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[Bugfix][Tool Parser] Parse multi-line JSON arguments in the DeepSeek V3 and V3.1 parsers - #60362

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Fixes #60342. The deepseek_v3 and deepseek_v31 tool parsers lose tool calls whose JSON arguments the model pretty-prints over several lines: their regexes match the arguments with ., which stops at a newline.

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  • Tool calls with multi-line JSON arguments are now parsed by deepseek_v3 and deepseek_v31, in both streaming and non-streaming mode.
  • Single-line arguments and parallel tool calls are unchanged.

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Reproducer from the issue, run through the test helpers with the real tokenizers (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3, deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.1), with {"city": "Tokyo", "unit": "celsius"} dumped with indent=2:

Parser Mode Before After
deepseek_v3 non-streaming no tool calls (tools_called=True, tool_calls=[]) get_weather with the full arguments
deepseek_v3 streaming get_weather with arguments { get_weather with the full arguments
deepseek_v31 non-streaming no tool calls get_weather with the full arguments
deepseek_v31 streaming get_weather with arguments { get_weather with the full arguments

Added test_multiline_json_arguments (DeepSeek-V3, two parallel calls with pretty-printed arguments) and test_extract_tool_calls_with_multiline_arguments (DeepSeek-V3.1), each run in streaming and non-streaming mode. All four cases fail on main and pass with this change.

pytest tests/tool_parsers/test_deepseekv3_tool_parser.py tests/tool_parsers/test_deepseekv31_tool_parser.py
22 passed, 1 xfailed

ruff check, ruff format --check and tools/pre_commit/mypy.py pass on the changed files.

These ran on CPU (WSL, VLLM_TARGET_DEVICE=empty, with the post-test GPU cleanup skipped since there is no accelerator). I did not run a server end to end with a DeepSeek-V3 checkpoint, which needs a multi-GPU node; the change is limited to the parsers' regexes.

Details

  • Root cause: DeepSeekV3ToolParser matches function_arguments with .* (.*[^\n`] when streaming), and DeepSeekV31ToolParser with .*? / .*. Without re.DOTALL, . doesn't match \n, so the non-streaming regex finds nothing and the streaming regex captures only the first line of the arguments.
  • Fix: only the arguments group uses [\s\S]. It stays non-greedy in the regexes used with findall, so parallel calls still split at the first closing tag. The type and function-name groups keep ., so a name can't span lines and the whole pattern doesn't need re.DOTALL.
  • The Rust frontend's parsers (rust/src/parser/src/tool/deepseek_json) don't use a regex here; take_json_object scans the object by brace depth, so from reading the code they already handle pretty-printed arguments. Only the Python parsers change.
  • Related PRs: [Bugfix][Frontend] Parse DeepSeek-V3 tool calls with multi-line JSON args #60361 (opened a few minutes before this one, still a draft) makes the same change to the V3 regexes and leaves V3.1 for later; this PR covers both parsers. [Bugfix][Tool Parser] deepseek_v3: accept optional newline before JSON arguments #47503 edits the same DeepSeek-V3 regexes to accept an optional newline before the JSON fence, which is a different case, so whichever merges second needs a small rebase. [Security] Time out DeepSeek tool-call regexes #55473 wraps these regexes with timeouts and is independent.

AI assistance was used for this change (tracking down the cause, writing the tests and this description). I reviewed every changed line and ran the tests above.


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Reproduced and verified: with real DeepSeek-V3/V3.1 tokenizers and two parallel calls (string-, number-, nested-ending args, indent 2 and 4), main loses or truncates every pretty-printed call in both modes for both parsers, and this PR gets all of them right. I'd prefer this over #60361 because the V3.1 parser has the same bug (#60361 only fixes V3).

Related, not introduced here: with multi-token deltas (MTP / stream_interval>1) the streamed args are still truncated, and a call that arrives in a single delta is dropped entirely — that's tracked in #48020 / #48636.

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✅ Triggered Buildkite CI #95901 for commit 34d3bf285727.

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This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be
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✅ Triggered Buildkite CI #95907 for commit 59d3e6650338.

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[Bug]: DeepSeek-V3 tool parser returns no tool calls when the JSON arguments span several lines

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