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Add sparse-attention indexer Q and K-cache fake quantization - #2552
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 12 included reviews per hour; 11 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds fake quantization for sparse-attention indexer keys in Megatron-Core and supported vLLM models. The changes add quantizer configuration and validation, cache and checkpoint handling, serving integration, and tests. Megatron prefill and generation also change causal-mask handling for dsv4_hybrid models. ChangesIndexer-key quantization
Megatron causal-mask handling
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant CacheWriter
participant IndexerWrapper
participant IndexerKQuantizer
CacheWriter->>IndexerWrapper: Write indexer keys to cache
IndexerWrapper->>IndexerKQuantizer: Re-quantize eligible cache rows
IndexerKQuantizer->>IndexerWrapper: Provide quantized cache-row values
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This PR is a nudge, mainly because it has 669 lines of core logic, over the 500-line budget. The code follows the existing QuantModuleRegistry plugin pattern and is well tested. The checkpoint break also needs an owner's sign-off.
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- ✂️ Split into stacked
[x/4]PRs, each with its own tests and passing CI, merged in order and linked to each other:[1/4]vLLM compat fixes (examples/vllm_serve/*,disable_compilation);[2/4]Megatron fixes (megatron_generate.py,distill.pyfreeze);[3/4]model_quant.pyguard, recipe unit,megatron_indexer.py;[4/4]vllm_indexer.py.plugins/alone is 573 lines, so it has to be split by file this way. - Confirm the owner accepts the backward-breaking
indexer._extra_statechange. Oldtorch_distcheckpoints will need a non-strict load. - Remove the per-call cost in the GLM-5.3-Flash kernel wrapper (
_wrap_kpool_cache_writer). It runssignature.bindand scans a WeakSet on every kernel call, even when the quantizer is disabled. Return early when no enabled indexers are registered. - Say whether
distill.pyshould also freezeCSAIndexerwhendsa_indexer_loss_coeffis 0, or explain why onlyDSAIndexerneeds it. - Change the copyright year in
indexer_k_nvfp4.yamlfrom 2024 to 2026, since it is a new file.
No action needed:
- Design is settled. It adds modules through the existing
QuantModuleRegistry/QuantModulesystem and doesn't create a new one. - Test coverage is strong: unit tests, Megatron DSA/CSA tests, vLLM end-to-end runs and the guard tests. No existing tests are changed except the added DSA branch in
get_mcore_gpt_model.
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In @CHANGELOG.rst:
- Line 24: Shorten the indexer key-cache quantization entry to one or two
sentences by merging the Megatron-Core DSAIndexer rotate-activation requirement
into the enablement sentence or removing a clause, while preserving the key
feature and configuration details.
In @tests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.py:
- Around line 2121-2130: Add a brief comment above the in-function imports in
`_csa_indexer_model` explaining that the CSA module may be absent in older
Megatron-Core builds; keep the imports inside the function.
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CHANGELOG.rstexamples/megatron_bridge/distill.pyexamples/vllm_serve/README.mdexamples/vllm_serve/vllm_ptq_utils.pyexamples/vllm_serve/vllm_serve_fakequant.pyexamples/vllm_serve/vllm_serve_sparse_attn.pymodelopt/torch/quantization/model_quant.pymodelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/__init__.pymodelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron_indexer.pymodelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/vllm.pymodelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/vllm_indexer.pymodelopt/torch/utils/plugins/megatron_generate.pymodelopt_recipes/configs/ptq/units/README.mdmodelopt_recipes/configs/ptq/units/indexer_k_nvfp4.yamltests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.pytests/_test_utils/torch/transformers_models.pytests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.pytests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_utils_megatron.pytests/gpu_vllm/torch/quantization/test_vllm_dynamic_modules.pytests/gpu_vllm/torch/quantization/test_vllm_indexer_quant.pytests/unit/torch/quantization/test_quantize_cpu.py
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The code is sound, but none of the four open points from the last review have changed in this revision. The PR is also over the size budget, at 669 core-logic lines against 500. Your instruction to ship the vLLM and Megatron support together means the indexer plugins can't be split apart, so the leftover size needs your explicit waiver.
Needs action:
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[x/3]PRs. Each needs its own tests and passing CI, lands in order, and links to the others.[1/3]vLLM compat fixes:examples/vllm_serve/*anddisable_compilationinplugins/vllm.py.[2/3]Megatron fixes:megatron_generate.pymask,distill.pyfreeze,test_utils_megatron.py.[3/3]indexer_k_quantizer: themodel_quant.pyguard, the recipe unit,megatron_indexer.pyandvllm_indexer.py.[3/3]is still about 614 lines, because the backends ship together; waive that on the PR. - Confirm you accept the backward-breaking
indexer._extra_statechange. Oldtorch_distcheckpoints will need one non-strict load. - Add an early return to
_wrap_kpool_cache_writerinvllm_indexer.pyfor when no enabled indexer is registered. It still runssignature.bindand scans the WeakSet on every kernel call. - Explain in
distill.pywhy onlyDSAIndexeris frozen whendsa_indexer_loss_coeffis 0, or freezeCSAIndexertoo. There is no reply or change on this yet. - Change the copyright year in
indexer_k_nvfp4.yamlfrom 2024 to 2026.
No action needed:
- The design is settled: it uses the existing
QuantModuleRegistry/QuantModulesystem. - CodeRabbit's two minor points are still open: the three-sentence CHANGELOG entry, and the unexplained in-function imports in
_csa_indexer_model. - The only change to an existing test is the added DSA branch in
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Add indexer_k_quantizer for vLLM (DeepSeek-V3.2/V4, GLM-5.x, GLM-5.3-Flash) and Megatron-Core (DSAIndexer, CSAIndexer) indexers, plus the configs/ptq/units/indexer_k_nvfp4 recipe unit. Also: - vllm_serve: import make_arg_parser from its vLLM 0.29+ location. - vllm_ptq_utils: cap calibration blocks at each cache group's block-table row. - megatron_generate: pass no attention mask to DeepSeek-V4 hybrid attention. - megatron_bridge/distill.py: freeze DSA indexers when dsa_indexer_loss_coeff is 0. Signed-off-by: Shiyang Chen <shiychen@nvidia.com>
…only freeze Signed-off-by: Shiyang Chen <shiychen@nvidia.com>
A constant_amax buffer is created on the CPU when the config is applied, and copying it per call fails during CUDA graph capture. Signed-off-by: Shiyang Chen <shiychen@nvidia.com>
Drop DeepSeek-V3.2 and GLM-5.x support (Megatron-Core DSAIndexer, vLLM deepseek_v32 and deepseek_v2 indexers) along with the distill.py DSA indexer freeze. The DeepSeek-V4 CSA test now also covers torch-dist checkpoint round trips. Signed-off-by: Shiyang Chen <shiychen@nvidia.com>
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New indexer_q_quantizer on the DeepSeek-V4 (vLLM, Megatron-Core) and GLM-5.3-Flash (vLLM) indexers, applied in the basis vLLM quantizes the query to FP8, and the new configs/ptq/units/indexer_q_nvfp4 unit. Signed-off-by: Shiyang Chen <shiychen@nvidia.com>
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A pipeline stage holding none of a layer-selective recipe's indexers no longer raises; an unsupported indexer or a pattern matching no indexer raises on every rank together. Signed-off-by: Shiyang Chen <shiychen@nvidia.com>
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### What does this PR do? Type of change: New feature NVFP4 fake quant of the MLA latent KV cache (GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek-V3) in vLLM fake-quant serving: - Add the `configs/ptq/units/kv_nvfp4_mla` unit: NVFP4 on `*kv_c_bmm_quantizer` (the cached latent) with the global scale fixed to 1. The existing KV units (`*[kv]_bmm_quantizer`) don't match it. The RoPE key part (`k_pe`, e.g. in DeepSeek-V3) stays unquantized. - Add an example recipe to `examples/vllm_serve/README.md`. ### Usage ```bash # recipe: examples/vllm_serve/README.md RECIPE_PATH=kv_nvfp4_mla_only.yaml python vllm_serve_fakequant.py zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash -tp 4 --moe-backend auto ``` ### Testing B200, vLLM 0.30: - `tests/gpu_vllm/torch/quantization`: 51 passed, including the 2 new tests. The 1 error, `test_tiny_deepseek_mla_quantize`, already fails on vLLM 0.30. - End to end with the README recipe on tiny random-weight models (run on an earlier revision of this branch; the unit and recipe are unchanged): - GLM-5.3-Flash (BF16 and FP8; FP8 also at TP2) and DeepSeek-V3: every latent row written to the cache outside CUDA-graph replay is on the NVFP4 grid. - GLM-5.3-Flash at TP1: CUDA-graph logprobs match eager. ### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*" Make sure you read and follow [Contributor guidelines](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) and your commits are signed (`git commit -s -S`). Make sure you read and follow the [Security Best Practices](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/SECURITY.md#security-coding-practices-for-contributors) (e.g. avoiding hardcoded `trust_remote_code=True`, `torch.load(..., weights_only=False)`, `pickle`, etc.). - 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`: N/A - Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅ - Did you update [Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?: ✅ - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ ### Additional Information Related: #2552, #2539. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added support for serving pre-quantized checkpoints when recipes leave their existing quantized layers unchanged. Recipes that attempt to fake-quantize those layers are not supported. * Added NVFP4 fake quantization for MLA latent KV caches and support for MLA models with FP8 KV caches. * Added serving guidance for MoE checkpoints and MLA KV-cache configurations, including the vLLM 0.16+ preset. * **Bug Fixes** * NVFP4 and cast-mode KV-cache serving no longer requires `--enforce-eager`. * The example serving launcher disables vLLM’s compile cache by default, unless it is already configured. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: Shiyang Chen <shiychen@nvidia.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature
Adds fake quantization of the sparse-attention indexer key cache and query:
indexer_k_quantizerandindexer_q_quantizeron the vLLM indexers of DeepSeek-V4 and GLM-5.3-Flash, and on the Megatron-CoreCSAIndexer(DeepSeek-V4).configs/ptq/units/indexer_k_nvfp4andindexer_q_nvfp4: NVFP4 with the global scale fixed to 1, so there is noamax to calibrate or export.
mtq.quantizeraises if a recipe enables one of them but the model's indexer has none (unsupported model or version).The QDQ runs in the basis vLLM quantizes to FP8: unrotated for DeepSeek-V4 (Megatron's Hadamard rotation is undone around it),
rotated for GLM-5.3-Flash.
Also:
vllm_serve_sparse_attn.py: importmake_arg_parserfrom its vLLM 0.29+ location.fakequant_worker.py: move quantizers to the GPU before CUDA-graph capture (aconstant_amaxbuffer starts on the CPU).megatron_generate: pass no attention mask to DeepSeek-V4 hybrid attention, which rejects one.Usage
Testing
test_quantize_cpu.py+tests/unit/recipe: 506 passed.test_vllm_indexer_quant.py+test_vllm_dynamic_modules.py: 40 passed. This includes tiny DeepSeek-V4 /GLM-5.3-Flash end-to-end runs and a check against vLLM's DeepSeek-V4 query kernel. One test was deselected:
test_tiny_deepseek_mla_quantize, which also fails onmainwith vLLM 0.30.skips the CSA test.
step.
(unsupported) stops at the guard.
serve with CUDA graphs. The NLL change is within noise (DeepSeek-V4-Pro: +4.4e-5 nats/token, s.e. 2.5e-4).
Before your PR is "Ready for review"
CSAIndexerbecomes a quantization module and savesindexer._extra_state.A DeepSeek-V4
torch_distcheckpoint quantized with an earlier release needs one non-strict load (--dist-ckpt-strictness log_unexpected) until it is saved again (see CHANGELOG).CONTRIBUTING.md: N/AAdditional Information
indexer_kv_dtype="mxfp4") is rejected.Summary by CodeRabbit