Add experimental DFlash2 training and checkpoint support by mgoin · Pull Request #1006 · vllm-project/speculators

mgoin · 2026-08-19T03:56:31Z

Summary

This draft adds experimental DFlash2 training and checkpoint support to Speculators:

registers the dflash2 model and config;
adds identity-initialized, block-local grouped dynamic convolutions around attention and MLP sublayers;
adds a low-rank, predecessor-conditioned selector that reranks unary top-K candidates without another draft-backbone forward pass;
trains the selector with an alpha-weighted K-way CE term over unary top-K; a missing hard target is injected only into the loss candidate set, while strict validation metrics retain serving semantics;
reports unary candidate recall/mass, teacher-forced selector accuracy, self-conditioned conditional path accuracy/accepted length, and unary top-K oracle accepted length separately;
adds CLI/config resolution, optimizer routing, docs, focused unit coverage, and an executable paired DFlash2/DSpark smoke launcher.

DFlash2 currently requires the full verifier vocabulary and sample_from_anchor=False, matching the current inference contract.

Attribution and experimental scope

The architecture and checkpoint tensor contract are adapted from Z Lab's MIT-licensed implementation pinned at 07ebd93. The Z Lab copyright, license text, and pinned-source attribution are retained in the adapted source.

The public DFlash2 materials describe inference but do not publish the training loss or complete recipe. The split unary + selector objective in this PR is therefore an experimental Speculators-native baseline. It does not claim to reproduce Z Lab's unpublished objective, parameterization, acceptance rate, or checkpoint quality.

This prototype also trains materialized full-vocabulary predecessor and successor codebooks directly. Public sources do not establish whether those tensors were free parameters during training, so this should not be read as a reproduction of the selector parameter count reported in the DFlash2 blog.

Serving integration status

The emitted tensor names/shapes match the public Z Lab/vLLM contract. The current serving PRs expect convolution/selector fields under nested dflash_config, whereas Speculators saves them as flat model-config fields. A small adapter/conversion is still required for direct loading.

A local adapter on top of vLLM PR #52816 has loaded and served multiple locally trained checkpoints through the V2 runner. That adapter is not yet part of the upstream vLLM PR. SGLang loading remains unvalidated.

Duplicate-work check

Checked on 2026-08-19:

open upstream PR search for DFlash2: none;
open upstream PR search for candidate selector: none;
upstream issue search for the same area: none;
existing PR search in the fork: none.

The linked vLLM PR is complementary serving support, not duplicate Speculators training work.

Validation

CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=7 .venv/bin/python -m pytest \
  tests/unit/models/test_dflash2_model_definitions.py \
  tests/unit/train/config/test_schema.py \
  tests/unit/train/config/test_resolution.py -q

Result: 79 passed, 22 warnings in 33.44s. The warnings are existing environment/deprecation warnings.

Also passed:

ruff check (13 changed Python files)
ruff format --check (13 changed Python files)
bash -n examples/train/dflash2_dspark_qwen3_4b_offline_smoke.sh
git diff --check

The tests include scalar convolution parity, block-boundary isolation, BF16 forward/backward with nonzero finite gradients on every new parameter, selector formula/top-K/path behavior, checkpoint key/config round trips, algorithm defaults, optimizer routing, and an end-to-end stubbed check that the paired launcher resolves matching common training knobs.

After selecting the concrete smoke weight below, its two launcher contract tests were rerun: 2 passed; Bash syntax, Ruff, and whitespace checks remained green.

The resume fix added after the first two hero epochs was validated with:

.venv/bin/python -m pytest \
  tests/unit/train/test_trainer_scheduler.py \
  tests/unit/train/test_checkpoint.py -q

Result: 16 passed. Ruff check/format and git diff --check also passed.

Matched current-objective smoke and selector-weight ablation

Matched setup: Qwen3-4B, 128 ShareGPT rows, 100 steps / 5 epochs, block size 8 (7 proposals), target taps 1/9/17/25/33, sequence length 1024, maximum 128 anchors, full vocabulary, CE 0.1 + TV 0.9, AdamW at 6e-4.

Model / selector alpha	CE	Unary recall@16	Teacher-forced selector acc.	Self-conditioned accepted length	vLLM accepted length
DFlash2, 0.1	4.5470	0.2467	0.0919	1.1272	1.0983
DFlash2, 0.25	5.0601	0.2102	0.0717	1.1042	not run
DFlash2, 1.0	5.4888	0.1596	0.0482	1.0987	1.0600
DSpark	4.1701	—	—	1.0317*	1.0983

* DSpark's offline accepted-length metric is analytically defined differently, so the vLLM counters are the comparable runtime result.

The identical eight-prompt vLLM functional smoke produced:

DFlash2 alpha 0.1: 68 accepted / 4,844 proposed, per-position [63, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], mean 1.0983;
DSpark: 68 / 4,844, [62, 4, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0], mean 1.0983;
DFlash2 alpha 1.0: 43 / 5,019, [42, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], mean 1.0600.

This is a tiny quality/functional smoke, not a throughput or model-quality claim. Based on it, the concrete paired recipe now passes --selector-loss-alpha 0.1; the generic experimental config default remains explicit at 1.0.

Full-data run completed

The exact Magpie + UltraChat slice referenced by the Qwen3-4B DSpark recipe was downloaded and fully audited:

507,864 unique rows from inference-optimization/Qwen3-8B-Regenerated-Collection@65d219d6b40bb27c45afe16665147a1d3fa21069;
39/39 valid Arrow shards;
1,618,498,917 total tokens and 1,547,655,657 supervised tokens;
no read errors, nulls, length mismatches, invalid IDs, non-binary masks, or zero-supervision rows;
exact full recomputation of token_freq.pt.

The responses are Qwen3-8B regenerated trajectories, as stated by the reference DSpark card; Qwen3-4B only renders/tokenizes and teacher-forces them here. They are not Qwen3-4B on-policy. This preparation uses a 16,384-token window to retain the full corpus; the published card used 4,096, which would retain only 75.60% of these supervised tokens. DFlash2 versus DSpark remains internally apples-to-apples when both consume this same artifact, but this is not an exact published-checkpoint reproduction.

A 20-step exact-shape calibration completed end to end on 8×B300, including online hidden-state generation, 4-GPU DDP, checkpointing, validation, W&B sync, artifact hashing, and clean shutdown. Its validation smoke was finite (loss 1.1541, unary recall@16 0.2993, self-conditioned accepted length 1.0630, oracle top-16 length 1.4657). Calibration W&B run.

All three full-data epochs completed successfully:

Epoch	Loss	Unary recall@16	Teacher-forced selector acc.	Self-conditioned accepted length	Oracle top-16 length
1	0.3711	0.8286	0.6174	3.7355	6.0761
2	0.3356	0.8538	0.6582	4.0017	6.3510
3	0.3248	0.8608	0.6711	4.0827	6.4279

The portable checkpoints and exact validation metrics are public at epoch 1, epoch 2, and epoch 3. The final epoch-3 model SHA-256 is 459f75b6da6a70b7d5630408196e2203798af0ca33db23bb1d628d8c9212e805.

A utilization audit at the start of epoch 3 showed the four verifier engines were arrival-starved and effectively processed one prompt per iteration. The run was checkpointed at epoch index 2, local step 2,621, global step 55,056, then resumed from an isolated copy with one verifier GPU and the same four DDP trainer ranks. The data order, sequence length, anchors, optimizer, schedule, and model configuration were unchanged. Training completed at global step 78,646; validation, checkpointing, all 28 manifest hashes, W&B sync, and shutdown succeeded. All 458,653 continuation verifier requests returned HTTP 200. Original W&B run; DP1 continuation.

The restart audit also found a scheduler-resume bug: constructing the scheduler overwrote the optimizer learning rate, and loading scheduler state did not restore it. Commit 0a1b3e0 restores every optimizer param-group LR from scheduler.get_last_lr() after state load and adds a regression test. Without the fix, the first resumed optimizer update would have used a near-zero LR.

Epoch-2 vLLM evaluation

The public epoch-2 checkpoint (weights SHA-256 14aadebbce68b3898a903e3adae607846a6d3572c9b15fbe93e5196c2d9a14ba) was evaluated with the vLLM V2 runner. The exact serving lineage was:

vLLM DFlash2 PR #52816 head 19c9351904df4c63042671bc67a866ca48dc7d6f;
Ben Chislett's probabilistic-drafting safety fix, exact commit 31840cf3ead3632f3c99db4a24e4aba39ad54ef6;
local Speculators flat-config adapter 9c6917525ff8a621542cb29bf7766d14331a8024.

The server resolved DFlash2DraftModel, method dflash, greedy drafting, and seven speculative tokens.

GSM8K

Full 1,319-question, 5-shot evaluation; greedy decoding, 256-token cap, seed 42, concurrency 128:

Metric	Qwen3-4B baseline	DFlash2 epoch 2
Accuracy	85.82% (1,132/1,319)	86.05% (1,135/1,319)
Invalid rate	0.076%	0.076%
Wall time	8.73 s	6.75 s
Questions/s	151.05	195.29 (1.293×)
Output tokens/s	17,488.92	22,888.23 (1.309×)
Draft-token acceptance	—	47.49%
Mean accepted length	—	4.324

SPEED-Bench qualitative

All 880 qualitative rows; concurrency 8, temperature 0, thinking disabled, and a 1,024-token output cap:

Metric	Qwen3-4B baseline	DFlash2 epoch 2
Completed / failed	880 / 0	880 / 0
Requests/s	5.944	12.798 (2.153×)
Output tokens/s	2,898.25	6,210.74 (2.143×)
Total tokens/s	4,824.84	10,358.72 (2.147×)
Mean TTFT	17.82 ms	19.89 ms
Mean TPOT	2.724 ms	1.350 ms
Mean ITL	2.719 ms	3.953 ms
Mean end-to-end latency	1,335.51 ms	620.92 ms
Draft-token acceptance	—	31.35%
Mean accepted length	—	3.194

This is the native vLLM single-turn projection of SPEED-Bench: the current loader consumes only messages[0].content. The 185 multi-turn rows therefore omit 258 later turns, so this is not a complete multi-turn qualitative result.

SPEED-Bench throughput_2k

All 1,536 prompts; concurrency 32, 4,096 generated tokens per prompt, ignore_eos, temperature 0, thinking disabled, and max_model_len=32768. Both variants consumed the same 3,168,640 input tokens and emitted exactly 6,291,456 output tokens:

Metric	Qwen3-4B baseline	DFlash2 epoch 2
Completed / failed	1,536 / 0	1,536 / 0
Wall time	1,068.14 s	427.16 s (2.501× faster)
Requests/s	1.438	3.596 (2.501×)
Output tokens/s	5,890.10	14,728.61 (2.501×)
Total tokens/s	8,856.61	22,146.55 (2.501×)
Mean TTFT	266.98 ms	56.07 ms
Mean TPOT	5.369 ms	2.102 ms
Mean ITL	5.372 ms	8.123 ms
Mean end-to-end latency	22,251.81 ms	8,664.21 ms
Draft-token acceptance	—	40.95%
Mean accepted length	—	3.866

The initial servers used max_model_len=16384. The fail-closed harness rejected both result files because exactly row 817 requires 13,353 input + 4,096 output = 17,449 tokens; baseline and DFlash2 each completed 1,535/1,536 and returned the same 400. The clean 32K rerun processed that row and all other rows successfully. This was a benchmark context-limit configuration finding, not a model or speculative-decoding failure.

All throughput measurements above are preliminary cross-GPU runs: baseline and DFlash2 ran concurrently on separate otherwise-free B300 GPUs with identical server/client settings. The 2.501× throughput result has identical token counts, but a final publication-quality claim should use sequential same-GPU or swapped-GPU runs.

Epoch 3 is now public and fully validated offline. Its separate end-to-end vLLM evaluation is still pending; the serving results above remain explicitly scoped to epoch 2.

AI assistance disclosure

AI assistance was used for implementation, public-source inspection, testing, documentation, experiment orchestration, and preparation of this PR. The human submitter will review every changed line, validate the final results, and remains responsible for understanding and defending the design and implementation.

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DFlash2 adds a convolutional draft model, candidate selector, training configuration, loss metrics, validation tests, training examples, and documentation. Scheduler resume logic now synchronizes optimizer learning rates with restored scheduler state.

Changes

DFlash2 support

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configuration and model extensibility `src/speculators/train/config/`, `src/speculators/models/__init__.py`, `src/speculators/models/dflash/`, `src/speculators/models/dflash2/*`	Adds DFlash2 configuration, derived defaults, algorithm resolution, public exports, and shared decoder construction hooks.
DFlash2 runtime model `src/speculators/models/dflash2/*`	Adds grouped dynamic causal convolution, Qwen3 decoder layers, candidate selection, verifier-based construction, predecessor handling, and forward scoring.
Selector training objective and optimizer wiring `src/speculators/models/dflash2/core.py`, `src/speculators/models/dflash2/metrics.py`, `src/speculators/train/optimizers.py`	Adds selector candidates, weighted selector loss, combined metrics, trainer settings, and AdamW routing for codebook parameters.
Training workflows and validation `examples/train/`, `tests/e2e/`, `tests/unit/models/`, `tests/unit/train/config/`	Adds online, offline, and hybrid training workflows plus unit, smoke, integration, and acceptance coverage.
DFlash2 documentation `docs/.nav.yml`, `docs/cli/train.md`, `docs/user_guide/algorithms/*`, `docs/user_guide/getting_started.md`, `docs/user_guide/tutorials/train.md`	Documents DFlash2 architecture, configuration, training, serving requirements, algorithm selection, and examples.

Scheduler resume correction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Restore scheduler learning rates `src/speculators/train/checkpointer.py`, `tests/unit/train/test_trainer_scheduler.py`	Synchronizes optimizer learning rates with restored scheduler rates and verifies the behavior during checkpoint resume.

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mergify · 2026-08-19T03:57:08Z

mergify · 2026-08-19T04:44:45Z

The quality checks have failed. Please run make style and make quality under
the root directory to address the lint failures. You will need to install the
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https://github.com/vllm-project/speculators/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

…pped bug it found Followed the entry's own order of work. (1) and (3) are blocked on this box, and (0) is why. (0a) LICENCE AUDIT — both official repos clean. Neither ships a LICENSE file (card metadata only), so each base was checked rather than the tag trusted: incoai/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2 apache-2.0, base Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B (apache-2.0) incoai/Muse-Glimmer-30B-DFlash2 apache-2.0, finetuned from meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B-assistant (apache-2.0) The Muse one was the expected problem — finetuned from a Meta-shipped drafter, a family that usually carries a custom community licence. It does not. The suspicion was wrong and checking cost one request. (0b) SWEEP — NO USABLE RESIDENT-CAPABLE PAIR. 24 dflash2 repos; exactly one fits an 8 GB card, mgoin/Qwen3-4B-speculator.dflash2, and it has NO LICENCE (license: None — no grant under default copyright). It is also a third-party 3-epoch run from vllm-project/speculators#1006, so even licensed it would validate that run, not upstream's claims. Everything else is a 27B/30B variant or a quantization. Steps (1) and (3) have no venue here, as the entry predicted. Its published val_metrics.json needs no download and is the first independent v2 number anyone here has: accepted length 3.82, position accuracy 0.847 -> 0.320 over positions 1..7. Suffix decay is still plainly present — which is exactly what v2's two-tap conv is pitched at removing. Weak evidence (different model, implementation and training), but it does not obviously support +21%. (2) TENSOR DUMP, accounted to the byte, on the real 3,848,817,896 B checkpoint — delta 0: v1-shaped trunk 2,934,499,840 76.2% NEW attention_conv + mlp_conv 657,408,000 17.1% NEW candidate_selector 256,901,120 6.7% The trunk carries over: every v1 tensor name present with v1 shapes, no embed_tokens and no lm_head (v2 borrows the target's, as v1 does). The conv kernels are per-layer, learned and GENERATED — a base_kernel plus a kernel_projection from the hidden state, so "dynamic" means the kernel is projected, not filtered. AND THE BUG THAT FOUND. v2's config carries every key our v1 dflashConfig reads, and 76% of the tensors match by name — so LoadDFlashDrafter ACCEPTED the real v2 checkpoint, silently discarding 914,309,120 B of conv + selector weights. Verified by loading it. The convs sit before AND after every attention and FFN sublayer, so dropping them changes every layer's output. The failure is not wrong tokens — DFlash verify is lossless, the target gates everything — it is a drafter that drafts WORSE than v1: lower acceptance, slower, no diagnostic anywhere. A wrong answer gets noticed; a silent throughput loss does not. Now refused from config alone, before any tensor is read, gated by TestDFlash_refusesV2 (which also asserts a v1 config still passes, since a refusal that caught v1 too would be the worse bug). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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examples/train/dflash2_qwen3_8b_sharegpt_online_5k.sh (1)
69-72: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Bound the vLLM readiness wait.

The loop polls /health without a deadline. If the vLLM server exits during startup, for example on an out-of-memory error, the script waits forever and prints nothing. A bounded wait that also checks the child process gives a clear failure.
♻️ Proposed bounded wait
 echo "Waiting for vLLM server to be ready..."
-until curl -sf "http://localhost:${VLLM_PORT}/health" > /dev/null 2>&1; do
-    sleep 2
-done
+READY_TIMEOUT=1800
+deadline=$((SECONDS + READY_TIMEOUT))
+until curl -sf "http://localhost:${VLLM_PORT}/health" > /dev/null 2>&1; do
+    if ! kill -0 "$VLLM_PID" 2>/dev/null; then
+        echo "vLLM server exited before becoming ready." >&2
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    if (( SECONDS >= deadline )); then
+        echo "vLLM server did not become ready within ${READY_TIMEOUT}s." >&2
+        exit 1
+    fi
+    sleep 2
+done
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@examples/train/dflash2_qwen3_8b_sharegpt_online_5k.sh` around lines 69 - 72,
Update the vLLM readiness loop around the health-check curl to impose a finite
timeout and monitor the spawned vLLM process; exit with a clear failure message
when the deadline expires or the child process terminates before becoming ready,
while preserving the existing polling behavior during startup.
tests/e2e/regression/test_training_only_acceptance.py (1)
138-152: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the loss recipe and confirm the acceptance thresholds.

The neighboring test_dflash_qwen3_8b_sharegpt pins --per-position-loss-weight, --loss-fn, and --block-size so that a future change to CLI defaults cannot silently move the calibrated baseline. This test pins only --block-size, so dflash2 default changes to loss_fn or per_position_loss_weight would change what the thresholds measure.

The PR states that the epoch-3 serving evaluation is still pending. Confirm that [0.40, 0.10, 0.02, ...] came from a completed three-epoch run, otherwise the nightly job fails without a code regression.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@tests/e2e/regression/test_training_only_acceptance.py` around lines 138 -
152, Update the training arguments in the test setup to explicitly pin the same
per-position loss weight and loss function used by the neighboring test,
alongside block-size, so CLI default changes cannot alter the calibrated
baseline. Verify that the acceptance thresholds passed to run_vllm_engine
represent a completed three-epoch run; if not, recalibrate them from that run
before retaining the thresholds.
tests/unit/models/test_dflash2_model_definitions.py (1)
461-469: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Cover the dpace branch of compute_selector_loss.

The tests only exercise per_position_loss_weight="fixed-exp-decay". compute_selector_loss builds a different decay_fn for "dpace", with a different keyword set (loss_mask, block_size, dpace_alpha). A wrong keyword or shape in that branch stays undetected until a user runs --per-position-loss-weight dpace, and DFlash2 accepts that flag.

Parametrize this test over both weighting modes.
💚 Proposed parametrization
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("per_position_loss_weight", ["fixed-exp-decay", "dpace"])
-def test_selector_loss_reaches_every_selector_parameter():
+def test_selector_loss_reaches_every_selector_parameter(per_position_loss_weight):
@@
     loss = compute_selector_loss(
         candidate_logits,
         target_positions,
         loss_mask,
         4,
         gamma=4.0,
-        per_position_loss_weight="fixed-exp-decay",
+        per_position_loss_weight=per_position_loss_weight,
         dpace_alpha=0.5,
     )
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In `@tests/unit/models/test_dflash2_model_definitions.py` around lines 461 - 469,
Parametrize the test around compute_selector_loss to cover both
per_position_loss_weight values, "fixed-exp-decay" and "dpace". Supply the
dpace-specific arguments loss_mask, block_size, and dpace_alpha, while
preserving the existing assertions and fixed-exp-decay coverage.
Source: Path instructions

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Inline comments:
In `@docs/user_guide/algorithms/decision_guide.md`:
- Line 19: Update the DFlash2 requirement in
docs/user_guide/algorithms/decision_guide.md:19 and
docs/user_guide/algorithms/index.md:31 to remove the unsupported “unquantized”
verifier restriction while retaining the requirement for full
verifier-vocabulary equality.

In `@docs/user_guide/getting_started.md`:
- Around line 30-34: Update the tutorial coverage summary in the getting-started
documentation to include DFlash2, matching the existing algorithm names and
links; leave the already-correct DFlash2 entry unchanged.

In `@src/speculators/models/dflash2/config.py`:
- Around line 13-17: Update DFlash2SpeculatorConfig.speculators_model_type to
use the "dflash2" literal and default value, so
SpeculatorModelConfig.from_dict() dispatches to the DFlash2 configuration when
checkpoints are reloaded.

In `@src/speculators/models/dflash2/core.py`:
- Around line 33-34: Annotate the mutable _no_split_modules class attribute on
the DFlash2 speculator with ClassVar, preserving its existing list value and
matching the annotation style used by config_class.

In `@src/speculators/models/dflash2/metrics.py`:
- Around line 175-183: Update the unary candidate target mass calculation around
training_candidate_ids so it measures only positions where the target was
already present in the serving candidate set, using the existing contains-target
mask consistent with teacher_forced_selector_acc; alternatively, pass
pre-injection candidate_ids. Ensure injected rank-K targets cannot inflate
unary_candidate_target_mass_at_{top_k}.

In `@tests/unit/train/config/test_resolution.py`:
- Around line 650-655: Resolve the missing launcher referenced by PAIRED_RECIPE:
either add examples/train/dflash2_dspark_qwen3_4b_offline_smoke.sh with the
expected paired-launcher behavior, or update PAIRED_RECIPE to an existing valid
script. Ensure both tests invoking bash with PAIRED_RECIPE can run before
validating their contracts.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@examples/train/dflash2_qwen3_8b_sharegpt_online_5k.sh`:
- Around line 69-72: Update the vLLM readiness loop around the health-check curl
to impose a finite timeout and monitor the spawned vLLM process; exit with a
clear failure message when the deadline expires or the child process terminates
before becoming ready, while preserving the existing polling behavior during
startup.

In `@tests/e2e/regression/test_training_only_acceptance.py`:
- Around line 138-152: Update the training arguments in the test setup to
explicitly pin the same per-position loss weight and loss function used by the
neighboring test, alongside block-size, so CLI default changes cannot alter the
calibrated baseline. Verify that the acceptance thresholds passed to
run_vllm_engine represent a completed three-epoch run; if not, recalibrate them
from that run before retaining the thresholds.

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[Feature request]: Support DFlash 2 drafters (path selector + local convolution) #1014

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[WIP] Dflash2 implementation #1007

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Add support for loading dflash2 model in speculators format vllm-project/vllm#53797

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