[None][feat] Honor SamplingParams.seed on the one-model speculative path - #17599
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The one-model sampling calls all took a single engine-wide seed tensor that was incremented once per call, so a request's SamplingParams.seed was silently ignored: two requests in a batch shared a stream, and a run was not reproducible. Carry the seed per request instead. SpecMetadata now fills Philox seed/offset buffers in two layouts -- one entry per request and one per logits row -- because the sampling calls consume one or the other, and each call site takes the layout matching the slice it already uses for temperatures/top_k/top_p. Requests that set no seed get DEFAULT_SAMPLING_SEED; their rows stay independent through the kernel's per-row subsequence, and the run becomes reproducible rather than depending on how many steps the engine had run. The offset carries the position within a request's stream, since a fixed seed leaves it as the only thing that can advance. Each decoding iteration owns a window of max_draft_len + 1 offsets: the target sampler (or the rejection kernel, its alternative) takes the first slot and draft step i takes 1 + i. The draft loop needs its own slot per step because it launches the sampler once per step, restarting the kernel's per-row subsequence each time -- with a fixed seed and a fixed offset every draft step would otherwise draw the same numbers. Basing the window on the request's own decoding iteration, not a global step counter, is what keeps a seeded request's stream tied to how far it has decoded rather than to when it was scheduled. Scope: the pinned flashinfer reads only element 0 of the seed/offset tensors, separating rows by blockIdx.x, so a batch mixing seeds currently draws from its first row's seed. The per-row values are wired end-to-end and take effect once flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#2345 lands; a batch on a single seed is already correct. Reproducibility is also per decoding position, not bit-for-bit across batch positions, since rows within one step are separated by blockIdx.x. Signed-off-by: ZhaoyangWang <zhaoyangw@nvidia.com>
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WalkthroughSpeculative decoding now uses request-specific Philox RNG state. Metadata derives seeds and offsets for request and logits-row sampling. Draft, target, rejection, and dynamic-tree paths consume this state instead of worker-global RNG tensors. ChangesSpeculative decoding RNG
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change can fail during oversized warmup batches and may reuse RNG offset windows for requests carried across adjacent overlap batches, causing runtime errors or non-reproducible sampling behavior; these bounded issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Request->>SpecMetadata: provide configured seed and decoding iteration
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SpeculativeSampler->>RejectionKernel: pass request-specific rejection state
RejectionKernel-->>SpeculativeSampler: return rejection sampling results
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1104-1105: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider populating RNG state only for non-greedy batches.
An all-greedy batch samples with
torch.argmax, so it never readsrequest_seeds,request_offsets,seeds, oroffsets. This call adds four pinned allocations and four H2D copies to every all-greedy iteration. Moving it below the all-greedy early return at line 1120 keeps parity with the other per-request copies and also removes the oversized-warmup exposure described in the comment on lines 735-742.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py`:
- Around line 735-742: Update the per-request buffer sizing used by
_populate_request_rng_state so request_seeds and request_offsets accommodate the
actual request batch length, including batches larger than max_num_requests.
Preserve reuse for smaller batches, and ensure the buffers are large enough
before _upload copies the request values.
- Around line 716-725: The overlap execution flow in _executor_loop_overlap must
advance each continuing request’s py_decoding_iter before the next
SpecMetadata.prepare call, after the previous batch is updated. Ensure
_forward_step and _update_requests no longer allow adjacent batches to reuse the
same Philox offset window, while preserving the existing request scheduling
behavior.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py`:
- Around line 1104-1105: Move the _populate_request_rng_state call below the
all-greedy early return so RNG state is populated only for batches that perform
sampling. Preserve the existing greedy argmax path and ensure non-greedy batches
still receive their request RNG state before it is consumed.
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| # Base of this step's Philox offset window. Each decoding iteration | ||
| # owns max_draft_len + 1 consecutive offsets: the target sampler (or | ||
| # the rejection kernel, which is its alternative) takes the first, and | ||
| # draft step i takes base + 1 + i. Sizing the window by the static | ||
| # max_draft_len rather than the runtime one keeps a step's offsets | ||
| # disjoint from its neighbours' even when the draft length shrinks. | ||
| window = self.max_draft_len + 1 | ||
| request_offsets = [ | ||
| request.py_decoding_iter * window for request in requests | ||
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Advance py_decoding_iter before preparing the next overlap batch.
In _executor_loop_overlap, _forward_step(scheduled_batch) prepares SpecMetadata before _update_requests() increments the previous batch's requests. When a request remains in adjacent batches, both batches reuse the same RNG offset window. Reserve or increment the iteration before the next SpecMetadata.prepare() call.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py` around lines 716 - 725, The
overlap execution flow in _executor_loop_overlap must advance each continuing
request’s py_decoding_iter before the next SpecMetadata.prepare call, after the
previous batch is updated. Ensure _forward_step and _update_requests no longer
allow adjacent batches to reuse the same Philox offset window, while preserving
the existing request scheduling behavior.
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| if (self.request_seeds is None | ||
| or self.request_seeds.numel() < self.max_num_requests): | ||
| self.request_seeds = torch.zeros(self.max_num_requests, | ||
| dtype=torch.int64, | ||
| device='cuda') | ||
| self.request_offsets = torch.zeros(self.max_num_requests, | ||
| dtype=torch.int64, | ||
| device='cuda') |
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Size the per-request buffers by the actual request count.
request_seeds and request_offsets are sized max_num_requests, but _upload copies len(requests) values. Line 1075 states that warmup batches may exceed max_num_requests. In that case dst[:len(values)] is shorter than the source tensor and copy_ raises a shape error.
The pre-existing per-request copies at lines 1147-1163 are protected because they run after the all-greedy early return at line 1120. _populate_request_rng_state runs at line 1104, so an oversized all-greedy warmup batch now reaches this copy.
🐛 Proposed fix: allocate against the batch size
- if (self.request_seeds is None
- or self.request_seeds.numel() < self.max_num_requests):
- self.request_seeds = torch.zeros(self.max_num_requests,
+ request_capacity = max(len(requests), self.max_num_requests)
+ if (self.request_seeds is None
+ or self.request_seeds.numel() < request_capacity):
+ self.request_seeds = torch.zeros(request_capacity,
dtype=torch.int64,
device='cuda')
- self.request_offsets = torch.zeros(self.max_num_requests,
+ self.request_offsets = torch.zeros(request_capacity,
dtype=torch.int64,
device='cuda')Run the following script to confirm that warmup can pass more requests than max_num_requests:
#!/bin/bash
# Description: Inspect warmup call sites of populate_sampling_params_for_one_model and batch sizing.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py` around lines 735 - 742, Update
the per-request buffer sizing used by _populate_request_rng_state so
request_seeds and request_offsets accommodate the actual request batch length,
including batches larger than max_num_requests. Preserve reuse for smaller
batches, and ensure the buffers are large enough before _upload copies the
request values.
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The one-model speculative sampling calls all took a single engine-wide seed tensor, incremented once per call, so a request's
SamplingParams.seedwas silently ignored on this path: every request in a batch shared one RNG stream, and a run's output depended on how many steps the engine had already taken.This PR carries the seed per request.
SpecMetadatafills Philox seed/offset buffers in two layouts, one entry per request (request_seeds/request_offsets) and one per logits row (seeds/offsets), because the sampling calls consume one or the other. Each call site takes the layout matching the slice it already uses fortemperatures/top_ks/top_ps, so the RNG state lines up with the sampling params by construction;_rng_state_per_requestalso covers the block sampler'srepeat_interleave(K)expansion.max_draft_len + 1offsets: the target sampler (or the rejection kernel, its alternative) takesbase + 0and draft stepitakesbase + 1 + i, wherebase = py_decoding_iter * (max_draft_len + 1). The draft loop needs a slot per step because it launches the sampler once per step, restarting the kernel's per-row subsequence each time — with a fixed seed and a fixed offset every draft step would otherwise draw identical numbers. A block sampler emits allKpositions in one launch, so its rows are already separated by the subsequence and share one slot.py_decoding_iterrather than a global step counter ties a seeded request's stream to how far it has decoded instead of to when it was scheduled.DEFAULT_SAMPLING_SEED(42) rather than the old per-step counter. Its rows stay independent through the kernel's per-row subsequence and its steps through the offset, so sampling stays independent while a run becomes reproducible instead of depending on engine uptime. This changes the token stream unseeded requests see today: the distribution is untouched, but it is not bit-for-bit compatible with the previous behavior.eagle3_dynamic_tree.pythat carried their own seed handling are moved onto the same helpers.Two limits are worth stating up front. The pinned flashinfer reads only element 0 of the seed/offset tensors, separating rows by
blockIdx.x, so a batch mixing seeds currently draws from its first row's seed; the per-row values are wired end-to-end and take effect once flashinfer#2345 lands, and a batch on a single seed is already correct today. Reproducibility is also per decoding position rather than bit-for-bit across batch positions, since rows within one step are separated byblockIdx.x, a batch-absolute index.Test Coverage
Validated on H200 NVL (SM 9.0).
max_draft_len=4:base = iter * (max_draft_len + 1); target offset equalsbase; draft stepiequalsbase + 1 + i; windows of adjacent iterations do not overlap; the block sampler'sKrows share one slot.DEFAULT_SAMPLING_SEED; mixed batches (some seeded, some not) fill correctly; the offset advances across a request's steps; auint64seed is reinterpreted as anint64bit pattern; per-token expansion matches the per-request values.test_llama_eagle3_rejection_sampling_modespasses (4 cases), coveringuse_cuda_graphxuse_dynamic_treewithtemperature=1.0/top_p=0.9so the non-greedy path is exercised.test_advanced_sampling_mode.py::test_no_topk_matches_full[0.9]is flaky on this branch and on the base commit — five baseline runs produced two failures. It compares two probability distributions atatol=1e-5and does not touch any code this PR changes, so it is pre-existing rather than a regression from here.PR Checklist
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