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117-129: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRemove the duplicate decode-chunk invariance test.
test_decode_is_invariant_to_chunk_sizerepeats the test of the same name intests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_backend.py(Lines 220-232), with the same weight, seed, chunk sizes and assertion. Both tests now run over every registered format, so each format runs the same check twice. This file states that it owns the shared per-format contract. Keep the test here and delete the copy intest_ggml_backend.py. Otherwise, keep the backend copy and delete this one.As per path instructions: "Redundant lower-level tests that duplicate behavior already covered by a higher-level test — checked-in tests should be lean".
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Backend dispatch and export each kept their own list of IQ formats: _FAKE_QUANTS in the backend, and IQ_FORMATS, IQ_BLOCK_METADATA and IQ_PACKERS in export. All four enumerated the same formats, so adding one meant a row in each, and the lists could drift -- the way convert_hf_config's own upper-case spelling of the family already had. Each format module now declares a single IQFormat record next to its encoder and decoder: name, block geometry, quantize, dequantize, and its encode and decode chunk defaults. IQ_FORMAT_REGISTRY lists them. Backend dispatch looks formats up there, both exporters take the packer and block geometry from it, and export's IQ_FORMATS is derived from it rather than written out again. IQ_BLOCK_METADATA, IQ_PACKERS and _FAKE_QUANTS go away. The three near-identical per-format fake-quant wrappers collapse into one IQFormat.fake_quant that does the num_bits check and calls the existing cache helper. iq1_s_fake_quant and iq2_xs_fake_quant are public on main, so each format keeps its <fmt>_fake_quant name as an alias of its record's method. The registry is an explicit list, not formats registering themselves on import, so its contents never depend on which modules were imported first. Because dispatch now resolves through the registry, that is where tests substitute an encoder or decoder; patching the format module's function would no longer reach it. The backend tests that did so move to the registry, and while there, stop being hard-wired to IQ1_S and IQ2_XS -- IQ2_XXS had no backend, cache or packed-once coverage. Their expected values still come from each format's own module, not the registry, so a mis-wired entry cannot make both sides of an assertion agree. New tests guard the registry itself: every encoder the package exports is registered, each record points at its own format's codec and constants, the public alias is the registered record's method, export's IQ_FORMATS and name constants match the registry, and every registered format is listed in the shared test batteries. Leaving IQ2_XXS out of the registry, or registering it with the IQ2_XS encoder, each fails the guard written for it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
Two review follow-ups on the registry change. test_ggml_decode_is_invariant_to_chunk_size in test_ggml_backend.py and test_decode_is_invariant_to_chunk_size in test_iq_formats.py make the same check -- same seed, weight, chunk sizes and assertion. They only became true duplicates here: the backend copy used to cover IQ1_S and IQ2_XS alone, and running it over the registry gave it the same reach as the shared one. Keep the copy in test_iq_formats.py, which owns the contract every format shares. test_registry_lists_every_exported_encoder imported the ggml package inside the test body for no reason; the module already imports from that package at module scope, so move it there and let an import error surface at collection. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Nudge: the refactor is clean and well-guarded by new registry tests, but it stacks on the unmerged #2511 and the one shared num_bits guard it introduces is untested.
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- Confirm merge order with #2511 — this PR deletes
IQ_BLOCK_METADATA/IQ_PACKERS/_FAKE_QUANTSthat #2511 introduces and is still under review, so it cannot land first. - Add a test that
IQFormat.fake_quantraises whenquantizer.num_bitsnames another format (modelopt/torch/quantization/ggml/common.py) — the three per-format copies of that guard collapsed into one and nothing exercises it. - Confirm in the PR body that registering a format for dispatch should automatically claim export support, now that
IQ_FORMATSis derived from the registry (modelopt/torch/export/quant_format.py:49).
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test_ggml_decode_is_invariant_to_chunk_sizeduplicatedtest_iq_formats.py, andtest_iq_block_metadata_matches_the_codecis replaced by_geometryplustest_registry_record_is_wired_to_its_own_codec. - Registry design (explicit dict of frozen
IQFormatrecords) is the simplest thing that works; no existing in-repo registry covers this.
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This guard replaces three per-format copies of the same check, and I can't find a test that hits it — test_ggml_backend_rejects_unknown_format only covers the dispatcher's own error. A parametrized case over IQ_FORMAT_REGISTRY calling record.fake_quant(x, SimpleNamespace(num_bits=<other format>)) and asserting the requires num_bits= message would pin it cheaply.
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Done in 789ea021c: test_format_fake_quant_rejects_another_formats_quantizer in test_ggml_backend.py calls each record's fake_quant with a quantizer set to another format and matches the exact message. With the guard removed, those 3 cases fail and nothing else does. I also tightened the dispatcher test to match "requires num_bits in", so it can't be satisfied by this guard's message.
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Deriving IQ_FORMATS from the registry means any format registered for backend dispatch is automatically declared exportable by both exporters and by convert_hf_config. That is fine today since every record carries a packer and geometry, but it removes the ability to land a QAT-only format ahead of its export path. Worth stating that as intended in the PR body.
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Yes, that's intended. 789ea021c adds a comment above IQ_FORMATS in quant_format.py saying so, and the PR body now has a design-choice bullet. The reason: fake quant is dequantize(quantize(w)), so a format can't be dispatched without the packer and block geometry, and those are all export reads. A QAT-only IQ format can't exist.
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Note the alias now captures quantize_iq1_s/dequantize_iq1_s at record-construction time, so monkeypatch.setattr(iq1_s, "quantize_iq1_s", ...) no longer affects iq1_s_fake_quant either — not just dispatch. The in-repo tests were updated, but the comment above only mentions dispatch; extending it to say the module-level function is no longer a patch seam at all would save the next reader a debugging session.
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Documented in 789ea021c. The comment above each <fmt>_fake_quant alias (iq1_s.py, iq2_xs.py, iq2_xxs.py) now says that patching the module functions changes neither dispatch nor the alias, and points to IQ_FORMAT_REGISTRY as the place to substitute. The PR body lists this as the one behaviour change from main.
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Review follow-ups on the format registry. IQFormat.fake_quant refuses a quantizer configured for another format, but nothing exercised that guard. The only test matching "requires num_bits" goes through the dispatcher, which picks the record by num_bits and so can never reach it; the test's match was loose enough to accept either message, which made it look like coverage. The three per-format guards this replaced were untested on main too. Add a test that calls each record with another format's quantizer and checks that format's exact message, and tighten the dispatcher test to its own wording. Removing the guard now fails all three new cases. Two comments now say what the design implies. In quant_format.py: registering a format declares it exportable, and that is intended -- fake quant is dequantize(quantize(w)), so a format cannot be dispatched without the packer and block geometry that are all export reads. Above each <fmt>_fake_quant alias: the record captured the format's encoder and decoder when it was built, so patching the module functions reaches neither dispatch nor the alias. On main that alias looked the encoder up at call time, so this is a behaviour change for anyone who patched it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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All three prior concerns are resolved and the registry refactor reads correctly — the only thing left is a human nod on two deleted tests.
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tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_backend.pyandtests/unit/torch/export/test_convert_hf_config.py— both look justified (see below), but a human should confirm before merge.
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- ✔️ Resolved since the last review: merge order with #2511 (merged, branch rebased), the untested
IQFormat.fake_quantnum_bitsguard (nowtest_format_fake_quant_rejects_another_formats_quantizer, with the dispatcher test tightened torequires num_bits in), and the "registry implies exportable" rationale (comment atquant_format.pyplus a PR-body bullet). - Test-removal justification:
test_ggml_decode_is_invariant_to_chunk_sizeduplicated the copy intest_iq_formats.pyonce both ran over the registry;test_iq_block_metadata_matches_the_codecis replaced by_geometry+test_registry_record_is_wired_to_its_own_codec+test_export_formats_are_the_registered_formats, so geometry-vs-codec coverage is intact. - ~220 lines of core logic, under the size budget;
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### What does this PR do? Type of change: new feature (not yet user-reachable) **First of two PRs adding IQ2_S**, the widest of the GGML IQ formats at one and two bits (2.5625 bits per weight). This one lands the **PyTorch codec**: the encoder, the decoder and the 1024-entry codebook. It is deliberately **not registered**, so no quantizer dispatches to it and the `ggml` package does not export it. #2565 adds the CUDA encoder, registers the format and adds its recipe. ### What's distinctive about it **IQ2_S is the one format llama.cpp's own tooling gives no head start on**, so the search is written against the GGML layout directly. The interesting difference from IQ2_XS and IQ2_XXS is sign handling. IQ2_S stores a **full 8-bit sign mask** per group rather than a 7-bit parity-coded index. The encoder therefore takes the input signs as they are instead of flipping the weakest element to fix parity, and the search compares magnitudes directly, which is simpler than its siblings. ### Why the codec lands before the kernel The CUDA encoder's tests use this codec as their reference. They compare against the PyTorch encoder byte for byte and draw the grid and scale predictor from it. So the kernel cannot be tested before the codec exists, and it follows in #2565 together with the registration. Every registered format therefore keeps a CUDA encoder. ### Test changes that make the split possible A codec can now land before it is registered, so two test contracts in `test_iq_formats.py` are stated precisely: - The two tests that go through `TensorQuantizer` (pass-through gradient, error falls with bit width) iterate `IQ_FORMAT_REGISTRY`. Every other battery test calls the codec directly and covers IQ2_S here. - The coverage check now asserts `set(IQ_FORMAT_REGISTRY) <= set(FORMATS)` instead of equality. That is what its docstring already said: a registered format must be listed, or it escapes the contract. - `test_registry_lists_every_exported_encoder` is unchanged, and it is why this PR leaves the package exports alone: an exported encoder must be registered. The error-by-bit-width failure message also labels errors by the order they were measured in; it previously zipped them with alphabetical names. ### Testing **The decoder is validated against llama.cpp's own output, not just round-tripped:** ``` IQ2_S: 9 tensors, 2,355,200 blocks → 0 mismatched, max|diff| 0.0 ``` The new codebook matches the `ggml-common.h` table entry for entry. Blocks from `unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF` ship as conformance vectors, so CI keeps checking bytes we did not produce. - `tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_backend.py`, `test_iq_formats.py`, `tests/unit/torch/export/test_convert_hf_config.py`, `tests/unit/recipe/test_presets.py`: **121 passed**, 14 of them IQ2_S codec cases, including the llama.cpp conformance check - `tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py`, `test_iq1_s_cuda.py`, `test_iq2_xs_cuda.py`: **35 passed**, unchanged by this PR ### 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` with the source revision recorded. No new dependencies. - Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ - Did you update Changelog?: N/A. Nothing is user-reachable yet; #2565 carries the entry. - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ Not yet run. ### Additional Information Merge order: #2511 (IQ2_XXS, merged) → #2525 (format registry, merged) → **this** → #2565 (IQ2_S CUDA encoder and registration) → #2513 (IQ1_M). 🤖 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 GGML-compatible IQ2_S quantization and dequantization support, including access to its magnitude grid. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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### What does this PR do? Type of change: new feature **Second of two PRs adding IQ2_S** (2.5625 bits per weight). #2512 landed the PyTorch codec; this PR adds its **CUDA encoder** and makes the format reachable: - the CUDA encoder, its binding and extension build wiring, plus the CUDA path in `quantize_iq2_s` - an `IQFormat` record and **one `IQ_FORMAT_REGISTRY` entry**, so backend dispatch, both exporters and `convert_hf_config` take it from there - the `ggml` package export - the `general/ptq/iq2_s` recipe, its presets, `ptq.md` and a CHANGELOG entry The kernel lands with the registration so every registered format keeps a CUDA encoder. On the mixed-precision checkpoint #2511 measured (`unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF`), IQ2_S covers **9 tensors and 0.6 B parameters**. ### The kernel IQ2_S's **1024-entry codebook is twice IQ2_XS's**, which makes its search the most expensive in the family. The codebook and its norms take 36 KiB of shared memory, the most of any IQ kernel but inside the 48 KiB static limit, so they are declared statically like the IQ2_XS and IQ2_XXS kernels. That cost is why the kernel matters more here than anywhere else: | | torch | CUDA | | |---|---|---|---| | IQ2_S, 5632×2048 weight | 0.8 M elem/s | **725.7 M elem/s** | **907×** | | extrapolated to a 27B model | ~9.8 hours | **~37 s** | | ### Usage ```bash python examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py --pyt_ckpt_path <model> --recipe general/ptq/iq2_s ``` ### Testing Registering the format brings it under every registry-driven test with no IQ2_S-specific test code: backend dispatch and weight caching, the `num_bits` guard, `convert_hf_config` metadata (uniform and mixed precision), all 9 Megatron export tests, and the two `TensorQuantizer` tests in the shared battery. The shared CUDA battery gains one row. - `tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_backend.py`, `test_iq_formats.py`, `tests/unit/torch/export/test_convert_hf_config.py`, `tests/unit/recipe/test_presets.py`: **134 passed** - broader unit sweep (`-k 'ggml or iq or gguf or registry'` over quantization, export and recipe tests): **192 passed**. The one failure, `test_export_registry.py::test_builtin_dispatch_covers_all_handler_shapes`, is a `torchvision` import error in my environment, unrelated to IQ. - `tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py`, `test_iq1_s_cuda.py`, `test_iq2_xs_cuda.py`: **42 passed** on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (sm_120). 7 of them are IQ2_S: CUDA-vs-PyTorch encoder parity, determinism, reconstruction at scale, zero and non-finite policy, float64 input and the fallback path. - `tests/gpu_megatron/torch/export/test_unified_export_megatron.py -k 'iq or ggml'`: **36 passed** (9 tests × 4 formats) in `nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08` - `tests/examples/hf_ptq/test_llm_ptq.py -k iq2_s`: **passed**. TinyLlama PTQ through unified HF export writes `quant_algo: IQ2_S`, `block_payload_bytes: 82`, and `down_proj` packed as `(2048, 22, 82)` uint8. - `general/ptq` now holds 30 recipes. - The shared-memory change in `b7739d5d0` leaves the packed bytes identical (same hash on a 5632×2048 weight), and packing runs at 849.1 M elem/s against 825.7 before on RTX PRO 6000. The GPU battery was rerun: 42 passed. All of the above was rerun after rebasing onto `main` at `c2aaa44f6`. That base adds a Q8_0 packer to the same GGML extension (#2515), and changes the hf_ptq example and the export code this format goes through. The packed IQ2_S bytes still hash the same. On this RTX PRO 6000 (sm_120), two of #2515's own Q8_0 tests in `tests/gpu/_extensions/test_torch_extensions.py` fail: `test_cuda_ext_q8_0_zero_and_roundf_layout` and `test_cuda_ext_q8_0_dequantizes_with_small_error`. 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### What does this PR do? Type of change: new feature (not yet user-reachable) **First of two PRs adding IQ1_M** at 1.75 bits per weight, just above IQ1_S. This one lands the **PyTorch codec**: encoder and decoder. It is deliberately **not registered**, so no quantizer dispatches to it and the `ggml` package does not export it. #2595 adds the CUDA encoder, registers the format and adds its recipe. With both, ModelOpt supports all five GGML IQ formats at one and two bits. On the mixed-precision checkpoint #2511 measured (`unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF`), IQ1_M covers **25 tensors and 1.2 B parameters**. With all five formats we can read 89.0% of that file; the rest is k-quants and F32. ### What's distinctive about it **IQ1_M is the most irregular layout of the five.** There is no leading block scale field at all. The FP16 super-block scale is reassembled from the top nibble of each of four scale words: ```c scale.u16 = (sc[0] >> 12) | ((sc[1] >> 8) & 0x00f0) | ((sc[2] >> 4) & 0x0f00) | (sc[3] & 0xf000); ``` It is also finer grained than IQ1_S: a local scale per **two** groups rather than four, and a delta shift chosen **per group** rather than per sub-block. That is where its extra 0.1875 bits go. ### Shared with IQ1_S rather than copied IQ1_M searches exactly as IQ1_S does: the same 2048-entry grid, the same ±1/8 delta, every (shift, local scale) choice for every 8-value vector. It differs only in how it selects among those choices afterwards. So the search moves out of IQ1_S's encoder into `_search_shifted_grid`, which both call, and `iq1_m.py` keeps only its selection and packing. **IQ1_S's encoded bytes are unchanged**, checked by hashing its output before and after on a fixed input. ### A scale-anchor correction IQ1_M anchors its scale differently from IQ1_S: the ratio **rises with a block's peak-to-RMS** rather than being flat, and clamps higher. It uses `clamp(0.58 + 0.035 * peak_to_rms, 0.65, 0.95)` against IQ1_S's flat `0.61`. Measured over 15 Qwen3.8-27B MLP weights: | | flat 0.61 | correct anchor | | |---|---|---|---| | relative reconstruction MSE | 0.17372 | **0.17291** | **−0.47%** | It is consistent on every tensor, with no outliers. The anchor changes quality without touching layout, so neither round-trip nor conformance tests would catch it drifting. `test_scale_anchor_follows_peak_to_rms` now pins it, for all five formats; see Testing. ### Family parity Two surface asymmetries close here, so the five are uniform. `IQ1_S` now exposes `_predict_iq1_s_scales` like the other four, instead of computing its anchor inline. `IQ1_M` exposes `iq1_m_grid`, aliasing the IQ1_S table it shares. ### Testing **The decoder is validated against llama.cpp's own output, not just round-tripped:** ``` IQ1_M: 25 tensors, 4,730,880 blocks → 0 mismatched, max|diff| 0.0 ``` This mattered: **my first IQ1_M decoder had a real bug.** A `repeat_interleave` on the wrong axis produced `[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. Only comparison against bytes we did not produce caught it. Blocks from that checkpoint ship as conformance vectors, and mutation testing confirms they catch a mis-set scale nibble. The decoder unpacks every field in one vectorized pass, since fake quant decodes on every forward: 5.2 ms for a 5632×2048 weight (IQ1_S: 3.3). - `tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_backend.py`, `test_iq_formats.py`, `tests/unit/torch/export/test_convert_hf_config.py`, `tests/unit/recipe/test_presets.py`: **153 passed**, 15 of them IQ1_M codec cases, including the llama.cpp conformance check - `test_scale_anchor_follows_peak_to_rms` pins every format's scale anchor. It predicts scales for blocks whose peak-to-RMS is exactly 1, 4, 8 and 16, reaching both clamps and two points on each slope, and compares them against anchors written out in the test. Mutations each fail exactly the mutated format: reverting IQ1_M to IQ1_S's flat 0.61, moving either IQ1_M clamp, changing its taper by 0.001, moving an IQ2_S or IQ2_XS clamp, and changing IQ1_S's anchor to 0.62. - `tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py`, `test_iq1_s_cuda.py`, `test_iq2_xs_cuda.py`: **42 passed**. IQ1_S's CUDA-vs-PyTorch parity still holds after its encoder refactor. - IQ1_S and IQ1_M PyTorch encoder output and IQ1_M decoder output hash identically to the pre-split version of this PR. ### 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`: ✅ IQ1_M adds no codebook; it reuses the IQ1_S table already carried in `codebooks.py`. The new conformance vectors come from `unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF`, which is Apache-2.0 like its base model `Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B`; the vectors' docstring now records that. No new dependencies. - Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ - Did you update Changelog?: N/A. Nothing is user-reachable yet; #2595 carries the entry. - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ Not yet run. ### Additional Information Merge order: #2511 (IQ2_XXS) → #2525 (format registry) → #2512 (IQ2_S codec) → #2565 (IQ2_S CUDA encoder and registration), all merged → **this** → #2595 (IQ1_M CUDA encoder and registration). 🤖 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 IQ1_M quantization and dequantization for compact, GGML-compatible blocks of 256 values. * Added access to the IQ1_M grid and configurable chunk sizes for processing data. * **Bug Fixes** * Improved IQ1_S scale prediction and grid-search organization while preserving its encoding behavior. * **Tests** * Added IQ1_M conformance data and included the format in shared IQ-format test coverage. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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### What does this PR do? Type of change: new feature **Second of two PRs adding IQ1_M** (1.75 bits per weight). #2513 landed the PyTorch codec; this PR adds its **CUDA encoder** and makes the format reachable. With it, ModelOpt supports all five GGML IQ formats at one and two bits. - the CUDA encoder, its binding and extension build wiring, plus the CUDA path in `quantize_iq1_m` - an `IQFormat` record and **one `IQ_FORMAT_REGISTRY` entry**, so backend dispatch, both exporters and `convert_hf_config` take it from there - the `ggml` package export - the `general/ptq/iq1_m` recipe, its presets, `ptq.md` and a CHANGELOG entry The kernel lands with the registration so every registered format keeps a CUDA encoder. ### The kernel In the kernel the delta shift is free per group, so it sits above the entry index in the sort key: a tie still prefers the lower shift and then the lower entry, as the reference encoder does. The 2048-entry grid IQ1_M shares with IQ1_S is 64 KiB, past the 48 KiB static shared-memory limit, so both kernels read it from global memory and rely on the cache. | 5632×2048 weight | torch | CUDA | | |---|---|---|---| | IQ1_M encode | 5.6 M elem/s | **318 M elem/s** | **57×** | ### Shared with IQ1_S rather than copied The two IQ1 kernels load each vector, score it against a grid entry and apply the ±1/8 shift the same way. So those three steps move into `common.cuh` as `load_vector`, `grid_terms` and `shifted_error`, and IQ1_S uses them too. **IQ1_S's packed bytes are unchanged**: its CUDA output on a 5632×2048 weight hashes the same before and after, and so does IQ1_M's, compared against the pre-split version of this change. IQ1_S encodes at the same speed (306 M elem/s). ### Usage ```bash python examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py --pyt_ckpt_path <model> --recipe general/ptq/iq1_m ``` ### Testing Registering the format brings it under every registry-driven test with no IQ1_M-specific test code: backend dispatch, weight caching, the `num_bits` guard, `convert_hf_config` metadata, Megatron export and the `TensorQuantizer` tests in the shared battery. The shared CUDA battery gains one row. - `tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_backend.py`, `test_iq_formats.py`, `tests/unit/torch/export/test_convert_hf_config.py`, `tests/unit/recipe/test_presets.py`: **166 passed** - broader unit sweep (`-k 'ggml or iq or gguf or registry'` over quantization, export and recipe tests): **221 passed**. The one failure, `test_export_registry.py::test_builtin_dispatch_covers_all_handler_shapes`, is a `torchvision` import error in my environment, unrelated to IQ. - `tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py`, `test_iq1_s_cuda.py`, `test_iq2_xs_cuda.py`: **49 passed** on RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (sm_120), 7 of them IQ1_M, including CUDA-vs-PyTorch encoder parity - `tests/gpu_megatron/torch/export/test_unified_export_megatron.py -k 'iq or ggml'`: **45 passed** (9 tests × 5 formats) in `nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08` - `tests/examples/hf_ptq/test_llm_ptq.py -k iq1_m`: **passed** - reconstruction error falls monotonically across all five formats, pinned by a test - `general/ptq` now holds 31 recipes; `ptq.md` is updated. Rebased onto `main` after #2513 merged. The resulting tree is identical to the one the runs above tested, and the unit set was rerun on it: 166 passed. On this GPU, two of #2515's Q8_0 tests in `tests/gpu/_extensions/test_torch_extensions.py` fail: `test_cuda_ext_q8_0_zero_and_roundf_layout` and `test_cuda_ext_q8_0_dequantizes_with_small_error`. They fail identically on a clean `main` checkout, so they are not from this PR. ### 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`: ✅ No new code sources or 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 Merge order: #2511 (IQ2_XXS) → #2525 (format registry) → #2512 (IQ2_S codec) → #2565 (IQ2_S CUDA encoder and registration) → #2513 (IQ1_M codec), all merged → **this**. 🤖 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 IQ1_M weight-only quantization at 1.75 bits per weight, with CUDA acceleration and a 256-value block size. * Added an IQ1_M post-training quantization recipe for eligible linear layers; calibration data is not required. * Added IQ1_M to the supported GGML-compatible formats and recipe listings. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: refactor (no behaviour change)
Addresses review feedback on #2511. Backend dispatch and export each kept their own list of the GGML IQ formats:
_FAKE_QUANTSin the backend, andIQ_FORMATS,IQ_BLOCK_METADATAandIQ_PACKERSin export. All four listed the same formats. Adding a format meant a row in each, and the lists could drift apart. That had already happened twice in #2511:convert_hf_config.pykept its own upper-case spelling of the family and dropped IQ2_XXS metadata, and the Megatron export tests were hard-wired to two formats.Each format module now declares one
IQFormatrecord beside its encoder and decoder: name, block geometry,quantize,dequantize, and its encode and decode chunk defaults.IQ_FORMAT_REGISTRYlists them.IQ_FORMATSis derived from it instead of being written out again._FAKE_QUANTS,IQ_BLOCK_METADATAandIQ_PACKERSare removed.IQFormat.fake_quant, which does thenum_bitscheck and calls the existing cache helper.Codebooks, searches, payload layouts and CUDA encoders stay in each format's module.
Series and merge order
This is one slice of the IQ format series. It targets
mainso unit CI runs, and its diff includes #2511's commits until #2511 merges.After this lands, #2512 and #2513 are restacked onto it, so each adds a format module and a single registry entry instead of rows in four tables.
Design choices
iq1_s_fake_quantandiq2_xs_fake_quantare public on main, so each format keeps its<fmt>_fake_quantname as an alias of its record's method. The three removed tables were introduced by Add the IQ2_XXS weight-only quantization format #2511 and never released. The behaviour change: on main, the alias looked the encoder up at call time, so patchingiq1_s.quantize_iq1_schanged what it ran. Now the record captures the encoder and decoder when it's built, so patching those module functions reaches neither dispatch nor the alias. Substitute throughIQ_FORMAT_REGISTRYinstead.IQ_FORMATSis derived from the registry, so a format registered for dispatch is also claimed by both exporters andconvert_hf_config. That can't be wrong for an IQ format: fake quant isdequantize(quantize(w)), so a format can't be dispatched without the packer and block geometry, and those are all export reads. A QAT-only IQ format can't exist. If one ever needs to land ahead of its export path, anexportableflag on the record is a one-line addition.quantize_<fmt>,<FMT>_BLOCK_BYTES, …). A mis-wired registry entry therefore can't make both sides of an assertion agree.What it does not unify
The CUDA side (
ggml.cppbindings, theextensions.pysource list, codebook sizes incommon.cuh) and the recipes and docs remain per format. "One registration" holds for the Python side, which is where all four tables lived.Usage
Adding a format after this PR (for example IQ2_S in #2512) needs its module and one line in the registry:
Looking up a format:
Testing
tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_ggml_backend.py,test_iq_formats.py,tests/unit/torch/export/test_convert_hf_config.py— 94 passedtests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py— 22 passed (RTX PRO 6000)tests/gpu_megatron/torch/export/test_unified_export_megatron.py -k iq— 27 passed innvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08, the image CI uses for that suiteNew guards on the registry itself:
<fmt>_fake_quantalias is the registered record's methodIQ_FORMATSandQUANTIZATION_IQ*constants match the registryfake_quantrefuses a quantizer configured for another format. Dispatch picks the record bynum_bits, so it never reaches this guard; the test covers direct callers of a record or alias. The three per-format guards it replaced were untested on main.Checked by mutation: leaving IQ2_XXS out of the registry, or registering it with the IQ2_XS encoder, each fails the guard written for that case.
Coverage gap closed along the way:
test_ggml_backend.pywas hard-wired to IQ1_S and IQ2_XS, so IQ2_XXS had no backend, cache or packed-once coverage. Those tests now run over the registry.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
CONTRIBUTING.md: N/AAdditional Information
Review feedback on #2511 that this addresses: "
_FAKE_QUANTS,IQ_FORMATS,IQ_BLOCK_METADATA, andIQ_PACKERSindependently enumerate the same formats. A common pack/dequantize/fake_quant interface would let backend dispatch and export consume one registration."🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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