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The change adds MiniMax-H3 text-encoder tensor parallelism. Participating ranks load the sharded Qwen3 encoder; other ranks receive embeddings by broadcast. The pipeline limits DiT TP to 1 and rejects keyframe or vision-input requests when text-encoder TP is enabled. Subgroup creation for subset TP requires TLLM_DISABLE_MPI=1.

The change also adds TP process-group routing, a torch.distributed all-reduce fallback, and an allreduce_strategy argument for LMHead and Embedding. Verify the subgroup, collective, and existing-caller paths. The pipeline now rejects all-zero or non-finite denoising velocities to avoid blank output; verify this guard does not reject valid output.

The supplied CI history reports successful PR_Github runs, failed L0 pipelines, and aborted runs. It does not identify failure causes, so overall validation remains unresolved.

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Changed tests cover parallel configuration, encoder residency and subgroup behavior, input restrictions, embedding broadcast, shard and hidden-state equivalence, and TP=2 versus TP=1 video and audio output. The integration test is listed for two- and four-GPU B200 pre-merge runs in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml. No manual-QA list evidence is supplied.

Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. Distributed and integration coverage is present, but the supplied CI history includes failures with unknown causes.

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  • docs/source/models/supported-models.md: Adds a Text Encoder TP column and marks MiniMax-H3 as supported. Verify the matrix matches runtime support.
  • docs/source/models/visual-generation.md: Documents text-encoder TP and MiniMax-H3 constraints. Verify the rank and input guidance matches runtime behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/attention.py: Propagates TP process-group and all-reduce routing attributes to derived mappings. Verify both mappings use the intended group.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/distributed/ops.py: Adds a torch.distributed fallback for plain all-reduce and rejects unsupported operations or auxiliary arguments. Verify routing and error paths.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen3.py: Passes the configured all-reduce strategy to the token embedding layer. Verify existing Qwen3 configurations retain expected behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/embedding.py: Adds allreduce_strategy arguments to LMHead and Embedding. Verify caller compatibility and defaults.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/checkpoints/weight_loader.py: Adds a prefetch control and limits prefetching to safetensors files. Verify enabled, disabled, and other-format paths.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/models/minimax_h3/pipeline_minimax_h3.py: Adds TP encoder loading, subgroup selection, embedding broadcast, text-only restrictions, and denoising-velocity checks. Verify rank behavior, configuration errors, collectives, and the output guard.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/models/minimax_h3/ref2va.py: Routes reference text through _encode_reference_text_tokens. Verify reference prompts with and without TP.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/models/minimax_h3/text_encoder_tp.py: Adds the TP Qwen3 encoder, weight filtering and remapping, and hidden-state encoding. Verify shard mapping and output equivalence against the reference encoder.
  • tensorrt_llm/mapping.py: Returns a cached TP process group when available. Verify cached and unavailable-group behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/visual_gen/args.py: Adds text_encoder_tp_size, defaulting to 1, and validates it against world size. Verify default and invalid-size handling.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/device_mesh.py: Uses a cached TP process group before accessing or building the device mesh. Verify cache and mesh initialization paths.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_minimax_h3_pipeline.py: Covers rank residency, subgroup behavior, prefetch, input restrictions, broadcast, and unsupported DiT TP. No entry for this test file appears in the supplied test-db changes.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_visual_gen_args.py: Covers worker-count behavior and text_encoder_tp_size validation. No entry for this test file appears in the supplied test-db changes.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_minimax_h3_text_encoder_tp.py: Compares TP shards and encoder hidden states with a Qwen3-VL reference across sequence lengths and rank layouts. The two- and four-rank test IDs are listed in l0_dgx_b200.yml.
  • tests/integration/defs/examples/visual_gen/test_visual_gen_multi_gpu.py: Compares TP=2 output with TP=1 using video LPIPS and audio log-STFT thresholds at world sizes 2 and 4. Both test IDs are listed in l0_dgx_b200.yml.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml: Adds the MiniMax-H3 text-encoder TP unit and integration test entries for two- and four-GPU B200 pre-merge runs. Verify CI selection and timeout behavior.

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@pengbowang-nv, could you help to review this PR as trt-llm-torch-attention-devs? Thanks~

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Componentsmodules/attention (60%); integration/model-config (25%); unmapped (15%)
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PR effort5 points — Adds TP support using an existing Qwen3 architecture. Attention review requires tracing subgroup routing through both projection mappings and checking encoder-only metadata, mRoPE positions and intermediate-state semantics. These interacting contracts justify substantial review despite the small shared-attention patch.
ImportanceImportant — Shared Attention now preserves explicit communicator and allreduce routing on derived mappings. Together with the wrapper's subset-of-ranks NCCL configuration, this creates a sensitive distributed-correctness contract requiring group and rank consistency.
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MiniMax-H3 now supports tensor-parallel text encoding across a configured subset of ranks. Participating ranks load and run the Qwen3 text encoder, then broadcast prompt embeddings. The change adds distributed all-reduce support, configuration validation, tests, and documentation.

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MiniMax-H3 text encoder tensor parallelism

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Parallel configuration and distributed support
tensorrt_llm/visual_gen/args.py, tensorrt_llm/mapping.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/device_mesh.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/attention/attention.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/distributed/ops.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/modules/embedding.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_qwen3.py, tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_visual_gen_args.py
Adds text_encoder_tp_size and world-size validation. Derived mappings preserve TP process-group attributes. Embedding layers accept an all-reduce strategy, and AllReduce.forward supports plain reductions through a PyTorch process group.
MiniMax-H3 encoder and pipeline integration
tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/models/minimax_h3/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/checkpoints/weight_loader.py
Adds a tensor-parallel Qwen3 text encoder and integrates rank selection, encoder loading, and prompt encoding into the MiniMax-H3 pipeline. Participating ranks encode prompts; the pipeline broadcasts embeddings and token tags. Vision inputs and DiT tensor parallelism remain unsupported with this feature.
Feature validation and documentation
tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_minimax_h3_pipeline.py, tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/multi_gpu/test_minimax_h3_text_encoder_tp.py, tests/integration/defs/examples/visual_gen/test_visual_gen_multi_gpu.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml, docs/source/models/supported-models.md, docs/source/models/visual-generation.md
Adds tests for encoder sharding, rank residency, loading, prompt encoding, and generated output. The model matrices and usage documentation describe text-encoder TP support.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PromptCaller
  participant MiniMaxH3Pipeline
  participant MiniMaxH3TensorParallelTextEncoder
  participant torch.distributed
  participant OtherVisualGenRanks
  PromptCaller->>MiniMaxH3Pipeline: Submit text prompt
  MiniMaxH3Pipeline->>MiniMaxH3TensorParallelTextEncoder: Encode tokens on participating ranks
  MiniMaxH3TensorParallelTextEncoder-->>MiniMaxH3Pipeline: Return prompt embeddings
  MiniMaxH3Pipeline->>torch.distributed: Broadcast embedding shape and values
  torch.distributed-->>OtherVisualGenRanks: Deliver prompt embeddings
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The change to attention is good, but a mapping issue (see comment in mapping.py) exists preventing the code to function. Approve from attention perspective to unblock. Please fix the thread before moving to merge.

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Reproduce the CI mismatch on GB100 after a clean build. Layer-50 relative L2 error versus HF is 2.51% for TP1 and 2.63% for TP2 on the one-token case; sequence lengths 7 and 19 show comparable drift. Bound aggregate error at 3% and absolute outliers at 0.08 while adding a tighter first-layer comparison. Retain exact projection shard and process-group checks.

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