Carry unplaced checkpoint weights using the loader's accounting, replacing MTP name-matching - #2427
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hf_ptq found MTP weights by name: a predicate of `"mtp" in key` plus config-derived layer indices, backed by a support matrix of three storage conventions. Every architecture that spells it differently is a silent miss, and a miss means a checkpoint exported without a component its own config still advertises -- the failure is quiet on both sides, since Transformers drops unexpected keys and vLLM's loader is pull-based. Transformers already computes this set while loading. `from_pretrained(..., output_loading_info=True)` reports `unexpected_keys` -- "keys that are found in the checkpoints, but not expected in the model's architecture" -- which is the carry-over set, derived structurally rather than by naming, and already accounting for on-the-fly key conversion that a set re-derived afterwards would have to replay. Record those keys at load; carry them at export. Weights the loader did place go through the normal export path unchanged. Removes as now redundant: load_mtp_weights, mtp_layer_prefixes_from_checkpoint, get_inlined_mtp_prefixes, _load_tensors_matching, _apply_to_model_state_dict, _keys_to_prefixes, _add_mtp_exclusions and its three call sites, the pre-quant `enable: False` entries hf_ptq appended to the recipe's quant_cfg, and the dead _mtp_layer_prefixes fallback in _get_num_nextn_predict_layers. Two deliberate behavioural changes. MTP now follows the recipe instead of being force-excluded by the script, which is what examples/megatron_bridge already does -- it has no MTP-specific code at all. And quantization_config.ignore can no longer claim a layer is unquantized that the export in fact quantized: that contradiction came from _add_mtp_exclusions firing off an attribute with no cross-check against quantizer state. Recipes importing configs/ptq/units/default_disabled_quantizers still disable mtp.*, so their behaviour is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
…sing them An off-index safetensors file is not different in kind from any other file save_pretrained does not touch. The loader opens only the shards named in model.safetensors.index.json (or model.safetensors when there is no index), so a standalone mtp.safetensors -- how GLM-4.7 ships its MTP head -- is never read, never quantized, and never reported as an unexpected key. Measured against a real from_pretrained, not assumed: an inlined layer index, an indexed tail shard and a non-MTP orphan are all reported; an off-index file yields nothing. So copy it, rather than reading its tensors into a state dict and writing them back out. Copying costs no host memory for weights the export does not touch, preserves the bytes and file layout exactly, and leaves the filename a consumer looks for where it was -- vLLM finds the MTP sidecar by name. copy_custom_model_files already copied every non-safetensors sidecar; it excluded *.safetensors wholesale to avoid re-emitting the unquantized source weights. That exclusion is right for the shards the loader reads and wrong for the ones it does not, so the off-index set is copied alongside the other sidecars. Carry-over via extra_state_dict stays for what it is actually needed for: keys inside shards the loader did read and could not place. Those share a file with weights that were quantized, so the file cannot be copied whole. The two mechanisms are disjoint by construction. Files named like a main weight shard are excluded from the off-index set whatever the index says, so an empty or malformed weight_map cannot make the source weights look like sidecars and copy them into an export beside the quantized ones. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
tests/examples/hf_ptq/test_carry_over_layouts.py drives a real from_pretrained against a tiny model for each convention the deleted name-matching supported -- an inlined layer past num_hidden_layers (GLM-5.1, DeepSeek-V3), a standalone off-index file (GLM-4.7), an indexed mtp.* tail shard (Qwen3-Next) -- plus an auxiliary tower, to show nothing is keyed to the string "mtp". Two layouts at once asserts a tensor is never both copied and carried, which would export it twice, and an indexed shard is asserted never to be copied. CPU-only and small: the mechanism is bookkeeping during load, so a GPU adds nothing to it. The export side already has GPU coverage in tests/gpu/torch/export/test_export_carry_over.py. The six load_mtp_weights tests are replaced by three on the recording path, and the get_model test doubles now model output_loading_info the way Transformers does, returning (model, loading_info) only when it is requested. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
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`test_parallel_load_and_export[cpu_offload=True]` failed with "No backend type associated with device type cpu": under `cpu_offload` the FSDP2 local shards sit on CPU, and exporting gathers them via `DTensor.redistribute`, so the all-gather dispatches on CPU tensors. The harness initialized the PG as bare "nccl", which registers no CPU backend. Production never hits this -- `modelopt.torch.utils.distributed.setup` already initializes "cpu:gloo,cuda:nccl", and `fsdp2_weight_access_and_writeback_context` explicitly expects the gathered shard to come back on CPU and mirrors it to GPU. So this was the harness diverging from how modelopt actually sets up the PG, not a library bug. Init the same way in tests. CUDA collectives still route to NCCL, so this is additive. Verified against test_distributed, test_fsdp2_export, test_fsdp2, test_fsdp, test_fsdp_save_restore, test_transformers_tp and test_dist: no result changes, and the three failures in that set (test_fsdp2_streaming_export_matches_reference[nvfp4/fp8], test_transformers_tp) reproduce identically on main. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
Two failures in CI, both mine. sanitize_hf_config_for_deployment used to fall back to counting a model's _mtp_layer_prefixes when the config carried no num_nextn_predict_layers. This branch removes the MTP-specific handling that set that attribute, so the fallback had no producer left and went with it -- but its two tests stayed behind, constructing the attribute by hand and asserting on a code path that no longer exists. Nothing in modelopt/ or examples/ sets or reads _mtp_layer_prefixes now, so the tests go too. The rest is ruff-format over five files; ruff check was clean but I had not run the formatter, which pre-commit does. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
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mypy caught that `keys` is `Any | None` where the except block calls `len` on it, and it is right that this is reachable: the failure can land before `keys` is resolved -- a failed safetensors import, or unplaced_source_keys itself raising -- and then the handler throws TypeError from inside itself. That handler exists precisely so a checkpoint it cannot re-read warns instead of taking the export down with it, so it must not be the thing that crashes. The count is now only included when it is actually known. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
Codecov put this branch's patch coverage at 12%, and while the carry-over path is exercised by the GPU and examples tests, those do not feed the unit flag -- and more to the point, three of these functions had no test naming them at all. They were only ever reached sideways through an end-to-end export. off_index_safetensors_files is the worst offender: it reads an index file and filters a directory listing, so it needs neither a GPU nor a model, and it is where the nastiest bug in this branch already surfaced -- an empty or partial weight_map made the real model shards look like off-index sidecars, which would have copied the unquantized source weights into the export to sit beside the quantized ones. That is a checkpoint that loads and is quietly wrong. It now has a parametrized test over empty, absent and partial weight maps. Also covered: that a sidecar is found and an indexed shard is not, that results are sorted, that a missing directory is not an error, that the copy preserves bytes and refuses to overwrite what the export already wrote, that recording an EMPTY unplaced-key list is an answer rather than "nobody asked" (the export re-derives only when the attribute is absent), and that the carry-over handler survives failing before the keys are known -- the len(None) crash mypy caught, where the handler that exists to keep the export standing would have thrown. Both bug-guarding tests were checked by reverting each fix and confirming they fail, then restoring. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
partial-install (torch) installs neither accelerate nor transformers, and two of
the new carry-over tests failed there.
The cause is structural rather than incidental. _carry_over_unplaced_source_weights
imports model_load_utils inside its try block, before it inspects the recorded
keys, and model_load_utils imports accelerate at module scope. With accelerate
missing, every call raises ImportError, gets caught by the best-effort handler,
warns and returns {}.
So one test failed on the returned {} and one on its own explicit import -- but
the more interesting part is that the other four PASSED, by short-circuiting
through the ImportError without touching the logic they are named for. A test
that passes for the wrong reason is worse than one that is skipped, so all six
are now guarded rather than just the two that went red.
This is not a gap in the feature: the loader that records those keys lives in the
same module and needs accelerate too, so on a torch-only install there is nothing
recorded to carry over in the first place.
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Comment — the design (loader accounting + verbatim sidecar copy) is well argued and reuses existing helpers, but the new carry-over is skipped entirely on the layerwise export path and the fallback misfires on common non-safetensors checkpoints.
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- Move the
_carry_over_unplaced_source_weightscall inunified_export_hf.pyabove theLAYERWISE_EXPORTER_ATTRearly return (or pass the result intofinalize): layerwise export used to receive MTP viaextra_state_dictand now drops it. See inline. - Guard the provenance fallback so a local
pytorch_model.bincheckpoint does not makeweight_map_forraise and emit "the checkpoint will be missing them" on every export. See inline. - Explain in the PR body how a carried, never-quantized MTP head reaches
quantization_config.ignorenow that_add_mtp_exclusionsis gone — unplaced weights have no module, soget_quant_configcannot list them. - Fix
@pytest.mark.timeout(600)intests/gpu/torch/export/test_export_carry_over.py: it decorates the helper_safetensors_meta, not a test; also drop unused_PACKED_DTYPES. - De-duplicate the copied-sidecar prints in
example_utils.copy_custom_model_files. See inline.
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load_mtp_weights/_count_mtp_layer_prefixestests are justified — the code under test is deleted and replaced with new coverage.
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This runs after the layerwise early return at the top of export_hf_checkpoint (exporter.finalize(extra_state_dict=extra_state_dict); return), so --layerwise_export runs never carry anything over. Previously hf_ptq computed mtp_state_dict before the call and it reached LayerwiseExporter.finalize(extra_state_dict=...), whose docstring still describes carrying MTP weights. Either compute _carried before the dispatch and merge it into the finalize argument, or call it inside finalize.
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The keys is None fallback now fires for every model whose config._name_or_path is a local directory — including checkpoints with no safetensors at all (pytorch_model.bin). weight_map_for raises RuntimeError in that case, which the broad except turns into a UserWarning saying "the checkpoint will be missing them" even though there was nothing to carry. Please short-circuit when no safetensors index/file exists (or catch that specific case silently).
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copied_weights is printed here and again in the for file_name in copied_files loop below after the concatenation, so each off-index sidecar is announced twice with different wording. Drop this loop and let the shared loop report them (or exclude them from copied_files).
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--vllm_fakequant_exportis set,export_hf_vllm_fq_checkpointsaves the model-backed state and does not call_carry_over_unplaced_source_weights. That helper reads_modelopt_unplaced_source_keysfrom the indexed source checkpoint. Therefore, an unplaced source tensor can be omitted from the exported checkpoint. Carry these tensors through the fake-quant exporter, or reject this option when such tensors are present.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@examples/hf_ptq/example_utils.py`:
- Line 619: Update the checkpoint provenance passed to
record_unplaced_source_keys so it uses the resolved local snapshot directory
from from_pretrained rather than the original Hub ID; ensure
_carry_over_unplaced_source_weights receives a path accepted by weight_map_for
and preserves export of recorded in-index weights.
In `@modelopt/torch/export/plugins/hf_checkpoint_utils.py`:
- Line 342: Update copy_off_index_safetensors to resolve each selected source
path and verify it is a regular, non-symlink file before calling shutil.copy2;
reject invalid or symlinked checkpoint entries rather than copying them.
In `@modelopt/torch/export/unified_export_hf.py`:
- Line 1724: Update export_hf_checkpoint so
_carry_over_unplaced_source_weights(model) runs before the layerwise return
path, and merge its result into extra_state_dict before passing that dictionary
to exporter.finalize. Preserve the existing behavior for non-layerwise exports
and avoid carrying weights after finalize.
In `@tests/gpu/torch/export/test_export_carry_over.py`:
- Line 106: Move the Transformers imports, including AutoModelForCausalLM, from
the worker helper functions to module scope in test_export_carry_over.py. Remove
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- Around line 996-999: The vllm fake-quant export path must preserve unplaced
source weights. Update the flow around export_hf_vllm_fq_checkpoint to carry
tensors identified by _modelopt_unplaced_source_keys from the indexed source
checkpoint into the exported checkpoint, or validate and reject
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| model, loading_info = auto_class.from_pretrained(ckpt_path, output_loading_info=True, **kwargs) | ||
| unexpected = loading_info.get("unexpected_keys") or [] | ||
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Record the resolved local checkpoint path.
When ckpt_path is a Hub ID such as org/model, this call records that ID instead of the local snapshot directory. _carry_over_unplaced_source_weights then calls weight_map_for with the Hub ID. That call fails because weight_map_for requires local safetensors files. The export warns and omits all recorded in-index weights.
Record the local snapshot directory that from_pretrained used, or resolve the recorded provenance before export.
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In `@examples/hf_ptq/example_utils.py` at line 619, Update the checkpoint
provenance passed to record_unplaced_source_keys so it uses the resolved local
snapshot directory from from_pretrained rather than the original Hub ID; ensure
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Reject symlinked checkpoint entries before copying. copy_off_index_safetensors passes selected names directly to shutil.copy2, which follows symlinks. A crafted checkpoint can therefore copy an unapproved readable file into the export. Validate the resolved source path and require regular-file metadata before copying.
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/plugins/hf_checkpoint_utils.py` at line 342, Update
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Carry over unplaced source weights before the layerwise return.
export_hf_checkpoint calls exporter.finalize(extra_state_dict=extra_state_dict) and returns before _carry_over_unplaced_source_weights(model). LayerwiseExporter.finalize only writes the supplied extra_state_dict; it does not read _modelopt_unplaced_source_keys or _modelopt_source_checkpoint. Layerwise exports can therefore omit unplaced source weights.
Move the carry-over before the layerwise branch and merge it into extra_state_dict.
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export_hf_checkpoint so _carry_over_unplaced_source_weights(model) runs before
the layerwise return path, and merge its result into extra_state_dict before
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Move the Transformers imports to module scope.
CONTRIBUTING.md requires module-scope imports unless a local import has a documented circular-import, optional-dependency, or unusually-heavy-import reason. These worker helpers provide no such justification. The imports are safe to move because transformers_models already imports Transformers during collection, and the spawned worker initializes its process group before loading the callback module.
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Transformers imports, including AutoModelForCausalLM, from the worker helper
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Type of change: bug fix + new tests
Replaces
hf_ptq's name-based MTP detection with the Transformers loader's own accounting of what it could not place.The problem
load_mtp_weightsfound MTP weights by name —"mtp" in keyplus config-derived layer indices — backed by a support matrix of three storage conventions (GLM-5.1 inlined, GLM-4.7 standalone file, Qwen3-Next tail shard). Every architecture that spells it differently is a silent miss, and a miss means a checkpoint exported without a component its own config still advertises. The failure is quiet on both sides: Transformers drops unexpected keys, and vLLM's weight loading is pull-based, so a missing MTP produces no warning at all.The fix
from_pretrained(..., output_loading_info=True)reportsunexpected_keys— "keys that are found in the checkpoints, but not expected in the model's architecture" — which is exactly the carry-over set, derived structurally rather than by naming, and already accounting for on-the-fly key conversion that a set re-derived afterwards would have to replay. Record those keys at load; carry them at export. Weights the loader did place go through the normal export path unchanged.Two mechanisms, disjoint by construction
Measured against a real
from_pretrained, an off-index file reports nothing: the loader opens only shards named inmodel.safetensors.index.json, so it never saw those tensors to call them unexpected. Those are sidecars, not weights — untouched by quantization and absent from the export — so they are copied verbatim, which costs no host memory, preserves the bytes and file layout, and leaves the filename a consumer looks for where it was.num_hidden_layers(GLM-5.1, DeepSeek-V3)extra_state_dictmtp.*tail shard (Qwen3-Next)extra_state_dictA tensor is never both copied and carried; that would export it twice, and a test asserts it.
Removed as redundant
load_mtp_weights,mtp_layer_prefixes_from_checkpoint,get_inlined_mtp_prefixes,_load_tensors_matching,_apply_to_model_state_dict,_keys_to_prefixes,_add_mtp_exclusionsand its three call sites, the pre-quantizationenable: Falseentrieshf_ptqappended to the recipe'squant_cfg, and the dead_mtp_layer_prefixesfallback in_get_num_nextn_predict_layers.Two deliberate behavioural changes
MTP now follows the recipe instead of being force-excluded by the script — which is what
examples/megatron_bridgealready does; it has no MTP-specific code at all. Recipes importingconfigs/ptq/units/default_disabled_quantizersstill disablemtp.*, so their behaviour is unchanged; a recipe omitting that unit will now quantize an MTP the model actually built.quantization_config.ignorecan no longer claim a layer is unquantized that the export in fact quantized. That contradiction came from_add_mtp_exclusionsfiring off a model attribute with no cross-check against quantizer state.Usage
No API change for callers of
export_hf_checkpoint. Withinexamples/hf_ptq, model loading now goes through a wrapper that records the loader's accounting:Testing
tests/examples/hf_ptq/test_carry_over_layouts.py— 8 tests driving a realfrom_pretrainedagainst a tiny model, covering each of the three conventions above plus an auxiliary (non-MTP) tower, two layouts at once, a checkpoint with nothing stray, and that indexed shards are never copied. CPU-only: the mechanism is bookkeeping during load, so a GPU adds nothing; the export side already has GPU coverage intests/gpu/torch/export/test_export_carry_over.py.The six
load_mtp_weightstests are replaced by three on the recording path, and theget_modeltest doubles now modeloutput_loading_infothe way Transformers does.All passing: 8 layout tests, 82 in the surrounding
examples/hf_ptqsuite.rufffindings at parity withmainon every changed file.Files named like a main weight shard are excluded from the off-index set whatever the index says — a fixture with an empty
weight_mapwould otherwise have made the source weights look like sidecars and copied them into an export beside the quantized ones.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
quantization_config.ignoreno longer lists layers the export may have quantized. Shipped recipes are unaffected; see the Changelog entry.CONTRIBUTING.md: N/AAdditional Information
Draft: the behavioural change to MTP quantization is the part most worth a second opinion — it aligns
hf_ptqwithmegatron_bridge, which special-cases nothing.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Behavior Changes
Bug Fixes