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[Feature] Support EAGLE3 for Sarvam - #53052

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Purpose

Sarvam MLA (SarvamMLAForCausalLM) previously did not expose the EAGLE3 interface or capture the auxiliary hidden states required by the drafter. This adds EAGLE3 support with a compatible draft checkpoint on a single pipeline stage.

  • SarvamMLAModel uses EagleModelMixin to capture embeddings and complete layer outputs (hidden_states + residual).
  • SarvamMLAForCausalLM declares SupportsEagle3 and inherits the protocol's auxiliary-layer configuration hooks.
  • The final-stage forward returns auxiliary states only when captured, preserving the plain-tensor return for ordinary requests.
  • Capture uses absolute layer indices, following qwen3_moe.py.
  • Model docstrings document the supported scope.

The default auxiliary layers are (2, n // 2, n - 3). Draft checkpoints trained on other layers can set eagle_aux_hidden_state_layer_ids in the draft config. SarvamMoEForCausalLM is unchanged.

Pipeline parallelism

Ordinary Sarvam MLA pipeline parallelism remains supported with EAGLE3 disabled: stages transport hidden_states and residual.

EAGLE3 for Sarvam MLA requires --pipeline-parallel-size 1. This model does not transport auxiliary captures across pipeline stages and does not opt into supports_aux_hidden_states_over_pp.

Upstream #50514 added EAGLE3 pipeline transport infrastructure and a per-model capability check in the newer GPU runner. Qwen3 dense inherits that support through Qwen2Model; Qwen3 MoE and Sarvam MLA have not opted in. The runner therefore rejects EAGLE3 + PP for Sarvam. Adding that support is outside this PR's scope.

Validation

The PR author tested the Sarvam MLA model end to end with DSpark and confirmed that inference works.

AI assistance was used for this PR revision.

Enable EAGLE-3 speculative decoding for the Sarvam MLA architecture by
adopting the consolidated SupportsEagle interface from vllm-project#36063.

SarvamMLAModel mixes in EagleModelMixin and collects auxiliary hidden
states, using absolute layer indices so the capture points stay correct
under pipeline parallelism. SarvamMLAForCausalLM declares SupportsEagle3
and relies on the protocol defaults for set_aux_hidden_state_layers and
get_eagle3_default_aux_hidden_state_layers.

Signed-off-by: mohit-sarvam <mohit@sarvam.ai>
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mohit-sarvam and others added 5 commits August 20, 2026 05:39
Cover the four things that can regress silently: the SupportsEagle3
declaration, the protocol hooks reaching the inner SarvamMLAModel, the
captured tensors being complete layer outputs, and forward still
returning a bare tensor when no aux layers are configured.

The tests build SarvamMLAModel via object.__new__ so they need neither
weights nor an initialized distributed environment.

Signed-off-by: mohit-sarvam <mohit@sarvam.ai>
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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Looping in @tjtanaa for review who helped get the original sarvam models file pr merge #33942. Thanks in advance!

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  • New Features

    • Added EAGLE3 speculative decoding support for Sarvam MLA models when using a compatible draft checkpoint and a single pipeline stage.
    • Auxiliary hidden states can be captured from configured layers, including embedding outputs, and returned with final outputs.
    • Standard pipeline-parallel execution remains supported when EAGLE3 is disabled.
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    • Documented Sarvam MLA’s EAGLE3 requirements and pipeline-parallel limitations.
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Sarvam MLA now supports Eagle3 capability detection and auxiliary hidden-state capture. It captures configured embedding and layer outputs, uses absolute pipeline layer indices, and preserves tensor-only output when auxiliary capture is disabled.

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Sarvam Eagle3 support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Eagle3 capability contract
vllm/model_executor/models/sarvam.py, tests/model_executor/test_sarvam_eagle3.py, README.md
Sarvam MLA implements EagleModelMixin and SupportsEagle3. Forward annotations include auxiliary hidden-state tuples. Tests verify capability detection and layer configuration propagation. The README documents the pipeline-stage limitation.
Auxiliary hidden-state capture
vllm/model_executor/models/sarvam.py, tests/model_executor/test_sarvam_eagle3.py
SarvamMLAModel.forward captures configured states before and after layers, returns them with final hidden states, and retains tensor-only output when no layers are configured. Tests cover embedding capture, absolute pipeline layer indices, and pipeline hidden-state and residual transport.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 5d86f

Sarvam MLA gains EAGLE3 auxiliary hidden-state support while retaining ordinary inference behavior. EAGLE3 is explicitly limited to single-stage pipeline operation, eliminating the prior cross-stage output concern; no merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant SarvamMLAForCausalLM
  participant SarvamMLAModel
  participant TransformerLayers
  Caller->>SarvamMLAForCausalLM: Send forward request
  SarvamMLAForCausalLM->>SarvamMLAModel: Run with Eagle3 layer configuration
  SarvamMLAModel->>TransformerLayers: Execute layers and capture states
  TransformerLayers-->>SarvamMLAModel: Return hidden states and residuals
  SarvamMLAModel-->>SarvamMLAForCausalLM: Return final and auxiliary states
  SarvamMLAForCausalLM-->>Caller: Return model output
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Documentation preview: https://vllm--53052.org.readthedocs.build/en/53052/

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Keep the EAGLE3 pipeline scope in the PR description and model docstrings.

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@mohit-sarvam mohit-sarvam changed the title Support EAGLE3 for Sarvam [Feature] Support EAGLE3 for Sarvam Sep 7, 2026
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