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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds ordered, scoped calibration plans with capability-based validation and stage handoffs. Calibration algorithms accept module-scope filters, and selected algorithms can skip max initialization when earlier stages provide the required scales. ChangesScoped calibration pipelines
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Review on #2465 found that `_validate_four_over_six_coordination` also runs on the restore path: `ModeloptStateManager.load_state_dict` reconstructs the stored quantize-mode config through `QuantizeConfig(**stored)`, so a `mode="after"` validator is also a checkpoint-load gate. Reproduced -- a checkpoint carrying `four_over_six: true` with `algorithm: "max"`, exactly what pre-PR `get_auto_quantize_config` emitted for the shipped Muse-Glimmer 4/6 recipe, no longer loaded at all. Restore has no calibration to fix, so the error was unactionable there and left the checkpoint stranded. The rules now live in one `four_over_six_config_problems()` that both callers share. `QuantizeConfig` warns; `mtq.quantize` raises, next to `_check_weight_quantization_took_effect`, which is already the "fail before calibration" guard. Enforcement therefore still happens before any calibration runs -- the point of having the check at all -- while loading an existing artifact only warns. The numerics rule moves out of `validate_block_sizes` into the same function for the same reason. Also from that review: `get_auto_quantize_config`'s warning now says that choosing `four_over_six` runs the two-point search on the non-4/6 layers too, which for a mixed search result is newly introduced rather than preserved; `_has_four_over_six` reuses the shared predicate instead of a second copy; and the numerics YAML comment that still credited MSE is corrected. Not taken: the suggestion to restrict the search to flagged quantizers. That would break bit-identity with the stanza the five shipped recipes used, which is this PR's whole acceptance gate -- those recipes have FP8 weight quantizers that the stanza did search. Scoping it needs #2292, as the PR body already records. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Fridah-nv <201670829+Fridah-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
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Adds an opt-in `algo_cfg` key that assigns an ordered calibration pipeline per scope, instead of a single model-wide `algorithm`. This expresses two things the current surface cannot: different algorithms for different parts of the model, and an ordered pipeline on the same targets where each stage consumes the previous one's mutated weights and scales. `algo_cfg.py` (new) lowers `algo_cfg` + `algorithm` into an ordered list of `AlgoStage`s. Compilation is pure -- it reads the quantized model's structure to resolve globs and validate, but mutates nothing and runs no forward -- so a bad plan fails before any expensive calibration, and the plan is a pure function of (config, structure), hence identical on every rank. Eight validation rules, one named function each, report every problem in a single pass. Capabilities live on the calibrate-mode descriptor rather than a side table, so a user-registered algorithm inherits a conservative default instead of silently escaping every rule. Each algorithm declares `writes_whole_module`, `refines`, `requires`, `may_write`, `invalid_if_present`, `scopable` and `requires_weight_scales`. `capabilities_for(algo, cfg)` derives them from the algorithm's own kwargs where they genuinely vary: `fp8_scale_sweep` changes the weight grid an algorithm needs, and `lsq`/`nvfp4_act_headroom` inherit the contract of the weight-scale algorithm they delegate to. Each stage is applied as its own calibration mode through the ordinary `apply_mode`, so it is recorded in the modelopt state under its own name and the mode graph sees the sequence. Plan-derived values -- the `should_process` write-mask, the hand-off kwargs -- travel via `mode_kwargs`, which reaches the convert entrypoint and is never saved. A `prepare` hook brings targets into the state an algorithm needs at the start of the stage that needs it. NVFP4 grid type is part of the contract: `awq_lite` needs block scales derived at run time, while a `fp8_scale_sweep` search needs stored per-block scales. Dynamic upgrades to static as a prepare step; static never downgrades, since that would discard a completed search. `should_process` is threaded into the module-iteration points of the scopable algorithms. It gates writes only, never toggles enable state, and keys on module identity so it survives `layerwise_calibrate` reparenting a subtree. Default `None` means whole model, i.e. today's behaviour. Three algorithms (`lsq`, `svdquant`, `nvfp4_act_headroom`) cannot honour it yet and compile rejects a scoped stage for them rather than mis-calibrating. Also fixes, all reproducible on today's un-scoped `algorithm=[...]` list: - `MseCalibrator.reset()` deleted `_initial_amax`, which is set only in `__init__`, leaving the instance permanently unusable and crashing any stage sequenced after `mse`. - `awq_lite` calibrated the whole model regardless of scope, because it calls `enable_stats_collection(model)` directly. - `gptq` re-derived amax unconditionally, discarding a preceding range search. It now declares `weight_amax` as an input and takes `skip_max_init`. Validated by exhaustive compile sweeps: every 2- and 3-algorithm chain over all 11 algorithms against three quantizer layouts, plus the scoping surface -- 13,134 compiles, zero non-validation exceptions. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Fridah-nv <201670829+Fridah-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
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[CRITICAL Algorithm] A handoff key the algorithm cannot accept is dropped silently, and the compiler has already relaxed a rule on the assumption it was accepted.
derive_handoff() emits {"skip_max_init": True} purely from the requires declaration. Here it is filtered by key in params — so for any algorithm whose _calib_func lacks a skip_max_init parameter, the key vanishes with no diagnostic. Three algorithms declare WEIGHT_AMAX in requires but have no such parameter:
awq_clip/awq_full→_calib_func = awq(model, forward_loop, algorithm, should_process, **kwargs)lsq→lsq(model, forward_loop, scale_algorithm, learnable_amax, tied_amax, quantize_pre_scale, **kwargs)
(**kwargs does not help: inspect.signature(...).parameters keys it as "kwargs", so "skip_max_init" in params is False.)
Why it matters — awq_clip does not merely ignore a preceding search, it destroys it. AWQClipHelper.__init__ (model_calib.py:1848) runs:
module.weight_quantizer.reset_amax()
enable_stats_collection(module.weight_quantizer)
module.weight_quantizer(module.weight)
finish_stats_collection(module.weight_quantizer)
self.w_amax = module.weight_quantizer.amax.clone()so it re-derives a fresh max amax and clips relative to that. Meanwhile _reject_dead_stage contains:
if token in effective_requires(model, later):
break # somebody read it -- not deadBecause awq_clip declares it reads weight_amax, a preceding mse / local_hessian stage is credited as consumed and is not reported dead. So algo_cfg=[{"module_name": "*", "cfg": ["mse", "awq_clip"]}] compiles clean and silently throws the MSE search away at runtime — the exact failure this PR fixed for gptq by adding skip_max_init, now reintroduced for awq_clip and lsq by declaring the token without the plumbing.
Suggested fix: make "can honour the handoff" part of the declaration rather than inferring it from the signature, e.g. an AlgoCapabilities.honours_skip_max_init: bool (default False) that (a) gates whether derive_handoff emits the kwarg and (b) makes _reject_dead_stage treat a declared requires token as consumed only when the consumer can honour it — so mse → awq_clip is rejected as a dead stage instead of compiling. At minimum, raise in this loop rather than dropping a key the plan depends on:
for key, value in (handoff or {}).items():
if key not in params:
raise ValueError(
f"calibration plan derived {key}={value!r} for '{method}', but its "
f"calibration function does not accept it, so the hand-off would be "
"silently dropped. Declare the algorithm unable to consume it."
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[CRITICAL Algorithm] skip_max_init suppresses the entire max_calibrate, but the coverage check that authorizes it only looks at the weight-side token — so a plan can leave every input quantizer with no amax.
effective_requires() subtracts AMBIENT_TOKENS, so for gptq (requires={WEIGHT, ACTS, WEIGHT_AMAX}) and mse ({WEIGHT, WEIGHT_AMAX}) needed is {WEIGHT_AMAX}, and TOKEN_ROLE["weight_amax"] == "weight" restricts the coverage test to weight quantizers. But the consumer's reaction is not scoped to weights:
if not skip_max_init:
max_calibrate(model, forward_loop=forward_loop, should_process=should_process)max_calibrate is what seeds input_amax too — the comment at model_calib.py:2394 asserts "it may only be skipped when an earlier stage has already calibrated them -- which is what the executor's handoff guarantees", but the handoff guarantees nothing about input_amax.
Reachable repro (compiles clean today):
config = {
"quant_cfg": {...}, # weight + input quantizers enabled
"algo_cfg": [
{"quantizer_name": "*weight_quantizer", "cfg": ["max"]},
{"module_name": "*", "cfg": ["gptq"]},
],
"algorithm": None, # no fallback stage
}Walking the rules: _reject_empty_scope passes; max has writes_whole_module=False so _reject_partial_module_scope skips it; gptq's module_name="*" scope is closed; _reject_dead_stage spares stage 0 because gptq declares it reads weight_amax. Then derive_handoff(i=1): needed={weight_amax}, and stage 0's effective_writes is {WEIGHT_AMAX} (its INPUT_AMAX is filtered out — role_quantizers["input"] is empty for a *weight_quantizer scope) covering every weight quantizer → skip_max_init=True. gptq skips max_calibrate, and no stage ever calibrates an input quantizer. _check_weight_quantization_took_effect only inspects weights, so this exports/infers as a silently mis-calibrated model.
Suggested fix: the handoff must be authorized against everything the skip suppresses, not just the declared token. Since skip_max_init elides a max_calibrate over the stage's whole scope, require coverage of max's full may_write intersected with the roles this stage actually has in scope — i.e. check input_amax on role_quantizers(...)["input"] as well before returning the kwarg:
# `skip_max_init` elides a whole `max_calibrate`, so authorize it against every token
# that call would have written, not only the ones the algorithm declares it reads.
needed = effective_requires(model, stage) | {
t for t in capabilities_for("max").may_write
if role_quantizers(model, stage)[TOKEN_ROLE[t]]
}An alternative worth considering is splitting the flag into skip_weight_max_init / skip_input_max_init so the elision granularity matches the token granularity the plan reasons about.
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[IMPORTANT Performance] _index_model is rebuilt on every lookup, not once per compile — the PR description claims the opposite ("the structural model index is computed once per compile rather than per lookup"), but there is no memoization here or at the other five call sites (210, 389, 411, 488, 610).
The call graph multiplies it out badly. resolve_targets → 1 index; stage_targets → resolve_targets + a second _index_model when exclude is set (the fallback stage always has one); role_quantizers → stage_targets; effective_writes / effective_requires / token_targets → role_quantizers; _token_overlap → token_targets twice. So _reject_dead_stage's O(S²·T) inner loop costs on the order of S² · T · 4 full index builds, and _reject_noncomposable_repeat adds another O(S²·T).
Each build is a complete model.named_modules() walk plus, per quantizer, an ancestor search up the name path, and resolve_targets then fnmatches every name. On a 9B-class model (~10⁴ modules) with a 6-stage plan that is millions of module visits and fnmatch calls — a compile step advertised as cheap enough to run before calibration becomes tens of seconds of pure Python, and it scales quadratically in plan length.
Suggested fix: build the index once in compile_algo_cfg and thread it through, or — since the index is a pure function of model structure and compile does not mutate the module tree — memoize on model identity:
_INDEX_CACHE: dict[int, tuple[int, _ModelIndex]] = {}
def _index_model(model: nn.Module) -> _ModelIndex:
"""Structural index of the quantized model: linears, quantizers, ownership."""
...Note the cache must be invalidated (or the index rebuilt) around BaseCalibrateModeDescriptor.prepare, which mutates block_sizes and calls reset_amax — it does not change the set of enabled quantizers today, but _index_model filters on is_enabled, so passing the index explicitly is the safer of the two options. Memoizing resolve_targets on (id(model), scope, selector) would additionally collapse the repeated fnmatch sweeps.
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[IMPORTANT Performance] The write-mask leaks here: this loop gates on the parent QuantModule, but the thing it writes is the weight quantizer — so a stage scoped to input quantizers still fake-quantizes every weight in the model.
stage_predicate builds allowed from modules | quantizers, and for a quantizer_name selector resolve_targets sets modules = {parent_of[q] ...}. So for {"quantizer_name": "*input_quantizer", "cfg": ["max"]} the predicate returns True for every parent linear. enable_stats_collection correctly filters to the input quantizers (it keys on the TensorQuantizer), but weight_only_quantize sees the parent pass and runs, for every linear in the model:
with enable_weight_access_and_writeback(module, model, names):
for weight, weight_quantizer in module.iter_weights_for_calibration():
weight_quantizer(weight)This is reachable from the config in the PR description itself — the third entry is {"quantizer_name": "*input_quantizer", "cfg": ["max"]}, and the algorithm: "max" fallback stage resolves to the same shape. No amax is written (those weight quantizers were never put in calib mode), so it is not a correctness bug, but it is a full weight fake-quant pass plus an enable_weight_access_and_writeback materialize/write-back cycle per linear — on an offloaded or compressed model that is the expensive half of a calibration pass, spent to discard the result.
Suggested fix: gate on the quantizer the loop actually writes rather than its parent:
if isinstance(module, QuantModule):
with enable_weight_access_and_writeback(module, model, names):
for weight, weight_quantizer in module.iter_weights_for_calibration():
if _in_scope(should_process, weight_quantizer):
weight_quantizer(weight)and hoist the enable_weight_access_and_writeback entry behind a cheap "any weight quantizer in scope" pre-check so an out-of-scope module is not materialized at all. Keeping the parent in allowed is still necessary for the module-level loops in max_calibrate (the EP/DP _amax sync at model_calib.py:405/430 would otherwise be skipped for an input-scoped stage), so the fix belongs here rather than in the predicate.
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[SUGGESTION] This docstring (and the comment at model_quant.py:162, "A scoped plan runs through the calibration_plan mode, which ... records a single mode") describes a "calibration_plan" mode that does not exist — grep finds no such registration. The PR description is explicit that the design went the other way: "There is no plan mode: each stage is applied as its own calibration mode through the ordinary apply_mode", which is what _apply_calibration_plan does.
This matters more than a normal stale comment: a reader debugging a restore path will go looking for a calibration_plan entry in modelopt_state and not find one, when the actual recorded state is the per-stage sequence (["quantize", "max_calibrate", "mse_calibrate"]). Suggest describing what is recorded:
| ``[{"module_name": "*mlp*", "cfg": ["awq_lite", "mse"]}]``. When given, the config is | |
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| and ``algorithm`` becomes the fallback for targets no entry matches. | |
| compiled into an ordered list of scoped stages, each applied as its own | |
| calibration mode (so the modelopt state records the stage sequence, e.g. | |
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[SUGGESTION] _stage_targets is dead — it is the only definition and there are no callers anywhere in modelopt/, tests/, or examples/. It also shadows the public stage_targets above it by a single underscore, which invites a future caller to reach for the wrong one (this returns a flattened union, stage_targets returns the (modules, quantizers) pair the rest of the module consumes). Suggest deleting it; stage_predicate already inlines the same union where it needs it.
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Claude review — algo_cfg scoped calibration pipelines
Scope reviewed: full diff (9 files, +2043/−85). All six modelopt/ files read in full or hunk-plus-context: algo_cfg.py (new, 649 lines), mode.py, model_calib.py, config.py, model_quant.py, calib/mse.py. Test files were not opened in depth — the review targeted the compile/execute contract rather than test coverage.
Findings: CRITICAL 2 · IMPORTANT 2 · SUGGESTION 2
This is a well-argued design, and the self-critical framing in the description is accurate: the risk really is concentrated in whether the declaration table matches the implementations. Both CRITICAL findings are instances of exactly that, and both sit in the newly declared half rather than in the rule logic — the rules behave correctly given what they are told.
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1. A handoff the algorithm cannot consume is dropped silently, after the compiler already relaxed a rule for it (mode.py:288)
derive_handoff emits skip_max_init from the requires declaration alone; wrapped_calib_func then filters it by key in params and discards it with no diagnostic. awq_clip, awq_full and lsq all declare WEIGHT_AMAX in requires but have no skip_max_init parameter (**kwargs does not satisfy "skip_max_init" in params). awq_clip is the sharp case: AWQClipHelper.__init__ calls weight_quantizer.reset_amax() and re-derives amax from max, so it destroys a preceding search — while _reject_dead_stage's if token in effective_requires(...): break # somebody read it spares the producer precisely because awq_clip claims to read it. ["mse", "awq_clip"] therefore compiles clean and throws the MSE search away at runtime. This is the gptq bug the PR fixed, reintroduced for two other algorithms by declaring the token without the plumbing — a good argument for making "can honour the handoff" a declared capability that gates both derive_handoff and the dead-stage rule, rather than something inferred from a function signature.
2. skip_max_init suppresses the whole max_calibrate, but only the weight-side token is checked before authorizing it (algo_cfg.py:631-644)
effective_requires reduces gptq/mse's requires to {weight_amax}, and TOKEN_ROLE restricts the coverage test to weight quantizers — yet the consumer's reaction is if not skip_max_init: max_calibrate(...), which is also what seeds input_amax. algo_cfg=[{"quantizer_name": "*weight_quantizer", "cfg": ["max"]}, {"module_name": "*", "cfg": ["gptq"]}] with algorithm=None passes every rule, gets skip_max_init=True, and leaves no stage that ever calibrates an input quantizer. _check_weight_quantization_took_effect only inspects weights, so this is the silently-mis-calibrated-model outcome the compiler exists to prevent. The comment at model_calib.py:2394 asserting the handoff guarantees input calibration is not backed by the coverage check.
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3. _index_model is rebuilt per lookup, not once per compile (algo_cfg.py:182) — the description claims the opposite, but there is no memoization at any of the six call sites. Via stage_targets → role_quantizers → token_targets → _token_overlap, _reject_dead_stage costs on the order of S²·T·4 full named_modules() walks plus fnmatch sweeps, and _reject_noncomposable_repeat adds another O(S²·T). On a 9B-class model with a 6-stage plan that turns a step advertised as cheap-before-calibration into tens of seconds, scaling quadratically in plan length.
4. The write-mask leaks through weight_only_quantize (model_calib.py:212-216) — it gates on the parent QuantModule, but writes the weight quantizer. Since stage_predicate must include parent linears for quantizer_name scopes (the EP/DP sync loops need them), an input-quantizer-scoped max stage runs a full weight fake-quant plus enable_weight_access_and_writeback materialize cycle over every linear in the model, then discards the result. Reachable from the config in the PR description itself, and from the algorithm fallback stage.
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model_quant.py:136— docstring and the comment at:162describe a"calibration_plan"mode that does not exist; the design records per-stage modes instead.algo_cfg.py:647—_stage_targetsis dead code and near-shadows the publicstage_targets.
Assessment
Risk: moderate-to-high for the opt-in path, low for existing users. The backward-compatibility story holds up — algo_cfg is genuinely opt-in, the algorithm path lowers through the same engine as its all-"*" case, and the two upstream fixes (MseCalibrator.reset no longer self-destructing, the _calibrator swap restored in a finally) are real improvements to today's algorithm=[...] list. Deriving calib_mutates_weights from may_write instead of the hand-maintained _mutates_weights ClassVar is the right call, and the empirical may_write conformance test is the most valuable thing in the test suite.
The residual risk is the one the description names: compile is only as trustworthy as the declarations, and findings 1 and 2 show that a correct declaration can still mislead a rule when the executor cannot act on it. Both are fixable within the existing capability model — finding 1 wants one more declared field, finding 2 wants the coverage check widened to everything the elision suppresses — and both want a test in the same family as the may_write conformance check: assert that every algorithm declaring a requires token can actually consume the handoff derived from it.
On the design questions you asked about: hosting capabilities on the mode descriptor rather than a side table is clearly right, and capabilities_for(algo, cfg) earns its parametrisation. The part I would push on is that requires is currently overloaded — it drives the handoff and the dead-stage rule, and finding 1 is what happens when those two consumers disagree about what the declaration means. Splitting "I read this token" from "I can be told to skip producing it myself" would make both rules sound, and is a small change now, less so later.
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/algo_cfg.py`:
- Around line 156-177: Update _index_model to record the nearest enclosing
QuantModule for each enabled quantizer, then include those owners in
stage_predicate’s allowed modules. Keep linears unchanged as the targets for
module_name selectors.
- Around line 536-553: Update `_reject_dead_stage` to track the targets covered
for each produced token by later stages, subtracting each overlapping writer’s
targets and marking the token overwritten only when none remain before any later
reader. Keep the dead-stage report dependent on full coverage of every produced
token.
- Around line 629-644: Update derive_handoff so a scoped MSE bootstrap does not
let GPTQ skip initialization for enabled input quantizers lacking calibrated
amax. Account for input-amax writes from the scoped bootstrap, or ensure an
input-only max pass runs before GPTQ while preserving the MSE-selected weight
amax.
In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/mode.py`:
- Around line 385-400: Update _block_sizes_setter to return an independent copy
of each non-None block_sizes dictionary while preserving None, so quantizers
configured by set_quantizer_by_cfg cannot share mutations across scopes.
In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/model_quant.py`:
- Around line 133-138: Update the public calibrate docstring and the related
comment near _apply_calibration_plan to describe the ordered scoped stages as
being applied and recorded under their own calibration modes; remove the
inaccurate reference to a "calibration_plan" mode and preserve the algorithm
fallback description.
- Around line 388-393: Update quantize to retrieve algo_cfg once and, when it is
present, pass the validated quantize_config.algorithm as calibrate’s algorithm
fallback; otherwise preserve the existing config.get("algorithm") behavior. Pass
the retrieved algo_cfg through to calibrate unchanged.
In `@tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_algo_cfg.py`:
- Around line 134-135: Move the unjustified function- and test-local imports in
this test module—including TensorQuantizer imports in
_uncalibrated_weight_quantizers and _writable_state—to module scope, and remove
the repeated stage_targets imports. Remove either
test_handoff_fires_when_the_producer_covers_the_consumer or its duplicate
assertion in test_range_search_then_gptq_is_recognized_as_a_handoff, preserving
one coverage of that behavior.
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| for name, module in model.named_modules(): | ||
| if is_quantized_linear(module): | ||
| index.linears.append(name) | ||
| index.quantizers_of[name] = [] | ||
| # Disabled quantizers are not targets: nothing can be written to them, so a scope | ||
| # reaching only disabled ones is as empty as one matching nothing at all. | ||
| elif isinstance(module, TensorQuantizer | SequentialQuantizer) and module.is_enabled: | ||
| index.quantizers.append(name) | ||
| for q in index.quantizers: | ||
| # Nearest enclosing linear, not the direct parent: a SequentialQuantizer (W4A8, | ||
| # INT4-AWQ) nests levels as `<linear>.weight_quantizer.0`, a grandchild. | ||
| parts = q.split(".") | ||
| for depth in range(len(parts) - 1, 0, -1): | ||
| ancestor = ".".join(parts[:depth]) | ||
| if ancestor in index.quantizers_of: | ||
| index.quantizers_of[ancestor].append(q) | ||
| index.parent_of[q] = ancestor | ||
| break | ||
| # A linear whose quantizers are all disabled is likewise not a target. | ||
| index.linears = [n for n in index.linears if index.quantizers_of[n]] | ||
| index.quantizers_of = {n: qs for n, qs in index.quantizers_of.items() if qs} | ||
| return index |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
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Include non-linear QuantModule owners in stage masks.
_index_model records only is_quantized_linear modules as quantizer owners. Therefore, stage_predicate excludes non-linear QuantModule owners, including MoE experts, attention modules with k_bmm_quantizer or v_bmm_quantizer, and QuantConv modules.
The affected calibration paths check the owner module with _in_scope: weight_only_quantize, MoE completeness validation, and DP/EP amax synchronization. These paths can skip in-scope quantizers. This can leave expert or convolution weights without calibration and can prevent required amax synchronization.
The fallback is not unconditional. It is omitted when explicit stages cover all enabled quantizers. The regression is reachable when a fallback stage remains, such as a partial algo_cfg whose fallback uses "*".
Record the nearest enclosing QuantModule for every enabled quantizer and include those owners in stage_predicate without changing linears, which remains the target for module_name selectors.
Suggested fix
`@dataclass`
class _ModelIndex:
...
+ owner_of: dict[str, str] = field(default_factory=dict) # quantizer -> nearest QuantModule def _index_model(model: nn.Module) -> _ModelIndex:
...
- from .nn import SequentialQuantizer, TensorQuantizer
+ from .nn import QuantModule, SequentialQuantizer, TensorQuantizer
...
+ quant_modules = {
+ name for name, module in model.named_modules() if isinstance(module, QuantModule)
+ }
for q in index.quantizers:
parts = q.split(".")
for depth in range(len(parts) - 1, 0, -1):
ancestor = ".".join(parts[:depth])
- if ancestor in index.quantizers_of:
- index.quantizers_of[ancestor].append(q)
- index.parent_of[q] = ancestor
+ if ancestor in quant_modules:
+ index.owner_of[q] = ancestor
+ if ancestor in index.quantizers_of:
+ index.quantizers_of[ancestor].append(q)
+ index.parent_of[q] = ancestor
break def stage_predicate(model: nn.Module, stage: AlgoStage) -> Callable[[nn.Module], bool]:
modules, quantizers = stage_targets(model, stage)
- allowed = {id(model.get_submodule(name)) for name in modules | quantizers}
+ owners = {
+ owner
+ for quantizer in quantizers
+ if (owner := _index_model(model).owner_of.get(quantizer))
+ }
+ allowed = {
+ id(model.get_submodule(name))
+ for name in modules | quantizers | owners
+ }
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/algo_cfg.py` around lines 156 - 177, Update
_index_model to record the nearest enclosing QuantModule for each enabled
quantizer, then include those owners in stage_predicate’s allowed modules. Keep
linears unchanged as the targets for module_name selectors.
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| overwriters: dict[str, AlgoStage] = {} | ||
| for token in produced: | ||
| for j in range(i + 1, len(plan)): | ||
| later = plan[j] | ||
| if later.capabilities is None or not _token_overlap(model, stage, later, token): | ||
| continue | ||
| if token in effective_requires(model, later): | ||
| break # somebody read it -- not dead | ||
| if token in effective_writes(model, later): | ||
| overwriters[token] = later | ||
| break | ||
| if set(overwriters) == produced: | ||
| first = next(iter(overwriters.values())) | ||
| _report( | ||
| f"stage {i} ({stage}) is dead: everything it writes ({sorted(produced)}) is " | ||
| f"overwritten unread by a later stage ({first}). Remove or reorder it.", | ||
| sink=sink, | ||
| ) |
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Require full target coverage before marking a stage dead.
SmoothQuantModeDescriptor is not scopable, so the SmoothQuant example is rejected earlier. The same bug occurs with registered, scopable max:
- Stage 0:
maxonquantizer_name="*" - Stage 1:
maxonmodule_name="*mlp*"
max requires no non-ambient tokens and writes both amax tokens. The later stage overlaps only the MLP quantizers, but _reject_dead_stage marks both tokens fully overwritten. The attention quantizers still retain Stage 0's values. Strict mode can therefore reject this valid plan.
Track the remaining targets for each token and report the token only after later writers cover all of them before any later reader.
Suggested fix
overwriters: dict[str, AlgoStage] = {}
for token in produced:
+ remaining = token_targets(model, stage, token)
for j in range(i + 1, len(plan)):
later = plan[j]
- if later.capabilities is None or not _token_overlap(model, stage, later, token):
+ if later.capabilities is None:
+ continue
+ hit = remaining & token_targets(model, later, token)
+ if not hit:
continue
if token in effective_requires(model, later):
break # somebody read it -- not dead
if token in effective_writes(model, later):
- overwriters[token] = later
- break
+ remaining -= hit
+ if not remaining:
+ overwriters[token] = later
+ break📝 Committable suggestion
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| overwriters: dict[str, AlgoStage] = {} | |
| for token in produced: | |
| for j in range(i + 1, len(plan)): | |
| later = plan[j] | |
| if later.capabilities is None or not _token_overlap(model, stage, later, token): | |
| continue | |
| if token in effective_requires(model, later): | |
| break # somebody read it -- not dead | |
| if token in effective_writes(model, later): | |
| overwriters[token] = later | |
| break | |
| if set(overwriters) == produced: | |
| first = next(iter(overwriters.values())) | |
| _report( | |
| f"stage {i} ({stage}) is dead: everything it writes ({sorted(produced)}) is " | |
| f"overwritten unread by a later stage ({first}). Remove or reorder it.", | |
| sink=sink, | |
| ) | |
| overwriters: dict[str, AlgoStage] = {} | |
| for token in produced: | |
| remaining = token_targets(model, stage, token) | |
| for j in range(i + 1, len(plan)): | |
| later = plan[j] | |
| if later.capabilities is None: | |
| continue | |
| hit = remaining & token_targets(model, later, token) | |
| if not hit: | |
| continue | |
| if token in effective_requires(model, later): | |
| break # somebody read it -- not dead | |
| if token in effective_writes(model, later): | |
| remaining -= hit | |
| if not remaining: | |
| overwriters[token] = later | |
| break | |
| if set(overwriters) == produced: | |
| first = next(iter(overwriters.values())) | |
| _report( | |
| f"stage {i} ({stage}) is dead: everything it writes ({sorted(produced)}) is " | |
| f"overwritten unread by a later stage ({first}). Remove or reorder it.", | |
| sink=sink, | |
| ) |
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/algo_cfg.py` around lines 536 - 553, Update
`_reject_dead_stage` to track the targets covered for each produced token by
later stages, subtracting each overlapping writer’s targets and marking the
token overwritten only when none remain before any later reader. Keep the
dead-stage report dependent on full coverage of every produced token.
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| needed = effective_requires(model, stage) | ||
| if not needed: | ||
| return {} | ||
|
|
||
| # Coverage, not overlap: skipping init is only safe if *every* target already has the | ||
| # state. A narrow producer before a wide consumer would leave some with no amax. | ||
| for token in needed: | ||
| produced_on: set[str] = set() | ||
| for j in range(i): | ||
| if plan[j].capabilities is None: | ||
| continue | ||
| if token in effective_writes(model, plan[j]): | ||
| produced_on |= token_targets(model, plan[j], token) | ||
| if not token_targets(model, stage, token) <= produced_on: | ||
| return {} | ||
| return {"skip_max_init": True} |
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Preserve input-amax initialization in scoped handoffs.
The supplied MSE-then-GPTQ plan compiles in strict mode. The MSE stage selects only weight quantizers. Its stage_predicate allows the owning modules and selected weight quantizers, but not input quantizers. max_calibrate applies that predicate to statistics collection and finalization, so the MSE bootstrap does not seed the input quantizers.
derive_handoff checks only GPTQ's effective weight_amax requirement. The MSE stage covers those weight targets, so GPTQ receives skip_max_init=True and skips the only remaining input-amax bootstrap. Enabled input quantizers can therefore reach GPTQ without calibrated amax.
Do not add INPUT_AMAX to needed alone. The MSE stage currently reports no effective input-amax write for a weight-only scope, so that change would rerun the full max bootstrap and discard the MSE-selected weight amax. Instead, account for the scoped bootstrap's input-amax writes, or run an input-only max pass before GPTQ while preserving the MSE weight amax.
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/algo_cfg.py` around lines 629 - 644, Update
derive_handoff so a scoped MSE bootstrap does not let GPTQ skip initialization
for enabled input quantizers lacking calibrated amax. Account for input-amax
writes from the scoped bootstrap, or ensure an input-only max pass runs before
GPTQ while preserving the MSE-selected weight amax.
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| name | ||
| for name in quantizers | ||
| if is_weight_quantizer(name) | ||
| and getattr(model.get_submodule(name), "is_nvfp4_dynamic", False) | ||
| ] | ||
| for name in upgrade: | ||
| quantizer = model.get_submodule(name) | ||
| quantizer.block_sizes["type"] = "static" | ||
| # A dynamic grid's amax is one global scalar and means nothing per block. | ||
| quantizer.reset_amax() | ||
| return bool(upgrade) | ||
|
|
||
| @classmethod | ||
| def capabilities_for_cfg(cls, cfg: dict) -> AlgoCapabilities: | ||
| """Capabilities given this algorithm's own kwargs. | ||
|
|
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Copy block_sizes for each matched quantizer.
set_quantizer_by_cfg applies one QuantizerAttributeConfig to every matching quantizer, and set_from_attribute_config stores its block_sizes dict directly. A scoped MSE stage can therefore change an excluded NVFP4 weight quantizer from dynamic to static. The loop resets amax only for in-scope quantizers. A later AWQ stage can then receive a static grid even though it requires a dynamic grid.
Suggested fix
def _block_sizes_setter(val):
if val is not None:
# block_sizes and axis are mutually exclusive; clear axis when block_sizes is set
setattr(self, "_axis", None)
if getattr(self, "_calibrator", None) is not None:
self._calibrator._axis = None
- return val
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/mode.py` around lines 385 - 400, Update
_block_sizes_setter to return an independent copy of each non-None block_sizes
dictionary while preserving None, so quantizers configured by
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| algo_cfg: An optional ordered list of :class:`AlgoCfgEntry | ||
| <modelopt.torch.quantization.config.AlgoCfgEntry>` dicts assigning a calibration | ||
| pipeline to a scope, e.g. | ||
| ``[{"module_name": "*mlp*", "cfg": ["awq_lite", "mse"]}]``. When given, the config is | ||
| compiled into an ordered list of scoped stages run by the ``"calibration_plan"`` mode, | ||
| and ``algorithm`` becomes the fallback for targets no entry matches. |
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The docstring and comment describe a mode that does not exist.
The public calibrate docstring says the plan is "run by the "calibration_plan" mode". The comment at Lines 162-165 says the path "records a single mode". _apply_calibration_plan applies each stage as its own calibration mode, and test_each_stage_is_recorded_as_its_own_calibration_mode asserts ["quantize", "max_calibrate", "mse_calibrate"]. Users who look for a calibration_plan entry in the saved state will not find one.
- ``[{"module_name": "*mlp*", "cfg": ["awq_lite", "mse"]}]``. When given, the config is
- compiled into an ordered list of scoped stages run by the ``"calibration_plan"`` mode,
- and ``algorithm`` becomes the fallback for targets no entry matches.
+ ``[{"module_name": "*mlp*", "cfg": ["awq_lite", "mse"]}]``. When given, the config is
+ compiled into an ordered list of scoped stages. Each stage is applied and recorded as
+ its own calibration mode, and ``algorithm`` becomes the fallback for targets no entry
+ matches.Also applies to: 162-165
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the public calibrate docstring and the related comment near
_apply_calibration_plan to describe the ordered scoped stages as being applied
and recorded under their own calibration modes; remove the inaccurate reference
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| return calibrate( | ||
| model, | ||
| config.get("algorithm"), | ||
| forward_loop=forward_loop, | ||
| algo_cfg=config.get("algo_cfg"), | ||
| ) |
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The fallback disappears when the config omits algorithm.
QuantizeConfig.algo_cfg documents that unmatched targets fall back to algorithm, and algorithm defaults to "max". compile_algo_cfg also defaults a missing key to "max". However, quantize passes config.get("algorithm"), which is None when the key is absent. _apply_calibration_plan then forwards an explicit None, so _lower emits no fallback stage.
Example: mtq.quantize(model, {"quant_cfg": ..., "algo_cfg": [{"module_name": "*mlp*", ...}]}, loop) leaves every non-MLP quantizer uncalibrated.
Use the validated default on the algo_cfg path. Do not change the legacy call.
+ algo_cfg = config.get("algo_cfg")
return calibrate(
model,
- config.get("algorithm"),
+ quantize_config.algorithm if algo_cfg else config.get("algorithm"),
forward_loop=forward_loop,
- algo_cfg=config.get("algo_cfg"),
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| return calibrate( | |
| model, | |
| config.get("algorithm"), | |
| forward_loop=forward_loop, | |
| algo_cfg=config.get("algo_cfg"), | |
| ) | |
| algo_cfg = config.get("algo_cfg") | |
| return calibrate( | |
| model, | |
| quantize_config.algorithm if algo_cfg else config.get("algorithm"), | |
| forward_loop=forward_loop, | |
| algo_cfg=algo_cfg, | |
| ) |
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/model_quant.py` around lines 388 - 393, Update
quantize to retrieve algo_cfg once and, when it is present, pass the validated
quantize_config.algorithm as calibrate’s algorithm fallback; otherwise preserve
the existing config.get("algorithm") behavior. Pass the retrieved algo_cfg
through to calibrate unchanged.
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| def _uncalibrated_weight_quantizers(model): | ||
| from modelopt.torch.quantization.nn import TensorQuantizer |
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Move the in-function imports to module level.
Many helpers and tests import inside the function without a stated reason:
_uncalibrated_weight_quantizersand_writable_state(TensorQuantizer).- Several tests (
capabilities_for,ACTS,WRITABLE_TOKENS,known_algorithms,BaseCalibrateModeDescriptor,CalibrateModeRegistry, config classes,inspect,model_calibfunctions,ModeloptStateManager). _prepare.
None of these are circular or optional dependencies. stage_targets is already imported at the top of the file, and Lines 628 and 751 import it again. Import errors should surface at collection time.
test_handoff_fires_when_the_producer_covers_the_consumer (Lines 506-508) repeats the assertion in test_range_search_then_gptq_is_recognized_as_a_handoff (Line 441). Remove one of them.
As per path instructions: "Imports inside functions or test methods without explicit justification. Imports belong at the top of the file so import errors surface at collection time" and "Redundant lower-level tests that duplicate behavior already covered".
Also applies to: 282-282, 298-298
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In `@tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_algo_cfg.py` around lines 134 - 135, Move
the unjustified function- and test-local imports in this test module—including
TensorQuantizer imports in _uncalibrated_weight_quantizers and
_writable_state—to module scope, and remove the repeated stage_targets imports.
Remove either test_handoff_fires_when_the_producer_covers_the_consumer or its
duplicate assertion in test_range_search_then_gptq_is_recognized_as_a_handoff,
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature
Adds an opt-in
algo_cfgkey that assigns an ordered calibration pipeline per scope, instead of a single model-widealgorithm. This expresses two things the current surface cannot: different algorithms for different parts of the model (parallel), and an ordered pipeline on the same targets where each stage consumes the previous one's mutated weights/scales (sequential).Usage
An
algo_cfgentry has the same{<selector>, "cfg": ...}shape as aquant_cfgentry:quant_cfgentries carry quantizer attributes,algo_cfgentries carry the ordered algorithms. Exactly one selector per entry —module_name(module/weight-level algorithms, role implied) orquantizer_name(when the role must be chosen explicitly).What changed
algo_cfg.py(new) — the compile half.compile_algo_cfg(config, model)lowersalgo_cfg+algorithminto an ordered list ofAlgoStages. Pure: it reads the quantized model's structure to resolve globs and validate, but mutates nothing, runs no forward and touches no data. So bad configs fail before any expensive calibration, it is testable without running a model, and the plan is a pure function of(config, structure)— hence identical on every rank, which is what keeps predicate scoping from desynchronizing collectives.derive_handoff()— a stage whose inputs an earlier stage already produced is told to skip its own initialization (skip_max_init), derived from the declared capabilities rather than a hard-coded algorithm pair. Coverage, not overlap: a narrow producer never lets a wider consumer skip._MODEL_RULES; adding a rule is a function plus a tuple entry.Capabilities are hosted on the mode descriptor, not in a side table. Each algorithm declares
writes_whole_module,refines,requires,may_write,invalid_if_present,scopableandrequires_weight_scalesas a_capabilitiesclass attribute on itsBaseCalibrateModeDescriptorsubclass.CalibrateModeRegistryis already the one-object-per-algorithm registry, so a second dict keyed by algorithm name would be a parallel registry that can fall out of sync — and an algorithm registered by a user (the documented extension point) gotNonefrom such a lookup, which silently disabled every validation rule for it. On the descriptor it inherits the conservative default instead.The lookup is parametrised —
capabilities_for(algo, cfg), with acapabilities_for_cfghook — because a few algorithms' capabilities are a function of their own kwargs:mse/local_hessianneed a static NVFP4 weight grid only whenfp8_scale_sweepis set, andlsq/nvfp4_act_headroomdelegate weight scales to a configurable sub-algorithm whose capabilities become theirs. This derives capabilities from user parameters and is deliberately not an override. The declarations are statements about the implementation; letting a caller assert "this does not write weights" would switch off the analysis that exists to catch exactly that mistake.That subsumes
QuantizeAlgorithmConfig._mutates_weights, a hand-maintained ClassVar overridden on four config classes that said exactly whatWEIGHT in may_writesays. Two statements of one fact drift, and a new algorithm only has to forget one of them — understating it makes layerwise calibration skip the weight write-back and silently discard the algorithm's results. It is now derived in one place.layerwise.calib_mutates_weightsbecomesbool | None(None = derive):persistent_materialization(writeback=...)only controls whether weights are copied back, soTrueis always safe and merely costs I/O whileFalseis safe iff the algorithm does not write weights. There is no user preference there, only a right answer per algorithm — so the field remains as an explicit opt-out for amax-only algorithms, and an explicitFalseon a weight-writing one is rejected at config time by a validator sourced frommay_write.mode.py— the execute half. There is no plan mode: each stage is applied as its own calibration mode through the ordinaryapply_mode, so it is recorded in the modelopt state under its own name (["quantize", "max_calibrate", "mse_calibrate"]) and the mode graph sees the sequence. Plan-derived values — theshould_processwrite-mask, the hand-off kwargs — travel viamode_kwargs, which reaches the convert entrypoint and is deliberately never saved. Restore is the generic quantizer-state snapshot, unchanged.BaseCalibrateModeDescriptoralso gains aprepare(model, quantizers, cfg)hook that brings targets into the state an algorithm needs at the start of the stage that needs it — the requirement belongs to the consumer, and a standalone run must not be dragged into a state it never asked for. The default implementsrequires_weight_scales.config.py—AlgoCfgEntryandQuantizeConfig.algo_cfg;need_calibrationconsidersalgo_cfg. No newstrictorskip_max_initconfig fields:skip_max_initstays a function parameter derived from the hand-off, and validation reports every problem at once rather than offering a knob to silence it.model_quant.py—calibrate(..., algo_cfg=);quantizepasses it through.model_calib.py—should_processwrite-mask threaded into the module-iteration points ofmax/mse/awq/awq_clip/gptq/smoothquant. DefaultNonemeans "whole model", i.e. today's behaviour. The mask gates writes only and never toggles enable-state, so the activations search-based algorithms see are unchanged. It keys on module identity, not name, so it surviveslayerwise_calibratehanding an algorithm a reparented subtree whose module names are relative.algorithmlowers through the same path as its all-"*"case, so there is no second engine. With noalgo_cfgthe old path, its numerics and its saved state are untouched.GPTQ can now consume a preceding range search
gptq()previously re-derived amax from max unconditionally, so a range search in front of it was discarded and the compiler correctly reported the search as a dead stage. But rounding error is only compensated consistently if GPTQ works against the grid the model actually uses, so the search belongs before GPTQ — which is the order DeepCompressor's QoQ recipes ship (qoq-gchn.yaml:enable_calib_rangethenenable_kernel_gptq).gptqnow declaresweight_amaxas an input and takesskip_max_init; the executor derives the flag.mse → gptqkeeps the searched amax bit-identically while differing from plain GPTQ. Declaring that one token also moves a batch of chains from "rejected" to "composing" across the sweep, since any range search in front of GPTQ stops being a dead stage.NVFP4 grid type is part of the contract
The sharpest case for capabilities being per stage rather than per model.
awq_litefolds asmoothing scale into the weight and needs block scales the kernel derives at run time
(
type: dynamic);mse/local_hessianwithfp8_scale_sweepsearch stored per-block scalesand need
type: static. Running either against the wrong layout is not a tuning difference, itfails or silently searches nothing.
requires_weight_scalesdeclares which an algorithm needs. Dynamic upgrades to static as apreparestep at the start of the stage that needs it; static never downgrades, since that woulddiscard a completed search. So the intended flow —
awq_liteon a dynamic grid, thenmsewiththe sweep on a static one — is expressible in one plan, and the reverse is rejected at compile
with the reason named.
This replaces an earlier workaround on this branch that routed uncalibrated static NVFP4
quantizers through the dynamic kernel. That made
awq_literun on a static grid rather thansaying it should not, which is the confusing outcome; it has been reverted.
Chains verified to work
Three chains are exercised end to end and pinned by tests. All numbers are from a seeded CPU toy
model — these establish that sequencing is correct, not that any chain improves accuracy.
awq_lite → awq_clipawq_fullon every weight quantizertest_awq_full_is_exactly_its_two_stage_pipelineawq_lite → msetest_awq_then_mse_refines_the_smoothed_weightsmse → gptqtest_gptq_preserves_a_preceding_range_searchThe first is the strongest signal in the PR:
awq()already runsawq_litethenawq_clipinternally when asked for
awq_full, and the plan surface reproduces that composite exactly as anordinary two-stage pipeline. An existing bundled algorithm is a pipeline; this just makes it one
the user can write. (The test also compares against
awq_litealone, so it cannot pass byawq_clipdoing nothing.)The second is the cheap-refinement case: MSE re-searches the clipping range on AWQ's smoothed
weights with no forward pass, where
awq_clipneeds a full search pass. Whether it matchesawq_clipin accuracy is exactly the first experiment to run on a real model.The third is the ordering the prior art ships (DeepCompressor's QoQ runs its range search before
the GPTQ kernel) and is what the
skip_max_initwork above enables.Two more compile clean but were not executed here:
gptq → mse(the reverse ordering, worthrunning as the A/B control) and
smoothquant → gptq(the most common chain in llm-compressor;smoothquantfinds nothing to smooth on the toy model, so it proves nothing at this scale).The capability declarations were wrong for 8 of 11 algorithms (and again later)
Worth flagging because it is the whole risk of this design in one finding. The declarations are a
claim about the implementation, and nothing checked them. A conformance check — snapshot
everything a stage can write, run each algorithm alone at whole-model scope, assert actual ⊆
declared — failed for 8 of 11. Root causes:
mse/awq_clip/gptq/local_hessian/lsqcall
max_calibrateinternally and so seedinput_amax;awq_lite/awq_fullfold the smoothingscale into
weight;nvfp4_act_headroomdegenerates to max off NVFP4 and writesweight_amax.All corrected. Correcting them moved the accepted set from 72 → 65 ordered pairs and 438 → 345
triples: seven conflicts had been invisible to the compiler. The check is now a parametrised unit
test (
test_declared_produces_is_an_upper_bound_on_what_the_algorithm_writes). Subset rather thanequality, because
may_writeis an upper bound and an algorithm may legitimately decline to act —smoothquantonly touches INT8 layers. The dangerous direction is under-declaration, which is whatmakes the compiler miss a real conflict.
Upstream bugs fixed along the way
Both reproduce on today's un-scoped
algorithm=[...]list — not artifacts of the scoped plan, but they block sequencing.msecrashed._mse_calibrate_weightsassignedweight_quantizer._calibratorto its search calibrator and never restored it, so the next stage that collects stats re-entered a spent calibrator:algorithm=['max','mse','max']→TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for *: 'NoneType' and 'Tensor'. Now restored in afinally— and, since the review, fixed at the source as well: the calibratoris no longer left unusable by its own
reset(), so a leaked swap is survivable rather thanfatal.
awq_litecalibrated the whole model regardless of scope, because it callsenable_stats_collection(model)directly. The write-mask has to reach helper calls inside an algorithm, not just its top-level module loop.Selector rules, and what enforces them
Exactly one selector per entry is enforced at config-construction time by
AlgoCfgEntry._normalize_entry(a pydantic before-validator), so a malformed entry fails beforethe model is ever consulted.
The semantic half —
module_namefor module-level algorithms,quantizer_namewhen the rolemust be chosen explicitly — is enforced by two compile-time rules:
quantizer_namescope matches only the wrong role is rejected(
mseon*input_quantizerwrites nothing);every module it touches has to be in scope.
The second rule closes a hole worth calling out, since it is the kind of thing this whole design
is supposed to prevent.
{"quantizer_name": "*weight_quantizer", "cfg": ["awq_lite"]}used tocompile clean while
role_quantizersreported zero writable input quantizers — and the run thenwrote
pre_quant_scaleto all 14 of them. The write-mask cannot stop that: aquantizer_namescope resolves to its parent modules,
awq_litegates on the module name, and then writesmodule.input_quantizerdirectly. The worse half is thateffective_producesand_token_overlapare derived from the declared role sets, so the compiler understated what thestage writes and would have missed a real conflict with a later input-quantizer stage.
Closure is the right formulation rather than a blunt "module granularity forbids
quantizer_name",because
algorithm="awq_lite"lowers to aquantizer_name="*"stage — whole-model andmodule_namescopes are closed by construction, so the legacy path and every shipped example areunaffected.
Known limitation: three algorithms cannot be scoped yet
nvfp4_act_headroomtakes noshould_process;svdquantandlsqswallow it via**kwargsand would run over the whole model, clobbering other stages.AlgoCapabilities.scopablerecords this and compile rejects a scoped stage for them with a clear message rather than mis-calibrating; whole-model use is unchanged. (local_hessianwas in this list and now threads the mask properly.) Adding realshould_processsupport to the remaining three is follow-up work.Testing
tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_algo_cfg.py— 60 tests: lowering, every validation rule, derived handoff, write-mask, enable-state untouched, per-stage mode recording,mse → gptqpreserving the searched amax,awq_lite → mse, the declared-vs-actual conformance check, the grid-type contract (upgrade, activations left alone, upgrade visible to later stages, static activations not blocking a weight-side algorithm), delegating-algorithm capability inheritance, and three fixture shapes (single-level quantizer, SequentialQuantizer, weight-only/no-forward).pytest tests/unit/torch/quantization/ --ignore=.../plugins/test_diffusers_wan_conv3d.py→ 977 passed, 8 skipped, plus 2 pre-existing failures inplugins/test_huggingface.py::test_quantized_transformers_save_restore(a transformers-version issue, reproduced on a stashed tree) and one pre-existing collection error intest_diffusers_wan_conv3d.py.Backward compatibility.
algorithm="max"and the equivalentalgo_cfgcompile to the same plan and produce bit-identical amax. Note this was initially verified too narrowly — only for a single-level weight quantizer with a forward loop. A code review found two cases where equivalence broke: SequentialQuantizer configs (W4A8 / INT4-AWQ) under amodule_namescope, where sub-quantizers are grandchildren of the linear and were reachable by no module scope; and the weight-only/no-forward path, where aquantizer_nameentry stripped the fallback stage of its modules andweight_only_quantizeiterated nothing. Both are fixed and both now have regression tests with the fixture shapes that were missing.Not covered: distributed (no multi-GPU available — the rank-identical-plan property is structural but untested; a 2-GPU TP/EP test is still needed), shared-forward batching across independent stages,
auto_quantizeper-layer algorithm, andsvdquant(compiles and validates, never executed).Accuracy measurement
The earlier version of this PR said no accuracy measurement existed. It does now. 66 runs:
Qwen3.5 2B / 4B / 9B x 11 calibration pipelines x 2 weight layouts, NVFP4 W4A4 on the
language-model MLP projections only, calibrated on
nemotron-post-training-v3(512 samples @ seq2048, batch 1), evaluated on full GSM8K / MMLU / HellaSwag / WinoGrande with lm-eval-harness (no
--limit). 33/33 checkpoints, 66/66 evals, no failures.The
skip_max_inithandoff is worth real accuracy.mse → gptqvsgptqalone, GSM8K:type: dynamictype: staticSignificant on the 9B under both weight layouts, i.e. the gain is from the ordering — GPTQ
compensating against the grid MSE searched — not from GPTQ alone. This is the claim
derive_handoffexists to support, and it is the one thing here that the single-algorithm surface cannot express.
A conflict the capability model should encode.
awq_lite → gptqvsawq_litealone, 9B GSM8K:−1.67 (dynamic), −3.64 at 2.6σ (static). GPTQ hurts after AWQ smoothing, consistently and
more strongly under the layout where the measurement is cleaner. Candidate
invalid_if_presentrule.A real bug the sweep surfaced, fixed in this branch.
local_hessian → gptqis broken undertype: dynamic: the search optimises a single per-tensor global scalar while GPTQ compensatesagainst per-block scales the kernel derives from data — the two stages optimise against different
grids. GSM8K: 9B +6.29 (4.2σ), 4B +6.14 (3.5σ) when switched to
type: static, and in bothcases the dynamic value sat below the entire rest of the field (9B 0.7870 vs field min 0.8029).
Absent on the 2B, where that baseline was never depressed. This is a repair, not a tuning gain, and
it argues for a capability rule: a scale-search stage feeding
gptqrequires a weight grid bothstages can address. Not yet implemented — flagged as the next capability-model addition.
A negative result worth recording. Giving
mse/local_hessianper-block scales (302M values onthe 9B MLP) instead of one global scalar per tensor produces no general accuracy gain. Search
arms minus control arms (the four arms where no stage searches a scale, so the two layouts are
equivalent by construction):
7 of 132 cells clear 2σ against ~6.6 expected by chance; only the
local_hessian → gptqpairreplicates. So the algorithm rankings above are not an artifact of search granularity.
These numbers predate the grid-type contract and were not re-measured. The sweep ran on the
reverted workaround, so all 15
awq_litearms ontype: staticwere expressible then and arerejected at compile now — correctly:
awq_liteneeds a dynamic grid. The equivalent plan todayis
awq_liteon dynamic followed by a static-requiring stage, which is a different (and better)arm, not the same one re-labelled. Every conclusion above that rests on a static
awq_litearm —the
awq_lite → gptqconflict figure in particular — should be treated as unreplicated untilre-run. The
mse → gptqhand-off result and the per-block negative result do not depend on thosearms.
Caveats.
gptqarms run non-layerwise whilelocal_hessianarms run layerwise(
get_qdq_activations_from_prev_layer: true), solocal_hessianvsmse/gptqis notapples-to-apples as an algorithm comparison — it is identical across both layouts, so the deltas
above are unaffected. Single calibration set, one quantization format, MLP-only scope. 4B GSM8K
shows two arms at or above its own BF16 ceiling and should be read with suspicion.
What changed since the last review
Exhaustive compile sweeps — 13,134 compiles, zero non-validation exceptions. Every 2- and
3-algorithm chain over all 11 algorithms against three quantizer layouts (8,712), plus the scoping
surface — both selectors, 14 globs, multi-entry coverage, the
algorithmfallback (4,422). Theaccept/reject verdicts were correct throughout; the sweeps surfaced four defects, all fixed here,
and all in what state a rule is evaluated against rather than in the rule logic.
preparemutates grid type betweenstages, but the rule read the model as it is at compile time.
[mse(fp8_scale_sweep), awq_clip]compiled clean and was rejected by the identical config once stage 0's prepare had run — so at
runtime
awq_clipgot the static grid the rule exists to keep it away from. It now walks theplan in order. 24 of 112 static-then-dynamic chains were wrongly accepted; now 0.
prepareupgraded activations too. No role filter, so on the shape the shipped staticpresets use —
nvfp4_staticfor*weight_quantizer, dynamicnvfp4for*input_quantizer—all 14 input quantizers were silently converted to static and lost their amax. The requirement
is about weight block scales.
awq_clipon a model whoseweight grid was dynamic because its activations were static.
and produced a guaranteed no-op stage. They are no longer indexed — which also makes the
whole-module scope rule less strict. Making an all-disabled scope a hard rejection turned out to
be too blunt (an
algo_cfgshared across numerics may name a role one of them turns off), so itwarns and continues, while a glob matching nothing at all is still an error.
Delegating algorithms did not inherit their sub-algorithm's contract.
lsqandnvfp4_act_headroomboth run a configurable weight-scale algorithm first but folded in only itsmay_write. A shared_with_sub_algorithmnow mergesrequiresandrequires_weight_scalesaswell — without which
lsq(scale_algorithm={method: mse, fp8_scale_sweep: true})never triggeredthe grid upgrade.
lsqalso droppedweightfrommay_write: its comment citedgptqas aweight-writing sub-algorithm, but the field is typed
Max|Mse|LocalHessianand none writesweights.
svdquantgainedrequires_weight_scales="dynamic", since it callsawq_liteinternally.
MseCalibrator.reset()no longer destroys the calibrator._initial_amaxis set only in__init__and never repopulated, so deleting it inreset()left the instance permanentlyunusable — the hazard the swap-and-restore below was guarding against.
NVFP4MSECalibratoralreadykept it and documented why; the base class now matches.
AlgoCapabilities.requireswas documented as a hard precondition. Nothing enforces it — it isread by
derive_handoffand_reject_dead_stage. A single-stagemseplan compiles fine despiterequiring
weight_amax, correctly, becausemse_calibrateseeds its own. The docstring now sayswhat the field does.
Before your PR is "Ready for review"
algo_cfgis opt-in; without it the old path, numerics and saved state are unchanged.CONTRIBUTING.md: N/A — no copied code, no new dependencies.test_algo_cfg.py(60 tests).Additional Information
Draft on purpose. The config surface (
algo_cfg, per-entrycfg) and how much of the capability contract belongs in the first cut are what I would most like feedback on before polishing this for merge.The open items from the earlier internal review are now addressed:
derive_handoffuses supersetcoverage rather than any-overlap (a narrow producer no longer sets
skip_max_initon a widerconsumer); the fused-sibling check compares against the fallback stage too, so partially-matched
groups are caught; an explicitly written kwarg beats the derived handoff; the write-mask keys on
module identity so
layerwise.enable=Truesubtrees resolve correctly; and the structural modelindex is computed once per compile rather than per lookup. Each has a named regression test.
Remaining known weakness — compile-stage trust. Compile is the safety net for a feature whose
failure mode is a silently mis-calibrated model, and it is only as trustworthy as the declaration
table — which was wrong for 8 of 11 algorithms until a check existed, and wrong again for the four
delegating/internal-call cases fixed above until the sweeps existed.
may_writeis verifiedempirically and
scopablenow matches the function signatures exactly.requires,invalid_if_presentandwrites_whole_moduleare still verified only by reading the code, andrequires_weight_scalesis verified for the algorithms that declare it but nothing proves analgorithm that should declare it hasn't stayed silent. Those want the same treatment, plus a
decision on whether an under-declaration should hard-fail CI.
No NVFP4 chain test in CI. The unit suite is CPU/INT4 on a toy model; every NVFP4 result in
this PR — the accuracy sweep and the grid-type behaviour — came from ad-hoc GPU scripts. The
grid-type contract is unit-tested at compile level, but no test executes an NVFP4 chain.
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