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[Frontend] Fix the parsing of missing string= in DeepSeek V4 - #56271

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As discussed with @sfeng33 in #54686, this PR standalone fixes the parsing of missing string=. Claude notices that the Rust frontend also lacks the fix and adds it.

V4.1 was fixed already today but V4 was left out.

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wtdcode and others added 2 commits September 10, 2026 12:53
DeepSeek's DSML annotates each parameter with string="true" (literal) or
string="false" (JSON). The parameter regexes required that attribute, so a
parameter emitted without it matched nothing and was dropped: the tool call
reached the client with {} for arguments.

An agent reads an argument-less call as a failed one and issues it again, so
a single dropped parameter turns into a retry loop that runs to max_tokens.
Captured in production on DeepSeek-V4-Flash: responses of 32000 tokens made
up of hundreds of tool_use blocks with empty input.

Make the attribute optional and treat its absence as string="false": try
JSON, fall back to the literal text. Annotated parameters parse exactly as
before; across 466 parameters in a captured production response the old and
the new regex match the same set.

The V4.1 parser duplicated the regexes with its spaced markers, so build
both dialects from one helper to keep the fix in a single place. V3.2
shares the V4 regexes and is covered as well.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ATF7hTE4aSLHerdbvktFwu
Signed-off-by: lazymio <mio@lazym.io>
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The Rust DSML parser shared by the deepseek_v32, deepseek_v4 and
deepseek_v41 tool parsers required string="true|false" on every
parameter. A parameter without it failed the whole invoke, the unified
parser fell back to plain text and the entire DSML block leaked into the
content field with no tool call at all.

Make the attribute optional, mirroring the Python parsers: a missing or
non-"true" value is treated like string="false" and converted through the
tool schema.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01ATF7hTE4aSLHerdbvktFwu
Signed-off-by: lazymio <mio@lazym.io>

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@BugenZhao BugenZhao changed the title Fix the parsing of missing string= in DeepSeek V4 [Frontend] Fix the parsing of missing string= in DeepSeek V4 Sep 16, 2026

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The Rust part looks clean and good to me! Thanks @wtdcode

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The Rust part looks clean and good to me! Thanks @wtdcode

Thanks! Do I still need to sync the branch?

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The Rust part looks clean and good to me! Thanks @wtdcode

Thanks! Do I still need to sync the branch?

I've done that for you!

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The Rust part looks clean and good to me! Thanks @wtdcode

Thanks! Do I still need to sync the branch?

I've done that for you!

Thanks =p. You could let me know next time.

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BugenZhao merged commit 39e33db into vllm-project:main Sep 18, 2026
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voipmonitor added a commit to local-inference-lab/vllm that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
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[Frontend] Keep DSML tool parameters without string= (import vllm-project#56271)
randomvariable pushed a commit to randomvariable/vllm that referenced this pull request Sep 29, 2026
…project#56271)

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Bugen Zhao <i@bugenzhao.com>
Signed-off-by: lazymio <mio@lazym.io>
(cherry picked from commit 39e33db)
lukealonso pushed a commit to local-inference-lab/vllm that referenced this pull request Oct 6, 2026
…project#56271)

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Signed-off-by: lazymio <mio@lazym.io>
(cherry picked from commit 39e33db)
(cherry picked from commit 190268a)
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