[II] Bound Kimi vision memory to request inputs

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Behavior

Kimi MoonViT allocates rotary-frequency and multimodal-projector intermediates
from the image grids present in a request:

• two-dimensional rotary frequencies are computed only for requested grid
  dimensions, with repeated dimensions sharing a request-local table;
• independent image feature tensors are projected separately, so serialized
  FP8 and Marlin workspace scales with the largest image instead of the sum of
  every image in the request.

The configured 512-by-512 grid remains an input-validation limit. Projected
features retain input order, activation dtype, row count, and hidden width.

Status: implemented and qualified.

Technical reason

Rope2DPosEmbRepeated previously materialized a complex64 table for every
position in the configured grid. mm_projector_forward then concatenated all
image features before executing the projector. Neither allocation is required
by the MoonViT arithmetic, and both become material on a memory-constrained
Kimi-K3 deployment with a one-million-token physical KV cache.

For a 36-by-36 grid at head dimension 128, request-sized rotary construction
reduces the measured CUDA allocation peak from 340,018,176 bytes to 1,990,656
bytes while producing bit-identical CPU and CUDA output.

For the exact tensor-parallel projector partition and three 1,332-row image
features, per-image projection reduces the retained-plus-transient peak from
104,388,608 bytes to 70,289,408 bytes. The 34,099,200-byte reduction is 32.52
MiB per rank.

Compatibility

• Grid validation and output shapes are unchanged.
• Rotary output is bit-identical to full-grid construction for the tested
  Kimi-K3 geometries.
• Per-image projection is numerically equivalent to concatenated projection;
  the projector contains no cross-row operation.
• Text-only execution, checkpoint schemas, and model weights are unchanged.
• Empty vision feature lists fail with an explicit error instead of reaching
  torch.cat with an invalid input.

Validation

• Ten focused CPU tests pass after rebasing onto
  dev/infernal-invocation@b5f995e73e6b7fe27c9927477e277a151ebcc9e9.
• Ruff lint and formatting checks pass for all three changed files.
• The model-free projector harness uses the exact Kimi-K3 tensor-parallel
  partition and validates the 32.52 MiB peak reduction.
• The official moonshotai/Kimi-K3 MXFP4 checkpoint completed a 134,209-token,
  five-image request on 16 GPUs with tensor parallelism and decode-context
  parallelism both set to 16. The runtime exposed 1,016,293 physical FP8 KV
  tokens. The cold request and its immediate native host-KV repeat returned
  HTTP 200, completed streaming, emitted no protocol markers, and left the
  engine healthy. The repeat restored 122,880 prompt tokens from host memory.
• The qualified source tree is
  ddf87d676505d4e1c920357d4f9da2a58e2c8ec7.

Upstream relationship

No equivalent open or merged vLLM change was found. Upstream pull request
vllm-project#50400 fuses vision Q/K rotary application, and draft pull request vllm-project#53168
implements another MoonViT Q/K rotary kernel. Neither bounds frequency-table
construction or the multi-image projector transient.

AI assistance from OpenAI Codex was used for implementation and validation.
The human submitter must review every changed line and be able to defend the
change before merge.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The changes update Kimi vision projection to process image features independently and update 2D RoPE generation to materialize only requested grids. Tests validate empty inputs, dtype handling, batched equivalence, output shapes, and non-persistent frequency storage.

Changes

Kimi vision processing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Independent vision projection flow vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_k25_vit.py, tests/models/kimi_k3/test_vision_projector.py	mm_projector_forward rejects empty input, projects each feature independently, conditionally converts dtype, and returns flattened outputs. Tests validate FP8 inputs, output differences, empty-input errors, and batched equivalence.
Per-resolution RoPE frequency materialization vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_k25_vit.py, tests/models/kimi_k3/test_vision_warmup.py	Rope2DPosEmbRepeated computes frequencies for requested resolutions and avoids persistent full-grid caching. Tests compare results with a full-grid reference and verify the output shape and instance state.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 18d9e

The PR bounds vision RoPE memory to the grids in each request while preserving validation limits and output behavior; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

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vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_k25_vit.py (1)

285-288: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add Google-style documentation for the new helpers and function.

The new callable docstrings do not document their arguments and return values. mm_projector_forward also raises ValueError but does not document it.

• vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_k25_vit.py#L285-L288: Add Args: and Returns: sections to _compute_grid_freqs_cis.
• vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_k25_vit.py#L842-L845: Add Args:, Returns:, and Raises: sections to mm_projector_forward.
• tests/models/kimi_k3/test_vision_warmup.py#L16-L19: Add Args: and Returns: sections to _full_grid_rope_reference.

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In `@vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_k25_vit.py` around lines 285 - 288, Update
the Google-style docstrings for _compute_grid_freqs_cis in
vllm/model_executor/models/kimi_k25_vit.py at lines 285-288 with Args and
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_full_grid_rope_reference in tests/models/kimi_k3/test_vision_warmup.py at lines
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