### What this PR does / why we need it?
**Problem Description:**
The existing implementation for the w4a8-dynamic linear method only
supports the old quantization format from msmodelslim. When attempting
to load models quantized with the new version, vLLM encounters errors
due to mismatched tensor shapes and unprocessed quantization parameters.
Relavant issues:
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/3192
- https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/3152
**Proposed Changes:**
1. Add support for w4a8 dynamic(new format) in
AscendW4A8DynamicLinearMethod and TorchairAscendW4A8DynamicLinearMethod
2. Add unit tests and e2e tests for w4a8 dynamic new and old format
models
<details>
<summary><b>details</b></summary>
1. **Support for new w4a8-dynamic format:**
* Detects quantization format by reading the "version" field in
quant_description to ensure backward compatibility.
* Handles the new pre-packed weight format (`2x int4` in an `int8`),
which has a halved dimension. It tells the vLLM loader how to unpack it
using `_packed_dim` and `_packed_factor`.
* Supports the new `scale_bias` parameter, setting its shape based on
the layer type, as required by msmodelslim. For api consistency and
future use, the `layer_type` parameter was also added to other
quantization methods.
* Updates the weight processing logic: new format weights are handled
with `.view(torch.int32)` since they're pre-packed, while old ones are
processed with `npu_convert_weight_to_int4pack`.
2. **New unit and E2E tests:**
* Added unit tests that verify the logic for both the old and new
formats.
* Split the distributed E2E test to confirm that both old and new format
models work correctly.
</details>
Theoretically, these changes will provide support for all common new
version w4a8(dynamic) models from msmodelslim.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
no
### How was this patch tested?
I implement relevant unit tests and e2e tests and test the changes with
following commands:
```bash
# unit tests
python -m pytest tests/ut/quantization/test_w4a8_dynamic.py tests/ut/torchair/quantization/test_torchair_w4a8_dynamic.py -v
# e2e tests
pytest tests/e2e/singlecard/test_quantization.py -v -s
pytest tests/e2e/multicard/test_offline_inference_distributed.py::test_models_distributed_Qwen3_W4A8DYNAMIC_new_version -v -s
pytest tests/e2e/multicard/test_offline_inference_distributed.py::test_models_distributed_Qwen3_W4A8DYNAMIC_old_version -v -s
pytest tests/e2e/multicard/test_offline_inference_distributed.py::test_models_distributed_DeepSeek_W4A8DYNAMIC -v -s
```
I also tested Hunyuan-1.8B-Instruct quantized with the new w4a8-dynamic
format:
```
vllm serve ./models/Hunyuan-1.8B-Instruct-quantized --gpu-memory-utilization 0.96 --quantization ascend --max-model-len 9600 --seed 0 --max-num-batched-tokens 16384
```
All tests mentioned passed locally.
**NOTE: I use quantization model from my own repo in
test_offline_inference_distributed.py**. Here is the description:
[Anionex/Qwen3-1.7B-W4A8-V1](https://modelscope.cn/models/Anionex/Qwen3-1.7B-W4A8-V1/summary)
(including quantization steps).This should be replaced by a model in
vllm-ascend ci modelscope repo.
Thanks for reading!
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
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Signed-off-by: Anionex <1005128408@qq.com>
This PR adds support for redundant experts in the EPLB.
Key points:
- Use global_num_experts = num_experts + num_redundant_experts
consistently.
- Backward compatible when num_redundant_experts=0.
Tested
On a 16-rank setup (W8A8) with static EPLB and expert_map_path,
verifying router logits shape and successful requests.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
Signed-off-by: yechao237 <yechao20180411@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR fixes issues:
1. Solve the problem that multimodal scene cannot do weight prefetching
and throw an assertion error exception.
2. Standardize the grid_thw data type of qwen2VL to torch.int32.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
None.
### How was this patch tested?
- ci & e2e
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
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Signed-off-by: elilzhu <2435754260@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: zhulei (AK) <z00692222@china.huawei.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Currently, when executing to the Linear layer of models in vLLM-Ascend,
the weights format is ND in unquantized case and skipped ascend case.
This PR supplements the execution logic for Linear layer. We use a new
global variable: VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_NZ. When VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_NZ=1 and
CANN version is 8.3, the weights of the Linear layer will be converted
to FRACTAL_NZ, in both unquantized case and skipped ascend case. We also
use VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_NZ to control the existing NZ conversion, such as
w8a8-quantized case.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Add a new global variable VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_NZ. If you want to use NZ
format, you should set VLLM_ASCEND_ENABLE_NZ=1.
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
Signed-off-by: anon189Ty <Stari_Falcon@outlook.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
- Refacotr and integrate a unified `WeightPrefetchMethod`
- Integrate `qkv_proj.weight` and `o_proj.weight` in quantized Attention
modules
- Prefetching these weights ahead of matmul-like operators imporves
performance by reducing L2 cache transfer latency
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Add a new config in `--additional-config` for configuration:
```json
{
"weight_prefetch_config": {
"enabled": false,
"prefetch_ratio": {
"attn": {
"qkv": 1.0,
"o": 1.0,
},
},
},
}
```
This feature is enabled by default, and can be disabled through this
configuration
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.11.0
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Signed-off-by: zhoux77899 <zhouxiang100@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: yuzhup <15705211260@163.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
1. Move prepare/finalize operation from moe_comm_method to
/ops/moe/fused_moe_prepare_and_finalize
2. Adapt to token_dispatcher in moe_comm_method
3. Move
moe_comm_method/experts_selector/token_dispatcher/fused_moe_prepare_and_finalize
to /ops/moe
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
no
### How was this patch tested?
e2e & ut
- vLLM version: v0.10.1.1
- vLLM main:
f4962a6d55
Signed-off-by: weichen <calvin_zhu0210@outlook.com>
Signed-off-by: Pr0Wh1teGivee <calvin_zhu0210@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: weijinqian0 <12153182+weijinqian0@users.noreply.github.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
this pr refactor select_experts of moe module
i merge implementations of quantitative and non-quantitative method in a
new class
use such as vllm like ExpertsSelector.select_experts
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No
### How was this patch tested?
test in qwen3-moe and all ut.
- vLLM version: v0.10.0
- vLLM main:
e18859298d
Signed-off-by: yangcheng <yangcheng104@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: yangcheng (AJ) <y00806874@china.huawei.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Adding `W4A8_DYNAMIC` quantization support for linear.
Dense models like Qwen3 can infer with `W4A8_DYNAMIC` quantization.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
None
### How was this patch tested?
Adding ut case in `tests/ut/quantization/test_w4a8_dynamic.py`
Adding e2e case in
`tests/e2e/multicard/test_offline_inference_distributed.py::test_models_distributed_Qwen3_W4A8DYNAMIC`
to test qwen3 w4a8_dynamic quantized model
Note the w4a8_dynamic quantized model is quantized by `msit/msmodelslim`
of commit `d0abb0a47e1f1a473b866ad41b737fbc28fb1409`
1. Generate `W4A8_DYNAMIC` quantization weights using `msmodelslim`
```shell
git clone https://gitee.com/ascend/msit.git
cd msit/msmodelslim
git checkout d0abb0a47e1f1a473b866ad41b737fbc28fb1409
bash install.sh
```
2. Serve model using `vllm`
```shell
VLLM_USE_V1=1 python -m vllm.entrypoints.openai.api_server \
--model vllm-ascend/Qwen3-8B-W4A8 \
--port 8000 \
--quantization ascend \
--tensor_parallel_size 2 \
--enforce-eager
```
- vLLM version: v0.10.0
- vLLM main:
4cd7fe6cea
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Signed-off-by: ZhouXiang <zhouxiang100@huawei.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Optimizes the performance of the Qwen3 quantization model by registering
a custom model and adding the AddRmsNormQuant operation. Subsequent PRs
will focus on performance optimizations based on this custom model.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No.
### How was this patch tested?
CI passed with existing test.
- vLLM version: v0.9.2
- vLLM main:
8d0a01a5f2
Signed-off-by: rjg-lyh <1318825571@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Remove ETP/EP maintained in branch main. We drop this as there is no
relevant scenarios to use ETP now, and we may subsequently advocate
implementing expert tensor parallelism in vLLM to support scenarios
where the expert is needed to be sliced
This is a part of #1422 backport.
Fixes https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/1396https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/1154
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
We'll not maintain etp/ep in vllm-ascend anymore, and use the tp/ep in
vllm instead.
### How was this patch tested?
CI passed with new added and existing test.
- vLLM version: v0.9.2
- vLLM main:
fe8a2c544a
Signed-off-by: MengqingCao <cmq0113@163.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR supports torchair graph mode with non-mla backend on both 800IA2
and 300I Duo platforms. The main change is to add
`attention_v1_torchair.py` to support specific attention related
operations that are required by torchair.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Before this PR, vLLM-Ascend only allows deepseek to use torchair. Now we
can also use it with pangu. Besides, we add a support model list to
control which type of models that can use torchair.
### How was this patch tested?
We have test it with PanguProMoE on both 800IA2 and 300I Duo platforms,
and model generates answer normally.
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Signed-off-by: angazenn <zengyanjia@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: tianyitang <tangtianyi4@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: angazenn <zengyanjia@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: tianyitang <tangtianyi4@huawei.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This pr supports w8a8 on 300I Duo platform. The main change is to use
`npu_quant_grouped_matmul_dequant` to replace `npu_grouped_matmul`.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No.
### How was this patch tested?
offline inference on 310p runs normally.
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Signed-off-by: angazenn <zengyanjia@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: tianyitang <tangtianyi4@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: angazenn <zengyanjia@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: tianyitang <tangtianyi4@huawei.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
1. drop some useless code for w8a8 fusedmoe
2. Add in8 kv cache check
3. Add more ut.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No
### How was this patch tested?
CI passed with new added test.
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Signed-off-by: zhuyilin <809721801@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: tianyitang <tangtianyi4@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: tianyitang <tangtianyi4@huawei.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
support pangu moe w8a8c8
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No
### How was this patch tested?
CI passed with new added test.
Signed-off-by: zhuyilin <809721801@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Update attention nz and mla nz modules to improve TPOP 6ms performance
Convert W_UV and W_UK_T to NPU format in mla_v1.py
Convert layer.weight to NPU format in w8a8.py
Signed-off-by: ttanzhiqiang <389825161@qq.com>
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Signed-off-by: Yizhou Liu <liu_yizhou@outlook.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
1. support deepseek with w8a8 quant;
2. support deepseek with mix-parallel(multi-DP, EP+TP);
3. support deepseek with graphmode.
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Signed-off-by: wen-jie666 <wenjie39@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Yizhou Liu <liuyizhou5@h-partners.com>
Signed-off-by: libaokui <libaokui@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: linfeng-yuan <1102311262@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: wen-jie666 <wenjie39@huawei.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Add a `VLLMAscendQuantizer` to support w8a8 static (W8A8) and dynamic on
linear and moe (W8A8_DYNAMIC), the quantizer will be enable if a model
has [quantize
filed](https://huggingface.co/vllm-ascend/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-w8a8/blob/main/config.json#L27).
If MindIE Turbo is installed, the MindIE Turbo Quantizer will apply,
otherwise will use VLLMAscendQuantizer directly.
- This patch fix installation docs to make installation work
- This patch enable norm quantization by patch `RMSNorm.__init__`,
`RMSNorm.forward_oot`, `NPUModelRunnerBase.load_model`
- Add `AscendW8A8LinearMethod` for W8A8
- Add `AscendW8A8DynamicLinearMethod` and
`AscendW8A8DynamicFusedMoEMethod` for W8A8_DYNAMIC
- Add a e2e test for `vllm-ascend/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-w8a8`
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Yes, support w8a8 quantization. After this patch supported, users can
use below commands to run w8a8 models:
```
vllm serve /root/.cache/modelscope/hub/Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-w8a8 --served-model-name "qwen2.5-7B"
```
### How was this patch tested?
0. CI passed: add e2e test for `vllm-ascend/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-w8a8`
1. From @Yikun:
I test Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct-w8a8 for functional test all is well, pls
refer to
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/580#issuecomment-2816747613
2. From @dingdingchaomian :
Use qwen2.5-72b-instruct model and deepseek-v2-lite-chat tested, both
models were quantized using Ascend's msmodelslim tool:
- Qwen2.5-72b-instruct were tested twice, one for w8a8 static and one
for w8a8 dynamic.
- Deepseek-v2-lite-chat were tested once because its quantization used
both static and dynamic w8a8.
Models were tested using both off line inference and online serving, and
both work well. The inference codes are exactly the same with the
examples in
https://vllm-ascend.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quick_start.html, with
model path and tensor parallel number changed.
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Signed-off-by: dingdingchaomian <wangce21@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Yikun Jiang <yikunkero@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: dingdingchaomian <wangce21@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: Angazenn <zengyanjia@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: liujiaxu <liujiaxu4@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: ApsarasX <apsarax@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: ganyi1996ppo <pleaplusone.gy@gmail.com>
