Fix folding transposed GPT-OSS and Llama 4 expert weights

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Type of change: Bug fix

mtq.fold_weight() fails on quantized GPT-OSS and Llama 4 experts because their quantizers are named gate_up_proj_weight_quantizer and down_proj_weight_quantizer, but the parameters do not have the _weight suffix. The generic name lookup therefore raises an assertion.

Fold these experts through their existing calibration weight views, which also preserve the transposed orientation used by their forward pass. Reuse the existing quantizer cleanup and pass the original weight dtype so folding matches FP16/BF16 fake-quantization rounding. Other callers retain the existing FP32 default.

Materialize offloaded weights through the shared weight-access context before folding, and write the folded values back afterward. The Accelerate writeback helper also accepts the plain dictionary used by cpu_offload, alongside OffloadedWeightsLoader.

Usage

Existing mtq.fold_weight(model) calls work without additional arguments. Both values of keep_attrs are covered.

Testing

• On unmodified production code, all 12 new regression cases fail at the missing-weight assertion.
• 140 tests pass across test_huggingface.py, test_fused_experts.py, test_accelerate.py, and test_tensor_quant_cpu.py.
• The regression uses complete small GPT-OSS and Llama 4 models, non-square expert weights, FP32/FP16/BF16, and both attribute-retention modes. It checks model logits, parameter storage, pre-quantization scale cleanup, and repeated folding.
• The expanded regression includes 24 CPU-executed cases with real Accelerate CPU and disk offload of the routed experts. It checks full-model logits before and after folding, repeated folding, quantizer cleanup, and restoration of meta parameters. The previously published patch reproduces a meta-tensor error when folding CPU-offloaded GPT-OSS weights.
• Earlier H800 checks passed for the resident 12-case matrix with INT8 and with FP8 quantization. Those GPU checks predate this offload follow-up and have not been rerun for it.
• Changed-file pre-commit checks pass, including Ruff, mypy, licenses, and Bandit.

NVFP4, distributed models, GPU execution with offload, and full-size checkpoint performance were not tested in this follow-up. Disk-offload writeback follows the existing helper's behavior: modified tensors are retained in its CPU state dictionary; the original offload files are not rewritten.

Before your PR is "Ready for review"

• Backward compatible: yes; existing generic folding retains its default dtype.
• Copied code or new PIP dependencies: none.
• Necessary tests: added to the existing Hugging Face quantization module.
• Changelog: updated.
• Upstream review: pending.

Additional Information

Related to item 1 of #1926. This addresses the runtime failure described in #1925; it does not close the other issues listed in #1926.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed weight-folding failures for quantized GPT-OSS and Llama 4 models with transposed expert weights.
  • Preserved model outputs and tensor handling across supported data types and configuration settings.
  • Improved weight folding for models using CPU or disk offload.
  • Improved reliability when folding weights repeatedly or with offloaded model parameters.
• Tests
  • Added regression coverage for transposed expert-weight quantization, offload modes, repeated folding, and output consistency.

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This change makes quantized weight folding dtype-aware for transposed expert projections. It adds offload writeback support and regression coverage for CPU and disk offload modes.

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Transposed Expert Folding

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Dtype-aware weight folding modelopt/torch/quantization/nn/modules/quant_module.py	_fold_weight_quantizer accepts quantize_dtype and casts weights to that dtype before quantization.
Folding and offload writeback modelopt/torch/quantization/model_quant.py, modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/accelerate.py	fold_weight enables weight access and writeback. Prefixed offload datasets can use either their state_dict attribute or the dataset itself.
Transposed expert integration and validation modelopt/torch/quantization/plugins/huggingface.py, tests/unit/torch/quantization/plugins/test_huggingface.py, CHANGELOG.rst	Transposed expert projections fold quantizers with matching dtypes. Tests cover CPU and disk offload, output preservation, meta-parameter state, storage pointers, cleanup, attribute retention, and idempotence. The changelog records the fix.

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