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Status: This PR is now a standalone DiffusionGemma-specific change. #54332 is related generic reduced-sampling work, but is not a dependency of this PR.

Summary

This PR adds a DiffusionGemma-specific vocabulary-stationary TP sampling path, keeping vocabulary-sharded logits local through the supported custom diffusion sampler instead of materializing replicated full-vocabulary logits and FP32 sampler intermediates on every TP rank.

The Diffusion-specific path:

  • makes DiffusionGemma's final-logit softcap capturable inside LogitsProcessor while preserving FP32 semantics;
  • adds pre-logits eligibility so unsupported cases fall back to the existing dense path before local-logit capture;
  • computes distributed clean/noisy winners with deterministic lowest-global-token-ID tie breaking;
  • computes entropy from distributed sufficient statistics;
  • forms globally normalized local probabilities for the already-existing TP-local self-conditioning matmul + all-reduce;
  • deliberately preserves the dense RNG trajectory by drawing the same full-shaped FP32 random tensor on every rank and consuming only the local vocabulary slice.

Request tiling and TP-local self-conditioning matmul/all-reduce are already upstream and are not reintroduced here. This PR also does not add a second generic reduced-sampling framework.

Scope / fallback

The initial scope is deliberately narrow: TP > 1, one active request, and standard contiguous/equal vocabulary shards.

Grammar, requested logprobs/logprob token IDs, top-k, top-p, min-p, multi-request sampling, TP1, and unsupported shard geometries select the existing dense compute_logits path before compute_local_logits is attempted.

Exact RNG preservation is intentional; RNG compression is out of scope.

Motivation

DiffusionGemma sampling operates over [num_decode, canvas_length, vocab_size]. The full logits plus FP32 scaled/Gumbel/probability intermediates create a substantial replicated-memory floor per TP rank. This is related to the sampler memory pressure discussed in #50699. Request tiling reduces the multi-request multiplier but does not eliminate the single-request full-vocabulary floor.

Validation

Source-bound TP8 component/integration validation used Ascend 910B2 with CL=256, V=262144, and H=2816, with real BF16 local LM-head projections producing [256, 32768] logits per rank.

  • 8/8 ranks matched the dense oracle for primary sampler/state outputs.
  • Clean and noisy/Gumbel token IDs matched, including lowest-global-ID ties.
  • Next randint, RNG state, and cross-rank RNG synchronization matched.
  • A 255-token visible canvas padded to 256 also matched.
  • No full-vocabulary logits gather occurred on the supported local path.
  • Matched TP8 self-conditioning embedding max-abs was 0.00390625 (acceptance threshold <= 0.005).
  • Unsupported-feature probes selected dense compute_logits before local capture.

Source-bound component measurements:

  • median latency: 20.187 ms dense vs 12.496 ms local (~38.1% lower);
  • peak-extra HBM: 2,523,837,440 bytes dense vs 980,324,864 bytes local (~61.2% lower).

These are source-bound component measurements, not a full-model E2E or production performance claim.

Focused numerical-equivalence, eligibility, static, and source-level rebase-equivalence checks also passed. Standard local pytest collection was unavailable on the development host because tblib was missing; CI results are pending.

Related work

#54332 ([Core] Add reduced sampling for tensor-parallel decoding) is related generic reduced-sampling work, but this PR does not depend on it. The implementation here remains deliberately DiffusionGemma-specific and does not introduce a competing generic reduced-sampling framework.

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@njhill @yewentao256 — this is an early Draft stacked on #54332. When convenient, I’d appreciate an early design review of the Model Runner V2 pre-logits fail-closed integration and the exact-RNG Diffusion sampler semantics. The Diffusion-only path has source-bound TP8 correctness/component validation; I’m not requesting any CI/ready label at this stage. Once #54332 lands, I’ll rebase away the generic dependency commit.

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Update: Current head is now the standalone DiffusionGemma-specific commit fe3a5dcc; this PR is no longer stacked on and does not depend on #54332. The PR body has been updated accordingly.

The exact head has source-bound TP8 correctness PASS on Ascend 910B2, including matched self-conditioning embedding max-abs 0.00390625 <= 0.005, exact sampler/state outputs and RNG trajectory, deterministic cross-shard ties, and no full-vocabulary logits gather on the supported local path. Current-main source-equivalence/static checks also pass. The PR is now ready for review.

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vocab_end: int,
device: torch.device,
) -> torch.Tensor:
full = torch.rand((*shape, vocab_size), device=device, dtype=torch.float32)

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P2 Badge Match the compiled sampler's RNG stream

On platforms using the default Inductor backend, this eager torch.rand call does not produce or consume the same RNG stream as the torch.rand_like inside the compiled _compiled_sample_step. Consequently, eligible TP requests can return different Gumbel samples and advance the globally seeded RNG differently from the dense fallback, defeating vLLM's reproducibility guarantee. The equivalence test hides this because it explicitly invokes _compiled_sample_step.__wrapped__; the local path needs to use the same compiled RNG context or otherwise reproduce its generator behavior.

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max_values = values.max(dim=-1, keepdim=True).values
tied_indices = torch.where(values == max_values, indices, vocab_size)
return tied_indices.min(dim=-1).values

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P2 Badge Keep argmax token IDs valid when logits contain NaNs

If any TP shard's local maximum is NaN, the gathered max_values is NaN and every values == max_values comparison is false, so this fallback selects vocab_size as the token ID. That out-of-range ID is stored in the diffusion canvas/argmax history and can later fail embedding lookup. The dense argmax path still returns an in-range index for the same malformed logits, so the distributed reduction should explicitly handle NaNs or otherwise ensure the sentinel can never escape.

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