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Disposable CI run for unslothai#6978. Do not merge; closed after CI.

danielhanchen and others added 7 commits July 8, 2026 12:31
Some block-scale FP8 checkpoints (for example Qwen3.6-27B-FP8, issue unslothai#6200) load
with transformers leaving an mlp.gate_proj as a plain bf16 Linear instead of an
fp8 module. Its raw quantized values are read into the bf16 weight and the
weight_scale_inv is dropped as an unexpected key, so the weight is used un-scaled
and the base model is garbage (perplexity around 2 million).

After load, for every checkpoint weight_scale_inv whose live weight is not fp8,
dequantize the orphaned weight in place using the block scale from the checkpoint
index. Modules that were converted correctly keep an fp8 weight and are skipped,
so healthy checkpoints and single-file checkpoints are a no-op.

Verified on Qwen3.6-27B-FP8: 64 gate_proj scales restored, perplexity 2028902 to
8.9. No-op on Qwen3-8B-FP8 (all scales already live).
- Skip restore when the model has no fp8 weights, so an intentionally
  dequantized load (load_in_16bit) is never re-scaled and corrupted.
- Thread revision, subfolder and cache_dir through the index and shard
  downloads so scales come from the same snapshot as the weights.
- Cover unsharded single-file model.safetensors checkpoints (no index).
- Handle transposed block-scale layouts and skip on a true grid mismatch
  instead of applying a wrong scale.
- Match text-only VLM loads where the language_model prefix was stripped.
- Restore on the FastLanguageModel text path too, not only vision.
- Handle a scalar weight_block_size; per-tensor error handling so one bad
  tensor cannot abort the rest or hide a partial mutation.
- Bound peak memory: dequantize block views in place with the fp32 scale
  broadcast instead of materializing a full expanded scale and fp32 copy,
  so a near-VRAM-limit load is not pushed into OOM by the repair.
- Restore on the sequence-classification load path too.
- Cover more VLM key remappings (language_model.model.* to
  model.language_model.*) when matching modules.
- Skip the restore for variant loads (variant=...) rather than risk
  applying default-checkpoint scales to variant weights.
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Staging run finished; closing. Staging PRs exist to run CI on a spare queue and are never merged.

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