[None][fix] two silent DeepSeek-V4 defects: prompt handoff and withheld stream text - #18345
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…eminder DeepSeek-V4 encodes the system prompt positionally: the bare-text span before the first `<|User|>` is the system slot, so `_render_message` emits system content with no role token at all. That is correct at the front and degenerate anywhere else -- a system message appended after the conversation has started rendered as unmarked text floating between two turns. Clients do exactly that: Claude Code and similar agents append transient system messages (task nags, background-task notifications) after the last user turn. The format already has the right slot for that content. `latest_reminder` carries its own token and the template has handled the role all along, but nothing routed anything to it, so the role was unreachable in practice. Non- leading system messages are now re-roled there. Routing them exposed the second half. A reminder carries a token but never emits a turn boundary, so the handoff the user turn would have written landed *before* the reminder text: the prompt ended mid-reminder with `<think>` already open, and the model continued the document instead of answering. The response came back as reasoning with no visible content. The handoff is now deferred past a trailing run of reminders. A reminder with a real turn after it is untouched -- there the handoff belongs to the assistant message that follows, which is why the mid-conversation case keeps two `<|Assistant|>` tokens and the trailing case has one. Found in captured agent traffic rather than by a test, so the three tests added here cover what the capture showed: one trailing reminder, several in a row, and one mid-conversation that must not move. Signed-off-by: Wanqian Li <serli@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: JunyiXu-nv <219237550+JunyiXu-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
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WalkthroughThe DeepSeek V4 tokenizer now defers assistant generation boundaries after trailing reminders and remaps non-leading system messages. The DeepSeek V3.2 parser now finalizes buffered stream text without exposing incomplete tool-call markup. Tests cover both behaviors. ChangesDeepSeek conversation and stream handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The prompt fixes for trailing reminders and withheld stream text are otherwise localized, but task actions followed by reminders still produce duplicate assistant generation boundaries, which can lead to incorrect model behavior for affected requests. This bounded correctness issue should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@tensorrt_llm/tokenizer/deepseek_v4/tokenizer.py`:
- Around line 384-397: In
tensorrt_llm/tokenizer/deepseek_v4/tokenizer.py:384-397, update
_render_message() so task == "action" tokens are deferred when only
latest_reminder messages follow, emitting both task tokens at the final reminder
without a duplicate assistant boundary. In
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_deepseek_v4_tokenizer.py:287-360, add an exact-output
regression test covering add_generation_prompt with trailing latest_reminder
messages and task == "action".
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- Line 287: Add the None return annotation to each new test function:
test_deepseek_v4_chat_template_ends_on_handoff_after_trailing_reminder at
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_deepseek_v4_tokenizer.py:287-287, and the two new
test functions at :315-315 and :334-334. No other changes are needed.
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| elif role in ("user", "developer") and ( | ||
| next_role == "assistant" | ||
| or (add_generation_prompt and not _only_reminders_follow(index, messages)) | ||
| ): | ||
| prompt += ASSISTANT_TOKEN | ||
| if thinking_mode == "thinking" and (not drop_thinking or index >= last_user_index): | ||
| prompt += THINKING_START_TOKEN | ||
| else: | ||
| prompt += THINKING_END_TOKEN | ||
| elif role == "latest_reminder" and next_role is None and add_generation_prompt: | ||
| # Deferred from the user turn above so the prompt ends on the boundary | ||
| # rather than inside the reminder text. | ||
| prompt += ASSISTANT_TOKEN | ||
| prompt += THINKING_START_TOKEN if thinking_mode == "thinking" else THINKING_END_TOKEN |
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Defer the task == "action" handoff when only reminders follow.
When add_generation_prompt is true, _render_message() emits <｜Assistant｜> and <｜action｜> before trailing latest_reminder messages. The final reminder then emits a second assistant boundary. Defer both task tokens to the final reminder and add an exact-output regression test. The test file is already included in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml.
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In `@tensorrt_llm/tokenizer/deepseek_v4/tokenizer.py` around lines 384 - 397, In
tensorrt_llm/tokenizer/deepseek_v4/tokenizer.py:384-397, update
_render_message() so task == "action" tokens are deferred when only
latest_reminder messages follow, emitting both task tokens at the final reminder
without a duplicate assistant boundary. In
tests/unittest/llmapi/test_deepseek_v4_tokenizer.py:287-360, add an exact-output
regression test covering add_generation_prompt with trailing latest_reminder
messages and task == "action".
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…thheld
`parse_streaming_increment` holds the buffer back whenever its tail could
still grow into a DSML delimiter -- `<` is a prefix of every one of them --
and releases it as soon as the next chunk resolves the ambiguity. When
generation stops instead, on max_tokens or a stop string or an abort, nothing
resolves it, and `BaseToolParser.finish` is a no-op, so the held text is
dropped. The request succeeds and the tail of the answer is simply missing:
deltas delivered
["The condition is a <"] "" 20 chars lost
["Here is the analysis. ",
"The threshold is <"] "Here is..." 18 chars lost
`NVIDIA#17573` fixed the neighbouring case -- text withheld mid-stream is now
delayed rather than dropped -- and its tests cover exactly that: every delta
list there resolves the ambiguity before the stream ends, and none calls
`finish`. The end-of-stream case was left.
`DeepSeekV32Parser` now overrides `finish` to release the buffer, which
`DeepSeekV4Parser` inherits. Only a buffer holding no tool-call section is
released: content before a section is already streamed by the increment path,
so what remains there is partial DSML markup rather than text, and surfacing
it raw would trade a dropped tail for markup leaking into the answer. A test
pins that boundary in both directions.
Signed-off-by: JunyiXu-nv <219237550+JunyiXu-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
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tensorrt_llm/serve/tool_parser/deepseekv32_parser.py (1)
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| # AutoTokenizer resolves the checkpoint config first, and the | ||
| # deepseek_v4 model_type is invisible to stock transformers; the | ||
| # registration is an import side effect of tensorrt_llm._torch.configs | ||
| # (previously guaranteed by the eager `import tensorrt_llm`). | ||
| import tensorrt_llm._torch.configs # noqa: F401 |
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Is this safe to remove now? Seems like a good thing to remove if so. Guess we can rely on CI to verify
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Two defects on the DeepSeek-V4 serving path, both found by auditing captured
agent traffic rather than by a test, and both silent — the request succeeds and
part of the answer is missing. One commit each.
1. The prompt ended inside a reminder instead of on the handoff
(commit 1, @wanqian-nv's work — her authorship and sign-off are preserved)
DeepSeek-V4 encodes the system prompt positionally: the bare-text span
before the first
<｜User｜>is the system slot, so_render_messageemitssystem content with no role token at all. Correct at the front, degenerate
anywhere else — a system message appended after the conversation started
rendered as unmarked text floating between two turns. Clients do exactly that:
Claude Code and similar agents append transient system messages (task nags,
background-task notifications) after the last user turn.
Two parts:
systemmessages tolatest_reminder. The format hasthe slot and the template has handled the role all along, but nothing routed
anything to it, so the role was unreachable in practice.
carries a token but never emits a turn boundary, so the handoff landed
before the reminder text: the prompt ended mid-reminder with
<think>already open and the model continued the document instead of answering. The
response came back as reasoning with no visible content.
A reminder with a real turn after it is untouched — there the handoff belongs
to the assistant message that follows, which is why the mid-conversation case
keeps two
<｜Assistant｜>tokens and the trailing case has one.Verified against a live DeepSeek-V4-Pro deployment (4×GB200, TP16) through
/v1/messages:A recorded agent workflow replayed against the same build: 261 requests, 0
non-2xx, and an audit of 148 captured exchanges found no empty-content
responses.
2. Text the stream ended on while it was withheld is dropped
(commit 2)
parse_streaming_incrementholds the buffer back whenever its tail could stillgrow into a DSML delimiter —
<is a prefix of every one of them — and releasesit as soon as the next chunk resolves the ambiguity. When generation stops
instead (max_tokens, a stop string, an abort) nothing resolves it, and
BaseToolParser.finishis a no-op, so the held text is dropped:["The condition is a <"]""["Here is the analysis. ", "The threshold is <"]"Here is the analysis. "#17573 fixed the neighbouring case — text withheld mid-stream is delayed
rather than dropped — and its tests cover exactly that: every delta list there
resolves the ambiguity before the stream ends, and none calls
finish. Theend-of-stream case was left.
DeepSeekV32Parsernow overridesfinishto release the buffer, whichDeepSeekV4Parserinherits. Only a buffer holding no tool-call section isreleased: content before a section is already streamed by the increment path,
so what remains there is partial DSML markup rather than text, and surfacing it
raw would trade a dropped tail for markup leaking into the answer.
Tests
414 passedacrosstest_deepseek_v4_tokenizer.pyandtest_tool_parsers.py.Reverting the two touched sources and re-running the same suite fails 9 of
them — 6 withheld-text cases across both parser classes, 3 prompt cases — so
the new tests hold the defects rather than describing them. The
truncated-tool-call test passes either way by design: it is a guard against
over-releasing, not a regression witness.
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systemmessages and trailinglatest_remindermessages.DeepSeekV32Parser.finishto release buffered text at stream end without exposing incomplete tool-call markup.tensorrt_llm._torch.configsimport fromfrom_pretrained. Confirm that supported loading paths do not require this import.QA Engineer Review
latest_reminder.latest_remindermessages.tests/integration/test_lists/entries changed.