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VRAM: +724 MiB/GPU measured; max_model_len 700k → 775,000 on 4×96 GB.

process_weights_after_loading notes "we currently do not have quantized
bmm's which are needed for W_UV and W_UK_T" — and the quantized-bmm
paths that do exist (aiter fp8/fp4) are ROCm-only. With the sparkinfer
qbmm_absorb kernel there now is an sm120 one: VLLM_B12X_ABSORB_QBMM=1 (default off, registered in envs.py) serves both
decode-path bmm's directly from kv_b_proj's mxfp8 pack and never materializes
the BF16 pair — reclaiming the pair and its load-time dequant scratch churn
(~724 MiB/GPU measured at GLM-5.2 TP4 geometry) at identical decode numerics
(the kernel's dequant is bitwise the absorb expression; its fp64 error
envelope equals cuBLAS bf16 bmm's to 4 significant digits per cell).

Wiring:

  • absorb elide: geometry- and pack-checked (qbmm_absorb_supported), falls
    back to the BF16 pair with a warning when unsupported. (If the kv_b
    pack-free from open glm52: free dead kv_b pack post-absorb + share draft rope tables (stacks on #145) #146 lands, it must stay skipped under qbmm — the
    pack is the decode weight source.)
  • decode sites: qbmm_absorb_ukt/_uv for graph-visible batches (B ≤ 32);
    eager batches beyond the envelope (profiler dummy runs) and the DCP gather
    lane dequant the pair transiently via the e8m0-viewed torch expression —
    bitwise the same values the kernel produces.
  • load finalize: warmup_qbmm_absorb precompiles every graph-visible batch
    size before capture — including the speculator's prefill-capture batch
    (num_tokens - num_reqs + 1); a compile miss during capture raises (a
    graph captured around a JIT replays corrupt output, and mid-capture cache
    writes poison the persistent compile cache tree).

Measured (GLM-5.2 NVFP4+NF3 hybrid, 4×96 GB sm120, TP4+DCP4, fp8-rope nvfp4
KV + calibrated outer scales, MTP3, 2048-token batches):

resident BF16 pair qbmm from pack
max_model_len (96 GB) 700k / 740k 775,000 (pool print)
post-capture free @700k 992 MiB 1,716 MiB (+724)
html decode t/s 104.8–104.9 105.6–107.3
MTP3 accept (best window) 89.4 % 92.1 %, mean len 3.76
157,932-tok single prefill 50 s 49 s (@775k)
teacher-forced prefill KLD 0.1356 ± 0.0054 cert 0.1351 ± 0.0037 (5 fresh-cache runs, 5/5 in cert band)

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process_weights_after_loading notes there are no quantized bmm's for
W_UV/W_UK_T -- and the quantized-bmm paths that do exist (aiter fp8/fp4)
are ROCm-only. With sparkinfer's qbmm_absorb kernel there now is an
sm120 one: VLLM_B12X_ABSORB_QBMM=1 (default off, registered in envs.py)
serves both decode-path bmm's directly from kv_b_proj's mxfp8 pack and
never materializes the BF16 pair, reclaiming the pair plus its load-time
dequant scratch churn (~724 MiB/GPU measured at GLM-5.2 TP4 geometry) at
identical decode numerics.

The elide is geometry- and pack-checked with a warned fallback to the
BF16 pair. Graph-visible batches (B <= 32) run the kernel; eager batches
beyond the envelope and the DCP gather lane dequant the pair transiently
via the e8m0-viewed expression (the view is load-bearing: a raw
uint8.to(bf16) converts exponent bytes as integers). Load-finalize
warmup precompiles every graph-visible batch size before capture,
including the speculator's prefill-capture batch (num_tokens - num_reqs
+ 1); a compile miss during capture raises.

Measured on GLM-5.2 NVFP4+NF3 hybrid (4x96GB sm120, TP4+DCP4, MTP3):
max_model_len 700k -> 775,000, +724 MiB/GPU post-capture, decode
105.6-107.3 t/s vs 104.8-104.9 baseline, MTP3 acceptance windows to
92.1%, 157,932-token prefill 49 s, teacher-forced prefill KLD
0.1351+-0.0037 vs the standing 0.1356+-0.0054 cert (5/5 in band).

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Closing as superseded, not abandoned.

The maintained implementation now lives directly in the canonical dev/gilded-gnosis stack:

  • vLLM afa103ead813 - generic B12X MXFP8 absorbed BMM integration
  • SparkInfer c0a464f5e417 - generic MXFP8 BMM API
  • SparkInfer 93fc9197fa4b - TP8 MLA geometry support

The canonical implementation uses VLLM_B12X_ABSORB_BMM=1 and includes explicit qualification, warmup, and BF16 fallback behavior. The older VLLM_B12X_ABSORB_QBMM implementation in this PR is now conflicting and must not be layered onto v20.

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