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Support newer Megatron-Core / Megatron-Bridge (nemo:26.10) in Minitron pruning and Puzzletron - #2922

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Type of change: Compatibility update (newer Megatron-Core / Megatron-Bridge)

Makes Minitron pruning of Mamba hybrid models and Puzzletron distillation work with newer Megatron-Core / Megatron-Bridge. The NeMo 26.10 container ships these changes. Without this PR, 4 Megatron GPU or example tests fail there, while they pass on nemo:26.08. Each fix is a no-op on the older versions, and none is a shim to drop once nemo:26.10 is the minimum: the newer MCore needs all of them, and the hasattr checks also tell GPT models (TransformerBlock) apart from hybrid ones.

  • Mamba decode cache (_DynamicMambaMixer): MambaMixer keeps a per-head -exp(A_log) cache that newer MCore refreshes on every eval(). Once pruning shrinks the active heads, the refresh fails with The size of tensor a (8) must match the size of tensor b (6). The cache is now resized to the active heads in train() and after export().
  • Hybrid depth pruning (drop_mcore_language_model_layers): newer HybridStack keeps layer_config_list and its execution lists index-aligned with layers, and its forward zips them with strict=True. Dropping layers now slices them too, and _temporarily_pruned restores them after scoring a candidate. Grouped shortcut-MoE blocks are rejected before anything is mutated.
  • Per-layer configs (MCoreMinitronSearcher._prune): each hybrid layer now holds its own copy of the config. The pruned architecture is now written to those copies as well as model.config. Megatron-Bridge's Mamba in_proj export reads the layer's config, so before this fix exporting a pruned Nemotron-H hit a device-side index-out-of-bounds.
  • Puzzletron provider (HeterogeneousBridgeMixin.provider_bridge): newer Megatron-Bridge derives gtp_weight_remat_size in __post_init__ (init=False), so only fields the constructor accepts are passed.

This unblocks testing ModelOpt's Megatron CI against a newer Megatron-Bridge before nemo:26.10 is out (planned on top of #2889).

Testing

Run with a newer Megatron-Bridge (and its Megatron-LM submodule) on nemo:26.08: src/megatron/bridge and 3rdparty/Megatron-LM/megatron replaced from Megatron-Bridge main + NVIDIA-NeMo/Megatron-Bridge#6565:

  • Before this PR:
    • tests/examples/megatron_bridge: 98 passed, 2 failed (test_distill_puzzletron_anymodel, test_prune_minitron[nemotron_h]).
    • tests/gpu_megatron: 448 passed, 4 failed. test_mcore_hybrid_pruning_nas_params was the real failure; the other 3 were OOMs from GPU contention and pass when rerun alone.
  • With this PR:
    • tests/gpu_megatron/torch/{prune,nas}: 62 passed.
    • test_prune_minitron[nemotron_h] and test_distill_puzzletron_anymodel: pass.
  • Reverting each Megatron fix makes its test fail again: test_mamba_search_space, test_mcore_hybrid_pruning_nas_params, test_prune_minitron[nemotron_h]. The existing tests cover these paths once CI runs a newer MCore, so no new tests.

Stock nemo:26.08, with this PR:

  • tests/gpu_megatron/torch/{prune,nas}: 62 passed.
  • tests/examples/megatron_bridge/test_prune_minitron.py and test_distill.py: 19 passed.

Not run: the nemo:26.10 container itself (its rc has the same Megatron-Core changes), and the full tests/gpu_megatron with this PR.

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  • Did you update Changelog?: N/A (compatibility update)
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Related: #2889 (Megatron-Bridge fake-quant export, whose CI bump depends on this), NVIDIA-NeMo/Megatron-Bridge#6565.

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… Puzzletron

Newer MCore (e.g. nemo:26.10) refreshes the Mamba -exp(A_log) decode cache
on eval(), gives each hybrid layer its own config copy and keeps per-layer
lists index-aligned with HybridStack.layers; newer Megatron-Bridge derives
gtp_weight_remat_size in __post_init__. Resize the cache to the active
heads, slice/restore the per-layer lists when dropping layers, write the
pruned architecture to the per-layer configs, and pass only init fields to
GenericHeterogeneousProvider.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Keval Morabia <28916987+kevalmorabia97@users.noreply.github.com>
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The pull request updates Mamba decode-cache resizing, Minitron pruning of hybrid stacks, and Puzzletron provider argument filtering. It also adds a changelog entry describing the fixes.

Changes: Megatron compatibility fixes

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Mamba decode-cache resizing
modelopt/torch/nas/plugins/megatron.py
Training and export resize the decode cache when its shape differs from A_log.
Hybrid-stack pruning state
modelopt/torch/prune/plugins/mcore_minitron.py
Layer dropping rejects grouped hybrid layers and synchronizes hybrid decoder metadata. Temporary pruning saves and restores hybrid state. Pruning applies architecture updates to the model config and each hybrid layer config.
Puzzletron provider kwargs
modelopt/torch/puzzletron/plugins/mbridge/base.py, CHANGELOG.rst
Provider construction filters parent-provider kwargs to fields with init=True. The changelog records the Minitron and Puzzletron fixes.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: aanoosheh

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d9789

When Minitron temporarily evaluates a narrower hybrid-model candidate, per-layer configs can keep that candidate's values afterward. This can skew later candidates or the final pruned model. Fix the config restoration before merging.

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