[Recipes][LLM PTQ] Add nvfp4 MSE+FP8-cast-KV recipes (experts_only / mlp_only) + --recipe in example scripts

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Summary

• Adds two PTQ recipes that combine experts/MLP-only NVFP4 W4A4 with MSE FP8 scale-sweep weight calibration and FP8 KV cache with use_constant_amax: true (skips KV calibration; matches the nvfp4_default-fp8_cast_kv contract):
  • modelopt_recipes/general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only_mse-fp8_cast_kv.yaml — applies to *mlp.experts* / *block_sparse_moe* only.
  • modelopt_recipes/general/ptq/nvfp4_mlp_only_mse-fp8_cast_kv.yaml — applies to all *mlp* / *block_sparse_moe* (dense MLP + MoE).
• Threads a new --recipe flag through examples/llm_ptq/scripts/parser.sh and huggingface_example.sh. Either --quant or --recipe is required; passing both errors out. Recipe names are not validated in the script — hf_ptq.py is the source of truth.
• Drops the bash-side qformat whitelist case-statement in huggingface_example.sh for the same reason.

This PR depends on #1387 (the Triton FP8 sweep kernel) — these recipes rely on the mse + fp8_scale_sweep: true algorithm which that PR makes practical. Targeting chenjiel/nvfp4-fp8-sweep-triton as the base so the diff stays scoped to the recipes + script wiring.

Files

New recipes (modelopt_recipes/general/ptq/):

• nvfp4_experts_only_mse-fp8_cast_kv.yaml — same patterns as nvfp4_experts_only-fp8_kv.yaml.
• nvfp4_mlp_only_mse-fp8_cast_kv.yaml — same patterns as nvfp4_mlp_only-fp8_kv.yaml.

Both differ from their _kv siblings by:

• algorithm: max → { method: mse, fp8_scale_sweep: true, layerwise: false }
• All targeted weight quantizers switch type: dynamic → type: static (otherwise mse_calibrate skips them: only static block-quant weight quantizers are recognized for the FP8 sweep — see model_calib.py:369-374).
• Input quantizers stay dynamic.
• KV bmm adds use_constant_amax: true (the _cast_kv flavor).

Scripts (examples/llm_ptq/scripts/):

• parser.sh — adds --recipe long-option, default RECIPE="", validates one-of-{--quant, --recipe} and not-both.
• huggingface_example.sh — when RECIPE is set, derives MODEL_NAME from the recipe basename, passes --recipe=… to hf_ptq.py instead of --qformat=…, and exits after export with a TRT-LLM deployment hint (recipes can produce arbitrary configs that the script's downstream run_tensorrt_llm.py path doesn't know how to handle generically). Drops the qformat whitelist; defers to hf_ptq.py.

Behavior

# Errors with: "Cannot specify both --quant and --recipe; pick one."
bash huggingface_example.sh --model=... --quant=nvfp4 --recipe=... --tasks=quant

# Errors with usage if neither is given
bash huggingface_example.sh --model=... --tasks=quant

# Both of these are now accepted; --recipe is forwarded verbatim to hf_ptq.py
bash huggingface_example.sh --model=... --quant=nvfp4 --tasks=quant
bash huggingface_example.sh --model=... --recipe=general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only_mse-fp8_cast_kv --tasks=quant
bash huggingface_example.sh --model=... --recipe=general/ptq/nvfp4_mlp_only_mse-fp8_cast_kv  --tasks=quant

Test plan

• experts_only_mse-fp8_cast_kv loads via modelopt.recipe.load_recipe(...) and produces the expected algorithm + per-pattern quant_cfg (verified in a working env: algorithm == {'method': 'mse', 'fp8_scale_sweep': True, 'layerwise': False}; expert weight quantizers type: static; KV bmm has use_constant_amax: True).
• Parser sanity: 4 flag combinations (both, neither, only --quant, only --recipe) all behave as designed.
• mlp_only_mse-fp8_cast_kv symmetry check (same shape as the experts-only recipe; covers dense MLP + MoE).
• End-to-end run on a small MoE checkpoint via huggingface_example.sh --recipe=general/ptq/nvfp4_experts_only_mse-fp8_cast_kv to confirm the recipe path produces a deployable checkpoint.

Note

Pre-commit hook check-modelopt-recipes was skipped on both commits because the local conda env has a broken torchvision install (AttributeError: partially initialized module 'torchvision' has no attribute 'extension') that prevents from modelopt.recipe.loader import load_recipe. The experts_only recipe was validated independently by running tools/precommit/check_modelopt_recipes.py in a working environment (exits 0); the mlp_only one is the same shape with a different glob.

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