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Share trellis preparation across native and EXL3 containers - #433
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Preserve source-coordinate expert extents, retained two-bit lookup tables and declared row capacities. Keep block-codec epilogues and pipeline tuning intact. Optional FP32 atomic prefill reduction does not guarantee bitwise summation order. Validation: Host eligibility checks pass for packed, ModelOpt, EXL3 and three block codecs. Syntax and whitespace checks pass. GPU validation of the canonical-base composition remains pending. Co-authored-by: Martin Vit <martin@voipmonitor.org> Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Normalize uniform EXL3 slots into TrellisSource and TrellisWeights. Preserve codewords, FP16 scale boundaries, global Hadamard coordinates and bounded CUDA staging. Route the compatibility loader through common preparation while retaining asymmetric-pair support. Native config callers keep their schema and projection-tiered path. CPU layout and adapter validation: 98 tests passed. GPU preparation, graph replay, performance and full-model fidelity remain unqualified in this environment. Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds shared preparation for EXL3-backed Trellis weights and introduces an opt-in FP32 route-reduction path for eligible W4A16 prefill launches. It also updates workspace planning, prepared launch handling, route packing, tests, and documentation. ChangesShared Trellis preparation
W4A16 fused prefill reduction
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant W4A16Planner
participant WorkspacePlanner
participant W4A16Kernel
participant Output
W4A16Planner->>WorkspacePlanner: select eligible FP32 reduction plan
WorkspacePlanner->>W4A16Kernel: provide compiled launch and accumulator
W4A16Kernel->>W4A16Kernel: add FC2 route contributions
W4A16Kernel->>Output: copy active accumulator rows
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Some supported prepared-launch plans fail during preparation. Clamp the direct-token capacity to the planned launch size before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Checkpoint validation remains on the new preparation path, and the GPU reduction is opt-in. The change still affects public callers and reusable GPU workspaces; external checkpoint exposure and overlapping workspace use have not been established. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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Full details: Docstring CoverageExplanation Docstring coverage is 31.91% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 94 functions across 25 files. (4 skipped: 2 unsupported, 2 too large.) Full details: Context-Independent Repository ProseExplanation Changed PR and commit prose depends on development history and undefined shorthand. The PR description says this is an “implementation alternative discussed” in vLLM Resolution Rewrite the PR description and commit bodies to state the resulting API, compatibility impact, technical reason, and validation without relying on Full details: Performance Claim EvidenceExplanation The PR makes a lower-overhead claim for W4A16 scratch memory. The added documentation states that a specified workload decreases planned scratch size from 1,071,913,568 to 308,550,240 bytes. The repository adds no benchmark result or provenance for this claim: no target measurement command, comparison revisions, worktree, physical GPU or operating mode, correctness state, raw samples, or explicit ratio. The document only provides a static size comparison and separately disclaims an end-to-end throughput claim. Resolution Either remove the scratch-memory reduction claim, or add repository-visible evidence for the exact workload. Include the real measurement command and path, base and PR revisions, worktree, physical GPU and operating mode, correctness results, raw samples, and the reduction ratio with its direction. Keep the claim limited to those measured conditions.
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In @.lil/changes/b12x-415.json:
- Line 9: Update the release fragment’s pull_requests entry to identify PR 433
instead of 415, and revise compatibility to state that canonical EXL3 callers
must use trellis_from_exl3 and pass device to prepare_weights while native
TrellisConfig callers remain unchanged.
In `@b12x/moe/_shared/kernels/w4a16/route_pack.py`:
- Around line 303-367: The stable pack path rescans every route for each expert,
multiplying global reads by the expert count. Replace the full-range per-expert
scan in _pack_topk_routes_stable_kernel with a stable design that processes
route tiles once and uses per-tile expert prefix counts to preserve token-major
ordering, keeping work near O(routes + experts·tiles).
In `@b12x/moe/fused_moe/planning.py`:
- Line 360: Update _weight_payload to serialize the prepared weights’
params_dtype instead of plan.io_dtype so compile payloads distinguish arithmetic
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Fix the PR number and the compatibility statement in the release fragment.
- PR number: Lines 14-16 list PR
415. The PR under review is#433, and its description says#415must stay open until qualification. Put433inpull_requests. - Compatibility: Line 9 says "No user action required." The PR description says canonical EXL3 callers must now call
trellis_from_exl3and passdevicetoprepare_weights. Callers of the canonical EXL3 path therefore do need to act. - Why it matters: AGENTS.md says published fragments stay unchanged and are only corrected with new fragments. Both errors should be fixed before this fragment is published.
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- "compatibility": "No user action required.",
+ "compatibility": "Native TrellisConfig callers are unchanged. Canonical EXL3 callers pass trellis_from_exl3(layer) to plan_weights and pass device= to prepare_weights.",
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In @.lil/changes/b12x-415.json at line 9, Update the release fragment’s
pull_requests entry to identify PR 433 instead of 415, and revise compatibility
to state that canonical EXL3 callers must use trellis_from_exl3 and pass device
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Include the prepared rotation dtype in the compile payload.
_weight_payload currently serializes plan.io_dtype as params_dtype. When rotation_dtype changes the prepared weights to FP16 while io_dtype remains BF16, plans with different arithmetic dtypes can produce the same compile payload and reuse an incompatible specialization. Serialize the prepared params_dtype instead, and bump the query schema version if this changes the query semantics.
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In `@b12x/moe/fused_moe/planning.py` at line 360, Update _weight_payload to
serialize the prepared weights’ params_dtype instead of plan.io_dtype so compile
payloads distinguish arithmetic dtypes; bump the query schema version if this
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…packing Remove the full-codeword shared LUT and stable per-expert route ordering from the preparation interface change. Retain exact route capacities, prepared launch ownership and opt-in FP32 prefill reduction. Bump the MoE query schema for the reduced control set and scope the release fragment to PR 433. Validation: selected host suites report 181 passed and 28 failures; the same 28 missing-decode_config failures reproduce at 7fca2aa. Ten LUT-specific cases move with the LUT change. Changed Python sources parse and git diff --check passes. GPU execution and serving qualification were not run. Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex
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🟡 Minor · Clamp direct_token_capacity to size_m. · _preparation.py:380
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direct_token_capacitytosize_m.
caps.core_token_countscan produce a plannedtokensvalue belowcaps.max_tokens. The repository-ownedcompile_w4a16_fused_moerejectsdirect_token_capacity > size_m, so compilation fails before the later small-M direct-launch checks.🐛 Suggested fix
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…oken count Backport of the direct_token_capacity part of upstream 0ff5b39 (local-inference-lab#433). Packed routes keep the rounded storage capacity (max_tokens_per_launch, 8 for a 5-token plan), but the native ModelOpt direct launch is selected by its exact row count, so a 5-token A16 plan compiled an m=8 direct launch and failed with 'native W4A16 direct launch was not prepared for this token count and route dtype'. This is what an A16 cutoff hits first at c1 (M=5).
…oken count Backport of the direct_token_capacity part of upstream 0ff5b39 (local-inference-lab#433). Packed routes keep the rounded storage capacity (max_tokens_per_launch, 8 for a 5-token plan), but the native ModelOpt direct launch is selected by its exact row count, so a 5-token A16 plan compiled an m=8 direct launch and failed with 'native W4A16 direct launch was not prepared for this token count and route dtype'. This is what an A16 cutoff hits first at c1 (M=5).
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Behavior
Prepare native trellis tensors and uniform EXL3 checkpoints through one container-independent
TrellisSource/TrellisWeightsAPI. EXL3 parsing is a CPU-only public adapter; canonical MoE planning does not dispatch onExl3SourceorExl3Weights.W4A16 trellis execution uses compact decoding and ordinary unordered atomic route packing. The full-codeword LUT and stable-order packing implementations, controls and tests are reviewed separately:
Both drafts target this interface branch and are optional; neither is a dependency of this PR.
Compatibility and integration
No checkpoint conversion or native version-2 JSON migration is required. Native
TrellisConfigcallers remain accepted and normalize toTrellisSource. Canonical EXL3 callers usetrellis_from_exl3and passdevicetoprepare_weights. vLLM #909 supplies that caller without changing extent assignment or serialized MXFP8/BF16 dense weights.This is the common-API alternative to #415, tracked in vLLM #907. The alternatives overlap and should not both be merged. Historical GPU results from #415 or related kernel PRs do not qualify this source revision.
Validation
Implemented; common-API serving remains research-only pending GPU preparation, peak-memory, graph-replay and matched model qualification. No throughput, acceptance or KLD result is claimed.
At source
437cead, using the existing B12X environment against an isolated checkout:160 passed. Coverage includes lossless word/table assembly, source extents, global signs, staging bounds, corrupt inputs, native configuration and prepared variant selection. Source comparison confirms that the split removes exactly the two extracted features from Python code, plus the query-schema version change. Python parsing and
git diff --checkpass.The broader host check also ran:
/home/luke/projects/b12x/.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q \ tests/moe/test_trellis_adapter.py tests/moe/test_trellis_config.py \ tests/moe/test_exl3_schema.py tests/moe/test_fused_moe_variant_selection.py \ tests/moe/test_tp_moe_scratch_bindings.py \ -k 'not launch_planner_compiles and not scratch_bindings_are_reusable'181 passed, 28 failed, 1 deselected. The identical 28 tests fail at the unsplit
7fca2aarevision because scratch helpers omit requireddecode_configarguments; that baseline reports 191 passed, with ten LUT-specific cases now belonging to #436. These failures remain unresolved.CUDA tests and serving evaluation were not run for the split. Run
tests/moe/test_exl3_prepare.pyand the relevant W4A16 capacity/route/graph suites, then qualify EXL3 TP9/DCP9 with DSpark and official MXFP4 under matched conditions before deployment. CPU layout tests are not GPU qualification.API and staging contract:
docs/trellis-preparation.md.AI assistance: OpenAI Codex. Human line-by-line review and GPU qualification remain required before merge. Original contributor commits are preserved; the split is a fast-forward update.
Summary
The MoE preparation API now uses
TrellisSourceandTrellisWeightsto prepare native trellis tensors and uniform-rate EXL3 checkpoints through a shared path. The public, CPU-only EXL3 adapter validates checkpoint data and converts it to that container-independent representation.TrellisConfigcallers remain supported. Canonical EXL3 callers usetrellis_from_exl3and passdevicetoprepare_weights. Asymmetric-pair EXL3 preparation remains separate.The shared preparation path supports tensor-parallel extents, bounded CPU-to-device staging, and extent-aware intermediate Hadamard signs. This avoids requiring EXL3-specific dispatch in the MoE planner. The preparation contract and staging controls are documented in
docs/trellis-preparation.md.The change also adds an opt-in W4A16 BF16 prefill fused-sum path. Eligible launches use an FP32 output accumulator; decode and ineligible launches retain the existing reduction paths. The MoE query schema version is now 14. Compact decoding, route capacities, prepared launch ownership, and atomic route packing remain part of the stated compatibility contract.
CPU adapter and layout tests are reported as passing in the PR objectives. CUDA preparation, graph replay, and matched-model serving qualification remain pending. The change is not qualified for serving use.