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[KK] b12x MoE: opt-in NVFP4-activation prefill for W4A16 experts, decode rows stay W4A16 - #972
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…ows stay W4A16 With B12X_W4A16_A4_PREFILL_MIN_TOKENS set, b12x serves W4A16 MoE calls of at least that many tokens with NVFP4 activations over the packed W4A16 weights. vLLM now passes the checkpoint's activation global scales in W4A16 mode for that path (the shared input scale is the smallest global scale, i.e. the widest calibrated range; intermediate scales stay per expert), skips layers whose scales are missing or invalid (they stay W4A16), and splits a mixed step so its leading decode rows always run on the exact W4A16 path and only the prefill rows take the faster one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughB12X experts gain opt-in W4A16 A4 prefill support. The implementation reads a configurable threshold, prepares activation scales when valid, and routes leading decode rows separately from prefill rows outside CUDA graph capture. ModelOpt MoE input-scale parameters now initialize to zero. Host-side tests cover these behaviors. ChangesB12X W4A16 A4 Prefill
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant B12xExperts
participant ForwardContext
participant AttentionMetadata
participant ExpertBinding
B12xExperts->>ForwardContext: Read attention metadata
ForwardContext->>AttentionMetadata: Read query lengths and prefill counts
AttentionMetadata-->>B12xExperts: Return row metadata
B12xExperts->>ExpertBinding: Bind leading decode rows as W4A16
B12xExperts->>ExpertBinding: Bind remaining prefill rows as A4
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The feature is opt-in and the remaining issues are minor. A malformed B12X_W4A16_A4_PREFILL_MIN_TOKENS value could raise an error during the forward pass instead of leaving the feature off. With sequence-parallel MoE, some prefill rows may also miss the A4 speedup. Both are worth fixing but do not block merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change is opt-in and retains the existing execution path in several cases. The main uncertainty is whether its decode-preservation guarantee holds across supported batching configurations. No new unauthorized-access path was established, but incomplete failure and deployment coverage prevents a minimal-risk assessment. Retained concerns
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- Around line 262-271: Update the decode-row detection around query_start_loc to
derive the maximum query length from the speculative configuration instead of
hard-coding 4, so supported speculative token counts are classified correctly.
Also remove the break that limits detection to the first attention metadata
entry, or otherwise ensure all relevant entries are checked consistently. If
this path is intentionally restricted to MTP3, document that restriction at the
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- Around line 231-232: Update _w4a16_a4_prefill_min_tokens to safely parse the
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| def _w4a16_a4_prefill_min_tokens() -> int: | ||
| return max(int(os.environ.get("B12X_W4A16_A4_PREFILL_MIN_TOKENS", "0") or 0), 0) |
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Handle a non-integer B12X_W4A16_A4_PREFILL_MIN_TOKENS value.
int() raises ValueError for a value such as 1.5k or true. The function runs inside apply on every MoE call and inside _prepare_experts. A typo in the environment variable therefore crashes the forward pass instead of disabling the opt-in. It also re-reads and re-parses os.environ on every call in the hot path.
Parse the value once with a safe fallback and log a warning on bad input.
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+@functools.cache
def _w4a16_a4_prefill_min_tokens() -> int:
- return max(int(os.environ.get("B12X_W4A16_A4_PREFILL_MIN_TOKENS", "0") or 0), 0)
+ raw = os.environ.get("B12X_W4A16_A4_PREFILL_MIN_TOKENS", "0") or "0"
+ try:
+ return max(int(raw), 0)
+ except ValueError:
+ logger.warning(
+ "Ignoring invalid B12X_W4A16_A4_PREFILL_MIN_TOKENS=%r", raw
+ )
+ return 0If you cache the result, the tests must call b12x._w4a16_a4_prefill_min_tokens.cache_clear() after each monkeypatch.setenv. Add import functools to the file.
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Update _w4a16_a4_prefill_min_tokens to safely parse the environment value, warn
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| if isinstance(metadata, dict): | ||
| for value in metadata.values(): | ||
| starts = getattr(value, "query_start_loc", None) | ||
| if isinstance(starts, torch.Tensor) and hasattr(value, "num_actual_tokens"): | ||
| bounds = starts.tolist() | ||
| for lo, hi in zip(bounds, bounds[1:]): | ||
| if not 0 < hi - lo <= 4: | ||
| break | ||
| rows = hi | ||
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The decode-row count reads only the first attention metadata entry.
The loop breaks after the first metadata value that has query_start_loc. This is correct only if all layers share the same batch layout. The tolerance hi - lo <= 4 is also hard-coded for 1+3 MTP tokens. With a different num_speculative_tokens, speculative decode rows with a longer query length count as prefill rows, so they run on the A4 path. Derive the limit from the speculative config, or document the MTP3 restriction at the environment variable.
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Update the decode-row detection around query_start_loc to derive the maximum
query length from the speculative configuration instead of hard-coding 4, so
supported speculative token counts are classified correctly. Also remove the
break that limits detection to the first attention metadata entry, or otherwise
ensure all relevant entries are checked consistently. If this path is
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W4A16_NVFP4 experts store no input scales (GLM-5.3-Flash keeps its MTP layer's routed experts weight-only), so the registered parameters kept whatever torch.empty returned. With B12X_W4A16_A4_PREFILL_MIN_TOKENS set, the b12x MoE takes positive finite input scales for calibrated ones, and the draft layer could run its prefill with NVFP4 activations under a garbage global scale (5.2e-32 in a GLM Spark TP2 run). Zero reads as absent: the existing guard keeps such layers on W4A16. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit d7af3ad)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit dbece92)
With B12X_W4A16_A4_PREFILL_MIN_TOKENS set, the decode rows of a step run W4A16 and its prefill rows run A4, whatever the call size (b12x bind(a4_prefill=...)). Before, prefill rows took A4 only when the call had at least the threshold's tokens, so a prompt's precision depended on how the scheduler chunked and batched it. A captured CUDA graph keeps W4A16 for all its rows, and layers without activation scales (the MTP draft layer) are not split at all. A GDN/KDA layer counts prefills on the host, so a decode-only step finds its decode rows without a device read; steps with prefill rows read query_start_loc once, as before. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> (cherry picked from commit df3d983)
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- Around line 265-283: Update _num_leading_decode_tokens so its cached decode
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| prefills = [ | ||
| value.num_prefills | ||
| for value in metadata.values() | ||
| if hasattr(value, "num_spec_decode_tokens") | ||
| ] | ||
| if prefills and not any(prefills): | ||
| rows = tokens | ||
| else: | ||
| for value in metadata.values(): | ||
| starts = getattr(value, "query_start_loc", None) | ||
| if isinstance(starts, torch.Tensor) and hasattr( | ||
| value, "num_actual_tokens" | ||
| ): | ||
| bounds = starts.tolist() | ||
| for lo, hi in zip(bounds, bounds[1:]): | ||
| if not 0 < hi - lo <= 4: | ||
| break | ||
| rows = hi | ||
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Translate the decode-row boundary to each sequence-parallel shard.
When a mixed batch uses sequence-parallel MoE with the B12x W4A16/A4 path, _num_leading_decode_tokens caches the full-batch decode prefix from query_start_loc. Qwen3Next chunks hidden states by TP rank, then passes rank-local rows to the MoE. On nonzero ranks, min(cached_rows, tokens) can classify prefill rows as decode, so those rows stay W4A16 instead of using A4. Compute the overlap between the decode prefix and each rank’s padded chunk before splitting, or disable this split for sequence-parallel calls.
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Review comment at @vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/b12x.py around lines 265
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Update _num_leading_decode_tokens so its cached decode prefix is translated to
each sequence-parallel rank’s padded chunk before it determines decode rows,
preventing prefill rows on nonzero ranks from being classified as decode;
alternatively, disable this split for sequence-parallel calls.
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[KK] b12x MoE: opt-in NVFP4-activation prefill for W4A16 experts, decode rows stay W4A16
Canonical twin of #970 (merged into the Karmic beta as
3c6c8e44), the same commits ondev/karmic-kraken; the only conflict was the import block. It needs the b12x A4 prefill onmaster: local-inference-lab/b12x#474 (twin of b12x#472); without itB12X_W4A16_A4_PREFILL_MIN_TOKENShas no effect and nothing changes.With
B12X_W4A16_A4_PREFILL_MIN_TOKENSset, this PR:1/w13_input_scalereduced to the smallest global scale,1/w2_input_scaleper expert); layers without valid scales stay W4A16 only;Evidence (Karmic beta, GLM-5.3-Flash stored QAD CSF checkpoint, TP2/DCP2 MTP3, 2x RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q, threshold 1536): prefill 8K/32K 7490/7728 -> 9528/9784 tok/s (+27%), decode unchanged; needle-checksum near misses 0.53% (W4A16) vs 1.75% (A4).
Tests:
tests/kernels/moe/test_b12x_a4_prefill.py10 passed (this branch'sb12x.pyin the beta image, CPU); ruff clean. The release fragment is byte-identical to the beta one, so a later canonical-to-beta sync does not touch a published fragment.Also carries #976 (merged into the Karmic beta as
be03c271), cherry-picked unchanged with its fragment:ModelOptNvFp4FusedMoEnow zero-initializesw13_input_scale/w2_input_scale. W4A16_NVFP4 layers such as GLM-5.3's MTP experts store no input scales, so they kept uninitialized memory, and a positive garbage value enabled this A4 prefill for the draft layer with a meaningless global scale (5.2e-32 in a GLM Spark TP2 run). Zero reads as absent and the guard keeps those layers on W4A16.tests/quantization/test_modelopt.py::test_modelopt_nvfp4_moe_input_scales_start_at_zerofails without the change and passes with it (beta image, one RTX PRO 6000).Also carries #977 (merged into the Karmic beta as
ad3743e3), cherry-picked unchanged with its fragment: the A4 prefill is chosen by row type, so decode and MTP verification rows run W4A16 and prefill rows run A4, whatever the step size; captured CUDA graphs stay W4A16. It needs b12x#476 (in the master twin b12x#474). glm53-tp2: a 1,154-token prompt prefills at 6,498 instead of 5,868 tok/s, 8K/32K prefill and decode are unchanged, needle-checksum 492/492/490 vs 490/492/497.tests/kernels/moe/test_b12x_a4_prefill.py15 passed.AI-assisted (Claude Code); reviewed and run by the submitter.
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