[None][fix] helix: compensate position_id for the overlap scheduler by lancelly · Pull Request #17811 · NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

lancelly · 2026-08-17T09:05:25Z

Description

Fixes a position off-by-one that corrupts helix (decode context parallelism) output whenever the overlap scheduler is enabled — for every helix model, not K3-specific.

Under the overlap scheduler, generation batch N is prepared before iteration N-1's _update_requests has advanced py_decoding_iter, so the counter is one behind for requests that carry a previous tensor. The non-helix position path already compensates for this (it uses max_beam_num_tokens without the -1 in that case); the helix branch computed total_input_len_cp + py_decoding_iter - 1 unconditionally. From the second decode step on the position repeats once (L, L, L+1, ...) and the new token's K is roped at the wrong position before being written to the KV cache — the corruption then compounds every step.

The fix tracks request_has_previous_tensor across the three generation-request branches and applies the same +1 compensation in the helix branch.

Test Coverage

Position traces (debug-instrumented): 233, 233, 234, ... → 233, 234, 235, ... with the fix; the first step (fresh py_decoding_iter) is correctly not compensated.
Overlap-on greedy output becomes byte-identical to the cp=1 baseline (Qwen3-32B, ctx tp2 → gen tp1cp2, 233-token prompt spanning 30+ KV blocks so both CP ranks hold context).
Kimi K3 helix8, GSM8K full suite: 96.36 with overlap scheduler on vs 96.44 with it off (within noise); before the fix, overlap-on output diverged from the second token.

Integration regression test (in this PR)

TestQwen3_8B::test_auto_dtype_with_helix_overlap — the existing helix disagg GSM8K flow with the overlap scheduler enabled on the generation server. All pre-existing helix integration tests pin disable_overlap_scheduler: True, which is exactly how this bug went unnoticed; without the fix this test fails hard (output corrupts from the second decode step). The existing test body is factored into _run_helix_test; existing test IDs are unchanged, so waives/QA lists are untouched. Added to l0_dgx_b200.yml.

Dev Engineer Review

The generation input path now tracks requests with a previous overlap-scheduler tensor.
The helix CP position receives the existing +1 compensation for those requests.
This prevents repeated positions and incorrect RoPE application during overlap-enabled decoding.
Helix speculative decoding remains unsupported because its counter can advance by more than one step.
The test-list updates use separate overlap_on and overlap_off configurations.
The changed test selectors and YAML entries require validation against available CBTS coverage.

QA Engineer Review

Modified test functions:
- TestDeepSeekV3Lite.test_auto_dtype_with_helix
- TestQwen3_8B._run_helix_test
test_auto_dtype_with_helix now covers both overlap-enabled and overlap-disabled configurations.
The related CI entries are updated in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml.
QA selectors are updated in tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core.txt.
Waiver entries are split into overlap_on and overlap_off configurations in tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt.
Verdict: needs follow-up because CBTS coverage data is unavailable.

Under the overlap scheduler, generation batch N is prepared before iteration N-1's _update_requests has advanced py_decoding_iter, so the counter is one behind for requests that carry a previous tensor. The non-helix position path already compensates (it uses max_beam_num_tokens without the -1 in that case); the helix branch computed total_input_len_cp + py_decoding_iter - 1 unconditionally, so from the second decode step on the position repeated once (L, L, L+1, ...) and the new token's K was roped at the wrong position before being written to the KV cache, corrupting every later step. Track request_has_previous_tensor across the three generation-request branches and apply the same +1 compensation in the helix branch. Verified: helix cp2 position traces go from (L, L, L+1, ...) to (L, L+1, L+2, ...) and overlap-on greedy output becomes byte-identical to the cp=1 baseline (Qwen3-32B); Kimi K3 helix8 GSM8K with the overlap scheduler on scores 96.36 vs 96.44 with it off (within noise). Known boundary: with speculative decoding py_decoding_iter can advance by more than one per step, so the +1 is not sufficient there; helix + speculative decoding remains unsupported. Signed-off-by: Liao Lanyu <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com> Adds an integration regression test: TestQwen3_8B:: test_auto_dtype_with_helix_overlap runs the existing helix disagg GSM8K flow with the overlap scheduler enabled on the generation server (the pre-existing helix tests all pin it off, which is how this bug went unnoticed). The existing test body is factored into _run_helix_test; existing test IDs are unchanged.

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Thank you for fixing this!

- test_disaggregated_serving.py: fold the dedicated overlap regression test into a disable_overlap_scheduler axis (overlap_off/overlap_on) on test_auto_dtype_with_helix for both TestQwen3_8B and TestDeepSeekV3Lite (MLA, same attention family as Kimi K3), per review. - l0_dgx_b200: overlap_on variants run pre-merge; overlap_off variants move to post-merge. waives/qa lists updated for the new IDs (existing entries keep their historical overlap-off semantics; the two live nvbug waives are pinned to both variants of their configs). - model_engine.py: TODO noting the helix position compensation assumes one token per step (draft-token modes are rejected under helix today). Signed-off-by: Liao Lanyu <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>

The full:B300-scoped waive for TestDeepSeekV3Lite helix pp1tp2cp2 only has an overlap_off counterpart in the active lists (qa core), so the duplicated overlap_on variant pointed at a nonexistent entry and failed the AST test-list validation. Signed-off-by: Liao Lanyu <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>

lancelly · 2026-08-18T01:50:47Z

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Helix generation now tracks previous overlap-scheduler tensors and adjusts CP position IDs for continuing requests. Integration tests cover both overlap modes, and test lists identify each mode explicitly.

Changes

Helix overlap scheduling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track overlap-scheduler request state `tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py`	Generation input preparation records previous overlap-scheduler tensors and increments Helix CP position IDs for continuing requests.
Parameterize Helix accuracy tests `tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_disaggregated_serving.py`	Shared Helix setup accepts the overlap-scheduler setting. The accuracy tests run with overlap enabled and disabled across existing configuration combinations.
Update Helix test selections `tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core.txt`, `tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml`, `tests/integration/test_lists/waives.txt`	Test selectors, pre-merge and post-merge entries, and waiver entries use explicit `overlap_on` or `overlap_off` configurations.

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The change corrects helix token-position accounting when overlap scheduling is enabled, preventing corrupted generated output, and adds regression coverage for that path. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains at the current head.

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test_auto_dtype_with_helix is a modified test in both TestDeepSeekV3Lite (Lines 1106-1195) and TestQwen3_8B (Lines 1857-1890). Both variants now run overlap_off and overlap_on. The QA list (tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core.txt) and the CI test-db list (tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml) reference the corresponding new test IDs. Coverage verdict: sufficient.

TestQwen3_8B extracts the shared body into _run_helix_test (Lines 1786-1855) with a documentation comment explaining the overlap_on regression guard. TestDeepSeekV3Lite keeps the equivalent body inline, without the same explanatory comment. Consider applying the same helper extraction and comment to TestDeepSeekV3Lite for consistency, though this is optional given the file's existing per-class inline-config convention.

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Alternative design to NVIDIA#17795 for helix (decode context parallelism) support in KVCacheManagerV2: instead of running each rank's ledger in rank-local tokens with a rotation gate, run the request LEDGER in GLOBAL tokens with one ledger block spanning cp_size physical pages (one per CP rank). Physical layout is byte-identical to the existing helix block rotation (page b lives on rank b % cp, every page a full tokens_per_block run), so kernels, page tables, and the disagg transfer striding are untouched. Only the accounting changes: - kv_cache_manager_v2.py: _ledger_tokens_per_block = cp * physical tpb. The backend config gets the ledger constant (it only does token<->block arithmetic and radix hashing with it) while BufferConfig.size stays the physical page bytes, so the entire V2 backend (Python and C++) is unchanged: 1 ledger block == 1 local physical page on every rank. - Every rank's ledger advances identically (+1 global token per step): no rotation gate, no inactive-rank allocation special case, no revert asymmetry, no rank-local capacity floor, and scheduler eviction stays enabled because all scheduling inputs are rank-invariant. - Per-rank views (who owns this step's token, tokens held by this rank) become closed-form functions of the global position, derived into the request fields each step (_set_helix_rank_fields / _helix_local_len). Decode placement follows the global continuation round-robin, matching the [rank::cp] striding the context side ships. - Quota converters interpret max_tokens as GLOBAL tokens (a rank-local byte budget buys cp times as many global tokens); max_blocks_per_seq counts ledger blocks (== per-rank physical pages). - update_resources keeps vanilla capacity math (capacity is global); history stays untouched under helix (reuse is disabled and max_beam_num_tokens mixes the rank-local prompt slice with the global decode stream). Note: with the global ledger, radix hashing over ledger blocks becomes rank-consistent, so full-page reuse is a viable follow-up; it stays disabled here. - Frozen dummy fields keep V1 parity (padding dummies never pass the per-step derivation). - _util.py: promote _skip_est for helix+V2 so build_managers configures the quota, and add the fraction fallback emitting a global max_tokens. Depends on NVIDIA#17811 (helix x overlap-scheduler position fix) for overlap-on serving, like NVIDIA#17795. 8 unit tests: closed-form vs brute-force ownership, cross-rank consistency (one active rank; seqlen/past_seen sum invariants), ledger rank-invariance, quota scaling (incl. inf passthrough and cp==1 identity), history handling, quota fallback, estimation-skip promotion, dummy sum invariant. Signed-off-by: Liao Lanyu <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>

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Alternative design to NVIDIA#17795 for helix (decode context parallelism) support in KVCacheManagerV2: instead of running each rank's ledger in rank-local tokens with a rotation gate, run the request LEDGER in GLOBAL tokens with one ledger block spanning cp_size physical pages (one per CP rank). Physical layout is byte-identical to the existing helix block rotation (page b lives on rank b % cp, every page a full tokens_per_block run), so kernels, page tables, and the disagg transfer striding are untouched. Only the accounting changes: - kv_cache_manager_v2.py: _ledger_tokens_per_block = cp * physical tpb. The backend config gets the ledger constant (it only does token<->block arithmetic and radix hashing with it) while BufferConfig.size stays the physical page bytes, so the entire V2 backend (Python and C++) is unchanged: 1 ledger block == 1 local physical page on every rank. - Every rank's ledger advances identically (+1 global token per step): no rotation gate, no inactive-rank allocation special case, no revert asymmetry, no rank-local capacity floor, and scheduler eviction stays enabled because all scheduling inputs are rank-invariant. - Per-rank views (who owns this step's token, tokens held by this rank) become closed-form functions of the global position, derived into the request fields each step (_set_helix_rank_fields / _helix_local_len). Decode placement follows the global continuation round-robin, matching the [rank::cp] striding the context side ships. - Quota converters interpret max_tokens as GLOBAL tokens (a rank-local byte budget buys cp times as many global tokens); max_blocks_per_seq counts ledger blocks (== per-rank physical pages). - update_resources keeps vanilla capacity math (capacity is global); history stays untouched under helix (reuse is disabled and max_beam_num_tokens mixes the rank-local prompt slice with the global decode stream). Note: with the global ledger, radix hashing over ledger blocks becomes rank-consistent, so full-page reuse is a viable follow-up; it stays disabled here. - Frozen dummy fields keep V1 parity (padding dummies never pass the per-step derivation). - _util.py: promote _skip_est for helix+V2 so build_managers configures the quota, and add the fraction fallback emitting a global max_tokens. Depends on NVIDIA#17811 (helix x overlap-scheduler position fix) for overlap-on serving, like NVIDIA#17795. 8 unit tests: closed-form vs brute-force ownership, cross-rank consistency (one active rank; seqlen/past_seen sum invariants), ledger rank-invariance, quota scaling (incl. inf passthrough and cp==1 identity), history handling, quota fallback, estimation-skip promotion, dummy sum invariant. Signed-off-by: Liao Lanyu <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>

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Alternative design to NVIDIA#17795 for helix (decode context parallelism) support in KVCacheManagerV2: instead of running each rank's ledger in rank-local tokens with a rotation gate, run the request LEDGER in GLOBAL tokens with one ledger block spanning cp_size physical pages (one per CP rank). Physical layout is byte-identical to the existing helix block rotation (page b lives on rank b % cp, every page a full tokens_per_block run), so kernels, page tables, and the disagg transfer striding are untouched. Only the accounting changes: - kv_cache_manager_v2.py: _ledger_tokens_per_block = cp * physical tpb. The backend config gets the ledger constant (it only does token<->block arithmetic and radix hashing with it) while BufferConfig.size stays the physical page bytes, so the entire V2 backend (Python and C++) is unchanged: 1 ledger block == 1 local physical page on every rank. - Every rank's ledger advances identically (+1 global token per step): no rotation gate, no inactive-rank allocation special case, no revert asymmetry, no rank-local capacity floor, and scheduler eviction stays enabled because all scheduling inputs are rank-invariant. - Per-rank views (who owns this step's token, tokens held by this rank) become closed-form functions of the global position, derived into the request fields each step (_set_helix_rank_fields / _helix_local_len). Decode placement follows the global continuation round-robin, matching the [rank::cp] striding the context side ships. - Quota converters interpret max_tokens as GLOBAL tokens (a rank-local byte budget buys cp times as many global tokens); max_blocks_per_seq counts ledger blocks (== per-rank physical pages). - update_resources keeps vanilla capacity math (capacity is global); history stays untouched under helix (reuse is disabled and max_beam_num_tokens mixes the rank-local prompt slice with the global decode stream). Note: with the global ledger, radix hashing over ledger blocks becomes rank-consistent, so full-page reuse is a viable follow-up; it stays disabled here. - Frozen dummy fields keep V1 parity (padding dummies never pass the per-step derivation). - _util.py: promote _skip_est for helix+V2 so build_managers configures the quota, and add the fraction fallback emitting a global max_tokens. Depends on NVIDIA#17811 (helix x overlap-scheduler position fix) for overlap-on serving, like NVIDIA#17795. 8 unit tests: closed-form vs brute-force ownership, cross-rank consistency (one active rank; seqlen/past_seen sum invariants), ledger rank-invariance, quota scaling (incl. inf passthrough and cp==1 identity), history handling, quota fallback, estimation-skip promotion, dummy sum invariant. Signed-off-by: Liao Lanyu <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>

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Alternative design to NVIDIA#17795 for helix (decode context parallelism) support in KVCacheManagerV2: instead of running each rank's ledger in rank-local tokens with a rotation gate, run the request LEDGER in GLOBAL tokens with one ledger block spanning cp_size physical pages (one per CP rank). Physical layout is byte-identical to the existing helix block rotation (page b lives on rank b % cp, every page a full tokens_per_block run), so kernels, page tables, and the disagg transfer striding are untouched. Only the accounting changes: - kv_cache_manager_v2.py: _ledger_tokens_per_block = cp * physical tpb. The backend config gets the ledger constant (it only does token<->block arithmetic and radix hashing with it) while BufferConfig.size stays the physical page bytes, so the entire V2 backend (Python and C++) is unchanged: 1 ledger block == 1 local physical page on every rank. - Every rank's ledger advances identically (+1 global token per step): no rotation gate, no inactive-rank allocation special case, no revert asymmetry, no rank-local capacity floor, and scheduler eviction stays enabled because all scheduling inputs are rank-invariant. - Per-rank views (who owns this step's token, tokens held by this rank) become closed-form functions of the global position, derived into the request fields each step (_set_helix_rank_fields / _helix_local_len). Decode placement follows the global continuation round-robin, matching the [rank::cp] striding the context side ships. - Quota converters interpret max_tokens as GLOBAL tokens (a rank-local byte budget buys cp times as many global tokens); max_blocks_per_seq counts ledger blocks (== per-rank physical pages). - update_resources keeps vanilla capacity math (capacity is global); history stays untouched under helix (reuse is disabled and max_beam_num_tokens mixes the rank-local prompt slice with the global decode stream). Note: with the global ledger, radix hashing over ledger blocks becomes rank-consistent, so full-page reuse is a viable follow-up; it stays disabled here. - Frozen dummy fields keep V1 parity (padding dummies never pass the per-step derivation). - _util.py: promote _skip_est for helix+V2 so build_managers configures the quota, and add the fraction fallback emitting a global max_tokens. Depends on NVIDIA#17811 (helix x overlap-scheduler position fix) for overlap-on serving, like NVIDIA#17795. 8 unit tests: closed-form vs brute-force ownership, cross-rank consistency (one active rank; seqlen/past_seen sum invariants), ledger rank-invariance, quota scaling (incl. inf passthrough and cp==1 identity), history handling, quota fallback, estimation-skip promotion, dummy sum invariant. Signed-off-by: Liao Lanyu <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>

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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.

The compensation is in the right place: seqlen_this_rank_cp is incremented by the resource manager at schedule time for the current iteration, so past_seen_token_num and the global position_id only agree once the +1 is applied — the two were off by one relative to each other before.

Two things on coverage:

tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_pytorch_model_engine.py::test_prepare_tp_inputs_with_helix_parallelism already exercises this exact line on a single GPU and asserts position_ids == [40, 30], but only for py_batch_idx = None (the no-previous-tensor branch). Adding a second case with py_batch_idx set and new_tensors_device populated would pin the +1 without an 8-GPU B200 run — cheap insurance for a formula that fails silently.
The description is out of date with the diff. It describes a new test_auto_dtype_with_helix_overlap and says "existing test IDs are unchanged, so waives/QA lists are untouched", but the implementation parametrizes instead, which renames every existing ID and does touch waives.txt, the QA list, and l0. Please refresh it — the ID renames are the part a future bisecter needs.

Also, this is a real correctness fix (wrong output for every helix model with overlap on), so it should carry an NVBug or JIRA ID in the title rather than [None].

Alternative design to NVIDIA#17795 for helix (decode context parallelism) support in KVCacheManagerV2: instead of running each rank's ledger in rank-local tokens with a rotation gate, run the request LEDGER in GLOBAL tokens with one ledger block spanning cp_size physical pages (one per CP rank). Physical layout is byte-identical to the existing helix block rotation (page b lives on rank b % cp, every page a full tokens_per_block run), so kernels, page tables, and the disagg transfer striding are untouched. Only the accounting changes: - kv_cache_manager_v2.py: _ledger_tokens_per_block = cp * physical tpb. The backend config gets the ledger constant (it only does token<->block arithmetic and radix hashing with it) while BufferConfig.size stays the physical page bytes, so the entire V2 backend (Python and C++) is unchanged: 1 ledger block == 1 local physical page on every rank. - Every rank's ledger advances identically (+1 global token per step): no rotation gate, no inactive-rank allocation special case, no revert asymmetry, no rank-local capacity floor, and scheduler eviction stays enabled because all scheduling inputs are rank-invariant. - Per-rank views (who owns this step's token, tokens held by this rank) become closed-form functions of the global position, derived into the request fields each step (_set_helix_rank_fields / _helix_local_len). Decode placement follows the global continuation round-robin, matching the [rank::cp] striding the context side ships. - Quota converters interpret max_tokens as GLOBAL tokens (a rank-local byte budget buys cp times as many global tokens); max_blocks_per_seq counts ledger blocks (== per-rank physical pages). - update_resources keeps vanilla capacity math (capacity is global); history stays untouched under helix (reuse is disabled and max_beam_num_tokens mixes the rank-local prompt slice with the global decode stream). Note: with the global ledger, radix hashing over ledger blocks becomes rank-consistent, so full-page reuse is a viable follow-up; it stays disabled here. - Frozen dummy fields keep V1 parity (padding dummies never pass the per-step derivation). - _util.py: promote _skip_est for helix+V2 so build_managers configures the quota, and add the fraction fallback emitting a global max_tokens. Depends on NVIDIA#17811 (helix x overlap-scheduler position fix) for overlap-on serving, like NVIDIA#17795. 8 unit tests: closed-form vs brute-force ownership, cross-rank consistency (one active rank; seqlen/past_seen sum invariants), ledger rank-invariance, quota scaling (incl. inf passthrough and cp==1 identity), history handling, quota fallback, estimation-skip promotion, dummy sum invariant. Signed-off-by: Liao Lanyu <108499334+lancelly@users.noreply.github.com>

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[None][feat] Kimi K3: KDA-TP + MLA-DCP (helix) wiring #17796

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[None][feat] KVCacheManagerV2: helix decode-CP via a global super-block ledger #17866

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