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Run fused-MoE expert GPTQ updates on all of this process's GPUs - #3002
In a layerwise GPTQ run of a model that device_map spreads over several GPUs, only the GPU holding the current layer did that layer's work. The fused-MoE expert updates, a large share of each MoE layer's time, ran one after another on that GPU while the others sat idle.
The updates of one layer's experts are independent. For helpers whose update reads only the weight, its Hessian and the format's codec, the expert updates now run in one worker thread per GPU this process already uses that has room for an update. Each worker copies an expert's weight and Hessian to its GPU, runs the update there and writes the result back into the expert's weight. That covers the GGML formats when their CUDA encoders are loaded (GGMLGPTQHelper.updates_on_any_device()); helpers that read quantizer state from the weight's device, such as NVFP4's, and GGML updates on the PyTorch fallback encoder, whose scratch grows with block_chunk_size, keep running in turn.
Room check. A GPU qualifies only if it has room for the largest expert update: 8 Hessians (the Hessian, its inverse and their temporaries), 2 float32 copies of the weight (the working copy and a dtype-conversion temporary), up to 5 GPTQ blocks of columns (the block's errors and up to four group-sized temporaries around each triangular solve, each as large as the weight when the input is no wider than a block), and 64 MiB for the CUDA codec's tables and scratch. Room is measured with Improve layerwise GPTQ memory and speed: Hessian headroom, batch probe and offload fixes #2945's get_available_gpu_memory, which also counts PyTorch's reusable cached blocks. With fewer than two qualifying GPUs, nothing changes.
Lazy setup. The first update runs in the caller's thread, so setup that is not thread-safe, such as loading a format's CUDA extension, happens once before the workers start.
Autograd. Grad and inference mode are per thread, so worker threads take the caller's, as the imatrix encode workers do.
Offload.gptq() drops its expert weight slices before leaving each module's weight window, so under offload they don't keep that module's onloaded weights on the GPU while the next module's are onloaded.
The results are bit-identical to the sequential updates. hessian_input_dtype (#3019) applies while the Hessians accumulate, before any update runs, so it is unaffected. #3043 runs imatrix encodes one thread per GPU, each weight on its own GPU; this PR moves GPTQ expert updates to other GPUs. Both now share one runner, run_on_each_gpu, which runs the first item in the caller's thread and gives each worker the caller's grad and inference mode.
Usage
No API change.
Testing
Real models on 4x GB300 (oci-jhb). Layerwise GPTQ on the routed experts at IQ2_XXS, 1,024 x 512 calibration tokens, KL to BF16 over wikitext-2 (100 x 512 tokens, second half scored). Measured on top of #2945, which sets the batch size and Hessian placement these runs used:
Qwen's KL is identical token by token. GLM's moves within run-to-run noise: its Hessian placement varies between runs with free memory (for example 222 vs 217 experts' Hessians on one GPU), which changes how they are summed.
Update step alone, 2x RTX PRO 6000. One fused-MoE layer of 32 experts, IQ2_XXS, 64 expert updates:
Expert shape (hidden x intermediate)
One GPU
Two GPUs
Peak per worker GPU
Room check (block size 256)
2,048 x 768
0.49 s
0.32 s
108 MiB
224 MiB
4,096 x 1,536
1.39 s
0.89 s
432 MiB
687 MiB
New GPU test test_expert_updates_on_another_gpu_match_one_gpu (2 GPUs, with and without inference mode): expert updates spread over two GPUs give bit-identical weights and codes to running them in turn on one, with the codes pinned on the weight's GPU. Each expert input spans two GGML groups, so the Hessian shapes what is compared. It fails when the GGML helper's updates stay on their own GPU, when the codes are left on the worker's GPU, and when a worker uses only the Hessian's diagonal.
New unit test test_gptq_drops_each_fused_experts_weights_before_the_next_window: no updated expert weight slice outlives its module's weight window. It fails without the fix.
Room check, measured on 2x RTX PRO 6000 (peak allocated on the worker GPU for one update, CUDA encoder): across 17 combinations of format (IQ1_S, IQ1_M, IQ2_XXS, IQ2_XS, IQ2_S, Q8_0), expert shape and block size (256 to 2048), the peak is 29-63% of the room. For example, IQ2_XXS 65536x256 at block 256 peaks at 325 MiB (room 514), 16384x2048 at block 2048 at 361 MiB (1088), and 28672x4096 at block 1024 at 879 MiB (2032). A Hessian-only bound was exceeded by every expert weight wider than its input, and a bound without the block term by any input no wider than a block.
New GPU test test_an_update_that_may_move_fits_its_room: an update a helper lets move peaks on the worker GPU within its room check (IQ2_XXS 16384x2048 and 65536x256, and IQ1_S 1024x512, on the CUDA encoder; IQ1_S on the PyTorch fallback). It fails when fallback updates may move (IQ1_S 1024x512 peaks at 96 MiB against 76 MiB), with a Hessian-only bound, and without the block term (IQ2_XXS 65536x256 peaks at 325 MiB against 194 MiB).
A local script (not a committed test) ran this with hessian_input_dtype: bfloat16. Every expert Hessian accumulation took the bfloat16 GEMM, and the two-GPU updates matched one GPU bit for bit.
After rebasing onto [OMNIML-6073] [1/2] Calibrate and fold expert-parallel fused experts on each rank's own experts #3122 and addressing review: tests/gpu/torch/quantization/{test_gptq,test_layerwise_calibrate,test_local_hessian_gpu,test_ggml_imatrix_gpu,test_iq_formats_cuda}.py 117 passed on 2x RTX PRO 6000 (CI's GPU runner has one GPU and skips the 2-GPU tests). tests/unit/torch/quantization/{test_gptq,test_ggml_gptq,test_ggml_imatrix,test_local_hessian,test_layerwise_calibrate}.py and plugins/test_fused_experts.py 250 passed on CPU (transformers 5.18).
Full suites: locally at df3f78f, on H200 at 958a02d (958a02d only adds the extension guards to two test_gptq.py tests, re-run locally):
tests/gpu/torch/quantization on 2x RTX PRO 6000 (torch 2.12, transformers 5.18): 1050 passed, 35 skipped, 8 failed. 4 test_quant_conv_gpu wan cases fail on the local diffusers, which lacks autoencoder_kl_wan. 4 test_q8_0_cuda cases fail the same way at the base (55898ee) on these GPUs.
tests/gpu/torch/quantization on 4x H200 NVL (computelab, TRT-LLM 1.4.0rc3 image: torch 2.14, transformers 5.5.4), split over two GPU pairs: 989 passed, 41 skipped, 1 failed. test_fsdp2_gradient_qwen_moe_autoquant fails the same way at the base in this image (FSDP2 set_model_state_dict gets an empty state dict). Not collected: test_deepspeed (no deepspeed) and two ONNX-export modules. All of test_gptq.py, including the 2-GPU tests, passed.
tests/unit/torch/quantization on CPU: 1595 passed, 1 skipped. Not collected: three diffusers and ONNX-export modules, from stale local packages.
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GPTQ calibration now collects fused-expert work and passes it to a GPU-aware scheduler. Helpers accept a target update device, and GGML helpers move packed weights to the selected weight’s device. Tests compare single- and multi-GPU results, measure update memory, and check expert-weight release between calibration windows.
GPTQHelper.update_weights accepts an optional target device and moves its Hessian and working weight there. GGMLGPTQHelper reports whether it supports updates on another device and moves packed weights to the selected weight’s device.
GPU placement and expert scheduling modelopt/torch/quantization/utils/calib_utils.py
Hessian placement searches GPUs available to the process. Eligible updates run on worker threads when at least two GPUs have room and at least two updates can move; otherwise, updates run on their weights’ devices.
Calibration wiring and validation modelopt/torch/quantization/model_calib.py, tests/_test_utils/torch/quantization/models.py, tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_gptq.py, tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_gptq.py
GPTQ calibration gathers expert handles and weights, then submits them to the scheduler. Tests compare single- and multi-GPU results, measure update memory, and check that updated weights are released before the next calibration window.
sequenceDiagram
participant Calibration
participant update_expert_weights
participant ThreadPoolExecutor
participant GPTQHelper
participant CUDADevice
Calibration->>update_expert_weights: Submit collected expert work
update_expert_weights->>GPTQHelper: Run one eligible update
update_expert_weights->>ThreadPoolExecutor: Queue remaining eligible updates
ThreadPoolExecutor->>GPTQHelper: Call update_weights with a target device
GPTQHelper->>CUDADevice: Transfer Hessian and working weight
ThreadPoolExecutor->>CUDADevice: Synchronize worker and weight devices
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### What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature (performance)
Adds `hessian_input_dtype` to the GPTQ and `local_hessian` algorithm
configs: `"float32"` (the default, today's behavior) or `"bfloat16"`.
`update_hessian` copies every batch of activations to float32 and
accumulates `XᵀX` with a float32 GEMM, which runs on CUDA cores. With
`"bfloat16"`, a tensor-core GEMM reads the activations in bfloat16 and
writes float32 (`out_dtype=torch.float32`). For bfloat16 activations,
the products are exact in float32, so it differs from the float32 GEMM
only in how it rounds the sums. It also needs no float32 copy of each
batch, which is twice the size of the bfloat16 batch.
Against a float64 reference, the bfloat16 option's GPTQ Hessian is off
by up to 2.8e-5 of the mean diagonal at 32K tokens per batch (1.3e-5 at
4K), versus 4.7e-6 for the float32 GEMM. A bfloat16 output would be off
by 9.2e-3. GPTQ then adds 1% of the mean diagonal as damping, so the
difference does not reach the result, which matches the KL below. The
Hessian is stored in float32 either way, so the option saves only the
transient float32 copy, not Hessian memory.
- When the Hessian lives on another device, as #2945 places it by free
memory, the float32 product is copied over.
- Where CUDA GEMMs don't take `out_dtype` (CPU inputs, or an older
torch), `"bfloat16"` falls back to float32 with a one-time warning
instead of being ignored. That check is cached per device.
- It applies to every GPTQ Hessian: fused MoE experts and linear layers
alike.
- `local_hessian` builds 16x16 per-block Hessians the same way, so it
gets the same option: a batched GEMM (`bmm`) that reads bfloat16 and
writes float32. On an RTX PRO 6000 at 32K tokens it is 6.3x faster for
4,096 features (2.47 -> 0.40 ms per update) and 7.7x for 2,048, and it
no longer makes the 512 / 256 MiB float32 copy. Its error is up to
1.4e-4 of the block diagonal, versus 1.9e-5 for float32. That Hessian
only weights the error of each candidate scale in the search, and it is
never inverted.
- The field lives in a small mixin both configs share. One helper,
`bfloat16_hessian_gemm`, decides the GEMM for both and warns when it is
unavailable.
- imatrix keeps its float32 statistic: it is a per-column sum of
squares, not a GEMM, so tensor cores do not apply.
### Usage
In a recipe or config:
```yaml
algorithm:
method: gptq
hessian_input_dtype: bfloat16 # default: float32
```
### Testing
**GEMM alone on GB300.** Accumulating about 360 batches of 1 to 2,000
tokens each into one Hessian, steady state:
| Hessian width | float32 GEMM | bfloat16 in, float32 out |
|---|---|---|
| 2,560 (Qwen3.8-Flash-Next experts) | 96 ms | **11 ms (8.7x)** |
| 4,096 (GLM-5.3-Flash experts) | 244 ms | **15 ms (16x)** |
**Real models on 4x GB300 (oci-jhb), float32 vs bfloat16.** Layerwise
GPTQ on the routed experts at IQ2_XXS, 1,024 x 512 calibration tokens,
KL to BF16 over wikitext-2 (100 x 512 tokens, second half scored).
Measured on top of #2945 and #3002, with flash-linear-attention
installed, before this PR made the option opt-in:
| | GPTQ, all layers | Layerwise calibration | Whole job | KL to BF16
(paired delta, 95%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-5.3-Flash | 730 s -> **553 s (-24%)** | 16:30 -> **13:09 (-20%)**
| 40:41 -> **36:04 (-11%)** | 0.6306 -> 0.6293 (-0.0013 ± 0.0080, p
0.75) |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next | 624 s -> **581 s (-7%)** | 15:26 -> **14:33
(-6%)** | 37:27 -> **35:46 (-5%)** | 0.2480 -> 0.2494 (+0.0015 ± 0.0052,
p 0.58) |
The Qwen run with the bfloat16 GEMM rebuilt the GGML CUDA extension for
its new source tree, which took 142 s. The table subtracts that one-time
build, which is unrelated to this change. KL moves within run-to-run
noise on both models.
- GPU test `test_bf16_hessian_input_gives_the_float32_hessian`:
`input_dtype=torch.bfloat16` gives the float64 reference Hessian to
within 1e-4 (the diagonal is about 2), with the Hessian on the inputs'
GPU and on the CPU. Where the fast GEMM exists, an update allocates less
than a float32 copy of its batch. Without the bfloat16 path the update
allocates 16 MiB, the float32 copy, and the test fails.
- GPU test `test_gptq_hessian_input_dtype_reaches_the_hessian`: through
`mtq.quantize` with a GPTQ config, `hessian_input_dtype: bfloat16`
lowers the measured Hessian-forward peak by the float32 copy of the
batch. It fails if the option does not reach `update_hessian`.
- New GPU tests in
`tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_local_hessian_gpu.py`.
`test_bf16_local_hessian_input_gives_the_float32_hessian` checks the
per-block Hessian against float64, and that no float32 copy is made.
`test_local_hessian_input_dtype_reaches_the_hessian` runs `mtq.quantize`
with `local_hessian`, `hessian_input_dtype: bfloat16` and `debug: true`,
and gets a Hessian that differs from the float32 one only by rounding.
Each fails without its piece.
-
`tests/gpu/torch/quantization/{test_gptq,test_layerwise_calibrate}.py`:
36 passed on 2x RTX PRO 6000. `test_gptq.py`,
`test_local_hessian_gpu.py` and `test_nvfp4_fp8_sweep_kernel.py`: 69
passed. The first version, with the bfloat16 GEMM always on, also passed
`test_gptq.py` on 4x GB300 (torch 2.13, transformers 5.16).
-
`tests/unit/torch/quantization/{test_gptq,test_ggml_gptq,test_local_hessian,test_config_validation}.py`
and `tests/unit/recipe`: 666 passed.
- New CPU tests
`test_bf16_hessian_input_on_cpu_gives_the_float32_result_and_warns_once`,
one each in `test_gptq.py` and `test_local_hessian.py`. On CPU, where
GEMMs take no `out_dtype`, `hessian_input_dtype: bfloat16` gives the
float32 result exactly and warns once over three batches. Without the
once-per-device cache they see 3 and 9 warnings and fail.
- **torch 2.8.0+cu128**, the oldest torch this package supports, on 2x
RTX PRO 6000 with transformers 5.18. `mm`, `addmm` and `bmm` all have
`out_dtype` overloads there, so every Hessian GEMM takes the fast path.
`tests/gpu/torch/quantization/{test_gptq,test_local_hessian_gpu}.py`: 24
passed, including the four `hessian_input_dtype` tests, which skip
without the fast path.
`tests/unit/torch/quantization/{test_gptq,test_local_hessian}.py`: 19
passed, on torch 2.8 and 2.12 alike. torch 2.6 has no such overloads, so
there `"bfloat16"` falls back to float32 with the warning.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **New Features**
* GPTQ and local-Hessian calibration now support an optional `bfloat16`
input mode for Hessian calculations, while retaining float32
accumulation. This can reduce calibration memory use on supported CUDA
hardware.
* The default remains `float32`. If the hardware does not support the
required operations, calibration falls back to float32 and displays a
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### What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature (performance)
After its forward, imatrix encodes every target weight once, one weight
after another. In the default single-pass run of a model that
`device_map` spreads over several GPUs, each encode runs on its weight's
GPU. One more thing serializes them: decoding the payload reads its
shape to the host, which waits for that GPU. So all but one GPU sat
idle.
Weights that are readable as they stand are now grouped by device and
encoded by one thread per GPU, each on the GPU the weight already lives
on. Nothing moves between devices, so the codes are the same as before.
- Weights that need a materialization window are still encoded in turn
inside it: offloaded weights, FSDP2 shards and TP-sharded linears
(`requires_weight_materialization`, `is_quantized_parallel_linear`).
- The first encode runs before the workers start, so a format's CUDA
extension, which is not thread-safe to load, loads once.
- Worker threads turn off autograd themselves, since grad mode is per
thread.
- With weights on one GPU, as in a layerwise run that holds one layer at
a time, nothing changes.
This is independent of #3002, which moves GPTQ expert updates to other
GPUs. Here every weight stays where it is.
### Usage
No API change.
### Testing
- **Synthetic model, 192 bf16 4,096 x 4,096 linears over 3 RTX PRO
6000s, IQ2_XXS imatrix**, warm extension: the encode phase takes 3.2 s
on `main` and **1.2 s (2.7x)** with this PR.
- **Real models on 4x GB300 (oci-jhb)**: single-pass IQ2_XXS imatrix,
1,024 x 512 calibration tokens, the model spread over the 4 GPUs by
`device_map`. Encode phase, minus the one-time JIT build of the GGML
extension that falls in the first encode (128-144 s in each run):
| | `main` | This PR | Whole job |
|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-5.3-Flash (24,192 expert weights) | 334 s | **91 s (3.7x)** |
34:00 -> 30:05 |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (24,576 gate_up expert weights) | 111 s | **68 s
(1.6x)** | 30:23 -> 29:28 |
Qwen's smaller expert weights leave more of each encode to Python launch
work, which the threads share under the GIL. Qwen's KL is identical
token by token (0.287096). GLM's moves within its run-to-run noise
(0.7221 -> 0.7209, paired -0.0011 ± 0.0023, p 0.32), because its
forward, and with it the statistics, varies between runs.
- New 2-GPU test `test_imatrix_encodes_each_gpus_weights_at_once`
(`tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_ggml_imatrix_gpu.py`). It quantizes
four layers split over two GPUs and the same layers on one GPU. Their
weights must be bit-identical, and encodes on the two GPUs must overlap
in time. It fails when the encodes run in turn.
- `tests/unit/torch/quantization/{test_ggml_imatrix,test_ggml_gptq}.py`
and `plugins/test_fused_experts.py`: 152 passed.
- CI's GPU runner has one GPU, so it skips the new test; I ran it on 2
local GPUs. Not run: offloaded or FSDP2 imatrix with this change, whose
weights take the unchanged sequential path.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Performance**
* GGML imatrix calibration can encode weights across multiple GPUs
concurrently, which may reduce calibration time on multi-GPU setups.
* Calibration continues to process weights sequentially when fewer than
two GPUs are available.
* Weights that require special access during calibration are still
processed within that access window.
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#3003)
### What does this PR do?
Type of change: documentation
Transformers runs the linear-attention layers of Qwen3-Next, Qwen3.5,
Qwen3.8, GLM-5.x Flash, Kimi Linear and OLMo Hybrid through readable
PyTorch reference kernels unless the
[flash-linear-attention](https://github.com/fla-org/flash-linear-attention)
kernels are importable. The reference path is slow and needs far more
memory per sample, which caps the layerwise calibration batch. This adds
a note to the `hf_ptq` README and one line to the ptq skill on
installing the kernels: `pip install fla-core`.
- **`fla-core` alone is enough.** The kernels Transformers looks for
(`fla.ops.kda.chunk_kda`,
`fla.ops.gated_delta_rule.chunk_gated_delta_rule`) live in `fla-core`,
which depends only on `einops`. The `flash-linear-attention` package
holds layers and models Transformers does not use, and pins
`transformers>=5.6.2,<6`.
- **GPU only.** Once the kernels are importable, Transformers uses them
for every device, and a CPU forward of these models then fails
(`RuntimeError: 0 active drivers`). That is also why the package is
documented rather than added to `examples/hf_ptq/requirements.txt`,
which the example CI installs.
### Usage
```bash
pip install fla-core
```
### Testing
Layerwise GPTQ on the routed experts at IQ2_XXS on 4x GB300 (oci-jhb),
1,024 x 512 calibration tokens, with #2945 and #3002,
`flash-linear-attention` and `fla-core` 0.6.0:
| | Without the kernels | With them |
|---|---|---|
| GLM-5.3-Flash: batch the probe picks | 16 | 64 (linear-attention
layers fit 181-295 samples instead of 16) |
| GLM-5.3-Flash: layerwise calibration | 35:41 | **16:30** (31:15 at
batch 16) |
| Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: layerwise calibration (batch 64) | 18:23 |
**15:26** |
- With `flash-linear-attention` installed but not `fla-core`, nothing
changed: Transformers could not import `fla.ops.kda.chunk_kda` and kept
the reference path. With `fla-core` alone, it binds
`fla.ops.kda.chunk.chunk_kda` for GLM-5.x and
`fla.ops.gated_delta_rule.chunk.chunk_gated_delta_rule` for Qwen, and a
tiny Qwen3-Next runs on GPU through them; on CPU it fails as described
above.
- The kernels compute slightly differently from the reference: the
unquantized GLM-5.3-Flash under them is 0.018 KL from the reference
logits, which were computed without them. KL to that reference after
GPTQ: Qwen 0.2493 -> 0.2480 (not significant); GLM 0.6189 -> 0.6230 at
batch 16 (+0.0041 +- 0.0045, p 0.36) and 0.6306 at batch 64 (+0.0118 +-
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Documentation**
* Added guidance to install `fla-core>=0.5.2` before GPU calibration for
supported models with linear-attention layers, where optimized kernels
can reduce calibration time.
* Clarified that these kernels also run on CPU tensors but can cause CPU
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In a layerwise run of a model sharded over several GPUs, only the GPU
holding the current layer worked on its expert updates while the others
sat idle. The updates of a fused-MoE layer's experts are independent, so
helpers whose update reads only the weight, its Hessian and the format's
codec (the GGML formats) now run in one worker thread per GPU this process
uses that has room for an update, each writing its result back to its
weight. The first update runs in the caller's thread so lazy setup, such as
loading a format's CUDA extension, happens once before the workers start.
The results are bit-identical to running them in turn on one GPU.
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Grad mode is per thread, so the worker threads did not inherit the
no_grad that gptq() runs under, unlike the imatrix encode workers.
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Changes requested: the threaded path breaks inference-tensor updates and introduces unsafe memory accounting and offloaded-weight retention.
Needs action:
Preserve the caller’s inference mode in calib_utils.update_expert_weights; add an inference-tensor case to the two-GPU test. See inline comment.
Include working-weight size in the GPU room check in calib_utils.py, and cover wide GGML gate/up projections with non-GGML down projections. See inline comment.
Release gptq’s work references before closing each materialization window in model_calib.py; cover consecutive offloaded expert modules. See inline comment.
Extend test_expert_updates_on_another_gpu_match_one_gpu to multiple GGML column groups so it validates Hessian-dependent updates, not only encoding and payload placement.
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[P2] Preserve inference mode as well as grad mode. If the model is constructed or materialized under torch.inference_mode(), its weights are inference tensors. Workers do not inherit that mode, and no_grad() does not permit their mutation: GPTQHelper.update_weights() reaches weight.data.copy_(...) and raises Inplace update to inference tensor outside InferenceMode is not allowed. The sequential path succeeds inside the caller’s inference context, so merely having a second qualifying GPU now breaks that input. Capture torch.is_inference_mode_enabled() and enter the corresponding context in each worker, as _encode_on_each_gpu() already does. Parametrize the GPU test with model construction and calibration inside inference mode.
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Changed in 88de90b. The workers now run under the caller's inference mode, as _encode_on_each_gpu does. test_expert_updates_on_another_gpu_match_one_gpu now also builds and calibrates the model under torch.inference_mode().
The failure described doesn't reproduce, though. Writing into an inference tensor with weight.data.copy_() is allowed outside inference mode; only weight.copy_() raises. With the worker reverted to no_grad alone, the new inference-mode case still passes on 2x RTX PRO 6000. So this change is for parity: the threaded path now creates its tensors, such as the pinned codes, in the same mode as the sequential path. The new case covers inference mode, but it doesn't fail without the change.
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[P2] The Hessian-only bound does not necessarily include even the working weight. For a supported mixed configuration with GGML gate/up and NVFP4 (or disabled) down, only gate/up helpers are movable. With hidden width H and intermediate width 4H, each gate/up weight has shape (8H, H): its float32 copy alone consumes eight Hessian-sized buffers. A GPU with just over room passes this check but cannot hold that copy plus the transferred Hessian, before inversion or codec scratch. Previously this update stayed on the adequately provisioned weight GPU; it can now OOM on another GPU automatically. Could the bound use the actual weight.numel() alongside Hessian/inverse/codec scratch, rather than assuming weight size is bounded by the movable Hessians? Add a constrained-memory regression for this mixed, wide-projection case.
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Fixed in 88de90b. The room is now computed per expert as 2**26 + 4 * (8 * hessian.numel() + 2 * weight.numel()), and the check uses the largest. That counts the float32 weight copy and its dtype-conversion temporary, plus the codec's tables and scratch.
I measured one IQ2_XXS update moved to a second RTX PRO 6000 (peak allocated on the worker GPU):
Expert weight (out x in)
Worker peak
Old room
New room
1536 x 2048
108 MiB
128
216
2048 x 768
23 MiB
18
94
4096 x 1536
78 MiB
72
184
6144 x 3072
288 MiB
288
496
16384 x 2048 (this comment's case)
250 MiB
128
448
28672 x 4096
832 MiB
512
1472
Every projection wider than its input exceeded the old bound. That includes the down projections of this PR's own benchmark shapes, which would overflow whenever only down is movable. A GPU's first update also allocates about 32 MiB of codec tables; the 64 MiB constant covers them.
I didn't commit a constrained-memory regression test. It would have to either fake the available memory between the two bounds, which only restates the formula, or fill a GPU to an exact level, which would be flaky. The measurements above are the evidence instead.
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[P2] Drop the work-list tensor references before leaving this materialization window. work contains slices of both full fused projections and survives until the next list assignment. Accelerate’s weight_access_and_writeback_context() writes back and replaces the parameters with meta tensors, but these slices keep the old GPU storage alive. The next module’s window opens before work is replaced, so non-layerwise GPTQ on consecutive offloaded expert modules holds the previous module’s gate/up and down weights while onloading the next. The old loop retained only its final projection slice; the list adds the entire gate/up storage to that overlap. Keep the updated count separately and clear/delete work inside the window after the updates. This also follows AGENTS.md’s rule not to retain onloaded weights past their layer; add an offload memory-lifetime regression.
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Fixed in 88de90b. gptq() counts the updates, then deletes work inside the window. That also releases the last down_proj slice the old loop variable kept alive.
The new CPU test test_gptq_drops_each_fused_experts_weights_before_the_next_window keeps weakrefs to every updated expert slice and checks they are dead when the next module's window opens. It fails without the del.
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[P2] Exercise more than one GGML column group here. Both toy projection input widths are 256, exactly IQ2_XXS’s group size. gptq_group_update() therefore encodes one group and has no later columns into which to propagate its Hessian-dependent error; the resulting weights and codes are just the plain encoding. This is useful placement coverage, but it would still pass if a worker used the wrong Hessian. Use at least 512 input columns per projection (with nontrivial calibrated inputs), keeping the exact weight/payload comparisons, so the cross-device Hessian and GPTQ compensation actually affect the asserted output.
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Fixed in 88de90b. ToyMoE now takes its widths, and the test uses 512 for both, so each expert input spans two IQ2_XXS groups.
Checked on 2x RTX PRO 6000: with a worker that uses only the Hessian's diagonal, both test cases now fail. On CPU at width 256, GPTQ's result equals the plain encoding, and a wrong Hessian leaves the weights unchanged.
- The worker threads take the caller's inference mode as well as grad
mode, as the imatrix encode workers do, so the threaded path creates its
tensors in the same mode as the sequential one.
- The room check counts each expert's float32 weight copy and a conversion
temporary, and the codec's tables and scratch, not only its Hessian. A
projection wider than its input, such as a gate/up projection whose down
projection stays on its own GPU, needed more than the eight Hessians the
check allowed.
- gptq() drops its expert weight slices before leaving each module's
weight window. Under offload they kept that module's onloaded weights on
the GPU while the next module's were onloaded.
- The two-GPU test feeds each expert 512 columns, two GGML groups, so its
Hessian shapes the weights and codes it compares, and also runs under
inference mode.
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Changes requested: the room check now covers weights, but still underestimates supported PyTorch GGML fallback encoders.
Needs action:
💬 Author added weight copies and CUDA measurements — cover fallback codec scratch in calib_utils.py, or keep fallback updates sequential; add a peak-allocation regression. See inline.
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✔️ Resolved since the last review: worker inference-mode parity, expert-slice lifetime, and Hessian-dependent multi-group coverage.
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[P2] The 64 MiB codec allowance is not sufficient for the supported torch encoder fallback. For a (1024, 512) IQ1_S gate/up expert, this check requires only 76 MiB. If get_cuda_ext_ggml() returns None, iq1_s._search_shifted_grid() processes 1024 blocks and each [1024, 32, 128] float32 tile is 16 MiB. While computing the next error, dot, shifted_dot, the previous error, the multiplication result and subtraction result can coexist: 80 MiB before the working weight, Hessian/inverse and best-candidate buffers. A second GPU with ~80 MiB available therefore qualifies but cannot run this update, whereas the previous sequential update could succeed on the adequately provisioned weight GPU. The new measurements cover the CUDA encoder, not this fallback (which test_cuda_falls_back_to_pytorch_encoder explicitly supports). Could qualification account for the actual codec path/chunk size, or leave fallback updates sequential? A GPU test comparing measured peak allocation against the admission bound can catch this without filling a GPU to an exact level.
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Fixed in df3f78f by keeping fallback updates on their own GPU. GGMLGPTQHelper.updates_on_any_device() (it replaces UPDATES_ON_ANY_DEVICE) is true only when the GGML CUDA extension is loaded. With the extension, every format's encoder returns before block_chunk_size is used. The fallback's scratch grows with it, so no fixed allowance would bound it.
Measured on 2x RTX PRO 6000 (peak allocated on the worker GPU for one update, against the room check):
Format, expert weight
CUDA encoder
PyTorch fallback
Room
IQ1_S 1024 x 512
9 MiB
96 MiB
76 MiB
IQ1_M 2048 x 768
23 MiB
107 MiB
94 MiB
IQ2_XXS 1536 x 2048
108 MiB
108 MiB
216 MiB
All six GGML formats fit with the CUDA encoder; IQ1_S and IQ1_M go over with the fallback.
The new GPU test test_an_update_that_may_move_fits_its_room measures the worker's peak allocation and compares it with _update_room for every update a helper lets move. It covers IQ2_XXS 16384 x 2048 and IQ1_S 1024 x 512 with the CUDA encoder, and IQ1_S with the fallback. It fails when fallback updates may move (96 vs 76 MiB), and with the earlier Hessian-only bound (282 vs 128 MiB).
The room an expert update is checked for was measured with the GGML CUDA
encoders. Without the extension, the PyTorch fallback's scratch grows with
block_chunk_size and can exceed it (IQ1_S at 1024 x 512 peaks at 96 MiB
against a 76 MiB check), so GGML updates move to another GPU only when the
extension is loaded. UPDATES_ON_ANY_DEVICE becomes updates_on_any_device(),
since the answer now depends on the run. A GPU test checks that an update a
helper lets move peaks within the room it is admitted with.
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When get_cuda_ext_ggml() returns None, cuda_extension=True uses the PyTorch fallback. helper.updates_on_any_device() then returns false, so the memory-bound assertion is skipped. Require the extension for positive cases, or skip those cases when it is unavailable.
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Expert updates move to another GPU only with the GGML CUDA encoders. Without
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and the two-GPU test failed on an unclear device assertion. Both now load
the extension first, failing with its build error, as the format tests do.
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The CodeRabbit nitpick on tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_gptq.py lines 165-166 (require the CUDA extension in the positive cases) is addressed in 958a02d. The CUDA-encoder cases of test_an_update_that_may_move_fits_its_room, and test_expert_updates_on_another_gpu_match_one_gpu, now call get_cuda_ext_ggml(raise_if_failed=True) first. Without the extension they fail with its build error rather than skipping the memory check. Checked on 2x RTX PRO 6000 with the extension (5 passed) and with a build forced to fail (the 4 extension cases fail at that call, and the fallback case passes).
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Changes requested: the earlier fixes are present, but CUDA-encoder updates can still exceed the GPU admission bound.
Needs action:
Fix _update_room to include GPTQ block/group temporaries, or reduce those allocations; extend the peak-allocation test with a wide projection whose GPTQ block spans its input. See inline comment.
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✔️ 6 previous concerns addressed, including fallback-encoder exclusion and expert-slice lifetime; inference-mode parity, multi-group coverage, weight-copy accounting, and extension guards are also present.
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[P2] The CUDA-only restriction fixes the fallback scratch issue, but this bound still omits GPTQ's block/group buffers. For a supported (65536, 256) IQ2_XXS expert with block_size=256, this returns 194 MiB. In ggml/gptq.py:gptq_group_update, the float32 working weight, errs, decoded qdq, and triangular-solve result err are simultaneously live and each occupies 64 MiB: at least 256 MiB before Hessian/inverse, payloads, or codec scratch. Thus another process-owned GPU with 200 MiB available qualifies and can OOM, whereas the sequential update could succeed on the adequately provisioned weight GPU. This is reachable with only gate/up configured for GGML and down disabled, so another projection does not necessarily raise the maximum room. Could admission account for block_size and the format's group-sized buffers, or could gptq_group_update bound these temporaries first? Extend test_an_update_that_may_move_fits_its_room with this CUDA-encoder shape; no exact GPU-filling fixture is needed.
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Fixed in 3d90e69. _update_room now takes block_size and adds the block's errors plus up to four temporaries of a group no wider than the block: the decoded group, the residual, and the solve result and its copy. That is 2**26 + 4 * (8 * in^2 + out * (2 * in + 5 * min(block_size, in))).
Measured on 2x RTX PRO 6000 (peak allocated on the worker GPU, CUDA encoder):
Format, expert weight, block_size
Peak
Old room
New room
IQ2_XXS 65536 x 256, 256
325 MiB
194
514
IQ1_S 65536 x 256, 256
324 MiB
194
514
IQ2_S 65536 x 256, 256
326 MiB
194
514
IQ2_XXS 16384 x 2048, 2048
361 MiB
448
1088
IQ2_XXS 28672 x 4096, 1024
879 MiB
1472
2032
Across 17 format, shape and block-size combinations (IQ1_S, IQ1_M, IQ2_XXS, IQ2_XS, IQ2_S, Q8_0; block sizes 256 to 2048), the peak is 29-63% of the new room.
test_an_update_that_may_move_fits_its_room now includes IQ2_XXS 65536 x 256 at block size 256. It fails without the block term (325 vs 194 MiB). The PR's GPU test files pass (117) on 2x RTX PRO 6000.
The room an expert update is admitted with counted the weight, its Hessian
and the codec, but not the update's block of errors and the group-sized
temporaries around each triangular solve. For an input no wider than a
GPTQ block, each is as large as the weight: a 65536 x 256 IQ2_XXS expert
peaked at 325 MiB against a 194 MiB check. The room now adds up to five
blocks of columns, so it takes block_size, and the GPU test covers that
shape.
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Suggestion (non-blocking): this repeats the scaffolding of _encode_on_each_gpu in model_calib.py (imatrix): the first item runs in the caller's thread for lazy setup, inference mode is propagated to the workers, then one thread per GPU and a sync. Only the scheduling differs (shared queue here, per-GPU lists there). Could a small shared helper, say a queue-based run_on_gpus(items, fn, gpus), serve both, so the thread rules stay in one place?
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Done in e3123f9. run_on_each_gpu(gpus, next_item, run) in calib_utils.py now holds the thread rules: the first item runs in the caller's thread for lazy setup, then one thread per GPU under the caller's grad and inference mode, then a sync. Both callers use it. _encode_on_each_gpu gives each GPU its own list, and update_expert_weights gives all GPUs one shared queue. next_item(device) covers both kinds of scheduling, so the helper takes no queue of its own. The diff is about neutral (+45/-44).
Both callers' 2-GPU tests pass on 2x RTX PRO 6000, with and without inference mode: test_imatrix_encodes_each_gpus_weights_at_once (including its check that the two GPUs' encodes overlap) and test_expert_updates_on_another_gpu_match_one_gpu. So do the PR's GPU test files (117) and the GPTQ/imatrix/fused-experts unit tests (250).
The imatrix encoder and the GPTQ expert updates each ran their own copy of
the same scaffolding: the first item in the caller's thread for lazy setup,
one thread per GPU under the caller's grad and inference mode, and a sync.
The copies had already drifted once, when the GPTQ workers lacked the
inference mode. run_on_each_gpu now holds those rules; the callers only say
where items come from, a list per GPU or a queue all GPUs share.
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LGTM: the prior concerns are resolved; human sign-off remains for the backward-compatible test-fixture refactor.
Needs action:
Sign off on the dimension-parameterized ToyMoE fixtures in tests/_test_utils/torch/quantization/models.py; existing defaults and coverage are preserved.
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✔️ 8 previous concerns addressed, including block/group memory accounting and fallback-encoder exclusion. Weight-copy accounting, expert-slice lifetime, inference-mode parity, multi-group coverage, extension guards, and shared-runner reuse are present.
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Type of change: new feature (performance)
In a layerwise GPTQ run of a model that
device_mapspreads over several GPUs, only the GPU holding the current layer did that layer's work. The fused-MoE expert updates, a large share of each MoE layer's time, ran one after another on that GPU while the others sat idle.The updates of one layer's experts are independent. For helpers whose update reads only the weight, its Hessian and the format's codec, the expert updates now run in one worker thread per GPU this process already uses that has room for an update. Each worker copies an expert's weight and Hessian to its GPU, runs the update there and writes the result back into the expert's weight. That covers the GGML formats when their CUDA encoders are loaded (
GGMLGPTQHelper.updates_on_any_device()); helpers that read quantizer state from the weight's device, such as NVFP4's, and GGML updates on the PyTorch fallback encoder, whose scratch grows withblock_chunk_size, keep running in turn.get_available_gpu_memory, which also counts PyTorch's reusable cached blocks. With fewer than two qualifying GPUs, nothing changes.gptq()drops its expert weight slices before leaving each module's weight window, so under offload they don't keep that module's onloaded weights on the GPU while the next module's are onloaded.The results are bit-identical to the sequential updates.
hessian_input_dtype(#3019) applies while the Hessians accumulate, before any update runs, so it is unaffected. #3043 runs imatrix encodes one thread per GPU, each weight on its own GPU; this PR moves GPTQ expert updates to other GPUs. Both now share one runner,run_on_each_gpu, which runs the first item in the caller's thread and gives each worker the caller's grad and inference mode.Usage
No API change.
Testing
Real models on 4x GB300 (oci-jhb). Layerwise GPTQ on the routed experts at IQ2_XXS, 1,024 x 512 calibration tokens, KL to BF16 over wikitext-2 (100 x 512 tokens, second half scored). Measured on top of #2945, which sets the batch size and Hessian placement these runs used:
Qwen's KL is identical token by token. GLM's moves within run-to-run noise: its Hessian placement varies between runs with free memory (for example 222 vs 217 experts' Hessians on one GPU), which changes how they are summed.
Update step alone, 2x RTX PRO 6000. One fused-MoE layer of 32 experts, IQ2_XXS, 64 expert updates:
test_expert_updates_on_another_gpu_match_one_gpu(2 GPUs, with and without inference mode): expert updates spread over two GPUs give bit-identical weights and codes to running them in turn on one, with the codes pinned on the weight's GPU. Each expert input spans two GGML groups, so the Hessian shapes what is compared. It fails when the GGML helper's updates stay on their own GPU, when the codes are left on the worker's GPU, and when a worker uses only the Hessian's diagonal.test_gptq_drops_each_fused_experts_weights_before_the_next_window: no updated expert weight slice outlives its module's weight window. It fails without the fix.test_an_update_that_may_move_fits_its_room: an update a helper lets move peaks on the worker GPU within its room check (IQ2_XXS 16384x2048 and 65536x256, and IQ1_S 1024x512, on the CUDA encoder; IQ1_S on the PyTorch fallback). It fails when fallback updates may move (IQ1_S 1024x512 peaks at 96 MiB against 76 MiB), with a Hessian-only bound, and without the block term (IQ2_XXS 65536x256 peaks at 325 MiB against 194 MiB).hessian_input_dtype: bfloat16. Every expert Hessian accumulation took the bfloat16 GEMM, and the two-GPU updates matched one GPU bit for bit.tests/gpu/torch/quantization/{test_gptq,test_layerwise_calibrate,test_local_hessian_gpu,test_ggml_imatrix_gpu,test_iq_formats_cuda}.py117 passed on 2x RTX PRO 6000 (CI's GPU runner has one GPU and skips the 2-GPU tests).tests/unit/torch/quantization/{test_gptq,test_ggml_gptq,test_ggml_imatrix,test_local_hessian,test_layerwise_calibrate}.pyandplugins/test_fused_experts.py250 passed on CPU (transformers 5.18).test_gptq.pytests, re-run locally):tests/gpu/torch/quantizationon 2x RTX PRO 6000 (torch 2.12, transformers 5.18): 1050 passed, 35 skipped, 8 failed. 4test_quant_conv_gpuwan cases fail on the localdiffusers, which lacksautoencoder_kl_wan. 4test_q8_0_cudacases fail the same way at the base (55898ee) on these GPUs.tests/gpu/torch/quantizationon 4x H200 NVL (computelab, TRT-LLM 1.4.0rc3 image: torch 2.14, transformers 5.5.4), split over two GPU pairs: 989 passed, 41 skipped, 1 failed.test_fsdp2_gradient_qwen_moe_autoquantfails the same way at the base in this image (FSDP2set_model_state_dictgets an empty state dict). Not collected:test_deepspeed(no deepspeed) and two ONNX-export modules. All oftest_gptq.py, including the 2-GPU tests, passed.tests/unit/torch/quantizationon CPU: 1595 passed, 1 skipped. Not collected: three diffusers and ONNX-export modules, from stale local packages.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
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