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[Quantization][MoE] Route compressed-tensors W4A8-INT MoE to WNA16 Marlin on CUDA - #58326
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Purpose
Fix
NotImplementedError: W4A8 Int8 MoE is only supported on CPU platformswhenserving a compressed-tensors checkpoint whose MoE experts are quantized
INT4-weight / INT8-dynamic-activation on CUDA.
CUDA has no native W4A8-INT MoE kernel: such layers currently reach
CompressedTensorsW4A8Int8MoEMethod, whose backend oracleselect_w4a8_int8_moe_backendis CPU-only and raises on CUDA.This PR routes those layers to
CompressedTensorsWNA16MoEMethodon CUDA: theINT4 weights run on the existing WNA16 Marlin MoE kernel, which quantizes
activations to INT8 per token at runtime. No new kernel is added — it is a
dispatch change inside the existing
_is_dynamic_token_w4a8_intbranch, so theCPU path is untouched.
INT8 activation quantization is opt-in and requires
VLLM_MARLIN_INPUT_DTYPE=int8. When that variable is unset the same weights runas W4A16, i.e. existing WNA16 behavior is unchanged.
This is not a duplicate: no open PR routes compressed-tensors W4A8-INT MoE to
WNA16 on CUDA; existing W4A8 work covers FP8 (
CompressedTensorsW4A8Fp8MoEMethod)and the CPU path only.
Test Plan
VLLM_MARLIN_INPUT_DTYPEunset → CUDA loads the layer as WNA16/W4A16; noNotImplementedError.VLLM_MARLIN_INPUT_DTYPE=int8→ same layer loads as WNA16 with INT8activations (info log line above appears once).
current_platformnon-CUDA) selectsCompressedTensorsW4A8Int8MoEMethod.