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Correct the claim that speculation cannot be disabled dynamically and document the supported runtime controls for NVBug 7066082. Describe supported linear modes, inclusive batch-size schedule bounds, startup configuration and validation, current shortcut limitations, and the permanent acceptance-rate cutoff. Scope dynamic trees to EAGLE3 and supported single-layer MTP-Eagle.
Warn that the current acceptance-rate cutoff can count reserved draft slots or the entire tree budget instead of the verified path. A fully accepted six-token path in a 60-token tree can record 0.1; leave the cutoff disabled with dynamic trees and batch-size draft controls. Documentation only.
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Executed source-extracted schedule/configuration/gate methods and verified the documented examples, including the tree-budget case (6/60 disables the gate while 6/6 does not). Cross-checked the supported modes and implementation restrictions. Strict isolated Sphinx/MyST page build, all applicable selected-file pre-commit hooks, whitespace checks and independent static review passed. No GPU inference or full branded documentation-site build was run. Standard required CI is requested on the updated commit.
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The change updates the Quick Start and documents dynamic draft trees, batch-size draft schedules, and acceptance-rate cutoffs. It specifies supported modes, configuration limits, schedule validation, and known behavior that can disable speculation unexpectedly. No source code or configuration changed.
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docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md: Documentation-only change. Verify that the documented supported modes, restrictions, schedule behavior, and acceptance-rate caveats match the implementation.
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The speculative decoding guide now documents dynamic trees for EAGLE 3 and single-layer MTP-Eagle. It also describes batch-size-based draft schedules, max_concurrency, and acceptance-rate cutoffs, with their validation rules and support limits.
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Speculative decoding documentation
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Summary
Dynamic-tree support and Quick Start docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md
The Quick Start describes dynamic trees for EAGLE 3 and single-layer MTP-Eagle, plus runtime controls for supported linear drafting modes. Dynamic Tree Mode specifies MTP configuration requirements and warns that linear-only controls can fail at startup or CUDA graph warmup when combined with dynamic trees.
The guide defines batch-size schedule behavior and validation, max_concurrency limitations, and acceptance-rate cutoff settings and behavior. It also describes differences for NGram, user-provided drafting, and DSpark.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21158: This PR tests dynamic draft-length resolution, including batch-size schedule selection and zero-length speculation, which the guide documents.
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 1ee28
This change only updates the speculative decoding documentation. It carries no runtime risk, and the earlier review feedback has been addressed.
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observed — docs (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
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observed — Modified behavior in docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md: The Quick Start replaces the blanket statement that every enabled mode uses a fixed-length linear draft and cannot dynamically disable speculation. It now documents max_draft_len, optional dynamic trees for EAGLE 3 and single-layer MTP-Eagle, and runtime adjustment or disabling for supported linear modes.
observed — Modified behavior in docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md: Dynamic Tree Mode now includes MTP-Eagle as well as EAGLE 3. It specifies the MTP checkpoint and decoding restrictions, updates the enablement instructions to accept supported MTP-Eagle configurations, and changes the buffer-configuration note to refer to the speculative decoding configuration generally rather than only Eagle3DecodingConfig.
observed — Modified behavior in docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md: The note now states that max_concurrency and draft_len_schedule support linear drafting only and warns that combining either with dynamic trees can fail at startup or CUDA graph warmup.
observed — Modified behavior in docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md: Adds documentation for advanced runtime controls. Batch-size-based draft lengths lists supported one-model modes and excludes legacy two-model paths and dynamic-tree EAGLE 3/MTP. It defines inclusive upper-bound schedule selection, disables speculation above the largest key, specifies schedule validation and CUDA graph padding/batch-size updates, and documents max_concurrency as a cutoff shortcut with MTP and serialized-configuration limitations. It distinguishes the controls’ behavior for deprecated NGram and user-provided drafting and states that DSpark does not implement them. The acceptance-rate section documents its required settings, permanent cutoff after at least the configured number of samples when the rolling a
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- Line 7: Update the `draft_len_schedule` documentation to explain that keys are
inclusive upper bounds and speculation stops above the largest key. Add an
example such as `{4: 3, 8: 2}` and clarify that it disables speculation at batch
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Docs-only change. The statements that the two options are mutually exclusive and configured at startup match the code, and the old "no way to dynamically disable speculation" sentence did need replacing. Counts: 0 blockers, 0 possibly blocking, 4 required, 3 nice to have. The required items are places where the new sentence implies something the code does not do: dynamic trees combined with the runtime controls, max_concurrency on models that apply model defaults, an undefined set of supported modes, and a field the code labels "Developer interface".
+1 to coderabbitai's thread on docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md:7: for the one-model modes the keys are inclusive upper bounds and batch sizes above the largest key run without speculation (tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/utils.py:992-1004), so an example such as {4: 3, 8: 2} belongs in the doc. NGram reads the keys the other way; see the inline comment on supported modes.
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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.
The corrected claims match llm_args.py: the two options are mutually exclusive, and max_concurrency is translated into a one-entry draft_len_schedule. There is one wording gap, noted inline.
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Review comments at @docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md:
- Line 56: Update the MTPDecodingConfig documentation to state that the
MTP-Eagle dynamic-tree path supports greedy decoding only; clarify that
non-greedy sampling is unsupported for this path.
- Line 338: The acceptance-rate gate may divide accepted tokens by scheduled
placeholders that were not actually verified as drafts, causing a fully accepted
verification step to appear below the threshold. Locate the gate using
acceptance_rate_window_size, acceptance_rate_threshold, and the acceptance-rate
calculation; make its denominator count the draft tokens verified in that same
step, or clarify in this documentation that scheduled placeholders can lower the
measured rate.
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- Line 341: Update the acceptance-rate cutoff guidance in the speculative
decoding documentation to advise leaving the cutoff disabled when using dynamic
trees, since the recorded rate may use the tree token budget rather than the
verified path length and prematurely disable speculation.
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Description
Correct the claim that speculation cannot be disabled dynamically and document the supported runtime controls for NVBug 7066082. Describe supported linear modes, inclusive batch-size schedule bounds, startup configuration and validation, current shortcut limitations, and the permanent acceptance-rate cutoff. Scope dynamic trees to EAGLE3 and supported single-layer MTP-Eagle.
Warn that the current acceptance-rate cutoff can count reserved draft slots or the entire tree budget instead of the verified path. A fully accepted six-token path in a 60-token tree can record 0.1; leave the cutoff disabled with dynamic trees and batch-size draft controls. Documentation only.
Test Coverage
Executed source-extracted schedule/configuration/gate methods and verified the documented examples, including the tree-budget case (6/60 disables the gate while 6/6 does not). Cross-checked the supported modes and implementation restrictions. Strict isolated Sphinx/MyST page build, all applicable selected-file pre-commit hooks, whitespace checks and independent static review passed. No GPU inference or full branded documentation-site build was run. Standard required CI is requested on the updated commit.
PR Checklist
Dev Engineer Review
The change updates the Quick Start and documents dynamic draft trees, batch-size draft schedules, and acceptance-rate cutoffs. It specifies supported modes, configuration limits, schedule validation, and known behavior that can disable speculation unexpectedly. No source code or configuration changed.
QA Engineer Review
No test changes.
Per-File QA Perspective
docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md: Documentation-only change. Verify that the documented supported modes, restrictions, schedule behavior, and acceptance-rate caveats match the implementation.