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[None][fix] Do not request logprobs by default in /v1/responses - #19665
0 is not an absence there. SamplingParams.logprobs documents it as "When set to 0, return only the sampled token's log probability", and _get_output_config turns it on with
So every request through /v1/responses asks the engine for log probabilities, including the ones that never mention them. The field is referenced exactly once in the class, at line 1599, and no validator touches it.
The other two adapters do not do this. CompletionRequest.to_sampling_params (line 666) and ChatCompletionRequest.to_sampling_params (line 1180) both open with if self.logprobs: and leave their local at None when it is falsy. Responses is the only one that passes the field through raw.
With speculative decoding the request fails at admission. SpecSampler.validate_request (_torch/speculative/spec_sampler_base.py:178-189) lists py_return_log_probs among the outputs the one-model path cannot honor and raises; py_executor.py:5780 calls it from _respond_if_invalid, whose except arm fails the request rather than degrading it. So /v1/responses and speculative decoding cannot be used together at all, for a reason the caller never asked for.
Without speculative decoding the engine computes log probabilities that the endpoint then throws away: every logprobs= in responses_utils.py is None or [], two of them marked # TODO.
A caller cannot opt out either. _null_top_level_fields_mean_unset drops an explicitly-null top-level field so it takes its default, which is the same 0.
None is also what the OpenAI Responses API defaults top_logprobs to. An explicit 0 still means the sampled token's log probability, so nothing that asks for logprobs today changes.
/v1/responses is registered unconditionally (openai_server.py:1436, outside the guard around the Anthropic routes), so this is on the default path.
ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs was a required int, filled from sampling_params.logprobs, so the new default made building the response raise 1 validation error for ResponsesResponse ... Input should be a valid integer. openai.types.responses.Response declares that field Optional[int] with a None default, so the second commit matches it.
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test_responses_request_asks_for_no_logprobs_unless_told_to in tests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.py, next to the existing ResponsesRequest cases in that file. Four assertions: the default, an explicit null, an explicit 0, an explicit 3. The first two fail before this change.
test_responses_response_echoes_an_absent_top_logprobs goes one step further and builds the response through from_request for an absent, a zero and a three.
I could not run the repo's own test runner here: importing tensorrt_llm needs the vendored triton_kernels that the build drops in, and this is an arm64 Mac with no GPU. Instead I loaded tensorrt_llm/sampling_params.py and tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_protocol.py from the working tree with importlib, standing in only for the C++ bindings and the annotation-only imports (torch, xgrammar.structural_tag, openai_harmony.ReasoningEffort), and ran the test body verbatim against the real classes. That is where the table above comes from. Worth a second pair of eyes on CI.
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ResponsesRequest.top_logprobs now defaults to None. This prevents omitted values from enabling log-probability computation through SamplingParams.logprobs. Explicit 0 and positive values remain supported. ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs is now optional, so responses can represent requests that omit the setting. The API stability reference reflects both changes.
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tests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.py adds test_responses_request_asks_for_no_logprobs_unless_told_to and test_responses_response_echoes_an_absent_top_logprobs. These tests cover omitted and explicit-null request values, explicit zero and positive values, and response creation through from_request. The test file is listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the changed defaults and response echo behavior. Test results: not available.
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tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_protocol.py: Verify that omitted top_logprobs does not enable log-probability computation and that explicit values remain intact in responses.
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.py: Covers request sampling parameters and response creation for omitted, null, zero, and positive values. Listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/api_stability/references/trtllm_serve_api.yaml: Updates the API reference for the request’s null default and the response’s optional top_logprobs field.
ResponsesRequest.top_logprobs now defaults to None, and ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs is optional. Tests cover how omitted, null, zero, and positive values map to sampling parameters and response fields.
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Responses logprob default
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Set and verify the logprob default tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_protocol.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.py, tests/unittest/api_stability/references/trtllm_serve_api.yaml
ResponsesRequest.top_logprobs defaults to None, and ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs is optional. Tests check sampling parameter mapping and response construction for absent, zero, and positive values. The API reference documents these field changes.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21859: The change prevents omitted /v1/responsestop_logprobs from enabling log-probability computation by default. Explicit score-output requests are not covered.
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Merge Risk: Low · up to d0135
The behavior change looks correct: omitted top_logprobs no longer requests logprobs. The only remaining item is a formatting fix that CI requires before merge.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to d0135
Requests that omit log probabilities now leave them disabled, while explicit requests retain their meaning. No expansion of access or privilege was identified. The main remaining uncertainty is compatibility with clients that expect an integer response value.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated effect is confined to the sampling and response settings of each Responses request. It disables an output mode by default without adding callers, broader authority, or cross-request state ownership.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The production route performs its existing internal-disaggregation validation before preprocessing. The changed field enters sampling conversion rather than identity or authorization decisions, and non-null logprob values remain subject to SamplingParams limits.
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🟠 Major · Make ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs nullable. · openai_protocol.py:1570-1573
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_protocol.py:1570-1573 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Make ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs nullable.
When a POST /v1/responses request omits top_logprobs, ResponsesRequest.to_sampling_params() passes None to SamplingParams.logprobs. Both the non-streaming and streaming response paths pass that value to ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs, which is declared as int. Pydantic rejects None for this field, so response construction fails before serialization.
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Update ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs to accept None and default to None, so
responses can be constructed when POST /v1/responses omits top_logprobs.
Preserve integer values when the request supplies them.
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- Around line 1570-1573: Update ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs to accept None
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Your change correctly distinguishes an omitted logprobs setting from an explicit zero. At this head, though, the response model still requires an integer, so default requests would fail when the server builds their responses; the new test stops before that step.
Based on the assessment above, we're giving this PR lower review priority for now and adding waiting for feedback and stale.
Making the response model accept the new default, with coverage of response creation, would establish the intended working endpoint behavior.
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Good catch, that was a real hole. ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs is a required int and from_request fills it from sampling_params.logprobs, so with the request default at None the response failed to build:
1 validation error for ResponsesResponse
top_logprobs
Input should be a valid integer [type=int_type, input_value=None, input_type=NoneType]
openai.types.responses.Response declares that field as Optional[int] with a None default, so I matched it. Now:
Added test_responses_response_echoes_an_absent_top_logprobs, which goes through from_request for all three, so the test no longer stops at the sampling params.
We ran into the same thing while testing OpenAI client compatibility of trtllm-serve for Kimi K3 with one-model speculative decoding. The sampling params of a default /v1/responses request are rejected by the speculative sampler's validate_request ("The following output options are not supported with speculative decoding: logprobs"). /v1/chat/completions is not affected because it only sets logprobs when asked. The change here (no logprobs unless asked for) is what we validated locally, along with the ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs echo. CPU tests of the protocol classes and an ASGI round trip pass with it.
One point to consider: in the OpenAI Responses API, top_logprobs only sets how many alternatives to return per token. Log probabilities are returned only when include contains "message.output_text.logprobs". So an explicit top_logprobs: 0 (some clients send defaults explicitly) arguably should not turn logprobs on either. In our version, 0 and None both map to logprobs=None, and a positive value still requests logprobs as before. Since the Responses output path does not fill logprobs today (as you noted), we also return a 400 for include: ["message.output_text.logprobs"] instead of accepting it and returning nothing. Either of these could be a follow-up; the default fix alone already unblocks speculative decoding deployments.
Thanks for testing it on a real spec decoding setup, good to know the default change alone is enough there.
I agree on top_logprobs: 0. Looking at it again I think the cleaner rule is the one you describe, logprobs are requested only when include has message.output_text.logprobs and top_logprobs is just the count. Special casing 0 would fix the clients that send it but keep a positive value without include turning logprobs on, which the API doesn't do either. That also touches the echo in from_request and needs the 400 you mention while the output path doesn't fill logprobs, so I'd rather keep this PR to the default and do the include part as a follow up once someone from the team has looked at this one.
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LGTM. Please change the title to the required format, e.g. [None][fix] Do not request logprobs by default in /v1/responses. Gating logprobs on include as a follow-up sounds good.
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[None][fix] Do not request logprobs by default in /v1/responses
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@JunyiXu-nv thanks for kicking off the run. The CI report and the failure analysis links are internal, so I can't see what failed. Could you paste the names of the failing tests? If any of them touch the OpenAI server or /v1/responses I'll fix it, otherwise I'm happy to rebase on main if that helps rule out stale failures.
Sorry for the slow reply. The run on a71ae9e failed in these tests.
Two come from this change, in tests/unittest/api_stability/test_serve_api.py:
TestServeAPIStability::test_defaults_match_yaml: [ResponsesRequest.top_logprobs] default drift: code=None vs yaml=0. Update one or the other.
TestServeAPIStability::test_required_matches_yaml: [ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs] required drift: code=False vs yaml=True. A required→optional flip is a breaking change; update the code or the YAML to match.
Both compare the models with tests/unittest/api_stability/references/trtllm_serve_api.yaml. If the new default and the optional response field are intended, update the two top_logprobs entries there. A rebase alone will not clear these two.
The others do not touch the OpenAI server or /v1/responses, and a rebase on main should rule them out:
unittest/others/test_tracing.py::test_tracing[pytorch-disable_processpool] and [pytorch-enable_processpool]
ResponsesRequest.top_logprobs defaults to 0 and to_sampling_params passes
it straight through as SamplingParams.logprobs. 0 is not an absence there:
the docstring says it means return the sampled token's log probability, and
_get_output_config sets return_log_probs = self.logprobs is not None. So
every request through /v1/responses asks the engine for log probabilities,
including the ones that never mention them.
The other two adapters do not: CompletionRequest and ChatCompletionRequest
both guard with if self.logprobs: and leave the local at None when it is
falsy. Responses is the only one that hands the field over raw.
Two costs. With speculative decoding SpecSampler.validate_request lists
py_return_log_probs among the options it cannot honor and raises, so the
request is failed at admission rather than degraded. Without it, the engine
computes log probabilities the endpoint then discards: every logprobs= in
responses_utils.py is None or [].
A client cannot opt out either, because _null_top_level_fields_mean_unset
drops an explicit null and the field falls back to the same 0.
Default it to None, which is also what the OpenAI Responses API does.
Explicit 0 still means the sampled token's log probability.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Voropaev <dy.voropaev@gmail.com>
ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs is a required int and from_request fills
it from sampling_params.logprobs, so once the request default became None
building the response raised
1 validation error for ResponsesResponse
top_logprobs
Input should be a valid integer [type=int_type, input_value=None]
openai.types.responses.Response declares the field Optional[int] with a
None default, so match that. Covered by a test that builds the response
for an absent, a zero and a three.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Voropaev <dy.voropaev@gmail.com>
ResponsesRequest.top_logprobs now defaults to None and
ResponsesResponse.top_logprobs is Optional[int] with a None default, so
the api_stability reference has to say the same or test_defaults_match_yaml
and test_required_matches_yaml report drift.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Voropaev <dy.voropaev@gmail.com>
Thanks for digging those out. I updated the two top_logprobs rows in trtllm_serve_api.yaml (request default is now null, response field is optional with a null default) and rebased on current main, head is d013549. Could you trigger the bot again when you have a moment?
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ResponsesRequest.top_logprobsdefaults to0andto_sampling_paramshands it straight toSamplingParams:0is not an absence there.SamplingParams.logprobsdocuments it as "When set to 0, return only the sampled token's log probability", and_get_output_configturns it on withSo every request through
/v1/responsesasks the engine for log probabilities, including the ones that never mention them. The field is referenced exactly once in the class, at line 1599, and no validator touches it.The other two adapters do not do this.
CompletionRequest.to_sampling_params(line 666) andChatCompletionRequest.to_sampling_params(line 1180) both open withif self.logprobs:and leave their local atNonewhen it is falsy. Responses is the only one that passes the field through raw.Measured, on the real classes:
Two costs.
With speculative decoding the request fails at admission.
SpecSampler.validate_request(_torch/speculative/spec_sampler_base.py:178-189) listspy_return_log_probsamong the outputs the one-model path cannot honor and raises;py_executor.py:5780calls it from_respond_if_invalid, whose except arm fails the request rather than degrading it. So/v1/responsesand speculative decoding cannot be used together at all, for a reason the caller never asked for.Without speculative decoding the engine computes log probabilities that the endpoint then throws away: every
logprobs=inresponses_utils.pyisNoneor[], two of them marked# TODO.A caller cannot opt out either.
_null_top_level_fields_mean_unsetdrops an explicitly-null top-level field so it takes its default, which is the same0.Noneis also what the OpenAI Responses API defaultstop_logprobsto. An explicit0still means the sampled token's log probability, so nothing that asks for logprobs today changes./v1/responsesis registered unconditionally (openai_server.py:1436, outside the guard around the Anthropic routes), so this is on the default path.ResponsesResponse.top_logprobswas a requiredint, filled fromsampling_params.logprobs, so the new default made building the response raise1 validation error for ResponsesResponse ... Input should be a valid integer.openai.types.responses.Responsedeclares that fieldOptional[int]with a None default, so the second commit matches it.Test Coverage
test_responses_request_asks_for_no_logprobs_unless_told_tointests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.py, next to the existingResponsesRequestcases in that file. Four assertions: the default, an explicit null, an explicit 0, an explicit 3. The first two fail before this change.test_responses_response_echoes_an_absent_top_logprobsgoes one step further and builds the response throughfrom_requestfor an absent, a zero and a three.I could not run the repo's own test runner here: importing
tensorrt_llmneeds the vendoredtriton_kernelsthat the build drops in, and this is an arm64 Mac with no GPU. Instead I loadedtensorrt_llm/sampling_params.pyandtensorrt_llm/serve/openai_protocol.pyfrom the working tree withimportlib, standing in only for the C++ bindings and the annotation-only imports (torch,xgrammar.structural_tag,openai_harmony.ReasoningEffort), and ran the test body verbatim against the real classes. That is where the table above comes from. Worth a second pair of eyes on CI.yapf --style pyproject.tomlreports no change on either file.PR Checklist
ResponsesRequestis not covered bytests/unittest/api_stability, so no reference file changesDev Engineer Review
ResponsesRequest.top_logprobsnow defaults toNone. This prevents omitted values from enabling log-probability computation throughSamplingParams.logprobs. Explicit0and positive values remain supported.ResponsesResponse.top_logprobsis now optional, so responses can represent requests that omit the setting. The API stability reference reflects both changes.QA Engineer Review
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.pyaddstest_responses_request_asks_for_no_logprobs_unless_told_toandtest_responses_response_echoes_an_absent_top_logprobs. These tests cover omitted and explicit-null request values, explicit zero and positive values, and response creation throughfrom_request. The test file is listed intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the changed defaults and response echo behavior. Test results: not available.Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_protocol.py: Verify that omittedtop_logprobsdoes not enable log-probability computation and that explicit values remain intact in responses.tests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.py: Covers request sampling parameters and response creation for omitted, null, zero, and positive values. Listed intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/api_stability/references/trtllm_serve_api.yaml: Updates the API reference for the request’snulldefault and the response’s optionaltop_logprobsfield.