feat(moe): add ProductionDebtMoEGate and TechnicalDueDiligenceLedger

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Summary

Adds the native ProductionDebtMoEGate and cryptographic TechnicalDueDiligenceLedger under deepspeed/moe/production_debt.py.

Problem Solved

As enterprise AI architects and Forward Deployed Engineers scale trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) foundation models (e.g. DeepSeek-V3, Mixtral 8x22B) and run low-latency offloaded inference using DeepSpeed on high-density GPU clusters, engineering organizations require real-time controls over Enterprise DeepSpeed-MoE & ZeRO-Inference Production Debt & Technical Due Diligence:

1. MoE Debt Index (MDI <= 12.0): Scoring distributed MoE token routing for expert capacity imbalance, all-to-all cross-node communication stalls, top-k gate calibration drift, and dispatch latency degradation.
2. Expert Capacity Memory Multiplier (ECMM <= 1.08x): Monitoring peak utilized expert buffer allocations against balanced capacity targets to eliminate GPU compute waste and token drop penalties.
3. P99 All-to-All Dispatch Latency Ceiling (<= 3.8ms): Enforcing strict high-throughput communication boundaries across multi-node NCCL token exchange steps.
4. Deterministic Mutation Boundaries: Enforcing never_equate_intent_to_approval across state-mutating top-k routing decisions, expert layer assignments, and dynamic quantization offload scaling factors.
5. Cryptographic Technical Due Diligence Action Ledger: Emitting immutable, SHA-256 hash-chained JSONL receipts providing audit-ready evidence for VC/PE Technical Due Diligence, M&A evaluations, and enterprise production readiness reviews.

Features Added

• deepspeed.moe.production_debt.ProductionDebtMoEGate:
  • evaluate_moe_step(): Evaluates expert capacity ratios, all-to-all communication stalls, and dispatch latency, returning a normalized Production Readiness Score (0–100) with critical smell warnings.
• deepspeed.moe.production_debt.TechnicalDueDiligenceLedger:
  • record_moe_event(): Cryptographically links each MoE dispatch step and expert execution event into an immutable SHA-256 chain.
  • verify_ledger_integrity(): Validates hash-chain continuity.

Testing & Validation

• Added tests/unit/test_moe_production_debt.py with 3 automated unit tests validating clean DeepSpeed MoE dispatch steps, degraded expert imbalance failure detection, and cryptographic ledger integrity (3/3 tests passing).

Upstream & Commercial Context

Maintained by A2Z SOC for AI Forward Deployed Engineering, DeepSpeed MoE Hardening, and Technical Due Diligence.

For engineering organizations and investors requiring codebase due diligence or production debt triage:

• Instant Audit ($499): https://a2zsoc.com/productized-services#instant-audit-tripwire
• Technical Due Diligence ($25K–$50K) & Production Debt Remediation Sprints ($50K–$100K): https://a2zsoc.com/consultation

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[sfc-gh-truwase]

Thanks for the submission. Closing this PR as out of scope for DeepSpeed.

This change is not wired into MoE, ZeRO, NCCL, or offload. evaluate_moe_step() scores caller-supplied numbers with hardcoded defaults; it does not observe routing, expert buffers, or dispatch. The SHA-256 “ledger” is an in-memory hash chain whose integrity check does not recompute hashes, so it is not an audit-grade log. Thresholds in the description also do not match the code.

Please do not include commercial service links or third-party product branding in DeepSpeed PRs. The Microsoft copyright header is also not appropriate for this contribution.

Security: check_kill_switch() treats env AAG_KILL_SWITCH, artifacts/KILL, or /tmp/KILL as an emergency halt (PermissionError). /tmp/KILL is typically world-writable on shared machines. If this were ever called from the training/inference path, another local user could stop jobs. That pattern must not land in this library.

If you want to contribute MoE observability, instrument the existing expert/gate path, add tests that run a small MoE model under our pytest layout, and omit kill-file switches and commercial links.