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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughLayerwise export now binds exporters to calibrated layers and requires explicit ChangesLayerwise export integration
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Layerwise exports can produce an incorrect checkpoint when orphan keys collide, mutate a model before rejecting an invalid exporter root, or become unrecoverable after an artifact-write failure. These correctness and recovery issues should be resolved before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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hf_ptq->>LayerwiseExporter: announce on full model
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layerwise_calibrate->>LayerwiseExporter: bind and write layer shards
hf_ptq->>LayerwiseExporter: finalize with MTP state
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modelopt/torch/quantization/model_quant.py (1)
71-71: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winDocument the exporter lifecycle in both public APIs.
Add an
exporterargument description. State that it requires layerwise calibration and that the caller must callLayerwiseExporter.finalize()aftercalibrate()orquantize()returns. Otherwise, callers can mistake layer shards for a complete checkpoint.As per path instructions, “document public APIs such as bind(), finalize(), calibrate(), and quantize().”
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In `@examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py`:
- Line 1407: Initialize layerwise_exporter before the AutoQuantize branch so it
is defined regardless of whether aq_config is set. Preserve the existing
exporter configuration and ensure the later use of layerwise_exporter remains
valid for both AutoQuantize and non-AutoQuantize execution paths.
In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/model_quant.py`:
- Line 120: Update the mode setup around apply_mode() so an exporter is passed
to only the selected layerwise export mode when algorithm contains multiple
modes. Alternatively, validate and reject configurations with two layerwise
modes before applying them, preventing the same exporter from being bound twice.
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In `@modelopt/torch/quantization/model_quant.py`:
- Line 71: Document the exporter lifecycle in the public API documentation for
calibrate() and quantize(), including that exporter requires layerwise
calibration and callers must invoke LayerwiseExporter.finalize() after either
method returns to produce a complete checkpoint rather than leaving layer
shards. Also update the public API documentation for bind() and finalize() as
needed to describe this lifecycle consistently.
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Claude review — refactor(export): let the caller own the layerwise exporter
Scope: full review (trigger comment was a bare /claude review). All 6 changed files read: modelopt/torch/export/layerwise_export.py, modelopt/torch/quantization/{mode,model_calib,model_quant}.py, examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py, tests/gpu/torch/export/test_layerwise_export.py. Traced exporter end to end (mtq.quantize → calibrate → apply_mode mode_kwargs → wrapped_calib_func → layerwise_calibrate → bind/export_layer/finalize) and read the surrounding _reconcile_export_with_resume, _collect, _write_index, and LayerwiseConfig for context.
The core idea is right, and moving finalize() past calibration is clearly the correct scope for it — MTP orphans become an ordinary argument and the VLM namespace falls out of rooting the exporter at the parent, with no key prefixing. Both refusals really were consequences of when it ran. What the split introduces is a new precondition (bind() before finalize(), finalize() by the caller) that is not enforced everywhere it needs to be.
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CRITICAL: 2 · IMPORTANT: 2 · SUGGESTION: 1
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UnboundLocalErroron every AutoQuantize run (examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py:1372) —layerwise_exporteris assigned inside theelse:ofif aq_config is not None:(8-space indent), butpost_quantize(...)at line 1405 is at function-body indent and passes it positionally on every path. Any--recipe <autoquantize>invocation now crashes after the full search and calibration, immediately before export. Fix is a one-line hoist above line 1286. -
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exporter is Nonefallback silently produces an unloadable checkpoint (modelopt/torch/quantization/model_calib.py:2093-2099) — calibration still builds its own exporter andbind()s it, but the twoexporter.finalize()calls that used to run at lines 2113 and 2212 were replaced with print statements, and the local exporter is never returned. That path now ends with layer shards but no tail shard, nomodel.safetensors.index.json, noconfig.json/hf_quant_config.json— with no error and no warning, after a run that can take hours. The PR description's "omit it and calibration builds one fromlayerwise.export_diras before" isn't accurate; before, calibration also finalized it.test_export_without_checkpoint_dir_may_overwrite(line 427) exercises exactly this path and only asserts "must not raise", so it passes over the gap — and its docstring documents that library caller as supported. Either keep the fallback self-contained (owns_exporterflag → finalize at both tail sites) or drop it and raise a clearValueError; the current middle ground is the one option that fails silently.
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finalize()'sbind()precondition isn't guaranteed (examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py:930-932) —args.layerwise_exportis derived fromexport_diralone at line 1200 whileis_layerwisereadsenableseparately, andLayerwiseConfighas no validator tying them.layerwise: {enable: false, export_dir: ...}therefore reachesfinalize()with an unbound exporter and zero shards; so does any config resolving toNoneCalibrateModeDescriptor(_calib_func = None), wherewrapped_calib_funcskips the layerwise block entirely. Result is a bareAssertionErrorat export time — and underpython -O, with the assert stripped,finalize()runs on a half-initialized exporter. Refuse inassert_layerwise_export_compatible, which is the designated pre-calibration gate. -
The "same decoder layers from either root" invariant is load-bearing but unchecked (
modelopt/torch/export/layerwise_export.py:211) — calibration callsget_decoder_layers(language_model),bind()calls it onfull_model, and the comment still claims "the same call calibration uses"._write_index()iteratesrange(len(self._layers))andsafe_opens each shard, so an exporter that discovers more layers than calibration wrote dies on an opaqueFileNotFoundErrorat the end offinalize();_reconcile_export_with_resumemixes the two counts and can decide resume wrongly in either direction.export_layer's identity check catches reordering but not a length difference where the leading objects coincide.layerwise_calibratealready holdstransformer_layers— pass it tobind()and fail fast.
SUGGESTION
LayerwiseConfig.export_dir's description is now stale (modelopt/torch/quantization/config.py:757, not in the diff so no inline comment) — it still says "multimodal and MTP models raise NotImplementedError", which this PR removes, and still promises "leaving a complete, loadable checkpoint when the last layer lands", which no longer holds without a caller-sidefinalize(). This is the user-facing contract for the feature; it should name who callsfinalize().
Things I checked and found fine
exporterthreads cleanly throughmode_kwargs— every calibrate algorithm routes throughBaseCalibrateModeDescriptor.convert, so the new kwarg is accepted uniformly, and it never reachesmanager.add_mode, so there is genuinely no config-schema ormodelopt_statechange here. Backward compatibility of the mode/state path is sound.extra_state_dictmerge semantics (skip-on-collision, no per-tensor postprocessing, hub-name reversal only) matchunified_export_hf_streaming.py:410. Consistent with the existing path.- Moving
finalize()afterload_mtp_weightsmeans_add_mtp_exclusionsnow seesmodel._mtp_layer_prefixes(set at line 928), which it could not before — a real fix, not just a reshuffle. - Turning
_kv_cache_formatinto a property makes it a live read after_add_mtp_exclusions/revert_quant_config_namesmutatequant_config; neither toucheskv_cache_quant_algo, so_collectis unaffected today. - Skipping the source-
config.jsonre-save under layerwise export is correct — it would have clobbered thequantization_configthe exporter wrote.
Risk assessment
High, but concentrated and cheap to fix. Finding 1 breaks a path that has nothing to do with this feature (AutoQuantize) and breaks it loudly; finding 2 breaks the documented library-caller path and breaks it quietly, which is the worse of the two. Both are small diffs. The migration of the 24 existing tests to caller-owned finalize() is what removed coverage from the fallback path, so please add a test that drives layerwise.export_dir with no exporter and asserts the index and config artifacts exist — that is the regression guard this refactor needs. An AutoQuantize smoke test would cover finding 1.
The draft status and the "not yet validated on a real VLM or MTP checkpoint / offloaded run" caveat are the right call; the design itself reads well and the reasoning in the description about export_hf_checkpoint vs. the streaming exporter is convincing — deferring that consolidation is the right scope decision.
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Could we fail explicitly on an extra_state_dict key collision rather than using tail.setdefault(...)?
These tensors are documented as weights the model never held, so a mapped name already existing in the exported checkpoint indicates an invariant violation. Silently keeping the existing tensor could produce a structurally valid checkpoint with the wrong MTP weight, which is much harder to diagnose than failing during export.
I would prefer checking the mapped name against the already-exported namespace and raising a clear error on collision.
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what if we attach model._is_layerwise_export in layerwise mtq.calibrate?
Then in export_hf_checkpoint we detect if any submodule has _is_layerwise_export ed?
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This is what we landed now:
1.Attach the exporter object rather than a boolean. 2.On detection, announce() publishes it on both ends — the caller announces on the model being calibrated, bind() announces on the export root. For VLM that's two different modules. finalize() clears every attachment it recorded, so nothing outlives the export.
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| for name, tensor in (extra_state_dict or {}).items(): | ||
| mapped = self._name_mapper(name) if self._name_mapper is not None else name | ||
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[IMPORTANT Export] setdefault guards only the tail dict, and the tail is the shard the index prefers.
Two gaps here:
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Tail collision is silent.
setdefaultkeeps the tensor already collected from the model and drops the caller's. These tensors are documented as weights the model never held, so a collision is an invariant violation, not a merge to resolve. (sylvesterkaczmarekasked for this in a review comment on 2026-09-02; still unaddressed.) -
Layer-shard collision isn't checked at all — and this is the one that produces a valid-looking checkpoint with the wrong weight. If a mapped orphan name matches a key already written into a layer shard,
setdefaultsees an empty slot and writes it to the tail._write_indexthen iterates layer shards then the tail (line 470-474), soweight_map[key] = "model-tail.safetensors"— the unquantized orphan shadows the exported quantized tensor, which stays on disk unreferenced.total_sizecounts both copies, so the index's byte total is wrong too. Nothing raises; the failure surfaces as bad accuracy at inference.
Low probability today (GLM-style MTP indices sit at num_hidden_layers, past the exported range) but it's silent when it does happen, and the exporter already knows both namespaces. Checking against weight_map isn't available yet at this point, but self._layer_names + completed_layers() give the layer prefixes, or simplest, hoist the check into a set built from the shards:
exported = set(tail)
for i in range(len(self._layers)):
with safe_open(str(self._export_dir / layer_shard_name(i)), framework="pt") as f:
exported.update(f.keys())
for name, tensor in (extra_state_dict or {}).items():
mapped = self._name_mapper(name) if self._name_mapper is not None else name
if mapped in exported:
raise RuntimeError(
f"extra_state_dict key {name!r} maps to {mapped!r}, which the export "
"already wrote. These tensors are weights the model never held, so a "
"collision means the wrong one would win in the index."
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tail[mapped] = tensor.detach().contiguous().cpu()Guard it on extra_state_dict being non-empty so the common path doesn't pay the reopen.
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355-355: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winSet
_finalizedonly after all artifacts are written.Line 355 marks the exporter finalized before tail collection and file writes. If
save_file(), index generation, or config writing fails, a retry on this exporter always raises"finalize() called twice"although the checkpoint is incomplete.Set
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/layerwise_export.py`:
- Line 415: In the extra-key handling around the tail assignment, validate each
mapped key before storing it: reject collisions with existing tail keys,
previously mapped extra keys, and layer-shard keys instead of overwriting
tensors. Preserve the collision error behavior through _write_index() and add
regression coverage for all three collision cases.
- Around line 225-231: Update bind() to validate layer identity by rejecting any
index where layers[i] is not calibrated_layers[i], in addition to the existing
length check, before calibration or export work begins. Add a regression test
covering same-sized but disjoint exporter and calibration roots.
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/layerwise_export.py`:
- Line 355: Move the `_finalized = True` assignment in the exporter finalization
flow to after tail collection, all artifact writes, index/config generation, and
cleanup complete successfully. Preserve retryability when any step fails; if
reentrant finalize calls must still be rejected, use a separate in-progress
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[SUGGESTION] finalize_hint is emitted unconditionally, including on the path that already finalizes. examples/hf_ptq announces the exporter before mtq.quantize and calls exporter.finalize(...) a few lines after it returns (hf_ptq.py:970), so every hf_ptq layerwise run now ends calibration with a warning telling the user to call finalize() on model._layerwise_exporter — and if they act on it, finalize() raises "finalize() called twice; the checkpoint is already written."
The hint is only true for the config-only caller, and that case is already distinguishable right above: a pre-attached exporter means the caller owns the export. Something like
owns_finalize = getattr(model, LAYERWISE_EXPORTER_ATTR, None) is None # captured before pickupcaptured before the getattr(...) or LayerwiseExporter(...) line, then finalize_hint = ... if owns_finalize else "", keeps the guidance where it helps and drops it where it misleads. (Same applies to the resume-complete message at :2121.)
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[SUGGESTION] The owner lookup reads as if it handles block is None, but it silently selects the wrong entry in that case. layerwise_export_block() returns None when no entry sets export_dir, and e.get("layerwise") is None is then true for the first dict entry that has no layerwise block at all — so owner binds to an unrelated pass, and if that pass has no method the run is refused with "layerwise.export_dir needs a calibration method", which names a field nobody set.
Not reachable today (args.layerwise_export implies a block with export_dir, and set_layerwise_export_dir raises on None immediately after this call), so this is about the guard not meaning what it looks like. An explicit early return makes the identity comparison sound:
block = layerwise_export_block(algorithm)
if block is not None:
entries = algorithm if isinstance(algorithm, list) else [algorithm]
owner = next(e for e in entries if isinstance(e, dict) and e.get("layerwise") is block)
if not owner.get("method"):
raise NotImplementedError(...)with next() now unconditional, since a non-None block came from one of entries by construction.
| ``extra_state_dict`` carries tensors the model never held -- orphaned MTP weights, | ||
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[SUGGESTION] Two docstring precision points, both worth fixing here because this is the contract callers read before passing MTP tensors:
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The stated reason for orphaning covers only one of the two conventions. "which HF leaves out because it builds only
num_hidden_layersdecoders" is the inlined case (model.layers.{N}, DeepSeek-V3/GLM-5.1). The separate-file conventionsload_mtp_weightsalso handles — GLM-4.7's standalonemtp.safetensors, Qwen3-Next's indexedmtp.*tail — are orphaned because the HF class builds no MTP module at all, which has nothing to do with the decoder count. "tensors with no slot inmodel.state_dict()" covers both and matches_apply_to_model_state_dict's actual predicate. -
The overwrite semantics are deliberate but undocumented.
tail[key] = ...at line 415 overwrites a tail key and is not checked against the layer shards at all. The PR body argues this is right (parity withunified_export_hf.py:1623, and unreachable through the only producer sinceload_mtp_weightsreturns exactly the keys absent frommodel.state_dict()) — that reasoning belongs next to the code. Two reviewers have now asked about it; a sentence here is what stops it recurring.
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Claude review — feat(export): support multimodal and MTP models in layerwise export
Scope: full review (bare /claude review), all 6 changed files at head b1ed3af6. Traced the exporter end to end (mono_quantize announce → mtq.quantize → layerwise_calibrate → bind/export_layer → export_quantized → finalize) and read _write_index, _collect, completed_layers/assert_shards_present, layerwise_export_block, recipe_layerwise_blocks, set_layerwise_export_dir, load_mtp_weights / _apply_to_model_state_dict / _load_tensors_matching / get_inlined_mtp_prefixes, and the 0.47/0.48 CHANGELOG blocks.
Every finding from the last round is addressed. The CRITICAL from two rounds ago (a pre-attached exporter driven by every layerwise pass) stays fixed, and all three of the last round's suggestions landed: the calibration messages now print exporter.export_dir rather than the pass's export_dir, both are warn_rank_0 instead of print, and bind(calibrated_layers=...) is a required argument so the layer-list invariant cannot be skipped. The orphan-collision scan was removed rather than moved, which the "Refusals" section argues for explicitly — parity with unified_export_hf.py:1623, and unreachable through the only producer. I agree with that reading; see the docstring note below.
Findings by severity — CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 1 · SUGGESTION: 3
IMPORTANT
1. The CHANGELOG deletes 0.47's entry, and the one backward-breaking change has no entry (CHANGELOG.rst:11, inline). The layerwise.export_dir line moves out of the 0.47.0 block into 0.48.0. If 0.47.0 is cut — and the 0.48.0 block on main already carrying other PRs' entries, plus #2325 ("Align changelog versions and dates with GitHub releases"), says it is — then 0.47's notes lose a feature it shipped, 0.48 announces that feature as new, and what is actually new in 0.48 goes unstated. That last part matters most: the PR body says mtq.quantize "no longer finishes the checkpoint", so a 0.47 caller of mtq.quantize(model, cfg_with_export_dir, loop) upgrades and gets layer shards with no tail shard, index or config.json. **Backward Breaking Changes** is empty, and the checklist answers "backward compatible: ✅" one line above the paragraph describing the break. The inline comment has suggested replacement text. If 0.47.0 is still unreleased, amending in place is correct per CLAUDE.md and only the breaking-change entry question remains.
SUGGESTIONS (non-blocking, posted inline)
- The finalize hint fires on the path that already finalizes (
model_calib.py:2104, also:2121).hf_ptqcallsexporter.finalize(...)immediately aftermtq.quantizereturns, so everyhf_ptqlayerwise run ends calibration by telling the user to callfinalize()— and acting on it raises "finalize() called twice". A pre-attached exporter is exactly the signal that the caller owns it; capture that before the pickup and drop the hint. assert_layerwise_export_compatible'sownerlookup can select an unrelated entry (hf_ptq.py:814). Withblock is None,e.get("layerwise") is blockmatches the first dict entry that has nolayerwiseblock, refusing the run with a message naming a field nobody set. Unreachable today; the guard just doesn't mean what it reads as.finalize()'sextra_state_dictdocstring (layerwise_export.py:342) gives the orphaning reason for the inlined convention only — the separate-file ones (GLM-4.7, Qwen3-Next) are orphaned because no MTP module is built at all — and the deliberate overwrite semantics at:415are argued in the PR body but not in the code.
Checked and found fine
- The MTP ordering hazard the removed
NotImplementedErrorguarded does not bite.load_mtp_weightsruns athf_ptq.py:956, after every layer shard is on disk, and_apply_to_model_state_dictloads thein_state_dicthalf intofull_modelin place — so only the orphan half reachesfinalize(). I chased whether an in-place-loaded tensor can be stranded, and it cannot: a stock HF class builds exactlyconfig.num_hidden_layersdecoders, so the inlined prefixes (model.layers.{N},N >= num_hidden) are never inmodel.state_dict()and the in-place half is always empty for that convention; the separate-file prefixes (mtp*) are never insideget_decoder_layers(model), so they fall outsidedecoder_owned_idsand the tail pass — which runs after the load — picks up the fresh values. Correct by construction rather than by check, but correct. - The widened root is name-consistent throughout.
_layer_names(built inbind()from the export root'snamed_modules()),export_layer's shardprefix,finalize()'sskip_prefixes, and the finalmodel.state_dict()sweep are all relative toself._ctx.model, so a VLM'slanguage_model.model.layers.N.*keys and its tail land in one namespace.test_exporter_root_widens_the_checkpoint_to_the_parentcovers it, and the length check inbind()catches the one mismatchexport_layer's identity check structurally cannot. args.layerwise_export'senableconjunct is evaluated per block, so{enable: true}on one entry and{export_dir: ...}on another reads as disabled and warns;set_layerwise_export_diris then not called, leaving the recipe placeholder inert because that block's pass never runs.- Unbound-exporter paths all fail loudly. The already-quantized early-out never announces (the construction sits inside
not model_is_already_quantized or calibration_only); a VLM whose layerwise pass never ran hits theRuntimeErrorinexport_quantized; a non-VLM, wherelanguage_model is full_modelmakes the pre-quantizeannouncement reachable fromfull_model, now hitsfinalize()'s unboundRuntimeErrorrather than a bare assert. Nothing reaches a half-written checkpoint silently. NoneCalibrateModeDescriptorand the AutoQuantize path stay closed —owner.get("method")matcheswrapped_calib_func'sif func is not Nonegate, andquantize_mainrefuseslayerwise.export_dirwith an AutoQuantize recipe outright.- Skipping the source
config.jsonre-save for a VLM is right and sufficient.finalize()→save_non_weight_artifactswrites the VLM's own config (the exporter is rooted atfull_model) and_write_hf_export_configaddsquantization_config; theAutoProcessor.save_pretrainedabove only writespreprocessor_config.json/tokenizer files, andcopy_custom_model_filesskipsconfig.jsonand the index. - No mode/state or config-schema surface is touched.
LAYERWISE_EXPORTER_ATTRis a plainobject.__setattr__on the module,finalize()delattrs both ends with an identity check,_announced_onis identity-deduped so the second announcement is a no-op when both roots coincide, and nothing reachesmanager.add_mode— somodelopt_stateround-trip and checkpoint restore are unaffected. That remains the real advantage of the attribute design over threadingexporterthroughmtq.quantize. bind()setting_boundas its last statement,dtypeflowing through to_resolve_export_dtype(model, self._dtype), andsave_layer_state=exporter is Nonekeeping the shards as the sole resume artifact are all correct as written.
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Low for the code; the one blocker is release communication. Nothing in modelopt/ or examples/ blocks: each invariant that matters (layer_idx agreement, finalize-before-bind, finalize-twice, announcement cleanup, single-owner export pass) has an explicit refusal and a test with a negative control, and the two lifted refusals really were consequences of when finalize() ran. Residual risk is where the PR itself puts it — no real VLM, MTP or offloaded checkpoint validated end to end, and bind()'s reliance on get_decoder_layers returning the language model's layers from a VLM root is the assumption most likely to vary by architecture. It fails loudly at bind(), which is the right shape for an unvalidated path.
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Do you think these helpers can live in example_utils.py? My reason for this is to avoid blowing up hf_ptq.py.
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appiled the change, thanks for the suggestion!
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Per-layer export called finalize() from inside layerwise_calibrate, which is the wrong scope for it, and both refused model families were refused for that reason. Calibration only sees the module it was handed. A VLM calibrates its language model, so the shards, the exclusions and config.json all described that submodel rather than the whole VLM. And calibration runs before orphaned MTP weights are loaded, by which point every shard was already written, so they could not be passed at all. The exporter is now created by whoever owns the export and announced on the model. It publishes itself on the export root and, for a VLM, on the language model too, so whichever of the two mtq.quantize is handed finds it; calibration binds it and drives it per layer, and export_hf_checkpoint dispatches to it. A layerwise VLM run is the same mtq.quantize(...) / export_hf_checkpoint(...) pair as a plain LLM, and orphaned MTP tensors are an ordinary finalize() argument. mtq.quantize and mtq.calibrate are unchanged: a layerwise-only feature does not belong in the public quantization API. Construction is inert, since the caller builds the exporter before there are quantizers to validate or read a config from; bind() does that, from calibration after quantizer insertion and before any layer is converted, so unsupported models still fail in seconds rather than hours. Only the pass that sets export_dir drives the exporter, since a list-form algorithm runs one per entry and an earlier pass must not convert layers a later one still has to calibrate. Calibration now writes only the layer shards; finalize() adds the tail shard, the index and the config artifacts. It is announced rather than held so a config-only caller can reach it, and the message says what is still owed. Tested end to end through hf_ptq against a baseline exported by main: Qwen3-VL-8B (1254 keys, 0 differing) and GLM-4.7-Flash (28119 keys, 0 differing, all 212 orphaned MTP tensors in the tail shard and the index). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Fridah-nv <201670829+Fridah-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: New feature
Layerwise export now supports multimodal and MTP models. Both were refused outright, and
both were refused for the same reason:
finalize()was called from insidelayerwise_calibrate, which is the wrong scope for it.1. Calibration does not know which model the checkpoint describes. It only sees the
module it was handed. A VLM calibrates its language model, so the shards, the exclusions
and
config.jsonall came out describing that submodel rather than the whole VLM. Moving thecall out lets the caller root the exporter at the parent — and without the key prefixing,
tower collection or ambient parent handle an earlier attempt needed, because the decoder
layers are the same objects from either root.
2. Calibration runs before things the export needs exist. Orphaned MTP weights are loaded
after calibration, by which point every shard had already been written, so they could not
be passed at all. After the move they are an ordinary argument to
finalize(), with nostaging attribute stashed on the model.
How it works
The exporter is created by whoever owns the export and announced on the model that
mtq.quantizeis given. Calibration picks it up, binds it, and drives it per layer; theexport that follows reads it back and finishes the checkpoint:
Calibration and export are handed different models, so
announce()publishes the exporteron each end separately: the caller announces on the model being calibrated, and
bind()announces on the export root. Neither side has to know where the other looked, and the lookup
stays an O(1)
getattrrather than anamed_modules()scan — worth avoiding at roughly1.65 µs/module, or ~500 ms on a Kimi-K3-sized model. For a non-VLM both roots are the same
object and the second announcement is a no-op.
finalize()clears every attachment itrecorded, so the module graph does not retain a live exporter afterwards.
mtq.quantizeandmtq.calibrateare unchanged — a layerwise-only feature does notbelong in the public quantization API. The attribute follows
_mtp_layer_prefixes, whichcrosses the same calibration→export boundary the same way (
hf_ptq.py:538sets it,unified_export_hf.py:870reads it back).Construction is inert:
__init__records only the export root and the directory, because thecaller builds it before
mtq.quantize, when there are no quantizers yet to validate or reada config from.
bind()does that, called from calibration after quantizer insertion andbefore any layer is converted — the only window where both hold, and the same instant the
exporter used to be constructed, so unsupported models still fail in seconds rather than
hours. Only the calibration pass that sets
export_dirdrives the exporter: a list-formalgorithm runs one pass per entry, and an earlier one must not convert layers a later one
still has to calibrate.
Usage
Nothing changes for a plain layerwise-export recipe:
layerwise.export_dirstill drives it.Pre-attaching an exporter is the opt-in for the two cases that need it — a checkpoint whose
root is wider than the calibrated model, and orphaned tensors to merge at the end.
The one behaviour change for a config-only caller is that
mtq.quantizenow writes the layershards but no longer finishes the checkpoint. Both exit paths warn with what is still owed,
and
LayerwiseConfig.export_dir's description has been corrected — it previously promised "acomplete, loadable checkpoint when the last layer lands" and still listed multimodal and MTP
as raising
NotImplementedError.Testing
tests/gpu/torch/export/test_layerwise_export.py— 29 passed. Beyond the 24 inheritedfrom #2136, five new ones, each with a negative control confirming it fails without its fix:
export_dirdrives the exporterbind()Full suites:
tests/gpu/torch/export+tests/gpu/torch/quantization1012 passed / 55skipped,
tests/unit3318 passed / 15 skipped, pre-commit clean. Both suites alsoreport failures in
test_implicit_gemm.py(FP4 conv kernels),test_triton_fa_p_qdq.py,test_autocast_quantize_int8andtest_engine_builder.pycollection; all reproduce unchangedon
mainand none touch the paths in this diff.Measured against the whole-model exporter on a tiny Gemma3-VL, towers prepared exactly as
hf_ptqdoes:End-to-end through
hf_ptq.pySame FP8 recipe both sides; the baseline drops
layerwise.export_dirand is exported bymain, so the diff isolates this PR. Every tensor matches in key, dtype, shape and value,and
config.json/hf_quant_config.jsonmatch too.The VLM checkpoint keeps the vision tower unquantized (351
model.visual.*keys, noweight_scaleamong them) while the language model is FP8. The MTP run reports 212 orphanedtensors; all 212 land in
model-tail.safetensorsand in the index, withmodel.layers.47*inexclude_modules.Not yet validated: an accelerate-offloaded run, and a serving canary on the exported
checkpoints.
Refusals
export_dirwithoutenable, and an exporting algorithm entry with no calibration method,are both refused before calibration starts — neither reaches the per-layer pass, so both
would otherwise export nothing. The early gate is a heuristic on the recipe, so
hf_ptqalsoraises a plain
RuntimeErrorat export time if calibration turned out not to have run; thatbackstop, not the gate, is what makes the failure legible on paths the recipe check cannot
predict.
bind()requires the layers calibration will drive and refuses a root that discovers adifferent number of them. Only the count is checked here:
export_layeralready rejects areordering or a substituted module on its first call, and a length difference is the one
mismatch it structurally cannot catch — every call would pass and
_write_indexwould thenopen a shard that was never written, at the very end of the run.
Orphan tensors are merged into the tail with no collision check, matching the whole-model path
(
unified_export_hf.py:1623).load_mtp_weightsreturns exactly the keys absent frommodel.state_dict(), so a collision with an exported tensor is not reachable through the onlyproducer, and a guard would only make the two export paths diverge.
Why not reuse
export_hf_checkpointIt was the first idea and it is the most expensive one. Its transformers path is whole-model
at every step —
_prepare_moe_inputs,requantize_resmooth_fused_llm_layers(which runs adummy forward that would fail on already-converted layers),
_process_quantized_modules, afull
model.state_dict()in host RAM, thensave_pretrainedrewriting shards already on disk— and it raises outright under
has_accelerate_offload.save_pretrained(state_dict={})isnot an escape either: safetensors' shared-storage check fires on MoE even with an empty dict.
The natural consolidation target is the streaming exporter, which is already most of
finalize(): 122 lines vs 74, sharingdecoder_owned_ids,enable_weight_access_and_writeback,_dispatch_export_handler,_reconstruct_fused_moe_linear,_add_mtp_exclusions,_postprocess_single_tensor,requires_weight_materializationandsave_non_weight_artifacts. Folding them together needsroughly four knobs: skip the whole-model prep, skip layers already written, seed the index
with the existing shards, and inject the quant config. That is a separate change and
deliberately not in this one.
Before your PR is "Ready for review"
mtq.quantize/mtq.calibratesignatures areunchanged, and a recipe that only sets
layerwise.export_dirbehaves as before. The onebehaviour change is that
mtq.quantizeno longer finishes the checkpoint on its own:callers must now call
finalize()on the exporter, which calibration leaves on the model.guidance in
CONTRIBUTING.md: N/Aneeds a re-run.
Additional Information
Follow-ups this enables: #2259 (MTP) reduces to close to nothing, and the multimodal work in
#2218 no longer needs
export_parent, the key prefixing, or the tower collection.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Bug Fixes
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