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[2/4] Encode every GGML IQ choice in one pass for the local-Hessian search - #3159
[2/4] of the GGML local-Hessian series. It depends on [1/4] #3158. Merge order: #3158 → #3159 → #3209 → #3218.
The local-Hessian choice search ([1/4]; GPTQ reuses it in [3/4]) needs each 256-column block encoded under every choice. [1/4] runs one forced encode per choice, sweeping the codebook 8–16 times. The IQ encoders now take every_choice=True and return all of those payloads at once, shaped [num_choices, *packed shape]:
CUDA kernels: a new kernel per family keeps each choice's best codebook entry from a single sweep, using a slot-wise block key minimum.
PyTorch encoders: these loop over forced choices.
The payloads are byte-identical to the forced encodes, so the picks do not change. search_choices decodes them in place into its error buffer.
Per 256-column block on a GB300:
Rows
Format
Search, [1/4]
Search, this PR
512
IQ2_XXS
13.9 ms
4.8 ms
512
IQ2_S
17.7 ms
9.1 ms
512
IQ1_S
10.6 ms
4.4 ms
4096
IQ2_XXS
17.3 ms
4.8 ms
4096
IQ2_S
22.4 ms
9.0 ms
4096
IQ1_S
31.9 ms
5.3 ms
What remains is mostly the scoring and refinement, a few small kernels per group and sweep, which [4/4] fuses into one launch.
Usage
packed, shape=fmt.quantize(weight, importance=imp, every_choice=True)
# packed[c] == fmt.quantize(weight, importance=imp, choices=full(c))[0] for every choice c
Testing
tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py: for every format, the every-choice CUDA payload equals each weighted forced encode byte for byte.
Search picks are identical to [1/4] on all five formats on a 1536×1024 weight. The PyTorch every-choice path is exercised by the CPU local_hessian unit tests.
I ran the GGML unit and GPU suites on this commit alone on GB300 in the calibration container.
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Series (#3157, fixed per-group choices, is merged): [1/4] #3158 local_hessian for GGML IQ · [2/4] this PR · [3/4] #3209 GPTQ local-Hessian scale picks · [4/4] #3218 fused choice-search kernel.
IQ1 and IQ2 quantization can now generate a separate packed result for every available choice, applying each choice consistently across all groups.
The all-choices option is available in both CUDA-accelerated and standard quantization paths. Existing fixed-choice behavior remains; the two options cannot be used together.
Tests
Added coverage comparing all-choice results with results generated separately for each choice.
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Walkthrough
IQ1 and IQ2 quantizers now support every_choice, which returns payloads for each choice applied across all groups. CUDA and non-CUDA paths support the mode. Choice search uses one quantization and batched dequantization to compute per-choice errors.
Changes: GGML every-choice encoding
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Summary
CUDA choice-expanded encoding modelopt/torch/kernels/quantization/ggml/*, tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py
The IQ1 and IQ2 CUDA packers add every_choice and produce choice-major payloads. Explicit choices cannot be combined with this mode. The CUDA test compares each returned payload with a separate quantization using that choice.
Python quantizer and fallback paths modelopt/torch/quantization/ggml/common.py, modelopt/torch/quantization/ggml/iq1_*.py, modelopt/torch/quantization/ggml/iq2_*.py, modelopt/torch/quantization/extensions.py
The Python quantizers add every_choice. CUDA results retain the leading choice dimension, and non-CUDA execution uses encode_every_choice to stack payloads.
sequenceDiagram
participant Search as _search_block
participant Quantizer as IQ quantizer
participant Dequantizer as GGML dequantizer
participant Selection as Choice-selection logic
Search->>Quantizer: Quantize block with every_choice=True
Quantizer-->>Search: Return choice-expanded payloads
Search->>Dequantizer: Dequantize payloads in one call
Dequantizer-->>Search: Return per-choice decoded blocks
Search->>Selection: Pass per-choice errors
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[3/4] Encode every GGML IQ choice in one pass for the local_hessian search
[3/5] Encode every GGML IQ choice in one pass for the local-Hessian search
Nov 4, 2026
### What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature
**[1/5]** of the GGML local-Hessian series. Merge order: #3157 → #3158 →
#3159 → #3209 → #3218.
Each GGML IQ format (IQ2_XXS, IQ2_XS, IQ2_S, IQ1_S, IQ1_M) picks one
choice per group of every 256-value block: a local scale, plus the delta
sign for IQ1_S. It picks the one with the least (importance-weighted)
squared error. `quantize_<format>(..., choices=...)` now takes those
picks as input, in both the CUDA kernels and the PyTorch encoders. The
codebook entries and signs are still searched under the given choice.
This lets a caller pick the scales by another metric. [2/5] uses it to
pick them by the local Hessian.
When `choices` is given, the kernels skip the scoring sweep and keep the
entry search, so the added CUDA code is small (about 13 lines per
encoder family). Each `GGMLFormat` now records `choice_groups` and
`num_choices`.
### Usage
```python
from modelopt.torch.quantization.ggml.registry import GGML_FORMAT_REGISTRY
fmt = GGML_FORMAT_REGISTRY["iq2_xs"]
choices = torch.full((*weight.shape[:-1], weight.shape[-1] // 256, fmt.choice_groups), 7)
packed, shape = fmt.quantize(weight, choices=choices) # every group takes local scale 7
```
### Testing
- `tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats.py`: a fixed choice
reproduces, group by group, the payload encoded with that choice
everywhere.
- `tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py`: the CUDA
encoders match the PyTorch encoders byte for byte under random fixed
choices.
- I ran `test_iq_formats.py` and `test_iq_formats_cuda.py` locally on
one GPU (199 passed). I ran the GGML unit and GPU suites (imatrix, GPTQ,
backend, IQ formats) on GB200 in the calibration container.
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### Additional Information
Series: [1/5] this PR · [2/5] #3158 local_hessian for GGML IQ · [3/5]
#3159 one-pass every-choice encode · [4/5] #3209 GPTQ local-Hessian
scale picks · [5/5] #3218 fused choice-search kernel.
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* **New Features**
* IQ1_S, IQ1_M, IQ2_S, IQ2_XS, and IQ2_XXS quantization now accept
optional per-group choices to control scale or encoding selection.
* When choices are omitted, quantization continues to select choices
automatically as before.
* Supplied choices are checked for compatibility with the weights and
supported choice range, and are used by both CUDA and PyTorch
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[2/4] Encode every GGML IQ choice in one pass for the local-Hessian search
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…ix (#3158)
### What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature
**[1/4]** of the GGML local-Hessian series. It builds on #3157, which is
merged. Merge order: #3158 → #3159 → #3209 → #3218.
Before this PR, `local_hessian` left GGML weights unchanged, because
they have no amax to search. It now encodes each GGML IQ weight once:
- **One pass, no layerwise calibration:** like imatrix, so it fits flows
that need a single-pass algorithm, such as AutoQuantize.
- **Codebook search:** keeps imatrix's weighting, the square root of the
Hessian diagonal.
- **Choices:** each group's local scale, plus the delta sign for IQ1_S,
is picked by the layer-output error `dw H dw^T` over the 256-column
diagonal block of the input Hessian. Before, it was picked by the
importance-weighted squared error.
- **Damping:** the Hessian blocks are damped by the new `perc_damp`
(default 0.3), as GPTQ damps. Undamped, the picks overfit the
calibration set and did worse end to end.
- **Pinning:** the codes are pinned as imatrix pins them. A weight that
already holds codes (GPTQ's) is left alone, so `[gptq, local_hessian]`
works like `[gptq, imatrix]`.
- **Codes kept until QAD changes a block:** under #3197 a pinned IQ
weight is re-encoded under its pinned scale and importance, which would
re-pick the searched local scales. So the encoder also pins a per-block
fingerprint of the weight. Blocks still equal to it keep the searched
codes (PTQ, eval, export), and a block QAD changed is re-encoded as
after GPTQ, with only the super-block scale frozen. GPTQ and imatrix
pins carry no fingerprint and behave as before. The fingerprint shares
the payload's buffer prefix, so checkpointing, Megatron sharding and
export treat it as part of the pin.
The search lives in a new `choice_search` module:
1. Encode each block under every choice.
2. Give each group its best choice under its own `H_gg` block.
3. Revisit the groups twice, each taking the choice that most lowers the
block's error with the others held.
[3/4] reuses this search inside GPTQ, and [2/4] and [4/4] make it fast.
Other changes:
- An encoder registry for `local_hessian`, mirroring imatrix's.
- The imatrix target selection and per-GPU encode loop are factored out
of `imatrix_calibrate` and shared by both algorithms.
- Like imatrix, `local_hessian` now skips the max-calibration forward
when no activation quantizer needs one.
**Results.** Three models with the following weights quantized, same
1,024 calibration samples per arm:
- **Qwen3.8-27B:** the language-model MLP.
- **GLM-5.3-Flash:** all routed experts.
- **Qwen3.8-Flash-Next:** the routed-expert `gate_up`.
SciCode subtask accuracy (%), 8 runs per arm, INT8 fake-quant serving
(BF16 for Flash-Next), 64K cap; local_hessian minus imatrix:
| Model | IQ2_XXS | IQ2_XS | IQ2_S |
|---|---|---|---|
| Qwen3.8-27B | 9.5 → 16.0 (**+6.5 ± 0.8**) | 20.6 → 26.5 (**+5.9 ±
1.0**) | 32.0 → 34.0 (+2.0 ± 1.1) |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | 3.9 → 9.9 (**+6.0 ± 0.5**) | 12.5 → 18.3 (**+5.8 ±
0.5**) | 31.2 → 30.7 (−0.5 ± 0.6) |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | 38.4 → 37.2 (−1.2 ± 0.9) | 40.2 → 39.1 (−1.1 ±
1.1) | 41.9 → 42.7 (+0.8 ± 0.8) |
- **Never significantly worse than imatrix.** The gains come from fewer
runaway (repetition) generations at the two lowest bit widths, which
leave fewer subtasks unanswered. Flash-Next never loops.
- **KL did not predict the outcome:** wikitext-2 KL against BF16 was
lower on both MoE models at IQ2_XS/IQ2_S, but unchanged on 27B, where
SciCode gained most.
- **Truncation:** 10–51% of generations per arm hit the 64K cap, above
the 2% validation gate. Read these as relative comparisons under
identical settings.
### Usage
```yaml
algorithm:
- {method: gptq}
- {method: local_hessian} # in place of {method: imatrix}; perc_damp defaults to 0.3
```
### Testing
- `tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_imatrix.py`:
- The imatrix contract tests are parametrized over both algorithms: pins
codes, leaves GPTQ codes alone, refuses a bad width before any state
changes, encodes a never-reached weight plainly, runs one forward.
- `test_local_hessian_lowers_the_output_error_of_correlated_inputs`: the
local-Hessian pick lowers the output error on correlated inputs.
-
`test_search_under_the_identity_hessian_keeps_the_encoders_own_choices`:
under `H = I`, the limit heavy damping tends to, the search reproduces
the encoder's own picks.
- `test_local_hessian_codes_hold_until_qad_changes_a_block`: the
calibrated weight packs to the searched codes, and a row QAD changed is
re-encoded exactly as a GPTQ pin is under #3197, its local scales
searched again under the pinned super-block scale. It fails without the
fingerprint.
- I ran the GGML unit and GPU suites on this commit alone on GB300 in
the calibration container. I ran the PTQ, KL and SciCode campaign above
on oci-jhb.
- Not run: multi-rank calibration. `local_hessian` already warns that it
is single-rank for now.
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### Additional Information
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[2/4] #3159 one-pass every-choice encode · [3/4] #3209 GPTQ
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* **New Features**
* Added local-Hessian calibration for GGML IQ weights, selecting local
scales and IQ1_S deltas based on layer-output error. It can run
independently or alongside GPTQ.
* Added the `perc_damp` setting, defaulting to `0.3`, to control Hessian
damping during IQ-weight scale selection.
* Calibration preserves existing codes for unchanged weight blocks and
re-encodes blocks that have changed.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Calibration skips an unnecessary forward pass when activation
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The current assertion covers only the weighted kernels. Add the same payload comparison without importance so the kWeighted=false dispatch is tested.
Suggested fix
for choice in range(fmt.num_choices):
forced = torch.full_like(choices, choice)
assert torch.equal(
every[choice], fmt.quantize(weight, importance=importance, choices=forced)[0]
)
+ every_unweighted, _ = fmt.quantize(weight, every_choice=True)+ for choice in range(fmt.num_choices):+ forced = torch.full_like(choices, choice)+ assert torch.equal(+ every_unweighted[choice], fmt.quantize(weight, choices=forced)[0]+ )
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Add an unweighted payload comparison alongside the existing `every_choice` test:
call `fmt.quantize` with `every_choice=True` and no `importance`, then verify
each choice’s payload matches a forced-choice quantization without `importance`.
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Nudge: the diff still carries the [1/4] local-Hessian changes, so it counts 669 core lines and trips the split rule. The every-choice work on its own looks correct.
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✂️ Split this PR by rebasing chenjiel/ggml-iq-every-choice onto main, which already has ggml/local_hessian.py, choice_search.py and LocalHessianEncoder. Keep [2/4] in the title. After the rebase it should hold only the modelopt/torch/kernels/quantization/ggml every-choice kernels, the every_choice plumbing in the five ggml/iq*.py encoders and common.py, and the one-line _search_block switch. That comes to about 370 lines, under the budget.
Fix the description so it matches the rebased diff. The CHANGELOG.rst entry, the model_calib.py and calib_utils.py registry changes, and CodeRabbit's "Bug Fixes" note all belong to [1/4]. The checklist says the changelog is N/A, which contradicts the CHANGELOG line in this diff.
Add an unweighted case (importance=None) to the every-choice check in test_iq_formats_cuda.py. Right now only the kWeighted=true instantiation of iq1_encode_every_choice and iq2_encode_every_choice is compared with the forced encodes.
No action needed:
I read the full iq1_family.cuh on the branch. The every-choice kernel uses the same error_key selection as the fixed-choice pass of iq1_encode. Its early return is uniform across the block. Shared memory stays under 48 KiB for IQ2_S.
search_choices needs each group's encoding under every local scale (and, for
IQ1_S, delta sign). It ran one forced encode per choice, sweeping the codebook
8 to 16 times. The IQ encoders now take every_choice=True and return all of
those payloads at once: the CUDA kernels keep each choice's best codebook entry
from a single sweep, and the PyTorch encoders loop over forced choices. The
payloads are bit-identical to the forced encodes, so the picks do not change.
One 256-column block's search now takes 5-10 ms instead of 11-32 ms on a
GB300, for 512 to 4096 rows across IQ2_XXS, IQ2_S and IQ1_S.
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Comment: the rebase fixed the size and description problems, but nothing tests the unweighted every-choice kernels, and search_choices runs them in production whenever importance is None.
Needs action:
Add an unweighted case (importance=None) to the every-choice check in tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py, as asked last round (see inline). The kWeighted=false instantiations of iq1_encode_every_choice and iq2_encode_every_choice are still never compared with the forced encodes.
No action needed:
✔️ Resolved since the last review: the rebase onto main (now about 380 core lines, under the budget) and the description mismatch. The CHANGELOG and the model_calib.py/calib_utils.py changes are gone, so the changelog N/A is now accurate.
I read iq1_family.cuh and choice_search.py in full on the branch. iq1_encode_every_choice scores with the same error_key and pick mask as iq1_encode's fixed-choice pass. block_min_keys writes best[tid] and reads it back on the same thread, so there's no race across slots.
The [C*rows, 1, block_bytes] decode in _search_block matches validate_packed_weights. encode_every_choice reuses fixed safely.
The existing test edit only adds assertions. The original CUDA-vs-PyTorch check is unchanged.
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This still covers only the weighted kernels. search_choices passes importance=None when there's no imatrix, and then iq*_encode_blocks dispatches to *_encode_every_choice<Format, false, ...>. Nothing tests that branch. Please repeat the loop without importance: every, _ = fmt.quantize(weight, every_choice=True), then compare each every[c] with fmt.quantize(weight, choices=torch.full_like(choices, c))[0].
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Added in 2be35e6: test_cuda_fixed_choices_match_pytorch_encoder now runs the every-choice check both with importance and without it, so the kWeighted=false instantiations of iq1_encode_every_choice and iq2_encode_every_choice are compared with the forced encodes for all five IQ formats. Passes on GB300.
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LGTM: the last open item is fixed. test_cuda_fixed_choices_match_pytorch_encoder now compares every choice's payload with the forced encode both with and without importance, for all five formats. That covers the kWeighted=false kernels.
Needs action:
Human sign-off on the edit to the existing test_cuda_fixed_choices_match_pytorch_encoder. It only adds assertions: the original fixed-choice CUDA-vs-PyTorch check is unchanged.
Update the Testing bullet in the PR description. It still says "each weighted forced encode", but the test now also covers the unweighted case.
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✔️ Resolved since the last review: the unweighted every-choice coverage (commit 2be35e6b2), the rebase onto main (about 380 core lines) and the description/CHANGELOG mismatch.
I re-read choice_search.py on the branch. search_choices passes importance=None when there's no imatrix, which is the path the new {} case now exercises. The [C*rows, 1, block_bytes] decode still matches the every-choice output layout.
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature (performance)
[2/4] of the GGML local-Hessian series. It depends on [1/4] #3158. Merge order: #3158 → #3159 → #3209 → #3218.
The local-Hessian choice search ([1/4]; GPTQ reuses it in [3/4]) needs each 256-column block encoded under every choice. [1/4] runs one forced encode per choice, sweeping the codebook 8–16 times. The IQ encoders now take
every_choice=Trueand return all of those payloads at once, shaped[num_choices, *packed shape]:The payloads are byte-identical to the forced encodes, so the picks do not change.
search_choicesdecodes them in place into its error buffer.Per 256-column block on a GB300:
What remains is mostly the scoring and refinement, a few small kernels per group and sweep, which [4/4] fuses into one launch.
Usage
Testing
tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py: for every format, the every-choice CUDA payload equals each weighted forced encode byte for byte.local_hessianunit tests.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
CONTRIBUTING.md: N/AAdditional Information
Series (#3157, fixed per-group choices, is merged): [1/4] #3158 local_hessian for GGML IQ · [2/4] this PR · [3/4] #3209 GPTQ local-Hessian scale picks · [4/4] #3218 fused choice-search kernel.
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