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Type of change: new feature

Adds a reusable NVFP4 W4A4 local-Hessian PTQ recipe and a checkpoint-specific recipe for Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B.

The checkpoint recipe reproduces the validated 5.5-bit NVFP4-max AutoQuantize assignment: NVFP4 W4A4 for MLP projections and lm_head, FP8 W8A8 for self-attention and large linear-attention projections, and no quantization for the vision tower, MTP layers, KV cache, or linear_attn.in_proj_a/b.

This PR is stacked on #2339.

Usage

cd examples/hf_ptq
python hf_ptq.py \
  --pyt_ckpt_path Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B \
  --recipe models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/autoquant_nvfp4_max_5p5bits_local_hessian \
  --export_path <quantized_ckpt_path>

Local-Hessian calibration currently requires a single-rank run.

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  • pytest tests/unit/recipe/test_loader.py tests/unit/recipe/test_recipe_docs.py -q -x — 321 passed
  • Loaded and resolved both added recipes.
  • Compared the Qwen recipe against the final checkpoint hf_quant_config.json; all 401 quantized modules matched the expected FP8/NVFP4 formats.

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  • New Features

    • Added reusable NVFP4 W4A4 post-training quantization recipes with local-Hessian calibration and FP8 scale sweeping.
    • Added Qwen3.8-27B recipes supporting mixed NVFP4/FP8 quantization, including AutoQuantize-derived assignments.
    • Added configuration options for layerwise quantization, dynamic activations, static weight scales, and selective component coverage.
  • Documentation

    • Updated the PTQ recipe catalog and changelog to accurately describe the new recipes and model configurations.
    • Documented the single-rank calibration requirement for local-Hessian calibration.

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The PR adds a reusable local-Hessian NVFP4 PTQ recipe and two Qwen3.8-27B NVFP4/FP8 recipes. It updates the PTQ documentation and changelog.

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NVFP4 PTQ recipes

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reusable local-Hessian PTQ recipe
modelopt_recipes/general/ptq/nvfp4_default-kv_none-local_hessian.yaml
Adds an NVFP4 W4A4 recipe with imported preset settings, static weight scales, dynamic inputs, disabled KV quantizers, and an FP8 scale sweep.
Qwen3.8-27B quantization assignment
modelopt_recipes/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/nvfp4_w4a4_mlp_fp8_attn_max.yaml
Adds NVFP4 assignments for MLP projections and lm_head, FP8 assignments for self-attention and linear-attention projections, and disables selected linear-attention input projections.
Qwen3.8-27B local-Hessian wiring
modelopt_recipes/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/nvfp4_w4a4_mlp_fp8_attn_local_hessian.yaml
Adds local-Hessian calibration, FP8 scale sweeping, layerwise quantization, and preceding-layer activation collection.
Recipe catalog and release description
modelopt_recipes/ptq.md, CHANGELOG.rst
Adds the 26th general recipe, documents the Qwen3.8-27B recipe and single-rank calibration limit, and identifies the recipe used for nvidia/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4.

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- **`models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/local_hessian_nvfp4_w4a4_mlp_fp8_attn`**
reproduces the 5.5-bit NVFP4-max AutoQuantize assignment for `Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B`:
MLP projections and `lm_head` use NVFP4 W4A4, self-attention and the large
linear-attention projections use FP8 W8A8, and the vision tower, MTP layers,
KV cache, and `linear_attn.in_proj_a/b` remain unquantized. Static NVFP4 weight
scales use local-Hessian calibration with an FP8-scale sweep.

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- **`models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/local_hessian_nvfp4_w4a4_mlp_fp8_attn`**
reproduces the 5.5-bit NVFP4-max AutoQuantize assignment for `Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B`:
MLP projections and `lm_head` use NVFP4 W4A4, self-attention and the large
linear-attention projections use FP8 W8A8, and the vision tower, MTP layers,
KV cache, and `linear_attn.in_proj_a/b` remain unquantized. Static NVFP4 weight
scales use local-Hessian calibration with an FP8-scale sweep.
- **`models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/local_hessian_nvfp4_w4a4_mlp_fp8_attn`**
reproduces NVFP4 W4A4 mixed precision quantization recipe used for `Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B`:
MLP projections and `lm_head` use NVFP4 W4A4, self-attention and the large
linear-attention projections use FP8 W8A8, and the vision tower, MTP layers,
KV cache, and `linear_attn.in_proj_a/b` remain unquantized. Static NVFP4 weight
scales are calibrated with local-Hessian algorithm.

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Renamed the local-Hessian recipe to nvfp4_w4a4_mlp_fp8_attn_local_hessian.yaml and updated its base/reference paths in 8785c97379.

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🟠 Major · Guard local_hessian against multi-rank calibration.

modelopt_recipes/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/nvfp4_w4a4_mlp_fp8_attn_local_hessian.yaml:26-32
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Guard local_hessian against multi-rank calibration. hf_ptq.py --use_fsdp2 accepts this PTQ recipe under torchrun, but local_hessian_calibrate only synchronizes the initial amax values. Its Hessian accumulators remain rank-local, and the function continues with refined amax search after issuing only a warning. This can produce rank-dependent weight scales and inconsistent quantization artifacts. Add a fail-fast world-size check or enforce the single-rank restriction for this recipe.

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@coderabbitai Thanks for flagging this. Enforcing the distributed single-rank constraint belongs in the generic local_hessian_calibrate() implementation and is outside the recipe-focused scope of this PR. The current recipe documentation already states that local-Hessian calibration is single-rank-only, so we are deferring runtime enforcement to a dedicated follow-up.

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# These projections were excluded from the AutoQuantize search but match the
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Addressed in 2312b03aed by removing the explanatory comment while keeping the disable rules unchanged.

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- Add ``layerwise.export_dir``: layerwise calibration writes each decoder layer to its own quantized checkpoint shard as it finishes, so no separate ``export_hf_checkpoint()`` pass is needed and, with ``layerwise.checkpoint_dir``, an interrupted run resumes without redoing finished layers. Calibration writes the layer shards; ``finalize()`` on the exporter left on the model adds the tail shard, the index and the config artifacts, and the checkpoint does not load until it runs. ``examples/hf_ptq`` does this for you. Supports FP8 and NVFP4 on single-process models, resident or offloaded, including multimodal models and models with MTP layers; other formats and placements raise ``NotImplementedError`` before calibration starts.
- Add support for quantizing and calibrating enabled operators outside the transformer layers, such as ``lm_head``, when using layerwise calibration.
- Add an end-to-end BEVFormer ONNX PTQ example with temporal calibration data generation, INT8 and FP8 quantization, TensorRT engine building, and nuScenes accuracy evaluation. See `examples/onnx_ptq/bevformer/README.md <https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/tree/main/examples/onnx_ptq/bevformer>`_ for details.
- Add a reusable local-Hessian NVFP4 PTQ recipe and a Qwen3.8-27B checkpoint recipe that reproduces its 5.5-bit AutoQuantize NVFP4/FP8 assignment.

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- Add a reusable local-Hessian NVFP4 PTQ recipe and a Qwen3.8-27B checkpoint recipe that reproduces its 5.5-bit AutoQuantize NVFP4/FP8 assignment.
- Add a reusable local-Hessian NVFP4 PTQ recipe and the quantization recipe used for `nvidia/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4`.

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Addressed in 2312b03aed. I updated the changelog to reference the quantization recipe used for nvidia/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 (using RST inline-code syntax).

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@@ -393,6 +399,12 @@ checkpoint's** quant config verbatim:
`nvidia/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B-NVFP4`: decoder MLP layers 4–86 use NVFP4
W4A4, edge MLP layers 0–3 and 87 use FP8 W8A8, and all attention projections
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- **`models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/nvfp4_w4a4_mlp_fp8_attn_local_hessian`**
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reproduces NVFP4 W4A4 mixed precision quantization recipe used for `Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B`:
reproduces NVFP4 W4A4 mixed precision quantization recipe used for `nvidia/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4`:

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Addressed in 2312b03aed. The PTQ documentation now names nvidia/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4.

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linear-attention projections use FP8 W8A8, and the vision tower, MTP layers,
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linear-attention projections use FP8 W8A8, and the vision tower, MTP layers,
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Addressed in 2312b03aed by removing the unquantized-components clause and keeping the static-weight calibration description.

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@@ -393,6 +399,11 @@ checkpoint's** quant config verbatim:
`nvidia/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B-NVFP4`: decoder MLP layers 4–86 use NVFP4
W4A4, edge MLP layers 0–3 and 87 use FP8 W8A8, and all attention projections
and the KV cache use FP8. It uses max calibration.
- **`models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/nvfp4_w4a4_mlp_fp8_attn_local_hessian`**
reproduces NVFP4 W4A4 mixed precision quantization recipe used for `nvidia/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4`:
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MLP projections and `lm_head` use NVFP4 W4A4, self-attention and the large
MLP projections and `lm_head` use NVFP4 W4A4, self-attention and

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### What does this PR do?

Type of change: documentation

Adds a Local Hessian announcement blog at
`docs/source/announcements/local-hessian.rst`, covering the NVFP4
per-block
weight-scale rule that minimizes output error instead of weight error.

Contents:

- Derivation of the per-block output-error objective and its `16x16`
local
  Hessian, with numbered equations.
- Results on Qwen3.5-9B: scale-setting comparison against max, MSE, and
  Four-over-six, plus composition with GPTQ.
- Figure 1, a grouped bar chart of the Qwen3.8-27B W4A4 candidate scores
  (BF16 in gray, the two scale rules in NVIDIA greens).
- A "Using Local Hessian" section with the config example and the
  end-to-end `hf_ptq.py` command.

Two supporting changes outside the blog:

- `docs/source/_static/announcements.css`: the `shibuya` theme has no
`span.eqno` rule, so Sphinx's default `float: right` on equation numbers
cannot share a line with MathJax's full-width display block and the
number
renders *above* the equation. This anchors it to the right of the
equation
  instead, and shrinks the table-note class.
-
`docs/source/announcements/assets/qwen3-27b-w4a4-scale-rule-accuracy.png`:
  the Figure 1 asset.

### Usage

```python
import modelopt.torch.quantization as mtq

config = {
    "quant_cfg": [...],  # quantizer configuration
    "algorithm": {"method": "local_hessian", "fp8_scale_sweep": True},
}

model = mtq.quantize(model, config, forward_loop)
```

### Testing

Documentation only; no code paths change. The `.rst` parses cleanly
under
docutils. The rendered page has not been checked with a full
`sphinx-build`,
so the equation-number CSS fix and the figure placement are worth an
eyeball
on the built docs before merge.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Is this change backward compatible?: N/A
- 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?: N/A
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
N/A
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌

### Additional Information

Two items to settle before this is ready to publish:

1. The `--recipe` example points at

`modelopt_recipes/models/Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B/ptq/nvfp4_local_hessian-fp8_attn-kv_fp8_cast.yaml`,
a placeholder path derived from the existing recipe naming convention.
It
   needs to match whatever lands in #2363.
2. The tables report single-run team measurements; the blog says so and
makes
   no significance claims.

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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **Documentation**
- Added guidance on NVFP4 Local-Hessian weight-scale selection,
including mathematical details, accuracy comparisons, runtime
considerations, limitations, configuration examples, and reproduction
steps.
- Updated announcement labels, headings, metadata, descriptions, and
filtering text to use “Local-Hessian.”

- **Style**
- Improved announcement formatting for equation labels, display-equation
spacing, Hessian results, table headers, and explanatory notes.

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