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[OMNIML-6076] [2/3] Prepare a model's config for expert parallelism from its spec - #3135
Slice [2/3] of #2746's split (2026-10-30), so the model-spec work is reviewed and merged in pieces under the 500-line budget. Merge order: #2741 [1/3] (#3131, merged) → #2746 [1/3] (#3134) → this PR → #2746 [3/3] (#2746).
Base:#2746 [1/3] (#3134): the spec sections this PR reads. It also needs #2741 [1/3]'s require_transformers, on main since #3131 merged. The diff below is this PR's alone.
modelopt.torch.utils.moe gains the one applier of the model specs' expert-parallel section (EPSpec, #2746 [1/3]), and the checks around it.
apply_distributed_support(model_type, hf_config, *, ckpt_path=None, trust_remote_code=False) prepares a config for the expert-parallel load from the model's spec, in this order:
It refuses a model its spec marks unsupported. The refusal names a single process first, and FSDP2 (--use_fsdp2 or MODELOPT_FSDP_SIZE=world) only where the FSDP2 load supports the checkpoint: an unquantized causal LM with no MTP head it cannot build. GPT-OSS ships MXFP4, which the FSDP2 load refuses, Llama-4's checkpoint is multimodal, and --use_fsdp2 refuses Nemotron-H's MTP weights.
It checks the transformers floor: the expert-parallel load's own 5.7 (_EP_MIN_TRANSFORMERS), or the spec's later release. The load's floor holds for a model with no spec too. Its refusal offers the same ways around expert parallelism.
It attaches the spec's plan to whichever config carries the MoE.
It runs the spec's prepare, after the plan is attached.
An existing plan always wins wherever the load reads it (_ep_config): on the root, or on a nested config other than the one the spec would take. Overwriting it would substitute our idea of the layout for the model's.
A plan goes where the load reads it.
The applier refuses a spec whose plan_config_attr is neither text_config nor llm_config, the two nested configs the expert-parallel load reads a plan and the expert count from (_SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS, which _ep_config and _num_experts_from_config now read too). Attaching it elsewhere would be read as no plan at all and plan the MoE as dense.
plan_config_attr may list several spellings, the first one the config has taking the plan. A config with none of them is refused, naming them all.
The spellings are checked for every spec, whether the spec or its prepare supplies the plan, before anything is attached or prepared.
Read-only helpers:
check_distributed_support is the floor and refusal check alone, for a config already prepared with its plan.
_spec_refuses_ep is its predicate.
_spec_ep_plan is the plan a spec would supply: its own, or the one it states prepare attaches, read without running prepare. A model below its spec's transformers floor keeps its plan; a spec refusing expert parallelism supplies none.
Nothing calls these yet. #2746 [3/3] (#2746) has the expert-parallel decision and load call them.
Usage
frommodelopt.torch.utils.moeimportapply_distributed_supporthf_config=apply_distributed_support(hf_config.model_type, hf_config, ckpt_path=path)
# raises NotImplementedError for gpt_oss / llama4 / llama4_text, before any weight loads
Testing
tests/unit/torch/models/test_ep_specs.py gains the applier's tests:
the applier's version floor, the load's floor for a model with no spec, plan attachment, and prepare ordering;
existing-plan precedence wherever the load reads the plan: the root, or a nested config beside the one the spec would take;
a spec attaching its plan where the load reads none is refused with the config untouched, whether the spec or its prepare supplies the plan;
the Omni plan lands under either name (llm_config or text_config), and on text_config for a config with both;
GPT-OSS, Llama-4 and Llama-4-text are refused with their configs untouched, naming a single process first, and a refusal comes before the rest of the section;
the plan a spec would supply, read without running prepare.
Mutation-checked: each of these fails a test:
attaching a plan where the load reads none;
reading the Omni plan off llm_config alone, or trying llm_config before text_config;
checking a plan spelling only when the spec supplies the plan itself;
checking for an existing plan on the spec's target rather than where the load reads it;
hiding the plan of a spec below its transformers floor;
skipping the load's floor for a model with no spec;
2026-10-30, at this head: pre-commit, mypy included, passes against main. CPU tests (tests/unit/torch/models and tests/unit/torch/utils, torch 2.14):
transformers
Passed
Skipped
Failed
5.18
769
0
0
5.5.4
740
29
0
Review round, 2026-10-30 (5648c93): the well-formedness test checks each plan entry's style against the load's styles and that the plan names a routed-experts container, for prepared_ep_plan too; a new test checks every spec puts its plan on a config the load reads (a bad style or an unread spelling fails them); check_distributed_support drops a redundant local import. Pre-commit passes against main; tests/unit/torch/{models,utils} pass on transformers 5.18 (777) and 5.5.4 (748, 29 skipped).
Without transformers, the registry and plan checks run again; only the tests that read the installed release skip. test_ep_specs.py runs 30 tests and skips 14 with transformers not importable, where it skipped the whole module before.
The FSDP2 way around expert parallelism also names an MTP head the load cannot build.
Pre-commit passes against main. tests/unit/torch/models and test_moe_a2a.py pass on transformers 5.18 (273) and 5.5.4 (255, 18 skipped).
CodeRabbit nitpick, 2026-10-31 (41b8a6a): the test of the spec's prepare hook now has it return a replacement config that carries the plan over, and checks that the returned config is that one and holds the plan. Pre-commit passes against main. tests/unit/torch/models and test_moe_a2a.py pass on transformers 5.18 (314) and 5.5.4 (283, 20 skipped).
CodeRabbit outside-diff item, 2026-10-31 (7c0be5b): apply_distributed_support finds a plan the config already carries before requiring the nested config the spec names. A config with a plan of its own, at its root included, keeps it; with no plan anywhere, a config without the nested config is still refused. test_a_plan_at_the_root_needs_no_nested_config fails without the change. Pre-commit passes against main. tests/unit/torch/models and test_moe_a2a.py pass on transformers 5.18 (315) and 5.5.4 (283, 21 skipped).
Rebased on 2026-10-31 (2b3dfc6) onto main e352cac, without conflicts; its own diff is unchanged. Pre-commit passes against main. tests/unit/torch/models, test_moe_a2a.py and test_model_load_utils.py pass on transformers 5.18 (382) and 5.5.4 (339, 32 skipped).
Part of expert-parallel PTQ for Hugging Face MoE models. Split out of #2746 (OMNIML-6076), whose review history stays on #2746.
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Added model-aware expert-parallel loading support for compatible models, including models with nested configurations.
Loading checks model support and Transformers version compatibility, and explains when expert-parallel loading is unavailable, including alternative loading options.
Existing model-provided expert-parallel plans are preserved; supported models can use their declared plans.
Model-specific preparation is applied when available, helping ensure the appropriate expert-parallel configuration is used.
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The change adds expert-parallel support checks and helpers to apply or select plans from model specs. The helpers handle Transformers version requirements, nested config locations, existing plans, unsupported models, and optional preparation hooks.
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Discover specs and check support modelopt/torch/utils/moe.py, tests/unit/torch/models/test_ep_specs.py
The utilities use shared nested-config attributes, retrieve model specs lazily, and check unsupported status and Transformers version requirements. Tests validate plan declarations and support requirements.
Validate and apply config plans modelopt/torch/utils/moe.py, tests/unit/torch/models/test_ep_specs.py
The applier preserves existing plans, validates plan locations, attaches a spec plan when appropriate, and then runs an optional prepare hook. Tests cover plan precedence, config validation, and hook ordering.
The plan selector returns an empty plan for absent or refusing specs. Otherwise, it returns a copy of the declared plan or falls back to the prepared plan. Tests confirm selection does not run preparation.
sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant apply_distributed_support
participant check_distributed_support
participant hf_config
participant prepare_hook
Caller->>apply_distributed_support: model_type and hf_config
apply_distributed_support->>check_distributed_support: validate support
apply_distributed_support->>hf_config: preserve or attach plan
apply_distributed_support->>prepare_hook: pass config and keyword arguments
prepare_hook-->>apply_distributed_support: prepared config
apply_distributed_support-->>Caller: return config
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A valid existing EP plan can cause model loading to fail when a nested config is absent; fix this precedence edge case before relying on the helper.
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[SUGGESTION]parse is already imported at module top (modelopt/torch/utils/moe.py:32, used by require_transformers), so this local import is redundant — it rebinds the same name with no effect. CONTRIBUTING's Keep imports at the top of the file allows a function-level import only for a named reason (circular import, optional dependency, heavy import), none of which applies to packaging, which is already a hard import here.
Suggested change
from packaging.version import parse
For contrast, the two function-level imports that are justified — from modelopt.torch.models import get_spec in _ep_spec and from transformers... in _routed_expert_modules — the latter carries its reason as a comment; _ep_spec's does not. Worth a one-liner there too (importing modelopt.torch.models pulls in every per-model subpackage for its registration side effect, which this module shouldn't do at import time).
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Taken in 5648c93. check_distributed_support no longer imports parse locally; it uses the module-level import. _ep_spec's local import now says why it is local: importing modelopt.torch.models registers every model spec, which importing this module should not do.
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[SUGGESTION] The plan_config_attr ⊆ _SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS invariant is enforced only at runtime inside apply_distributed_support, and register() does no validation of it (modelopt/torch/models/specs.py:320-330 only checks for duplicate model types). So a new spec that writes plan_config_attr="language_config" or misspells "text_configs" passes every test in this file and only blows up when someone actually loads that model multi-rank with EP — which CI never does.
The applier's own test (test_a_plan_attached_where_the_load_does_not_read_one_is_an_error) covers the mechanism via a synthetic _probe spec, but not the registered data. A one-line data assertion alongside the other EP_MODEL_TYPES spec tests would close that gap cheaply:
@pytest.mark.parametrize("model_type", EP_MODEL_TYPES)deftest_a_plan_goes_where_the_load_reads_one(model_type):
"""A spelling the load does not read is read as no plan at all, and the MoE planned dense."""attrs=get_spec(model_type).ep_spec.plan_config_attror ()
attrs= (attrs,) ifisinstance(attrs, str) elseattrsassertnotset(attrs) -set(moe._SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS), f"{model_type}: {attrs}"
This is also the kind of check that stays correct if _SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS ever grows a third spelling, since both sides read the same tuple.
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Taken in 5648c93. test_a_plan_goes_where_the_load_reads_one checks every registered spec's plan_config_attr against _SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS, so a spelling the load does not read fails CI instead of a multi-rank load. With language_config on the Omni spec, the test fails.
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Claude review passed — no blocking issues found. LGTM
Scope: full review (trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). 2 changed files, both reviewed in full: modelopt/torch/utils/moe.py (+140/-6) and tests/unit/torch/models/test_ep_specs.py (+235/-2). Read the base-branch EPSpec definition (modelopt/torch/models/specs.py:163-231), get_spec, the five registered EP sections (deepseek_v3, qwen3_moe, gpt_oss, llama4/llama4_text, nemotron_h_omni), and the one existing consumer of the refactored helpers (modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/model_load_utils.py:1044-1047).
Findings
CRITICAL: 0
IMPORTANT: 0
SUGGESTION: 2 — a redundant function-level from packaging.version import parse (already imported at moe.py:32), and a missing data-level assertion that every registered spec's plan_config_attr is a spelling the load actually reads.
What I verified
The _SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS extraction is behavior-preserving._ep_config and _num_experts_from_config both read text_config then llm_config, same order as before, so the existing load_and_prepare_ep call sites are unaffected. The applier's refusal of any other spelling closes a silent-failure mode — a plan on the wrong config matches no parameter and the MoE is planned dense — which is the right trade.
Validate-before-mutate holds on every refusal path.check_distributed_support runs first, then the plan_config_attr spelling check, then target resolution, and only then the attach and prepare. Each of the three refusals (unsupported, version floor, unreadable/absent target) leaves the config untouched, and the tests assert vars(config) == {} rather than just the raise.
_spec_refuses_ep's except RuntimeError does catch the unsupported refusal — NotImplementedError subclasses RuntimeError. The inline comment saying so is worth keeping; it reads as a bug otherwise.
Existing-plan precedence is checked where the load reads a plan, not where the spec would write one.getattr(_ep_config(hf_config), "base_model_ep_plan", None) covers the root and either nested config, so a stock plan on llm_config is not shadowed by ours on text_config. This is the subtle case and it is both implemented and tested (on-another-nested-config). An explicitly-empty {} plan is treated as absent, consistently with _ep_config's own truthiness test.
The floor arithmetic.max(_EP_MIN_TRANSFORMERS, stated or _EP_MIN_TRANSFORMERS, key=parse) compares parsed versions, not strings, so "5.18" correctly beats "5.7" — the string comparison would have inverted it. A model with no spec still gets the load's floor, via get_spec returning None → getattr(None, "ep_spec", None) → None.
nemotron_h_omni has no requires_transformers but min_transformers_version="5.18", so the floor stays at 5.7 for it. That is deliberate per the spec's comment (pre-5.18 the checkpoint loads through its own code, which names the config llm_config), and the dual-spelling plan_config_attr plus the ("llm_config",)/("text_config",)/both parametrization cover it.
_EP_MIN_TRANSFORMERS = "5.7" is a new module constant that both the applier and the test read, so the skip marker and the enforced floor cannot drift.
The attached plan is copied (dict(ep.base_model_ep_plan)), so two models prepared in one process cannot share a mutable dict and the registered spec cannot be mutated through a config — tested directly.
The user-facing error text points at flags that exist: --use_fsdp2 in examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py and MODELOPT_FSDP_SIZE in modelopt/torch/utils/env.py.
prepare ordering and config hand-back are tested, including that a returned replacement config propagates and that prepare sees the plan already attached. The EPSpec.prepare docstring already carries the obligation to forward base_model_ep_plan when it returns a different config, so the one gap there is documented rather than silent.
Backward compatibility: purely additive public surface, no modelopt_state schema touched, no mode registration, no export path, no changed defaults. _spec_refuses_ep and _spec_ep_plan have no caller yet, which the description states and [3/3] supplies — acceptable for a declared split, not dead code.
Risk
Low. Nothing in the repository calls the new functions yet, the two refactored helpers keep their exact read order, and every refusal path is covered by a test with a stated mutation that breaks it. The one genuine residual risk is spec-data drift rather than logic: a future plan_config_attr typo is caught only when that model is loaded expert-parallel, which is what the test suggestion above addresses.
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Comment: the module-wide Transformers skip removes existing dependency-free spec coverage, and the FSDP2 fallback advice misses a known refusal.
Needs action:
Restore Transformers-free registry and plan checks in tests/unit/torch/models/test_ep_specs.py; limit dependency skips to tests that actually need Transformers (inline).
Correct check_distributed_support's FSDP2 advice to account for unsupported unquantized causal-LM checkpoints, including Nemotron-H MTP (inline).
Update the PR description's check order: unsupported is checked before the Transformers floor, not after it.
No action needed:
Strengthening the existing plan assertions and extending them to prepared_ep_plan is justified; the blanket dependency skip is not.
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This module-wide skip also suppresses all the pre-existing registry/plan tests when Transformers is absent. Those tests still need no Transformers: the model-spec package registers data independently of HF, and _routed_expert_keys is also dependency-free. noxfile.py::partial_unit(subset="torch") collects this directory without installing the HF extra, so this quietly removes coverage from that lane without a corresponding behavior change. Please keep the declarative checks runnable there and scope the dependency skip to the applier/version tests (or move those tests into a separate module).
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Agreed. The module-wide skip took the registry and plan checks out of a run without transformers, though they need none of it.
Fixed in bdd0448. transformers is now imported optionally, and only the tests that read the installed release skip without it (needs_transformers and needs_ep_transformers).
With transformers not importable, test_ep_specs.py now runs 30 tests and skips 14. Before this change it skipped the whole module.
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Being an unquantized causal LM is not sufficient for the advertised FSDP2 fallback. For example, check_distributed_support("nemotron_h") below 5.7 emits this advice, but an unquantized Nemotron-H checkpoint containing MTP tensors then fails in examples/hf_ptq/example_utils.py::validate_fsdp2_supported, which explicitly refuses Nemotron-H MTP. Could the advice say “a checkpoint supported by the FSDP2 loader” or explicitly exclude MTP, rather than making this condition sound sufficient? The single-process alternative can remain.
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Agreed: being an unquantized causal LM is necessary, not sufficient.
Fixed in 3894689. The advice now offers FSDP2 "if the FSDP2 load supports the checkpoint, which takes an unquantized causal LM with no MTP head it cannot build (such as Nemotron-H's)". The single-process alternative still comes first.
#2746 [3/3] offers the same way out when an MoE would be left whole on every rank, and it now uses the same wording (d1dbf75).
Transformers-free registry and plan checks: fixed in bdd0448. The module no longer skips as a whole; only the tests that read the installed transformers skip without it.
FSDP2 advice: fixed in 3894689. FSDP2 is offered when the FSDP2 load supports the checkpoint, which excludes an MTP head it cannot build, such as Nemotron-H's.
Check order in the description: corrected. The unsupported refusal comes first, then the transformers floor.
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[SUGGESTION] The declarative path is guarded strictly against the silent-dense-MoE failure, but the prepare path is not — and it can reproduce the identical failure.
The unread / missing-target ValueErrors above exist because "attaching it elsewhere would be read as no plan at all and plan the MoE as dense." A prepare hook reaches the same end state with no error at all:
it returns a different config object without carrying over the base_model_ep_plan just attached to target (exactly the obligation EPSpec.prepare's docstring places on the spec author) — _ep_config() on the returned config then finds no plan, and the MoE is planned dense;
it mutates in place and forgets to return, so apply_distributed_support hands the caller None, which surfaces as an unrelated AttributeError deep in the load.
Both are spec-authoring mistakes, which is precisely the class the unread check already refuses to let through silently. A post-condition costs two lines and keeps the two paths symmetric:
ifep.prepareisnotNone:
prepared=ep.prepare(hf_config, ckpt_path=ckpt_path, trust_remote_code=trust_remote_code)
ifpreparedisNone:
raiseValueError(f"{model_type}'s spec prepare returned no config to load.")
if_spec_ep_plan(model_type) andnotgetattr(
_ep_config(prepared), "base_model_ep_plan", None
):
raiseValueError(
f"{model_type}'s spec prepare returned a config carrying no expert-parallel plan ""where the load reads one; a prepare returning another config must carry over the ""base_model_ep_plan."
)
hf_config=preparedreturnhf_config
Non-blocking: no registered spec sets prepare today, and the PR already defers the other prepare-ordering question to #2748 — this would fit naturally there alongside it.
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Not a defect at this head, so I'm postponing it to this PR's next code change rather than pushing for it alone.
No spec reachable from this PR sets prepare. The first ones are Kimi-VL and Kimi-K2.5, in #2748. Their hooks return the config they were given, with the plan attached to its text_config by a nested apply_distributed_support("deepseek_v3", ...), and _ep_config reads the plan there. So no registered spec reaches either end state you describe: no plan where the load reads one, or a None config.
The post-condition guards the next spec author. I'll add it, with a test, in this PR's next code change.
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[SUGGESTION]_KNOWN_STYLES is narrower than the styles a base_model_ep_plan may legitimately carry, and the failure message states something that isn't true.
moe._EXPERTS_STYLES is documented as "the styles a base_model_ep_plan gives a layer's routed-experts container" — it is deliberately the container vocabulary, not the set of styles the load accepts. The plan itself is consumed by transformers' distributed loading, which honours its own styles (local_colwise, rowwise, gather, …). So a plan entry that styles something other than a container — a router/gate entry, which EPSpec.base_model_ep_plan's own docstring treats as a real option ("A router entry is not always wanted", with DeepSeek-V3 given as the reason it is omitted there) — would fail this assertion saying the style is one "the expert-parallel load does not implement", when in fact the load never sees it as a container style and transformers implements it fine.
That makes the next spec author's failure message actively misleading. Two ways out, either is fine:
keep the strictness but scope the claim to what it actually checks — assert the style set only over the entries _routed_expert_keys picks up, and word the message as "is not a routed-experts container style"; or
keep the whole-plan sweep and say instead that a style must be either a container style or one transformers implements, so a router entry passes.
Separately, "grouped_gemm" is spelled as a literal both here and in moe._routed_expert_keys; a shared module constant beside _EXPERTS_STYLES would keep the test and the implementation from drifting on it.
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Agreed: the message misleads for a router entry. The expert-parallel load keeps ep_router (it maps it to torch_a2a_router) and drops only the other styles outside the experts. A spec that added layers.*.mlp.gate: ep_router would load fine and still fail this test.
No registered spec has a router entry today; DeepSeek-V3 omits it on purpose. So every current plan passes, and nothing loads wrongly.
Postponed to this PR's next code change. I'll accept ep_router, reword the message to name a style the load does not keep, and spell grouped_gemm once, shared with _routed_expert_keys.
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From Claude's review: the top config and its nested language-model
configs were walked three times, in _ckpt_quant_method, in the load's
quantization_config deletion and in the decompressor. moe.config_levels,
beside _SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS, now gives those levels to all three. (#3135 adds
the same _SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS; the helper beside it conflicts there once, at
the Kimi base's rebuild.)
The deletion now clears every level before it checks any: a config class
that forwards its text config's quantization_config through a property
holds none once the text config's is gone, and is no longer refused; a
class attribute, or a property of its own, still is.
Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
…e cleared
From Claude's review: the top config and its nested language-model
configs were walked three times, in _ckpt_quant_method, in the load's
quantization_config deletion and in the decompressor. moe.config_levels,
beside _SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS, now gives those levels to all three. (#3135 adds
the same _SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS; the helper beside it conflicts there once, at
the Kimi base's rebuild.)
The deletion now clears every level before it checks any: a config class
that forwards its text config's quantization_config through a property
holds none once the text config's is gone, and is no longer refused; a
class attribute, or a property of its own, still is.
Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
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Assert the plan on replacement configs.
The EPSpec contract requires a replacement config returned by prepare to preserve base_model_ep_plan. The current fixture returns "replaced", so it does not exercise this contract. Return a replacement config carrying the plan and assert that the returned config retains it.
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Update the prepare hook in
test_prepare_runs_after_the_plan_is_attached_and_its_config_is_returned to
return a replacement config that preserves base_model_ep_plan from the input
config, then assert the returned config retains that plan instead of checking
for the "replaced" string.
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Review comments at @tests/unit/torch/models/test_ep_specs.py:
- Around line 262-289: Update the prepare hook in
test_prepare_runs_after_the_plan_is_attached_and_its_config_is_returned to
return a replacement config that preserves base_model_ep_plan from the input
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@coderabbitai Taken in 41b8a6a, on the test_ep_specs.py nitpick from your review on 8d2bd3c (assert the plan on replacement configs). The stand-in prepare now returns a replacement config that carries the plan over, as EPSpec.prepare's contract asks. The test checks that apply_distributed_support returns exactly that config, and that it holds the spec's plan.
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Minor · Honor an existing root EP plan before requiring the nested config. · moe.py:247-258
modelopt/torch/utils/moe.py:247-258 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Honor an existing root EP plan before requiring the nested config.
_ep_config(hf_config) returns a truthy root base_model_ep_plan, and the expert-parallel load consumes that result. For a root-only config, the current nested-target check raises ValueError before _ep_config(hf_config) runs. This rejects a load-readable existing plan instead of preserving it.
Suggested fix
+ existing = getattr(_ep_config(hf_config), "base_model_ep_plan", None)
target = hf_config
- if attrs:+ if attrs and not existing:
target = next(
(sub for attr in attrs if (sub := getattr(hf_config, attr, None)) is not None), None
)
if target is None:
raise ValueError(
f"{model_type} expects its expert-parallel plan on "
f"config.{' or config.'.join(attrs)}, which this config does not have."
)
- if ep.base_model_ep_plan and not getattr(_ep_config(hf_config), "base_model_ep_plan", None):+ if ep.base_model_ep_plan and not existing:
target.base_model_ep_plan = dict(ep.base_model_ep_plan)
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Review comment at @modelopt/torch/utils/moe.py around lines 247 - 258:
In the expert-parallel plan setup, check the existing plan returned by
_ep_config(hf_config) before requiring a nested target. Skip nested-target
lookup and validation when that plan exists, and reuse the same check before
assigning ep.base_model_ep_plan so an existing root plan is preserved.
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Review comments at @modelopt/torch/utils/moe.py:
- Around line 247-258: In the expert-parallel plan setup, check the existing
plan returned by _ep_config(hf_config) before requiring a nested target. Skip
nested-target lookup and validation when that plan exists, and reuse the same
check before assigning ep.base_model_ep_plan so an existing root plan is
preserved.
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@shengliangxu Confirmed in tests/unit/torch/models/test_ep_specs.py: the stand-in prepare copies the plan to the replacement config. The assertions check both replacement-config identity and the spec’s plan.
This addresses the nitpick. I inspected the test but did not run it. Per AGENTS.md, I leave thread resolution to the reviewer.
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@coderabbitai Taken in 7c0be5b: the outside-diff item from your review on 41b8a6a, modelopt/torch/utils/moe.py (honor an existing root plan before requiring the nested config). apply_distributed_support now looks for a plan the config already carries before it requires the nested config the spec names.
A config with a plan of its own keeps it, at its root included, and the nested config is not required.
With no plan anywhere, a config without the nested config is still refused. The refusal now says it has neither.
The new test test_a_plan_at_the_root_needs_no_nested_config fails without the change, and the existing refusal test still holds.
#!/bin/bash
sed -n '1,60p' README.md
sed -n '60,90p' modelopt/torch/utils/moe.py
sed -n '235,285p' modelopt/torch/utils/moe.py
rg -n -A 65 '^## .*Coding [Ss]tandards|^## Coding|^### .*Coding' CONTRIBUTING.md
base=$(git merge-base HEAD origin/main)printf'\nReview baseline commit: %s\n'"$base"
git show "$base":.agents/review-guidelines/code-review.md
Length of output: 47567
@shengliangxu Confirmed in modelopt/torch/utils/moe.py: apply_distributed_support checks for an existing plan before it requires the nested config.
An existing root plan bypasses the nested-config requirement.
With no existing plan, a missing nested config still raises ValueError before prepare runs.
test_a_plan_at_the_root_needs_no_nested_config checks config identity and plan preservation. The existing refusal test covers both spec-supplied and prepare-supplied plans.
This addresses the reported concern. Following the repository’s review-feedback guidance, I checked the current source. I did not run the tests or verify the revert check. Per AGENTS.md, I leave thread resolution to the reviewer.
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# Agent Instructions for ModelOpt
## Pre-push review pass
- **Evidence.** Each fix has a test that fails without it; check by reverting.
A test for a hang fails fast instead of hanging CI. Run the paths CI skips
(multi-GPU, GPU-only) when the change touches them, and state in the PR what
you ran and what you did not.
apply_distributed_support reads a model's EPSpec and prepares the config
it is given for the expert-parallel load. It checks the transformers
floor: the load's own 5.7, or the spec's later release, for a model with
no spec too. It attaches the spec's base_model_ep_plan to the config the
load reads it from, unless the model already carries a plan wherever the
load reads one, and refuses a placement the load would not read. Then it
runs the spec's prepare.
check_distributed_support is the floor and refusal check alone,
_spec_refuses_ep its predicate, and _spec_ep_plan the plan a spec would
supply, read without running prepare. The nested configs the load reads
a plan and an expert count from are one tuple, _SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS.
Nothing calls them yet; the expert-parallel decision and load do in a
later change.
Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
The well-formedness test only checked for non-empty strings: it now checks
every entry's style against the ones the expert-parallel load implements,
that the plan names a routed-experts container, and does so for the plan a
spec's prepare attaches too. A new registry test checks that every spec
puts its plan on a config the load reads. check_distributed_support drops
its local import of parse, which the module imports at the top, and
_ep_spec's local import says why it is local.
Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
The applier's tests skipped the whole module when transformers was
missing, which took the registry and plan checks, which need none of it,
out of the partial-install unit run. Skip only the tests that read the
installed transformers.
Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
The way around expert parallelism offered FSDP2 for any unquantized
causal LM, but --use_fsdp2 refuses a Nemotron-H checkpoint carrying MTP
weights. Name that as well.
Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
The test of the spec's prepare hook had it return a sentinel, so it held
only that apply_distributed_support returns what prepare returned. A
replacement config must also carry over the plan the spec attached, as
EPSpec.prepare's contract asks: the stand-in now returns one that does,
and the test checks the returned config is that one and holds the plan.
Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
apply_distributed_support required the nested config a spec names for
its plan before it looked for a plan the config already carries, so a
config with a plan of its own at its root, which wins and which the
expert-parallel load reads there, was refused for lacking a nested config
nothing needed. A plan the config carries is now found first; with none,
a config without the nested config is still refused, naming both.
Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
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Slice [2/3] of #2746's split (2026-10-30), so the model-spec work is reviewed and merged in pieces under the 500-line budget. Merge order: #2741 [1/3] (#3131, merged) → #2746 [1/3] (#3134) → this PR → #2746 [3/3] (#2746).
Base: #2746 [1/3] (#3134): the spec sections this PR reads. It also needs #2741 [1/3]'s
require_transformers, onmainsince #3131 merged. The diff below is this PR's alone.Series layout (the part around this PR)
main([OMNIML-6060] [3/3] Refuse an expert-parallel load that would calibrate the experts wrong #2741 [1/3], [OMNIML-6060] [1/3] Add require_transformers, and build a VLM without its LM head #3131, merged)What does this PR do?
Type of change: New feature
modelopt.torch.utils.moegains the one applier of the model specs' expert-parallel section (EPSpec, #2746 [1/3]), and the checks around it.apply_distributed_support(model_type, hf_config, *, ckpt_path=None, trust_remote_code=False)prepares a config for the expert-parallel load from the model's spec, in this order:unsupported. The refusal names a single process first, and FSDP2 (--use_fsdp2orMODELOPT_FSDP_SIZE=world) only where the FSDP2 load supports the checkpoint: an unquantized causal LM with no MTP head it cannot build. GPT-OSS ships MXFP4, which the FSDP2 load refuses, Llama-4's checkpoint is multimodal, and--use_fsdp2refuses Nemotron-H's MTP weights._EP_MIN_TRANSFORMERS), or the spec's later release. The load's floor holds for a model with no spec too. Its refusal offers the same ways around expert parallelism.prepare, after the plan is attached._ep_config): on the root, or on a nested config other than the one the spec would take. Overwriting it would substitute our idea of the layout for the model's.plan_config_attris neithertext_confignorllm_config, the two nested configs the expert-parallel load reads a plan and the expert count from (_SUB_CONFIG_ATTRS, which_ep_configand_num_experts_from_confignow read too). Attaching it elsewhere would be read as no plan at all and plan the MoE as dense.plan_config_attrmay list several spellings, the first one the config has taking the plan. A config with none of them is refused, naming them all.preparesupplies the plan, before anything is attached or prepared.check_distributed_supportis the floor and refusal check alone, for a config already prepared with its plan._spec_refuses_epis its predicate._spec_ep_planis the plan a spec would supply: its own, or the one it statesprepareattaches, read without runningprepare. A model below its spec's transformers floor keeps its plan; a spec refusing expert parallelism supplies none.Nothing calls these yet. #2746 [3/3] (#2746) has the expert-parallel decision and load call them.
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Testing
tests/unit/torch/models/test_ep_specs.pygains the applier's tests:prepareordering;preparesupplies the plan;llm_configortext_config), and ontext_configfor a config with both;prepare.llm_configalone, or tryingllm_configbeforetext_config;EPSpec.prepareruns before the plan is known, so a load that ends up not expert-parallel keeps its effects. No spec here setsprepare. It is to be settled in [OMNIML-6078] [2/2] Add the Kimi-K2.5 expert-parallel adapter #2748, which registers the first ones (Kimi-VL, Kimi-K2.5).tests/unit/torch/modelsandtests/unit/torch/utils, torch 2.14):prepared_ep_plantoo; a new test checks every spec puts its plan on a config the load reads (a bad style or an unread spelling fails them);check_distributed_supportdrops a redundant local import. Pre-commit passes against main;tests/unit/torch/{models,utils}pass on transformers 5.18 (777) and 5.5.4 (748, 29 skipped).tests/unit/torch/modelsandtest_moe_a2a.pypass on transformers 5.18 (273) and 5.5.4 (255, 18 skipped).test_ep_specs.pyruns 30 tests and skips 14 with transformers not importable, where it skipped the whole module before.tests/unit/torch/modelsandtest_moe_a2a.pypass on transformers 5.18 (273) and 5.5.4 (255, 18 skipped).tests/unit/torch/modelsandtest_moe_a2a.pypass on transformers 5.18 (312) and 5.5.4 (282, 19 skipped).tests/unit/torch/modelsandtest_moe_a2a.pypass on transformers 5.18 (312) and 5.5.4 (282, 19 skipped).tests/unit/torch/modelsandtest_moe_a2a.pypass on transformers 5.18 (312) and 5.5.4 (282, 19 skipped).tests/unit/torch/modelsandtest_moe_a2a.pypass on transformers 5.18 (314) and 5.5.4 (283, 20 skipped).preparehook now has it return a replacement config that carries the plan over, and checks that the returned config is that one and holds the plan. Pre-commit passes against main.tests/unit/torch/modelsandtest_moe_a2a.pypass on transformers 5.18 (314) and 5.5.4 (283, 20 skipped).apply_distributed_supportfinds a plan the config already carries before requiring the nested config the spec names. A config with a plan of its own, at its root included, keeps it; with no plan anywhere, a config without the nested config is still refused.test_a_plan_at_the_root_needs_no_nested_configfails without the change. Pre-commit passes against main.tests/unit/torch/modelsandtest_moe_a2a.pypass on transformers 5.18 (315) and 5.5.4 (283, 21 skipped).tests/unit/torch/models,test_moe_a2a.pyandtest_model_load_utils.pypass on transformers 5.18 (382) and 5.5.4 (339, 32 skipped).Before your PR is "Ready for review"
_ep_configand_num_experts_from_configread the same two nested configs, in the same order.CONTRIBUTING.md: N/AAdditional Information
Part of expert-parallel PTQ for Hugging Face MoE models. Split out of #2746 (OMNIML-6076), whose review history stays on #2746.
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