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[Bugfix][Quantization] Fix Gemma4 AutoRound serving gaps on top of GPTQMarlin row groups#39460
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Intel/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-int4-AutoRound wouldn't load after the row-parallel group fix. I traced it to three separate issues — all in the same area, so I kept them in one PR instead of splitting.

This is the same branch as the original ceil-division fix, not a new competing PR.

scales/qzeros slicing was wrong when a TP shard starts in the middle of a quant group — global group offset was missing. GateLinear assumed routing weights are always unquantized bf16/fp32, which is not true for AutoRound, took me a while to find this. MoeWNA16 had hard assert on SiLU but Gemma4 MoE uses GELU — the fused path actually handles it fine already, just needed to remove the assert.

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pytest -v tests/quantization/test_gptq_marlin.py

Manual load and short text generation with Intel/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-int4-AutoRound. Also tested multimodal input since the model supports it.

Test Result

All test_gptq_marlin.py tests pass. Model loads and generates correctly.

Used Codex and Claude Code for implementation assistance. I reviewed all changed lines and ran the tests myself.


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@lesj0610 lesj0610 force-pushed the lesj/gptq-marlin-ceil-groups branch from 0a6c353 to 1f26814 Compare April 9, 2026 22:42
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This pull request replaces integer division with ceiling division when calculating quantization scale and zero-point sizes in the GPTQ Marlin implementation, ensuring correct behavior for input sizes that are not multiples of the group size. A new test case is included to verify the fix. Feedback suggests parameterizing the test to cover both desc_act configurations, ensuring that both code paths modified in the PR are properly validated.

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import torch

import vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization.gptq_marlin as gptq_marlin_mod
import vllm.model_executor.parameter as parameter_mod
from vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization.gptq_marlin import (
GPTQMarlinConfig,
GPTQMarlinLinearMethod,
)
from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.weight_utils import default_weight_loader


class _DummyKernel:
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
pass

def process_weights_after_loading(self, layer):
return None

def apply_weights(self, layer, x, bias):
raise NotImplementedError


def test_gptq_marlin_create_weights_uses_ceil_groups_for_row_parallel(
monkeypatch,
):
monkeypatch.setattr(
gptq_marlin_mod, "verify_marlin_supported", lambda **kwargs: None
)
monkeypatch.setattr(
gptq_marlin_mod, "choose_mp_linear_kernel", lambda _: _DummyKernel
)
monkeypatch.setattr(parameter_mod, "get_tensor_model_parallel_rank", lambda: 0)
monkeypatch.setattr(parameter_mod, "get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size", lambda: 1)

config = GPTQMarlinConfig(
weight_bits=4,
group_size=128,
desc_act=False,
is_sym=True,
lm_head_quantized=False,
dynamic={},
full_config={},
)
method = GPTQMarlinLinearMethod(config)
layer = torch.nn.Module()

method.create_weights(
layer=layer,
input_size_per_partition=2112,
output_partition_sizes=[2816],
input_size=4224,
output_size=2816,
params_dtype=torch.float16,
weight_loader=default_weight_loader,
)

assert layer.scales.shape == (17, 2816)
assert layer.qzeros.shape == (17, 352)
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This test is great for verifying the bug fix. To make it more robust and cover all the changes in create_weights, I'd suggest parameterizing it to test both desc_act=True and desc_act=False cases. This ensures that the ceiling division logic is correct for both code paths that were modified, preventing potential regressions.

import pytest
import torch

import vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization.gptq_marlin as gptq_marlin_mod
import vllm.model_executor.parameter as parameter_mod
from vllm.model_executor.layers.quantization.gptq_marlin import (
    GPTQMarlinConfig,
    GPTQMarlinLinearMethod,
)
from vllm.model_executor.model_loader.weight_utils import default_weight_loader
from vllm.utils.math_utils import cdiv


class _DummyKernel:

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        pass

    def process_weights_after_loading(self, layer):
        return None

    def apply_weights(self, layer, x, bias):
        raise NotImplementedError


@pytest.mark.parametrize("desc_act", [False, True])
def test_gptq_marlin_create_weights_uses_ceil_groups_for_row_parallel(
    monkeypatch,
    desc_act,
):
    monkeypatch.setattr(gptq_marlin_mod, "verify_marlin_supported",
                        lambda **kwargs: None)
    monkeypatch.setattr(gptq_marlin_mod, "choose_mp_linear_kernel",
                        lambda _: _DummyKernel)
    monkeypatch.setattr(parameter_mod, "get_tensor_model_parallel_rank", lambda: 0)
    monkeypatch.setattr(parameter_mod, "get_tensor_model_parallel_world_size",
                        lambda: 1)

    input_size_per_partition = 2112
    output_partition_sizes = [2816]
    input_size = 4224
    output_size = 2816
    group_size = 128
    weight_bits = 4

    config = GPTQMarlinConfig(
        weight_bits=weight_bits,
        group_size=group_size,
        desc_act=desc_act,
        is_sym=True,
        lm_head_quantized=False,
        dynamic={},
        full_config={},
    )
    method = GPTQMarlinLinearMethod(config)
    layer = torch.nn.Module()

    method.create_weights(
        layer=layer,
        input_size_per_partition=input_size_per_partition,
        output_partition_sizes=output_partition_sizes,
        input_size=input_size,
        output_size=output_size,
        params_dtype=torch.float16,
        weight_loader=default_weight_loader,
    )

    # In a row-parallel linear, if desc_act is True, scales are repeated on all
    # ranks and sized based on the full input_size. Otherwise, they are sharded
    # and sized based on input_size_per_partition.
    if desc_act:
        expected_groups = cdiv(input_size, group_size)
    else:
        expected_groups = cdiv(input_size_per_partition, group_size)

    assert layer.scales.shape == (expected_groups, output_size)
    assert layer.qzeros.shape == (expected_groups,
                                  output_size // (32 // weight_bits))

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fixed a bit later in the follow-up commit.

i parameterized that test to cover both desc_act=False and desc_act=True, and also switched the desc_act=True case to a non-divisible shape so it actually exercises the ceil path.

@lesj0610 lesj0610 force-pushed the lesj/gptq-marlin-ceil-groups branch from 34a6563 to 7eb75fb Compare April 10, 2026 13:42
@lesj0610 lesj0610 changed the title [Bugfix][Quantization] Fix GPTQMarlin group sizing for row-parallel layers [Bugfix][Quantization] Fix Gemma4 AutoRound serving gaps on top of GPTQMarlin row groups Apr 11, 2026
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Hi @mgoin @kylesayrs could you please take a look when you have time? Thanks!

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lesj0610 commented Apr 17, 2026

plz review it.

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closing this in favor of #40281. the newer pr keeps the gemma4 core scope together on latest main and drops the extra side scope.

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