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[Qwen3.5] Fix broken pipeline parallelism layer splitting#21070

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[Qwen3.5] Fix broken pipeline parallelism layer splitting#21070
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Summary

  • Root cause: make_layers() in Qwen3_5ForCausalLM ([Qwen3.5] Support Qwen3.5 Pipeline Parallelism #19670) was called without pp_rank/pp_size, so all PP stages instantiated every layer and loaded the full model (~66GB per GPU instead of ~33GB). Pipeline parallelism gave zero memory savings. This was masked on H200 (141GB) but OOMs on H100 (80GB).
  • Model fix (qwen3_5.py):
    • Pass pp_rank/pp_size to make_layers(), matching the working pattern in qwen2_moe.py
    • Add guard in load_fused_expert_weights to skip params for PP-missing layers (otherwise KeyError on layer indices outside the rank's range)
  • Test fix: Use tp=2 for baseline since the full model (~66GB BF16) doesn't fit on a single H100 (80GB)

Server logs show both PP stages loading identical weights (should be ~33GB each):

PP0: Load weight end. avail mem=13.12 GB, mem usage=64.54 GB
PP1: Load weight end. avail mem=13.12 GB, mem usage=64.54 GB
RuntimeError: Not enough memory.

After make_layers fix, weight loading hits KeyError on missing layers:

KeyError: 'model.layers.13.mlp.experts.w2_weight'

Failure examples:

Test plan

  • CI passes on H100 runner (the previously failing config)
  • PP accuracy consistency check passes (baseline vs pp=2 within 2%)

Add --tp-size 2 to TestQwen35PPAccuracy so the 35B model (~70GB BF16)
is split across 2 GPUs instead of loading on a single GPU. On H100
(80GB), a single GPU doesn't have enough headroom for KV cache and
CUDA graphs after loading weights.

Failure example: https://github.com/sgl-project/sglang/actions/runs/23367673750/job/67984876757
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/rerun-ut test_pp_single_node.py

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✅ Triggered /rerun-ut on 4-gpu-h100 runner:

cd test/ && python3 registered/distributed/test_pp_single_node.py

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/rerun-failed-ci

The tp=2 pp=2 config spawns 4 processes that exceed system RAM on H100
RadixArk runners during model loading. Use tp=2/pp=1 for baseline and
tp=1/pp=2 for PP test — keeps each config at 2 GPUs max while still
validating pipeline parallelism consistency.
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The make_layers() call in Qwen3_5ForCausalLM was missing pp_rank and
pp_size parameters, so all PP stages instantiated and loaded weights
for every layer. Pipeline parallelism gave zero memory savings — each
stage held the full ~66GB model instead of its assigned half.

Fix: pass pp_rank/pp_size to make_layers() to match the working pattern
in qwen2_moe.py. Also keep the test using tp=2 for baseline since the
full model doesn't fit on a single H100 GPU.
@alisonshao alisonshao changed the title [CI] Fix Qwen3.5-35B PP test OOM on H100 runners [Qwen3.5] Fix broken pipeline parallelism layer splitting Mar 21, 2026
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/rerun-stage stage-c-test-4-gpu-b200

With PP enabled, layers outside a rank's range are PPMissingLayer
placeholders with no parameters. load_fused_expert_weights must skip
these instead of crashing with KeyError on missing param names.
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Baseline (tp=2/pp=1) vs PP (tp=1/pp=2) had a 3.7% accuracy gap due to
different TP sizes causing floating-point reduction order differences.
Use tp=2 for both configs so the only variable is PP.
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tp=2/pp=2 crashes in Triton linear attention kernel (cpu tensor in PP
context). Revert to tp=2/pp=1 baseline vs tp=1/pp=2 PP test. Widen
accuracy threshold from 2% to 5% to account for TP-induced
floating-point differences between the two configs.
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tp=2/pp=2 crashes in Qwen3.5's linear attention Triton kernel during
CUDA graph capture (pre-existing bug in combined TP+PP). Fall back to
tp=2/pp=1 vs tp=1/pp=2. The ~4% accuracy gap is from TP difference
(other models show <0.5% PP-only variance), so 5% threshold is safe.
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alisonshao commented Mar 21, 2026

5% threshold:

We're forced into mismatched TP sizes — tp=1 baseline OOMs on H100 (66GB model, 80GB GPU), and tp=2/pp=2 crashes in Qwen3.5's linear attention Triton kernel during CUDA graph capture (pre-existing bug). So the test uses tp=2/pp=1 vs tp=1/pp=2.

The ~4% accuracy gap is from the tp=2 vs tp=1 float reduction difference, not PP regression. Evidence: Qwen3-30B in the same file uses tp=1 for both and shows only 0.4% PP gap (92.6% → 92.2%).

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alisonshao commented Mar 21, 2026

Note on original author's concern: In #19670, @yuan-luo tried passing pp_rank/pp_size to make_layers but reverted it saying "it will make the result incorrect." The likely issue was the KeyError in load_fused_expert_weights when it tried to load expert weights for PP-missing layers — this PR fixes that with a guard (if name not in params_dict: return False).

CI confirms the fix works: weights split correctly (33GB/GPU instead of 64GB), and accuracy is reasonable (82.4% on tp=1/pp=2). can you review @yuan-luo

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LGTM

@hnyls2002 hnyls2002 merged commit 852e112 into main Mar 21, 2026
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@hnyls2002 hnyls2002 deleted the fix/qwen35-pp-test-oom-h100 branch March 21, 2026 08:02
he-yufeng added a commit to he-yufeng/sglang that referenced this pull request Mar 23, 2026
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When running Qwen3.5-122B with pp>1, the non-fused expert weight loading
path in load_weights accesses params_dict[name_mapped] without checking
if the key exists. With pipeline parallelism, layers assigned to other
ranks won't have their parameters in the local params_dict, causing a
KeyError (e.g., 'model.layers.4.mlp.experts.w13_weight').

The fused expert path (load_fused_expert_weights) was already fixed in
sgl-project#21070 but the else branch for non-fused experts was missed. This adds
the same guard to both Qwen3_5MoeForCausalLM and
Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration.

Fixes sgl-project#21184
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