Fix vLLM fakequant calibration for hybrid attention models - #2414
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe example updates vLLM version configuration and serving instructions. Calibration now allocates scheduler-compatible blocks and preserves calibration errors during cleanup. Tests cover cleanup failures and legacy fallback behavior. ChangesvLLM calibration and serving
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participant Calibration
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Calibration->>Scheduler: Allocate blocks and submit requests
Scheduler-->>Calibration: Return blocks to zero
Calibration->>Scheduler: Run zero-token cleanup
Scheduler->>ModelRunner: Use finish_requests if unsupported
ModelRunner-->>Calibration: Return cleanup result
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Calibration can continue with invalid KV-cache inputs and produce NaN quantized models on a documented vLLM version. Reject unsupported reservation APIs before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 6✅ Passed checks (6 passed)
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In `@examples/vllm_serve/README.md`:
- Line 25: Update the direct-install documentation around the vLLM and ModelOpt
setup to include copy-pastable pip commands, pinning vLLM to 0.28.0 and
including the ModelOpt extras required by the example; link to or reuse the
existing installation references rather than leaving the commands unconnected or
unpinned.
In `@examples/vllm_serve/vllm_ptq_utils.py`:
- Around line 214-217: Update the cleanup exception handling around
execute_model and finish_requests so cleanup failures are raised when
calibration completed without an active exception, while preserving any active
calibration exception and chaining the cleanup failure. Ensure failed cleanup
never allows the next calibration batch to proceed with stale request-scoped
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Trigger comment was a bare /claude review, so this is a full review. 4 files changed (+202/−35): examples/vllm_serve/vllm_ptq_utils.py, examples/vllm_serve/Dockerfile, examples/vllm_serve/README.md, tests/gpu_vllm/torch/quantization/test_vllm_dynamic_modules.py. No modelopt/ files touched, so no mode-registration / config-schema / public-API surface to check. I reviewed all four, plus examples/vllm_serve/fakequant_worker.py and modelopt/torch/quantization/model_calib.py for calling context.
Note for anyone reading the CI diff: a two-dot origin/main HEAD diff on this branch also surfaces a large amount of unrelated reverse-drift from main (hf_ptq KV AutoQuantize, mlflow .experiment.json, llm_sparsity export). None of that belongs to this PR; I scoped the diff to the four files above.
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CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 0 · SUGGESTION: 4
All four are non-blocking:
- Silent fallback to empty block tables — the innermost
except ImportErrorreinstates exactly the NaN-producing behavior this PR fixes, with no warning. Both import targets are unstable vLLM internals. Also flags the shared-mutableempty_block_idsaliasing across requests (pre-existing). - Non-actionable remediation text in the block-budget error — "calibration sequence length" isn't user-configurable in this example;
--max-model-len/--gpu-memory-utilizationare the real levers. - Dropped
hasattr(finish_requests)guard degrades the error message — fail-closed is right, but anAttributeErrorbecomes the primary exception instead of the real cleanup failure. Same comment notes the cleanup step doesn't mirror theoutput is None → sample_tokens(None)handling used by the main step. sys.exc_info()[1]infinallyis broader than intended — correct for the current call path (verifiedforward_loop(model)is not called from inside anexceptinmodel_calib.py), but an explicitexcept BaseException as ... / raisestructure removes the fragility.
What I verified as correct
- Block accounting. IDs are handed out globally disjoint starting at 1 (block 0 = null block), which matches vLLM's shared
BlockPooladdress space across hybrid KV cache groups, so an ID valid in one group's tensor is valid in all. Thenext_block_id > kv_cache_config.num_blocksbound is off-by-one-correct: the last ID handed out isnext_block_id - 1 ≤ num_blocks - 1, and the reported "requires N / N available" numbers are consistent with the 1-based start. Using each group's ownkv_cache_spec.block_sizeis what makescdivcollapse to a single block forMambaSpec(whoseblock_sizeismax_model_len), so the 0.26 fallback matches the 0.28 helper's intent. - Version gating.
new_block_ids_to_zerogoes through_create_new_data_cls, which filters ondataclasses.fields, so vLLM 0.26 (no such field) drops it rather than raisingTypeError— and the redundantscheduler_fieldscheck in the allocator keepsblocks_to_zeroatNonethere.CachedRequestData.make_empty()incleanup_outputmatches what the primaryscheduler_outputalready used, so it's not a new version dependency. - Cleanup error semantics. All four branches of
_cleanup_calibration_requestsbehave as documented: cleanup success preserves an in-flight calibration error; both-fail with a calibration error re-raises the calibration error (chained throughfinish_error→execute_error); both-fail without one fails closed onfinish_error. Stalefinished_req_idsin the cleanup step are harmless — vLLM's_update_statespops with a default andremove_requestno-ops on unknown IDs — so the failure path where requests were never registered is safe. - Docs.
.[all,mlflow]are both real extras (pyproject.toml:136,142) and the linked_installation_for_Linux.rstexists.CALIB_BATCH_SIZEin the new error string is a real env var. - Tests.
SimpleNamespace/Mockare already imported in the test module;tests/gpu_vllm/is the right home since_load_example_moduletransitively importsvllm. The parametrized test plus the fallback test do overlap on thehas_calibration_error=Falsecase, but each asserts a distinct outcome (fail-closed vs. recovery), so I wouldn't collapse them.
Risk
Low. Example-only change with no library surface, gated on dataclasses.fields introspection for the newer scheduler field and falling back to prior behavior on older vLLM. The main residual risk is the reliance on vLLM private internals (_reserved_block_count, MambaSpec.mamba_cache_mode, num_speculative_blocks, vllm_config.num_lookahead_tokens) — I could not statically verify those attribute names since vLLM isn't installed in this checkout, so I'm taking the reported end-to-end 0.26.0 / 0.28.0 TP8 validation as evidence they resolve. Finding 1 is the one worth acting on, precisely because that reliance currently degrades silently.
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In `@examples/vllm_serve/vllm_ptq_utils.py`:
- Around line 61-66: Update the missing vLLM warmup block-reservation helper
branch in the calibration flow to raise an error instead of warning and
returning empty block tables. Keep the failure message version-agnostic so it
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Reject calibration when no KV-cache reservation API is available.
The documented vLLM 0.9.0 configuration reaches this branch because it lacks both reservation imports. The branch then submits empty block tables, although hybrid attention/Mamba calibration requires scratch blocks and may produce NaNs. Raise an error instead of continuing with invalid cache inputs. Do not restrict the error message to vLLM 0.26.0 or 0.28.0, because the README also documents vLLM 0.9.0 and 0.19.1.
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| "vLLM warmup block reservation helpers were not found; falling back to " | |
| "empty block tables. Hybrid attention/Mamba models may produce NaNs.", | |
| stacklevel=2, | |
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| return [tuple([] for _ in kv_cache_groups) for _ in sequence_lengths], None | |
| raise RuntimeError( | |
| "This vLLM version does not provide a supported KV-cache block " | |
| "reservation API. Use vLLM 0.26.0 or 0.28.0." | |
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In `@examples/vllm_serve/vllm_ptq_utils.py` around lines 61 - 66, Update the
missing vLLM warmup block-reservation helper branch in the calibration flow to
raise an error instead of warning and returning empty block tables. Keep the
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: Bug fix
Fix fakequant calibration for hybrid attention/Mamba models, including NVIDIA Nemotron-3-Nano, on vLLM 0.26 and 0.28.
The manual calibration scheduler path previously submitted requests with empty KV-cache block tables. Hybrid models require scheduler-compatible cache state during prefill; on current vLLM releases the empty tables caused the Mamba state to use the reserved null block and calibration activations became NaN. Request cleanup also no longer matched the vLLM 0.28 execution lifecycle, which could leave request-scoped state in the persistent batch.
This PR:
new_block_ids_to_zerowhen that scheduler field is available.VLLM_VERSION.--max-num-batched-tokensis not required.Usage
Build the default vLLM 0.28.0 image:
docker build -f examples/vllm_serve/Dockerfile \ -t vllm-modelopt:v0.28.0 .Build with vLLM 0.26.0:
docker build --build-arg VLLM_VERSION=0.26.0 \ -f examples/vllm_serve/Dockerfile \ -t vllm-modelopt:v0.26.0 .Calibrate and serve Nemotron-3-Nano with NVFP4 KV-cache fakequant:
Testing
Validated on omniml-a0 with
NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16, tensor parallel size 8,NVFP4_KV_CFG,QUANT_CALIB_SIZE=512, and--max-model-len 8192. No--max-num-batched-tokensoverride was used./healthpassed.vllm/vllm-openai:v0.26.0image./health, and returned coherent generated text.tests/examples/vllm_serve/test_vllm_mlflow_utils.py: 32 passed.git diff --check: passed.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
CONTRIBUTING.md: N/AAdditional Information
The change is quantization-format agnostic. It corrects the calibration scheduler and cache lifecycle rather than special-casing
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VLLM_VERSION, with vLLM 0.28.0 as the default.Bug Fixes
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