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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds shared CUDA encoding and unpacking for five GGML IQ formats. CUDA dequantization uses the unpackers when available. IQ export can reuse matching cached packed weights. Tests cover CUDA decoder parity, reference blocks, export cache reuse, and repacking after weight changes. ChangesGGML IQ CUDA encoding and decoding
IQ export packed-weight reuse
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~50 minutes Change: Refactor Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Dequantize as IQ dequantize function
participant Extension as GGML CUDA extension
participant Unpack as IQ unpack binding
participant Decoder as decode_blocks
Dequantize->>Extension: obtain extension for CUDA input
Extension-->>Dequantize: provide IQ unpack binding
Dequantize->>Unpack: pass packed blocks, grid, and dtype
Unpack->>Decoder: decode format blocks
Decoder-->>Dequantize: return decoded blocks
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103-104: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueDo not describe this synchronization as export-only.
The scaled CUDA packers call
check_scaled_pack_inputs, and the quantization functions call those packers whenweight.is_cuda..all().item<bool>()can synchronize the CUDA stream for each packed tensor in quantization paths as well. Move this validation to a one-time validation boundary or cache the result for reused scales. Otherwise, document the synchronization cost for quantization callers.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 103-104: Update check_scaled_pack_inputs so finite, non-negative
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### What does this PR do? Type of change: refactor (no behaviour change) The five GGML IQ CUDA encoders were five copies of the same search. IQ2_XS and IQ2_XXS shared 139 of their roughly 150 lines of encoder and launcher code, and IQ2_S 113 of them. IQ1_S and IQ1_M had the same structure with a different choice space. Every scaled packer also validated its scales twice, in the `ggml.cpp` pybind wrapper and again in the CUDA entry point. This PR keeps **one encoder per family**, as two templates: - **`iq2_family.cuh`** for IQ2_XS, IQ2_XXS and IQ2_S. The grid sits in shared memory, the 16 local scales are scored per group, and each vector then takes its best entry under the chosen scale. A format supplies its group shape, whether it stores seven sign bits and recovers the eighth from parity, and a `store()` that writes the chosen entries, sign masks and local scales into its layout. - **`iq1_family.cuh`** for IQ1_S and IQ1_M, over the shared ternary grid. Each group picks one of `kChoices` options. With `kSharedShift` the option also fixes the ±1/8 delta (IQ1_S: `shift * 8 + local`); otherwise each vector picks its own (IQ1_M). IQ1_S's scale kernel now writes FP16 scales, so both IQ1 formats take the same input. Each format file is now one `Format` struct, holding its layout constants and `store()`, plus its entry point: 58–100 lines each. Validation lives once in `common.cuh`, as `check_pack_inputs` and `check_scaled_pack_inputs`. `ggml.cpp` binds the CUDA entry points directly instead of through five wrappers. **The kernel sources shrink from 1,536 to 1,241 lines** (+665 / −960). This is the first of two PRs. #2604 builds on it: it adds CUDA decoders as a `decode()` next to each format's `store()`, and makes export reuse fake quant's packed payloads. ### Testing **Nothing changes in the output.** Before the refactor I hashed 40 outputs: 5 formats × float32/bfloat16/float16/float64 inputs × encode and decode, on a weight with zero, tiny, oversized and non-finite blocks. All 40 hash the same afterwards. **Encode speed is unchanged.** Old and new were timed alternately for four rounds, in both orders, on an idle RTX PRO 6000 with a 5632×2048 weight. They were within 1% for every format: IQ1_S 37.6 / 37.6 ms, IQ1_M 37.0 / 37.0, IQ2_XXS 10.9 / 10.9, IQ2_XS 11.9 / 12.0, IQ2_S 15.5 / 15.4. - `tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py`, `test_iq1_s_cuda.py`, `test_iq2_xs_cuda.py`: **49 passed** - **Validation reports the same errors in the same order.** Over 5 formats × 8 combinations of bad arguments (devices, dtype, width, grid shape, scales dtype, length and sign), every first error matches main's. - `tests/gpu/_extensions/test_torch_extensions.py`: the validation-message tests pass. #2515's two Q8_0 tests fail identically on a clean `main` on this GPU. - IQ unit tests (`test_ggml_backend.py`, `test_iq_formats.py`, `test_convert_hf_config.py`, `test_presets.py`, `test_export_weight.py`): **173 passed** ### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*" - Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ Same bindings, messages and bytes. - 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?: N/A. A refactor with no behaviour change, verified by the hashes above and the existing GPU tests. - Did you update Changelog?: N/A - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ Not yet run. ### Additional Information Merge order: **this** → #2604 (pack each IQ weight once and decode on CUDA). 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Bug Fixes** * Quantization now checks that inputs and grids are CUDA tensors on the same device, with compatible shapes. Scaled formats also validate scale type, shape, and finite, non-negative values. * **Improvements** * IQ1 and IQ2 formats share common encoding paths while retaining their format-specific output layouts. <!-- 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>
hf_ptq ran the IQ search twice for every weight: once on the first forward after quantization, where fake quant packs the weight and caches the payload, and again in export, which called the format's encoder on the same unchanged weight. Instrumenting the TinyLlama example showed 154 encodes from fake quant and 154 more from export for 154 weights, in all five formats. On a 27B model at IQ1_M's 318 M elem/s the second pass is about 85 seconds of repeated work. IQFormat.pack now returns the quantizer's cached payload when it was packed from the weight being exported, and runs the search only otherwise. Fake quant is handed the weight reshaped into 256-value blocks, so the cache is keyed on that view rather than on the weight export holds. pack therefore also accepts another contiguous view of the same storage, version and length -- the same values in the same order, hence the same GGML blocks -- and reshapes the payload to the weight's layout. The version counter still makes a weight edited after its forward pack afresh. Reusing the payload also means the checkpoint holds exactly the bytes the evaluated model decoded. The HF exporter calls it; the Megatron exporter still packs itself, since it can remap or slice a weight before packing it. The cache key is now a NamedTuple so the view comparison can name its fields. The reuse test uses a 512-wide weight so the blocked view really differs from the weight, as it does on real models; with an exact-key match only, it fails for every format. The IQ payload export test now covers all five formats rather than two. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
Every format had a CUDA encoder but decoded with PyTorch ops, which was fine while decoding looked like a one-off. Fake quant decodes every weight on every forward, though, so once packing was fast and cached, decoding became the cost: in the TinyLlama hf_ptq example it was 32 to 46 seconds of a 55 to 70 second run, 3 ms per weight per forward, for the 100 preview tokens. On a 27B model it would be about 10 seconds per forward. Each format's Format struct now has a decode() beside its store(), and decode_blocks in common.cuh launches one thread per 8-value vector: it reads that vector's index, sign or delta bits and local scale from the block, and writes the eight values in the requested dtype. common.cuh also holds the bit readers and the two value forms, sign-flipped for IQ2 and delta-shifted for IQ1. Every float operation is explicitly rounded and follows the PyTorch decoder's order, so the compiler cannot fuse a multiply into an add, and the output is bit-identical: across random payloads, including block scales that decode to inf or NaN, and real encodings, in float32, bfloat16, float16 and float64. The CUDA path also reproduces llama.cpp's own values on the conformance blocks. dequantize_<format> uses it for CUDA payloads and keeps the PyTorch path otherwise. Decoding a 5632x2048 weight drops from 3.3 to 5.2 ms to 0.06 to 0.14 ms. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com>
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Approving: both changes are correct, the PR is under the size budget at about 330 core-logic lines, and the tests cover both changes in all five formats.
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- Design: this adds no new subsystem. Each format's
Formatstruct from #2615 gets adecode()beside itsstore(). Export now goes throughIQFormat.pack, which reuses the payload that fake quant already cached instead of adding a second cache. - Export reuse: a cached payload is reused only when the parameter, dtype, device and version counter all match, and both tensors are contiguous views with the same number of elements. Those views therefore cover the same elements in the same order. If
weight.to(dtype)makes a copy, the lookup misses and the weight is packed again. - Decoders: I checked each kernel against its PyTorch decoder, starting with IQ1_S. Each one rounds in the same order (float32 math, then a cast to the output dtype). The bit-exact test compares random payloads (block scales that decode to inf or NaN included) and real encodings in four dtypes. A second test checks the decoders against llama.cpp's own output on captured blocks.
- Test edit, justified: the old two-format export test now runs on all five formats through a shared
_iq_linearhelper, so coverage grows. The new reuse and repack tests use a 512-wide weight, so the cached view really has a different shape than the weight export sees. - No licensing changes and no new files.
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### What does this PR do? Type of change: new feature Adds Q8_0 encoding, decoding, and the GGML fake-quant backend. Each 32-weight block stores one FP16 scale and 32 signed int8 values in 34 bytes (8.5 bits per weight). - Generalizes dispatch to `GGML_FORMAT_REGISTRY` / `GGMLFormat` while preserving `IQFormat` as a type alias. `IQ_FORMAT_REGISTRY` is an IQ-only compatibility dictionary sharing the same format records, not a mutation-propagating view. - Retains IQ1_S, IQ1_M, IQ2_XXS, IQ2_XS, and IQ2_S registrations alongside Q8_0. - Uses the merged `q8_0_pack` CUDA extension when available and the PyTorch encoder otherwise. - Matches canonical reciprocal-then-multiply rounding, using the unrounded FP32 scale to choose int8 values and FP16 only for serialized scale storage. - Adds exact-byte rounding regressions and checks that the compatibility registry shares the same format records. Removes a redundant zero-block buffer copy. Checkpoint export, recipes, documentation, and the user-facing Q8_0 changelog remain in #2517. ### Base and dependencies The target remains `main`. Current head `71e3183a7b7eac7e5e3888ee45a206c572028af9` includes main at `67a68f8fd4902a7b67c78a2f00f40562b081fe72`, including #2595 (IQ1_M registration), #2615 (shared IQ CUDA encoders), and #2604 (packed-weight cache reuse and CUDA IQ decoding). All five IQ formats, Q8_0, and the compatibility aliases are retained. The comparison against `main` contains only the intended 12 Q8_0 files, with 207 added source lines excluding tests and docs. The inherited IQ refactor and export changes are not part of this PR's diff. #2515 has already merged and supplies the Q8_0 kernel. This PR retains the small reciprocal-rounding correction to that kernel needed for exact reference parity. ### Usage ```python import torch from modelopt.torch.quantization.ggml import quantize_q8_0, dequantize_q8_0 weight = torch.randn(2, 64, dtype=torch.bfloat16) packed, shape = quantize_q8_0(weight) restored = dequantize_q8_0(packed, shape) ``` The final weight dimension must be divisible by 32. Backend dispatch also accepts `num_bits="q8_0"`, `backend="ggml"`, and `block_sizes={-1: 32}`. ### Testing - Current head `71e3183a7`: **183 focused CPU tests passed**, covering Q8_0, all six registered backends, IQ formats, export metadata, and recipe presets. - Current-head applicable pre-commit checks passed: Ruff, formatting, mypy, CUDA formatting, license headers, security checks, merge markers, line endings, and file size. - Previous head `2beb70ffa`: **all six Q8_0 CUDA cases passed**, including exact-byte reciprocal rounding and unrounded-scale regressions; [GPU job log](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/actions/runs/36890153545/job/110468900810). That GPU lane completed with 1,663 passed and 67 skipped. The overall workflow was cancelled after a different lane was cancelled; it is not an all-green workflow result. - Current head `71e3183a7`: the GPU CI mirror now points to the exact PR head. [GPU CI](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/actions/runs/37061248628), [example CI](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/actions/runs/37061248555), and [regression CI](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/actions/runs/37061248637) are running. Previous-head results do not validate this new head. ### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*" - Is this change backward compatible?: yes; existing IQ names and registrations are retained. - If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`?: yes; no new dependency. - Did you write any new necessary tests?: yes. - Did you update `CHANGELOG.rst`?: N/A here; #2517 carries the single Q8_0 feature entry. - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: pending current-head review. ### Related PRs 1. [#2515 — Q8_0 CUDA packing kernel](#2515) — merged. 2. [#2595 — IQ1_M registration](#2595) — merged. 3. **#2516 — Q8_0 quantization codec and backend** — this PR. 4. [#2517 — Q8_0 checkpoint export and recipes](#2517) — follows this PR. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added Q8_0 quantization support, including weight packing, unpacking, and fake quantization. * Added Q8_0 to the available GGML formats, alongside existing IQ formats, through a shared quantization interface. * Added support for formats with different block sizes when validating weights. * Q8_0 uses CUDA acceleration when available and falls back to PyTorch when needed. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: Hung-Yueh Chiang <hungyuehc@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Chenjie Luo <chenjiel@nvidia.com> Co-authored-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: performance
Two fixes that make fake-quantized GGML IQ models fast. Both were found by instrumenting the hf_ptq example (TinyLlama, 154 IQ weights, 100-token preview) and counting every encode and decode per weight.
IQFormat.packnow reuses the cached payload when it was packed from the weight being exported, so the checkpoint also holds exactly the bytes the evaluated model decoded.Formatstruct from Share one CUDA encoder per IQ family #2615 gains a bit-exactdecode()beside itsstore().Results
The instrumented hf_ptq example on the same GPU, with the extension already built:
Fake quant still packs each weight exactly once and decodes it 100 times, once per preview token. IQ1_M was the slowest format before because its PyTorch decoder did the most work; it now matches IQ1_S. Decoding one 5632×2048 weight goes from 3.3–5.2 ms to 0.06–0.14 ms.
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Reusing the payload. TensorQuantizer hands fake quant the weight reshaped into 256-value blocks, so the cache is keyed on that view, while export holds the weight itself. An exact-key match therefore never hit in a real model, even though a 256-wide unit test passed.
packalso accepts another contiguous view of the same storage, version and length: the same values in the same order, hence the same GGML blocks. It then reshapes the payload to the weight's layout. The version counter still makes a weight edited after its forward pack afresh. The Megatron exporter keeps packing on its own, since it can remap or slice a weight before packing it.Bit-exact decoders. One CUDA thread decodes one 8-value vector. Every float operation is explicitly rounded (
__fmul_rn,__fadd_rn,__fdiv_rn) in the PyTorch decoder's order, so the compiler cannot fuse a multiply into an add, and the output is bit-identical to the PyTorch decoders.dequantize_<format>uses the unpacker for CUDA payloads and keeps the PyTorch path otherwise.Testing
tests/gpu/torch/quantization/test_iq_formats_cuda.py,test_iq1_s_cuda.py,test_iq2_xs_cuda.py: 74 passed on RTX PRO 6000 (sm_120). That includes 25 new decoder cases: for each format, CUDA equals the PyTorch decoder bit for bit in four dtypes, on random payloads (including block scales that decode to inf or NaN) and real encodings. The CUDA path also reproduces llama.cpp's values on the conformance blocks. Dropping IQ2_XXS's parity bit in the kernel fails all five IQ2_XXS cases.tests/unit/torch/export/test_export_weight.py: export reuses the cached payload without calling the encoder, and repacks a weight edited after its forward, for all five formats. The weight is 512 wide so the blocked view really differs; with an exact-key match only, the reuse test fails for every format. The IQ payload export test covers all five formats rather than two.test_ggml_backend.py,test_iq_formats.py,test_convert_hf_config.py,test_presets.py,test_export_weight.py): 186 passedtests/gpu_megatron/torch/export/test_unified_export_megatron.py -k 'iq or ggml': 45 passed innvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08tests/examples/hf_ptq/test_llm_ptq.py -k iq: 5 passed, 27.7–30.9 s eachtest_torch_extensions.pystill shows [OMNIML-5899] Add Q8_0 CUDA packing kernel #2515's two Q8_0 failures, which fail identically on a cleanmain.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
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Builds on #2615 (one CUDA encoder per IQ family), now merged. Follows the IQ series (#2511, #2525, #2512, #2565, #2513, #2595), all merged. The benchmark above was measured on the combined branch before the split. After rebasing onto
mainwith #2615 merged, this PR's code is the same apart fromkVectorsPerBlockmoving intocommon.cuh's shared constants and #2615's validation-order fix. On the rebased branch, all 40 encoder and decoder hashes match, 74 GPU tests pass and 186 unit tests pass.🤖 Generated with Claude Code