Fix grouped expert quantizer checkpoint replicas - #2500
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| expt_tp_group = parallel_state.tensor_parallel_group.group |
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[IMPORTANT ModeState] The expert TP group is derived from self.parallel_state rather than through _expert_parallel_groups(), which leaves two ways for a non-expert (or sentinel) group to reach tp_group=.
1. It bypasses _pg_collection, unlike ep/expt_dp.
_expert_parallel_groups() (line 878) deliberately prefers self._pg_collection.ep / .expt_dp over the global mcore_parallel getters — that's the path for models built with mcore's non-global ProcessGroupCollection (NeMo / megatron-bridge). But parallel_state on a grouped linear is seeded by _MegatronTEGroupedMLP._setup (line 1010-1013) from global mcore_parallel.get_expert_tensor_parallel_group(). So in the _pg_collection configuration ep/expt_dp come from the local collection while tp_group comes from global state — exactly the mixed-topology situation _expert_parallel_groups() exists to prevent, and the same class of inconsistency this PR is fixing.
2. It can silently be the dense TP group, reintroducing the bug.
QuantModuleRegistry matching requires both issubclass and an identical forward (modelopt/torch/opt/dynamic.py:937):
if issubclass(nn_cls, nn_cls_) and nn_cls.forward is nn_cls_.forward:A TEGroupedMLP subclass that overrides forward therefore never matches {megatron_moe.TEGroupedMLP: ...}, so _MegatronTEGroupedMLP._setup never runs and never seeds the children. The child TEColumnParallelGroupedLinear/TERowParallelGroupedLinear do still convert (they don't override forward), and fall back to _MegatronParallelLinear._setup (line 495-505), which sets tensor_parallel_group=mcore_parallel.get_tensor_model_parallel_group() — the dense TP group. Under TP=2/ETP=1 that is precisely the size-2 group whose fragmentation count produces the invalid access pattern this PR fixes, so the failure returns with no warning.
Relatedly, ParallelState.__init__ defaults tensor_parallel_group=-1 and wraps it in DistributedProcessGroup, so .group can be the raw -1 sentinel. Every other consumer in this file goes through the wrapper's is_initialized() / world_size() (see _check_nvfp4_static_tp_supported, line 95-99) and never hands .group to a Megatron API. tp_group=-1 would be treated as a process group instead of falling back to the global TP group the way tp_group=None does.
Suggested fix — make the helper the single source of truth for all three expert groups, so the TP group follows the same _pg_collection-first rule and can never be the dense group:
def _expert_parallel_groups(self):
"""Return the (ep, expt_tp, expt_dp) process groups used to place fused experts globally."""
pg_collection = getattr(self, "_pg_collection", None)
if pg_collection is not None:
return pg_collection.ep, pg_collection.expt_tp, pg_collection.expt_dp
return (
mcore_parallel.get_expert_model_parallel_group(),
mcore_parallel.get_expert_tensor_parallel_group(),
mcore_parallel.get_expert_data_parallel_group(),
)and at the call site:
ep_group, expt_tp_group, expt_dp_group = self._expert_parallel_groups()This drops the self.parallel_state read (and its assert) entirely, so the group passed to make_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint is the expert TP group by construction regardless of whether the enclosing MLP was converted.
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Addressed in dbfa1cd. _expert_parallel_groups() now returns EP, expert-TP, and expert-DP from the same _pg_collection-first source, with the expert global getters as the fallback; sharded_state_dict() no longer reads self.parallel_state. The combined TP/EP regression now deliberately overrides ModelOpt TP state with the dense TP group so the save/load path proves it still uses the grouped linear's MCore expert groups. I also applied those explicit expert TP/DP groups to the shared quantizer-buffer path from the non-blocking suggestion.
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Scope: full review (trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). 3 changed files (+34/-5): modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py, tests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.py, CHANGELOG.rst — all reviewed. Note: Megatron-Core is not installed in this environment, so I could not execute anything or introspect make_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint's signature; the review is by code reading.
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The fix itself is right
I traced the root cause independently and agree with the diagnosis. With ETP=1 and TP=2, _get_shard_axis_dict still supplies a channel shard axis for the per-expert _amax, so make_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint computed axis_fragmentations from the dense TP group (size 2) and declared each rank's tensor as 1-of-2 shards — while with ETP=1 every rank actually holds the whole tensor. That is the invalid access pattern Megatron-Core rejected. Passing tp_group=expt_tp_group (size 1) makes the fragmentation count 1, which is the correct fix at the cause rather than at the symptom, and removing the manual replica_id[2] rewrite in favour of dp_cp_group=expt_dp_group is the right consequence. The new test's ETP=1/TP=2 combination reproduces exactly this mismatch on the save path, which is where the reported crash occurred.
I also checked the two things most likely to be accidental regressions here, and both are clean: initialize_for_megatron and _gpt_model_provider already default expert_tensor_parallel_size/etp_size to None, so threading None through leaves the existing test_te_grouped_sharded_state_dict_reshard parametrizations behaviourally unchanged; and NVFP4_DEFAULT_CFG (rather than the MSE sweep config used elsewhere) correctly avoids the _check_nvfp4_static_tp_supported TP>1 guard, with expect_global_amax=False matching that config.
IMPORTANT — expert TP group is read from self.parallel_state instead of _expert_parallel_groups()
Inline comment on lines 949-951. Two paths let a non-expert group reach tp_group=:
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_pg_collection.ep/expt_dpcome fromself._pg_collectionwhen present (the non-globalProcessGroupCollectionpath used by NeMo / megatron-bridge), butexpt_tp_groupcomes fromparallel_state, which was seeded from globalget_expert_tensor_parallel_group(). That mixes local and global topologies in one call — the very thing_expert_parallel_groups()was added to avoid. - Can be the dense TP group.
QuantModuleRegistrymatching requires an identicalforward(modelopt/torch/opt/dynamic.py:937), so aTEGroupedMLPsubclass that overridesforwardnever matches and never seeds its children. The child grouped linears still convert and fall back to_MegatronParallelLinear._setup, which sets the denseget_tensor_model_parallel_group(). Under TP=2/ETP=1 that is the exact size-2 group this PR is fixing, so the crash would silently return.
Also on that line: ParallelState defaults tensor_parallel_group=-1, so .group can be the raw -1 sentinel; every other consumer in this file goes through is_initialized()/world_size() rather than handing .group to a Megatron API.
The suggested fix is to extend _expert_parallel_groups() to return (ep, expt_tp, expt_dp) and drop the self.parallel_state read, so the expert TP group holds by construction regardless of whether the enclosing MLP was converted. Full code in the inline comment.
SUGGESTION — shared quantizer buffers still use the dense groups
The shared (non-per-expert) path a few lines above, around line 940:
sharded_state_dict.update(
make_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint(
shared_state, prefix, shared_axis_dict, sharded_offsets
)
)still passes no tp_group/dp_cp_group, so input_quantizer._amax, output_quantizer._amax and _pre_quant_scale on a grouped-expert linear get their replica_id from the dense TP and DP-CP groups even though they live on the expert topology. This does not trip validation today — those buffers are scalar, so shared_axis_dict is empty for them and they take the fully-replicated path where dedup keeps a single writer — which is consistent with your TP=2/EP=4/ETP=1 end-to-end run succeeding. Worth aligning anyway for consistency with the per-expert path, and it would matter the moment a per-channel activation quantizer puts an entry in shared_axis_dict. Non-blocking; reasonable to defer if you'd rather keep the diff surgical.
Risk assessment
Low. Narrow, well-targeted bug fix with no public API or modelopt_state schema change, so it is backward compatible as claimed, and the CHANGELOG.rst entry is correctly placed under Bug Fixes and appropriately scoped for external users. The IMPORTANT finding is about the robustness of the group derivation, not about the fix being wrong in the configuration you validated — TP=2/EP=4/ETP=1 under NeMo 26.08 is exercising the path where parallel_state is correctly seeded. Addressing it is a small, contained change that removes the dependency on conversion ordering.
One note on verification, since I could not run anything: tp_group and dp_cp_group are relatively recent additions to make_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint, and this is the only call site in the repo that passes them (the other four, including modelopt/torch/sparsity/weight_sparsity/plugins/megatron.py:48, do not). Worth confirming they exist across the Megatron-Core versions this plugin supports — ensure_metadata_has_dp_cp_group in modelopt/torch/opt/plugins/megatron.py suggests the file already carries version-compat shims for nearby API churn.
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| make_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint( | ||
| shared_state, prefix, shared_axis_dict, sharded_offsets | ||
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| shared_axis_dict, | ||
| sharded_offsets, | ||
| tp_group=expt_tp_group, | ||
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[CRITICAL Export] Passing the expert groups to the shared buffers drops the only replica_id component that distinguishes EP ranks, re-introducing the same "Invalid access pattern" failure for static-activation configs.
What's wrong. shared_state holds the whole-linear, EP-replicated quantizer buffers (input_quantizer._amax, output_quantizer._amax, input_quantizer._pre_quant_scale). Unlike the per-expert branch below, these keys carry no expert identity and no extra offsets — every rank that owns this layer emits the byte-identical key {prefix}input_quantizer._amax with the same offsets, so the checkpoint sees world_size shards of one global tensor and their replica_ids must be pairwise distinct.
_get_shard_axis_dict only assigns axes to weight_quantizer.* keys (megatron.py:609 / :641), so input_quantizer._amax is never in shared_axis_dict and takes Megatron's non-TP path, where replica_id = (0, get_pg_rank(tp_group), get_pg_rank(dp_cp_group)) — the (PP, TP, DP) tuple this repo already documents at megatron_eagle.py:334.
- Before this PR (defaults):
(0, dense_tp_rank, dp_cp_rank). EP is carved out of DP, sodp_cp_rankvaries across EP ranks → all ids distinct. ✅ - After this PR:
(0, expt_tp_rank, expt_dp_rank).ep_rankappears in neither component, so all EP ranks collide.
Concretely on the very topology this PR targets (TP=2, EP=4, ETP=1, world=8): expt_tp size 1 → component always 0; expt_dp size 8/(1*4)=2 → component rank//4. That yields 2 distinct ids for 8 ranks — a 4-way collision, which validate_sharding_integrity rejects with the same CheckpointingException: Invalid access pattern. It also breaks the smaller existing topologies: TP=1/EP=2/world=2 gives expt_dp size 1, so both ranks publish (0, 0, 0).
Why the tests don't catch it. Every grouped checkpoint test — the existing test_te_grouped_sharded_state_dict_reshard params and the new four-rank one — uses a config whose *input_quantizer is dynamic NVFP4 (modelopt_recipes/configs/numerics/nvfp4.yaml sets type: dynamic), so no activation _amax buffer is ever created and shared_state is always empty. The regression only fires for static activation quantization (FP8/INT8 per-tensor input amax, KV/output quantizers, AWQ _pre_quant_scale) on a grouped MoE linear with EP>1 — a mainstream Megatron MoE PTQ path.
Suggested fix. Keep the change surgical: the bug you diagnosed is in the per-expert shards, so only that call needs the expert groups. Restore the shared-state call to the defaults:
# Shared quantizer buffers: replicated across experts, plain base offsets.
shared_axis_dict = {k: shard_axis_dict[k] for k in shared_state if k in shard_axis_dict}
sharded_state_dict.update(
make_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint(
shared_state, prefix, shared_axis_dict, sharded_offsets
)
)If you do want the expert TP group here as well (it would fix _pre_quant_scale's axis_fragmentations when ETP≠TP — a pre-existing issue in main, arguably its own PR), then replica_id must be set explicitly so it still separates EP ranks, e.g. (0, expt_tp_rank, ep_rank * expt_dp_size + expt_dp_rank). Note make_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint does not forward a replica_id, so that variant needs make_sharded_tensor_for_checkpoint / make_tp_sharded_tensor_for_checkpoint directly.
Either way, please add a static-activation parametrization (e.g. mtq.FP8_DEFAULT_CFG, expect_global_amax=False) to the grouped reshard test so shared_state is actually non-empty under EP>1 — that is the coverage gap that let this through.
Also: the method docstring above still claims "Shared, whole-linear quantizer buffers (e.g. input_quantizer) keep the plain replicated path." That is no longer true with this hunk; whichever direction you take, the docstring needs to match.
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Addressed in 6a5a123. Shared, whole-linear quantizer buffers now use Megatron's default dense TP/DP replica groups, preserving distinct replica IDs across EP ranks. Explicit expert TP/DP groups remain limited to the per-expert weight-quantizer branch, where the checkpoint key or offset carries global expert identity. I also added an assertion that the combined TP+EP regression actually has _pg_collection, so the test exercises the intended collection-first path. Existing FP8 EP=2 reshard cases cover static activation _amax; the combined TP=2/EP=2 regression continues to cover the reported expert-state topology. Local validation passed with Python compilation, Ruff 0.15.20, and git diff --check; the GPU/Slurm rerun is still pending.
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[SUGGESTION] The comment asserts more than the test can verify. _expert_parallel_groups() only reads _pg_collection when getattr(self, "_pg_collection", None) is non-None; otherwise it falls back to the global mcore_parallel.get_expert_*_group() accessors. initialize_for_megatron + _gpt_model_provider set up the global parallel state, so if the TEGroupedLinear built here has no _pg_collection, this test passes via the global fallback and never touches the collection path the comment names.
The corrupted parallel_state.tensor_parallel_group does prove the checkpoint groups no longer come from ModelOpt's parallel_state — which is the valuable thing this test locks in — so consider just saying that:
| # Simulate child conversion without the parent MLP setup: checkpoint groups must still | |
| # come from the grouped linear's MCore process-group collection. | |
| override_modelopt_tp_group=True, | |
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| # MCore expert groups, not from _MegatronParallelLinear._setup's dense TP group. | |
| override_modelopt_tp_group=True, |
If you specifically want the _pg_collection branch covered, assert _pg_collection is not None inside _override_te_grouped_modelopt_tp_group so the test fails loudly rather than silently degrading to the fallback.
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Scope: full review (the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). 3 changed files (+58/-9): modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py, tests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.py, CHANGELOG.rst — all reviewed. Megatron-Core is not installed in this environment and there is no network access here, so I could not execute anything or read mcore's source; the replica_id reasoning below is grounded in this repo's own documented (PP, TP, DP) convention (modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/megatron_eagle.py:334) and in the 3-tuple replica_id[:2] + (edp_replica_id,) rewrite this PR removes.
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The previous review's finding is properly addressed
_expert_parallel_groups() now returns (ep, expt_tp, expt_dp) and sources all three from _pg_collection when present, so the expert TP group no longer comes from ModelOpt's parallel_state and no longer mixes a local ProcessGroupCollection with global accessors. The new test's _override_te_grouped_modelopt_tp_group locks that in. Good fix.
The core diagnosis and the per-expert fix are right
I re-traced the root cause and agree. With ETP=1/TP=2, _get_shard_axis_dict still supplies a channel shard axis for the per-expert _amax, so make_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint computed axis_fragmentations from the dense TP group (size 2) and declared each rank's buffer as 1-of-2 shards — while at ETP=1 every rank holds the whole tensor. Passing tp_group=expt_tp_group (size 1) makes the fragmentation count 1, and since the per-expert key already carries the global expert identity, the remaining replication is exactly over expt_dp — so dp_cp_group=expt_dp_group correctly supersedes the manual replica_id[2] rewrite. This fixes the cause rather than the symptom, and it matches how mcore shards the grouped expert weights. The _global_amax case (excluded from the axis dict) also stays unique under the new groups: (0, expt_tp_rank, expt_dp_rank) covers both replication dimensions.
❗ CRITICAL — the same hunk breaks the shared quantizer buffers under EP>1
Inline comment on lines 944-951.
The expert groups were also applied to the shared_state call, and that path is fundamentally different from the per-expert one: shared buffers (input_quantizer._amax, output_quantizer._amax, input_quantizer._pre_quant_scale) carry no expert identity and no extra offsets, so every rank emits the identical key for one global tensor and the replica_ids must be pairwise distinct. _get_shard_axis_dict only assigns axes to weight_quantizer.* keys, so input_quantizer._amax takes the non-TP path where replica_id = (0, rank(tp_group), rank(dp_cp_group)).
ep_rank appears in neither expt_tp_rank nor expt_dp_rank. Previously the dense dp_cp_rank distinguished EP ranks (EP is carved out of DP); now nothing does:
| topology | before | after |
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| TP=2, EP=4, ETP=1 (world 8) — this PR's target | 8 distinct ids ✅ | 2 distinct ids → 4-way collision ❌ |
| TP=1, EP=2 (world 2) — existing test topology | 2 distinct ids ✅ | both ranks (0,0,0) ❌ |
That is the same CheckpointingException: Invalid access pattern this PR sets out to fix, just relocated from weight_quantizer._amax to input_quantizer._amax.
Why CI is green: every grouped checkpoint test — the existing test_te_grouped_sharded_state_dict_reshard params and the new four-rank one — uses a config whose *input_quantizer is dynamic NVFP4 (modelopt_recipes/configs/numerics/nvfp4.yaml → type: dynamic), so no activation _amax is ever created and shared_state is always empty. There is currently no grouped-linear checkpoint coverage with static activation quantization, which is exactly where this fires: FP8/INT8 per-tensor input amax, KV/output quantizers, AWQ _pre_quant_scale — mainstream Megatron MoE PTQ paths.
Recommended fix: revert the shared-state call to the default groups (keeping this PR surgically scoped to the per-expert shards it diagnoses), and add a static-activation parametrization (e.g. mtq.FP8_DEFAULT_CFG) so shared_state is non-empty under EP>1. If you do want expt_tp there too — it would fix _pre_quant_scale's axis_fragmentations when ETP≠TP, a pre-existing main issue that is arguably its own PR — then replica_id has to be passed explicitly so it still separates EP ranks. Details and code in the inline comment.
Minor, same hunk: the method docstring still says shared buffers "keep the plain replicated path", which the change contradicts.
Other checks — clean
initialize_for_megatron/_gpt_model_provideralready defaultexpert_tensor_parallel_size/etp_sizetoNone, so threadingNonethrough leaves the existing reshard parametrizations behaviourally unchanged.NVFP4_DEFAULT_CFG(rather than the MSE sweep config) correctly sidesteps the_check_nvfp4_static_tp_supportedTP>1 guard, andexpect_global_amax=Falsematches that config.- Adding
pg_collection.expt_tpis safe: mcore's grouped expert linears require that field themselves, and.ep/.expt_dpwere already read from the same collection. CHANGELOG.rstentry is one sentence, user-facing, and filed under the right**Bug Fixes**section.- No public API, mode registration, config schema, or
modelopt_statekey changes — backward compatible as claimed.
Risk assessment
Medium-high. The per-expert fix is correct and valuable, and it unblocks the reported NVFP4 TP+EP save. But the shared-buffer half of the same hunk is an untested behavioural change that, by the documented replica_id convention, regresses every static-activation grouped MoE checkpoint at EP>1 — including topologies that work on main today. Worth confirming with one FP8 grouped run at EP=2 before merge; that single test settles it either way.
Also note the PR's own Testing checklist still has "Re-run the strengthened four-rank regression after the review-response hardening" unchecked — that should be green before merge.
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In `@tests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.py`:
- Around line 1339-1347: Parametrize
test_te_grouped_sharded_state_dict_combined_tp_ep over
override_modelopt_tp_group=False and True, and pass the parameter through to the
test setup. This adds coverage for the unmodified ETP=1 process group while
preserving the child-conversion override case.
- Around line 1339-1347: Update `_MegatronMLP.sharded_state_dict()` so
`singleton_local_shards` is enabled only when EP=1 or both TP and ETP equal 1.
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Exercise the unmodified ETP=1 process group.
The combined test configures ETP=1, but overrides every grouped linear to use get_tensor_model_parallel_group(), which is the ordinary TP group of size 2. Save and load use the same override. The amax assertions can therefore pass after a wrong shard mapping is round-tripped through the same incorrect group.
Add an unmodified ETP=1 case while retaining the child-conversion override case.
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+@pytest.mark.parametrize("override_modelopt_tp_group", [False, True])
def test_te_grouped_sharded_state_dict_combined_tp_ep(dist_workers_size_4, tmp_path):
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- # Simulate child conversion without the parent MLP setup: checkpoint groups must still
- # come from the grouped linear's MCore process-group collection.
- override_modelopt_tp_group=True,
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Gate singleton_local_shards by the supported topology.
save_distributed_checkpoint() and load_distributed_checkpoint() both call gpt_model.sharded_state_dict(). The new TP=2, EP=2, ETP=1 test therefore reaches _MegatronMLP.sharded_state_dict(), which unconditionally sets singleton_local_shards=True. Its docstring states that this mode is limited to TP=ETP=1 when EP>1 and otherwise causes a sharded-state-dict access error. The group override does not change this metadata.
Set the flag only when EP=1 or TP=ETP=1. This lets the grouped-linear implementation use its existing EP-offset path for the new topology.
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- metadata["singleton_local_shards"] = True
+ ep_size = get_pg_size(mcore_parallel.get_expert_model_parallel_group())
+ tp_size = get_pg_size(mcore_parallel.get_tensor_model_parallel_group())
+ etp_size = get_pg_size(mcore_parallel.get_expert_tensor_parallel_group())
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In `@tests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.py` around lines
1339 - 1347, Update `_MegatronMLP.sharded_state_dict()` so
`singleton_local_shards` is enabled only when EP=1 or both TP and ETP equal 1.
For other supported topologies, leave the flag unset or false so grouped-linear
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[SUGGESTION] The docstring lost the one piece of information a caller needs from it. It used to name the tuple ("Return the (ep, expt_dp) process groups…"); now it returns a 3-tuple whose order (ep, expt_tp, expt_dp) is only discoverable by reading the two return statements. Since both call-site unpackings and the pg_collection/global fallback pair have to agree on that order, and expt_tp vs expt_dp are easy to transpose silently (both are process groups, and a transposition would only show up as an Invalid access pattern at save time — exactly the failure this PR fixes), spelling the order out is worth the one line.
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Scope: full review (the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). 3 changed files (+53/-8) at 6a5a123f: modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py, tests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.py, CHANGELOG.rst — all reviewed. Megatron-Core is not installed in this environment, so I could not execute anything or read mcore's source; the replica_id reasoning below is by code reading against this repo's documented (PP, TP, DP) convention and the 3-tuple rewrite this PR removes.
Findings: CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 0 · SUGGESTION: 1
Both prior findings are resolved
- Previous IMPORTANT (expert TP group read from
self.parallel_state): fixed._expert_parallel_groups()now returns(ep, expt_tp, expt_dp)and sources all three from the same place —_pg_collectionwhen present, global accessors otherwise — so a non-globalProcessGroupCollectionis never mixed with global topology, and a grouped linear that converted without its parent MLP can no longer fall back to the dense TP group._override_te_grouped_modelopt_tp_groupin the new test locks that in. - Previous CRITICAL (expert groups applied to the shared quantizer buffers, which carry no expert identity and so would have collapsed EP ranks onto identical
replica_ids): reverted. Theshared_statecall at line 944 is back to the default groups, unchanged frommain, and the method docstring's "Shared, whole-linear quantizer buffers … keep the plain replicated path" is accurate again. The diff is now exactly the per-expert hunk it diagnoses.
The remaining per-expert fix is correct
I re-traced the replica algebra on the current hunk:
- Cause, not symptom. At ETP=1/TP=2,
_get_shard_axis_dictstill supplies a channel shard axis for the per-expert_amax, somake_sharded_tensors_for_checkpointderivedaxis_fragmentationsfrom the dense TP group (size 2) and declared each rank's buffer as 1-of-2 — while at ETP=1 every rank holds the whole tensor.tp_group=expt_tp_groupmakes that 1-of-1. Since the key already carries the global expert identity, the only remaining replication is overexpt_dp, sodp_cp_group=expt_dp_groupcorrectly supersedes the manualreplica_id[2]rewrite rather than patching it after the fact.expt_dpis also the right "dp_cp" analogue here — mcore's expert DP group is already carved from the DP×CP ranks. - Target topology. TP=2/EP=4/ETP=1, world 8:
expt_dp=2, so each global expert is held by 2 ranks with(0, 0, 0)and(0, 0, 1)— distinct, and an all-zero main replica exists._global_amax(excluded from the axis dict) gets(0, expt_tp_rank, expt_dp_rank), which covers both replication dimensions. - ETP>1. TP=2/EP=2/ETP=2: fragmentation 2 along the axis with
offset = expt_tp_rank, replicas separated byexpt_dp_rank— matches how the expert weights themselves shard. - No regression on the existing parametrizations. With
etp=Nonemcore defaults ETP to TP, soexpt_tpis the dense TP group for the TP-only params and size 1 for the EP-only ones;expt_dpequals the oldedp_replica_idsource. Every existingtest_te_grouped_sharded_state_dict_reshardcase computes the samereplica_idbefore and after. - No new mcore API surface beyond the two kwargs.
get_expert_tensor_parallel_group()is already used atmodelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py:780, and any collection that resolves.ep/.expt_dp(already read there today) resolves.expt_tp, since mcore needs it to build the grouped linear.
Other checks — clean
initialize_for_megatronand_gpt_model_provideralready defaultexpert_tensor_parallel_size/etp_sizetoNone, so threadingNoneleaves the size-2 reshard params behaviourally unchanged.- The new test's data is replica-consistent:
_set_te_grouped_weight_quantizer_statekeys the amax offget_expert_model_parallel_rank(), and the two ranks sharing an expert share that rank, so the replicas genuinely agree. NVFP4_DEFAULT_CFGsidesteps the_check_nvfp4_static_tp_supportedTP>1 guard, andexpect_global_amax=Falsematches it. Theparallel_stateoverride runs aftermtq.quantize, so it cannot perturb calibration or that guard.dist_workers_size_4exists (tests/gpu_megatron/conftest.py:124).- No public API, mode registration, config schema, or
modelopt_statekey changes — backward compatible as claimed.CHANGELOG.rstentry is one user-facing sentence under the right Bug Fixes section.
Two housekeeping notes (not findings)
- The PR description is now stale. It still says the fix passes the expert groups "for both per-expert and shared quantizer buffers" — the shared half was reverted, and the description is what reviewers and the release notes read.
- The changed code path has not been executed yet. The Testing checklist's last item is still unchecked, and both validated runs (the four-rank test and the 8xB200 NeMo 26.08 save) were against the original fix, which read
expt_tpfromparallel_state— the_pg_collection.expt_tpaccess came in later, and6a5a123fis past even thedbfa1cdb5the checklist cites.test_te_grouped_sharded_state_dict_combined_tp_epis the only thing that exercises it (its_pg_collection is not Noneassertion and the subsequent.expt_tpread). Please get that green before merge.
Risk assessment
Low. Narrow, well-targeted fix that now addresses the cause at the correct process-group topology, with the over-reach from the previous round removed. Approving on code reading; item 2 above is an execution gap rather than a defect I can point at, but it is the one thing I would not merge without.
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🟠 Major · Use the expert process groups for shared quantizer buffers. · megatron.py:945
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftUse the expert process groups for shared quantizer buffers.
TEGroupedLinearusesProcessGroupCollection.expt_tpas its tensor-parallel group. The shared-state call omits both groups, so a non-global collection can receive global replica metadata.Pass
expt_tp_groupandexpt_dp_group, as the per-expert path already does.Suggested fix
make_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint( - shared_state, prefix, shared_axis_dict, sharded_offsets + shared_state, + prefix, + shared_axis_dict, + sharded_offsets, + tp_group=expt_tp_group, + dp_cp_group=expt_dp_group, )🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: Bug fix
Fix distributed checkpoint saving for quantized Transformer Engine grouped MoE experts when tensor parallelism and expert parallelism are both greater than one.
Observed error
With NeMo 26.08 and TP=2, EP=4, ETP=1, quantization and calibration complete, but the run crashes while saving the distributed checkpoint:
Root cause
_QuantMegatronTEGroupedLinear.sharded_state_dictcreated each expert quantizer's sharded tensors without passing the expert tensor-parallel and expert data-parallel process groups tomake_sharded_tensors_for_checkpoint. It then manually replaced only the expert-data-parallel component ofreplica_id.That manual rewrite is insufficient when tensor and expert parallelism are both enabled: replica ownership is derived using the wrong process-group topology, so ranks can publish an inconsistent access pattern for the same globally indexed expert quantizer key. Megatron-Core correctly rejects that checkpoint during sharding validation.
Fix
Resolve the expert model-, tensor-, and data-parallel groups from one
_pg_collection-aware helper, then pass the expert TP/DP groups tomake_sharded_tensors_for_checkpointfor both per-expert and shared quantizer buffers. This avoids mixing process-group sources when models use a non-globalProcessGroupCollectionor grouped child modules convert without their parent MLP, and removes the manualreplica_idrewrite.Relationship to PR #2319
PR #2319 fixed two earlier TEGroupedMLP checkpoint problems:
_amaxor_global_amaxdestination buffer required by the subsequent distributed checkpoint load.That PR therefore fixed resharding and restore correctness across topology changes. Its regression matrix changed one parallel dimension at a time: EP changed while TP=1, or TP changed while EP=1.
The remaining issue was on the save path when TP and EP were simultaneously greater than one. Although the expert keys and restore buffers were correct after #2319, the per-expert quantizer shards were still constructed without the expert TP/DP process groups and then had only part of their
replica_idrewritten manually. Under TP=2, EP=4, ETP=1, this produced the invalid access pattern rejected by Megatron-Core before the checkpoint could be saved.This PR complements #2319 by fixing that process-group/replica mapping and adding combined TP+EP coverage.
A four-rank save-and-restore regression test covers combined TP=2, EP=2, and ETP=1.
Usage
N/A. This fixes checkpoint behavior without changing the public API.
Testing
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The end-to-end validation produced a complete eight-shard distributed checkpoint and exited successfully.
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