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[Bugfix][LoRA] Fix Qwen3-ASR audio tower QKV adapters - #50793

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Purpose

Follow-up to #37247.

Qwen3-ASR's audio tower exposes attention Q/K/V as a fused
QKVParallelLinear named qkv, while PEFT checkpoints store separate
q_proj, k_proj, and v_proj LoRA weights. The model currently only
declares the qkv_proj packed mapping used by the language model, so the
LoRA manager receives an empty packed-module list for
audio_tower.layers.*.self_attn.qkv and ignores those adapters.

This PR adds the missing qkv packed mapping and a regression test that
checks the Qwen3-ASR audio QKV layer is wrapped with
MergedQKVParallelLinearWithLoRA.

User impact: all-linear Qwen3-ASR PEFT adapters can apply their audio tower
Q/K/V LoRAs instead of silently skipping them.

Duplicate check: searches for open Qwen3-ASR audio tower/QKV LoRA issues and
PRs found no existing fix. #49525 addresses text-only multimodal mapper
fallbacks, and #45944 targets Qwen2-Audio, so neither overlaps this change.

Test Plan

.venv/bin/python -m pytest \
  tests/lora/test_lora_manager.py::test_wrap_qwen3_asr_audio_qkv -q

End-to-end validation uses Qwen3-ASR-1.7B with an all-linear rank-64 PEFT
adapter and --enable-tower-connector-lora, then calls
/v1/audio/transcriptions with a LibriSpeech dev-clean sample.

Test Result

Static checks on the latest main checkout:

.venv/bin/python -m py_compile ...  PASS
git diff --check                    PASS

End-to-end validation on vLLM 0.26.0:

  • before the mapping change, all 24 audio encoder QKV layers logged
    could not be wrapped ... It will be ignored;
  • after the change, all 24 warnings disappeared and the adapter loaded;
  • /v1/audio/transcriptions returned HTTP 200;
  • LibriSpeech sample 652-129742-0020 exactly matched the reference:
    STRAIN AND BOTTLE AND PUT IN ICE BOX SHAKE BEFORE USING EACH TIME.

The targeted pytest was not run in this checkout because installing the
current main-branch PyTorch 2.13/CUDA 12.9 test environment was stopped before
completion. The PR is opened as a draft so CI and reviewer feedback can cover
that remaining check.

No documentation update is needed because this corrects the existing
Qwen3-ASR tower LoRA behavior.

Developed with assistance from OpenAI Codex. I reviewed every changed line and
the validation evidence.


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Signed-off-by: ksellesk <9996886+ksellesk@users.noreply.github.com>
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