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…2a instead of forcing eager (#3074)
> [!NOTE]
> **[2/2]**: #3122 ([1/2]) is this PR's expert-parallel correctness fix,
split out on 2026-10-29 at a reviewer's request so that it lands on its
own, with a Bug Fixes changelog entry. This PR keeps the two
backward-breaking changes, calibration on `grouped_mm` by default and
the new `calibrate()` error, and sat on #3122 until #3122 merged on
2026-10-30. Before that, it was [3/3] of the OMNIML-6073 split, after
#3088 (FSDP2's weight-access window) and #2745 (`grouped_mm`
quantization), both merged. #3067 (Nemotron-H) sits on this PR.
>
> **Base:** `main`. #3122 merged on 2026-10-30, so this PR sits on main,
its own diff unchanged.
>
> **In the tree:** #2741's helper base merges #3067, which carries this
PR and #2745.
<details><summary>Series layout</summary>
- `main`
- #3088 FSDP2 weight-access window (merged)
- #2745 fused experts under grouped_mm (merged)
- #3122 expert-parallel experts calibrated and folded on each rank's own
experts (merged)
- **#3074 calibration on grouped_mm (this PR)**
- #3067 Nemotron-H's experts under grouped_mm
- #2739 meta-DCP checkpoint load (merged)
- #2736 distribution plan, run group, collectives (merged)
- #2740 calibration on per-rank data
- #2750 keep-fused fold
- #2751 distributed-writer pieces
- #2752 no-gather export (on #2751, #2750, #2779 and #2740)
- #2753 expert-parallel export
- #2737 plan decision
- #2779 load routing
- #2741 expert-parallel loader (on #2779, #3067 and #2740)
- #2742 dense sharding
- #2743 block-FP8 dequantization
- #2780 expert-parallel load routing
- #2746 expert parallelism in the model specs
- #2747 on-the-fly decompression
- #2748 Kimi-K2.5 and Kimi-VL adapters
- #2749 Kimi-K3 adapter
- #2754 expert-parallel PTQ from hf_ptq.py (on #2746 and #2753)
</details>
### What does this PR do?
Type of change: New feature, with a backward-incompatible change to MoE
calibration (see the changelog entry)
#2745 quantizes the `grouped_mm` experts forward, transformers' default,
while calibration still runs every model on eager. This PR moves
calibration onto `grouped_mm` and the `torch_a2a` expert-parallel
forward, and makes everything that reads the experts' inputs or weights
during calibration work there. Each gap below otherwise failed silently,
by collecting no amax or the wrong one rather than by raising.
- **Backend normalization.** `normalize_experts_impl_on_the_fly`
replaces `force_eager_experts_impl_on_the_fly`. `eager`, `grouped_mm`
and `torch_a2a` are kept; a backend nothing intercepts (`batched_mm`,
the opaque `sonicmoe` kernel, hub kernels) is moved to `grouped_mm`
before calibration, or to `eager` on a transformers without
`_grouped_linear`. A model whose experts quantize only on the eager
forward keeps main's forced eager: native FP8 experts, a class with its
own wrapper (GPT-OSS's quantizes `down_proj`'s input by intercepting the
eager forward's matmuls), and Nemotron-H's non-gated experts until
#3067. Such a model is refused on `torch_a2a`, before any config
changes, instead of calibrating on raw FP8 bytes or not at all.
- **Per-expert captures.** `grouped_mm` and `torch_a2a` feed a
projection's input quantizer one expert-sorted batch. The weight-input
captures (local Hessian, imatrix, GPTQ) split it back per expert by the
cumulative token offsets the grouped interception records, following
whichever path ran. The input quantizers calibrate on the rows the
grouped GEMM computes only: under transformers' own expert parallelism,
the rows routed to other ranks' experts are sorted past the offsets, and
before transformers 5.17 the down projection's input holds them
uninitialized.
- **Expert parallelism.** #3122 makes everything that reads the expert
weights outside the forward index each rank's own experts: max
calibration's weight pass, `fold_weight`, the weight-input captures and
GPTQ. Here the grouped captures split the expert-sorted batch per local
expert. The grouped weight quantization needs no indexing: transformers
swaps expert-parallel DTensors for their local shards around the experts
forward.
- **Fail loudly.** `calibrate()` raises, naming the modules, when a
fused-experts forward that had to reach a quantizer ran but neither hook
fired: a hand-written `bmm` forward on a class without
`@use_experts_implementation`, which no config change redirects. Each
`calibrate()` judges its own forwards and raises with the model back in
its training mode. Under the expert parallelism of transformers 5.16 and
later a module's verdict is reduced over its experts' expert-parallel
group, so every rank of the group raises, not just the ranks whose
experts saw rows. Not reported: experts no calibration token reached
(Ernie-4.5-VL's vision experts under text-only calibration, which fall
back to weight-derived scales as on main), an eager forward whose rows
were all routed to other ranks' experts, and weight-only experts under
max or MSE, whose weight quantizers calibrate on the weights alone.
**Behavior change.** main forced MoE calibration onto eager;
transformers resolves an unrequested backend to `grouped_mm`, so
fused-experts models now calibrate there. A single-GPU Qwen3-30B-A3B
export, NVFP4 or FP8, matches main in every weight and weight scale, but
4,647 activation scales move, by up to 10.2%. main's own repeat is
byte-identical, and loading with `experts_implementation="eager"`
reproduces main's checkpoint byte for byte (all 74,835 tensors for NVFP4
and 56,211 for FP8), so the backend alone moves them. The changelog says
so.
| Moved activation scales, Qwen3-30B-A3B NVFP4, 1 GPU | Tensors |
|---|---|
| Experts' `down_proj` input (33 layers, 128 experts each) | 4,224 |
| Experts' shared `gate_proj` and `up_proj` input (1 layer) | 256 |
| Attention input and KV-cache | 167 |
| Total, in 45 of 48 layers (none in layers 0, 1 and 5) | 4,647 |
The largest moves are 10.2% on the experts (layer 25's `down_proj`
input) and 7.8% on attention.
*Why they move.* Both forwards feed an input quantizer the same rows: a
single GPU has no padding rows (transformers' sentinel rows exist only
under its own expert parallelism, where calibration skips them;
transformers zeroes them only from 5.17), the routing weights apply
after `down_proj` on both, and neither casts. They round the block's
output differently. Eager adds a token's 8 expert outputs into a bf16
buffer with `index_add_`, rounding after each add, while
`grouped_mm_experts_forward` sums them in fp32 and rounds once, and its
GEMMs run other kernels. From the first MoE block's output on, the
residual stream differs by rounding, and where a router's 8th and 9th
scores nearly tie, the routing flips. A flipped token feeds `down_proj`
another expert's activations, and `down_proj`'s input scale is a max
over routed (token, expert) rows, so it moves by more than rounding
would. The moved scales fit that: the experts' shared
`gate_proj`/`up_proj` input, whose rows are every token however it is
routed, moved in one layer only, against 33 for `down_proj`.
*Why `grouped_mm` off expert parallelism too,* rather than eager there
and `grouped_mm` on `torch_a2a` only: it is the forward transformers
runs the model on when nothing else is asked for, its fp32 sum is the
more precise of the two combines, and expert-parallel calibration runs
the grouped path anyway (`torch_a2a` runs the local experts through
`_grouped_linear`), so a model calibrates on one forward whether or not
it is sharded. `experts_implementation="eager"` keeps earlier releases'
checkpoints.
### Usage
```python
# To calibrate exactly as earlier releases did:
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(path, experts_implementation="eager")
```
```bash
# The same from hf_ptq.py:
python hf_ptq.py --pyt_ckpt_path <model> --qformat nvfp4 --experts_implementation eager # or grouped_mm
```
### Testing
- `tests/unit/torch/quantization/plugins/test_fused_experts.py`, against
synthetic and real transformers experts modules:
- backend normalization, including the fallback to eager on a
transformers without `_grouped_linear`;
- GPTQ's Hessians and local Hessian's captures under `grouped_mm` and
`torch_a2a` match eager's per expert, and a capture follows whichever
path ran;
- the interception check raises when the forward ran past both hooks,
also after an earlier calibration reached them, and not for unreached
experts, an eager forward routed only to other ranks' experts, or
weight-only experts beside a calibrated dense input quantizer under max
(each expert's weight amax equals its weight's per-channel abs max).
Under local Hessian and GPTQ, which read the experts' inputs, those
weight-only experts still raise;
- GPT-OSS, a real tiny model, calibrating `down_proj`'s input on the
eager forward.
- Expert parallelism, on CPU under gloo:
- the tests that experts sharded the way transformers shards them
calibrate, fold, capture and build GPTQ helpers on each rank's own
experts moved to #3122 with that fix;
- every rank of the experts' expert-parallel group raises when only one
rank's experts ran past both hooks;
- with fake quantizers inserted, experts split over two ranks train
through the `torch_a2a` forward like the whole quantized module: the
fake-quantized case of `test_moe_a2a.py`'s whole-module test;
- the transport's hop slicing under a graph: `test_moe_a2a.py`'s
chunked-hops test also runs forward and backward through hops sliced
below the limit, and checks the output and input gradients bit for bit
against the unsliced run.
- The transport's (#2738, merged) docs say again that ModelOpt quantizes
its local experts, now that the `_grouped_linear` override does. Its
hop-slicing comments say what the slicing guarantees, every hop within
`all_to_all_single`'s int32 element offsets, rather than that it
prevents a hang: with the slicing disabled, hops past 2**31 elements
completed exactly on NCCL 2.29, 2.30 and 2.31, including at 32 ranks
over the network on 2.29 and 2.30.
- Against main, on tiny real models: GPT-OSS calibrates on eager with
`down_proj`'s input amax equal to main's; Ernie-4.5-VL-MoE quantizes in
FP8 and NVFP4 under text-only calibration, as on main.
- Byte-for-byte checkpoint comparison against main on one GPU, measured
on earlier revisions of #2745: Qwen3-30B-A3B, eager and `grouped_mm`,
NVFP4 and FP8; Qwen2.5-0.5B (dense) is byte-identical. On GPU,
Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B's NVFP4 calibration with its experts pinned to
eager and #3067's with `experts_implementation="eager"` give
byte-identical exports, all 18,012 tensors.
- The GPU tests of QAT under expert parallelism are in #2742, the first
PR with an FSDP2-sharded dense part they also run.
- Review fixes, 2026-10-27, carried from #2745: the FSDP2 window's
ownership test (unnamed meshes, every shard state); an empty experts
forward is no work the interception check expects; the non-gated experts
are pinned to eager whichever plugin runs first.
- Review fixes, 2026-10-27, last round, each with a test that fails
without it:
- `grouped_mm` is kept, and redirected to, only where `_grouped_linear`
can be intercepted; one capability constant gates the interception, the
supported set and the redirect target;
- an eager experts forward counts as work for the interception check
only when it routes a row to this rank's experts, so a rank whose
experts calibration routed nothing to no longer raises alone;
- an enabled expert weight quantizer needs the interception only when
the calibration captures the experts' inputs to calibrate their weights
(GPTQ, local Hessian, imatrix), so weight-only experts under max or MSE
no longer raise; the message names what falls back.
- Split from #2745 on 2026-10-27, night: #2745's and this PR's commits
together give #2745's previous tree exactly, plus this round's fixes.
Pre-commit, mypy included, and this PR's unit tests pass at this head on
transformers 5.18 and 5.5.4 and on torch 2.8, and the series' PRs merged
together add no unit-test failure over main f03651e
(tests/unit/torch utils, export, quantization and models). This
revision's GPU tests run in CI only.
- Review suggestions, 2026-10-28: the weight-input captures (local
Hessian, imatrix, GPTQ) read the path that ran, not the one the config
named when they were registered, so they follow whichever forward runs
and the refusal is gone, pinned by a test that fails on the code before;
the interception check's forward count, and the host sync its routing
test costs, stop after the first hook call of each calibration; the
check's docstring says it is rank-local. Rebased over #2745's fixes,
taking back the `torch_a2a` test fixtures #2745 no longer carries.
- Rebased over #2745's second-round fixes: the grouped interceptor
records the offsets and clears the eager expert index, and #2745's test
that captures skip the grouped batch gives way to this PR's per-expert
capture tests.
- Review follow-up, 2026-10-28, third round: drops the note #2745 now
adds, that the grouped captures skip their batch, since here they split
it per expert. A new test pins that a calibration forward stops
counting, and skips its host-syncing routing test, once a hook has
fired; it fails with that gate removed.
- Review suggestions, 2026-10-28, fourth round: the experts forward
clears `_grouped_offs` when it returns, so a capture reached outside a
forward skips instead of splitting its input by a finished forward's
offsets; the interception check's docstring says that a rank whose
experts saw no rows waits in its next collective until the launcher
stops it or the collective times out, so the error is in another rank's
log. Rebased over #2745's cleanup.
- Rebased on 2026-10-28, evening, onto #2745's head `e7c449fcf87`, after
#2745 moved onto main `7092db6ac5b` and took its last review rounds.
Conflicts only in the changelog (both sides' entries kept),
`_QuantFusedExperts`'s docstring (it keeps #2745's note that the
`grouped_mm` fallback does not call `F.linear`) and the fused-experts
tests (#2745's transposed-container tests kept). The FP8 experts
wrapper's comment from #2745 now names
`normalize_experts_impl_on_the_fly`, this PR's name for the function
that keeps it on eager. pre-commit, mypy included, passes at this head
against main.
- Review fix, 2026-10-28, evening: `calibrate()`'s interception check
reads the HF plugin from `sys.modules` instead of importing it, so a
plugin that failed to load (which `import_plugin` only warns about) no
longer fails every calibration with its error.
`test_a_plugin_that_failed_to_load_leaves_calibration_alone` breaks the
plugin's import and fails without the change. pre-commit, mypy included,
passes at this head.
- Split, 2026-10-28, evening, at the bot review's request: the FSDP2
window's ownership filter and its ownership test moved to #3088, with a
test that the window leaves an ignored expert-parallel DTensor sharded.
This PR sits on a helper base merging #2745 and #3088, and its source
diff is 334 lines. At this head `test_fused_experts.py`,
`test_moe_a2a.py` and `test_utils.py` pass on CPU (200 passed, 6
skipped), and pre-commit, mypy included, passes against main.
- Review suggestions, 2026-10-28, evening: `_local_experts` refuses a
DTensor whose local shard does not hold the module's experts (one
replicated over the ranks, say) instead of indexing the global experts,
and the native FP8 wrapper's `unpack_weight` refuses expert weights
sharded over the experts instead of filling a buffer for every expert.
One two-rank test covers both and fails without either. The suggested
all-reduce in the interception check is declined (a collective in every
distributed `calibrate()`). Focused tests pass (201 passed, 6 skipped),
and pre-commit passes against main.
- Review suggestions, 2026-10-28, late evening: the per-expert split of
a grouped batch requires exactly one exclusive end per expert, within
the rows, as transformers' `grouped_mm` and `a2a_moe` build the offsets,
and raises on any other form (a leading zero would credit each expert
with the previous one's rows). A test feeds three such forms and fails
without the check. The `_grouped_offs` comment names all three captures
and the attribute's role as the which-forward-ran signal. Rebased onto
the helper base re-merged with #3088's update; focused tests pass (204
passed, 6 skipped), and pre-commit passes against main.
- Review suggestion, 2026-10-28, late evening: `_local_experts` checks
for a DTensor through the plugin's guarded `torch.distributed.tensor`
import, so a torch without distributed does not fail every fused-MoE
call. Rebased onto the helper base re-merged with #3088's update;
focused tests pass (204 passed, 6 skipped), and pre-commit passes
against main.
- 2026-10-28, night: `hf_ptq.py` gains `--experts_implementation`,
passed on every load path: `get_model` (the compressed-tensors branch
included), the low-memory load, and the FSDP2 load, through the config
its meta model is built from. The changelog's way back to earlier
releases' scales is now reachable from the script. A test loads a tiny
Qwen3-MoE with `eager` and fails without the plumbing. The
`tests/examples/hf_ptq` unit tests pass (110), and pre-commit passes
against main.
- Review fixes, 2026-10-28, night: on the FSDP2 path the flag is set on
the pre-fetched config's `_experts_implementation`, as
`build_meta_causal_lm` sets `attn_implementation`, and a test captures
the config the FSDP2 loader receives (it fails without the assignment);
`get_model` passes the flag only when given, on every branch.
`calibrate()`'s new error for a fused-experts forward that reaches
neither hook has its own changelog entry. Rebased onto #2745, itself
rebased onto main `bc0b6e03237` after #3088 merged; focused and
`tests/examples/hf_ptq` tests pass (316 passed, 6 skipped), and
pre-commit passes against main.
- Review suggestions and a rebase, 2026-10-28, late night: the backend
normalization warns once for each change it makes to a caller's choice,
but not for a `None` backend pinned to eager, which already dispatches
to the eager forward. Rebased onto #2745 on main `e9f432affbb` (#3091):
`DTensor` now comes from the plugin's plain `torch.distributed.tensor`
import, since the guarded import is gone with the torch 2.10 floor.
Focused and `tests/examples/hf_ptq` tests pass (325 passed, 6 skipped),
and pre-commit passes against main.
- Review suggestion and a rebase, 2026-10-28, late night: the
backend-redirect notice goes through `warn_rank_0`, so an
expert-parallel run prints one copy. Rebased onto #2745's comment and
warning-text update; `_is_fused_experts_module`'s new docstring names
`normalize_experts_impl_on_the_fly`, which keeps GPT-OSS on eager here.
`test_fused_experts.py` and `test_utils.py` pass (197), and pre-commit
passes against main.
- Bot review of `2e253a509d0`, 2026-10-28, late night: the FSDP2 test
runs a Qwen3.5-MoE config too and checks the text config its experts
dispatch on, which the one assignment reaches through transformers'
recursive `_experts_implementation` setter (5.5.4 and 5.18; a tiny
Qwen3.5-MoE built on meta dispatches its experts on `eager` with the
flag and on `grouped_mm` without it). The test fails when the value
reaches the root config only, and the comment at the assignment says the
setter carries it. Declined: resolving the routing indices' parameter
name from the forward's signature, since every transformers MoE block
passes them positionally. The `tests/examples/hf_ptq` unit tests pass on
5.18 and 5.5.4 (120), and pre-commit passes against main.
- Bot review of `042e4bf1e55` (approved), 2026-10-28, late night: the
interception error names the ways forward: a class no backend change
redirects needs its own quantized wrapper, and meanwhile the rest of the
model quantizes with these modules' quantizers disabled, which the check
honours. Declined: caching the grouped offsets' host copy across the two
projections' captures (one small sync per experts module per batch under
GPTQ, local Hessian and imatrix, whose per-expert matmuls dominate).
pre-commit passes against main.
- Rebased on 2026-10-28, late night, onto main `1ca8bd1fc4d` after #2745
merged (squashed with the tree of its last head, so this PR's tree is
unchanged); the base is now `main`, so the GPU tests run. pre-commit
passes against main.
- CI fix, 2026-10-28, late night: the first run on main failed two cases
of `tests/examples/hf_ptq/test_hf_ptq_vision_quantization.py` in the
trtllm `hf_ptq` lane (2 failed, 267 passed): its stand-in for hf_ptq's
parsed arguments lacked the new `experts_implementation`, which
`load_model` now reads. The stand-in gains it; the file passes on
transformers 5.18 and 5.5.4.
- Rebased on 2026-10-28, late night, onto main `bdc45368d10` (#2736
merged), with its own diff unchanged. Its tests with #3067's, #2736's
`test_distributed.py` and the `hf_ptq` unit tests pass (376), and
pre-commit passes against main.
- CI, 2026-10-29: the first full run on main at `df2e3fe4a76`, GPU lanes
included, passes.
- Split, 2026-10-29, at a reviewer's request: the expert-parallel
indexing fix, its tests and a Bug Fixes changelog entry moved to #3122
([1/2], on main), and this PR now sits on it, its own diff otherwise
unchanged. The review's three smaller items are taken: the interception
check reduces its verdict over the experts' expert-parallel group (a
two-rank test fails with the rank-local check); a test checks that every
experts class transformers decorates with `use_experts_implementation`
takes the routing indices second (transformers 5.5.4 and 5.18); and
`--experts_implementation` offers `eager` and `grouped_mm` as argparse
choices. pre-commit, mypy included, passes against main; this PR's
tests, `test_moe_a2a.py` and the `hf_ptq` unit tests pass (315).
- Review suggestion (Claude), 2026-10-29: the interception check reads
the expert-parallel group from the experts' weight, a DTensor sharded
over the experts from transformers 5.16 on; from 5.6 to 5.15 the shards
are plain tensors that name no group, so the check stays rank-local
there, as before. The docstrings say so. Restacked onto #3122's two
follow-ups; pre-commit passes against main.
- Comment, 2026-10-29: at `calibrate()`'s gate for the interception
check, a sentence says that both conditions, the forward loop having run
and the HF plugin being loaded, must come out the same on every rank,
since under expert parallelism the check all-reduces over the experts'
group. pre-commit passes against main.
- Test fix, 2026-10-29:
`tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_fsdp2_autoquant.py`'s 2-GPU KV
AutoQuantize test builds hf_ptq's arguments by hand and lacked the new
`experts_implementation`, which `load_model`'s FSDP2 branch reads. It
now passes `None`. The 1-GPU PR runners skip that test, and main's
nightly runs it. No other test or example builds hf_ptq's arguments by
hand on a path that reads the flag. pre-commit passes against main.
- Rebased on 2026-10-30 onto #3122 on main `99c3834f62c`, with its own
diff unchanged and no conflicts. pre-commit passes against main.
- Review (sychen52), 2026-10-30: with every weight quantizer collecting
statistics without quantizing (calibration), the grouped forward returns
the stored weight itself instead of building a weight-sized copy slice
by slice on each forward. A CPU test checks the identity and the
collected per-expert amax, and fails on the previous code. On CPU, one
call on a Qwen3-30B-A3B-sized `gate_up_proj` (128 × 1536 × 2048, bf16,
768 MiB) raised peak RSS by 755 MiB before and 0 MiB after; a GPU
`max_memory_allocated` comparison is queued. The changelog entry now
says the experts stay on `grouped_mm` for every forward after
`mtq.quantize` or `mto.restore` (QAT/QAD, AutoQuantize scoring,
fake-quant evaluation), with `experts_implementation="eager"` as the way
back. `test_fused_experts.py` and `test_moe_a2a.py` pass on transformers
5.18 (220) and 5.5.4 (214, 6 skipped); pre-commit passes against main.
- Review (kevalmorabia97), 2026-10-30: the three changes no test covered
now have one each, or are gone. The `_local_experts` call in
`_quantize_grouped_weight` is dropped as unreachable: the weight arrives
as this rank's local shard inside the experts forward. New tests pin
that a grouped forward reaching neither hook is counted whatever its
routing indices hold, and that a capture after a grouped forward does
not split by its offsets. The calibration pass-through calls only
quantizers that calibrate (Claude's suggestion), with a constant-amax
test case. Each test fails with its change reverted.
`test_fused_experts.py`, `test_moe_a2a.py` and `test_hf_ptq_args.py`
pass on transformers 5.18 (283) and 5.5.4 (277, 6 skipped); pre-commit
passes against main.
- GPU calibration peak memory, 2026-10-30 (sychen52's request):
`torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated` around the `mtq.quantize(...)` call
only, after `reset_peak_memory_stats`. Qwen3-30B-A3B on the default
`grouped_mm` backend, recipe `general/ptq/fp8_default-kv_fp8`,
`calib_size` 32, `batch_size` 1, one NVIDIA GB200 for both revisions
(torch 2.11, transformers 5.13.0, CUDA 13.1).
| Revision | Calibration peak (bytes) | MiB |
|---|---|---|
| Before the pass-through change (`3f3544435d8`) | 864,901,632 | 824.8 |
| After (`27c5f77feac`) | 174,759,936 | 166.7 |
| Drop | 690,141,696 | 658.2 |
- Rebased on 2026-10-30 onto main `55898ee4e3b` after #3122 merged,
dropping #3122's pre-squash commits; its own diff is unchanged, with no
conflicts. pre-commit passes against main.
- CI fix, 2026-10-30: the routing-order test read transformers' modeling
sources with the platform's default encoding, cp1252 on Windows, which
16 of them (`modeling_altclip.py`, say) cannot be decoded with; it now
reads them as UTF-8, and the windows unit job's only failure goes with
it. The `linux` job's one failure on the previous head, a NAS sorting
test this PR does not touch, passed on rerun at the same commit.
pre-commit passes against main.
- `eager` against main, byte for byte, 2026-10-30 (re-verifying at this
PR's head the claim that `experts_implementation="eager"` reproduces
main): PTQ of Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B with recipe
`general/ptq/nvfp4_default-kv_fp8`, `calib_size` 512, calibration
sequence length 2048, `batch_size` 1, cnn_dailymail, without expert
parallelism (one process), on one NVIDIA GB200 (torch 2.11, transformers
5.13.0, CUDA 13.1). This PR at `27c5f77feac` with
`--experts_implementation eager`, against main at `99c3834f62c`, both
compared at zero tolerance. Later revisions of this PR leave its own
diff unchanged (a rebase) or change tests only.
| Scale kind | Tensors | Differing |
|---|---|---|
| `input_scale` | 18,624 | 0 |
| `weight_scale` | 18,624 | 0 |
| `weight_scale_2` | 18,624 | 0 |
| `k_scale` | 48 | 0 |
| `v_scale` | 48 | 0 |
- Review (juhi10071998), 2026-10-30: under transformers' own expert
parallelism the grouped forward sorts the rows routed to other ranks'
experts past `offs[-1]`, which the grouped GEMM neither reads nor
writes; before transformers 5.17 nothing zeroes them in the down
projection's input, so its input quantizer calibrated on uninitialized
rows. While an input quantizer collects statistics it now sees only the
rows before `offs[-1]` (a host sync, during calibration only). A test
hands the grouped projections a NaN or a large finite tail, as pre-5.17
expert parallelism leaves it, and checks the input amaxes match a run
without one; both cases fail without the change.
`test_fused_experts.py`, `test_moe_a2a.py`, `test_calib.py` and
`test_hf_ptq_args.py` pass on transformers 5.18 (307) and 5.5.4 (301, 6
skipped); pre-commit passes against main.
- Rebased on 2026-10-30 onto main `059588b89a5` (after #3131, #3124,
#2751, #3104, #3128, #3134 and #3149 merged), with its own diff
unchanged and no conflicts. pre-commit passes against main.
### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"
- Is this change backward compatible?: ❌ Fused-experts MoE calibration
now runs on `grouped_mm`, so some activation scales differ from earlier
releases; `experts_implementation="eager"` restores the earlier
checkpoint exactly.
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
✅ Backward Breaking Changes.
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ✅ At `042e4bf1e55`; the
error-message change after it is from that review.
### Additional Information
Split out of #2745 (part 3 of 21 of expert-parallel PTQ for Hugging Face
MoE models), which merged on 2026-10-28.
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
* **Behavior Changes**
* Hugging Face MoE calibration now uses Transformers’ default
`grouped_mm` backend instead of forcing eager execution. Calibrated
activation scales may differ; set `experts_implementation="eager"` to
use the earlier calibration behavior.
* Eager-only expert wrappers continue to use eager execution. Using them
with `torch_a2a` raises an error.
* **Bug Fixes**
* Improved calibration support for grouped and expert-parallel
execution, including local expert weights and experts receiving no
routed inputs.
* Calibration now reports when fused experts run without interception or
required inputs are not captured.
* Improved FSDP2 parameter handling during weight access and writeback.
* **New Features**
* Added calibration support for newer Transformers fused-expert
implementations, including Qwen3-MoE and native FP8 experts.
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