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Fix reload_model_params failure when loading MoE models with explicit state_dict - #3243

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Fix reload_model_params failure when loading MoE models with explicit state_dict#3243
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This PR fixes a bug in _build_model_param_to_state_dict_param_map method. The issue occurs when calling reload_model_params(state_dict) with an explicit state_dict for MoE models.

Since the string "weight1" is a substring of "weight10" and "weight11", the condition name in k evaluates to True for all of them.The number of matched_keys becomes greater than 1, triggering the following assertion:

AssertionError: Parameter decoder.layers.0.mlp.experts.linear_fc1.weight1 has 11 matches in state dict

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Makes sense to me. Can you send a PR to the main branch as well?

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/ok to test 421fa9c

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/ok to test ac86f9f

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/ok to test 90ffea5

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yaox12 added this pull request to the merge queue Feb 9, 2026
Merged via the queue into NVIDIA:dev with commit 500e080 Feb 9, 2026
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Co-authored-by: Xin Yao <xiny@nvidia.com>
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