Fix hybrid stack spec serialization in Megatron-Bridge checkpoints - #2452
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a sequential-MLP hybrid layer-specification plugin, updates Megatron-Bridge configuration and checkpoint target resolution, removes an unused NAS helper, and adds GPU tests for YAML round trips. ChangesHybrid layer specifications
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Scope: full review; the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions. All 7 changed files reviewed (134 additions / 25 deletions) — modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/{mbridge.py, megatron_layer_specs.py, __init__.py}, modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron.py, CHANGELOG.rst, and both test files. megatron.core / megatron.bridge are not installed in the review environment, so upstream internals (_resolve_hybrid_stack_spec, register_allowed_target_prefix matching semantics, get_moe_module_spec's expert shape) were reasoned about from the diff and the PR's own verification notes rather than executed.
The root-cause analysis is correct and the core idea — store a named zero-argument factory instead of a built ModuleSpec, so the YAML writer never has to represent a dataclass nested in a functools.partial keyword — is the right fix at the right level. The module move out of nas/plugins/megatron.py is clean and the justification for utils/plugins/ over mbridge.py holds up: grep confirms get_te_hybrid_stack_spec has no production caller, only tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py, which must stay bridge-free.
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The fix is asymmetric between the two MoE layouts, and only the grouped-GEMM half works with stock tooling. moe_grouped_gemm=True serializes a megatron.bridge target that stock scripts/conversion/convert.sh resolves on its own. moe_grouped_gemm=False serializes a modelopt.* target whose resolution depends on register_allowed_target_prefix("modelopt.") having run — and that call lives at import time in mbridge.py, which stock convert.sh never imports. So SequentialMLP-layout hybrid checkpoints still fail there, trading the MLPSubmodules TypeError for an opaque disallowed-target error. The PR description mentions the registration but does not draw out that the convert.sh path, one of the two paths named as broken, remains broken for that layout. export_distilled_megatron_to_hf.py is fine — it imports mbridge directly.
This also leaves the NOTE at the bottom of modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/__init__.py stating a premise that is no longer true ("We dont register anything so this isnt a problem").
Second: the CHANGELOG migration instruction for existing checkpoints says _call_: true, while the PR's own verified dump is _call_: false — the difference between storing the factory and storing a built spec, i.e. between the fix and the bug. It also points every old hybrid checkpoint at the grouped-GEMM factory, which builds TEGroupedMLP experts against a moe_grouped_gemm=False checkpoint's SequentialMLP weights.
Both are inline with suggested fixes.
Suggestions (non-blocking)
- Narrow the allowlisted prefix from
modelopt.to the one module that needs it. get_te_hybrid_stack_specis now test-only yet stays in__all__of a star-imported plugin module, publishing a helper documented as non-serializable on the public surface.
Risk assessment
Low-to-moderate. Behavior at model-construction time is genuinely unchanged (the provider already called a callable spec), the blast radius is confined to hybrid providers, and the manual verification described under Testing is thorough for the grouped-GEMM path. The residual risk is that the SequentialMLP path is verified only through ModelOpt entrypoints, where the allowlist registration happens to be in place — which is precisely why the stock-tooling gap did not surface. Please run the new tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_mbridge.py and one test that goes through tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py before merge, as the PR description already asks; the test's expert assertion (getattr(moe.experts, "func", moe.experts).__name__) depends on whether MCore 0.19 builds experts as a partial or a ModuleSpec in each layout, and that is unverified either way.
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In `@modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron.py`:
- Line 89: Preserve the public get_te_hybrid_stack_spec API by re-exporting it
from modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs through the megatron
plugin module, or document its replacement import under Backward Breaking
Changes with the exact new path.
In `@modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/__init__.py`:
- Line 27: Define package-level __all__ in the plugins package, initialize it
with the intended base exports, and extend it with the public names from every
conditionally loaded plugin, including megatron_layer_specs. Keep the existing
from .module import * re-exports and ensure internal names such as import_plugin
are excluded.
In `@modelopt/torch/utils/plugins/mbridge.py`:
- Line 49: Replace the broad modelopt. registration in the plugin allowlist with
the specific modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs. prefix. Keep the
existing grouped-GEMM factory path unchanged.
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| - Fix a DDP hang in DFlash training at scale where a rank whose batch contained no valid anchor skipped the draft forward, leaving its rotary buffer list shorter than other ranks' and causing ``broadcast_buffers`` to hang. The buffer is now created during ``modify()`` before training begins. | ||
| - Fix ``megatron_generate`` dropping the VLM vision inputs (``pixel_values`` / ``image_grid_thw`` / ``image_sizes``) after the first generated token when KV-cache decoding is off, including the automatic fallback under sequence parallelism, which made generation silently ignore the image. No other ModelOpt feature is affected. | ||
| - Fix two issues in the vLLM offline hidden-state dump (``examples/speculative_decoding/collect_hidden_states/compute_hidden_states_vllm.py``) that only surface on large runs. **Resume:** the filter that skips conversations whose ``.pt`` already exists now runs with ``load_from_cache_file=False``. It depends on on-disk state, which is not part of the fingerprint ``datasets`` computes from the function and the dataset, so with a persistent HF cache reused across a resumed or requeued run the cached "keep everything" result from an earlier run was replayed and the dump re-generated and overwrote conversations it had already finished (observed: tens of thousands of ``.pt`` rewritten while the output count stayed flat). **Staging:** generation is now chunked (``--save-chunk-size``, default 256), so each chunk is saved and its staged hidden states freed before the next chunk is generated. Previously the whole dataset was generated before anything was saved, which kept every conversation staged in the connector's ``shared_storage_path`` (``/dev/shm``, i.e. RAM, by default) at once and exhausted it partway through large dumps. Chunking also makes the dump incrementally durable, so an interrupted run keeps its finished conversations and resumes from them. The save path now also frees each conversation's staged hidden states in a ``finally``, so a conversation skipped mid-loop (e.g. a short ``loss_mask``) can no longer leak its staging file, and conversation ids are validated as plain filenames before being used to build output paths. | ||
| - Hybrid (e.g. Nemotron-H) checkpoints saved by the ``examples/megatron_bridge`` scripts now record a complete layer spec in ``run_config.yaml``, so they can be converted to HuggingFace; a checkpoint saved by an earlier release still needs its ``model.hybrid_stack_spec`` block replaced by hand. ``get_te_hybrid_stack_spec`` moved from ``modelopt.torch.nas.plugins.megatron`` to ``modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs``. |
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] The migration instruction tells users an edit is required but not what to write.
"a checkpoint saved by an earlier release still needs its model.hybrid_stack_spec block replaced by hand" leaves the reader to reconstruct the replacement from scratch — and the correct replacement is neither obvious nor uniform:
- it must be the factory, i.e.
_call_: false, not a built spec (a built spec is the bug this PR fixes); - the target differs per layout —
transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_specformoe_grouped_gemm: true,te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlpforfalse.
A user who picks the grouped-GEMM target for a checkpoint that was trained with --no_moe_grouped_gemm builds TEGroupedMLP experts against SequentialMLP weights. That fails at load in the best case and, since the two layouts differ in weight fusion rather than in key names for every tensor, is the kind of mismatch worth steering people away from explicitly. This is the same hazard flagged last round in weaker form: removing the incorrect _call_: true value fixed the wrong instruction but left no instruction.
Suggest naming both targets inline, e.g.:
- Hybrid (e.g. Nemotron-H) checkpoints saved by the ``examples/megatron_bridge`` scripts now record a
complete layer spec in ``run_config.yaml``, so they can be converted to HuggingFace. A checkpoint
saved by an earlier release needs its ``model.hybrid_stack_spec`` block replaced by hand with
``{_call_: false, _target_: megatron.bridge.models.hybrid.hybrid_provider.transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec}``
if it was saved with ``moe_grouped_gemm: true``, or with
``{_call_: false, _target_: modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs.te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp}``
otherwise -- match the ``model.moe_grouped_gemm`` value already in the file.
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Pushing back on this one: the migration isn't applicable to any known user.
Hybrid support in these scripts is recent enough that the only checkpoints known to carry the broken
spec are ours, and they have already been repaired. Nobody is expected to follow this instruction, so
the entry deliberately states that a pre-fix checkpoint needs a hand edit -- enough for someone who
hits it to understand why -- without carrying a two-branch recipe in the changelog for a migration
with no audience.
The detail is not lost: the correct replacement is _call_: false plus the layout-appropriate
_target_ (transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec for grouped GEMM,
te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp for SequentialMLP), and it is recorded in this thread and in the
PR description for anyone who needs it.
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| # Experts are built through a partial for the grouped-GEMM layout. | ||
| assert getattr(moe.experts, "func", moe.experts).__name__ == expected_experts |
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[SUGGESTION] This assertion likely raises AttributeError rather than asserting, for both layouts.
getattr(moe.experts, "func", moe.experts).__name__ handles two shapes — a functools.partial and a bare class. But MCore's convention for MoESubmodules.experts is a ModuleSpec: get_moe_module_spec() (the very function te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp calls on line 40 of megatron_layer_specs.py) returns ModuleSpec(module=MoELayer, submodules=MoESubmodules(experts=ModuleSpec(module=SequentialMLP, submodules=...))). A ModuleSpec has no func, so the getattr falls through to the ModuleSpec itself, and a dataclass instance has no __name__ — so the moe_grouped_gemm=False case errors out before it can assert, and the True case does too unless the upstream TE hybrid spec happens to store a raw class or partial there.
Since the PR notes this test has not been executed, this is worth fixing before the first CI run rather than after. Unwrapping all three shapes keeps it robust regardless of which one MCore 0.19 produces per layout:
moe = spec.submodules.moe_layer.submodules.mlp.keywords["submodules"]
assert moe.experts is not None
# Experts arrive as a ModuleSpec, a partial, or a bare class depending on layout/version.
experts = getattr(moe.experts, "module", moe.experts)
assert getattr(experts, "func", experts).__name__ == expected_expertsSame caveat applies one level up: spec.submodules.mlp_layer.submodules.mlp.keywords["submodules"] on line 51 assumes mlp is a partial. That one matches the PR's root-cause analysis, so it is likely right — but if line 56 turns out to need the ModuleSpec unwrap, check line 51 too.
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Pushing back: MoESubmodules.experts is a functools.partial in megatron-core 0.19, not a ModuleSpec, so the accessor works for both layouts. Verified by running the expression against a real provider in nemo:26.08:
MoESubmodules(experts=functools.partial(<class 'megatron.core.transformer.moe.experts.TEGroupedMLP'>,
submodules=GroupedMLPSubmodules(linear_fc1=TEColumnParallelGroupedLinear, ...)),
shared_experts=functools.partial(...), router=<class '...TopKRouter'>)
moe_grouped_gemm=True -> moe experts: TEGroupedMLP
moe_grouped_gemm=False -> moe experts: SequentialMLP
get_moe_module_spec(...) returns the functools.partial(MoELayer, submodules=MoESubmodules(...)) that the mlp field holds; experts inside it is itself a partial, which is why getattr(x, "func", x).__name__ resolves. Leaving the assertion as is. The test still needs an actual pytest run, which is called out in the PR description.
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Claude review — 0 CRITICAL, 1 IMPORTANT, 2 SUGGESTION
Scope: full review; the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions. All 7 changed files reviewed (140 additions / 26 deletions). Note that git diff origin/main HEAD is misleading here — main has advanced ~16 commits past the PR base, so a two-dot diff shows unrelated CHANGELOG entries as deletions and appears to revert model_type/step3p7 back to huggingface/step3p7. Scoping the diff to the 7 files in the PR's own file list confirms the CHANGELOG change is the single added Bug Fixes line, nothing else. megatron.core / megatron.bridge are not installed in the review environment, so upstream internals (_resolve_hybrid_stack_spec, dump_dataclass_to_yaml's signature, get_moe_module_spec's expert shape, whether bridge's transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec is the provider default) were reasoned about from the diff and MCore conventions rather than executed.
Prior review round — resolved
The three blocking items from the previous round are addressed at 4caf3f1:
- the
__init__.pyNOTE no longer claims "We dont register anything so this isnt a problem" and now names the allowlist registration; - the grouped-GEMM / SequentialMLP asymmetry and its stock-
convert.shconsequence are documented atmbridge.py:47-51; get_te_hybrid_stack_specis out of__all__;- the CHANGELOG no longer prescribes the incorrect
_call_: true.
The core fix continues to hold up. Storing a named zero-argument factory so the YAML writer never has to represent a dataclass nested in a functools.partial keyword is the right fix at the right level, and grep confirms the module move is clean: get_te_hybrid_stack_spec has no production caller, only tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py, which must stay bridge-free. __all__ = [] in nas/plugins/megatron.py is correct — DynamicModule registration is an import side effect, unaffected by __all__.
I also checked the new test's placement: it is the only file under tests/gpu_megatron/ that hard-imports megatron.bridge, but the gpu_megatron matrix entry in gpu_tests.yml runs on nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08 — the same image as the megatron_bridge example-test job — so collection will not error for want of bridge. No finding there.
Most impactful finding
The CHANGELOG migration instruction is now actionable-in-principle but not in practice. Removing the wrong _call_: true value fixed the wrong instruction and left no instruction: a user with a 0.46/0.47 hybrid checkpoint is told the model.hybrid_stack_spec block "needs to be replaced by hand" without being told what to write. The correct replacement is a _call_: false factory reference, and the target differs by layout — pick the grouped-GEMM one for a moe_grouped_gemm: false checkpoint and you build TEGroupedMLP experts against SequentialMLP weights. Inline with proposed text naming both targets and pointing at the model.moe_grouped_gemm value already in the file.
Suggestions (non-blocking)
test_mbridge.py:56probably errors rather than asserts.getattr(moe.experts, "func", moe.experts).__name__covers a partial and a bare class, but MCore'sget_moe_module_spec— called byte_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlpitself — puts aModuleSpecinMoESubmodules.experts, and aModuleSpechas neitherfuncnor__name__. Worth fixing before the first CI run given the test is unexecuted; a three-shape unwrap is inline.get_te_hybrid_stack_specis now test-only dead code in a shipped plugin module — no caller inmodelopt/, kept out of__all__, documented as unusable for the provider. Moving the two-line body intotests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.pywould also make the relocation purely internal, retiring the public-symbol-moved caveat and CodeRabbit's backward-compat comment onnas/plugins/megatron.py.
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Risk assessment
Low. Model-construction behavior is genuinely unchanged (the provider already called a callable spec), the blast radius is confined to hybrid providers, and the grouped-GEMM path has thorough manual end-to-end verification. The one remaining product-facing gap is documentation of the migration for already-saved checkpoints. Residual test risk: please run the new tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_mbridge.py and one test that goes through tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py before merge, as the PR description already asks — beyond the expert assertion above, dump_dataclass_to_yaml({"spec": value}) is called with a plain dict rather than the dataclass the manual verification used, and that call shape is unverified.
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named zero-argument factory used to reconstruct the complete layer spec, rather
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| - Fix a DDP hang in DFlash training at scale where a rank whose batch contained no valid anchor skipped the draft forward, leaving its rotary buffer list shorter than other ranks' and causing ``broadcast_buffers`` to hang. The buffer is now created during ``modify()`` before training begins. | ||
| - Fix ``megatron_generate`` dropping the VLM vision inputs (``pixel_values`` / ``image_grid_thw`` / ``image_sizes``) after the first generated token when KV-cache decoding is off, including the automatic fallback under sequence parallelism, which made generation silently ignore the image. No other ModelOpt feature is affected. | ||
| - Fix two issues in the vLLM offline hidden-state dump (``examples/speculative_decoding/collect_hidden_states/compute_hidden_states_vllm.py``) that only surface on large runs. **Resume:** the filter that skips conversations whose ``.pt`` already exists now runs with ``load_from_cache_file=False``. It depends on on-disk state, which is not part of the fingerprint ``datasets`` computes from the function and the dataset, so with a persistent HF cache reused across a resumed or requeued run the cached "keep everything" result from an earlier run was replayed and the dump re-generated and overwrote conversations it had already finished (observed: tens of thousands of ``.pt`` rewritten while the output count stayed flat). **Staging:** generation is now chunked (``--save-chunk-size``, default 256), so each chunk is saved and its staged hidden states freed before the next chunk is generated. Previously the whole dataset was generated before anything was saved, which kept every conversation staged in the connector's ``shared_storage_path`` (``/dev/shm``, i.e. RAM, by default) at once and exhausted it partway through large dumps. Chunking also makes the dump incrementally durable, so an interrupted run keeps its finished conversations and resumes from them. The save path now also frees each conversation's staged hidden states in a ``finally``, so a conversation skipped mid-loop (e.g. a short ``loss_mask``) can no longer leak its staging file, and conversation ids are validated as plain filenames before being used to build output paths. | ||
| - Hybrid (e.g. Nemotron-H) checkpoints saved by the ``examples/megatron_bridge`` scripts now record a complete layer spec in ``run_config.yaml``, so they can be converted to HuggingFace; a checkpoint saved by an earlier release still needs its ``model.hybrid_stack_spec`` block replaced by hand. ``get_te_hybrid_stack_spec`` moved from ``modelopt.torch.nas.plugins.megatron`` to ``modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs``. |
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Describe the serialized value accurately.
run_config.yaml stores a named zero-argument factory, not a complete ModuleSpec. The provider calls that factory to rebuild the complete layer spec. Update this entry so users do not expect the full nested spec fields in the YAML.
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run_config.yaml serializes a named zero-argument factory used to reconstruct the
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| mlp = spec.submodules.mlp_layer.submodules.mlp.keywords["submodules"] | ||
| assert mlp.linear_fc1 is not None | ||
| assert mlp.linear_fc2 is not None | ||
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| assert moe.experts is not None | ||
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[IMPORTANT Correctness] The two layouts don't produce the same spec shape, so this single access path can only be right for one of them.
moe_grouped_gemm=True: upstream'shybrid_stack_specholdsmoe_layer.submodules.mlpas afunctools.partial— that is the whole premise of the root-cause analysis (a dataclass nested in a partial keyword) — so.keywords["submodules"]resolves.moe_grouped_gemm=False:te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp()overwrites that same attribute withget_moe_module_spec(...)'s return value (megatron_layer_specs.py:38), which is a builtModuleSpec. AModuleSpecis a dataclass withmodule/params/submodulesand nokeywords, so line 53 raisesAttributeErrorbefore any assertion runs.
Line 56 has the same problem one level down: getattr(moe.experts, "func", moe.experts).__name__ covers a partial and a bare class, but get_moe_module_spec puts ModuleSpec(module=SequentialMLP, submodules=MLPSubmodules(...)) in MoESubmodules.experts, which has neither func nor __name__. (For the grouped case, if experts is partial(ModuleSpec, module=TEGroupedMLP, ...) the current expression yields "ModuleSpec", not "TEGroupedMLP".)
Why it matters: the [False-SequentialMLP] parametrization is the layout this ModelOpt-specific factory exists for, and the one the PR description flags as unverified. It is also the only automated coverage of the bug being fixed — so the first CI run turns a green-looking test into an error, and the regression guard for the SequentialMLP path never actually asserts anything.
The ModuleSpec-vs-partial mismatch at line 53 follows from this PR's own code and needs no MCore lookup; the exact experts shape at line 56 is inferred from get_moe_module_spec's convention (MCore is not installed in the review environment).
Suggested fix — unwrap all shapes once, with from functools import partial at the top:
def _submodules(spec):
"""The submodules dataclass, whether spec is a partial keyword or a built ModuleSpec."""
return spec.keywords["submodules"] if isinstance(spec, partial) else spec.submodules
def _module_name(spec):
"""Name of the class a spec builds, whether it is a ModuleSpec, a partial, or a bare class."""
if isinstance(spec, partial):
spec = spec.keywords.get("module", spec.func)
return getattr(spec, "module", spec).__name__then
mlp = _submodules(spec.submodules.mlp_layer.submodules.mlp)
assert mlp.linear_fc1 is not None
assert mlp.linear_fc2 is not None
moe = _submodules(spec.submodules.moe_layer.submodules.mlp)
assert _module_name(moe.experts) == expected_expertsThis supersedes the narrower suggestion on line 56 from the previous round — line 53 is the harder failure.
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Still pushing back — get_moe_module_spec() returns a functools.partial, not a built ModuleSpec, for both values of moe_grouped_gemm, so the overwrite on megatron_layer_specs.py:38 puts a partial there just like upstream does.
Two independent pieces of evidence:
- Running the exact expressions against a real provider in
nemo:26.08/ megatron-core 0.19, both layouts:
moe_grouped_gemm=True mlp fc1/fc2: TELayerNormColumnParallelLinear TERowParallelLinear
moe experts: TEGroupedMLP
moe_grouped_gemm=False mlp fc1/fc2: TELayerNormColumnParallelLinear TERowParallelLinear
moe experts: SequentialMLP
.keywords["submodules"] resolved and getattr(moe.experts, "func", moe.experts).__name__ printed the class name in the False case too, which is the case predicted to raise.
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run_config.yamlat the centre of this PR serializes that node as_partial_: true:
mlp:
_args_: []
_partial_: true
_target_: megatron.core.transformer.moe.moe_layer.MoELayer
submodules:
_call_: true
_target_: megatron.core.transformer.moe.moe_layer.MoESubmodulesA built ModuleSpec would have serialized through the ModuleSpec path with its fields intact — the empty MoESubmodules here is precisely the dataclass-inside-a-partial-keyword loss this PR fixes. And the repr confirms the nesting: MoESubmodules(experts=functools.partial(<class '...TEGroupedMLP'>, submodules=GroupedMLPSubmodules(...)), ...).
Leaving the assertion as is. It still needs a real pytest run, which the PR description flags.
| - Fix a DDP hang in DFlash training at scale where a rank whose batch contained no valid anchor skipped the draft forward, leaving its rotary buffer list shorter than other ranks' and causing ``broadcast_buffers`` to hang. The buffer is now created during ``modify()`` before training begins. | ||
| - Fix ``megatron_generate`` dropping the VLM vision inputs (``pixel_values`` / ``image_grid_thw`` / ``image_sizes``) after the first generated token when KV-cache decoding is off, including the automatic fallback under sequence parallelism, which made generation silently ignore the image. No other ModelOpt feature is affected. | ||
| - Fix two issues in the vLLM offline hidden-state dump (``examples/speculative_decoding/collect_hidden_states/compute_hidden_states_vllm.py``) that only surface on large runs. **Resume:** the filter that skips conversations whose ``.pt`` already exists now runs with ``load_from_cache_file=False``. It depends on on-disk state, which is not part of the fingerprint ``datasets`` computes from the function and the dataset, so with a persistent HF cache reused across a resumed or requeued run the cached "keep everything" result from an earlier run was replayed and the dump re-generated and overwrote conversations it had already finished (observed: tens of thousands of ``.pt`` rewritten while the output count stayed flat). **Staging:** generation is now chunked (``--save-chunk-size``, default 256), so each chunk is saved and its staged hidden states freed before the next chunk is generated. Previously the whole dataset was generated before anything was saved, which kept every conversation staged in the connector's ``shared_storage_path`` (``/dev/shm``, i.e. RAM, by default) at once and exhausted it partway through large dumps. Chunking also makes the dump incrementally durable, so an interrupted run keeps its finished conversations and resumes from them. The save path now also frees each conversation's staged hidden states in a ``finally``, so a conversation skipped mid-loop (e.g. a short ``loss_mask``) can no longer leak its staging file, and conversation ids are validated as plain filenames before being used to build output paths. | ||
| - Hybrid (e.g. Nemotron-H) checkpoints saved by the ``examples/megatron_bridge`` scripts now record a complete layer spec in ``run_config.yaml``, so they can be converted to HuggingFace; a checkpoint saved by an earlier release still needs its ``model.hybrid_stack_spec`` block replaced by hand. ``modelopt.torch.nas.plugins.megatron.get_te_hybrid_stack_spec`` was removed; it had no use outside tests. |
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] (re-raised — still open at 3395995d; I could not read the inline reply threads from this environment, so if you already decided against it, that settles it.)
The migration instruction tells a user that something must be done by hand but not what to write. "still needs its model.hybrid_stack_spec block replaced by hand" leaves the owner of a 0.46.1/0.47.0 hybrid checkpoint with no way to act on it, and guessing wrong is not a loud failure: pick the grouped-GEMM target for a checkpoint saved with moe_grouped_gemm: false and you build TEGroupedMLP experts against SequentialMLP weights. The correct block is _call_: false plus a _target_ that differs by layout, and the deciding value (model.moe_grouped_gemm) is already sitting in the same file.
CONTRIBUTING/CLAUDE.md ask each entry to say "what changed and what they need to do" — this one has the first half. Naming both targets keeps it self-contained:
| - Hybrid (e.g. Nemotron-H) checkpoints saved by the ``examples/megatron_bridge`` scripts now record a complete layer spec in ``run_config.yaml``, so they can be converted to HuggingFace; a checkpoint saved by an earlier release still needs its ``model.hybrid_stack_spec`` block replaced by hand. ``modelopt.torch.nas.plugins.megatron.get_te_hybrid_stack_spec`` was removed; it had no use outside tests. | |
| - Hybrid (e.g. Nemotron-H) checkpoints saved by the ``examples/megatron_bridge`` scripts now record a complete layer spec in ``run_config.yaml``, so they can be converted to HuggingFace. A checkpoint saved by an earlier release still needs its ``model.hybrid_stack_spec`` block replaced by hand with ``_call_: false`` plus ``_target_: megatron.bridge.models.hybrid.hybrid_provider.transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec`` if ``model.moe_grouped_gemm`` is ``true``, or ``_target_: modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs.te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp`` if it is ``false``. ``modelopt.torch.nas.plugins.megatron.get_te_hybrid_stack_spec`` was removed; it had no use outside tests. |
If the one-or-two-sentence guideline is the binding constraint here, a pointer ("see PR #2452 for the exact block") is enough — the point is that the entry should not be unactionable.
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Decided against, per the earlier thread on this line (which this environment could not read): the migration has no audience. Hybrid support in these scripts is new enough that the only checkpoints known to carry the broken spec are ours, and they are already repaired. The two-branch recipe (_call_: false plus the layout-appropriate _target_) is recorded in that thread for anyone who does hit it.
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Claude review — 0 CRITICAL, 2 IMPORTANT, 1 SUGGESTION
Scope: full review; the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions. All 7 changed files reviewed (141 additions / 31 deletions) at 3395995d. Two caveats on method: (1) git diff origin/main HEAD is misleading here — main has advanced well past the PR base, so a two-dot diff shows unrelated CHANGELOG entries as deletions; I used gh pr diff instead, which confirms the CHANGELOG change is the single added Bug Fixes line. (2) megatron.core / megatron.bridge are not installed in the review environment, and gh api is not permitted here, so I could not read the inline reply threads from the previous round — findings below are judged against the code at 3395995d alone. Where a finding depends on upstream internals I say so explicitly.
Prior rounds — what is resolved
Everything from the last round except two items is addressed at 3395995d:
get_te_hybrid_stack_specis no longer test-only dead code in a shipped module — it is nowte_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp, has a real production caller inset_moe_expert_layout, and its removal is called out in the CHANGELOG. That also retires CodeRabbit's backward-compat comment onnas/plugins/megatron.py.- The
__init__.pyNOTE no longer asserts the now-false "We dont register anything so this isnt a problem". - The grouped-GEMM / SequentialMLP asymmetry and its stock-
convert.shconsequence are documented atmbridge.py:47-51. - The incorrect
_call_: trueis gone from the CHANGELOG.
The core fix continues to hold up, and I re-traced it independently this round. Storing a named zero-argument factory so the YAML writer never has to represent a dataclass nested in a functools.partial keyword is the right fix at the right level. Two things I checked that could have made this a CRITICAL and did not:
- No in-repo consumer reads
provider.hybrid_stack_specas aModuleSpec. The field's type changes from a built spec to a callable; grep finds exactly two callers ofset_moe_expert_layout(examples/megatron_bridge/distill.py:393,mbridge.py:195) and no attribute access on the field anywhere inmodelopt/orexamples/. Indistill.pythe call also sits among the other provider overrides, before anything is serialized. So the callable assignment is safe for every path in this repo. - No other serialized provider spec has the same latent bug. Grepping assignment sites for
*_stack_spec/transformer_layer_spec/mtp_block_specinmodelopt/turns up only this one plusmegatron_eagle.py:104settingtransformer_layer_spec = None, which is not affected.
__all__ = [] in nas/plugins/megatron.py is correct — DynamicModule registration is an import side effect, unaffected by __all__. The new plugin import in utils/plugins/__init__.py is safe: import_plugin swallows every exception, not just ModuleNotFoundError, so a mcore-without-TE install degrades to a warning rather than breaking modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.
Most impactful finding
The new test cannot pass for the [False-SequentialMLP] parametrization, and that is the half the PR exists for. The two layouts do not produce the same spec shape, but test_mbridge.py:49-56 uses one access path for both. For moe_grouped_gemm=True, moe_layer.submodules.mlp is a functools.partial — the very premise of the root-cause analysis — so .keywords["submodules"] resolves. For False, te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp() overwrites that attribute with get_moe_module_spec(...)'s return value (megatron_layer_specs.py:38), a built ModuleSpec, which has no .keywords — so line 53 raises AttributeError before any assertion runs. This part follows from the PR's own code and needs no MCore lookup. Line 56's getattr(moe.experts, "func", moe.experts).__name__ has the same problem one level down (that half is inference from get_moe_module_spec's convention, and was raised as a suggestion last round — line 53 is the harder failure). Since this is the only automated coverage of the bug being fixed, and the PR notes the test has never been executed, it is worth fixing before the first CI run rather than after. A three-shape unwrap is inline.
Second: the CHANGELOG migration instruction is still unactionable — it tells the owner of a 0.46.1/0.47.0 hybrid checkpoint that the model.hybrid_stack_spec block must be replaced by hand without saying what to write, and guessing wrong is quiet rather than loud (the grouped-GEMM target against a moe_grouped_gemm: false checkpoint builds TEGroupedMLP experts over SequentialMLP weights). Re-raised with suggested text naming both targets; if the length guideline is the binding constraint, a pointer to this PR would do.
Suggestion (non-blocking)
te_hybrid_stack_spec_sequential_mlp's fully-qualified name is now part of the on-disk checkpoint contract, so a future rename breaks checkpoints written by this release with a failure that surfaces inside instantiate rather than at the definition — one docstring line would prevent that. The same comment notes that the moved-verbatim num_experts=8 looks load-bearing and (as far as I can tell) is a placeholder.
I did not re-raise narrowing register_allowed_target_prefix("modelopt.") — CodeRabbit has that thread, mbridge.py:47-51 now states the trust assumption explicitly, and it is a judgment call for you.
Risk assessment
Low. Model-construction behavior is genuinely unchanged for the SequentialMLP layout (byte-identical factory body) and empirically verified for grouped-GEMM (6 end-to-end exports, exact 5139-key match, all weights finite). The blast radius is confined to hybrid providers, and the field-type change has no in-repo consumer. Both open findings are about the guard rails rather than the fix itself: an unexecuted test that will error on the path with no other coverage, and a migration note a user cannot follow. Please still run tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_mbridge.py and one test going through tests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py before merge, as the PR description already asks.
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Megatron-LM's YAML writer drops the fields of a dataclass nested inside a
functools.partial keyword, which is how the default hybrid stack spec
holds MLPSubmodules / MoESubmodules. Storing a built ModuleSpec on the
provider therefore wrote them empty into run_config.yaml, and such a
checkpoint could not be reloaded or exported:
TypeError: MLPSubmodules.__init__() missing 2 required positional
arguments: 'linear_fc1' and 'linear_fc2'
set_moe_expert_layout now stores a named, zero-argument factory, which
serializes losslessly; the provider calls it at build time, so model
construction is unchanged. The grouped-GEMM factory is Megatron-Bridge's
own transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec so that stock tooling such as
scripts/conversion/convert.sh can resolve it without importing ModelOpt.
Move the stack spec builders out of the NAS plugin, which never used
them, into utils/plugins/megatron_layer_specs.py alongside the other
Megatron-Core-only helpers. Keeping them out of mbridge.py leaves them
importable without Megatron-Bridge.
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Type of change: Bug fix
Hybrid (e.g. Nemotron-H) checkpoints saved by the
examples/megatron_bridgescripts could not be reloaded or exported to HuggingFace:Root cause. Megatron-LM's YAML writer represents a
functools.partialvia_partial_representer, which passes each keyword value throughrepresent_data. A dataclass instance has no representer, so it falls through to_safe_object_representer, which emits only{_target_, _call_}and drops every field. The default hybrid stack spec builds its dense-MLP and MoE layers as exactly such partials, andset_moe_expert_layout()stored the builtModuleSpecon the provider — which is serialized into every checkpoint'srun_config.yaml. SoMLPSubmodules/MoESubmoduleswere written with no fields at all. Both export paths hit it:convert.shviafrom_auto_config, andexport_distilled_megatron_to_hf.pyviaexport_ckpt → load_megatron_model. Every hybrid provider is affected, dense or MoE.Fix.
set_moe_expert_layout()stores a named, zero-argument factory instead. The provider already calls a callable spec at build time (_resolve_hybrid_stack_spec), so model construction is unchanged — only the serialized form differs:The grouped-GEMM factory is Megatron-Bridge's own
transformer_engine_hybrid_stack_spec, so stock tooling (scripts/conversion/convert.sh) resolves it without importing ModelOpt.Known limitation — the two layouts are not symmetric. The SequentialMLP layout has no bridge-side equivalent (the upstream TE hybrid spec hardcodes
TEGroupedMLP), so it serializes a ModelOpt target, whichinstantiateonly accepts in a process that has importedmbridge.pyand thereby runregister_allowed_target_prefix. A SequentialMLP hybrid checkpoint therefore converts through the ModelOpt entrypoints but not through stockconvert.sh, where it fails on the disallowed prefix instead of onMLPSubmodules— no regression, but that path stays broken for this one layout. The reach is narrow:use_moe_grouped_gemm()returns True for any architecture with a grouped-expert export rule, NemotronH included, so SequentialMLP requires an explicit--no_moe_grouped_gemm. Closing it properly needs an upstreammoe_grouped_gemm-aware factory in Megatron-Bridge.Both spec builders also move out of
nas/plugins/megatron.py, which never used them, into a newutils/plugins/megatron_layer_specs.pybeside the other Megatron-Core-only helpers. Not intombridge.py: that module needsmegatron.bridge, whileget_te_hybrid_stack_specis reached by 16 test files throughtests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py, which is bridge-free.The underlying defect is upstream in
megatron/training/config/yaml_utils.py; this only stops ModelOpt from stepping on it, so it is worth a separate Megatron-LM issue.Usage
No API change — hybrid checkpoints saved after this fix convert with the existing commands:
torchrun --nproc_per_node 1 examples/megatron_bridge/export_distilled_megatron_to_hf.py \ --student_hf_path <student_hf_model_or_path> \ --megatron_path <distill_out>/checkpoints \ --hf_export_path <hf_out> \ --export_iterations allTesting
Verified in
nemo:26.08(megatron-core 0.19.0) against a 30B-A3B Nemotron-3.5-Lightning pruned+distilled run:set_moe_expert_layouton a realHybridModelProvider, dumped it throughdump_dataclass_to_yaml(the writer used forrun_config.yaml), reloaded viainstantiate, resolved.moe_grouped_gemm=True→TELayerNormColumnParallelLinear/TERowParallelLinear+TEGroupedMLP;False→ same MLP +SequentialMLP. The field stays callable afterfinalize()and_resolve_hybrid_stack_spec(), so a saved config cannot regress.run_config.yamlfix to 32 iteration checkpoints: all 32 rebuild the provider (52 layers, hidden 2304, 104 experts) with populatedMLPSubmodules/MoESubmodules.convert.shCPU,convert.shGPU (4×GB300, TP=4), andexport_distilled_megatron_to_hf.py. Same iteration and wrapper: CPU 123 s vs GPU 134 s — GPU is not faster, since with TP=4 each rank still builds 20.9 B of 22.3 B params and the cost is I/O plus CPU-side conversion.ruff check/ruff format --checkpassed on the source files before the module move.Not yet run:
tests/gpu_megatron/torch/utils/plugins/test_mbridge.py(added here) — the GPU allocation expired. It asserts the round-trip property verified manually above, but itsHybridModelProvider(num_layers=2, hidden_size=64, num_attention_heads=4)construction is unverified. The module move is verified only by reference grep and syntax check, so please also run one test that usestests/_test_utils/torch/megatron/models.py.pre-commitwas not run either (unavailable in the environment used).Before your PR is "Ready for review"
get_te_hybrid_stack_specmoved module (modelopt.torch.nas.plugins.megatron→modelopt.torch.utils.plugins.megatron_layer_specs), and a checkpoint from 0.46.1/0.47.0 needs therun_config.yamledit described in the changelog.CONTRIBUTING.md: N/A/claude reviewbefore marking ready.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
run_config.yaml.Compatibility
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