fix: Baichuan2 checkpoint robustness test CI failures (NVIDIA-NeMo#1727)

* fix: checkpoint robustness test CI failures

- Add trust_remote_code: true to baichuan ci.checkpoint_robustness
- Add hf_device_map_auto: true to nemotron nano configs
- Bump robustness global_batch_size 16→32 for multi-node compatibility
- Remove hardcoded trust_remote_code=False that broke tokenizer loading
- Fix dotted keys in ci.checkpoint_robustness being silently ignored
  (e.g. distributed.tp_size, dataset.limit_dataset_samples)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: adil-a <adil.asif2000@hotmail.com>

* fix: Baichuan2 checkpoint robustness test CI failures

- Register MLP-only TP plan for BaichuanForCausalLM (NormHead is not
  nn.Linear, W_pack has non-interleaved QKV layout — both incompatible
  with ColwiseParallel)
- Fix HF remote code meta-tensor issue: RotaryEmbedding creates
  inv_freq/cos_cached/sin_cached as plain attributes that stay on meta
  device; added _fix_meta_rotary_embeddings helper for Phase 4
- Set appropriate KL/loss thresholds for Baichuan2 with TP=2

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: adil-a <adil.asif2000@hotmail.com>

* fix: Baichuan2 PEFT checkpoint robustness test CI failures

- Apply _fix_meta_rotary_embeddings to PEFT base model loading path
- Add KL/loss thresholds to baichuan_2_7b_squad_peft.yaml CI config

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: adil-a <adil.asif2000@hotmail.com>

* fix: remove unused cross-TP/resume settings from Baichuan2 PEFT config

Cross-TP and resume assertion are skipped for PEFT models in the test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: adil-a <adil.asif2000@hotmail.com>

* fix: add gc.collect() before torch.cuda.empty_cache() in checkpoint robustness test

FSDP2/DTensor circular references prevented GPU memory from being freed
between test phases, causing OOM on large models (e.g. Nemotron Super 120B)
when Phase 4 tries to reload via vanilla HF with device_map="auto".

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: adil-a <adil.asif2000@hotmail.com>

* fix: PEFT checkpoint restore for MoE models with activation checkpointing

- Strip _checkpoint_wrapped_module. from FQNs in _get_peft_state_dict and
  _set_peft_state_dict to match DCP's normalization. Without this, expert
  LoRA weights are silently skipped on reload when activation checkpointing
  is enabled (keys mismatch), causing KL divergence of ~0.5.
- Wire up no_check_hf flag to skip Phase 4 vanilla HF check when configured
- Qwen3 MoE 30B LoRA: reduce to 1 node, add no_check_hf

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: adil-a <adil.asif2000@hotmail.com>

* fix: Qwen3 MoE PEFT adapter HF compatibility via ParamWrapper format

Save Qwen3 MoE expert LoRA adapters in PEFT v0.18+ ParamWrapper format
so PeftModel.from_pretrained() can load them directly. Previously, adapters
were saved with per-expert individual keys (experts.0.gate_proj.lora_A.weight)
which vanilla HF couldn't load because Qwen3 MoE uses fused nn.Parameter
tensors (experts.gate_up_proj), not individual nn.Module per expert.

The new format (default, v4_compatible=False) uses target_parameters in
adapter_config.json and 2D fused LoRA tensors matching ParamWrapper's
expected key layout. Legacy per-expert format is preserved when
v4_compatible=True.

Also: reduce Qwen3 MoE CI from 2 nodes to 1, remove dead no_check_hf
parsing from test, clean up _extract_target_modules helpers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: adil-a <adil.asif2000@hotmail.com>

* fix: remove debug print statement from checkpoint robustness test

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: adil-a <adil.asif2000@hotmail.com>

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Signed-off-by: adil-a <adil.asif2000@hotmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: 2 people

examples/llm_finetune/baichuan/baichuan_2_7b_squad.yaml

@@ -104,10 +104,13 @@ ci:
   vllm_deploy: true
   recipe_owner: adil-a
   checkpoint_robustness:
-    hf_kl_threshold: 5e-3
+    trust_remote_code: true
+    kl_threshold: 1e-2
+    hf_kl_threshold: 5e-2
     distributed.tp_size: 2
     cross_tp_size: 2
-    cross_tp_kl_threshold: 5e-3
+    cross_tp_kl_threshold: 1e-2
+    resume_loss_threshold: 5e-2
     tokenizer_name: baichuan-inc/Baichuan2-7B-Chat
     dataset.limit_dataset_samples: 500
     validation_dataset.limit_dataset_samples: 500

examples/llm_finetune/baichuan/baichuan_2_7b_squad_peft.yaml

@@ -121,8 +121,9 @@ ci:
   vllm_deploy: true
   recipe_owner: adil-a
   checkpoint_robustness:
-    hf_kl_threshold: 5e-3
     trust_remote_code: true
+    kl_threshold: 1e-2
+    hf_kl_threshold: 5e-2
     distributed.tp_size: 2
     tokenizer_name: baichuan-inc/Baichuan2-7B-Chat
     dataset.limit_dataset_samples: 500

examples/llm_finetune/nemotron/nemotron_nano_v3_hellaswag.yaml

@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ ci:
   time: "00:15:00"
   checkpoint_robustness:
     hf_kl_threshold: 7e-2
+    hf_device_map_auto: true
     experts_implementation: grouped_mm
     tokenizer_name: nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16
     no_check_resume: true

examples/llm_finetune/nemotron/nemotron_nano_v3_hellaswag_peft.yaml

@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ ci:
   time: "00:15:00"
   checkpoint_robustness:
     hf_kl_threshold: 1e-1
+    hf_device_map_auto: true
     experts_implementation: grouped_mm
     trust_remote_code: true
     tokenizer_name: nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16

examples/llm_finetune/qwen/qwen3_moe_30b_lora.yaml

@@ -102,10 +102,12 @@ optimizer:
 ci:
   recipe_owner: adil-a
   time: "00:15:00"
-  nodes: 2
+  nodes: 1
   checkpoint_robustness:
     hf_kl_threshold: 7e-2
     tokenizer_name: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B
+    trust_remote_code: true
+    hf_device_map_auto: true
     no_check_resume: true
     dataset.num_samples_limit: 500
     validation_dataset.num_samples_limit: 500

nemo_automodel/components/checkpoint/addons.py

@@ -155,7 +155,8 @@ def pre_save(self, **kwargs) -> None:
         model_state = kwargs["model_state"]
         peft_config = kwargs["peft_config"]
         original_model_path = kwargs["original_model_path"]
-        hf_peft_config = _get_hf_peft_config(peft_config, model_state)
+        v4_compatible = kwargs.get("v4_compatible", False)
+        hf_peft_config = _get_hf_peft_config(peft_config, model_state, v4_compatible=v4_compatible)
         automodel_peft_metadata = _get_automodel_peft_metadata(peft_config)
         if not torch.distributed.is_initialized() or torch.distributed.get_rank() == 0:
             # if the HF model has custom model code, we need to save it as part of the checkpoint
@@ -176,13 +177,14 @@ def post_save(self, **kwargs) -> None:
         pass
 
 
-def _get_hf_peft_config(peft_config: "PeftConfig", model_state: ModelState) -> dict:
+def _get_hf_peft_config(peft_config: "PeftConfig", model_state: ModelState, v4_compatible: bool = False) -> dict:
     """
     Get the minimal PEFT config in the format expected by Hugging Face.
 
     Args:
         peft_config: Source PEFT configuration.
         model_state: Model wrapper used to infer target modules and model task.
+        v4_compatible: When True, use legacy per-expert expansion format.
 
     Returns:
         A dictionary containing the minimal HF-compatible PEFT configuration
@@ -197,7 +199,8 @@ def _get_hf_peft_config(peft_config: "PeftConfig", model_state: ModelState) -> d
         "FeatureExtraction": "FEATURE_EXTRACTION",
     }
     model_part = model_state.model[0]
-    target_modules = _extract_target_modules(model_part)
+    target_modules = _extract_target_modules(model_part, v4_compatible=v4_compatible)
+    target_parameters = _extract_target_parameters(model_part, v4_compatible=v4_compatible)
     try:
         arch_name = model_part.config.architectures[0]
         # "LlamaForCausalLM".split("For") → ["Llama", "CausalLM"]
@@ -217,7 +220,7 @@ def _get_hf_peft_config(peft_config: "PeftConfig", model_state: ModelState) -> d
     except KeyError:
         task_type = "CAUSAL_LM"
 
-    return {
+    config = {
         "task_type": task_type,
         "peft_type": "LORA",
         "r": peft_config.dim,
@@ -227,6 +230,9 @@ def _get_hf_peft_config(peft_config: "PeftConfig", model_state: ModelState) -> d
         "bias": "none",
         "base_model_name_or_path": name_or_path,
     }
+    if target_parameters:
+        config["target_parameters"] = target_parameters
+    return config
 
 
 def _get_automodel_peft_metadata(peft_config: "PeftConfig") -> dict:
@@ -244,28 +250,43 @@ def _get_automodel_peft_metadata(peft_config: "PeftConfig") -> dict:
     return {k: v for k, v in peft_config.to_dict().items() if k not in PEFT_KEYS}
 
 
-def _extract_target_modules(model: nn.Module) -> list[str]:
+def _is_qwen3_moe(model: nn.Module) -> bool:
+    """Check whether *model* uses the Qwen3 MoE state-dict adapter."""
+    adapter = getattr(model, "state_dict_adapter", None)
+    if adapter is None:
+        return False
+    from nemo_automodel.components.models.qwen3_moe.state_dict_adapter import Qwen3MoeStateDictAdapter
+
+    return isinstance(adapter, Qwen3MoeStateDictAdapter)
+
+
+def _extract_target_parameters(model: nn.Module, v4_compatible: bool = False) -> list[str]:
+    """Extract ``target_parameters`` for PEFT v0.18+ ParamWrapper format.
+
+    Returns fused expert parameter paths for Qwen3 MoE when not in legacy mode,
+    or an empty list otherwise.
     """
-    Extract the target modules from the model used by LoRA/PEFT layers.
+    if v4_compatible:
+        return []
+    if _is_qwen3_moe(model):
+        return ["mlp.experts.gate_up_proj", "mlp.experts.down_proj"]
+    return []
 
-    Combined-projection module names (e.g. ``qkv_proj``, ``gate_up_proj``) are
-    expanded to the individual Hugging Face projection names so that the saved
-    ``adapter_config.json`` is compatible with vLLM, TensorRT-LLM and the
-    Hugging Face PEFT library.
 
-    For MoE expert LoRA (GroupedExpertsLoRA / GroupedExpertsDeepEPLoRA), the
-    grouped 3-D adapter parameters are expanded to per-expert HF projection
-    names (e.g. ``model.layers.0.mlp.experts.0.gate_proj``).
+def _extract_target_modules(model: nn.Module, v4_compatible: bool = False) -> list[str]:
+    """
+    Extract the target modules from the model used by LoRA/PEFT layers.
 
-    Note:
-        When torch.compile is used, module names get prefixed with `_orig_mod.`.
-        This function strips those prefixes to get the original module names.
+    Combined-projection module names (e.g. ``qkv_proj``, ``gate_up_proj``) are
+    expanded to the individual HF projection names for adapter_config.json
+    compatibility with vLLM, TensorRT-LLM, and HF PEFT.
 
-    Args:
-        model: The model whose named modules are scanned.
+    For MoE expert LoRA, grouped 3-D adapter parameters are expanded to
+    per-expert HF projection names unless the model is Qwen3 MoE in
+    non-legacy mode (where ``target_parameters`` is used instead).
 
-    Returns:
-        A sorted list of unique module name prefixes that contain LoRA layers.
+    Strips ``_orig_mod.`` (torch.compile) and ``_checkpoint_wrapped_module.``
+    (activation checkpointing) prefixes from module names.
     """
     # Mapping from combined projection names to their HF-compatible split names.
     _COMBINED_TO_SPLIT = {
@@ -278,10 +299,10 @@ def _extract_target_modules(model: nn.Module) -> list[str]:
     final_target_modules = set()
     for name, _ in model.named_modules():
         if "lora" in name.lower():
-            # Remove the torch.compile _orig_mod prefix if present
             target_name = name.rsplit(".", 1)[0]
             if target_name.startswith("_orig_mod."):
                 target_name = target_name[len("_orig_mod.") :]
+            target_name = target_name.replace("_checkpoint_wrapped_module.", "")
 
             # Expand combined projection names to individual HF projection names
             last_component = target_name.rsplit(".", 1)[-1]
@@ -293,13 +314,14 @@ def _extract_target_modules(model: nn.Module) -> list[str]:
             else:
                 final_target_modules.add(target_name)
 
-    # Detect MoE expert LoRA: adapter weights stored as nn.Parameter (not
-    # nn.Module) so they don't appear in named_modules(). Scan parameters
-    # and expand to per-expert HF projection names.
-    # Only applies to models that use split-expert state dict conversion
-    # (MoESplitExpertsStateDictMixin); models with natively merged experts
-    # (e.g. Qwen 3.5) don't need per-expert expansion.
-    if hasattr(model, "state_dict_adapter") and isinstance(model.state_dict_adapter, MoESplitExpertsStateDictMixin):
+    # MoE expert LoRA: adapter weights are nn.Parameter (not nn.Module) so
+    # they don't appear in named_modules(). Expand to per-expert HF names,
+    # unless Qwen3 MoE in non-legacy mode (uses target_parameters instead).
+    _has_split_expert_mixin = hasattr(model, "state_dict_adapter") and isinstance(
+        model.state_dict_adapter, MoESplitExpertsStateDictMixin
+    )
+    _skip_for_qwen3 = not v4_compatible and _is_qwen3_moe(model)
+    if _has_split_expert_mixin and not _skip_for_qwen3:
         seen_expert_groups: set[tuple[str, str]] = set()
         for name, param in model.named_parameters():
             if not param.requires_grad:
@@ -309,6 +331,7 @@ def _extract_target_modules(model: nn.Module) -> list[str]:
                     expert_path = name[: -len(f".{lora_suffix}")]
                     if expert_path.startswith("_orig_mod."):
                         expert_path = expert_path[len("_orig_mod.") :]
+                    expert_path = expert_path.replace("_checkpoint_wrapped_module.", "")
 
                     group = "gate_and_up" if "gate_and_up" in lora_suffix else "down"
                     if (expert_path, group) in seen_expert_groups:

nemo_automodel/components/checkpoint/checkpointing.py

@@ -290,7 +290,11 @@ def save_model(
 
         # Convert to HF format if using custom model implementations
         state_dict = _maybe_adapt_state_dict_to_hf(
-            model_state.model[0], state_dict, quantization=False, device_mesh=self.moe_mesh
+            model_state.model[0],
+            state_dict,
+            quantization=False,
+            device_mesh=self.moe_mesh,
+            v4_compatible=self.config.v4_compatible,
         )
         # Build the consolidated model.safetensors.index.json if needed
         fqn_to_file_index_mapping = self._maybe_build_consolidated_index(model_state, state_dict)

nemo_automodel/components/checkpoint/stateful_wrappers.py

@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ def _get_peft_state_dict(model: torch.nn.Module) -> dict[str, Any]:
     state_dict = {}
     for name, param in model.named_parameters():
         if param.requires_grad:
+            # Strip _checkpoint_wrapped_module. from FQNs to match DCP's normalization.
+            # Without this, activation checkpointing causes key mismatches on reload.
+            name = name.replace("_checkpoint_wrapped_module.", "")
             param = param.full_tensor() if hasattr(param, "full_tensor") else param
             state_dict[name] = param.detach().cpu()
     return state_dict
@@ -110,7 +113,9 @@ def _set_peft_state_dict(model: torch.nn.Module, state_dict: dict[str, Any]) ->
     """
     from torch.distributed.tensor import DTensor, Replicate
 
-    param_dict = dict(model.named_parameters())
+    # Strip _checkpoint_wrapped_module. from FQNs to match DCP's normalization.
+    # Without this, activation checkpointing causes key mismatches on reload.
+    param_dict = {name.replace("_checkpoint_wrapped_module.", ""): param for name, param in model.named_parameters()}
     loaded, skipped = 0, 0
 
     for name, saved_tensor in state_dict.items():

nemo_automodel/components/distributed/optimized_tp_plans.py

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 from transformers.models.qwen2.modeling_qwen2 import Qwen2ForCausalLM
 from transformers.models.qwen3.modeling_qwen3 import Qwen3ForCausalLM, Qwen3ForSequenceClassification
 
+from nemo_automodel.components.models.baichuan.model import BaichuanForCausalLM
 from nemo_automodel.components.models.llama.model import LlamaForCausalLM as CustomLlamaForCausalLM
 from nemo_automodel.components.models.mistral3.model import Ministral3ForCausalLM
 from nemo_automodel.components.models.qwen2.model import Qwen2ForCausalLM as CustomQwen2ForCausalLM
@@ -268,6 +269,27 @@ def get_decilm_nemotron_tp_plan(
     return cast(dict[str, ParallelStyle], base_model_tp_plan)
 
 
+def _parallelize_baichuan(
+    model: BaichuanForCausalLM | None,
+    sequence_parallel: bool = False,
+) -> dict[str, ParallelStyle]:
+    """Parallelizes a BaichuanForCausalLM model (MLP-only).
+
+    Only the MLP is sharded. The attention path stays fully replicated
+    because W_pack uses a non-interleaved [Q|K|V] layout (ColwiseParallel
+    would split it incorrectly) and NormHead (lm_head) is not nn.Linear
+    (ColwiseParallel is unsupported).
+    """
+    return cast(
+        dict[str, ParallelStyle],
+        {
+            "model.layers.*.mlp.gate_proj": ColwiseParallel(),
+            "model.layers.*.mlp.up_proj": ColwiseParallel(),
+            "model.layers.*.mlp.down_proj": RowwiseParallel(),
+        },
+    )
+
+
 def _parallelize_llama(
     model: LlamaForCausalLM | None,
     sequence_parallel: bool = False,
@@ -525,6 +547,7 @@ def _get_class_qualname(cls: type) -> str:
 
 # Keyed by qualified class name — see _get_class_qualname for why.
 PARALLELIZE_FUNCTIONS: Dict[str, Callable[..., Dict[str, ParallelStyle]]] = {
+    _get_class_qualname(BaichuanForCausalLM): _parallelize_baichuan,
     _get_class_qualname(Qwen2ForCausalLM): _parallelize_qwen,
     _get_class_qualname(Qwen3ForCausalLM): _parallelize_qwen,
     _get_class_qualname(Qwen3ForSequenceClassification): _parallelize_qwen_classification,