[Bugfix] Reload speculative draft weights after Level 2 sleep wake - #52487
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Will deprecate model runner v1 soon, please only do mrv2
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Updated in dfd9a3dbea: the final diff is MRV2-only (vllm/v1/worker/gpu/model_runner.py). All legacy Model Runner V1 implementation and test changes were removed. I have left the thread unresolved for your review.
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Could you try to simplify the code?
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Simplified in dfd9a3dbea. The MRV2 disk path now resolves the configured draft, reloads it through its model loader and the existing layerwise lifecycle, then reloads the target last so shared storage remains target-authoritative. Caller-supplied iterator updates are unchanged. The final implementation is 30 lines with three focused tests.
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Why don't use weight update api, draft model weight update is already supported. |
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Thanks — I checked the draft weight-update path from #46725 in detail. |
I see, thanks for the clarification. Are you doing RL or multi instance serving in one replica, just wonder the use case. |
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@kylesayrs Could you take a look? |
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Good question — it's closest to the second, but with a key difference. It's model hot-swapping for VRAM reclamation: each served model has its own vLLM engine/process (rather than several models packed into one replica), and there's no RL/trainer in the loop. An external router selects which engine receives traffic; the inactive one is put into L2 sleep to free its VRAM and woken when it becomes active again. Each engine uses speculative decoding, with its draft model inside that engine. In this deployment, restoring a model after an L2 sleep uses the disk-backed reload path ( Some context on the mechanism: the L2 sleep path already saves and restores the draft's buffers across sleep/wake ( With the fix, acceptance recovers to ~2.0–2.2 across live L2 sleep/wake swap cycles; the change is covered by unit tests for the disk-backed, no-draft, and iterator paths. |
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Make sense to me. |
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To keep the consistency, would it be better if we only modify GPUModelRunnerV1.reload_weights?
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Agreed — that's cleaner. The draft disk reload now lives in GPUModelRunner.reload_weights (gpu_model_runner.py), on the existing weights_iterator is None path, before the target load so shared storage stays target-authoritative. Model Runner V2 stays the one-line GPUModelRunnerV1.reload_weights(self, ...) delegate; the helper is invoked unbound so a V2 self still restores the draft.
Rebased onto current main. Focused tests cover disk + draft, V2 delegation, disk without draft, and iterator-does-not-touch-draft: 4 passed. I'll trigger /ci run after pushing this head.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughGPU model runners now reload speculative draft weights from disk before target weights. The implementation detaches shared target modules during reload and restores fused KV buffer references afterward. Tests cover delegation, early exits, shared embeddings, untied heads, aliases, and load ordering. ChangesDraft Weight Reloading
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change restores speculative draft weights after Level 2 wake, recovering expected decoding performance, but a failed draft checkpoint load could leave the worker partially restored and require recovery; incomplete draft loads may also remain silent. Mergeable with explicit owner awareness of this bounded failure-handling risk. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant GPUModelRunner
participant DraftModel
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participant TargetModel
GPUModelRunner->>DraftModel: get_draft_model()
GPUModelRunner->>ModelLoader: get_all_weights()
GPUModelRunner->>DraftModel: initialize_layerwise_reload()
ModelLoader-->>DraftModel: draft checkpoint tensors
GPUModelRunner->>DraftModel: finalize_layerwise_reload()
GPUModelRunner->>TargetModel: reload target weights
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You were right that draft-first / target-last is not enough on its own — and
Instrumented reloads confirm the detach handles exactly these: 1 target-owned EAGLE3Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct + the EAGLE3 head, TP=2,
Zero draft parameters on meta after the reload; outputs coherent; the With CUDA graphs enabled (the default), the same cycle fails at the first DSparkQwen3.8-27B-FP8 + Qwen3.8-27B-DSpark-vLLM, TP=2, First, your shared-module concern applies to this drafter too: both the Second, the drafter rebuilds fused buffers (a stacked copy of layer weights
Zero draft parameters on meta after the reload; coherent output; clean In short: EAGLE3's inference-relevant draft state recovers across L2 cycles |
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5716-5719: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winReport unloaded draft weights.
The return value of
draft_model.load_weightsis discarded. The target path at Line 5819 comparesweights_to_loadagainstloaded_weightsand logs a warning for missing entries. The draft path has no equivalent check.An incomplete draft reload produces exactly the failure this PR fixes: the drafter runs with stale or partially initialized parameters and acceptance drops. Without a log line, that state is silent.
♻️ Proposed change to log missing draft weights
target_model = self.get_model() + draft_weights_to_load = {name for name, _ in draft_model.named_parameters()} with _temporarily_detach_target_owned_draft_modules(draft_model, target_model): initialize_layerwise_reload(draft_model) - draft_model.load_weights( + loaded_draft_weights = draft_model.load_weights( model_loader.get_all_weights(draft_model_config, draft_model) ) finalize_layerwise_reload(draft_model, draft_model_config) + + if loaded_draft_weights is not None: + draft_weights_not_loaded = draft_weights_to_load - loaded_draft_weights + if draft_weights_not_loaded: + logger.warning( + "Following draft weights were not loaded from checkpoint: %s", + draft_weights_not_loaded, + )Note: detached aliases are expected to appear in this set, so filter them out or scope
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In `@vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py`:
- Around line 5716-5719: Capture the return value of draft_model.load_weights in
the draft reload path and compare it with the draft weights requested for
loading, logging a warning for missing entries as the target path does. Exclude
expected detached aliases, or scope draft_weights_to_load to parameters
remaining attached by the detach context, before reporting unloaded weights.
Keep finalize_layerwise_reload unchanged.
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One data point that may narrow the CUDA-graph IMA, from a much smaller configuration: 1x RTX 5070 Ti (SM120 consumer Blackwell), TP=1, Stock main reproduces the acceptance collapse you describe — mean acceptance 1.685 -> 1.000 (0 of 4560 draft tokens accepted), identical under The part I think is new: the discarded draft parameters come back as exact zeros, deterministically — not as arbitrary garbage. Fingerprinting every parameter across the sequence on stock main: the target's 98 parameters are unchanged, and 11 of the eagle3 draft's 12 read back with sum and absmax both exactly 0.0 (the survivor is That matters for the IMA hunt because targets = base + self.draft_id_to_target_id
logits_new[:, targets] = logits # llama_eagle3.py:389A garbage mapping there would index out of bounds, which looked like a plausible IMA source. It cannot be one: I filled 14.4 GiB of free device memory with So whatever the graph replay is dereferencing, it is not an out-of-range index originating from d2t. Investigation assisted by AI tooling; all commands were run and all numbers verified on the hardware above. |
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Correction to my earlier comment — I overstated one conclusion. I wrote that an out-of-range That is one machine, and this repo does not assume it holds generally: The measurements in my earlier comment stand; only the generalisation was wrong. Sorry for the noise. |
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Level 2 sleep discards speculative draft parameters, while the documented disk-backed reload path restored only the target model. Reload the configured draft checkpoint in GPUModelRunner.reload_weights before the target so speculative decoding recovers and the target remains authoritative for shared parameter storage. Model Runner V2 keeps its existing one-line delegate into that method. Keep caller-supplied iterator reloads unchanged and cover the disk, no-draft, iterator, and V2-delegate paths with focused unit tests. Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex Assisted-by: Grok Signed-off-by: Greg Weyer <gweyer@live.com>
Condense the reload_weights draft-reload comment block to three lines; content unchanged (L2-sleep rationale, target-authoritative ordering, unbound-call note for MRV2 delegation). Assisted-by: Aether (Hermes Agent) Signed-off-by: Greg Weyer <gweyer@live.com>
Gemma4 MTP replaces draft embed_tokens with the backbone-dim target module, so replaying the assistant checkpoint into that alias shape-mismatches. Unbind those identities for the draft load, refill a shape-mismatched tied lm_head, and leave same-width distinct heads untouched. Assisted-by: Grok Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex Signed-off-by: Greg Weyer <gweyer@live.com> Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
The tied-placeholder layout (Gemma4 MTP) keeps the embedding's vocab width and differs only on the hidden axis. A draft lm_head that is narrower on the vocab axis (EAGLE3 low-rank heads, draft vocab 32000 vs the shared target embedding) is a real projection with its own checkpoint entry, not a tied placeholder, so its embed_tokens tensors must be discarded rather than redirected into the head. Verified live: on EAGLE3-LLaMA3.1-Instruct-8B + Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct (TP=2, num_speculative_tokens=3, L2 sleep) the old condition engaged the sink on the vocab-axis mismatch; the checkpoint ships no embed tensors so it consumed nothing and acceptance was preserved either way. The guard removes that false engagement; the Gemma4 tied case is unchanged and the new unit test fails without the guard. Signed-off-by: Greg Weyer <gweyer@live.com>
The dflash/dspark drafters rebuild fused buffers (a stacked copy of layer weights plus a cached rotary-embedding reference) at the end of load_weights. Under the disk draft reload that rebuild now runs inside the layerwise lifecycle, so it captures the temporarily meta-derived rotary buffer; finalization then restores the real buffer on the module tree and the cached reference is left on meta, crashing the first fused RoPE dispatch after the wake. Re-run the drafter's own rebuild after finalize_layerwise_reload so the cached references are re-captured from the restored tree. No-op for drafters without _build_fused_kv_buffers. Verified live on Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 TP=2: DSpark (K=7) previously crashed post-wake and now serves with acceptance restored across repeated L2 cycles. EAGLE3 and MTP drafts do not define the builder and are unaffected. Signed-off-by: Greg Weyer <gweyer@live.com>
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Adding a downstream use case, since the question of who needs the disk-backed L2 path came up above: serverless scale-to-zero serving. We serve
So +1 from a single-GPU (TP=1, CUDA graphs on) Gemma 4 26B-A4B MTP deployment. The PR's current evidence is TP=2 on RTX 5090 with the smaller E2B model, so this is a different shape of the same need. |
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Addresses #52479
Problem
After the documented Level 2 sleep/wake sequence, MTP speculative decoding
silently stops helping: every drafted token is rejected
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Mean acceptance length: 1.00,Accepted throughput: 0.00) and decodethroughput falls to approximately the no-speculation rate. Target-model outputs
remain correct, so the failure appears only as a large performance regression.
Level 2 sleep discards draft parameters together with the target parameters.
wake_up()restores the saved draft buffers, but the documented subsequentreload_weights()call reloaded only the target model. The drafter is aseparate module and therefore continued with discarded parameter storage.
Fix
Put the disk-backed draft reload in
GPUModelRunner.reload_weights(
vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py), on the existingweights_iterator is Nonepath, before the target load:get_draft_model()accessor.without a separate
draft_load_configuse the target load configuration.initialize_layerwise_reload/finalize_layerwise_reload, preserving the parameter addresses captured bythe compiled runtime.
GPUModelRunner._reload_draft_weights_from_disk(self))because Model Runner V2 already delegates this method with a V2
selfanddoes not inherit the helper.
same object as a target module. A discard dummy swallows checkpoint tensors
for those aliases so layerwise reload and
load_weightscannot shape-mismatchor rewrite live target storage (Gemma4 MTP after
_maybe_share_embeddings).embed_tokenskeeps the same vocab-axis width as the draftlm_headbut differs on the hidden axis (the Gemma4 MTP tied-placeholderlayout), load those embed tensors into the still-live
lm_head. Heads thatdiffer on the vocab axis (EAGLE3 low-rank heads) are real projections with
their own checkpoint entries and take the discard path; same-width shared
embeds are discarded and restored by the target reload.
finalize_layerwise_reload, re-run the drafter's fused-buffer rebuild(
_build_fused_kv_buffers) if it defines one. The dflash/dspark draftersrebuild derived state (a stacked copy of layer weights plus a cached
rotary-embedding reference) at the end of
load_weights; inside the layerwisewindow that rebuild captures the temporarily meta-derived rotary buffer, so
it is re-run after finalization restores the real buffers. No-op for
drafters without the builder.
EAGLE) is restored from the target checkpoint.
caller and are not assumed to contain a second draft checkpoint.
Model Runner V2 keeps its existing one-line delegate into that method. There is
no V2 wrapper and no production-file diff under
vllm/v1/worker/gpu/.This mirrors Level 1 sleep semantics: both paths restore the existing target
and draft modules in place. Level 1 restores their tagged allocations from host
RAM, while Level 2 restores saved buffers during
wake_up()and reloads modelparameters from their disk checkpoints during
reload_weights().Why not
start_draft_weight_update()?The draft weight-update API added by #46725 selects the draft as the destination
of an already-configured
WeightTransferEngine. Its built-in NCCL and IPCbackends receive weights supplied by an external trainer; they do not accept a
checkpoint path or read weights from disk. The API also requires the server to
start with
weight_transfer_config. It remains the correct path for runtimetrainer/RL weight transfer; this PR does not replace it.
The failing workflow is the separate, documented disk-restore path and does not
require a trainer or weight-transfer engine:
This change reuses #46725's
get_draft_model()accessor and the same layerwisereload lifecycle used by checkpoint-format transfer engines, while keeping the
checkpoint source appropriate to this workflow.
This is not a duplicate of #46725: that change added externally supplied
runtime draft updates, while this PR completes the separate documented
disk-backed
reload_weights()recovery path.Live evidence
Qwen3.8 MTP (same-checkpoint, same-width share)
Measured on an earlier MRV2-wrapper revision of this PR (same disk draft
loader, layerwise lifecycle, and draft-first / target-last order) on 2x RTX
5090, TP=2, Qwen3.8-27B-FP8, MTP
num_speculative_tokens=2, with sleep modeenabled. Each throughput entry is the median of three 256-token HTTP
generations.
Unpatched reproduction on that stack: 51.8 tok/s, acceptance length 1.00, zero
accepted draft tokens.
Gemma4 E2B MTP (dim-mismatched shared embeddings)
Measured on this branch (identity detach + tied-embed sink) on the same
2x RTX 5090, TP=2,
google/gemma-4-E2B-it+google/gemma-4-E2B-it-assistant,MTP
num_speculative_tokens=1, sleep mode enabled. Each throughput entry isthe median of three 64-token HTTP generations. Assistant
hidden_size=256,backbone_hidden_size=1536.Both models used the documented staged sequence plus a prefix-cache reset.
Outputs were coherent. No shape-mismatch traceback. A discard-only detach
avoided the crash but left acceptance at 1.00 (tied
lm_headnever refilled);the sink is what restored 1.50.
EAGLE3 (separate draft checkpoint, low-rank draft head)
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct + yuhuili/EAGLE3-LLaMA3.1-Instruct-8B, 2x RTX 5090,
TP=2,
num_speculative_tokens=3, sleep mode enabled,--enforce-eager,median of three 64-token generations. The head ships no
embed_tokenstensors, so the target's embedding module is installed in the draft (one
detached alias at reload); it keeps its own low-rank
lm_head(draft vocab32000).
No draft parameters remain on meta after the reload; outputs coherent. On the
pre-guard revision used for this validation the tied-embed sink engaged on the
vocab-axis mismatch but consumed no tensors (the checkpoint ships none); the
hidden-axis guard added in a follow-up commit now sends this layout directly to
the discard path.
With CUDA graphs enabled (default), the same cycle instead fails at the first
post-wake step with a CUDA illegal memory access that under
CUDA_LAUNCH_BLOCKING=1raises synchronously inside the draft speculator'sfused multi-step decode CUDA-graph replay. This failure is reproduced without
this PR on the stock nightly (identical synchronous site, same machine), so it
was not introduced by this change; eager mode with this PR fully works. The
specific stale pointer inside the captured graph is not identified here.
DSpark (draft ships neither embed nor lm_head)
Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 + its DSpark drafter (checkpoint of 62 tensors, no
embed_tokens/lm_head— both modules are the target's and are the twodetached aliases at reload), TP=2,
num_speculative_tokens=7, median of three64-token generations. The drafter rebuilds fused buffers at the end of
load_weights; inside the layerwise window that rebuild captured thetemporarily meta-derived rotary buffer while finalization restored the real
one, crashing the first fused RoPE dispatch. The follow-up commit re-runs that
rebuild after finalization.
Zero draft parameters on meta after the reload; outputs coherent; clean worker
logs.
Tests
Nine focused unit tests cover:
the layerwise lifecycle before reloading the target.
GPUModelRunnerV1.reload_weights(self, ...)delegate.embed_tokens(same vocab width, differinghidden) is not written; the tied draft-dim
lm_headstill receives theembed checkpoint tensor.
lm_headis not filledfrom
embed_tokens.head still loads from its own checkpoint entry.
load_weightsrebuilds fused state mid-lifecycle has thatrebuild re-run after finalization.
lm_headaliased atdraft.lm_headand everyshared_head.headis detached (named_modules(remove_duplicate=False)).Scope and limitations
the shared
GPUModelRunner.reload_weightsthat V2 already calls, so alegacy V1 engine using that method also gets the disk draft reload.
separate assistant checkpoint, EAGLE3 under
--enforce-eager, and DSparkend-to-end, all TP=2. Graphed-mode EAGLE3 fails at the first post-wake step
inside the draft's multi-step CUDA-graph replay; that failure is reproduced
without this PR on the stock nightly and is not addressed here. Independent
drafts are unbound only when a module is the same object as the target:
EAGLE3 shares the target's embedding, DSpark shares both the embedding and
the output head, and both detach as expected.
change does not redefine draft selection during
weights_pathmodel swaps.get_all_weightsraiseNotImplementedError, matching the existing target-model disk reload.AI assistance
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