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- Line 124: Update _sglang_refit_kind to inspect all compressed-tensors groups
before calling qat_modes_for_config: derive each group’s preset via
_group_schemes and _preset_of, return None when any preset is unsupported, and
otherwise preserve the existing mode computation.
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- Line 324: Remove the duplicate enforce_sglang_deep_gemm call and its import
from AsyncSGLangServer. In prepare_sglang_quantization, invoke
enforce_sglang_deep_gemm only when _sglang_refit_kind returns mxfp8 or mxfp4, or
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| if quantization_config.get("quant_method") != "compressed-tensors": | ||
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| modes = qat_modes_for_config(quantization_config) |
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Do not call qat_modes_for_config for unsupported native compressed-tensors groups.
When rollout.quantization is disabled, a native compressed-tensors config can still reach _sglang_refit_kind() during server launch and before every weight sync. If a config group matches no supported preset, _preset_of() returns None, and qat_modes_for_config() raises KeyError(None). Return None before calling qat_modes_for_config() when any group is unsupported.
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--- "a/verl/utils/sglang/sglang_quant_utils.py"
+++ "b/verl/utils/sglang/sglang_quant_utils.py"
@@ -121,7 +121,12 @@
if quantization_config.get("quant_method") != "compressed-tensors":
return None
- modes = qat_modes_for_config(quantization_config)
+ from verl.utils.qat.compressed_tensors import _group_schemes, _preset_of
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+ presets = {_preset_of(scheme) for scheme in _group_schemes(quantization_config)}
+ if None in presets:
+ return None
+ modes = qat_modes_for_config(quantization_config)
if "mxfp4_mxfp8" in modes:
raise ValueError("SGLang does not support MXFP8 dense linear layers with MXFP4 routed experts.")
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| modes = qat_modes_for_config(quantization_config) | |
| from verl.utils.qat.compressed_tensors import _group_schemes, _preset_of | |
| presets = {_preset_of(scheme) for scheme in _group_schemes(quantization_config)} | |
| if None in presets: | |
| return None | |
| modes = qat_modes_for_config(quantization_config) |
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Review comment at @verl/utils/sglang/sglang_quant_utils.py at line 124:
Update _sglang_refit_kind to inspect all compressed-tensors groups before
calling qat_modes_for_config: derive each group’s preset via _group_schemes and
_preset_of, return None when any preset is unsupported, and otherwise preserve
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| logger.info(f"Rollout compressed-tensors quantization_config: {quantization_config}") | ||
| logger.info(f"Rollout quantization_config: {quantization_config}") | ||
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Limit DeepGEMM enforcement to supported quantization formats.
quantization_config can come from the model's native AWQ, GPTQ, or INT8 configuration even when rollout quantization is disabled. The unconditional call applies the FP8-only DeepGEMM policy to those configurations. It can reject a configured backend or replace SGLang's default backend selection.
Remove the duplicate call and gate the preparation call to MXFP8, MXFP4, or explicit FP8/MXFP8 methods.
🐛 Suggested fix
--- a/verl/workers/rollout/sglang_rollout/async_sglang_server.py
+++ b/verl/workers/rollout/sglang_rollout/async_sglang_server.py
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from verl.utils.sglang.sglang_quant_utils import (
- enforce_sglang_deep_gemm,
prepare_sglang_quantization,
resolve_sglang_quantization_config,
uses_sglang_refit_loader,
)
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- enforce_sglang_deep_gemm(quantization_config, engine_kwargs)
infer_tp = self.config.tensor_model_parallel_size * self.config.data_parallel_size--- a/verl/utils/sglang/sglang_quant_utils.py
+++ b/verl/utils/sglang/sglang_quant_utils.py
@@
"""Prepare one effective rollout config for SGLang launch and online refit."""
refit_kind = _sglang_refit_kind(quantization_config)
- enforce_sglang_deep_gemm(quantization_config, engine_kwargs)
+ if refit_kind in ("mxfp8", "mxfp4") or quantization_config.get("quant_method") in ("fp8", "mxfp8"):
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Remove the duplicate enforce_sglang_deep_gemm call and its import from
AsyncSGLangServer. In prepare_sglang_quantization, invoke
enforce_sglang_deep_gemm only when _sglang_refit_kind returns mxfp8 or mxfp4, or
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- Line 169: Restrict the engine_kwargs assignment for option to configurations
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| requested = engine_kwargs.get(option) | ||
| if requested not in (None, "auto", "deep_gemm"): | ||
| raise ValueError(f"SGLang FP8/MXFP8/MXFP4 quantization requires {option}=deep_gemm; got {requested!r}") | ||
| engine_kwargs[option] = backend |
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Restrict DeepGEMM enforcement to supported quantization formats.
This assignment runs for every non-None configuration that is not detected as NVFP4. The rollout path can pass unrelated native quantization configurations here, so this code can force deep_gemm or reject a valid user-selected backend. Gate the assignment with an explicit predicate for supported FP8/MXFP8/MXFP4 formats, and preserve all other engine settings. (github.com)
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Restrict the engine_kwargs assignment for option to configurations explicitly
identified as supported FP8, MXFP8, or MXFP4 formats, rather than every non-None
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NVFP4_PER_TOKEN is vLLM-only; reject it for other rollouts now that SGLang refits NVFP4. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
### What does this PR do? Follow up [#8306](#8306) and [#8287](#8287), standardize supported vLLM FP8, MXFP8, and MXFP4 Linear/MoE rollout kernels on DeepGEMM. This aligns vLLM with the SGLang backend policy in #8306 and prepares for using the same kernels in training and inference, reducing differences in activation quantization, scale layouts, and fused-MoE epilogues. The implementation: - resolves the effective native or rollout-override quantization configuration before engine startup and requests `linear_backend=deep_gemm` and `moe_backend=deep_gemm` for non-NVFP4 low-precision rollouts; - routes compressed-tensors MXFP4 experts through vLLM's DeepGEMM FP4 backend with dynamic FP8 group-128 activations; - preserves bucketed in-place refit by replaying DeepGEMM post-processing into CUDA-graph-captured storage; - keeps NVFP4 on its validated FlashInfer CUTLASS W4A4 path because vLLM has no DeepGEMM NVFP4 backend; - allows `VERL_ROLLOUT_USE_DEEP_GEMM=0` to restore vLLM's automatic backend selection for CI or unsupported environments; - disables DeepGEMM E8M0 scale packing for Hopper FP8 block configurations with FP32 checkpoint scales, preserving the trainer-exported scale values; - documents the backend matrix, exceptions, and Blackwell mismatch measurements. vLLM 0.29 does not provide a DeepGEMM MXFP8 Linear kernel. verl still requests DeepGEMM consistently, but that one path falls back to vLLM's automatic selection (FlashInfer CuteDSL on Blackwell); MXFP8 MoE uses DeepGEMM. This is not a duplicate of [#7519](#7519), which focuses on MXFP8 training, consistency checks, and audits. It also differs from [#8293](#8293), which only keeps DeepSeek-V4 native MXFP4 `auto` backend selection refittable. This PR applies the backend policy to the unified low-precision vLLM rollout/refit path introduced by #8287. AI assistance was used to review the branch and prepare this PR description. The human submitter must review every changed line and confirm the validation results. ### Checklist Before Starting - [x] Search for similar PRs: [vLLM QAT DeepGEMM](https://github.com/verl-project/verl/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+vllm+qat+deepgemm) and [vLLM DeepGEMM](https://github.com/verl-project/verl/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+vllm+deepgemm). - [x] Format the PR title as `[{modules}] {type}: {description}`. ### Test ```bash uv run --frozen --extra test pre-commit run --all-files --show-diff-on-failure --color=always # all hooks passed uv run --frozen --extra test pytest -q \ tests/utils/test_vllm_mxfp4_restage_on_cpu.py \ tests/utils/test_vllm_fp8_restage_same_shape_on_cpu.py # 8 passed in 1.16s git diff --check main...HEAD # passed ``` Blackwell validation on Qwen3.5-35B-A3B with Megatron EP=8 and vLLM rollout TP=2: | Rollout | Backend | `k3_kl` without QAT | `k3_kl` with matching QAT | |---|---|---:|---:| | MXFP8 Linear + MoE | FlashInfer CuteDSL Linear + DeepGEMM MoE | 0.00387 | 0.00325 | | BF16 Linear + MXFP4 MoE | DeepGEMM MoE | 0.00790 | 0.00140 | | BF16 Linear + NVFP4 MoE | FlashInfer CUTLASS MoE | 0.00808 | 0.00722 | ### API and Usage Example No rollout configuration change is required. Existing low-precision presets request DeepGEMM automatically: ```yaml actor_rollout_ref: rollout: name: vllm quantization: linear: FP8_BLOCK moe: FP8_BLOCK ``` Set `VERL_ROLLOUT_USE_DEEP_GEMM=0` to use vLLM's automatic backend selection, for example on a CI runner without DeepGEMM support. ### Design & Code Changes - `verl/utils/vllm/vllm_quant_utils.py` - detects NVFP4 and FP32 block-scale configurations; - applies the DeepGEMM Linear/MoE backend policy before engine construction; - preserves FP32 block scales on Hopper. - `verl/utils/vllm/vllm_fp4_utils.py` - routes compressed-tensors MXFP4 experts to DeepGEMM with dynamic FP8 activations; - keeps staged checkpoint layouts and in-place post-processing compatible with the selected backend. - `verl/workers/rollout/vllm_rollout/vllm_async_server.py` - resolves the effective quantization configuration and applies the backend policy before building vLLM arguments. - `.github/workflows/e2e_ppo_trainer_megatron_vllm.yml` - opts the L20 FP8 smoke test out of DeepGEMM selection. - `docs/low_precision/qat.md` - records the unified backend policy, known exceptions, support matrix, and updated mismatch measurements. ### Checklist Before Submitting - [x] Read the [Contribute Guide](https://github.com/verl-project/verl/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md). - [x] Apply [pre-commit checks](https://github.com/verl-project/verl/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#code-linting-and-formatting): `uv run --frozen --extra test pre-commit run --all-files --show-diff-on-failure --color=always`. - [x] Add / Update [the documentation](https://github.com/verl-project/verl/tree/main/docs). - [ ] Add unit or end-to-end test coverage. No new focused test is added; existing refit tests pass, the vLLM FP8 E2E workflow is updated, and Blackwell measurements are reported above. - [ ] Once the PR is ready for CI, send a message in the [`ci-request` channel](https://verl-project.slack.com/archives/C091TCESWB1). This PR is not related to the `recipe` submodule.
### What does this PR do? Adds the **MXFP8 training recipe** (`fp8_recipe: mxfp8`, Blackwell) to verl's Megatron path, an end-to-end example and its documentation, `docs/low_precision/mxfp8.md`. Together with what main already has, #8287 (the trainer quantizes the rollout weights with compressed-tensors) and #8306 (SGLang MXFP8 refit), this gives an MXFP8 RL recipe: MXFP8 GEMMs in training through Transformer Engine (TE), and an MXFP8 rollout on vLLM or SGLang. - **Training.** `fp8_recipe: mxfp8` already flows through `override_transformer_config`. The one functional gap was THD sequence padding: - TE's MXFP8 quantizer needs both GEMM dimensions divisible by 32, and the wgrad scale blocks run along the token dimension. - So packed sequences are padded to `lcm(32, align)` per sequence under MXFP8, using Megatron-Core's own `get_fp8_align_size` (the mapping it applies to its MoE FP8 padding). - Every other recipe keeps its previous alignment (`lcm(16, align)`). - **QAT combined with a TE FP8 recipe is rejected** at engine init: QAT fake-quantizes weights inside BF16 GEMMs, while an FP8 recipe switches the GEMMs themselves to FP8. - **Examples**, each with `PRECISION=mxfp8` (MXFP8 end to end) or `PRECISION=bf16` (the same job as the BF16 baseline): - `examples/mxfp8/run_qwen3_8b_megatron.sh`: GRPO on Qwen3-8B with GSM8K; the defaults fit one B200. - `examples/mxfp8/run_qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron.sh`: GRPO on Qwen3-30B-A3B (MoE) with DAPO-Math-17k on one 4×B200 node, experts included. - **Docs.** `docs/low_precision/mxfp8.md` (new, in the Low Precision toctree): the configuration, which kernels the vLLM and SGLang rollouts use, the examples with their results, and earlier runs on DAPO-Math-17k. Nothing changes unless an FP8 recipe is configured. This was part 1 of #7519's split; as the maintainers asked, it now stands alone (the consolidated #8314 was closed in favor of it). Making the THD packing helpers recipe-agnostic, as suggested in the review, follows in a separate PR. ### Checklist Before Starting - [x] Search for similar PRs: https://github.com/verl-project/verl/pulls?q=is%3Apr+mxfp8. No other open PR adds MXFP8 training on the Megatron path. #7971 (NVFP4 training, open) changes the same THD padding code for FP4; whichever lands second rebases. - [x] PR title formatted as `[megatron] feat: ...` ### Test ```bash python -m pytest tests/utils/test_megatron_fp8_padding_on_cpu.py tests/utils/test_mxfp8_ignored_layers_on_cpu.py -q # 11 passed (with compressed-tensors 0.17.0; without it 2 are skipped) # existing tests of the paths this PR touches: python -m pytest tests/utils/test_megatron_bshd_preprocess.py tests/utils/test_config_router_replay_on_cpu.py \ tests/utils/test_modelopt_mxfp8_on_cpu.py tests/workers/engine/megatron/test_router_replay_utils_on_cpu.py \ tests/utils/megatron/test_router_replay_model_walk_on_cpu.py -q # 94 passed, 1 skipped, 1 failed python -m pytest tests/models/test_model_forward_fused.py -q # 6 passed, 3 failed ``` - **The failure in the second set**, `test_modelopt_mxfp8_on_cpu.py::test_nvfp4_qat_uses_experts_only_export_compatible_backends`, fails the same way on main (954bd28) in the same environment (ModelOpt 0.46.0). - **The three failures in `test_model_forward_fused.py`** check the installed Megatron-Core's forward signature and fail the same way on main in this environment. `test_engine_hook_context_and_current_thd_arguments` passes; it now expects the `fp8_recipe` THD argument. - **Collection order:** `test_modelopt_mxfp8_on_cpu.py` has to be collected before `test_router_replay_model_walk_on_cpu.py`, which installs a `MagicMock` in `sys.modules` for Megatron modules at import. `pre-commit run` passes on all changed files. ### End-to-end results on B200 **The example itself**, one B200, verl's locked environment (vLLM 0.29.0, TE 2.16.1, Megatron-Core 0.19.2, Megatron-Bridge 0.6.2, compressed-tensors 0.17.0), `TOTAL_TRAINING_STEPS=10`, the GSM8K test set (1,319 problems, greedy) at steps 0, 5 and 10: | | GSM8K test accuracy (step 0 / 5 / 10) | training reward (step 1 → 10) | `rollout_corr/kl` | |---|---|---|---| | BF16 | 0.329 / 0.610 / 0.819 | 0.24 → 0.82 | 0.0006–0.0008 | | MXFP8 | 0.372 / 0.616 / 0.803 | 0.25 → 0.80 | 0.0063–0.0071 |  *Blue: BF16, vermillion: MXFP8 end to end.* wandb: [BF16](https://forge.coreweave.com/wandb/wengeezhang-bytedance/verl_grpo_gsm8k_mxfp8/runs/zodbg1pr), [MXFP8](https://forge.coreweave.com/wandb/wengeezhang-bytedance/verl_grpo_gsm8k_mxfp8/runs/cr5dk8fs). - No non-finite metric in either run. - Both are single runs of 10 steps, too few to resolve the 1.6-point gap at step 10 (21 of 1,319 problems). - FlashInfer was available to vLLM's workers, so vLLM picked FlashInfer CuTe-DSL for the MXFP8 dense GEMMs. The example run does not log the choice (verl starts the workers at `VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=WARN`); its step-0 accuracy equals, to every digit, that of the CuTe-DSL run below, which logged it. **The same hyper-parameters on each rollout kernel**, launched through our own script with `VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=INFO` (validation at steps 0 and 10): | rollout | dense GEMM kernel | GSM8K test accuracy (step 0 → 10) | `rollout_corr/kl` | |---|---|---|---| | vLLM 0.29.0, FlashInfer available | FlashInfer CuTe-DSL (MXFP8 weights and activations) | 0.372 → 0.806 | 0.0064–0.0073 | | vLLM 0.29.0, FlashInfer unavailable | Marlin (MXFP8 weights, BF16 activations) | 0.362 → 0.805 | 0.0041–0.0050 | | SGLang 0.5.20 | DeepGEMM, pinned by verl (MXFP8 weights and activations) | 0.356 → 0.830 | 0.0065–0.0071 | No non-finite metric in any run. Qwen3-8B is dense, so these runs exercise no MoE kernel. **Earlier runs on DAPO-Math-17k** (settings D and B of #7519, before its rebase on #8287: vLLM 0.24 served MXFP8 through ModelOpt, and FP8 blockwise through its own FP8 method; the training side is this PR's). wandb: [verl_mxfp8_b200](https://forge.coreweave.com/wandb/wengeezhang-bytedance/verl_mxfp8_b200). Qwen3-30B-A3B, the 30B example's hyper-parameters, one 4×B200 machine for every arm, 10 steps (mean of steps 1–10; "X/Y" is training precision X, rollout precision Y): | | BF16/BF16 | FP8-TW/BF16 | FP8-BW/FP8-BW | MXFP8/MXFP8 | |---|---|---|---|---| | step time (s) | 506 | 487 | 489 | 452 | | generation (s) | 134 | 133 | 115 | 102 | | `update_actor` (s) | 244 | 225 | 241 | 221 | | `rollout_corr/kl` | 0.0018 | 0.0058 | 0.0090 | 0.0045 |  - MXFP8 cuts the step time by 11% (generation −24%, `update_actor` −9%), with the lowest mismatch of the three low-precision arms. Ten steps do not show convergence. - The MXFP8 arm, rerun for 5 steps on the compressed-tensors path (#7519 rebuilt on #8287, vLLM 0.29, another 4×B200 machine), read `rollout_corr/kl` 0.0037–0.0040. The 30B example itself has not run on this branch. Qwen3-8B, 2×B200, 32 steps, every arm with an FP8 KV cache (which raises every arm's KL) and the MXFP8 rollout's `gate_up_proj` in BF16 (mean of steps 23–32): | | BF16/BF16 | FP8-TW/BF16 | MXFP8/MXFP8 | |---|---|---|---| | `rollout_corr/kl` | 0.0088 | 0.0297 | 0.0088 | | entropy | 0.220 | 0.083 | 0.338 | | step time (s) | 407 | 345 | 386 |  - MXFP8's mismatch stays at the BF16 level, while FP8-TW with a BF16 rollout drifts from 0.009 to 0.037 and its entropy nearly collapses (0.307 at step 1, 0.062 at step 32). Also from #7519 (GSM8K, 60 steps): held-out accuracy 0.9393 with MXFP8 vs. 0.9363 with BF16, and the `update_actor` cost per token cut by 43%. ### API and Usage Example No API change. ```yaml # Blackwell (SM100+), Megatron-Core >= 0.13, TE >= 2.1, Megatron-Bridge model path (default) actor_rollout_ref.actor.megatron.override_transformer_config: fp8: "e4m3" # or "hybrid" fp8_recipe: "mxfp8" # MXFP8 rollout on vLLM or SGLang actor_rollout_ref.rollout.quantization: linear: MXFP8 moe: MXFP8 ``` ```bash PRECISION=mxfp8 bash examples/mxfp8/run_qwen3_8b_megatron.sh # Qwen3-8B, GSM8K, one B200 PRECISION=mxfp8 bash examples/mxfp8/run_qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron.sh # Qwen3-30B-A3B, DAPO-Math-17k, 4×B200 # PRECISION=bf16 for the baselines ``` ### Design & Code Changes - `verl/models/mcore/util.py`: - `_compute_fp8_thd_align_size(align, fp8_recipe)` uses `get_fp8_align_size`; - `get_fp8_padding_options` replaces the padding decision repeated at each call site. - `model_forward.py`, `model_forward_fused.py`, `verl/utils/megatron/router_replay_utils.py`: pass `fp8_recipe` to every THD preprocess call. - `verl/workers/engine/megatron/transformer_impl.py`: QAT + TE FP8 rejected. - `examples/mxfp8/run_qwen3_8b_megatron.sh`, `run_qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron.sh` (new): the examples above. - `docs/low_precision/mxfp8.md` (new), listed in `docs/index.rst`. - Tests: - `test_megatron_fp8_padding_on_cpu.py`: alignment math and both THD preprocess paths; - `test_mxfp8_ignored_layers_on_cpu.py`: - the exporter's default ignore list keeps `lm_head`, the embedding (also under a VL model's `language_model` prefix) and the routers in BF16, but not `gate_up_proj`; - an MXFP8 export with a user ignore list leaves `lm_head` and the embedding in BF16; - `test_model_forward_fused.py`: the expected THD arguments include `fp8_recipe`. ### AI assistance disclosure Developed with AI assistance. I reviewed every changed line, ran the tests and the B200 runs above, and can defend the change end to end. ### Checklist Before Submitting - [x] Read the [Contribute Guide](https://github.com/verl-project/verl/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md). - [x] Apply [pre-commit checks](https://github.com/verl-project/verl/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#code-linting-and-formatting). - [x] Add / Update [the documentation](https://github.com/verl-project/verl/tree/main/docs): `docs/low_precision/mxfp8.md`. - [x] Add unit test(s): CPU tests above; B200 runs above. - [ ] Once your PR is ready for CI, send a message in the `ci-request` channel. --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
What does this PR do?
Follow up #8287, add SGLang online weight refit for MXFP8, routed-expert MXFP4, and routed-expert NVFP4 rollouts. The trainer exports pre-quantized checkpoint tensors, while a bucket-aware SGLang custom loader stages canonical checkpoint layouts and rebuilds backend-specific kernel layouts after the final sync bucket without replacing CUDA-graph-captured storage.
The implementation:
quant_method: mxfp8schema and exportsweight_scale_inv;linear=MXFP8, moe=MXFP4;delta_flushfor custom quantized refit because finalization requires the complete bucket sequence;This PR overlaps with #8130 on SGLang MXFP8 export and refit. The additional scope here is a unified refit lifecycle shared by MXFP8, MXFP4, and NVFP4, including FP4 checkpoint-layout staging, backend-specific in-place reconstruction, and Blackwell validation for all three formats. It also overlaps conceptually with #7971, but that PR implements native NVFP4 training and vLLM rollout; this PR adds the SGLang NVFP4 refit path.
AI assistance was used for implementation review, debugging, and preparation of this PR description. The human submitter must review every changed line and confirm the validation results before submission.
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The mismatch measurements below use Qwen3.5-35B-A3B with Megatron EP=8, SGLang rollout TP=2, Blackwell, and the default CUDA Graph configuration:
k3_klwithout QATk3_klwith matching QATLocal checks performed while preparing the branch:
The SGLang CPU test suite could not be completed in the current environment because importing
torchcodecfailed to resolvelibc10_cuda.so. The final branch currently does not add committed unit tests; reviewers should treat the Blackwell measurements above as the available validation and require focused CPU coverage if needed.API and Usage Example
All-MXFP8 rollout:
MXFP4 routed experts with BF16 dense layers:
NVFP4 routed experts with BF16 dense layers:
SGLang intentionally rejects
linear: MXFP8together withmoe: MXFP4. Use BF16 dense layers for SGLang MXFP4 rollout, or use vLLM for the mixed MXFP8-linear + MXFP4-MoE configuration.Design & Code Changes
verl/utils/sglang/sglang_quant_utils.pyverl/utils/sglang/sglang_fp8_utils.pyverl/utils/sglang/sglang_fp4_utils.pyverl/utils/qat/compressed_tensors.pyverl/workers/rollout/sglang_rollout/async_sglang_server.pyverl/workers/rollout/sglang_rollout/sglang_rollout.pydelta_flushwire format.docs/low_precision/qat.mdChecklist Before Submitting
pre-commit install && pre-commit run --all-files --show-diff-on-failure --color=always.ci-requestchannel.recipesubmodule.