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Type of change: Bug fix

get_tokenizer() in examples/hf_ptq/example_utils.py had an inverted guard condition that replaced a model's existing pad_token with eos_token whenever the token was not "<unk>". For Qwen3-0.6B (and any model whose pad_token is a valid non-<unk> token), this silently overwrote <|endoftext|> (151643) with <|im_end|> (151645) in the exported tokenizer, while generation_config.json retained the original ID — creating a mismatch.

Root cause — the condition:

# Before (buggy)
if tokenizer.pad_token != "<unk>" or tokenizer.pad_token is None:
    tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token

evaluates to True for any valid non-<unk> token (e.g. <|endoftext|>), overwriting it.

Fix — only set a fallback when no pad token exists at all, matching get_processor() in the same file:

# After
if tokenizer.pad_token is None:
    tokenizer.pad_token = tokenizer.eos_token

Usage

# Qwen3-0.6B source:  pad_token = <|endoftext|> (151643)
# Before fix: exported tokenizer pad_token = <|im_end|> (151645)  ← WRONG
# After fix:  exported tokenizer pad_token = <|endoftext|> (151643) ← CORRECT

Testing

  • Verified manually against the repro in NVBug 6827251.
  • Added unit tests in tests/examples/hf_ptq/test_example_utils.py covering three cases: valid pad token is preserved, <unk> pad token is preserved, and None falls back to eos_token.

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  • Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ (models with a valid pad token keep it; models with no pad token still get eos_token as a fallback)
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  • Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
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  • NVBug: 6827251
  • Jira: OMNIML-5935

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Fixed tokenizer setup in the post-training quantization example so existing padding tokens are preserved, including <unk> and other valid values. The EOS token is now used as the padding token only when no padding token is set. Exported tokenizers retain the source padding configuration, while still receiving a fallback when one is needed.

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get_tokenizer now assigns the EOS token only when pad_token is None. Tests cover existing and missing pad tokens. The changelog records the change for hf_ptq.

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get_tokenizer assigns the EOS token only when pad_token is None. Tests check that existing pad tokens remain unchanged and that a missing pad token falls back to EOS. The changelog records the behavior.

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The fix stops valid pad tokens from being overwritten, but it also starts replacing <unk> pad tokens with eos_token. The old code deliberately skipped that case, and the PR body wrongly says <unk> models are unaffected.

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  • Fix the <unk> regression in examples/hf_ptq/example_utils.py:379. The simplest option is if tokenizer.pad_token is None:, which matches get_processor and the other examples. If you do mean to replace <unk>, say why in the PR body and rewrite the code comment (see inline).
  • Correct the backward-compatibility line in the PR body. Under the current diff, <unk> pad tokens now become eos_token.
  • Add a unit test for get_tokenizer that checks three cases: a valid pad token is kept, a missing pad token falls back to eos_token, and whatever <unk> behavior you settle on. A small stub tokenizer or a tiny HF tokenizer fixture is enough. Today nothing covers this path, so the bug could come back unnoticed.

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# can't set attribute 'pad_token' for "<unk>"
if tokenizer.pad_token != "<unk>" or tokenizer.pad_token is None:
# can't set attribute 'pad_token' for "<unk>"; leave other valid pad tokens unchanged
if tokenizer.pad_token is None or tokenizer.pad_token == "<unk>":

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This does more than fix the inversion. It also changes what happens when the pad token is <unk>. The old condition pad != "<unk>" or pad is None was False for <unk>, so those tokenizers were left alone. The comment above ("can't set attribute 'pad_token' for ''") is the reason it skipped them. With this change, <unk> gets replaced by eos_token. That changes padding for Llama-style tokenizers, and for the tokenizers that comment warns about, it can raise the error it describes.

The minimal fix, which matches get_processor below and the other examples, is:

if tokenizer.pad_token is None:
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If you do mean to replace <unk>, please update the comment (it now says the opposite of what the code does) and the backward-compat claim in the PR body.

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Good catch — updated in 6ff9adc. Changed to if tokenizer.pad_token is None: (matching get_processor) so we only set a fallback when none exists, leaving <unk> and any other existing token untouched. Also cleaned up the CHANGELOG entry and the PR body.

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The <unk> regression is fixed, and get_tokenizer now matches get_processor. The regression test I asked for last round is still missing, so the owner should decide whether it's needed before merge.

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  • 💬 Author replied: switched to if tokenizer.pad_token is None: in 6ff9adc. Still needs a get_tokenizer test in the existing tests/examples/hf_ptq/test_example_utils.py, using a stub tokenizer. It should check three cases: a valid pad token is kept, <unk> is kept, and a missing pad token falls back to eos_token.
  • Fix the PR body, which still describes the old fix. Its "After" snippet shows pad_token is None or pad_token == "<unk>", but the code no longer does that. Replace the snippet with the current condition.

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  • ✔️ Resolved since the last review: the <unk> replacement regression, the stale code comment, and the CHANGELOG wording (CodeRabbit's request to remove internal details).
  • The PR body's claim that models with None or <unk> pad tokens are unaffected is now accurate.

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Approving: everything from earlier reviews is fixed. The fix is a one-line change to match get_processor, and the new tests cover all three pad-token cases.

No action needed.

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  • ✔️ Resolved since the last review: the <unk> replacement regression, the missing get_tokenizer regression test (now in tests/examples/hf_ptq/test_example_utils.py), the stale "After" snippet in the PR body, and the CHANGELOG wording CodeRabbit flagged.
  • The test monkeypatches example_utils.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained with a stub, and monkeypatch restores it afterwards. The three cases are: a valid pad token is kept, <unk> is kept, and a missing pad token falls back to eos_token. I read the tests but didn't run them.
  • No existing tests were changed. No licensing changes.

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get_tokenizer() had an inverted condition: it replaced pad_token whenever
it was NOT "<unk>" or was None, which overwrote any valid existing token.
For Qwen3-0.6B the pad_token <|endoftext|> (151643) was silently replaced
with eos_token <|im_end|> (151645) in the exported tokenizer while
generation_config.json retained the original ID, creating a mismatch.

Fix the condition to only replace when pad_token is None (missing) or
is "<unk>" (unusable as a pad token), preserving all other existing tokens.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
Per review feedback: replace pad_token with eos_token only when the
tokenizer has no pad_token at all. This matches get_processor() and avoids
silently replacing any existing pad token, including <unk>.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
Tests three cases: valid pad token preserved, <unk> preserved,
and None falls back to eos_token.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
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… needed (#2609)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: bug fix

### Summary of the series

Every pipeline that quantizes, prunes, sparsifies or distills a Hugging
Face model now starts the same way: **make the checkpoint local, then
load from it**. `ensure_local_checkpoint` returns a local directory
as-is and downloads a Hub model ID in full if it is not cached yet --
once, on rank 0 -- and the model, tokenizer and processor are then
loaded from that local directory.

Before, a Hub ID went straight to `from_pretrained`, which fetched only
the files loading needed, so every later step that needed the source as
files found its own way back to it: `hf_ptq` through a hand-rolled cache
lookup (`_resolve_model_path`, whose `TRANSFORMERS_CACHE` glob picked
the lexicographically largest commit hash rather than `refs/main`) and a
hardcoded download allowlist, regenerating tokenizer files along the
way; the Megatron export by fetching only `*.py` for a Hub ID; other
callers of `export_hf_checkpoint` not at all.

With the source on local disk, exports follow one rule: an export writes
the **model files** -- weights in any format and the metadata describing
them -- and carries every other source file (**non-model files**:
tokenizer, processor, remote code, chat templates, README, ...) over
verbatim, from **local disk only**.

Merge in order:

1. #2607 — Add `ensure_local_checkpoint` to load models from local disk,
and `copy_non_model_files`
2. #2608 — HF exporters write off-index safetensors and non-model files
3. #2609 — `hf_ptq`: load the model from local disk, downloading it
first if needed ← **this PR**
4. #2610 — `megatron_bridge`: load the HF model from local disk;
Megatron export copies its non-model files
5. #2611 — `llm_sparsity`: load the model from local disk, downloading
it first if needed

### This PR [3/5]

**Loading.** `main()` now makes the model local before anything else:
`ensure_local_checkpoint(--pyt_ckpt_path)` returns a local directory
as-is or downloads a Hub ID once, and every later step -- loading the
model, tokenizer and processor, the MXFP4 cast, and the export's copy of
the source's files -- reads that local copy. `--pyt_ckpt_path` stays as
given; the local directory is `args.local_checkpoint_path`, and
`args.hub_model_id` (the Hub ID, or `None`) still names the layerwise
resume directory. This replaces the per-step ways back to the source --
`_resolve_model_path`, a hardcoded sidecar allowlist,
`_resolved_local_dir`, `hf_hub_download` fallbacks.

**Exporting.** The unified exporters copy the source's non-model files
themselves (#2608), so the example no longer does -- except after the
deprecated TensorRT-LLM export, which does not. It also stops
regenerating tokenizer and processor files: the source's are carried
over verbatim. So a `pad_token` that `get_tokenizer` sets for
calibration (the EOS token, for a model without one) no longer leaks
into the exported tokenizer; #2597 already stopped it overwriting an
existing pad token. It also removes the default padding side and pad
token threaded through six functions only to undo that before saving.

The three notebooks do the same: make the model local first, load from
it, and leave the tokenizer files to the export. Mostly deletions (+84 /
−466).

### Usage

No flag change. `--pyt_ckpt_path org/model` downloads the whole repo
once before loading; to skip files, download it yourself (e.g. `hf
download org/model --exclude 'original/*'`) and pass the local path.

### Testing

Same suite as #2607: 685 passed (the `hf_ptq` tests moved to the library
in #2607 or were dropped with the code they covered). Notebooks
validated as JSON. CPU only (torch 2.12, transformers 5.9,
huggingface_hub 1.19); `transformer_engine` cannot be imported in this
environment, so GPU and Megatron tests are left to CI.

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- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ (`--pyt_ckpt_path` unchanged;
exports carry the source's files as-is)
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
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helpers are tested in #2607/#2608)
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Updates**
* Models and tokenizers are loaded from a locally resolved checkpoint,
which is reused across quantization and export steps.
* TensorRT-LLM exports include non-model files from the local
checkpoint, and multimodal exports save the source configuration.
* Quantized exports no longer separately save tokenizer files or restore
tokenizer padding settings. Local checkpoint paths are also used when
restoring compressed weights and resolving source configurations.
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Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
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