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participant TrainingConfig
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TrainingConfig->>HFDFlash2Model: configure DFlash2 training
HFDFlash2Model->>DFlash2Module: build draft module
HFDFlash2Model->>CandidateSelector: compute selector loss and metrics
CandidateSelector-->>HFDFlash2Model: return selector results
HFDFlash2Model->>DFlash2Exporter: export DFlash2 checkpoint
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modelopt_recipes/general/speculative_decoding/dflash2.yaml (1)
81-99: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCorrect the hidden-size contract
hidden_sizeis always overwritten withbase_config.hidden_size; conversion does not derive it fromnum_attention_heads * head_dim. Update the comment to state this inheritance, or validate that the selected base model hashidden_size == 4096.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_dflash2.py (1)
164-180: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExtract the shared target/weight alignment instead of duplicating it.
Lines 164-180 recompute
label_indices,valid_label,safe_label_indices,target_ids, and the supervision mask thatHFDFlashModel._compute_lossalready builds atmodelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_dflash.pylines 681-699. The two copies must stay identical for the selector term to supervise the same positions as the backbone term. A future change to the base masking would silently desynchronize the selector.Extract a small helper on
HFDFlashModel(for example_block_targets_and_mask) and call it from both places. Keep the deliberate omission of the D-PACE/decay weighting local to DFlash2.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@CHANGELOG.rst`:
- Around line 19-21: Reduce the DFlash2 changelog entry to no more than two
sentences while retaining the externally relevant feature, configuration keys,
and SGLang/vLLM checkpoint compatibility details.
In `@modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_dflash2.py`:
- Around line 128-134: Update _selector_metrics to return detached accuracy and
coverage tensors instead of calling .item(), keeping both metrics on the current
device through the training path. Convert them to Python scalars only at the
logging boundary.
- Around line 194-197: Update the forward output construction in the model’s
forward method to expose the values from _selector_metrics through ModelOutput,
ensuring selector_accuracy and selector_coverage are available to runtime
consumers; alternatively remove _selector_metrics and its .item()
synchronization if these metrics are intentionally not part of the public
output.
In `@modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/modeling_dflash2.py`:
- Around line 98-102: Update _init_head_weights so kernel_projection.weight is
zero-initialized, ensuring the dynamic convolution branch starts with zero delta
and the documented identity-at-initialization behavior holds; keep base_kernel’s
existing identity initialization and ensure test_identity_at_initialization
still passes without needing to override the constructed default.
In `@tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash2.py`:
- Around line 345-362: Extend test_export_config_declares_dflash2_architecture
to assert the exported top-level block_size and is_causal fields, plus
dflash_config["block_size"], using the expected values produced by _export. Keep
the existing architecture and DFlash configuration assertions unchanged.
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In `@modelopt_recipes/general/speculative_decoding/dflash2.yaml`:
- Around line 81-99: Update the dflash_architecture_config documentation to
state that hidden_size is inherited from base_config.hidden_size rather than
derived from num_attention_heads and head_dim; alternatively, add validation
requiring the selected base model’s hidden_size to equal 4096.
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In `@modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_dflash2.py`:
- Around line 164-180: Extract the duplicated label-index, target-ID, and
supervision-mask construction into an HFDFlashModel helper such as
_block_targets_and_mask, then call it from both HFDFlashModel._compute_loss and
the DFlash2 selector path. Ensure both consumers share identical alignment and
masking, while keeping D-PACE/decay weighting omitted only in the
DFlash2-specific weighting logic.
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Scope: full review (trigger comment carried no scoping instructions). All 11 changed files opened: modelopt/ (6), modelopt_recipes/ (1), tests/ (1), CHANGELOG.rst. Traced the selector objective end-to-end against HFDFlashModel._compute_loss, the convolution against DFlashDecoderLayer.forward and _build_draft_attention_mask, and the export config against DFlashExporter._export_config.
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CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 2 · SUGGESTION: 4
| # | Severity | Location | Issue |
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| 1 | IMPORTANT Compatibility | hf_dflash.py:427-436 |
rope_type now inherited from base_config.rope_parameters, contradicting the "rope_scaling is intentionally NOT inherited" contract stated 10 lines above |
| 2 | IMPORTANT Performance | modeling_dflash2.py:148-157 |
coefficients materializes taps × the hidden activation and is retained for backward on every sublayer |
| 3 | SUGGESTION | hf_spec_export.py:581-584 |
setdefault("is_causal", ...) collapses to False in every branch; the comment describes a condition the code does not express |
| 4 | SUGGESTION | hf_dflash2.py:182-185 |
"position 0's predecessor is the anchor itself" is wrong (it is anchor - 1), and it is the clause documenting train/serve alignment |
| 5 | SUGGESTION | modeling_dflash2.py:224 |
greedy_path has no caller and no test, yet is the only in-repo statement of the serving walk contract |
| 6 | SUGGESTION | dflash2.yaml:45-47 |
"Markov head not applied yet" is DSpark's head; also ddp_find_unused_parameters: true is justified only by a case this recipe does not ship |
Most impactful
#1 is the one I would fix before merge, and it is not DFlash2-specific. The rope_theta half of this fix is clearly right and well-motivated. But the same loop now also pulls rope_type out of the nested dict, where previously the flat-attribute lookup meant it was never inherited on a Transformers 5 config. For any base carrying a rope_parameters rope_type other than default — yarn / linear / dynamic / llama3, i.e. exactly the long-context Qwen3 and Llama variants — the draft's rope_parameters ends up holding the scaling mode and none of the fields that mode requires (factor, original_max_position_embeddings). The draft's rotary embedding then dispatches to a scaling path with nothing to parameterize it. This lands on DFlash, Domino and DSpark as well as DFlash2, and the tiny-Llama fixture (rope_type default) cannot surface it. Scoping the nested lookup to rope_theta alone, plus a test with a non-default rope_type base config, closes it.
#2 costs roughly 1 GB of retained activation at the shipped recipe's shape (hidden_size 4096, seq_len 3072, taps 2, 5 layers, 2 convs/layer, 2 sides) for an intermediate that distributes away algebraically. It scales linearly with conv_kernel_size, so it gets worse for anyone raising the tap count.
What holds up well
Worth stating explicitly, since these are the parts most likely to be wrong in a change like this and they are not:
- The
prepare()/finish()seam is genuinely non-invasive._IdentitySublayerWrapperis parameterless, so plain DFlash/Domino/DSpark keep byte-identicalstate_dict()contents and numerics — astest_dflash_mode_still_creates_plain_dflashasserts. No branch added to the layer forward. - The convolution's shift arithmetic is correct.
F.pad(blocks[:, :, :block_size - tap], (0, 0, 0, 0, tap, 0))pads dim -3 (block position), so position k reads k-tap, the firsttappositions of each block read zeros, and nothing crosses the block boundary. The group/channel reshape is consistent betweenbase_kernel(per-channel) andblocks(num_groups × group_size). - The selector's target alignment matches the backbone's exactly.
label_indices,valid_label,safe_label_indicesand the four mask factors reproduceHFDFlashModel._compute_lossterm for term, with the decay/D-PACE weighting deliberately and correctly omitted.logits.reshape(bsz, n_blocks, block_size, -1)and thedraft_hiddenreshape both match the[B, N*block_size, ·]layout the base class assumes. - Mode/state composition is sound.
DFlash2DMRegistryfollows the established Domino/DSpark pattern;restore_dflash_modelroutes throughconvert_to_dflash_model, soprojector_type=dflash2in the serialized config rebuildsDFlash2Moduleon restore. Nomodelopt_stateschema change, anddflash_selector_loss_alphais an additive field with a default — existing DFlash checkpoints and configs load unchanged. Plugin import stays behindimport_plugin("transformers"). is_causal: falseis the right value even though the expression producing it is dead —_build_draft_attention_maskkeeps intra-block draft attention bidirectional in both the SWA and non-SWA paths.- The all-masked-batch early return already covers the selector: the
n_blocks == 0dummy sums over everyrequires_gradparameter, so the new codebooks stay in the DDP graph.
Overall risk
Low-to-moderate. The DFlash2 additions themselves are well-isolated and carefully built — the no-op seam means a broken DFlash2 cannot regress the existing variants, and the tests cover the invariants that matter (block-boundary containment, backward-only intra-block dependency, and a selector overfit that would catch a misaligned objective). The risk concentrates in the bundled RoPE fix, which touches the shared DFlash family and, as written, trades one silent misconfiguration for a different one on long-context base models.
I also concur with CodeRabbit's finding that kernel_projection needs zero-init for the documented identity-at-initialization property to hold: test_identity_at_initialization zeroes that weight itself before asserting, which confirms the as-constructed default is not identity, so the module docstring's "a freshly built DFlash2 draft computes exactly what its DFlash backbone would" and the corresponding PR-description claim do not currently hold. Not re-raised inline, to avoid a duplicate thread.
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In `@tools/launcher/examples/Qwen/Qwen3-8B/hf_online_dflash2.yaml`:
- Around line 100-102: Add the required MLM_MODEL_CFG environment variable with
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Design and code follow the established DFlash-variant pattern (registry + wrapper + modeling module + exporter + recipe, exactly like DSpark/LiLiCorr), but the new file carries two conflicting license headers and two on-main docs now contradict the code.
Needs action:
- Remove the leading Apache-only NVIDIA block in
modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/modeling_dflash2.py— the file declaresSPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0at line 2 andApache-2.0 AND MITat line 56. Matchmodeling_dflash.py: third-party MIT notice first, NVIDIA dual-SPDX header after. See inline. - Update
modeling_lilicorr._install_sublayer_convsand thelilicorr_conv.yamlheader: both state DFlash2 drawskernel_projectionfromnormal_(0, initializer_range)and "is therefore not the identity at init", which this PR makes false. - Add a test for the LiLiCorr +
conv_kernel_size/conv_group_sizepath this PR claims to unblock; nothing currently exercises_install_sublayer_convs. - Get OSRB/human sign-off on the SpecForge #772-adapted code in
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greedy_pathis unused outside tests (pseudo_speculative_generateis not overridden); the recipe documents this viaestimate_ar: false.
Adds DFlash2 (https://inco.ai/blog/dflash2/) as a draft variant of the existing DFlash mode, selected with dflash_architecture_config.projector_type="dflash2" alongside domino, dspark and lilicorr. DFlash2 keeps DFlash's one-pass parallel backbone and adds two components that recover the acceptance a purely parallel draft loses: a grouped dynamic depthwise convolution around every attention and MLP sublayer, giving each block position a view of its predecessors inside the block without the taps crossing the block boundary; and a low-rank candidate selector scoring transitions between adjacent positions' top-k candidates, so serving walks one coherent path instead of taking an independent argmax per position. Both start as exact no-ops -- the convolution's base_kernel is an identity and kernel_projection is zeroed, the selector's successor_codebook is zeroed -- so a freshly built DFlash2 draft is its DFlash backbone, and enabling the variant is an extension rather than a perturbation. This matches the reference implementation (SpecForge #772) and the way modeling_lilicorr installs the same convolution class. This also unblocks a recipe already shipped on main: modeling_lilicorr._install_sublayer_convs imports DFlashGroupedConv from modeling_dflash2, so lilicorr_conv.yaml raises at model build today. LiLiCorr's own initialization is unchanged and is now covered by tests -- it assigns kernel_projection explicitly, so it holds whichever way DFlashGroupedConv initializes itself -- and the two texts on main that described DFlash2's older random init are corrected. Module and parameter names match the SGLang/vLLM DFlash2DraftModel loaders, verified against the released z-lab/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2 checkpoint: 81 tensors, 21 name patterns, zero difference in either direction. The serving side, vllm-project/vllm#52816, has merged with no change to the checkpoint contract. modeling_dflash2.py is adapted from sgl-project/SpecForge#772 and carries its MIT notice ahead of the NVIDIA dual-SPDX header, matching modeling_dflash.py. No new dependencies. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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…k selector Two changes that bring DFlash2's objective in line with the reference implementation's semantics. dflash_lk_loss_type selects what the block objective minimizes against the hard target. 'ce' is -log q(gold), today's behaviour and the default. 'tv' is 1 - q(gold), the total variation to the one-hot target, which is also the per-position expected acceptance loss. 'lambda' anneals between them: the CE share is dflash_lk_ce_scale * exp(-dflash_lk_ce_decay * a) for a the mean q(gold) over supervised positions, so the objective moves from fitting the distribution to maximizing acceptance as acceptance improves. The share is detached, so it reshapes the objective without adding a gradient path. Both new terms read q(gold) off the per-position cross-entropy the backbone loss already forms, which the KD path never produces -- it optimizes a soft target instead. That combination is rejected at convert time rather than silently falling back to CE. The terms come from the base loss through a new default-off return_terms, so the target alignment and position weighting are shared rather than re-derived; it is marked TODO for promotion to a shared divergence seam when the family's loss code is refactored. The candidate selector now trains on the strict unary top-k. A gold token the backbone did not propose was previously substituted into the lowest-scoring slot, which supervised the selector on a candidate set serving never builds and taught it to override the unary ranking there. Those positions are a backbone recall failure, not a selector classification example: they now carry no selector gradient and leave the denominator. selector_coverage reports how often the problem was solvable at all, and reads exactly 1.0 on a fully covered batch. The degenerate cases are asserted bit-exact -- a unit CE share reproduces 'ce', a zero share reproduces 'tv' -- because a blend wired up backwards still produces a finite decreasing loss. The selector mask is tested against a covered contrast, since masking everything would pass a one-sided assertion. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
… through the fake base The fake base dropped the target's RoPE base on Transformers 5. It read the flat rope_theta attribute, which v5 no longer keeps: loading Qwen3-8B's own config.json, whose rope_theta is 1e6, leaves the value only inside rope_parameters and removes the flat field. FakeBaseConfig therefore stored None, published no rope_parameters of its own, and HFDFlashModel.modify -- which prefers the dict -- fell through to the flat field and set the draft's rope_theta to None. That is the streaming and offline half of the fix #2342 landed for the online path, and it was never made: the draft injects the target's KV, so a draft built this way trains and exports without complaint against a RoPE base the target never used. test_fakebase.py had no RoPE coverage at all, which is why it survived. It now asserts both shapes resolve, that an unknown base stays None rather than becoming a wrong default, and that the config publishes the dict form consumers prefer. The streaming example mirrors hf_streaming_dflash.yaml at one serve node plus one trainer. Two deltas are DFlash2's: the capture list omits the final layer, since the recipe trains against the hard target and forms no teacher distribution, so capturing it would only move bytes the trainer never reads; and the smoke test keeps method "dflash", because vLLM has no dflash2 method and selects the path from the checkpoint's DFlash2DraftModel architecture instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
…d a multi-GPU one
The DFlash2 streaming example could not run as written. Its capture list
deliberately omits the base's final layer, on the correct reasoning that the
recipe trains against the hard target and so never forms a teacher
distribution -- DFlashBaseModelOutput.from_offline_dict only reads
base_model_hidden_states under need_logits. But the streaming dataset splits
the captured planes unconditionally: _format always peels the last one off as
the base hidden. With five capture ids the draft's fc was therefore handed
four planes and died with "mat1 and mat2 shapes cannot be multiplied
(16384x16384 and 20480x4096)". Pair the five ids with
data.final_aux_is_base_hidden=true, which keeps all five as aux features; the
alternative is to capture a sixth layer and move 20% more bytes per sample for
a plane nothing reads.
Two comments in that file were also wrong, in a way that matters because they
justify a setting. The serve does not generate: the trainer POSTs the whole
conversation as a prompt with max_tokens=1 and the connector captures the
per-token hidden states of that prefill. The corpus therefore does carry the
assistant turn -- the reason answer_only_loss stays false is that Qwen3-8B's
stock chat template has no {% generation %} tags to locate it, and the file now
points at the shipped template that does, as the gpt-oss streaming example
already does. Streaming also never runs the base's transformer layers on the
trainer, so use_fake_base_for_offline is on.
The new multi-node example is the shape that was actually validated: one serve
node at TP=4 and one 4-rank DDP trainer node, rather than a single GPU each,
which leaves the trainer waiting on a one-GPU prefill. 600 steps in 403 s
(0.67 s/step, global batch 16 x 4096 tokens), loss 17.0 -> 3.4, drafter
exported. Site-specific settings that run needed -- aarch64 image, explicit
walltime, IB pinning for both UCX and NCCL, node-local Triton cache -- are
documented in the header rather than hardcoded, since the right value differs
per cluster and a wrong one here fails silently.
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…oPE tests The tf_min CI job (transformers 4.57) failed on `assert not hasattr(config, "rope_theta"), "fixture no longer reproduces the v5 layout"`. The guard was doing its job -- it fired the moment the fixture stopped reproducing the condition -- but the condition it asserted is not universal: 4.57 has only the flat field and no `rope_parameters` dict at all, while 5.12 has only the dict. The assertion encoded the newer layout as if it were the only one. The test that uses a real config now asserts the outcome rather than the layout, since the reader has to work on both. The layouts themselves are pinned by two tests that build them explicitly instead of depending on what the installed version happens to produce, so neither can drift out from under the suite again. One of those is new coverage: a config carrying BOTH a dict and a disagreeing flat field must resolve to the dict. That is the case where getting it wrong is silent -- the draft trains and exports with a RoPE base the target does not use, and only misbehaves at serve time. Verified against transformers 4.57.1 and 5.12.1: all seven pass on both. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
…er, and guard it This PR added a third implementation of "where does a config keep rope_theta", `_base_rope_theta`, next to the two already on main. That question has been answered independently in several places for months and re-fixed one call site at a time -- the exporter's `_get_rope_theta` carried the wrong precedence from 2026-07-30 to 2026-09-09, and this file read the flat attribute only from 2026-07-06 until this PR. Adding a fourth answer is how that continues, so the fake base now calls the exporter's reader, which is a strict superset (it also handles the legacy `rope_scaling` spelling). The other duplicates are left for a follow-up; they span export, utils and speculative and do not belong here. The reason it kept being re-fixed is that nothing failed when it was wrong. Both halves now have a guard, and both were confirmed by reverting the code they cover: * `TestGetRopeTheta::test_prefers_the_dict_over_a_disagreeing_flat_field` pins the precedence. A config can hold the real base in the dict while the class default (10000.0 for Qwen3) stays visible as a flat `rope_theta`, so reading flat first yields a drafter whose RoPE base is 100x off. Flipping the order back to the 2026-07-30 form previously passed all 302 tests; it now fails. * `TestFakeBaseRopeTheta::test_from_source_carries_a_transformers_5_base_theta` pins the seam rather than the reader -- it goes through `from_source` and asserts a transformers-5-shaped base config reaches the FakeBaseConfig. Reverting the call site to a plain `getattr` now fails it. The reader tests move to the exporter's test file, where the reader lives, so there is one place to add to next time rather than one per caller. Verified on transformers 4.57.1 and 5.12.1: 304 passed on both. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
The two DFlash2 streaming examples differed by eleven lines and neither was single-node: both ran two nodes, one serve and one trainer, and the split was one GPU each versus four. Keeping both meant maintaining the same configuration twice, which is how the two drift. The four-GPU shape is the one that has actually been run end to end (600 steps, 0.67 s/step, loss 17.0 -> 3.4, drafter exported), so that is what survives, and it takes the plain name. Only two of the repo's nineteen streaming examples ship a base/_multi_node pair; thirteen are _multi_node alone, so one file per variant is the common shape here. Dropping the suffix rather than the file is deliberate. Every other _multi_node example sets SERVE_NODES >= 2 -- the suffix marks the serve fan-out path, not the GPU count -- and this one has a single serve replica, so with no base file left beside it the name would have been the only wrong one in the tree and nothing would have made that visible. The header now says how to go both ways: down to one GPU per node, and up to several serve replicas. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
The `partial-install (torch)` CI job installs modelopt without transformers, and the module-level `import transformers` this file gained alongside the new `TestGetRopeTheta` class made collection fail there -- taking the pre-existing exporter tests in the same file down with it, which is worse than the new tests simply not running. The five layout tests never needed it: `_get_rope_theta` reads its input with `getattr`, so `SimpleNamespace` exercises the same path and is what the rest of this file already uses for fake configs. That keeps the precedence guard alive in the torch-only job rather than skipping it. Only the test that asserts a real config resolves genuinely needs transformers, and it now takes `pytest.importorskip` inside the test, as test_quant_aware_conversion.py does, so it skips alone. Verified three ways: with transformers blocked at import (13 passed, 1 skipped, no collection error), and with transformers 4.57.1 and 5.12.1 (14 passed each). The precedence mutation -- flipping `_get_rope_theta` back to reading the flat field first -- still fails the guard after the switch to SimpleNamespace. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature
Adds DFlash2 (blog) as a draft variant of the existing DFlash mode, selected with
dflash_architecture_config.projector_type="dflash2"alongsidedomino,dsparkandlilicorr.DFlash2 keeps DFlash's one-pass parallel backbone and adds two components that recover the acceptance a purely parallel draft loses:
Both start as exact no-ops — the convolution's
base_kernelis an identity andkernel_projectionis zeroed; the selector'ssuccessor_codebookis zeroed — so a freshly built DFlash2 draft is its DFlash backbone, and enabling the variant is an extension rather than a perturbation. This matches the reference implementation (SpecForge#772, merged) and the waymodeling_lilicorralready installs this same convolution class.This unblocks a recipe already shipped on
main.modeling_lilicorr._install_sublayer_convsimportsDFlashGroupedConvfrommodeling_dflash2, somodelopt_recipes/general/speculative_decoding/lilicorr_conv.yamlraises at model build today and its CHANGELOG entry documents a feature that cannot run. Landing this makes it runnable.Module and parameter names match the SGLang/vLLM
DFlash2DraftModelloaders. Verified against the releasedz-lab/Qwen3.8-27B-DFlash2checkpoint: 81 tensors, 21 name patterns, zero difference in either direction. The serving side, vllm-project/vllm#52816, has since merged (b389ac294) with no change to the checkpoint contract.Usage
Testing
Unit — 25 CPU tests in
tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_dflash2.py; the fulltests/unit/torch/speculative/suite passes with no regressions. The ones worth keeping pin invariants that a decreasing loss does not catch:CandidateSelector.greedy_path— a misaligned objective still converges;block_sizethatDFlash2Exporterderives the nested copy from;successor_codebookstarts at zero, sopredecessor_codebookandhidden_projectiontake one step to begin moving. That is a warm start, not a dead branch, and both sides are asserted.End-to-end — trained on Qwen3-8B against a plain DFlash control with every other argument identical (plot above). Monotonic convergence, no NaN/divergence, no DDP unused-parameter issues. Note the losses are not comparable across arms: DFlash2's includes the selector CE term.
Serving (vLLM) — the exported drafter loads and drafts under the merged DFlash2 path (
RESOLVED draft architectures: ['DFlash2DraftModel']). Two notes for anyone reproducing: vLLM sizes the convolution from1 + num_speculative_tokensat runtime rather than from the checkpoint, so ablock_size=16drafter is only correct atnum_speculative_tokens=15; and at that value the upstream path currently hits an illegal memory access in_cache_draft_logits(vllm#55279), independent of which checkpoint is used.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
projector_type, its own registry and exporter, one new config field; DFlash / Domino / DSpark / LiLiCorr numerics andstate_dictcontents are untouched.CONTRIBUTING.md: ✅ —modeling_dflash2.pyis adapted from SpecForge#772 and carries its MIT notice. No new dependencies.0.48.0.Additional Information
Rebased onto current
main. Two commits from the original branch were dropped because #2342 landed them first, with authorship preserved: the no-op sublayer seam inmodeling_dflash.py, and therope_theta/rope_parametersfix —main's version of the latter is stricter, so this PR no longer toucheshf_dflash.pyat all.Summary by CodeRabbit
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