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Overview

Adds Rust frontend support for /generative_scoring, closing an API parity gap tracked in #44280. Rebased onto main at fe51194e2d.

Claims

• Supports text and token-ID query/item inputs, item_first, add_special_tokens, and softmax or true-probability scoring, with the Python-compatible response and token usage shape
• Validates the model and label-token vocabulary range and caps item fan-out at the engine-reported max_num_seqs before tokenization or request construction
• Rejects scoring when the engine reports speculative decoding, preserving the guard against [Bug]: Using the /generative_scoring may cause shape mismatches in the rejection sampler, causing vllm serve to crash #42592 while [Bugfix] Fix shape mismatch crash and add logprob_token_ids support in RejectionSampler #44727 owns the sampler-level fix

Validation

Validation used the repository's pinned Rust 1.95 toolchain. cargo-nextest was unavailable locally, so the affected suites ran with cargo test. On macOS, TMPDIR=/tmp keeps test IPC socket paths short.

Check	Result
Focused generative-scoring tests	9 passed
Full vllm-server suite	458 passed
Full vllm-engine-core-client suite, including Python MessagePack compatibility	126 passed
Rust formatting and library/test Clippy with warnings denied	Passed
Python compilation, pinned Ruff lint/formatting, and whitespace checks	Passed

cd rust
TMPDIR=/tmp cargo test -p vllm-server generative_scoring
TMPDIR=/tmp cargo test -p vllm-server -p vllm-engine-core-client
cargo clippy -p vllm-server -p vllm-engine-core-client --lib --tests -- -D warnings
cargo fmt --all -- --check
cd ..
.venv/bin/python -m py_compile vllm/v1/engine/__init__.py vllm/v1/engine/core.py rust/src/engine-core-client/src/tests/python_compat.py
uvx ruff@0.14.0 check vllm/v1/engine/__init__.py vllm/v1/engine/core.py rust/src/engine-core-client/src/tests/python_compat.py
uvx ruff@0.14.0 format --check vllm/v1/engine/__init__.py vllm/v1/engine/core.py rust/src/engine-core-client/src/tests/python_compat.py
git diff --check

The HTTP tests exercise request lowering, requested label logprobs, scoring, token usage, and both safety guards against a mock engine. No GPU-backed model evaluation was run for this refresh. The local test build reports existing warnings in external_engine_openai_qwen.rs and proc-macro-error2; neither is changed by this PR.

Details

The route reuses the raw generation path with one request per item, max_tokens = 1, and restricted label-token logprobs. It adds no dependencies or sampler changes. The ready handshake reports use_spec_decode with a default of false in Rust; the Python engine supplies its actual value.

This refresh preserves upstream's effective_attention_block_size handshake field and fixture assertions alongside the speculative-decoding flag. It adapts scoring requests to the current typed reasoning options, leaving KV hints and the reasoning gate unset. The route remains generally available, while /inference/v1/generate retains upstream's scale-out gate.

Current upstream has no Rust /generative_scoring implementation, and a fresh open-PR search found no duplicate route. #44727 addresses the sampler restriction and #59549 adds restricted logprobs to other Rust endpoints; neither implements this route. Existing generative-scoring API documentation is at docs/serving/online_serving/generative_scoring.md.

AI assistance was used to prepare the change and this rebase. Local validation results are listed above.

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Pull Request Checklist

• I used vLLM's /pr-checklist skill. (Mandatory for agents, optional for humans).
• AI assistance was used during the creation of this PR.
• Design Fit: Reuses the existing generation path, adds no dependencies, and implements a requested parity endpoint
• Testing and Validation: Existing HTTP integration and wire-compatibility suites pass; GPU evaluation remains unverified as documented above
• Code Quality and Style: Rust and Python checks pass; the existing endpoint documentation applies
• Pull Request Contents: Includes the parity motivation, compatibility guard, non-duplication check, validation, and limitations

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[jesco-absolut]

@BugenZhao @njhill, would this Rust frontend parity change still be useful? I’m happy to rebase it onto current main and address any review feedback if you’d like to proceed.

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Walkthrough

The server adds a /generative_scoring endpoint. It accepts text or token IDs, prepares per-item prompts, requests label-token logprobs, computes scores, reports token usage, and validates request limits and speculative-decoding compatibility.

Changes

Generative scoring API

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Engine capability contract rust/src/engine-core-client/..., vllm/v1/engine/...	Adds use_spec_decode to engine-ready responses and updates compatibility fixtures.
Request contracts and prompt preparation rust/src/server/src/routes/inference/generative_scoring.rs	Adds request types, validation, text or token-ID input handling, prompt ordering and truncation, and per-item TextRequest construction.
Concurrent generation and score collection rust/src/server/src/routes/inference/generative_scoring.rs	Submits per-item generation streams, collects logprobs and usage, and computes softmax or true-probability scores.
Route wiring and endpoint validation rust/src/server/src/routes.rs, rust/src/server/src/routes/inference/mod.rs, rust/src/server/src/routes/tests.rs, rust/src/server/src/routes/inference/generative_scoring.rs	Registers and exports /generative_scoring. Tests cover input forms, prompt ordering, scoring modes, usage, item limits, and speculative-decoding rejection.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant generative_scoring
  participant TextRequest
  participant GenerationStreams
  participant Response
  Client->>generative_scoring: POST /generative_scoring
  generative_scoring->>TextRequest: create one request per item
  TextRequest->>GenerationStreams: request one-token label logprobs
  GenerationStreams-->>generative_scoring: return outputs and usage
  generative_scoring->>Response: compute scores and serialize results
  Response-->>Client: return scores and token usage

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This adds the Rust generative-scoring endpoint with validated prompt scoring and compatible engine capability handling. The covered limits and unsupported-configuration rejection leave no concrete merge-blocking risk.

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In `@rust/src/server/src/routes/inference/generative_scoring.rs`:
- Around line 111-116: Bound the number of text requests before prompt
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- Line 200: Prevent generative scoring requests from being used with speculative
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