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vh 74f596b1d3 feat(gen-seat): mixed NVFP4+FP8 requant — +18% decode at equal MTP acceptance
Re-quantizes the fleet `gen` seat from weight-only NVFP4A16 to a
mixed-precision build: NVFP4 W4A4 for layers 0-55 MLPs, FP8 W8A8 for the
attention projections / linear_attn / lm_head / layers 56-63 MLPs, FP8 KV
cache. Replicates the scheme of unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 on the
abliterated weights.

The queued task named this "W4A8" (NVFP4 weights + FP8 activations). That
checkpoint cannot be served: vLLM 0.24's compressed-tensors dispatcher
(compressed_tensors.py:704-713) accepts NVFP4 weights with either no input
quantization (W4A16, which forces the Marlin kernel) or NVFP4 input
quantization (W4A4) -- anything else, FP8 included, raises ValueError at
load. CompressedTensorsW4A8Fp8 is INT4 weights gated on an exact-sm90
check, so it is closed on Blackwell twice over. The ~20% intuition was
correct; the scheme name was not. Getting FP8 into the mix has to be done
per-layer-group.

Established the gain before spending GPU time: unsloth's build was already
on-box, so serving it as a probe measured +19.1% over our seat at identical
MTP acceptance -- a kernel-level result, no requant needed to learn it.

Measured, cache-busted, bs=1:

  decode              80.12 -> 94.53 tok/s   (+18.0%)
  MTP acceptance      47.8% -> 47.7%         (unchanged)
  perplexity (n=6)    6.941 -> 7.059         (+1.7%)
  abliteration        4/4   -> 4/4           (preserved)
  weights on disk     27.7  -> 22.5 GB       (-19%)

Surface test green on the live seat: plain chat, vision, tool calling,
thinking split, 36K-token needle retrieval, streaming. All 7 LiteLLM
aliases verified routing.

GEN_GPU_MEM_UTIL 0.45 -> 0.43: the new weights are 5.2 GB smaller, and at
0.45 the seat absorbed that slack as KV, leaving meromero-charrp 0.18 GiB
short of its budget on the shared GPU0 -- it crash-looped. Handing the
space back leaves gen 422K tokens of KV (1.6x its 262K context) and both
seats co-resident at 89.8/97.9 GB.

Also records two measured negatives so they are not re-chased:
GEN_SPEC_TOKENS is already optimal at 3 (swept 2/3/4/5 -> 77.1/80.1/78.7/
75.9 tok/s), and vLLM's prompt_logprobs are ~uniform while speculative
decoding is on, so perplexity must be measured with spec off.

Pipeline, acceptance harness and raw measurements land in
services/gen-seat-mixed-quant/. Rollback is one .env line; the previous
build is untouched at /tank/aimodels/qwen38-27b-uncensored-nvfp4.
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gen-seat — the fleet gen seat (ana-ml2 GPU0, :8015)

Serves qwen3.8-27b-uncensored (JonathanColetti/Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored, Heretic-abliterated Qwen3.8-27B, vision-intact, 262K context) plus the -thinking served-name for the reasoning split.

Backs 7 LiteLLM aliases: gen, gen-reasoning, summarizer, summarizer-large, classifier, image-judge, qwen-image-bench. Treat any change here as fleet-wide.

  • Quant: in-house mixed-precision — NVFP4 W4A4 for layers 0-55 MLPs, FP8 W8A8 for attention / linear_attn / lm_head / layers 56-63 MLPs, FP8 KV. ~94.5 tok/s decode at bs=1, MTP n=3 @ ~48% acceptance.
  • Speculative decoding: qwen3_5_mtp, num_speculative_tokens=3 (measured optimum — see the quant service README).
  • Tunables: .env on the host. ⚠ it is mode 0600 / lkraven-owned, so every docker compose call against this stack needs sudo — without it compose cannot read .env, fails with permission denied, and leaves the old container running while appearing to have succeeded.

Pipeline, acceptance gate, and rollback

All of it — the recipe, the re:^mtp.* foot-gun, the benchmark harness, the GPU0 budget interaction with meromero-charrp, and the rollback command — lives in services/gen-seat-mixed-quant/README.md.

Deploy

scripts/deploy-stack.sh ana-ml2 gen-seat        # diffs vs live, prompts y/N
# on host:
ssh infra-ops@10.250.50.54
cd /opt/docker/compose/gen-seat && sudo docker compose up -d vllm-gen