## What does this PR do?
**Type of change:** New feature <!-- Use one of the following: Bug fix,
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**Overview:**
This PR adds support for exporting quantized diffusers models (DiT,
Flux, SD3, UNet, etc.) to HuggingFace checkpoint format, enabling
deployment to inference frameworks like SGLang, vLLM, and TensorRT-LLM.
**Changes**
New file: `diffusers_utils.py`
- Dummy input generation for various diffusion models
- Pipeline component extraction helpers
- QKV projection detection and grouping
- `hide_quantizers_from_state_dict()` context manager for clean saves
Refactored: `unified_export_hf.py`
- New `_fuse_qkv_linears_diffusion()` for QKV amax fusion
- `_export_diffusers_checkpoint()` to export full pipelines (models +
tokenizers + schedulers etc.)
Plans
- [x] [1/3] Add the basic functionalities to support limited image
models with NVFP4 + FP8, with some refactoring on the previous LLM code
and the diffusers example. PIC: @jingyu-ml
- [ ] [2/3] Add support to more video gen modelsPIC: @jingyu-ml
- [ ] [3/3] Add test cases, refactor on the doc, and all related README.
PIC: @jingyu-ml
## Usage
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```
mtq.quantize(pipe, quant_config, forward_call)
export_hf_checkpoint(pipe, export_dir=hf_ckpt_dir)
```
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## Summary by CodeRabbit
## New Features
* Added HuggingFace checkpoint export support for quantized diffusion
models with configurable output directory
* Introduced new `--hf-ckpt-dir` CLI argument for specifying checkpoint
export destination
* Extended export functionality to support selective component exports
from diffusion pipelines
* Enhanced quantized model export with improved component handling and
multi-stage checkpoint generation
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Signed-off-by: Jingyu Xin <jingyux@nvidia.com>
jingyu-ml