Fix TEGroupedMLP quantizer checkpoint resharding - #2319
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to This restores per-expert quantizer state when quantized TEGroupedMLP checkpoints are loaded under changed parallel topologies. Covered supported configurations preserve amax state, with no remaining merge-blocking risk identified. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ReshardingTest
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participant ModelOptRestore
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ReshardingTest->>DistributedCheckpoint: save checkpoint
DistributedCheckpoint->>ModelOptRestore: load checkpoint state
ModelOptRestore->>GroupedExpertQuantizers: invoke post-load callback
GroupedExpertQuantizers-->>ReshardingTest: return restored amax and global_amax
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921-923: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueRemove the redundant
sharded_state_dictoverride.
_MegatronTEGroupedMLPdirectly inherits_MegatronMLP.sharded_state_dict, which already setsmetadata["singleton_local_shards"]and performs the delegated sharding logic. Removing this override preserves behavior and keeps the implementation in one place.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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weight_quantizerbefore indexing it.
_QuantTEGroupedLinearsupports a sharedTensorQuantizerwhenweight_quantizeris not aGroupedQuantizer. This helper only checks attribute names, then subscripts the value at line 195 and can raiseTypeError. Select modules withisinstance(module.weight_quantizer, GroupedQuantizer)and useSequentialQuantizerfor nested containers.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@modelopt/torch/opt/plugins/mcore_dist_checkpointing.py`:
- Around line 199-201: Update _initialize_grouped_weight_amax_for_restore to
initialize a deterministic zero-filled _amax placeholder using the shape and
dtype of a populated sibling quantizer, rather than a scalar torch.empty buffer
derived from the weight. Explicitly handle the no-sibling case without exposing
an uninitialized or incorrectly shaped amax buffer, while preserving the
reference device.
In `@tests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.py`:
- Around line 1113-1120: Update _assert_te_grouped_weight_amax to count each
matched quantizer leaf while iterating _QuantMegatronTEGroupedLinear modules,
then assert the count is non-zero after the loop so the helper cannot pass
without validating any amax.
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In `@modelopt/torch/opt/plugins/mcore_dist_checkpointing.py`:
- Around line 189-196: Update the module filtering and quantizer handling in the
checkpointing helper to require a GroupedQuantizer before indexing
weight_quantizer, avoiding subscripting shared TensorQuantizer instances; use
SequentialQuantizer when processing nested quantizer containers, while
preserving the existing per-GEMM iteration.
In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py`:
- Around line 921-923: Remove the redundant sharded_state_dict override from
_MegatronTEGroupedMLP and rely on the inherited _MegatronMLP.sharded_state_dict
implementation, preserving its metadata and delegated sharding behavior.
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| for gemm_idx in range(module.num_gemms): | ||
| quantizer = module.weight_quantizer[gemm_idx] | ||
| quantizers = quantizer if isinstance(quantizer, torch.nn.Sequential) else [quantizer] | ||
| for tensor_quantizer in quantizers: | ||
| if tensor_quantizer.amax is None: | ||
| tensor_quantizer.amax = torch.empty( | ||
| 1, device=reference_tensor.device, dtype=reference_tensor.dtype | ||
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[CRITICAL ModeState] This creates _amax unconditionally for every per-expert quantizer whose amax reads None, but for two common quantizer states None is the correct, permanent value — so this fabricates state-dict keys that the checkpoint does not contain.
- MX formats (MXFP8/MXFP4).
TensorQuantizer.amaxreturnsNonewheneveris_mx_formatis true, regardless of whether_amaxexists (tensor_quantizer.py:360:if not hasattr(self, "_amax") or self.is_mx_format: return None). MX quantizers never have a static amax, so this loop registers a brand-new_amaxbuffer on every MX-quantizedTEGroupedLinearon every restore. - Disabled quantizers. Every preset here starts from
base_disable_all(quantizer_name: '*', enable: false) and selectively re-enables, so MoE grouped linears routinely carry a disabledweight_quantizerwith no_amax. This loop gives them one too.
Why it matters: _amax is a registered buffer, so it lands in state_dict() → sharded_state_dict(). The very next step in the caller's flow builds the load plan from the live model (dist_checkpointing.load(model.sharded_state_dict(), ...) followed by a strict load_state_dict). A requested key with no counterpart in the checkpoint either raises, or leaves the uninitialized torch.empty value in place — and any subsequent save now emits a checkpoint with extra weight_quantizer.{i}._amax entries, i.e. silent schema drift for MXFP8/disabled-weight-quant MoE checkpoints that restore fine today.
Suggested fix — only materialize a placeholder when sibling experts in the same GroupedQuantizer prove the checkpoint has this buffer, and take shape/dtype from that sibling rather than from the weight (this also addresses the shape/dtype concern CodeRabbit raised: per-channel and static-block-scale amax are not shape (1,), and amax is kept in fp32, not the weight dtype):
def _initialize_grouped_weight_amax_for_restore(model: torch.nn.Module) -> None:
"""Create amax placeholders for TE grouped experts absent on the save rank."""
for module in model.modules():
if not hasattr(module, "num_gemms") or not hasattr(module, "weight_quantizer"):
continue
grouped = module.weight_quantizer
for gemm_idx in range(module.num_gemms):
quantizer = grouped[gemm_idx]
quantizers = quantizer if isinstance(quantizer, torch.nn.Sequential) else [quantizer]
for leaf_idx, tensor_quantizer in enumerate(quantizers):
if not tensor_quantizer.is_enabled or tensor_quantizer.is_mx_format:
continue # legitimately has no static amax
if getattr(tensor_quantizer, "_amax", None) is not None:
continue
# Mirror a sibling expert that DID survive the extra-state restore: it proves
# the checkpoint holds this buffer and gives the right shape/dtype.
reference = _sibling_amax(grouped, module.num_gemms, gemm_idx, leaf_idx)
if reference is None:
continue
tensor_quantizer.amax = torch.zeros_like(reference)where _sibling_amax walks the other num_gemms entries for the same leaf index and returns the first existing _amax. If no sibling has one, no expert on this rank was calibrated for that quantizer and there is nothing to reshard — skipping is correct and avoids inventing keys.
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Addressed in a794750: placeholders are created only for enabled, non-MX leaves and only when an aligned sibling already has that state. This preserves the absence of static amax state for disabled and MX quantizers.
| def _initialize_grouped_weight_amax_for_restore(model: torch.nn.Module) -> None: | ||
| """Create scalar amax placeholders for TE grouped experts absent on the save rank.""" | ||
| for module in model.modules(): | ||
| if not hasattr(module, "num_gemms") or not hasattr(module, "weight_quantizer"): | ||
| continue | ||
| reference_tensor = next(module.parameters(), None) | ||
| if reference_tensor is None: | ||
| continue |
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[IMPORTANT ModeState] The placeholder pass only covers _amax, but _amax is not the only per-expert quantizer buffer that _QuantMegatronTEGroupedLinear.sharded_state_dict gives a global expert identity to — _global_amax is explicitly handled there and in both _get_shard_axis_dict implementations ("for grouped experts it rides with the global expert identity assigned in the grouped sharded_state_dict", quantization/plugins/megatron.py:511-513).
_global_amax lives on StaticBlockScaleQuantizer and is registered lazily by its setter (tensor_quantizer.py:1599), exactly like _amax. So it has the identical failure mode this PR is fixing: for experts that were not local on the saving rank, ModelOpt extra-state restore leaves _global_amax absent, the subsequent distributed load has no destination tensor, and the expert silently keeps a wrong (or no) global scale. That corrupts the two-level scale for static-block-scale recipes — static NVFP4, W4A8_NVFP4_FP8_CFG, SVDQuant — which are exactly the MoE recipes where per-expert weight scales matter.
The new test cannot catch this: it uses NVFP4_DEFAULT_CFG (dynamic block scales, _amax only) and _assert_te_grouped_weight_amax inspects leaf._amax exclusively.
Suggestion: make the placeholder pass buffer-agnostic — walk the sibling experts for each per-expert quantizer buffer name (_amax, _global_amax, and anything else sharded_state_dict emits under weight_quantizer.{i}.) rather than hardcoding amax, and add one parametrization over a static-block-scale config to the reshard test so the _global_amax path is exercised.
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Addressed in a794750: the restore pass handles both amax and global_amax. The regression matrix now includes static MSE NVFP4 EP downsize/upsize cases and asserts restored _global_amax. Static NVFP4 with TP>1 is explicitly unsupported, so TP cases remain FP8/dynamic-NVFP4 only.
| def sharded_state_dict(self, prefix="", sharded_offsets=(), metadata=None): | ||
| """Save per-expert quantizer state as globally named singleton shards.""" | ||
| if metadata is None: | ||
| metadata = {} | ||
| metadata["singleton_local_shards"] = True | ||
| return super().sharded_state_dict(prefix, sharded_offsets, metadata) | ||
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[SUGGESTION] This override is a no-op: _MegatronTEGroupedMLP extends _MegatronMLP, and _MegatronMLP.sharded_state_dict (modelopt/torch/opt/plugins/megatron.py:161-171) already does exactly if metadata is None: metadata = {} / metadata["singleton_local_shards"] = True before delegating to super(). So singleton_local_shards was already True for TEGroupedMLP before this PR, and _QuantMegatronTEGroupedLinear.sharded_state_dict already took its singleton_local_shards=True branch.
Why it matters beyond dead code: the PR description lists this as root cause #1 ("TEGroupedMLP did not mark its per-expert quantizer state as singleton_local_shards"). That premise doesn't hold, which means the entire behavioral fix comes from the _amax placeholder pass in mcore_dist_checkpointing.py. Worth confirming that the placeholder pass alone reproduces the fix on the failing nmm-sandbox case @kevalmorabia97 asked about — if resharding only works with both hunks present, then something other than this metadata assignment is doing the work here and the real mechanism is still unidentified.
Minor, if you keep it: it mutates the caller's metadata dict in place. Megatron threads one metadata dict through the whole module tree, so the flag leaks to every module visited afterwards. ensure_metadata_has_dp_cp_group in this repo copies for precisely that reason ("Create a copy to avoid modifying the original metadata dict"). metadata = {**(metadata or {}), "singleton_local_shards": True} avoids the leak.
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Confirmed. _MegatronMLP.sharded_state_dict already sets singleton_local_shards, so the TEGroupedMLP override was redundant. I removed it in a794750; the placeholder restoration is the behavioral fix.
| for local_expert_idx in range(linear.num_gemms): | ||
| quantizer = linear.weight_quantizer[local_expert_idx] | ||
| leaves = list(quantizer) if isinstance(quantizer, SequentialQuantizer) else [quantizer] | ||
| for leaf in leaves: | ||
| if leaf._amax is not None: | ||
| leaf._amax.fill_(1.0 + ep_rank * num_local_experts + local_expert_idx) | ||
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| The grouped linear must give each fused expert the same global identity the weights use: | ||
| the dict key keeps the local expert index (maps to the local buffer on restore) while the | ||
| ShardedTensor carries the global expert offset. Called with sharded_offsets=() so the expert | ||
| axis is the (only) prepended axis at index 0. | ||
| """ | ||
| sharded_sd = module.sharded_state_dict(prefix="", sharded_offsets=(), metadata=None) | ||
| identity = {} | ||
| for key, sh_ten in sharded_sd.items(): | ||
| if re.match(r"weight_quantizer\.\d+\..*_amax$", key): | ||
| assert sh_ten.prepend_axis_num >= 1, f"{key}: expected a prepended expert axis" | ||
| identity[key] = (int(sh_ten.global_offset[0]), int(sh_ten.global_shape[0])) | ||
| return identity | ||
| def _assert_te_grouped_weight_amax(model, expected_amax): | ||
| for linear in model.modules(): | ||
| if not isinstance(linear, _QuantMegatronTEGroupedLinear): | ||
| continue | ||
| for local_expert_idx in range(linear.num_gemms): | ||
| quantizer = linear.weight_quantizer[local_expert_idx] | ||
| leaves = list(quantizer) if isinstance(quantizer, SequentialQuantizer) else [quantizer] | ||
| for leaf in leaves: | ||
| assert leaf._amax is not None | ||
| assert torch.equal( | ||
| leaf._amax, torch.full_like(leaf._amax, expected_amax[local_expert_idx]) |
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[SUGGESTION] Two things in these helpers:
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leaf._amaxis accessed as a plain attribute, but_amaxis registered lazily by the amax setter — an uncalibrated or disabled leaf has no_amaxat all, soif leaf._amax is not None(line 1108) andassert leaf._amax is not None(line 1120) raiseAttributeErrorinstead of skipping / failing with a readable message.getattr(leaf, "_amax", None)in both helpers keeps the intent and makes a genuine "amax never got created" failure legible, which is precisely the bug class under test. -
The test it replaces was parametrized over
[mtq.FP8_DEFAULT_CFG, mtq.NVFP4_DEFAULT_CFG]; this one hardcodesNVFP4_DEFAULT_CFG. The reshard machinery is per-quantizer-shape sensitive (per-tensor vs. per-channel vs. block amax all go down different_get_shard_axis_dictpaths), so dropping the FP8 case narrows coverage exactly where the placeholder's shape assumption lives. Restoring thequant_cfgparametrization over the 4 topology cases costs little and would exercise a second amax layout.
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Addressed in a794750: the helpers use getattr(..., None) for lazily registered buffers, and the reshard matrix now covers FP8, dynamic NVFP4, and static MSE NVFP4. The 10 supported GPU cases pass.
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Scope: full review (trigger comment had no scoping instructions). All 3 changed files reviewed (+131/−74): modelopt/torch/opt/plugins/mcore_dist_checkpointing.py, modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py, tests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.py. Traced the amax dataflow through _QuantMegatronTEGroupedLinear.sharded_state_dict, _MegatronMLP.sharded_state_dict, _QuantTEGroupedLinear.modelopt_post_restore, the TensorQuantizer/StaticBlockScaleQuantizer amax buffers, and the preset configs.
Findings: CRITICAL 1 · IMPORTANT 1 · SUGGESTION 2
CRITICAL — placeholder pass fabricates state-dict keys (comment)
_initialize_grouped_weight_amax_for_restore creates _amax for any per-expert quantizer whose amax reads None, but None is the permanent, correct value in two common cases:
- MX formats —
TensorQuantizer.amaxreturnsNonewheneveris_mx_format, independent of buffer presence (tensor_quantizer.py:360). MXFP8/MXFP4 grouped linears get a spurious_amaxon every restore. - Disabled quantizers — every preset starts from
base_disable_all(enable: falsefor*), so MoE grouped linears routinely hold a disabledweight_quantizer.
Because _amax is a registered buffer it flows into sharded_state_dict(), and the caller's next step builds the load plan from the live model (dist_checkpointing.load(model.sharded_state_dict(), ...) plus a strict load_state_dict). Result: a requested key with no checkpoint counterpart — hard failure, or the uninitialized torch.empty value survives — plus schema drift on the next save. This regresses MXFP8 / weight-quant-disabled MoE checkpoints that restore fine on main today.
Suggested fix: gate on is_enabled/is_mx_format and take the placeholder from a sibling expert's existing _amax, which also resolves the shape/dtype concern CodeRabbit raised (per-channel and static-block-scale amax are not shape (1,), and amax is kept in fp32, not the weight dtype).
IMPORTANT — _global_amax still has the same resharding hole (comment)
_global_amax is the other per-expert buffer that _QuantMegatronTEGroupedLinear.sharded_state_dict assigns a global expert identity to (see the explicit comments at quantization/plugins/megatron.py:511-513), and it is registered lazily by its setter exactly like _amax. The placeholder pass ignores it, so static-block-scale recipes (static NVFP4, W4A8_NVFP4_FP8_CFG, SVDQuant) still lose per-expert global scales across an EP/TP change — silent two-level-scale corruption. The new test cannot catch it: it uses dynamic NVFP4_DEFAULT_CFG and asserts on leaf._amax only.
SUGGESTION — the megatron.py hunk is a no-op (comment)
_MegatronMLP.sharded_state_dict (opt/plugins/megatron.py:161-171) already sets metadata["singleton_local_shards"] = True, and _MegatronTEGroupedMLP inherits it — so the flag was already True for TEGroupedMLP before this PR, and the grouped linear already took its singleton branch. Flagging it because the PR description lists this as root cause 1; if that premise does not hold, the whole behavioral fix is the placeholder pass, and it is worth confirming that hunk alone reproduces the fix on the quarantined nmm-sandbox case (@kevalmorabia97's question) before concluding the mechanism is understood. Minor, if the override stays: it mutates the caller's metadata dict in place, which leaks the flag to sibling modules visited later.
SUGGESTION — test helpers (comment)
leaf._amax accessed as a plain attribute raises AttributeError rather than skipping or failing readably when the buffer was never registered — the exact bug class under test. Also, the replaced test was parametrized over [FP8_DEFAULT_CFG, NVFP4_DEFAULT_CFG]; this one hardcodes NVFP4, dropping the second amax layout right where the placeholder's shape assumption lives.
Assessment
The end-to-end save/reshard/restore test is a clear improvement over the metadata-only assertion it replaces, and the diagnosis of the missing destination tensor is sound. Risk is moderate: the placeholder pass runs on every restore_sharded_modelopt_state call for all quantized mcore checkpoints, not only the TEGroupedMLP reshard case, so the unconditional buffer creation has blast radius beyond the bug being fixed. Recommend narrowing the placeholder to buffers a sibling expert proves exist, extending it to _global_amax, and clarifying which hunk actually fixes the reported failure.
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The end-to-end resharding coverage is strong, but the placeholder initialization does not actually search past a missing first sibling. This can leave destination buffers absent in the exact asymmetric restore case the helper is intended to repair.
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| for state_name in ("amax", "global_amax"): | ||
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next(...) returns the first generated value even when that value is None; it does not find the first non-None state. Thus, if the first eligible expert lacks this buffer but a later sibling has it, reference is None and no placeholders are initialized. Please filter in the generator, e.g. next((value for q in eligible_leaves if (value := getattr(q, state_name, None)) is not None), None), and add a unit case where the populated sibling comes after a missing one (the current test always puts source first).
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Addressed in 3ceb427bb and retained in ab7fd65fe: the lookup now filters out None values before selecting a sibling reference. The focused regression puts the missing target before the populated sibling and passes.
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| quantizer | ||
| for quantizer in sibling_leaves | ||
| if quantizer.is_enabled and not quantizer.is_mx_format | ||
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| for state_name in ("amax", "global_amax"): | ||
| reference = next( | ||
| (getattr(quantizer, state_name, None) for quantizer in eligible_leaves), None | ||
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| if reference is None: | ||
| continue | ||
| for quantizer in eligible_leaves: | ||
| if getattr(quantizer, state_name, None) is None: | ||
| setattr(quantizer, state_name, torch.zeros_like(reference)) |
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[IMPORTANT ModeState] Reading/writing through the amax / global_amax properties can raise rather than return None, which would abort restore:
TensorQuantizer.amax(tensor_quantizer.py:358-363) doesassert not self._dynamic, "Dynamic quantization does not have fixed amax". Theis_mx_formatfilter here is a proxy for "dynamic", but it only matchesscale_bits == (8, 0); a dynamic non-MX weight quantizer (e.g. block-dynamic NVFP4,scale_bits=(4, 3)) isis_enabled and not is_mx_format, sogetattr(quantizer, "amax", None)hits the assert —getattr's default only swallowsAttributeError, notAssertionError.StaticBlockScaleQuantizer.amax(tensor_quantizer.py:1561-1572) raisesRuntimeErrorwhen_lsq and not _tied_amax, so a QAT/LSQ-converted grouped MLP would fail here too.- The setters are also lossier than needed:
_amax_setter_helperraises on any shape change andStaticBlockScaleQuantizerforce-upcasts to fp32, so the placeholder's dtype no longer necessarily matches what DCP expects.
Since the buffers are what DCP actually keys on (weight_quantizer.{i}._amax, ._global_amax), operating on the raw buffers is both safer and more faithful — and it makes the MX/dynamic special-case unnecessary, because those quantizers simply have no _amax buffer to copy from (the test already asserts not hasattr(mx, "_amax")):
for state_name in ("_amax", "_global_amax"):
reference = next(
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for buf in (getattr(q, state_name, None) for q in eligible_leaves)
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if reference is None:
continue
for quantizer in eligible_leaves:
if getattr(quantizer, state_name, None) is None:
quantizer.register_buffer(state_name, torch.zeros_like(reference))Related scope note: sharded_state_dict in modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py:791+ emits every per-expert key matching "_quantizer" in k and "_amax" in k (so _amax_pre / _amax_post when present) plus anything _parameter_to_keep_in_quantizer_state_dict accepts. Those hit the same missing-destination problem on reshard; the raw-buffer loop above is easy to extend to them, or please note the limitation in the docstring.
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Addressed in ab7fd65fe: the helper now operates on raw _amax and _global_amax buffers rather than the amax/global_amax properties. This avoids dynamic and LSQ property behavior, preserves the source buffer’s shape/dtype/device, and registers the exact DCP destination buffer.
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] The placeholder is torch.zeros_like(...), and restore_sharded_modelopt_state does not itself load the main distributed checkpoint — the caller (Megatron-LM / M-Bridge / NeMo) does that afterwards. So this call converts a previously loud failure into a silent numerically wrong one:
- If the subsequent DCP load does not populate a given
_amaxkey (checkpoint written before the per-expert /singleton_local_shardslayout,stricthandling set to log-only, or a caller that restores ModelOpt state without loading model weights), the quantizer is left withamax = 0. amax = 0→scale = 0→x / scaleisinf/NaNin fake-quant, with no error and no warning. Before this change the missing_amaxraised at forward time, which is much easier to diagnose than NaN logits.
Two low-cost mitigations, either would do:
- Emit a
warn_rank_0listing the module/expert names that received placeholders, so a subsequent NaN is traceable to this path. - Better, have the function record the placeholders it created and expose a validation helper the caller can invoke post-DCP-load (or assert nothing is still exactly zero after load).
At minimum, the docstring should state that the zeros are load destinations and that the caller must follow with the distributed-checkpoint load — right now "Create deterministic quantizer-state placeholders for TE grouped experts." says nothing about that contract (and "deterministic" is a bit opaque for "zeros").
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Agreed that these are load destinations, not usable calibration values. ab7fd65fe updates the helper docstring to make the required subsequent distributed-checkpoint load explicit. I did not add a warning because the normal restore contract already requires that load; skipping it leaves the whole model restore incomplete.
| def test_initialize_grouped_weight_quantizer_state_for_restore(): | ||
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| source = mtq.nn.StaticBlockScaleQuantizer.from_tensor_quantizer( | ||
| mtq.nn.TensorQuantizer(amax=torch.tensor([1.0, 2.0])), global_amax=torch.tensor(2.0) | ||
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| target = mtq.nn.StaticBlockScaleQuantizer.from_tensor_quantizer(mtq.nn.TensorQuantizer()) | ||
| disabled = mtq.nn.StaticBlockScaleQuantizer.from_tensor_quantizer(mtq.nn.TensorQuantizer()) | ||
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| mx = mtq.nn.TensorQuantizer( | ||
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| num_bits=(4, 3), block_sizes={-1: 32, "type": "dynamic", "scale_bits": (8, 0)} | ||
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| """Per-expert quantizer amax must persist all num_global_experts across EP. | ||
| model = torch.nn.Module() | ||
| model.weight = torch.nn.Parameter(torch.empty(1)) | ||
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| assert torch.equal(target.global_amax, torch.zeros_like(source.global_amax)) | ||
| assert disabled.amax is None | ||
| assert disabled.global_amax is None | ||
| assert mx.amax is None | ||
| assert not hasattr(mx, "_amax") |
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[SUGGESTION] This test needs neither a GPU nor Megatron — it builds a bare torch.nn.Module, sets num_gemms, and calls a pure-Python helper. Living in tests/gpu_megatron/ means it only runs on the GPU+Megatron job, so the cheapest and most valuable guard on _initialize_grouped_weight_quantizer_state_for_restore doesn't gate ordinary CI. Consider moving it under the unit tests for modelopt/torch/opt/plugins (or the quantization unit tests) and keeping only test_te_grouped_sharded_state_dict_reshard here.
Two coverage gaps worth closing while it moves (see the inline comments on mcore_dist_checkpointing.py):
- Add a case where the populated quantizer is not first in the
ModuleList(e.g.[target, source, disabled, mx]) — that ordering currently produces no placeholder at all. - Add a leaf whose
amaxproperty raises (dynamic non-MX, or LSQ untied) to pin down that restore doesn't blow up on it.
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The ordering case is now covered by the focused test. I’m keeping it in the Megatron GPU suite for now because the helper lives in quantization.plugins.megatron, which imports Megatron-Core; moving it to ordinary unit CI would introduce that dependency there. The GPU reshard test remains the primary end-to-end guard.
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[SUGGESTION] The end-to-end save/restore/reshard test is a clear improvement over the metadata-only assertion, but replacing rather than complementing the old _te_grouped_expert_identity_from_sharded_state check loses a cheap, precise guard: it asserted prepend_axis_num >= 1, that dict keys stay local indices, and that global_offset[0] / global_shape[0] carry the global expert identity out of megatron.py's sharded_state_dict. Those are the invariants the singleton-local-shards path depends on, and a regression in them will now show up only as an _amax value mismatch inside a 2-GPU test — much harder to localize than "expert offset is wrong".
Consider keeping a small metadata assertion (single-rank, cheap) alongside the new reshard test rather than dropping it.
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Good point. The end-to-end reshard test validates the behavior, but the earlier metadata assertion is more localized for global-expert key/offset regressions. I’ll restore that focused coverage in a follow-up.
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Claude review — blocking issues found
Scope: full review. 2 files changed (+215/−74): modelopt/torch/opt/plugins/mcore_dist_checkpointing.py and tests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.py. Both reviewed in full, plus the surrounding restore_sharded_modelopt_state / _load_extra_state_from_sharded_checkpoint flow, _QuantMegatronTEGroupedLinear.sharded_state_dict in modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py, and the TensorQuantizer / StaticBlockScaleQuantizer amax / global_amax accessors.
Findings
CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 3 · SUGGESTION: 2
| # | Severity | Where | Issue |
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| 1 | IMPORTANT Algorithm | mcore_dist_checkpointing.py:202-204 |
next() returns the first yielded value, not the first non-None; if the leading eligible leaf is the one missing state, no placeholder is created for the whole sibling group |
| 2 | IMPORTANT ModeState | mcore_dist_checkpointing.py:196-209 |
Going through the amax / global_amax properties can raise (assert not self._dynamic; LSQ RuntimeError) instead of returning None, aborting restore |
| 3 | IMPORTANT Compatibility | mcore_dist_checkpointing.py:267 |
zeros_like placeholders turn a missing _amax from a loud failure into amax = 0 → zero scale → silent inf/NaN |
| 4 | SUGGESTION | test_megatron.py:1144-1170 |
Pure-CPU unit test parked in the GPU+Megatron suite; also blind to the ordering in #1 |
| 5 | SUGGESTION | test_megatron.py:1173 |
Deleting the metadata-level global-expert-identity assertion loses a cheap, precise guard on the singleton-local-shards path |
Most impactful
#1 is the one to fix before merge. It sits directly on the code path the PR adds:
reference = next(
(getattr(quantizer, state_name, None) for quantizer in eligible_leaves), None
)The generator yields None for un-populated leaves, and next() accepts that first None happily — so whenever the first eligible expert is the one whose state extra-state restoration left absent, reference is None, the continue fires, and DCP still has no destination tensor. That is precisely the failure mode described in the PR body. Today it happens to work because set_extra_state populates local slot 0 first under contiguous EP layouts, and the unit test mirrors that ordering (ModuleList([source, target, disabled, mx])) — so the test cannot catch it. Reversing the two entries would fail on main as written.
#3 is worth an explicit decision rather than a code change per se. restore_sharded_modelopt_state doesn't load the model checkpoint itself, so the zeroed placeholders it leaves behind are only ever corrected if the caller follows with the distributed-checkpoint load. When that doesn't happen (older checkpoint layout, strict set to log-only, a caller that restores ModelOpt state to inspect a model), the quantizer looks calibrated but produces NaN. A warn_rank_0 naming the modules that got placeholders would make a later NaN traceable to this line, and the docstring should spell out the "caller must load the DCP next" contract.
Notes, not findings
- The PR body describes two changes, but the diff only contains the second. The
singleton_local_shardsper-expert save path is already onmain(modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py:791+) — worth trimming the description so the merge commit reflects what actually landed here. - No
CHANGELOG.rstentry needed: the per-expertTEGroupedLinearquantization feature this bug rides on is itself in the unreleased 0.47 section, so perCLAUDE.mdthis is a same-cycle fix. - The reshard parametrization is well-chosen — EP 2→1 is the case that actually exercises redistribution, and the per-expert
1 + ep_rank * num_local + local_idxencoding would catch a value mix-up as well as a missing tensor. Theexpected_amaxderivation checks out for all ten parameter sets.
Risk
Moderate. The change is small, additive, and confined to a restore-time helper, so the blast radius is limited to grouped-MoE checkpoint restore. But #1 means the fix may not fire in the general case it targets, and #2/#3 both convert what should be a clean restore into either a hard crash or silent numerical corruption depending on the config. The direction is right; the helper needs to read and write raw _amax / _global_amax buffers instead of the properties, and to pick its reference from the first populated sibling.
Signed-off-by: Jennifer Chen <jennifchen@nvidia.com>
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Can we move the changes in this file to modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins? This file is kept relatively optimization method agnostic.
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RB: Can you give a suggestion how to do this?
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🐝 Acknowledged — I’m checking the implementation and will follow up with a suggestion.
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I’d move the TE-grouped placeholder logic into _QuantMegatronTEGroupedLinear in modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py, e.g. a modelopt_post_load_extra_state() method that only traverses that module’s weight_quantizer leaves. Keep mcore_dist_checkpointing.py generic: after _load_extra_state_from_sharded_checkpoint(), invoke that optional lifecycle hook on restored modules. This preserves the required ordering (the sibling state is available first), keeps the checkpoint plugin quantization-agnostic, and avoids importing the quantization plugin from the opt plugin (and a likely cycle). The focused test can call the class/helper directly, while the existing EP/TP reshard test covers the generic dispatch.
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Addressed in ab7fd65fe: mcore_dist_checkpointing.py now only invokes an optional modelopt_post_load_extra_state() hook after extra-state restore. _QuantMegatronTEGroupedLinear owns the TE-specific placeholder construction, preserving ordering without coupling the generic checkpoint plugin to quantization internals.
Signed-off-by: Jennifer Chen <jennifchen@nvidia.com>
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: Bug fix for #2209
Fix TEGroupedMLP per-expert weight quantizer checkpoint resharding.
TEGroupedMLPnow saves its per-expert quantizer state as singleton local shards, allowing the distributed checkpoint format to retain each expert's global identity. Restore also initializes scalar_amaxplaceholders after ModelOpt extra-state restoration so distributed checkpoint loading can populate quantizer state for experts that move between ranks.This fixes restoring quantized TEGroupedMLP checkpoints across expert-parallel and tensor-parallel topology changes.
Previously there was a bug that had two parts
TEGroupedMLP did not mark its per-expert quantizer state as singleton_local_shards. That meant the scalar weight_quantizer.._amax state was not saved with the same globally unique expert identity as the grouped-expert weights, so DCP could not reliably redistribute it across EP layouts.
During restore, ModelOpt’s extra-state restoration can leave _amax absent for experts that were not local on the checkpoint’s saving rank. The subsequent distributed checkpoint load then had no destination tensor to populate.
Usage
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ruff format,ruff check,mypy,bandit, and repository pre-commit hooksFocused GPU regression:
Replaced the prior metadata-only TEGroupedMLP sharded-state test with an end-to-end distributed-checkpoint save/restore regression test.
The new test:
_amaxbased on its global expert index._amax.The parameterized test covers:
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