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+# Copyright (c) 2023, NVIDIA CORPORATION.  All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+r"""
+Conversion script to convert NeMo Mistral-7B checkpoints into HuggingFace checkpoint.
+  Example to run this conversion script:
+    python3 upcycle_dense_to_moe.py \
+        --model <path_to_nemo_checkpoints_folder> \
+        --num-experts 8 \
+        --output_path <path_to_output_hf_file>
+"""
+
+from argparse import ArgumentParser
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn
+from pytorch_lightning.trainer.trainer import Trainer
+
+from nemo.collections.nlp.models.language_modeling.megatron_gpt_model import MegatronGPTModel
+from nemo.collections.nlp.parts.nlp_overrides import NLPDDPStrategy, NLPSaveRestoreConnector
+from nemo.utils import logging
+
+
+def get_args():
+    parser = ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--model", type=str, default=None, required=True, help="Path to NeMo checkpoint")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--output-path", type=str, default='', required=False, help="Path to NeMo save upcycled checkpoint"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--num-experts", type=int, default=8, required=True, help="Number of experts to use in upcycled model."
+    )
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    assert isinstance(args.num_experts, int)
+    assert args.num_experts > 1, "Expected --num-experts to be greater-than 1."
+    if args.output_path == '':
+        args.output_path = args.model + f'_upcycled_num_exp{args.num_experts}.nemo'
+    return args
+
+
+def make_moe_config_from_dense(config, num_experts=8):
+    from copy import deepcopy
+
+    moe_config = deepcopy(config)
+    moe_config['num_moe_experts'] = num_experts
+    return moe_config
+
+
+def unwrap(model):
+    tmp = model
+    while hasattr(tmp, 'module'):
+        tmp = tmp.module
+    return tmp
+
+
+def upcycle(in_file, num_experts, cpu_only=True) -> None:
+    """
+    Upcycle dense checkpoint to MoE.
+    """
+
+    logging.info(f'Loading NeMo checkpoint from: {in_file}')
+
+    dummy_trainer = Trainer(devices=1, accelerator='cpu', strategy=NLPDDPStrategy())
+
+    # Load dense model
+    model_config = MegatronGPTModel.restore_from(in_file, trainer=dummy_trainer, return_config=True)
+    model_config.tensor_model_parallel_size = 1
+    model_config.pipeline_model_parallel_size = 1
+    model_config.sequence_parallel = False
+    if cpu_only:
+        map_location = torch.device('cpu')
+        model_config.use_cpu_initialization = True
+    else:
+        map_location = None
+    model_config.perform_initialization = False
+    dense_model = MegatronGPTModel.restore_from(
+        in_file, trainer=dummy_trainer, override_config_path=model_config, map_location=map_location
+    )
+
+    # Make upcycled config
+    moe_config = make_moe_config_from_dense(model_config, num_experts)
+    # print(moe_config)
+    # quit()
+    dummy_trainer2 = Trainer(devices=1, accelerator='cpu', strategy=NLPDDPStrategy())
+    moe_model = MegatronGPTModel(moe_config, trainer=dummy_trainer2)
+
+    # convert state dict dense -> MoE
+    from megatron.core.transformer.moe.upcycling_utils import upcycle_state_dict
+
+    moe_state_dict = upcycle_state_dict([unwrap(moe_model.model)], [unwrap(dense_model.model)])
+    moe_model.model.module.load_state_dict(moe_state_dict['model'])
+    moe_model._save_restore_connector = NLPSaveRestoreConnector()
+    # hack
+    if Path(args.model).is_dir():
+        moe_model._save_restore_connector._model_extracted_dir = args.model
+
+    moe_model.save_to(args.output_path)
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    args = get_args()
+    upcycle(args.model, args.num_experts)
+    logging.info(f'Upcycled checkpoint saved to: {args.output_path}')