[Qwen3.8-Flash-Next] Remove torch.compile for NVIDIA implementation

[gau-nernst]

Purpose

Fixes #54688

• Remove @support_torch_compile as model decorator
• Remove all custom op registrations, which were meant to bypass torch.compile inspection: qwen4_exp_compute_ple_ngram_ids, qwen4_exp_ple_short_conv, qwen4_exp_qsa_with_output
• Eager break insertion points (IMPORTANT):

Another benefit of removing torch.compile is that now we can load FP8 ckpt on a single GB300. Previously, torch.compile attempts to autotune the embedding op, causing an extra ngram table tensor that consumes ~50GB -> OOM. Removing torch.compile naturally removes this activation peak.

Test Plan

Model	MTP tokens	GSM8K	MMMU-Pro
BF16	0	96.85%	77.23%
BF16	3	96.66%	77.57%
FP8	0	96.74%	76.99%
FP8	3	96.82%	75.61%

E2E perf result

Model	Concurrency	Output tok/s	Throughput delta	TTFT ms	TPOT ms
BF16	1	303.6 → 288.9	-4.83%	160.62 → 162.63	3.309 → 3.288
BF16	4	759.8 → 742.6	-2.26%	195.19 → 188.14	5.020 → 5.259
BF16	16	1582.2 → 1663.9	+5.16%	206.47 → 202.19	9.469 → 9.252
BF16	64	3052.7 → 3123.3	+2.31%	231.19 → 222.05	20.354 → 20.173
FP8	1	240.5 → 232.9	-3.14%	219.70 → 217.63	4.093 → 4.149
FP8	4	642.8 → 631.8	-1.72%	238.66 → 238.27	5.858 → 6.150
FP8	16	1345.7 → 1390.0	+3.30%	252.93 → 252.33	11.280 → 10.990
FP8	64	2076.9 → 2066.3	-0.51%	308.32 → 309.84	30.071 → 30.199

Generally the results look noisy, so I don't think removing torch.compile right now is significantly worse. Future manual fusion will further improve perf.

Test Result

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• New Features

  • Added default breakable CUDA graph support for Qwen4 experimental model architectures on supported platforms.
  • Added support for EAGLE3 speculative decoding with pipeline parallelism.
  • Improved handling of padded and trailing zero-length requests during inference.

• Bug Fixes

  • Fixed attention, n-gram processing, and cache updates involving padded requests.
  • Improved buffer reuse and CUDA graph capture behavior across changing request layouts.
  • Qwen4 experimental models are no longer registered for torch.compile support.

Walkthrough

Qwen4Exp removes selected custom-operation paths, adds eager breaks for CUDA graph capture, stabilizes PLE buffer shapes, and passes pre-projected Q/K tensors through QSA. Tests cover padded requests, buffer reuse, platform defaults, strided state indices, and cache updates.

Changes

Qwen4Exp capture and attention updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Breakable CUDA graph configuration vllm/config/compilation.py, vllm/config/vllm.py, vllm/model_executor/layers/mamba/gdn/qwen_gdn_linear_attn.py, tests/test_config.py	Qwen4Exp architectures default to breakable CUDA graphs. Gated DeltaNet operations use eager breaks during capture. The attention splitting configuration and platform-default tests are updated. The V2 model runner no longer rejects EAGLE3 speculative decoding with pipeline parallelism.
PLE operations and fixed-capacity state vllm/models/qwen4_exp/nvidia/model_state.py, vllm/models/qwen4_exp/nvidia/ple_layer.py, tests/models/qwen4_exp/test_config.py, tests/models/qwen4_exp/test_ple.py	PLE calls direct methods instead of removed custom ops. Short-convolution state routing uses an eager break. N-gram buffers keep fixed shapes and addresses. Tests cover trailing padded requests, strided state indices, and buffer reuse.
Projected Q/K QSA execution vllm/models/qwen4_exp/nvidia/indexer_qsa.py, vllm/models/qwen4_exp/nvidia/qsa.py	QSA computes projected Q/K before the eager break. QSAIndexer.forward accepts projected Q/K tensors and updates caches from that input.
QSA cache validation tests/models/qwen4_exp/test_qsa_reference.py	Tests validate projected-input handling and ensure padded Q/K rows do not update invalid cache entries.

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This change refactors Qwen4Exp CUDA-graph and QSA execution, but the unresolved unfused QSA row-mapping issue can produce incorrect cache or token-selection behavior. It should be corrected before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Qwen4ExpAttention
  participant QSAExecution
  participant QSAIndexer
  Qwen4ExpAttention->>Qwen4ExpAttention: compute projected_qk
  Qwen4ExpAttention->>QSAExecution: pass projected_qk to _run_qsa
  QSAExecution->>QSAIndexer: update caches and select token indices
  QSAIndexer-->>QSAExecution: return selected indices

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Reshape only the Q projection in the unfused path.

Line 309 reshapes projected_qk, which contains both Q and K columns. When index_kv_heads is nonzero, this creates extra Q rows. positions remains sized to num_tokens, so apply_qsa_rope receives incompatible token counts and the unfused path fails before it updates the caches. Use projected_q here.

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-            q = projected_qk.reshape(-1, self.index_n_heads, self.index_head_dim)
+            q = projected_q.reshape(-1, self.index_n_heads, self.index_head_dim)

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In `@vllm/models/qwen4_exp/nvidia/indexer_qsa.py` at line 309, Update the unfused
path’s reshape in the QSA projection flow to use projected_q rather than
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In `@vllm/models/qwen4_exp/nvidia/indexer_qsa.py`:
- Line 309: Update the unfused path’s reshape in the QSA projection flow to use
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A field data point for the ~50 GB figure, from unified-memory hardware where the failure mode is worse than an OOM.

Setup: 2× DGX Spark (GB10, sm_121), TP2 across two nodes, vLLM nightly e962733e, nvidia/Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4, MTP k=5, gpu_memory_utilization=0.835, max_model_len=524288. Standing config is compile off — {"mode": 0, "cudagraph_mode": "FULL_DECODE_ONLY"} — because compilation had already bitten us once on day 0.

On 2026-09-06 we A/B'd it back on as one rung of a performance ladder: {"mode": 3, "cudagraph_mode": "FULL_AND_PIECEWISE"}, everything else identical to a configuration that had just completed a full benchmark matrix. Weight loading was normal (~10 min). Once compilation started, both hosts went unreachable at the same moment and stayed that way for over two hours:

• ICMP kept responding;
• TCP connect to 22 and 8888 still completed;
• but the sshd handshake never finished and the API never answered — including retries with a 180 s timeout.

Recovery required power-cycling both machines.

On GB10 the CPU and GPU share one memory pool, so vLLM's 0.835 utilization already reserves roughly 100 GB per node. An extra ~50 GB ngram table for the embedding autotune does not land as a clean CUDA OOM there — it pushes the host into thrash, and userspace stops making progress while the kernel stays up. That is why there is no traceback to attach: no error, no crash, no core. Our supervisor did not fire either, because both its liveness checks needed the host to be able to run bash.

Two things this implies for anyone on unified-memory parts, which I think supports merging this:

1. The failure is silent and unattended-hostile. A compile-related OOM on a discrete-GPU box gets you an exception and a restart; here it gets you two dead nodes and no signal.
2. Any autotune or compile step whose peak allocation is a meaningful fraction of total system memory needs to account for host memory on these SKUs, not just free VRAM.

Removing @support_torch_compile for this path takes the whole class of failure off the table for us. Thanks for pushing it through.

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@de1tydev Glad it helps you!