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Summary

  • Add a fail-closed post-transform qualification profile for the dense MistralForCausalLM root (mistral-for-causal-lm-bf16-target-v1) with its own immutable transform-layout ABI trtllm-mistral-dense-target-layout-v1.
  • Add a realized sliding_window runtime dimension to PostTransformRuntimeConfig / PostTransformRuntimeConstraints, read from the constructed attention modules' attention_window_size. The Mistral row pins it to full attention; the Llama, Qwen2, and Qwen3 rows leave it unconstrained, so their behavior is unchanged.
  • Qualify the fused-QKV and fused-gate-up layouts, default fused RoPE, untied language-model head, and the no-sliding-window attention lifecycle for TP1 and rank-local TP2.
  • Extend the ModelExpress donor/receiver CI harness with Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 TP1 and TP2 cases and document the support row and fallback limitations.

Jira: TRTLLM-14881 (umbrella TRTLLM-14727). Follows the Qwen3 profile in #17142.

Audit

  • MistralForCausalLM subclasses DecoderModelForCausalLM directly and defines no post_load_weights, setup_aliases, transform_weights, or cache_derived_state override. MistralAttention is the generic fused-QKV Attention with hardcoded bias=False; rope_fusion realizes True on the TRTLLM backend. The MLP is GatedMLP with fused gate-up. No model or mapper code change was needed.
  • Hugging Face-format Mistral loads through the generic HfWeightMapper; the native mistral checkpoint format (which rewrites model_type to mistral_common and permutes Q/K on load) is a separate checkpoint_format and cannot combine with MX. It is documented as unsupported and covered by a MODEL_TYPE_NOT_REGISTERED negative.
  • The legacy, unregistered MistralForCausalLM class in modeling_llama.py is not qualified. The registry matches roots by class identity, and a dedicated negative test pins this so Llama-like component reuse does not imply inherited support.
  • Sliding window is the only Mistral-specific runtime behavior with no prior profile coverage. It is a Python scalar set per layer at construction with no weight or lifecycle interaction, so it is exposed as a realized dimension rather than a config-derived one: a layer_types config whose layers are all full_attention still qualifies, while uniform or Ministral-style mixed windows fall back to disk.

Qualified Scope

  • Exact root/config identity: MistralForCausalLM / mistral (Hugging Face checkpoint format)
  • Target-model post-transform transfer
  • Dense BF16 with unquantized weights and KV cache
  • TRTLLM attention with default fused RoPE and no sliding window on any layer
  • TP1 and TP2
  • PP1 and CP1
  • Untied embeddings and no speculative mode or separately loaded draft model

Unsupported combinations fail closed, including FP16, quantization, alternate attention backends, TP greater than 2, PP/CP expansion, LoRA, sparse attention, attention data parallelism, multi-node execution, tied embeddings, YaRN, any sliding-window realization (Mistral-7B-v0.1, Ministral), the native mistral checkpoint format, Mistral3 vision-language roots, and Mistral Large 3.

Validation

  • Added full-load versus staged-load lifecycle equivalence coverage for Mistral dense TP1 and both TP2 ranks, plus tiny-model sliding-window rejection (uniform and layer_types), the full-attention layer_types positive, the legacy Llama-file root negative, and the native-format model-type negative.
  • Added realization and constraint unit coverage for the new sliding_window dimension and extended the shared dense runtime rejection, wrong-realized-dimension, and MoE-only-dimension matrices plus SourceIdentity transform-ABI binding to Mistral.
  • Added mistral-bf16-tp1 to DGX_H100-2_GPUs-PyTorch-ModelExpress-1 and mistral-bf16-tp2 to DGX_H100-4_GPUs-PyTorch-ModelExpress-OnDemand-1; scripts/test_to_stage_mapping.py maps both IDs to those stages.
  • Pre-commit on all changed files: passed. Docs table row verified byte-identical to the rendering used by test_public_support_table_matches_qualified_profile_registry.
  • Focused unit tests and the real Mistral ModelExpress baseline/donor/receiver no-disk GPU validation: pending CI.

CI command: /bot run --disable-fail-fast --extra-stage "DGX_H100-2_GPUs-PyTorch-ModelExpress-1, DGX_H100-4_GPUs-PyTorch-ModelExpress-OnDemand-1" (multi-GPU dispatch needs the ci: full pre-merge approved label).

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  • Added a fail-closed ModelExpress profile for dense BF16 MistralForCausalLM models.
  • Added a Mistral-specific transform-layout ABI.
  • Added realized sliding_window detection and qualification constraints.
  • Restricted qualification to supported Mistral roots, Hugging Face format, TP1 and rank-local TP2, fused QKV, fused gate-up, default fused RoPE, untied embeddings, and full attention.
  • Added fallback coverage for unsupported configurations.
  • Updated documentation and public exports.
  • The integration test-list entries cover the Mistral TP1 and TP2 H100 cases.
  • ModelExpress CI failed. The failure requires investigation before validation can complete.

QA Engineer Review

  • Added Mistral lifecycle and qualification tests in test_model_loader_mx.py.
  • Added sliding-window realization and constraint tests in test_post_transform_profiles.py.
  • Added transform-ABI and model-fingerprint tests in test_source_identity.py.
  • Added Mistral TP1 and TP2 integration cases.
  • Added corresponding entries in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_model_express.yml.
  • Unit-test changes have direct test-code coverage.
  • Integration cases have corresponding test-db entries.
  • Verdict: needs follow-up because the ModelExpress CI run failed.

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The change adds Mistral dense BF16 support to MX checkpoint loading. It adds sliding-window detection and matching, registers a Mistral post-transform profile, expands qualification tests, adds integration coverage, and documents supported and fallback cases.

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Mistral MX profile

Layer / File(s) Summary
Runtime contracts and sliding-window realization
tensorrt_llm/_torch/weight_sharing/post_transform_profiles.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/weight_sharing/__init__.py
Adds the Mistral layout ABI. Runtime configuration records full, uniform, mixed, or unrealized sliding-window attention. Profile constraints match this runtime dimension.
Mistral profile registration
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_loader.py
Registers the Mistral causal-language-model MX profile with dense BF16 constraints and sliding_window="none".
Qualification and identity validation
tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_model_loader_mx.py, tests/unittest/_torch/weight_sharing/test_post_transform_profiles.py, tests/unittest/_torch/weight_sharing/test_source_identity.py
Adds Mistral fixtures, lifecycle tests, attention-window detection tests, rejection cases, profile matching checks, and fingerprint coverage.
Qualification documentation and integration wiring
docs/source/features/model-express.md, tests/integration/defs/model_express/test_model_express.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_model_express.yml
Documents Mistral qualification and fallback rules. Adds TP1 and TP2 ModelExpress coverage.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b3c1c

The PR adds a fail-closed Mistral qualification profile with bounded TP1/TP2 support and fallback behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ModelExpress
  participant ModelLoader
  participant MistralForCausalLM
  participant PostTransformProfiles
  ModelExpress->>ModelLoader: request Mistral MX checkpoint loading
  ModelLoader->>MistralForCausalLM: construct model
  MistralForCausalLM->>PostTransformProfiles: provide attention-window state
  PostTransformProfiles->>ModelLoader: match no-sliding-window profile
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Add the return annotation.

Add -> None to test_sliding_window_config_mismatch_flags_global. The coding guidelines require annotations on every function.

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Add an exact fail-closed ModelExpress post-transform profile for the
Hugging Face-format MistralForCausalLM root with its own transform-layout
ABI, a realized sliding-window runtime dimension pinned to full attention,
TP1/TP2 lifecycle and rejection coverage, Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3
donor/receiver E2E rows, and the documented support row.

Signed-off-by: Michal Guzek <mguzek@nvidia.com>
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Comment thread docs/source/features/model-express.md Outdated
Split the Mistral identity sentence so sliding-window checkpoints, YaRN
scaling, and tied embeddings read as independent fallback conditions,
matching the constraint list in the scope paragraph.

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