MODEL-NEMOTRON-H W3 repair: ClaimMamba ignored quantized, and the legacy-alias precedence was INVERTED (#517) - #572

…enumerated, KV-shaped (#517)

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W3 of .agents/specs/nemotron-h-model.md. It makes the architecture known; it
runs nothing. The forward REFUSES BY NAME (W4, itself blocked on the Mamba2 SSD
CUDA arm #496 W2) and the GGUF arm REFUSES BY NAME (W7, owed per §5b).

RED FIRST. The gate was written against declared-but-empty implementations and
run before any of it worked, Release -Werror, doctest 2.5.2:

    [doctest] test cases:   10 |    2 passed |  8 failed | 0 skipped
    [doctest] assertions: 1258 | 1186 passed | 72 failed |
    [doctest] Status: FAILURE!

failing in exactly the intended shape -- CHECK( 0 == 52 ) for the schedule
depth, CHECK( {} == {5, 12, 19, 26, 33, 42} ) for the attention indices,
REQUIRE( 0 == 2 ) for the KV groups, "did NOT throw at all!" for the GGUF
refusal, 18487 unclaimed tensors for the enumeration.

ENUMERATION, the hard number: 18487 of 18487 released tensors CLAIMED by a named
consumer. 0 unaccounted, 0 invented, 0 refused. Gated both directions against
the committed headers-only projection of the released index, plus a live case
that re-verifies that projection against the checkpoint itself when
VT_NEMOTRON35_SNAPSHOT names it.

Four things the plan had wrong or unstated, settled against source and disk:

1. layers_block_type is the source of truth -- but vLLM VENDORS a NemotronHConfig
   with the OPPOSITE polarity (hybrid_override_pattern as the ctor arg,
   layers_block_type derived). That class is imported for TYPE ANNOTATION only;
   the runtime object comes from transformers AutoConfig, where num_hidden_layers
   is a property over layers_block_type whose setter discards the checkpoint's
   value. Both spellings parse, the modern one wins.
2. moe_latent_size does NOT need three states: upstream's predicate is
   `getattr(config, "moe_latent_size", None) is not None`, so ABSENT and `null`
   are the same state. std::optional covers both; a real value refuses (§0).
3. The shared detail::ResolveMambaSsmCacheDType is the WRONG reader here and
   silently HALVES the recurrent state. It is keyed on `mamba_ssm_dtype`
   (Qwen3.5's spelling); NemotronH ships `mamba_ssm_cache_dtype`, so it returned
   the CONVOLUTION dtype. Caught by the KV gate as page_size_bytes() 1085440 vs
   an expected 2134016 -- the SSM state at bf16 instead of f32. Not a Qwen bug;
   two families, two config keys. Resolved locally, reason recorded at the call
   site.
4. Upstream's default conv layout is "SD" = (state_len, dim) while ours is
   (dim, state_len). Same bytes; the local convention is kept so the shared
   runner sees one orientation, and the divergence is commented rather than left
   for W4 to rediscover.

KV: two groups carrying REAL per-layer names -- 6 attention layers on
FullAttentionSpec(2 kv heads, head_size 128), 23 mamba layers on MambaSpec
{{6144,3},{64,64,128}} / {bf16,f32}. conv_dim == 6144 is falsified straight off
disk by conv1d.weight BF16 [6144,1,4]. The names are load-bearing:
kv_cache_utils.cpp:979 and kv_cache_interface.cpp:151-158 both multiply a
group's page by layer_names.size(), so a one-element tag under-counts by 23x
and 6x.

SCOPE: no per-module quant algorithm is resolved -- that is W1, not on main. W3
reads four coarse falsifiable keys (quant_method, quant_algo, kv_cache_scheme,
the `mtp*` entry in `ignore`) and derives scale companions STRUCTURALLY; the
18487-tensor gate is what proves the derivation. A non-ModelOpt producer refuses
by name. One piece of debt is recorded in the code: a dense `mlp` block's
quantized companion layout is DERIVED, because no in-scope checkpoint ships one.

nemotron_h.h lives under src/, not include/vllm/: W3 ships nothing on the public
ABI and include/vllm/ is a USER_USAGE_PREFIXES surface (#515).

RECORDS. docs/FEATURES.md gains an honest scaffold row (registering an
architecture IS a feature-surface change, and check-supported-models.py binds the
two), the stale "Inventoried but blocked" entry is removed so the page does not
say two things, and the three registered counts move 37->38 / 31->32.
docs/USAGE.md gains one row in "Architectures that resolve but refuse to run":
check-doc-checkpoint classifies the root CMakeLists.txt as a USER_USAGE file, and
the obligation is real rather than an artifact -- pointing the CLI at a NemotronH
checkpoint now resolves and refuses by name instead of reporting an unsupported
architecture. That is one row past the FEATURES.md-only scope I was given, on the
operator's own reasoning applied to the surface the checker names.

test_model_registry.cpp PINS the registry contents four ways; all four are
reconciled, never weakened: the two size assertions 37->38, both byte-order arch
sequences, kExampleConfigArchitectures, both pinned "Supported architectures:"
refusal strings, and a new explicit NemotronH branch asserting is_hybrid TRUE /
supports_multimodal FALSE instead of letting it fall into the
pure-text-full-attention else-branch. test_model_loader_gguf.cpp's canonical
arch string gains the entry too.

GATES, Release -Werror CPU:
    test_nemotron_h_scaffold      10/10 cases, 38245/38245 assertions, SUCCESS
    with VT_NEMOTRON35_SNAPSHOT   10/10 cases, 39113/39113 assertions, SUCCESS
    Debug arm (asserts unmasked)  identical
    full ctest    100% tests passed, 0 tests failed out of 401
                  (test_voxtral_e2e skipped, no asset)

MUTATION-PROVEN (each applied alone, rebuilt, run, reverted, tree verified clean):
    moe -> attention layer mapping            4 cases /  9 assertions FAILURE
    attention index set shifted by +1         2 cases /  2 assertions FAILURE
    conv_dim without 2*n_groups*state_size    4 cases /  8 assertions FAILURE
    SSM dtype collapsed to the activation     1 case  /  2 assertions FAILURE
    mamba dt_bias left unclaimed              1 case  /  2 assertions FAILURE

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…esolver landed as 1bc5ef8) (#517)

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…acy-alias precedence was INVERTED (#517)

Three review findings on `row/MODEL-NEMOTRON-H-W3C` @ `3295d0c1a` (PR #565).
The verdict was PASS; this is the tightening pass.

1. `ClaimMamba` hard-coded its FP8 companions. Every other claimer
   (`ClaimNvfp4`, `ClaimMoe`, `ClaimMlp`, `ClaimAttention`'s `fp8_kv`) gates on
   `quantized`; `ClaimFp8` did not. The released config MINUS
   `quantization_config` -- the shape a released bf16 NemotronH safetensors
   checkpoint actually ships, which spec 5b already owes -- parsed without
   refusal and enumerated 92 tensors that checkpoint does not have
   (23 mamba blocks x 2 projections x 2 companions), first
   `backbone.layers.0.mixer.in_proj.weight_scale`. Nothing consumes the map
   yet, so no gated claim was wrong -- but an unimplemented arm is refused BY
   NAME, never silently mis-enumerated. `quantized` is now threaded through
   `ClaimFp8`/`ClaimMamba` and both call sites (backbone `quantized`, MTP
   `mtp_quantized`). The released checkpoint is quantized and its MTP schedule
   is {attention, moe}, so the 18487-tensor gate is unchanged.

2. `Get{Int,Double,Bool}Aliased` preferred the MODERN key. Upstream does the
   OPPOSITE for the `mamba_*` scalars: `configuration_nemotron_h.py:145-155` is
   `self.n_groups = kwargs.pop("mamba_n_groups") if "mamba_n_groups" in kwargs
   else self.n_groups`, which OVERWRITES an already-populated dataclass field,
   so LEGACY wins. Re-derived by RUNNING transformers @ 7d06b1a5, not by
   reading it: `NemotronHConfig(n_groups=8, mamba_n_groups=4, conv_kernel=4,
   mamba_d_conv=7)` -> `n_groups=4, conv_kernel=7`. The SCHEDULE pair is
   genuinely modern-wins (`:158-165` consults the pattern only when the list is
   None; `NemotronHConfig(layer_types=['mamba','mamba'],
   hybrid_override_pattern='*-')` -> `['mamba','mamba']`), and is left alone.
   Upstream disagrees with itself between the two families; both polarities are
   now mirrored and both are stated explicitly where they are implemented.
   Worse than the behavior was the RECORD: the comment asserted "the modern key
   wins" as if it were upstream's rule, which is what would mislead the next
   porter. No released checkpoint ships both spellings of one field, so this
   was a mirroring defect, not a live one -- which is exactly why it needed a
   test.

3. "the unported ARMS refuse by name" had one SUBCASE (GGUF).
   `ForwardNemotronHForCausalLM` is an unconditional `VT_CHECK`, which throws
   `std::runtime_error`, so it is directly callable with a stub `LoadedModel`.
   Now asserted, including that the message names W4 and the spec.

4. `NemotronHBlockName` had zero call sites. `BlockFromName` now maps both
   directions through it and builds its refusal's expected-list from the enum,
   so a fifth block kind cannot arrive with a message that still lists four.

RED first for 1 and 2 on the pre-fix tree: 12 cases, 9 assertions failed --
`companions.empty()` reporting 92 with that exact first name, and
`8 == 4`/`4 == 7`/`2 == 9`/`128 == 77`/`true`/`0.001 == 0.5`/`0.1 == 0.6`/
`0.0001 == 0.7`. GREEN after: 12 cases / 38284 assertions / 0 failed,
`Status: SUCCESS!` (baseline was 10 / 38245).

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…ep, and two residuals (#517)

Records what neither the code nor git carries: which of the fresh review's
findings were fixed and how, the two report-only items, and the full mutation
proof re-run on the repaired tree.

Also CORRECTS 5c. Its reconnaissance item 1 said both spellings are accepted
"the modern one winning" as an unqualified rule. That is true of the SCHEDULE
pair only. For the `mamba_*` scalars upstream is the OPPOSITE
(configuration_nemotron_h.py:145-155 overwrites the already-populated field),
re-derived by RUNNING transformers @ 7d06b1a5. A record that states the
opposite of upstream is the part that misleads the next porter, so the
generalization is scoped and 5d carries the evidence.

Residuals recorded, NOT fixed here:
- docs/FEATURES.md:171 says "27 of the 32 registered text-generation
  architectures" while :173 implies 38-3-1 = 34 and test_model_registry.cpp:47
  says "34 text archs". W3's +1 was right; the BASE was already stale and no
  checker validates it. This branch has no docs/ authority, and repairing a
  pre-existing doc drift inside a scoped repair would hide it.
- Fixture DTYPE drift is invisible offline by design: names and shapes are
  pinned in the committed projection, dtypes only by the live case, and CI has
  no checkpoint. Named so W4/W6 do not rediscover it.

5b's safetensors-bf16 row now says its enumeration is correct.

Gate evidence, disk 68G free (85%) throughout: Release -Werror full build 0
warnings; scaffold 12/12 cases 38284/38284 offline and 12/12 39152/39152 live;
Debug (-g0, asserts unmasked) identical on both; full ctest 100% passed, 0
failed out of 403.

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…elf -- doc-checkpoint needs docs/ authority (#517)

`scripts/agent-preflight.sh --staged` is green on every gate except
`doc-checkpoint range`, which fails on `3981de6a4`: it touched
`src/vllm/model_executor/models/` without touching `docs/FEATURES.md`.

The rule is unconditional and PER-COMMIT --
`check-doc-checkpoint.py:79` classifies any `src/vllm/model_executor/models/`
path as `feature_surface`, `:313` requires `docs/FEATURES.md` in the SAME
commit, and `commits_in_range` walks `rev-list --reverse --no-merges
origin/main..HEAD`, so W3C's own `docs/FEATURES.md` edit in `3295d0c1a` does not
cover a later commit. `ci.yml:343` runs the identical invocation on the PR, so
the PR is red for the same reason. The checker has no exemption mechanism, by
design.

This repair branch was dispatched with `docs/` explicitly excluded from its
authority, so it does not take the obvious fix and does not weaken the checker
to go green. Recorded in the spec with the exact minimal edit the operator can
fold into `3981de6a4`: one truthful clause on the `NemotronHForCausalLM` row
naming the bf16 enumeration this commit corrected. It disturbs neither W3's
existing `docs/` edits nor the separate finding-5 count drift.

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