[https://nvbugs/6693991][fix] Added a mode="before" validator on TorchLlmArgs plus a…

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Summary

• Root cause: TRT-LLM commit 77cc145384 removed the sampler_type field from TorchLlmArgs with no back-compat path, so verl's rollout server (trtllm_async_server.py:248), which still passes it unconditionally, dies in _validate_args_for_torch_backend with ValueError: ... not supported by the PyTorch backend: ['sampler_type'], erroring all 3 image_size params at fixture setup.
• Fix: Added a mode="before" validator on TorchLlmArgs plus a TORCH_LLMARGS_REMOVED_KEYS list honored by the two pre-Pydantic unknown-kwarg gates so the key is absorbed with a warning (commit b959919404), reintroducing no field and mirroring the existing allow_advanced_sampling precedent.
• Original test: pytest tests/integration/defs/verl/test_verl_cases.py::test_multimodal_different_image_sizes -v
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Test plan

• Verify fix on the same GPU type as the original failure
• Check for regressions in related tests

Links

• Bug: https://nvbugs/6693991

Reproduction comparison

• Failed commit: repro_on_failed_commit at 77cc145
  Signature: subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'git clone -b v2.5.1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/gdrcopy.git && (cd gdrcopy && make prefix=/usr/local lib_install) && rm -rf gdrcopy' returned non-zero exit status 2.
• ToT: repro_on_tot at b53be97
  Signature: subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'git clone -b v2.5.1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/gdrcopy.git && (cd gdrcopy && make prefix=/usr/local lib_install) && rm -rf gdrcopy' returned non-zero exit status 2.
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Dev Engineer Review

• Added backward compatibility for the removed sampler_type argument in TorchLlmArgs.
• Added TORCH_LLMARGS_REMOVED_KEYS and handled the key in both pre-Pydantic unknown-key validation gates.
• The validator removes sampler_type, emits a warning, and preserves the existing TorchSampler behavior.
• The change prevents legacy verl rollout requests from failing before engine construction.
• No public field was reintroduced.
• No configuration or test-list files changed.

QA Engineer Review

• No test changes.

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Reproduction comparison:

• Failed commit: repro_on_failed_commit at 77cc145
  Signature: subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'git clone -b v2.5.1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/gdrcopy.git && (cd gdrcopy && make prefix=/usr/local lib_install) && rm -rf gdrcopy' returned non-zero exit status 2.
• ToT: repro_on_tot at b53be97
  Signature: subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command 'git clone -b v2.5.1 https://github.com/NVIDIA/gdrcopy.git && (cd gdrcopy && make prefix=/usr/local lib_install) && rm -rf gdrcopy' returned non-zero exit status 2.
• Signature relation: same

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Walkthrough

The change preserves compatibility with the removed PyTorch sampler_type argument. TorchLlmArgs removes the argument and warns, while BaseLLM and _TorchLLM accept registered removed keys during constructor validation.

Changes

PyTorch argument compatibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Removed argument compatibility contract tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py	sampler_type is registered as a removed PyTorch argument. TorchLlmArgs removes it before validation and emits a warning.
Constructor validation integration tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm.py	BaseLLM and _TorchLLM accept keys listed in TORCH_LLMARGS_REMOVED_KEYS during argument validation.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b9599

This PR adds a narrowly scoped compatibility path that absorbs the legacy sampler_type argument while continuing to reject unrelated unknown arguments; only a trivial type-annotation cleanup remains, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Annotate the new validator.

_warn_removed_sampler_type has an untyped data parameter and no return annotation. Add annotations to the new function.

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-    def _warn_removed_sampler_type(cls, data):
+    def _warn_removed_sampler_type(cls, data: Any) -> Any:

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[zhaoyangwang-nvidia]

Closing in favor of #18513.

The root cause here is correct — verl's rollout server does pass sampler_type unconditionally (trtllm_async_server.py:248 at the pinned d324b01), and that is what breaks engine construction.

What this PR misses is that sampler_type is not an independent knob on the verl side. A single switch, TLLM_USE_TORCHSAMPLER (default "0", never set in this repo), selects the sampler and the configuration that matches it: unset, verl asks for TRTLLMSampler and pairs it with end_id=-1, detokenize=False and logprobs=1. Since logprobs=1 returns the top-1 log probability while TorchSampler reports the sampled token's at logprobs=0, absorbing every value turns a loud construction-time ValueError into a rollout that runs TorchSampler with a config tuned for a sampler that no longer exists — a wrong training signal rather than a crash, with the warning landing only in a Ray actor log.

Two other gaps: verl_config.yml (which pins verl, in this repo) still leaves that profile inconsistent, and the six test_verl_cases.py entries waived under nvbugs/6693991 stay skipped, so the fix would not have been verified.

#18513 covers the same scenario: it sets TLLM_USE_TORCHSAMPLER=1 so verl's whole profile targets TorchSampler, accepts sampler_type only for the values that still resolve to it (auto, TorchSampler) while rejecting TRTLLMSampler with migration guidance, and unwaives the case named by the bug.