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[https://nvbugs/6660905][fix] Gate TritonFusedMoE on the SwiGLU activation family, not gpt-oss style #18255

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10 changes: 9 additions & 1 deletion tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/fused_moe/MOE_DEVELOPER_GUIDE.md
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Expand Up @@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ Still on old path (standalone, with embedded communication):
| `mega_moe/mega_moe_deepgemm.py` | `MegaMoEDeepGemm` | SM100/SM103 | W4A8_MXFP4_MXFP8 via DeepGEMM `fp8_fp4_mega_moe` fused dispatch+GEMM+act+GEMM+combine kernel; requires `hidden_size % 512 == 0` | `FUSED_COMM` |
| `mega_moe/mega_moe_cute_dsl.py` | `MegaMoECuteDsl` | SM100/SM103 | NVFP4 via ported CuteDSL `Sm100MegaMoEKernel` fused dispatch+FC1+act+FC2+combine kernel; requires CUDA 13 Cutlass DSL runtime (PR #14354) and NVSHMEM provider (hard gate); threads per-expert `fc31_alpha`/`fc2_alpha`/`fc1_norm_const` through the kernel ABI and supports SwiGLU clamp via `swiglu_limit`; default deepgemm graph (topk score folded before fc1-out quant, host `combine_output.sum(dim=1)`) | `FUSED_COMM` |
| `fused_moe_marlin.py` | `MarlinFusedMoE` | SM89-SM99 | W4A16 NVFP4 on Ada/Hopper (BF16 activations + FP4 weights, fused single-launch `marlin_nvfp4_moe_gemm` kernel); supports attention-DP + EP via external comm (scheduler precomputes routing; dispatch payload is plain BF16, no activation scales); non-NVFP4 layers (e.g. unquantized MTP draft layers) degrade to Cutlass in `resolve_moe_impl`, recorded in the layer's `MoEResolutionReport`; no dynamic EPLB | `EXTERNAL_COMM` |
| `fused_moe_triton.py` | `TritonFusedMoE` | SM90 only | GPT-OSS on Hopper (requires `swiglu_gptoss_style=True`) | (legacy path) |
| `fused_moe_triton.py` | `TritonFusedMoE` | SM90 only | GPT-OSS and plain-SwiGLU MXFP4 on Hopper (SwiGLU family only) | (legacy path) |
| `fused_moe_vanilla.py` | `VanillaMoE` | All devices | Reference / debugging only | (legacy path) |

### Communication (`fused_moe/communication/`)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -374,6 +374,14 @@ every specialized backend — `CuteDslFusedMoE`, `CuteDslB12xFusedMoE`,
`DeepGemmFusedMoE`, `DenseGEMMFusedMoE`, `MarlinFusedMoE` — while
`TRTLLMGenFusedMoE` accepts only the algorithms in its `_GPTOSS_SUPPORTED_ALGOS`.

`TritonFusedMoE` gates the activation *family* (`Swiglu`, `SwigluBias`), not
`swiglu_gptoss_style`: each quant method's `apply` branches on `beta == 1.0`,
serving gpt-oss through the fused Triton activation and plain SwiGLU through
`swiglu_torch` at the `alpha=1.0` / `beta=0.0` defaults. Gating it on
`swiglu_gptoss_style` instead degraded explicit `TRITON` requests for
plain-SwiGLU MXFP4 checkpoints to Cutlass, which cannot load the `weight_scale`
scale spelling those checkpoints ship (nvbugs/6660905).

Cutlass gates gpt-oss / MiniMax SwiGLU on unquantized, NVFP4, and the MXFP4
family (`CutlassFusedMoE._GPTOSS_SUPPORTED_ALGOS` = `None`, `NVFP4`,
`W4A16_MXFP4`, `W4A8_MXFP4_FP8`, `W4A8_MXFP4_MXFP8`). The CUDA kernel is not
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16 changes: 12 additions & 4 deletions tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/fused_moe/fused_moe_triton.py
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Expand Up @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
from tensorrt_llm.models.modeling_utils import QuantAlgo

from ...model_config import ModelConfig
from ...utils import ActivationType
from ..linear import TensorParallelMode, load_weight_shard
from .impl_contract import (MoEDeployment, MoEEligibility, MoEProblem,
MoERejectReason)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1550,7 +1551,7 @@ class TritonFusedMoE(MoE):

@classmethod
def can_implement(cls, p: MoEProblem, d: MoEDeployment) -> MoEEligibility:
"""Triton MoE: SM90 only, and only the gpt-oss style swiglu.
"""Triton MoE: SM90 only, SwiGLU family only.

Supports unquantized BF16, FP8 per-tensor QDQ, W4A8_MXFP4_FP8 and
W4A16_MXFP4.
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MoERejectReason.EPLB_UNSUPPORTED,
"TritonFusedMoE does not implement the EPLB slot hooks")

# Require gpt-oss SwiGLU; abstain when the style is unknown.
if p.swiglu_gptoss_style is False:
# Gate the activation family, NOT ``swiglu_gptoss_style``: every
# ``apply`` branches on ``beta == 1.0``, so gpt-oss takes the fused
# activation and the plain-SwiGLU alpha=1/beta=0 defaults take
# ``swiglu_torch``. Rejecting plain SwiGLU degraded an explicit TRITON
# request to Cutlass, which then died loading the MXFP4 scales this
# checkpoint spells ``weight_scale`` (nvbugs/6660905).
if p.activation_type not in (ActivationType.Swiglu,
ActivationType.SwigluBias):
return _reject(
MoERejectReason.ACTIVATION_UNSUPPORTED,
"TritonFusedMoE only supports swiglu_gptoss_style=True")
"TritonFusedMoE fuses Swiglu and SwigluBias only, got "
f"{p.activation}")

if d.smart_router:
return _reject(
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt
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Expand Up @@ -234,7 +234,6 @@ full:H20/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestGPTOSS::test_w4_chunked_prefill[t
full:H20/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestLlama3_1_8BInstruct::test_fp8[fp8kv=False-attn_backend=TRTLLM-torch_compile=True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6546909)
full:H20/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestLlama3_1_8BInstruct::test_fp8_4gpus[tp4-fp8kv=False-attn_backend=TRTLLM-torch_compile=True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6580087)
full:H20/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestLlama3_1_8BInstruct::test_fp8_4gpus[tp4-fp8kv=True-attn_backend=FLASHINFER-torch_compile=True] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6546909)
full:H20/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py::TestQwen3_30B_A3B::test_w4a16_mxfp4[latency-TRITON] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6660905)
full:H20/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py::TestExaone4_5_33B::test_auto_dtype[forced_chunked_prefill] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6597570)
full:H20/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py::TestExaone4_5_33B::test_auto_dtype[full_budget] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6597570)
full:H20/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch_multimodal.py::TestNanoV3Omni::test_auto_dtype[bf16] SKIP (https://nvbugs/6618649)
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
"""Which activations ``TritonFusedMoE`` claims during MoE resolution.

Triton gates the activation *family*, not ``swiglu_gptoss_style`` — see
``TritonFusedMoE.can_implement`` for why (nvbugs/6660905).

Selection-time only: these run without a cubin and need no GPU. Kernel-level
MXFP4 numerics live in ``_torch/modules/test_fused_moe.py``
(``test_fused_moe_triton_mxfp4``, which covers bias on and off).
"""

import pytest
import torch

from tensorrt_llm._torch.model_config import ModelConfig
from tensorrt_llm._torch.modules.fused_moe import RenormalizeMoeRoutingMethod
from tensorrt_llm._torch.modules.fused_moe.fused_moe_cutlass import CutlassFusedMoE
from tensorrt_llm._torch.modules.fused_moe.fused_moe_triton import TritonFusedMoE
from tensorrt_llm._torch.modules.fused_moe.impl_contract import MoEEnvironment, MoERejectReason
from tensorrt_llm._torch.modules.fused_moe.impl_environment import override_moe_environment
from tensorrt_llm._torch.modules.fused_moe.moe_resolution import (
impl_class_for,
infer_swiglu_gptoss_style,
resolve_moe_impl,
)
from tensorrt_llm._torch.utils import ActivationType
from tensorrt_llm.models.modeling_utils import QuantAlgo, QuantConfig


def _resolve_triton(*, bias=False, swiglu_alpha=None, swiglu_beta=None, activation_type=None):
"""Resolve a W4A16_MXFP4 TRITON request the way ``create_moe`` does.

``swiglu_gptoss_style`` goes through ``infer_swiglu_gptoss_style`` rather
than being hard-coded, because ``resolve_moe_impl`` takes it as a parameter:
passing a literal would leave the activation gate unreached and every
assertion below would hold vacuously.
"""
cfg = ModelConfig()
cfg.moe_backend = "TRITON"
cfg.quant_config = QuantConfig(quant_algo=QuantAlgo.W4A16_MXFP4)
# SM90 is Triton's only window, so activation stays the lone variable.
with override_moe_environment(MoEEnvironment(sm=90)):
return resolve_moe_impl(
cfg,
dtype=torch.bfloat16,
routing=RenormalizeMoeRoutingMethod(top_k=4),
swiglu_gptoss_style=infer_swiglu_gptoss_style(
bias=bias,
swiglu_alpha=swiglu_alpha,
swiglu_beta=swiglu_beta,
activation_type=activation_type,
),
bias=bias,
activation_type=activation_type,
)


def test_triton_serves_plain_swiglu_mxfp4():
"""Qwen3-30B-A3B W4A16_MXFP4: no bias, no alpha/beta -> Triton, not Cutlass."""
report = _resolve_triton()
# The regression degraded to Cutlass here and only failed later, at load.
assert impl_class_for(report) is TritonFusedMoE
assert report.selected_by == "pinned"
assert not report.degraded


def test_triton_still_serves_gptoss_swiglu():
"""The gpt-oss package keeps resolving to Triton (the pre-existing case)."""
report = _resolve_triton(
bias=True,
swiglu_alpha=torch.tensor([1.702]),
swiglu_beta=torch.tensor([1.0]),
)
assert impl_class_for(report) is TritonFusedMoE
assert not report.degraded


@pytest.mark.parametrize(
"activation_type",
[
pytest.param(ActivationType.Geglu, id="geglu"),
pytest.param(ActivationType.Relu2, id="relu2"),
],
)
def test_triton_degrades_on_non_swiglu_activation(activation_type):
"""A non-SwiGLU activation has no Triton path and must still degrade."""
report = _resolve_triton(activation_type=activation_type)
assert impl_class_for(report) is CutlassFusedMoE
assert report.degraded
assert report.degraded_from.reason is MoERejectReason.ACTIVATION_UNSUPPORTED
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Register the regression tests and add type annotations.

  • Add tests/unittest/_torch/modules/moe/test_triton_moe_resolution.py to the applicable CI test-db list. No matching CI or QA entry exists, so the regression tests can be omitted.
  • Annotate _resolve_triton and the three test functions with parameter and return types.

Added tests: test_triton_serves_plain_swiglu_mxfp4, test_triton_still_serves_gptoss_swiglu, and test_triton_degrades_on_non_swiglu_activation. Selection coverage is sufficient; the overall coverage verdict is needs follow-up until CI registration is added.

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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/modules/moe/test_triton_moe_resolution.py` around lines
71 - 103, Register the Triton MoE resolution test module in the applicable CI
test-db list, and add parameter and return type annotations to _resolve_triton
and the three tests: test_triton_serves_plain_swiglu_mxfp4,
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`@tests/unittest/_torch/modules/moe/test_triton_moe_resolution.py` at line 43.

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