[Core][MRV2] Support eagle3 spec decode with pipeline parallel - #50514
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Hardware validation on the exact shape this caps at (TP8 × PP2, 2×8 B200, EFA) — Kimi-K3 MXFP4 + Inferact/Kimi-K3-DSpark, 1M context, vLLM main @ e578de3 (cu130 wheel 0.26.1rc1.dev292) with this PR applied at setup time:
Two things to share beyond "it works":
Happy to rerun the same gates on the PR head once it's rebased (remote-synchronized needles / accept measurements are cheap on this rig), and to act as the hardware validator if you want a pp=2 multimodal or multi-request soak for the merge review. |
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Thanks for the PR! I resolved the conflict - cc @zixi-qi |
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Thanks for the PR! The high level approach looks good, left a few comments in the code. Additionally:
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| # Locate the embedding tensor: prefer the shard index, else scan the shards. | ||
| key = None | ||
| shard_path = None | ||
| index_path = os.path.join(model_dir, "model.safetensors.index.json") |
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Does this work when the model is not cached locally?
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I changed the code such that now it runs the model's hf_to_vllm_mapper over the checkpoint names and matches on the parameter name, keeping the original name to read the tensor.
| # been freed writes to a slot nobody reads, and add_requests zeroes | ||
| # the row before any reuse, whereas the -1 sentinels in the filtered | ||
| # `idx_mapping` would alias the last row. | ||
| outputs["draft_update"] = (slot.draft_tokens, slot.idx_mapping) |
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I think we should use the filtered idex_mapping instead of this unfiltered one. Does below explanation make sense to you?
A pending PP entry is consumed pp_size steps after it is received. During that delay, a request can finish and its state index can be reassigned to a new request. The generation check correctly replaces that row with -1 in the sampled-token mapping, but draft_update uses the original unfiltered mapping.
In a mixed batch, this writes the finished request’s stale drafts into the new request that now owns the same index. add_requests zeroing does not prevent this because the deferred write can occur after the index has been reused and zeroed.
| # The drafter is instantiated only on the last pipeline stage and is | ||
| # never itself pipelined, so it must not inherit the target's PP | ||
| # size; doing so would require the draft architecture to implement | ||
| # SupportsPP. This is a no-op for previously working setups, since | ||
| # speculative decoding under PP > 1 was rejected outright before. |
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Overall the additional comments in this PR can be a bit too verbose. Would be great if you could go through all the comments and make them as concise as possible and remove ones where the code already demonstrates the intent clearly.
| if pp_size > 2: | ||
| # The aux forwarding itself is size-agnostic: every stage | ||
| # derives what it owes downstream from the same rule, and | ||
| # the accounting is unit-tested up to pp=8. What has not | ||
| # been exercised on hardware is a *middle* stage, which | ||
| # pp>2 introduces and which must both adopt upstream taps | ||
| # and contribute its own to the same payload. Given that | ||
| # the failure mode of this feature is silently degraded | ||
| # acceptance rather than a crash, refuse rather than let it | ||
| # run unvalidated. Lifting this needs an end-to-end | ||
| # acceptance-rate comparison at pp>2, not just a boot test. | ||
| raise NotImplementedError( | ||
| f"{self.speculative_config.method} with pipeline parallel " | ||
| f"is currently supported only up to pipeline_parallel_size=2, " | ||
| f"got {pp_size}." | ||
| ) |
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From the comments here:
The aux forwarding itself is size-agnostic: every stage
Do I understand correctly that PP > 2 is technically supposed to be supported but the guard is added here because it is not tested? If so I think we should test it and remove this guard
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Originally designed for PP=2, per your comment, i re-worked this PR so that when PP>2, previous PP stages will forward their auxiliary data to the last rank (validated on both EAGLE3 on Llama-3.2-1B
and DSpark on DeepSeek-V4-Flash . This comment has more details about the exact design. My design ensures minimal communication during the drafting for the best itl.
| # receive() unconditionally allocates max_sample_len columns, but | ||
| # the non-spec sampler path (num_draft_tokens == 0) returns width 1, | ||
| # so an unpadded broadcast leaves the peer waiting on a larger count | ||
| # than the root sends. NCCL does not diagnose the mismatch: the root | ||
| # completes and the receiver hangs until the watchdog fires. Pad so | ||
| # both sides agree. post_update reads each row with | ||
| # sampled_tokens.stride(0) and stops at num_sampled, so the pad | ||
| # columns are never observed. |
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can the comments here be more concise?
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Address PR vllm-project#50514 review feedback: keep-mask draft_update, HF-resolve embed load, concise comments, Llama/Qwen/DSv4 opt-in, EAGLE3×PP=2 e2e, and remove the pp>2 guard. Aux taps no longer chain through IntermediateTensors.
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@yewentao256 Addressed both suggestions in the current head:
The latest head also deduplicates auxiliary layer IDs before PP slot calculation. |
Skip auxiliary PP buffer reservation when model parallelism is not initialized and update the DSpark embedding-sharing test for the shared helper and draft parallel config. Co-authored-by: Cursor <noreply@cursor.com> Signed-off-by: Yongqin Wang <yongqinwang@roblox.com>
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@yongqinwang-cmd could you also test test e2e accuracy using |
Yes, i updated the Pr body Validation after code refactoring: pre-commit/mypy and focused CPU tests pass. On 2×B200, real-weight Kimi-K3 + DSpark at TP8×PP2 completed FULL and PIECEWISE CUDA graph capture with zero restarts or CUDA/NCCL faults. Full GSM8K lm_eval (1,319 examples, 5-shot, temperature 0) achieved 0.96361 ± 0.00516 exact match for both strict and flexible extraction, statistically unchanged from the previous 0.96437 ± 0.00511. Mean acceptance length was 4.626 with 7 draft tokens. |
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LGTM, thanks for the iteration!
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433-434: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winIterate over the stage-local layers without global-index slicing.
self.layerscontains only the layers assigned to the current PP stage, whileself.start_layerandself.end_layerare global layer indexes. On every non-first PP rank,islice(self.layers, self.start_layer, self.end_layer)starts past the end of the local list, so the stage executes zero decoder layers and forwards its input unchanged.Use the local list directly and keep
start=self.start_layeronly for auxiliary-layer numbering.Proposed fix
- for idx, layer in enumerate( - islice(self.layers, self.start_layer, self.end_layer), - start=self.start_layer, - ): + for idx, layer in enumerate(self.layers, start=self.start_layer):🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@vllm/model_executor/models/llama.py`:
- Around line 433-434: Update the layer iteration in the stage forward path to
iterate over the local self.layers collection directly, removing the
global-index islice bounds. Preserve start=self.start_layer solely for
auxiliary-layer numbering.
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@yewentao256 Thank you. All checks are green! |
…der-pipeline-parallel Keep EAGLE3+PP enabled on V2 and take main's DBO/ubatching feature checks. Signed-off-by: Yongqin Wang <yongqinwang@roblox.com>
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| vllm_config, | ||
| parallel_config=speculative_config.draft_parallel_config, |
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This change the parallel_config from target config to draft_parallel_config.
But draft_parallel_config failed to inherit settings such as DCP from target, resulting in assertion failures when launching models (e.g., Kimi-K3) with DCP and DSpark.
For more details and a quick fix, please check #55472.
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Summary
This enables EAGLE3-style external draft models (
eagle3,dflash, anddspark) with pipeline parallelism for target models that explicitly opt in.The draft model runs only on the last pipeline stage, but its auxiliary hidden
states can come from layers on any stage. Each stage adds the states it produces
to the existing
IntermediateTensorshandoff using globally ordered slots.Middle stages forward states received from earlier stages, and the last stage
reconstructs the list in layer order. This adds no communication inside the
model forward: packing is ordinary tensor/dict output work, while relay handling
remains in the runner outside CUDA graph capture.
The PR also makes the rest of the PP path usable with speculative decoding:
target model's PP size;
correct token IDs on the next step;
finishing-request calculation for speculative tokens;
draft checkpoint shares it.
Unsupported target implementations still fail during model loading with an
error explaining that auxiliary hidden states are not forwarded across PP
stages.
CUDA graph compatibility
Full CUDA graphs remain supported. The captured model forward only adds local
auxiliary hidden states to its
IntermediateTensorsoutput. PP forwarding,sampled-token broadcast, and draft-token broadcast run in
PPHandleroutsidethe captured forward.
The draft receive is now part of
PPHandler.receive(). This is a structuralsimplification only: it uses the same side stream and communicator, preserves
the sampled/metadata/draft collective order, and records one event after all
three receives.
Relation to #46994
This is not a duplicate of #46994. That PR enables MTP, whose draft model uses
the target's final hidden state already available on the last PP stage. This PR
covers EAGLE3-style draft models that require auxiliary hidden states from
layers on earlier stages. The PRs overlap only in shared PP bookkeeping fixes;
whichever lands second can rebase those parts.
Tests
layers, embedding sharing, and compile-safe packing: 34 passed.
FULL_AND_PIECEWISEmodes, plus PP=4 inFULL_AND_PIECEWISEmode.Hardware validation performed during development:
2.033 / 2.033 / 1.996 / 2.046.
3.436 / 3.620 / 3.520 / 3.488.
597ed4934, Llama-3.3-70B + EAGLE3 at TP=2 x PP=2 across twonodes using NCCL over TCP sockets reached 2.59 mean acceptance length and
2.34x / 1.67x throughput versus spec-off at concurrency 1 / 8. The final
review refactor has CPU and lint coverage but has not yet been rerun on that
hardware.
Validation after code refactoring:
pre-commit/mypy and focused CPU tests pass. On 2×B200, real-weight Kimi-K3 + DSpark at TP8×PP2 completed FULL and PIECEWISE CUDA graph capture with zero restarts or CUDA/NCCL faults.
Full GSM8K lm_eval (1,319 examples, 5-shot, temperature 0) achieved 0.96361 ± 0.00516 exact match for both strict and flexible extraction, statistically unchanged from the previous 0.96437 ± 0.00511. Mean acceptance length was 4.626 with 7 draft tokens.
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reviewed the resulting changes and ran the tests reported above.