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Behavior

Preserve DeepSeek V4.1 tool identities through Chat Completions and accept the reference reminder role.

  • A string or object namespace on a tool or its function becomes namespace::function before API validation can discard it. The same rule covers definitions, named tool_choice, and assistant tool-call history.
  • Preserve namespace descriptions, reject conflicting identities, and leave caller-owned dictionaries unchanged.
  • Accept latest_reminder in the V4.1 tokenizer. Other unknown roles remain errors.
  • Keep qualified names in both complete and streamed responses; retain the existing parser rather than replacing it with the standalone HF parser.

Two tools named lookup under inventory and billing therefore remain distinguishable in prompts, calls, and subsequent turns.

Compatibility

Ordinary tools and already-qualified names retain their spelling. Reasoning budgets, image ordering, and ordinary conversation prompts remain covered by reference fixtures. Explicit namespace metadata is a Chat Completions extension; this does not change the Responses API's hierarchical namespace schema.

Conflicting tool-level/function-level namespaces are rejected instead of silently choosing one. A bare named choice cannot select a namespaced tool. No model weights, GPU kernels, B12X code, inference settings, or sampling algorithms change.

Validation

Status: qualified within the following bounded checks.

  • 187 unit tests passed across V4/V4.1 tokenizers, tool-call serialization, and DeepSeek parser-engine tests. This includes 12 prompt fixtures generated with the pinned official encoder and namespaced streaming at chunk sizes 1, 2, 7, 17, and 1000 characters.
  • All applicable pre-commit hooks passed, including mypy.
  • 15 HTTP checks passed with deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, TP4 on RTX PRO 6000 Workstation GPUs, DSpark K7, temperature 1, in a built image without source bind mounts: ordinary text, reminder, automatic namespace selection, history continuation, thinking, explicit named choice, ordinary tools, malformed/conflicting namespace rejection, and three malformed scalar tool-call cases.
  • The model selected inventory::lookup and billing::lookup with the correct arguments, then used supplied tool results on subsequent turns. A separate endpoint vision smoke check identified the red square and blue circle. Streaming namespace spelling is covered by the chunked parser tests.

Unit command:

python -m pytest -q \
  tests/tokenizers_/test_deepseek_v41.py \
  tests/tokenizers_/test_deepseek_v4.py \
  tests/entrypoints/openai/test_tool_calls_serialization.py \
  tests/parser/engine/test_deepseek_v4.py

These are functional checks, not a general model-quality evaluation or throughput claim.

Raw conversation checks, composed tests and source identities.

Attribution and review

The namespace contract comes from Qizhou Guo / DeepSeek, HF reference commit dba1be0. Attribution and the pinned fixture source are retained in the repository.

Open-PR searches in LIL and upstream found no equivalent V4.1 Chat Completions namespace/reminder integration. LIL #485 concerns B12X attention module names; upstream vllm-project#56418 concerns Responses custom tool calls, not this contract.

AI assistance was used for implementation and validation. This non-draft PR requests maintainer review; it does not claim completed human review.

Canonicalize explicit namespaces before Chat Completions validation can discard them. Keep definitions, named choices, assistant history and streamed responses on the same qualified function identity. Reject conflicting declarations without mutating input dictionaries, and accept the reference latest_reminder role in the V4.1 tokenizer.

Retain ordinary tool names, reasoning budgets, image ordering and the existing parser. Add pinned reference prompt fixtures, API validation and streaming roundtrip coverage. Validation: 179 unit tests, pre-commit hooks, TP4 temperature-1 Chat Completions tool/history checks and image smoke checks pass.

Reference contract: Qizhou Guo / DeepSeek, HF DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash dba1be0a40aa45a94ad051997016db3960a90277.

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The PR adds tool namespace normalization to OpenAI request validation and DeepSeek V4.1 encoding. It preserves qualified names through tool calls, streaming extraction, and history. It also supports latest_reminder and adds documentation and regression fixtures.

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DeepSeek V4.1 tool namespace support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Canonical namespace normalization and request validation
vllm/utils/tool_names.py, vllm/entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/protocol.py, tests/entrypoints/openai/test_tool_calls_serialization.py
Adds namespace parsing, qualification, conflict validation, copied normalized inputs, request-level integration, and serialization coverage.
DeepSeek V4.1 encoding and parser integration
vllm/tokenizers/deepseek_v41.py, vllm/tokenizers/deepseek_v41_encoding.py, tests/parser/engine/test_deepseek_v4.py
DeepSeek V4.1 accepts latest_reminder. Tool definitions and calls use normalized names during encoding and parser extraction. Streaming extraction and history preserve qualified names.
Regression coverage and documentation
tests/tokenizers_/test_deepseek_v41.py, tests/tokenizers_/test_deepseek_v41_effort.py, tests/tokenizers_/fixtures/deepseek_v41/encoding.json, docs/features/tool_calling.md
Adds tokenizer, reasoning, role, history, image, task, and namespace fixtures. Removes the standalone reasoning-effort test file. Documents DeepSeek V4.1 namespace rules and supported roles.

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  participant ChatCompletionRequest
  participant normalize_tool_namespace
  participant DeepSeekV41Encoding
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  ChatCompletionRequest->>normalize_tool_namespace: normalize tool definitions and calls
  normalize_tool_namespace->>DeepSeekV41Encoding: provide namespace-qualified names
  DeepSeekV41Encoding->>DeepSeekV41Parser: encode and parse namespaced tool calls
  DeepSeekV41Parser-->>ChatCompletionRequest: return qualified tool identities and arguments
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Use Google-style sections in this public function docstring.

Document the argument, return value, and raised ValueError conditions with Args:, Returns:, and Raises: sections.

As per coding guidelines, “Use Google-style docstrings in Python code, with Args:/Returns:/Raises: sections.”

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In `@vllm/utils/tool_names.py` around lines 25 - 32, Update the public function
docstring for the namespace-qualification function to use Google-style sections:
add Args: for accepted namespace inputs, Returns: for the normalized result, and
Raises: for conflicting namespace identities that produce ValueError, while
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In `@vllm/entrypoints/openai/chat_completion/protocol.py`:
- Around line 557-560: Update ChatCompletionRequest._normalize_messages_before
to normalize tool_calls only when it has the expected collection shape; preserve
scalar or otherwise unsupported raw values, such as 1, so Pydantic can validate
them and report the tool_calls field path. Keep normalization unchanged for
valid tool-call collections.

In `@vllm/utils/tool_names.py`:
- Around line 43-45: Update normalize_tool_namespace to preserve the first
non-null description across consistent namespace declarations, including when
the initial declaration lacks one. Keep rejecting conflicting namespace
identities, and do not add validation for differing non-null descriptions.

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In `@vllm/utils/tool_names.py`:
- Around line 25-32: Update the public function docstring for the
namespace-qualification function to use Google-style sections: add Args: for
accepted namespace inputs, Returns: for the normalized result, and Raises: for
conflicting namespace identities that produce ValueError, while preserving the
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Normalize supported tool-call iterables without preempting scalar field validation. Retain the first non-null namespace description while rejecting conflicting names. Focused regressions reproduce both review findings; 50 tool-call serialization tests pass.

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