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[Bugfix][Rocm]Aiter MoE re-uses existing tensor addresses after weight update.#40390

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[Bugfix][Rocm]Aiter MoE re-uses existing tensor addresses after weight update.#40390
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The AMD aiter FusedMoE requires model weights be shuffled before use. When using this feature in RL scenario, however, the MoE weights will be re-shuffled time and again whenever a weight update is carried out.

The issue is that the weight shuffle should NOT change the tensor addresses -- otherwise captured CUDA graph will not be able to use the new weights.

The fix in this PR is to preserve the weights' addresses if they already exist.

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Aiter MoE re-uses existing tensor addresses after weight update.

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Test with "export VLLM_ROCM_USE_AITER_MOE=1" in RL setup (e.g. veRL + vLLM, enforce_eager=False).

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Without the fix, the generated responses are all gibberish. The fix restores the correctness.


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This pull request modifies the unquantized fused MoE method to support weight updates by using in-place copies, which helps preserve tensor addresses for CUDA graphs. Review feedback points out that the address preservation is currently incomplete as the caller function still reassigns tensors for ROCm and XPU backends. It is also recommended to avoid using the ".data" attribute and instead call ".copy_()" directly on the parameters for better safety.

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@yuankaichen-amd yuankaichen-amd changed the title Aiter MoE re-uses existing tensor addresses after weight update. [Bugfix][Rocm]Aiter MoE re-uses existing tensor addresses after weight update. Apr 20, 2026
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Thank you for the work! LGTM.
cc @bnellnm for collaborator approval and merge.

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@mgoin can I get a write-access approval from you?

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LGTM

@tjtanaa tjtanaa enabled auto-merge (squash) May 6, 2026 08:40
@tjtanaa tjtanaa merged commit 2e777d2 into vllm-project:main May 6, 2026
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