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[TRTLLM-11628][perf] Batch the beam-search finish-reason reduction - #17494

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  • Beam-search finish-reason reduction now runs once for the full batch.
  • _finished_beam_prefix_lengths counts leading finished beams in one tensor operation.
  • The logic supports mixed beam widths and ignores columns beyond each request’s beam width.
  • Per-request handling updates completion state and records finish reasons for each beam.
  • The implementation removes redundant per-request reductions and two unnecessary casts.
  • Review should confirm tensor shapes, device placement, empty-batch behavior, and consistency with existing sampler state transitions.
  • No configuration or test-list files changed.

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  • Added coverage for finished-beam prefix computation.
  • Added coverage for equivalence with the previous per-request reduction.
  • Added coverage for ignoring columns beyond each request’s beam width.
  • Added coverage for mixed beam widths, incomplete requests, and per-beam finish reasons.
  • Existing beam-search and speculative decoding paths remain covered.
  • The changed tests are not listed in the provided summary as entries in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/ or qa/.
  • Verdict: needs follow-up until CI or manual QA coverage mapping is confirmed.

Description

Reduce the beam-search finish reasons for the whole batch in one operation instead of once
per request.

_handle_finish_reasons_impl reduced a single request's row of first_finish_reasons at a
time, so every beam-search request paid a slice, a compare, a sum and a tensor-to-bool
conversion to answer a question about at most max_beam_width integers. The dispatch
overhead of those per-request ATen calls dominates the arithmetic they perform, and it sits
on the host critical path of every decode step.

  • Add TorchSampler._finished_beam_prefix_lengths, which counts per slot how many leading
    beams have finished, over the whole (max_batch_size, max_beam_width) tensor at once, and
    call it once per _update_requests instead of once per request.
  • Reduce _handle_first_finish_reasons to a list lookup (prefix_length >= beam_width) plus
    the request updates that must stay in the loop: the state assignment and the per-beam
    set_finished_reason calls, both of which cross into pybind.
  • Count the finished prefix rather than the finished beams, so the result is independent of
    what the columns past a request's beam width hold and slots with differing beam widths can
    share one reduction.
  • Drop two casts the lightweight mypy configuration reports as redundant in
    sampler_strategy.py: row_stride is already int at the call site, and strategies[0]
    is already narrowed to BeamSearch by the tag check above it.

Test Coverage

tests/unittest/_torch/sampler/test_torch_sampler.py::TestFinishReasons:

  • test_finished_beam_prefix_lengths_matches_per_request_reduction -- exhaustive equivalence
    against the reduction this replaces, over all 4-column/4-reason rows and every beam width.
  • test_finished_beam_prefix_lengths_ignores_columns_past_beam_width -- columns past a
    request's beam width must neither complete it nor mask an unfinished beam.
  • test_handle_first_finish_reasons_completes_only_fully_finished_requests -- mixed beam
    widths (2/4/1) in one batch; asserts which requests complete and the exact per-beam reasons
    recorded.

Existing coverage for the modified path: tests/unittest/_torch/sampler/test_beam_search.py
and test_beam_search_speculative_d2h.py.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/sampler/sampler_strategy.py`:
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Beam-search completion now computes finished-beam prefix lengths for all sequence slots in one reduction. Request beam widths determine completion. Tests cover varying beam widths, ignored columns, request states, and finish reasons.

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Beam completion handling

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Batched beam completion flow
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/sampler/sampler.py
The sampler computes finished-beam prefix lengths once per update. Completion uses each request’s beam width and records finish reasons for active beams.
Mixed beam-width validation
tests/unittest/_torch/sampler/test_torch_sampler.py
Tests compare batched reduction results with per-request semantics and verify completion states and finish reasons for mixed beam widths.

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Hi @lori-ren @YihuiLu512 could you help to review this PR, thanks a lot.

Comment thread tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/sampler/sampler_strategy.py Outdated
_handle_finish_reasons_impl reduced one request's row of first_finish_reasons
at a time, so every beam-search request in the batch paid a slice, a compare,
a sum and a tensor-to-bool conversion to answer a question about at most
max_beam_width integers. The dispatch overhead of those per-request ATen calls
dominates the arithmetic they perform, and it lands on the host critical path
of every decode step.

Reduce the whole tensor once instead: count, per slot, how many leading beams
have finished. The per-request check then reduces to comparing that count
against the request's own beam width, which is a plain list lookup, and only
the request updates -- the state assignment and the per-beam
set_finished_reason calls, both of which cross into pybind -- keep looping.

Counting the finished prefix rather than the finished beams keeps the result
independent of what the columns past a request's beam width hold, so slots
with differing beam widths share one reduction without relying on the padding
columns being reset.

Signed-off-by: ZhaoyangWang <zhaoyangw@nvidia.com>
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