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@mgoin mgoin commented Jun 30, 2025

Fixes #1475
Blocked on CT support in neuralmagic/compressed-tensors#372

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Run related test locally. This depends on the above compressed tensors PR.

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This pull request introduces comprehensive support for DeepSeekV3-style block FP8 quantization, a technique designed to further compress large language models for more efficient inference. The changes encompass the fundamental implementation of block-wise quantization, robust handling of quantization parameters, updated documentation, and a practical example to guide users in applying this new scheme.

Highlights

  • New Quantization Scheme: Introduced support for W8A8-FP8_BLOCK quantization. This scheme applies block-wise FP8 quantization to weights (typically in 128x128 tiles) and dynamic per-token-group (128) FP8 quantization for activations. A key benefit is that it does not require a calibration dataset.
  • Block Quantization Implementation: The core logic for the BLOCK quantization strategy has been implemented within src/llmcompressor/observers/base.py. This involves calculating and storing individual scales and zero points for each defined block within a tensor, replacing a previous NotImplementedError.
  • Dynamic Parameter Handling: The call_observer function in src/llmcompressor/modifiers/quantization/calibration.py has been updated to correctly register and update scale and zero-point parameters. This change specifically addresses the varying shapes of these parameters when block-wise quantization is applied.
  • Example and Documentation: A new example script (examples/quantization_w8a8_fp8/fp8_block_example.py) has been added to demonstrate how to apply the FP8_BLOCK scheme to a model. Corresponding documentation has been updated in docs/schemes.md to describe this new quantization method.
  • Test Coverage: A new test case has been added in tests/llmcompressor/modifiers/quantization/test_base.py to ensure that the block quantization configuration, including the block_structure parameter, is correctly parsed and resolved by the GPTQModifier.
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This pull request adds support for DeepSeekV3-style block FP8 quantization, including the necessary observer logic, calibration handling for dynamic parameter shapes, a new example, and documentation. The changes are well-implemented. My feedback includes suggestions to improve clarity in the documentation, fix inaccuracies in the example script, and refactor a small piece of duplicated code for better maintainability.

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Thanks for adding this! We had some users requesting block support in

Couple comments for @kylesayrs , but otherwise LGTM

@kylesayrs kylesayrs self-assigned this Jul 2, 2025
kylesayrs and others added 4 commits July 14, 2025 14:02
…#1608)

Summary:

- Updates prepare method to no longer require a replace function but
just pass in the orignal module directly along with the text config
- Add llama4 calibration support - swaps `Llama4TextMoe` with
`SequentialLlama4TextMoe` modules
- Add llama4 example for NVFP4 and W4A16 

Testing
- Tested llama4 NVFP4 e2e to produce:
`nm-testing/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct-NVFP4`

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Signed-off-by: Kyle Sayers <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Dipika Sikka <[email protected]>
Summary
- Link to NVFP4 and W4A16 examples
## Purpose ##
* Provide utilities for fusing norms and embeddings for
SpinQuantModifier

## Changes ##
* Implement `center_embeddings` and `fuse_norm_linears`
* `center_embeddings` doesn't seem to have an effect (and theoretically
shouldn't have an effect, and makes the implementation less resilient),
but is implemented by the SpinQuant paper. We can implement the utility
here and decide to not use it later

 ## Testing ##
* Add `test_center_embeddings` and `test_fuse_norm_linears`

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Signed-off-by: Kyle Sayers <[email protected]>
## Purpose ##
* Fix models which have tied word embeddings by untying the word
embeddings
* This was previously thought to have been fixed by
`patch_tied_tensors_bug`, but that solution came from a misunderstanding
that the mode config was prescriptive, rather than descriptive (that
modifying the config would untie the model weights)

## Changes ##
* Replace `patch_tied_tensors_bug` with `untie_word_embeddings`
* Do no load models with a ranged `tie_word_embeddings` config

## Testing ##
* Verified that saved model now has untied weights
* Previous tied tensors tests which were failing now pass

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Signed-off-by: Kyle Sayers <[email protected]>
…#1436)

SUMMARY:

LLM Compressor docs website enablement using mkdocs. Additionally, docs
structure and required pages have been populated as a starting point.

Docs are available at https://vllm-project.github.io/llm-compressor/
currently, they will be deployed to https://docs.vllm.ai/projects/
through vLLM's read the docs setup utilizing the .readthedocs.yaml file.

To run locally:
```bash
pip install -e ./[dev]
mkdocs serve
```

To build locally:
```bash
pip install -e ./[dev]
mkdocs build
```

TEST PLAN:

Manual testing

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Signed-off-by: Mark Kurtz <[email protected]>
shanjiaz and others added 8 commits July 21, 2025 11:05
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Signed-off-by: mgoin <[email protected]>
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