[Spec Decode] Add Sliding Window Attention support to DFlash drafter by jianc99 · Pull Request #40898 · vllm-project/vllm

jianc99 · 2026-04-26T02:47:14Z

Purpose

Adds Sliding Window Attention (SWA) support to the DFlash speculative decoding drafter so DFlash draft models with mixed sliding_attention / full_attention layers can draft correctly.

Without this, SWA layers in the drafter lose their windowed-attention configuration and run as full attention, which hurts acceptance length on long-context inputs. This version is rebased onto current main and keeps the PR focused on generic DFlash/SWA infrastructure.

Changes

Preserve DFlash SWA config fields when extracting the speculators HF-format config.
Build DFlash draft attention layers with the correct sliding_window setting from layer_types.
Keep DFlash SWA visible to attention metadata while allocating full draft KV for those layers, so target-prewritten context K/V is not evicted by masked draft-block tokens.
Carry per-KV-group DFlash metadata so full-attention and SWA draft groups can coexist cleanly.
Use per-KV-group DFlash block tables and slot mappings while keeping the target/draft raw KV tensor shared, preserving effective KV capacity.
Add a small raw-KV layout bridge so shared DFlash K/V remains correct when target and draft attention backends expose different cache layouts.
Avoid the EAGLE cache-drop path for DFlash, where the draft context K/V is pre-written by the target model.
Normalize DFlash auxiliary layer IDs consistently: checkpoint-native dflash_config.target_layer_ids follow HF DFlash semantics and are shifted by +1 when converted to vLLM aux-hidden-state indices; already shifted eagle_aux_hidden_state_layer_ids are used as-is.
Include the normalized auxiliary layer IDs in the compile hash so changing DFlash target layer selection invalidates the compiled graph correctly.

Test Plan

Focused unit tests:

PATH=/home/zlab/miniconda3/envs/vllm-dflash/bin:$PATH python -m pytest \
  tests/v1/core/test_kv_sharing.py \
  tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_model_runner.py::test_kv_major_cache_can_share_block_major_raw_tensor \
  tests/v1/spec_decode/test_dflash_swa.py -q

Syntax/whitespace hygiene:

PATH=/home/zlab/miniconda3/envs/vllm-dflash/bin:$PATH python -m py_compile \
  tests/v1/spec_decode/test_dflash_swa.py \
  tests/v1/core/test_kv_sharing.py \
  tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_model_runner.py \
  vllm/config/speculative.py \
  vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_dflash.py \
  vllm/transformers_utils/configs/speculators/algos.py \
  vllm/v1/core/kv_cache_utils.py \
  vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py \
  vllm/v1/spec_decode/dflash.py \
  vllm/v1/spec_decode/llm_base_proposer.py \
  vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py

git diff --check origin/main...HEAD
git diff --check

Real model verification:

vllm serve Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B \
  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
  --speculative-config '{"model":"z-lab/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-DFlash","method":"dflash","num_speculative_tokens":15}' \
  --attention-backend flash_attn \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 32768 \
  --max-model-len 262144 \
  --reasoning-parser qwen3 \
  --enable-auto-tool-choice \
  --tool-call-parser qwen3_coder

vllm bench serve \
  --backend openai-chat \
  --base-url http://127.0.0.1:8000 \
  --endpoint /v1/chat/completions \
  --dataset-name custom \
  --dataset-path /home/zlab/workspace/jianc/repo/dflash/cache/humaneval.vllm.jsonl \
  --custom-output-len 4096 \
  --num-prompts 32 \
  --max-concurrency 4 \
  --model Qwen/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B \
  --temperature 0.0 \
  --skip-chat-template

Test Result

Pushed head: 23002d3f368a5a24641301bc71e4ae15dae89a24.
11 passed, 16 warnings for focused DFlash/KV-sharing tests.
pre-commit run --files passed for the touched DFlash/KV files, including mypy.
py_compile passed for the touched Python files.
git diff --check origin/main...HEAD and git diff --check passed.

Qwen3.5-122B-A10B + z-lab/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-DFlash, normal TP4 launch, 15 speculative tokens, HumanEval custom dataset smoke with 4096 output length:

Metric	Result
Available KV cache memory	94.35 GiB
GPU KV cache size	5,988,876 tokens
Max concurrency at 262,144 tokens/request	22.85x
Successful requests	32 / 32
Output throughput	521.33 tok/s
Median TPOT	2.45 ms
Mean TPOT	4.50 ms
Acceptance rate	42.23%
Acceptance length	7.33
Draft tokens	57,045
Accepted tokens	24,089

The KV capacity result confirms this keeps the shared target/draft KV tensor path instead of splitting effective capacity between separate draft and target KV tensors.

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This pull request adds support for Sliding Window Attention (SWA) to DFlash speculative decoding, specifically targeting Qwen3 models. It introduces layer-type validation, configuration persistence for SWA parameters, and logic to generate causal metadata for sliding window layers. Review feedback points out that setting the attention module's sliding window attribute to None to maintain full KV allocation might inadvertently disable SWA in the compute path. Additionally, the metadata generation logic should be updated to ensure consistency between layer-level and group-level metadata to avoid potential structural bugs.

gemini-code-assist · 2026-04-26T02:50:14Z

        )
+        if sliding_window is not None:
+            # DFlash keeps full KV allocation while using SWA only for compute.
+            self.attn.sliding_window = None


Setting self.attn.sliding_window = None here is highly likely to break Sliding Window Attention (SWA) for the compute path. In vLLM, the Attention layer's sliding_window attribute is used to generate the KVCacheSpec, which in turn configures the AttentionMetadataBuilder. If this attribute is None, the builder will not include window information in the attn_metadata, and the attention backend (e.g., FlashAttention) will likely default to full attention during the forward pass.

While the intent is to maintain full KV cache allocation, this should be achieved without hiding the window size from the compute path. A better approach would be to override get_kv_cache_spec in this class to return a spec with sliding_window=None while keeping the attribute set on the Attention layer, or ensuring the metadata builder is explicitly configured with the window size.

Yeah this seems really hacky

Agreed, this was too hacky. I removed the mutation.

The latest version keeps sliding_window on the attention layer so the compute path still sees SWA. To keep full KV allocation for DFlash, I added a small DFlashAttention wrapper that converts the returned SlidingWindowSpec into a FullAttentionSpec while preserving the sliding_window value. So SWA remains visible for metadata/backend selection, but the KV allocator does not drop old blocks for the DFlash draft cache.

gemini-code-assist · 2026-04-26T02:50:14Z

+        sliding_layer_names = getattr(self.model, "sliding_attention_layer_names", set())
+        if sliding_layer_names:
+            causal_cad = cad.replace(causal=True)
+            for attn_group in self.draft_attn_groups:
+                causal_layers = sliding_layer_names & set(attn_group.layer_names)
+                if not causal_layers:
+                    continue
+                attn_metadata = attn_group.get_metadata_builder().build_for_drafting(
+                    common_attn_metadata=causal_cad, draft_index=draft_index
+                )
+                for layer_name in causal_layers:
+                    per_layer[layer_name] = attn_metadata


This logic updates the per_layer mapping with causal metadata for SWA layers but leaves the per_group list (returned at line 298) containing the original non-causal metadata. In vLLM V1, while layers typically access metadata via per_layer, maintaining consistency with per_group is important for structural integrity and to avoid potential bugs in components that might iterate over groups. If an AttentionGroup contains mixed sliding and full attention layers, the group-level metadata will be inconsistent with the layer-level metadata. Consider updating per_group or ensuring that this inconsistency does not affect any backend-specific group-level operations.

DefinitlyEvil · 2026-04-29T04:35:33Z

Great work, really appreciated! Hopefully this could be implemented and merged soon.

Djordje-Stojanovic · 2026-04-29T12:29:12Z

Cant wait to see this merged hopefully.

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repne · 2026-05-01T09:39:33Z

Hi @jianc99, thank you for the great PR. I've tested it extensively in the past few days without issues, but today against latest main it's not working properly. Over 128k context the process hangs (seemingly) indefinitely or the TTFT is in minutes.

jianc99 · 2026-05-01T09:42:10Z

@repne Thanks for reporting the issue! I will take a look and fix it.

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repne · 2026-05-02T07:48:39Z

Thanks for the fix, I cannot reproduce it anymore with latest main

benchislett · 2026-05-04T17:50:19Z

            attn_type=attn_type,
        )
+        if sliding_window is not None:
+            # DFlash keeps full KV allocation while using SWA only for compute.


Why? What's the point?

What's stopping us from handling this properly?

benchislett · 2026-05-04T17:51:05Z

-            self.config.draft_vocab_size, scale=logit_scale
+            self.config.draft_vocab_size,
+            scale=logit_scale,
+            soft_cap=getattr(self.config, "final_logit_softcapping", None),


why is this added?

Seems like it's not used in the dflash checkpoint...
https://huggingface.co/z-lab/Qwen3.5-122B-A10B-DFlash/blob/main/config.json

Oh, this is for the incoming gemma4 draft model. During training we directly borrow the lm_head and embedding from gemma4 target model, which uses embedding scaling and logits soft capping. It's not related to the Qwen3.5-122B model. I will open another PR for this feature.

Removed from this PR. That change is for the incoming Gemma4 DFlash checkpoint and is unrelated to Qwen3.5 DFlash SWA, so I split it out into a separate branch/PR.

benchislett · 2026-05-04T17:52:49Z

+        is_dflash = self.speculative_config.method == "dflash"
        layer_ids = getattr(hf_config, "eagle_aux_hidden_state_layer_ids", None)
-        if not layer_ids:
+        if is_dflash or not layer_ids:


what's the point of this change?

Removed from this PR. This branch is now stacked on #40727, so the DFlash auxiliary layer-id indexing fix stays there instead of being mixed into the SWA change.

benchislett · 2026-05-04T17:53:13Z


        if layer_ids and isinstance(layer_ids, (list, tuple)):
+            if is_dflash:
+                return tuple(layer_id + 1 for layer_id in layer_ids)


This is a bit complicated with speculators. WIP here: #40727

benchislett · 2026-05-04T17:53:54Z

+            if layer_name in sliding_layer_names:
+                assert getattr(attn_metadata, "causal", None) is True, (
+                    f"Attention metadata for sliding layer {layer_name} does not have"
+                    " causal support, which is required for DFlash SWA."


Wait, DFlash SWA is causal? How/why?

Yes, the SWA layers are made causal mainly for compatibility with existing attention backends, since some backends have poor support for non-causal SWA. DFlash is still block diffusion drafting; this is just an implementation choice for the SWA mask. I also verified empirically that, for single-step diffusion drafting, causal SWA performs very similarly to non-causal SWA.

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Signed-off-by: Benjamin Chislett <bchislett@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

…nd KV cache utils Step 1 (SpeculativeConfig): - Fallback to dflash_config.target_layer_ids in compute_hash() when eagle_aux_hidden_state_layer_ids is not set, with +1 shift to match vLLM hidden-state extraction semantics - New requires_eagle_cache_drop() property that returns False for DFlash (DFlash writes all context KV before drafting, so no cache drop needed) Step 2 (speculators/algos.py): - Forward SWA-related config keys (layer_types, use_sliding_window, sliding_window, max_window_layers) through update_dflash() - Shift eagle_aux_hidden_state_layer_ids by +1 to align with vLLM's layer indexing (draft model uses 0-based, runner uses 1-based) - Remove TODO comment now that the shift is applied Step 3 (scheduler.py): - Add self.requires_eagle_cache_drop attribute derived from speculative_config.requires_eagle_cache_drop() - Replace self.use_eagle with self.requires_eagle_cache_drop in: KVCacheManager constructor, mamba block-aligned split guard, and encoder input scheduling (2 call sites). DFlash speculative decoding no longer triggers unnecessary cache pruning. Step 4 (kv_cache_utils.py): - Replace index-based loop with named variable over kv_cache_groups for readability and safety Co-authored-by: vLLM upstream PR vllm-project#40898 contributors

…support in qwen3_dflash Changes to vllm/model_executor/models/qwen3_dflash.py: - New imports: Mapping (for per-layer slot mapping), FullAttentionSpec, KVCacheSpec, SlidingWindowSpec (for KV cache spec widening) - DFlashAttention class (subclass of Attention): overrides get_kv_cache_spec() to widen SlidingWindowSpec to FullAttentionSpec. DFlash writes every context KV before drafting and cannot evict old context blocks from sliding-window layers, so the KV cache must be allocated as full attention. - _get_dflash_layer_types() helper: resolves per-layer attention type from config.layer_types, defaults to all full_attention. Validates layer type names and that sliding_window is configured when sliding_attention is used. - DFlashQwen3DecoderLayer: added layer_type parameter, tracked on self. Kept sliding_window uniform across all layers (getattr from config) to maintain single KV cache group for the drafter model. - DFlashQwen3Model: uses layer_types to configure decoder layers, exposes sliding_attention_layer_names set for the proposer's metadata building. - precompute_and_store_context_kv: context_slot_mapping now accepts Mapping[str, torch.Tensor] for per-layer slot assignments. Cache insert loop extracts the correct slot mapping per layer. - DFlashQwen3ForCausalLM: updated signature to match, exposes sliding_attention_layer_names property. Note: The original code already had per_layer_sliding_window=sliding_window in Attention(). The conditional layer_type-specific sliding_window from the upstream PR was NOT applied because it would split DFlash layers into different KV cache groups, breaking the single-group assertion in llm_base_proposer.py. Instead, the layer_type tracking is purely for the proposer's per-layer causal/non-causal metadata building. Co-authored-by: vLLM upstream PR vllm-project#40898 contributors

…n base proposer Changes to vllm/v1/spec_decode/llm_base_proposer.py: - New imports: KVCacheSpec (added to existing KVCacheConfig import) - New attributes on SpecDecodeBaseProposer: _draft_layer_to_kv_cache_gid: maps each draft layer name to its KV cache group ID _draft_kv_cache_group_ids: sorted list of unique group IDs used by draft layers - New hook method allow_multiple_draft_kv_cache_groups() -> bool: Returns False by default (single-group constraint for EAGLE/draft models). DFlashProposer overrides this to return True. - Rewrite initialize_attn_backend(): Replaces the monolithic single-group lookup with per-layer-to-group mapping. The attention_groups dict key now includes (gid, backend_key, layer_kv_cache_spec) instead of just (backend_key), allowing draft layers from different KV cache groups to be properly grouped. The single-group validation is now gated behind allow_multiple_draft_kv_cache_groups(). Backend-agnostic: Uses abstract get_attn_backend(), AttentionGroup, and KVCacheSpec interfaces. No backend-specific code. Co-authored-by: vLLM upstream PR vllm-project#40898 contributors

…rs, slot mappings, SWA metadata Changes to vllm/v1/spec_decode/dflash.py: Imports: - Moved replace from dataclasses to vllm.config (VllmConfig, replace) - Added KVCacheConfig import New __init__ attributes: - _slot_mapping_buffers_by_gid: per-KV-group (context, query) slot mapping pairs - _draft_block_size_by_gid: per-KV-group block sizes for triton kernel - _draft_block_tables: per-KV-group block tables (set by gpu_model_runner) New override methods: - allow_multiple_draft_kv_cache_groups() -> True: enables multi-KV-group support - initialize_attn_backend(): calls super() then populates per-KV-group block sizes and ensures slot mapping buffers are allocated - clear_draft_block_tables(): resets block tables before each step - set_draft_block_table(kv_cache_gid, block_table): receives block tables from gpu_model_runner per KV cache group New helper methods: - _ensure_slot_mapping_buffers(): lazy-allocates per-KV-group buffers, reuses existing buffers for the primary group - _draft_kv_gids(): resolves draft KV group IDs from inherited attributes - _get_dflash_block_table(kv_cache_gid, cad): looks up per-KV-group block table, falls back to cad's block table - _get_dflash_context_slot_mapping(num_context): returns context slot mappings as dict[str, torch.Tensor] when layers span multiple KV groups - _get_slot_mapping() override: returns per-layer slot mappings when layers span multiple KV groups Rewrote set_inputs_first_pass(): - Loops over draft KV group IDs, dispatching triton kernel per group - Uses per-KV-group block tables, slot mapping buffers, and block sizes - Builds new CommonAttentionMetadata with primary group's block table Updated build_model_inputs_first_pass(): - Calls _get_dflash_context_slot_mapping() for per-layer context slot mapping Rewrote build_per_group_and_layer_attn_metadata(): - Builds per-group metadata with per-KV-group block tables and slot mappings - Applies causal metadata overlay for SWA layers (sliding_attention_layer_names) - Asserts causal=True for SWA layers, causal=False for full attention layers FlashInfer adaptation note: - build_for_drafting(causal=True/False) works correctly with FlashInfer because FlashInferMetadataBuilder.build() reads common_attn_metadata.causal and FlashInferMetadata has causal: bool field. The per-layer causal override for SWA layers is handled by the causal/non-causal assertion checks. Co-authored-by: vLLM upstream PR vllm-project#40898 contributors

…dge + DFlash block table injection Changes to vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py: Change A - DFlash block table injection: - In the attention metadata build loop, detect DFlashProposer and call clear_draft_block_tables() before the loop - Inside the kv_cache_gid loop, call set_draft_block_table() to inject per-KV-group block tables into the DFlash drafter Change C - New helper methods for KV cache stride/mapping: - _get_kv_cache_stride_order(): Extracts stride order from AttentionBackend with fallback to identity ordering - _get_standard_kv_cache_orders(): Maps backend stride order to named public/physical dimension orderings (kv/block/token/head/dim), detecting (2, num_blocks, ...) vs (num_blocks, 2, ...) layouts - _view_kv_cache_with_physical_order(): Creates torch.as_strided view with physical stride ordering for cross-backend stride compatibility - _get_attention_kv_cache_shape(): Computes KV cache shape from spec, handling storage_block_size != block_size for MLA with compression - _get_raw_tensor_physical_orders(): Scans all attention groups to collect physical stride orders per raw tensor, enabling multi-group physical order detection Change D - Rewrite _reshape_kv_cache_tensors attention block: - Uses new helper methods instead of inline shape/stride computation - Adds physical-order bridging: when a raw tensor is shared across multiple attention groups with different stride orders, creates a strided view matching the shared physical order instead of the default backend order - Falls back to existing contiguous/view/permute path when physical order bridging is not applicable (padded pages, mismatched layouts, etc.) FlashInfer adaptation: - Helper methods call get_kv_cache_stride_order() and get_kv_cache_shape() dynamically on the backend type — works identically for FlashInfer - Physical-order bridging uses torch.as_strided for stride remapping, independent of kernel-level layout - No behavioral changes for single-backend (no shared raw tensors) Co-authored-by: vLLM upstream PR vllm-project#40898 contributors

New test file tests/v1/spec_decode/test_dflash_swa.py (5 tests): - test_dflash_speculators_preserves_swa_config: SWA fields (layer_types, use_sliding_window, sliding_window, max_window_layers) flow through SpeculatorsConfig.extract_transformers_pre_trained_config - test_dflash_compile_hash_uses_checkpoint_layer_id_semantics: Hash consistency between dflash_config.target_layer_ids and eagle_aux_hidden_state_layer_ids (shifted by +1) - test_dflash_swa_layers_use_full_kv_cache_spec: DFlashAttention get_kv_cache_spec widens SlidingWindowSpec to FullAttentionSpec - test_dflash_swa_layers_use_causal_metadata: build_per_group_and_layer_attn_metadata sets causal=True for SWA layers, causal=False for full attention layers - test_dflash_metadata_uses_per_kv_group_slot_mapping: Per-KV-group block tables and slot mappings are correctly assigned to layers Added to tests/v1/core/test_kv_sharing.py: - test_dflash_draft_kv_groups_keep_hybrid_tensor_sharing: DFlash with multiple KV cache groups keeps tensors shared across groups Added to tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_model_runner.py: - test_kv_major_cache_can_share_block_major_raw_tensor: Verifies _view_kv_cache_with_physical_order creates correct strided views for two different physical orderings All tests use mock objects (_FakeBuilder, _FakeAttentionGroup) and SimpleNamespace stubs — fully backend-agnostic, no real GPU or attention backend required. All 8 tests pass. Co-authored-by: vLLM upstream PR vllm-project#40898 contributors

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[Bug]: TP=2 spec-decode (qwen3_next_mtp / DFlash) on Qwen3.6 hybrid GDN crashes at gpu_model_runner.py:1927 num_accepted_tokens_event.synchronize() (cudaErrorIllegalAddress) #41190

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FlashInfer + DFlash + FP8 on RTX 4090 #39995

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speculative : auto-enable swa_full for SWA draft models ggml-org/llama.cpp#22660

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docs(README): add Qwen/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8 (DFlash spec) to leaderboard vlm-run/vlmbench#33

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[Spec Decode] Fix Gemma4 DFlash batched verification #41703

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update dflash aux layer indexing

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Signed-off-by: Benjamin Chislett <bchislett@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

Add DFlash SWA support

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Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

Clean up DFlash SWA KV metadata

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Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

Clarify DFlash SWA metadata semantics

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Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

Avoid EAGLE cache drop for DFlash

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Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

Clean up DFlash multi-group KV handling

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Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

Clarify DFlash aux layer config semantics

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Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

Keep DFlash KV sharing across backend layouts

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Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

Hash DFlash checkpoint target layer ids

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Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

Fix DFlash pre-commit cleanup

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Signed-off-by: Jian Chen <jianchen0311@gmail.com>

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