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Summary

Add online MXFP8 W8A8 linear quantization for Qwen-Image-2.1 on Ascend NPU, covering both text-to-image and image-to-image inference. Weights are quantized once when loading the original BF16/FP16 checkpoint, and activations are dynamically quantized during inference. No offline conversion or prequantized checkpoint is required.

On a single Ascend 950PR at 1024×1024 and 50 steps, this provides 1.30× T2I / 1.28× I2I DiT speedup and reduces peak allocated NPU memory by approximately 20% versus BF16.

Changes

• Register the mxfp8-npu linear backend using torch_npu.npu_dynamic_mx_quant and torch_npu.npu_quant_matmul, with E4M3 weights/activations and group-32 E8M0 scales.
• Quantize and pack weights/scales at load time, including padding for an odd number of scale groups. Preserve the activation dtype and output shape, and use FP32 bias for quantized matmul.
• Enable mxfp8-npu in the Qwen-Image-2.1 runner and the shared DiT quantization scheme list. Route online loading through the original checkpoint loader so dit_original_ckpt overrides are honored.
• Validate device, weight/activation dtype, dimensions, and unsupported configurations before execution. This initial path targets resident single-NPU inference; CPU offload, TP/SP, shared CPU weights, disk streaming, LoRA, and quantized attention combinations are rejected.
• Add unit tests for registration, operator contracts, scale layouts, shape restoration, checkpoint loading, and configuration validation.

Performance

Measured on 1× Ascend 950PR, CANN 9.1.0 / PyTorch 2.10.0 with torch_npu, using the original Qwen-Image-2.1 checkpoint. Both configurations use 1024×1024, 50 steps, CFG=1.0, npu_flash_attn, and no compile, feature caching, offload, or LoRA. T2I uses seed 142; I2I uses seed 42 with the same reference image.

Results are the median of 5 measured requests after 1 warmup, without profiling. DiT latency covers condition KV prefill through the final scheduler update; text encoding, VAE processing, and HTTP overhead are outside this timing boundary.

Task	BF16 DiT latency	MXFP8 DiT latency	Speedup
T2I	14,800.1 ms	11,358.8 ms	1.303×
I2I	17,567.0 ms	13,697.9 ms	1.282×

Task	BF16 peak allocated	MXFP8 peak allocated	Reduction
T2I	31.34 GiB	25.06 GiB	20.0%
I2I	31.70 GiB	25.42 GiB	19.8%

Image quality

Paired comparisons against BF16 on one fixed input per task, with the same seed and initial latents:

Task	PSNR	SSIM	DINO feature cosine
T2I	35.20 dB	0.9961	0.99649
I2I	18.97 dB	0.9501	0.99053

T2I remains close to BF16; I2I shows larger pixel-level differences. Side-by-side review found the degradation acceptable on the tested inputs.

Usage

Set the following fields in an Ascend Qwen-Image-2.1 configuration:

{
  "dit_quantized": true,
  "dit_quant_scheme": "mxfp8-npu"
}

Use the original BF16/FP16 checkpoint via model_path or dit_original_ckpt; dit_quantized_ckpt can be omitted. Requires an Ascend NPU runtime with the MXFP8 quantization and matmul operators above. Text encoder and VAE remain BF16 in the measured configuration.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added MXFP8 quantization support for Qwen Image 2.1 on Ascend NPU, including loading from an original checkpoint without a pre-quantized checkpoint.
  • This mode requires an Ascend NPU and does not support CPU offload, parallelism, shared CPU weights, disk streaming, LoRA, or npu_quant_flash_attn.

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Walkthrough

Adds registered MXFP8 NPU weight loading and application. Qwen Image 2.1 accepts the scheme, validates its supported configuration, and uses the original checkpoint when no quantized checkpoint is set.

Changes: MXFP8 NPU support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Weight loading and application lightx2v/common/ops/mm/mm_weight.py, tests/test_qwen_image_21_mxfp8_npu.py	Adds MXFP8 weight validation, quantization, scale layout, optional FP32 bias storage, and NPU matrix multiplication. Tests cover loading, application, and invalid inputs using a mocked NPU runtime.
Model and runner integration lightx2v/models/networks/base_model.py, lightx2v/models/networks/qwen_image_21/model.py, lightx2v/models/runners/qwen_image_21/qwen_image_21_runner.py, tests/test_qwen_image_21_mxfp8_npu.py	Accepts mxfp8-npu in quantization checks and runner configuration. The runner rejects unsupported options and non-NPU devices. When no quantized checkpoint is configured, the model uses the original checkpoint loader. Tests cover these paths.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: helloyongyang, gushiqiao

Merge Risk: Low · up to bab43

Standard Qwen-Image-2.1 weights avoid the identified loading failure, but smaller supported weight dimensions can fail to load. Correct the scale handling before using those dimensions.

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Review comments at @lightx2v/common/ops/mm/mm_weight.py:
- Around line 1095-1097: Update the quantized-weight loading path around
`weight_scale` to use the paired, padded layout returned by
`npu_dynamic_mx_quant`: remove the loader’s extra padding and reshape, and
transpose the returned scales directly into `self.weight_scale`. Update the test
double for `npu_dynamic_mx_quant` to return scales in that same paired, padded
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• lightx2v/common/ops/mm/mm_weight.py
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• lightx2v/models/networks/qwen_image_21/model.py
• lightx2v/models/runners/qwen_image_21/qwen_image_21_runner.py
• tests/test_qwen_image_21_mxfp8_npu.py

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set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- implementation imports and target block ---'
rg -n -F -e 'npu_dynamic_mx_quant' -e 'npu_quant_matmul' -e 'class MMWeightWmxfp8Amxfp8dynamicNpu' lightx2v/common/ops/mm/mm_weight.py
sed -n '1040,1135p' lightx2v/common/ops/mm/mm_weight.py
printf '%s\n' '--- fake operator and related tests ---'
rg -n -F -e '_FakeTorchNpu' -e 'npu_dynamic_mx_quant' -e 'mxfp8-npu' tests lightx2v | head -120
sed -n '1,100p' tests/test_qwen_image_21_mxfp8_npu.py
printf '%s\n' '--- dependency/version references ---'
rg -n -i -F -e 'torch_npu' -e 'torch-npu' -e 'torch==' -e 'torch>=' --glob 'requirements*' --glob 'pyproject.toml' --glob 'setup.cfg' --glob '*.lock' --glob '*.yaml' --glob '*.yml' . | head -160
printf '%s\n' '--- diff against stated merge base ---'
git diff --stat 19c19614b067f1746ac24350dfd097e1c0b48591 bab4381066034527a5cf88bbb3c28a1f5db1a255 -- lightx2v/common/ops/mm/mm_weight.py tests/test_qwen_image_21_mxfp8_npu.py
git diff 19c19614b067f1746ac24350dfd097e1c0b48591 bab4381066034527a5cf88bbb3c28a1f5db1a255 -- lightx2v/common/ops/mm/mm_weight.py tests/test_qwen_image_21_mxfp8_npu.py | sed -n '1,260p'

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torch_npu npu_dynamic_mx_quant output scale shape documentation

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- sglang_quant_eval/docs/known-pitfalls.md at main · TallMessiWu/sglang_quant_eval · GitHub — https://github.com/TallMessiWu/sglang_quant_eval/blob/main/docs/known-pitfalls.md
- op-plugin/docs/zh/custom_APIs/torch_npu/torch_npu_list.md-代码预览-op-plugin:基于昇腾Ascend Extension for PyTorch的算子插件项目 - AtomGit — https://gitcode.com/Ascend/op-plugin/blob/master/docs/zh/custom_APIs/torch_npu/torch_npu_list.md
- torch_npu.npu_dynamic_dual_level_mx_quant-torch_npu-Python APIs-Custom APIs-API-TorchNPU26.1.0开发文档-昇腾社区 — https://www.hiascend.com/document/detail/en/Pytorch/2610/apiref/customapi/docs/en/custom_APIs/torch_npu/torch_npu-npu_dynamic_dual_level_mx_quant.md
- [RFC] Extend KernelPreference: add a vendor-native kernel member `ASCEND` (case study: Ascend NPU / torch_npu) · Issue #4999 · pytorch/ao · GitHub — GitHub issue 4999 in pytorch/ao (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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Use the operator's already-padded scale layout.

npu_dynamic_mx_quant returns paired, padded scales. The loader must transpose those scales directly. The test double must return the same layout.

Suggested fix

         weight = weight.to(AI_DEVICE).contiguous()
         weight_fp8, weight_scale = torch_npu.npu_dynamic_mx_quant(weight, dst_type=torch_npu.float8_e4m3fn)
-        if weight_scale.shape[1] % 2 == 1:
-            padding = torch.zeros(weight_scale.shape[0], 1, dtype=weight_scale.dtype, device=weight_scale.device)
-            weight_scale = torch.cat((weight_scale, padding), dim=1)
         self.weight = weight_fp8.transpose(0, 1).contiguous()
-        self.weight_scale = weight_scale.reshape(weight_scale.shape[0], -1, 2).transpose(0, 1).contiguous()
+        self.weight_scale = weight_scale.transpose(0, 1).contiguous()

     def npu_dynamic_mx_quant(self, tensor, *, dst_type):
         self.quant_calls.append({"tensor": tensor, "dst_type": dst_type})
         quantized = tensor.to(torch.float8_e4m3fn)
-        scale = torch.arange(tensor.shape[0] * (tensor.shape[1] // 32), dtype=torch.uint8, device=tensor.device)
-        return quantized, scale.reshape(tensor.shape[0], tensor.shape[1] // 32)
+        groups = tensor.shape[1] // 32
+        scale = torch.arange(tensor.shape[0] * groups, dtype=torch.uint8, device=tensor.device)
+        scale = scale.reshape(tensor.shape[0], groups)
+        if groups % 2:
+            padding = torch.zeros(tensor.shape[0], 1, dtype=scale.dtype, device=scale.device)
+            scale = torch.cat((scale, padding), dim=1)
+        return quantized, scale.reshape(tensor.shape[0], -1, 2)

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Review comment at @lightx2v/common/ops/mm/mm_weight.py around lines 1095 - 1097:
Update the quantized-weight loading path around `weight_scale` to use the
paired, padded layout returned by `npu_dynamic_mx_quant`: remove the loader’s
extra padding and reshape, and transpose the returned scales directly into
`self.weight_scale`. Update the test double for `npu_dynamic_mx_quant` to return
scales in that same paired, padded layout.

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