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Type of change: Bug fix + new example

Two related changes for the Megatron-Bridge Minitron prune/quantize launcher flows:

  1. Fix pruned-HF export crash on containers that reject config-only save.
    #2159 added a config-only HF export path gated only on
    hasattr(AutoBridge, "from_hf_config"). Some Megatron-Bridge versions
    (e.g. nemo:26.04) expose from_hf_config but reject a config-only
    save_hf_pretrained (ValueError: save_hf_pretrained requires a pretrained HuggingFace model), so prune_minitron.py crashed instead of using the
    intended dummy-model fallback. Now it attempts the config-only save and
    falls back to the dummy-model path on ValueError.

  2. Add Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B launcher examples (mbridge_prune.yaml,
    mbridge_quantize.yaml) on nemo:26.08. Prune targets 3B active with an
    MMLU gate; quantize runs W4A16 NVFP4 4/6 PTQ via the w4a16_nvfp4_4o6
    recipe with tp_size=1 (static-block NVFP4 MSE is unsupported with TP>1).

Usage

uv run launch.py --yaml examples/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/mbridge_prune.yaml --yes
uv run launch.py --yaml examples/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/mbridge_quantize.yaml --yes

Testing

Verified end-to-end on OCI-HSG:

  • Nano prune (nemo:26.04) — exercises the fallback path: config-only save
    raised the ValueError, the fallback caught it and exported via the
    dummy-model path. mmlu_10pct_bs32 = 0.5196 (gate 0.50) PASS; vLLM gen PASS.
  • Lightning prune (nemo:26.08) — config-only export path: score = 0.6000
    (gate 0.58) PASS, 3.00B active params; vLLM gen PASS.
  • Lightning quantize (nemo:26.08) — recipe PTQ + unified-HF export;
    MMLU 0.7741 (gate 0.75) PASS.

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The fallback fix addresses the mbridge_prune launcher CI failure introduced by #2159.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a pruning workflow for Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B with calibration, quality scoring, checkpoint export, and multi-GPU generation.
    • Added a four-GPU NVFP4 W4A16 quantization workflow with Hugging Face conversion and MMLU evaluation.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved hybrid model export by falling back to dummy-model export for supported configuration-only export failures.
    • Added clearer logging and handling for supported export failures while preserving unrelated errors for investigation.

Config-only HF export (AutoBridge.from_hf_config + save_hf_pretrained)
was gated only on hasattr(AutoBridge, 'from_hf_config'). Some
Megatron-Bridge versions (e.g. nemo:26.04) expose from_hf_config but
reject config-only save_hf_pretrained, so pruning crashed instead of
using the intended dummy-model fallback. Attempt the config-only save
and fall back to the dummy-model path on ValueError.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
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The change improves hybrid non-VLM HF export fallback handling and adds Nemotron-3.5-Lightning pruning and NVFP4 quantization pipelines with checkpoint export and vLLM evaluation or generation.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Hybrid HF export fallback
examples/megatron_bridge/prune_minitron.py
Config-only export uses a reconstructed bridge. Supported missing-pretrained-model ValueError failures trigger dummy-model export. Other ValueError exceptions propagate.
Nemotron pruning pipeline
tools/launcher/examples/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/mbridge_prune.yaml
Adds four-GPU pruning with calibration, parameter targets, MMLU scoring, pruning limits, a score floor, HF checkpoint export, and vLLM generation.
Nemotron quantization and evaluation
tools/launcher/examples/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/mbridge_quantize.yaml
Adds four-process NVFP4 W4A16 quantization, unified HF checkpoint conversion, and dependent vLLM MMLU evaluation with a 0.75 accuracy floor.

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The PR adds a pruned-HF export fallback and two launcher examples; reported validation passes, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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Add a regression test for the config-only export fallback.

The tests do not simulate save_hf_pretrained() raising ValueError. Assert that the dummy-model export path completes after this failure.

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In `@examples/megatron_bridge/prune_minitron.py` around lines 725 - 735, Add a
regression test covering the export flow around save_hf_pretrained: mock it to
raise ValueError, then assert that the dummy-model fallback executes and
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- Around line 38-44: Add nodes: 1 to the slurm_config anchor in both
tools/launcher/examples/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/mbridge_prune.yaml
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tools/launcher/examples/nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/mbridge_quantize.yaml
lines 38-44, alongside gpus_per_node: 4.

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- Around line 725-735: Add a regression test covering the export flow around
save_hf_pretrained: mock it to raise ValueError, then assert that the
dummy-model fallback executes and completes successfully, including the expected
export result or call. Preserve the existing successful config-only path
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Prune: Megatron-Bridge Minitron prune to 3B active with an MMLU gate
(0.58), then a vLLM sanity generation, on nemo:26.08 (config-only HF
export; no transformers<5 needed).

Quantize: W4A16 NVFP4 4/6 PTQ via the w4a16_nvfp4_4o6 recipe, unified-HF
export, and an MMLU gate (0.75). tp_size=1 because static-block NVFP4
(MSE) weight quantization is unsupported with TP>1.

Verified on OCI-HSG: prune score 0.60 (gate 0.58) PASS; quantize MMLU
0.7741 (gate 0.75) PASS.

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Scope: full review (trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). 3 changed files (+131/-7), all reviewed: examples/megatron_bridge/prune_minitron.py and the two new launcher YAMLs. Note the two-dot diff against the base tip also surfaced examples/speculative_decoding/distributed_generate/* changes — those are main-side commits absent from this shallow branch, not part of this PR, and were excluded.

Findings — CRITICAL: 0, IMPORTANT: 0, SUGGESTION: 2

  1. Contradictory warning on the new fallback path — when the ValueError fallback fires, the pre-existing "Megatron-Bridge lacks config-only HF export" warning fires immediately after the new one and is factually wrong for that path (the bridge has from_hf_config; it just rejected the save). Both messages print back to back on the nemo:26.04 run from the PR description.
  2. except ValueError is broader than the condition it targets — a genuine ValueError from inside a real export attempt also reroutes to the dummy-model path, which the adjacent warning says cannot round-trip a pruned native NemotronH config.

What I verified

  • Control flow is behavior-preserving for every pre-existing case: non-hybrid or VLM providers, and bridges without from_hf_config, still take the dummy-model path exactly as before. exported_config_only correctly replaces use_config_only_export with no dangling references, and pruned_bridge is (re)bound on whichever path runs before copy_hf_ckpt_remote_code. The failure is version-uniform across ranks, so the try/except cannot make one rank diverge into the fallback while peers sit in a collective — consistent with the pp_size 4 Nano run passing.
  • No mode/state, config-schema, or public-API surface is touched, so no modelopt_state migration or CHANGELOG.rst entry is required; the N/A markers in the checklist are right (the bug is from Minitron pruning fixes for Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B and Deepseek #2159, same unreleased cycle).
  • Both YAMLs: every flag exists in the target scripts (prune_minitron.py, quantize.py, export_quantized_megatron_to_hf.py), the recipe path resolves to modelopt_recipes/huggingface/models/nvidia/Nemotron-3.5-Lightning-30B-A3B-BF16/ptq/w4a16_nvfp4_4o6.yaml, and the structure (anchors, ntasks_per_node/nproc_per_node, per-run scratch, ntasks_per_node: 1 for the vLLM/eval task) matches the established Nano siblings. --tp_size 1 yields DP=4 per quantize.py's documented DP = world_size / (tp * pp * cp), which is consistent with the static-block NVFP4 comment, and the gates (0.58 vs measured 0.6000; 0.75 vs 0.7741) leave sane margins.

Risk: low. Example scripts and launcher configs only, no library code. The fix narrows a real crash path and preserves prior behavior; both findings are diagnostic-quality issues that do not block.

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- prune_minitron.py: re-raise ValueErrors that aren't the config-only
  capability error so real export bugs fail at their origin; only warn
  'lacks config-only HF export' when from_hf_config is truly absent (the
  ValueError fallback path already logs its own message).
- Lightning mbridge prune/quantize yamls: set nodes:1 explicitly.

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# Per-run scratch (fresh cicd_<id> dir) so each run quantizes fresh.
output_dir: /scratchspace

# 1) NVFP4 Quantize via the ptq recipe and export to a deployable unified-HF checkpoint.

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since there's an existing mbridge_qad.yaml example that includes PTQ & Export is it possible to reuse that but skip QAD?

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I want to add this as a nmm-sandbox test to catch regressions. QAD test requires more compute so not sure if it will be enabled in sandbox tests or not

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could you still reuse the qad example but add a variable to enable skipping QAD?

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you could even add MMLU as a 4th step there but make it optional

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QAD script is configured for 32k seq len, 512 samples while the quantize one I am using 512 seq len and 256 samples to make it run faster. Would have to

  1. Make tokenization and distill steps optional
  2. Configurable seq len and calib samples in quantize.py
  3. Add MMLU check

It might require more changes in our launcher core logic to support this. I will leave it out of this PR

ntasks_per_node: 4
gpus_per_node: 4

# 2) MMLU (10% sample) on the exported NVFP4 checkpoint via vLLM, gated on a lower bound.

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is MMLU still a good metric to optimize for? maybe MMLU Pro or an agentic benchmark would be better suited

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Ideally yes we want to use new metrics but needs more work to set it up in sandbox tests. But currently MMLU is simplest to use using our lm eval scripts. Same approach as MLM sandbox tests.

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