Add DASC recurrent state sparsity policy - #2375
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThis change adds an experimental GDN DASC state-sparsity API. It validates calibration inputs, analyzes decay horizons, selects recovery windows, attaches restorable policy metadata, integrates the mode with Model Optimizer, and documents deployment constraints. ChangesDASC state-sparsity implementation
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant calibrate
participant DASCModeRegistry
participant build_dasc_policy
Caller->>calibrate: configuration and calibration measurements
calibrate->>DASCModeRegistry: apply state_sparsity mode
DASCModeRegistry->>build_dasc_policy: validate and analyze measurements
build_dasc_policy->>build_dasc_policy: select Wmax and build DASCPolicy
build_dasc_policy-->>DASCModeRegistry: attach policy metadata
DASCModeRegistry-->>Caller: calibrated model
Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Hand-edited attached policy metadata can fail unexpectedly during export or save. The fix is localized, and the experimental API otherwise remains mergeable with bounded risk. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 6✅ Passed checks (6 passed)
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In `@modelopt/torch/sparsity/state_sparsity/__init__.py`:
- Around line 18-21: Define an explicit __all__ in the state_sparsity package by
aggregating the controlled exports from api, config, and policy, while retaining
the mode import for registration side effects. Ensure wildcard imports expose
only the intended names from those three public modules and not mode or future
incidental imports.
In `@modelopt/torch/sparsity/state_sparsity/policy.py`:
- Around line 248-250: Extend the model-validation path around _canonical_sha256
and _model_structure to recompute the model-derived layer names, head counts,
horizons, and masks, then compare them with policy.layers before attachment or
export. Reject any mismatch with ApplyModeError, while preserving the existing
model_structure_sha256 validation.
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Scope: full review (trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). All 10 changed files opened: 6 source files under modelopt/torch/sparsity/, plus the new test, guide section, and CHANGELOG.rst entry. Traced the mode through modelopt/torch/opt/{conversion,mode,config}.py to check registration, apply_mode/restore ordering, and the save-path hooks.
Findings: CRITICAL: 1 · IMPORTANT: 2 · SUGGESTION: 3
Most impactful
1. CRITICAL — stale decay parameters make the model unsaveable, with no recovery path (conversion.py:90-97)
update_dasc_metadata is registered as both update_for_save and update_for_new_mode, and it raises ApplyModeError when the A_log/dt_bias digest drifts. Because update_for_save runs inside mto.modelopt_state() (opt/conversion.py:478), the consequences reach well past DASC:
mto.save(model)andmto.modelopt_state(model)raise, so no state can be written — including a composed quantization mode's, sincemodelopt_state()throws before returning.ModeloptStateManager.has_state_for_mode_type()raises, breaking the PEFT plugin hooks that only wanted to query for quantization state.
The trigger is broader than genuine corruption: _decay_parameters() hashes fp64-cast raw values, so an ordinary model.to(torch.bfloat16) after calibrating in fp32 changes the digest. A_log/dt_bias are plain nn.Parameters, so any post-calibration fine-tuning does too.
And the state is then unrecoverable. Re-running calibrate() is blocked by next_prohibited_modes = {"dasc"}; applying any other mode is blocked too, because apply_mode calls update_last_state_before_new_mode() → this same function → raise, before the new mode is even checked. Only the private-ish ModeloptStateManager.remove_state() escapes.
Suggested shape: warn (don't raise) in the save/compose path, keep the hard failure in export_policy() where it is actionable, drop "dasc" from next_prohibited_modes so a policy can be re-calibrated, and make the digest dtype-insensitive.
2. IMPORTANT — perplexity_retention capped at le=1.0 rejects valid evidence (config.py:37). The gate is >= 0.995, so parity-or-better is a pass — but a compressed run landing at 1.0004 from ordinary run-to-run noise raises ValidationError instead. The ratio's orientation is also undefined anywhere in the schema or the guide, which matters a lot for a number the whole policy trusts callers to compute.
3. IMPORTANT — model_id / model_revision / model_config_id hit pydantic's model_ protected namespace (config.py:89-92). pyproject.toml declares pydantic>=2.0, and 2.0–2.9 default protected_namespaces to ('model_',). Since modelopt/torch/__init__.py imports sparsity eagerly, affected users get 6 UserWarnings on every import modelopt.torch, and a hard failure under -W error::UserWarning. The repo's existing fix is protected_namespaces=() in ConfigDict (see speculative/plugins/hf_training_args.py:42).
Suggestions (non-blocking)
get_attached_dasc_policyshouldunwrap_modelfirst, orexport_policy(ddp_model)reports a missing policy that is actually present._is_gdn_module's class-name substring match is the only thing excludingMamba2Mixer(which also has 1-DA_log/dt_biasbut a different discretization) — an explicit supported-class set would make the GDN-only contract auditable and give KDA a clean extension point.convert_dasc_model's required keyword-onlymeasurementsmakesmto.apply_mode(model, [("dasc", cfg)])die with a bareTypeError; an optional default plusApplyModeErrormatches howmtq.quantizehandles itsmode_kwargs.DASCLayerPolicymissing fromconfig.__all__, plus a note on the config/policy field duplication inmodelopt_state.
What checked out
The decay math is right: -exp(A_log) * softplus(dt_bias + g) matches the GDN log-decay, and ln(eps)/decay gives the correct per-head token horizon, computed in CPU fp64 with finite/positive guards. It is conservative in the safe direction (ignores delta-rule erasure). The horizon > wmax retention predicate is consistent across all three sites that evaluate it (_validate_measurement_geometry, build_dasc_policy, DASCPolicy.validate_policy), and retained/omitted genuinely partition the head indices. Mode registration is sound — unique registry name, format_version present from day one, JSON-safe metadata, and restore correctly validates only the structure digest (not decay parameters), which is right given restore_from_modelopt_state runs before load_state_dict. The no-execution-change claim holds; nothing in the convert path mutates parameters or installs hooks. Plugin laziness is a non-issue as there are no optional imports.
Risk assessment
Moderate. The feature is additive, opt-in, and cannot perturb numerics for anyone not calling it, so the blast radius on existing users is limited to finding 3's import-time warnings. But finding 1 is a real trap for the feature's own users: the first person who calibrates and then casts dtype loses the ability to save their model, and the mode's own composability rules prevent them from fixing it. That is worth resolving before this lands, and it is a small change.
Note: I reviewed statically — test execution was not available in this sandbox, so the "119 passed" in the PR description is unverified from my side. Finding 1's fix will require updating the mto.modelopt_state raise assertion in test_export_rejects_changed_decay_parameters_and_restore_rejects_structure.
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## Summary Consolidates the complete reviewed fix stack for #2375 into one DCO-safe commit: - harden package exports, measurement semantics, wrapper handling, and actionable calibration errors - validate exact installed GDN identities plus ModelOpt dynamic subclasses; reject lookalikes, ordinary subclasses, incomplete layers, and partial layer sets - make stale checkpoints saveable and restorable while keeping deployment export strict - make DASC recalibration replace and deduplicate existing mode state without stale-metadata refresh - record the declared decay-parameter checkpoint storage dtype and use derived FP16/BF16/FP32 rounding bounds - preserve BF16/FP16 storage and wider/cross-dtype reload compatibility without globally widening FP32 tolerance - add installed Transformers path coverage, optional Megatron gating, lifecycle, tamper, lossy-cast, and mixed-layer regressions - document the explicit storage-dtype contract This consolidated PR supersedes the mechanically stacked review-fix PRs #2377, #2378, #2379, #2380, #2382, #2383, #2384, and #2385. Its tree is byte-identical to the independently reviewed leaf commit from #2386. ## Validation - focused DASC suite: 23 passed, 1 absent optional Megatron skip - DASC plus weight sparsity plus attention sparsity compatibility suite: 134 passed, 1 optional skip - DASC package coverage: 408/408 statements, 100% - full pre-commit on all touched files: passed - real Transformers Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet BF16 storage to FP32 reload smoke: passed - commit author and Signed-off-by identity both use kaix-nv <kaix@nvidia.com> <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added support for configuring decay-parameter storage precision with FP16, BF16, or FP32. * Added safer recalibration that replaces existing DASC state. * Expanded compatibility with supported GDN adapter classes and model wrappers. * Added improved validation for sparsity policies, measurements, model structure, and decay parameters. * Added support for perplexity-retention values above 1. * **Documentation** * Clarified evaluation responsibilities, recalibration behavior, stale-policy handling, supported adapters, and dtype requirements. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> --------- Signed-off-by: kaix-nv <kaix@nvidia.com>
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| __all__ = ["analyze_gdn_decay", "compute_gdn_decay_horizons"] | ||
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| _SUPPORTED_GDN_CLASS_PATHS = ( | ||
| ("megatron.core.ssm.gated_delta_net", "GatedDeltaNet"), |
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] Megatron GDN is declared supported, but every piece of policy geometry is derived from rank-local modules with no tensor/pipeline-parallel awareness.
megatron.core.ssm.gated_delta_net.GatedDeltaNet shards value heads across TP (in_proj is a TELayerNormColumnParallelLinear; A_log/dt_bias are per local value head — see modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron_model_stats.py:264). Consequences:
_model_structure()recordsnum_heads = module.A_log.numel(), i.e.num_value_heads // TP, andDASCLayerPolicy.retained_heads/omitted_headsare TP-local head indices. Nothing inDASCPolicyrecords the TP degree or the shard offset, so a serving runtime readinglayers[...].retained_headscannot map those indices back to global heads, and a policy calibrated at TP=8 is silently invalid at any other TP degree.- With PP > 1, each rank's
named_modules()only contains its own decoder layers, and Megatron layer module names are pipeline-local. Soexport_policy()returns a partial policy per rank, and two PP ranks can emit the same layer key (decoder.layers.0.linear_attn) with different content. Nothing warns; the first rank's JSON silently looks complete. _validate_measurement_geometry()requiresmeasurement.total_heads == sum(len(h) for h in horizons.values()), i.e. the rank-local count. A caller who measures quality on the full (globally sharded) model and reports globalretained_heads/total_headsgets a confusingApplyModeErrorabout geometry mismatch.
Since the whole point of this artifact is auditable, fail-closed provenance, silently rank-local geometry undercuts it. Two reasonable fixes:
- Scope it out for this milestone: drop the
megatron.core.ssm.gated_delta_netentry from_SUPPORTED_GDN_CLASS_PATHSand state in the guide that only single-process (HF) GDN is supported, so Megatron users fail closed with "no supported GDN modules" instead of getting a rank-local policy. - Make parallelism explicit: detect sharding (Megatron sets
tensor_model_parallel/partition_dimon TP-sharded parameters) and either reject it, or addtensor_parallel_size/pipeline_parallel_sizeplus a global head offset toDASCPolicy, all-gather the layer map, and validate thatmodel_structure_sha256agrees across ranks.
Either way this is worth resolving before the policy schema is frozen at format_version: 1, since adding the parallel layout later is a schema change for already-exported policies.
| def _validate_measurement_geometry( | ||
| horizons: dict[str, list[float]], measurements: list[DASCCalibrationMeasurement] | ||
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| """Bind caller-reported retained and total head counts to the analyzed model.""" | ||
| total_heads = sum(len(layer_horizons) for layer_horizons in horizons.values()) | ||
| for measurement in measurements: | ||
| retained_heads = sum( | ||
| horizon > measurement.wmax | ||
| for layer_horizons in horizons.values() | ||
| for horizon in layer_horizons | ||
| ) | ||
| if measurement.total_heads != total_heads or measurement.retained_heads != retained_heads: | ||
| raise ApplyModeError( | ||
| f"DASC measurement geometry for Wmax={measurement.wmax} does not match the model; " | ||
| f"expected retained/total={retained_heads}/{total_heads}, got " | ||
| f"{measurement.retained_heads}/{measurement.total_heads}" | ||
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[SUGGESTION] retained_heads / total_heads are bound to the analyzed model here, but checkpoint_savings — the one gate that decides whether a candidate is worth deploying at all — is accepted verbatim from the caller with no plausibility bound beyond [0, 1).
Given the mode's own contract (whole-head granularity, preserve_convolution_state=True), there is a sound physical upper bound: the bytes saved can only come from omitted recurrent-state heads, and convolution state is retained in full, so
checkpoint_savings <= (total_heads - retained_heads) / total_heads
A caller who mis-instruments their sizing harness (e.g. reports the ratio the wrong way round, or measures a checkpoint that also dropped conv state) can currently pass min_checkpoint_savings while retaining 95/96 heads, and the resulting policy claims evidence it does not have. Since _validate_measurement_geometry already recomputes retained_heads from the model, adding the inequality there is a couple of lines and closes the last unbound leg of the evidence story.
| static_gate_input: float = ModeloptField( | ||
| default=_DEFAULT_STATIC_GATE_INPUT, | ||
| description="Static gate input added to each GDN head's dt_bias.", | ||
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[SUGGESTION] The description says what static_gate_input is but not which direction is safe, and the direction is not symmetric.
horizon = ln(eps) / (-exp(A_log) * softplus(dt_bias + g)), and softplus is increasing in g, so a larger g gives a shorter horizon, which pushes more heads under horizon > Wmax and therefore omits more state. If the model's real per-token gate inputs are more negative than the configured value, true horizons are longer than derived and heads are dropped that still carried information past Wmax. So static_gate_input must be chosen as a lower bound (e.g. a low percentile of observed gate inputs on the calibration slices), not a mean — the default -0.3 is a bare heuristic with no stated provenance.
The PR description says the analysis "is conservative in the safe direction (ignores delta-rule erasure)", which is true of the erasure term but not of this parameter; the quality gates are what actually catch a too-optimistic g. Worth one sentence in this description and in docs/source/guides/6_sparsity.rst so callers know which way to move it, since it is baked into decay_parameters_sha256-era provenance and re-deriving masks later means recalibrating.
| passing = [ | ||
| measurement.wmax | ||
| for measurement in validated_measurements | ||
| if _candidate_passes(config, measurement) | ||
| ] | ||
| if not passing: | ||
| raise ApplyModeError( | ||
| "No DASC Wmax candidate passed every configured quality and storage gate" | ||
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| selected_wmax = max(passing) |
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[SUGGESTION] selected_wmax = max(passing) accepts a non-contiguous passing set, which is a meaningful signal for dasc_nr.
For dasc_nr (zero recovery) quality is monotonically non-increasing in Wmax: a larger window strictly omits more heads (horizon > Wmax shrinks) and those heads are recovered as zeros, with no compensating replay. So given candidates [32, 64, 128], a result set of "32 passes, 64 fails, 128 passes" is internally inconsistent — yet max(passing) picks 128, the most aggressive setting, on the strength of a measurement that its own neighbour contradicts.
(For dasc_wr this is genuinely non-monotonic — a larger Wmax also means a longer replay suffix — so max(passing) is defensible there.)
Consider, for variant == "dasc_nr", either rejecting or warning when passing is not a prefix of the sorted candidate list, e.g.:
selected_wmax = max(passing)
if config.variant == "dasc_nr":
candidates_below = [w for w in config.wmax_candidates if w <= selected_wmax]
if set(candidates_below) != set(passing):
failed = sorted(set(candidates_below) - set(passing))
raise ApplyModeError(
"DASC-NR quality must be monotone in Wmax, but candidates "
f"{failed} failed while Wmax={selected_wmax} passed; re-check the "
"paired dense-versus-DASC measurements"
)This costs nothing when measurements are consistent and fails closed when they are not.
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In `@docs/source/guides/6_sparsity.rst`:
- Around line 139-150: Update the config example around DASCConfig to include
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| config = { | ||
| "variant": "dasc_wr", # "dasc_nr" uses zero recovery instead | ||
| "epsilon": 1e-3, | ||
| "static_gate_input": -0.3, | ||
| "wmax_candidates": [32], | ||
| # Set this to the dtype used to store A_log and dt_bias in the checkpoint. | ||
| "decay_parameter_storage_dtype": "bfloat16", | ||
| "model_id": "org/model", | ||
| "model_revision": "immutable-model-revision", | ||
| "model_config_id": "sha256:<config-digest>", | ||
| "calibration_data_id": "sha256:<dataset-and-protocol-digest>", | ||
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Show the default quality gates in the example.
Omitting these fields is valid, but DASCConfig applies defaults of 0.995, 0.98, and 0.2. _candidate_passes uses these values to select candidates, so the example hides its active selection criteria. Add the three fields with their default values.
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0.995, 0.98, and 0.2, making the active _candidate_passes selection criteria
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Claude review — findings
Scope: full review (trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). All 6 source files under modelopt/torch/sparsity/state_sparsity/ read in full, plus the guide section, CHANGELOG.rst, and the test file coverage map. Traced the mode through modelopt/torch/opt/conversion.py, opt/mode.py, and opt/config.py for registration, apply_mode/restore ordering, and the update_for_save hook, and cross-checked the Megatron GDN parameter layout against modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron_model_stats.py.
Findings: CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 1 · SUGGESTION: 3
Prior round: resolved
All three blocking findings from the last review are genuinely fixed, not papered over:
- The unsaveable-model trap is gone.
update_dasc_metadatanow warns instead of raising for recoverable staleness, and — better than what I suggested — the dtype-cast false positive is fixed at the root:validate_dasc_decay_parametersno longer compares digests but composes inverse rounding bounds for the storage and live dtypes. I worked through the four dtype combinations (fp32/bf16, bf16/bf16, bf16/fp32, fp16/bf16) and_dtype_exactly_containsclassifies each correctly, so a post-calibrationmodel.to(bfloat16)now stays valid rather than brickingmto.save()._DASCRecoverableStalenessErroras a catchable subclass is a clean way to separate "stale but serializable" from "fail closed". perplexity_retentionno longer caps atle=1.0, and both the field description and the guide now define it as dense_ppl / DASC_ppl.protected_namespaces=()is set onDASCConfigandDASCPolicy, so no import-timeUserWarningstorm.
Re-calibration also works now (replace_dasc_mode collapses the DASC entry in place rather than being blocked by next_prohibited_modes), export_policy/get_attached_dasc_policy unwrap first, and DASCLayerPolicy is in config.__all__.
The one issue worth fixing
IMPORTANT — Megatron GDN policies are silently rank-local (policy.py:47)
megatron.core.ssm.gated_delta_net.GatedDeltaNet is in _SUPPORTED_GDN_CLASS_PATHS and the guide advertises it, but nothing in the package is parallelism-aware. A_log/dt_bias are per local value head, so _model_structure() records num_value_heads // TP and DASCLayerPolicy.retained_heads holds TP-local indices — with no TP degree or shard offset anywhere in DASCPolicy, a serving runtime cannot map them back to global heads. With PP > 1 it is worse: each rank sees only its own decoder layers under pipeline-local names, so export_policy() returns a partial policy that looks complete, and two ranks can emit the same layers key with different content. _validate_measurement_geometry also forces total_heads to the rank-local count, so a caller measuring on the full model gets a confusing geometry error.
Either drop the Megatron entry for this milestone so those users fail closed on "no supported GDN modules", or record the parallel layout in the policy and validate it across ranks. Worth settling now rather than after format_version: 1 is in the wild.
Suggestions (non-blocking)
checkpoint_savingsis the only measurement leg with no model-derived bound; whole-head granularity pluspreserve_convolution_state=Truegives a sound physical ceiling of (total - retained) / total (policy.py:363-379).static_gate_inputneeds a stated safe direction — a larger gate input shortens horizons and omits more state, so it must be a lower bound, not a mean (config.py:119-122).max(passing)accepts a non-contiguous passing set, which fordasc_nr(monotone in Wmax) means selecting the most aggressive window on evidence its neighbour contradicts (policy.py:422-431).
What checked out
The decay math matches Qwen3-Next GDN: the per-token log-decay is -exp(A_log) * softplus(a + dt_bias), so ln(eps)/decay is the correct per-head token horizon, and computing it in CPU fp64 with finite/positive guards is right. _storage_cast_horizon_bounds gets the monotonicity right (+radius gives the lower horizon bound, -radius the upper), and the (|y| + smallest_subnormal) / (1 - eps/2) inverse-rounding form is the standard bound, correctly composed only when neither dtype exactly contains the other. _dtype_exactly_contains handles the awkward bf16-vs-fp32 max comparison correctly. The horizon > wmax predicate is consistent across all four sites that evaluate it, and retained/omitted genuinely partition the head indices.
Mode plumbing is sound: unique registry name (state_sparsity, matching the one-registry-per-subpackage convention), format_version present from day one, JSON-safe metadata, next_prohibited_modes containing only "dasc" so composition with quantization still works, and restore correctly validates structure but not decay parameters — right, since restore_from_modelopt_state runs before load_state_dict. replace_dasc_mode builds the new policy before mutating state, so a failed re-calibration leaves the old state intact. _supported_gdn_classes is lru_cached and resolved lazily at first use, so neither transformers nor Megatron becomes a hard import. The no-execution-change claim holds — nothing in the convert path mutates parameters or installs hooks. _get_gdn_modules sorts by module name at both build and validate time, so the structure digest is order-stable.
Risk assessment
Low. The feature is additive and opt-in, and it cannot perturb numerics or state for anyone not calling calibrate(). The remaining issue affects only Megatron GDN users, and it degrades an exported artifact rather than corrupting a checkpoint — but it is the kind of thing that is much cheaper to fix before the policy schema ships than after.
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| def _model_structure(modules: dict[str, nn.Module]) -> list[dict[str, object]]: | ||
| """Describe the layer names and head counts that define policy geometry.""" | ||
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| { | ||
| "name": name, | ||
| "num_heads": int(module.A_log.numel()), | ||
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| for name, module in modules.items() | ||
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] Under Megatron tensor parallelism this policy is silently rank-local, and nothing records that.
_SUPPORTED_GDN_CLASS_PATHS includes megatron.core.ssm.gated_delta_net.GatedDeltaNet. In Megatron, GDN value heads are sharded by TP: in_proj is a column-parallel projection producing q/k/v/z plus the per-value-head beta/alpha scalars, and A_log/dt_bias are per value head (see the accounting in modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron_model_stats.py:264), so each rank only owns num_value_heads / tp_size of them. That makes module.A_log.numel() here the local head count.
Consequences with tp_size > 1:
DASCLayerPolicy.num_heads,retained_heads, andomitted_headsare TP-local indices, andmeasurement.total_headsmust be per-rank for_validate_measurement_geometryto pass — so the meaning of every count in the exported policy depends on an unrecorded TP degree.model_structure_sha256anddecay_parameters_sha256differ per rank, so the digests are not a checkpoint-level identity.- The serving runtime that consumes
export_policy()has no way to map a local head index back to the global head layout — exactly the mapping it needs to decide which heads to drop from the persisted prefix state. - Restoring a policy calibrated at one TP size onto another fails
validate_dasc_model_structurewith the generic "does not match the model's GDN module structure", which won't point at the real cause.
Suggested fix: either record the parallel context in DASCPolicy (e.g. tensor_model_parallel_size plus a per-layer global head offset, so indices are unambiguous and a TP-size change is diagnosable), or fail closed for now — reject calibration when the Megatron GDN path is used with TP > 1 — and say so in the guide alongside the existing "KDA and serving-runtime integration are not supported" note. Given the PR is explicitly a policy-metadata milestone, failing closed is the cheaper option.
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[SUGGESTION] DASCPolicy.epsilon / static_gate_input carry no validation, unlike their DASCConfig counterparts.
DASCPolicy is a public export (it's in __all__ and in the sparsity guide), so a caller can construct one directly. With epsilon=0.0 or a negative value, validate_dasc_decay_parameters reaches scale = -math.log(epsilon) in policy.py:335 and dies with a bare ValueError: math domain error rather than the ApplyModeError every other invalid-input path in this module raises.
The restore path happens to be covered — restore_dasc_model diffs the policy against the mode config, and the config's validate_epsilon rejects it there — but that's incidental, and it means the same field is trusted in one place and validated in another.
Cheap fix: reuse the existing helper on the policy too.
@field_validator("epsilon")
@classmethod
def validate_epsilon(cls, epsilon: float) -> float:
"""Require a finite decay threshold strictly between zero and one."""
_validate_analysis_arguments(epsilon=epsilon)
return epsilon
@field_validator("static_gate_input")
@classmethod
def validate_static_gate_input(cls, value: float) -> float:
"""Require a finite representative gate input."""
_validate_analysis_arguments(static_gate_input=value)
return value
| policy = build_dasc_policy(model, config, measurements) | ||
| if dasc_indices[-1] != len(state) - 1: | ||
| manager.update_last_state_before_new_mode(model) |
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[SUGGESTION] The update_last_state_before_new_mode call fires in the one case where it seems least appropriate, and is a no-op in the case it looks written for.
update_last_state_before_new_mode runs the last mode's update_for_new_mode. The guard means:
- dasc is the last entry → skipped. Reasonable, since
update_dasc_metadatawould just re-serialize the policy you're about to overwrite (and emit spurious stale-policy warnings). - dasc is not last, i.e. some other mode (say
quantize) sits after it → that other mode'supdate_for_new_moderuns, mutating its stored config/metadata as a side effect of DASC recalibration, even though no new mode is being added.
Since replace_dasc_mode edits state[first_index] in place rather than appending, there is no "new mode" for either branch to prepare for. Either drop the call, or add a one-line comment naming the invariant it's protecting — as written a reader can't tell whether the condition is intentional or inverted.
| def _attach_policy(model: nn.Module, policy: DASCPolicy) -> None: | ||
| """Attach a JSON-safe DASC policy to an unwrapped model.""" | ||
| setattr(model, _DASC_POLICY_ATTRIBUTE, policy.model_dump(mode="json")) |
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[SUGGESTION] _attach_policy writes to whatever module it is handed, while get_attached_dasc_policy reads from unwrap_model(model, force_unwrap=True).
That asymmetry is invisible today because calibrate unwraps before apply_mode, but restore_dasc_model attaches to the module the restore machinery passes in. Any path that restores onto a wrapped model would store the policy on the wrapper and then report "Model has no valid attached DASC policy" from the getter — the same class of bug that was already fixed on the read side. Unwrapping here too makes the invariant hold by construction rather than by call-site discipline:
def _attach_policy(model: nn.Module, policy: DASCPolicy) -> None:
"""Attach a JSON-safe DASC policy to an unwrapped model."""
setattr(unwrap_model(model, force_unwrap=True), _DASC_POLICY_ATTRIBUTE, policy.model_dump(mode="json"))(The docstring already claims "an unwrapped model", so this closes the gap between the contract and the code.)
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| raise ApplyModeError( | ||
| "DASC found GDN subclasses that are not ModelOpt dynamic modules at: " | ||
| f"{', '.join(unsupported_subclasses)}; convert the module with ModelOpt or use a " | ||
| "supported class directly" | ||
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[SUGGESTION] The remediation this error suggests only exists for one of the two supported GDN families.
"convert the module with ModelOpt" is actionable for Megatron — _DynamicGatedDeltaNet is registered in DMRegistry at modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron.py:660, so a NAS/prune conversion produces a DynamicModule that _has_supported_gdn_identity accepts. There is no equivalent registration for Qwen3NextGatedDeltaNet, so an HF user with a lightly patched subclass (a common way to monkeypatch a fix or add logging, without touching decay semantics) hits a hard ApplyModeError and the only path left is "use a supported class directly" — i.e. undo their patch.
Failing closed on unknown subclasses is the right default; the message is what's misleading. Consider naming the concrete escape hatches instead, e.g. that Megatron GDN can be converted via ModelOpt NAS/prune and that HF subclasses must currently use the base class, so the reader knows which bucket they're in.
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Claude review — findings
Scope: full review (the trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). All 10 changed files opened: the 6 source files under modelopt/torch/sparsity/, the new test, the guide section, and the CHANGELOG.rst entry. Traced registration/composition through modelopt/torch/opt/conversion.py and mode.py, and the Megatron GDN surface through modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron.py and megatron_model_stats.py.
Findings: CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 1 · SUGGESTION: 4
Most impactful
IMPORTANT — under Megatron tensor parallelism the exported policy is silently rank-local (policy.py:262-270)
megatron.core.ssm.gated_delta_net.GatedDeltaNet is a declared supported class, and Megatron shards GDN value heads across TP ranks — in_proj is column-parallel, and A_log/dt_bias are per value head (cf. the accounting in megatron_model_stats.py:264). So module.A_log.numel() in _model_structure is the local head count. With tp_size > 1 that makes num_heads, retained_heads/omitted_heads, and the required measurement.total_heads all per-rank quantities whose meaning depends on a TP degree the policy never records; both SHA-256 digests then differ per rank rather than identifying the checkpoint. The consumer this milestone exists to serve — a prefix-cache serializer deciding which heads to drop — has no way to map a local head index to the global layout, and a TP-size change surfaces only as the generic "does not match the model's GDN module structure". Either record the parallel context (TP size plus per-layer global head offset) or fail closed on TP > 1 for now and note it in the guide next to the existing out-of-scope list.
Suggestions (non-blocking)
DASCPolicy.epsilon/static_gate_inputare unvalidated, unlike theirDASCConfigtwins; a directly-constructed policy reachesmath.log(epsilon)and raises a bareValueError: math domain errorinstead ofApplyModeError(config.py:239).replace_dasc_mode'supdate_last_state_before_new_modeguard fires only when dasc is not last, mutating an unrelated mode's stored state during recalibration, and is a no-op in the case it appears written for (conversion.py:144-146)._attach_policydoes not unwrap whileget_attached_dasc_policydoes — worth closing by construction rather than by call-site discipline (conversion.py:42-44)._reject_unconverted_gdn_subclassestells the user to "convert the module with ModelOpt", which is only actionable for Megatron GDN (_DynamicGatedDeltaNetis inDMRegistry); there is no equivalent forQwen3NextGatedDeltaNetsubclasses (policy.py:171-176).
What checked out
Everything from the previous round reads as addressed: protected_namespaces=() on both model_-prefixed schemas, perplexity_retention now gt=0.0 with the ratio orientation pinned down in the guide, the explicit _SUPPORTED_GDN_CLASS_PATHS set replacing the class-name substring match, get_attached_dasc_policy unwrapping, convert_dasc_model raising ApplyModeError on a missing measurements kwarg, DASCLayerPolicy exported, and the save/compose path now warning on recoverable staleness instead of making the model unsaveable — with export_policy keeping the hard failure where it is actionable, and replace_dasc_mode giving recalibration a real path around next_prohibited_modes.
Newly reviewed this round, and correct as far as I can tell:
- Decay math.
-exp(A_log) * softplus(dt_bias + g)is the GDN per-token log decay, andln(eps)/decayinverts it to a token horizon; CPU fp64 throughout with finite/positive guards. Sign analysis holds:ln(eps) < 0anddecay < 0, so horizons are strictly positive. - Inverse cast bounds.
_storage_cast_horizon_boundsgets the monotonicity right — the horizon decreases in bothA_loganddt_bias, soloweruses+radiuson both andupperuses-radius._dtype_exactly_containscorrectly finds fp16 and bf16 mutually non-containing (fp16 loses onmax, bf16 oneps) and composes both radii only in that case. Widening the radius by the live dtype's roundoff when storage already contains it is conservative in the safe direction and matches the documented intent that a bf16-live tensor is itself a rounded view of the fp32 checkpoint value. - Retention predicate consistency. Strict
horizon > wmaxis used identically at all four sites that evaluate it (_validate_measurement_geometry,build_dasc_policy,DASCPolicy.validate_policy, and the impossibility check invalidate_dasc_decay_parameters), andretained/omittedgenuinely partition the head indices.max(passing)maximizes savings among candidates that clear every gate, which matches the stated selection rule. - Mode/state plumbing. Registry name
state_sparsityis unique across the nine registries;ModeloptStateManager.state_dict()returns the live_statelist, soreplace_dasc_mode's in-place edit and de-duplication actually take effect;apply_modedoes acceptmode_kwargsand excludes it from serialized state, which is the right home formeasurements;format_versionis present from day one; metadata is JSON-safe. Registration is reachable becausemodelopt/torch/__init__.pyimportssparsityeagerly andsparsity/__init__.pypulls instate_sparsity.restoredeliberately validates only structure, not decay parameters — correct, sincerestore_from_modelopt_stateruns before weights load. - Plugin laziness. No hard imports of transformers or megatron-core;
_supported_gdn_classesresolves lazily behindfind_specand degrades to a warning. - No-execution-change claim. Nothing in the convert path mutates parameters or installs hooks.
Risk assessment
Low-to-moderate. The feature is additive and opt-in, so existing users cannot be perturbed by it; the residual risk is confined to the feature's own users. The one blocking item is a correctness gap for the Megatron half of the declared support matrix, and it is cheap to close either way — record the TP context, or reject TP > 1 until a later milestone.
Note: reviewed statically — test execution was not available in this sandbox, so the "119 passed" in the PR description is unverified from my side. I also could not import megatron-core here; the TP sharding claim is inferred from this repo's own GDN parameter accounting rather than read off Megatron source, so please sanity-check it against your Megatron version.
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Validate epsilon and static_gate_input in DASCPolicy.
restore_dasc_model rejects malformed values when they differ from the valid DASCConfig, but DASCPolicy still accepts them when it parses an attached policy. An edited policy with epsilon <= 0 can reach _storage_cast_horizon_bounds() through export_policy() or update_dasc_metadata(), where math.log(epsilon) raises an unwrapped ValueError. Non-finite values can also bypass the horizon checks and produce invalid export results.
Reuse _validate_analysis_arguments in field validators and reject non-finite values at the schema boundary:
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature
Adds an experimental
modelopt.torch.sparsity.state_sparsityAPI for the first ModelOpt DASC milestone:A_loganddt_biasin CPU FP64;Wmaxthat passes caller-supplied quality, lifecycle, and physical-storage evidence;This change is policy-only and does not alter model execution. Runtime ragged checkpoint packing, suffix replay, KDA support, quantization, and GDN/KDA kernels are intentionally out of scope. A serving implementation must preserve convolution state and materialize ordinary dense recurrent state before continuation.
Usage
measurementscontains paired dense-versus-DASC quality and physical checkpoint-storage results for every configured candidate. The full schema and example are documented in the sparsity guide.Testing
PYTHONPATH=$WORKTREE python -m pytest -q tests/unit/torch/sparsity/state_sparsity/test_dasc.py tests/unit/torch/sparsity/weight_sparsity/test_sparsify.py— 119 passedPYTHONPATH=$WORKTREE python -m pytest -q tests/unit/torch/sparsity/attention_sparsity/test_sparse_attention_mode.py— 2 passedQwen3NextGatedDeltaNet— horizon analysis, calibration, and policy export passedpre-commit run --files <all changed files>— all hooks passedgit diff --check— cleanBefore your PR is "Ready for review"
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Algorithm reference: DASC: Decay-Aware State Compression for Hybrid Linear-Attention Serving.
The mode stores calibration evidence rather than treating the weight-derived horizon as sufficient proof. The first runtime milestone should consume this policy in the serving prefix-cache serializer/loader and qualify matched HBM capacity plus prefix-hit latency.
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