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In `@modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_nemotron.py`:
- Around line 163-179: Add MTP-prefixed entries to the MTP rule mapping for
every Mamba walker key accessed by _get_mamba_layer_state_dict: norm,
mixer_norm, A_log, D, dt_bias, conv1d, in_proj, and out_proj. Map them to the
corresponding mtp.layers.{}.mixer.* paths, preserving the existing NameRemapping
or slicing behavior used by the base Mamba rules so _get_mtp_state_dict can
export Mamba-based MTP layers without KeyError.
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| # MTP inner attention / MoE layers. Structurally identical to the backbone hybrid | ||
| # layers, so these mirror the base rules above with the `mtp.layers.{}` prefix; the | ||
| # `mtp.` namespace is aliased onto the standard rule keys by _get_mtp_state_dict. | ||
| "mtp.input_layernorm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm."), | ||
| "mtp.fused_norm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm.weight"), | ||
| "mtp.linear_qkv": QKVSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer."), | ||
| "mtp.linear_proj": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.o_proj."), | ||
| "mtp.pre_mlp_layernorm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm."), | ||
| "mtp.router": NameRemapping( | ||
| "mtp.layers.{}.mixer.gate.", {"mapping": {"expert_bias": "e_score_correction_bias"}} | ||
| ), | ||
| "mtp.shared_experts.linear_fc1": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.shared_experts.up_proj."), | ||
| "mtp.shared_experts.linear_fc2": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.shared_experts.down_proj."), | ||
| "mtp.local_experts.linear_fc1": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{}.up_proj."), | ||
| "mtp.local_experts.linear_fc2": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{}.down_proj."), | ||
| "mtp.experts.linear_fc1": GroupedMLPSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{{}}.up_proj"), | ||
| "mtp.experts.linear_fc2": GroupedMLPSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{{}}.down_proj"), |
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Add MTP mappings for all Mamba walker rules.
_get_mtp_state_dict aliases only mtp.* rules. If an MTP inner layer is a MambaLayer, _get_mamba_layer_state_dict accesses norm, mixer_norm, A_log, D, dt_bias, conv1d, in_proj, and out_proj without guards. This mapping adds none of their mtp.* variants. Export then raises KeyError instead of exporting live MTP weights.
Add the corresponding mtp.* mappings with the mtp.layers.{}.mixer. prefix.
Proposed mapping additions
+ "mtp.norm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm."),
+ "mtp.mixer_norm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.norm."),
+ "mtp.A_log": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.A_log"),
+ "mtp.D": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.D"),
+ "mtp.dt_bias": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.dt_bias"),
+ "mtp.conv1d": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.conv1d."),
+ "mtp.in_proj": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.in_proj."),
+ "mtp.out_proj": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.out_proj."),This conflicts with the PR objective to reuse Mamba layer walkers.
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| # MTP inner attention / MoE layers. Structurally identical to the backbone hybrid | |
| # layers, so these mirror the base rules above with the `mtp.layers.{}` prefix; the | |
| # `mtp.` namespace is aliased onto the standard rule keys by _get_mtp_state_dict. | |
| "mtp.input_layernorm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm."), | |
| "mtp.fused_norm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm.weight"), | |
| "mtp.linear_qkv": QKVSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer."), | |
| "mtp.linear_proj": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.o_proj."), | |
| "mtp.pre_mlp_layernorm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm."), | |
| "mtp.router": NameRemapping( | |
| "mtp.layers.{}.mixer.gate.", {"mapping": {"expert_bias": "e_score_correction_bias"}} | |
| ), | |
| "mtp.shared_experts.linear_fc1": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.shared_experts.up_proj."), | |
| "mtp.shared_experts.linear_fc2": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.shared_experts.down_proj."), | |
| "mtp.local_experts.linear_fc1": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{}.up_proj."), | |
| "mtp.local_experts.linear_fc2": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{}.down_proj."), | |
| "mtp.experts.linear_fc1": GroupedMLPSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{{}}.up_proj"), | |
| "mtp.experts.linear_fc2": GroupedMLPSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{{}}.down_proj"), | |
| # MTP inner attention / MoE layers. Structurally identical to the backbone hybrid | |
| # layers, so these mirror the base rules above with the `mtp.layers.{}` prefix; the | |
| # `mtp.` namespace is aliased onto the standard rule keys by _get_mtp_state_dict. | |
| "mtp.input_layernorm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm."), | |
| "mtp.fused_norm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm.weight"), | |
| "mtp.linear_qkv": QKVSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer."), | |
| "mtp.linear_proj": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.o_proj."), | |
| "mtp.pre_mlp_layernorm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm."), | |
| "mtp.router": NameRemapping( | |
| "mtp.layers.{}.mixer.gate.", {"mapping": {"expert_bias": "e_score_correction_bias"}} | |
| ), | |
| "mtp.shared_experts.linear_fc1": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.shared_experts.up_proj."), | |
| "mtp.shared_experts.linear_fc2": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.shared_experts.down_proj."), | |
| "mtp.local_experts.linear_fc1": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{}.up_proj."), | |
| "mtp.local_experts.linear_fc2": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{}.down_proj."), | |
| "mtp.experts.linear_fc1": GroupedMLPSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{{}}.up_proj"), | |
| "mtp.experts.linear_fc2": GroupedMLPSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{{}}.down_proj"), | |
| "mtp.norm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm."), | |
| "mtp.mixer_norm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.norm."), | |
| "mtp.A_log": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.A_log"), | |
| "mtp.D": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.D"), | |
| "mtp.dt_bias": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.dt_bias"), | |
| "mtp.conv1d": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.conv1d."), | |
| "mtp.in_proj": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.in_proj."), | |
| "mtp.out_proj": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.out_proj."), |
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_nemotron.py` around lines 163 - 179, Add
MTP-prefixed entries to the MTP rule mapping for every Mamba walker key accessed
by _get_mamba_layer_state_dict: norm, mixer_norm, A_log, D, dt_bias, conv1d,
in_proj, and out_proj. Map them to the corresponding mtp.layers.{}.mixer.*
paths, preserving the existing NameRemapping or slicing behavior used by the
base Mamba rules so _get_mtp_state_dict can export Mamba-based MTP layers
without KeyError.
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if the MTP layers are structurally identical to the base model layers, then maybe we don't need to add mtp.* rules that are duplicates of the base model rules? It should be possible to just use the base model rules. Adding these mtp rules also makes the import & export rules diverge.
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@jenchen13, agreed. The current mtp.* aliases are needed by the export control flow, but they should not be manually duplicated.
The existing code creates self.rules from only mtp.* entries in _get_mtp_state_dict. Therefore, the Mamba walker cannot currently reuse the base rules. It raises KeyError for an MTP MambaLayer.
A better fix is to derive the MTP inner-layer export mappings from the base layer mappings. A helper can clone each layer-scoped CustomModuleMapping, replace the backbone.layers. prefix with mtp.layers., and add the cloned rule under mtp.<base-rule-key>. This follows the existing prefix-rewrite pattern in modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_qwen3vl.py.
This change gives the MTP walker all base-layer rules, including Mamba rules, without a second hand-maintained mapping list. It also prevents future base Mamba or Transformer mapping changes from diverging from MTP export mappings.
I will withdraw the proposed manual mapping additions. The underlying export failure remains open until the aliases are generated from the base mappings or the exporter uses an equivalent prefix-rewrite mechanism.
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modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_custom.py
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class CustomModuleMapping:
"""A custom module mapping from Megatron Core to its HF counter part."""
def __init__(
self, func_name: str = "", target_name_or_prefix: str = "", func_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}
):
"""Create a custom module mapping."""
self.func_name = func_name
self.target_name_or_prefix = target_name_or_prefix
self.func_kwargs = func_kwargsStores the mapping function name, target name/prefix, and optional keyword arguments such as is_mtp.
Lines 82–91 — NameRemapping
class NameRemapping(CustomModuleMapping):
"""A custom module mapping that renames of the modules."""
def __init__(self, target_name_or_prefix: str = "", func_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}):
"""Create a custom module mapping that renames of the modules."""
super().__init__(
func_name="name_remapping",
target_name_or_prefix=target_name_or_prefix,
func_kwargs=func_kwargs,
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class QKVSlicing(CustomModuleMapping):
"""A custom module mapping that slices Q, K, V."""
def __init__(self, target_name_or_prefix: str = "", func_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}):
"""Create a custom module mapping that slices Q, K, V."""
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func_name="qkv_slicing",
target_name_or_prefix=target_name_or_prefix,
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class GroupedMLPSlicing(CustomModuleMapping):
"""A custom module mapping that slices fused grouped MLP weights into per-expert weights."""
def __init__(self, target_name_or_prefix: str = "", func_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}):
"""Create a custom module mapping that slices grouped MLP weights for export."""
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func_name="grouped_mlp_slicing",
target_name_or_prefix=target_name_or_prefix,
func_kwargs=func_kwargs,
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Good call — done in 89ef596. I removed the duplicate mtp.* inner-layer rules and instead thread an is_mtp flag through the base layer walker + remapping helpers, which rewrite the target root backbone/model → mtp — mirroring exactly what the importer does. Only enorm/hnorm/eh_proj/final_layernorm stay as dedicated mtp.* rules now, so the import/export rule books stay symmetric.
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| # MTP inner attention / MoE layers. Structurally identical to the backbone hybrid | ||
| # layers, so these mirror the base rules above with the `mtp.layers.{}` prefix; the | ||
| # `mtp.` namespace is aliased onto the standard rule keys by _get_mtp_state_dict. | ||
| "mtp.input_layernorm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm."), | ||
| "mtp.fused_norm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm.weight"), | ||
| "mtp.linear_qkv": QKVSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer."), | ||
| "mtp.linear_proj": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.o_proj."), | ||
| "mtp.pre_mlp_layernorm": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.norm."), | ||
| "mtp.router": NameRemapping( | ||
| "mtp.layers.{}.mixer.gate.", {"mapping": {"expert_bias": "e_score_correction_bias"}} | ||
| ), | ||
| "mtp.shared_experts.linear_fc1": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.shared_experts.up_proj."), | ||
| "mtp.shared_experts.linear_fc2": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.shared_experts.down_proj."), | ||
| "mtp.local_experts.linear_fc1": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{}.up_proj."), | ||
| "mtp.local_experts.linear_fc2": NameRemapping("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{}.down_proj."), | ||
| "mtp.experts.linear_fc1": GroupedMLPSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{{}}.up_proj"), | ||
| "mtp.experts.linear_fc2": GroupedMLPSlicing("mtp.layers.{}.mixer.experts.{{}}.down_proj"), |
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if the MTP layers are structurally identical to the base model layers, then maybe we don't need to add mtp.* rules that are duplicates of the base model rules? It should be possible to just use the base model rules. Adding these mtp rules also makes the import & export rules diverge.
| # A *restricted* alias set is used on purpose: any base rule key the walker | ||
| # references but that has no ``mtp.`` variant is simply absent (and its call is | ||
| # guarded), rather than silently emitting a wrong ``backbone.`` prefix. | ||
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you can just reuse the base layer rules + add the mtp specific ones for enorm, hnorm, eh_proj, final_layernorm
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Good call — done in 89ef596. I removed the duplicate mtp.* inner-layer rules and instead thread an is_mtp flag through the base layer walker + remapping helpers, which rewrite the target root backbone/model → mtp — mirroring exactly what the importer does. Only enorm/hnorm/eh_proj/final_layernorm stay as dedicated mtp.* rules now, so the import/export rule books stay symmetric.
End-to-end validation (NemotronH,
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mtp.layers.0.eh_proj.weight |
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mtp.layers.0.enorm / hnorm / norm |
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mtp.layers.0.mixer.{q,k,v,o}_proj.weight |
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Before this PR every mtp.* tensor was byte-identical to the pretrained model regardless of training (the copy path), so any QAD co-training of the MTP head was discarded at export. After the fix the exported head reflects the trained weights. Full layout (270 mtp.* tensors, layers.0=attention, layers.1=MoE) matches the nemotron_h_causal_lm_import round-trip.
Note on precision: in this particular checkpoint the MTP head was left unquantized (BF16, like the lm_head), so the exported MTP is BF16 with no weight_scale. The walker runs the same quantization rules as the base decoder, so it will emit NVFP4 weights + scales whenever the MTP module is quantized in the checkpoint — this validation just didn't exercise that path. @jenchen13 flagging in case the MTP head is expected to be quantized by the recipe.
`_get_mtp_state_dict` previously copied the MTP (multi-token prediction)
head verbatim from the BF16 pretrained model (`# TODO Implement MTP
export for quantized MTP`), because `_get_state_dict` only walks
`model.decoder.layers` and never `model.mtp` — so the `key not in
self._state_dict` guard was always true. Any quantization or co-training
applied to the MTP head during QAD was silently discarded at export; the
draft head shipped as the original BF16 weights.
This walks the live MCore `model.mtp` module and applies the same
quantization rules used for the base decoder, mirroring
`_get_eagle_module_state_dict`. The MTP inner attention/MoE layers are
structurally identical to backbone hybrid layers, so the base layer
walker is reused with a restricted set of `mtp.*` naming rules aliased
onto the standard rule keys (emitting `mtp.layers.{}.` HF keys). The old
BF16-copy path is kept as `_copy_mtp_state_dict_from_pretrained`, used
only when the live model has no `mtp` module.
Adds the missing `mtp.*` inner-layer export rules to
`nemotron_h_causal_lm_export` (attention qkv/o_proj/norm, MoE
router/experts/shared_experts); the predictor projection rules
(`mtp.enorm/hnorm/eh_proj/final_layernorm`) already existed. Round-trips
with the `is_mtp` keys in `nemotron_h_causal_lm_import`.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
…e mtp rules Per review (@jenchen13): the MTP inner attention/MoE layers are structurally identical to the backbone hybrid layers, so instead of adding duplicate `mtp.*` inner-layer rules, thread an `is_mtp` flag through the base layer walker (`_get_transformer_layer_state_dict` / `_get_mamba_layer_state_dict`) and the remapping helpers. When set, the helper rewrites the target root (`backbone`/`model` -> `mtp`), exactly mirroring the importer. Only the predictor-specific keys (enorm/hnorm/eh_proj/final_layernorm) remain dedicated `mtp.*` rules. This keeps the import and export rule books symmetric and avoids rule duplication. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
The repeated-MTP import branch loops over the inner MTP layers but never
imports the MTP block's own final_layernorm, leaving it random-initialized.
Add the import after the loop, keyed to the last inner layer index
(layer_id - 1) so it round-trips with the export side, which writes
mtp.layers.{last}.final_layernorm.
Bug found by @jenchen13.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
The pretrained-copy path must work on a GPTModelExporter with no live model (as the _get_mtp_state_dict unit tests construct via object.__new__). Read self.model via getattr so a missing/absent model falls through to _copy_mtp_state_dict_from_pretrained instead of raising AttributeError. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/unified_export_megatron.py`:
- Around line 625-637: Update _get_mtp_state_dict and the save_pretrained flow
so live MTP tensors are collected from the pipeline stage that owns model.mtp,
including non-last and standalone stages, rather than only the last stage. Merge
or route that owning-stage state into the exported checkpoint while retaining
the pretrained fallback only when no live MTP module exists, and add regression
coverage for these pipeline configurations.
- Around line 647-650: Update the MTP layer index calculation in the loop over
mtp.layers so each MTP depth receives a unique HF index, using the outer depth
or the importer’s required cumulative offset instead of the local layer_number
values alone; ensure predictor, inner-layer, and final-normalization tensor
paths cannot overwrite those from another depth.
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| def _get_mtp_state_dict(self) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]: | ||
| """Export the MTP module. | ||
| """Export the MTP (Multi-Token Prediction) module. | ||
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| Currently, we copy the BF16 MTP weights from the pretrained model if the pretrained model has MTP layers. | ||
| Walks the live MCore ``model.mtp`` module and applies the same quantization | ||
| rules used for the base decoder, so the exported draft head reflects the | ||
| actual (quantized / co-trained) weights. Falls back to copying the BF16 MTP | ||
| weights from the pretrained model only when the live model has no ``mtp`` | ||
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Megatron-LM Multi-Token Prediction MTP standalone pipeline stage non-last stage model.mtp placement documentation
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In Megatron-LM, Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) layers can be placed in a standalone pipeline stage to improve load balancing, rather than being restricted to the last pipeline stage [1][2]. When MTP layers are placed in a standalone virtual pipeline (VPP) stage that is not on the last pipeline rank, the mtp_standalone flag is automatically set to True, allowing MTP to run in its own dedicated pipeline stage [1][3]. Placement is controlled via the pipeline_model_parallel_layout string, where the symbol m represents MTP layers [1][4]. The following conventions apply to the layout format: - m: Represents MTP layers [1][4]. - Placement Examples: - MTP in the last stage (default): "E|t*3|(t|)5mL" [1][3]. - MTP in the second-to-last stage (with decoder layers): "E|t3|(t|)4tm|L" [1][3]. - MTP in a standalone stage (second-to-last, no other layers): "E|t3|(t|)*3tt|m|L" [1][3]. Key constraints for MTP placement include: - All MTP layers must be placed in the same virtual pipeline stage [1][3]. - Do not place MTP layers on the first pipeline rank [1][3]. - The loss computation layer (L) typically remains in the final stage [5]. Using a standalone MTP stage isolates the computation—which is similar in cost to a standard transformer block—from the main model pipeline, offering better VPP balance and overall throughput for large-scale models [2].
Citations:
- 1: https://docs.nvidia.com/megatron-core/developer-guide/latest/user-guide/features/multi_token_prediction.html
- 2: feat(moe): Support placing MTP layers into standalone stages Megatron-LM#2136
- 3: https://docs.nvidia.com/megatron-core/developer-guide/0.18.2/user-guide/features/multi_token_prediction.html
- 4: https://docs.nvidia.com/megatron-core/developer-guide/0.15.0/api-guide/pipeline_parallel_layout.html
- 5: https://docs.nvidia.com/nemo/megatron-bridge/0.6.0/training/multi-token-prediction.html
Export live MTP tensors from their owning pipeline stage.
When MTP is configured on a non-last or standalone pipeline stage, save_pretrained calls _get_mtp_state_dict() only on the last stage. The owning stage cannot contribute live MTP tensors, so the export can omit them or fall back to pretrained BF16 weights. Route MTP state through the save path from the owning stage and add regression coverage.
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/unified_export_megatron.py` around lines 625 - 637,
Update _get_mtp_state_dict and the save_pretrained flow so live MTP tensors are
collected from the pipeline stage that owns model.mtp, including non-last and
standalone stages, rather than only the last stage. Merge or route that
owning-stage state into the exported checkpoint while retaining the pretrained
fallback only when no live MTP module exists, and add regression coverage for
these pipeline configurations.
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MTP is usually always on the last pipeline stage though
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@jenchen13, agreed. The normal MTP layout places model.mtp on the last pipeline stage, and this path works for that layout.
Megatron Core also supports non-last and standalone MTP stages. In those layouts, the owning rank does not call _get_mtp_state_dict(). The export can then omit live MTP tensors or use the pretrained fallback.
If this exporter intentionally supports only last-stage MTP placement, please document that constraint. Otherwise, this flow should collect MTP tensors from the owning stage.
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Right — this runs only on the last-stage main rank (guarded by the is_last_stage_main_rank check in save_pretrained), and MTP lives on that stage, so model.mtp is present and the live-walker path is what actually executes for MTP exports. The _copy_mtp_state_dict_from_pretrained fallback only kicks in when the MCore model has no MTP at all — i.e. exporting a base-only checkpoint that grafts a pretrained MTP head (the prior behavior). The getattr(self, "model", ...) is just so the fallback's unit tests (which build the exporter with no live model via object.__new__) still pass. Happy to drop the fallback entirely if we don't want to support the base-only-graft case — let me know.
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In Megatron Core, Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) is a feature that extends the prediction scope by predicting multiple future tokens at each position using sequential modules [1][2]. The relevant parameters and components are: - mtp_num_layers: This configuration parameter specifies the number of MTP layers to build [1][3]. The model creates a stack of these sequential modules to predict a corresponding number of additional tokens per position [1][3]. - MultiTokenPredictionLayer: This is the core class responsible for the MTP implementation [4][2]. Its constructor accepts a layer_number (integer) to track the depth of the layer within the MTP stack [4][2]. - mtp_model_layer: This component, often defined within MultiTokenPredictionLayerSubmodules, specifies the transformer or mamba block type used for the prediction layers [5][6]. - Non-repeated vs. Repeated MTP: By default, the system builds N separate MTP layers [4][6]. However, if the configuration parameter mtp_use_repeated_layer is set to True, the system creates only one MTP layer and applies it mtp_num_layers times instead of building multiple independent layers [4][6][7]. By default, all MTP layers are placed on the last pipeline stage, though this can be customized using a pipeline_model_parallel_layout [1][8].
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- 1: https://docs.nvidia.com/megatron-core/developer-guide/latest/user-guide/features/multi_token_prediction.html
- 2: https://docs.nvidia.com/megatron-core/developer-guide/nightly/apidocs/core/core.transformer.multi_token_prediction.html
- 3: https://docs.nvidia.com/megatron-core/developer-guide/latest/apidocs/core/core.transformer.transformer_config.html
- 4: https://docs.nvidia.com/megatron-core/developer-guide/latest/apidocs/core/core.transformer.multi_token_prediction.html
- 5: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM/blob/3e6e32b5/megatron/core/transformer/multi_token_prediction.py
- 6: https://docs.nvidia.com/megatron-core/developer-guide/0.18.2/apidocs/core/core.transformer.multi_token_prediction.html
- 7: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM/blob/40b1fd37/megatron/core/transformer/transformer_config.py
- 8: https://github.com/NVIDIA/Megatron-LM/blob/main/docs/user-guide/features/multi_token_prediction.md
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Use a unique HF index for each MTP depth.
Megatron Core creates each non-repeated MTP depth with a local HybridStack numbering starting at 1. This code maps that number directly to mtp.layers.{id}. With mtp_num_layers > 1, later depths overwrite earlier predictor, inner-layer, and final-normalization tensors. Use the outer MTP depth or a cumulative offset that matches the importer contract.
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In `@modelopt/torch/export/unified_export_megatron.py` around lines 647 - 650,
Update the MTP layer index calculation in the loop over mtp.layers so each MTP
depth receives a unique HF index, using the outer depth or the importer’s
required cumulative offset instead of the local layer_number values alone;
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Done in c8bb042 — trimmed the verbose comments/docstrings across the export + import changes.
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Done in c8bb042 — trimmed the verbose comments/docstrings across the export + import changes.
Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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GPTModelExporter._get_mtp_state_dictcopied the MTP (multi-token prediction) head verbatim from the BF16 pretrained model instead of exporting the live model's MTP weights._get_state_dictonly walksmodel.decoder.layersand nevermodel.mtp, soself._state_dictnever contains anymtp.*keys and thekey not in self._state_dictguard was always true — every MTP tensor came from the pretrained safetensors. There was a standing# TODO Implement MTP export for quantized MTP.Consequence: any quantization or co-training applied to the MTP head during QAD was silently discarded at export; the exported draft head was always the original BF16 weights. This makes it impossible to evaluate MTP quantization or MTP co-training downstream.
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_get_mtp_state_dictto walk the live MCoremodel.mtpmodule and apply the same quantization rules used for the base decoder (mirroring_get_eagle_module_state_dict). The MTP inner attention/MoE layers are structurally identical to backbone hybrid layers, so the base layer walker (_get_transformer_layer_state_dict/_get_mamba_layer_state_dict) is reused with a restricted set ofmtp.*naming rules aliased onto the standard rule keys — emittingmtp.layers.{}.HF keys. Restricted on purpose: any base rule key the walker references but that has nomtp.variant is simply absent (guarded), rather than silently emitting a wrongbackbone.prefix._copy_mtp_state_dict_from_pretrained, used only when the live model has nomtpmodule (e.g. exporting a base-only checkpoint that grafts a pretrained head).nemotron_h_causal_lm_export(attentionqkv/o_proj/norm, MoErouter/experts/shared_experts). The predictor projection rules (mtp.enorm/hnorm/eh_proj/final_layernorm) already existed.Validation
NemotronHForCausalLMmodel (num_nextn_predict_layers=1, hybrid*E), the walker reproduces exactly the expected HF key layout —mtp.layers.0= attention (enorm/hnorm/eh_proj/norm/mixer.{q,k,v,o}_proj),mtp.layers.1= MoE (norm/final_layernorm/mixer.gate/shared_experts/experts.{e}) — matching what the existingnemotron_h_causal_lm_import(is_mtpkeys) reads back.Note for reviewer
@jenchen13 — this is the MTP-export bug you flagged (the L599 BF16 copy). Would appreciate your review, especially on the assumption that the MTP inner layers can be driven through the base layer walker with only a prefix swap, and whether any non-
*EMTP configurations need additional inner-layer rules.Summary by CodeRabbit
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