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+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+"""Numerical-parity test: Cosmos3 vision_encoder (transformers) vs the framework.
+
+Image-conditioned reasoning needs the Qwen3-VL ``vision_encoder``. The Cosmos3
+checkpoint's ``vision_encoder`` is a standard ``transformers`` ``Qwen3VLVisionModel``
+(``architectures: ["Qwen3VLVisionModel"]``); the framework ships its own copy
+(``cosmos_framework.model.vfm.vlm.qwen3_vl.qwen3_vl.Qwen3VLVisionModel``). Like the
+Qwen2 tokenizer, FastVideo reuses the ``transformers`` model (no diffusers); this
+pins it bit-for-bit against the framework's implementation.
+
+Both built tiny from the SAME vision config; ``transformers`` weights copied into
+the framework model; identical ``(hidden_states, grid_thw)`` forward. The
+framework is the parity ORACLE.
+
+(Separately verified on the REAL 1.15 GB checkpoint: both strict-load and produce
+identical ``[N, out_hidden]`` embeds, max abs diff = 0.0.)
+
+Run:
+    cd <worktree> && <fv-cosmos3 python> -m pytest \
+        tests/local_tests/cosmos3/test_cosmos3_vision_encoder_parity.py -q -s
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+cosmos_framework = pytest.importorskip(
+    "cosmos_framework",
+    reason="cosmos_framework not installed; run in fv-cosmos3 env.",
+)
+transformers = pytest.importorskip("transformers")
+
+pytestmark = [pytest.mark.local]
+
+_TINY_VISION_CFG = dict(
+    depth=2,
+    hidden_size=32,
+    num_heads=2,
+    intermediate_size=64,
+    patch_size=16,
+    temporal_patch_size=2,
+    spatial_merge_size=2,
+    in_channels=3,
+    out_hidden_size=64,
+    num_position_embeddings=64,
+    deepstack_visual_indexes=[1],
+    hidden_act="gelu_pytorch_tanh",
+    initializer_range=0.02,
+)
+
+
+def _diffs(a, b):
+    d = (a - b).abs()
+    return d.max().item(), d.mean().item()
+
+
+def _to_tensor(out):
+    return out[0] if isinstance(out, (tuple, list)) else out
+
+
+class TestCosmos3VisionEncoderParity:
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize(("grid_h", "grid_w"), [(2, 2), (4, 4), (4, 6)])
+    def test_vision_encoder_matches_framework(self, grid_h, grid_w):
+        from cosmos_framework.model.vfm.vlm.qwen3_vl.configuration_qwen3_vl import (
+            Qwen3VLVisionConfig as FwVisionConfig,
+        )
+        from cosmos_framework.model.vfm.vlm.qwen3_vl.qwen3_vl import (
+            Qwen3VLVisionModel as FwVisionModel,
+        )
+        from transformers import Qwen3VLVisionModel as TfVisionModel
+        from transformers.models.qwen3_vl.configuration_qwen3_vl import (
+            Qwen3VLVisionConfig as TfVisionConfig,
+        )
+
+        torch.manual_seed(0)
+        tf_model = TfVisionModel(TfVisionConfig(**_TINY_VISION_CFG)).eval()
+        fw_model = FwVisionModel(FwVisionConfig(**_TINY_VISION_CFG)).eval()
+        # transformers is the unit under test; copy its weights into the framework
+        # oracle (identical key surface — both are the same Qwen3-VL ViT).
+        missing, unexpected = fw_model.load_state_dict(tf_model.state_dict(), strict=False)
+        assert not missing and not unexpected, f"key mismatch: missing={missing[:3]} unexpected={unexpected[:3]}"
+
+        in_dim = _TINY_VISION_CFG["in_channels"] * _TINY_VISION_CFG["temporal_patch_size"] * (
+            _TINY_VISION_CFG["patch_size"] ** 2)
+        seq = grid_h * grid_w
+        hidden_states = torch.randn(seq, in_dim)
+        grid_thw = torch.tensor([[1, grid_h, grid_w]], dtype=torch.long)
+
+        with torch.no_grad():
+            tf_out = _to_tensor(tf_model(hidden_states, grid_thw))
+            fw_out = _to_tensor(fw_model(hidden_states, grid_thw))
+        assert tf_out.shape == fw_out.shape, f"shape tf={tf_out.shape} fw={fw_out.shape}"
+        mx, mn = _diffs(tf_out, fw_out)
+        print(f"\n[vision_encoder grid={grid_h}x{grid_w}] embeds max abs diff = {mx:.3e} mean abs diff = {mn:.3e}")
+        torch.testing.assert_close(tf_out, fw_out, atol=1e-5, rtol=1e-4)