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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. [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
  2. [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
  3. [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
  4. [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
  5. [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

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.

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    • 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.

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Both scripts resolve checkpoints to local paths before loading models and tokenizers. The attention sparsity script removes a separate tokenizer save call. The weight sparsity script documents saving the tokenizer after model export when a pad token was added.

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Local checkpoint resolution and loading
examples/llm_sparsity/attention_sparsity/hf_sa.py, examples/llm_sparsity/weight_sparsity/export_hf_ckpt.py
Both scripts call ensure_local_checkpoint and load the model and tokenizer from the returned local path. The attention sparsity script also records the Hub model ID and prints the local path.
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examples/llm_sparsity/attention_sparsity/hf_sa.py, examples/llm_sparsity/weight_sparsity/export_hf_ckpt.py
The attention sparsity script removes its separate tokenizer save call. The weight sparsity script adds comments describing the tokenizer save step after export when a pad token was added.

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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.

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* **New Features**
* Checkpoint exports can resolve local and Hub-hosted checkpoints, using
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…2608)

### 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**.

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
← **this PR**
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 [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
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* **Bug Fixes**
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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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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.







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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.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

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The export now carries the source's non-model files only from local disk,
so hf_sa.py and export_hf_ckpt.py make the model local first with
ensure_local_checkpoint, keeping their argument as given and reading from
hf_model_path. 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.

Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
…s hub_model_id

As in hf_ptq: name the local checkpoint directory and the Hub identifier
for what they are.

Signed-off-by: Shengliang Xu <shengliangx@nvidia.com>
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@shengliangxu shengliangxu changed the title [5/5] llm_sparsity: load the model from local disk, downloading it first if needed [4/5] llm_sparsity: load the model from local disk, downloading it first if needed Oct 7, 2026

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Approving: this is a small, correct examples-only change. Both scripts now make the checkpoint local and load from that copy, so export_hf_checkpoint can copy the source's non-model files.

No action needed.

No action needed:

  • I checked the ensure_local_checkpoint return order (hub_model_id, local_checkpoint_path) and the export flow. _source_checkpoint falls back to config._name_or_path, which is now the local snapshot, so _copy_non_model_files_from_source runs and doesn't take the warning branch.
  • hf_sa.py no longer calls tokenizer.save_pretrained, so the export ships the source's tokenizer files unchanged. The EOS pad token it sets is only used for generation in the script, so that's the right result.
  • export_hf_ckpt.py still saves the tokenizer after the export, so its added [PAD] token and resized embeddings stay consistent. The order matters because copy_non_model_files skips files that already exist in the export.
  • args.hub_model_id is set in both scripts but nothing reads it yet. It's harmless and matches the hf_ptq pattern.
  • The PR adds no new tests. The existing GPU example tests (tests/examples/llm_sparsity/attention_sparsity/test_attention_sparsity.py) run these code paths in CI.

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LGTM

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