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llama.cpp defines five IQ formats at one and two bits; we shipped two of them. On a real mixed-precision checkpoint (unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF) the three missing ones cover 93 tensors and 4.66B parameters, 17.3% of the file, so a reader limited to IQ1_S and IQ2_XS cannot consume it. Each format follows the existing single-pass grid search at a fixed anchored super-block scale. They differ in ways worth naming: * IQ2_XXS packs a 4-bit sub-block scale into the same word as four 7-bit sign indices, and its 256-entry grid needs no high index bits. * IQ2_S stores a full 8-bit sign mask per group rather than the 7-bit parity-coded index, so the encoder takes the input signs directly instead of flipping the weakest element to fix parity. * IQ1_M has no ``d`` field at all: the FP16 super-block scale is reassembled from the top nibble of each of four scale words. It is also finer grained than IQ1_S, with a local scale per two groups and a delta shift per group. Export previously spelled the family as a two-element tuple at nine sites. Replace those with an IQ_FORMATS frozenset plus per-format packer and block geometry tables, so a sixth format is a row rather than a sweep. Decoders are validated against the llama.cpp checkpoint itself, not just round-tripped: IQ2_XXS over 11,100,160 blocks, IQ1_M over 4,730,880 and IQ2_S over 2,355,200, all bit-identical to dequantize_row_* output. The new codebooks match the ggml-common.h tables entry for entry. Blocks lifted from that checkpoint ship as conformance vectors so CI keeps checking bytes we did not produce; mutation testing confirms they catch a mis-set scale nibble and a wrong sign-field width. There is no CUDA encoder for these three yet, so packing runs the torch search. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds IQ1_M, IQ2_S, and IQ2_XXS quantization with Torch and CUDA packers. It extends GGML format handling in fake quantization and unified export, adds PTQ recipes, and adds conformance and CUDA tests for all five supported IQ formats. ChangesGGML IQ expansion
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participant QuantizeIQ as quantize_iq2_s
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QuantizeIQ->>Extension: obtain GGML CUDA extension
QuantizeIQ->>Binding: pass blocks, grid, and predicted scales
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Kernel-->>QuantizeIQ: return packed byte blocks
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/quant_format.py`:
- Around line 48-56: Update convert_hf_quant_config_format and
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Add all new IQ formats to the HF configuration converter.
IQ_FORMATS sends IQ1_M, IQ2_XXS, and IQ2_S through both unified exporters. However, convert_hf_quant_config_format() handles only IQ1_S and IQ2_XS.
For a uniform export, config.json therefore omits group_size, effective_bits, packing, and block_payload_bytes. For mixed-precision exports, _quant_algo_to_group_config() returns only {"quant_algo": ...} for the new formats. Consumers cannot determine the packed IQ block geometry from the exported configuration.
Add all five IQ formats to the converter and map each format to its own GGML block metadata.
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from modelopt.torch.quantization.ggml import (
+ IQ1_M_BLOCK_BYTES,
+ IQ1_M_BLOCK_SIZE,
+ IQ1_M_EFFECTIVE_BITS,
IQ1_S_BLOCK_BYTES,
IQ1_S_BLOCK_SIZE,
IQ1_S_EFFECTIVE_BITS,
+ IQ2_S_BLOCK_BYTES,
+ IQ2_S_BLOCK_SIZE,
+ IQ2_S_EFFECTIVE_BITS,
IQ2_XS_BLOCK_BYTES,
IQ2_XS_BLOCK_SIZE,
IQ2_XS_EFFECTIVE_BITS,
+ IQ2_XXS_BLOCK_BYTES,
+ IQ2_XXS_BLOCK_SIZE,
+ IQ2_XXS_EFFECTIVE_BITS,
)
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- elif quant_algo in ("IQ1_S", "IQ2_XS"):
- if quant_algo == "IQ1_S":
- block_size = IQ1_S_BLOCK_SIZE
- payload_bytes = IQ1_S_BLOCK_BYTES
- effective_bits = IQ1_S_EFFECTIVE_BITS
- else:
- block_size = IQ2_XS_BLOCK_SIZE
- payload_bytes = IQ2_XS_BLOCK_BYTES
- effective_bits = IQ2_XS_EFFECTIVE_BITS
+ elif quant_algo in ("IQ1_S", "IQ1_M", "IQ2_XXS", "IQ2_XS", "IQ2_S"):
+ block_size, payload_bytes, effective_bits = {
+ "IQ1_S": (IQ1_S_BLOCK_SIZE, IQ1_S_BLOCK_BYTES, IQ1_S_EFFECTIVE_BITS),
+ "IQ1_M": (IQ1_M_BLOCK_SIZE, IQ1_M_BLOCK_BYTES, IQ1_M_EFFECTIVE_BITS),
+ "IQ2_XXS": (IQ2_XXS_BLOCK_SIZE, IQ2_XXS_BLOCK_BYTES, IQ2_XXS_EFFECTIVE_BITS),
+ "IQ2_XS": (IQ2_XS_BLOCK_SIZE, IQ2_XS_BLOCK_BYTES, IQ2_XS_EFFECTIVE_BITS),
+ "IQ2_S": (IQ2_S_BLOCK_SIZE, IQ2_S_BLOCK_BYTES, IQ2_S_EFFECTIVE_BITS),
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IQ1_M inherited IQ1_S's flat 0.61 anchor when it was added. The reference predictor these encoders follow anchors IQ1_M differently: the ratio rises with a block's peak-to-RMS instead of being flat, and is allowed closer to full range, clamp(0.58 + 0.035 * peak_to_rms, 0.65, 0.95). Measured on 15 Qwen3.8-27B MLP weights, relative reconstruction MSE falls from 0.17372 to 0.17291, a consistent -0.47% on every tensor. Small, but the flat value was a guess and this one is not. The anchor is an encoder choice, so it changes quality without touching the layout: the llama.cpp conformance vectors decode identically either way, which is why they did not catch this. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
The PyTorch search these formats shipped with is correct but not usable at scale. Extrapolated to a 27B model it costs 81 minutes for IQ1_M, 42 for IQ2_XXS and about 9.8 hours for IQ2_S, against roughly a minute for the two formats that already had kernels -- IQ2_S is the worst because its search is the widest, 1024 grid entries against IQ2_XS's 512. Each kernel follows the existing per-block structure: one CUDA block encodes one GGML block, the codebook search is tiled across threads, and the tie-break key orders by error then codebook index so it matches the reference encoder. The format-specific parts are where they differ from IQ2_XS: * IQ2_XXS reuses the even-parity sign rule but packs a 4-bit sub-block scale into the same word as four 7-bit sign indices. * IQ2_S stores all eight signs, so it needs no parity correction and compares magnitudes directly. Its 1024-entry codebook exceeds the static shared memory limit, so the grid and its norms are dynamic shared memory. * IQ1_M has no leading scale field -- the FP16 scale is spread across the top nibble of four scale words -- and chooses its delta shift per group rather than per sub-block, so the shift sits above the entry index in the sort key to keep the reference tie-break. Its 2048-entry grid does not fit in shared memory at all, so it reads from global as IQ1_S does. Measured on a 5632x2048 weight: iq1_m 10.7 -> 309.8 M elem/s (29x) iq2_xxs 10.7 -> 1047.9 M elem/s (98x) iq2_s 0.8 -> 725.7 M elem/s (907x) CUDA and PyTorch outputs agree byte for byte on the large majority of blocks and diverge only where two local scales are within a float32 ULP of each other: over 12288 blocks, IQ2_XXS and IQ2_S at 0.000% and 0.008%, against 0.016% for the already-shipped IQ2_XS. Both encodings are equally good and decode identically, so this matches existing behaviour rather than adding to it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
The five IQ formats differ only in codebook size, payload layout and bits per weight, so anything asserted for one should hold for all. They were not tested that way: IQ1_S and IQ2_XS had a per-format file each while the three added formats shared a smaller one, and each side tested things the other did not. Replace the split with one parametrized module per layer -- unit and CUDA -- so a format is a row in a table and a new format inherits the whole contract. That closes gaps in both directions: the new formats gain the grid, metadata, payload-field, saturation, underflow, invalid-shape, scalar-payload and default-dtype checks; IQ1_S and IQ2_XS gain the determinism and at-scale reconstruction checks the newer ones had. Generalising the underflow test exposed a real asymmetry: the IQ1 formats divide by a native max of 16.875 against the IQ2 formats' 166.6, so the -1e-6 weight the IQ2_XS test used still yields an FP16 subnormal for IQ1 rather than a zero scale. That test had only ever existed for IQ2_XS, so the difference had never been visible. The shared test uses a magnitude that underflows all five. Two surface asymmetries go with it: IQ1_S now exposes _predict_iq1_s_scales like the other four instead of computing its anchor inline, and IQ1_M exposes iq1_m_grid aliasing the IQ1_S table it shares. Also add the recipes the three formats were missing -- numerics, model preset and general/ptq entry each -- so they are reachable by --recipe rather than only by num_bits, and add all five to the hf_ptq example matrix. general/ptq now holds 31 recipes; ptq.md is updated to match. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
The three formats now ship CUDA encoders and recipes, so the note about slow PyTorch packing no longer describes them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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| for name in sorted(NAMES, key=lambda n: FORMATS[n][3]): | ||
| quantizer = TensorQuantizer( | ||
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Fix the labels in the failure message.
The loop at Line 274 adds values to errors in bit-width order: iq1_s, iq1_m, iq2_xxs, iq2_xs, iq2_s. The assertion message at Line 280 pairs these values with sorted(NAMES), which is in alphabetical order: iq1_m, iq1_s, iq2_s, iq2_xs, iq2_xxs. If the assertion fails, the message attaches most error values to the wrong format. The failure is then hard to diagnose.
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- for name in sorted(NAMES, key=lambda n: FORMATS[n][3]):
+ ordered = sorted(NAMES, key=lambda n: FORMATS[n][3])
+ for name in ordered:
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QuantizerAttributeConfig(num_bits=name, block_sizes={-1: 256}, backend="ggml")
)
errors.append(float((quantizer(weight) - weight).square().mean()))
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| for name in sorted(NAMES, key=lambda n: FORMATS[n][3]): | |
| quantizer = TensorQuantizer( | |
| QuantizerAttributeConfig(num_bits=name, block_sizes={-1: 256}, backend="ggml") | |
| ) | |
| errors.append(float((quantizer(weight) - weight).square().mean())) | |
| assert errors == sorted(errors, reverse=True), dict(zip(sorted(NAMES), errors)) | |
| ordered = sorted(NAMES, key=lambda n: FORMATS[n][3]) | |
| for name in ordered: | |
| quantizer = TensorQuantizer( | |
| QuantizerAttributeConfig(num_bits=name, block_sizes={-1: 256}, backend="ggml") | |
| ) | |
| errors.append(float((quantizer(weight) - weight).square().mean())) | |
| assert errors == sorted(errors, reverse=True), dict(zip(ordered, errors)) |
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### What does this PR do? Type of change: new feature llama.cpp defines five GGML IQ formats at one and two bits; we ship two. This adds **IQ2_XXS** at 2.0625 bits per weight, between IQ1_S and IQ2_XS, and is the **first of three**. On a real mixed-precision checkpoint (`unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF`, `Qwen3.8-27B-UD-IQ1_S.gguf`) IQ2_XXS alone covers **59 tensors and 2.84 B parameters — 10.6% of the file**, which a reader limited to IQ1_S/IQ2_XS cannot consume. Across all three PRs the missing formats account for 17.3%. | format | bpw | bytes/256 | codebook | | |---|---|---|---|---| | `iq1_s` | 1.5625 | 50 | `iq1s_grid` (2048) | existing | | **`iq2_xxs`** | **2.0625** | **66** | **`iq2xxs_grid` (256)** | **this PR** | | `iq2_xs` | 2.3125 | 74 | `iq2xs_grid` (512) | existing | The encoder follows the existing single-pass grid search at a fixed anchored super-block scale, and the CUDA kernel the existing per-block structure. IQ2_XXS reuses IQ2_XS's even-parity sign rule but packs a 4-bit sub-block scale into the same 32-bit word as four 7-bit sign indices, and its 256-entry grid needs no high index bits. ### Groundwork the next two reuse Two things land here because IQ2_XXS is the first format to need them: - **Export registry.** The IQ family was spelled as a two-element tuple at **nine** sites across `quant_utils.py`, `unified_export_hf.py` and `unified_export_megatron.py`. Those become an `IQ_FORMATS` frozenset plus per-format packer and block-geometry tables, so a format is a row rather than a sweep through the exporters. - **Shared test contract.** The per-format test files had drifted apart — each of `iq1_s` and `iq2_xs` tested things the other did not. They become one parametrized module per layer (unit and CUDA), so every format is held to the same contract and a new one inherits it. ### Usage ```bash python examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py --pyt_ckpt_path <model> --recipe general/ptq/iq2_xxs ``` ### Testing **The decoder is validated against llama.cpp's own output, not just round-tripped.** Every IQ2_XXS tensor in the checkpoint above, compared against `dequantize_row_iq2_xxs` from `ggml-quants.c`: ``` IQ2_XXS: 59 tensors, 11,100,160 blocks → 0 mismatched, max|diff| 0.0 ``` The new codebook matches the `ggml-common.h` table entry for entry, as does the `ksigns_iq2xs` sign table. Blocks lifted from that checkpoint ship as conformance vectors so CI keeps checking bytes we did not produce; mutation testing confirms they catch a wrong sign-field width. The CUDA encoder is byte-identical to the PyTorch reference on a fixed input and runs at **1047.9 M elem/s against the torch search's 10.7** on a 5632×2048 weight. - `tests/unit/torch/quantization/ -k 'ggml or iq1 or iq2 or iq_'` — 99 passed - `tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py` — 21 passed (7 checks × 3 formats) - `tests/unit/recipe/test_presets.py` — passing; `general/ptq` now holds 29 recipes, `ptq.md` updated - reconstruction error decreases monotonically with bit width, pinned by a test Pre-existing failures in `tests/unit/torch/export/` and `test_autoquant.py` are `transformers`/`torchvision` import problems in my environment — identical counts with and without this change. ### A finding about already-merged code Checking the new kernel against its PyTorch reference at 4096 blocks showed that **CUDA and torch encoders disagree on roughly 1 block in 6000 — including the already-merged `iq2_xs`**, at 0.0163% against IQ2_XXS's 0.0000%. Root cause: both compute `xnorm − 2·scale·dot + scale²·qnorm`, but CUDA fuses it with `fmaf` while torch uses separate ops; where two local scales fall within a float32 ULP the roundings pick different sides. Adjudicated against float64, neither path is better (5 to 6). Worst-case cost is **1.48e-08** relative reconstruction error, and run-to-run determinism on a given device holds. This is pre-existing, not introduced here — `test_iq2_xs_cuda.py` asserts exact byte parity but on a 16-block weight where ties essentially never arise. I have **not** changed that test; rewording a guarantee on merged code belongs in its own change. The new shared GPU tests assert exact parity on a small fixed input and compare reconstruction error at scale. ### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*" - Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ - If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: ✅ — the new codebook is a GGML table, carried in `codebooks.py` beside the existing ones so the MIT-licensed surface stays in that one file, with the source revision recorded. No new dependencies. - Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ - Did you update Changelog?: ✅ - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ — not yet run ### Additional Information First of three; **IQ2_S** and **IQ1_M** follow and build on this branch. Replaces #2505, which carried all three at once. Follows #2446 / #2447 / #2448 / #2449, which landed IQ1_S and IQ2_XS. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Added IQ2_XXS weight-only quantization, including CUDA acceleration and support for Hugging Face and Megatron exports. - Added the `general/ptq/iq2_xxs` recipe. It requires no calibration data and supports eligible layers with a weight dimension divisible by 256. - Updated the PTQ recipe catalog to list IQ1_S, IQ2_XXS, and IQ2_XS at approximately 1.56, 2.06, and 2.31 bits per weight, respectively. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Type of change: new feature
llama.cpp defines five GGML IQ formats at one and two bits; we shipped two. This adds the other three — IQ1_M, IQ2_XXS and IQ2_S — with CUDA encoders, recipes, and a test contract shared by all five.
The gap is not theoretical. On a real mixed-precision checkpoint (
unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF,Qwen3.8-27B-UD-IQ1_S.gguf) those three cover 93 tensors and 4.66 B parameters — 17.3% of the file, so a reader limited to IQ1_S/IQ2_XS cannot consume it. With all five we cover 89.0%; the rest is k-quants and F32.iq1_siq1s_grid(2048)iq1_miq1s_gridiq2_xxsiq2xxs_grid(256)iq2_xsiq2xs_grid(512)iq2_siq2s_grid(1024)Each follows the existing single-pass grid search at a fixed anchored super-block scale. They differ in ways worth naming, because each is a place a decoder can silently go wrong:
dfield at all — the FP16 super-block scale is reassembled from the top nibble of four scale words — and picks its delta shift per group rather than per sub-block.CUDA encoders
The PyTorch search is correct but not usable at scale. Each format now has a kernel following the existing per-block structure. Measured on a 5632×2048 weight:
iq1_miq2_xxsiq2_sIQ2_S was worst because its search is the widest — 1024 grid entries against IQ2_XS's 512. Its codebook exceeds the static shared-memory limit so it uses dynamic shared memory; IQ1_M's 2048-entry grid does not fit at all and is read from global, as IQ1_S already does.
Format parity
The five formats differ only in codebook size, payload layout and bits per weight, so anything asserted for one should hold for all. They were not tested that way — IQ1_S and IQ2_XS had a per-format file each while the new three shared a smaller one, and each side tested things the other did not. This replaces the split with one parametrized module per layer (unit and CUDA), closing gaps in both directions:
Generalising the underflow test exposed a real asymmetry: the IQ1 formats divide by a native max of 16.875 against IQ2's 166.6, so the
-1e-6weight the IQ2_XS test used yields an FP16 subnormal for IQ1, not a zero scale. That test had only ever existed for IQ2_XS, so the difference had never been visible.Two surface asymmetries go with it:
IQ1_Snow exposes_predict_iq1_s_scaleslike the other four instead of computing its anchor inline, andIQ1_Mexposesiq1_m_gridaliasing the table it shares.Recipes
Each new format gets numerics, model preset and
general/ptqentry, so they are reachable by--recipeand not only bynum_bits.general/ptqnow holds 31;ptq.mdupdated to match. All five are in thehf_ptqexample matrix.Usage
Testing
Decoders validated against llama.cpp's own output, not just round-tripped. Every tensor of each new type in the checkpoint above, compared against
dequantize_row_*fromggml-quants.c:The new codebooks match the
ggml-common.htables entry for entry, as does theksigns_iq2xssign table. Blocks lifted from that checkpoint ship as conformance vectors so CI keeps checking bytes we did not produce; mutation testing confirms they catch a mis-set scale nibble and a wrong sign-field width.This mattered: my first IQ1_M decoder had a real bug — a
repeat_interleaveon the wrong axis gave[h0,h1,h0,h1]where llama.cpp needs[h0,h0,h1,h1]. A round-trip against our own encoder still passed, because the encoder made the matching mistake.Also:
tests/unit/torch/quantization/ -k 'ggml or iq1 or iq2 or iq_'— 129 passedtests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py— 35 passed (7 checks × 5 formats)tests/unit/recipe/test_presets.py— 15 passedruffandmypyclean; remaining repo lint matches the pre-existing baselineNot covered: failures in
tests/unit/torch/export/and GPU plugin collection errors in my environment are pre-existingtransformers/torchvisionimport problems, none IQ-related.A finding about already-merged code
While checking the new kernels against their PyTorch references at 4096 blocks, I found that CUDA and torch encoders disagree on roughly 1 block in 6000 — including for the already-merged
iq2_xs, at twice the rate of the newiq2_s:iq1_siq2_xs(merged)iq2_xxsiq2_sRoot cause: both paths compute
xnorm − 2·scale·dot + scale²·qnorm, but CUDA fuses it withfmafwhile torch uses separate ops. Where two local scales are within a float32 ULP, the two roundings pick different sides. Adjudicating every diverging decision against float64, neither path is better — 5 to 6. The cost is a worst-case 1.48e-08 relative reconstruction error, and run-to-run determinism on a given device holds for all five formats.This is pre-existing behaviour, not introduced here — the existing
test_iq2_xs_cuda.pyasserts exact byte parity but on a 16-block weight, where ties essentially never arise. I have not changed that test; rewording a guarantee on merged code belongs in its own change, not buried in a feature PR. The new shared GPU tests assert exact parity on the same small fixed input and compare reconstruction error at scale.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
CONTRIBUTING.md: ✅ — the two new codebooks are GGML tables, carried incodebooks.pyalongside the existing ones so the MIT-licensed surface stays in that one file, with the source revision recorded. No new dependencies.Additional Information
Follows #2446 / #2447 / #2448 / #2449, which landed IQ1_S and IQ2_XS.
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