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Addresses the completed CodeRabbit review findings on #2388.

Changes:

  • extract one decay-tensor validator shared by horizon analysis and export validation
  • reject empty, non-1D, unequal-shape, non-floating, or non-finite decay tensors before inverse-bound calculations
  • add a NaN export regression
  • document the actual sequential composition of distinct storage/live dtype rounding bounds and single counting when dtypes match

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  • New Features

    • Added configuration options for epsilon and static gate inputs used during sparsity analysis and calibration.
    • Analysis and calibration now require matching epsilon, static gate input, and storage data type settings.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved validation of sparsity decay parameters, including shape, type, and finite-value checks.
    • Corrected rounding-bound calculations to avoid unnecessary error accumulation for widening conversions.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified requirements for consistent analysis and calibration settings.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for rounding-bound calculations and non-finite decay parameter rejection.

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The policy now separates GDN decay validation from conversion, shares the storage-dtype alias, and avoids redundant rounding bounds for widening casts. DASC documentation and tests cover matching analysis parameters and invalid or non-finite decay tensors.

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GDN decay policy updates

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Shared validation and dtype contract
modelopt/torch/sparsity/state_sparsity/config.py, modelopt/torch/sparsity/state_sparsity/policy.py
The configuration shares the supported storage-dtype alias. Policy callers validate tensor shape, dtype, and finiteness before explicit CPU float64 conversion.
Storage rounding-bound composition
modelopt/torch/sparsity/state_sparsity/policy.py, tests/unit/torch/sparsity/state_sparsity/test_dasc.py
Analysis composes distinct lossy casts and excludes redundant FP32 widening from storage rounding bounds.
Deployment validation and DASC guidance
modelopt/torch/sparsity/state_sparsity/policy.py, docs/source/guides/6_sparsity.rst, tests/unit/torch/sparsity/state_sparsity/test_dasc.py
Deployment validation preserves ApplyModeError handling. Documentation requires matching analysis parameters. Tests cover non-finite decay parameters and dtype-specific bounds.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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Mixed-dtype DASC exports can accept slightly more decay drift than the documented float32-storage policy permits. Correct the rounding-bound calculation before merge.

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if not a_log.dtype.is_floating_point or not dt_bias.dtype.is_floating_point:
raise ValueError("GDN A_log and dt_bias must use floating-point dtypes")
if storage_dtype is not None:
_validated_gdn_decay_tensors(a_log, dt_bias)

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[SUGGESTION] Two of the three call sites discard the validator's return value, and here that means a wasted materialization.

_validated_gdn_decay_tensors does two jobs: it raises on invalid input, and it returns CPU float64 copies. compute_gdn_decay_horizons (line 114) uses the copies; this call site and validate_dasc_decay_parameters (line 473) only want the raising behavior, so the .to(device="cpu", dtype=torch.float64) pair plus the isfinite scan is computed and thrown away. On this path the same tensors are then cast to storage_dtype and re-validated inside compute_gdn_decay_horizons, so the pre-cast float64 copy is pure overhead (small — these are per-head 1-D tensors — but it reads as accidental).

The behavior is correct either way: the pre-cast call is genuinely needed so an integer A_log/dt_bias is rejected before .to(storage_dtype) silently makes it floating-point. It's the coupling that's awkward. Splitting the concern would make each caller's intent explicit:

def _validate_gdn_decay_tensors(a_log: torch.Tensor, dt_bias: torch.Tensor) -> None:
    """Reject decay tensors that cannot produce well-defined horizons."""
    if a_log.ndim != 1 or dt_bias.ndim != 1 or a_log.shape != dt_bias.shape or not a_log.numel():
        raise ValueError(
            "GDN A_log and dt_bias must be non-empty one-dimensional tensors of equal shape"
        )
    if not a_log.dtype.is_floating_point or not dt_bias.dtype.is_floating_point:
        raise ValueError("GDN A_log and dt_bias must use floating-point dtypes")
    if not torch.isfinite(a_log).all() or not torch.isfinite(dt_bias).all():
        raise ValueError("GDN decay parameters must be finite")


def _validated_gdn_decay_tensors(
    a_log: torch.Tensor, dt_bias: torch.Tensor
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
    """Validate decay tensors and return deterministic CPU float64 values."""
    _validate_gdn_decay_tensors(a_log, dt_bias)
    return (
        a_log.detach().to(device="cpu", dtype=torch.float64),
        dt_bias.detach().to(device="cpu", dtype=torch.float64),
    )

Then this line and line 473 call _validate_gdn_decay_tensors(...), and only line 114 takes the converted pair. isfinite on the live tensor is equivalent to on the float64 copy — widening a float never introduces or removes NaN/Inf.

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Addressed in #2391. Validation-only callers now use _validate_gdn_decay_tensors without materializing CPU float64 copies; only horizon computation uses the converting wrapper.

Comment thread docs/source/guides/6_sparsity.rst Outdated
storage slack of its own; decay tensors that are live in BF16 or FP16 are still validated against
that live dtype's rounding.
tensor dtype. When they differ, their inverse rounding bounds are composed in sequence; when they
match, the duplicate cast is counted once. The default ``float32`` adds no storage slack of its own;

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[SUGGESTION] The retained float32 sentence now contradicts the composition rule added right before it.

The new text correctly describes _storage_rounding_radius (dict.fromkeys dedupes, then for dtype in reversed(cast_dtypes) composes). But under that same rule, storage_dtype=float32 with a tensor live in BF16 gives cast_dtypes == (float32, bfloat16) — two distinct dtypes, so a float32 rounding step is composed on top of the BF16 one. So "the default float32 adds no storage slack of its own" only holds when the live dtype is also float32 (where the duplicate is collapsed), which is exactly the case the preceding sentence already covers.

It's negligible in magnitude, not a correctness problem — but the paragraph is the one place users go to reason about the tolerance, and as written the two sentences disagree. Since the dedupe clause already says what happens when the dtypes match, the simplest fix is to drop the redundant claim:

Policy validation allows only the rounding introduced by the declared storage dtype and the live
tensor dtype. When they differ, their inverse rounding bounds are composed in sequence; when they
match, the duplicate cast is counted once. Decay tensors that are live in BF16 or FP16 are still
validated against that live dtype's rounding, so the default float32 storage dtype contributes
only a negligible float32 step beyond it.

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Addressed in #2391. The contradictory no-slack wording is removed; the guide now describes the default float32 contribution as a negligible composed step when the live dtype differs.

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Full review of all 3 changed files (policy.py, 6_sparsity.rst, test_dasc.py). I traced the decay-tensor dataflow through both consumers — analyze_gdn_decay_analyze_gdn_modulescompute_gdn_decay_horizons, and export_policy / update_dasc_metadatavalidate_dasc_decay_parameters_storage_cast_horizon_bounds_storage_rounding_radius. I did not run the test suite (approval not available in this environment); relying on the reported 24 passed / 1 skipped.

This fixes a real silent-acceptance hole, not just duplication

Worth stating plainly because the PR description undersells it. _storage_cast_horizon_bounds computes lower/upper arithmetically with no finiteness gate, so a NaN in A_log/dt_bias propagated into both bounds, and every comparison in validate_dasc_decay_parameters is False against NaN:

  • head_upper <= policy.selected_wmax → False
  • head_lower > policy.selected_wmax → False
  • stored < lower * (1.0 - numerical_slack) → False
  • stored > upper * (1.0 + numerical_slack) → False

So before this change, export_policy() on a model with non-finite decay parameters returned a policy that looked fully validated. validate_dasc_model_structure doesn't catch it either — it only compares layer names and A_log.numel(). Hoisting the finiteness check ahead of the bound computation closes that, and the new export regression covers exactly that path. Wrapping as ApplyModeError with the module name is also the right choice: it keeps update_dasc_metadata's existing catch-and-warn contract intact, so a save still degrades to a staleness warning rather than hard-failing.

The extraction preserves behavior at both other call sites. In _analyze_gdn_modules the validator is now inside if storage_dtype is not None, which reads as if validation became conditional — it hasn't, because compute_gdn_decay_horizons validates unconditionally on the line below. The pre-cast call is still load-bearing there: without it, an integer A_log would be silently converted by .to(storage_dtype) before the floating-point check ever ran. The tightening from dtype-only to also ndim/shape/numel in validate_dasc_decay_parameters is safe — calibrate already rejects non-1-D tensors, so no policy that reaches validation could have been produced from geometry the new check rejects.

The doc rewrite is a genuine accuracy fix. The old "the effective tolerance is the wider of the two" did not describe _storage_rounding_radius, which dedupes via dict.fromkeys and then composes sequentially over reversed(cast_dtypes). The replacement matches the code.

Suggestions (non-blocking)

  1. policy.py:205 — the validator's return value is discarded at 2 of its 3 call sites, making the pre-cast CPU float64 materialization dead work. Suggested split into a raise-only _validate_gdn_decay_tensors plus the converting wrapper (inline).
  2. 6_sparsity.rst:196 — the retained "the default float32 adds no storage slack of its own" contradicts the newly documented composition rule when storage is float32 and the live dtype is BF16/FP16 (cast_dtypes == (float32, bfloat16) → both steps compose). Suggested rewording inline.
  3. policy.py:304_storage_cast_horizon_bounds's docstring still says "before one storage cast", but _storage_rounding_radius composes up to two casts, and its own docstring already says so ("storage and live-dtype materialization casts"). Not a line this PR touches, but since the PR is specifically about documenting that composition consistently, it's the natural place to finish the job:
    """Bound horizons compatible with the current parameters under storage and live-dtype casts."""

Related: the new NaN regression is appended to test_bf16_storage_round_trip_loaded_in_fp32_preserves_policy, whose name promises a BF16 round-trip. It builds a fresh model with default float32 storage, so it's testing something that test doesn't advertise — a failure there will point at the wrong thing. Worth lifting into its own test_non_finite_decay_parameters_are_rejected_on_export.

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Low. Refactor-plus-hardening confined to one module, no modelopt_state schema change, no mode registration or public-API signature change, no export-format impact. The only behavior changes are additional rejections on paths that previously either raised a bare ValueError or — in the NaN case — wrongly succeeded; both are strictly-safer directions. Approving.

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Exclude exact widening casts from _storage_rounding_radius.

When storage_dtype is torch.float32 and the live tensor is torch.float16 or torch.bfloat16, the loop still adds a non-zero torch.float32 radius even though widening to torch.float32 is exact. validate_dasc_decay_parameters, called by export_policy, can therefore accept decay drift outside the documented float32-storage contract. Include only lossy casts in this bound.

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In `@modelopt/torch/sparsity/state_sparsity/policy.py` around lines 288 - 289,
Update the cast handling around cast_dtypes and the _storage_rounding_radius
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The remaining review-summary cleanups are also addressed in #2391: _storage_cast_horizon_bounds now documents both storage and live-dtype casts, and the NaN regression is a standalone test_non_finite_decay_parameters_are_rejected_on_export.

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The outside-diff exact-widening finding is fixed in #2392. _storage_rounding_radius now removes a dtype when it exactly contains the other representation, with direct FP16/BF16 plus FP32 regressions; FP16 versus BF16 still composes both non-containing bounds.

Closes the remaining review-contract and cleanup findings from #2389 and
#2390.

Changes:
- make the documented measurement recipe forward all three horizon
inputs: epsilon, static gate input, and decay-parameter storage dtype
- use one shared storage-dtype type alias across config, policy
metadata, public analysis, and runtime dtype mapping
- split validation-only checks from CPU float64 materialization
- finish the storage/live cast-bound documentation and clarify float32
contribution
- give the NaN export regression its own accurately named test

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- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved decay-parameter validation across storage and live tensor
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- Added validation for non-finite decay parameters during policy export.

- **Documentation**
- Updated sparsity guidance with epsilon and static gate input
configuration examples.
- Clarified how dtype conversions and rounding affect policy validation.

- **Refactor**
- Improved consistency and reliability of decay analysis and policy
validation without changing supported dtype options or defaults.

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