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Fix incorrect bias display in extra_repr of Column/RowParallelLinear - #4330

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Fix incorrect bias display in extra_repr of Column/RowParallelLinear#4330
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What does this PR do ?

Problem
The extra_repr method in both ColumnParallelLinear and RowParallelLinear uses an incorrect condition to check bias enablement:

use_bias = self.bias is not None and self.bias is True

Since self.bias is either a torch.nn.Parameter or None (never a boolean True), the bias field in the module print representation always shows False, even when bias is actually enabled.

Fix
Correct the bias existence check to:

use_bias = self.bias is not None

Impact
Only fixes the string representation (print output) of tensor-parallel linear layers.
No functional change to training, inference, init, gradients, or distributed communication.
Validation
Create layer with bias=True → print shows bias=True
Create layer with bias=False → print shows bias=False

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@ko3n1g Could you review this PR? This is absolutely a bug.

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LGTM

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@svcnvidia-nemo-ci svcnvidia-nemo-ci added Approved All necessary approvals have been made and removed Final Review PR is in the "final review" stage labels Apr 27, 2026
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/ok to test 0e636da

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🔄 Merge queue validation started!

You can track the progress here: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM/actions/runs/25036339897

Merged via the queue into NVIDIA:main with commit 6fd6652 Apr 28, 2026
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yangbofun pushed a commit to xlm-research/Megatron-LM that referenced this pull request May 22, 2026
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