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Status: qualified for the existing SM120 dynamic NVFP4 MoE path used by GLM-5.3 at tensor parallel size 4.

This pull request changes tests only. It adds no runtime code, Python API, package interface, or serialized format.

The qualification covers:

  • 42 routed-expert layers with 288 experts, hidden width 4096, tensor-parallel local intermediate width 512, and top-k 8 routing;
  • ModelOpt NVFP4 weights in the w31 layout with the GLM SwiGLU limit;
  • CUDA graph capture followed by three replays whose outputs agree with an eager execution reference;
  • DFlash target token widths from 8 through 128 in increments of 8;
  • one reusable vLLM-style workspace shared by separately captured shapes;
  • alternating replay order, updated routing tensors, and inactive rows represented by route ID -1.

Source and runtime contract

  • B12X base: local-inference-lab/b12x master at 2fcf23a.
  • Pull-request head: dd8cf60.
  • Result tree: fdbb504ccf5842ae7bb7089caa01fc076a7043c0.
  • vLLM immutable integration snapshot used by the published image: vLLM PR #491 at b77333ca8824897ff6ddf96a62208ea406c555a9, result tree 82bbab85cebf48b735b5898062ceca89826b3913.
  • Mergeable vLLM review is partitioned across PRs #493, #494, #495, #496, #497, #498, and #499. Their composition over dev/jovian-judgement commit c79f35ca00e8e93e0943a0d79b85b22b18aac939 produces tree 64c2eb4eb03a64660dc2965a3164004a5e9cec0f.
  • Source-locked image recipe: blackwell-llm-docker PR #28.

The tests require an SM120 CUDA device and the B12X CUDA extension.

Validation

Environment:

  • image: voipmonitor/vllm:glm53-flash-dflash2-mxfp8-vllm82bbab8-b12xfdbb504-fi1ac6942-cu133-torch213-20260828-r1-gitd3920aaa7c05;
  • image ID: sha256:f920a648cca3e4e17fb314554600a4e110cf3c002d9b7fafd953ce0aafc90718;
  • Docker Hub manifest: sha256:1a210a6dcd4eeef4b9515aa03b8117dbd1bad70ed101cdf72ec4692015e2ac4b;
  • device: NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, UUID GPU-0027fc86-3322-ce2a-856c-f49eb61eb63e.

Results:

  • python -m pytest -q tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py: 15 passed;
  • Ruff check and format: passed;
  • git diff --check: passed;
  • TP4 runtime on physical GPUs 4, 5, 6, and 7 captured target decode and DFlash2 graph families, replayed the B12X NVFP4 target MoE path, passed health and model-list requests, and returned HTTP 200 for a completion;
  • CC16 DFlash2 decode for 30 seconds: 987.69 output tokens/s, 363.76 verifier steps/s, effective accepted length 2.7153, and zero request errors;
  • standalone 32,768-token cold-prefill profile for 30 seconds: 12,692 input tokens/s over 10 samples.

Duplicate analysis

B12X PR #248 changes the unpadded single-token MoE kernel. B12X PR #249 proposes a direct single-token KDA API. Neither pull request duplicates the graph-replay qualification across DFlash target widths in this test-only change.

Review disclosure

OpenAI Codex assisted with test implementation, GPU validation, and pull-request text. Human review of the qualification contract is required before merge.

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The test helper now supports configurable w13_layout, fast_math, and swiglu_limit values. New tests cover 42-layer shared-scratch replay and multi-shape GLM-5.3 TP4 NVFP4 CUDA graph replay.

GLM-5.3 NVFP4 graph replay

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configurable MoE binding setup
tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py
_prepare_and_bind forwards layout, math, and SwiGLU limit options. Existing graph-check documentation and assertions receive formatting-only changes.
42-layer live graph replay
tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py
Adds a 42-layer NVFP4 CUDA graph replay test with shared scratch storage and eager-output comparison.
Multi-shape graph replay
tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py
Adds replay coverage for token widths from 8 through 128, workspace reuse, replay order changes, and inactive routes.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to dd8cf

The new qualification test uses an invalid activation and SwiGLU-limit combination, causing it to fail before exercising the GLM-5.3 replay path. The test configuration should be corrected before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Test as live graph replay test
  participant Binding as TPMoEScratchCaps
  participant Graph as CUDA graph
  Test->>Binding: prepare and bind layer bindings
  Test->>Graph: capture eager execution
  Test->>Graph: replay after input mutation
  Graph-->>Test: return replay outputs
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Serving Hot-Path Invariants ✅ Passed PASS. The commit changes only tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py; no b12x/ production file changes. The helper forwards w13_layout, swiglu_limit, and fast_math as plan and …
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PASS. The commit changes only tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py; no b12x/ production file changes. The helper forwards w13_layout, swiglu_limit, and fast_math as plan and bind metadata. The new tests use caller-owned scratch and output buffers, and assert no replay allocations, stable bytes, and stable tensor addresses. Existing production planning and binding code already enforces capacity and maps scratch views. The test-only CUDA synchronizations and allocations are outside the serving replay path, so the PR introduces no stated hot-path invariant failure.

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tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py (1)

820-828: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the resolved implementation, and state the contract in the docstring.

Two points on this test setup:

  1. No assertion records which implementation each width resolves to. Test 1 asserts implementation == "dynamic" at lines 737-738, and the corpus does the same at lines 1041-1044. Without it, a dispatch change that moves these widths off the dynamic path leaves the test green while the PR claims dynamic NVFP4 qualification.
  2. The docstring names the tested object as "all DFlash target widths" and "one vLLM-style workspace". A reader with the repository cannot derive the widths, the workspace layout, or the DFlash role from that text.
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-    """Replay all DFlash target widths against one vLLM-style workspace."""
+    """Replay token widths 8..128 in steps of 8 against one shared workspace.
+
+    One uint8 workspace sized for the widest shape backs a per-width scratch
+    plan at a 256-byte aligned offset. Each width owns one captured CUDA graph.
+    """
         plans.append((tokens, plan, output_workspace_nbytes))
         workspace_sizes.append(output_workspace_nbytes + scratch_nbytes)
+        assert plan.launch_plan.implementation == "dynamic", tokens

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In `@tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py` around lines 820 - 828,
Update test_standard_moe_glm53_tp4_nvfp4_multishape_graph_replay to assert that
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In `@tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py`:
- Around line 801-817: Update both replay loops at
tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py lines 801-817 and 954-977
to capture pre-replay torch.cuda.memory_allocated(), allocation.all.allocated,
and data_ptr() values for the scratch, per-layer outputs, and shared
workspace/inputs/output tensors as applicable; after synchronize, assert all
allocation counters and tensor addresses remain unchanged while preserving the
existing output-validity checks.
- Around line 954-977: Update the replay test loop around
graphs[graph_idx].replay() to capture an eager reference for each graph width
after overwriting topk_ids and topk_weights, then compare the replay output
against that reference rather than checking only finiteness. Retain the output
poison value to detect missing writes, assert the active output is nonzero and
equivalent to the eager result, and explicitly validate that inactive rows
created for replay_idx == 2 remain zero while their route IDs are -1.

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In `@tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py`:
- Around line 820-828: Update
test_standard_moe_glm53_tp4_nvfp4_multishape_graph_replay to assert that each
resolved plan uses implementation == "dynamic", matching the existing assertions
in nearby tests. Expand its docstring to identify the concrete DFlash target
widths, vLLM-style workspace layout, and DFlash role covered by the replay
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Qualify the SM120 dynamic NVFP4 MoE implementation for the GLM-5.3 TP4 geometry: 42 routed-expert layers and token widths from 8 through 128 in eight-token increments.

The CUDA graph tests use caller-owned shared scratch, alternate replay order, update live routing tensors, and represent inactive routes with ID -1. They compare replay output with eager execution, require inactive rows to remain zero, reject replay-time CUDA allocations, and assert stable serving-buffer addresses.

Runtime behavior, package interfaces, and serialized formats are unchanged. The complete GPU test file passes 15 tests on an NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU.

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In `@tests/moe/test_cute_migration_moe_standard_corpus.py`:
- Around line 737-739: Update the test configuration around TPMoEScratchCaps to
use a gated activation with swiglu_limit=10.0 instead of the non-gated “silu”
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