[OMNIML-6031] [2/5] HF exporters write off-index safetensors and non-model files by shengliangxu · Pull Request #2608 · NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer

shengliangxu · 2026-09-30T21:55:09Z

What does this PR do?

Type of change: bug fix, new feature

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.

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[OMNIML-6027] [1/5] Add ensure_local_checkpoint to load models from local disk, and copy_non_model_files #2607 — Add ensure_local_checkpoint to load models from local disk, and copy_non_model_files
[OMNIML-6031] [2/5] HF exporters write off-index safetensors and non-model files #2608 — HF exporters write off-index safetensors and non-model files ← this PR
[OMNIML-6028] [3/5] hf_ptq: load the model from local disk, downloading it first if needed #2609 — hf_ptq: load the model from local disk, downloading it first if needed
[5/5] megatron_bridge: load the HF model from local disk; Megatron export copies its non-model files #2610 — megatron_bridge: load the HF model from local disk; Megatron export copies its non-model files
[OMNIML-6029] [4/5] llm_sparsity: load the model from local disk, downloading it first if needed #2611 — llm_sparsity: load the model from local disk, downloading it first if needed

This PR [2/5]

export_hf_checkpoint put the tensors of off-index safetensors (GLM-4.7's mtp.safetensors) into exclude_modules but left copying the files to the hf_ptq example, so any other caller exported exclusions for weights the checkpoint lacked. It likewise left the source's non-model files to the caller, while its streaming paths copied only top-level *.py.

Every HF export path now does both itself, from the model's source checkpoint on local disk: the regular, streaming and FSDP2 paths; the layerwise path, into the exporter's own directory (a recipe's layerwise.export_dir can set it apart from export_dir); and the vLLM fake-quant export. save_non_weight_artifacts copies the non-model files in place of its *.py glob. A Hub-ID source gets a warning instead of a fetch, since its cache holds only what loading needed.

Until #2609, hf_ptq still runs its own copy afterwards -- harmless, as files already present are skipped -- and prints that warning for a Hub-ID --pyt_ckpt_path.

Usage

No API change; export_hf_checkpoint(model, export_dir=...) on a model loaded from a local directory now also writes the source's non-model and off-index files.

Testing

Same suite as #2607: 688 passed. New tests: the regular path copies non-model files (tiny Llama loaded from a local directory), a Hub-ID source warns without fetching, and the layerwise path writes mtp.safetensors into the exporter's directory even when export_dir differs. A CPU end-to-end FP8 export of hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-LlamaForCausalLM carried the tokenizer and README. 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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Bug Fixes
- Hugging Face and vLLM exports now preserve off-index safetensors and other non-model files from local source checkpoints, including files not listed in the checkpoint index.
- Layerwise exports place copied safetensors in the correct output directory.
- Exports from Hub sources warn when source files cannot be copied locally, without downloading them.

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Hugging Face and vLLM fake-quant exports now copy non-model files from local source checkpoints. Hugging Face export paths also copy off-index safetensors, including during layerwise export. Tests cover copied-file filtering, local and Hub-ID sources, and layerwise output placement.

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Hugging Face export preservation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Copy non-model files from local sources `modelopt/torch/export/unified_export_hf.py`, `tests/unit/torch/export/test_unified_export_hf.py`, `CHANGELOG.rst`	Unified export paths use a shared helper to copy non-model files from local source checkpoints. Non-local sources produce a warning. Tests check copied files, excluded model weights, and Hub-ID behavior.
Copy off-index safetensors `modelopt/torch/export/unified_export_hf.py`, `modelopt/torch/export/plugins/vllm_fakequant_hf.py`, `modelopt/torch/export/quant_utils.py`, `tests/unit/torch/export/test_unified_export_hf.py`, `CHANGELOG.rst`	Unified and vLLM fake-quant exports copy off-index safetensors into export destinations. Layerwise exports use the exporter’s output directory. Tests check the copied file and carried-over tensor name.

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… copy_non_model_files (#2607) ### What does this PR do? Type of change: new feature ### 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` ← **this PR** 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 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 [1/5] Adds the two building blocks to `modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/hf_checkpoint_utils.py`, re-exported from `modelopt.torch.export`. Nothing calls them yet; #2609–#2611 make `ensure_local_checkpoint` the first step of each pipeline. - **`ensure_local_checkpoint(model_name_or_path, group=None) -> (hub_model_id, local_checkpoint_path)`** makes the whole checkpoint local before anything loads it: a local directory as-is, a Hub ID downloaded in full if not cached yet (guessing which files are redundant would risk dropping ones the checkpoint needs). Load the model, tokenizer and processor from `local_checkpoint_path`; `hub_model_id` is the Hub ID, or `None` for a local path, for records that must stay valid on other hosts. - Under `torch.distributed`, rank 0 of `group` resolves it and broadcasts the result -- or its error, so a failed download raises everywhere rather than stranding the waiting ranks. Rank 0 decides for local paths too, since ranks checking for themselves could disagree about a node-local directory. Without a `group`, every rank waits on a temporary gloo group whose 24 h timeout outlasts a large download; with one, the caller's group carries the wait. A rank that cannot see the resolved path raises, asking for shared storage. - `snapshot_download` silently returns a possibly incomplete cached snapshot when the Hub is unreachable. With `HF_HUB_OFFLINE` the cache is used quietly (the user's choice); with the Hub unexpectedly unreachable it is used with a warning, or the Hub's error is raised if nothing is cached. An input that is neither a local directory nor a Hub model ID the Hub can access -- a mistyped local path, say -- raises a `ValueError` saying so, chained to the Hub's error; a gated repo still raises `GatedRepoError`. - **`copy_non_model_files(source, export_dir)`** copies every file of a local checkpoint, recursively, except weight files in any format, top-level export metadata (`config.json`, `hf_quant_config.json`, stale quant configs, `.experiment.json`), files the export already wrote, hidden directories (`.git`, `.cache`), and links that resolve outside the checkpoint or its Hub `blobs/` (checked with the existing `resolve_checkpoint_file`). It never writes through a link already in the export, removes a partial copy when one fails, and skips `export_dir` when it lies inside the source (e.g. an earlier export). It returns `/`-separated paths on every platform. **What happens to the existing copy helpers.** `copy_non_model_files` replaces both copy rules the series' callers use today. #2609 moves `hf_ptq` off `copy_non_safetensor_files_from_ckpt`. #2610 moves the Megatron export onto `copy_non_model_files` (dropping its Hub-fetching `copy_hf_ckpt_remote_code` branch), moves `prune_minitron` and `export_distilled_megatron_to_hf` off `copy_hf_ckpt_remote_code`, and deprecates `copy_non_safetensor_files_from_ckpt`. `copy_hf_ckpt_remote_code` stays for now: puzzletron's `init_child_from_parent` still uses it, and migrating puzzletron is out of scope for this series. Also: module constants move to the top next to a note defining model versus non-model files; `off_index_safetensors_files` / `copy_off_index_safetensors` accept a `None` source and report what they copy; comments stop calling off-index weight files "sidecars". ### Usage ```python from modelopt.torch.export import copy_non_model_files, ensure_local_checkpoint hub_model_id, local_checkpoint_path = ensure_local_checkpoint("Qwen/Qwen3-8B") # every rank calls it model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(local_checkpoint_path) ... copy_non_model_files(local_checkpoint_path, export_dir) # after the export wrote its own files ``` ### Testing `pytest tests/unit/torch/utils tests/unit/torch/export tests/examples/hf_ptq` (GPU end-to-end and `test_dataset_utils` excluded): 684 passed. New tests cover the copy rule (weights, owned metadata, subdirectories, hidden dirs, links inside/outside/dangling, Hub `blobs/`), online/offline/unreachable/missing-repo resolution, and -- over two real gloo processes -- rank-0-only download, error propagation, an explicit group, a subgroup without global rank 0, and a local path hidden from one rank. The resolution paths were also checked live against the Hub. 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. ### 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?: ✅ (additive) - 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)?: N/A (entries land with the behaviour changes in #2608–#2610) - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ ### Additional Information Stacked series; this is the base.  ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Checkpoint exports can resolve local and Hub-hosted checkpoints, using cached snapshots when offline or Hub access is unavailable. Missing offline cache entries are reported as errors. * Exports can copy eligible non-model checkpoint files without overwriting existing export files. Hidden directories and unsafe or dangling links are excluded. * Distributed exports coordinate checkpoint resolution across processes and report failures, including when other processes cannot access the resolved path. * Safetensors files not listed in an index are treated as standalone weight files and can be copied into exports when eligible.  --------- Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

export_hf_checkpoint seeded the tensors of off-index safetensors (GLM-4.7's mtp.safetensors) into exclude_modules but left copying the files to the hf_ptq example, so any other caller exported exclusions for weights the checkpoint lacked. It likewise left the source's non-model files -- tokenizer, processor, remote code, chat templates -- to the caller, while its streaming paths copied only top-level *.py. Every HF export path now does both itself, from the model's source checkpoint on local disk: the regular, streaming and FSDP2 paths, the layerwise path (into the exporter's own directory, which a recipe's layerwise.export_dir can set apart from export_dir), and the vLLM fake-quant export. save_non_weight_artifacts copies the non-model files in place of its *.py glob. A source that is a Hub ID gets a warning instead of a fetch: its cache holds only what loading needed. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

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+    from modelopt.torch.export import unified_export_hf as uehf
+    from modelopt.torch.export.layerwise_export import LAYERWISE_EXPORTER_ATTR


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Agreed, but postponing: #2608 is merged and none of the remaining PRs in this series touch test_unified_export_hf.py. The file has several older in-function imports too, so I'll move ours to module scope in a follow-up cleanup.

@shengliangxu Understood. A follow-up cleanup is reasonable since #2608 is merged and the remaining PRs do not touch this file.

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I'm approving: this small change is correct and has tests. Every HF export path now copies off-index safetensors and the source's non-model files itself, from local disk only.

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Layerwise: finalize() already calls save_non_weight_artifacts, so non-model files land in exporter.export_dir. That function rejects multi-process runs, so the _writes_extra guard is always true on this path.
Regular path: the copy runs after save_pretrained and _write_hf_export_config. copy_non_model_files skips files that already exist, so the export's own generation_config.json is kept. The _offloaded or is_fsdp2_sharded guard stops the streaming paths from copying twice.
vLLM path: the off-index copy runs after _carry_over_unplaced_weights rebuilds the index, so mtp.safetensors correctly stays out of it. The two new calls there have no direct test (optional follow-up).
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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. ### 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?: ✅ (`--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 dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A - Did you write any new necessary tests?: N/A (removes code; the new helpers are tested in #2607/#2608) - Did you update [Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?: N/A (the `pad_token` fix is #2597's entry; the verbatim copy is #2608's) - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ ### Additional Information Stacked on #2608.  ## 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.  --------- Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

…rst if needed (#2611) ### 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 4. #2611 — `llm_sparsity`: load the model from local disk, downloading it first if needed ← **this PR** 5. #2610 — `megatron_bridge`: load the HF model from local disk; Megatron export copies its non-model files ### This PR [4/5] **Loading.** `hf_sa.py` and `export_hf_ckpt.py` now make the model local first with `ensure_local_checkpoint` -- a local directory as-is, a Hub ID downloaded once -- and load the model and tokenizer from that copy (`args.local_checkpoint_path`), keeping their argument as given. That is also what lets `export_hf_checkpoint`, which carries the source's non-model files only from local disk (#2608), include them. **Exporting.** `hf_sa.py` no longer saves its tokenizer into the export: it sets `pad_token` to EOS only for generation, so the source's files are the right ones. `export_hf_ckpt.py` keeps its save, after the export, because it can add a pad token and resize the embeddings. ### Usage No flag change. ### Testing Both scripts byte-compile; their end-to-end tests need a GPU and are left to CI. No library code changes in this PR. ### 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?: N/A - Did you update [Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?: N/A (no user-facing change beyond the series' entries in #2608 and #2610) - Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ ### Additional Information Based on `main` (#2607–#2609 are merged); #2610 is stacked on it.  ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **Improvements** * Model export examples load checkpoints from a local copy while retaining the original model reference and, when available, its Hub ID. * Weight-sparsity exports save tokenizer updates, including padding-token changes. Attention-sparsity exports no longer save the tokenizer separately. * Attention-sparsity exports run the model in inference mode.  --------- Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

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Keep each entry to one or two sentences for external users; the details are in the pull request. Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>

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