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Background

The Qwen3.8 family needs explicit mixed-NVFP4 target plus DSpark block7 execution through the pinned official Edge-LLM ONNX toolchain. The ordinary experimental builder path is not qualified and is intentionally absent from this change. Standalone Model Connect builds retain their original native path.

Exit Criteria

  • Forward the explicit Qwen3.8 target/draft pair through Model Connect to the original ONNX exporter, native builder and C++ runtime.
  • Preserve supported generation controls, reject unmapped semantics and pass unchanged independent quality gates on the qualified SM120 profile.
  • Keep all model admission, orchestration, artifact ownership and validation family-local. Do not add Qwen3 or older support.

Implementation

  • Add a family-owned named-draft entrypoint and exact native SM120 route for mixed-NVFP4 DSpark block7.
  • Package both speculative engines and their embedding/head/tokenizer assets without duplicating source weights. The family runtime uses draft topK1/step1/verify8 with scheduling off.
  • Derive admitted single-user prompt prefix/suffix mappings from the checkpoint tokenizer and preserve supported sampling controls. Reject unsupported generation requests and capacity overflow.
  • Fix the existing E2E helper to pass companion inputs, preserve failed CLI output and decode declared ModelOpt mixed weights for its independent CPU FP32 oracle. No thresholds are weakened.
  • Update the family recipe and documentation website. Extra rollout-only test files remain local, not in this PR.

Change categories

  • Model or runtime behavior
  • Public API
  • ABI
  • Bundle or artifact format
  • Dependencies
  • Documentation only
  • CI or developer tooling

Validation

Commands and Results

  • python -m pytest tools/tests/test_architecture.py core/builder/tests/test_build.py families/qwen3_8/tests --ignore=families/qwen3_8/tests/test_e2e.py -q -rs: 117 passed, including 11 existing family tests.

  • ctest --test-dir "$BUILD" -R 'test_qwen3_8_recurrent_(output_initializers|pipeline)$' --output-on-failure: 2 passed, including the GPU pipeline, no skips.

  • python -m tools.model_ci validate: inventory valid.

  • Actual Model Connect paired ONNX build and public CLI inference passed. The publication runtime was rebuilt natively and repeated both quality checks against the same qualified engine bundle.

  • Independent source-verified saved CPU FP32 oracle: exact tokens, NED 0.0 <= 0.15.

  • Original Edge 128-token fixture, temperature1/topK50/topP1, chat enabled/thinking disabled: ROUGE-1 0.4246 / ROUGE-L 0.2458 >= 0.25 / 0.20 again on the publication runtime.

  • npm --prefix website run test:model-support: 7 passed; npm --prefix website run build: passed, including34SVGchecks.

  • python -m tools.community_ci source-quality --base 730286693249502319888859c4fdb5b42d2d2104: passed, including195checks with pinned Ruff0.16.4 and clang-format22.1.8. The formatting-only follow-up rebuilt the same byte-identical qualified runtime; both native tests passed again.

Hardware, Environment, and Revisions

Native Linux x86_64 SM120, CUDA13.3, TensorRT11.1.0.106, FP16 execution with source mixed NVFP4/FP8 metadata, TP1/batch1/inputKV1024. Official GitHub Edge-LLM0.10.1 revision e8b29522938901f6df19ebeedd4b69bc8edbcd97; no internal checkout or cross-compilation.

Target RadixArk/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4, revision 319f741cce68d7914884900c138a1fbb70a42f30; draft RadixArk/Qwen3.8-27B-DSpark, revision b9a5dbdf03bc999c6c73c426b19c2d9041cea393.

Qualified engine bundle SHA256: 0040c37107d68349f270af64bf9c60fbb050844805a7681013b4ec2546cf69fd. The publication branch is based on generic prerequisite ee91e1c71da243b0aaf7983a61cc2498b549adf7.

Not Run / Remaining Gaps

Exact-head Community CPU and protected internal CI passed; see the status below. This exact pair uses explicit local recipes with existing owning E2E helpers; it is not a registered pytest manifest case, and this PR does not imply internal CI executes it.

The publication cleanup removed unqualified branches and reused the original qualified engines; it did not repeat ONNX export/engine building. The independent reference was reused after source-byte/reference-function verification, not regenerated. Other platforms, standalone NVFP4 Edge execution, multimodal inputs, larger capacities and statistical sampling equivalence are not qualified.

Contributor Self-Review

  • I have completed a self-review of this change.

Self-reviewed mixed-weight and paired-execution admission, explicit fallback limits, request capacity checks, independent-reference decoding, and unchanged quality gates.

Notes For Future Readers

Depends on #1305, included until the generic prerequisite is merged. Review the generic SDK/build-input contracts first, then the family dispatch, paired runtime and existing E2E oracle changes.

The first rollout inference crash was caused by same-version but ABI-incompatible JSON development headers. The exact pinned headers fixed the same engines; the prerequisite retains a header-content check rather than a version-only check.

An Edge preparation failure warns and attempts the owning native callback once. Native Qwen3.8 cannot implement DSpark and fails explicitly instead of substituting base-only decoding. Inference and publication errors do not silently fall back.

No merge or auto-merge is requested. Website changes deploy only after approved merge.

Risk level

  • Low
  • Medium
  • High

Complete-network paired offload adds native ABI and speculative-runtime dependencies. Exact platform/contract admission and repeated independent quality checks bound this profile, but automated pair registration and broader compatibility remain separate work.

Publication runtime SHA256: b3d3b4b3b411af7f257736fde4d213cfc48c068bd47e879520d961be8a27c0d5.

Final protected CI status

Exact head 79c141b96e458ff3e2528ba73bde80f3a02f65e5: Community CPU and TRTMC Internal CI / Automated premerge gate passed. This does not establish automated coverage for the locally qualified DSpark recipe, which is not registered in the owning E2E manifest. No merge or auto-merge requested.

Artifact lifecycle update: the successful local qualification bundles have now been retired under approved cleanup after verifying their recorded hashes. Compact outputs, quality results, source revisions and hashes remain. Fresh inference replay requires rebuilding the exact profiles; this does not change the executed qualification or exact-head CI results above.

Provision the official pinned SDK through CMake with optional ONNX tools and native platform, capability, and exact JSON-header checks. Keep package discovery and dependency setup separate from model builds.

Transport explicit family-owned companion inputs without shared model dispatch. Add bounded bundle extraction and separate executable diagnostics from machine-readable results. Document the optional build/runtime workflow and extend existing tests.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Calafato <jcalafato@nvidia.com>
Forward the explicit mixed-NVFP4 target and DSpark block7 draft to the pinned native Edge-LLM ONNX exporter, builder and runtime. Keep admission, prompt mapping, artifact ownership and generation controls inside this family.

Preserve native standalone builds and exclude unqualified ordinary Edge paths. Fix the existing E2E helper for companion inputs and the independent mixed-weight oracle without relaxing quality gates. Document the exact SM120 profile and the remaining automated pair-registration gap.

Signed-off-by: Joshua Calafato <jcalafato@nvidia.com>
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Summary

Adds optional paired ONNX execution for Qwen3.8 through the pinned Edge-LLM SDK.

The change adds:

  • Explicit dspark execution inputs and local companion checkpoints.
  • Mixed-NVFP4 base and FP32 draft asset generation.
  • Qwen3.8-specific validation for pairing, capacity, generation settings, and artifacts.
  • Native Edge-LLM runtime support for the qualified Linux x86_64, SM120, FP16 profile.
  • Optional CMake provisioning for the pinned Edge-LLM SDK.
  • Bounded bundle section copying and separated CLI result and diagnostic streams.
  • Tests and documentation for the new build and runtime paths.

Existing standalone native builds remain unchanged.

Architecture impact

Family-owned files

Qwen3.8 owns the execution contract, exporter integration, runtime adapter, request handling, and E2E reference support in families/qwen3_8/.

Shared surfaces

The change extends the shared Model Connect build API and CLI, CMake provisioning, bundle reading, Qwen3.8 runtime plugin dispatch, and CLI stream handling.

The shared build layer provides model-agnostic execution-input validation and delegates model-specific behavior to build_with_inputs.

Dependency directions

Qwen3.8 calls the optional Edge-LLM exporter and ONNX builder.

The native Qwen3.8 runtime links to EdgeLLM::Core and loads the adjacent Edge plugin.

The Edge-LLM SDK is optional. Standard builds do not require it.

Affected consumers

Affected consumers include Model Connect API and CLI users who provide execution inputs, Qwen3.8 paired-build users, native runtime users loading Edge bundles, and CMake users enabling TRTMC_ENABLE_EDGELLM.

Unresolved blast-radius questions

  • Review findings and severity counts were not supplied.
  • Broader platforms, capacities, modalities, and sampling equivalence remain unqualified.
  • The paired recipe is not registered in the pytest E2E manifest.
  • The supplied results do not independently establish all claimed validation outcomes.
  • Human review must confirm shared API compatibility and the remaining qualification limits.

Outcome

HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED

Walkthrough

The pull request adds optional Edge-LLM SDK provisioning and Qwen3.8 DSpark execution. It adds explicit local companion inputs, Edge bundle creation and publication, bundle section streaming, native runtime loading, validation, fallback behavior, tests, and documentation.

Changes

Edge-LLM execution

Layer / File(s) Summary
Edge-LLM SDK provisioning
CMakeLists.txt, cmake/EdgeLLM.cmake, cmake/edgellm/*, tools/tests/test_architecture.py, website/docs/user-guides/configure-runtime.md
CMake can provision or reuse a pinned Edge-LLM SDK. It validates native TensorRT, CUDA, GPU, processor, and JSON-header requirements.
Explicit execution inputs
core/builder/tensorrt_model_connect/*, core/builder/tests/test_build.py, apps/cli/main.cpp, website/docs/api/python-builder.md, website/docs/architecture/build-pipeline.md
The API and CLI accept validated local companion checkpoints and dispatch supported execution variants through family hooks. CLI results remain on stdout, while diagnostics use stderr.
Qwen3.8 DSpark build path
families/qwen3_8/dispatch.py, families/qwen3_8/edge_llm.py, families/qwen3_8/model.py, families/qwen3_8/tests/test_e2e.py, families/qwen3_8/EDGE_LLM.md, website/docs/features/model-families.md
Qwen3.8 validates paired DSpark inputs, prepares Edge artifacts for the supported target, publishes the bundle, and retries native building after Edge preparation failures.
Edge runtime adapter
families/qwen3_8/runtime/*
The runtime validates Edge bundle metadata, loads the adjacent plugin, creates a persistent DSpark task, maps requests, and validates generated responses.
Bundle artifact streaming
core/runtime/bundle/*, core/runtime/include/trtmc/bundle.h, core/runtime/tests/test_bundle_format_v1.cpp
BundleReader::copy_section streams named sections with a 64 KiB buffer and reports missing sections and I/O failures. Tests cover chunk boundaries, empty sections, truncation, and stream errors.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant BuildAPI
  participant QwenDispatch
  participant EdgeBuilder
  participant BundleRuntime
  CLI->>BuildAPI: submit execution variant and local draft checkpoint
  BuildAPI->>QwenDispatch: invoke family-specific build hook
  QwenDispatch->>EdgeBuilder: prepare paired DSpark artifacts
  EdgeBuilder-->>QwenDispatch: return published bundle files
  QwenDispatch-->>BuildAPI: complete build transaction
  BundleRuntime->>BundleRuntime: load edge_llm.json and validate artifacts
  BundleRuntime-->>CLI: serve generated text and token IDs
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 79c14

Repeated successful paired builds can leave large diagnostic files behind and eventually consume build-host storage. Clean up successful-build logs before merging.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 8 | ❌ 1

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 31.58% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 95 functions across 19 files. (13 skipped… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: adding paired ONNX execution for the Qwen3.8 family.
Description check ✅ Passed The description completes all required template sections, identifies scope and boundaries, records implementation details, validation results, environment revisions, remaining gaps, self-review, and r…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Family Ownership Boundary ✅ Passed No cross-family ownership violation is introduced. The authoritative diff changes only families/qwen3_8 under families/ (12 files); no other model family is changed. The new Python dependencies ar…
Shared Semantic Neutrality ✅ Passed No shared semantic leak is introduced. The shared builder adds model-agnostic BuildExecutionInputs and NamedCheckpoint transport. It validates identifiers and local directories, then calls only an…
Benchmark Validation Integrity ✅ Passed No benchmark-integrity failure is introduced. The review diff changes no apps/benchmark timing, synchronization, aggregation, workload-unit, or report code. The Qwen3.8 E2E changes add optional exec…
Shared Change Blast Radius ✅ Passed The shared-surface changes have a documented blast-radius rationale. BuildExecutionInputs and NamedCheckpoint provide a model-agnostic transport contract for explicit local companions; the core va…
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Apply the pinned clang-format22.1.8 wrapping required by Source quality. Full public source-quality checks pass, and the rebuilt runtime is byte-identical to the independently qualified binary.

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In `@families/qwen3_8/dispatch.py`:
- Around line 92-93: In the successful Edge-build path around edge_llm.publish
and the subsequent return, delete log_path after publication completes. Preserve
the existing log for failed preparation and ensure cleanup occurs only after
successful publication.

In `@families/qwen3_8/EDGE_LLM.md`:
- Around line 13-15: Update the qualification record in EDGE_LLM.md to separate
all labels from adjacent version numbers and metric values, including Edge-LLM,
CUDA, NED comparisons, token counts, temperature, regression counts, and Edge’s
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Remove the diagnostic log after a successful Edge build.

mkstemp creates the log in request.output_path.parent. The Edge exporter and ONNX builder append their stdout and stderr to this file without a size limit. BundleWriter.finish() and abort() clean only bundle staging files, so the successful Edge path leaves the log behind. Repeated builds can accumulate large logs and consume disk space.

Delete log_path after publication succeeds. Keep the log only for failed preparation.

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             if adapter is not None:
                 edge_llm.publish(request, writer, files, marker)
+                log_path.unlink(missing_ok=True)
                 return
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GitHub Edge-LLM0.10.1 at `e8b29522938901f6df19ebeedd4b69bc8edbcd97`.
Configure `CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH` for the installed package and compile the runtime
with `TRTMC_ENABLE_EDGELLM=ON`. Cross compilation is unsupported.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Separate version numbers and metric values from their labels.

Several values are concatenated with the preceding text. Examples include Edge-LLM0.10.1, CUDA13.3, NED0.0 against0.15, and128-token, temperature1, regressions:11, and Edge’s3.12.0.

Add the missing spaces so that the qualification record is unambiguous.

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In `@families/qwen3_8/EDGE_LLM.md` around lines 13 - 15, Update the qualification
record in EDGE_LLM.md to separate all labels from adjacent version numbers and
metric values, including Edge-LLM, CUDA, NED comparisons, token counts,
temperature, regression counts, and Edge’s version references. Apply the same
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