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Force eager fused-experts dispatch for layerwise replay - #29

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Depends on #26 (disk-streaming) — stacked on top of it, so the diff includes those commits until it merges; only the last commit is new here.

Recent transformers versions dispatch the fused-experts forward to torch._grouped_mm when available, whose meta registration hard-requires BF16 inputs — but this layerwise replay runs in float32 (RoPE cos/sin promote hidden states through the chain), which crashes. Forces the eager per-expert loop instead, which is dtype-agnostic; observer throughput here is dominated by disk streaming, not the expert matmul dispatch, so this has no meaningful performance cost.

Registers Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration in MODEL_ATTRS and
generalizes get_moe() to walk model.model.language_model.layers, not
just model.model.layers, for this architecture's nested multimodal
wrapper. Adds a matching observer hook config (num_experts/top_k live
on .experts/.gate submodules rather than the MoE block itself here).

Generalizes the fused-expert pruning branch, which was hardcoded to
Llama4's moe.router attribute and nn.Linear-style router with
out_features, to also support Qwen3.5's .gate raw weight Parameter.
Extracts select_retained_experts() as a standalone function from
prune()'s inline body so the same selection logic can be reused
outside an in-memory model (disk-based surgery).

Signed-off-by: Fabrizio del Tin <devotedmystic@gmail.com>
REAP's layerwise-observer path was RAM-bounded only in appearance: the
observer phase loaded the entire model onto CPU via device_map="cpu"
before any block-wise logic ran, so peak RSS still scaled with total
checkpoint size rather than one layer's size. This makes it possible
to prune a checkpoint far larger than available RAM+VRAM.

- New src/reap/disk_stream_util.py: reads/writes checkpoint tensors
  directly from safetensors shards, opening and closing each shard
  scoped to a single read (deliberately never caches file handles,
  since a held mmap handle keeps its touched pages resident in RSS).
- layerwise_prune.py: replaces the full-RAM device_map="cpu" load with
  accelerate.init_empty_weights() (meta tensors) plus real
  materialization of only the embedding table, for local checkpoint
  directories (Hub model ids keep the original load path).
- layerwise_observer.py: generalizes the fused_experts branch's router
  lookup (was hardcoded to moe.router) and adds a dense
  all-experts-all-tokens fallback for architectures whose experts need
  top-k routing args to call (Qwen3.5, unlike Llama4's simpler dense
  callable convention). Adds dual-mask support (ReplayBatch.causal_mask)
  so hybrid linear/full-attention models get the correct mask per layer
  type instead of replaying whichever mask block 0 received. Extends
  _move_block()/_offload_current_block() to materialize/free a block's
  real tensors from disk on demand via the new streaming primitive,
  instead of only supporting already-CPU-resident blocks.

Signed-off-by: Fabrizio del Tin <devotedmystic@gmail.com>
transformers >=5.10 dispatches the fused-experts forward to
torch._grouped_mm when available, whose meta registration hard-requires
BF16 inputs. This layerwise replay runs in float32 (RoPE cos/sin
promote hidden states through the chain), so force the eager
per-expert loop instead, which is dtype-agnostic. Observer throughput
is dominated by disk streaming, not the expert matmul dispatch, so
this has no meaningful performance cost.

Signed-off-by: Fabrizio del Tin <devotedmystic@gmail.com>
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