### 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>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Port #1916 and #2157 to master branch to fuse operators in deepseek moe
layers, which can reduce scheduling overhead on devices. Note that this
feature is valid only when `tp_size = 1` and
`multistream_overlap_shared_expert` is enabled with torchair graph mode.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Users can enable this feature with `--additional-config
'{"torchair_graph_config":{"enabled":true, "enable_super_kernel":true},
"multistream_overlap_shared_expert":true}'`.
### How was this patch tested?
E2E deepseek serving with 2P1D disaggregated prefill scenarios.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
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Signed-off-by: linfeng-yuan <1102311262@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Using non-blocking operations for device-to-host transfers can lead to
data corruption in later steps. The CPU tensor is accessed right after
the transfer is triggered, but the transfer might not be complete yet.
As a result, the data could be wrong. This problem was seen in the A3
environment during `profile_run`.
### How was this patch tested?
CI pass.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
Signed-off-by: Jade Zheng <zheng.shoujian@outlook.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
when using dynamic eplb, patch v1 executor to avoid create child process
failed.
### How was this patch tested?
deepseek in v3.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
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Signed-off-by: offline0806 <3337230449@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: offline0806 <3337230449@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?
1.Record expert map without dynamic eplb.
2.Add export PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1 when using dynamic eplb.
3.change eplb doc
Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
How was this patch tested?
Qwen3_moe in A3.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0
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Signed-off-by: offline0806 <3337230449@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: offline0806 <3337230449@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Fix the issue of missing NZ conversion for quantized weights in GMM
after moe_dispatch operator in torchair scenario, which does not involve
aclgraph & single scenarios.
### How was this patch tested?
vllm serving passed with lower latency (~5ms TPOT with bs_per_rank=28 &
ep_size=32)
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
Signed-off-by: linfeng-yuan <1102311262@qq.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?
When using dynamic eplb, moe load is not imported. We fix this problem
by modifying the return value of hidden states in torchair.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
### How was this patch tested?
DeepseekV3 in A3.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
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Signed-off-by: daishixun <dsxsteven@sina.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
1.Support deepseek w4a8 per-channel quantization
2.The eager mode supports converting weights to the NZ format
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
no
### How was this patch tested?
#### How to get weights using Modelslim
##### Installation steps
git clone https://gitcode.com/Ascend/msit.git
cd msit/msmodelslim
bash install.sh
##### Generate w4a8 per-channel weights
cd /example/DeepSeek
Command reference: msmodelslim/example/DeepSeek/README.md
- vLLM version: v0.10.2
- vLLM main:
f225ea7dd9
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Signed-off-by: Wang Kunpeng <1289706727@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This miscellaneous contains several small fixes:
1) fix initialization and forward bugs of DeepseekMTPLayer with
`shared_expert_dp` enabled.
2) fix a tensor shape mismatches after o_proj caused by a work-aroud
change in NPUModelRunner.
3) avoid unnecessary decline of kv_cache memory (default: 64MB) with
`use_cached_kv_cache_bytes` disabled.
4) fall back `fused_moe_state` from `MC2` to `All2All` since the padding
logic of `mc2_mask` is incompatible with input hidden_states when
`shared_expert_dp` enabled.
Once this PR is merged, users can launch disaggregated_prefill
deployments (large_ep) with `deepseek_mtp` and `shared_expert_dp` as
`v0.9.1-dev` branch. The remaining problem of kv_cache tokens decline
compared to `v0.9.1-dev` will be resolved by
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/3073.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No.
### How was this patch tested?
E2E vllm serving about deepseek_mtp with torchair graph mode and
`enable_shared_expert_dp` with eager mode. Large ep deployments are also
tested with this PR.
- vLLM version: v0.10.2
- vLLM main:
5aeb925452
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Signed-off-by: linfeng-yuan <1102311262@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
While running quantized deepseek models with unquantized MTP layer, free
NPU memory abnormally decreases for `2*HCCL_BUFFSIZE` bytes. This
results from the wasted VRAM buffer allocation casued by calling
`dist.all_to_all_single` without correct device process group argument.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No.
### How was this patch tested?
We run vllm online serving with quantized deepseek-r1 and unquantized
MTP layer, and observed that free_memory increased without redundat VRAM
buffer for HCCL communication op (all_to_all_single).
- vLLM version: v0.10.2
- vLLM main:
6d8246aaff
Signed-off-by: linfeng-yuan <1102311262@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR sets the default format of GMM w2_weight in w8a8_dynamic to be
NZ to improve performance.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No.
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: main
- vLLM main:
e40827280b
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Signed-off-by: Angazenn <supperccell@163.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
AscendQuantizer/LLMQuantizer class is used to select quant method based
on quant config and some other arguments,
but it is more simple and clean replacing these classes with map. So i
remove them.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No
### How was this patch tested?
ut and e2e test
- vLLM version: v0.10.1.1
- vLLM main:
6997a25ac6
Signed-off-by: 22dimensions <waitingwind@foxmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
torchair w8a8 and w4a8 Separate from fused_moe due to the refactor and
change for fused_moe
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
NO
### How was this patch tested?
vLLM version: main
vLLM main:
ab9f2cfd19
- vLLM version: v0.10.1.1
- vLLM main:
69244e67e6
Signed-off-by: hust17yixuan <303660421@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Move torchair related qunatization section into torchair dir to make the
code clear. Next step we'll remove all torchair related code outside of
torchair quantization.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
NO
### How was this patch tested?
vLLM version: main
vLLM main:
ab9f2cfd19
- vLLM version: v0.10.1.1
- vLLM main:
959783fb99
Signed-off-by: hust17yixuan <303660421@qq.com>
