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With this, we can use flashinfer as the backend for vllm. To do so, set the attention backend environment variable:

export VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND=FLASHINFER

In a mason script, add --env VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND=FLASHINFER before the --.

In my benchmarking, this leads to a 15% speedup. Benchmark at HEAD:

Results (excluding first batch):
Average tokens/second: 3084.47
Average MFU: 4.41%
Average generation time per batch: 1105.47s
Average new tokens per sample: 3409088.75 tokens
Wasted compute % (variable response length): 34.84%

With this change:

Results (excluding first batch):
Average tokens/second: 3500.95
Average MFU: 5.00%
Average generation time per batch: 1072.42s
Average new tokens per sample: 3748289.0 tokens
Wasted compute % (variable response length): 28.36%

(note that this got a shorter generation time per batch despite generating more tokens, on average: 3.4M vs 3.7M.)

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LGTM!

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# flash-attn related setups
[project.optional-dependencies]
compile = ["flash-attn>=2.8.0.post1"]
compile = ["flash-attn>=2.8.0.post1",
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I know its not exactly related but can we fix the flash-attn to be post2 like it is in the dockerfile

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Yeah I can do that!

@finbarrtimbers finbarrtimbers merged commit 774edca into main Jul 18, 2025
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garrett361 added a commit to garrett361/open-instruct that referenced this pull request Jul 23, 2025
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* Now, we save benchmark results to CSV.

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This reverts commit 541058c.

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* Add new olmo chat templates, and improve data mixing/tokenization (allenai#765)

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* Thinker version of the above template, has <think> included in the generation prompt
* R1-style thinker template
These 3 templates mirror our current Tulu templates

Also includes some necessary changes to the --add_bos logic, to handle the new chat template which does not have a bos token.

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* Fixes a bug in the olmocore tokenization script re: label mask
* Logs dataset-level statistics during data mixing and tokenization
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