [Gated DeltaNet](fla/ops/gated_delta_rule).\n- [2026-06] 🔭 Add Parallax implementation to `fla` ([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.29157)).\n- [2026-06] 🧮 Add Preconditioned Gated DeltaNet (PGDN) and Preconditioned KDA (PKDA) to `fla` ([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.21100)) — curvature-aware preconditioning of the linear recurrence via an ATK preconditioner.\n- [2026-06] 🧱 Add Wall attention implementation to `fla` ([blog](https://blog.tilderesearch.com/blog/wall-attn)).\n- [2026-05] 🚪 Add Gated DeltaNet 2 (GDN-2) implementation to `fla` ([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22791)).\n- [2026-05] 🦅 Add Raven implementation to `fla` ([repo](https://github.com/goombalab/raven)).\n- [2026-05] 🚀 Add [YOCO](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05254) (You Only Cache Once) implementation to `fla`.\n- [2026-05] ⚡ Add fused [AttnRes](fla/ops/attnres) support to `fla` ([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15031)).\n- [2026-04] 🐍 Add Mamba3 implementation to `fla` ([paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15569)).\n- [2026-04] 🧱 Add [MoBA](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.13189) (Mixture of Block Attention) implementation to `fla`, with [FlashMoBA](https://github.com/mit-han-lab/flash-moba) backend support.\n- [2026-04] 🧱 Add [TileLang](https://github.com/tile-ai/tilelang) backend support for selected kernels.\n- [2026-04] 🎯 Add [GPT-OSS](https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-oss/)-style attention sink support to `fla`'s attention kernels.\n- [2026-03] 🚀 Add [Context Parallel](fla/ops/cp/README.md) support for KDA and GDN, enabling efficient distributed training across sequence dimension.\n\n…[truncated]</excerpt>
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L200: CUDA | `[cuda]` | `https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128` | `triton` (PyPI)
L201: ROCm | `[rocm]` | `https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm7.2` | pulled by `torch` (`pytorch-triton-rocm` / `triton-rocm`)
L202: XPU | `[xpu]` | `https://download.pytorch.org/whl/xpu` | pulled by `torch` (`pytorch-triton-xpu`)
L203: NPU | `[npu]` | `https://triton-ascend.osinfra.cn/pypi/simple` | `triton-ascend`
L204: CPU | `[cpu]` | `https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu` | `triton` (PyPI, import-only)
L205: ## From PyPI
L206:
L207: CUDA can use a single command since `triton` lives on PyPI:
L208:
L209: pip install flash-linear-attention[cuda]
L210: For ROCm / XPU / CPU, do it in two steps so `torch` (and the matching `triton` flavor that `torch` pulls transitively) come from the PyTorc…[truncated]</excerpt>
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<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week; `fla` ships as two PyPI packages: `fla-core` (kernels in `fla/ops`, `fla/modules`, `fla/utils`) and `flash-linear-attention` (everything in `fla/layers` + `fla/models`, plus `fla-core` as a dep). ... pip install -U "git+https://github.com/fla-org/flash-linear-attention#egg=flash-linear-attention[cuda]" ... Before v0.5, `pip install flash-linear-attention` resolved a CUDA-built `torch` + `triton` from the default PyPI index even on ROCm / XPU / NPU machines, which silently overlaid the wrong wheels.
# INSTALL.md
# Installation
`fla` ships as two PyPI packages: `fla-core` (kernels in `fla/ops`, `fla/modules`, `fla/utils`) and `flash-linear-attention` (everything in `fla/layers` + `fla/models`, plus `fla-core` as a dep). Both follow the same backend-extras layout.
## Pick a backend
`torch` lives in a backend extra, not in the base deps, so wheel metadata is the same across backends. The `triton` flavor either ships in the extra (cuda / cpu / npu) or comes transitively from `torch` when you source it from the matching PyTorch wheel index (rocm / xpu).
Backend | Extra | Wheel index | `triton` flavor
--- | --- | --- | ---
CUDA | `[cuda]` | `https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128` | `triton` (PyPI)
ROCm | `[rocm]` | `https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm7.2` | pulled by `torch` (`pytorch-triton-rocm` / `triton-rocm`)
XPU | `[xpu]` | `https://download.pytorch.org/whl/xpu` | pulled by `torch` (`pytorch-triton-xpu`)
NPU | `[npu]` | `https://triton-ascend.osinfra.cn/pypi/simple` | `triton-ascend`
CPU | `[cpu]` | `https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu` | `triton` (PyPI, import-only)
## From PyPI
CUDA can use a single command since `triton` lives on PyPI:
pip install flash-linear-attention[cuda]
For ROCm / XPU / CPU, do it in two steps so `torch` (and the matching `triton` flavor that `torch` pulls transitively) come from the PyTorch wheel index instead of letting the resolver mix and match (pip docs are explicit that there is no priority across configured indices). This mirrors the AMD-recommended pattern:
# ROCm
pip install --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/rocm7.2 torch
pip install flash-linear-attention[rocm]
# XPU
pip install --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/xpu torch
pip install flash-linear-attention[xpu]
# CPU
pip install --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu torch
pip install flash-linear-attention[cpu]
For nightly torch, swap `whl/<backend>` for `whl/nightly/<backend>` and add `--pre`.
## Ascend NPU
NPUs use `triton-ascend`, not upstream `triton`. Since `triton` is in backend extras (not base deps), the old "install fla, then `pip uninstall triton`, then install `triton-ascend`" dance is no longer needed.
# 1. install CANN 9.1.0 + source set_env.sh
# 2. install torch / torch_npu / triton-ascend, then fla with the npu extra
pip install torch==2.9.0 torch_npu==2.9.0.post6 torchvision==0.24.0
pip install triton-ascend==3.2.2 --extra-index-url=https://triton-ascend.osinfra.cn/pypi/simple
pip install flash-linear-attention[npu]
The `[npu]` extra pins `torch==2.9.0`, `torch_npu==2.9.0.post6`, `torchvision==0.24.0`, and `triton-ascend==3.2.2` (CANN 9.1.0 stack tested on A2). Install `triton-ascend` with `--extra-index-url` as shown above.
## From source
pip uninstall fla-core flash-linear-attention -y
# CUDA
pip install -U "git+https://github.com/fla-org/flash-linear-attention#egg=flash-linear-attention[cuda]"
# Non-CUDA: install backend torch + triton from the PyTorch index first
# (see the per-backend block above), then run the same git+ install with the
# matching extra ([rocm] / [xpu] / [npu] / [cpu]).
Or with submodules:
git submodule add https://github.com/fla-org/flash-linear-attention.git 3rdparty/flash-linear-attention
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Citations:
- 1: https://pypi.org/pypi/fla-core/0.6.0/json
- 2: https://github.com/fla-org/flash-linear-attention/blob/main/INSTALL.md
Document the Triton prerequisite for the --no-deps install.
--no-deps skips the dependencies of both packages, including triton. Upstream installs triton through backend extras, not base dependencies. On a PyTorch image without Triton, this command can succeed while fla.ops fails to import. Transformers then falls back to the reference path without an error. Add a note that Triton must be importable, or add an explicit Triton install step.
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Update the flash-linear-attention installation note to state that Triton must be
importable when using the `--no-deps` install command, or include an explicit
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Transformers binds the kernels from fla-core alone, which depends only on
einops, while flash-linear-attention pins Transformers. With the kernels
importable, Transformers also sends CPU tensors to them, which fails.
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- **Model-specific dependencies**: Models with `trust_remote_code` may import packages not in the container (e.g., `mamba-ssm` for hybrid Mamba models). See Step 2.5. Use `EXTRA_PIP_DEPS` env var with the launcher, or install manually before running `hf_ptq.py`
- **Linear-attention models** (Qwen3-Next/3.5/3.8, GLM-5.x Flash, Kimi Linear, OLMo Hybrid) fall back to slow, memory-hungry PyTorch kernels without `pip install fla-core`; install it before calibrating on GPU (it breaks CPU runs of these models)
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Observed some bugs with fla-core<0.5.2 (Gated DeltaNet kernel computes packed THD sequences wrongly) hence recommend using newer version.
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-**Linear-attention models** (Qwen3-Next/3.5/3.8, GLM-5.x Flash, Kimi Linear, OLMo Hybrid) fall back to slow, memory-hungry PyTorch kernels without `pip install fla-core`; install it before calibrating on GPU (it breaks CPU runs of these models)
-**Linear-attention models** (Qwen3-Next/3.5/3.8, GLM-5.x Flash, Kimi Linear, OLMo Hybrid) fall back to slow, memory-hungry PyTorch kernels without `pip install fla-core>=0.5.2`; install it before calibrating on GPU (it breaks CPU runs of these models)
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Transformers runs the linear-attention layers of Qwen3-Next, Qwen3.5, Qwen3.8, GLM-5.x Flash, Kimi Linear and OLMo Hybrid through readable PyTorch reference kernels unless the flash-linear-attention kernels are importable. The reference path is slow and needs far more memory per sample, which caps the layerwise calibration batch. This adds a note to the
hf_ptqREADME and one line to the ptq skill on installing the kernels:pip install fla-core.fla-corealone is enough. The kernels Transformers looks for (fla.ops.kda.chunk_kda,fla.ops.gated_delta_rule.chunk_gated_delta_rule) live infla-core, which depends only oneinops. Theflash-linear-attentionpackage holds layers and models Transformers does not use, and pinstransformers>=5.6.2,<6.RuntimeError: 0 active drivers). That is also why the package is documented rather than added toexamples/hf_ptq/requirements.txt, which the example CI installs.Usage
Testing
Layerwise GPTQ on the routed experts at IQ2_XXS on 4x GB300 (oci-jhb), 1,024 x 512 calibration tokens, with #2945 and #3002,
flash-linear-attentionandfla-core0.6.0:flash-linear-attentioninstalled but notfla-core, nothing changed: Transformers could not importfla.ops.kda.chunk_kdaand kept the reference path. Withfla-corealone, it bindsfla.ops.kda.chunk.chunk_kdafor GLM-5.x andfla.ops.gated_delta_rule.chunk.chunk_gated_delta_rulefor Qwen, and a tiny Qwen3-Next runs on GPU through them; on CPU it fails as described above.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
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