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Purpose

Enable live LoRA serving for DeepSeek V4 with B12X's native SM120 W4A16
routed-expert backend.

This is the vLLM integration half of the feature and depends on the companion
B12X kernel PR:

Depends on: local-inference-lab/b12x#240

Before this change, vLLM could load a DeepSeek V4 adapter while the selected
B12X expert kernel silently consumed none of its routed-expert deltas. Several
model-specific paths could also bypass adapted projection modules or retain a
stale token-to-adapter mapping across requests.

This PR:

  • declares DeepSeek V4's packed dense and 3-D expert LoRA mappings;
  • translates vLLM's fused-MoE caches into B12X's one-slot, effective-rank-4
    expert-LoRA contract;
  • accepts a zero-padded rank-8 cache only when its effective rank is four;
  • supports fused 3-D and split gate/up W13 adapter storage;
  • retains Punica's stable token-index backing allocation for CUDA graphs;
  • refreshes B12X factor bindings after adapter set, replace, and reset;
  • slices the live adapter map correctly during chunked MoE execution;
  • preserves DeepSeek router metadata through ReplicatedLinearWithLoRA;
  • keeps adapted compressor and WO-B projections callable rather than bypassing
    their LoRA deltas; and
  • isolates the DSpark base proposer from the adapted target verifier.

Unsupported combinations fail closed instead of silently omitting an adapter
component or claiming B12X execution after selecting an unrelated fallback.

Scope

The first qualified contract is deliberately narrow:

  • DeepSeek V4 W4A16 routed experts on B12X;
  • BF16 activations and BF16 LoRA factors;
  • one active adapter slot;
  • effective rank 4, including a validated zero-padded cache;
  • fused or split gate/up W13 B storage;
  • tensor parallel execution; and
  • dynamic per-token base/adapter selection under CUDA graphs.

Not supported by this PR: expert parallelism, multiple active adapters, other
effective ranks, fully sharded LoRA rank, shared-expert LoRA inside the B12X
routed kernel, LoRA auxiliary-stream execution, MTP adapter modules, and other
activation-quantization modes.

Duplicate-work check

No overlapping open LoRA PR was found in the target vLLM or B12X community
repositories in the public GitHub search performed on 2026-08-22. This change
targets local-inference-lab/vllm, not official vLLM mainline.

Test Plan

Focused selections exercised the newly changed integration seams:

python -m pytest \
  tests/model_executor/layers/test_b12x_moe_warmup.py \
  -k 'adapts_vllm_split_lora_storage_without_copy or revalidates_mutated_lora_storage or accepts_zero_padded_rank4_lora_cache'

python -m pytest \
  tests/lora/test_lora_manager.py::test_wrap_gate_linear

python -m pytest \
  tests/v1/spec_decode/test_external_draft_attention_config.py

The broader focused integration run also covered:

  • fused and split expert storage;
  • rejection of nonzero rank padding;
  • all-base requests following adapted requests;
  • adapter set/reset/replacement;
  • mixed base and adapted rows;
  • chunk-local mapping slices;
  • eager and CUDA-graph execution; and
  • stable replay allocation.

Formatting and static checks run on all changed Python files:

ruff check <changed-files>
ruff format --check <changed-files>
python -m compileall <changed-files>
git diff --check

Full-model validation used DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 at TP4 on four RTX PRO 6000
Blackwell GPUs. The runtime retained B12X sparse MLA, B12X dense FP8 linears,
native B12X W4A16 experts, FP8 KV cache, and CUDA graphs. The serving sequence
was base -> LoRA -> base to detect adapter-state leakage.

Test Result

  • Focused B12X kernel qualification: 23 passed, 236 deselected.
  • Refreshed focused vLLM/B12X seam: 5 passed, 20 deselected.
  • Additional cache/mapping selection: 3 passed.
  • Router-wrapper selection: 1 passed.
  • DSpark configuration suite: 3 passed.
  • Ruff check, Ruff format check, compilation, and git diff --check: passed.
  • Every fused/split, one/four-token vLLM-to-B12X seam comparison exceeded
    0.99998 cosine against an independent FP32 oracle.
  • Thirty-two alternating CUDA-graph replays allocated 0 B and preserved live
    base/adapter row selection.
  • A clean-branch base -> LoRA -> base TP4 smoke produced identical hashes for
    both base requests and a distinct adapted result.

Matched 256-token short-decode measurements:

Arm Median decode Range Change
Native base 163.22 token/s 155.80-163.63 reference
Native live LoRA 135.88 token/s 135.46-136.02 -16.75%

The full-model cost is consistent with the measured 18.80% cost of the
decode-critical one-token expert-LoRA kernel. It does not resemble a generic
expert fallback collapse.

Across 740 natural output positions on another GPU architecture, the
base-normalized live-adapter effect had median weighted correlations of
0.9675-0.9771 and projected amplitudes of 0.9660-0.9794. These measurements
evaluate implementation fidelity, not subjective adapter quality.

A merge-and-requantize control retained only about 25-33% of the live adapter
effect and disagreed with native live execution on 7.42-10.55% of top-1
choices. This is why the adapter is applied live rather than baked into the
already quantized expert weights.

Complete full-model replay is prompt-dependent in the surrounding runtime,
including configurations that do not exercise the new routed-expert adapter
path. This PR therefore claims deterministic focused kernel/graph behavior,
not universal bitwise determinism for the whole server.

The complete repository CI matrix was not run locally. The pinned serving
image lacks some current-tree test dependencies and custom operations, so the
remaining gate is the repository CI/native development environment rather than
substituting incompatible binaries.

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  • New Features

    • Added LoRA support for B12X fused mixture-of-experts models, including static mappings, cache management, and chunked execution.
    • Added LoRA support and configuration metadata for DeepSeek V4 models.
    • Preserved router metadata and stable token-mapping buffers for LoRA-enabled layers.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved LoRA weight reset and context refresh behavior.
    • Fixed draft-model loading and projection handling with LoRA-wrapped layers.
    • Improved packed projection processing and expert configuration validation.
    • Ensured LoRA metadata remains available across wrapped layers and model components.

three added 5 commits August 21, 2026 22:21
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Declare the model's packed and 3D expert LoRA mappings, preserve adapted compressor and output projections, and disable the base-only fused WO shortcut while LoRA is active.

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Signed-off-by: three <three@turin>
Accept fused or split gated W13 storage, reject non-zero ranks above four, and maintain stable contiguous rank-4 buffers for vLLM's minimum rank-8 cache capacity.

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Signed-off-by: three <three@turin>
Bind each bounded-workspace launch to the corresponding contiguous token-map view so later chunks do not reuse adapter selections from row zero.

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The PR adds static expert LoRA support to B12X fused MoE, preserves LoRA metadata through wrappers, integrates LoRA with DeepSeek V4 projections, and prevents DSpark draft models from inheriting target LoRA configuration.

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LoRA integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
LoRA wrapper and context plumbing
vllm/lora/layers/fused_moe.py, vllm/lora/layers/replicated_linear.py, vllm/lora/punica_wrapper/punica_base.py, tests/lora/test_lora_manager.py
Wrappers expose router metadata and stable token-index storage. MoE LoRA replacement refreshes expert context after loading.
B12X expert LoRA execution
vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/b12x_moe.py, tests/model_executor/layers/test_b12x_moe_warmup.py
B12X validates and packs expert LoRA factors, manages cache updates, slices token mappings for chunks, and passes static bindings through kernel execution and repeat checks.
DeepSeek V4 LoRA model integration
vllm/models/deepseek_v4/..., tests/models/deepseek_v4/*
DeepSeek V4 declares LoRA metadata, prepares generic WO projections, preserves wrapped compressor behavior, and uses base tensors for fused FP8 operations.
DSpark draft LoRA isolation
vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/dspark/utils.py, tests/v1/spec_decode/test_external_draft_attention_config.py
DSpark clears draft LoRA configuration and unwraps shared target layers before draft-model initialization.

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The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness: in environments where StaticExpertLoRA is unavailable, several B12X tests can fail instead of being skipped, so an availability guard should be added or accepted as a bounded test-compatibility follow-up.

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  participant MoELaunch
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  participant StaticLoRABinding
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  MoELaunch->>B12xExperts: set_lora_context
  B12xExperts->>StaticLoRABinding: build or refresh packed factors
  MoELaunch->>StaticLoRABinding: slice token mapping for chunk
  MoELaunch->>B12xKernel: launch with static_lora binding
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76-77: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add regression coverage for both unwrapping paths.

The current test raises ModelCaptured inside fake_get_model before load_dspark_model reaches these lines. It verifies lora_config = None, but it does not verify that BaseLayerWithLoRA.embed_tokens or BaseLayerWithLoRA.lm_head is replaced by its base_layer before sharing.

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In `@vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/dspark/utils.py` around lines 76 - 77, Add
regression coverage for both unwrapping paths in load_dspark_model: ensure
BaseLayerWithLoRA.embed_tokens and BaseLayerWithLoRA.lm_head are replaced with
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In `@tests/model_executor/layers/test_b12x_moe_warmup.py`:
- Around line 324-328: Guard the four tests that call
B12xExperts.set_lora_context—test_b12x_experts_adapts_vllm_split_lora_storage_without_copy,
test_b12x_experts_revalidates_mutated_lora_storage,
test_b12x_experts_accepts_zero_padded_rank4_lora_cache, and
test_b12x_experts_accepts_fused_3d_moe_lora_storage—with
pytest.importorskip("b12x.moe.fused_moe") before constructing or configuring the
real StaticExpertLoRA, matching
test_b12x_moe_run_binds_only_the_prepared_expert_owner. Leave the other tests
unchanged.

In `@vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/b12x_moe.py`:
- Around line 947-954: Pin the b12x dependency to a revision that exports
StaticExpertLoRA, the W4A16StaticExpertLoRA alias, and supports w13_b_up=None;
add or update the repository’s b12x dependency specification accordingly,
without changing the token mapping validation in the surrounding code.

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In `@vllm/v1/worker/gpu/spec_decode/dspark/utils.py`:
- Around line 76-77: Add regression coverage for both unwrapping paths in
load_dspark_model: ensure BaseLayerWithLoRA.embed_tokens and
BaseLayerWithLoRA.lm_head are replaced with their base_layer values before
sharing, rather than stopping in fake_get_model via ModelCaptured. Retain the
existing lora_config = None assertion and verify each path independently.
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- Around line 324-327: Update the four B12X MoE warmup tests to skip when the
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Guard all tests that construct StaticExpertLoRA so environments with an older but importable B12X package report a skip instead of failing collection or execution.

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Exercise the shared helper with an importable companion module that lacks StaticExpertLoRA, proving the four integration tests skip instead of failing against older optional B12X installations.

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The four optional B12X LoRA tests now require the companion StaticExpertLoRA symbol, and an explicit older-importable-B12X regression proves the helper skips cleanly. Focused result: 5 passed, 28 deselected.

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