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Vocab-parallel selection adds a token-selection path for supported evenly sharded LM heads. Unsupported configurations, including custom logits processors, retain the gathered-logit path.
DFlash and DSpark add TP projection and reduction paths, with conditions for split projections and unsplit fallbacks. DSpark also changes Markov token selection and fuses residual addition and normalization with TP reductions.
DFlash adds paged-latent preparation and draft-block placement metadata. Speculative metadata now prepares rejection and penalty buffers before creating CUDA-graph views.
Public method signatures changed, and dspark_markov_chain_logits was removed. Callers now use the shared Markov-chain implementation.
A reviewer raised concerns about coupling between drafter models and speculative workers, including runtime dependencies and duplicated logic. The author agreed the concern was valid and left a contract refactor for follow-up.
No current review findings or severity counts were supplied. Reported test results apply to the full PR series, not this PR alone. The reported speculative regression tests also had existing HF-download failures.
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Added unit tests for speculative tail kernels, vocab-parallel selection, and CUDA-graph buffer sharing.
Added multi-GPU tests for vocab-parallel selection and DSpark TP fusion. Updated DSpark Markov semantics tests and a shared test helper.
Updated B200, DGX B200, and GB300 multi-GPU test-db lists. Repository entries confirm the tail-kernel and single-shard vocab-parallel tests in B200, and the multi-GPU selection and DSpark fusion tests in DGX B200 and GB300.
Coverage includes eager-reference comparisons, sharded selection, graph replay, Markov behavior, paged-latent preparation, and TP output consistency. The PR description reports changed tests passing on a full-series GB300 image; this does not establish PR-specific results.
No manual-QA list changes were supplied.
Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. Reported results do not isolate this PR, and the speculative regression tests had reported HF-download failures.
Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dflash.py — Verify block_placement handling and TP-sliced context projection. Check the unsplit fallback when feature width is not divisible by TP size.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dspark.py — Verify block-placement handling, fused TP reductions with residual addition and RMSNorm, and the updated Markov-chain API.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_speculative.py — Verify callers use the replacement for the removed dspark_markov_chain_logits helper and that target-model setup occurs.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py — Verify vocab-parallel eligibility and fallback paths, plus fused paged-cache preparation.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dspark.py — Verify shard-logit handling, Markov token selection, and the unsupported shard-width error path.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py — Verify strict acceptance for uniform-width drafts, ragged handling, and rejection and penalty buffer preparation for graph views.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/spec_tail_kernels.py — New Triton helpers cover strict acceptance, block-table decoding, paged-latent preparation, and context-latent storage. The unit test is listed in the B200 CI list.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/vocab_parallel.py — Verify supported-head checks, tie and NaN ordering, sampling, and shard-aware Markov selection. Unit and multi-GPU tests are listed in B200, DGX B200, and GB300 CI lists.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml — Adds CI entries for speculative tail kernels and single-shard vocab-parallel selection.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml — Adds CI entries for DSpark TP2 fusion and multi-GPU vocab-parallel selection.
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_gb300_multi_gpus.yml — Adds CI entries for multi-GPU vocab-parallel selection and DSpark fusion; retains the Kimi K3 speculative parity test.
tests/unittest/_torch/helpers.py — Adds an eager DSpark Markov reference helper. Verify parity with the production path.
tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_dspark_drafter_tp_fusion.py — Compares TP and unsharded MLA DSpark behavior, including the unsplit-width fallback. Listed in DGX B200 and GB300 CI lists.
tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_vocab_parallel_selection.py — Covers multi-GPU selection, exchanges, ties, NaNs, and graph execution. Listed in DGX B200 and GB300 CI lists.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_kimi_k3_dspark_semantics.py — Uses the shared eager reference for Markov parity and sharded-versus-full-vocabulary checks. No integration test-list entry was supplied.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_rejection_buffers_guard.py — Checks that graph metadata views share rejection and penalty buffers with base metadata. No integration test-list entry was supplied.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_spec_tail_kernels.py — Covers kernel parity and fused DFlash latent preparation, including dummy slots and cache writes. Listed in the B200 CI list.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_vocab_parallel.py — Covers selection ordering, sampling repeatability, worker eligibility, Markov exchange, and graph replay. Listed in the B200 CI list.
docs/source/features/sampling.md — Documents seeded-output differences for vocab-sharded Gumbel-max sampling, while noting distributional equivalence within the stated tail bound.
Description
This PR is part of a series that lands Kimi-K3 optimizations, re-implemented for production use (wave 1 of 8 PRs). It applies on main by itself and does not depend on the other wave-1 PRs (serving runtime, Helix CP, KDA/DWDP, low-M GEMM).
It has 5 commits. Each commit message gives the full rationale, the activation conditions, measurements and tests. The reference branch controlled these features with TLLM_SPEC_VOCAB_PARALLEL*, TLLM_DSPARK_FUSED_MARKOV, TLLM_SPEC_TAIL_FUSION and TLLM_DSPARK_DRAFT_FUSION; this PR has no such switches.
Vocab-parallel target and draft token selection (new tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/vocab_parallel.py). This applies when the LM head is column-parallel and gathered. Each rank then reduces its vocab shard to one (value, global index) pair per row. The pairs are exchanged through one exact float32 all-reduce, and the winner is chosen in torch.argmax order: NaN first, then ties to the lowest index. Selected ids are therefore bit-identical to argmax over the gathered logits.
Greedy batches use the vocab-parallel argmax.
Non-greedy batches with use_rejection_sampling=False and no_topk_no_topp sample through Gumbel-max. The Philox noise is keyed by (seed, offset) and the global vocab id, so the draw does not depend on the TP split. The sampled distribution is the same as the gathered sampler's, but the random stream differs, so seeded token sequences need not match FULL (documented in docs/source/features/sampling.md).
Draft tokens drafted greedily through the target head come straight from the shard.
The engine gathers the shard only when a request has a logits post-processor.
It is decided once after loading. It takes effect for DFlash/DSpark one-model workers whose head is evenly sharded, with no attention DP, no occurrence penalties and no guided decoder. In Kimi-K3 that is the helix GEN workers; dep16 keeps the gathered path.
DSpark: fused vanilla-Markov draft chain. Each block position now takes 3 launches: a resolve + gather kernel, the same F.linear bias GEMV, and an add + argmax kernel. The chain is bit-identical to the eager chain. This covers full-vocab draft logits (dep16) and vocab-shard logits with a TP pair exchange. The eager chain moves to tests/unittest/_torch/helpers.py as the test reference. GB300, CUDA graph, K=6 chain: 298 -> 77 us at B=4 and 1221 -> 338 us at B=128.
Fused spec tail (new spec_tail_kernels.py). Three chains of small eager ops become Triton kernels that produce the same values:
strict acceptance of a uniform-width draft (every one-model worker; ragged verification is unchanged), in one launch;
the DFlash draft-KV block-table decode;
the per-request bookkeeping of paged single-latent DFlash/DSpark drafters, plus the context-latent store.
The kernel also produces a DraftBlockPlacement that the MLA drafter's block decode uses.
DSpark/DFlash drafter TP fusion (plain TP only, no attention DP).
A drafter that declares the capability (_tp_fusions; currently only MLADSparkForCausalLM, the drafter with acceptance-length measurements) keeps only its rank's input-feature slice of the context projection fc, with one all-reduce that has hidden_norm fused. For Kimi-K3, each rank stores and reads 1/tp of a 513 MB weight. Other DFlash/DSpark drafters (plain DFlash, Laguna, GQA DSpark) keep the unsplit fc and the unfused hidden_norm under TP until they are measured.
The MLA DSpark drafter fuses its o_proj/down_proj all-reduces with the following residual add + RMSNorm.
Only rounding changes, and target verification keeps the output lossless. MTP acceptance length on GB300 (GSM8K 5-shot, temperature 0, forced acceptance off), this series vs base:
helix8 b8 mtp7: 3.635–3.642 vs 3.640
dep16 b16 mtp5: 3.377–3.392 vs 3.382
[fix] Allocate slot-indexed sampling state before creating CUDA-graph views.create_cuda_graph_metadata shallow-copies the metadata. When the first forward was a CUDA-graph capture, as on generation-only servers, each view used to allocate its own rejection-sampling and penalty buffers. The drafter then wrote draft probabilities into one view's buffer while the rejection kernel read another. This showed up in Kimi-K3 dep16 gen as a device-side assert in write_padding_onehot_draft_probs.
Bug found and fixed while porting (relative to the reference implementation). Target-side vocab-parallel selection is now bound only when the target's logits processor is the plain LogitsProcessor. Models that install their own processor keep the gathered logits, for example DeepSeek-V4 (head transform) and Qwen4-Exp (hyper-connection collapse). A unit test covers this case.
Whole-series end-to-end results. These numbers are for the full series of 8 PRs, not for this PR alone. Per-PR attribution is in the commit messages.
Setup: GB300 NVL72 (NSC LHR), Kimi-K3 NVFP4 with the DSpark drafter, AgentX agentic traces, the same dev image and autotuner state on both sides. Base is main f298722, compared with main + all 8 PRs. NSC jobs: base 362316–362321, series 361375–361379.
single shard: argmax order incl. NaN and ties, Gumbel-max chi-square, (seed, offset) keying, Markov chain bit-identity, CUDA graph, selection decisions, custom logits processor keeps the gathered logits
GB300 results: every test file this PR adds or changes passes on the full-series image on NSC LHR.
Job 366039: speculative unit tests, 145 passed. test_vocab_parallel_selection.py 16/16 at tp2 and tp4, auto and MNNVL.
Job 365790: test_dspark_drafter_tp_fusion.py.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative regression shows the same failure set as base: the base failures are existing HF-download failures, and this PR adds none (jobs 316234 vs 316233).
The multi-GPU tests run their collectives inside NCCL window-tensor scopes. The CUDA-graph checks capture with nccl_window_graph_capture, the same pattern as CUDAGraphRunner. They therefore pass with main's TLLM_NCCL_WINDOW_LIFECYCLE_ASSERT.
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The pull request adds vocabulary-sharded token selection and Markov chaining, fused paged-latent preparation for eligible DFlash caches, and tensor-parallel fusion paths for DFlash and DSpark drafter execution.
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Vocabulary-Parallel Selection
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Sharded selection and acceptance primitives tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/vocab_parallel.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/spec_tail_kernels.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_vocab_parallel.py, tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_vocab_parallel_selection.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/*
Adds shard-aware argmax, temperature-only sampling, Markov token selection, pair exchange, and strict token acceptance. Tests compare single- and multi-GPU selection results with references.
Workers bind compatible vocab-parallel heads and route shard logits through selection and acceptance. DSpark supports shard-aware Markov chaining. Tests cover worker setup, CUDA-graph metadata, and Markov reference parity. The sampling documentation describes a seeded-draw difference for the supported shard path.
Adds paged-latent preparation and storage kernels. Eligible DFlash paths prepare context latents and return block-placement data, which decoding paths can use. Tests compare fused preparation and block metadata with eager paths.
Tensor-Parallel Drafter Fusion
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Projection and layer-reduction paths tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dflash.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dspark.py
DFlash splits eligible context projections across TP ranks and fuses the reduction with RMSNorm. DSpark fuses eligible all-reduces with residual addition and normalization.
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The weight-equality assertion can pass even if the fallback slices input features or reduces the output incorrectly. Run project_target_hidden with a matching odd-width input and compare its output with an unsharded reference. As per path instructions, tests need assertions on observable results, not only loaded weights.
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@tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_dspark_drafter_tp_fusion.py at line 202:
Extend the test around the `unsplit.fc.weight` assertion to call
`project_target_hidden` with a matching odd-width input and assert its output
matches an unsharded reference, verifying the unsplit fallback’s observable
projection behavior rather than only its loaded weights.
The file is already registered in l0_b200.yml. However, the block-table test rarely generates a negative entry, so its negative-value assertions can pass without exercising that branch. The paged-latent test also uses unseeded random inputs, which makes failures difficult to reproduce.
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Make the edge-case inputs in the block-table and paged-latent tests
deterministic. In the block-table test, explicitly set entries in the tested
view to negative values so the negative-value assertions exercise that branch;
in `_paged_worker` and `test_paged_latent_prepare_matches_eager`, use a seeded
CUDA generator for the random permutation and other random inputs.
Add a regression test for the ragged verify_lens cap on forced acceptance.
This change fixes a real defect. Under ragged verification, TLLM_SPEC_DECODE_FORCE_NUM_ACCEPTED_TOKENS could raise num_accepted_tokens past a request's own verify_lens. The result committed tokens that the target never produced. I did not find a test that would fail without the torch.minimum cap.
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Location: tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_rejection_buffers_guard.py, next to the existing _sample_and_accept_draft_tokens_base tests.
Setup: build a bare worker with force_num_accepted_tokens = runtime_draft_len. Use a ragged layout whose verify_lens is smaller than runtime_draft_len + 1 for at least one request.
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Add a regression test alongside the `_sample_and_accept_draft_tokens_base` tests
that exercises forced acceptance with ragged verification, setting
`force_num_accepted_tokens` to `runtime_draft_len` and including a request whose
`verify_lens` is smaller than `runtime_draft_len + 1`. Assert that accepted
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- Line 85: Update _run to save the worker’s existing TLLM_TEST_MNNVL value
before invoking the test function, then restore it in a finally block; if it was
initially unset, remove it instead. Ensure restoration occurs on both success
and failure.
Review comments at @tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_spec_tail_kernels.py:
- Around line 70-72: Update the block-table test setup around `src` so negative
and zero encoded offsets occur often enough to exercise
`_decode_block_table_kernel`’s sign and clamp behavior. Include at least one
fully negative row and one all-zero row, while retaining representative positive
offsets.
- Line 133: Seed the random inputs in the paged-latent test so its block tables,
accepted tokens, and captured hidden states are reproducible: pass a seeded CUDA
generator to the `torch.randperm`, `torch.randint`, and `torch.randn` calls, or
seed the CUDA RNG at the start of the test.
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- Around line 2096-2102: Add a regression test alongside the
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with ragged verification, setting `force_num_accepted_tokens` to
`runtime_draft_len` and including a request whose `verify_lens` is smaller than
`runtime_draft_len + 1`. Assert that accepted tokens for non-context requests
never exceed their corresponding `verify_lens`.
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- Line 202: Extend the test around the `unsplit.fc.weight` assertion to call
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- Line 15: Make the edge-case inputs in the block-table and paged-latent tests
deterministic. In the block-table test, explicitly set entries in the tested
view to negative values so the negative-value assertions exercise that branch;
in `_paged_worker` and `test_paged_latent_prepare_matches_eager`, use a seeded
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Discussion (non-blocking, not for this PR): the boundary between modeling_dspark / modeling_dflash and speculative/dspark / dflash
This PR made me think about where the line between the drafter model and the spec worker sits. My understanding of the original split was:
models/modeling_dspark.py (and modeling_dflash.py) is the drafter network: weights and forward math on the tensors it is given.
speculative/dspark.py (and dflash.py) is the per-step runtime: token selection, acceptance, slot/ctx_len state, draft KV paging, collectives.
Several changes here seem to blur that line, in both directions:
The model now depends on runtime modules.modeling_dspark.py / modeling_dflash.py import DraftBlockPlacement from spec_tail_kernels and markov_chain_logits from vocab_parallel.
Model APIs take runtime objects.apply_markov_chain_logits(..., tp_exchange) takes a TP communication object, and dflash_forward(..., block_placement) takes a page layout computed by the worker.
The worker probes model internals. It reads draft_model._uses_lilicorr, uses getattr(draft_model, "has_markov_head", ...), compares draft_model.lm_head is ..., and reads markov_w1 / markov_w2 directly.
The same logic now lives in two places. The MLA block placement is computed by the worker's fused kernel and also by _build_mla_block_fixup in the model. The paged-latent bookkeeping has a fused version and an eager version. The VocabShardedLogits handling is repeated in each worker (including the DSv4DSparkWorker branch noted inline).
None of this is wrong for what the PR sets out to do, and each step is reasonable on its own. Taken together, though, the drafter and the worker are getting harder to change independently. Rough ideas for how the split could look, mostly to start a discussion:
A thin contract layer. Move the data types both sides share (DraftBlockPlacement, plus a typed DraftBlockInputs replacing the current inputs dict) into a leaf module with no kernel or comm imports. The model would depend only on that module.
One owner for paging. The worker always provides the block placement. The fused kernel and an eager reference sit behind one function in the same file, and the MLA drafter only consumes the placement.
Token selection belongs to the worker. The Markov chain depends on argmax at each step, which makes it sampling. The model would expose the Markov head weights (e.g. markov_head() -> MarkovHeadWeights | None), and the worker would run the chain and own the TP exchange.
Explicit drafter capabilities instead of getattr probing. These would be resolved once at bind time into an immutable "draft plan" that _forward_impl reads, so the checks are no longer scattered through the step.
Vocab-parallel selection as a composable component. It would be held by SpecWorkerBase with a per-worker opt-in, rather than living in DFlashWorker and being copied into the other workers.
I don't think this PR should take any of it on. It is a perf PR and the series is already large. It may fit better in the modeling v2 work, where the model/runtime contract is being redrawn anyway. I'm raising it now because each follow-up optimization like this one will probably widen the coupling a bit more, and the contract will be easier to settle before that happens.
@WeiHaocheng thanks for writing this up. I agree it's a valid concern: the drafter model and the spec worker are getting harder to change independently, and each follow-up optimization like this one would widen the coupling further. The points you list (runtime imports in the model, runtime objects in model APIs, getattr probing of drafter internals, and the placement / paged-latent / VocabShardedLogits logic living in two places) are all real.
It is out of scope for this PR, which only lands the performance items, so I'll leave the model/runtime contract (a shared contract module, one owner for paging, token selection in the worker, explicit drafter capabilities, vocab-parallel selection as a SpecWorkerBase component) to the runtime group for a follow-up refactor, possibly together with the modeling v2 work. @zhaoyangwang-nvidia FYI, for the runtime group's planning.
@coderabbitai re the review-body nitpicks: Addressed: the seeded generators and the negative/zero block-table offsets are in b6d2942. The unsplit-fc fallback in test_dspark_drafter_tp_fusion.py now runs project_target_hidden on an odd-width input and compares it with an unsharded drafter (4cf2b8b).
@longlee0622 Thanks for the fixes. I confirmed that the odd-width fallback test calls project_target_hidden and checks exact equality with an unsharded drafter. The inspected test also uses seeded generators.
Your confirmation addresses the negative/zero block-table offset nitpick as well. I have not run the GPU tests.
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With a vocab-sharded (column-parallel, gathered) LM head, the one-model
DFlash/DSpark worker no longer gathers the full logits to pick tokens. Each
rank reduces its shard to one (value, global index) pair per row, the pairs
are exchanged through one float32 all-reduce of a zero-padded buffer (AUTO:
the AllReduce module picks MNNVL or the default strategy; not the model's
allreduce_strategy, since the exchange must be exact) and the winner is taken
in torch.argmax order (NaN first, ties to the lowest global index), so the
selected ids are bit-identical to argmax over the gathered logits.
* Target: the worker's target-logits hook (DFlashWorker.target_logits,
overriding SpecWorkerBase.target_logits) hands its forward this rank's shard
(VocabShardedLogits) when the worker binds a VocabParallelHead. Greedy
batches take the vocab-parallel argmax. Non-greedy batches of a deployment
with use_rejection_sampling=False and advanced_sampling_mode=no_topk_no_topp
sample vocab-parallel through the Gumbel-max trick (the exact distribution
up to the 23-bit uniform behind the Gumbel noise: a token more than ~19.4
below the row maximum of logits/T, probability below 4e-9, is never drawn;
Philox noise keyed by the row's (seed, offset) and the global vocab id, so
the draw does not depend on the TP split). The random stream is not the
gathered sampler's, so a seeded request need not reproduce its tokens;
docs/source/features/sampling.md states this exception to "identical to
FULL" for advanced_sampling_mode. Other batches gather the shard and take
the existing path. The DFlash and DSpark workers then return the shard as
the step's logits with logits_vocab_shard=True; the engine gathers it only
when a request has a logits post-processor, since one-model speculative
decoding has already selected the tokens inside the forward. The DSv4
DSpark worker keeps the base target-logits hook and the gathered logits.
* Draft: when the drafter drafts greedily through the target's head (no d2t,
no DFlash 2 selector), the draft tokens come straight from the shard block
logits; DSpark chains them through the vanilla-Markov head (bias from the
same F.linear on this rank's markov_w2 rows), bit-identical on the tested
shapes to the eager chain on the gathered logits + argmax.
Takes effect for DFlash/DSpark one-model workers whose target LM head is
COLUMN-parallel with gather_output, evenly sharded, unpadded, shard width a
multiple of 4 and vocab < 2^24, without attention DP, occurrence penalties or
a guided decoder (Kimi K3 helix GEN; dep16 uses attention DP and keeps the
gathered path). The decision is one VocabParallelSelection, made once after
loading by the worker's post-load hook: first the target side
(bind_target_lm_head), only for a target whose logits processor is the plain
LogitsProcessor (a model's own processor, e.g. DeepSeek-V4's head transform or
Qwen4-Exp's hyper-connection collapse, keeps the gathered logits) and never
with a guided decoder; then the draft side (bind_draft_lm_head), once the
drafter has taken over the target's head. Replaces
TLLM_SPEC_VOCAB_PARALLEL{,_SAMPLING,_COMM} of the reference branch; no switch.
Evidence (reference branch, Rubin): part of the Tier-0 GEN bundle, helix16 b1
no-ctx gen-only step 12.23 -> 11.45 ms (-6.4%, job 773254); not isolated.
Platform: N.
Tests: tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_vocab_parallel.py (single shard:
argmax order incl. NaN/ties, Gumbel-max distribution chi-square, (seed,
offset) keying, Markov chain vs the reference chain, CUDA graph; the selection
decisions; a target with a custom logits processor keeps the gathered logits;
the draft side bound by the model loader's post-load walks; the target-logits
hook returns the shard once the head is bound) and
tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_vocab_parallel_selection.py (TP2/TP4 over
the default and, on fabric-MNNVL nodes, the MNNVL all-reduce: argmax / gather
/ sample / Markov / strict acceptance vs gathered logits, CUDA graph),
registered in l0_b200, l0_dgx_b200 and l0_gb300_multi_gpus.
GB300 results (NSC LHR, base image + this tree's Python): new tests pass, jobs
316358 (single GPU, 41 passed) and 316359 (TP2/TP4, 13 passed);
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative regression 316234 has the same failure set
as base 316233 (pre-existing HF-download failures) plus none of its own. OCI
AGA review-fix rerun: job 1369108 (multi-GPU 17 passed); hw_agnostic failure
set unchanged vs the image (job 1369199). OCI AGA, final tree: jobs 1390012
(speculative unit suites, 56 passed; hw_agnostic failure set unchanged) and
1390014 (multi-GPU, 17 passed).
Review fixes, NSC LHR GB300 (main-f298722651 image + this tree's Python): job
416485, speculative unit suites 79 passed, multi-GPU 18 passed, hw_agnostic
DFlash/DSpark suites 582 passed with the same 5 HF-download failures as the
unchanged PR tip (control job 416484).
Signed-off-by: Jonas Li <6110159+longlee0622@users.noreply.github.com>
…ogits
The DSpark Markov intra-block bias runs as three launches per block position:
a Triton kernel that resolves the previous step's argmax from per-split
(value, index) pairs and gathers the masked markov_w1 row, the same F.linear
bias GEMV as the reference, and a Triton add + argmax kernel that also stores
the biased row. It reuses the vocab-parallel Markov chain kernels: with a
single shard for full-vocab draft logits (the dep16 / attention-DP draft
path, and any batch the vocab-parallel draft selection does not cover), and
with the TP pair exchange for the vocab-shard logits of a drafter with its
own column-parallel LM head. The biased logits and the chain match the eager
chain (dspark_markov_chain) advanced by a plain (TP-global) argmax bit for bit
on the tested shapes, in torch.argmax NaN and tie order; the bias is the same
F.linear GEMV, over a shard's markov_w2 rows on the vocab-shard path.
Takes effect in _DSparkHeadMixin.apply_markov_chain_logits, which is now the
only Markov chain of DSparkWorker's draft logits (the raw-tensor eager chain,
dspark_markov_chain_logits, moves out of modeling_speculative into
tests/unittest/_torch/helpers.py as the test reference). The vocab-shard case
exchanges its pairs through an NCCL all-reduce built after loading, only for a
Markov drafter whose own column-parallel LM head does not gather its output
(plain TP). Replaces TLLM_DSPARK_FUSED_MARKOV of the reference branch; no
switch.
Evidence (reference branch): GB300, one GPU inside a CUDA graph, K=6 chain
298 -> 77 us at B=4 and 1221 -> 338 us at B=128 (commit c662b4a). Rubin:
part of the Tier-0 GEN bundle (helix16 b1 12.23 -> 11.45 ms, -6.4%, job
773254; dep16 b8 integ1 + Tier-0 40.11 -> 34.71 ms incl. integ1 changes);
not isolated. Platform: N.
Of the two Markov chain fusions in the reference, this one is kept; the
one-launch MNNVL "Markov V2" (TLLM_DSPARK_MARKOV_V2) measured neutral on
Rubin and is not ported.
Tests: tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_vocab_parallel.py
(markov_chain_logits bit-identical to the reference chain, bf16/fp32 Markov
weights, B up to 128, out-of-vocab anchors, ties and NaN) and
tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_vocab_parallel_selection.py (shard
logits with the TP exchange vs the eager sharded chain, TP2/TP4; OCI AGA job
1369108); the TP exchange is built only for a Markov drafter whose own LM head
yields shard logits (test_vocab_parallel.py).
GB300 results (NSC LHR, base image + this tree's Python): new tests pass, jobs
316358 (single GPU, 41 passed) and 316359 (TP2/TP4, 13 passed);
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative regression 316234 has the same failure set
as base 316233 (pre-existing HF-download failures) plus none of its own.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Li <6110159+longlee0622@users.noreply.github.com>
…latent drafter bookkeeping
Replaces chains of small eager ops in the one-model spec-decode step with
Triton kernels that produce the same values (new spec_tail_kernels.py):
* Strict acceptance of a uniform-width draft (SpecWorkerBase
._sample_and_accept_draft_tokens_base, every one-model worker) is one
launch; the synthetic forced-acceptance override still runs after it.
Ragged verification keeps its path.
* The DFlash draft-KV block-table decode (blocks per request, clamped and
divided offsets) is one launch.
* For the generation requests of a DFlash step (context requests may precede
them) whose drafter context is a paged single-latent cache (the MLA DSpark
drafter on the draft KV manager's pool), the per-request bookkeeping runs in
one kernel -- bonus token, query and RoPE positions, destination pages /
offsets / write mask of the context latents, ctx_len advance with the dummy
slot emptied, the advertised context length, seq_lens -- and one kernel
stores the context latents of every drafter layer. The same kernel places
the block's own positions in the pages (DraftBlockPlacement), which the MLA
drafter's block decode takes instead of re-gathering the page table. Every
drafter's dflash_forward takes the placement as an optional block_placement
argument; drafters that append the block themselves ignore it.
Takes effect by default: strict acceptance for every non-ragged one-model
verification; the block-table decode and the paged-latent preparation for
DFlash/DSpark drafters bound to the draft KV manager's pool, the latter for
single-latent drafters other than LiLiCorr (every loaded DFlash drafter owns
the fc + hidden_norm target projection), decided when the drafter context
binds to the pool, on steps with captured target features drafting from all
K+1 target tokens. Replaces TLLM_SPEC_TAIL_FUSION of the reference branch; no
switch. Not ported from the reference set: the next-step token and block
gather-id kernels, the V un-absorb into the o_proj layout, the block-latent
scatter and the vocab-sharded embedding lookup (a few launches each per step).
Evidence (reference branch, Rubin): part of the Tier-0 GEN bundle, helix16 b1
12.23 -> 11.45 ms (-6.4%, job 773254); dep16 b8 integ1 + Tier-0 40.11 ->
34.71 ms (incl. integ1 changes); not isolated. The reference's tail fusion
covers about the -0.2 ms/step that upstream PR NVIDIA#20550 measures for the same
drafter bookkeeping (status 2026-10-19). Platform: N.
Tests: tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_spec_tail_kernels.py (strict
acceptance and block-table decode vs the eager chains, the latter with an
all-negative row, an all-zero row and about half negative or zero entries;
the worker's paged-latent preparation vs its eager path: drafter inputs,
ctx_len, seq_lens, pool contents bit for bit from a nonzero pool, with every
entry outside the step's destinations unchanged and every destination
written, block placement vs _build_mla_block_fixup, incl. dummy slots, the
max_ctx ceiling and contexts that outrun their pages), registered in l0_b200.
GB300 results (NSC LHR, base image + this tree's Python): new tests pass, jobs
316358 (single GPU, 41 passed) and 316359 (TP2/TP4, 13 passed);
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative regression 316234 has the same failure set
as base 316233 (pre-existing HF-download failures) plus none of its own. OCI
AGA review-fix reruns: jobs 1369108, 1390012.
Review fixes, NSC LHR GB300 (main-f298722651 image + this tree's Python): job
416485, speculative unit suites 79 passed, multi-GPU 18 passed, hw_agnostic
DFlash/DSpark suites 582 passed with the same 5 HF-download failures as the
unchanged PR tip (control job 416484).
Signed-off-by: Jonas Li <6110159+longlee0622@users.noreply.github.com>
…used all-reduce + residual + RMSNorm
For a drafter that declares the TP fusions (DFlashForCausalLM._tp_fusions,
set by MLADSparkForCausalLM only), under plain TP (tp > 1, no attention DP):
* The drafter keeps only its rank's slice of the context projection fc
along the input features. Every rank holds the same captured target
features, multiplies its slice of them by its fc columns, and one
all-reduce sums the partials with hidden_norm fused in (RMS_NORM fusion of
the AllReduce module). Each rank reads, and stores, 1/tp of the fc weight
(Kimi K3: 35840 x 7168 bf16, 513 MB, per rank before).
* The MLA DSpark drafter's block decode lets o_proj and down_proj return
their un-reduced outputs and fuses each all-reduce with the residual add
and the RMSNorm that follows it (post_attention_layernorm, the next layer's
input_layernorm, the final norm) -- RESIDUAL_RMS_NORM of the layers' own
AllReduce modules.
The fc split is implemented in the DFlash base class, but a drafter family
opts in through _tp_fusions only once its acceptance length is measured with
it: the MLA DSpark drafter (the Kimi-K3 measurements below) does; the other
DFlash/DSpark drafters (Llama / Qwen / Laguna DFlash, GQA DSpark) keep the
unsplit fc and the unfused hidden_norm until measured.
Both change only the drafter's rounding (sum order of the projection and of
the residual/norm; the same row-parallel numerics as the target's o_proj /
down_proj), so draft tokens can differ from the unfused drafter at near-ties;
target verification keeps the output lossless. Default on for the MLA DSpark
drafter. Both are decided once when the drafter is built, from its class's
_tp_fusions and the mapping (tp > 1, no attention DP); an fc whose input
width does not split over tp_size keeps the unsplit projection (logged at
load). GSM8K below is with the full Tier-0 set. Replaces
TLLM_DSPARK_DRAFT_FUSION of the reference branch; no switch. Not ported from
that set: the single q_a / kv_a GEMM (one launch per layer, read through
strided views the norm kernels are not specified for).
Evidence (reference branch, Rubin): part of the Tier-0 GEN bundle, helix16 b1
12.23 -> 11.45 ms (-6.4%, job 773254); not isolated. Accuracy with the full
Tier-0 set: GSM8K helix8 b1 95.87 vs baseline 95.91 (forced acceptance off).
MTP acceptance length on GB300 (NSC LHR; GSM8K 5-shot, temperature 0, forced
acceptance off, 1319 requests), this series vs the base (no drafter fusion)
and the reference branch: helix8 b8 mtp7 3.635-3.642 (jobs 331305, 332614;
3.634 in 334310) vs base 3.640 (316193), reference 3.578-3.593 (317606,
331307); dep16 b16 mtp5 3.377-3.392 (331306, 332615, 334311) vs base 3.382
(316194), reference 3.396-3.400 (317095, 332999). The series is within 0.01 of
the base at both shapes, so the fusion does not lower acceptance. Measured
with the Kimi-K3 MLA DSpark drafter only, which is why only it declares the
fusions.
Platform: N.
Tests: tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_dspark_drafter_tp_fusion.py
(TP2 MLA drafter vs the single-GPU drafter: projected context and block
decode within bf16 tolerance, identical on every rank, fused paths taken; a
TP2 MLA drafter whose fc width does not split loads unsplit and projects an
odd-width input exactly as the single-GPU drafter; a TP2 plain DFlash drafter,
which does not declare the fusions, keeps the whole fc and the unfused
hidden_norm and projects exactly as on one GPU), registered in
l0_dgx_b200 and l0_gb300_multi_gpus; OCI AGA job 1369108.
GB300 results (NSC LHR, base image + this tree's Python): new tests pass, jobs
316358 (single GPU, 41 passed) and 316359 (TP2/TP4, 13 passed);
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative regression 316234 has the same failure set
as base 316233 (pre-existing HF-download failures) plus none of its own.
Review fixes, NSC LHR GB300 (main-f298722651 image + this tree's Python): job
416485, speculative unit suites 79 passed, multi-GPU 18 passed, hw_agnostic
DFlash/DSpark suites 582 passed with the same 5 HF-download failures as the
unchanged PR tip (control job 416484).
Signed-off-by: Jonas Li <6110159+longlee0622@users.noreply.github.com>
…creating CUDA-graph views
SpecMetadata.create_cuda_graph_metadata shallow-copies the metadata. The
slot-indexed one-model rejection-sampling buffers (draft_probs,
batch_slot_ids, full_draft_probs) and the occurrence-penalty state are
allocated lazily in prepare(), so a graph view created before the first
eager prepare() (e.g. when CUDA-graph capture is the first forward with
speculative decoding, as on a generation-only server) allocated its own
copy. The drafter then scattered draft probabilities into the buffer of
the view that ran a step while the next step's rejection kernel, eager or
under another graph, read a different buffer.
Allocate both on the base metadata before the copy, so every view shares
them. Always on; no effect once the base metadata is prepared.
The out-of-bounds half of the reference fix (buffers sized by the graph
batch size instead of the seq-slot pool) is already in base: buffers are
sized by num_seq_slots on every view. The reference's descriptive
range-check error is not ported: with the shared, pool-sized buffer the
slot ids are in range by construction.
Evidence (reference db53681): DSpark + attention DP (Kimi-K3 dep16
gen) hit a device-side assert in write_padding_onehot_draft_probs (slot 37
vs a 33-row buffer). Platform: N.
Tests: test_cuda_graph_views_share_slot_buffers in
test_rejection_buffers_guard.py (views created before prepare() share
draft_probs and penalty_state with the base metadata).
Signed-off-by: Jonas Li <6110159+longlee0622@users.noreply.github.com>
Automatically added "ci: full pre-merge approved" because this PR has satisfied the required GitHub review approvals. Unresolved review conversations and other required checks remain independent merge requirements.
…kov bias
Since NVIDIA#20940 the shared DSparkWorker._refine_block_logits calls
_apply_dspark_markov_bias without spec_metadata, but the K3 DSpark worker
override still requires it for its TP-gather argmax. Every rank failed at
the first DSpark decode step with TypeError. Override _refine_block_logits
in both K3 targets to pass spec_metadata through.
Signed-off-by: Vasanth Sabavat <vsabavat@nvidia.com>
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dspark_markov_chain_logitswas removed. Callers now use the shared Markov-chain implementation.QA Engineer Review
test-dblists. Repository entries confirm the tail-kernel and single-shard vocab-parallel tests in B200, and the multi-GPU selection and DSpark fusion tests in DGX B200 and GB300.Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dflash.py— Verifyblock_placementhandling and TP-sliced context projection. Check the unsplit fallback when feature width is not divisible by TP size.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dspark.py— Verify block-placement handling, fused TP reductions with residual addition and RMSNorm, and the updated Markov-chain API.tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_speculative.py— Verify callers use the replacement for the removeddspark_markov_chain_logitshelper and that target-model setup occurs.tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py— Verify vocab-parallel eligibility and fallback paths, plus fused paged-cache preparation.tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dspark.py— Verify shard-logit handling, Markov token selection, and the unsupported shard-width error path.tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py— Verify strict acceptance for uniform-width drafts, ragged handling, and rejection and penalty buffer preparation for graph views.tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/spec_tail_kernels.py— New Triton helpers cover strict acceptance, block-table decoding, paged-latent preparation, and context-latent storage. The unit test is listed in the B200 CI list.tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/vocab_parallel.py— Verify supported-head checks, tie and NaN ordering, sampling, and shard-aware Markov selection. Unit and multi-GPU tests are listed in B200, DGX B200, and GB300 CI lists.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml— Adds CI entries for speculative tail kernels and single-shard vocab-parallel selection.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml— Adds CI entries for DSpark TP2 fusion and multi-GPU vocab-parallel selection.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_gb300_multi_gpus.yml— Adds CI entries for multi-GPU vocab-parallel selection and DSpark fusion; retains the Kimi K3 speculative parity test.tests/unittest/_torch/helpers.py— Adds an eager DSpark Markov reference helper. Verify parity with the production path.tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_dspark_drafter_tp_fusion.py— Compares TP and unsharded MLA DSpark behavior, including the unsplit-width fallback. Listed in DGX B200 and GB300 CI lists.tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_vocab_parallel_selection.py— Covers multi-GPU selection, exchanges, ties, NaNs, and graph execution. Listed in DGX B200 and GB300 CI lists.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_kimi_k3_dspark_semantics.py— Uses the shared eager reference for Markov parity and sharded-versus-full-vocabulary checks. No integration test-list entry was supplied.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_rejection_buffers_guard.py— Checks that graph metadata views share rejection and penalty buffers with base metadata. No integration test-list entry was supplied.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_spec_tail_kernels.py— Covers kernel parity and fused DFlash latent preparation, including dummy slots and cache writes. Listed in the B200 CI list.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_vocab_parallel.py— Covers selection ordering, sampling repeatability, worker eligibility, Markov exchange, and graph replay. Listed in the B200 CI list.docs/source/features/sampling.md— Documents seeded-output differences for vocab-sharded Gumbel-max sampling, while noting distributional equivalence within the stated tail bound.Description
This PR is part of a series that lands Kimi-K3 optimizations, re-implemented for production use (wave 1 of 8 PRs). It applies on main by itself and does not depend on the other wave-1 PRs (serving runtime, Helix CP, KDA/DWDP, low-M GEMM).
It has 5 commits. Each commit message gives the full rationale, the activation conditions, measurements and tests. The reference branch controlled these features with
TLLM_SPEC_VOCAB_PARALLEL*,TLLM_DSPARK_FUSED_MARKOV,TLLM_SPEC_TAIL_FUSIONandTLLM_DSPARK_DRAFT_FUSION; this PR has no such switches.Vocab-parallel target and draft token selection (new
tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/vocab_parallel.py). This applies when the LM head is column-parallel and gathered. Each rank then reduces its vocab shard to one (value, global index) pair per row. The pairs are exchanged through one exact float32 all-reduce, and the winner is chosen intorch.argmaxorder: NaN first, then ties to the lowest index. Selected ids are therefore bit-identical to argmax over the gathered logits.use_rejection_sampling=Falseandno_topk_no_toppsample through Gumbel-max. The Philox noise is keyed by (seed, offset) and the global vocab id, so the draw does not depend on the TP split. The sampled distribution is the same as the gathered sampler's, but the random stream differs, so seeded token sequences need not matchFULL(documented indocs/source/features/sampling.md).It is decided once after loading. It takes effect for DFlash/DSpark one-model workers whose head is evenly sharded, with no attention DP, no occurrence penalties and no guided decoder. In Kimi-K3 that is the helix GEN workers; dep16 keeps the gathered path.
DSpark: fused vanilla-Markov draft chain. Each block position now takes 3 launches: a resolve + gather kernel, the same
F.linearbias GEMV, and an add + argmax kernel. The chain is bit-identical to the eager chain. This covers full-vocab draft logits (dep16) and vocab-shard logits with a TP pair exchange. The eager chain moves totests/unittest/_torch/helpers.pyas the test reference. GB300, CUDA graph, K=6 chain: 298 -> 77 us at B=4 and 1221 -> 338 us at B=128.Fused spec tail (new
spec_tail_kernels.py). Three chains of small eager ops become Triton kernels that produce the same values:The kernel also produces a
DraftBlockPlacementthat the MLA drafter's block decode uses.DSpark/DFlash drafter TP fusion (plain TP only, no attention DP).
_tp_fusions; currently onlyMLADSparkForCausalLM, the drafter with acceptance-length measurements) keeps only its rank's input-feature slice of the context projectionfc, with one all-reduce that hashidden_normfused. For Kimi-K3, each rank stores and reads 1/tp of a 513 MB weight. Other DFlash/DSpark drafters (plain DFlash, Laguna, GQA DSpark) keep the unsplitfcand the unfusedhidden_normunder TP until they are measured.Only rounding changes, and target verification keeps the output lossless. MTP acceptance length on GB300 (GSM8K 5-shot, temperature 0, forced acceptance off), this series vs base:
[fix] Allocate slot-indexed sampling state before creating CUDA-graph views.
create_cuda_graph_metadatashallow-copies the metadata. When the first forward was a CUDA-graph capture, as on generation-only servers, each view used to allocate its own rejection-sampling and penalty buffers. The drafter then wrote draft probabilities into one view's buffer while the rejection kernel read another. This showed up in Kimi-K3 dep16 gen as a device-side assert inwrite_padding_onehot_draft_probs.Bug found and fixed while porting (relative to the reference implementation). Target-side vocab-parallel selection is now bound only when the target's logits processor is the plain
LogitsProcessor. Models that install their own processor keep the gathered logits, for example DeepSeek-V4 (head transform) and Qwen4-Exp (hyper-connection collapse). A unit test covers this case.Whole-series end-to-end results. These numbers are for the full series of 8 PRs, not for this PR alone. Per-PR attribution is in the commit messages.
Setup: GB300 NVL72 (NSC LHR), Kimi-K3 NVFP4 with the DSpark drafter, AgentX agentic traces, the same dev image and autotuner state on both sides. Base is main f298722, compared with main + all 8 PRs. NSC jobs: base 362316–362321, series 361375–361379.
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New and changed tests, with where CI picks them up (
tests/integration/test_lists/test-db):tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_vocab_parallel.py(new)l0_b200(added)tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_vocab_parallel_selection.py(new)l0_dgx_b200,l0_gb300_multi_gpus(added)tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_spec_tail_kernels.py(new)l0_b200(added)tests/unittest/_torch/multi_gpu/test_dspark_drafter_tp_fusion.py(new)fcloads unsplitl0_dgx_b200,l0_gb300_multi_gpus(added)tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_rejection_buffers_guard.pytest_cuda_graph_views_share_slot_buffersl0_h100(explicit)tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_kimi_k3_dspark_semantics.pyunittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic(l0_cpu,l0_h100)tests/unittest/_torch/helpers.pydspark_markov_chain_logitsreferenceGB300 results: every test file this PR adds or changes passes on the full-series image on NSC LHR.
test_vocab_parallel_selection.py16/16 at tp2 and tp4, auto and MNNVL.test_dspark_drafter_tp_fusion.py.tests/unittest/_torch/speculativeregression shows the same failure set as base: the base failures are existing HF-download failures, and this PR adds none (jobs 316234 vs 316233).The multi-GPU tests run their collectives inside NCCL window-tensor scopes. The CUDA-graph checks capture with
nccl_window_graph_capture, the same pattern asCUDAGraphRunner. They therefore pass with main'sTLLM_NCCL_WINDOW_LIFECYCLE_ASSERT.PR Checklist
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