fix: model nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 ModelOpt MIXED_PRECISION targets-only quantization by Harrilee · Pull Request #610 · ai-dynamo/aisimulate

Harrilee · 2026-10-27T15:26:00Z

Why

nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4@e3b8f9f2fad29727dfa95e766c5cac18ea1414bf is a ModelOpt
MIXED_PRECISION export, not a pure NVFP4 export with exclusion globs. Its
quantized_layers map (identical in config.json and hf_quant_config.json)
has 87 entries:

model.layers.{0,1,2}.mlp.{gate_proj,up_proj,gate_up_proj,down_proj}: FP8,
per-tensor with a static input_scale (SDK fp8_static);
model.layers.{3..77}.mlp.experts: NVFP4, group size 16;
exclude_modules: ["model.layers.78*"] (MTP layer); KV cache FP8.

Attention (q/kv/o and the DSA indexer), shared experts, router, lm_head and the
embedding are not listed. In the safetensors index they carry a bare .weight,
so they are BF16.

Both runtimes load unlisted modules unquantized:

vLLM v0.24.0 (ee0da84ab9e04ac7610e28580af62c365e898389),
vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/modelopt.py:
ModelOptMixedPrecisionConfig.get_quant_method (L2464-2490) checks
is_layer_excluded first (L2475-2477). It then resolves the algorithm with
_resolve_quant_algo (L2392-2445): the exact key, then the packed shards from
packed_modules_mapping, then a descendant key (key.startswith(prefix + ".")).
A LinearBase with no entry gets UnquantizedLinearMethod(). The source
comment reads "Layer not in quantized_layers — leave unquantized" (L2489-2490).
SGLang v0.5.14 (49e384ce9d304648e9959666ecb8ce8cd98d0deb),
python/sglang/srt/layers/quantization/modelopt_quant.py: _resolve_quant_algo
(L734-759) uses the same exact/packed/descendant order. get_quant_method
(L761-792) returns UnquantizedLinearMethod() for excluded layers (L770-773)
and for any LinearBase that resolves to neither FP8 nor NVFP4 (L778).
SGLang builds the GLM shared expert as its own DeepseekV2MLP(quant_config=...)
(python/sglang/srt/models/deepseek_v2.py L705-714). Fusion into the routed
MoE is gated off for DeepEP and for moe_ep_size > 1 (L2650-2715), so the
shared expert stays BF16 on large EP too.

Before this PR:

The SDK read only the exclusion globs. With the real config, attention was
priced at the coarse fp8_static mode, a DSA key that has no silicon rows. The
result was 36/36 DATA_MISS with fallback denied (b200_sxm/b300_sxm/gb200/gb300
x SGLang 0.5.14, vLLM 0.24.0, TRT-LLM 1.3.0rc20 x 3 layouts).
The packaged nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 config and hf_quant_config were byte copies
of nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4. As a result, the dense prefix was priced BF16 instead
of FP8, and head_dim was 192 instead of the upstream 64.

What changes

Part A: targets-only semantics (`fix: keep modules unlisted ...`, `fix: resolve ModelOpt MIXED_PRECISION targets ...`)

helpers.modelopt_mixed_precision_targets scopes the rule. It applies only when
all three hold:
- the export is MIXED_PRECISION;
- it has a non-empty quantized_layers map;
- it declares no base lane.
  nvidia/DeepSeek-V4-{Flash,Pro}-NVFP4 declare quant_method: fp8 +
  weight_block_size, so they keep their FP8-block lane and stay out of scope.
For in-scope exports, a module with no entry is treated like a glob exclusion
(BF16). The modules covered are:
- the attention projection groups, through attention_projection_exclusions.
  That one function reaches DSV32, DeepSeek and Task._attention_quant_identity_mixed;
- the shared experts;
- the DSV32 SGLang dense prefix.
  Real exclusion globs still win.
A key counts only when it names the module exactly or names a descendant of it.
It must also sit in model.layers.<i> with i < num_hidden_layers and must not
be covered by an exclusion. Ancestor keys quantize nothing, as in both runtimes.
Neither runtime reads the checkpoint's packed_modules_mapping. The SGLang dense
prefix therefore resolves the fused gate_up_proj by its own key. If the shards
are listed without that key, the build raises.
Guard: suppose a listed attention, shared-expert or dense GEMM has an algorithm
that differs from the inferred coarse gemm_quant_mode (for example NVFP4
attention next to FP8 dense layers). The build then raises, unless the mode is
explicit.
Coarse mode inference is unchanged. The per-algorithm mapping is factored into
_mixed_precision_algo_gemm_mode, and the outputs for all six other packaged
MIXED_PRECISION bundles are pinned.

Part B: bundle the upstream export

model_configs/nvidia--GLM-5.3-NVFP4_{config,hf_quant_config}.json are now
unmodified copies of the upstream files at e3b8f9f2. Both were re-downloaded
via resolve/<revision> and byte-compared. Their sha256 values are
b0b6b9ab922a82e3688bc39a4117bc443e106fcf88969ef48b3627778f4bdf7b and
13799d4fed353c20dde2264fbdd7f68a780b514782f8d80bba96ac5e44aa9bba.
model_configs/GLM53_NVFP4_PROVENANCE.md is new. It ships next to the configs
in the wheel and sdist, as GLM53FLASH_PROVENANCE.md does. It records the source
and reproduces the full license texts (see the license note below).
THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md gains a section "NVIDIA GLM-5.3-NVFP4 model configuration
files", placed after the GLM-5.3-Flash section. The packaged copy is
byte-identical, and scripts/ci/check_packaged_legal_files.py passes.
DefaultHFModels gets a short comment on nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4.
Tests in tests/unit/sdk/models/test_modelopt_mixed_precision_targets.py:
- sha256 pins for both files;
- the bundle id resolves gemm fp8_static, moe nvfp4, kv fp8, and d == 64;
- the native-graph tests (DSA gemm bf16, all four projection groups bf16, shared
  gate_up/ffn2 bf16, MoE nvfp4, SGLang dense prefix (3, fp8_static)), the
  explicit-mode test, the large-EP shared-expert test and the SILICON coverage test
  now run on both the synthetic export and the packaged id. SILICON covers
  {b200_sxm, b300_sxm, gb200, gb300} x {SGLang 0.5.14, vLLM 0.24.0, TRT-LLM 1.3.0rc20}
  x {tp4/moe_tp1/ep4, tp8/moe_tp1/ep8, tp4/moe_tp4/ep1}, prefill bs1 isl 4096 and
  decode bs32, with fallback denied;
- the structural guard now lists nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 (DEEPSEEKV32) as the only
  DEEPSEEK/KIMIK25/DEEPSEEKV32 bundle in targets-only scope.
Untargeted collector case sets are unchanged on SM90/100/103. nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4
stays deduplicated behind nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4 for MoE (same routed-expert NVFP4
geometry). A targeted SGLang DSA mla_module run with --model-path nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4
(COLLECTOR_MODEL_PATH) on SM90 changes: it now emits 88 context and 8 generation
cases, where before it emitted 0 (see the collector follow-up below). Targeted runs on
SM100/103 are unchanged (88/8). The existing geometry, case-set, FPM-intake and DSA
index-reuse tests pass on the real config.

Validation

ruff check and ruff format --check: clean.
test_modelopt_mixed_precision_targets.py: 159 passed.
Full unit suite (-m unit, test_moe_dispatch.py ignored): 12,808 passed, 30 skipped, 3 failed. The failures are pre-existing and environmental; they also fail at cad8a0262 without this change: test_fpm_learned.py::test_feature_list_is_unique_and_bounded (no sklearn) and two test_support_cli.py tests (the subprocess cannot import collector). -p no:timeout also causes 32 collection errors in two e2e files, because their timeout marker is unregistered. With the plugin loaded those files collect, and -m unit deselects all of them.
Parity suites: test_engine_step_parity.py 304 passed, test_compile_engine_parity.py 85 passed, with no golden change. The only GLM parity cases are zai-org/GLM-5 and nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4.
scripts/ci/check_packaged_legal_files.py, scripts/ci/check_copyright.py
and the CODEOWNERS strict coverage check: pass.
sdist (maturin sdist): contains GLM53_NVFP4_PROVENANCE.md and both configs
with the pinned sha256.

Prediction regression gate

collect_static.py on this branch vs cd6efc5e3 (run locally before the rebase on #563; CI reruns the gate against the current base), compared over 174,420 rows in 28 combos:

category	count
DRIFT	141
REGRESSION	0
STATUS_CHANGE	0

144 rows changed. 3 of them are below the report threshold. All are
nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 on {b200_sxm, b300_sxm, gb200, gb300}/sglang/0.5.14,
in the adp=1 layouts, and move between -0.51% and +0.01%.
Every other model is byte-identical.
In the gate's sampled layouts, vLLM and TRT-LLM are unchanged: they do not model
the dense prefix, and attention and shared experts are BF16 on both sides. The gate
does not sample large EP (see "Large EP" below).
Part A alone, on the old bundle, reported no differences.
Cause: the SGLang dense prefix (layers 0-2) now runs the listed FP8 lane
(fp8_static, or the explicit mode) instead of BF16 from the GLM-5.2 globs.

Variant	Phase	tp4	tp8
default	ctx	-0.33% .. -0.05%	-0.17% .. +0.01%
default	gen	-0.44% .. -0.06%	-0.26% .. +0.01%
nvfp4	ctx	-0.41% .. -0.06%	-0.20% .. -0.01%
nvfp4	gen	-0.51% .. -0.05%	-0.22% .. 0.00%

KV capacity (not covered by the gate)

estimate_kv_cache, tp4/moe_tp1/ep4, 90% memory (of_total for SGLang/vLLM,
of_free for TRT-LLM), max_num_tokens 8192, max_batch_size 32, per GPU:

System	Backend	Old bundle (GB)	New bundle (GB)	Delta	Cause
b200_sxm	SGLang 0.5.14	49.318	49.488	+0.170 GB (+0.34%)	FP8 dense-prefix weights
b200_sxm	vLLM 0.24.0	41.980	44.396	+2.416 GB (+5.75%)	head_dim 64 activation width
b200_sxm	TRT-LLM 1.3.0rc20	55.177	57.351	+2.174 GB (+3.94%)	head_dim 64 activation width
gb300	SGLang 0.5.14	143.584	143.754	+0.170 GB (+0.12%)	FP8 dense-prefix weights
gb300	vLLM 0.24.0	136.246	138.662	+2.416 GB (+1.77%)	head_dim 64 activation width
gb300	TRT-LLM 1.3.0rc20	149.443	151.617	+2.174 GB (+1.45%)	head_dim 64 activation width

KV bytes per token are unchanged (60,216 B, FP8 KV).

SGLang: KV capacity rises by 0.17 GB because the dense-prefix weights are FP8
instead of BF16. KV capacity is unaffected by head_dim, because SGLang's of_total
budget excludes activations. The breakdown's activation estimate still drops
(3.94 -> 1.93 GB), and so does the static/agg memory and OOM estimate (next section).
vLLM/TRT-LLM: the activation estimate drops from 3.62 to 1.21 GB because the
upstream head_dim is 64 (see "head_dim 64 kept" below). TRT-LLM gets 90% of that freed memory.

SGLang memory and OOM estimate (not covered by the gate)

head_dim feeds the activation-memory width on every backend
(BaseBackend._get_memory_usage, h = num_heads * head_size), and SGLang's OOM
check subtracts the full non-KV footprint. collect_static.py uses
run_static_latency_only, so the gate does not see this.

run_static().get_memory(), b200_sxm SGLang 0.5.14, tp4/moe_tp1/ep4, static_ctx,
bs4 x isl8192, per GPU:

Bundle	Weights (GiB)	Activations (GiB)	Total (GiB)
Old (GLM-5.2-NVFP4 copy)	111.945	14.662	133.028
New, head_dim forced to 192	111.787	14.662	132.870
New (shipped, head_dim 64)	111.787	7.187	125.395

The total drops by 7.63 GiB: 0.16 GiB from FP8 dense-prefix weights and 7.48 GiB
from the head_dim 64 activation width.

Large EP (not covered by the gate)

For nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4, SGLang and vLLM large-EP shared-expert GEMMs
(gate_ffn1/ffn2, e.g. tp1/ep16/adp16 with DeepEP) move from nvfp4 to bfloat16,
so shared-expert latency and weights rise slightly. TRT-LLM is unchanged (bf16
before and after). Cause: the real bundle is in targets-only scope, so the
"Large-EP shared experts" rule below applies. Part A alone left these at nvfp4,
because the old bundle is exclusion-style.

Decisions and follow-ups

Large-EP shared experts (scoped to targets-only). When the rule is in scope,
every backend prices the shared expert with the BF16 override. This matches
SGLang deepseek_v2.py L705-714 / L2650-2715 and vLLM.
- Exclusion-style checkpoints keep the transcribed trtllm-only override.
  GLM-5/5.1/5.2-NVFP4 therefore stay nvfp4 on SGLang/vLLM large EP, and
  TestGLMSharedExpertQuantMode::test_sglang_uses_the_model_wide_gemm_mode still passes.
- The same SGLang source shows the legacy nvfp4 shared expert is also wrong for those
  checkpoints. Fixing it moves other models' large-EP predictions, which the gate does
  not sample.
- Follow-up: drop the trtllm-only gate for all DSV32 exclusion-style checkpoints, with
  its own evidence and re-pinned test.
head_dim 64 kept (no override).
- The bundled config must stay byte-identical. utils._parse_hf_config_json reads
  d = head_dim uniformly.
- For DSA, d only feeds the generic activation width num_heads * head_size
  that every backend's memory estimate uses. It does not affect the DSA latency op
  keys or KV bytes per token. It does move vLLM/TRT-LLM KV capacity and SGLang's
  static/agg memory and OOM estimate (see the two memory sections above).
- Upstream, 64 is a transformers re-serialization of the rope dim
  (zai-org/GLM-5.3@ba32f8c1 has 192). zai-org GLM-5/5.1 and GLM-5-NVFP4 already
  resolve d=64.
- The decision is pinned by a test.
- Follow-up: derive the DSA activation width from MLA geometry
  (e.g. num_heads * qk_head_dim) for all DSA architectures and all backends, with
  its own gate and memory report.
Collector (for the collector owners, out of scope here).
collector/sglang/collect_mla_module.py::_model_native_gemm_quant returns None
for this MIXED_PRECISION export (it returned nvfp4 for the old GLM-5.2-NVFP4 copy):
hf_quant_config quant_algo is MIXED_PRECISION and quant_method is modelopt.
- Untargeted case sets are unchanged on SM90/100/103. On SM90, GLM-5.3-NVFP4 now
  passes the capability filter and loses the BF16 DSA dedup only through a
  max_position_embeddings tie with zai-org/GLM-5.2 (both 1048576). SM100/103
  behavior is unchanged.
- Targeted runs change on SM90. The case-builder filter (collect_mla_module.py
  L618-619) no longer drops this id, so a targeted --model-path nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4
  run builds 96 cases (88 context, 8 generation) and launches SGLang, which accepts
  modelopt_mixed from SM80. Before, it produced 0 cases at that filter and never
  reached the run_mla_module guard (L1054-1060).
- The existing Hopper invariant test
  (test_targeted_glm5_nvfp4_context_is_not_emitted_on_hopper) is pinned only for
  nvidia/GLM-5-NVFP4.
- Follow-up (per the collector rules layer_permissions.md and failure_handling.md): either make
  _model_native_gemm_quant return nvfp4 for a MIXED_PRECISION export with an
  NVFP4 entry in quantized_layers (for example via
  aisimulate_core.sdk.models.helpers._infer_quant_modes_from_raw_config,
  moe_quant_mode nvfp4), or decide explicitly that these Hopper BF16-attention rows
  are valid. Either way, extend the Hopper test to cover nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4.

License note for reviewers

At e3b8f9f2, the upstream model card (README.md) states "License type: NVIDIA
Proprietary" and "Use of this model is governed by NVIDIA Open Model Agreement"
(https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/agreements/enterprise-software/nvidia-open-model-agreement/).
Its metadata declares license: other and license_name: nvidia-open-model-license.
The repository's LICENSE is the GLM-5.3 License (Copyright (c) 2026 Z.AI). The card
states that the original GLM-5.3 model is licensed under it and that the NVIDIA Open
Model Agreement does not modify or supersede it. The repository has no NOTICE file.
The agreement page shows "Release Date: April 2, 2026", versions the terms
"(v. March 9, 2026)", and ends with "End of terms and conditions". It has no
immutable revision URL. The card links only the unversioned page; the text was
retrieved on 2026-10-27, and the notice records that retrieval date.
Following the GLM-5.3-Flash precedent:
- the configs are unmodified copies;
- THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md (root and packaged copy) names the source, revision,
  copyright owners (NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES for the quantized export;
  Z.AI for the base configuration) and the license statements as declared upstream;
- the full GLM-5.3 License (byte-identical to upstream LICENSE, English and Chinese)
  and the NVIDIA Open Model Agreement text are preserved in the distributed
  model_configs/GLM53_NVFP4_PROVENANCE.md.
The agreement text was extracted from the page's HTML, from the title through the
closing "End of terms and conditions". It matches the page text word for word
(1,210 words, checked against the cached copy and a fresh copy): the character
sequence is identical, and the only whitespace differences come from inline markup.
This is the first NVIDIA Open Model Agreement material in the notices.

Rebased on #563

This branch is rebased on #563, which renamed the zai-org GLM-5.3 bundle ids and added the "GLM-5.3 model configuration files" notice section before the GLM-5.3-Flash section. This PR's notice section stays after the GLM-5.3-Flash section.

DefaultHFModels: dropped fix: refresh bundled zai-org GLM-5.3 configs to the published checkpoints #563's sentence that the NVFP4 bundle "is still the GLM-5.2-NVFP4 bundle" and kept this PR's comment on nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4.
test_model_config.py::test_glm53_bundles_resolve_checkpoint_quant_modes (added by fix: refresh bundled zai-org GLM-5.3 configs to the published checkpoints #563) now also covers nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 (gemm fp8_static, moe nvfp4, kv fp8). Its comment no longer says the bundle carries the GLM-5.2-NVFP4 layout.
The GLM-5.3 License text appears in fix: refresh bundled zai-org GLM-5.3 configs to the published checkpoints #563's notice section and again in GLM53_NVFP4_PROVENANCE.md. The provenance file keeps its own copy so that it is complete on its own, as GLM53FLASH_PROVENANCE.md is.
fix: refresh bundled zai-org GLM-5.3 configs to the published checkpoints #563's MODEL_RELABELS entry has no effect on this PR, because the base already has the new ids.

Linear: AISIM-2123

coderabbitai · 2026-10-27T15:26:28Z

📝 Summary

Risk: Medium. Three areas need human attention: ModelOpt target parsing and scope; BF16 handling and GEMM-mode validation, including SGLang’s fused dense-prefix projections; and the accuracy, provenance, and licensing of the replacement GLM-5.3 configuration files.

Changes

For targets-only ModelOpt MIXED_PRECISION exports, unlisted attention projections, shared experts, and dense-prefix projections resolve to BF16. Exclusion globs remain active. Conflicting target algorithms and listed non-expert GEMMs that disagree with the inferred coarse mode are rejected, unless the GEMM mode is explicit.
Adds target-resolution and validation helpers in helpers.py. DeepSeek and DeepSeekV32 model creation use them. Targets-only exports also change large-EP shared-expert handling.
Replaces the packaged GLM-5.3-NVFP4 configuration files with files pinned to upstream revision e3b8f9f2. The configs describe mixed precision, FP8 KV cache, and per-layer quantized targets. Adds provenance, hashes, and license texts.
Adds tests for target parsing, model behavior, dense-prefix projections, packaged configs, quantization modes, and silicon coverage.

Evidence and limitations

The supplied source and test summaries identify the new helpers, their model call sites, and tests for target scope, fused projections, and mode validation. The packaged files and provenance document identify the pinned revision and hashes. This inspection did not independently verify upstream file parity or run tests.

The PR context reports 159 passing targeted tests. It reports 12,808 passing, 30 skipped, and 3 failures in the full unit suite, with the failures attributed to environmental causes. It also reports passing parity, legal-file, copyright, and CODEOWNERS checks. The prediction gate reports 0 regressions and 0 status changes across 174,420 rows, with 141 drift rows. KV-capacity, SGLang memory/OOM, and large-EP effects are outside that gate. These are reported results, not independently verified here.

No current review findings were supplied, so review severity counts are unavailable. The three full-suite failures remain unresolved in the supplied evidence. Test completion beyond the reported suites and prediction gate is not established. The stated collector follow-up remains out of scope. These gaps limit merge-readiness assessment; they do not establish an implementation defect.

The PR adds a GLM-5.3-NVFP4 mixed-precision configuration and provenance records. It adds ModelOpt target parsing and validation, then updates DeepSeek-family model creation to apply targets-only quantization behavior. Unit tests cover target resolution, model graphs, packaged configuration, and performance diagnostics.

Changes: GLM-5.3 ModelOpt mixed precision

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Package the GLM-5.3 mixed-precision configuration `python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/model_configs/nvidia--GLM-5.3-NVFP4_config.json`, `python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/model_configs/nvidia--GLM-5.3-NVFP4_hf_quant_config.json`, `python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/model_configs/GLM53_NVFP4_PROVENANCE.md`, `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md`, `python/aisimulate/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md`, `python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/common.py`, `python/aisimulate/tests/unit/sdk/models/test_modelopt_mixed_precision_targets.py`, `python/aisimulate/tests/unit/sdk/models/test_model_config.py`	The packaged configuration assigns FP8 to dense MLP projections in layers 0–2 and NVFP4 to expert MLPs in layers 3–77. The notices and provenance document record the upstream revision, hashes, attribution, and licenses. Tests check the packaged configuration and its inferred modes.
Resolve targets-only ModelOpt metadata `python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate/sdk/task_v2.py`, `python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/models/helpers.py`, `python/aisimulate/tests/unit/sdk/models/test_modelopt_mixed_precision_targets.py`	Helpers parse targets and exclusions, map packed attention projections, and validate GEMM modes. Tests cover target scope, exclusions, dense projections, and algorithm mapping.
Apply targets in DeepSeek-family models `python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/models/deepseek.py`, `python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/models/deepseek_v32.py`, `python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/models/helpers.py`, `python/aisimulate/tests/unit/sdk/models/test_modelopt_mixed_precision_targets.py`	DeepSeek model creation validates implicit GEMM modes and detects unlisted shared experts. DeepSeekV32 resolves dense-prefix precision and applies targets-only shared-expert quantization behavior across backends. Tests check model graphs, large-EP behavior, and performance diagnostics.

Priority: Normal

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

Possibly related PRs

ai-dynamo/aisimulate#585: Adds ordered dense-prefix grouping for the native AFD model graph; this PR extends related dense-prefix quantization handling to targets-only ModelOpt exports.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 695bd

Partial shared-expert exports can produce inaccurate model precision and performance results; preserve BF16 for every unlisted layer before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 6 · 1 · 1

Failed checks: 1 warning · 1 inconclusive

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Cross-Layer Contract		The provenance documentation has a stale distribution contract. `THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md` says the full GLM-5.3 and NVIDIA license texts are in the adjacent distributed `src/aisimulate_core/model_confi…	Add the provenance file to the wheel and sdist inclusion rules, preferably with an explicit `src/aisimulate_core/model_configs/*.md` or file-specific entry. Add a distribution test that loads `aisimulate_core/model_configs/GLM53_NVFP4_PROVE…
Review Evidence		The reviewed PR description is truncated in the supplied evidence at “Guard: suppose a listed attention...”. This check depends on the omitted text because it must verify exact commands, results, evid…	Provide the complete PR description, or remove the truncation. Then verify each named command and result, the negative and boundary cases, the local/fake-runner/parity/production labels, and reject any claim that a nested `python/aisimulate…

Passed checks: 6 passed

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Title check		The title precisely identifies the GLM-5.3-NVFP4 ModelOpt MIXED_PRECISION targets-only quantization behavior. The `fix:` prefix does not make the title vague.
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Modeling And Data Evidence		The PR supplies provenance and reproducible modeling evidence. The GLM-5.3 files are pinned to Hugging Face revision `e3b8f9f2...` with SHA-256 values in `GLM53_NVFP4_PROVENANCE.md`, and the new tests…
Compatibility Boundaries		No compatibility-boundary failure is introduced. The reviewed diff changes only Python model logic, bundled JSON, notices, and tests; it changes no Rust source, Cargo manifest/lockfile, Python manifes…

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The description provides detailed rationale, behavior changes, risk areas, provenance, validation results, regression data, and tracking information. It uses headings that differ from the template and does not explicitly fill every review-map field, but it is substantially complete.

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Add the provenance file to the wheel and sdist inclusion rules, preferably with an explicit src/aisimulate_core/model_configs/*.md or file-specific entry. Add a distribution test that loads aisimulate_core/model_configs/GLM53_NVFP4_PROVENANCE.md from the installed package and verifies the license text is present. Keep the notice path aligned with the packaged path.

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A ModelOpt MIXED_PRECISION export quantizes exactly the modules its quantized_layers map names. vLLM v0.24.0 (ee0da84a, modelopt.py L2392-2490) and SGLang v0.5.14 (49e384ce, modelopt_quant.py L618-790) check the exclusion list, then resolve a module by exact key, packed shards or parent prefix, and leave any linear module without an entry unquantized. The SDK read only the exclusion globs, so the upstream nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 export (FP8 dense layers 0-2, NVFP4 routed experts, nothing else listed) priced its BF16 attention and shared experts at the coarse fp8_static mode, a DSA key with no silicon rows. helpers.modelopt_mixed_precision_targets scopes the rule to MIXED_PRECISION headers with a quantized_layers map and no base lane (DeepSeek-V4-*-NVFP4 keep their fp8 base lane and stay out of scope). For those exports: - attention_projection_exclusions also excludes every projection group no entry names (both the precise and default paths), which reaches the DSV32 and DeepSeek models and Task._attention_quant_identity_mixed; - unlisted shared experts and DSV32 dense-prefix projections run BF16; - DSV32 large-EP shared experts use the BF16 override on every backend (SGLang builds the GLM shared expert as its own DeepseekV2MLP, deepseek_v2.py L705-714/L2650-2715); exclusion-style checkpoints keep the transcribed trtllm-only override; - a listed attention, shared-expert or dense GEMM whose algorithm differs from the inferred coarse gemm mode raises unless the mode is explicit. The coarse mode inference is unchanged; its per-algorithm mapping is factored into _mixed_precision_algo_gemm_mode. The packaged nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 is still the GLM-5.2-NVFP4 exclusion-style copy, so no packaged prediction moves: the static prediction gate reports no differences across 174,420 rows in 28 combos. Tests use a synthetic export shaped like the upstream one, including SILICON coverage on b200_sxm/b300_sxm/gb200/gb300 for sglang 0.5.14, vllm 0.24.0 and trtllm 1.3.0rc20 with fallback denied. Signed-off-by: Harry Lee <harrli@nvidia.com>

vLLM v0.24.0 (ee0da84a, modelopt.py L2392-2490) and SGLang v0.5.14 (49e384ce, modelopt_quant.py L734-792) resolve a linear module by its exact key, its packed shards, or a descendant key (one that starts with the module path + "."). The previous commit called the last rule "parent prefix" and applied it that way to attention and shared experts: an ancestor key such as model.layers.N.self_attn or mlp.shared_experts priced the GEMMs below it at the coarse mode, which both runtimes leave unquantized. Keys inside excluded modules (the model.layers.78* MTP layer) or past num_hidden_layers also counted. - Attention groups, shared experts, the dense prefix and the gemm guard now share one decoder-key filter. A key counts only if it lies in model.layers.<i> with i < num_hidden_layers, no exclusion pattern covers it, and it names the module exactly or a descendant of it. - Neither runtime reads the checkpoint's packed_modules_mapping (SGLang model_loader/loader.py L203, weight_utils.py L261/L328; vLLM configure_quant_config). SGLang's DeepseekV2/GlmMoeDsa mapping has no gate_up_proj, so the SGLang-only dense prefix resolves the fused GEMM by its own key. Listing the shards without that key now raises instead of pricing FP8 for a layout SGLang cannot load. - Docstrings: the SGLang large-EP shared-expert rationale now cites the fusion gates for DeepEP and moe_ep_size > 1. The architecture check does not apply, because GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM passes its own architecture. build_large_ep_moe_ops documents the targets-only override. The upstream nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 export lists only leaf modules and the fused gate_up_proj, so it resolves as before: 36/36 SILICON OK with fallback denied (b200_sxm/b300_sxm/gb200/gb300 x sglang 0.5.14, vllm 0.24.0, trtllm 1.3.0rc20 x 3 layouts), with per-op latencies unchanged. The static prediction gate reports no differences across 174,420 rows in 28 combos. Signed-off-by: Harry Lee <harrli@nvidia.com>

The packaged nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 config and hf_quant_config were byte-identical copies of nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4: a pure NVFP4 export whose BF16 modules are named by exclusion globs. The published checkpoint at e3b8f9f2fad29727dfa95e766c5cac18ea1414bf is a ModelOpt MIXED_PRECISION export instead. Its quantized_layers map lists FP8 (per-tensor, static) dense MLPs in layers 0-2 and NVFP4 routed experts in layers 3-77, excludes the MTP layer 78, and keeps FP8 KV. Attention including the indexer, shared experts, router and lm_head are unlisted, so vLLM v0.24.0 and SGLang v0.5.14 load them unquantized; the previous commits model that. Replace both files with the upstream bytes (sha256 b0b6b9ab... and 13799d4f..., re-downloaded via resolve/<revision> and compared). Follow the GLM-5.3-Flash precedent for the license material: model_configs/GLM53_NVFP4_PROVENANCE.md, which ships in the wheel and sdist next to the configs, records the source and reproduces the GLM-5.3 License from the upstream LICENSE and the NVIDIA Open Model Agreement that the model card links (unversioned page, retrieved 2026-10-27: v. March 9, 2026). A THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES section placed after the GLM-5.3-Flash section, in both byte-identical copies, points to it. Prediction effect (static gate against cd6efc5): 141 DRIFT rows, all nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 on b200_sxm/b300_sxm/gb200/gb300 SGLang 0.5.14, from the dense prefix now priced at fp8_static instead of BF16; no REGRESSION or STATUS_CHANGE; every other model is unchanged. Outside the gate, SGLang and vLLM large-EP shared-expert GEMMs for this id move from nvfp4 to bfloat16 (TRT-LLM unchanged). The upstream config carries head_dim 64 (GLM-5.2-NVFP4: 192). It is read as is; for DSA it only sets the activation-memory width (all backends): vLLM/TRT-LLM KV capacity rises by about 2.2-2.4 GB per GPU at tp4/ep4, and the SGLang static/agg memory estimate drops (about 7.5 GiB/GPU at bs4 x isl8192, tp4 on b200) while SGLang KV capacity is unchanged. Tests pin both sha256 values, the resolved modes (gemm fp8_static, moe nvfp4, kv fp8, d=64), and run the native-graph, large-EP and SILICON coverage tests on the packaged id as well as the synthetic export. The structural guard now lists nvidia/GLM-5.3-NVFP4 as the only DEEPSEEK/KIMIK25/DEEPSEEKV32 bundle in targets-only scope. Linear: AISIM-2123 Signed-off-by: Harry Lee <harrli@nvidia.com>

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Major · Preserve BF16 for unlisted shared-expert layers. · helpers.py:352-379

python/aisimulate/src/aisimulate_core/sdk/models/helpers.py:352-379
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Preserve BF16 for unlisted shared-expert layers.

modelopt_shared_experts_unlisted() returns False when any decoder layer lists a shared-expert target. Both DeepSeek consumers then use the coarse shared-expert mode for every layer. Therefore, a valid partial target map can quantize unlisted shared experts instead of leaving them in BF16.

The helper/call boundary must preserve shared-expert listing per decoder layer. Both consumers must select BF16 for an unlisted layer and the configured or inferred mode for a listed layer.
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Update modelopt_shared_experts_unlisted and its DeepSeek consumer boundary to
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