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[TRTLLM-16725][feat] Add Model Streamer checkpoint loading - #20781
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No actionable comments were generated in the recent review. WalkthroughThe change adds typed checkpoint formats and I/O policies, refactors model weight loading into specialized strategies, adds Model Streamer loading, and centralizes PyTorch distributed initialization. It also updates checkpoint registrations, configuration surfaces, integrations, and tests. ChangesCheckpoint formats and I/O policies
Weight loading strategies
Model Streamer and distributed initialization
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ModelLoader
participant ModelStreamerLoadStrategy
participant gather_tensor_names_from_rank_to_node
participant SafetensorsStreamer
participant ModelCallbacks
ModelLoader->>ModelStreamerLoadStrategy: load_weights(model, config)
ModelStreamerLoadStrategy->>ModelCallbacks: plan_model_streamer_load()
ModelStreamerLoadStrategy->>gather_tensor_names_from_rank_to_node: gather required tensor names
ModelStreamerLoadStrategy->>SafetensorsStreamer: stream requested tensor batches
SafetensorsStreamer->>ModelCallbacks: deliver tensors to group callbacks
ModelCallbacks-->>ModelStreamerLoadStrategy: finish plan after groups load
ModelStreamerLoadStrategy-->>ModelLoader: return loaded status and metrics
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ModelLoaderprivate helpers to the new APIs. The new APIs aremodel_hooks,post_transform,GmsWeightSource,MxWeightSource,CheckpointWeightSource,check_writer_identityandpublish_as_source. Most changes are renames of patch targets.- Behaviors covered:
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/distributed/initialization.py:
- Around line 267-278: Update the rendezvous flow around rendezvous() and
mpi_comm().bcast so rank 0 catches socket bind or hostname-resolution OSError
failures, broadcasts the failure value to every rank, and each rank raises a
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/checkpoints/auto_mapper.py:
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This review covers the 1 commit on top of #20713 (0d4ec58 "Add Model Streamer checkpoint loading", i.e. fc912b037f..0d4ec586bc); #20713's changes are reviewed in that PR. I found 2 blockers, 7 possibly blocking and 12 required items; they are inline except the ones listed below. Most runtime items are reached once a model implements plan_model_streamer_load() (#20782 for Kimi K3). No CI run is recorded on the PR yet.
- [Blocker] +1 to brnguyen2's (resolved) thread on
model_streamer/model_loading.pyaboutdistributed=ranks_on_node > 1, case (b): the reply that Model Streamer creates node-local subgroups does not resolve it. In runai-model-streamer 0.17.0,create_local_distribution_group()creates every node's group withdist.new_group()under the comment "All processes must create ALL subgroups in the same order. This is a global collective operation" (distributed_streamer.py:375-378), but a rank withis_distributed=Falsereturns before it (:105-107). On a multi-node load where one node has a single rank (e.g. 9 ranks on 8-GPU nodes, or an uneven hostfile) and the default group is device-bound (the CuteDSL/DeepGEMM MegaMoE bootstraps passdevice_id, andmodel_streamer_torch_distributed()reuses that group), torch builds those subgroups withncclCommSplitover the whole default group, so the other nodes hang; with the group this PR creates, it hangs underTORCH_DIST_INIT_BARRIER=1. Please pass the sameis_distributedvalue on every rank (e.g.world_size > 1and some node has more than one rank; Model Streamer handles a one-rank node group). - [Required] +1 to brnguyen2's review summary (docs) and chienchunhung's thread on
model_loading.py:217("document it"):docs/source/features/checkpoint-loading.mdstill lists onlynative,rank_striped_read_aheadandauto, andgit grep -e model_streamer -e RUNAI_STREAMER -- docs/finds nothing. The new value needs its requirements (runai-model-streamer>=0.17.0,load_format=AUTO, built-in HF loader, no partial loading, a model withplan_model_streamer_load()), that it never falls back, theRUNAI_STREAMER_DIST/RUNAI_STREAMER_DIST_GLOBALbehavior (including the free-GPU-memory condition behind "does not share the reads"), and the log lines it prints. - [Required] +1 to brnguyen2's review summary (dependency):
runai-model-streameris still not declared anywhere (no requirements entry; the existing precedent is themxextra insetup.py), the license/vulnerability scan the PR template asks for new dependencies is not recorded (the wheel is Apache-2.0 and pulls inhumanize), and both tests intest_model_streamer_public_api.pyimportorskipit, so no CI stage checks the wheel API this code relies on (tensor_names/owned,file_streamer.is_distributed,RUNAI_STREAMER_DIST=1on mixed-backend groups). - [Required] +1 to brnguyen2's review summary on the field description: it still says "Kimi K3 only" (
llm_args.py:7124and the three schema copies), but no model in this PR implementsplan_model_streamer_load(), so on a build without #20782 every model_streamer load, Kimi K3 included, fails after the model is built. Please reword it to "models that implementplan_model_streamer_load()" (or land it with #20782). - [Required] PR description: the CodeRabbit block still describes files that do not exist on this branch (
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[Blocker] Under MPI this temporary nccl group makes Model Streamer's torch NCCL communicators the first NCCL communicators in the process. On the first stream_files() (already for the safetensors header reads), Model Streamer 0.17's find_local_ranks() runs dist.new_group(range(W)) + all_gather_object on this group, which is a CUDA collective on an NCCL group, so NCCL initializes here; the node broadcast groups follow. TRT-LLM's own communicators are created only at the first allreduce/allgather, and that is the only place it sets its NCCL defaults with no-overwrite setenv: NCCL_RUNTIME_CONNECT=0 ("Need static connection initialization for accurate KV cache size estimation", cpp/tensorrt_llm/common/opUtils.cpp:111-119), NCCL_GRAPH_REGISTER=0, and NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=0 when ipcNvlsFabricUsable() is false ("NCCL aborts during init if it tries NVLS multicast but the fabric/IMEX plane can't bind it", opUtils.cpp:120-126; same in cpp/tensorrt_llm/runtime/ncclCommunicator.cpp:150-164, which notes "NCCL caches the value on its first read"). So after a model_streamer load under MPI with pp_size=1 and no MegaMoE/Ray group (the main setup for this feature), TRT-LLM's communicators run with NCCL's defaults for the whole job: connections are set up lazily after KV-cache sizing (OOM risk at high free_gpu_memory_fraction), and NVLS stays on for GB200/GB300 nodes without IMEX. This is the same ordering problem that 1d46219 (nvbugs/6899677) fixed for NCCL_GRAPH_REGISTER and the PP communicator.
Fix: before the first Model Streamer NCCL use, apply the same defaults with setdefault semantics (NCCL_RUNTIME_CONNECT=0, NCCL_GRAPH_REGISTER=0, NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=0 when the NVLS fabric is not usable), ideally through one helper exposed from C++ that getComm()/createComm() also call. To confirm the impact: run a model_streamer load with NCCL_DEBUG=INFO and compare the runtime-connect/NVLS settings TRT-LLM's communicators report against a native load, including on a GB200 node without IMEX.
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Still open at 55aecfe: the rendezvous now uses _mpi_rendezvous_store(), but initialization.py:373 still creates a plain nccl default group, and Model Streamer initializes NCCL on it in the first stream_files() (model_loading.py:245; find_local_ranks() runs all_gather_object there during the header reads). With pp_size=1 no TRT-LLM communicator exists yet: init_pp_comm() runs only for PP (pyexecutor/engine/model_setup.py:388-389), and the first getComm()/createComm() comes after model_loader.load() (model_engine.py:279). Those are still the only places that set NCCL_RUNTIME_CONNECT=0, NCCL_GRAPH_REGISTER=0 and, without a usable NVLS fabric, NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=0 (cpp/tensorrt_llm/common/opUtils.cpp:118-126, cpp/tensorrt_llm/runtime/ncclCommunicator.cpp:159-164), and NCCL caches each value on its first read. So an MPI model_streamer load with pp_size=1 and no MegaMoE group still leaves TRT-LLM's communicators on NCCL's defaults for the whole job: connections are set up after KV-cache sizing, and NVLS stays on for GB200/GB300 nodes without IMEX. To resolve: apply the same defaults with setdefault semantics before init_torch_distributed() in this context, ideally through one helper exposed from C++ that getComm()/createComm() also call, and check the result with NCCL_DEBUG=INFO against a native load.
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Still open at 7e6332c (the 2026-11-09 push only rebased this commit). Under MPI with pp_size=1 and no MegaMoE/Ray group, initialization.py:373 creates a plain nccl default group. The first stream_files() (model_loading.py:245) then initializes NCCL on it: Model Streamer's safetensors header read runs find_local_ranks() (new_group + all_gather_object), even when no rank shares reads. TRT-LLM sets NCCL_RUNTIME_CONNECT=0, NCCL_GRAPH_REGISTER=0 and, without a usable NVLS fabric, NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=0 only in getComm()/createComm() (cpp/tensorrt_llm/common/opUtils.cpp:118-126, cpp/tensorrt_llm/runtime/ncclCommunicator.cpp:159-164). Those first run after model_loader.load() (model_engine.py:279), and NCCL keeps each value from its first read. So TRT-LLM's communicators keep NCCL's defaults for the whole job: connections are set up after KV-cache sizing, and NVLS stays on for GB200/GB300 nodes without IMEX. To resolve: apply the same defaults with setdefault semantics before init_torch_distributed() in model_streamer_torch_distributed(), ideally through one helper exposed from C++ that getComm()/createComm() also call (as #20805 did for the PP communicator). Then check the NCCL_DEBUG=INFO output against a native load.
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Still open at f651f5f: the 2026-11-10 push left initialization.py and model_streamer/model_loading.py unchanged. Under MPI with pp_size=1 and no MegaMoE/Ray group, every multi-rank load (model_loading.py:414, also when no rank shares reads) creates a plain nccl default group at initialization.py:373. The first stream_files() (model_loading.py:245) initializes NCCL on it, because the safetensors header read runs Model Streamer's find_local_ranks() (new_group + all_gather_object) before it looks at is_distributed. TRT-LLM sets NCCL_RUNTIME_CONNECT=0, NCCL_GRAPH_REGISTER=0 and, without a usable NVLS fabric, NCCL_NVLS_ENABLE=0 only in getComm()/createComm() (cpp/tensorrt_llm/common/opUtils.cpp:118-126, cpp/tensorrt_llm/runtime/ncclCommunicator.cpp:159-164). Those first run after model_loader.load() (model_engine.py:280); init_pp_comm() runs only with PP (engine/model_setup.py:389). NCCL keeps each value from its first read, and destroying the group at initialization.py:381 does not reset it. So TRT-LLM's communicators keep NCCL's defaults for the whole job: connections are set up after KV-cache sizing, and NVLS stays on for GB200/GB300 nodes without IMEX. To resolve: apply the same defaults with setdefault semantics before init_torch_distributed() in model_streamer_torch_distributed(), ideally through one helper exposed from C++ that getComm()/createComm() also call. Then compare the NCCL_DEBUG=INFO output against a native load.
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[Possibly blocking] This raise (and the empty-group ValueError at :306, and anything get_weight_source_map() / plan_model_streamer_load() raise at :416-417) happens before gather_tensor_names_from_rank_to_node(), which under MPI does a world-wide mpi_comm().allgather(local) (:154) with no timeout. Plans are per rank ("Only put tensors that the current rank needs", :49), so under EP/PP a checkpoint problem can hit only some ranks (e.g. one expert's or the last PP stage's tensors missing from the index, or an incomplete checkpoint copy on one node). Those ranks return and the others wait in the allgather. With an LLM-owned MPI session the proxy then aborts with a generic "MPI worker exited unexpectedly" (the KeyError is only in that rank's log); with an externally owned session (multi-node trtllm-llmapi-launch) startup hangs, because worker_main returns normally on an init failure (tensorrt_llm/executor/worker.py:608-617) and the remote session only forwards futures that raise. The new test even asserts "A missing tensor fails before any call between ranks".
Suggest carrying each rank's local error through the existing gather (e.g. allgather (hostname, names, error)) and raising on every rank afterwards, as the endpoint bcast in initialization.py:366-376 already does for rank 0, and wrapping get_weight_source_map() / plan_model_streamer_load() the same way. This is reached once a model implements the plan (#20782).
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[Possibly blocking] Model Streamer decides per rank, on every stream_files() call, whether it shares reads: on an nccl group it falls back on this rank alone when free GPU memory is below twice the batch's largest tensor (distributed_streamer.py:143-147 in 0.17.0). This check then raises only on the rank that fell back, while its node peers have already created the node group, partitioned the reads, and wait in dist.broadcast for that rank inside get_tensors() (until RUNAI_STREAMER_DIST_TIMEOUT, 600 s by default, or blocked in NCCL comm init). Free memory does differ per rank here, because consume() holds GPU clones of incomplete groups and plans differ per rank. The result is a 10-minute stall, or a hang on externally owned MPI sessions, instead of every rank failing with the reason.
Suggest agreeing on the decision across the node before get_tensors(): e.g. allgather streamer.file_streamer.is_distributed (or the node's minimum free memory against twice the batch's largest tensor before stream_files()) and raise on every rank if any rank of the node falls back.
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[Possibly blocking] This picks a free port, closes the socket and broadcasts the port; rank 0's TCPStore binds it only later, inside init_process_group(init_method=f"tcp://{address}:{port}") (:379-384), with no retry. That is the window ensure_cutedsl_torch_distributed() in this file removes ("Binding the store itself leaves no window between choosing a port and binding it, which drawing a free port first and letting init_process_group bind it later does", :103-107), and that ensure_deepgemm_torch_distributed() retries (:267-278). If another process takes the port in between (busy hosts, several servers or disaggregated context/generation workers starting on one node), rank 0 fails with EADDRINUSE and the other ranks wait on the store until the 10-minute timeout, so the load fails intermittently.
Suggest the CuteDSL pattern: rank 0 creates dist.TCPStore(addr, 0, world_size, is_master=True, wait_for_workers=False) inside the try that builds the broadcast payload, broadcasts (addr, store.port) or the error, and every rank passes store= to init_torch_distributed(); ideally one helper shared with ensure_cutedsl_torch_distributed().
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[Possibly blocking] RUNAI_STREAMER_DIST=0 is accepted here as the way to turn sharing off, but the batches are still built from the node-wide union (:313-330). With sharing off, every rank of an N-GPU node therefore reads from storage and copies to its GPU every tensor that any rank of the node needs, then drops the ones it does not need in consume(): about N times the storage reads and H2D copies of a shared load, and one host ring per process (default limit 40 GB; only the shared path divides it by the ranks of the node), e.g. 8x reads and up to ~320 GB of host RAM on an 8-GPU EP node.
Suggest building the batches from this rank's local_names when sharing is off. Measurement that decides it: on one 8-GPU node, load a DeepSeek-V3/Kimi-K3-size MoE checkpoint with checkpoint_io_policy=model_streamer and RUNAI_STREAMER_DIST=0 vs checkpoint_io_policy=native, and compare load time, bytes read from storage (iostat) and peak host RSS per node; slower than native, or host OOM, makes it a blocker.
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[Required] AGENTS.md asks schema changes to "add regression coverage for the affected accepted/rejected values". tests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py already has per-value rows for this field (:149-150 for serve, :169-170 for disagg) but none for the new value. Please add (generator.SERVE_SCHEMA, {"checkpoint_io_policy": "model_streamer"}, True) and (generator.DISAGG_SCHEMA, {"context_servers": {"checkpoint_io_policy": "model_streamer"}}, True).
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[Required] The description says the group is destroyed "so the code that runs after the load sees the same process-group state as without Model Streamer", but two pieces of process state survive it: init_process_group() wraps sys.excepthook with torch's [rankN] _distributed_excepthook, which destroy_process_group() does not undo, and Model Streamer sets RUNAI_STREAMER_PROCESS_GROUP_SIZE process-wide on its first session (distributed_streamer.py:301-302) and never removes it, so a later load in the same process with a different number of ranks per node tunes its reader for the old value.
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[Required] ModelStreamerPlan adds a second per-model weight-loading path (group callbacks) next to load_weights + the weight mapper, which reload() and weight updates keep using, and a second description of which tensors each rank needs next to the existing WeightLoadPlan / WeightDemand / CheckpointCatalog (models/checkpoints/weight_load_plan.py: WeightDemand is "An atomic tensor group with partial-order and scheduling hints" with source_names / destination_ranks / priority, and "Only EXACT coverage is safe for destination-aware selective I/O"). Every model that supports Model Streamer then keeps two loaders that must produce the same weights with nothing checking it (a model loaded with model_streamer could differ from the same checkpoint after a refit), and the next selective-I/O policy has to pick one of the two frameworks.
Please either derive the streamer's tensor selection from an EXACT WeightLoadPlan + CheckpointCatalog and keep only the per-group load callbacks Model-Streamer-specific, or explain in the PR description why that framework can't carry it; and for the first model that implements the plan, add a test that compares a streamed load with a native load of the same small checkpoint.
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[Required] CODING_GUIDELINES.md: "Variables and functions not part of a class's or module's public interface should be prefixed with an underscore." ModelLoader only uses check_model_streamer_support() and load_weights_with_model_streamer(); get_weight_source_map, gather_tensor_names_from_rank_to_node, stream_batched_tensors and run_model_streamer are module-internal (used here and by tests), and calling run_model_streamer() directly would skip load_weights_with_model_streamer()'s device setup and final synchronize. Please prefix them with an underscore, as gms/model_loading.py does for its helpers.
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[Required] CODING_GUIDELINES.md (Static Typing): "Always annotate functions. Make the return type None if the function does not return anything". This file was fully annotated before; the new tests from here on (:517, 546, 606, 673, 710, 771, 837), their fakes (e.g. :524-532, 558-562, 619-632, 717-731, 774-808) and both tests in test_model_streamer_public_api.py have no parameter/return annotations, while the earlier new tests (:260-502) do. Please annotate them (monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, tmp_path: Path, -> None, and the fakes' parameters).
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[Nice to have] ModelStreamerPlan is the interface models will implement, but its contract lives in # comments (model_loading.py:39-60) and omits rules a plan must follow. batch_index must be pure and rank-independent, since it is called while iterating a hash-ordered set (:326). A tensor shared by groups is one clone (:351-353), so callbacks must not modify inputs in place. A group spanning batches holds its clones until it completes. Zero-size entries arrive as CPU tensors (runai 0.17.0). Callbacks run inside the temporary process group (:366); finish() runs after it is destroyed (:376). Please move this into the class docstring and iterate sorted(node_local_tensor_names) at :326.
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[Nice to have] gather_tensor_names_from_rank_to_node allgathers every rank's full name list across the whole world (model_loading.py:154, or all_gather_object at :148 on Ray) and drops the other hosts' entries only afterwards (:155). Every rank therefore receives all world_size lists. For a TP-only load of a large MoE checkpoint (about 10^5 names per rank) on 64 ranks, that is hundreds of MB to transfer and unpickle per rank, and only the node's own entries are used. Please gather the names within the node instead (local_mpi_comm() if its host grouping matches, or split mpi_comm() by hostname), and keep the world-wide gather for hostnames only.
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[Nice to have] model_streamer is resolved (model_loader.py:478-483) and then rewritten to NATIVE (:534-540), while the actual dispatch reads llm_args.checkpoint_io_policy again (:855, :1167). If resolution changes later (for example, auto selects Model Streamer, or a native fallback is added), the loader that actually runs will not change with it. The preconditions are also written twice, with different wording: validate_model_streamer_config (llm_args.py:8001-8016, load_format='AUTO') and _checkpoint_io_incompatibility_reason (:418-451, 'auto'). Please resolve the policy once and pass the effective loader down, share one predicate between both checks, and move the RUNAI_STREAMER_DIST override (initialization.py:352-358, 389-390) next to the code that reads it (model_loading.py:222-230).
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[Nice to have] The streaming path has some avoidable startup cost. When reads are not shared (one rank per node, or RUNAI_STREAMER_DIST=0), runai 0.17.0 already yields a fresh tensor.to(device) copy, but consume() clones it again (model_loading.py:351). Each batch is its own stream_files() call that re-reads its shards' headers, so many small batches parse the same headers repeatedly. get_weight_source_map builds a path string per tensor (:96-99), and the context allgathers hostnames again (initialization.py:365) although ranks_on_node is known. Please skip the clone when reads are not shared, merge small batches up to a byte budget, build one path per file, and pass ranks_span_nodes in.
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[Nice to have] Some checks can never fire and only add paths to maintain. stream_batched_tensors already raises when a tensor is omitted (model_loading.py:242-245), so the incomplete check at :370-375 cannot be reached; only a fake in the tests gets there. In gather_tensor_names_from_rank_to_node, rank is unused (:118), and peers always includes this rank's own entry, so the documented RuntimeError (:156-157) cannot happen. Batches are never empty (:204-205). torch.cuda.set_device() (:415) changes global state that the worker already set (base_worker.py:162). Please turn these into asserts or drop them, remove rank, derive the counters from len(), and use a scoped torch.cuda.device(...).
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[Nice to have] No CI test runs the real multi-rank path. Group creation and teardown, shared reads and the RUNAI_STREAMER_DIST override are tested only with fakes (test_model_loader_checkpoint_io.py:546-707, :771-835). get_weight_source_map runs only in test_model_streamer_public_api.py:23-30, which skips without CUDA and the runai wheel, and CI does not install that wheel. This test's mock model has no modules (:421), so it never checks that post_load_weights runs after streaming. Please add a 2-GPU mpirun test in a multi-GPU test-db list (toy model, tmp safetensors checkpoint; assert the weights and that no process group is left), cpu_only tmp_path tests for get_weight_source_map, and a post-load assertion here.
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[Nice to have] Some of the test setup here is dead or duplicated. get_backend_config is patched at :573 and :644, but dist.is_initialized() is patched to False, so model_streamer_torch_distributed never calls it (initialization.py:344-347). _StreamingModel.modules (:280-281) is never called. _model_streamer_load (:409-477) rebuilds the ModelLoader stub that is already hand-written in test_model_loader_mx.py:658-717 and test_model_loader_gms.py:108-170. The next time ModelLoader.load() reads a new llm_args field, all three fakes will need edits. Please drop the dead patches and modules, and share one stub builder across the checkpoint I/O, MX and GMS tests.
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[Nice to have] The checkpoint_io_policy description still ends with "Runtime-ineligible loads fall back to native before model mutation" (llm_args.py:7128-7129), right after the model_streamer text. Readers of the schema or API docs may think model_streamer falls back as well. It never does: unsupported configurations raise an error (model_loader.py:478-482). The dependency is described only as "a wheel with tensor_names support" (:7125), with no package name and no note that TensorRT-LLM does not install it. Please limit the fallback sentence to auto and rank_striped_read_ahead, state that model_streamer fails instead, name runai-model-streamer>=0.17.0, and regenerate the three schema snapshots.
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[Nice to have] Several errors don't give users enough to act on. The mapping-mismatch errors (initialization.py:346, :363) don't show the expected and actual rank and world size. The "does not share the reads" error (model_loading.py:227-230) only suggests RUNAI_STREAMER_LOG_TO_STDERR. A user-set RUNAI_STREAMER_DIST=auto is kept, and it makes the streamer refuse a cuda:nccl,cpu:gloo group. The error should say to unset it or set it to 1 (0 turns sharing off), and mention the free-GPU-memory requirement. The truncated name lists (:107, :244, :311) should give the total count. model_loader.py:481 also adds a prefix to reasons that already start with checkpoint_io_policy='model_streamer' (:433, :438).
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[Nice to have] Several names don't describe what they hold. tensor_name_to_group_idx maps each name to a list of indices (model_loading.py:338). groups_having_the_tensor (:345), load_those_tensors (:358), waiting/arrived (:334, :337) and gather_tensor_names_from_rank_to_node (:115) read awkwardly. ModelStreamerMetricNames members repeat the MODEL_STREAMER_ prefix (:72-79), and counts are logged as floats (model_streamer_node_tensors=3.0000, :250-252, :425). "ModelStreamer" and "Model Streamer" are both used (e.g. initialization.py:311, :325, :352). Consider tensor_name_to_group_indices, group_indices, load_group, pending_names/arrived_tensors and gather_node_tensor_names. Please also drop the enum prefix, log counts as ints, and spell "Model Streamer" the same way everywhere.
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To reduce the complex code in model_loader.py, created new files to hold helper functions: - tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/checkpoints/gms/model_loading.py - tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/checkpoints/mx/model_loading.py - tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/checkpoints/memory_init.py - tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/checkpoints/model_hooks.py Refactor ModelLoader.load() to be more compact and simpler to understand. Create private helper functions in model_loader.py to hold load_format=auto loading path, which includes the HF loading, the rank-striped-read-ahead loading and custom checkpoint loading options. Remove an old duplicate doc docs/source/torch/features/checkpoint_loading.md. Clean up the checkpoint loading doc docs/source/features/checkpoint-loading.md: - Add missing checkpoint format. - Simplify explanation. - Remove extra details most users don't need to know. Signed-off-by: Yijing Li <257409031+yijingl-nvidia@users.noreply.github.com>
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Add checkpoint_io_policy="model_streamer", which loads a Hugging Face checkpoint with Run:ai Model Streamer. Model Streamer reads each byte from storage once per node and shares it among the ranks of the node, so large checkpoints load faster. A model describes what it needs in plan_model_streamer_load(), which returns a ModelStreamerPlan: groups of checkpoint tensor names, each with a function that loads the group. The new models/checkpoints/model_streamer/model_loading.py streams only the tensors that the ranks of a node need, with run_model_streamer(), and loads each group as soon as its tensors arrive. A separate draft checkpoint, such as a DSpark drafter, is read with the regular checkpoint reader. The next commit adds this for Kimi K3. Signed-off-by: Yijing Li <257409031+yijingl-nvidia@users.noreply.github.com>
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Description
This PR adds
checkpoint_io_policy="model_streamer", which loads a Hugging Face checkpoint with Run:ai Model Streamer. Model Streamer reads each byte from storage once per node and shares it among the ranks of the node, so large checkpoints load faster.To use Model Streamer, an LLM model implements
plan_model_streamer_load(), which returns aModelStreamerPlan: groups of checkpoint tensor names, each with a function that loads the group. The new filetensorrt_llm/_torch/models/checkpoints/model_streamer/model_loading.pystreams only the tensors that the ranks of a node need, and loads each group as soon as its tensors arrive. This PR adds only the shared part. #20782 adds the plan for Kimi K3.model_streamerhas no fallback. If the model or the setup cannot use it, the load stops with an error that gives the reason.ncclgroup for the streaming and destroys it when the streaming ends, so the code that runs after the load sees the same process-group state as without Model Streamer. Rank 0 hosts the rendezvous store of this group on a port that the OS assigns, with the same code as the CuteDSL MegaMoE bootstrap. After the streaming, the load also restoressys.excepthook, whichinit_process_group()replaces. A group that already exists, such as the group of a Ray worker or of the CuteDSL MegaMoE bootstrap, is used and kept.nccl. For an existing group that sends CUDA tensors over NCCL, for example acuda:nccl,cpu:gloogroup, TRT-LLM therefore setsRUNAI_STREAMER_DIST=1during the streaming, unless the user setRUNAI_STREAMER_DIST. An existing group that sends CUDA tensors over another backend stops the load with an error.RUNAI_STREAMER_DIST_GLOBAL=1asks Model Streamer to share reads across nodes.RUNAI_STREAMER_DIST=0, the ranks do not share reads, and each rank streams only its own tensors.docs/source/features/checkpoint-loading.mddescribes the policy, its requirements and its environment variables.ModelStreamerPlanis a new plan type, next toWeightLoadPlaninmodels/checkpoints/weight_load_plan.py.WeightLoadPlanis advisory today: no model builds an exact plan, it does not allow a tensor in two groups, and it has no load functions. So this PR keepsModelStreamerPlan. A later change can derive the tensor names from an exactWeightLoadPlan.This PR must merge after #20713. Its branch contains the commits of #20711 and #20713. Review only the last commit: https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/pull/20781/files/c0f85c03a67bb24be4d2eb0df08689bed66d7f2a..f651f5fecd8db7bc4593b7f9dc0e86d550a40cf8
Test Coverage
19 tests added, 5 tests changed:
tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_model_loader_checkpoint_io.pytests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_model_streamer_public_api.pytests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.pytests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.pytests/unittest/usage/test_llmapi_config_capture.pyPR Checklist
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PR description clearly explains what and why. If using CodeRabbit's summary, please make sure it makes sense.
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These PRs refactor checkpoint loading and add Model Streamer loading. They merge in this order, top to bottom.
checkpoint_io_policyfrom plain strings to the string enumCheckpointIOPolicy.CheckpointFormatfor the built-in checkpoint formats, make the checkpoint I/O helpers take onlyLoadFormat, and make the checkpoint I/O policy resolution easier to read.distributed/initialization.py.ModelLoader.load()shorter: move its MX, GMS, memory and model-hook helpers to new files inmodels/checkpoints/.BaseCheckpointLoader.modeling_kimi_linear.pytomodeling_kimi_k3_loader.py.checkpoint_io_policy="model_streamer", which loads a checkpoint with Run:ai Model Streamer.🤖 Generated with Claude Code