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Purpose

Fixes #59513. Builds on the generate logprobs shape from #58181 (merged); rebased on main, one commit.

The engine's per-position logprobs hold the sampled token first and then ranks 1..k, so k distinct entries when the sampled token is in the top k and k + 1 when it is not. /v1/chat/completions keeps the first k and /v1/completions the first k + 1 (the OpenAI completions convention). Generate cut to max(k, 1) and derender passed that through, so /v1/completions/derender returned k entries where the coupled endpoint returns k + 1 whenever the sampled token was outside the top k. The greedy parity tests never produce that case. Following @shimib's suggestion on #58181:

• Generate (Python and Rust, both output_modes) returns every candidate the engine produced, sampled first, with no cut. Rust drops the repeated sampled entry (its engine row lists a sampled top-1 token twice) by skipping later entries equal to the sampled token (linear, no allocation, even for logprobs=-1).
• Derender applies the coupled endpoint's cut through the same helpers the coupled endpoints now use (chat_top_logprobs_limit / completion_top_logprobs_limit), read from chat_request / completion_request: chat keeps entry i when logprob_token_ids is set, top_logprobs == -1 or i < top_logprobs (_get_top_logprobs); completions when logprob_token_ids is set or logprobs >= i. The cut happens before decoding. Without the request derender returns every candidate (documented).
• Rust /v1/chat/completions drops the repeated sampled entry, like Python; before, a sampled top-1 token appeared twice and one candidate was lost.
• Docs: renderer.md (what generate returns) and derenderer.md (the per-endpoint cut).

Test Plan

• New tests/entrypoints/scale_out/derender/test_logprobs_endpoint_parity.py: engine dicts built with the engine's own append_logprobs_for_next_position and detokenized as the engine does, with the sampled token at rank 1, inside and outside the top k, run through the real coupled chat / completions helpers and through generate + derender; k in 0, 1, 2, 5 (and -1 for chat). Plus: without the request, every candidate is kept.
• Updated generate unit tests to engine-realistic dicts; Rust tests for the generate dedup (no cut) and the chat dedup.
• End-to-end on a live server (--enable-scale-out, Qwen3-4B, L20): the same request (temperature=1.5, seeds 7/11/23, k = 1/2/5, 96 tokens) through the coupled endpoint and through render -> /inference/v1/generate -> derender, compared per position (token ids, top_logprobs length, tokens, bytes, logprobs within 1e-4), before and after this change.
• Benchmark of generate and derender cost at top_logprobs=20.

Test Result

End-to-end, 18 trials (9 chat, 9 completions), 1,632 comparable positions:

	before	after
positions where generate + derender differs from the coupled endpoint	215	0
of which the sampled token was outside the top k	215	0
chat positions that differ	0	0

Before the change the mismatches were exactly the 215 completions positions with the sampled token outside the top k. One chat trial is excluded on both sides because the coupled endpoint itself is not run-to-run deterministic there (two identical coupled requests diverge at position 73 once the prefix is cached, at temperature=1.5); generate is repeatable.

Benchmark (1,000 positions, top_logprobs=20, 30% of positions with the sampled token outside the top k, Qwen2.5 tokenizer, median of 7):

	before	after
generate _create_tokens_logprobs	14.8 µs/token	13.5 µs/token
generate response size	1,043 B/token	1,057 B/token
chat derender	66.2 µs/token	65.2 µs/token
completions derender	67.4 µs/token	69.3 µs/token (decodes the entry it used to drop)

Tests on an L20 with live servers (tiny Llama, gpt2, Qwen3-0.6B): test_derender.py 27, test_derender_stream.py 52, test_logprobs_endpoint_parity.py 10, test_generate_logprobs_conversion.py 5, test_serving_tokens.py 13, test_generate_stream.py 31, test_tokens_logprobs.py 7 passed; not run there: the DeepSeek parser and gpt-oss harmony tests (model size) and the LoRA test (adapters not downloaded). CPU-only runs: 414 passed across scale_out, test_serving_chat.py and openai/completion (3 failures that fail identically on main). Rust: vllm-server 440 passed, cargo clippy -D warnings and cargo fmt clean. mypy (tools/pre_commit/mypy.py 3.12) reports only the 2 existing Parser errors in online_derenderer.py that main has too; ruff and typos clean.

AI assistance (Claude Code) was used for this change; the submitter reviewed every changed line and ran the tests above.

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@hickeyma Rebased onto main. Two upstream changes overlapped, so in addition to the rebase:

• [Rust Frontend] Support logprob_token_ids on OpenAI endpoints #59549 already dedupes the repeated sampled token in Rust chat_top_logprob_entries (unique_by, with a test), so this PR now uses that version and no longer touches that function.
• [Bugfix][Frontend] Return all logprobs when completions requests logprobs=-1 #55717 made /v1/completions return every candidate for logprobs=-1. completion_top_logprobs_limit now returns None (all) for -1, so completions derender follows it; I checked it against the new coupled predicate for every logprobs in -1..29 × row length 0..39 × logprob_token_ids on/off. Docs and the parity test no longer expect {} for -1 (0e38921). This also corrects what I wrote above: a position with candidates is never {} now; positions without engine logprobs are still None.

[hickeyma]

/ci run

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[hickeyma]

LGTM, thanks @yinli-systems

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/ci run

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✅ Triggered Buildkite CI #95111 for commit 55030bd6cdda.

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@DarkLight1337 @hickeyma Thanks for the approvals and for starting CI. CI found two failures in Entrypoints Integration (API Server):

• test_derender_parity.py::test_text_parity_logprobs (MI355, shard 2) was caused by this PR. The test sends derender a chat_request with only model and messages, so no logprobs. The chat helper treated the unset top_logprobs as a cut of 0 and dropped every candidate. Fixed in a55673f: a chat_request that doesn't ask for logprobs says nothing about the cut, so derender now passes through what generate returned. That's the same as having no chat_request, and the same as completions derender already does when logprobs is unset. A unit test now covers both endpoints, with no request and with a request that doesn't ask for logprobs.
• test_derender_parity.py::test_parity_reasoning (H200, shard 1) isn't from this PR. It fails the same way on main: Buildkite #95108 for e10c10a has the identical <｜end▁of▁sentence｜> content mismatch, and the test doesn't request logprobs.

The three AMD kernel and model jobs that exited with -1 look like infrastructure failures, not test failures.

[DarkLight1337]

Should be fixed by #61757, let's wait for that and then we could rebase this PR

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/ci retry

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✅ Triggered Buildkite CI #95139 for commit 88badd2d0ad5, running 2 failed step(s) from Buildkite CI #95111.