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P5-S0 start kit for the P5 work package (MXFP4 Routed Expert + LoRA + Shared Expert).

It ships the contract, the reference answers, and the checker — no GPU kernels. With this merged, all 9 sub-tasks (P5-1 … P5-9) can start in parallel: everyone codes against the same frozen math and the same golden bytes.

What's inside

Path What it is
rl_engine/moe/mx_format.py MX codecs (E8M0 / E4M3 / E2M1, block-32). Defines the golden bytes for quantization
rl_engine/moe/contract.py ExpertBatch / SharedBatch / LoRAParams schemas + fingerprints
rl_engine/moe/oracle.py Slow but exact FP32 reference for all 5 operators, forward and backward
rl_engine/moe/provider.py The interface each backend PR implements (ExpertProvider), plus a reference and a fail-closed stub
rl_engine/moe/fixtures.py Seeded test cases + golden-hash manifest
scripts/check_p5.py The acceptance command
tests/test_p5_*.py 27 tests (all CPU, run in normal CI)
tests/fixtures/p5/golden_hashes.json CI anchor: if oracle bytes ever drift, tests fail loudly
docs/design/p5_expert_start_kit.md Design doc: frozen decisions D1–D7 and how to use the kit

How to use it

1. Check that everything works (no GPU needed):

python scripts/check_p5.py
# RESULT: PASS (all boundaries byte-equal)

2. Implement your operator (example: you claimed P5-2, clamp_swiglu_weighted):

# my_backend/p5_provider.py
from rl_engine.moe.provider import ReferenceProvider

class MyCudaProvider(ReferenceProvider):
    name = "my-cuda"
    numeric_profile = "cuda-ffma-strict-v1"

    # override ONLY the op your PR delivers; the rest stays on the oracle
    def clamp_swiglu_weighted_fwd(self, gate, up, p_s):
        return my_cuda_kernel(gate, up, p_s)

3. Run acceptance on your provider:

python scripts/check_p5.py --provider my_backend.p5_provider:MyCudaProvider --device cuda

Every boundary must be byte-equal to the oracle on the same device. Any mismatch prints the first diverging boundary and exits 1. Put this output in your PR description.

4. If a contract decision changes (needs maintainer sign-off first):

python -m rl_engine.moe.fixtures --write-manifest   # regenerate golden hashes

Key frozen decisions (details in the design doc)

  • E4M3 encode = clamp ±448 then RNE cast (bare torch cast turns overflow into NaN — clamp is mandatory)
  • Oracle profile oracle-fp32-serial-v1: FP32, serial ascending order, no FMA fusion. A kernel either reproduces it bit-for-bit or registers its own numeric profile — never silently
  • LoRA only, base frozen: no dW anywhere
  • Route weight p_s applied once, inside clamp_swiglu_weighted
  • Open question (D6 in the design doc): shared expert has no clamp — please confirm in review

Not in this PR

No CUDA/Triton kernels, no Megatron/vLLM injection (P5-6), no EP/TP multi-GPU gates (P5-7 … P5-9). Those are the sub-tasks this kit unblocks.

Test results

  • 27/27 tests pass (CPU); golden hashes identical on torch 2.8 and 2.12
  • flake8 / mypy / black clean
  • check_p5.py reference provider: PASS; stub provider: fails closed as designed

Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features

  • Added a reference MoE expert toolkit supporting MXFP8/MXFP4 quantization, routed and shared experts, LoRA operations, and backward passes.
  • Added deterministic fixtures, golden outputs, validation contracts, and trace-based divergence reporting.
  • Added provider support for reference and backend implementations.
  • Added an acceptance command to compare backend results byte-for-byte with the reference implementation.

Documentation

  • Added the P5 Expert Start Kit design and integration guide.

Tests

  • Added comprehensive coverage for formats, contracts, oracle behavior, providers, fixtures, and acceptance results.

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P5 Expert Start Kit

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Contracts and MX codecs
docs/design/dsv4_p5_expert_start_kit.md, rl_engine/moe/contract.py, rl_engine/moe/mx_format.py, rl_engine/moe/__init__.py, tests/test_p5_contract.py, tests/test_p5_mx_format.py
Defines frozen batch contracts, LoRA metadata, MXFP8/MXFP4 codecs, validation rules, hashes, and public exports.
FP32 oracle pipelines
rl_engine/moe/oracle.py, tests/test_p5_oracle.py
Implements routed and shared expert forward/backward paths with quantized GEMMs, LoRA, SwiGLU, STE behavior, tracing, and frozen base weights.
Provider, tracing, and acceptance flow
rl_engine/moe/provider.py, rl_engine/moe/trace.py, scripts/check_p5.py, tests/test_p5_provider.py
Adds provider resolution, reference and stub providers, boundary traces, oracle comparisons, JSON reports, and fail-closed acceptance results.
Deterministic fixtures and golden validation
rl_engine/moe/fixtures.py, tests/fixtures/p5/golden_hashes.json, tests/test_p5_provider.py
Adds seeded routed/shared fixtures, edge-case inputs, manifest generation, and committed golden-hash validation.

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The start kit defines the acceptance and data contracts, but the current implementation can accept malformed outputs, incompatible contract versions, or unsupported packing metadata. That could let an incompatible backend pass validation and fail downstream, so these bounded correctness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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  participant check_p5
  participant fixtures
  participant ReferenceProvider
  participant CandidateProvider
  check_p5->>fixtures: create selected cases
  check_p5->>ReferenceProvider: run oracle pipelines
  check_p5->>CandidateProvider: run provider pipelines
  CandidateProvider-->>check_p5: outputs and gradients
  ReferenceProvider-->>check_p5: boundary hashes
  check_p5->>check_p5: compare hashes and set exit status
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Remove unused h.

Line 31 does not use h. Rename it to _ to clear Ruff RUF059.

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-    h, saved = oracle.clamp_swiglu_weighted_fwd(gate.detach(), up.detach(), p_s.detach())
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In `@rl_engine/moe/__init__.py`:
- Around line 20-40: Sort the entries in the __all__ list of the moe package
alphabetically to satisfy RUF022, preserving every existing export and its
spelling.

In `@rl_engine/moe/contract.py`:
- Around line 121-125: Update ExpertBatch.validate and SharedBatch.validate to
reject any schema_version differing from SCHEMA_VERSION and any numeric_profile
differing from ORACLE_PROFILE before tensor-data validation; preserve the
existing row_geometry and other validation checks.
- Line 206: In the shape unpacking within the relevant method, replace the
unused local variable t with _ while preserving hidden and the existing
behavior.

In `@rl_engine/moe/mx_format.py`:
- Around line 56-62: Update MXTensor.__post_init__ to validate that self.packing
equals NIBBLE_PACKING, rejecting any other packing value before tensors can be
decoded by unpack_nibbles.

In `@rl_engine/moe/trace.py`:
- Around line 56-57: Extend Trace.hashes in rl_engine/moe/trace.py:56-57 to
preserve each record’s SHA-256, dtype, and shape; update the divergence
comparison at rl_engine/moe/trace.py:72-73 to reject dtype or shape mismatches.
In scripts/check_p5.py:60-61, compare routed boundary metadata against each
hash, and in scripts/check_p5.py:78-79 compare shared output and gradient
metadata against each hash. Add a regression case that reshapes a candidate
output without changing its raw bytes and verifies acceptance fails.

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In `@tests/test_p5_oracle.py`:
- Line 31: Update the unpacking assignment from oracle.clamp_swiglu_weighted_fwd
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Comment thread rl_engine/moe/__init__.py
Comment on lines +20 to +40
__all__ = [
"GATE_CLAMP_MAX",
"ORACLE_PROFILE",
"SCHEMA_VERSION",
"UP_CLAMP_MAX",
"UP_CLAMP_MIN",
"ExpertBatch",
"ExpertProvider",
"ExpertTrace",
"LoRAParams",
"MXTensor",
"MX_BLOCK",
"ReferenceProvider",
"SharedBatch",
"StubProvider",
"first_divergence",
"mx_dequantize",
"mx_quantize",
"resolve_provider",
"tensor_sha256",
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Sort __all__ to satisfy RUF022.

Ruff reports that this export list is not sorted. Sort the entries or configure the rule intentionally.

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Comment on lines +121 to +125
def validate(self) -> None:
if self.schema_version != SCHEMA_VERSION:
raise ValueError(f"schema {self.schema_version!r} != {SCHEMA_VERSION!r}")
if self.row_geometry not in ROW_GEOMETRIES:
raise ValueError(f"row_geometry {self.row_geometry!r} not in {ROW_GEOMETRIES}")

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate both version fields in each batch type.

ExpertBatch.validate accepts an unsupported numeric_profile. SharedBatch.validate accepts unsupported schema_version and numeric_profile. These batches can then run with P5-v1 behavior although their declared contract is incompatible.

Reject values that differ from SCHEMA_VERSION and ORACLE_PROFILE before validating tensor data.

Also applies to: 201-201

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ExpertBatch.validate and SharedBatch.validate to reject any schema_version
differing from SCHEMA_VERSION and any numeric_profile differing from
ORACLE_PROFILE before tensor-data validation; preserve the existing row_geometry
and other validation checks.

Comment thread rl_engine/moe/contract.py
raise TypeError(f"x must be BF16, got {self.x.dtype}")
if self.w_fc1.dtype != torch.bfloat16 or self.w_fc2.dtype != torch.bfloat16:
raise TypeError("shared weights must be BF16 in the v1 contract")
t, hidden = self.x.shape

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

Remove the unused local.

Ruff reports t as unused. Replace it with _ to keep the stated lint-clean result.

-        t, hidden = self.x.shape
+        _, hidden = self.x.shape
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Comment on lines +56 to +62
def __post_init__(self) -> None:
if self.elem_format not in EMAX_ELEM:
raise ValueError(f"unsupported elem_format {self.elem_format!r}")
if self.codes.dtype != torch.uint8 or self.scales.dtype != torch.uint8:
raise TypeError("MXTensor codes/scales must be uint8")
if self.shape[-1] % MX_BLOCK != 0:
raise ValueError(f"last dim {self.shape[-1]} not divisible by MX block {MX_BLOCK}")

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Reject unsupported nibble packing.

MXTensor accepts any packing value, but unpack_nibbles always uses nibble-lo-first. A tensor declared with another packing can pass construction and produce incorrectly decoded FP4 weights.

Require self.packing == NIBBLE_PACKING in __post_init__.

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In `@rl_engine/moe/mx_format.py` around lines 56 - 62, Update
MXTensor.__post_init__ to validate that self.packing equals NIBBLE_PACKING,
rejecting any other packing value before tensors can be decoded by
unpack_nibbles.

Comment thread rl_engine/moe/trace.py
Comment on lines +56 to +57
def hashes(self) -> dict[str, str]:
return {r.name: r.sha256 for r in self.records}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Compare tensor dtype and shape with the hash.

The acceptance flow records dtype and shape, but it compares only SHA-256 values. A provider can return a reshaped tensor with identical contiguous bytes and pass acceptance even though it violates the tensor contract.

  • rl_engine/moe/trace.py#L56-L57: preserve dtype and shape in the trace comparison representation.
  • rl_engine/moe/trace.py#L72-L73: return a divergence when dtype or shape differs.
  • scripts/check_p5.py#L60-L61: compare routed boundary metadata with each hash.
  • scripts/check_p5.py#L78-L79: compare shared output and gradient metadata with each hash.

Add a regression case that reshapes a candidate output without changing its raw bytes and verify that acceptance fails.

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  • rl_engine/moe/trace.py#L56-L57 (this comment)
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  • scripts/check_p5.py#L78-L79
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In `@rl_engine/moe/trace.py` around lines 56 - 57, Extend Trace.hashes in
rl_engine/moe/trace.py:56-57 to preserve each record’s SHA-256, dtype, and
shape; update the divergence comparison at rl_engine/moe/trace.py:72-73 to
reject dtype or shape mismatches. In scripts/check_p5.py:60-61, compare routed
boundary metadata against each hash, and in scripts/check_p5.py:78-79 compare
shared output and gradient metadata against each hash. Add a regression case
that reshapes a candidate output without changing its raw bytes and verifies
acceptance fails.

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