unsloth/studio/backend/core/export
Daniel Han 026141a4a4
Studio: multi-select export formats, portable FP8/INT8, GGUF LoRA, and source parity (#6767)
* Studio: expose full compressed-tensors scheme set in an export formats dropdown

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* Studio: multi-select export formats, portable torchao FP8/INT8, GGUF LoRA, source parity

Export page overhaul on top of the formats dropdown:

- Unify merged precision into one sorted multi-select list (16-bit first, then
  8-bit, then 4-bit). Drop "vLLM" from labels, add INT8 (W8A8), INT8 (W8A16),
  INT4 (W4A16), MXFP4, MXFP8. Quick formats render as toggle pills; the rest live
  in a multi-select "More formats" dropdown, so several formats export in one run.
- Add a portable torchao FP8/INT8 save path (Float8WeightOnlyConfig /
  Int8WeightOnlyConfig) that needs no NVIDIA GPU to produce and loads in vLLM.
  FP8 serializes to safetensors, INT8 to .bin. Wired into save_pretrained_merged
  and push_to_hub_merged via a TORCHAO_EXPORT_SCHEMES registry and
  _unsloth_save_torchao, parallel to the compressed-tensors path.
- Hide NVIDIA-only compressed-tensors formats when no NVIDIA GPU is present; keep
  16-bit and portable FP8/INT8. The backend also rejects a compressed request on
  non-NVIDIA hardware so it stays authoritative.
- Relax merged export to non-PEFT models so Local Model and Hugging Face sources
  get the same 16-bit / compressed / portable options.
- GGUF: send the whole quant list in one call (merge once, quantize many).
- LoRA: add a GGUF adapter option (convert_lora_to_gguf.py) with an outtype
  select (f16/bf16/f32/q8_0/auto), alongside the safetensors adapter.
- Thread the new fields through models, routes, orchestrator, and worker; extend
  the export tests.

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* Studio: gate export by accelerator with a torch-aware reason; fix export save dir naming

Export runs through Unsloth, which requires a compute accelerator (NVIDIA/AMD/Intel
GPU or Apple MLX) and has no CPU code path, so a bare-CPU host cannot export even
with PyTorch installed. Add export_capability() in utils/hardware that reports
export_supported plus a precise reason so the UI stops showing a generic "no GPU":

  - pytorch_not_installed: a --no-torch install (even a physical GPU is unusable)
  - no_accelerator: PyTorch present but no supported accelerator (bare CPU)
  - mlx_unavailable: Apple Silicon where the MLX stack is missing or too old

Expose the fields on /api/system/hardware and /api/system, and guard the mutating
export routes (load-checkpoint, export/merged|base|gguf|lora) with HTTP 400 and the
reason, leaving read-only endpoints usable so the Export page still renders.

Make core/export/export.py import without PyTorch and without a usable accelerator
(the Unsloth import is caught) so the export worker degrades to a clear message
instead of crashing at import.

Frontend: keep /export reachable on chat-only hosts and gray out the method and
format options with the backend reason (Alert plus disabled MethodPicker) instead
of silently redirecting to /chat, so users see why export is unavailable.

Also fix the export save directory producing "model/null" for Local Model and
Hugging Face sources that have no run/checkpoint, naming the folder from the model id.

* CI: validate Studio export capability gating on Linux, Windows and macOS

Add a small pytest matrix that runs studio/backend/tests/test_export_capability.py
on ubuntu-latest, windows-latest and macos-latest. It confirms, on each real OS,
that hardware.export_capability() reports the right decision and reason
(pytorch_not_installed, no_accelerator, or mlx_unavailable) and that the export
backend imports without PyTorch and degrades to a clear message instead of crashing.

Hosted runners have no GPU/MLX, so this covers the "export unavailable, here is why"
path a Mac/Windows user without an accelerator sees; a real accelerator export is
validated separately. The job installs only a CPU PyTorch plus the backend import
deps (no unsloth, triton, or llama.cpp), so it runs in seconds with no GPU.

* Studio export: address Codex review (source-aware gating, GGUF LoRA token/MLX/guard)

Frontend (export-page):
- Gate LoRA and quantized-model restrictions on the active source. isAdapter /
  isQuantized come from the selected checkpoint; in Local Model / Hugging Face
  ("model") source mode they were stale, so LoRA stayed wrongly enabled for a
  direct base model (backend then rejects "No adapter to export") and a stale
  "quantized" flag disabled every method for an unrelated, exportable model. Add
  effectiveIsAdapter / effectiveIsQuantized (false outside checkpoint mode) and use
  them in the method-reset effect and the MethodPicker disabled state.
- Hide the GGUF LoRA option on a macOS/MLX host (the backend rejects GGUF LoRA on
  MLX), so users no longer pick it, wait through the load, and always fail. Disable
  the "GGUF adapter" button on a Mac host and never send loraGguf there.

Backend (core/export/export.py):
- Pass the HF token into the GGUF LoRA conversion (save_pretrained_gguf), so a
  gated/private base model's config fetch in convert_lora_to_gguf.py is
  authenticated; without it the load can succeed but the conversion fails.
- Guard the save_pretrained_gguf capability check with getattr so an older Unsloth
  model that lacks the method returns the clean "not supported" message instead of
  an AttributeError that surfaces as a generic 500.

* Studio export: address 2nd Codex review (CI index, empty merged, test import)

- studio-export-capability-ci.yml: add --extra-index-url https://pypi.org/simple to
  the torch install so torch's transitive deps still resolve; --index-url alone
  replaces PyPI with only the CPU wheel index, which does not serve all of them.
- export-page handleStart: reject an empty merged selection (mirrors canExport), so
  clicking the panel's Start button with every precision pill deselected no longer
  submits mergedSelections: [] and launches an unintended default 16-bit export.
- test_export_imatrix_compressed: the torchao-registry test now reads unsloth/save.py
  as text (like the other ast/string checks) instead of `import unsloth.save`, which
  raised ModuleNotFoundError in the CPU studio-backend suite that has no unsloth
  installed.

* Studio export: make comments succinct across the export changes

* Studio export: use load token for local GGUF LoRA export of gated bases

* Studio export: harden portable torchao path and gate multi-format Hub push

torchao (_unsloth_save_torchao):
- merge to an isolated temp staging dir so a co-selected 16-bit output at save_directory is not deleted
- narrow VLM detection to vision_config / ForVisionText2Text so T5/BART/Whisper are not misrouted
- forward trust_remote_code (from auto_map) to the reload so custom-code models export

Export UI:
- hide portable torchao formats on macOS/MLX (backend rejects quantized export there)
- restrict a Hub merged export to a single format (each writes to the repo root)

* Studio export: torchao tokenizer remote-code + XPU offload, scale GGUF timeout

torchao (_unsloth_save_torchao):
- honor auto_map in the staged tokenizer/processor configs (not just model.config) when
  deriving trust_remote_code, so custom-code tokenizers reload after the merge
- offload single-device XPU models to CPU (and empty the XPU cache) before the reload, matching
  the CUDA path, so an Intel GPU that fits the model once does not OOM on the second copy

Export orchestrator:
- scale the GGUF wait timeout by the number of requested quants so a multi-quant list export of a
  large model does not time out at a flat 3600s

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* Studio export: show portable torchao formats only on non-NVIDIA (CPU) hosts

Portable torchao FP8/INT8 is the fallback for hosts without the NVIDIA compressed-tensors path.
On an NVIDIA GPU the compressed-tensors FP8/FP4/INT formats are the intended path (llm-compressor
auto-installs), so hide the portable duplicates there; keep them on CPU / non-NVIDIA hosts and
continue hiding them on macOS/MLX.

* Studio export: report all output folders and the exported formats

- Multi-format merged export now collects every sibling output directory (one per selected
  precision) instead of only the last; the success banner lists them all.
- Show the selected precision formats in the run summary (a Formats row, like GGUF Quantizations),
  so the panel says what is being exported rather than just 'Merged Model'.
- Persist the selected formats in the run summary and seed them on mount, so navigating away and
  back (or toggling the export method) restores the selection instead of resetting to 16-bit.

* Studio export: list all output formats, add GGUF LoRA target, default Q8_0, auto-select newest checkpoint

- Progress/summary panel now shows a Formats row with the selected merged
  formats, and the success banner lists every output folder a multi-format
  merged run creates (one line per format) instead of only the last one.
- Merged format selection is seeded from the active run, so navigating away
  and back (or switching method cards) no longer resets it to 16-bit.
- GGUF / Llama.cpp now offers an Export target toggle (Full model or LoRA
  adapter) for adapter checkpoints, reusing the LoRA GGUF export path.
- Removed the Auto GGUF LoRA output type and defaulted to Q8_0 in the UI,
  the request model, and the backend defaults; the outtype list is now
  Q8_0/F16/BF16/F32. Core save.py still accepts auto for external callers.
- When a finetune has no checkpoint selected, auto-select the newest one.

* Studio torchao export: robust reload class + optional VLM import

Two fixes to the portable torchao FP8/INT8 export reload, from review of the
narrowed VLM detection:

- Encoder-decoder seq2seq checkpoints (T5/BART/Whisper) are not causal LMs.
  With the narrowed is_vlm test they now correctly skip the image-text class,
  but fell through to AutoModelForCausalLM and failed to reload after the merge.
  Reload them with their own architecture class from the config instead.
- AutoModelForImageTextToText was imported unconditionally at the top of the
  torchao path, so on Transformers builds without that class the import aborted
  every torchao export (even text-only). Import it lazily only for a VLM, with
  the AutoModelForVision2Seq fallback used elsewhere in Unsloth.

* Studio: enable FP8/FP4 compressed export for newer-transformers models

The shipped llm-compressor 0.10.x pins transformers<=4.57.6, so FP8/FP4 export failed
for models needing a transformers 5.x sidecar (Qwen3.5, Gemma-4, Qwen3-Next): the
quantization subprocess crashed importing the removed TORCH_INIT_FUNCTIONS.

Run the quantization against a dedicated llm-compressor-main "shadow": a --target
package dir (transformers 5.10.2 + llm-compressor main + compressed-tensors) layered
over the existing torch. It installs --no-deps so torch is never touched (works on any
Studio torch build), is provisioned lazily and fingerprint-cached, and can be turned
off with UNSLOTH_DISABLE_LLMCOMPRESSOR_MAIN.

- transformers_version.py: provision + validate .venv_llmcompressor.
- export.py: route all compressed exports through the shadow when available; else keep
  the workspace 0.10.x path and fail fast past its transformers ceiling.
- save.py: launch _compressed_quantize.py with a clean PYTHONPATH = shadow.
- _compressed_quantize.py: skip linear_attn / vision tower / MTP modules (matches the
  RedHatAI and NVIDIA reference quants, and is required by the grouped schemes).

Verified all four schemes (fp8, w8a8, w4a16, mxfp4) on Qwen3.5-9B and Llama-3.2-1B, and
fp8 on Gemma-4, end to end through Studio.

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* Fix GGUF LoRA export tests

* Fix export CI expectations

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__init__.py Reduce and tighten code comments and docstrings repo-wide (#6095) 2026-06-08 23:09:51 -07:00
export.py Studio: multi-select export formats, portable FP8/INT8, GGUF LoRA, and source parity (#6767) 2026-07-03 08:25:10 -07:00
orchestrator.py Studio: multi-select export formats, portable FP8/INT8, GGUF LoRA, and source parity (#6767) 2026-07-03 08:25:10 -07:00
worker.py Studio: multi-select export formats, portable FP8/INT8, GGUF LoRA, and source parity (#6767) 2026-07-03 08:25:10 -07:00