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Overview

Tool parameters declared inside root or nested allOf, anyOf, and oneOf schemas can be missed during argument coercion. This change discovers conservative property hints in those schemas and reuses the existing scalar converters to repair nested objects and arrays in the shared Python parser engine.

For example, when item is an object with a string name and integer age, {"item":"{\"name\":\"Alice\",\"age\":\"42\"}"} becomes {"item":{"name":"Alice","age":42}}. Missing required fields or unrelated size and value bounds do not prevent an otherwise useful type repair.

Behavior and implementation

  • Direct properties retain their constraints. allOf refinements are collected in a flat list, avoiding artificial nesting as the number of sibling refinements grows.
  • Alternative branches supply a property hint only when every branch that can accept that property agrees. Ambiguous declared names remain available for wrapper detection, without supplying unsafe coercion hints. Streaming does not select a branch from partially received sibling values.
  • Decoded objects and arrays are recursively coerced. Cached compatibility checks preserve type, enum, and const constraints within their object/array alternatives; unrelated required, bounds, patterns, and additionalProperties validation does not gate repairs. oneOf is treated as a union for coercion compatibility, without enforcing exclusive match counts. Unsupported or malformed schema entries are handled conservatively; this is not full JSON Schema validation or new $ref/tuple-item inference.
  • Schema hints are prepared once per tool for the effective tool set. Each streaming tool-call slot also retains the latest input and result for each argument, keyed by prepared schema, input type, and JSON spelling. Unchanged arguments reuse their results while later fields stream; changing values are recomputed. The cache is isolated between tool calls.
  • DeepSeek V3.2/V4 check wrapper shape before looking up properties, and use cached declared names when needed. The shared find_tool_properties API remains available to K2 Horizon.

Timing measurements

Local CPU measurements on macOS arm64, Python 3.14.6 and jsonschema 4.26.0; medians of seven batches, with tracing disabled during timing. Historical coercion methods and helpers were loaded from the listed revisions into the same interpreter. These measure parser work, excluding model generation and network I/O.

For a warm _fix_arg_types call with four properties (name: string, unit: string enum, count: integer, active: boolean) and input {"name":"Berlin","unit":"celsius","count":"42","active":"true"}:

Implementation Time per call
Main baseline, ae71862c51 4.31 µs
Earlier PR head, cdcf42278b 14.63 µs
This PR, prepared hints without argument-result reuse 3.31 µs
This PR, prepared hints and warmed argument-result cache 2.29 µs

The following public-parser streaming replays isolate the additional benefit of argument-result reuse and DeepSeek's cached wrapper lookup. The comparison column already caches schema hints; it is not the earlier PR head above. Times include parser construction and replay-helper overhead.

Replay Schema-hint caching alone Full caching in this PR
DeepSeek V4, four properties under 8 root alternatives 1.12 ms 0.75 ms
DeepSeek V4, four properties under 32 root alternatives 1.71 ms 0.81 ms
Qwen3, 8-alternative object followed by a 600-character string 18.73 ms 8.57 ms
Qwen3, 64-item string[]/integer[] alternative followed by a 600-character string 77.48 ms 18.73 ms

DeepSeek uses 341 one-character chunks; Qwen3 uses four-character chunks (184 for the object, 270 for the array). The object matches the last discriminator branch; the array contains numeric strings. Measurements came from successive local runs, not interleaved samples.

Separate untimed counters show DeepSeek property lookups falling from 11 to 1 per replay. Both Qwen3 replays reduce repeated compatibility checks of the unchanged payload from 158 to 1; alternative visits fall from 1,264 to 8 for the object and from 316 to 2 for the array. JSON parsing, serialization, prefix checks, and validation of changing values still run. Warm timings exclude first-use schema preparation, and these results do not establish serving-throughput improvements.

This addresses object-combinator property discovery in the shared parser engine, extending beyond the older Qwen property-level anyOf work in #36032 and direct-property $ref resolution in #50933. AI assistance was used to develop this change.

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@xeophon I think we should add tests that check this bug

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Verified locally at head 93fee632 (base merge-base 41848ca) — the fix does what it claims and is regression-free.

Regression-proven (3/3): the new TestFixArgTypes cases all FAIL on the base worktree and PASS on head. Base failures are exactly the reported symptom:

  • test_root_alternative_branch_properties[anyOf/oneOf] — with a root oneOf, payload: '{"n": 1}' (double-encoded JSON string) is left as a string because find_tool_properties() only sees direct parameters.properties; the merged schema on head gives payload type: object, so the string is coerced to a dict.
  • test_root_allof_refines_direct_property — nested count stays "42" on base (direct payload schema has no properties); head merges the allOf member's properties in, so the nested value is coerced to 42. (Base assert observed: {'payload': {'count': '42'}} != {'payload': {'count': 42}}.)

No regressions: full tests/parser/engine/test_parser_engine.py 120/120 on head. tests/tool_parsers/test_utils.py + tests/tool_use/test_tool_choice_required.py: 34 failed / 303 passed on head — failure set byte-identical to base (CUDA-less structured-outputs env noise), zero new failures.

Logic read: the refactor of find_tool_properties unifies the iter_response_function_tool_info and _extract_tool_info paths into one loop with equivalent fall-through semantics (previously a name mismatch on a FunctionTool/NamespaceTool entry continued to the next tool; the inner loop now exhausts and the outer loop advances — same behavior). _root_schema_properties is sound: branch props with no cross-branch conflict (shared) are value-stable by construction, so coercion cannot flip-flop as the streaming parser sees more arguments — the prefix-invariant concern in the PR body is real and correctly avoided. _dict_properties correctly drops boolean subschemas. Const-only schemas (e.g. kind) carry no type, so extract_types_from_schema returns [] and _coerce_value leaves the value untouched — no crash path introduced.

Non-blocking nit (no change required): dict(params.get("properties", {})) will happily convert a malformed list-of-pairs properties instead of treating it as absent, and raises ValueError on other list shapes; the sibling helper _dict_properties already guards with isinstance(schema, dict). A one-line if not isinstance(params.get("properties"), dict): return {} guard would make the function total on malformed schemas. Purely defensive; real-world tool schemas pass properties as objects.

CI note: pre-run-check failure on the head is vllm's first-time-contributor gate (maintainer approval required), not a code failure — DCO/Summary/Meta checks pass.

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The change adds root JSON Schema combinator handling for tool properties and constrained type inference. Parser coercion now resolves nested schemas, validates converted values, preserves incompatible values, and supports const-based and streaming type preservation. Tests cover composed schemas, strict nested alternatives, malformed combinators, and scalar coercion.

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Schema-aware argument typing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Root combinator property resolution
vllm/tool_parsers/utils.py
Property extraction resolves nested allOf, anyOf, and oneOf schemas. Conflicting direct and allOf constraints remain composed. Tool property lookup uses the enhanced extraction path.
Combinator type inference
vllm/tool_parsers/utils.py, tests/tool_parsers/test_utils.py
extract_types_from_schema supports optional const inference, returns no types for unsupported schemas, and intersects compatible combinator constraints.
Parser coercion and validation
vllm/parser/engine/parser_engine.py, vllm/tool_parsers/utils.py, tests/parser/engine/test_parser_engine.py
Argument coercion resolves nested schema properties, validates converted values, and preserves values that do not match known types. Tests cover nested alternatives, conflicting refinements, malformed combinators, strict schemas, integer constraints, arrays, and streamed values.

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  participant ParserEngine
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  ParserEngine->>get_schema_properties: resolve composed property schemas
  ParserEngine->>extract_types_from_schema: infer compatible types
  extract_types_from_schema-->>ParserEngine: return constrained types
  ParserEngine->>coerce_to_schema_type: convert argument values
  coerce_to_schema_type-->>ParserEngine: return typed or original values
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@arpera fixed those! the PR is now covering even more cases properly

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Thanks for this — the underlying gaps are real (root/nested combinators invisible to find_tool_properties, decoded objects not recursed, untyped props force-cast to string), and I'd like to see them fixed. But the current implementation has blocking problems:

  • Uncaught exceptions on request-controlled schemas. The is_valid gate only catches (Unresolvable, UnknownType, TypeError). Main never raises on any schema; this branch raises on:

    • {"type": "array", "items": [{"type": "integer"}]} with no $schema (draft-7 tuple form — pydantic v1 emits this) → AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'get'
    • "items": [], "properties": [1] → AttributeError
    • "pattern": "[" → re.error

    Nothing wraps _fix_arg_types, so this becomes a 500 / broken SSE stream from a client-supplied tool definition.

  • Validation gate is over-strict and regresses existing behavior. Rejecting on value constraints (required, minimum, additionalProperties) means a model that omits one field now gets its stringified object left as a string — main returned an object. Example: {"item": "{"name":"Alice"}"} against the PR's own OpenAI schema → main: {"item": {"name": "Alice"}}, PR: {"item": "{"name":"Alice"}"}. Coercion should gate on type (plus enum/const), not full schema validity.

  • ~3.7× cost on a per-token path. _fix_arg_types runs on every streaming arg delta; this rebuilds a jsonschema validator and re-walks get_schema_properties each call (13.6 µs → 50 µs on a 4-property schema). The schema is static per request — compute once, not per delta.

  • Stale base. find_tool_properties is removed, but vllm/tool_parsers/k2_horizon_tool_parser.py (#55063) imports it → ImportError on collection.

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@mergify mergify Bot added the deepseek Related to DeepSeek models label Sep 11, 2026
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@sfeng33 @arpera thanks for those. Updated the PR, focusing on performance + exiting early. Performance is now the same as in main.

Astra also found some gaps in the DeepSeek parsers for the same issues.

Also, thank you so much for your patience 🙏

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Hi @xeophon, thank you once again for your fixes! I did careful review of this PR and I can say that the PR itself is very complicated in my opinion. Most of the complexity comes from trying to cover all possible cases for example with properties that leads to a need to check not only top level of JSON Schema but also to traverse it. In my opinion there is no need to cover all the cases in one PR and we need to cover use cases based on real need from real applications.

So, I tried to simplify your patch and at the same time deliver all the fixes your PR aims to do in a new PR #57005 where I added you as a co-author. I propose to look at this PR and tell if it covers all the needs you currently lack in vLLM. If there is any more cases that you would like to cover, please, notify me, I will extend the patch. What concerns this PR, I personally cannot approve it because I believe it is overcomplicated. Probably some other tool calling codeowners would approve this PR, but I feel like this is not right direction. Anyway, I will post a link to this your PR to #feat-tool-calling vLLM slack channel -- the main communication channel dedicated to tool calling feature in vLLM -- maybe we can have some more eyes on this change to see if it is viable or not.

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hey @arpera! this is very valid (and correct, imo). the case i mostly care about (top-level allOf, anyOf, oneOf) is covered in your PR, which I agree is vastly superior. i will close my PR :)

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