feat: support packed INT4 convrot models by leejet · Pull Request #2276 · leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp

leejet · 2026-11-05T13:00:23Z

Summary

Port packed INT4 convrot support by @noctrex from ggml : add packed int4 convrot mul_mat for CPU, CUDA, HIP and Vulkan ggml#10 to sd.cpp's extension API.
Load ComfyUI convrot_w4a4 and asym_w4a8_int8 checkpoints directly, preserving packed weights and supporting mixed INT4/INT8 layers.
Add CPU, CUDA/HIP/MUSA, and Vulkan kernels, including HIP W4A8 WMMA selected by target intrinsic support.
Reuse convrot activation caching, add H64 GPU quantization, and preserve runtime LoRA support.

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New Features
- Added support for loading ComfyUI packed INT4 convolution-rotation models, including W4A4 and W4A8 formats, and mixed checkpoints.
- Enabled packed INT4 inference on CPU, CUDA, HIP, MUSA, and supported Vulkan devices.
- Added support for 64-element convolution-rotation quantization groups on supported backends.
Compatibility
- Immediate LoRA mode falls back to runtime application for packed INT4 weights.
Documentation
- Documented packed INT4 formats, metadata, compatibility, and execution behavior.

Co-authored-by: noctrex <noctrex@gmail.com>

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This change adds ComfyUI packed INT4 ConvRot formats to model loading and linear operations. It adds W4A4 and W4A8 kernels for CPU, CUDA/HIP/MUSA, and Vulkan. GPU ConvRot activation quantization gains group-size-64 support.

Changes: Packed INT4 ConvRot

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Operation contract and model integration `src/core/ggml_extensions.`, `src/model_io/`, `src/model/common/ggml_block.hpp`, `src/model/adapter/`, `src/model/diffusion/`, `src/model/te/t5.hpp`, `src/model/upscaler/*`, `src/model_loader.cpp`, `src/model_manager_files.cpp`, `src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.cpp`	Adds the W4 operation API and builder, validates packed checkpoint metadata, and connects packed weights and logical dimensions to model loading and linear execution.
CPU W4 execution `src/core/cpu/*`	Registers CPU W4 execution for W4A4 and W4A8, with parallel computation, workspace handling, and optional bias.
CUDA-family W4 and H64 execution `src/core/cuda/*`	Adds CUDA-family W4 kernels, HIP WMMA paths and fallback execution, and group-64 ConvRot quantization.
Vulkan W4 and H64 execution `src/core/vulkan/*`	Adds Vulkan W4A4 and W4A8 shaders and dispatch, plus group-64 activation quantization.
Compatibility and format documentation `docs/ggml_extensions.md`, `docs/int8_convrot.md`, `docs/model_config.md`	Documents packed checkpoint formats, backend behavior, group-size support, logical-dimension handling, LoRA behavior, and upstream-GGML limitations.

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  participant ModelLoader
  participant Linear
  participant ggml_mul_mat_w4_convrot
  participant Backend
  ModelLoader->>Linear: Load packed weights and metadata
  Linear->>ggml_mul_mat_w4_convrot: Build W4 operation
  ggml_mul_mat_w4_convrot->>Backend: Dispatch operation

Possibly related issues

[Bug] MiniMax-H3 Video VAE decoding extremely slow on AMD RX 7900 XTX (Vulkan) — 309s total, ~77s per iteration #2268: The issue concerns Vulkan decoding with INT8 ConvRot. This change adds a Vulkan H64 quantization path and packed W4A8 execution.

Possibly related PRs

leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp#2253: This change registers W4 kernels through the extension API introduced by that PR.
leejet/stable-diffusion.cpp#1970: Both changes modify the I8 linear execution contract in ggml_block.hpp. This change adds a W4 branch and retains the tensorwise-I8 path for non-W4 weights.

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…-pull Brings in the one upstream commit since 58bb3c1 (2026-11-06): support for packed ComfyUI INT4 convrot models (leejet#2276). Checkpoints in the convrot_w4a4 and asym_w4a8_int8 formats load directly, also when they mix packed INT4, INT8 tensorwise and floating-point layers. The packed bytes stay as they are in the file (TensorStorage::w4_convrot_kind and logical_ne0()), they are never converted to GGUF blocks, and LoRA is still applied at runtime. New kernels for the CPU, CUDA/HIP/MUSA and Vulkan are registered through the same extension API as INT8. SD_USE_UPSTREAM_GGML builds refuse these formats. The ggml submodule does not change. No conflicts. The fork and upstream both changed src/model_loader.cpp and src/pipeline/diffusion_engine.cpp, in different places: upstream's changes are applied as they are and the fork's loader and pipeline changes stay. Checked on CPU-only builds. The library built from this src/ compiles without new warnings, and the fork's test programs pass against it from this tree, with the ASan, UBSan and TSan variants where they exist. A real sd-server built from this src/ with the examples of fix_to_claude passes the stop-a-job and model catalogue checks on a synthetic model and steps down under a memory limit as before. Small synthetic safetensors files in both packed INT4 formats load through the fork's loader with the expected flags, shapes and bytes, and malformed ones are refused for the right reason. Not tried: CUDA and Vulkan builds and any real GPU, so the new GPU kernels are untested in this fork. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhZzDBkuuMp1jBf4WtEySC

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