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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds calibration-free drafter quantization, launcher pipelines for Qwen3-8B and Nemotron, and DSPARK draft quantization handling in the speculative-decoding benchmark. ChangesDrafter quantization workflow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The quantization CLI trusts module paths from downloaded configuration files, allowing a malicious configuration to copy files outside the drafter source tree into an exported artifact; custom module exports may also fail because paths and dependencies are not preserved. These concrete security and correctness risks make the PR not merge-ready until fixed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Launcher->>Quantizer: invoke with resolved drafter path
Quantizer->>DrafterCheckpoint: load safetensor shards
Quantizer->>QuantizedDrafter: export quantized weights and metadata
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Extends quantize_drafter.py from W4A16-only to five formats, and adds a calibration-free way to set the static activation scale that the weight+activation formats need. Formats: w4a16_nvfp4, nvfp4, fp8, fp8_pc_pt, fp8_pb_wo -- the ModelOpt formats vLLM can actually serve. need_calibration() decides which need a static activation amax. For those, --act_scale_heuristic fixed (the default) applies one amax to every layer, set by --act_scale_amax (default 448, i.e. input_scale 1.0 for FP8). A single fixed scale sounds crude but measures well, because acceptance length is governed almost entirely by clipping rather than by resolution. Sweeping input_scale over three decades on Qwen3-8B, both formats fall off a cliff below ~0.03 -- where the declared range is far under the activations' true magnitude and most of the tensor is clipped -- and both sit on a flat plateau from ~0.3 to 4.0 with no drop-off at the top. NVFP4 trails FP8 by a roughly constant 3.5% across the plateau; that gap is the 4-bit resolution cost and no choice of scale recovers it. Two weight-derived estimators are kept for reference but land 1-2 orders of magnitude below the activation range (-31% to -46% AL). Deploying a quantized drafter needed four export fixes and one caller fix: - emit quant_method (modelopt_fp4 / modelopt); vLLM reads it, not quant_algo - emit the exclusion list under `ignore` too, the key read from the flat quantization_config in config.json - add *<name> wildcards so exclusions match a runtime's nested module prefix - add *qkv_proj / *gate_up_proj aliases for layers a runtime fuses - specdec_bench: pass the draft's own quantization into speculative_config. vLLM otherwise copies the target's onto the draft, so a quantized drafter under a bf16 target is built as bf16 and dies on the packed weights. Also excludes embed_tokens (an Embedding the drafter inherits from the target, not a GEMM) and confidence_head (a [1, H] projection whose per-channel scale collapses to 0-dim), plus a generic 0-dim guard, and writes <name>.input_scale without which every activation scale was silently absent from the export. Testing: Qwen3-8B + deepseek-ai/dspark_qwen3_8b_block7, MT-Bench 80q, greedy. bf16 AL 3.1423. fp8 @ input_scale 1.0 -> 3.1457 (+0.11%); fp8_pc_pt dynamic per-token -> 3.1228 (-0.62%); w4a16_nvfp4 -> 3.0392 (-3.28%); nvfp4 @ 1.0 -> 3.0193 (-3.91%). Full 20-point sweep of both formats in the module docstring. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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…istic flags The activation-scale knobs existed to run a sweep that is now finished, and its answer was a single value: input_scale 1.0 measures +0.11% AL on FP8, and the usable plateau spans ~0.3 to 4.0 with no drop-off at the top, so there is nothing for a caller to tune. Hardcode it and remove --act_scale_heuristic, --act_scale_amax and --act_scale_multiplier. Two of the four heuristic choices (weight_amax, weight_rms) were documented in the script as not recommended -- they measured -31% to -46% AL. Keeping known-bad options in a CLI only creates a way to pick one; the numbers belong in the docs, which is where they now live. Route the remaining logic through resolve_activation_scales(), the one place that decides where a static activation amax comes from. Real calibration slots in there as a second source ahead of the fixed fallback without changing the CLI or the call site, since set_static_activation_amax() already skips quantizers that have an amax and so composes as a fallback rather than an overwrite. Exports are byte-identical to before this change for all five formats: fp8 still records input_scale 1.0, nvfp4 0.1667 (the 6*448 divisor), and the three calibration-free formats none. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
Cut commentary that restated the code, enumerated formats already named in the list below it, or narrated failure modes reached while debugging. Kept the non-obvious reasons a later reader would otherwise have to rediscover: why embeddings must be excluded by name under the flat-linear view, why exclusions need suffix wildcards and fused aliases, and why both quant_method/quant_algo and ignore/exclude_modules are written. Exports are unchanged (byte-identical for all five formats). Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
Address review: drop the hf_ptq background paragraph from the module docstring and cut the draft-quantization comment in specdec_bench to two lines. Same pass over the rest of the script -- remove what the code already says, keep only the non-obvious reasons. No behaviour change; exports are byte-identical for all five formats. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
Quantizes an exported DSpark drafter weight-only to NVFP4 and measures acceptance length, so the cost of quantizing is visible in the same run. Needs no calibration data. Adds the thin common/specdec/quantize_drafter.sh wrapper, which also resolves a training output_dir to its newest exported-checkpoint-<step>. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
The launcher PTQ example benchmarks a DSpark drafter, but specdec_bench had no DSPARK path -- an exported Qwen3DSparkModel would have gone through DFLASH and been built with vLLM method="dflash". Adds the branch: vLLM method="dspark", and a draft_sample_method matched to the target's verify mode (greedy target + probabilistic draft, or the reverse, crushes acceptance at temp > 0). DSpark also runs eager, since its block-parallel draft can outgrow the workspace during CUDA-graph capture; acceptance length is unaffected by graph capture. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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In `@examples/speculative_decoding/scripts/quantize_drafter.py`:
- Around line 124-126: Update the snapshot_download call in the quantization
setup to pass allow_patterns covering the safetensors shard files, config.json,
and all tokenizer files subsequently read or copied by the script, while
preserving the existing local-path behavior.
- Around line 136-155: Update the quantization flow to require CUDA before
loading checkpoints, pass device="cuda" when calling load_file(), construct each
nn.Linear in build_linear_view on weight.device, and create the static amax
tensor on module.weight.device so quantization and packing run on CUDA.
In `@tools/launcher/common/specdec/quantize_drafter.sh`:
- Around line 41-43: Update the quantize_drafter.py invocation to quote the
DRAFTER variable and preserve positional arguments by using "$DRAFTER" and "$@";
do not alter the surrounding command or argument order.
- Around line 30-38: Update the DRAFTER checkpoint selection logic around
DRAFTER_CKPT so exported-checkpoint auto-detection runs only when DRAFTER_CKPT
refers to an existing local directory. Preserve non-local model identifiers,
including Hugging Face repository IDs, unchanged for quantize_drafter.py instead
of searching them or exiting when no local checkpoint is found.
- Line 33: Update the DRAFTER checkpoint discovery command to sort checkpoint
basenames rather than full paths, using version-aware sorting with sort -V so
parent-directory hyphens cannot affect selection; preserve choosing the
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Scope: full review (the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). All 5 changed files (+464/-0) reviewed: examples/speculative_decoding/scripts/quantize_drafter.py (new, 323 lines), examples/specdec_bench/{run.py,specdec_bench/models/vllm.py}, and the two tools/launcher/ files. Nothing deprioritized.
Findings: CRITICAL 1 · IMPORTANT 2 · SUGGESTION 3
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1. --quantize_lm_head produces a checkpoint inconsistent with its own config (CRITICAL Export). The preset disables *lm_head* — every quantizer, not just the weight one — so re-enabling *lm_head*weight_quantizer restores half of it. With --qformat fp8, get_quantization_format classifies the layer as FP8 off num_bits alone without consulting input_quantizer, so lm_head is advertised as fully quantized and kept out of exclude_modules, yet no lm_head.input_scale is emitted. With --qformat nvfp4 it is worse: lm_head resolves to W4A16_NVFP4 against NVFP4 everywhere else, process_layer_quant_config takes the two-format branch, and the result is quant_algo: "MIXED_PRECISION" → quant_method: "modelopt" written for an NVFP4 checkpoint, exclude_modules silently dropped to [], and quantized_layers leaking into config.json. Appending {"quantizer_name": "*lm_head*", "enable": True} fixes both; a quant_algo != "MIXED_PRECISION" assertion would catch the general case, since every config key this script writes assumes the single-format path.
2. Sidecar copy is narrower than the config it ships (IMPORTANT Export). config.json is copied verbatim, keeping auto_map / processor_class, but only tokenizer.json, tokenizer_config.json, and generation_config.json come with it. Remote-code *.py, special_tokens_map.json, vocab.json/merges.txt, and chat_template.jinja are dropped — so for precisely the "exported drafter with no importable model class" case this script targets, a trust_remote_code load of the export hits a missing module. copy_non_safetensor_files_from_ckpt (already in-tree, already the hf_ptq baseline) covers this and correctly skips weights and the weight index.
3. build_linear_view pays for a full random init it discards (IMPORTANT Performance). Each nn.Linear(...) allocates its weight and runs kaiming_uniform_ over out × in, then the next line overwrites it. That is one model's worth of RNG before any quantization work — likely most of the reported 67 s on the 9.98 GiB MiniMax case — plus needless peak host memory. device="meta" plus a nn.Parameter assignment removes both.
Three SUGGESTIONs are inline: the 0-dim-scale skip guard fires only for per-tensor FP8 and misdiagnoses why (the condition it describes is unreachable), the amax downcast to the weight dtype undercuts the documented calibration extension point, and fp8_pb_wo is the one offered format with no canonical quant_algo mapping and no entry in the validation table.
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Worth recording, since the approach is unusual and several of its load-bearing assumptions do hold:
- Calibration-free weight scales are sound.
max_calibraterunsweight_only_quantizeunconditionally before theforward_loop is not Nonecheck (model_calib.py:340-345), so every weight quantizer gets its_amaxfrom the weight tensor itself.mtq.quantizewith noforward_loopis legitimate here, not a silent no-op. - The flat
nn.Linearview works with the presets. Presetquant_cfgis a list, so.appendis valid;quantizer_namepatterns are fnmatched against the dotted module FQNs theModuleDictnesting reproduces.DEFAULT_EXCLUDEcorrectly compensates for the preset'sparent_class: nn.Embeddingrule, which the flat view cannot express — the code comment on that is accurate. All fiveSUPPORTED_QFORMATSresolve (fp8_pb_wo/fp8_pc_ptviaQFORMAT_ALIASES). - NVFP4 scale derivation matches the real export.
get_weight_scaling_factorroutes NVFP4 throughNVFP4QTensor.get_weights_scaling_factor_from_quantizerexactly asunified_export_hfdoes, andto_quantized_weightis then handed the same scale pair, so packing is self-consistent. Theinput_scalearithmetic in the docstring checks out:amax/448 = 1.0for FP8,amax/(6·448) = 0.1667for NVFP4. - Fused-sibling
weight_scale_2is not a hazard.SHARED_PATTERNSfullmatchesq_proj|k_proj|v_projandgate_proj|up_projagainst FQNs, which the flat view satisfies, so the shared global amax is applied. And although that state ties buffers across members — which safetensors rejects —get_weights_scaling_factor_2_from_quantizerreturns a freshly divided tensor per call, so the manually-builtexport_sdhas no shared storage andsave_fileis safe. This path was not exercised by the PR's testing (--exclude '*q_proj*' '*k_proj*' '*v_proj*'), so it is worth noting that it holds by construction rather than by luck. specdec_benchwiring is clean. Every engine class reads its options viakwargs.get(...), so threadingdraft_quantizationthrough the shared constructor call is inert for TRT-LLM / SGLang / auto_deploy. Thequant_methodkeyvllm.pyreads is the onequantize_drafter.pywrites. One nit not worth an inline: the--draft_quantizationhelp text says the value is "read from the draft'sconfig.jsonwhen omitted", which is true only for the vLLM backend — the other engines ignore it entirely.tools/launcher/common/specdec/quantize_drafter.shfollows the established unquoted-${@}convention used by the other launcher wrappers; the YAML pipeline is consistent with its sibling examples.
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Moderate, and well contained. This is example-and-tooling-only — no modelopt/ source, no mode registration, no modelopt_state schema, so there is no backward-compatibility or restore-fidelity surface. The default paths (w4a16_nvfp4, and fp8 / nvfp4 without --quantize_lm_head) are the ones the PR measured and they hold up under reading. The CRITICAL is confined to the one opt-in flag, which the PR description itself flags as needing an AL measurement first — but as written it fails at checkpoint load rather than merely costing accuracy, and for NVFP4 it corrupts quant_method and exclude_modules rather than erroring loudly, so it should be fixed before the flag is advertised.
The documented decision not to add a test is reasonable for an example, though the offer in the checklist of a tests/examples/speculative_decoding/ case over a small synthetic drafter would be worth taking up: a round-trip over a 3-layer drafter would have caught both the --quantize_lm_head mixed-precision fallout and the missing input_scale cheaply, and would pin the config.json keys that four separate comments in this script exist to explain.
Measured on Qwen3-8B: quantizing fc saves ~12% more size (1.6 -> 1.4 GiB) for ~0.7 points of acceptance length (3.0392 -> 3.0186). Worth taking by default, and the comment now separates it from the q/k/v exclusions, which are mandatory rather than a tuning choice. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
Review findings: --quantize_lm_head re-enabled only lm_head's weight quantizer, but the preset disables all of them. On fp8/nvfp4 that exported lm_head with weight_scale and no input_scale, while the config still advertised it as fully quantized and left it out of the exclusion list -- a load error on the one layer the flag exists to quantize. Re-enable the input quantizer too. Verified: lm_head.input_scale is now written. fp8_pb_wo is the one offered format with no canonical quant_algo mapping (it falls through to a raw lowercase "fp8_pb_wo" where the others emit "FP8" / "FP8_PER_CHANNEL_PER_TOKEN") and no measurement behind it, so the claim that every offered format is servable did not hold for it. Dropped. Also keep the static amax in fp32 rather than casting to the weight dtype; exact for 448.0 but bf16 would round an arbitrary measured amax by ~0.3%. Exports for the remaining formats are byte-identical. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
Wrapper: quote "$DRAFTER" and "$@". Unquoted ${@} globbed the wildcard exclusions
the launcher YAML passes -- verified: with a file matching *q_proj* in the CWD,
'*q_proj*' expanded to that filename and the drafter would have been quantized
with the wrong exclusion set. Also restrict checkpoint auto-detection to an
existing local directory so an HF repo id passes through instead of erroring, and
sort with -V so exported-checkpoint-1000 beats -900.
Export: copy the modeling files an auto_map points at. The export carries the
source config verbatim, so a drafter shipping custom modeling code would
otherwise reference .py files that are not there. (DFlash/DSpark exports have no
auto_map; this is for the ones that do.)
Download: pass allow_patterns to snapshot_download rather than pulling whole
repos for the weights, config and three sidecars this reads.
Exports are byte-identical for all four formats.
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nn.Linear was allocating and running reset_parameters() over a full-size weight that the next line replaced, costing a whole model's worth of RNG plus a transient allocation per layer. Constructing on meta skips both: ~4.6 s -> ~0.3 s of setup for a 30-layer model, and peak host memory drops by the largest layer. Exports are byte-identical. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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Same two-step pipeline as the Qwen3-8B example against a hybrid Mamba-MoE target and the published DSpark drafter. All four formats quantize this checkpoint with no script changes. The target differs from Qwen3 in ways the YAML has to reflect: TP8, and a startup dominated by Mamba2 kernel warmup rather than weight loading. The drafter's block_size is 8, and it sets has_lm_head=false (shares the target's), so --quantize_lm_head does not apply. Also fixes --block_size in the Qwen3 example: it said 16, carried over from the DFlash streaming recipe's dflash_block_size, but dspark_qwen3_8b_block7 is block_size 7 -- which is what every AL number in the PR description was measured at. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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- Around line 129-133: Update the snapshot_download call in the quantization
setup to include the Python modules required by auto_map, while retaining the
existing safetensors, config.json, and sidecar downloads. Ensure the resulting
export_dir contains the custom .py files later copied by the export flow so
custom-model loading references remain valid.
- Around line 335-339: Update the export logic around the auto_map handling to
flatten list-valued entries, skip None values, and extract modules only from
valid string references before copying their Python files. Also update the
snapshot_download allow patterns so referenced *.py files are included, keeping
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The Qwen3 comment claimed quantizing fc saves ~12% of checkpoint size. That came from du -sh on export directories holding extra files; the weight files are 3.293 -> 3.181 GiB, i.e. ~3%. fc is only 3.5% of that drafter's parameters (embed_tokens is 26% and is excluded by default), so ~12% was never plausible. Fills in the same figures for Nemotron, now that they are measured: 1.316 -> 1.258 GiB (~4%) for 4.2899 -> 4.2334 AL. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
…ple runnable The Nemotron example passed --runtime_params, but AsyncEngineArgs is built from an explicit allow-list, so the mamba settings were silently dropped. That is not a cosmetic gap: with vLLM's defaults the first draft token is rejected ~88% of the time and acceptance length falls from ~4.3 to ~1.5, while every later position stays normal -- it reads as a bad drafter rather than a misconfigured engine. Forwards the five mamba keys when the caller sets them, and ships the settings the model card pins as engine_args.json next to the YAML. Every key in that file is now actually plumbed. Also aligns the example's task_1 with the configuration these numbers were measured at: ntasks_per_node 1 (vLLM owns TP internally; 8 tasks would launch 8 duplicate benchmarks), --trust_remote_code, --temperature 0, concurrency 8, and VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN=1 as the card sets. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
…oads Review findings, both in the auto_map support added earlier in this PR. auto_map values are not always strings: HF writes AutoTokenizer as a list whose entries may be null, e.g. [null, "tokenization_x.XTokenizerFast"]. Calling .split() on that raised AttributeError, so any drafter with a tokenizer auto_map crashed at export. Extraction now lives in auto_map_modules(), which handles strings, lists, nulls and repo-- prefixes. The snapshot_download allow-list also excluded *.py, so for a Hub drafter the modules were never fetched and the copy step had nothing to copy -- leaving the exported auto_map pointing at files that do not exist. Added *.py. Verified against all six auto_map shapes plus an end-to-end export with a list-valued auto_map; exports for the four formats are byte-identical. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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In `@examples/speculative_decoding/scripts/quantize_drafter.py`:
- Around line 123-135: Harden auto_map_modules and the subsequent module copy
flow against untrusted auto_map values by rejecting absolute paths and any
traversal components, then resolving each candidate and requiring it to remain
under source_dir before reading or copying. Preserve repository-prefix handling
while ensuring every resulting module path is validated against source_dir
before constructing the exported artifact path.
- Around line 354-357: Update the module export logic around auto_map_modules so
each module’s relative path under source_dir is preserved in export_dir,
creating parent directories before copying. Validate resolved module paths
remain within source_dir and reject traversal outside it, then recursively copy
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Reject unsafe auto_map paths.
auto_map_modules accepts absolute paths and .. components. A malicious config.json can make the later source_dir / f"{module}.py" path escape source_dir. The copy step can then disclose a local Python file in the exported artifact.
Resolve each candidate path and require it to remain under source_dir before reading or copying it. Reject absolute paths and traversal components.
As per path instructions, downloaded configs and metadata are untrusted and must be validated before file access.
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In `@examples/speculative_decoding/scripts/quantize_drafter.py` around lines 123 -
135, Harden auto_map_modules and the subsequent module copy flow against
untrusted auto_map values by rejecting absolute paths and any traversal
components, then resolving each candidate and requiring it to remain under
source_dir before reading or copying. Preserve repository-prefix handling while
ensuring every resulting module path is validated against source_dir before
constructing the exported artifact path.
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| for module in auto_map_modules(config): | ||
| source_py = source_dir / f"{module}.py" | ||
| if source_py.is_file(): | ||
| shutil.copy2(source_py, export_dir / source_py.name) |
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"pkg/modeling_drafter.Drafter",
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The dynamic module loading system in Hugging Face Transformers uses dynamic_module_utils.py to handle the downloading and caching of custom code (typically triggered via trust_remote_code=True). The system is designed to resolve and include recursively identified dependencies to ensure remote models function as expected [1][2][3]. Key mechanisms in this process include: 1. Relative Import Resolution (get_relative_imports and get_relative_import_files): The utility get_relative_imports scans a module file for import .xxx or from .xxx import yyy statements using regular expressions [1][2]. The get_relative_import_files function performs a recursive traversal of these relative imports [2][4]. It iteratively discovers dependencies—meaning if file A imports B, and B imports C, all three files are identified—to ensure the entire required module tree is cached [2][3]. 2. Cached Module Management (get_cached_module_file): This function manages the lifecycle of dynamic modules. It downloads the requested module file (and all recursively identified relative imports) into a local cache directory [1][3]. A hash of the files is often used to manage cache keys, ensuring that if code changes, the cache is invalidated and updated [5][3]. Recent improvements have ensured that this process correctly handles symlinked cache structures (like those used by huggingface_hub) by performing discovery on the snapshot paths rather than the raw blob storage [6]. 3. Auto-mapping and Nested Paths (auto_map): The auto_map dictionary in a configuration file maps standard Transformers classes (e.g., AutoModel) to custom classes defined in the remote code (e.g., modeling.MyModel) [7][8][9]. When loading such models, the library parses these references, locates the specified file and class, and dynamically loads them [8][9][10]. Challenges and Considerations: - Module Naming Issues: If the repository or directory name contains dots (e.g., saved_model_v1.0), Python may misinterpret these dots as package separators when resolving relative imports within the cached directory. A common workaround involves sanitizing these directory names (replacing dots with underscores) during the cache key generation process to maintain a valid Python module hierarchy [11]. - Recursive Dependencies: The system relies on the assumption that relative imports are discoverable through standard import syntax. If a module uses dynamic or complex import patterns that the regex-based get_relative_imports cannot detect, those dependencies may not be automatically fetched, leading to FileNotFoundError exceptions [2][7]. Ensuring that all dependencies are explicitly imported using the supported relative syntax is the primary way to ensure they are captured [2][7]. Top results: [1][11][6][2][3]
Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/transformers/dynamic_module_utils.py
- 2: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/52cb4034ada381fe1ffe8d428a1076e5411a8026/src/transformers/dynamic_module_utils.py
- 3: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/42f189de/src/transformers/dynamic_module_utils.py
- 4: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/9914a3641f7aaaabb0bcdfcd73a54a1cfa70c3e7/src/transformers/dynamic_module_utils.py
- 5: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/96d3ecce/tests/utils/test_dynamic_module_utils.py
- 6: Fix dynamic module symlinked cache on trust_remote_code models huggingface/transformers#46618
- 7: AutoModel from_pretrained does not recursively download relative imports huggingface/transformers#36653
- 8: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/v5.12.0/src/transformers/models/auto/configuration_auto.py
- 9: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/a61d5f9e/src/transformers/models/auto/auto_factory.py
- 10: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/transformers/models/auto/processing_auto.py
- 11: AutoModel.from_pretrained() doesn't work for models with '.' in their name when there's a relative import huggingface/transformers#40496
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Preserve custom module paths and validate auto_map paths.
- For
pkg/modeling_drafter.Drafter, the current code copies the file to the export root, so the unchanged reference fails. Preserve the relative path and create parent directories. - Reject paths that escape
source_dir;../outside.Classcurrently resolves outside the source tree. - Copy relative-import dependencies recursively.
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In `@examples/speculative_decoding/scripts/quantize_drafter.py` around lines 354 -
357, Update the module export logic around auto_map_modules so each module’s
relative path under source_dir is preserved in export_dir, creating parent
directories before copying. Validate resolved module paths remain within
source_dir and reject traversal outside it, then recursively copy any
relative-import dependencies while retaining their relative paths.
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: new example
Adds
examples/speculative_decoding/scripts/quantize_drafter.py, a CLI that quantizes an exported speculative-decoding drafter to FP8 or NVFP4 — weight-only or weight+activation — with no calibration data.It needs no modeling code either. Exported drafters such as
nvidia/MiniMax-M3-DSparkhave no importable model class, so each 2-D weight is wrapped in a throwawaynn.Linearunder its checkpoint key and ModelOpt's usualquantizer_namepatterns select over those names. Works for any drafter layout (DSpark / DFlash / EAGLE3 / Medusa).Formats:
w4a16_nvfp4,nvfp4,fp8,fp8_pc_pt— the ModelOpt formats vLLM's backend can actually serve. AWQ is deliberately not offered, sinceawq_litesilently degrades to plain RTN without aforward_loop.Static activation scales without calibration.
fp8andnvfp4normally need an activation amax measured on calibration data; a fixedinput_scaleof 1.0 is applied instead. That works because acceptance length is governed almost entirely by clipping, not resolution:Sweeping the fixed scale over three decades (same setup as the Testing section below; bf16 baseline 3.1423):
input_scaleBoth formats fall off a cliff below ~0.03, where the declared range sits far under the activations' true magnitude and most of the tensor is clipped. Both then sit on a flat plateau from ~0.3 to 4.0 with no drop-off at the top, so the scale only has to be big enough. 1.0 is the middle of that plateau, which is why it is hardcoded rather than exposed. NVFP4 trails FP8 by a roughly constant 3.5% across the plateau — that gap is the 4-bit resolution cost, and no choice of scale recovers it.
Deriving the amax from the weights instead was tried and does not work:
max|W|averages 0.79 while a RMSNorm'd activation is O(1) with outlier channels in the tens, so the range lands 1–2 orders of magnitude low and clips, measuring -31% to -46% AL.Where calibration would go. All of this sits behind
resolve_activation_scales(), the single place deciding where a static amax comes from. Real calibration slots in ahead of the fixed fallback with no change to the CLI or the call site, and composes becauseset_static_activation_amax()skips quantizers that already have an amax:Serving a quantized drafter. Four things had to be written into the exported checkpoint before vLLM would load one, plus one change on the caller side:
quant_method(modelopt_fp4/modelopt) — vLLM reads that key, ModelOpt writes onlyquant_algoignoretoo — that is the key read from the flatquantization_config;exclude_modulesalone yields an empty exclusion set*<name>wildcards so exclusions match a runtime's nested module prefix (model.fc) rather than the checkpoint key (fc)*qkv_proj/*gate_up_projaliases for layers a runtime fuses, whose names appear in no checkpoint keyexamples/specdec_bench: pass the draft's own quantization intospeculative_config. This answers the open question left in the previous revision of this PR — vLLM does not honourquantization_configon the draft model. It copies the target's quantization onto the draft (vllm/config/speculative.py, "Align the quantization of draft model"), so a quantized drafter under a bf16 target is built as bf16 and dies on the packed weight shapes.SpeculativeConfigalready has aquantizationfield, so no vLLM change is needed — the caller just has to set it.specdec_benchalso gains aDSPARKalgorithm, which it did not have: an exportedQwen3DSparkModelwould otherwise have to go throughDFLASHand be built with vLLMmethod="dflash". The branch setsmethod="dspark"and matchesdraft_sample_methodto the target's verify mode (a greedy target with a probabilistic draft, or the reverse, crushes acceptance at temp > 0). DSpark runs eager, since its block-parallel draft can outgrow the workspace during CUDA-graph capture; acceptance length is unaffected by graph capture.For DFlash-family drafters,
qwen3_dflash.pybuilds its fused context-KV projection by readingqkv_proj.weightraw and callingF.linear, which cannot consume a packed weight. Keep those layers in bf16 with--exclude '*q_proj*' '*k_proj*' '*v_proj*' '*qkv_proj*';o_projand the MLP — the bulk of the drafter — still quantize. That exclusion is mandatory, not a tuning choice.fc(the projection from the target's captured layers into the draft) is the one real knob, and it is a genuine trade rather than a free win — see the Testing section for both models' numbers. The examples quantize it; add'*fc*'to the exclude list to keep it in bf16.embed_tokens,markov_headandconfidence_headare excluded by default: they are 2-D so the flat view treats them as GEMMs, but they are embeddings or a single-output projection.lm_headis excluded by the preset itself — unlike on a base model it is 37% of this drafter's parameters, so--quantize_lm_headis a real lever (~1.9 GiB), but measure AL first. The flag re-enables both oflm_head's quantizers; re-enabling only the weight one would ship a W+A checkpoint whoselm_headhas noinput_scalewhile the config still advertises it as quantized.Usage
Or end to end on Slurm — quantize, then measure AL — via the launcher examples added here, one per target:
Serving one, if you are not going through
specdec_bench:Testing
Two targets with different architectures, so the conclusions are not one model's quirk:
deepseek-ai/dspark_qwen3_8b_block7,block_size7, TP1.nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16-DSpark,block_size8, TP8, with the mamba engine settings the model card pins (mamba_backend=flashinfer,mamba_ssm_cache_dtype=float16, stochastic SSM-cache rounding).Both: MT-Bench 80 questions, greedy, one vLLM instance per point.
fp8input_scale1.0fp8_pc_ptw4a16_nvfp4,fcin bf16w4a16_nvfp4,fcquantizednvfp4input_scale1.0FP8 weight+activation at the fixed
input_scaleof 1.0 is lossless on both. +0.11% and -0.02% are both inside run-to-run noise — the Nemotron baseline was measured twice under identical settings and the two runs differ by 0.94% (4.3093 / 4.3499), which sets the resolution of that column. On the same reading,fp8andfp8_pc_ptare indistinguishable on Nemotron; the dynamic variant only pulls ahead on Qwen3. NVFP4 costs 3-4% on Qwen3 and 2-3% on Nemotron, i.e. the 4-bit weight resolution is the real price and it is model-dependent but bounded.Whether to quantize
fcis a per-model call rather than a general recommendation — it buys a few percent of size for an AL cost that differs by ~2x between these two drafters:fcbf16 → quantizedfcitself is only 3.5% (Qwen3) / 4.5% (Nemotron) of drafter parameters;embed_tokensis the bulk (26% / 36%) and is excluded by default.The Qwen3
w4a16_nvfp4rows were measured in a later session than the rest of that column; thefc-in-bf16 run reproduced the original number to four decimals (3.0392), so the column is internally comparable.Also validated on
nvidia/MiniMax-M3-DSpark:w4a16_nvfp4runs in 67 s on CPU, 9.98 GiB (fp32) -> 3.51 GiB; all 43 quantized tensors round-trip within 0.0952 relative error; the 29 untouched tensors are bit-identical tobf16(source).Before your PR is "Ready for review"
CONTRIBUTING.md: N/Atests/examples/speculative_decoding/test over a small synthetic drafter if wanted before merge.Additional Information
The measurements above are one drafter on one target with one benchmark; the plateau's location and the ~3.5% NVFP4 gap should be re-measured before assuming they carry to a different drafter.
Note when reading an exported checkpoint:
input_scaleisamax/448for FP8 butamax/(6*448)for NVFP4, so the one fixed amax records as 1.0 in an FP8 checkpoint and 0.1667 in an NVFP4 one. Both mean the same activation range.Summary by CodeRabbit