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Re-encode GGML weights after every optimizer step, so Megatron QAD updates their codes - #3210
GGML fake quant (IQ, q8_0) caches each weight's packed codes, keyed on the weight's version counter, so micro-batches and activation recompute reuse one encode. Megatron's distributed optimizer writes updated weights without bumping that counter:
_copy_main_params_to_model_params copies each shard into the DDP parameter buffer with .data.copy_.
An all-gather then fills the rest of the buffer.
Neither touches the parameter's version counter, so the cache always hit. Within each training job, every GGML layer kept the codes of the job's first forward, and QAD trained only the non-GGML layers.
Symptoms. Codes changed only when something re-encoded the drifted weight: a job restart or an export. On Qwen3.8-27B IQ2 QAD (Megatron-Bridge, PP4 × CP2, 32 GB300):
A run that resumed at iteration 125 jumped from KD loss 0.11 to 0.61 on its first step.
Exports re-encoded weights that no forward had ever used.
The bug has been in the cache since the IQ codecs landed (#2446).
The fix. A trainable weight's cached payload is marked stale by the next optimizer step:
The hook is a global torch.optim step post-hook, registered once, the first time a payload is cached from a weight that requires grad.
It covers every optimizer that subclasses torch.optim.Optimizer: Megatron's fused Adam, Hugging Face Trainer and FSDP.
Payloads of frozen weights keep their cache, so a GGML base under LoRA is not re-encoded every step.
In-place updates through the parameter still miss the cache through the version counter, as before.
Usage
No API change.
Testing
Unit test:tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_backend.py::test_ggml_backend_caches_packed_weight_and_invalidates_on_change is extended for all six formats. It updates a trainable weight through .data, as Megatron does, and expects the payload to be packed again after an optimizer step. A frozen weight keeps its payload. The extended test fails for all six formats without the fix.
Suites:tests/unit/torch/quantization passes (1627 passed, 1 skipped). The GGML GPU tests (test_ggml_gptq_cuda.py, test_iq_formats_cuda.py, test_iq1_s_cuda.py) pass on an RTX PRO 6000: 80 passed.
Megatron QAD of Qwen3.8-27B IQ2_S, Megatron-Bridge distill.py, PP4 × CP2, 32 GB300, 4 iterations from the GPTQ checkpoint:
Encodes of a traced weight quantizer
Time per iteration
main
1 in 4 iterations (codes frozen)
~95 s
this PR
1 per iteration
~116 s
The extra ~20 s per step at 27B is the per-step re-encode that QAD needs. Before the fix the step was faster only because it never re-encoded.
Full runs: six full QAD runs (IQ2_S, IQ2_XS, IQ2_XXS) used an equivalent per-step cache drop. Their training loss is continuous across every job restart, and their exports match what was trained.
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Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ Results change only where the cache was stale.
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?: ✅ Bug fix entry, since the bug is in released versions. It asks users to re-run earlier Megatron GGML QAD.
Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ Not yet.
GGML-format QAT and QAD now refresh packed weights after optimizer steps, so training uses the latest weight values, including with optimizers that update shared buffers or write weights directly.
Training runs using GGML-format QAT or QAD with affected optimizer behavior may have used outdated weights. Rerun those jobs to ensure results reflect the corrected updates.
The packed-weight cache is keyed on the weight's version counter. Megatron's
distributed optimizer writes updated weights with .data.copy_ into views of
the DDP parameter buffer and all-gathers it, which never bumps a parameter's
version counter, so every QAD job kept the GGML codes of its first forward
and trained only the non-GGML layers. Codes changed only at a restart or an
export, which re-encode the drifted weight. A global optimizer step post-hook
now marks every trainable weight's payload stale; frozen weights keep theirs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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GGML packed-weight caches for trainable weights are marked stale after optimizer steps. Cache lookup rejects stale entries. Tests cover .data updates that do not change tensor version counters, and the changelog records the affected QAT and QAD behavior.
Changes: GGML packed-weight cache invalidation
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Track and invalidate trainable cache entries modelopt/torch/quantization/ggml/common.py, tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_backend.py, CHANGELOG.rst
Optimizer post-step hooks mark tracked trainable cache entries stale, and cache lookup rejects them. Tests check repacking after .data updates for trainable and unfrozen weights, while frozen weights are not repacked. The changelog describes the affected GGML QAT and QAD behavior.
NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer#2857: The issue describes stale GGML encoded payloads after optimizer updates that do not change tensor version counters. This PR adds optimizer-step invalidation for that behavior, though its test does not directly cover bitsandbytes.
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Some exported GGML weights can retain pre-update values after an in-place unfreeze, so this residual cache-invalidation risk should be addressed before merge.
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[P2] Enroll cached payloads when a frozen weight becomes trainable. _track_trainable only runs on a cache miss. If a forward populates the cache with requires_grad=False, then the parameter is unfrozen, its pointer/version/layout still match and subsequent forwards never enroll that payload. A .data/shared-buffer optimizer update therefore leaves it valid indefinitely—the stale-code bug this PR fixes remains. This can happen when preparing an already-evaluated frozen model through ModelOptHFTrainer._configure_trainable_params, which changes requires_grad in place. Could you track currently trainable payloads on cache hits too, or invalidate when trainability changes, and extend the parameterized test to cover frozen forward → unfreeze → forward → .data update and optimizer step → refreshed output?
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Fixed in 858154c as suggested: cache hits now enroll the payload when the weight is trainable, which covers _configure_trainable_params unfreezing an already-evaluated model in place. The parametrized test now runs frozen forward → unfreeze → forward → .data update and optimizer step → forward, and expects the weight to be packed again; that check fails without the fix for all six formats.
- QAT and QAD of the GGML formats (IQ, ``q8_0``) now re-encode each weight after every optimizer step. Under optimizers that write weights through a shared buffer or ``.data``, such as Megatron's distributed optimizer, the GGML codes stayed those of each job's first forward, so earlier Megatron QAD runs trained only the non-GGML layers. Re-run them.
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[P3] AGENTS.md limits release entries to one or two user-facing sentences; this entry has three. Also, the implementation deliberately preserves frozen-weight payloads, so “each weight after every optimizer step” is broader than the code. Suggested wording: “GGML QAT/QAD now refreshes trainable weights’ packed codes after optimizer steps, including with Megatron’s distributed optimizer. Re-run affected Megatron jobs, whose forward passes reused stale codes.”
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A payload packed while its weight was frozen was never enrolled for
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configures trainable parameters does) left it reused after optimizer steps
that write through .data. Cache hits now enroll the payload when the weight
is trainable. The changelog entry names trainable weights in two sentences.
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Reviewed at 858154c9 against the PR's base on main, using CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md and the code review baseline. Approving, with no required changes.
The next torch.optim step marks a trainable weight's cached GGML codes stale, so optimizers that write through .data or a shared buffer (Megatron's distributed optimizer) no longer leave the codes of the first forward in place. Frozen weights keep their cache, and cache hits now also enroll a weight unfrozen in place, which closes the gap found in the earlier review threads.
test_ggml_backend.py gives 51 passed. Replacing cache.stale = True with pass fails 6 tests, one per format, so the tests catch the fix being removed.
A view of a Parameter made under no_grad still has the Parameter as _base, so the requires_grad check sees the real weight.
The hook fires on any optimizer step, so a separate optimizer for non-GGML parameters causes some extra re-encodes. That is only a cost, and the PR measures the per-step overhead.
The edit to the existing cache test keeps the original assertions and extends them; I confirm it.
The CHANGELOG entry is in the 0.49.0 bug-fix section and is accurate. CI is green.
Not run: a Megatron QAD job; I rely on the PR's 4-iteration PP4×CP2 run.
…'s codes (#3197)
### What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature
GPTQ and imatrix calibration of the IQ formats, which all carry an FP16
super-block scale (`iq1_s`, `iq1_m`, `iq2_xxs`, `iq2_xs`, `iq2_s`), now
keep the scales and importance they chose, so QAD starts from their
codes.
**The problem.** Calibration used to overwrite the weight with its
decoding. QAD then re-encoded that decoded weight, which predicts each
block's scale `d` from its amax. That prediction is not idempotent on
decoded blocks, so the codes moved the first time a weight changed:
- On the 27B experiment below, every block's `d` moved.
- The relative error against the weight went from 0.17% to 4.2%.
- The KD loss went from 0.24 to 0.30 within four steps.
**What changes.** The codes are pinned for QAD:
- **Static scales:** the pinned payload's `d` and the search importance
stay fixed, and fake quant re-encodes the weight under them.
- The weight GPTQ encoded, and its decoding, both re-encode byte-exactly
to GPTQ's codes.
- A weight QAD updated moves to the nearest codes under those scales.
- New `GGMLFormat.payload_scales` reads `d` from a payload. The encoders
take `scales=`.
- **Unrounded weight:** GPTQ leaves its compensated weight, rounded to
the weight's dtype, instead of the decoding. imatrix leaves the weight
unchanged.
- **Checkpointing:** the importance is a buffer
(`_ggml_importance_<format>`) next to the pinned payload.
- It is saved by `mto.save` and by the Megatron sharded state dict.
There it is replicated on column-parallel layers and sharded along the
input on row-parallel layers.
- It stays float32 when the model is cast, as `Float16Module` does.
- **Export:** the Megatron and HF exporters encode the module's own
weight under the pinned scales before casting it (`pin_current_codes`),
so row slices of fused weights find their codes.
`q8_0` behaves as before: its scale is amax / 127, which a decoded block
re-encodes to exactly, so it has nothing to keep. IQ1_S joins the other
IQ formats now that its CUDA packer takes its scales from PyTorch
(#3204).
### Usage
No API change: the built-in GPTQ / imatrix recipes for these formats now
produce checkpoints that QAD (for example
`examples/megatron_bridge/distill.py`) trains under the calibrated
scales.
### Testing
- **Unit tests:** `tests/unit/torch/quantization` and
`tests/unit/torch/export` pass on this branch, rebased on `main` after
#3204: 2249 passed, 1 skipped. Four modules were skipped for local
diffusers / onnxscript import errors. New or extended tests:
- For each of the five IQ formats, GPTQ's unrounded weight and its
decoding encode to the pin, and a QAD update re-encodes under the pinned
scales and importance.
- Tests that used IQ1_S as the format without kept scales now use
`q8_0`: the pin-dropped-once-the-weight-changes test, and the non-static
case of save / restore and of the Megatron row-slice export.
- Casting a bf16 model with `bfloat16()` keeps the importance. This test
fails without the fp32 fix: bf16 importance moves 3–6% of the blocks.
- Save / restore, and the Megatron export of row slices, are
parametrized over a static and a non-static format.
- The packed-FP8-experts imatrix test now checks that imatrix pins its
codes, since IQ formats no longer write the weight.
- **GPU tests:**
- The GGML GPU tests (`test_ggml_gptq_cuda.py`,
`test_iq_formats_cuda.py`, `test_iq1_s_cuda.py`, GGML cases of
`test_gptq.py`) pass on this head on an RTX PRO 6000 (SM120): 97 passed,
19 skipped. Earlier commits also passed them on GB300.
- `tests/gpu_megatron/.../test_megatron.py` passed at TP4 on GB300
before the last three commits and the rebase; it checks that the
importance is saved.
- **End-to-end on Qwen3.8-27B:**
- **Setup:** the `nvidia/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4` layout with its NVFP4 MLPs
replaced by IQ2, W2A16 with FP8 attention. GPTQ, then one epoch of QAD
with Megatron-Bridge (131 iterations, PP4 × CP2, 64K, top-4096 KL
against the BF16 model). Both arms start from the same GPTQ codes.
- **Result:** validation KD loss, lower is better:
| Format | `main`, iter 100 | this PR, iter 100 | `main`, iter 131 |
this PR, iter 131 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iq2_s | 0.127 | 0.111 | 0.119 | 0.103 |
| iq2_xs | 0.148 | 0.127 | 0.141 | 0.119 |
| iq2_xxs | 0.173 | 0.146 | 0.163 | 0.137 |
This PR is 13–16% lower at every checkpoint from iteration 25 on.
- **Benchmarks** of the exported checkpoints, served as INT8 on vLLM
0.29: GPQA-Diamond ×16 and SciCode (subtask accuracy, 32 runs). Δ is
versus BF16 (GPQA 89.17, SciCode 47.54); the last column is the paired
difference with its standard error (problem bootstrap for SciCode):
| Format | Benchmark | GPTQ | `main` QAD | this PR QAD | this PR −
`main` |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| iq2_s | GPQA | −4.51 | −3.38 | −3.31 | +0.06 (0.65) |
| iq2_s | SciCode | −6.37 | −3.79 | **−1.81** | **+1.98 (0.59)** |
| iq2_xs | GPQA | −7.99 | −6.00 | −5.93 | +0.06 (0.70) |
| iq2_xs | SciCode | −9.88 | −4.64 | −3.43 | +1.21 (0.66) |
| iq2_xxs | GPQA | −14.49 | −10.20 | **−8.49** | **+1.70 (0.78)** |
| iq2_xxs | SciCode | −16.35 | −6.62 | −6.11 | +0.51 (0.64) |
This PR is never worse. It is clearly better on iq2_s SciCode and
iq2_xxs GPQA, and ties on GPQA for iq2_s and iq2_xs. Its answers are
also 4–8% shorter on GPQA (16.6K / 17.5K / 19.0K tokens against 17.3K /
18.5K / 20.7K for `main`), closer to BF16's 14.5K.
- **Not measured:** the experiment covered the IQ2 formats only; IQ1_S
gets the same mechanism but has no QAD numbers yet.
- **Caveat:** these Megatron runs needed GGML codes to be re-encoded
after every optimizer step, which `main` now does (#3210). Both arms ran
with an equivalent workaround before it merged.
- **Native FP8 experts, fixed in #3232 (stacked on this PR):**
`FP8Experts` unpacked to float32, so GPTQ and imatrix picked codes on
float32 weights while a BF16 forward re-encoded their BF16 cast: 11–18%
of blocks on a toy model. #3232 unpacks them in the checkpoint's dtype.
Exports already match the forward.
### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"
- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ Earlier GPTQ checkpoints, whose
weight is the decoding and which have no importance, still encode to
their pinned codes, because a decoding re-encodes exactly under its own
scales.
- 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.
### Additional Information
- Related: #3176 (serve GGML exports through vLLM as INT8), the
deployment path used for the evaluations above.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **New Features**
* GPTQ and imatrix calibration preserve selected scales and importance
data for supported IQ formats, leaving model weights unrounded.
* QAD training reuses calibrated codes and fixed scales, including after
checkpoint restoration and dtype changes.
* GGML exports preserve pinned quantized codes and scales across
supported architectures, including fused experts.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Checkpoint and export handling now retains the calibration data needed
to reproduce selected quantized codes.
* **Documentation**
* Updated the changelog and quantization documentation to describe
retained scales and unrounded weights.
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: Bug fix
GGML fake quant (IQ,
q8_0) caches each weight's packed codes, keyed on the weight's version counter, so micro-batches and activation recompute reuse one encode. Megatron's distributed optimizer writes updated weights without bumping that counter:_copy_main_params_to_model_paramscopies each shard into the DDP parameter buffer with.data.copy_.Neither touches the parameter's version counter, so the cache always hit. Within each training job, every GGML layer kept the codes of the job's first forward, and QAD trained only the non-GGML layers.
Symptoms. Codes changed only when something re-encoded the drifted weight: a job restart or an export. On Qwen3.8-27B IQ2 QAD (Megatron-Bridge, PP4 × CP2, 32 GB300):
The bug has been in the cache since the IQ codecs landed (#2446).
The fix. A trainable weight's cached payload is marked stale by the next optimizer step:
torch.optimstep post-hook, registered once, the first time a payload is cached from a weight that requires grad.torch.optim.Optimizer: Megatron's fused Adam, Hugging Face Trainer and FSDP.Usage
No API change.
Testing
Unit test:
tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_backend.py::test_ggml_backend_caches_packed_weight_and_invalidates_on_changeis extended for all six formats. It updates a trainable weight through.data, as Megatron does, and expects the payload to be packed again after an optimizer step. A frozen weight keeps its payload. The extended test fails for all six formats without the fix.Suites:
tests/unit/torch/quantizationpasses (1627 passed, 1 skipped). The GGML GPU tests (test_ggml_gptq_cuda.py,test_iq_formats_cuda.py,test_iq1_s_cuda.py) pass on an RTX PRO 6000: 80 passed.Megatron QAD of Qwen3.8-27B IQ2_S, Megatron-Bridge
distill.py, PP4 × CP2, 32 GB300, 4 iterations from the GPTQ checkpoint:mainThe extra ~20 s per step at 27B is the per-step re-encode that QAD needs. Before the fix the step was faster only because it never re-encoded.
Full runs: six full QAD runs (IQ2_S, IQ2_XS, IQ2_XXS) used an equivalent per-step cache drop. Their training loss is continuous across every job restart, and their exports match what was trained.
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