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Type of change: Bug fix, new tests (test cleanup)

The Unit tests / linux job (serial, timeout-minutes: 20) was taking 13–19.5 min on main, and two recent main runs were cancelled at the limit. This cuts CPU unit-test time without dropping meaningful coverage.

  • Bug fix: _source_checkpoint returned "" for models built with from_config, so Path("") resolved to the cwd and every export globbed the whole working tree (in CI, including the nox venv). tests/unit/torch/export went 718s → 15s locally. Regression test added.
  • Multi-rank tests: new session-scoped cpu_dist_workers fixture (two persistent gloo ranks) replaces a ~20s-on-CI spawn per test for autoquant (2), shapley, quantize indexer, test_dist, FSDP2 two-rank export.
  • Moved to tests/gpu: the 6 ensure_local_checkpoint spawn tests and test_modeling_ptq_registration (8 interpreters).
  • Removed/deduped: dropped the test_presets subprocess test (the FutureWarning test beside it covers it); test_auto_quantize matrix 60 → 9 cases (every model, format list and method still appears).
  • manual (run on push/nightly): slow AutoNAS-only cases and the two ONNX entropy-calibration cases (FastNAS representatives stay enabled).
  • Guidelines: AGENTS.md / CONTRIBUTING.md now say to check existing coverage first, avoid tests that restate the implementation or assert on mocks, and keep unit tests well under 5s.

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Clean CI-like venv (py3.12, torch 2.14 CPU, CPU-only): full tests/unit on the working tree was 1181s with local-only failures before, 217s and 4791 passed after (CI runners are slower, so expect roughly a 4–6 min saving, not these exact numbers). On this branch: affected unit dirs 3276 passed; moved tests/gpu tests run on CPU with gloo, 7 passed. New _source_checkpoint test fails without the fix. Not run: the moved tests on a GPU runner.

The linux job now passes --run-manual on every non-PR event (push, nightly, dispatch) (nox unit session forwards extra args to pytest); all 17 manual unit tests pass locally (87s). Caveat: pinned ONNX entropy scales are no longer checked per-PR, only after merge.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Checkpoint source detection now handles models with an empty source path correctly, avoiding an unintended fallback to the current directory.
  • Developer Experience
    • Unit-test commands can pass additional arguments to pytest. The Linux unit-test workflow runs manual tests for events other than pull requests; pull-request runs remain unchanged.
    • Contributor guidance now clarifies test coverage, runtime expectations, and where to place slower tests.
  • Testing
    • Added distributed checkpoint-resolution coverage and streamlined several CPU distributed tests. Some slower tests now run manually rather than by default.

- Fix _source_checkpoint returning "" for from_config models, which made
  exports glob the working directory (export unit tests 718s -> 15s)
- Share two persistent gloo workers across multi-rank unit tests
- Move spawn/subprocess-heavy tests to tests/gpu, drop a redundant
  subprocess test, shrink the auto_quantize matrix (60 -> 9 cases)
- Mark slow AutoNAS and ONNX-entropy cases manual
- Tighten test guidance in AGENTS.md and CONTRIBUTING.md

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The PR changes Linux unit-test argument handling and test selection, adds shared CPU Gloo workers, and relocates distributed checkpoint tests to GPU tests. It updates test-writing guidance and changes _source_checkpoint to treat an empty configuration path as absent.

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Test-writing and runtime guidance
AGENTS.md, CONTRIBUTING.md
The guidance covers reusing existing test coverage, test runtime and placement, and explaining the purpose of added tests.
Unit-test selection and scheduled execution
.github/workflows/unit_tests.yml, noxfile.py, tests/unit/onnx/quantization/test_calibrated_quantization.py, tests/unit/recipe/test_presets.py, tests/unit/torch/nas/*, tests/unit/torch/quantization/test_autoquant.py
Nox forwards positional arguments to pytest, and non-pull-request Linux runs pass --run-manual. Several tests are marked manual or removed, and auto-quantization now uses nine selected combinations.
Shared CPU workers for distributed unit tests
tests/unit/conftest.py, tests/unit/torch/export/test_fsdp2_parallel_export.py, tests/unit/torch/quantization/*
A session-scoped two-worker Gloo fixture replaces direct process spawning in distributed export and quantization tests.
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tests/gpu/torch/utils/test_hf_checkpoint_utils_dist.py, tests/unit/torch/utils/test_hf_checkpoint_utils.py
Two-rank tests cover local checkpoint visibility and Hub download outcomes across world and subgroup membership. The corresponding distributed tests and helpers are removed from the unit-test module.

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modelopt/torch/export/unified_export_hf.py, tests/unit/torch/export/test_unified_export_hf.py
_source_checkpoint now returns None when the available checkpoint attributes are falsey. A unit test covers an empty config._name_or_path.

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Changes requested: the speedups are sensible, but marking both entropy regressions manual removes their numerical contract checks from every CI job.

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  • Move the INT8/FP8 entropy cases in test_calibrated_quantization.py to tests/gpu/onnx, or schedule them in CI; preserve the existing scale and graph assertions (see inline comment).

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  • The _source_checkpoint fix correctly normalizes empty provenance to None, with a targeted regression.
  • Design review: this addresses repeated interpreter startup and the CPU timeout. It reuses the existing DistributedWorkerPool; the body explains choosing persistent ranks over repeated spawns. Batched spawns and installed pytest-xdist are alternatives, not new dependencies needed here.
  • Test moves preserve assertions; the reduced AutoQuant matrix and deprecated-warning deduplication have visible rationale. AutoNAS exclusions explicitly cite inactive maintenance, unlike the still-active entropy contract.
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Pick up NVIDIA#2823, which keeps the Unit tests linux job under its 20-minute
limit. CHANGELOG.rst and unified_export_hf.py, changed on both sides,
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### What does this PR do?

Type of change: Bug fix (CI / tests)

Follow-up to #2823. Its auto-merge landed before the last two commits
were pushed, so main is missing them and every push-triggered `Unit
tests / linux` run now fails.

- **noxfile.py:** with `--run-manual`, the `manual` unit tests run in a
second pytest process (no coverage).
`test_transformers_load_with_multi_thread` is documented as flaky and
leaves BF16 default-dtype state, which broke later tests when
`--run-manual` shared the process with the regular suite (`BFloat16 !=
float` in `test_accelerate`, `test_fused_experts`,
`test_auto_quantize`).
- **tests/gpu/.../test_hf_dflash.py:** fixes the nightly 2-GPU failure
(3 nights in a row). With 4 layers and 2 draft layers `target_layer_ids
== [1, 1]`, so the test's own precondition (target layers straddle the
shard split) could never hold; 8 layers gives `[1, 5]`.

- **tests/_test_utils/.../distributed/utils.py,
tests/gpu_megatron/conftest.py, gpu_tests.yml:** stop one hung test from
timing out the rest of the `gpu_megatron` nightly job (cancelled at the
60-min limit on 5 of the last 8 nights, with 18-28 pytest timeouts of
120 s each). When a job hangs or a failed rank leaves its peers blocked
in a collective, the shared worker pool stayed stuck and every later
test in the module waited out its own timeout. `DistributedWorkerPool`
now prints the workers' stacks and kills them (job interrupted, or peers
not done 30 s after a rank failed) and marks itself broken; the
gpu_megatron fixtures respawn a fresh pool; job timeout 60 -> 90 min (a
healthy run takes ~47 min).

### Testing

- Reproduced the dtype pollution locally with `pytest tests/unit
--run-manual` (1 failure); the `manual` tests alone pass (17 in 87s) and
the regular suite passes without `--run-manual`.
- DFlash test: fails with `AssertionError: [1, 1]` before, 14
speculative GPU tests pass on 2 GPUs after.
- gpu_megatron: reproduced the cascade in the `nemo:26.08` CI image on 2
GPUs (RTX 6000 Ada); with the change `test_megatron.py` takes 5m42s (127
passed, 3 failed) instead of cascading into timeouts, and the 2 new pool
tests pass. The first hang (nightly: `test_fp8_real_quantize` on the RTX
Pro 6000 runner) did not reproduce, so it can still occur; it now costs
~2 min instead of ~30 and its worker stacks go to the log. The 3
failures here are `test_te_grouped_vs_sequential_default_loss` x2 and
`test_auto_quantize_moe_ep` on 48 GB cards (likely memory pressure, not
confirmed).
- Not yet run end to end: the new nox flow in CI (will dispatch `Unit
tests` on this branch).

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The unit workflow's `linux` job gates every GPU and example workflow: their
pr-gate jobs wait for it (poseidon/wait-for-status-checks, `^linux$`). That
wait is a median 13.8 min, 23% of a PR's GPU run, and the job itself takes a
median 14.8 min. The tests are CPU-bound and run serially, so use the
runner's four vCPUs.

- unit_tests.yml: `PYTEST_ADDOPTS=-n 4 --dist loadfile` on the `linux` job and
  the multi-version matrix. One worker per vCPU (`-n auto` counts physical
  cores), whole files per worker, and `OMP_NUM_THREADS=1`: with torch's default
  threads per worker the runner is oversubscribed and the run is slower than
  serial (1,481 s and 41 failures in my local runs).
- noxfile.py: the second pytest process that runs the `manual` tests clears
  PYTEST_ADDOPTS, so it stays serial: those tests leak global state into each
  other, and a worker would run them in some order.
- tests/_test_utils/torch/quantization/onnx_export.py: TEST_MODELS was a set of
  classes, whose iteration order differs between processes, so xdist workers
  collected different test ids. Use a tuple.
- test_hf_dflash2.py: test_overfits_a_single_batch needs more than the default
  60 s call timeout when one thread runs it (about 53 s with torch's default
  threads). Give it 300 s.

pytest-xdist is already in the dev-test extra on main (#2771); uv.lock is
refreshed by the weekly bump_uv_lock workflow.

Testing: the full tests/unit suite, on 4 CPUs with coverage as in CI, on the
base before the unit-test cleanup of #2823. Serial 825 s; this configuration
332-344 s in three repeated runs (4,724 passed, 0 failed). The other matrix
entries (Python 3.10, 3.13, 3.14, torch 2.8, transformers min) take 4.5-5.3 min.

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#2769 #2770 #2719 #2796 #2801 #2794 #2787 #2682 #2793 #2791 #2792 #2766 #2823 #2777 #2773 #2813 #2832 #2795 #2684 #2822 #2838 #2807 #2772 #2837 #2820 (#2843)

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- #2647
- #2700
- #2718
- #2578
- #2580
- #2711
- #2731
- #2726
- #2697
- #2769
- #2770
- #2719
- #2796
- #2801
- #2794
- #2787
- #2682
- #2793
- #2791
- #2792
- #2766
- #2823
- #2777
- #2773
- #2813
- #2832
- #2795
- #2684
- #2822
- #2838
- #2807
- #2772
- #2837
- #2820

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* Improved ONNX quantization and export compatibility, distributed
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Also includes a partial backport of #2656 (only the
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…#2845)

### What does this PR do?

Type of change: CI (unit-test runtime)

The unit `linux` job gates every GPU and example workflow (their pr-gate
jobs wait for it), and its tests are CPU-bound but run serially. This
runs them under pytest-xdist on the runner's four vCPUs. The `linux` job
and the multi-version matrix get `PYTEST_ADDOPTS=-n 4 --dist loadfile`
and `OMP_NUM_THREADS=1`: one worker per vCPU (`-n auto` counts physical
cores), whole files per worker, and one thread per worker, because with
torch's default threads the runner is oversubscribed and slower than
serial (1,481 s and 41 failures in my local runs).

What else changes so the suite passes under xdist:

- `noxfile.py`: the second pytest process that runs the `manual` tests
clears `PYTEST_ADDOPTS`, so it stays serial. Those tests leak global
state into each other, and a worker would run them in some order.
- `tests/_test_utils/torch/quantization/onnx_export.py`: `TEST_MODELS`
was a set of classes, whose iteration order differs between processes,
so workers collected different test ids. It is a tuple now.
- `test_hf_dflash2.py::test_overfits_a_single_batch` takes about 30 s on
one thread on main (53 s before #2836 halved its loop to 30 steps; that
version hit the 60 s default call timeout in the nightly on main on
2026-10-20). Its tiny model is built in bf16, and a CPU without native
bf16 support emulates bf16 matmuls (about 0.9 s per step, 0.1 s in
float32). The model is float32 now, which takes the test to about 4 s on
one thread, so it needs no timeout override; the loop and both
assertions are unchanged.
- `test_full_algorithms_vision.py::test_search_constraints` assigned
`ConstraintsFunc._get_true_latency` and never restored it. Serial runs
never noticed, because `test_evaluate_constraints.py` sorts first. Under
xdist a worker can get the files in the other order, and the Python 3.10
and 3.14 legs failed two tests after it. It uses `monkeypatch` now.
- `tests/conftest.py`: the unit per-test cap is 120 s on every platform.
`test_dist.py::test_data_parallel` takes 8-15 s serial and 25-35 s with
four workers sharing four vCPUs, and went over 60 s on the slowest
runner. A hung test is still reported, after 2 min instead of 1.

Why: on current main the `linux` job has a median of 12.9 min (27 runs
of other PRs since #2823 merged), and a pull request's GPU run waits a
median 14.5 min for it (125 runs of 33 PRs).

### Time improvement (measured in CI)

Unit `linux` job: serial on current main (27 runs of other PRs since
#2823 merged) against the runs of this series with `-n 4`.

| | before (serial) | with this PR |
|---|---|---|
| pytest | 630 s median (355-709 s) | 479 s in this PR's own run; 294 s
median over the 11 runs of the series (166-479 s) |
| whole job | 12.9 min median (8.8-14.8) | 10.9 min in this PR's own
run; 7.0 min median over the 11 runs (5.0-10.9) |
| unit workflow: `linux`, then the multi-version and Windows legs | 24.1
min median (12 runs) | 17.2 min median (the 7 runs that ran every leg) |

- The runs of #2846 and above also carry the sysmon core of #2846 (about
22% off the unit suite on its own, measured locally), so the 294 s
median is xdist plus sysmon; this PR's own run is the xdist-only number.
It was the slowest of the 11 (166-479 s for nearly the same tests:
runner variance), so it understates the gain. Locally on 4 CPUs with
coverage as in CI, the base took 825 s serial and 332-344 s with this
configuration (3 runs).
- The GPU, Example and Regression workflows hold their jobs until the
unit `linux` check is done (`pr-gate / wait-checks`, at least 5 min).
That wait is a median 14.5 min (IQR 12.9-15.8) on 125 GPU runs of 33 PRs
since #2823; in this PR's own GPU run it was 9.7 min (its `linux` job
took 10.9 min). With a 7 min `linux` job instead of 12.9 min, a GPU run
requested right after a push starts about 6 min earlier. That figure is
derived from the job times: the later runs of the series were requested
after their unit check had finished (the wait sat at its 5.2 min floor
in 7 of the 9 GPU runs), so they cannot show it.

Method: every PR of the series has its own CI run, so "before" is the
run of the PR(s) below that lack the change and "after" the runs that
carry it. Times come from the job logs (`--durations`, or the gap
between consecutive result lines). Where runner speed matters, the tests
that no PR of the series touches scale each run, and the raw and the
scaled medians are both shown. One test varies by 15-30% from run to run
on its own, so smaller differences are not evidence.

### Usage

Nothing user-facing. Locally: `OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 pytest tests/unit -n 4
--dist loadfile`.

### Testing

- Full `tests/unit` on 4 CPUs with coverage as in CI, on the base before
#2823: serial 825 s, this configuration 332-344 s in three repeated runs
(4,724 passed, 0 failed).
- This PR's own CI run: the `linux` job took 10.9 min (479 s of pytest)
against the 12.9 min serial median; see the time section above for the
later runs of the series.
- `tests/unit` without `puzzletron` (it needs `hydra`, absent from my
local environment) in reversed and in shuffled file order shows no other
order dependence; `test_search_constraints` followed by
`test_evaluate_constraints.py` in one process failed before the fix and
passes after it.
- `test_hf_dflash2.py` (33 tests) on one CPU thread: 13.5 s, of which
`test_overfits_a_single_batch` takes about 4 s (30 s with the bf16 model
on main; the next slowest test takes about 1.3 s).
- Pre-commit (all hooks) passes.

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- Is this change backward compatible?: N/A (CI and tests)
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: no new
dependency (`pytest-xdist` is already in the `dev-test` extra on main)
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: N/A (two existing tests fixed
or sped up so they pass under xdist)
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### Additional Information

Slice 1 of 11 of the GPU-CI speed-up work, split out of the reference
draft #2730 (not for merge; it holds the whole series with its
measurements). Merge in order; each PR stands on its own and passes CI
without the later ones.

1. #2845 [OMNIML-6178] [1/11] Run the unit tests in parallel with
pytest-xdist **(this PR)**
2. #2846 [OMNIML-6178] [2/11] Use the sysmon coverage core in CI
3. #2847 [OMNIML-6179] [3/11] Run manual-marked tests on nightly and
on-demand GPU runs
4. #2848 [OMNIML-6181] [4/11] Give gpu_megatron's slow cold starts more
time
5. #2849 [OMNIML-6179] [5/11] Make the ONNX tests cheaper: CPU-only ones
to the unit lane, small models
6. #2850 [OMNIML-6179] [6/11] Use local tokenizers and calibration text
in GPU tests, shrink puzzletron data
7. #2851 [OMNIML-6180] [7/11] Trim the llm_eval, llm_qat, EAGLE and
megatron_bridge example tests
8. #2852 [OMNIML-6180] [8/11] Trim the DFlash regression test
9. #2853 [OMNIML-6180] [9/11] Trim the torch_onnx example lane
10. #2854 [OMNIML-6181] [10/11] Make the distributed worker pool fail
fast when a worker dies
11. #2855 [OMNIML-6181] [11/11] Share one Megatron worker pool across
the gpu_megatron modules


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **Tests**
* Improved consistency and performance of automated test runs across
platforms and Python configurations through controlled parallel
execution.
* Preserved predictable model-check ordering and isolated temporary test
changes.
* Increased unit-test time limits to better support process-spawning and
slower runs.
* Improved test reliability by explicitly controlling numeric precision
and ensuring serial execution for manual CPU tests.
  * No end-user functionality or product behavior changed.
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