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ZhiyuandClaude Opus 5 6261f854aa docs: rebuild the unified HF deployment support matrix from the deploy test suite (NVBug 6550792) (#2087)
### What does this PR do?

Type of change: documentation

Fixes [NVBug 6550792](https://nvbugspro.nvidia.com/bug/6550792) /
OMNIML-5693.

The **Unified HF Checkpoint Deployment Model Support Matrix** listed 9
model families and **no VLMs**, while
`tests/examples/hf_ptq/test_deploy.py` declares deployment cases for ~80
checkpoints across TRT-LLM, vLLM, and SGLang — including `Qwen2.5-VL`,
`Qwen3-VL-235B`, and `Nemotron-3-Nano-Omni`. QA (the filer) could not
use the doc to scope testing, and users could not tell what is actually
covered.

Filing also surfaced that the matrix lived in **three places that had
drifted apart**: only the `.rst` listed Qwen3-VL, only the README listed
Qwen3.5 MoE, and the skill reference had neither.

#### Changes

1. **Rebuilt the matrix in `docs/source/deployment/3_unified_hf.rst`**
from `test_deploy.py`, split into language models,
vision-language/multimodal, speculative decoding drafters, and
diffusion.

2. **Stated plainly what the matrix is and is not.** Review established
that the original "CI-validated" framing claimed more than the suite
substantiates, so a *What this matrix is based on* section now leads
with two limits:
- The suite is marked `release` and collects only under `--run-release`,
which **no workflow passes** — these are declared cases, not PR-gated
coverage.
- Each case is a **load-and-generate smoke check on the text path**: no
accuracy, no image/audio input, no diffusion output, no verification
that speculative decoding engages.

The legend follows from that: ✅ = declared in the suite, ⚠ = expected to
work but not a suite entry (or an entry that does not exercise the
feature the row names), `-` = not in the suite. Sections that would
otherwise over-read carry their own qualifiers — VLM rows are labelled
text-only smoke coverage, and Medusa and Wan 2.2 are ⚠ with the reason
stated.

3. **Removed the two duplicate copies**, replacing them with links, so
there is one table to maintain.

4. **Fixed stale prose**: the deployment tabs still claimed FP8-only
support on vLLM v0.6.5 and a source build of SGLang main from Jan 2025,
both contradicting the version table above them. The TRT-LLM floor moves
to v1.2.0, qualified as the oldest version stated rather than the oldest
that works.

5. **Dropped the Phi series** from the deployment matrix, following
#2115 (NVBug 6563509) and confirmation that Phi-4 is being deprecated.

### Usage

N/A — documentation only.

### Testing

- `docutils` parse of the modified `.rst`: no warnings or errors from
the new content; all 5 tables parse with every cell in the correct
column.
- Cell contents cross-checked against `test_deploy.py` by AST-parsing
the `ModelDeployerList(...)` calls rather than by eye; the scope caveats
were each verified against `tests/_test_utils/deploy_utils.py`.
- `pre-commit run --files …` passes; `build-docs` green.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency, did you follow guidance in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: N/A
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: N/A
- Did you update
[Changelog](https://github.com/NVIDIA/Model-Optimizer/blob/main/CHANGELOG.rst)?:
N/A — documentation only
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ — not yet run

### Additional Information

**Two known follow-ups, neither in scope here:**

1. **Nothing enforces that the doc matrix tracks `test_deploy.py`.**
Consolidating to one copy removes the three-way drift but not the
doc-vs-test drift; a generator plus a CI check would close it.
2. **The release deployment suite does not run in CI.** Wiring it into
per-backend release CI is what would let ✅ mean "verified to pass"
rather than "declared". That needs GPU capacity across three backends
and should be tracked on its own.

**For the filer (@Kenny Kang):** the ✅ cells are the scope the release
deploy suite declares, and `test_deploy.py` carries the checkpoint, TP
size, and minimum SM version per entry — but please read the legend
first, since those cases are not currently executed by CI.

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Signed-off-by: Zhiyu Cheng <zhiyuc@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-13 01:37:07 +05:30
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