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Summary

  • propagate dictionary-based target hf_overrides to internally constructed MTP drafts after architecture mapping
  • preserve Qwen3.8 YaRN context geometry between target and MTP draft
  • add configuration and QSA regression coverage

Test Plan

  • focused MTP/Qwen regression suite: 31 passed
  • ruff and standalone mypy passed
  • hardware verification: TP2 deployed with digest sha256:6391d8c2f20c3fd476606f28a45a92d6cbc0ae20486ef84769fc759046f244d3; both base and MTP resolved max_model_len=1048576, then /v1/models, /v1/completions, and /v1/chat/completions succeeded

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No open PR in local-inference-lab/vllm addressed Qwen MTP dictionary override propagation. This change is distinct from merged PR #697, which integrates QSA operations for MTP.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Draft model configuration overrides now preserve the correct normalized architecture and model type, preventing structural target settings from being applied incorrectly.
    • Speculative decoding configuration now handles draft-model overrides consistently across supported methods.
  • Improvements

    • QSA prefill planning now supports workloads with sequence lengths up to 1,048,576 tokens when configured capacity permits.
    • Added coverage for large-sequence QSA prefill binding and draft configuration override scenarios.

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The change centralizes draft Hugging Face override selection, preserves normalized MTP structural values, and adds QSA prefill binding coverage at a 1,048,576-token context limit.

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MTP draft override handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
MTP override selection and application
vllm/config/speculative.py, tests/config/test_speculative_draft_hf_overrides.py
MTP dictionary overrides normalize the draft configuration, skip structural architectures and model_type keys, merge nested values, and preserve normalized MTP values. Draft initialization uses the centralized selector. The regression test covers both mtp and draft_model.

QSA prefill boundary coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
QSA maximum-context prefill selection
tests/models/qwen4_exp/test_b12x_qsa.py
The test verifies that a prefill plan binds at max_seq_len=1048576 when workload rows exceed the decode limit.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SpeculativeConfig
  participant get_draft_hf_overrides
  participant _apply_mtp_dict_hf_override
  participant DraftConfig
  SpeculativeConfig->>get_draft_hf_overrides: select method-specific overrides
  get_draft_hf_overrides->>_apply_mtp_dict_hf_override: pass dictionary override for MTP methods
  _apply_mtp_dict_hf_override->>DraftConfig: apply text_config values and preserve MTP structure
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The corrected tests now bind the QSA class and assert the MTP-normalized values produced by the implementation. No merge-blocking behavior risk remains.

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In `@vllm/config/speculative.py`:
- Line 1057: Update _apply_mtp_dict_hf_override so dictionary target overrides
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In `@tests/config/test_speculative_draft_hf_overrides.py`:
- Around line 74-75: Update the assertions for _apply_mtp_dict_hf_override to
expect the normalized model_type "qwen4_exp_mtp" and architectures
["Qwen4ExpMTP"], matching the preceding hf_config_override behavior and
dictionary override exclusions.

In `@tests/models/qwen4_exp/test_b12x_qsa.py`:
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Normalize internally constructed MTP drafts before applying target positional overrides, preserving their MTP discriminator for both explicit and automatically detected drafts.

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Signed-off-by: Naadir Jeewa <naadir@randomvariable.co.uk>
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1091-1091: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the helper parameters and return values.

The helpers at lines 1091, 1102, and 1152 have documented parameters and return values. Add Google-style Args: and Returns: sections to each docstring.

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Ported this PR to integration/karmic-kraken-beta as an attributed cherry-pick (f229335c7c2, followed by a release-fragment correction). The conflict was additive test placement; both tests were retained. Focused draft-override tests passed (4/4) in the KK runtime image. A configuration construction check using the local Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 config resolved both target and MTP draft to 524,288 positions with matching YaRN parameters. GPU serving was not rerun for this port; the PR’s TP2 serving evidence remains the hardware qualification.

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Superseded by #837, which preserves Naadir Jeewa’s original commit, sign-off and coauthor, plus the release fragment already used by beta. The port resolves the adjacent QSA test conflict against KK without dropping either the 1M draft-binding test or the canonical DCP tests. Our authenticated push to the original fork was denied, so the port provides a mergeable canonical review target. Runtime override behavior is unchanged. Please review/merge #837 only.

randomvariable added a commit to randomvariable/vllm-multiarch-oci that referenced this pull request Sep 30, 2026
randomvariable added a commit to randomvariable/vllm-multiarch-oci that referenced this pull request Sep 30, 2026
…3.8 step-5500 docs (#36)

* build(vllmb12x): rebase source pair onto Karmic beta

* build(vllmb12x): pin native MXFP8 MTP source pair

* test(image): accept the selected source cycle version

* fix(ci): stage publisher outputs on the CSI workspace

Both PR runs were evicted for node ephemeral-storage pressure during OCI materialization. Keep the checkout and Bazel output tree as separate directories on the 256Gi workspace instead of Tekton home emptyDir. Verify startup placement with a real Bazel output_base smoke run, the server dry-run, 55 script tests and four reproducibility tests.

* build(vllmb12x): pin MXFP8 intermediate padding fix

vLLM b607be3600 zero-pads the per-rank MXFP8 expert intermediate to
the B12X W8A8 K block, so the step5500 MTP experts load at TP=2
(640/2 = 320 -> 384).

* docs(vllmb12x): record MXFP8 intermediate padding in included changes

* build(vllmb12x): bump CUDA pips to latest and align with upstream vLLM

CUDA packages now track their latest releases (pre-releases allowed):
nvidia-cutlass-dsl 4.8.0, quack-kernels 0.6.5, tilelang 0.1.15,
cuda-python 13.4.1, cuda-tile 1.6.0, nvidia-cudnn-frontend 1.30.0,
humming-kernels 0.1.16, tokenspeed-mla 0.2.15, nccl4py 0.6.0, nvtx 0.2.16,
nvidia-ml-py 13.615.71. tilelang 0.1.15 caps apache-tvm-ffi below 0.1.13,
so tvm-ffi resolves to 0.1.12.

Add what upstream integration/karmic-kraken-beta requires and the image
lacked: numba==0.65.0 (ngram proposer, JIT monitor, vision processors),
PyNvVideoCodec 2.2.3 (GPU video decoder), nixl 1.5.0 (object-store KV
tiering) and fastokens 0.3.2 (VLLM_USE_FASTOKENS=1). Raise the vendored
huggingface_hub floor to upstream's >=1.31.0 (arm64 had 1.30.0).

Locks now target manylinux_2_34, the tag pip.parse already downloads;
tilelang >=0.1.13 publishes aarch64 wheels only for 2_34.

Verified on the SM120 ARM64 host by overlaying the new arm64 wheels on
pr-36-b607be360037: every bumped module and its vLLM/B12X consumers
import, and the MXFP8 test lane passes 24/24 on CUTLASS DSL 4.8.0.

* build(vllmb12x): pin unpadded MXFP8 intermediate source pair

vLLM 0a6739845a drops the 320->384 zero padding; B12X 965e748f runs
W8A8 MXFP8 experts at 32-aligned intermediate sizes through separate
up/gate descriptors. SM120: B12X MXFP8 lane 29/29, vLLM lane 24/24,
memcheck clean; MoE kernel time equal at 1-4 tokens, 6-10% lower at
16-64 tokens.

* ci(tekton): release finished runs' staging claims before cloning

Each run claims 256Gi on server21's thick-provisioned scratch pool and
kept it after finishing, so two finished runs blocked the next clone
pod for its whole 1h timeout. Both pipelines now run the
vllmb12x-release-staging Task (ci manifests) first, which deletes the
task pods and claims of earlier finished vllmb12x runs.

* ci(tekton): fetch the staging-release Task through the cluster resolver

PAC inlines named taskRefs from the repository or hub and rejected the
run with 'cannot find referenced task'; a cluster-resolver reference is
left for Tekton to resolve from the ci namespace.

* docs(recipes): Qwen3.8 Flash Next and AI Gateway docs match the live deployment

Recipe: step-5500 revision 60215d26, 0.74 utilization, unpadded MXFP8 MTP
experts on B12X, adaptive shm spin at 50 ms, rank-zero KV events, the
image built from vLLM 0a6739845a32 + B12X 965e748f74fe, and the idle
benchmark on that image with the padded-draft run for comparison.

Routing docs: 3600 s route timeout, BackendTrafficPolicies, native
/v1/messages route, EPP -v=4, Envoy Gateway extension config and
GatewayClass controller name from the live cluster; RecipeBuilder
gains the routing target the guide already referenced.

* docs(site): list the open upstream pull requests on the homepage

vllm-multiarch-oci#25 is merged and local-inference-lab/vllm#777 was
closed; list the open local-inference-lab/vllm#800 and
local-inference-lab/b12x#384 instead.

* docs(site): list vllm#955 and b12x#449 on the homepage
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