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+Megatron-LM
+vocab.json
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diff --git a/qa/L1_pytorch_mcore_fsdp_integration/merges.txt b/qa/L1_pytorch_mcore_fsdp_integration/merges.txt
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+#version: 0.2
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+# Copyright (c) 2022-2026, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+#
+# See LICENSE for license information.
+
+set -e
+
+# Paths
+: ${TE_PATH:=/opt/transformerengine}
+: ${MCORE_PATH:=${TE_PATH}/qa/L1_pytorch_mcore_fsdp_integration/Megatron-LM}
+
+# Download Megatron-LM if needed
+if [ ! -d "${MCORE_PATH}" ]; then
+    pushd $(dirname ${MCORE_PATH})
+    git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM.git Megatron-LM
+    # Megatron-LM / Megatron-FSDP commit for main branch on Apr. 7, 2026.
+    # Necessary to support wgrad accumulate fusion and Megatron-FSDP NCCL UBR.
+    pushd Megatron-LM && git checkout 8cbc45b6e039f300c53eb09579fc973d703455cd && popd
+    popd
+fi
+
+# Create mock vocab
+VOCAB_FILE=${TE_PATH}/qa/L1_pytorch_mcore_fsdp_integration/vocab.json
+printf "" > ${VOCAB_FILE}
+printf "{" >> ${VOCAB_FILE}
+printf "\"<|endoftext|>\": 0" >> ${VOCAB_FILE}
+seq 1 4095 | awk '{ printf(", \"%d\": %d", $1, $1) }' >> ${VOCAB_FILE}
+printf "}" >> ${VOCAB_FILE}
+
+# Setting CUDA_DEVICE_MAX_CONNECTIONS limits
+# Megatron-FSDP stream parallelism.
+unset CUDA_DEVICE_MAX_CONNECTIONS
+export NVTE_TORCH_COMPILE=0
+export NVTE_ALLOW_NONDETERMINISTIC_ALGO=0
+export NVTE_FLASH_ATTN=1
+export NVTE_FWD_LAYERNORM_SM_MARGIN=0
+export NVTE_BWD_LAYERNORM_SM_MARGIN=0
+export NVTE_BIAS_GELU_NVFUSION=0
+export NVTE_BIAS_DROPOUT_FUSION=0
+
+# V1 offloading has bugs that are exposed by Megatron-FSDP.
+# This test will focus on validating the new offloading code.
+# Un-set the Megatron-LM default of V1.
+export NVTE_CPU_OFFLOAD_V1=0
+
+# Megatron-LM command to run Megatron-FSDP.
+python3 \
+-m torch.distributed.launch \
+--use_env \
+--nnodes=1 \
+--nproc_per_node=$(nvidia-smi -L | wc -l) \
+${MCORE_PATH}/pretrain_gpt.py \
+--tensor-model-parallel-size 1 \
+--pipeline-model-parallel-size 1 \
+--num-layers 2 \
+--hidden-size 128 \
+--num-attention-heads 8 \
+--swiglu \
+--seq-length 128 \
+--max-position-embeddings 128 \
+--micro-batch-size 1 \
+--global-batch-size 8 \
+--train-iters 10 \
+--eval-iters 10 \
+--eval-interval 100 \
+--lr 1e-4 \
+--mock-data \
+--vocab-file ${VOCAB_FILE} \
+--merge-file ${TE_PATH}/qa/L1_pytorch_mcore_fsdp_integration/merges.txt \
+--transformer-impl transformer_engine \
+--use-megatron-fsdp \
+--data-parallel-sharding-strategy optim_grads_params \
+--use-distributed-optimizer \
+--use-precision-aware-optimizer \
+--num-distributed-optimizer-instances 2 \
+--outer-dp-sharding-strategy optim \
+--use-nccl-ub \
+--fsdp-double-buffer \
+--fsdp-manual-registration \
+--fp8-format hybrid \
+--fp8-param-gather \
+--fp8-recipe mxfp8 \
+--cpu-offloading-num-layers 1 \
+--overlap-grad-reduce \
+--overlap-param-gather \
+--ckpt-format fsdp_dtensor \
+--init-model-with-meta-device \
+--bf16 \
+--grad-reduce-in-bf16