[feat] FlashInfer CuteDSL MegaMoE integration

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Purpose

This changeset attempts to use the recently added CuteDSL MegaMoE kernels from FlashInfer to accelerate large batch size (prefill mostly) inference. We will evaluate on several models to exercise as many paths as possible.

It is effectively a generalization of #49636 beyond DeepSeekV4.

Test Plan

To test this feature, we evaluate accuracy against baseline with the GSM8K eval and we measured performance using vllm bench serve in simulated prefill scenarios (setting OSL to 1), where these kernels should excel. We chose a variety of models to attempt to cover as many code paths as possible.

All runs were performed on 4xGB200 whenever possible. For DeepSeekV4 Pro, we instead ran on 8xB200.

The servers were started with variations of the following, adjusted per model:

Baseline server

vllm serve \
  $MODEL_PATH \
  --served-model-name evaluation-model \
  --tensor-parallel-size 1 --data-parallel-size 4 \
  --enable-expert-parallel --language-model-only --enforce-eager \
  --moe-backend flashinfer_cutedsl \
  --max-model-len 8192 --max-num-seqs 128 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 16384 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
  --no-enable-prefix-caching --no-enable-flashinfer-autotune \
  --seed 42 --port 8000

Candidate server

vllm serve \
  $MODEL_PATH \
  --served-model-name evaluation-model \
  --tensor-parallel-size 1 --data-parallel-size 4 \
  --enable-expert-parallel --language-model-only --enforce-eager \
  --moe-backend flashinfer_moe_ep_cutedsl \
  --max-model-len 8192 --max-num-seqs 128 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 16384 --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
  --no-enable-prefix-caching --no-enable-flashinfer-autotune \
  --seed 42 --port 8000

Benchmarking load was generated with:

vllm bench serve \
  --backend openai --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000 \
  --endpoint /v1/completions --model evaluation-model \
  --tokenizer $MODEL_PATH \
  --dataset-name random --random-input-len 4096 \
  --random-output-len 1 --random-range-ratio 0 \
  --num-prompts 1024 --num-warmups 256 \
  --max-concurrency 128 --request-rate inf --ignore-eos \
  --temperature 0 --seed 42 \
  --percentile-metrics ttft,e2el --metric-percentiles 50,90,99 \
  --save-result --save-detailed \
  --result-dir $OUTPUT_PATH\
  --result-filename prefill-results.json

GSM8K was run using the vLLM provided script:

python \
  tests/evals/gsm8k/gsm8k_eval.py \
  --host http://127.0.0.1 --port 8000 \
  --num-questions 1319 --num-shots 5 --max-tokens 256 \
  --temperature 0 --seed 42 --max-concurrency 128 \
  --save-results $OUTPUT_PATH/gsm8k_out.json

Test Result

Mistral Large 3

GSM8K results

Metric	Baseline	Candidate	Delta
Accuracy	92.4185%	92.4185%	0.0000 pp
Correct	1,219 / 1,319	1,219 / 1,319	0
Invalid responses	1 / 1,319	0 / 1,319	-1

Benchmarking results

Metric	Baseline	Candidate	Candidate delta
Request throughput	13.4555 req/s	15.1372 req/s	+12.50%
Mean TTFT	8,978.92 ms	7,943.40 ms	-11.53%
Median TTFT	9,437.29 ms	8,378.39 ms	-11.22%
P90 TTFT	10,580.61 ms	9,413.25 ms	-11.03%
P99 TTFT	10,839.94 ms	9,535.96 ms	-12.03%

Mistral Small 4

GSM8K results

Metric	Baseline	Candidate	Delta
Accuracy	89.6892%	90.3715%	+0.6823 pp
Correct	1,183 / 1,319	1,192 / 1,319	+9
Invalid responses	0 / 1,319	0 / 1,319	0

Benchmarking results

Metric	Baseline	Candidate	Candidate delta
Request throughput	65.5500 req/s	86.5584 req/s	+32.05%
Mean TTFT	919.42 ms	696.35 ms	-24.26%
Median TTFT	943.83 ms	712.63 ms	-24.50%
P90 TTFT	1,092.19 ms	813.35 ms	-25.53%
P99 TTFT	1,181.90 ms	904.35 ms	-23.48%

GLM-5.2

GSM8K results

Metric	Baseline	Candidate	Delta
Accuracy	93.6315%	94.2381%	+0.6065 pp
Correct	1,235 / 1,319	1,243 / 1,319	+8
Invalid responses	0 / 1,319	0 / 1,319	0

Benchmarking results

Metric	Baseline	Candidate	Candidate delta
Request throughput	11.2963 req/s	12.0641 req/s	+6.80%
Mean TTFT	5,356.16 ms	5,031.09 ms	-6.07%
Median TTFT	5,574.72 ms	5,224.03 ms	-6.29%
P90 TTFT	6,188.37 ms	5,676.57 ms	-8.27%
P99 TTFT	6,977.22 ms	6,563.66 ms	-5.93%

DeepSeek-V4-Flash vs previous MegaMoE integration

Note that for this one, no change is expected, since the baseline is already using MegaMoE, but based on the previous implementation from #49636 beyond DeepSeekV4.

GSM8K results

Metric	Baseline	Candidate	Delta
Accuracy	94.0864%	94.3139%	+0.2274 pp
Correct	1,241 / 1,319	1,244 / 1,319	+3
Invalid responses	0 / 1,319	0 / 1,319	0

Benchmarking results

Metric	Baseline	Candidate	Candidate delta
Request throughput	33.1389 req/s	33.0759 req/s	-0.19%
Mean TTFT	1,827.14 ms	1,828.52 ms	+0.08%
Median TTFT	1,878.42 ms	1,878.35 ms	0.00%
P90 TTFT	2,145.42 ms	2,154.42 ms	+0.42%
P99 TTFT	2,370.58 ms	2,353.44 ms	-0.72%

DeepSeek-V4-Pro (TP1 / DP8 / EP8) vs previous MegaMoE integration

Note: the improvement here is a bit unexpected, but in the right direction. This could be noise caused by "lucky" vs "unlucky" kv-cache thrashing, in turn due to large model + large symmetric memory allocation from MegaMoE.

GSM8K results

Metric	Baseline	Candidate	Delta
Accuracy	94.1622%	94.0864%	-0.0758 pp
Correct	1,242 / 1,319	1,241 / 1,319	-1
Invalid responses	0 / 1,319	0 / 1,319	0

Benchmarking results (ISL 8192 +-25%, OSL 1, concurrency 24, 5 reps x 256 requests)

Metric	Baseline	Candidate	Candidate delta
Request throughput	6.3401 req/s	6.8855 req/s	+8.60%
Mean TTFT	3,600.24 ms	3,343.65 ms	-7.13%
Median TTFT	3,365.89 ms	3,120.92 ms	-7.28%
P90 TTFT	5,876.33 ms	4,685.86 ms	-20.26%
P99 TTFT	8,205.04 ms	6,200.03 ms	-24.44%

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Walkthrough

This change adds a FlashInfer MoE expert-parallel backend for CuTeDSL and DeepGEMM. It integrates NVFP4 and MXFP4 quantization paths, updates DeepSeek V4 routing and model wiring, adds lifecycle cleanup, and expands backend and execution tests.

Changes

FlashInfer MoE-EP backend

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Backend contracts and adapter vllm/config/kernel.py, vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/direct_backend.py, vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/flashinfer_moe_ep.py, vllm/utils/deep_gemm.py, tests/models/test_deepseek_v4_fi_moe_ep.py, tests/kernels/moe/test_flashinfer_moe_ep.py	Adds backend normalization, validation, typed direct-backend capabilities, FlashInfer adapter construction, forwarding, warmup, destruction, and backend tests.
Quantization and direct dispatch vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization/..., vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/fused_moe_method_base.py, vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/routed_experts.py, tests/kernels/moe/test_flashinfer_moe_ep.py	Routes ModelOpt, compressed-tensors, INC, and MXFP4 weights through the direct adapter. Adds scale loading, weight conversion, epilogue handling, and capability propagation.
Model wiring and lifecycle vllm/models/deepseek_v4/nvidia/..., vllm/model_executor/warmup/kernel_warmup.py, vllm/v1/worker/...	Removes the former DeepSeek V4 FlashInfer expert class, updates backend selection and sequence parallel handling, and adds adapter warmup and CUDA graph cleanup during shutdown.
Padding routing and reduction signals vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/router/..., vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/runner/moe_runner.py, tests/kernels/moe/test_topk_softplus_sqrt.py, tests/kernels/moe/test_flashinfer_moe_ep.py	Adds padding-aware DSv4 top-k output and sources fused-output reduction state from the quantization method.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ModelRunner
  participant QuantizationMethod
  participant FlashInferMoeEp
  participant MoEEpMegaLayer
  ModelRunner->>QuantizationMethod: process loaded MoE weights
  QuantizationMethod->>FlashInferMoeEp: create direct backend
  FlashInferMoeEp->>MoEEpMegaLayer: initialize and warm up
  ModelRunner->>QuantizationMethod: apply hidden states and routing
  QuantizationMethod->>FlashInferMoeEp: dispatch direct backend call
  FlashInferMoeEp->>MoEEpMegaLayer: execute MoE-EP kernel
  MoEEpMegaLayer-->>ModelRunner: return reduced output

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In `@vllm/config/kernel.py`:
- Line 132: Add the documented legacy alias “flashinfer_moe_ep_mega_cutedsl” to
the MoEBackend Literal alongside the existing backend values, so argparse
accepts it before _normalize_moe_backend processes it.

In `@vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/flashinfer_moe_ep.py`:
- Around line 185-225: Update modelopt_nvfp4_moe_ep_data and its caller
_process_flashinfer_moe_ep_weights to accept and forward w13_input_scale and
w2_input_scale before those tensors are deleted. Derive the FlashInfer
epilogue’s input_norm_const, fc1_norm_const, fc1_alpha, and fc2_alpha using the
established ModelOpt-to-FlashInfer scale conversion, rather than raw w13_scale_2
and w2_scale_2 values, while preserving the existing weight folding behavior.

In `@vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/router/dsv4_topk.py`:
- Around line 108-111: Fix the dtype mismatch between
can_use_dsv4_topk/dsv4_topk and the HAS_PADDING branch by either removing
torch.uint32 from supported top-k ID dtypes or using a padding sentinel
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padding behavior for signed ID tensors and ensure padded rows cannot expose
4294967295 as an unintended sentinel.

In `@vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py`:
- Around line 6667-6669: Update the encoder CUDA graph manager cleanup around
encoder_cudagraph_manager so clear() runs whenever the manager is not None,
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