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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughCalibration algorithms now declare capabilities that inform layerwise weight-mutation settings and validation. MSE calibrator reset retains its initial amax while clearing cycle state. ChangesCalibration algorithm capabilities
MSE calibrator reset
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wrapped_calib_func->>capabilities_for: resolve selected algorithm capabilities
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Each calibration algorithm now states what it reads, writes and assumes as an `AlgoCapabilities` on its `BaseCalibrateModeDescriptor` subclass: `writes_whole_module`, `refines`, `requires`, `may_write`, `invalid_if_present` and `scopable`. They live on the descriptor rather than a side table keyed by algorithm name. `CalibrateModeRegistry` is already the one-object-per-algorithm registry, so a second dict would be a parallel registry that can fall out of sync -- and an algorithm registered by a user, the documented extension point, would get `None` from such a lookup. On the descriptor it inherits a conservative default instead. `capabilities_for(algo, cfg)` derives them from the algorithm's own kwargs where they genuinely vary: `lsq` and `nvfp4_act_headroom` delegate weight scales to a configurable sub-algorithm, and that algorithm's `requires` and `may_write` become theirs. This subsumes `QuantizeAlgorithmConfig._mutates_weights`, a hand-maintained ClassVar overridden on four config classes that said exactly what `WEIGHT in may_write` says. 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. `layerwise.calib_mutates_weights` becomes `bool | None` (None = derive): `True` is always safe and merely costs I/O, `False` is safe only if the algorithm does not write weights, so there is no user preference here, only a right answer per algorithm. It remains as an explicit opt-out for amax-only algorithms, and an explicit `False` on a weight-writing one is now rejected at config time. Also fixes `MseCalibrator.reset()`, which deleted `_initial_amax`. That field is set only in `__init__` and never repopulated, so the "reset" left the instance permanently unusable: `algorithm=['max','mse','max']` crashes on main today because the next stage to collect stats re-enters the spent calibrator. `NVFP4MSECalibrator.reset()` already kept it and documented why; the base class now matches. The amax clone it retains is scalar or `[out_features]`, so the memory argument for dropping it did not apply to the class that was doing it. 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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| # merely costs I/O, while skipping it silently discards in-place weight updates. | ||
| mutates_weights = _writes_weights(method, kwargs) | ||
| calib_mutates_weights = layerwise_cfg.get("calib_mutates_weights") | ||
| if calib_mutates_weights is None: | ||
| calib_mutates_weights = mutates_weights | ||
| elif not calib_mutates_weights and mutates_weights: | ||
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| f"Calibration algorithm '{method}' mutates layer weights in place, so " | ||
| "layerwise.calib_mutates_weights=False would lose those updates on resume. " | ||
| "Leave it unset to derive the right value from the algorithm." | ||
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Persist calibrated quantizer buffers when offload_buffers=True.
When the wrapper derives calib_mutates_weights=False for max/MSE, the Accelerate context skips _writeback_params_to_weights_map. That helper persists both parameters and buffers. If offload_buffers=True, AlignDevicesHook.post_forward then offloads the calibrated _amax buffer, while the offload map still contains the old value. A later materialization can restore stale calibration data.
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Comment: the capability model is sound and the MSE reset() fix is well covered, but flipping calib_mutates_weights to a derived default changes layerwise behaviour with no test on the wiring and breaks resume from existing checkpoints.
Needs action:
- Handle resume from a checkpoint whose
manifest.jsonhascalib_mutates_weights: true—_CheckpointState.from_foldernow raises a mismatchValueErrorfor max/mse/local_hessian, which contradicts the "backward compatible" claim (see inline onmode.py). - Add a test that the derived value reaches
layerwise_calibrate(mse→False,gptq→True) and that explicitcalib_mutates_weights=Falseon a weight-writing algorithm raises inwrapped_calib_func;test_algo_capabilities.pyonly covers config-time rejection. - Pass the algorithm's own kwargs to
capabilities_forinQuantizeAlgorithmConfig._validate_non_mutating_layerwise_supported, and align themethod=Nonecase withmode.py, which rejects what the validator accepts. - Move
from .algo_cfg import WEIGHT, capabilities_forto the top ofconfig.py—algo_cfgimports nothing from the package at module scope, so there is no cycle. - Fix the
requiresdocstring inalgo_cfg.py:37, which contradicts the descriptors.
No action needed:
- New files carry the standard NVIDIA header;
MseCalibrator.reset()fix is mutation-tested.
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| # merely costs I/O, while skipping it silently discards in-place weight updates. | ||
| mutates_weights = _writes_weights(method, kwargs) | ||
| calib_mutates_weights = layerwise_cfg.get("calib_mutates_weights") |
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Deriving the default flips calib_mutates_weights from True to False for max/mse/local_hessian (and now also awq_clip, lsq, nvfp4_act_headroom, which were never on the old whitelist). Two consequences worth addressing before merge:
- Resume breaks.
_CheckpointState.from_foldercompares the manifest'scalib_mutates_weightsagainst the new run's value and raisesValueError: Checkpoint calib_mutates_weights mismatch ...on any difference. A layerwise checkpoint written by the current release formax/msehastrueon disk; resuming it after this change passesFalseand hard-fails, even thoughfull_restorewould handle theweights.ptit finds. Either relax the check when the checkpoint value is the more conservativeTrue, or say in the PR body/changelog that in-flight checkpoints must setcalib_mutates_weights=Trueexplicitly — the "backward compatible" checkbox does not cover this today. - No test on the wiring. This block is the behavioural core of the PR and nothing exercises it: please assert that
msedispatches withcalib_mutates_weights=FalseandgptqwithTrue(the existinglayerwise_calibratespy intest_layerwise_calibrate.py::test_mtq_quantize_layerwise_dispatches_for_algorithmalready captureskwargs), plus one case for theValueErrorraised here.
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Two things on this validator:
- The comment justifies the function-local import as circular, but
algo_cfgimports nothing from the package at module scope (its.modeimport is itself deferred), sofrom .algo_cfg import WEIGHT, capabilities_forat the top of this file is acyclic. Per the repo convention, move it up unless there is a cycle you can point at. capabilities_for(self.method)is called without this config's kwargs, whilemode._writes_weightspasses them. Forlsq/nvfp4_act_headroomthe two can disagree once a sub-algorithm that writes weights exists, so a config would validate and then fail at conversion time.self.model_dump()here would make the two lookups agree.- Related:
method=NonereturnsNonecapabilities here (accepted) but_writes_weights(None, ...)returnsTrueinmode.py(rejected at runtime). Previously the base_mutates_weights=Truerejected it at config time. Please pick one side.
| #: Role this algorithm *improves*. Narrower than what it writes: weight-side algorithms | ||
| #: also seed input amax via an internal `max_calibrate`, which `may_write` records. | ||
| refines: Literal["weight", "input", "both"] | ||
| #: Tokens this algorithm reads. ``weight`` and ``acts`` are ambient, so never counted. |
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This says weight and acts "are ambient, so never counted", but almost every descriptor lists them: MseCalibrateModeDescriptor has requires={WEIGHT, WEIGHT_AMAX}, SmoothQuantModeDescriptor has requires={ACTS}, GPTQModeDescriptor has both. Since PRs 3–4 will validate plans against this field, the doc and the data need to agree — reword to describe what requires actually holds (or drop the sentence).
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| """Reset the stored losses and amax value.""" | ||
| """Reset the per-cycle search state, keeping the calibrator reusable. | ||
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| ``_initial_amax`` is only ever set in ``__init__``, so dropping it here would | ||
| leave the instance permanently unusable rather than reset. It is a clone of the | ||
| quantizer amax -- scalar or ``[out_features]`` -- so keeping it is cheap. | ||
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| self._losses_sum = None |
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[CRITICAL Algorithm] Retaining _initial_amax fixes the crash but converts it into a silent mis-calibration, because the real root cause is upstream.
_calibrate_weight_mse installs the MSE calibrator permanently and never puts the original back:
# model_calib.py:824
weight_quantizer._calibrator = cal # installed
_run_and_load_max_stats(...)
if hasattr(cal, "reset"):
cal.reset() # freed, but still installedCompare nvfp4_act_headroom, which explicitly restores (model_calib.py:635-642) with the comment "The calibrators are restored afterwards so this algorithm does not leak into a later calibration of the same model." The MSE path has no such finally.
So for algorithm=['max','mse','max'] the third stage's enable_stats_collection → collect() → finish_stats_collection → compute_amax() all run against the leftover MseCalibrator:
- On
main:_initial_amax is None→ crash in_compute_candidate_amax. Loud, which is how you found it. - With this change: it runs, and
compute_amax()returnsargmin_loss_candidate * self._initial_amax— an MSE multiplier search centred on the amax captured back in stage 2, not a max amax. A user who asked for a finalmaxstage silently gets a repeat of the MSE search instead, and_initial_amaxis stale with respect to whatever stage 2 wrote.
Why it matters: a wrong amax is not detectable from the resulting checkpoint — it exports and loads fine, just with worse accuracy than the requested recipe. The crash at least told the user something was wrong.
Suggested fix — restore the calibrator at model_calib.py:818-829, mirroring the nvfp4_act_headroom pattern, so no later stage can re-enter a spent calibrator:
for weight, weight_quantizer in parent_module.iter_weights_for_calibration():
...
cal = _make_weight_mse_calibrator(...)
if cal is None:
continue
original_calibrator = weight_quantizer._calibrator
weight_quantizer._calibrator = cal
try:
_run_and_load_max_stats(
weight_quantizer, partial(_collect_weight_stats, weight=weight)
)
finally:
if hasattr(cal, "reset"):
cal.reset()
weight_quantizer._calibrator = original_calibrator
pbar.update(1)The reset() change here is still worth keeping — a reset that destroys the instance is wrong on its own terms, and NVFP4MSECalibrator already agreed. But it should land together with the restore, and the regression test should assert the recipe produces a max amax in stage 3, not merely that it no longer raises.
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| title="Whether layerwise calibration writes layer weights back.", | ||
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| "Set to False only for algorithms that update solely " | ||
| "``TensorQuantizer._amax`` (max, mse, local_hessian). Rejected for " | ||
| "weight-mutating algorithms (GPTQ, AWQ, SmoothQuant) where it would " | ||
| "silently lose updates on resume." | ||
| "Leave unset (the default): the right value is a property of the algorithm, not a " | ||
| "preference, and is derived from what the algorithm declares it writes. Writing " | ||
| "back is always safe and merely costs I/O; skipping it silently discards in-place " | ||
| "weight updates, so ``False`` is rejected for a weight-mutating algorithm " | ||
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] The default flip breaks resume of layerwise checkpoints written by the current release.
For max / mse / local_hessian / nvfp4_act_headroom the effective value goes True → False, which changes what gets written per layer (layerwise_calib.py:895): weights.pt (full layer.state_dict()) before, quantizer_buffers.pt now. And _CheckpointState.from_folder treats any drift as fatal (layerwise_calib.py:740-755):
ckpt_value = manifest.get(key)
if ckpt_value is not None and ckpt_value != new_value:
raise ValueError(
f"Checkpoint {key} mismatch: manifest has {ckpt_value!r} but "
f"new run uses {new_value!r}. Use a fresh checkpoint directory."
)So a user who is mid-run today with algorithm="max", layerwise.enable=True and a checkpoint_dir has "calib_mutates_weights": true in their manifest. After upgrading, resuming the same directory derives False and hard-fails with "Use a fresh checkpoint directory" — discarding the completed layers of what is typically a multi-hour calibration. That is the one place the flag is load-bearing across versions, and the PR description lists this change as backward compatible.
The restore path already tolerates the mismatch — it dispatches per layer on which file exists (layerwise_calib.py:832-845), so manifest=True + derived False resumes correctly: old layers load weights.pt, new layers write quantizer_buffers.pt. Only the drift check is over-strict, and only in the True → False direction (a superset checkpoint read by a run that needs less).
Suggested fix — exempt that direction in from_folder:
for key, new_value in (...):
ckpt_value = manifest.get(key)
if ckpt_value is None or ckpt_value == new_value:
continue
# A checkpoint saved with full layer state is a superset of what a
# non-mutating run needs, and _full_restore dispatches per layer on
# which file is present -- so this direction resumes cleanly.
if key == "calib_mutates_weights" and ckpt_value and not new_value:
continue
raise ValueError(...)Worth a CHANGELOG.rst entry either way, since the on-disk checkpoint shape for these four algorithms changes without the user touching their config.
| if sub_caps is None: | ||
| return replace(caps, may_write=own_writes | WRITABLE_TOKENS) | ||
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| may_write=own_writes | sub_caps.may_write, | ||
| requires=caps.requires | sub_caps.requires, | ||
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[IMPORTANT ModeState] The fold propagates only 2 of the 6 capability fields, so a delegating algorithm under-declares in exactly the direction this module calls unsafe.
_with_sub_algorithm carries may_write and requires, and replace leaves writes_whole_module, invalid_if_present, refines and scopable at the outer algorithm's values. Concretely, with _ScaleCalibConfig allowing local_hessian:
capabilities_for("lsq", {"scale_algorithm": {"method": "local_hessian"}})
# LocalHessianModeDescriptor: writes_whole_module=True
# folded result: writes_whole_module=False <- lsq's own valuelocal_hessian really does write every quantizer of each linear it touches, and lsq runs it as its first step — so the folded declaration says the opposite of what happens. Same for nvfp4_act_headroom + local_hessian.
Why it matters: writes_whole_module is documented as "Writes every quantizer of each linear it touches, not one quantizer at a time", which is precisely the property a per-quantizer write-mask would rely on in PR 2/4. Understating it is the direction the module's own docstrings call unsafe ("over-declaring is safe for conflict detection and unsafe for the hand-off"), and it is latent now — nothing in this PR reads the field, so it will surface as a wrong scoping decision two PRs from now rather than as a test failure here.
invalid_if_present has the same shape of problem: it is silently dropped, so a sub-algorithm's conflict token never reaches the outer algorithm's declaration. No current _ScaleCalibConfig member sets it, but the fold is the place that has to be right when one does.
Suggested fix — union/OR everything that composes, and make the unknown-sub fallback conservative on requires too:
if sub_caps is None:
return replace(
caps,
may_write=own_writes | WRITABLE_TOKENS,
writes_whole_module=True,
scopable=False,
)
return replace(
caps,
may_write=own_writes | sub_caps.may_write,
requires=caps.requires | sub_caps.requires,
writes_whole_module=caps.writes_whole_module or sub_caps.writes_whole_module,
invalid_if_present=caps.invalid_if_present | sub_caps.invalid_if_present,
scopable=caps.scopable and sub_caps.scopable,
)refines is the one field that genuinely belongs to the outer algorithm, so leaving it alone is right — worth saying so in the docstring, since the current "both fields travel" reads as if two fields are all there are.
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| #: also seed input amax via an internal `max_calibrate`, which `may_write` records. | ||
| refines: Literal["weight", "input", "both"] | ||
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[SUGGESTION] This says the opposite of what every in-tree descriptor does. weight and acts are counted in requires throughout mode.py:
MseCalibrateModeDescriptor:requires={WEIGHT, WEIGHT_AMAX}LocalHessianModeDescriptor:requires={WEIGHT, WEIGHT_AMAX, ACTS}AWQLiteModeDescriptor/AWQFullModeDescriptor/SVDQuantModeDescriptor:requires={ACTS, WEIGHT}SmoothQuantModeDescriptor/NVFP4ActHeadroomCalibrateModeDescriptor:requires={ACTS}
test_lsq_only_reads_activations_when_its_sub_algorithm_does also asserts on ACTS in ...requires, so the tests depend on them being counted.
Since requires is the field PRs 3/4 will validate plans against, a comment claiming two of its five tokens never appear is the kind of thing that gets trusted over the code. Suggest dropping the second sentence, or replacing it with what the tokens actually mean (weight/acts = needs materialized weights / needs a forward pass, as opposed to the *_amax tokens which are produced by a prior algorithm).
| def test_every_registered_algorithm_declares_capabilities(): | ||
| for algo in _known_algorithms(): | ||
| assert capabilities_for(algo) is not None, algo |
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[SUGGESTION] This test cannot fail. BaseCalibrateModeDescriptor._capabilities supplies a default, so capabilities_for returns non-None for anything in the registry — which is the same invariant test_a_custom_algorithm_inherits_conservative_capabilities already pins deliberately.
The property worth guarding is the one the PR is motivated by ("a new algorithm only has to forget one of them"): every in-tree algorithm should have replaced the pessimistic default, so a newly added descriptor that forgets fails here instead of quietly running with may_write=WRITABLE_TOKENS and an unnecessary weight write-back on every layer.
def test_every_registered_algorithm_overrides_the_conservative_default():
base = BaseCalibrateModeDescriptor._capabilities
for algo in _known_algorithms():
caps = capabilities_for(algo)
assert caps is not None, algo
assert caps != base, f"{algo} still carries the pessimistic default"
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Claude review — feat(quantization): declare per-algorithm calibration capabilities [1/4]
Findings: CRITICAL: 1 · IMPORTANT: 2 · SUGGESTION: 2
Full-coverage review — all 7 changed files opened (4 under modelopt/, 3 under tests/), plus model_calib.py and utils/layerwise_calib.py for the dataflow the diff hands off to. Note the branch is 3 commits behind main, so a two-dot diff also shows unrelated layerwise_export.py / model_utils.py churn from main; I scoped to the 7 files GitHub reports for this PR.
The capability model itself is the right call. Putting the declarations on the descriptor rather than in a name-keyed side table, and resolving them from the config so lsq / nvfp4_act_headroom can delegate, both hold up — and collapsing _mutates_weights into WEIGHT in may_write removes a genuine two-statements-of-one-fact hazard. My concerns are with two places where the new derivation changes behavior more than the description claims, and one where the fold under-declares.
Most impactful
1. CRITICAL — the MseCalibrator.reset() fix trades a crash for a silent mis-calibration (calib/mse.py:121)
The diagnosis is right — a reset() that destroys the instance is wrong, and NVFP4MSECalibrator already said so. But the reason a later stage re-enters a spent calibrator is upstream: _calibrate_weight_mse sets weight_quantizer._calibrator = cal (model_calib.py:824) and never restores the original, unlike nvfp4_act_headroom, which wraps the same pattern in try/finally specifically "so this algorithm does not leak into a later calibration of the same model" (model_calib.py:635-642).
With _initial_amax retained, your algorithm=['max','mse','max'] repro stops raising — and the third stage now runs an MSE multiplier search centred on the stage-2 amax instead of a max calibration. The user asked for max and gets a repeat of mse, with no error and nothing observable in the exported checkpoint. Restoring the calibrator in a finally fixes the actual leak; keep the reset() change alongside it, and extend the regression test to assert the third stage yields a max amax rather than only that it survives.
2. IMPORTANT — the calib_mutates_weights default flip breaks resume of existing layerwise checkpoints (config.py:776)
For max / mse / local_hessian / nvfp4_act_headroom the effective value goes True → False, which switches the per-layer artifact from weights.pt to quantizer_buffers.pt. _CheckpointState.from_folder treats manifest drift as fatal (layerwise_calib.py:740-755), so anyone mid-run today with layerwise.enable=True + checkpoint_dir hits "Use a fresh checkpoint directory" on their first resume after upgrading and loses the completed layers of a multi-hour calibration. The restore path already dispatches per layer on which file exists, so True → False is safe to accept — only the check is over-strict. This also makes the change changelog-worthy, which the PR currently defers.
3. IMPORTANT — _with_sub_algorithm propagates 2 of 6 fields (mode.py:376)
writes_whole_module, invalid_if_present and scopable stay at the outer algorithm's values, so capabilities_for("lsq", {"scale_algorithm": {"method": "local_hessian"}}) reports writes_whole_module=False when local_hessian declares True. That is the unsafe direction by this module's own docstrings, and it is latent: nothing in this PR reads those fields, so it surfaces as a wrong scoping decision in PR 2/4 rather than as a test failure here.
Minor
- The
requiresdocstring saysweightandacts"are ambient, so never counted", but six descriptors count them and two tests assert onACTS in requires. test_every_registered_algorithm_declares_capabilitiespasses for any registered algorithm by construction — the base-class default guarantees it. Asserting the in-tree descriptors override the default is what would catch a future algorithm forgetting.- The description motivates config-dependent capabilities partly with "
fp8_scale_sweepchanges the weight grid it needs", butMseCalibrateModeDescriptorhas nocapabilities_for_cfgoverride. Fine if that is deferred to a later PR in the stack — worth saying so, since the rationale currently points at code that isn't there.
Risk
Moderate. The diff is small and mostly declarative, and the restructuring is sound. The risk is concentrated in the two derivations that changed behavior rather than in the new data model: one converts a loud failure into a quiet accuracy regression, the other breaks an upgrade path that the description lists as backward compatible. Both are contained fixes. The under-propagating fold is worth settling now while the consumers are still being written in PRs 2-4.
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Brief
What changes: Every calibration algorithm now declares explicitly what it reads, writes and assumes, instead of that being implicit in its code.
How: A new
AlgoCapabilitiesclass held on the mode descriptor. Not flattened into plain descriptor attributes, because a user's config can change an algorithm's capabilities —fp8_scale_sweepchanges the weight grid it needs, andlsq/nvfp4_act_headroominherit the contract of whichever sub-algorithm they are given — so they have to be resolved at runtime from the config, not fixed at class-definition time.What does this PR do?
Type of change: refactor + bug fix
Stack 1 of 4, splitting #2292 (scoped calibration pipelines) into independently reviewable pieces. This one lands nothing user-facing and is useful on its own.
algo_cfgDeclare what each calibration algorithm does
Each algorithm now states what it reads, writes and assumes as an
AlgoCapabilitieson itsBaseCalibrateModeDescriptorsubclass:writes_whole_module,refines,requires,may_write,invalid_if_present,scopable.They live on the descriptor rather than in a side table keyed by algorithm name.
CalibrateModeRegistryis already the one-object-per-algorithm registry, so a second dict would be a parallel registry that can fall out of sync — and an algorithm registered by a user, the documented extension point, would getNonefrom such a lookup. On the descriptor it inherits a conservative default instead.capabilities_for(algo, cfg)derives them from the algorithm's own kwargs where they genuinely vary:lsqandnvfp4_act_headroomdelegate weight scales to a configurable sub-algorithm, and that algorithm'srequiresandmay_writebecome theirs.This replaces
_mutates_weightsQuantizeAlgorithmConfig._mutates_weightswas 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.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 now rejected at config time.Also fixes
MseCalibrator.reset()_initial_amaxis set only in__init__and never repopulated, so deleting it inreset()did not reset the instance — it destroyed it. This reproduces onmaintoday:algorithm=['max','mse','max']crashes, because the next stage to collect stats re-enters the spent calibrator.NVFP4MSECalibrator.reset()already kept it and documented why; the base class now matches. The memory argument for dropping it does not apply to the class that was doing it — the base calibrator's amax clone is scalar or[out_features], while the large[num_blocks]clone belongs to the subclass that retains it.Testing
New
tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_algo_capabilities.py, plus a regression test for the calibrator fix (mutation-verified: restoring thedelfails it).pytest tests/unit/torch/quantization/→ 1128 passed, 8 skipped. Two pre-existing failures inplugins/test_huggingface.py::test_quantized_transformers_save_restore(a transformers-version issue, reproduced on a cleanmainworktree) and one pre-existing collection error intest_diffusers_wan_conv3d.py.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
calib_mutates_weightskeeps its old meaning when set explicitly; unset now derives instead of defaulting to a hand-maintained flag.CONTRIBUTING.md: N/A🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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