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[None][fix] Nemotron-H VL: run the RADIO vision tower on the TRTLLM attention backend #21458

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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_nemotron_h_multimodal.py
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Expand Up @@ -667,6 +667,9 @@ def __init__(self, model_config: ModelConfig[transformers.PretrainedConfig]):
self.vision_model = RADIOVisionModel(
vision_model_config,
disable_quantization=True,
# FlashInfer's cuDNN ragged-prefill plan build for a new image shape can stall
# indefinitely while the language model replays CUDA graphs, freezing the server.
vision_attn_backend="TRTLLM",

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Supported by static analysis

Script executed:

rg -n -i 'NemotronH|RADIOVisionModel|vision_attn_backend|TRTLLM' tests tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_nemotron_h_multimodal.py

Repository: NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

Length of output: 45656

Script executed:

set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- candidate test files ---'
rg --files tests | rg -i 'nemotron.?h|nemotron.*multimodal|multimodal.*nemotron'
printf '%s\n' '--- exact test references ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.py' -e 'NemotronHVisionEncoder' -e 'NemotronHMultimodal' -e 'RADIOVisionModel' -e 'vision_attn_backend' -e 'NemotronH' tests/unittest tests/integration 2>/dev/null || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- changed constructor ---'
nl -ba tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_nemotron_h_multimodal.py | sed -n '592,690p'
printf '%s\n' '--- radio backend binding ---'
rg -n -F -e 'class RADIOVisionModel' -e 'vision_attn_backend' -e 'TrtllmAttention' tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_radio.py
printf '%s\n' '--- focused test source excerpts ---'
for f in $(rg --files tests | rg -i 'nemotron.?h|nemotron.*multimodal|multimodal.*nemotron'); do
  echo "### $f"
  nl -ba "$f" | sed -n '1,260p'
done

Repository: NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

Length of output: 41474

Script executed:

printf '%s\n' '--- changed production block ---'
nl -ba tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_nemotron_h_multimodal.py | sed -n '655,680p'
printf '%s\n' '--- multimodal model test imports and construction-related blocks ---'
nl -ba tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_nemotron_h_multimodal.py | sed -n '1,115p'
nl -ba tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_nemotron_h_multimodal.py | sed -n '175,215p'
nl -ba tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_nemotron_h_multimodal.py | sed -n '960,1065p'
printf '%s\n' '--- encoder-group tests ---'
nl -ba tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/test_nemotron_h_multimodal_encoder_groups.py | sed -n '1,180p'
printf '%s\n' '--- exact backend assertions in the two files ---'
rg -n -F -e 'vision_attn_backend' -e 'RADIOVisionModel' -e 'NemotronHVisionEncoder(' tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_modeling_nemotron_h_multimodal.py tests/unittest/_torch/multimodal/test_nemotron_h_multimodal_encoder_groups.py || test "$?" -eq 1

Repository: NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM

Length of output: 22079

Add a regression test for the Nemotron-H vision backend selection.

The NemotronHVisionEncoder constructor now passes vision_attn_backend="TRTLLM" to RADIOVisionModel, but the existing tests bypass this constructor or replace it with a mock. A future change could restore the FLASHINFER default without failing the current tests.

Add a focused constructor test that captures the RADIOVisionModel arguments and asserts vision_attn_backend == "TRTLLM". If supported GPU CUDA-graph coverage is available, also exercise an unseen image shape to cover the reported stall path.

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at line 672:
Add a focused regression test for the NemotronHVisionEncoder constructor that
captures the arguments passed to RADIOVisionModel and asserts
vision_attn_backend is "TRTLLM". If existing supported GPU CUDA-graph test
coverage permits, also exercise an unseen image shape to cover the reported
stall path.

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Thanks for the report. #20011 describes what looks like the same hang on B200 with MTP and xgrammar.

Did your Spark setup also use MTP and a guided decoding backend? And does it still hang on current main, where the cuDNN prefill graph is no longer rebuilt per image shape?

If it's the #20011 case, that fix may be a better place than changing the RADIO default on every GPU.

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Thanks for the pointer to #20011. Our Spark (GB10, SM121) setup used guided decoding with xgrammar, but its speculation was DFlash, not MTP, on 1.4.0rc1. We haven't retried on current main yet, so we can't say whether it still hangs there. We can rerun on a main build on the Spark and report back. If it no longer reproduces, we're fine narrowing this PR or closing it in favor of the #20011 fix.

encoder_cuda_graph_config=encoder_cuda_graph_config,
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