Support DeepSeekV3-style block FP8 quantization

docs/schemes.md

@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ PTQ is performed to reduce the precision of quantizable weights (e.g., linear la
 - Useful for speed ups in high QPS regimes or offline serving on vLLM. 
 - Recommended for NVIDIA GPUs with compute capability >=9.0 (Hopper and Blackwell).
 
+### [W8A8-FP8_BLOCK](../examples/quantization_w8a8_fp8/fp8_block_example.py)
+- Uses block-wise quantization to compress weights to FP8 in (commonly 128×128 tiles), and dynamic per-token-group (128) quantization for activations. Does not require calibration dataset. Activation quantization is carried out during inference on vLLM.
+
 ## Sparsification
 Sparsification reduces model complexity by pruning selected weight values to zero while retaining essential weights in a subset of parameters. Supported formats include:
 

examples/quantization_w8a8_fp8/fp8_block_example.py

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
+
+from llmcompressor import oneshot
+from llmcompressor.modifiers.quantization import QuantizationModifier
+
+MODEL_ID = "Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B"
+
+# Load model.
+model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
+    MODEL_ID, device_map="auto", torch_dtype="auto"
+)
+tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
+
+# Configure the quantization algorithm and scheme.
+# In this case, we:
+#   * quantize the weights to fp8 with per channel via ptq
+#   * quantize the activations to fp8 with dynamic per token
+recipe = QuantizationModifier(
+    targets="Linear", scheme="FP8_BLOCK", ignore=["lm_head"]
+)
+
+# Apply quantization.
+oneshot(model=model, recipe=recipe)
+
+# Confirm generations of the quantized model look sane.
+print("========== SAMPLE GENERATION ==============")
+input_ids = tokenizer("Hello my name is", return_tensors="pt").input_ids.to("cuda")
+output = model.generate(input_ids, max_new_tokens=20)
+print(tokenizer.decode(output[0]))
+print("==========================================")
+
+# Save to disk in compressed-tensors format.
+SAVE_DIR = MODEL_ID.split("/")[1] + "-FP8-BLOCK"
+model.save_pretrained(SAVE_DIR)
+tokenizer.save_pretrained(SAVE_DIR)

src/llmcompressor/modifiers/quantization/calibration.py

@@ -109,8 +109,25 @@ def call_observer(
             updated_scale, updated_zero_point = observer(
                 value, g_idx=g_idx, global_scale=global_scale
             )
-            update_parameter_data(module, updated_scale, f"{base_name}_scale")
-            update_parameter_data(module, updated_zero_point, f"{base_name}_zero_point")
+            # register or update scale & zero_point parameters (supports block shapes)
+            scale_name = f"{base_name}_scale"
+            zp_name = f"{base_name}_zero_point"
+            if not hasattr(module, scale_name) or getattr(module, scale_name).shape != updated_scale.shape:
+                if hasattr(module, scale_name):
+                    delattr(module, scale_name)
+                module.register_parameter(
+                    scale_name, torch.nn.Parameter(updated_scale.clone())
+                )
+            else:
+                update_parameter_data(module, updated_scale, scale_name)
+            if not hasattr(module, zp_name) or getattr(module, zp_name).shape != updated_zero_point.shape:
+                if hasattr(module, zp_name):
+                    delattr(module, zp_name)
+                module.register_parameter(
+                    zp_name, torch.nn.Parameter(updated_zero_point.clone())
+                )
+            else:
+                update_parameter_data(module, updated_zero_point, zp_name)
 
 
 def update_weight_global_scale(module: Module):

src/llmcompressor/observers/base.py

@@ -193,12 +193,30 @@ def get_qparams(
                 )
 
             elif self.quantization_args.strategy == QuantizationStrategy.BLOCK:
-                # TODO (#1475) add support for block-wise quantization
-                raise NotImplementedError(
-                    "Block-wise quantization is not yet supported, "
-                    "consider group-wise quantization instead. More info at "
-                    "https://github.com/vllm-project/llm-compressor/issues/1475"
-                )
+                # Block-wise quantization: one scale/zero_point per block of shape [block_rows, block_cols]
+                rows, cols = observed.shape[:2]
+                bs = self.quantization_args.block_structure
+                if not (isinstance(bs, (list, tuple)) and len(bs) == 2 and all(isinstance(x, int) for x in bs)):
+                    raise ValueError(f"Invalid block_structure '{bs}'. Must be a list of two ints [rows, cols].")
+                block_rows, block_cols = bs
+                num_br = int(ceil(rows / block_rows))
+                num_bc = int(ceil(cols / block_cols))
+                # allocate per-block scale and zero_point
+                self._scale = torch.empty((num_br, num_bc), dtype=observed.dtype, device=observed.device)
+                self._zero_point = torch.empty((num_br, num_bc), dtype=observed.dtype, device=observed.device)
+                # compute qparams for each block
+                for i in range(num_br):
+                    r0 = i * block_rows
+                    r1 = min((i + 1) * block_rows, rows)
+                    for j in range(num_bc):
+                        c0 = j * block_cols
+                        c1 = min((j + 1) * block_cols, cols)
+                        # reduce across both dims to get one scale and zp per block
+                        scale_bp, zp_bp = self.calculate_qparams(
+                            observed[r0:r1, c0:c1], reduce_dims=(0, 1)
+                        )
+                        self._scale[i, j] = scale_bp
+                        self._zero_point[i, j] = zp_bp
 
         return self._scale, self._zero_point
 

tests/llmcompressor/modifiers/quantization/test_base.py

@@ -34,6 +34,32 @@ def q_config_kwargs(config_0, config_1):
         )
     )
 
+@pytest.fixture
+def block_q_config_kwargs():
+    return dict(
+        config_groups=dict(
+            group_block=dict(
+                targets=["Linear"],
+                input_activations=dict(
+                    num_bits=8, symmetric=True, strategy="group", group_size=128
+                ),
+                weights=dict(
+                    num_bits=8,
+                    symmetric=True,
+                    strategy="block",
+                    block_structure=[128, 128],
+                ),
+            ),
+        )
+    )
+
+def test_block_strategy_parsing(block_q_config_kwargs):
+    modifier = GPTQModifier(**block_q_config_kwargs)
+    resolved = modifier.resolve_quantization_config()
+    w_scheme = resolved.config_groups["group_block"].weights
+    assert w_scheme.strategy == "block"
+    assert w_scheme.block_structure == [128, 128]
+
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize(
     "has_actorder,actorder,config_0,config_1,expected_0,expected_1",