[Spec Decode] Add support for EAGLE3 heads that do not use_aux_hidden_states

vllm/model_executor/models/llama_eagle3.py

@@ -142,6 +142,12 @@ def __init__(
         # Get drafter's quantization config
         self.quant_config = get_draft_quant_config(vllm_config)
 
+        eagle_config = getattr(self.config, "eagle_config", None)
+        if eagle_config is not None and "use_aux_hidden_state" in eagle_config:
+            self.use_aux_hidden_state = eagle_config["use_aux_hidden_state"]
+        else:
+            self.use_aux_hidden_state = True
+
         current_vllm_config = get_current_vllm_config()
 
         self.embed_tokens = VocabParallelEmbedding(
@@ -161,20 +167,20 @@ def __init__(
                 for layer_idx in range(self.config.num_hidden_layers)
             ]
         )
-        if hasattr(self.config, "target_hidden_size"):
-            fc_input_size = self.config.target_hidden_size * 3
-        else:
-            fc_input_size = self.config.hidden_size * 3
-        self.fc = ReplicatedLinear(
-            input_size=fc_input_size,
-            output_size=self.config.hidden_size,
-            bias=False,
-            params_dtype=vllm_config.model_config.dtype,
-            quant_config=self.quant_config,
-            prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, "fc"),
-            return_bias=False,
-        )
-
+        if self.use_aux_hidden_state:
+            if hasattr(self.config, "target_hidden_size"):
+                fc_input_size = self.config.target_hidden_size * 3
+            else:
+                fc_input_size = self.config.hidden_size * 3
+            self.fc = ReplicatedLinear(
+                input_size=fc_input_size,
+                output_size=self.config.hidden_size,
+                bias=False,
+                params_dtype=vllm_config.model_config.dtype,
+                quant_config=self.quant_config,
+                prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, "fc"),
+                return_bias=False,
+            )
         self.norm = RMSNorm(
             self.config.hidden_size,
             eps=self.config.rms_norm_eps,
@@ -332,6 +338,8 @@ def combine_hidden_states(
         self,
         hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
     ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        if not self.model.use_aux_hidden_state:
+            return hidden_states
         # combine multiple auxiliary hidden states returned by eagle3
         return self.model.fc(hidden_states)
 
@@ -357,6 +365,8 @@ def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[tuple[str, torch.Tensor]]):
             skip_substrs.append("draft_id_to_target_id")
         if not includes_embed_tokens:
             skip_substrs.append("embed_tokens")
+        if not self.model.use_aux_hidden_state:
+            skip_substrs.append("fc.")
         loader = AutoWeightsLoader(
             self,
             skip_prefixes=None,

vllm/v1/spec_decode/eagle.py

@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ def __init__(
         self.draft_indexer_metadata_builder: AttentionMetadataBuilder | None = None
         self.attn_layer_names: list[str] = []
         self.indexer_layer_names: list[str] = []
+        self.eagle3_use_aux_hidden_state: bool = (
+            self._get_eagle3_use_aux_hidden_state_from_config()
+        )
 
         self.use_cuda_graph = False
 
@@ -1169,6 +1172,22 @@ def _get_attention_metadata_builder(self) -> AttentionMetadataBuilder:
         )
         return builder
 
+    def _get_eagle3_use_aux_hidden_state_from_config(self) -> bool:
+        """
+        Some eagle3 heads (e.g., nvidia/gpt-oss-120b-Eagle3-v2) do not use auxiliary
+        hidden states and directly uses the last layer output just like eagle1.
+        They might indicate this by setting "use_aux_hidden_state" to False
+        inside the "eagle_config" dict of their hf_config.
+        """
+        if self.method != "eagle3":
+            return False
+        # Assume that eagle3 heads use aux hidden states by default
+        use_aux_hidden_state = True
+        eagle_config = getattr(self.draft_model_config.hf_config, "eagle_config", None)
+        if eagle_config is not None:
+            use_aux_hidden_state = eagle_config.get("use_aux_hidden_state", True)
+        return use_aux_hidden_state
+
     def validate_same_kv_cache_group(self, kv_cache_config: KVCacheConfig) -> None:
         """
         Validate that all eagle layers belong to the same KVCacheGroup.

vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py

@@ -375,7 +375,9 @@ def __init__(
             elif self.speculative_config.use_eagle():
                 self.drafter = EagleProposer(self.vllm_config, self.device, self)
                 if self.speculative_config.method == "eagle3":
-                    self.use_aux_hidden_state_outputs = True
+                    self.use_aux_hidden_state_outputs = (
+                        self.drafter.eagle3_use_aux_hidden_state
+                    )
             elif self.speculative_config.method == "medusa":
                 self.drafter = MedusaProposer(
                     vllm_config=self.vllm_config, device=self.device