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[TRTLLM-17360][feat] Add Beam StairCase operators and model components - #21471

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Add Beam StairCase/ModelingV2 operators, dense and MoE blocks, the six-layer BF16 component, and the directly constructed 52-layer NVFP4 component with attention TP4 and MoE TP4/EP1 on four GB300 GPUs.

Part 1/4 of TRTLLM-17024, implementing TRTLLM-17360.

This is the component boundary: it does not register Beam with the runtime or expose a runnable LLM() / trtllm-serve target. The route, engine adapter, checkpoint-loader adapter, engine tests and named whole-model accuracy gate are introduced together in #21473. Minimum operator certification drivers and CPU component contracts accompany this PR; broader component tests are in #21472.

The component corrections preserve sliding-attention semantics during cache estimation, propagate background read failures, use shared ModelOpt recipe/exclusion handling, and reject unsupported RoPE/sliding-window configurations. The unrelated shared FlashInfer fallback-selection change is excluded.

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#21471 → #21472 → #21473 → #21474. All target main and later PRs are cumulative. These additive corrections have been propagated through #21473. The optimization branch and NVIDIA:feat/reflection-beam have not been rewritten or updated by this correction.

Validation

At 878b140a879193e21f78cfef16ad6be8622b2c4f:

  • 96 host-side checks pass: 34 component contracts and 62 static ModelingV2 claims. The host adapter stubs native imports; this is not GPU validation.
  • Pre-commit and AST test-list validation pass. CPU contracts are listed in L0; operator drivers are covered by the existing ModelingV2 GPU list.
  • No whole-model GSM8K gate is required at this component-only boundary. The shared claims tests remain unchanged.
  • Matching-build GPU execution, remaining human review items (including FP32 controls and operator organization), and required CI/code-owner approval remain outstanding.

No checkpoint weights or private evidence are included.

Dev Engineer Review

The change adds standalone Beam components for a six-layer BF16 model and a 52-layer NVFP4 model, plus SM 103 attention, routing, MoE, normalization, residual, and activation operators. The NVFP4 component targets TP4/EP1. The Beam models are not registered as LLM() or trtllm-serve targets; serving integration remains out of scope.

The new checkpoint layouts and loaders validate configuration, quantization recipes, tensor metadata, and rank partitions. The components also validate inputs and cache metadata. These paths need GPU and multi-rank verification.

The shared attention test helper now uses each cell’s window and block limit. The NVFP4 GEMM test now passes the selected backend. Catalog comments also changed. Review comments identify nine catalog cells without test drivers and a reported swiglu_fp32 setup failure under a TF32 environment-variable guard. Neither issue has a confirmed resolution in the supplied evidence.

Reported validation includes host-side checks and pre-commit checks, but does not establish GPU validation. The supplied CI update reports one successful PR pipeline and one failed L0 merge-request pipeline. The failing pipeline needs follow-up. The named full-model accuracy gate remains an integration requirement.

QA Engineer Review

The change adds operator test modules and shared fixtures, updates two shared test modules, adds CPU component-contract tests, and modifies test-db/l0_cpu.yml. That list includes test_component_contracts.py. No manual-QA list changed. No changed test functions, IDs, selectors, or waivers are listed in the changed test-list file.

Tests cover operator references and input validation, routing and expert calculations, attention windows and cache behavior, NVFP4 quantization, checkpoint recipes, and loader prefetch errors. The nine reported catalog-cell coverage gaps and the unresolved swiglu_fp32 setup failure need follow-up. GPU execution and the full-model accuracy gate are not established.

Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.

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Source files

  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/catalog/activation/flashinfer_silu_and_mul.py — Catalog comments now describe broader shape coverage. Verify the test driver covers the declared cells.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/catalog/gemm/cublas_mm.py — Catalog comments now refer to covered targets. Verify the target coverage.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/catalog/residual/__init__.py — Adds a package initializer and documentation; no runtime behavior change is described.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/README.md — Documents component scope, hardware targets, and serving limitations. Verify these descriptions against the components.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/__init__.py — Adds package metadata only.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/dense_block_bf16__sm_103__tp1/__init__.py — Adds package metadata only.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/dense_block_bf16__sm_103__tp1/block.py — Adds a directly constructed BF16 dense block with strict configuration, weight, and step checks. Verify supported layers and attention execution on SM 103.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/__init__.py — Adds license metadata only.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/_attention.py — Adds full- and sliding-attention paths with cache checks. Verify paged-context and cache metadata behavior on GPU.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/component.py — Adds rank-local NVFP4 loading and MoE execution. Verify multi-rank loading, failure handling, and output agreement.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/component_bf16.py — Adds rank-local BF16 loading and model operations. Verify loading, collectives, and diagnostic checks across TP ranks.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/dispatch_combine.py — Adds the SM 103 dispatch/combine API. Verify provider calls and route scaling on supported hardware.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/expert.py — Adds NVFP4 expert projections. Verify backend selection and intermediate precision on SM 103.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/layout.py — Adds NVFP4 storage layout and recipe validation. Verify real checkpoint metadata and rank partitions.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/layout_bf16.py — Adds BF16 tensor ownership and partition checks. Verify layer schedules and TP4 partition coverage.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/loader.py — Adds packed tensor and scalar reads with validation. Verify malformed and incomplete checkpoints.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/loader_bf16.py — Adds catalog validation and tiled reads. Verify prefetch error propagation and FP8 conversion with representative checkpoints.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/model.py — Adds the 52-layer forward path and logit-row selection. Verify cache geometry and full-model GPU execution.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/moe_bf16__sm_103__tp1/__init__.py — Adds package metadata only.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/moe_bf16__sm_103__tp1/moe.py — Adds BF16 routed MoE execution. Verify routing configuration and documented CUDA-graph limitations.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/moe_expert_bf16__sm_103__tp1/__init__.py — Adds package metadata only.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/moe_expert_bf16__sm_103__tp1/expert.py — Adds a BF16 SwiGLU expert. Verify projection precision and weight-load failure behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/moe_router_bf16__sm_103__tp1/__init__.py — Adds package metadata only.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/moe_router_bf16__sm_103__tp1/router.py — Adds grouped sigmoid top-k routing. Verify tie ordering, bias handling, and route weights on GPU.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/activation/beam_logit_softcap.py — Adds logit softcapping and input checks. Verify saturation and invalid-input behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/activation/swiglu_fp32.py — Adds FP32 SwiGLU intermediates. Verify test setup without the reported TF32 environment-variable conflict.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/attention/beam_neox_rope.py — Adds NeoX RoPE. Verify position handling, pairing, and rounding on GPU.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/attention/beam_nope_query_scale.py — Adds position-dependent query scaling. Verify block-5 scaling on GPU.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/attention/beam_output_gate.py — Adds per-head output gating. Verify dtype-specific rounding and shape checks.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/moe/beam_dispatch_combine.py — Adds route-weighted expert combination. Verify route order, per-route rounding, and scaling.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/moe/beam_grouped_topk_router.py — Adds grouped top-k routing and reference logic. Verify route IDs and normalized weights.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/norm/beam_rmsnorm_fp32.py — Adds FP32 RMSNorm math. Verify rounding and high-spread inputs on GPU.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/residual/beam_depth_residual.py — Adds layer-dependent residual scales. Verify coefficients and BF16 rounding.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/small_model_prefill_bf16__sm_103__tp1/__init__.py — Adds package metadata only.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/small_model_prefill_bf16__sm_103__tp1/generation.py — Adds greedy generation and cache lifecycle management. Verify release, prefix reuse, and context-position checks.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/small_model_prefill_bf16__sm_103__tp1/model.py — Adds the six-layer BF16 model and request/cache checks. Verify prefill and inference on SM 103.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/sparse_block_bf16__sm_103__tp1/__init__.py — Adds package metadata only.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/sparse_block_bf16__sm_103__tp1/block.py — Adds sparse decoder blocks with sliding and full attention. Verify layer-specific cache windows and the MoE path.

Test files and test lists

  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml — Adds unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/test_component_contracts.py to the CPU CI list.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/attention/test_modeling_v2_thop_attention.py — Updates the shared attention helper to use cell windows and block limits. Verify existing and Beam cases receive the expected metadata.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/gemm/test_modeling_v2_nvfp4_gemm.py — Passes the cell backend selection to the shared NVFP4 GEMM test. Verify backend selection for certified cells.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/moe_dispatch_combine_bf16__sm_103__tp1/_dispatch_combine_cases.py — Adds dispatch/combine fixtures and golden outputs. This helper is not a test-list entry.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/moe_expert_bf16__sm_103__tp1/_expert_cases.py — Adds expert golden cases and numerical controls. This helper is not a test-list entry.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/moe_router_bf16__sm_103__tp1/_router_cases.py — Adds router fixtures and comparison rules. This helper is not a test-list entry.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/activation/test_modeling_v2_beam_flashinfer_silu_and_mul.py — Adds shared activation certification cells. Verify that each catalog cell has a test driver.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/activation/test_modeling_v2_beam_logit_softcap.py — Tests softcap references, saturation, and invalid inputs. GPU execution is not established.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/activation/test_modeling_v2_beam_swiglu_fp32.py — Tests FP32 SwiGLU stages and precision fixtures. Resolve and rerun the reported setup failure.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/attention/test_modeling_v2_beam_neox_rope.py — Tests RoPE reference agreement and invalid inputs. GPU certification is not established.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/attention/test_modeling_v2_beam_nope_query_scale.py — Tests query scaling and invalid positions. GPU certification is not established.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/attention/test_modeling_v2_beam_output_gate.py — Tests output gating, rounding, and validation errors. GPU certification is not established.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/attention/test_modeling_v2_beam_thop_attention.py — Adds full- and small-model attention cases, including paging and sliding-window histories. No changed test-list entry names this test.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/gemm/test_modeling_v2_beam_cublas_mm.py — Adds dense and head GEMM cells. Verify that declared cells run on the intended backend.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/gemm/test_modeling_v2_beam_nvfp4_gemm.py — Adds TP4 expert GEMM cells. Verify CUTLASS execution on supported hardware.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/moe/test_modeling_v2_beam_dispatch_combine.py — Tests route order, golden outputs, and route-rounding effects. GPU execution is not established.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/moe/test_modeling_v2_beam_grouped_topk_router.py — Tests router references and invalid inputs. GPU execution is not established.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/norm/test_modeling_v2_beam_flashinfer_rmsnorm.py — Adds shared RMSNorm certification cells. Verify that declared shapes have test drivers.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/norm/test_modeling_v2_beam_rmsnorm_fp32.py — Tests RMSNorm precision and one-ULP bounds. GPU execution is not established.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/quantization/test_modeling_v2_beam_fp4_quantize.py — Adds Beam NVFP4 quantization cells. Verify each cell on native GPU hardware.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/residual/test_modeling_v2_beam_depth_residual.py — Tests residual coefficients, rounding, and invalid inputs. GPU execution is not established.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/test_component_contracts.py — Tests cache compatibility, loader failures, and quantization configuration contracts. Listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.

Provide dense and MoE components, cached BF16 small-model execution and the 52-layer NVFP4 TP4 target with BF16 KV. Keep reviewed loading checks and opt-in diagnostics. Include the shared paged-context capability dependency.

Exclude the test suite, standard serving registration, speculative decoding, FP8 KV and disaggregation. This is the first boundary in the four-part merge-back sequence.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Gluhovskoi <mgluhovskoi@nvidia.com>
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The pull request adds Beam numerical operators, standalone BF16 components and generation, four-rank BF16 and NVFP4 checkpoint and inference components, and related tests and documentation.

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Beam ModelingV2

Layer / File(s) Summary
Numerical, attention, and MoE operators
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/catalog/*, tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/beam/ops/*
Adds Beam activation, attention, MoE, normalization, and residual operators with references and catalog cells. Adds operator certification tests and shared attention-window and GEMM backend test updates.
Standalone BF16 components and generation
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/{dense_block*,moe_*,sparse_block*,small_model*}
Adds directly constructed BF16 blocks, MoE components, a six-layer model, and a request controller for prefill, decode, sampling, and cache management.
TP4 layouts and checkpoint readers
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/{layout*,loader*}
Defines BF16 and NVFP4 tensor layouts, rank ownership, recipe validation, safetensors metadata validation, tiled reads, and rank-local loading.
TP4 execution and full-model inference
tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/beam/full_model_nvfp4__sm_103__tp4/{_attention.py,component*,dispatch_combine.py,expert.py,model.py}
Adds TP4 attention and component execution, NVFP4 expert dispatch, and a 52-layer full-model forward path. CPU component-contract tests and Beam documentation are included.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant BeamSmallModelGenerator
  participant KVCacheManagerV2
  participant BeamSmallModelPrefillBf16Sm103Tp1
  participant TorchSampler
  BeamSmallModelGenerator->>KVCacheManagerV2: obtain cache context and capacity
  BeamSmallModelGenerator->>BeamSmallModelPrefillBf16Sm103Tp1: run prefill or decode
  BeamSmallModelPrefillBf16Sm103Tp1-->>BeamSmallModelGenerator: return logits
  BeamSmallModelGenerator->>TorchSampler: sample from logits
  TorchSampler-->>BeamSmallModelGenerator: return token and finish reason
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Suggested reviewers: litaotju

Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 2aa5c

Built wheels can lack required Beam operators, and B300 tests can fail during setup. Address these issues before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 2aa5c

This change does not expose a new serving endpoint. The inspected state-transition safeguards limit exposure, while incomplete failure-path validation leaves some uncertainty.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected exposure is bounded to callers directly constructing components, supplying checkpoint directories, and managing requests in their execution process or rank group. The evidence does not establish a new remote or cross-tenant entrypoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The checkpoint-to-component boundary enforces configuration and metadata compatibility before writes. Streaming failures leave usability false, and the inspected compute guard rejects components without a completed all-rank load. These are compatibility and publication controls, not proof of checkpoint provenance.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Both loaders catch TileReader construction errors and short-circuit completion checks when an error exists, allowing the failure status to reach collective agreement without accessing an unassigned load order. This counterevidence rejects the proposed constructor-failure agreement gap; runtime fault injection was not performed.
Pre-merge checks: Passed 4 · Failed 1

Failed Failed checks: 1 warning

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 63.82% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Passed Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the Beam StairCase operators and model components added by the PR.
Description check Passed The description explains the changes, scope, and validation. Validation covers test coverage, but the template's PR Checklist is missing.
Linked Issues check Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Docstring coverage is 63.82% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 199 functions across 58 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)

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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Nitpick Add a test for the new paged-context fallback check.

673-673: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a test for the new paged-context fallback check.

_fallback_serves_paged_context changes the fallback selection. A small BF16 paged-context request now stays on FlashInfer when the fallback kernel is missing. The existing test tests/unittest/_torch/attention/test_flashinfer_trtllm_gen_fmha.py covers the page-size-128 exclusion. It does not cover this lookup. A regression could therefore send requests to a fallback that the thop op rejects.

Add a case to that file. Monkeypatch thop.fused_context_fmha_kernel_exists to return False. Call _fallback_has_paged_context_kernel.cache_clear() before and after the patch. Use BF16, use_paged_context_fmha=True, page size 32 and num_contexts in 1..4. Assert that _is_supported_with_reason does not return the "small-batch BF16 context attention" reason. Add a second case with the attribute deleted, which asserts that the previous selection is kept.

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Add regression coverage in the existing FlashInfer FMHA tests for the
`_fallback_serves_paged_context` check used by `_is_supported_with_reason`. For
BF16 paged-context requests with page size 32 and 1–4 contexts, verify that a
missing `thop.fused_context_fmha_kernel_exists` kernel does not select the
“small-batch BF16 context attention” fallback; also verify that deleting the
attribute preserves the prior selection. Clear
`_fallback_has_paged_context_kernel`’s cache before and after each patched
scenario.

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Nitpick Add regression tests for checkrecipe and the NVFP4 partition rules.

301-339: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add regression tests for check_recipe and the NVFP4 partition rules.

check_recipe decides whether routing accepts the checkpoint. It checks quant_algo, group_size (including its int type), kv_cache_quant_algo, and the exclude_modules pattern match against expert and higher-precision modules. No test in this PR exercises these rejection paths. The PR states that the test suite comes in #21472. The same gap applies to QuantSpec.packed_interval/scale_interval and check_partition.

Without tests, these regressions can go unnoticed:

  • A pattern change that lets an expert projection through exclude_modules.
  • A group_size of 16.0 that passes the check.
  • A packed or scale interval that is off by a factor of 2 or 16 for down_proj.

Smallest practical scenario: create a CPU-only pytest under tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/beam/, for example test_beam_layout.py. Build tensor_specs from a minimal valid config dict. Then assert the following:

  1. check_recipe accepts the reference exclude_modules list.
  2. check_recipe raises when "*mlp.experts*" is added.
  3. check_recipe raises when "lm_head" is removed.
  4. check_recipe raises on group_size=16.0.
  5. For down_proj, packed_interval(r) == (1, 320r, 320r+320) and scale_interval(r) == (1, 40r, 40r+40).

As per path instructions: "For each new or materially changed observable behavior, determine whether this PR adds, updates, or clearly identifies an existing test that meaningfully exercises the change."

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Add CPU-only regression tests for check_recipe and the NVFP4 partition rules,
building tensor_specs from a minimal valid configuration. Verify acceptance of
the reference exclude_modules list and rejection when expert projections are
excluded, lm_head is not excluded, or group_size is 16.0; also exercise
check_partition and assert down_proj packed_interval and scale_interval produce
the expected per-rank intervals.

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Nitpick Add tests for the checkbatchmetadata acceptance and rejection rules.

249-346: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add tests for the check_batch_metadata acceptance and rejection rules.

check_batch_metadata is the only guard before thop_attention runs on a caller-supplied cache. It encodes several rules:

  • Contexts come first.
  • context_lens[i] == n and request_type == 0 for context requests.
  • Paged-context FMHA is required when past > 0.
  • Generation requests have exactly one token and request_type == 1.
  • max(kv_lens) <= mgr.max_seq_len.
  • The BF16 dtype, kv-head count, and head_dim must match.

Without the FMHA rule, a context call over a cached prefix attends only to the new rows. That produces wrong logits with no error. The PR defers tests to #21472, so nothing in this change covers these branches.

Smallest practical scenario: create a CPU-only pytest under tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/beam/, for example test_beam_attention_metadata.py. Use a TrtllmAttentionMetadata stub, or a SimpleNamespace subclassed to pass isinstance, with a fake manager. Assert the following:

  1. A mixed batch of 1 context and 2 generation requests returns [(past, n), ...] in row order.
  2. A context request with past > 0 and use_paged_context_fmha=False raises.
  3. A generation request with n=2 raises.
  4. layer_offsets without layer_idx raises in local_layer_index.

As per path instructions: "A new or changed validation rule, error path, fallback ... with no meaningful test."

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@pengbowang-nv, could you help to review this PR as trt-llm-torch-attention-devs? Thanks~

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Componentsmodules/attention (35%); modules/qk-rope-gating (20%); fmha/flashinfer-trtllm-gen (15%); integration/attention-tests (10%); integration/model-config (10%); unmapped (10%)
Tagsalgorithm:dense (100%); representation:gqa (100%); phase:prefill (60%); phase:decode (40%); features:rope (40%); features:qk-norm (20%); features:paged-kv (40%); context:llm (100%)
PR effort8 points — Attention review must reconcile model-specific rounding, RoPE versus NoPE scaling, sliding/full windows, cached generation, TP4 head ownership and build-dependent dispatch. Existing attention kernels are reused; the score reflects contract integration rather than total model size.
ImportanceImportant — Added model.py/modeling.py introduce a 52-layer Beam target. The attention contract combines normalized GQA, layer-dependent positional behavior and output gating, while flashinfer_trtllm_gen.py changes fallback eligibility for cached contexts.
Affinity (0–1)0.708 component/tag match; 0.531 after PIC preference
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Merged current main in 1152d96. Beam now uses the current registered routing API and attention call signature. The NVFP4 route falls back to the resolved ModelOpt quantization configuration, and unsupported CUDA-graph/overlap settings are refused during selection.

The lifecycle-test finding is addressed in the companion test PR #21472, particularly test_cached_generation.py (release, prefix reuse, and rewound context rejection); duplicating those tests into this production-code PR would defeat the requested review split.

Validation: pre-commit checks, isolated routing cases, and attention interface checks. This is not a GPU requalification. A remaining integration requirement is current main’s named per-target accuracy gate; the stack is not yet ready to merge solely because its textual conflicts are gone.

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Use the BF16 base transaction for both weight formats with explicit format-specific storage and validation hooks. Preserve all-rank failure handling, packed expert records, attention intermediates, and reduction order. Reuse one stored-entry validator for BF16, FP8, and NVFP4 byte spans.

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Keep the six TP1 helpers and generation controller out of the runtime wheel. Remove unused TP4 intermediate-capture hooks and observe expert intermediates through test-scoped instrumentation instead. Update scoped imports, documentation and explicit test selectors without broadening CI.

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Remove the unused runtime weight_state/check_weight_state API and its tensor fingerprint helper. Preserve mutation/replacement checks as private helpers beside the checkpoint-layout test and remove the stale runtime documentation.

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Use descriptive checkout-only component names, including six_layer_model for prefill and decoding. Move shared BF16 TP4 layout/loading/component files into family _tp4. Name the operator beam_dispatch_combine and its checked wrapper dispatch_and_combine. Update imports and test selectors; preserve canonical model and routed-target identifiers.

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The Blockers from my review of 2026-11-04 are resolved or answered at ddeef29:

  • The nine Beam entries now ship with CELLS-driven tests under models/beam/ops/ (5c27f5c, cabd549). The swiglu_fp32 test no longer asserts the TF32 env vars (cabd549), the new packages have __init__.py (9d1b59e), and the tests are on the CPU/B300 lists (314d6f7).
  • Beam route registration left this PR and lands in #21473 together with its gate TestModelingV2BeamFullModelNvfp4Sm103Tp4 (878b140).
  • The thop harness now honors each cell's max_blocks_per_seq and window (test_modeling_v2_thop_attention.py:7247/7251/7290, 5c27f5c). The Beam cells moved into their own test, sized for 640 tokens (cabd549).
  • model.py:130 now accepts full-context (None or max_seq_len) retention on sliding layers while the op keeps the 512 window, with a CPU test (5c27f5c).

No green L0 run since the review: #69015 on f15f228 failed, and #83534 on ddeef29 is pending. The Beam GPU tests have no B300 result at their current location.

The PR changed a lot since R (77 files, +9.5k), including a beam exemption in the shared CI-selection check and 12 new TP4 thop cells. Only the Blocker paths were re-checked.

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