[ROCm][Bugfix] Re-tag AITER MoE weights as preshuffled after replace_parameter

[maeehart]

Summary

In Fp8MoEMethod, Mxfp4MoEMethod, GptOssMxfp4MoEMethod, and UnquantizedFusedMoEMethod, the AITER MoE backends call rocm_aiter_ops.shuffle_weights() (FP8 / unquantized via aiter.ops.shuffle.shuffle_weight) or rocm_aiter_ops.shuffle_weight_a16w4() (MXFP4 BF16) to lay the MoE weights out for AITER's tuned 2-stage CK kernels.

The follow-up replace_parameter(layer, "w13_weight", ...) calls then wrap the shuffled tensors in fresh nn.Parameter instances, which do not propagate the custom is_shuffled = True Python attribute that the shuffle helper attaches to the inner tensor. As a result, AITER's runtime kernel selection reads getattr(layer.w13_weight, "is_shuffled", False) -> False, falls back to the non-tuned preshuffle-off (Nswizzle0) path, and emits

[aiter] [fused_moe] tuned config found for (...) but is_shuffled=False.
Tuned kernels are optimized for preshuffled weights (preshuffle_on).
Running with preshuffle_off may produce incorrect results.

once per MoE layer per worker. The Quark MoE method already handles this correctly (vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/quark/quark_moe.py:1286-1287, which sets layer.w{13,2}_weight.is_shuffled = True after the equivalent shuffle_weights() + replace_parameter).

This PR re-tags the layer Parameters explicitly after the replace_parameter calls in the four affected MoE methods, bringing them in line with the Quark path.

Files changed

• vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/fp8.py — Fp8MoEMethod (1 site)
• vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/mxfp4.py — GptOssMxfp4MoEMethod._setup_kernel and Mxfp4MoEMethod._setup_kernel (2 sites; both use the identical _setup_kernel block, so the patch is the same)
• vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/unquantized_fused_moe_method.py — UnquantizedFusedMoEMethod._setup_kernel (1 site)

AITER_MXFP4_FP8 is intentionally excluded: that backend uses Triton kernels (not AITER's 2-stage CK kernels) and does not go through the AITER is_shuffled check at runtime. The patch gates on Mxfp4MoeBackend.AITER_MXFP4_BF16 specifically.

Root cause walk-through (FP8 case, others analogous)

1. vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/oracle/fp8.py:445:

   elif fp8_backend == Fp8MoeBackend.AITER:
       w13, w2 = rocm_aiter_ops.shuffle_weights(w13, w2)

   shuffle_weights() returns tensors with tensor.is_shuffled = True (set in aiter/ops/shuffle.py).
2. vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/fp8.py:765:

   replace_parameter(layer, "w13_weight", w13)
   replace_parameter(layer, "w2_weight", w2)

   replace_parameter wraps the data in nn.Parameter(w13, requires_grad=False). The new Parameter is a separate Python object; Parameter.is_shuffled raises AttributeError, so getattr(..., False) -> False.
3. At runtime, AITER's dispatcher (aiter/fused_moe.py) does

   is_shuffled = getattr(w1, "is_shuffled", False)
   ...
   if not is_shuffled and not run_1stage:
       logger.warning(f"[fused_moe] tuned config found for {keys} but is_shuffled=False ...")

   The data IS in the preshuffled layout (we ran the shuffle in step 1), but AITER doesn't know that, so it picks the non-tuned Nswizzle0 kernel variant.

Test plan

Empirical verification on DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp w8a8 block-scale FP8 running with --tensor-parallel-size 4 on MI355X:

	warnings per process	tuned 2-stage kernel selected
before	24 (is_shuffled=False ... may produce incorrect results)	Nswizzle0 (preshuffle-off fallback)
after	0	Nswizzle1 (preshuffle-on, from aiter/configs/model_configs/a8w8_blockscale_tuned_fmoe_ds_v3.csv)

lm_eval gsm8k (num_concurrent=1, max_gen_toks=8192, --limit 24) flexible-extract: 0.9583 (no regression vs. unpatched).

For MXFP4 / unquantized, the patch is structurally identical and verified by code review against the Quark precedent (quark_moe.py:1286-1287); empirical confirmation will follow as we run MXFP4-BF16 / unquantized MoE workloads through the same harness.

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This pull request ensures that the is_shuffled attribute is correctly propagated to MoE weights when using AITER backends in unquantized, FP8, and MXFP4 quantization layers. This fix prevents the AITER kernel dispatcher from falling back to non-tuned paths due to the attribute being lost during parameter replacement. I have no feedback to provide.

[dllehr-amd]

Looks good, but we don't need the large comments for a simple fix

[tjtanaa]

LGTM