[2/3] Quantize the DSA KV cache and export GLM-5 / GLM-5.2 from Megatron-Bridge

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What does this PR do?

Type of change: new feature

Part of a 3-PR split of #2539 (GLM-5.3-Flash). [1/3] (#2623, merged) and [2/3] (this PR) both target main. [3/3] (#2539, GLM-5.3-Flash) depends on both and stays in draft until the Megatron-LM / Megatron-Bridge PRs it needs land. Everything here works on the stock nemo:26.08 container, whose Megatron-LM has DSA and whose Megatron-Bridge has the GLM-5 bridge.

FP8 KV-cache quantization for DSA attention

• The Megatron plugin only added k/v_bmm quantizers to TEDotProductAttention, so on DSA layers kv_fp8_cast did nothing.
• DSAttention now registers with the same quant module, which tolerates value=None: the absorbed-MLA path calibrates V on the KV latent, so a V scale is exported.
• _QuantDSAttention overrides get_extra_state / set_extra_state. Torch only routes _extra_state through classes that override these, so without them the quantizer state (amax) was dropped from Megatron checkpoints.

GLM-5 / GLM-5.2 export (GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM)

• The mapping is built from the DeepSeek MLA/MoE rules plus the DSA indexer.
• Megatron-Bridge's GLM-5 bridge doesn't build the MTP layer (mtp_num_layers = None), so the exporter copies it from the source checkpoint, from a local path or only the needed Hub shards.
• The copy is dequantized from FP8 and excluded as model.layers.<N>.*, the same way nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4 ships it in BF16. It also handles depth-pruned exports, and the exported-key self-check follows the MTP layer to its new index.

Drop HAS_TE in the Megatron quantization plugin. Transformer Engine is always present in Megatron environments, and the NAS / prune / speculative plugins already import it unconditionally. About 210 of the plugin's added lines are this re-indentation; ignoring whitespace, the plugin adds 53 lines.

Also carries a follow-up to #2623's Claude review. #2623 merged before it landed. The exporter's per-stage layer writer is renamed to is_stage_layer_writer, with a note that it deliberately has no PP term, unlike is_writer_rank. The QAD MTP freeze now warns and scans only the student (hide_teacher_model()).

Usage

torchrun --nproc_per_node 8 examples/megatron_bridge/quantize.py \
    --hf_model_name_or_path zai-org/GLM-5.2 \
    --recipe general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast --skip_generate \
    --export_megatron_path <quantized_megatron>
torchrun --nproc_per_node 8 examples/megatron_bridge/export_quantized_megatron_to_hf.py \
    --hf_model_name_or_path zai-org/GLM-5.2 --megatron_path <quantized_megatron> \
    --export_unified_hf_path <export_dir>

Testing

• New tests:
  • test_dsa_kv_cache_quant: DSA FP8 KV cache, including the checkpoint round-trip.
  • test_registered_megatron_quant_modules_checkpoint_quantizer_state.
  • GLM-5 MTP copy from a local and a Hub source (FP8 dequantize, depth-pruned remap).
  • The decoder-MTP exported-key check.
  • GLM-5 entries in the export-mapping tests.
• On nvcr.io/nvidia/nemo:26.08, 2 GPUs:
  • tests/gpu_megatron/torch/export/test_unified_export_megatron.py: 87 passed.
  • tests/gpu_megatron/torch/export/plugins/test_mcore_export_mappings.py: 15 passed.
  • tests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.py: 130 passed, 35 skipped.
    • It was run in 5 smaller pytest sessions: in one session on 2×48 GB GPUs, workers left by earlier tests run GPU 0 out of memory, and the same happens on unmodified main.
• From [3/3] Add GLM-5.3-Flash support to Megatron-Bridge PTQ and HF export #2539, on GB300 with the stock nemo:26.10.rc2 (no Megatron-LM / Megatron-Bridge patches):
  • A tiny GLM-5.2 built from the real config (3 layers + MTP, randomized norms), quantized with general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only-kv_fp8_cast, then exported.
  • Tensor names are identical to the source, and all 105 unquantized tensors (including the copied MTP layer) are bit-exact.
  • The experts are NVFP4, with FP8 KV cache and group size 16.
• The GLM-5 bridge's HybridEP dispatcher has no sm_89 kernels, so the end-to-end GLM-5.2 run needs Blackwell. With it, quantize.py's post-quantization generation check fails with a HybridEP in-place autograd error after the checkpoint is saved, so run with --skip_generate.

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• Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ The TEDotProductAttention registry key is unchanged, so existing modelopt_state still restores.
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• Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
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Split from #2539. Sibling: [1/3] #2623.

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• New Features
  • Added Hugging Face export support for GLM-5 and GLM-5.2 Megatron-Bridge checkpoints, including MTP weights stored beyond the exported decoder layers. MTP weights are copied without quantization.
  • Added FP8 key-value cache quantization for DSA sparse-attention models on Megatron.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved retention of quantization state in Megatron checkpoints, including expert-specific settings and DSA cache quantizers.
  • Updated export validation to handle MTP weights and models with reduced decoder depth.

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This change adds GLM-5 and GLM-5.2 export mappings, handles decoder-layer MTP copying and key remapping, adds DSA indexer export, and updates Megatron quantization and distillation behavior.

Changes

GLM export and DSA checkpoint handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
GLM-5 export mapping modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_glm.py, modelopt/torch/export/plugins/mcore_common.py, tests/gpu_megatron/torch/export/plugins/test_mcore_export_mappings.py, CHANGELOG.rst	Adds and registers GLM MoE DSA export mappings for MTP placement, attention scaling, indexer names, and expert projections. Mapping tests cover KV-scale and per-expert rules.
MTP and DSA checkpoint export modelopt/torch/export/unified_export_megatron.py, tests/gpu_megatron/torch/export/test_unified_export_megatron.py	Export verification uses source decoder depth and remaps configured decoder-layer MTP keys. The exporter copies MTP tensors from local or Hub checkpoints, dequantizes them, and excludes copied modules from quantization. The MLA path also exports mapped DSA indexer weights.

Megatron grouped-linear and DSA quantization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Grouped-linear and attention quantization modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/megatron.py, tests/gpu_megatron/torch/quantization/plugins/test_megatron.py	Updates Transformer Engine registration and grouped-linear quantizer checkpoint state. Adds shared core-attention quantization for Transformer Engine attention and DSA. Tests cover extra-state implementations and DSA KV-cache checkpoint restoration.
MTP handling during distillation modelopt/torch/distill/plugins/megatron.py	When language-model loss is skipped and MTP is excluded from quantization, emits a rank-zero warning and freezes MTP parameters while the teacher model is hidden.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant UnifiedMegatronExporter
  participant HuggingFaceHub
  participant SafetensorsShard
  UnifiedMegatronExporter->>HuggingFaceHub: Request index and matching shard
  HuggingFaceHub-->>UnifiedMegatronExporter: Return index and shard
  UnifiedMegatronExporter->>SafetensorsShard: Read MTP tensors
  SafetensorsShard-->>UnifiedMegatronExporter: Return source tensors
  UnifiedMegatronExporter->>UnifiedMegatronExporter: Remap and dequantize MTP tensors

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1940-1971: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert DSA K/V quantizer state after restore.

The DSA test checks quantizer state only before saving. The helper skips _extra_state, and its forward and backward checks do not directly verify the V quantizer state. In _QuantCoreAttention.forward, DSA passes value=None; the V quantizer is used only during calibration. A lost V amax can therefore leave the helper's logits and gradients unchanged.

Add a direct post-restore comparison.

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+    expected_dsa_state = [
+        (
+            module.k_bmm_quantizer.is_enabled,
+            module.v_bmm_quantizer.is_enabled,
+            module.k_bmm_quantizer.amax.detach().clone(),
+            module.v_bmm_quantizer.amax.detach().clone(),
+        )
+        for module in dsa_modules
+    ]
+
     # The KV quantizer state (incl. amax) survives a torch-dist round-trip alongside the indexer.
@@
     sharded_state_dict_test_helper(tmp_path, model, model_test, forward)
+
+    restored_dsa_modules = [m for m in model_test.modules() if isinstance(m, DSAttention)]
+    assert len(restored_dsa_modules) == len(expected_dsa_state)
+    for module, (k_enabled, v_enabled, k_amax, v_amax) in zip(
+        restored_dsa_modules, expected_dsa_state
+    ):
+        assert module.k_bmm_quantizer.is_enabled == k_enabled
+        assert module.v_bmm_quantizer.is_enabled == v_enabled
+        assert torch.equal(module.k_bmm_quantizer.amax, k_amax)
+        assert torch.equal(module.v_bmm_quantizer.amax, v_amax)

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Nudge: the code looks correct and well tested, and at about 400 core-logic lines it is under the size budget. Two things still need a human: a latent mis-naming on the live-MTP export path, and the repo rule that changes touching 5 directories plus existing test files need human sign-off.

Needs action:

• Guard the live-MTP export path for mtp_in_decoder_layers archs. Either raise there, or drop the mtp.* rules from mcore_glm.py. Otherwise a future bridge that builds the MTP would write mtp.layers.* names (see inline comment).
• Remove the KPool loop from _get_dsa_indexer_state_dict, or add the indexer.index_kpool_compress_* rules. Today that loop raises a KeyError if it ever runs, so it belongs with [3/3].
• Confirm as a maintainer that dropping HAS_TE is acceptable. Without Transformer Engine, the whole Megatron quant plugin now fails to import, where before only the TE classes were skipped. The PR body gives the rationale.

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• Design: the PR extends the existing export-mapping and QuantModuleRegistry machinery and adds no new abstraction.
• The existing-test edits are justified. _make_exporter_for_mtp gains rules = {}, and _make_exporter_for_key_check sets the attributes that _verify_exported_keys now reads. No assertions were loosened.
• I checked the _verify_exported_keys remap: depth-pruned source layers are skipped, and the MTP moves to hf_depth + mtp_id. The new parametrized test covers both outcomes. The _extra_state class-override test is a useful regression guard.

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Confirming as maintainer: dropping HAS_TE is intentional. ModelOpt's Megatron flows target the NeMo / Megatron-Bridge containers, where Transformer Engine is always present. A Megatron-Core install without TE isn't a supported configuration. This also matches the other Megatron plugins (nas/plugins/megatron.py, prune/plugins/mcore_minitron.py, speculative/plugins/megatron_eagle.py), which import TE unconditionally.

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  . --glob '*.py' --glob '*.md' --glob '*.yaml' --glob '*.yml'
printf '%s\n' '--- model quantization entrypoints near distillation workflows ---'
rg -n -C 3 'mtq\.(quantize|convert|[a-z_]+)|modelopt\.torch\.quantization|quantize\(' \
  examples modelopt tests --glob '*.py' 2>/dev/null | head -n 240
printf '%s\n' '--- distillation config teacher type and model-like initialization ---'
sed -n '1,115p' modelopt/torch/distill/config.py
rg -n -C 4 'def init_model_from_model_like|init_model_from_model_like' modelopt

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Evaluate MTP quantization on the student only.

When skip_lm_loss is true, a teacher MTP quantizer makes _mtp_excluded_from_quantization(model) report that MTP is quantized. The student MTP loss then remains enabled, and this branch does not freeze the student MTP parameters.

Suggested fix

-    skip_mtp_loss = _mtp_excluded_from_quantization(model)
+    with model.hide_teacher_model():
+        skip_mtp_loss = _mtp_excluded_from_quantization(model)

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Review comment at @modelopt/torch/distill/plugins/megatron.py around lines 596 -
600:
Evaluate _mtp_excluded_from_quantization against the student model by calling it
inside model.hide_teacher_model() before setting skip_mtp_loss, so a teacher MTP
quantizer cannot keep student MTP loss enabled.

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LGTM: every concern from the last review is resolved. A human must still sign off under the complexity rule, because the PR touches 6 directories and edits existing tests.

Needs action:

• Sign off as a human on the justified existing-test edits and the 6-directory span. _make_exporter_for_mtp gains rules = {}, and _make_exporter_for_key_check sets the config attributes that _verify_exported_keys now reads. No assertions were loosened.

No action needed:

• ✔️ Resolved since the last review:
  • The live-MTP guard: GPTModelExporter.__init__ raises NotImplementedError, the mtp.* rules are dropped, and test_live_decoder_mtp_export_rejected is added.
  • The KPool loop is removed from _get_dsa_indexer_state_dict.
  • A maintainer confirmed dropping HAS_TE.
• Design: the PR extends the existing export-mapping and QuantModuleRegistry machinery and adds no new abstraction.
• About 400 core-logic lines, under budget. Roughly 210 of them are the HAS_TE de-indent.
• The distill/plugins/megatron.py follow-up wraps the MTP freeze in the existing hide_teacher_model() context and adds a warning. It is low risk, but no new test covers it.
• The CodeRabbit follow-ups are also in: the missing-MTP warning, the comments on the local DSA imports, and the check that both DSA K/V quantizers come back enabled after restore.