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[megatron, doc] feat: MXFP4 MoE recipe and Qwen3-30B-A3B example - #8426
Adds the MXFP4 recipe from the low-precision roadmap (#8186): the MXFP4 counterpart of the MXFP8 recipe in #8127, for the routed experts of MoE models.
examples/mxfp4/run_qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron.sh: GRPO on Qwen3-30B-A3B with DAPO-Math-17k on one 4-GPU Blackwell node (tested on 4×B300; 4×B200 untested). It uses the data, hyper-parameters and layout of examples/mxfp8/run_qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron.sh (training TP2 × EP2, full recompute, optimizer on the CPU; rollout vLLM TP2). PRECISION selects the arm:
mxfp4_qat: MXFP4 rollout experts (rollout.quantization.moe=MXFP4) and ModelOpt MXFP4 QAT on the routed experts (qat.mode=mxfp4)
mxfp4: MXFP4 rollout experts only
bf16: the baseline
docs/low_precision/mxfp4_qat.md: requirements, configuration, notes and the example; linked from docs/index.rst. The page is named after QAT because Transformer Engine has no MXFP4 training: the routed experts are fake-quantized, everything else trains in BF16.
The example sets data.seed (default 1), so every arm sees the same data order.
Results, ten GRPO steps per arm on one 4×B300 machine (details in the doc page and under Test): QAT cuts the rollout–trainer mismatch of the MXFP4 rollout by 80 % (rollout_corr/kl 0.0150 → 0.0030; BF16 0.0018) and makes a step 6 % longer than the MXFP4 rollout alone on an idle machine (900 s vs 848 s; BF16 827 s).
The QAT cost assumes the grouped QAT and export kernels of #8498 and #8500, both merged; this PR no longer depends on an open PR.
All three arms of the new script compose (--cfg job, VERL_USE_UV=0): the QAT arm resolves to qat.enable=true, qat.mode=mxfp4, rollout.quantization.moe=MXFP4, TP2 × EP2 for actor and ref.
verl main 174888f, one GPU, scripts/rollout_logprob_diff.py --r3-router-replay on a small random Qwen3-MoE (4 layers, 32 experts, top-4), run before the QAT path moved to the TileLang kernels:
Arm
vLLM MoE backend
k3 KL
BF16
FlashInfer TRT-LLM (unquantized)
1.0e-5
MXFP4 rollout experts
DEEPGEMM_MXFP4
1.0e-3
MXFP4 rollout experts + MXFP4 QAT
DEEPGEMM_MXFP4
4.0e-5
QAT brings the training forward 26× closer to the MXFP4 rollout.
Four GPUs, the configuration of this script with PRECISION=mxfp4_qat (host-specific cache paths added), one GRPO step on Qwen3-30B-A3B (TP2 × EP2): QAT builds on the Transformer Engine spec with tensor and expert parallelism combined, weight sync and the step complete with rollout_corr/kl 0.0030. With the grouped kernels this first step takes 1096 s (generation 121 s, old_log_prob 170 s, ref 110 s, update_actor 635 s, update_weights 18 s).
Four GPUs, the three arms of this script for 10 steps each, one after the other on the same machine, verl main e41dd69 plus this PR. Host-specific cache paths, Ray num_cpus=64, the venv's python started directly instead of through uv run, the console, file and wandb loggers, DAPO-Math-17k deduplicated to its 17,398 unique prompts as in [megatron] feat: MXFP8 training recipe and end-to-end example #8127.
mean of steps 1–10
BF16/BF16
BF16/MXFP4
BF16+QAT/MXFP4
step time (s)
827
848
1000
generation (s)
107
114
115
old_log_prob (s)
118
118
149
ref (s)
113
117
130
update_actor (s)
476
477
582
update_weights (s)
8
18
19
rollout_corr/kl
0.0018
0.0150
0.0030
score
−0.195
−0.161
−0.183
response length
6517
6411
6438
The QAT arm's steps 1–4 overlapped another tenant on the same node (the machine's other four GPUs at 100 %); its steps 5–10 ran on an idle machine: step time 900 s, old_log_prob 135 s, update_actor 511 s, rollout_corr/kl 0.0030.
New example script; shares its parameter arrays and launch block with the MXFP8 example, with PRECISION arms for MXFP4.
New doc page with the results; no code changes.
The example sets data.seed=${SEED:-1}. With data.seed unset, as in the MXFP8 example, the shuffle is unseeded and each run sees a different data order.
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New Features
Added a configurable Qwen3-30B-A3B training launcher with MXFP4 QAT, MXFP4 rollout quantization, and BF16 options. It includes one-node, four-GPU defaults and supports additional training arguments.
Added a guide to MXFP4 QAT on Blackwell, covering requirements, configuration, an example run, and benchmark observations.
Documentation
Added the MXFP4 QAT guide to the Low Precision documentation index.
The change adds an MXFP4 MoE QAT guide, links it from the documentation index, and adds a configurable Megatron launcher for Qwen3-30B-A3B training. The guide covers requirements, precision modes, run setup, and reported comparisons.
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Precision modes and requirements docs/low_precision/mxfp4_qat.md, examples/mxfp4/run_qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron.sh, docs/index.rst
The guide describes MXFP4 rollout and optional QAT behavior and requirements. The launcher defines defaults and selects precision overrides. The index links to the guide.
Qwen3 training setup docs/low_precision/mxfp4_qat.md, examples/mxfp4/run_qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron.sh
The guide documents the Qwen3 run setup. The launcher assembles training configuration, selects the Python execution path, and invokes the trainer.
The guide reports measurements across the precision modes, including runtime and rollout–trainer mismatch observations.
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participant Launcher as run_qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron.sh
participant Trainer as verl.trainer.main_ppo
participant Workers as Ray workers
Launcher->>Trainer: Invoke with assembled overrides and worker executable setting
Trainer->>Workers: Configure training workers
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- Around line 72-73: Update the DAPO-Math-17k results documentation to provide
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sed -n '15,50p' docs/low_precision/mxfp4.md
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Nest the rollout and QAT settings under actor_rollout_ref.
In YAML, actor_rollout_ref.rollout.quantization: is one literal key. It does not create nested rollout and quantization mappings. Copying this block into a config file leaves rollout quantization and QAT unset, and the run gives no error.
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--- "a/docs/low_precision/mxfp4.md"+++ "b/docs/low_precision/mxfp4.md"@@ -23,14 +23,18 @@
```yaml
# MXFP4 rollout experts; dense layers stay in BF16
-actor_rollout_ref.rollout.quantization:- linear: null- moe: MXFP4+actor_rollout_ref:+ rollout:+ quantization:+ linear: null+ moe: MXFP4
# optional: MXFP4 QAT on the routed experts
-actor_rollout_ref.actor.megatron.qat:- enable: True- mode: mxfp4 # mxfp4_mxfp8 also trains the dense layers with MXFP8 QAT (vLLM: linear: MXFP8)+ actor:+ megatron:+ qat:+ enable: True+ mode: mxfp4 # mxfp4_mxfp8 also trains the dense layers with MXFP8 QAT (vLLM: linear: MXFP8)
```
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Restructure the YAML example so `rollout.quantization` and `actor.megatron.qat`
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Align the data preparation and launcher paths.
The linked preparation script defaults to $HOME/verl/data/dapo-math-17k.parquet, but the launcher defaults to $HOME/data/dapo-math-17k/train.parquet. Following the linked preparation instructions and then running these commands fails to find the training file. Document a matching TRAIN_FILE for both commands. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the TRAIN_FILE examples in the preparation and launcher commands in the
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Provide the deduplicated input used for the results.
The linked preparation script downloads the original parquet, and the dataset loader does not deduplicate it. The documented commands therefore do not reproduce the deduplicated dataset reported here. Provide the exact input or the deduplication and ordering steps used for the runs. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Done — the page is docs/low_precision/mxfp4_qat.md now (rename in 1d346c0), and the title/intro say explicitly that training stays in BF16 with fake-quantized routed experts because Transformer Engine has no MXFP4 training.
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Added. The Results section now links one wandb run per arm from the ten-step run on 4×B300 at the PR head: QAT, MXFP4, BF16, with the per-step table and a paired steps-5–10 table for the QAT overhead. The example logs with trainer.logger='["console","wandb"]' by default (project verl_grpo_dapo_mxfp4, experiment qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron_vllm_<arm>), so re-running it produces the same runs.
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Identify these as the run versions.
The reviewed revision pins Transformer Engine 2.20.2 and ModelOpt 0.47.0, not 2.16.1 and 0.44.0. Label these as the versions used for the reported runs rather than the versions currently locked by verl. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the version statement in the MXFP4 QAT documentation to identify vLLM
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Reject validation on the training file when TEST_FREQ is positive.
When TEST_FREQ is positive, VAL_FILE defaults to TRAIN_FILE. The trainer then runs validation on the training data over the full dataset, because val_max_samples defaults to -1. The reported validation metrics come from training prompts. Validation also generates over the entire training set, which adds compute cost. The guard below stops the run before training starts and applies whether VAL_FILE is defaulted or set to the same path explicitly.
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test_freq=${TEST_FREQ:--1}
+if [ "${test_freq}" -gt 0 ] && [ "${VAL_FILE}" = "${TRAIN_FILE}" ]; then+ echo "Set VAL_FILE to a validation split when TEST_FREQ > 0. The default reuses TRAIN_FILE." >&2+ exit 1+fi
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examples/mxfp4/run_qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron.sh is the MXFP4 counterpart of
the MXFP8 Qwen3-30B-A3B example: same data, hyper-parameters and layout
(TP2 x EP2), with three arms: MXFP4 rollout experts plus MXFP4 QAT,
MXFP4 rollout experts only, and BF16. docs/low_precision/mxfp4.md
describes the configuration, requirements and the example.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: 0z5a <[email protected]>
Ten GRPO steps per arm of the Qwen3-30B-A3B example on one 4xB300 node:
mean step time 829 s (BF16), 890 s (MXFP4 rollout) and 1031 s (MXFP4
rollout + QAT); rollout_corr/kl 0.0017, 0.0142 and 0.0031. The QAT cost
note now reflects the batched expert-weight QDQ. The example sets
data.seed so every arm sees the same data order, as in the measured run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: 0z5a <[email protected]>
…e TileLang QAT path
Transformer Engine has no MXFP4 training, so the page covers QAT. MXFP4 QAT
and export now run verl's TileLang kernels (verl-project#8498, verl-project#8500) instead of the
batched ModelOpt path from verl-project#8425; mark the results as predating them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: 0z5a <[email protected]>
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Compare the same steps for the QAT overhead.
The 900-second QAT mean covers steps 5–10, but the 848-second MXFP4 mean covers steps 1–10. The 6% figure therefore compares different workloads and may misstate the QAT overhead. Compare steps 5–10 for both arms, or describe this as an unpaired comparison.
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Update the QAT overhead comparison in the benchmark documentation so both means
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The wandb project is private, so the Results section now shows the per-step
curves of the three arms (score, response length, rollout_corr/kl, step time,
update_actor, entropy) as an image; the wandb links move to its caption.
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What does this PR do?
Adds the MXFP4 recipe from the low-precision roadmap (#8186): the MXFP4 counterpart of the MXFP8 recipe in #8127, for the routed experts of MoE models.
examples/mxfp4/run_qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron.sh: GRPO on Qwen3-30B-A3B with DAPO-Math-17k on one 4-GPU Blackwell node (tested on 4×B300; 4×B200 untested). It uses the data, hyper-parameters and layout ofexamples/mxfp8/run_qwen3_30b_a3b_megatron.sh(training TP2 × EP2, full recompute, optimizer on the CPU; rollout vLLM TP2).PRECISIONselects the arm:mxfp4_qat: MXFP4 rollout experts (rollout.quantization.moe=MXFP4) and ModelOpt MXFP4 QAT on the routed experts (qat.mode=mxfp4)mxfp4: MXFP4 rollout experts onlybf16: the baselinedocs/low_precision/mxfp4_qat.md: requirements, configuration, notes and the example; linked fromdocs/index.rst. The page is named after QAT because Transformer Engine has no MXFP4 training: the routed experts are fake-quantized, everything else trains in BF16.data.seed(default 1), so every arm sees the same data order.Results, ten GRPO steps per arm on one 4×B300 machine (details in the doc page and under Test): QAT cuts the rollout–trainer mismatch of the MXFP4 rollout by 80 % (
rollout_corr/kl0.0150 → 0.0030; BF16 0.0018) and makes a step 6 % longer than the MXFP4 rollout alone on an idle machine (900 s vs 848 s; BF16 827 s).The QAT cost assumes the grouped QAT and export kernels of #8498 and #8500, both merged; this PR no longer depends on an open PR.
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mxfp4; [megatron]feat: Deepseek v4 RL MXFP4 experts qat support #7895 is DeepSeek-V4 MXFP4 expert QAT, [rollout, vllm] fix: keep vLLM's MXFP4 MoE selection on Hopper instead of forcing deep_gemm #8398 the Hopper MoE backend default).[{modules}] {type}: {description}.Test
All three arms of the new script compose (
--cfg job,VERL_USE_UV=0): the QAT arm resolves toqat.enable=true,qat.mode=mxfp4,rollout.quantization.moe=MXFP4, TP2 × EP2 for actor and ref.GPU, B300 (SM103). The versions verl locks: vLLM 0.32.0, Transformer Engine 2.20.2, Megatron-Core 0.19.2, Megatron-Bridge 0.6.2, ModelOpt 0.47.0, TileLang 0.1.15.
verl main 174888f, one GPU,
scripts/rollout_logprob_diff.py --r3-router-replayon a small random Qwen3-MoE (4 layers, 32 experts, top-4), run before the QAT path moved to the TileLang kernels:DEEPGEMM_MXFP4DEEPGEMM_MXFP4QAT brings the training forward 26× closer to the MXFP4 rollout.
Four GPUs, the configuration of this script with
PRECISION=mxfp4_qat(host-specific cache paths added), one GRPO step on Qwen3-30B-A3B (TP2 × EP2): QAT builds on the Transformer Engine spec with tensor and expert parallelism combined, weight sync and the step complete withrollout_corr/kl0.0030. With the grouped kernels this first step takes 1096 s (generation 121 s,old_log_prob170 s,ref110 s,update_actor635 s,update_weights18 s).Four GPUs, the three arms of this script for 10 steps each, one after the other on the same machine, verl main e41dd69 plus this PR. Host-specific cache paths, Ray
num_cpus=64, the venv's python started directly instead of throughuv run, the console, file and wandb loggers, DAPO-Math-17k deduplicated to its 17,398 unique prompts as in [megatron] feat: MXFP8 training recipe and end-to-end example #8127.old_log_prob(s)ref(s)update_actor(s)update_weights(s)rollout_corr/klThe QAT arm's steps 1–4 overlapped another tenant on the same node (the machine's other four GPUs at 100 %); its steps 5–10 ran on an idle machine: step time 900 s,
old_log_prob135 s,update_actor511 s,rollout_corr/kl0.0030.wandb: QAT, MXFP4, BF16.
Design & Code Changes
PRECISIONarms for MXFP4.data.seed=${SEED:-1}. Withdata.seedunset, as in the MXFP8 example, the shuffle is unseeded and each run sees a different data order.Checklist Before Submitting
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