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Updates GLM-5 support documentation for GLM-5.3.

GLM-5.3 is a weight update over GLM-5.2 with the same architecture (GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM) and code path. Verified against the HF checkpoints: config.json is identical across 5.2/5.3 on all model keys, and the weight maps have the same 59,585 tensor names and identical total size.

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  • docs/source/models/supported-models.md
    • Add a GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM row to the Model-Feature Support Matrix. CUDA Graph, MTP, disaggregated serving (and disagg + MTP) have been validated; features not verified on GLM-5 are marked Untested per matrix convention.
    • List GLM-5.2/GLM-5.3 in the architecture table and update the HF example to zai-org/GLM-5.3.
  • docs/source/deployment-guide/deployment-guide-for-glm-5-on-trtllm.md
    • Point the Models section and runnable snippets at the GLM-5.3 checkpoints, and call out the checkpoint naming flip: for 5.3 the base repo (zai-org/GLM-5.3) is FP8 and BF16 lives in -BF16, the reverse of 5/5.2.
    • Add a Validated Features list and a Disaggregated Serving section (worker cache_transceiver_config, orchestrator config, link to the full disagg guide).
    • Note the GLM-5.3 chat template changes (enable_thinking replaced by clear_thinking; reasoning_effort accepts low/high).
    • Fix the architecture claim in the intro: GLM-5 is served through GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM (which reuses the DeepSeek V3.2 code path), not DeepseekV32ForCausalLM.

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Documentation-only change. Markdown anchors verified against myst_heading_anchors config; matrix row column count matches the header.

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  • Updated GLM-5 documentation for GLM-5.2 and GLM-5.3.
  • Added GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM to the supported-model and feature-support documentation.
  • Updated deployment examples, checkpoint names, chat-template notes, validated features, and disaggregated serving configuration.
  • Corrected the architecture reference from DeepseekV32ForCausalLM to GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM.
  • Updated the minimum TensorRT-LLM version and container image to 1.3.0rc25.
  • No code, configuration, API, or test-list changes were made.
  • Documentation-only scope is consistent with the stated objective.

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- Add GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM row to the model-feature support matrix
  (CUDA Graph, MTP, and disaggregated serving validated)
- List GLM-5.2/GLM-5.3 in the supported-models tables; GLM-5.3 is a
  weight update over GLM-5.2 with the same architecture and code path
- Deployment guide: point to the GLM-5.3 checkpoints and note the
  checkpoint naming flip (zai-org/GLM-5.3 is the FP8 repo), add a
  validated-features list and a disaggregated serving section, and
  document the chat template changes (enable_thinking replaced by
  clear_thinking, reasoning_effort low/high)
- Fix the architecture claim: GLM-5 is served through
  GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM, not DeepseekV32ForCausalLM

Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
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The documentation adds GLM-5.3 model support details, updates TensorRT LLM deployment commands and examples, clarifies reasoning controls, and documents disaggregated serving with NIXL KV-cache transfer.

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Model support and validated capabilities
docs/source/deployment-guide/deployment-guide-for-glm-5-on-trtllm.md, docs/source/models/supported-models.md
The documentation identifies GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM, adds GLM-5.2 and GLM-5.3 support, clarifies reasoning controls, and records feature support states.
Checkpoint and serving commands
docs/source/deployment-guide/deployment-guide-for-glm-5-on-trtllm.md
The guide updates the TensorRT LLM version, container image, checkpoint paths, server model name, API examples, and benchmark commands.
Disaggregated serving workflow
docs/source/deployment-guide/deployment-guide-for-glm-5-on-trtllm.md
The guide adds context and generation worker settings, NIXL KV-cache transfer, optional MTP configuration, orchestrator startup, endpoint configuration, and client routing.

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  Client->>Orchestrator: send request
  Orchestrator->>ContextWorker: route context work
  ContextWorker->>NIXL: publish KV cache
  NIXL->>GenerationWorker: transfer KV cache
  GenerationWorker->>Client: return generated response
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In `@docs/source/deployment-guide/deployment-guide-for-glm-5-on-trtllm.md`:
- Line 9: Correct the GLM-5.3 migration note in the deployment guide: state that
clear_thinking controls retention of prior reasoning rather than replacing
enable_thinking, and that generation always begins with <think>. Document
reasoning_effort values low, high, and max with max as the default, and explain
when chat requests should set clear_thinking=true.
- Line 151: Update the GLM-5 deployment launch command to set the served model
name to the documented model ID, ensuring the model listing and response
metadata use zai-org/GLM-5.3 consistently with the request, sample response, and
benchmark.
- Around line 175-177: Update both worker configurations in the deployment guide
to include transceiver_runtime: PYTHON alongside their cache transceiver
settings, ensuring GLM DSA KV-cache transfer uses the Python transceiver.
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Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
The GLM-5 family (GLM-5, GLM-5.2, GLM-5.3) is served through the
GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM architecture, which is first registered in
TensorRT-LLM 1.3.0rc9. The 1.3.0rc8 image cannot load these
checkpoints, so update the minimum-version note and the container
tag in the docker run example to 1.3.0rc9.

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Verification notes for the version bump and the disaggregated-serving config

Minimum version rc8 → rc9. GLM-5's checkpoints declare architectures: ["GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM"]. That architecture is first registered in 1.3.0rc9 — tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_deepseekv3.py carries @register_auto_model("GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM") (next to DeepseekV32ForCausalLM) — and is absent in 1.3.0rc8, so trtllm-serve on the rc8 image fails at architecture lookup before it can serve. Confirmed against the released container: the nvcr.io/nvidia/tensorrt-llm/release:1.3.0rc9 image (arm64 and amd64 variants) ships tensorrt_llm.__version__ == "1.3.0rc9", and its installed modeling_deepseekv3.py contains the GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM registration.

NIXL-only disaggregated config is sufficient. cache_transceiver_config.backend: NIXL without transceiver_runtime: PYTHON still transfers the DSA indexer K-cache, because the formatter is chosen by model type and is independent of the comms backend:

  • cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/cacheTransceiver.cpp (makeFormattercreateCacheFormatter(..., isMLA)) and cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/cacheFormatter.cpp return MLACacheFormatter for MLA models.
  • MLACacheFormatter::format/unformat (cpp/tensorrt_llm/batch_manager/mlaCacheFormatter.cpp) add a dedicated indexer-K-cache transfer pass (BufferKind::kKV_INDEXER) whenever getIndexerKCachePool() != nullptr. NIXL is only the transport and does not special-case buffer kinds.

This path is present as of 1.3.0rc9.

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Update the minimum-version note and the docker run container tag in the
GLM-5 deployment guide from 1.3.0rc9 to 1.3.0rc25.

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