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[Bugfix][ROCm][Model] Quantize GLM-5.3-Flash indexer query with platform fp8 dtype - #56607

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Purpose

fwht128_quant_fp8 hardcodes float8_e4m3fn for the GLM-5.3-Flash indexer query and a 448 absmax clamp inside the Triton kernel. The function is called unconditionally from Glm5NextAttention.forward — including on ROCm, where the query flows into rocm_fp8_mqa_logits:

  • On gfx942, AITER's flydsl fp8_mqa_logits kernel takes the convert_q_fn path for a float8_e4m3fn query and crashes at kernel emission:
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute '_CAPIPtr'
  File ".../aiter/ops/flydsl/kernels/mqa_logits/fp8_mqa_logits.py", line 242, in kernel
    row_a[mi][kk] = _fn_to_fnuz_i64(raw) if convert_q_fn else raw

Any request with chunked prefill (e.g. a 40K-token prompt) kills the worker and the engine crash-loops. Reproduced standalone: flydsl_fp8_mqa_logits with an FN-dtype query crashes at compile on gfx942.

  • The 448 clamp is the e4m3fn max; e4m3fnuz's max differs, so rows whose absmax lands above the fnuz max would encode NaN/inf even where the FN path compiles.

The K-cache side already quantizes with current_platform.fp8_dtype() (indexer_k_quant_and_cache_triton IS_FNUZ; the AMD kpool ops module does the same via its FP8_DTYPE constant) — the query side is the odd one out.

Changes

  • fwht128_quant_fp8 allocates the output with current_platform.fp8_dtype().
  • The kernel takes the matching max as an FP8_MAX constexpr instead of the hardcoded 448.
  • CUDA behavior unchanged (fp8_dtype() is e4m3fn there).

Duplicate-work check: open GLM-5.3-Flash PRs (#55358 refactor, #56176 MXFP4, #55423 DFlash2) do not touch the fp8 dtype or clamp. File-level overlap with #55358 is a single import line — that PR relocates sparse_attn_indexer_kpool (the layer), while this patch touches only vllm/models/glm5next/nvidia/ops/kpool_compress.py (the ops module #55358 moves an import of, not the file itself).

Test Plan

pytest tests/kernels/test_fwht128_quant_fp8_platform_dtype.py -v

Tests 1-2 are CPU-only (dtype allocation spy + kernel source contract). Test 3 (numeric Hadamard comparison) runs where Triton is active.

Test Result

CPU-only tests: 2 passed locally; negative control (fix stashed): test_fwht_kernel_clamp_uses_parameterized_max fails on the hardcoded 448.

On 8× MI308X (gfx942, vllm/vllm-openai-rocm:nightly + this patch), all three pass:

test_fwht_allocates_platform_fp8_dtype PASSED
test_fwht_kernel_clamp_uses_parameterized_max PASSED
test_fwht128_quant_fp8_matches_torch_reference PASSED  (3 magnitudes × 257 rows)
======================= 3 passed, 15 warnings in 34.30s ========================

The numeric test asserts (a) output dtype = platform fp8, (b) scales exactly match the ue8m0 power-of-two formula, (c) dequantized values recover the Hadamard reference within the fp8 relative-step bound (≤ 0.07), (d) no NaN and range ≤ fp8 max — a pre-fix e4m3fn allocation on ROCm fails (a) and a pre-fix 448 clamp violates (d) for fnuz.

End-to-end on 8× MI308X, GLM-5.3-Flash TP8 + MTP-3: pre-fix, every ≥16K-token request crashes the worker; post-fix, 40K/65K/128K long-context probes complete cleanly with correct output.

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…orm fp8 dtype

fwht128_quant_fp8 hardcodes float8_e4m3fn for the indexer query and a 448
absmax clamp inside the Triton kernel. The function is called
unconditionally from Glm5NextAttention.forward, including on ROCm, where
the query flows into rocm_fp8_mqa_logits:

- On gfx942 the AITER flydsl fp8_mqa_logits kernel takes the
  convert_q_fn path for a float8_e4m3fn query and crashes at kernel
  emission:

      AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute '_CAPIPtr'
      (aiter/ops/flydsl/kernels/mqa_logits/fp8_mqa_logits.py, _fn_to_fnuz_i64)

  Any GLM-5.3-Flash request with chunked prefill (e.g. 40K-token prompts)
  kills the worker; the engine crash-loops.

- Even where the FN path would compile, 448 is the e4m3fn max; the
  e4m3fnuz max differs, so rows whose absmax lands above the fnuz max
  would encode NaN/inf.

The K cache side already quantizes with current_platform.fp8_dtype()
(indexer_k_quant_and_cache_triton IS_FNUZ; the AMD kpool ops module does
the same via its FP8_DTYPE constant) — the query side is the odd one out.

Fix: derive the output dtype from current_platform.fp8_dtype() and pass
the matching max as an FP8_MAX constexpr to the kernel. CUDA behavior is
unchanged (fp8_dtype() is e4m3fn there); the e4m3fnuz path gets correct
dtype and clamp bounds.

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: HzTTT <767067749@qq.com>

Note on the max convention: the K-side quant kernel (indexer_k_quant_and_cache
IS_FNUZ branch) clamps to the deepgemm-conventional 224; this Q-side fix
follows the sibling AMD ops module, which derives torch.finfo(fp8_dtype).max
(240 on current torch for e4m3fnuz). Each side applies its own scale, so the
two constants are independent; matching the AMD module keeps the two
fwht call sites identical.

Signed-off-by: HzTTT <767067749@qq.com>
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HzTTT force-pushed the bugfix/glm5next-fwht-fp8-platform-dtype branch from 1e396ee to 38548e0 Compare September 12, 2026 13:24
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Hi @tjtanaa @dllehr-amd — another ROCm GLM-5.3-Flash fix: fwht128_quant_fp8 hardcoded float8_e4m3fn + a 448 clamp, which crashes AITER's flydsl fp8_mqa_logits on gfx942 for any chunked-prefill request (convert_q_fn path). The patch routes the dtype through current_platform.fp8_dtype() and parameterizes the clamp as FP8_MAX: tl.constexpr — same shape as the existing AMD ops module (vllm/models/glm5next/amd/ops/kpool_compress.py). Verified end-to-end on 8× MI308X (40K/65K/128K prompts + MTP-3). Would appreciate your review.

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I'm encountering the same problem and wanted to ask if you have a pre-released Docker image. I'm using GPUStack for deployment, but I don't know how to package a vllm-openai-rocm image from scratch.

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