Another tweak.

candle-core/src/quantized/cuda.rs

@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ fn pad(p: usize, q: usize) -> usize {
     ceil_div(p, q) * q
 }
 
+fn pad_for_alloc(p: usize) -> usize {
+    // Overallocate by q rather than just padding by q as this should pad the last row
+    // and we don't have enough information here to know how many elements to add :(
+    p + MATRIX_ROW_PADDING
+}
+
 fn quantize_q8_1(
     src: &CudaView<f32>,
     dst: &mut CudaSlice<u8>,
@@ -444,8 +450,11 @@ impl QCudaStorage {
         let mut qcpu_storage = crate::Device::Cpu.qzeros(src_len, self.dtype)?;
         qcpu_storage.quantize(&src)?;
         let data = qcpu_storage.data()?;
-        let data = self.device.htod_sync_copy(data.as_ref()).w()?;
-        self.data = data;
+        let mut dst = self.device.alloc_zeros::<u8>(pad_for_alloc(src_len)).w()?;
+        self.device
+            .htod_sync_copy_into(data.as_ref(), &mut dst.slice_mut(..src_len))
+            .w()?;
+        self.data = dst;
         Ok(())
     }
 

candle-core/src/quantized/utils.rs

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ pub(super) fn group_for_quantization<'a, 'b, T: super::k_quants::GgmlType>(
     let actual_blocks = ys.len();
 
     // Validate that the input is the right size
-    if expected_blocks != actual_blocks {
+    if expected_blocks > actual_blocks {
         crate::bail!("quantize {dtype:?}: expected {expected_blocks} blocks but only {actual_blocks} were provided!")
     }