Reject unsupported partial-block INT4/W4A8 AWQ export - #2320
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 10 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe INT4 export path validates block size and input-dimension divisibility for raw and compressed weights. AWQ packing forwards the explicit block size. GPU export fixtures and tests cover these validation paths. ChangesINT4 block-size packing
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to INT4 and W4A8 AWQ exports now reject unsupported partial blocks before packing, preventing invalid scale indexing. The supported and rejection paths are covered, with no remaining merge-blocking risk identified. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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Scope: full review. 2 files changed (modelopt/torch/export/quant_utils.py, tests/gpu/torch/export/test_export.py), both reviewed in full. I also traced block_size through every to_quantized_weight call site (unified_export_hf.py, unified_export_megatron.py, model_config_utils.py, examples/speculative_decoding/scripts/quantize_drafter.py) and into get_weight_block_size.
What holds up
The core diagnosis is right and the signature change is clean. weight.shape[-1] // weights_scaling_factor.shape[-1] was genuinely wrong, and threading the configured block_size through is the correct fix. All six call-site groups already pass block_size positionally or by keyword, each derived from get_weight_block_size() / awq_block_size (populated by build_linear_config at layer_utils.py:586), so there is no block_size=None regression despite the parameter being required-in-practice with a None default. Divisible-in_dim behavior is unchanged: the old inference and the new passed-in value agree exactly.
The blocking problem: the two new guards reject the very case this PR set out to fix
TensorQuantizer supports a non-divisible last axis by zero-padding to a block boundary — _setup_for_blockquant builds padding = (bsize - in_dim % bsize, 0) and _process_for_blockquant applies it (tensor_quantizer.py:976-994, 1046-1047). A 3136-wide weight with block_sizes={-1: 128} therefore calibrates to ceil(3136/128) = 25 scales, final block = 64 real values + 64 zeros. That is a supported quantizer state, which is precisely why the reported checkpoint had 25 scales.
The CUDA assert came only from the mis-inferred block size: 3136 // 25 = 125, so arange(3136) // 125 hit index 25, out of range. Passing block_size=128 alone fixes it — 3135 // 128 = 24, in range for 25 scales — and the packing reshape below needs no divisibility on in_dim (only out_dim % 2 == 0, already asserted).
Net effect as committed: the Usage snippet in this PR description trades a CUDA device-side assert for a hard NotImplementedError. The export still fails. Two coupled defects:
- [CRITICAL Algorithm]
NotImplementedErroronin_dim % block_size != 0— rejects valid padded weights. - [CRITICAL Algorithm]
expected_scale_count = in_dim // block_size— must beceil; floor computes 24 where the quantizer produced 25. Currently masked by (1), but becomes the failure the moment (1) is removed.
Dropping (1) and switching (2) to -(-in_dim // block_size) makes partial blocks pack correctly. If partial blocks truly cannot be consumed by the TRT-LLM / vLLM AWQ kernels (they usually require in_dim % group_size == 0), rejecting is defensible — but not here, at the end of the export, after the user has already paid full calibration + AutoQuantize compute. That validation belongs at quantize/config time.
[IMPORTANT Compatibility] Description and implementation disagree
The body says the fix "supports the final partial block without model-specific handling" and "Existing INT4/W4A8 AWQ export commands now handle partial final blocks." The committed code does the opposite — the head commit is literally titled Reject partial INT4 AWQ blocks. Whichever direction is intended, one of the two needs to change; as written a reviewer approving on the description would be approving behavior the diff does not implement.
This also bears on the changelog call. "N/A — current unreleased 0.47 line" is right if this is an in-cycle fix. But if the resolution is to reject partial blocks, that is a new user-visible failure for AWQ configs that previously reached export, and per CLAUDE.md it wants a CHANGELOG.rst entry under *Quantization*.
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test_to_quantized_weight_int4_block_size verifies the divisible path with real packed byte values (0x21/0x43) — good, that would have caught a broken block-index gather. But its third assertion pins NotImplementedError for partial blocks, encoding the behavior in question. If (1) is dropped, replace it with a positive case — e.g. in_dim = 2 * block_size + 64 with 3 scales — asserting the packed bytes of the final partial block.
Risk: medium. No mode/state, export-schema, or public-API surface is touched, and the divisible path is provably unchanged, so blast radius is small. The risk is that the PR merges believing it fixed partial-block export when it converted the failure mode instead, leaving the original NVBug open.
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397-416: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCover all newly added invalid block-size cases.
This test covers partial blocks, but it does not cover
block_size=None, zero, or negative values. Add a small parametrized case for these inputs and verify that each raisesValueErrorbefore CUDA indexing.As per path instructions, “Tests should exercise the real GPU quantization/export path, cover supported and invalid block-size cases, remain focused and lean (prefer parametrization), and run via the relevant pytest path.”
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/quant_utils.py`:
- Around line 800-801: Update the block_size validation to reject non-integer
values, including floats such as 2.0, before any modulo, division, or
weights_scaling_factor indexing occurs; preserve the existing rejection of None
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In `@tests/gpu/torch/export/test_export.py`:
- Around line 397-416: Extend test_to_quantized_weight_int4_block_size with a
focused parametrized case for block_size values None, 0, and negative numbers,
asserting each raises ValueError before CUDA indexing or other processing
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The fix is focused and correct: INT4/W4A8 AWQ packing now validates the configured block size and scale count before constructing GPU scale indices, so unsupported partial blocks fail clearly instead of reaching an out-of-bounds CUDA access. Callers already propagate the quantizer's configured block size, supported and failure paths are covered for both formats, and affected integration fixtures were updated to use valid AWQ dimensions.
Complex PR: 2 existing test files modified or removed. Looping in a human for approval.
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in what condition will this hit?
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BB: Is this check needed? If this check is not needed, can you remove this?
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🐝 I’m checking whether this guard catches a real export-state inconsistency; I’ll remove it if it is redundant.
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Agreed. Supported export paths already produce the scale count from the weight shape and block size, so this guard only diagnoses malformed internal state and is not needed for the requested partial-block fix. It and its dedicated mismatch test should be removed in the same fix batch.
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BB: remove this then
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🐝 On it.
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Agreed. The scale-count guard is redundant for supported export paths, so I’ll remove it and its mismatch-only test in the same reviewed fix batch. No source change has been published yet.
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Addressed in 89bdde5: removed the redundant scale-count guard and its mismatch-only test while retaining the block-shape validation.
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One blocking path remains: compressed AWQ weights bypass the new partial-block validation.
| assert out_dim % 2 == 0, f"Cannot pack weight. Out dimension {out_dim} is not an even number." | ||
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| block_size = weight.shape[-1] // weights_scaling_factor.shape[-1] | ||
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[P1] Apply this validation to compressed AWQ weights too. to_quantized_weight returns weight.data for every QTensorWrapper before this helper is called. mtq.compress can produce an INT4QTensor wrapper, and INT4QTensor.quantize pads non-divisible inputs, so a compressed INT4/W4A8 AWQ weight with a partial block bypasses this guard and export can continue with an unsupported packed checkpoint. Please validate the logical input dimension from weight.metadata["shape"][-1] before the wrapper fast path (or explicitly reject compressed AWQ export), and cover that route in a test.
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BB: Is the fix valid for INT4 AWQ as well? If not can you raise similar error during AWQ export as well?
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🐝 I’m checking the INT4 AWQ path and will make sure it fails clearly during export if the current guard does not cover it.
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The current helper covers uncompressed INT4 AWQ and W4A8 AWQ. The remaining issue is the compressed QTensorWrapper fast path, which bypasses that helper for both formats; the pending fix should validate the wrapper’s logical shape before returning its packed data and test both formats.
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BB: Is there an easy way to implement this? PTAL and tell me. if this is simple to do, can you do that?
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Yes. This is a small export-only change: for compressed INT4/W4A8 AWQ weights, validate the logical input dimension from weight.metadata["shape"][-1] before returning weight.data, and add focused coverage for both formats. I’ll include it with removal of the redundant scale-count guard.
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Fixed in 89bdde5: compressed INT4 and W4A8 AWQ wrappers now validate the logical input dimension before the fast return, with focused regression coverage.
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Claude review — 0 CRITICAL, 1 IMPORTANT, 2 SUGGESTION.
Scope: full review. 4 files changed, all 4 reviewed (modelopt/torch/export/quant_utils.py plus the three GPU test files). I re-traced block_size through all six to_quantized_weight call sites and into get_weight_block_size / LinearConfig.awq_block_size, and checked QTensorWrapper.metadata["shape"] and mtq.compress quantizer state for the new compressed-weight guard.
Prior findings from my earlier review — status
expected_scale_countfloor-vs-ceil bug: resolved. That code is gone from the diff entirely.- Description/implementation disagreement: resolved. The body now says "Partial INT4/W4A8 blocks are not supported," which matches what the code does.
- Reject-vs-pad direction: settled, not re-litigated. I argued for supporting the zero-padded partial block; @Edwardf0t1 and @cjluo-nv reviewed and endorsed rejecting, and the head commit
89bdde58closed the compressed-weight bypass @Edwardf0t1 flagged. PerCLAUDE.mda reviewer reaffirming settles it, so I am treating the direction as decided and reviewing the implementation of that decision.
What holds up
The compressed-weight hole is genuinely closed: weight.metadata["shape"] is the pre-compression shape (asserted present at base_qtensor.py:113), so shape[-1] is the real in_dim and the guard fires before return weight.data. I also confirmed mtq.compress does not disable the weight quantizer, so get_weight_block_size still returns the configured 128 on the compressed path — no block_size=0 regression there. The divisible path is unchanged, and test_to_quantized_weight_int4_block_size pins real packed bytes (0x21/0x43), which is the assertion that would actually catch a broken block-index gather. test_unified_hf_export_and_check_safetensors covers int4_awq and w4a8_awq_beta end-to-end.
Findings
[IMPORTANT Compatibility] — previously-completing exports now hard-fail, with no changelog entry. (inline) The old scale-derived inference did not fail on non-divisible in_dim, and in the in_dim < awq_block_size sub-case it was numerically correct (one padded block, one scale, arange(in_dim) // in_dim all-zeros). The strongest evidence is in this diff: three existing tests had to be widened to keep passing — test_fsdp2_export.py dim=32 to 128, and tiny-llama pinned to hidden_size=128, intermediate_size=128 for the two AWQ formats. Those configs exported before and error now. Two asks: (1) add a CHANGELOG.rst entry under *Quantization* — the "N/A, in-cycle fix" call was made back when the PR claimed to support partial blocks, and rejecting them is a new user-visible failure; (2) consider mirroring the check at quantizer-config time so users learn the config is unsupported before paying for calibration + AutoQuantize rather than at the very end of export.
[SUGGESTION] — the other route to the same CUDA assert is now unguarded. (inline) The gather needs weights_scaling_factor.shape[-1] >= in_dim // block_size. The old code satisfied that by construction because block_size came from the scale count; now block_size comes from the quantizer config and the scales come from get_weight_scaling_factor() with nothing cross-checking them. Given the PR goal is "fail clearly before GPU indexing," a shape-only assert restores that defense for one cheap line.
[SUGGESTION] — public signature break plus a now-misleading default. (inline) pack_int4_in_uint8 gained a required third positional arg (no in-tree breakage — all six call sites already pass it — but out-of-tree callers get a TypeError), while to_quantized_weight still declares block_size: int | None = None even though it is now mandatory for INT4/W4A8 AWQ.
Risk: low
No mode registration, modelopt_state schema, or public __init__.py surface is touched, and the divisible path is provably bit-identical to before. The residual risk is entirely about the compatibility surface: the change is stricter than the reported bug requires, and right now nothing tells a user upgrading into 0.47 why their working AWQ export command started raising NotImplementedError. Adding the changelog entry clears the one blocking item.
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: Bug fix
Reject INT4 and W4A8 AWQ export when a weight's input dimension is not divisible by
the configured block size.
Nemotron-3-Nano-4B has weights with input dimension 3136, which is not divisible by
the configured block size 128. Partial INT4/W4A8 blocks are not supported. The
export path previously inferred an incorrect block size and reached an out-of-bounds
CUDA scale index. It now raises a clear
NotImplementedErrorbefore GPU indexing.Usage
No API change. Unsupported partial-block INT4/W4A8 AWQ exports now fail early with a
clear error instead of a CUDA device-side assertion.
Testing
pre-commit run --files modelopt/torch/export/quant_utils.py tests/gpu/torch/export/test_export.py— passed.CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1before applying the guard.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
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