feat(glm5next): reduce speculative state memory with atomic LMCache recovery

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What changes

Supported GLM-5.3 MTP/DFlash serving automatically uses native B12X KDA state
recovery. Instead of retaining a full recurrent matrix per proposed token, it
keeps one FP32 checkpoint plus compact update records and commits only accepted
tokens. There is no additional state quantization.

LMCache remains supported. For atomic request-boundary checkpoints, the
runner commits accepted recurrent state and compacts convolution history before
capturing the external checkpoint. Export then uses zero speculative offset.
Full-state decoding retains its existing capture-before-compaction order. The
LMCache connector already transfers complete physical pages with layout-aware
identity, so its disk format does not need to change.

With the Spark checkpoint on two GPUs, three MTP draft tokens and a 3072-token
batch/chunk budget, fixed per-request reserve
falls from 856.58 to 668.81 MiB per rank (−21.9%). This is a planner reserve,
not a claim that every idle chat occupies those bytes. Wider shared pages offset
the saving for one maximum-length request: fitted context remains 897,024 tokens.

Compatibility

• Automatic on eligible SM12x, runner V2, PP1, BF16 activation, FP32 recurrent
  state, head dimension 128, MTP/DFlash depth 1–7 configurations.
• --no-use-replayssm retains full speculative states. Other models stay opt-in.
• Generic aligned KV connectors and P/D transfer remain unsupported; only an
  atomic request-boundary connector can export recovery state.
• Existing multimodal generation and native prefix caching remain available.
  The atomic LMCache adapter already excludes image-bearing requests; external
  multimodal checkpoint reuse is not introduced by this PR.
• The metadata backend retains vLLM's TRITON name; GLM speculative verify and
  state commit execute B12X CuTe kernels.

Validation

Qualified: 31 vLLM GPU/config/runner tests, including the full-state and
recovery capture orders, graph replay, automatic selection and explicit opt-out.
Four CPU cases additionally check logits-only checkpoint reuse. The companion
B12X suite passes 131 tests with 29 unrelated skips, including binding follow-up
B12X #409. B12X #408 has
been merged independently by Luke; this PR remains against dev/karmic-kraken.

The two-GPU Spark/MTP configuration and four-GPU NVFP4 configurations with either
three MTP or seven DFlash2 draft tokens pass RAM restores, restart/disk restores,
changed prompt tails, and generated-response continuation. External probes
require zero GPU-cache hits. All three pass vision generation; the two-GPU
configuration also passes mixed prefill/decode. Matched full-state controls are
complete: TP2 C1 output changes −0.2%, C4 +0.03%, prefill +1.5%; TP4 MTP C1
−3.1%, C8 −1.8%, prefill −0.3%; DFlash2 has similar throughput.
This saves memory but has a measured TP4 MTP throughput cost; it is not
qualified as zero-regression. A suspected repetitive TP2 recovery sample is
retained and identified in the linked report, not used as clean quality evidence.
These are bounded functional checks, not a general model-accuracy evaluation.

Single-column speculative metadata is now
restricted to recovery-capable builders; generic GDN and ROCm Kimi keep the
full set of token-state columns. Both CPU reproducer cases fail without the
guard and pass with it, and NVIDIA Kimi recovery metadata still passes. AMD
GPU serving was not tested. The GLM recovery geometry and kernels are unchanged.

The published KK beta image also passes TP2 MTP3 qualification without source
overlays: text/vision, RAM restore, a one-token exact-prompt restore and its
continuation, and disk restore after a real container/LMCache restart. The disk
probe restores 16,283 tokens from 28 objects, with zero GPU-cache hits and the
correct changed-user answer. Its immutable digest and manifest are recorded in
the report below; the throughput tables remain scoped to the measured source
composition.

Source identities, measurements, limits and test receipts.

OMP_NUM_THREADS=1 /opt/venv/bin/python -m pytest --noconftest \
  tests/models/glm5next/test_kda_recoverssm.py \
  tests/models/glm5next/test_kda_recurrent.py \
  tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_model_runner_v2.py \
  tests/v1/worker/test_mamba_utils.py \
  tests/models/kimi_k3/test_kda_metadata.py::test_kda_recoverssm_startup_metadata_flow_without_model \
  -k 'recoverssm or recovery or boundary_checkpoint or recovered_accepted or recurrent or full_state_backends' -q

Changed-file lint/format hooks pass. Full mypy reports the pre-existing
GPUModelRunner.jit_warmup_registry attribute error, reproduced on the untouched
base; that hook is not claimed to pass.

Merge dependencies and consolidation

Merge vLLM #798 and B12X #409 before this PR. This branch includes the
raw-gate/output alias correction formerly submitted as #824; #824 is closed
as superseded. The Kimi adapter still binds caller-owned recovery records.
Focused canonical-plus-PR tests pass 81 configuration/offload/recovery cases
and 112 QSA/GDN cases (nine skipped), including the gate alias regression.
Original contributor commits are retained through merges rather than rewritten.

Attribution and overlap

Builds on Jiangyun Zhu's Kimi-K3 recovery contract (vLLM 70afdedc108) and reuses
its metadata/convolution integration. Developed with OpenAI Codex assistance.

Checked LIL and upstream open PRs: LIL #809 is prompt-tail retention, #798 is a
broader serving-contract port, and upstream vllm-project#56082 tunes Kimi recovery. None
implements this native B12X GLM recovery path with atomic LMCache export. Those
changes are not superseded.

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GLM-5.3 KDA recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Recovery configuration and eligibility .lil/changes/..., vllm/config/*, vllm/engine/arg_utils.py, tests/models/glm5next/test_kda_recoverssm.py, tests/test_config.py	use_replayssm now supports automatic selection. GLM-5.3 recovery validates model, speculative decoding, cache, runner, platform, connector, and B12X requirements.
Recovery state contracts and metadata vllm/models/glm5next/nvidia/model.py, vllm/models/glm5next/nvidia/kda.py, vllm/v1/attention/backends/gdn_attn.py, tests/models/glm5next/test_kda_recoverssm.py	GLM-5.3 adds recovery state records, metadata builders, a recovery attention backend, and single-slot state-index handling.
Recovery decode and commit execution vllm/model_executor/layers/mamba/gdn/kimi_gdn_linear_attn.py, vllm/models/glm5next/nvidia/ops/recoverssm.py, vllm/models/kimi_k3/nvidia/ops/recoverssm.py, tests/models/glm5next/test_kda_recurrent.py	Speculative decoding uses B12X recovery or kda_recoverssm_verify. Accepted recurrent state commits through the B12X commit context.
Accepted-state checkpoint integration vllm/v1/worker/gpu/*, vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py, vllm/v1/worker/mamba_utils.py, tests/v1/worker/*	Boundary capture records whether recovery already committed the accepted state. The checkpoint kernel avoids reapplying the speculative token bias in that case.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GPUModelRunner
  participant Glm5NextRecoverKDAMetadataBuilder
  participant KimiGatedDeltaNetAttention
  participant BoundaryCheckpointState
  GPUModelRunner->>Glm5NextRecoverKDAMetadataBuilder: build recovery metadata
  Glm5NextRecoverKDAMetadataBuilder->>KimiGatedDeltaNetAttention: run recovery decode
  KimiGatedDeltaNetAttention->>GPUModelRunner: commit accepted recurrent state
  GPUModelRunner->>BoundaryCheckpointState: capture committed boundary state

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The AMD Kimi-K3 recovery path can access invalid state-index positions for multi-token speculation. Restrict the narrowed allocation before merging.

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Depends on local-inference-lab/b12x#408 and its binding-contract follow-up #409. Two-GPU Spark MTP3 and four-GPU MTP3/DFlash2 LMCache RAM/restart-disk checks are complete, including matched full-state performance controls. The PR body and linked evidence retain the measured MTP throughput cost. Changes and dependency-checked changelog fragments are pushed to integration/karmic-kraken-beta; the published-image qualification remains pending. Please review automatic eligibility and checkpoint capture ordering. @coderabbitai review

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Consolidated #824 into this PR, preserving both histories and its immutable release fragment. Recovery records are forwarded through the alias-safe binding; the conflicting gate/output case uses disjoint output until the gate has been consumed. This is byte-identical to the qualified beta implementation, with compatible test fixtures. The composed KK stack passes 81 configuration/offload/recovery tests and 112 QSA/GDN/warmup/alias tests (nine declared skips). Merge #798 first: its workspace and warmup interfaces are prerequisites. The standalone branch type check reports those missing prerequisite interfaces; the composed runtime retains them. #824 will be closed as superseded to avoid conflicting duplicate merges.