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Problem: skip-softmax thresholds today can only be fit through the HF/PyTorch forward loop; they are then served on vLLM's paged KV cache, so the calibrated (a, b) never see the engine they run on. This PR calibrates through vLLM itself.
Alternatives checked in-repo: DynamicThresholdCalibrator (HF Stage 1/2/3 fit), SparseAttentionStatsManager (per-module stats), conversion.export_sparse_attention_config (checkpoint schema), RulerDatasetBuilder, and the existing vllm_runtime._plan_vllm_attention installer framework. Credit where due: the PR reuses all of these rather than forking them — it carves a calibrate_from_stats seam out of DynamicThresholdCalibrator, extracts export_threshold_scale_factor/export_config_producer from the HF exporter so the schema can't drift, and the new install_vllm_skip_softmax_calibration reuses _AttentionPlan/_apply_vllm_attention_plans. The only genuinely new machinery is cross-rank/cross-layer raw count merging, which has no in-repo equivalent (SparseAttentionStatsManager is single-process and stores ratios, which can't be summed across TP head shards). I consider the design defensible on the code, but the PR body says none of this — it's the unmodified template with an empty Testing section and unfilled checkboxes. Please write the two-paragraph rationale into the body (why counts-not-ratios, why a new plugins/sparse_attn_calibration.py instead of extending stats_manager.py, why the 128×128 tile is enforced in the kernel rather than at config load).
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FlashAttention calibration hardcodes one KV-cache layout.
_forward_calibrateis reached viakey_cache, value_cache = kv_cache.unbind(0), but the serving path in the very same class resolves this through_flash_attention_kv_cache_layout()(kv-first/blocks-first/packed).tests/.../test_sparse_attn_worker.py::test_flash_attention_forward_follows_backend_kv_cache_layoutexplicitly parameterizes all three, so this is an established repo contract. On ablocks-firstorpackedbuild, calibration dies with an opaque "too many values to unpack" before the nicelogical KV-cache viewguard is ever reached. The new GPU test builds its cache withtorch.stack(..., dim=0), i.e. it bakes in the same assumption and can't catch this. -
flash_skip_softmax.pypadding fix changes shipped HF behavior with no test. Masking padded query rows to-infis correct (and matches the Triton reduction), but it changes measured sparsity and the servingelement_maskfor every non-br-aligned sequence on the existing PyTorch path — thresholds calibrated before this PR will realize different sparsity after it. No unit test covers the partial last block row, and the CHANGELOG entry only advertises the new vLLM feature. -
Sparse-only serving install gained new hard rejections.
_global_errors(model_runner, sparse_only=not quantize)now runs forinstall_vllm_sparse_attention_from_checkpoint, so DCP, DBO/ubatching, speculative decoding, FULL mixed-batch graphs, and (via the un-gated_sparse_graph_error) FULL decode graphs now raiseNotImplementedErrorwhere sparse-only serving previously installed silently. That's a defensible fix, but it is backward-incompatible for existing servers and only appears in the README — the CHANGELOG's*Sparsity*bullet doesn't mention it, and the PR body's "Is this change backward compatible?" is unfilled. -
Fail-late CLI validation. The driver deliberately pre-checks
--update_checkpoint_config"before the (expensive, multi-GPU) calibration run", but--target_sparse_ratiois only range-checked insidebuild_sparse_attention_configafter the run, and--decode_tokensis unchecked (a negative value yieldsmax_tokens <= 0and an engine-side error after model load). Same fail-fast treatment, please.
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triton_fa.py:if do_measure or apply_skip:is redundant —do_measure = measure_sparsity and apply_skip, so the condition is justapply_skip.- Removing
_P_QDQ_MEASURE_BLOCK_Mis fine given the new P/V-QDQ rejection, buttest_quantized_skip_softmax_decode_stays_on_shared_kernel(unchanged) still asserts askip_softmax_threshold+p_qdq="nvfp4"launch reaches the shared kernel; it only passes becausetriton_attentionis monkeypatched. That test now documents a configuration the kernel rejects — worth updating alongside. - Serving perf: active skip-softmax now always bypasses autotune for the fixed 128×128 tile. Intentional and well argued, but it's a throughput change for existing sparse-only serving users and deserves a CHANGELOG line.
merge_phase_countshard-fails ("recorded no 'prefill' samples while others did") if any rank contributes zero attention layers — e.g. pipeline parallelism, which is neither rejected in_global_errorsnor surfaced by the CLI._forward_calibrateclaims the loop avoids per-request syncs, butattention_calibratedoesint(b_seq_len[0].item())and the loop doescounters.cpu()per request per layer, so the sync is still there. Calibration-only, so low impact.enable_calibrationdoesn't validate that trials are positive; a0or negative entry blows up later inmath.log2inside the kernel wrapper.- Driver
_load_prompts/_write_config/_existing_sparse_configare untested; the library helpers are well covered (test_sparse_attn_calibration.pyis genuinely good).
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2530 lines / 21 files, and it's already labelled [1/n]. The kernel-side tile contract + flash_skip_softmax padding fix affect every existing skip-softmax user and are independently reviewable/revertable from the vLLM calibration feature; splitting those out would make both halves much easier to reason about.
Licensing: new files carry the canonical LICENSE_HEADER verbatim — no concern.
| # KV lengths are unavailable; skip measurement for this launch. | ||
| return native_forward() | ||
| # vLLM >= 0.15 writes the current K/V to the paged cache before | ||
| # impl.forward, so the calibrate kernel reads a complete cache. |
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This hardcodes the kv-first FlashAttention cache layout, but the serving branch ~30 lines below resolves it properly:
cache_layout = _flash_attention_kv_cache_layout()
if cache_layout == "kv-first":
key_cache, value_cache = kv_cache.unbind(0)
elif cache_layout == "blocks-first":
key_cache, value_cache = kv_cache.unbind(1)
else:
key_cache, value_cache = kv_cache.transpose(1, 2).split(self.head_size, dim=-1)On a blocks-first build the cache is 5-D (num_blocks, 2, page, heads, dim), so unbind(0) yields num_blocks tensors and this line raises ValueError: too many values to unpack before the (much friendlier) logical KV-cache view guard in _forward_calibrate can fire; packed fails the same way. test_sparse_attn_worker.py::test_flash_attention_forward_follows_backend_kv_cache_layout already parameterizes all three layouts for the serving path — please reuse _flash_attention_kv_cache_layout() here and extend the new GPU test beyond the torch.stack(..., dim=0) (kv-first) case.
| # (never skipped) — under-counting sparsity by up to one block row. | ||
| # Mask those rows to -inf so they vote "skip", matching the Triton | ||
| # kernel, which drops padding rows from its tile-skip reduction. | ||
| pad_q = padded_seq_q - seq_q |
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The fix is right (padded rows previously had block_diff == 0 from min - min and forced the whole last block row to be kept), but it silently changes both measured sparsity and the serving element_mask on the existing PyTorch path for any seq_q that isn't a multiple of br — i.e. thresholds calibrated before this PR will realize different sparsity after it.
Please add a unit test that pins the behavior (e.g. seq_q = 300, br = 128: assert the last block row can now be skipped and that measured sparsity matches the Triton counters), and call the behavior change out in the CHANGELOG — right now the *Sparsity* bullet only advertises the new vLLM calibration path.
| # speculative decoding, and FULL mixed-batch graphs would capture stale | ||
| # per-launch thresholds (same rationale as the decode graph guard below). | ||
| # Sparse-only installs skip only the cache-mutation checks. | ||
| errors = _global_errors(model_runner, sparse_only=not quantize) |
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Running _global_errors for sparse-only installs (plus un-gating _sparse_graph_error below) means checkpoint-driven sparse serving now hard-fails on decode context parallelism, DBO/ubatching, speculative decoding, FULL mixed-batch graphs, and FULL decode graphs where it previously installed. I agree these were silent-wrong-answer paths, but it's a backward-incompatible change for existing vllm_serve_sparse_attn.py users and it's only documented in the README. Please add it to the CHANGELOG and answer the "Is this change backward compatible?" checkbox in the PR body.
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| help="RULER data directory containing the 'essays' haystack (populated by " | ||
| "examples/llm_sparsity/attention_sparsity/download_ruler_data.sh)", | ||
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--target_sparse_ratio is only range-checked much later, inside build_sparse_attention_config → _normalize_target_sparsity, i.e. after the multi-GPU llm.generate run has already completed. --decode_tokens isn't validated at all — a negative value produces max_tokens = decode_tokens + 1 <= 0 and blows up in SamplingParams after the engine is up.
The --update_checkpoint_config pre-flight check at the top of main() explicitly exists to "fail before the (expensive, multi-GPU) calibration run" — please give these two the same treatment (parser.error(...) for not 0.0 <= target_sparse_ratio <= 1.0 and decode_tokens < 0).
| num_warps=_MEASURE_NUM_WARPS, | ||
| num_stages=_MEASURE_NUM_STAGES, | ||
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do_measure = measure_sparsity and apply_skip a few lines up, so do_measure or apply_skip is exactly apply_skip. Simplifying the condition would also make the (now unconditional) 128×128 tile easier to follow, since the comment already explains both cases.
| sources = [rank.get(phase, []) for rank in rank_counts] | ||
| empty = sum(1 for source in sources if not source) | ||
| if empty and empty != len(sources): | ||
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If a rank contributes zero sparse impls, collect_calibration_counts returns {} and this check fires with "N/M rank(s) recorded no 'prefill' samples while others did" — a confusing failure for what is really an unsupported topology (pipeline parallelism, or any rank whose shard holds no attention layers). _global_errors doesn't reject pipeline_parallel_size > 1, and the driver only exposes it via --engine_kwargs. Either validate PP at install time or special-case the all-empty-rank result with a clearer message.
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211-216: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCompare calibration counters on the GPU.
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In `@CHANGELOG.rst`:
- Around line 9-11: Move the skip-softmax calibration changelog entry from the
new Sparsity subsection into the existing Misc subsection under New Features,
preserving the entry text unchanged and removing the standalone Sparsity
subsection.
In `@modelopt/torch/kernels/common/attention/triton_fa.py`:
- Around line 946-955: Update the attention API docstrings for
skip_softmax_threshold, p_qdq, and v_qdq to state that a positive
skip_softmax_threshold cannot be combined with either QDQ option. Keep the
documentation concise and aligned with the validation in the attention kernel
path.
In `@modelopt/torch/kernels/sparsity/attention/calibrate.py`:
- Around line 337-340: Update the paged-cache validation around is_paged and the
paged loader path to require k_cache and v_cache together, reject a standalone
cache, validate their logical shape compatibility, and require page_size to be
positive and equal to the caches’ page dimension before launching. Preserve the
contiguous path only when neither cache is supplied, and keep the existing
block_table requirement for paged mode.
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`@modelopt/torch/sparsity/attention_sparsity/plugins/sparse_attn_calibration.py`:
- Around line 186-195: Extend the validation loop before stats_from_counts in
the calibration flow to also verify that each record’s skipped_tiles length
equals threshold_trials length, alongside the existing total_tiles check. Raise
a ValueError for mismatches before constructing DynamicThresholdCalibrator or
invoking calibrate_from_stats.
In `@modelopt/torch/sparsity/attention_sparsity/plugins/vllm.py`:
- Around line 676-695: Normalize kv_cache in the calibration branch using
_flash_attention_kv_cache_layout() before extracting key_cache and value_cache:
preserve kv-first, transpose blocks-first to the expected layout, and transpose
then split packed caches into K/V tensors. Match the serving path’s three-way
conversion so _forward_calibrate receives the same cache shapes and selectors.
In `@tests/unit/torch/kernels/common/attention/test_triton_fa.py`:
- Around line 179-181: The in-function import of triton_fa follows the optional
Triton check; add a brief comment explaining that the import must occur after
pytest.importorskip("triton") because Triton is an optional dependency.
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In `@tests/gpu/torch/kernels/sparsity/attention/test_paged_calibrate.py`:
- Around line 211-216: Update the calibration counter assertions in the test to
compare the CUDA row counters against a device tensor rather than converting
individual elements with int(...). Preserve the skippable-tile validation and
the existing comparisons with out._sparsity_total and out._sparsity_skipped.
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File the entry under an existing New Features sub-section.
This adds a new *Sparsity* sub-section. The coding guidelines name the sub-sections used by recent releases: *Quantization*, *Speculative Decoding*, *Megatron Framework (M-LM / M-Bridge)*, and *Misc*. The 0.45 release filed the comparable skip-softmax calibration entry under *Misc* (Line 183). Move this entry under *Misc* to keep the section set stable.
The entry text itself matches the driver behavior in examples/vllm_serve/calibrate_sparse_attn.py.
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-- Add skip-softmax threshold calibration through vLLM for FlashAttention and FlashInfer, exporting prefill and decode fits as ``sparse_attention_config``. See ``examples/vllm_serve/calibrate_sparse_attn.py`` for usage and compatibility constraints.
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*Quantization*Then add the entry to the existing *Misc* list:
- Add skip-softmax threshold calibration through vLLM for FlashAttention and FlashInfer, exporting prefill and decode fits as ``sparse_attention_config``. See ``examples/vllm_serve/calibrate_sparse_attn.py`` for usage and compatibility constraints.As per coding guidelines: "File features under the matching **New Features** sub-section used by recent releases (e.g. *Quantization*, *Speculative Decoding*, *Megatron Framework (M-LM / M-Bridge)*, *Misc*) rather than relabeling existing ones."
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In `@CHANGELOG.rst` around lines 9 - 11, Move the skip-softmax calibration
changelog entry from the new Sparsity subsection into the existing Misc
subsection under New Features, preserving the entry text unchanged and removing
the standalone Sparsity subsection.
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| if apply_skip and (p_qdq_mode or v_qdq_mode): | ||
| # Quantized operands change what the calibrated skip thresholds mean, | ||
| # and P-QDQ additionally uses a different measurement tile geometry. | ||
| # The vLLM installers reject this composition at plan time; the raw | ||
| # kernel API rejects it here so no path can serve it. | ||
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| "skip-softmax cannot be combined with attention quantization " | ||
| "(P/V QDQ): the calibrated tile-skip contract does not hold " | ||
| "under quantized operands" | ||
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Document the new incompatible option pair.
When skip_softmax_threshold > 0, this branch rejects both QDQ options. Add this constraint to the attention documentation for skip_softmax_threshold, p_qdq, and v_qdq. Direct callers otherwise receive an undocumented pre-launch error.
As per coding guidelines, “document new public APIs with concise docstrings.”
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In `@modelopt/torch/kernels/common/attention/triton_fa.py` around lines 946 - 955,
Update the attention API docstrings for skip_softmax_threshold, p_qdq, and v_qdq
to state that a positive skip_softmax_threshold cannot be combined with either
QDQ option. Keep the documentation concise and aligned with the validation in
the attention kernel path.
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Justify the in-test import.
Add a brief comment that triton_fa is imported after pytest.importorskip("triton") because Triton is optional. Alternatively, move the import to module scope if the test module always requires Triton.
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In `@tests/unit/torch/kernels/common/attention/test_triton_fa.py` around lines 179
- 181, The in-function import of triton_fa follows the optional Triton check;
add a brief comment explaining that the import must occur after
pytest.importorskip("triton") because Triton is an optional dependency.
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modelopt/torch/kernels/sparsity/attention/calibrate.py (1)
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_validate_threshold_trialsto the public kernel API.
modelopt/torch/sparsity/attention_sparsity/plugins/vllm.pyLine 49 imports this underscore-prefixed helper across the package boundary, andenable_calibrationdepends on its exact error contract. A private name gives no export guarantee, so a later rename inside this module breaks the plugin silently at import time.Rename it to a public name, add it to the module's
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361-439: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winMove the CPU-only tests out of the CUDA-gated class.
test_collect_calibration_counts_sums_layers,test_rejects_non_logical_cache_shape, andtest_rejects_non_16bit_cacheallocate only CPU tensors and assert validation errors.TestCalibrationForwardis skipped when CUDA or Triton is absent, so these three tests never run on CPU-only runners. Move them to module scope (or a separate unskipped class) to keep that coverage active.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@examples/vllm_serve/calibrate_sparse_attn.py`:
- Around line 175-187: Update the argparse definitions for calib_samples and
calib_max_seqlen to use the existing positive-integer validation type already
applied to target_sparse_ratio and decode_tokens, so non-positive values are
rejected before engine initialization.
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In `@modelopt/torch/kernels/sparsity/attention/calibrate.py`:
- Around line 283-297: Rename _validate_threshold_trials to a public validator
name, add that name to calibrate.py’s __all__, and update the vLLM plugin import
and call sites to use it while preserving the existing validation and error
contract.
In `@tests/gpu_vllm/torch/sparsity/attention_sparsity/test_vllm_calibration.py`:
- Around line 361-439: Move test_collect_calibration_counts_sums_layers,
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| parser.add_argument( | ||
| "--calib_samples", | ||
| type=int, | ||
| default=24, | ||
| help="Total RULER samples, distributed across length bins (HF-path default: 24)", | ||
| ) | ||
| parser.add_argument( | ||
| "--calib_max_seqlen", | ||
| type=int, | ||
| default=32768, | ||
| help="Maximum RULER sequence length; length bins descend in powers of 2. " | ||
| "Must fit within --max_model_len together with --decode_tokens.", | ||
| ) |
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Validate --calib_samples and --calib_max_seqlen before engine start.
Both arguments use plain type=int, so 0 or a negative value is accepted. The failure then surfaces inside RulerDatasetBuilder at line 108, after LLM(**llm_kwargs) has already started the multi-GPU engine. Reuse a positive-int type so the parser rejects the value first, as done for --target_sparse_ratio and --decode_tokens.
🛠️ Proposed validation
+def _positive_int(value: str) -> int:
+ result = int(value)
+ if result <= 0:
+ raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError("must be positive")
+ return result
+
+
def _engine_kwargs(value: str) -> dict: parser.add_argument(
"--calib_samples",
- type=int,
+ type=_positive_int,
default=24,
help="Total RULER samples, distributed across length bins (HF-path default: 24)",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--calib_max_seqlen",
- type=int,
+ type=_positive_int,
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In `@examples/vllm_serve/calibrate_sparse_attn.py` around lines 175 - 187, Update
the argparse definitions for calib_samples and calib_max_seqlen to use the
existing positive-integer validation type already applied to target_sparse_ratio
and decode_tokens, so non-positive values are rejected before engine
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| if num_decodes and num_prefills: | ||
| # Prefer the host-resident copy the runner may already carry; | ||
| # fall back to one device->host copy per mixed-batch build. | ||
| seq_lens_cpu = getattr(common, "_seq_lens_cpu", None) |
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[IMPORTANT Performance] This looks for a private attribute that vLLM does not define, so the "prefer the host-resident copy" fast path never fires.
vLLM's CommonAttentionMetadata (vllm/v1/attention/backends/utils.py) exposes seq_lens_cpu as a public dataclass field (alongside query_start_loc_cpu, num_computed_tokens_cpu). There is no _seq_lens_cpu. So getattr(...) always returns None and every mixed-batch metadata build falls through to common.seq_lens.cpu() — a blocking device→host copy in the per-step serving hot path, which is exactly what the comment two lines above says this avoids.
| seq_lens_cpu = getattr(common, "_seq_lens_cpu", None) | |
| seq_lens_cpu = getattr(common, "seq_lens_cpu", None) |
| seq_lens_cpu = getattr(common, "_seq_lens_cpu", None) | ||
| if seq_lens_cpu is None: | ||
| seq_lens_cpu = common.seq_lens.cpu() |
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[IMPORTANT Performance] The host-resident fast path never engages — the attribute is misspelled.
common here is vLLM's CommonAttentionMetadata, whose host-side field is seq_lens_cpu (no leading underscore); the same dataclass is the source for _FLASHINFER_METADATA_FIELDS above, which reads seq_lens, block_table_tensor, num_actual_tokens, causal etc. off it. getattr(common, "_seq_lens_cpu", None) therefore always returns None, so the common.seq_lens.cpu() fallback runs on every mixed decode+prefill metadata build.
Why it matters: .cpu() on a CUDA tensor is a blocking device→host copy, i.e. a stream synchronization inside metadata build on the serving hot path — exactly what the comment two lines above says this is avoiding ("Prefer the host-resident copy the runner may already carry"). Any mixed batch (the common case once continuous batching kicks in) pays it once per step, and the code comment now documents behavior the code doesn't have.
| seq_lens_cpu = getattr(common, "_seq_lens_cpu", None) | |
| if seq_lens_cpu is None: | |
| seq_lens_cpu = common.seq_lens.cpu() | |
| seq_lens_cpu = getattr(common, "seq_lens_cpu", None) | |
| if seq_lens_cpu is None: | |
| seq_lens_cpu = common.seq_lens.cpu() |
| _attn_fwd.fn[grid]( | ||
| *fwd_args, | ||
| **fwd_kwargs, | ||
| BLOCK_M=_MEASURE_BLOCK_M, | ||
| BLOCK_N=_MEASURE_BLOCK_N, | ||
| num_warps=_MEASURE_NUM_WARPS, | ||
| num_stages=_MEASURE_NUM_STAGES, | ||
| ) |
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[IMPORTANT Performance] The tile-geometry argument justifies pinning BLOCK_M/BLOCK_N, but it does not justify pinning num_warps/num_stages — and this now applies to every active skip-softmax serving launch, not just measurement.
Two avoidable costs:
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num_stages=1._MEASURE_NUM_STAGES = 1disables software pipelining in the KV loop._FWD_CONFIGSusesnum_stages=2.num_stages/num_warpshave zero effect on the skip decision (_skip_softmax_decisionreduces overscoreswithin one(BLOCK_M, BLOCK_N)tile), so serving calibrated skip-softmax now runs an unpipelined kernel for no contract benefit — on long-context prefill, where this feature is used, that's a real throughput loss. -
BLOCK_M=128on decode. Calibrated decode goes through this path (use_split_k_decodeisFalsewheneverskip_softmax_threshold in sparse_kw) withmax_input_len == 1, so 1 of 128 Q rows is valid._FWD_CONFIGSpreviously let autotune pickBLOCK_M=16here. Forseq_len_q == 1the tile-level decision is unaffected byBLOCK_M(padding rows are excluded from the reduction viaq_pos < seq_len_q), so this is 8× the MMA rows per program with no change to which tiles get skipped.
Suggested fix: keep the fixed 128×128 tile as a contract, but let the schedule vary — e.g. a dedicated autotune list pinned to BLOCK_M=128, BLOCK_N=128 over num_warps ∈ {4, 8} / num_stages ∈ {1, 2, 3}, and only fall back to num_stages=1 when the larger-stage configs fail to compile. At minimum, use num_stages=2 for the non-measurement (apply_skip and not do_measure) launch, and relax BLOCK_M when max_input_len == 1.
| _attn_fwd.fn[grid]( | ||
| *fwd_args, | ||
| **fwd_kwargs, | ||
| BLOCK_M=_MEASURE_BLOCK_M, | ||
| BLOCK_N=_MEASURE_BLOCK_N, | ||
| num_warps=_MEASURE_NUM_WARPS, | ||
| num_stages=_MEASURE_NUM_STAGES, |
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[IMPORTANT Performance] Pinning the whole measurement launch config (not just the tile) puts every skip-softmax serving launch on a deliberately un-tuned schedule.
The correctness argument only constrains the tile geometry (BLOCK_M, BLOCK_N), but this branch also pins num_warps=_MEASURE_NUM_WARPS and num_stages=_MEASURE_NUM_STAGES. Those don't enter the skip decision at all, and _MEASURE_NUM_STAGES = 1 disables software pipelining of the K/V loads, whereas the autotune candidates in _FWD_CONFIGS all use num_stages=2. Every skip-softmax prefill now runs unpipelined.
Second, BLOCK_M is only load-bearing for prefill. _skip_softmax_decision forces padding rows skippable via q_pos >= seq_len_q, so for a decode launch (seq_len_q == 1 per request) the tile decision is identical for any BLOCK_M — only BLOCK_N sets the granularity. Pinning BLOCK_M=128 there makes each program compute a 128-row Q tile with one valid row instead of the autotuner's BLOCK_M=16: ~8× the wasted QK/PV work on the decode path, which is precisely where skip-softmax is supposed to pay for long contexts (and note the sparse-only vLLM path routes decode-with-skip_softmax_threshold through this kernel rather than triton_decode_attention).
Suggested shape — keep the contract, recover the tuning freedom:
if apply_skip:
# BLOCK_N fixes the tile granularity the thresholds were calibrated at.
# BLOCK_M only matters when a tile holds >1 valid query row: the skip
# decision masks padding rows, so decode (seq_len_q == 1) is BLOCK_M-invariant.
block_m = _MEASURE_BLOCK_M if max_input_len > 1 else min(_MEASURE_BLOCK_M, 16)
if do_measure:
# Counters mutate global tensors: never run through autotune trials.
_attn_fwd.fn[grid](
*fwd_args, **fwd_kwargs,
BLOCK_M=block_m, BLOCK_N=_MEASURE_BLOCK_N,
num_warps=_MEASURE_NUM_WARPS, num_stages=_MEASURE_NUM_STAGES,
)
else:
# Serving: tile pinned, schedule tuned.
_attn_fwd_fixed_tile[grid_fixed]( # autotuner over num_warps/num_stages only
*fwd_args, **fwd_kwargs, BLOCK_M=block_m, BLOCK_N=_MEASURE_BLOCK_N,
)At minimum, split _MEASURE_NUM_WARPS/_MEASURE_NUM_STAGES from a separate _SKIP_SERVE_NUM_* pair tuned for serving, so the measurement path's num_stages=1 isn't silently inherited by production launches. If the un-tuned schedule is a deliberate, benchmarked trade-off, please record the numbers in the PR description — the PR currently justifies the change purely on the tile contract, which doesn't cover num_stages/num_warps/decode BLOCK_M.
| parallel = getattr(getattr(model_runner, "vllm_config", None), "parallel_config", None) | ||
| if getattr(parallel, "pipeline_parallel_size", 1) != 1: | ||
| errors.append("pipeline_parallel_size must be 1 for skip-softmax calibration") |
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[IMPORTANT ModeState] Pipeline parallelism is rejected, but data parallelism is not — and DP breaks the same cross-rank alignment contract, with a failure mode that can be silent rather than loud.
merge_phase_counts / merge_count_records are documented as requiring that "every TP rank observes the same launches in the same order". Under data_parallel_size > 1, each DP replica serves a disjoint subset of the prompts, so collective_rpc("sparse_calib_counts") returns records describing different requests. The guards in merge_count_records only compare record count and sample_length — and RULER prompts are generated per length bin, so two DP ranks can easily hold the same number of records with matching sample_length values. In that case the counts of unrelated requests are summed and the fit silently absorbs the error; no exception is raised.
examples/vllm_serve/calibrate_sparse_attn.py::_engine_kwargs validates pipeline_parallel_size but likewise lets data_parallel_size through, so --engine_kwargs '{"data_parallel_size": 2}' (plausible next to the enable_expert_parallel example in that flag's help text) reaches here unchecked.
Suggested fix — mirror the PP guard here, and add the matching check to _engine_kwargs:
if getattr(parallel, "pipeline_parallel_size", 1) != 1:
errors.append("pipeline_parallel_size must be 1 for skip-softmax calibration")
if getattr(parallel, "data_parallel_size", 1) != 1:
errors.append(
"data_parallel_size must be 1 for skip-softmax calibration: DP replicas "
"serve disjoint requests, so per-rank count records do not align"
)
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| skip_group: dict[str, Any] = { | ||
| "algorithm": "skip_softmax", | ||
| "targets": ["Attention"], |
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[SUGGESTION] targets is dropped on recalibration, unlike ignore/initial_disabled_steps.
The docstring makes a deliberate point of carrying over the replaced skip group's layer policy so "recalibration replaces the fitted thresholds, not which layers the export sparsifies" — but targets is part of that same policy and is hardcoded to ["Attention"] here. conversion.export_sparse_attention_config writes a model-specific value ("targets": targets, e.g. ["LlamaAttention"]), so calibrating a checkpoint that already carries an HF-exported skip group silently rewrites it to the generic label.
It's benign for the vLLM serving loader today (plugins/sparse_attn_config.py reads ignore but never targets), so this is not a serving bug — but the asymmetry contradicts the stated contract and loses information for any other consumer of the schema. Simplest fix is to fold it into the existing carry-over loop:
for key in ("targets", "ignore", "initial_disabled_steps"):
if key in group and key not in skip_group:
skip_group[key] = group[key]with targets seeded as a default rather than set unconditionally in the skip_group literal (otherwise key not in skip_group will never be true for it).
…a-flow hardening - Reject skip-softmax combined with ANY attention quantization at plan time: quantized Q/K/P change the score distribution the thresholds were calibrated on (N:M sparse softmax still composes with quantization). - The 128x128 skip tile is now a hard contract: configurations that cannot compile it (fp32 on ~100KB-smem GPUs) are rejected with a clear error instead of re-tiled (the BLOCK_M step-down changed realized sparsity). - FlashInfer layout: query vLLM layout metadata and reject HND at install and before the calibration cache write; the NHD shape check remains as a fallback (it is ambiguous when page_size equals the per-rank KV heads). - One canonical threshold sweep shared by the HF and vLLM calibration paths (DEFAULT_THRESHOLD_TRIALS hoisted from DynamicThresholdCalibrator); ignore_eos forces the full decode length; the driver exits nonzero unless every requested phase produced a valid fit (no silent partial export). - Count merging treats alignment as a contract: mismatched sample counts, lengths, threshold widths, or per-rank/per-layer phase coverage raise instead of silently truncating. - Preserve legacy top-level sparse_softmax metadata through recalibration. - Docs: no-sparsification wording (kernel numerics differ from the native backend); clarify prefix-caching support (sparse-only serving supports suffix attention; quantized installs and calibration reject it). - High-block-ID regression test halves its allocation (V aliases K storage). Signed-off-by: Kai Xu <kaix@nvidia.com>
- Skip-softmax + attention quantization is now unreachable from every direction: sparse-only installs reject calibrated skip onto layers with active attention quantizers (not just quantized installs adding skip), and the raw kernel API itself rejects P/V QDQ with an active skip threshold -- which makes the P-QDQ 16-row measurement tile dead code, so the fixed skip tile is unconditionally 128x128. - FlashInfer layout helper preserves a genuine None from get_kv_cache_layout (str(None) became the truthy string None and both guards hard-rejected valid configurations instead of using the shape fallback). - Counter vectors are validated against len(threshold_trials) in both calibrate_from_stats and fit_from_counts: consistently short vectors previously zipped silently and could misattribute sparsities. - Driver decode semantics match vLLM: the first output token comes from the prefill forward, so --decode_tokens now means decode-attention steps and generation runs decode_tokens + 1 output tokens. - Calibrate kernel mirrors the serving kernel IEEE fp32 QK dot so raw fp32 calibration and serving round near-threshold scores identically. - target_sparsity validated to [0, 1] (same range as the HF config). Signed-off-by: Kai Xu <kaix@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kai Xu <kaix@nvidia.com>
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature
Calibrates skip-softmax thresholds through the vLLM V1 execution path for FlashAttention and FlashInfer. Calibration measures the paged KV-cache path used at serving time, aggregates raw skipped/total tile counts across tensor-parallel head shards, fits separate prefill and decode curves, and exports the existing
sparse_attention_configcheckpoint schema.This uses raw counts rather than averaging per-rank sparsity ratios because TP ranks can contribute different tile populations; summing numerators and denominators before division preserves the global tile-weighted result. The vLLM adapter lives in
plugins/sparse_attn_calibration.pyrather thanSparseAttentionStatsManager: the latter records module-local ratios for the HF calibration flow and has no aligned cross-process merge contract, while this path must merge per-sample raw counts from vLLM workers. Fitting and export still reuseDynamicThresholdCalibratorand the canonical conversion helpers so the model and checkpoint schema do not fork.Skip decisions depend on tile geometry. The common Triton launch boundary fixes the KV tile at 128 tokens and the prefill query tile at 128 tokens, including for direct kernel callers. Single-query decode can use a 16x128 compute tile without changing its skip decision. Measurement bypasses autotuning; serving still tunes warp and pipeline-stage counts while keeping the decision geometry fixed.
Usage
Calibration supports tensor parallelism and requires pipeline-parallel and data-parallel sizes of 1. It always writes
sparse_attention_config.json;--update_checkpoint_configalso merges the result into<CKPT>/config.json.Testing
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1e969cb380(rebased onto main02b58eb146, 2026-09-17):test_sparse_attn_calibration.pyandtest_calibrator_fitting.py).test_paged_calibrate.pyandtest_triton_fa_calibrate.py), including NHD/HND equivalence, partial query tiles, decode counts, and malformed-cache rejection. Run withCUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1on an RTX A6000; local GPU 0 was unavailable.tests/examples/vllm_serve/test_calibrate_sparse_attn.py).pre-commit run --files <four changed files>: passed, including Ruff, mypy, and Bandit.Historical validation from earlier revisions (not rerun end-to-end for this update):
PYTHONPATH="$PWD" pytest -q tests/examples/vllm_serve/test_calibrate_sparse_attn.py tests/unit/torch/sparsity/attention_sparsity/test_sparse_attn_calibration.py— 37 passed.PYTHONPATH="$PWD" pytest -q tests/gpu_vllm/torch/sparsity/attention_sparsity/test_vllm_calibration.py tests/gpu_vllm/torch/sparsity/attention_sparsity/test_sparse_attn_worker.py— 65 passed, including kv-first, blocks-first, and packed FlashAttention cache layouts.PYTHONPATH="$PWD" pytest -q tests/gpu_vllm/torch/sparsity/attention_sparsity/test_vllm_runtime.py tests/unit/torch/sparsity/attention_sparsity/test_sparse_attn_config.py— 33 passed.PYTHONPATH="$PWD" pytest -q tests/gpu/torch/kernels/sparsity/attention/test_paged_calibrate.py tests/gpu/torch/kernels/sparsity/attention/test_triton_fa_calibrate.py tests/gpu/torch/kernels/sparsity/attention/test_triton_fa_skip_softmax.py— 31 passed, 1 skipped because the GPU lacks enough shared memory for the fp32 tile.pre-commit run --files <changed files>— passed.558552), TP4, FA4, 48 RULER prompts, and 20 threshold trials: completed0:0with prefill(a, b) = (9.9104, 10.8881), respectively +0.147% and -0.066% versus the matching 20-point reference(9.8958, 10.8953). The supplied legacy fit(14.47, 10.91)used a different threshold grid; itsbdiffers by only -0.201%, whilearetains the known grid-weighting shift.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
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Pipeline parallelism is rejected during calibration because the current count-merging contract aligns records across tensor-parallel head shards, not across pipeline stages with disjoint attention layers. The unrelated HF padded-query behavior change was removed from this PR so it can be reviewed independently with its own compatibility test.
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