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Problem

--dyn-chat-processor vllm selects the Python chat processor, which never implements reasoning-token usage. #12181 added it, but only to the Rust OpenAIPreprocessor (lib/llm/src/preprocessor.rs), which this path bypasses entirely.

The vLLM worker's _build_completion_usage() emits no completion_tokens_details key at all, so reasoning_tokens is absent from usage rather than zero. Clients that default a missing field then report 0 reasoning tokens for a response with visibly non-empty reasoning_content — which breaks usage-based telemetry and billing.

Reported against Inkling-NVFP4 on GB300 (NVBug 6678449, template 6047506).

Fix

Port #12181's estimator to the Python path, kept deliberately behaviour-identical to the Rust one — including its documented chunk-granular overcount (a chunk carrying both reasoning and visible content counts entirely as reasoning) — so the two paths cannot disagree. A positive backend-supplied count stays authoritative.

Validation

Measured on Inkling-NVFP4, vLLM 0.28.0, GB300 TP4:

reasoning_content 518 chars → usage.reasoning_tokens 131
reasoning_tokens <= completion_tokens ✅
reasoning_effort: none (no reasoning) → 0
streaming ✅

Unit tests added covering chunk accounting, the active-choice gap, usage-only frames, tool calls as visible output, and the annotate contract (fills when absent, preserves a positive backend value, replaces a zero, never mutates its input).

Notes

Draft — opened for early review while the delivery image is validated. Sibling gap: issue #13329 reports the same missing field on the SGLang bridge; this PR does not address that path.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added per-request reasoning-token usage tracking for streaming and buffered responses.
    • Reasoning usage is included in completion details, including responses where reasoning output is hidden.
    • Preserves existing backend-provided reasoning-token totals when available.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved reasoning usage accounting across multiple choices, tool responses, and content-only responses.

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Walkthrough

The change adds per-request reasoning-token accounting to Python vLLM chat processing. Post-processors count classified reasoning text, including suppressed and buffered output. The vLLM processor aggregates these counts into copied completion usage details while preserving positive backend-provided values.

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Reasoning Usage Accounting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Post-processor token accounting
components/src/dynamo/frontend/prepost.py
Streaming and buffered tool parsing now count reasoning tokens before applying reasoning-output suppression.
Per-request usage annotation
components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_processor.py
Each request aggregates post-processor counts and annotates emitted completion usage data. Positive backend reasoning counts remain unchanged.
Reasoning usage regression coverage
components/src/dynamo/frontend/tests/test_vllm_processor_unit.py
Tests cover streaming, buffering, suppression, multiple choices, content-only responses, non-mutating annotation, and backend count handling.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 4d254

The change adds reasoning-token usage reporting, but some usage-only responses can still omit that metric and negative backend values can be propagated incorrectly. Those bounded usage-reporting issues should be fixed before merging.

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1005-1015: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Emit usage-only completion frames.

When engine_response has completion_usage but choices is empty, Line 1005 skips dynamo_out. The client receives metrics only, so the reasoning usage annotation is lost on usage-only frames.

Proposed fix
-                if choices:
+                completion_usage = engine_response.get("completion_usage")
+                if choices or completion_usage is not None:
                     dynamo_out = {
                         "id": request_id,
                         "choices": choices,
@@
-                    if usage := engine_response.get("completion_usage"):
-                        dynamo_out["usage"] = reasoning_usage.annotate(usage)
+                    if completion_usage is not None:
+                        dynamo_out["usage"] = reasoning_usage.annotate(
+                            completion_usage
+                        )

Add an end-to-end test with an empty choice list and completion_usage.

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In `@components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_processor.py` around lines 1005 - 1015,
Update the response-building logic around engine_response and dynamo_out so
completion_usage is emitted even when choices is empty, while retaining choices
when present and applying reasoning_usage.annotate to usage. Add an end-to-end
test covering an empty choice list with completion_usage and verifying the
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In `@components/src/dynamo/frontend/tests/test_vllm_processor_unit.py`:
- Around line 2637-2640: Move the _ReasoningUsageAnnotator import from inside
the _annotator helper to the test module’s top-level imports, then keep
_annotator focused on constructing the annotator mapping without any local
import.

In `@components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_processor.py`:
- Around line 97-100: Update the sum in the relevant processor method to access
each post processor’s reasoning_token_total attribute directly instead of using
getattr with a default, preserving the existing aggregation across
self._post_processors.values().
- Around line 105-108: Update the completion_tokens_details handling to preserve
backend reasoning_tokens only when it is positive; replace zero, negative,
missing, or otherwise falsy values with self.total. Add a regression test
covering a negative reasoning_tokens value.

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In `@components/src/dynamo/frontend/vllm_processor.py`:
- Around line 1005-1015: Update the response-building logic around
engine_response and dynamo_out so completion_usage is emitted even when choices
is empty, while retaining choices when present and applying
reasoning_usage.annotate to usage. Add an end-to-end test covering an empty
choice list with completion_usage and verifying the usage-only frame is
delivered.
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…oritative

Two CodeRabbit findings on ai-dynamo#13947.

1. `annotate()` used a falsiness check, so a negative backend-supplied
   `reasoning_tokens` survived (-1 is truthy) and was reported to the client.
   The documented contract is that only a POSITIVE backend count is
   authoritative; missing, zero and negative now all fall back to our own tally.
   Covered by a parametrised regression test (-1, -100, None, "7").

2. `total` used `getattr(post, "reasoning_token_total", 0)`. The values are
   StreamingPostProcessor instances and the attribute is initialised in their
   constructor, so the defensive default could only mask a broken processor as
   zero usage. Direct attribute access instead.

A third finding -- move the `_ReasoningUsageAnnotator` import in the test helper
to module scope -- is NOT applied. This test module imports
dynamo.frontend.vllm_processor lazily by design (see the NOTE at the top of the
file): a module-level import pulls `vllm.tasks` /
`vllm.v1.engine.parallel_sampling` in during pytest collection and breaks the
pytest-marker-report pre-commit hook, whose vllm stub list does not cover those
submodules. Verified: adding the module-scope import fails that hook with
`ImportError ... from vllm.exceptions import VLLMClientError`. The local import
matches the five other lazy imports already in this file.

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…review fixes

Two problems, both found while checking the branch against what was actually
validated rather than waiting for another CI round.

1. transformers_version was global at 5.14.1, but the VALIDATED Inkling image
   runs transformers 5.15.1. Shipping the pin would hand QA a transformers we
   never measured -- which also undercuts the argument for carrying the existing
   p0/accuracy/throughput numbers forward to the release container.

   The pin's own removal condition is met on cuda: it exists because vLLM 0.27.1
   lacks the Transformers 5.15 heterogeneous Gemma 4 support, and vllm#49797
   landed that and IS in 0.28.0 (verified: in v0.28.0, not in v0.27.1). xpu/cpu
   are still on vLLM 0.27.1 and still need 5.14.1, so -- exactly as with
   vllm_omni_ref -- the value has to be per-device, not global:

       cuda13.0  vLLM v0.28.0-ubuntu2404  omni v0.28.0rc1  transformers 5.15.1
       xpu       vLLM v0.27.1             omni v0.27.0rc1  transformers 5.14.1
       cpu       vLLM v0.27.1             omni v0.27.0rc1  transformers 5.14.1

   TRANSFORMERS_VERSION is a hard `transformers==${...}` install plus a
   build-time equality assertion, so an empty value is not an option; each
   stanza carries a concrete version.

2. The frontend files had drifted from ai-dynamo#13947, which picked up two CodeRabbit
   fixes after the squash landed here: a negative backend `reasoning_tokens`
   survived the falsiness check (-1 is truthy) and `total` used a defensive
   getattr on an attribute its own constructor guarantees. Forward-ported both,
   with the parametrised regression test; the annotator block is now identical
   between the two PRs.

Rendered all three vllm devices plus sglang / dynamo / trtllm(13.1) to confirm
the per-device lookup does not disturb other frameworks. Accounting suite 13/13.

Signed-off-by: Sungsoo Ha <sungsooh@nvidia.com>
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…ing patch

Syncs both of our unmerged fixes to their reviewed state and re-validates the
container on real hardware.

frontend (ai-dynamo#13947, P1 review): reasoning tokens are now counted by
the pinned vLLM parser's own `count_reasoning_tokens` over a per-choice ledger of
the ORIGINAL generated ids, appended before any branch in process_output. The
per-chunk classifier and the terminal `tokenizer.encode(saved_reasoning)`
retokenisation are both removed -- the latter drifted because detokenisation is
not injective (generated id 77150 decodes to '10' and re-encodes to two tokens).

vLLM patch (vllm-project/vllm#54120): regenerated against the v0.28.0 tree, now
also accepting `<|content_model_end_sampling|>`. The Inkling parser treats it as
a co-equal terminator -- `is_reasoning_end` returns True on it and
`count_reasoning_tokens` closes a block on either -- so permitting only
`<|end_message|>` masked a valid natural stop. Applies clean with the
Dockerfile's own `patch --batch --forward -p1`.

Validated on Inkling-NVFP4 / GB300, vLLM 0.28.0, MTP 8, on BOTH topologies with
the full patch set overlaid on the shipped image. p0: 13/15 with 2 blocking on
each, and the two blockers are the same unpatchable vLLM limitation
(reasoning_budget_zero, NVBug 6678449a):

  2-replica AGG  structural_tag_grammar pass · reasoning ratio 1.00 · kv_routing pass
  1P1D disagg    structural_tag_grammar pass · reasoning ratio 1.00

p0 was extended to cover these changes, because it structurally could not before:
the tag can be wrong while every wire-level probe passes (the parser absorbs the
malformed output -- control_marker_residue passed before BOTH tag defects), and
reasoning_tokens can be non-zero but the wrong order (the pre-fix code reported a
constant 7 against 324 real tokens).

Signed-off-by: Sungsoo Ha <sungsooh@nvidia.com>
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…r path

Squashed from ai-dynamo#13947 for this release branch.

dynamo ai-dynamo#12181 added reasoning-token usage only to the Rust OpenAIPreprocessor.
`--dyn-chat-processor vllm` selects the Python path, which bypasses it, and the
worker's _build_completion_usage() emits no `completion_tokens_details` key at
all -- so `reasoning_tokens` was ABSENT from usage (NVBug 6678449b).

The count is accumulated where the reasoning parser CLASSIFIES its output
(StreamingPostProcessor.reasoning_token_total), not where the response is
projected. Deriving it from the emitted choices loses it whenever a projection
drops or defers the reasoning: include_reasoning=false suppresses the delta, and
the non-streaming tool path buffers every chunk and releases on a zero-token
terminal delta.

Measured on Inkling-NVFP4 / GB300 with vLLM 0.28.0, reported vs an independent
tokenization of the returned reasoning_content, 3 runs each:

  non-streaming tool call   before 0.03/0.03/0.02   after 1.00/1.00/1.00
  plain reasoning request   before 1.04/1.03/1.02   after 1.00/1.03/1.04

Before, the tool case reported a constant 7 whatever the real count was.

Signed-off-by: Sungsoo Ha <sungsooh@nvidia.com>
sungsooha added a commit to sungsooha/dynamo that referenced this pull request Aug 28, 2026
…review fixes

Two problems, both found while checking the branch against what was actually
validated rather than waiting for another CI round.

1. transformers_version was global at 5.14.1, but the VALIDATED Inkling image
   runs transformers 5.15.1. Shipping the pin would hand QA a transformers we
   never measured -- which also undercuts the argument for carrying the existing
   p0/accuracy/throughput numbers forward to the release container.

   The pin's own removal condition is met on cuda: it exists because vLLM 0.27.1
   lacks the Transformers 5.15 heterogeneous Gemma 4 support, and vllm#49797
   landed that and IS in 0.28.0 (verified: in v0.28.0, not in v0.27.1). xpu/cpu
   are still on vLLM 0.27.1 and still need 5.14.1, so -- exactly as with
   vllm_omni_ref -- the value has to be per-device, not global:

       cuda13.0  vLLM v0.28.0-ubuntu2404  omni v0.28.0rc1  transformers 5.15.1
       xpu       vLLM v0.27.1             omni v0.27.0rc1  transformers 5.14.1
       cpu       vLLM v0.27.1             omni v0.27.0rc1  transformers 5.14.1

   TRANSFORMERS_VERSION is a hard `transformers==${...}` install plus a
   build-time equality assertion, so an empty value is not an option; each
   stanza carries a concrete version.

2. The frontend files had drifted from ai-dynamo#13947, which picked up two CodeRabbit
   fixes after the squash landed here: a negative backend `reasoning_tokens`
   survived the falsiness check (-1 is truthy) and `total` used a defensive
   getattr on an attribute its own constructor guarantees. Forward-ported both,
   with the parametrised regression test; the annotator block is now identical
   between the two PRs.

Rendered all three vllm devices plus sglang / dynamo / trtllm(13.1) to confirm
the per-device lookup does not disturb other frameworks. Accounting suite 13/13.

Signed-off-by: Sungsoo Ha <sungsooh@nvidia.com>
sungsooha added a commit to sungsooha/dynamo that referenced this pull request Aug 28, 2026
…ing patch

Syncs both of our unmerged fixes to their reviewed state and re-validates the
container on real hardware.

frontend (ai-dynamo#13947, P1 review): reasoning tokens are now counted by
the pinned vLLM parser's own `count_reasoning_tokens` over a per-choice ledger of
the ORIGINAL generated ids, appended before any branch in process_output. The
per-chunk classifier and the terminal `tokenizer.encode(saved_reasoning)`
retokenisation are both removed -- the latter drifted because detokenisation is
not injective (generated id 77150 decodes to '10' and re-encodes to two tokens).

vLLM patch (vllm-project/vllm#54120): regenerated against the v0.28.0 tree, now
also accepting `<|content_model_end_sampling|>`. The Inkling parser treats it as
a co-equal terminator -- `is_reasoning_end` returns True on it and
`count_reasoning_tokens` closes a block on either -- so permitting only
`<|end_message|>` masked a valid natural stop. Applies clean with the
Dockerfile's own `patch --batch --forward -p1`.

Validated on Inkling-NVFP4 / GB300, vLLM 0.28.0, MTP 8, on BOTH topologies with
the full patch set overlaid on the shipped image. p0: 13/15 with 2 blocking on
each, and the two blockers are the same unpatchable vLLM limitation
(reasoning_budget_zero, NVBug 6678449a):

  2-replica AGG  structural_tag_grammar pass · reasoning ratio 1.00 · kv_routing pass
  1P1D disagg    structural_tag_grammar pass · reasoning ratio 1.00

p0 was extended to cover these changes, because it structurally could not before:
the tag can be wrong while every wire-level probe passes (the parser absorbs the
malformed output -- control_marker_residue passed before BOTH tag defects), and
reasoning_tokens can be non-zero but the wrong order (the pre-fix code reported a
constant 7 against 324 real tokens).

Signed-off-by: Sungsoo Ha <sungsooh@nvidia.com>
…r path

`--dyn-chat-processor vllm` selects the Python chat processor, which never
implements reasoning-token usage. ai-dynamo#12181 added it, but only to the Rust
`OpenAIPreprocessor` (`lib/llm/src/preprocessor.rs`), which this path bypasses
entirely. The vLLM worker's `_build_completion_usage()` emits no
`completion_tokens_details` key at all, so `reasoning_tokens` is **absent** from
usage rather than zero -- clients that default a missing field then report 0
reasoning tokens for a response with visibly non-empty `reasoning_content`.

Port ai-dynamo#12181's estimator to the Python path, kept deliberately behaviour-identical
to the Rust one -- including its documented chunk-granular overcount (a chunk
carrying both reasoning and visible content counts entirely as reasoning) -- so
the two paths cannot disagree. A positive backend-supplied count stays
authoritative.

Measured on Inkling-NVFP4 (vLLM 0.28.0, GB300 TP4): `reasoning_content` 518
chars -> `usage.reasoning_tokens` 131; `reasoning_tokens <= completion_tokens`;
0 when `reasoning_effort: none` produces no reasoning; correct in streaming.

Adds unit tests covering chunk accounting, the active-choice gap, usage-only
frames, tool calls as visible output, and the annotate contract (fills when
absent, preserves a positive backend value, replaces a zero, never mutates its
input).

Signed-off-by: Sungsoo Ha <sungsooh@nvidia.com>
Addresses both P1 review findings. The estimator observed the choices this path
EMITS, so any projection that dropped or deferred the reasoning lost the count:

  * include_reasoning=false makes StreamingPostProcessor suppress every reasoning
    delta, so a response with hidden reasoning reported 0;
  * the non-streaming tool path emits no choice per generated chunk and releases
    the aggregated reasoning on a terminal delta whose chunk_tokens is 0, so the
    buffered reasoning chunks reported 0.

Move the accounting to where the reasoning parser CLASSIFIES its output.
StreamingPostProcessor now owns `reasoning_token_total`, incremented before the
include_reasoning projection on the streaming path and, on the buffered path
(which has no per-chunk classification), computed exactly from the parsed
reasoning text before the same projection. _ReasoningUsageEstimator becomes
_ReasoningUsageAnnotator, which only sums those totals -- it no longer derives
anything from the emitted choices.

Streaming stays chunk-granular, matching the Rust: a chunk carrying reasoning
and visible content counts wholly as reasoning. The buffered path counts the
reasoning text exactly, which is more precise than the Rust rather than
divergent from it.

Measured on Inkling-NVFP4 / GB300, vLLM 0.28.0, against the same image with only
this change overlaid. Reported vs an independent tokenization of the returned
reasoning_content, 3 runs each:

  non-streaming tool call   before 0.03/0.03/0.02   after 1.00/1.00/1.00
  plain reasoning request   before 1.04/1.03/1.02   after 1.00/1.03/1.04

Before, the tool case reported a constant 7 whatever the real count was (212,
242, 295) -- the single terminal frame. The plain path is unchanged.

Unit tests cover both regressions plus the buffered-and-suppressed combination.

Signed-off-by: Sungsoo Ha <sungsooh@nvidia.com>
pre-commit black (pinned 23.1.0) collapsed one test signature onto a single
line. Formatting only, no behaviour change.

Signed-off-by: Sungsoo Ha <sungsooh@nvidia.com>
Forward-compatible with ai-dynamo#12541, which threads model_config into the
reasoning-parser constructor. Optional kwarg, so it is a no-op on this branch
and does not break once ai-dynamo#12541 lands.

Signed-off-by: Sungsoo Ha <sungsooh@nvidia.com>
…oritative

Two CodeRabbit findings on ai-dynamo#13947.

1. `annotate()` used a falsiness check, so a negative backend-supplied
   `reasoning_tokens` survived (-1 is truthy) and was reported to the client.
   The documented contract is that only a POSITIVE backend count is
   authoritative; missing, zero and negative now all fall back to our own tally.
   Covered by a parametrised regression test (-1, -100, None, "7").

2. `total` used `getattr(post, "reasoning_token_total", 0)`. The values are
   StreamingPostProcessor instances and the attribute is initialised in their
   constructor, so the defensive default could only mask a broken processor as
   zero usage. Direct attribute access instead.

A third finding -- move the `_ReasoningUsageAnnotator` import in the test helper
to module scope -- is NOT applied. This test module imports
dynamo.frontend.vllm_processor lazily by design (see the NOTE at the top of the
file): a module-level import pulls `vllm.tasks` /
`vllm.v1.engine.parallel_sampling` in during pytest collection and breaks the
pytest-marker-report pre-commit hook, whose vllm stub list does not cover those
submodules. Verified: adding the module-scope import fails that hook with
`ImportError ... from vllm.exceptions import VLLMClientError`. The local import
matches the five other lazy imports already in this file.

Signed-off-by: Sungsoo Ha <sungsooh@nvidia.com>
Addresses the P1 review finding: accounting was derived from parser output even
though the pinned vLLM already exposes
`ReasoningParser.count_reasoning_tokens(token_ids)`.

StreamingPostProcessor now keeps a per-choice ledger of the ORIGINAL generated
token ids, appended before any branch in process_output so every path feeds it
-- including the ones that emit nothing for a chunk. `reasoning_token_total`
becomes a property over the parser counter. Both previous mechanisms are gone:
the `len(delta_token_ids)` per-chunk classifier and the terminal
`tokenizer.encode(saved_reasoning)` retokenisation.

That removes three separate error sources:
  * the response projections drop or defer the reasoning
    (`_suppress_reasoning_output`, and the non-streaming tool path's
    terminal-delta buffering);
  * a per-chunk classifier over-counts a chunk carrying both kinds;
  * re-encoding decoded text drifts from the original ids, because
    detokenisation is not injective.

Both reviewer counterexamples reproduce exactly and are now regression tests:
  * `<think>`, `abc`, `<`, `x` -> ids [151667, 13683, 27, 87]; the parser counts
    3, the old classifier counted 2.
  * generated id 77150 decodes to '10', which RE-ENCODES to two tokens; the
    old retokenisation reported 2 for a single generated token.

Also avoids synchronous tokenizer work on the async loop.

Validated on Inkling-NVFP4 / GB300 (vLLM 0.28.0, MTP 8) on BOTH topologies --
2-replica AGG and 1P1D disagg -- with the change overlaid on the shipped image.
Reported reasoning_tokens against an independent tokenisation of the returned
reasoning_content: ratio 1.00 on both, where the pre-fix code scored 0.02 on a
non-streaming tool request. Accounting suite 15/15.

Signed-off-by: Sungsoo Ha <sungsooh@nvidia.com>
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