[Wanli-Jiang]

Dev Engineer Review

This change replaces the TP1-only Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 target with a shared sm_103 target for TP1, TP4, TEP4, DEP4, and DEP2. It adds rank-aware weight loading, pool validation, routing admission, attention and SSM paths, expert-window execution, and vision support. It also moves shared operators and tests from the TP1-specific tree into shared qwen4_exp packages.

Key verification areas are rank-specific weight slicing, large cache and recurrent-state offsets, layout and capacity boundaries, and routing rejection for unsupported configurations. Several TP1-specific tests were removed during the reorganization, so confirm their behavior-specific coverage remains in the shared and default-target suites. The supplied history reports a successful CI run on an earlier commit, but no completed checks on the current head. Current-head CI, build, and test results are not available.

QA Engineer Review

The diff changes 287 files. It adds and relocates unit tests for shared operators and adds default-target coverage for layouts, weights, pools, routing, decode, rollback, attention, SSM, MoE, and vision. Tests cover numerical comparisons, invalid-input handling, CUDA-graph replay, cache writes, and layout boundaries. It also removes multiple TP1-only tests and five shared Qwen4 tests; verify that removed assertions are either intentionally obsolete or covered elsewhere.

The accuracy integration tests and references add multi-layout, MTP, quantized-KV, and disaggregated cases. The supplied summaries show corresponding selectors in the test-db/ CI lists and qa/llm_function_core.txt. Test-list entries establish scheduling, not execution or pass status. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up.

Per-File QA Perspective

Source files

• tensorrt_llm/_torch/_experimental/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/routing.py: Routing selects the default target for supported layouts and delegates deployment checks. Verify supported and rejected mappings, checkpoint settings, and speculative-decoding combinations.
• .../qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__default/weights.py: Rank-aware checkpoint slicing and weight loading replace the TP1 loader. Verify shard dimensions, parameter coverage, checkpoint-key handling, and MTP-disabled loading.
• .../qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__default/pool.py: New pool geometry and validation cover KV, QSA, GDN, PLE, step, and replay buffers. Verify layouts and dtype handling for BF16, FP8, and NVFP4 pools.
• .../qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__default/modeling.py and vision.py: The target adds model execution and multimodal embedding paths. Verify admission, chunking, image/video ordering, and pool binding.
• qwen4_exp/ops/attention/*.py: Shared attention operators add or extend QSA selection, index scoring, cache storage, sparse GQA, row tiling, rollback, and decode. Verify causal visibility, metadata shapes, boundary addressing, and selected-slot writes.
• qwen4_exp/ops/ssm/*.py: SSM operators add rank-specific cache geometries, replay paths, and large-offset handling. Verify state updates, offset limits, fresh-state behavior, and supported head layouts.
• qwen4_exp/ops/moe/*.py: MoE operators add expert-window support and adjust PDL handling. Verify local expert indexing, zero output for non-local routes, and whole-layer behavior.
• qwen4_exp/ops/hc/*.py, ops/ple/*.py, ops/gemm/*.py, ops/norm/*.py, ops/activation/*.py, ops/quantization/*.py, and ops/embedding/*.py: Shared operators move or update workload metadata, supported shapes, and selected behavior. Verify each changed operator’s dtype, stride, row-count, and rank constraints.
• qwen4_exp/ops/vision/*.py and ...__default/ops/vision/*.py: New and updated vision operators support patch embedding, position interpolation, and rotary encoding. Verify validation, interpolation order, dtype conversion, and graph-capture behavior.
• qwen4_exp/kernels/** and package initializers: Most changes relocate shared modules or update package descriptions and imports. Verify package paths and operator registration.
• ...__default/ops/**: Target-specific decode, prefill, HC, MoE, SSM, and vision paths are added or adjusted. Verify that dispatch uses each specialized path only for its supported layout and shape.

Test-code files

• tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/**: Relocated and modified shared tests cover attention, activation, GEMM, HC, MoE, normalization, PLE, quantization, and SSM. Review changed assertions and confirm removed TP1-only cases remain covered where still applicable.
• tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__default/**: New or relocated tests cover routing, layouts, weights, pools, decode, rollback, attention, SSM, expert execution, and vision. Verify both accepted and rejected configurations across the supported layout matrix.
• Deleted ...__tp1/** test files: Removed tests include attention, MoE, normalization, PLE, quantization, SSM, and vision cases. Confirm that important behavior-specific assertions are not lost.
• tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/moe/test_modeling_v2_fp4_block_scale_moe_runner.py, quantization/test_modeling_v2_fp4_quantize.py, test_modeling_v2_reference_precision.py, and test_modeling_v2_routing.py: These update target keys, import paths, or routing expectations. Verify generic suites exercise the default target.
• tests/integration/defs/accuracy/modeling_v2/test_qwen4_exp.py and tests/integration/defs/accuracy/references/acceptance_length.yaml: These add or rename multi-layout, MTP, quantized-KV, and disaggregated accuracy cases and references. Verify each case uses its intended layout and engine settings.
• Changed integration tests are represented in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/ and tests/integration/test_lists/qa/. These lists show scheduling and selectors, not execution results.

Test-list and test configuration files

• tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b300.yml, l0_gb300.yml, and l0_gb300_multi_gpus.yml: These schedule TP1 and multi-GPU accuracy cases, including quantized-KV and disaggregated tests. Check selectors and timeouts against the test definitions.
• tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml: This adds the default-target directory to the CPU-only list. Verify that GPU-only cases remain excluded from CPU execution.
• tests/integration/test_lists/qa/llm_function_core.txt: This adds manual-QA selectors for TP1, multi-GPU, quantized-KV, vision/MMMU, and disaggregated coverage. Check selectors against the renamed integration methods.
• tests/integration/defs/.test_durations: Duration records and names change with the default-target test class. Check that selectors match the integration tests and list entries.

Description

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 (Qwen4ExpForConditionalGeneration) on GB300 (sm_103) is served by one modeling_v2 target, qwen4_exp/qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__default, at every layout the family routes. It replaces the TP1 target qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__tp1, and the operations it calls live in the family's models/qwen4_exp/ops/ and kernels/.

layout	GPUs	attention	MoE
tp1	1	every head	every expert
tp4	4	TP4	TP4, each rank's 160-wide intermediate slice zero-padded to 256
tep4	4	TP4	EP4, a 128-expert window per rank
dep4	4	attention DP4 (enable_attention_dp)	EP4
dep2	2	attention DP2	EP2, a 256-expert window per rank

No runtime code outside models/qwen4_exp/ changes: no catalog entry, routing index, runtime, attention-backend or C++ file. Outside it only tests change: the shared modeling_v2 tests that name the target (test_modeling_v2_routing.py, test_modeling_v2_reference_precision.py, and the target's cells in the fused_qk_norm_rope, thop_attention, fp4_quantize and fp4_block_scale_moe_runner tests), the accuracy test with its acceptance-length references, and the CI and QA lists. No docs change: the deployment guide stays as on main. The target relies on two merged changes outside it: #21684, with which TRT-LLM's causal_conv1d kernels form a conv-state slot's offset in 64 bits, and #21409, the one-launch QSA/GDN decode metadata the tp1 AgentX deployments use (at c1 it moves x by +2.4%).

commit	scope
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: family operations	models/qwen4_exp/ops/ (activation, attention/QSA, embedding, gemm, hc, moe, norm, ple, quantization, ssm, vision) and kernels/moe/, with their cells and tests
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: one Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 target for tp1, tp4, tep4, dep4 and dep2	the target, routing.py, the TP1 target removed; the target's unit tests and accuracy class, CI and QA lists
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: restore op guard and CUDA-graph replay tests	the family operations' guard, rejection and CUDA-graph replay tests at the row counts each operation's note states
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: keep the tp1 draft head; decline an int32-overflowing score table	the tp1 MTP draft head kept past the second post-load call (the next commit replaces its routing check with chunked scoring)
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: second-review fixes, restored op tests, Modeling V2 docs	prefill score tables in chunks under 2^31 elements; allreduce_strategy and TRTLLM_ENABLE_PDL=0 honored; one switch parser; EPLB declined at the expert-parallel layouts; load checks; one row-tile kernel module; the rest of the family operations' guard and replay tests; the Modeling V2 section of the deployment guide
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: third-review follow-ups	the PLE host table placed by NVML's CPU affinity, as on main; every CuTe GDN replay kernel a verify step reaches compiled at bind, and the vision tower warmed up at load with its rope and position-embedding kernels unspecialized on the grid, so no serving step compiles a kernel; the row-tile op's group-size check; guard tests
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: FlashInfer ring replay, NVFP4 KV without paged context, quantized KV at tp4/tep4	the checkpoint settings routing pins; FlashInfer's ring replay on verify; the paged-context path for an NVFP4 pool whatever the engine enables; 6/1 cells for the quantized pools; pass keys and two tep4 members in the quantized-KV accuracy case; a whole-layer Gated-DeltaNet test
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: drop the conv-state pool guard now that #21684 is merged	the target's causal_conv1d_update wrapper no longer refuses a pool past 2^32 elements
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: the replay stub's ring fields; the tep4 fp8 decode cell's split count; measured long-context AL references	test fixes and the quantized-KV pass keys' acceptance-length references
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: one router kernel across attention-DP ranks; the MTP settings routing pins; the NVFP4 context row-tile pass at every layout	under attention DP an eager decode step routes the gathered rows on the prefill router, so every rank picks the same top-k; the MTP module's settings and attn_output_gate pinned in routing; an NVFP4 pool's context rows on the row-tile pass at every layout
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: keep route short, move the admission checks onto the target	routing.py matches the GPU, the layout (one _LAYOUTS table) and the draft path; the checkpoint and engine checks move to the target's check_deployment, which route calls before returning the class, so auto falls back on the same deployments as before
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: name both readers of the quantized-KV gsm8k AL keys	acceptance-length reference comments only
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: drop the Modeling V2 section from the Qwen3.8-Flash-Next deployment guide	the deployment guide back to main's text; the Modeling V2 usage notes move to another doc later
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: put the default target's host-resident PLE table on transparent huge pages, as #21463 does for the tp1 target	_RegisteredHostBuffer maps its own pages and advises MADV_HUGEPAGE before registering them (a warning where the kernel refuses); #21463's two tests in test_ple_host_table.py
modeling_v2 qwen4_exp: count only the MADV_HUGEPAGE warning; name every post-merge quantized-KV case	the refused-advice test ignores other modules' warnings; the l0_gb300_multi_gpus comment lists all four quantized-KV cases

Routing

route (routing.py) matches the GPU, the parallel layout and the draft path, then calls the target's check_deployment (modeling.py), which holds the checkpoint and engine checks next to the constants they read. Either one raising NoTarget is a decline.

route claims Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 on sm_103 at the layouts above with one-model MTP (MTP-Eagle, 1-7 drafts) or no speculation; dep2 without speculation. The engine checks are per layout: at tp1 the CuteDSL experts (moe_config.backend: CUTEDSL, up to three drafts) and an fp32 recurrent state are served too; elsewhere TRTLLM experts and a bf16 state. MTP needs the GDN cached replay (the default): with TRTLLM_USE_GDN_REPLAY=0 it is declined, so auto falls back to the built-in model (on main the TP1 target also verified on the legacy per-step recurrent states). Routing also declines moe_config.load_balancer (EPLB) at tep4, dep4 and dep2, where the engine would build a balancer for the target's fixed expert windows, and a checkpoint of the target's shape whose config changes what it computes without changing a weight's shape (norm_topk_prob, top-k, hidden_act, attention bias, the output gate, the rope settings, tied embeddings, the MTP module's layers and the hidden state it reads): a fine-tune that changed one would otherwise run with wrong logits or drafts.

The target

Features: one-model MTP with IndexShare, MTP under attention DP (dep4), FP8 and NVFP4 KV cache at every layout, block reuse with the per-conversation policy, chunked prefill, breakable prefill CUDA graphs (attention TP), disaggregated serving and the vision tower. With TRTLLM_USE_GDN_FLASHINFER_REPLAY (MTP with 3 or 7 drafts over a bf16 state) the verify step runs FlashInfer's ring replay, as the built-in model does. An NVFP4 pool's context attention takes the paged-context path whether or not the engine enables it (it does for chunked prefill or block reuse), and a step's context rows past 256 are attended a group of requests at a time on the row-tile pass over a bf16 scratch. Under attention DP every rank computes the router logits of the rows its group gathers with one kernel: an eager decode step, which can meet another rank's prefill, takes the prefill router.

At tp1 the target takes one-rank forms, fixed at construction:

• the decode projections' one-rank dispatch (CuTe PDL GEMV / FlashInfer low-M);
• the hyper-connection sites' row-count forms: decode GEMV and tcgen05 rows pairs, prefill rstd sites;
• a trtllm-gen decode MoE whose finalize the next hyper-connection site folds in, and from 8 rows the router launched before the shared expert;
• a CuteDSL copy of the routed experts for prefill steps from 4096 rows (TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_MOE_PREFILL_COPY=0 drops it), or the CuteDSL pipeline for every step under moe_config.backend: CUTEDSL;
• over an fp32 recurrent state, the captured single-token decode recurrence and gated norm in one launch;
• the decode draft layer with its FP8 head, the draft step reusing the trunk step's positions;
• over an NVFP4 pool, the family's row-tile pass for the context rows (the other layouts take the target's, which also serves 6/1 heads).

The other layouts take neither the hyper-connection sites' row-count forms nor the one-rank projection dispatch.

No serving step compiles a kernel: every CuTe GDN replay kernel a verify step can reach is compiled at bind, and the vision tower runs once at load. A prefill step's context rows are scored and selected in chunks of fewer than 2^31 score elements, the range the selection kernels index in int32; at max_num_tokens 8192 that is one chunk. The TP sum runs at the engine's allreduce_strategy, and TRTLLM_ENABLE_PDL=0 turns programmatic dependent launch off.

Opt-in at tp1, off by default (each switch takes 1/0, true/false, yes/no or on/off and fails the build on any other value; set at another layout, it is ignored with a warning):

• TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_DENSE_FP8=1: dense projections on FP8 copies;
• TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_GDN_INPROJ_NVFP4=1: the GDN input projection's decode rows on an NVFP4 copy;
• TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_TARGET_HEAD_NVFP4=1 / TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_MTP_HEAD_NVFP4=1: target / draft head decode rows on nvfp4_gemv;
• TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_MTP_MOE_NVFP4=1: the draft layer's routed experts on an NVFP4 copy;
• TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_MTP_DENSE_FP8=1: the draft layer's dense projections on fp8_gemv.

The target's own kernels, in its ops/: a one-launch tcgen05 HC mixer first half; a fused sparse-attention decode prologue (norm + rope, QKV copy, K/V append, index key and group compression); a CuTe GDN replay; an MoE front end that writes the routed experts' NVFP4 activation in the mixer's epilogue; row-tile sparse GQA for context rows; the vision tower's 2-D rope and position-embedding interpolation.

The family operations beyond the TP1 target's copies on main: qsa_canonical_selection runs as one Triton kernel; qsa_paged_index_scores shares one key gather across a verify step's rows of one request.

AgentX at tp1

Scoring follows InferenceX:

• x = 1000 / P90 full-response ITL;
• y = Σ(ISL+OSL) / window / GPU;
• golden acceptance length 2.32 (TLLM_SPEC_DECODE_FORCE_NUM_ACCEPTED_TOKENS=1.32);
• 3600 s per point, semianalysis_cc_traces_weka_062126_256k, seed 42, one exclusive node.

The tp1 Pareto frontier: the two points measured on this target (★) and the TP1 target's points they do not dominate. Each label is x, the concurrency, then what the engine adds to the base engine (MTP2 with the four switches DENSE_FP8, GDN_INPROJ_NVFP4, MTP_HEAD_NVFP4, MTP_MOE_NVFP4):

• h150: a 150 GiB host KV cache tier;
• 6sw: all six opt-in switches, adding TARGET_HEAD_NVFP4 and MTP_DENSE_FP8;
• PD: disaggregated, 1 context + 1 generation GPU, all six switches.

The points are evenly spaced in x order, so the x axis is not to scale.

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    title "AgentX tp1 frontier, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next NVFP4 on GB300"
    x-axis "tok/s/user = 1000 / P90 ITL (each label leads with it; points evenly spaced)" ["63 c80 h150 ★", "75 c72 h150", "89 c64 h150", "126 c48", "176 c32", "386 c8 6sw", "449 c4 6sw", "450 c4", "571 c1 6sw", "589 PD c2 ★"]
    y-axis "total tok/s/GPU" 0 --> 350000
    line [334972, 311982, 292180, 229683, 167545, 48012, 31794, 31054, 22605, 11822]

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point	x (tok/s/user)	total tok/s/GPU	TTFT p90	GSM8K	engine beyond the common settings	target
★ c80	63.47	334,972	1,257 ms	95.72	max_batch_size 80, host cache 150 GiB	this PR
c72	74.93	311,982	897 ms	96.36	max_batch_size 72, host cache 150 GiB	TP1
c64	89.21	292,180	791 ms	95.26	host cache 150 GiB	TP1
c48	125.79	229,683	648 ms	95.91		TP1
c32	175.67	167,545	584 ms	95.91		TP1
c8	386.31	48,012	497 ms	96.02	all six switches	TP1
c4	448.74	31,794	502 ms	96.21	all six switches	TP1
c4	450.18	31,054	496 ms	95.91		TP1
c1	570.99	22,605	522 ms	96.70	all six switches; no avg_seq_len	TP1
★ PD c2	588.92	11,822	605 ms	95.87	disaggregated, 1 context + 1 generation GPU (max_batch_size 32 / 128, block reuse on the context GPU); all six switches; no avg_seq_len	this PR

The ★ points are measured with #21409 applied, at a commit one forward change before the head: the 2..16-row hyper-connection site now reads a strided gate-logit column through its stride. Both engines run the dense FP8 mode, in which the shared expert's gate logit is its own contiguous GEMM, so that change does not reach them. They also carried two runtime changes that are not going in: small-batch speculative sampling kernels (x within noise at c1) and a fix that ends one-token disaggregated requests after the first token (no effect on either coordinate). The TP1 points are the TP1 target's before this PR replaced it, scored the same way; its c2 (579.56 / 11,496) and c80 (62.24 / 334,417) points are dominated by the ★ ones and left out. Each point's engine passes full GSM8K with real acceptance. No point measures this PR's head (with or without #21409). In the ★ runs the draft steps ran on the verify head's FP8 copy: the core's second post-load call dropped the draft head, so MTP_HEAD_NVFP4 had no effect; the head keeps the draft head (under golden acceptance its precision does not change the accepted length).

Common engine settings:

• kv_cache_config: NVFP4, free_gpu_memory_fraction: 0.85, bf16 recurrent state, avg_seq_len: 40960 (except as noted);
• block reuse: per_conversation, max_num_turns: 3, GDN snapshot 2 tokens before the prompt end;
• max_num_tokens: 8192 with chunked prefill and breakable prefill CUDA graphs;
• MTP2 with rejection sampling; max_batch_size 64 (except as noted);
• moe_config.backend: TRTLLM.

Configurations

The frontier's ends as trtllm-serve <Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-NVFP4 checkpoint> --config <file> configs. Every server sets TRTLLM_ENABLE_PDL=1 and PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=expandable_segments:True; the servers that generate also set TLLM_SPEC_DECODE_FORCE_NUM_ACCEPTED_TOKENS=1.32 (golden acceptance). The client replays semianalysis_cc_traces_weka_062126_256k with AgentX (aiperf) at a 262144-token context limit, 3600 s, 3 warm-up requests per lane. The target keeps the PLE n-gram table in pinned host memory by default (TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_PLE_HOST_OFFLOAD, about 48 GiB per rank), and builds the vision tower and admits media whatever disable_mm_encoder says.

★ c80, the throughput end: aggregated, 1 GPU, 150 GiB host KV tier

Switches: TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_DENSE_FP8=1 TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_GDN_INPROJ_NVFP4=1 TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_MTP_HEAD_NVFP4=1 TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_MTP_MOE_NVFP4=1

modeling_v2: require
trust_remote_code: true
tensor_parallel_size: 1
max_batch_size: 80
max_seq_len: 262144
max_num_tokens: 8192
enable_chunked_prefill: true
disable_mm_encoder: true
kv_cache_config:
  dtype: nvfp4
  free_gpu_memory_fraction: 0.85
  mamba_ssm_cache_dtype: bfloat16
  use_kv_cache_manager_v2: true
  tokens_per_block: 32
  enable_block_reuse: true
  block_reuse_config:
    policy: per_conversation
    max_num_turns: 3
  mamba_state_config:
    periodic_snapshot_interval: 0
    additional_snapshot_offsets_from_end: [2]
  avg_seq_len: 40960
  host_cache_size: 161061273600  # 150 GiB
cuda_graph_config:
  enable_padding: true
  batch_sizes: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80]
prefill_cuda_graph_backend: breakable
prefill_capture_num_tokens: [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 768, 1024, 1280, 1536, 1792, 2048, 2304, 2560, 2816, 3072, 4096, 6144, 8192]
scheduler_config:
  capacity_scheduler_policy: MAX_UTILIZATION  # what KV cache manager v2 runs
speculative_config:
  decoding_type: MTP
  max_draft_len: 2
  use_rejection_sampling: true
moe_config:
  backend: TRTLLM

c1, the aggregated low-latency end: 1 GPU, all six switches

Switches: the four above plus TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_TARGET_HEAD_NVFP4=1 TRTLLM_MODELING_V2_MTP_DENSE_FP8=1

modeling_v2: require
trust_remote_code: true
tensor_parallel_size: 1
max_batch_size: 64
max_seq_len: 262144
max_num_tokens: 8192
enable_chunked_prefill: true
disable_mm_encoder: true
kv_cache_config:
  dtype: nvfp4
  free_gpu_memory_fraction: 0.85
  mamba_ssm_cache_dtype: bfloat16
  use_kv_cache_manager_v2: true
  tokens_per_block: 32
  enable_block_reuse: true
  block_reuse_config:
    policy: per_conversation
    max_num_turns: 3
  mamba_state_config:
    periodic_snapshot_interval: 0
    additional_snapshot_offsets_from_end: [2]
cuda_graph_config:
  enable_padding: true
  batch_sizes: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64]
prefill_cuda_graph_backend: breakable
prefill_capture_num_tokens: [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 768, 1024, 1280, 1536, 1792, 2048, 2304, 2560, 2816, 3072, 4096, 6144, 8192]
scheduler_config:
  capacity_scheduler_policy: MAX_UTILIZATION  # what KV cache manager v2 runs
speculative_config:
  decoding_type: MTP
  max_draft_len: 2
  use_rejection_sampling: true
moe_config:
  backend: TRTLLM

★ PD c2, the highest interactivity: disaggregated, 1 context + 1 generation GPU

Both workers: all six switches and TRTLLM_KV_TRANSFER_NUM_THREADS=8; golden acceptance on the generation worker only. Router: conversation on the context side, load_balancing on the generation side.

Context worker:

modeling_v2: require
trust_remote_code: true
tensor_parallel_size: 1
max_batch_size: 32
max_seq_len: 262144
max_num_tokens: 8192
enable_chunked_prefill: true
disable_mm_encoder: true
kv_cache_config:
  dtype: nvfp4
  free_gpu_memory_fraction: 0.85
  mamba_ssm_cache_dtype: bfloat16
  use_kv_cache_manager_v2: true
  tokens_per_block: 32
  enable_block_reuse: true
  block_reuse_config:
    policy: per_conversation
    max_num_turns: 3
  mamba_state_config:
    periodic_snapshot_interval: 0
    additional_snapshot_offsets_from_end: [2]
cuda_graph_config:
  enable_padding: true
  max_batch_size: 32
prefill_cuda_graph_backend: breakable
prefill_capture_num_tokens: [1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 768, 1024, 1280, 1536, 1792, 2048, 2304, 2560, 2816, 3072, 4096, 6144, 8192]
scheduler_config:
  capacity_scheduler_policy: MAX_UTILIZATION  # what KV cache manager v2 runs
speculative_config:
  decoding_type: MTP
  max_draft_len: 2
moe_config:
  backend: TRTLLM
cache_transceiver_config:
  backend: NIXL
  transceiver_runtime: PYTHON

Generation worker:

modeling_v2: require
trust_remote_code: true
tensor_parallel_size: 1
max_batch_size: 128
max_seq_len: 262144
max_num_tokens: 8192
enable_chunked_prefill: true
disable_mm_encoder: true
kv_cache_config:
  dtype: nvfp4
  free_gpu_memory_fraction: 0.85
  mamba_ssm_cache_dtype: bfloat16
  use_kv_cache_manager_v2: true
  tokens_per_block: 32
  enable_block_reuse: false
cuda_graph_config:
  enable_padding: true
  batch_sizes: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56, 64, 72, 80, 88, 96, 104, 112, 120, 128]
scheduler_config:
  capacity_scheduler_policy: MAX_UTILIZATION  # what KV cache manager v2 runs
speculative_config:
  decoding_type: MTP
  max_draft_len: 2
  use_rejection_sampling: true
moe_config:
  backend: TRTLLM
cache_transceiver_config:
  backend: NIXL
  transceiver_runtime: PYTHON

Test Coverage

Unit tests, in the existing modeling_v2 GPU entry (pre-merge):

• tests/unittest/_torch/modeling_v2/models/qwen4_exp/<area>/: the family operations;
• .../qwen4_exp/qwen3_8_flash_next_nvfp4__sm_103__default/: the target. Its cpu_only tests also run in l0_cpu.yml.

An operation's tests are its cells against its reference, plus the behaviors the target relies on: its guards and loud rejections, CUDA-graph capture and replay at the row counts its note states (replays that read after a PDL wait or on new inputs), bitwise equivalences between variants, padding and batch invariance.

Accuracy: accuracy/modeling_v2/test_qwen4_exp.py::TestModelingV2Qwen38FlashNextNvfp4Sm103Default. Each test runs one engine and checks every feature that engine carries.

tier	tp1 (1 GPU)	tp4 / tep4 / dep4 / dep2
pre-merge (l0_b300, l0_gb300)	test_tp1_gsm8k (no speculation); test_tp1_mtp1_gsm8k_mmmu_and_video (vision); test_tp1_mtp3_gsm8k_and_long_context: MTP3 + IndexShare, bf16 KV, fp32 state; GSM8K, then 3k-6k-token pass keys on the sparse path, each with its acceptance-length floor	test_mtp3_gsm8k_and_long_context: MTP3 + IndexShare at tep4, bf16 KV and state; GSM8K and the pass keys, each with its acceptance-length floor
post-merge (l0_b300, l0_gb300_multi_gpus)	test_tp1_mtp3_cutedsl_fp8_kv_bf16_state; test_tp1_mtp7_long_context_passkey (NVFP4 KV, 8 verify rows); test_tp1_breakable_prefill_matches_eager; test_tp1_disaggregated_mtp2 (the AgentX engines, 1 context + 1 generation GPU)	test_mtp3_gsm8k_quantized_kv: GSM8K, then the pass keys on the sparse path, over [tp4_nvfp4_kv_breakable], [dep4_fp8_kv] (MTP under attention DP), [tep4_fp8_kv_flashinfer_ring] (FlashInfer's ring replay, forced) and [tep4_nvfp4_kv_no_reuse] (chunked prefill and block reuse off), each with its acceptance-length floors; test_disaggregated_dep2
QA only (llm_function_core.txt, which lists every test above too)		test_mtp3_mmmu (tep4, vision)

Validation on GB300 (sm_103), at this PR's head (its model code, tests and references), except where a row names the earlier commit of this PR it last ran at.

check	result
unit tests: the family operations	909 passed
unit tests: the target	563 passed, 2 skipped; its cpu_only tests 307 passed
test_modeling_v2_claims.py, test_modeling_v2_routing.py, test_modeling_v2_no_stale_claims.py, test_modeling_v2_native_claims.py, test_modeling_v2_reference_precision.py	409 passed, 70 skipped (MiniMax-M3's cases, newer on main than the validation tree, not counted)
catalog entries' cells keyed by the target (fused_qk_norm_rope, thop_attention, fp4_quantize)	64 passed

accuracy test	result (reference)
test_tp1_mtp3_gsm8k_and_long_context	GSM8K 96.02 (95.57), pass-key AL 4.000; at the third-review follow-ups
test_tp1_mtp1_gsm8k_mmmu_and_video	GSM8K 96.13 (95.57), AL 1.969; MMMU 57.33 (59.22); video checks passed; at the third-review follow-ups
test_tp1_mtp3_cutedsl_fp8_kv_bf16_state	GSM8K 95.83 (95.94), AL 3.513, pass-key AL 3.973; with TRTLLM_USE_GDN_FLASHINFER_REPLAY=force GSM8K 95.87, AL 3.512, pass-key AL 3.969; at the ring-replay commit
test_tp1_mtp7_long_context_passkey	pass-key AL 7.135; at 7822e43
test_tp1_disaggregated_mtp2	GSM8K 95.94 (95.26); at 7822e43
test_tp1_gsm8k	GSM8K 95.64 (96.36); at the ring-replay commit
test_tp1_breakable_prefill_matches_eager	passed; at 7822e43
test_mtp3_gsm8k_and_long_context (tep4)	GSM8K 96.17 (95.57), AL 3.689, pass-key AL 4.000; at the ring-replay commit
test_mtp3_gsm8k_quantized_kv[tp4_nvfp4_kv_breakable]	GSM8K 96.40 (95.26), AL 3.535, pass-key AL 3.949
test_mtp3_gsm8k_quantized_kv[dep4_fp8_kv]	GSM8K 96.40 (95.94), AL 3.512, pass-key AL 3.966
test_mtp3_gsm8k_quantized_kv[tep4_fp8_kv_flashinfer_ring]	GSM8K 95.60 (95.94), AL 3.503, pass-key AL 3.964; at the ring-replay commit
test_mtp3_gsm8k_quantized_kv[tep4_nvfp4_kv_no_reuse]	GSM8K 96.29 (95.26), AL 3.541, pass-key AL 3.951
test_mtp3_mmmu (tep4)	MMMU 59.56 (59.22); at 7822e43
test_disaggregated_dep2	GSM8K 95.94 (96.36)

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