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# Description
 
Add the FlagOS multi-chip backend for TransformerEngine

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Fix import bugs

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# TransformerEngine-FL Plugin System

## Overview

This PR implements a comprehensive multi-backend plugin system for
TransformerEngine-FL, enabling support for multiple hardware vendors
(NVIDIA, AMD, Hygon, etc.) while maintaining full API compatibility with
the original `transformer_engine_torch`.

**Core Philosophy**: A plugin-based backend system that allows hardware
vendors to easily implement their own operator optimizations while
preserving complete compatibility with the original TransformerEngine
API.

## Key Features

### Full API Compatibility
- Drop-in replacement for `transformer_engine_torch`
- Switch backends via environment variables
- Zero changes required to existing user code

### Multi-Backend Support

| Backend | Description | Implementation |
|---------|-------------|----------------|
| **FlagOS (default)** | Triton-based cross-platform implementation |
`backends/flagos/` |
| **CUDA (vendor)** | Wraps original TransformerEngine C++ extensions |
`backends/vendor/cuda/` |
| **Reference** | Pure PyTorch fallback implementation |
`backends/reference/` |

### Three-Tier Backend Selection

```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  1. TE_FL_PER_OP (Per-operator override)    [Highest]   │
│     Example: TE_FL_PER_OP="rmsnorm_fwd=vendor:cuda"     │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  2. TE_FL_PREFER (Global preference)                    │
│     Values: flagos / vendor / reference                │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  3. Backend Priority (Intrinsic)            [Lowest]    │
│     Each implementation has a priority value            │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

## Architecture

### Directory Structure

```
transformer_engine/plugin/core/
├── __init__.py              # Public API exports
├── types.py                 # Core types: BackendImplKind, OpImpl
├── registry.py              # OpRegistry: stores all implementations
├── manager.py               # OpManager: selects and calls implementations
├── policy.py                # SelectionPolicy: backend selection rules
├── discovery.py             # Plugin auto-discovery (entry_points, env)
├── builtin_ops.py           # Registers all built-in backends
├── ops.py                   # TEFLModule: transformer_engine_torch compatible API
├── logger_manager.py        # Logging utilities
├── _module_setup.py         # Module aliasing setup
├── _build_config.py         # Build-time configuration
│
└── backends/
    ├── flagos/              # FlagOS backend (Triton-based)
    │   ├── flagos.py        # FlagOSBackend class
    │   ├── register_ops.py  # Operator registration
    │   └── impl/            # Operator implementations
    │       ├── rmsnorm.py
    │       ├── gemm.py
    │       └── ...
    │
    ├── vendor/              # Vendor backends
    │   └── cuda/            # NVIDIA CUDA backend
    │       ├── cuda.py      # CUDABackend class
    │       └── register_ops.py
    │
    └── reference/           # Reference backend (PyTorch)
        ├── reference.py     # ReferenceBackend class
        ├── register_ops.py
        └── impl/            # Pure PyTorch implementations
```

### Core Components

| File | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `types.py` | Defines `BackendImplKind` (DEFAULT/VENDOR/REFERENCE) and
`OpImpl` dataclass |
| `registry.py` | `OpRegistry` - Central storage for all operator
implementations |
| `manager.py` | `OpManager` - Handles implementation selection,
fallback, and execution |
| `policy.py` | `SelectionPolicy` - Configurable rules for backend
selection |
| `discovery.py` | Auto-discovers plugins via `entry_points` or
`TE_FL_PLUGIN_MODULES` |
| `ops.py` | `TEFLModule` - Provides `transformer_engine_torch`
compatible interface |

## Installation

### Build with CUDA support
```bash
pip install --no-build-isolation -e .
```

### Build without CUDA (FlagOS only)
```bash
TE_FL_SKIP_CUDA=1 pip install --no-build-isolation -e .
```

## Environment Variables

### Backend Selection

| Variable | Description | Values | Default |
|----------|-------------|--------|---------|
| `TE_FL_PREFER` | Preferred backend type | `flagos` / `vendor` /
`reference` | `flagos` |
| `TE_FL_PREFER_VENDOR` | Prefer vendor (legacy) | `1` / `0` | `0` |
| `TE_FL_STRICT` | Strict mode (no fallback) | `1` / `0` | `0` |

### Vendor Filtering

| Variable | Description | Example |
|----------|-------------|---------|
| `TE_FL_ALLOW_VENDORS` | Allowed vendors (whitelist) | `nvidia,amd` |
| `TE_FL_DENY_VENDORS` | Denied vendors (blacklist) | `vendor_a` |

### Per-Operator Configuration

| Variable | Description | Example |
|----------|-------------|---------|
| `TE_FL_PER_OP` | Per-operator backend ordering |
`rmsnorm_fwd=vendor:cuda\|default` |

### Plugin Discovery

| Variable | Description | Example |
|----------|-------------|---------|
| `TE_FL_PLUGIN_MODULES` | Plugin modules to load |
`my_plugin,another_plugin` |

### Build Configuration

| Variable | Description | Values | Default |
|----------|-------------|--------|---------|
| `TE_FL_SKIP_CUDA` | Skip CUDA backend | `1` / `0` | `0` |
| `CUDA_HOME` | CUDA installation path | `/usr/local/cuda` |
Auto-detected |

### Logging

| Variable | Description | Values | Default |
|----------|-------------|--------|---------|
| `TEFL_LOG_LEVEL` | Log level | `DEBUG` / `INFO` / `WARNING` / `ERROR`
| `INFO` |

## Usage Examples

### Basic Usage (No Code Changes Required)
```python
# Existing code works as-is
import transformer_engine.pytorch as te
# or
import transformer_engine_torch as te
```

### Register Custom Backend (In-tree)

```python
from transformer_engine.plugin.core import (
    OpRegistry, OpManager, OpImpl, BackendImplKind
)

# 1. Define implementation
def my_rmsnorm(input, weight, eps=1e-5, **kwargs):
    variance = input.pow(2).mean(-1, keepdim=True)
    return input * torch.rsqrt(variance + eps) * weight, torch.rsqrt(variance + eps)

# 2. Register
registry = OpRegistry()
registry.register_impl(OpImpl(
    op_name="rmsnorm_fwd",
    impl_id="vendor.mybackend",
    kind=BackendImplKind.VENDOR,
    vendor="mybackend",
    fn=my_rmsnorm,
    priority=200,
))

# 3. Call
manager = OpManager(registry)
output, rsigma = manager.call("rmsnorm_fwd", input, weight)
```

### Register Custom Backend (Out-of-tree Plugin)

Create a plugin package with `register(registry)` function:

```python
# my_vendor_plugin/__init__.py
from transformer_engine.plugin.core import OpImpl, BackendImplKind

def my_rmsnorm(input, weight, eps=1e-5, **kwargs):
    # Your implementation
    ...

def register(registry):
    """Called automatically by TE-FL"""
    registry.register_impl(OpImpl(
        op_name="rmsnorm_fwd",
        impl_id="vendor.myvendor",
        kind=BackendImplKind.VENDOR,
        vendor="myvendor",
        fn=my_rmsnorm,
        priority=200,
    ))
```

Load via environment variable:
```bash
export TE_FL_PLUGIN_MODULES=my_vendor_plugin
python your_script.py
```

## Runtime Logs

When running, you'll see logs indicating which backend is used:

```
[TE-FL manager.py:133 INFO] Registered impl_ids: ['default.flagos', 'reference.torch', 'vendor.cuda']
[TE-FL manager.py:390 INFO] Op 'rmsnorm_fwd' using 'default.flagos' (kind=default, vendor=None)
[TE-FL manager.py:395 INFO] Op 'rmsnorm_fwd' switched from 'default.flagos' to 'vendor.cuda' (kind=vendor, vendor=CUDA)
```

## Examples

See `transformer_engine/plugins/examples/` for complete working
examples:
- `example_intree.py` - In-tree backend registration
- `example_outtree.py` - Out-of-tree plugin registration

Fixes # (issue)

## Type of change

- [ ] Documentation change (change only to the documentation, either a
fix or a new content)
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to not work as expected)
- [ ] Infra/Build change
- [ ] Code refactoring

## Changes

Please list the changes introduced in this PR:

- Change A
- Change B

# Checklist:

- [ ] I have read and followed the [contributing
guidelines](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TransformerEngine/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst)
- [ ] The functionality is complete
- [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [ ] My changes generate no new warnings
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [ ] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes

---------

Co-authored-by: panpy <panpy@sugon.com>
# Description

- Add missing __init__.py files to
transformer_engine/plugin/core/backends/flagos/attention/ directory tree
to fix import errors when accessing these modules as Python packages
- Add comprehensive test suite (test_policy.py) covering the TE-FL
scheduling policy system including:
SelectionPolicy creation and configuration
Environment variable parsing (TE_FL_PREFER, TE_FL_STRICT, etc.)
Policy context managers
Vendor filtering (allow/deny)
Thread safety validation
Minor code style improvements

Fixes # (issue)

## Type of change

- [ ] Documentation change (change only to the documentation, either a
fix or a new content)
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to not work as expected)
- [ ] Infra/Build change
- [ ] Code refactoring

## Changes

Please list the changes introduced in this PR:

- Change A
- Change B

# Checklist:

- [ ] I have read and followed the [contributing
guidelines](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TransformerEngine/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst)
- [ ] The functionality is complete
- [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [ ] My changes generate no new warnings
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [ ] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
…n fallback (flagos-ai#14)

## Summary
This PR contains two major improvements:

1. **Register `get_attention_backend` function for all backends** (CUDA,
FlagOS, Reference)
   - Added `get_attention_backend` implementation to all backend types
- Ensures consistent attention backend selection across different
hardware platforms

2. **Fix FlashAttention fallback mechanism**
- Removed redundant `_called_impls` dictionary, replaced with simpler
`_last_impl_id` class variable
   - Removed unused `_log_lock` threading lock
   - Simplified implementation tracking and logging logic
- Reduced code complexity and memory overhead while maintaining full
functionality

## Changes
- Updated `FlashAttentionBase` class in `ops.py` to remove redundant
implementation tracking
- Added `get_attention_backend` registration to CUDA, FlagOS, and
Reference backends
- Fixed fallback logic in attention backend selection

## Test Plan
- [x] Code builds successfully
- [x] Existing tests pass
- [x] Manual testing with different backend configurations

## Related Issues
Fixes issues with FlashAttention fallback and improves backend
consistency.
# Description

fix nv shared lib bug

[CUDA] Import failed: No module named 'transformer_engine_torch_nv'

Fixes # (issue)

## Type of change

- [ ] Documentation change (change only to the documentation, either a
fix or a new content)
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to not work as expected)
- [ ] Infra/Build change
- [ ] Code refactoring

## Changes

Please list the changes introduced in this PR:

- Change A
- Change B

# Checklist:

- [ ] I have read and followed the [contributing
guidelines](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TransformerEngine/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst)
- [ ] The functionality is complete
- [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [ ] My changes generate no new warnings
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [ ] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
# Description

This pr add hygon backend for calling basic ops on hygon dcu.

## Type of change

- [x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

## Changes

Please list the changes introduced in this PR:

- Add a new `hygon` folder in `vendor` contains `__init__.py`,
`hygon.py`, `register_ops.py`
- Register hygon ops in `builtin_ops.py`

# Requirements

In order to use hygon backend, the following, the following requirements
need to be met

- The python package `transformer_engine_fl_hygon` needs to be installed

# Checklist:

- [ ] I have read and followed the [contributing
guidelines](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TransformerEngine/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst)
- [ ] The functionality is complete
- [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [ ] My changes generate no new warnings
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [ ] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes

---------

Signed-off-by: wenjh <wenjh@sugon.com>
…gos-ai#18)

Add a flag that permanently enables flag_gems with a single switch,
eliminating the need to call flag_gems.use_gems for every single
operator. This removes significant registration overhead and improves
end-to-end throughput.
- When the flag is set, every operator’s implementation is forced to use
flag_os/vendor; the default PyTorch reference backend is unavailable.
- When the flag is not set, operators can freely switch among flag_os,
vendor, and torch backends.
Unify the usage of the gems context
- only enter or exit the context when switching between the flagos
backend and the torch backend (or vice versa).
- avoids the overhead of repeated enter/exit calls across multiple OPs.
## Summary
- Support combined qkv_layout formats like `sbhd_sbhd_sbhd` by
extracting the first part for layout conversion
- Distinguish between standard 4D tensor format (sbhd/bshd) and true
packed format (thd). For 4D tensors, directly convert layout like flagos
backend does, instead of incorrectly trying to unpack

## Problem
When using torch SDPA backend with `batch_size > 1`, the following error
occurs:
```
ValueError: Unexpected 4D tensor shape torch.Size([4096, 4, 16, 128]). Expected [total_tokens, 1, num_heads, head_dim]
```

The original code incorrectly tried to unpack 4D tensors when
`cu_seqlens` was provided, but 4D tensors in `sbhd`/`bshd` format should
be handled with simple layout conversion (like flagos backend does).

## Test plan
- [x] Tested with batch_size=4, verified no ValueError
- [x] Results match flagos backend output
- Remove the flag_gems.use_gems() context to avoid context-switching
overhead
- Call flag_gems.xxx directly wherever possible.
# Description

Add the new vendor backend METAX

## Type of change

- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)

## Changes

Please list the changes introduced in this PR:

-  Add metax ops register 
-  Add metax backend implementation
-  Register metax ops in builtin_ops.py

## Requirements

- The module transformer_engine_torch_metax is needed, to use this
module, need to install package transformer_engine_metax

# Checklist:

- [x] I have read and followed the [contributing
guidelines](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TransformerEngine/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst)
- [x] The functionality is complete
- [x] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
- [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [x] My changes generate no new warnings
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [x] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
…lagos-ai#23)

## Summary
- flagos: Add multi_tensor_adam_param_remainder implementation
- reference: Add multi_tensor_adam_param_remainder implementation  
- reference: Add context parallel support for Flash Attention
- manager: Add cache mechanism with _impl_cache and _impl_cache_meta for
conditional op selection

## Changes
### flagos backend
- Implemented multi_tensor_adam_param_remainder operation for handling
parameter remainders in multi-tensor Adam optimizer

### reference backend  
- Implemented multi_tensor_adam_param_remainder operation
- Added context parallel support for Flash Attention implementation

### Core manager
- Added cache mechanism using _impl_cache and _impl_cache_meta
- Improved op selection with conditional caching based on policy
fingerprint and epoch

---------

Signed-off-by: wenone766 <wenone766@wenobug.com>
Co-authored-by: wenone766 <wenone766@wenobug.com>
- Fix enum mismatch, between ```transformer_engine/plugin/core/ops.py```
and ```transformer_engine/common/include/transformer_engine/xxx.h```
# Description

add Vendor KUNLUNXIN
Darryl233 and others added 5 commits July 28, 2026 10:35
…g in the reference backend (flagos-ai#89)

## Summary

This PR adds Ascend NPU support to the TE-FL plugin system through
`torch_npu` and `transformer_engine_npu`, and fixes backward-path issues
in the reference GEMM implementation.

## Changes

### Ascend NPU backend

- Add automatic NPU availability detection and vendor-priority
registration.
- Add support for:
  - FlashAttention with SBHD, BSHD, and THD layouts
  - RMSNorm forward and backward
  - Generic and grouped GEMM
  - Multi-tensor scale and L2-norm operations
- Add THD ↔ BSHD conversion operators.
- Keep NPU dependencies lazily imported.

### Reference GEMM fixes

- Fix output shape restoration for transposed inputs.
- Do not add forward bias in backward mode.
- Compute fused bias gradients.
- Apply dGeLU using the saved forward activation.
- Preserve correct alpha scaling and 3D input behavior.

## Testing

Added coverage for:

- FlashAttention forward/backward accuracy and causal masking
- RMSNorm forward/backward
- Generic and grouped GEMM
- Multi-tensor and FP8 scale operations
- Reference GEMM backward behavior

Verified on Ascend 910C:

```text
46 passed
```

## Deps
It depends on TransformerEngineNPU. The package natively generated by
TransformerEngineNPU is named transformer_engine. Relevant packaging
logic needs to be modified so that the generated package is named
transformer_engine_npu.
Move the temporary XTE TE-FL patch behavior into TE-FL native backend
implementations. Register KunLunXin layernorm and GEMM operators, route
attention backend selection through transformer_engine_klx_torch, and
add reference GLU/DGLU fallback implementations.

# Description

Please include a brief summary of the changes, relevant motivation and
context.

Fixes # (issue)

## Type of change

- [ ] Documentation change (change only to the documentation, either a
fix or a new content)
- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing
functionality to not work as expected)
- [ ] Infra/Build change
- [ ] Code refactoring

## Changes

Please list the changes introduced in this PR:

- Change A
- Change B

# Checklist:

- [ ] I have read and followed the [contributing
guidelines](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TransformerEngine/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.rst)
- [ ] The functionality is complete
- [ ] I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
- [ ] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
- [ ] My changes generate no new warnings
- [ ] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [ ] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
Summary

This PR adds Ascend NPU Unit CI support for TransformerEngine-FL through
torch_npu and the FlagOS backend. It extends the existing CI workflow to
execute real TE workloads and selected shared PyTorch tests on Ascend
910C.

Changes

Ascend NPU testing

Add real NPU coverage for:

Linear forward and backward
LayerNorm, RMSNorm, and LayerNormLinear
LayerNormMLP
GEMM, softmax, and multi-tensor operations
Unfused Dot Product Attention and MultiheadAttention
TransformerLayer debug and ONNX export paths
Reuse selected portable sanity and numerics tests from the existing
PyTorch suites.

Distributed testing

Add support for:

Two-process HCCL execution
TE Linear gradient synchronization
Context Parallel utility tests
Initial non-FP8 distributed numerical validation
CI and coverage

Add Ascend-specific Unit test entry points.
Add raw and aggregated coverage collection.
Fail explicitly when torch_npu or flag_gems is unavailable.
Keep unsupported CUDA-specific features explicitly excluded.
Testing

Verified on Ascend 910C:

PyTorch Unit test execution passed.
PyTorch Debug passed.
PyTorch ONNX passed.
PyTorch Distributed is under validation.
The current PyTorch Unit job failure occurred during coverage artifact
upload after the test execution had passed.

Limitations

CUDA Graphs, Flash/Fused Attention, FP8, MXFP8, NVFP4, block scaling,
TensorRT integration, and Integration tests are not included in the
current Ascend Unit scope.

---------

Co-authored-by: 1395976031 <1395976031@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: BrianPei <kaworu228@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: wkhylyh-debug <wkhylyh@gmail.com>
…lagos-ai#92)

## Summary

This PR adds a Hygon BW1000 CI baseline using the TE-FL reference
backend and reorganizes the plugin tests into a backend-oriented
structure under `tests/plugin`.

The Hygon workflow validates the reference path only. It does not add or
claim a native Hygon vendor backend.

## Changes

- Add Hygon CI configuration, environment setup, and workflow entry.
- Add Hygon unit, distributed smoke, ONNX smoke, and MCore integration
tests.
- Refactor common workflows to use platform configuration and setup
scripts without chip-specific branches.
- Move plugin tests from `transformer_engine/plugin/tests` to:
  - `tests/plugin/plugin`
  - `tests/plugin/backend/reference`
  - `tests/plugin/backend/flagos`
  - `tests/plugin/backend/npu`
  - `tests/plugin/backend/hygon`
- Remove legacy plugin test files that were not collected by pytest.
- Convert the FlagOS fused RoPE tests to standard pytest tests.
- Add documentation for adding and running tests locally.
- Use the unified 8-GPU runner labels.

## Hygon Baseline

- Hardware: Hygon BW1000
- Backend policy: `TE_FL_PREFER=reference`
- GEMM implementation: `reference.torch`
- Runner label: `hg-8g-cicd-te`
- Coverage enabled but not required
- Debug tests are explicitly skipped when `nvdlfw_inspect` is
unavailable

## Testing

Validated on Hygon BW1000:

- PyTorch unit tests
- Plugin manager and policy tests
- Reference backend tests
- Distributed smoke tests
- ONNX smoke tests
- Coverage aggregation
- Megatron-LM-FL MCore integration test

All configured Hygon CI jobs passed.

---------

Co-authored-by: wkhylyh-debug <wkhylyh@gmail.com>
## Summary

Add a dedicated MUSA CI workflow for TransformerEngine-FL.

## Changes

- Added MUSA hardware configuration and workflow entry points.
- Added MUSA environment setup and runtime verification.
- Verified the availability of the `transformer_engine_musa_torch` API
and `vendor.musa`.
- Verified that the representative `generic_gemm` dispatch selects
`vendor.musa`.
- Executed supported native TE tests using a MUSA-specific launcher.
- Added a dedicated launcher for MUSA Megatron-LM integration tests.
- Increased the timeout for shared unit tests from 60 minutes to 180
minutes.

## Test Organization

- Native TE test adapter:
  `tests/plugin/backend/musa/run_native_tests.sh`
- MUSA MCore integration test entry point:
  `tests/integration/musa/run_mcore.sh`

Unsupported MUSA test cases are filtered out within the
platform-specific launcher to ensure MUSA compatibility.

## Verification

- YAML configuration parsing passed.
- Bash syntax checks passed.
- Python setup script checks passed.
- `git diff --check` passed.
- The final branch has been synchronized with `origin/musa-dev`.

The MUSA backend implementation already exists in the upstream source
code; this change provides the corresponding dedicated CI setup and test
entry points.

---------

Co-authored-by: canghaiX <1395976031@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: BrianPei <kaworu228@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: wkhylyh-debug <wkhylyh@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: canghaiX <59075364+canghaiX@users.noreply.github.com>
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FlagScale Agent added 6 commits August 10, 2026 04:14
Resolved all 229 conflicts across P0/P1/P2 priorities:
P0 (plugin system): No conflicts - fork's plugin/ directory fully preserved
P1 (4 files): Manual merge preserving fork features + upstream additions
  1. setup.py: Fork plugin build system + upstream NCCL EP support
  2. transformer_engine/__init__.py: Fork plugin patches + upstream NCCL EP version check
  3. transformer_engine/common/__init__.py: Fork skip_cuda_build() + plugin import
  4. transformer_engine/pytorch/__init__.py: Fork torch_nv + upstream tensor/context utilities
P2 (224 files): Accepted upstream version for core library files

Upgrade path: v2.14 -> v2.17
- convert_host_pointers_to_tensor
- get_device_pointer_for_data_and_scales

These bindings were missing in upstream v2.17's pybind.cpp despite the
corresponding C++ implementations existing in utils.cpp.
Applied 18 patches across 6 files to replace hardcoded 'cuda' device strings
with TE_DEVICE_TYPE constant for multi-backend support.

Changes:
- utils.py: 4 patches
- distributed.py: 3 patches
- quantization.py: 6 patches
- quantized_tensor.py: 1 patch
- cpu_offload.py: 1 patch
- jit.py: 3 patches

All files passed Python AST syntax validation.
Added missing import for InstallCommand from setuptools.command.install
to fix NameError during build.
These P2 files were git-added during Stage 3 merge but still contained
conflict markers. Fixed by checking out the upstream v2.17 version for
all affected files:
- 43 source files (transformer_engine/common, pytorch, jax)
- 10 test files
- 4 doc/example files
- 1 empty artifact removed (quantization_nvfp4.py renamed upstream)

64 files changed, accepting upstream version for all.
These files were generated during the v2.17 sync workflow for debugging
and documentation purposes. They should not be part of the final PR.
FlagScale Agent and others added 14 commits August 10, 2026 05:08
- ops.py: Add 15 new API declarations, update 4 existing signatures
- cuda backend: Add 15 new methods, update 4 signatures in cuda.py and register_ops.py
- All vendor backends (enflame/iluvatar/metax/musa/hygon): Add 19 new methods + OpImpl entries

New APIs: splits_to_offsets_multi, copy_data_ptrs_to_device, bulk_allocate,
create_empty_quantized_tensor, group_dequantize, get_grouped_gemm_setup_workspace_size,
multi_tensor_pad_last_dim, multi_tensor_swizzle_scales_for_gemm_,
multi_tensor_transpose_to_bhsd, cusolvermp_ctx_create, cusolvermp_ctx_destroy,
newton_schulz, nvfp4_quantize_with_amax, nvfp4_group_quantize_with_amax,
swizzle_scales_and_pack_ptrs_for_discrete_weights

Modified signatures: group_quantize, bgrad_group_quantize (+tensor_offsets),
clamped_swiglu, clamped_dswiglu (+glu_linear_offset)
The Stage 3 merge overwrote transformer_engine/__init__.py with upstream's
version, losing the fork-specific TE_DEVICE_TYPE='cuda' default and the
te_device_type() helper function. Multiple files depend on these:
- transformer_engine/pytorch/utils.py
- transformer_engine/pytorch/cpu_offload.py
- transformer_engine/pytorch/distributed.py
- transformer_engine/pytorch/jit.py
- transformer_engine/debug/features/utils/stats_buffer.py
- transformer_engine/pytorch/ops/fused/*.py
…Attention

- Replace hardcoded device='cuda' with device=te_device_type() (2 locations)
- Replace is_cuda checks with device.type == te_device_type() (3 locations)
- These changes were lost during v2.17 upstream merge
- Restores multi-backend compatibility from commit 4f54860
- triton/permutation.py: 12 te_device_type() calls restored
- utils.py: 5 te_device_type() calls restored (_empty_tensor, normalize_device, torch_get_autocast_gpu_dtype)
…ntion

- Fix dot_product_attention.py: use 'from transformer_engine import te_device_type' instead of debug_state import
- Add missing import in layernorm_mlp.py
- Add missing import in quantization.py

All imports now follow main branch convention: 'from transformer_engine import te_device_type'
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