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[None][feat] Add cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants to choose the captured sampling variants - #21887
cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants selects greedy, advanced, and supported temperature_only CUDA graph variants for one-engine speculative decoding. When unset, the engine captures all supported variants. The change adds variant classification, selective capture, eager fallback, warnings, attention-DP eligibility agreement, and SpecMetadata.greedy_graphs for all-greedy batches.
Validation checks allowed values, duplicates, one-engine speculative decoding, confidence scheduling, and temperature_only requirements. The schemas, LLM-args manifest, and speculative-decoding guide document the field and fallback behavior. Multi-GPU attention-DP behavior remains untested. Current-head CI, build, and test results are not available.
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Added test_sampling_variants_capture_only_the_listed_graphs in tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py. It covers selective capture, greedy replay through sampled graphs, and eager fallback with a warning for an uncaptured sampled variant. It requires CUDA and skips below 35 GB of device memory.
Four existing tests update metadata fixtures to set greedy_graphs=True. The new test and the modified test_ragged_spec_sampler.py and test_sampling_scan_cache.py are included by the unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic entry in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml. test_capture_sampling_params.py is listed explicitly in that file. test_group_all_greedy_sync.py has no matching entry in the inspected CI or manual-QA lists. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up for validation-error cases and multi-GPU attention-DP behavior.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/graphs.py — Verify default and selective capture, unsupported-variant rejection, and warning behavior.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/metadata.py — Verify temperature-only eligibility and capture selection.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/runner.py — Verify configuration propagation and warnings for uncaptured variants.
tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py — Verify greedy_graphs routing for all-greedy batches.
tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py — Verify accepted values, duplicate rejection, and compatibility validation.
tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-config.schema.json — Verify the optional field, allowed values, and fallback documentation.
tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-disagg-config.schema.json — Verify the prototype field and documented constraints.
tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json — Verify the categorical field and allowed values.
docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md — Verify that documented variant support and fallback behavior match runtime behavior.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py — Covers selective capture, greedy replay, and eager fallback with a warning. It is included by the hw_agnostic CI test-list entry.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_ragged_spec_sampler.py — Updates metadata to enable greedy graphs. Verify uniform and ragged sampling coverage; it is included by the hw_agnostic CI test-list entry.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_sampling_scan_cache.py — Defaults helper metadata to enable greedy graphs. Verify cache and temperature-only selection coverage; it is included by the hw_agnostic CI test-list entry.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_capture_sampling_params.py — Updates fake metadata for greedy-graph behavior. The file is explicitly listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml.
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_group_all_greedy_sync.py — Updates its fixture for greedy-graph behavior. It has no matching entry in the inspected CI or manual-QA lists.
Description
One-engine speculative decoding (MTP, Eagle3 one-model, and the other modes that sample inside the speculative worker)
captures one set of decode CUDA graphs per sampling variant: greedy, advanced (sampled requests), and, for models that
sample from vocabulary-sharded logits, temperature-only. A deployment whose requests all use one variant still pays the
warmup and capture time, and the graph memory, of every variant at each startup.
This PR adds cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants, a list of the variants to capture (greedy, advanced, temperature_only):
Unset (the default) keeps the current behavior: every variant the engine supports is captured.
greedy serves decode batches whose requests all decode greedily; advanced serves batches with a sampled request,
one whose temperature, top-k, top-p or min-p does not resolve to greedy decoding (a seed or a penalty alone does not); temperature_only serves sampled batches whose sampled requests set only a temperature, on models whose MTP-Eagle
one-model decode samples vocabulary-sharded logits (the spec-decode fast paths; today Qwen3.5 checkpoints on
SM 10.0/10.3 GPUs) with tensor parallelism, without attention DP, relaxed acceptance, rejection sampling, penalties
or a watermark_config. On other models the first CUDA graph capture rejects it.
A batch whose variant is not listed falls back to a captured variant that can serve it:
Without temperature_only, temperature-only batches replay the advanced graphs.
Without greedy, greedy batches take the sampled path and replay the temperature_only graphs if listed, else the advanced ones; their rows still decode greedily through the sentinel sampling parameters. This has a cost: they
add sampling-parameter and RNG-state uploads, take the sampled path in eager steps too, and on the advanced
graphs exact ties can break differently than on the greedy graphs. They also lose the argmax fast paths: with
rejection sampling, argmax drafting and its LM-head-TP path; and the vocabulary-sharded target argmax where the
model has one. A model with the spec-decode fast paths keeps that argmax by listing temperature_only, unless it
uses rejection sampling; DFlash with tensor parallelism keeps its shard selection when it runs without rejection
sampling and with advanced_sampling_mode: no_topk_no_topp.
Without advanced, a sampled batch that temperature_only does not serve runs eagerly. The first such batch of
each variant logs a warning that names the captured variants; warmup batches are not reported.
The variant check is part of the attention-DP graph agreement (the allgather that already agrees graph eligibility and
batch size), so a rank with a batch that must run eagerly sends every rank eager in that step, as replay assumes: it
freezes all_rank_num_tokens. The graph key and the check read the variant from one helper, sampling_variant().
Under attention DP, leaving greedy out no longer sends steps eager because of an idle or all-greedy rank. This holds
by construction, from four facts of the code; it has not been measured on multiple GPUs yet:
An idle attention-DP rank runs a dummy or retained padding row, which carries no sampling parameters and so is a
greedy row, and every rank's batch goes through the sampling scan (update_is_all_greedy_sample) before the graph
key is built.
With greedy unlisted, create_spec_metadata sets SpecMetadata.greedy_graphs to False and the scan never
reports an all-greedy batch, so the flag is False at both capture and replay; the graphs' metadata copies inherit
it.
A list without greedy names a sampled variant, and the variant a greedy batch then resolves to
(temperature_only if listed, else advanced) is one of the listed ones; the graph key and the can_run_cuda_graph check read it through the same sampling_variant().
_agree_graph_shape all-gathers each rank's can_run_cuda_graph, and by 1-3 the variant term reports False only
on a rank holding an unlisted sampled variant. Steps still go eager on every rank for main's own reasons (a
batch-size mismatch across ranks, or a batch that cannot run a graph), as before.
Argument validation rejects an empty or repeated list; a list without one-engine speculative decoding (AUTO is
accepted: it becomes suffix-automaton decoding, a one-engine mode); a list with DSpark confidence scheduling, which plans
each step's graph before the step's variant is known; and temperature_only where the arguments rule it out (not
MTP-Eagle one-model, no tensor parallelism, attention DP, relaxed acceptance, rejection sampling, penalties or a watermark_config: with rejection sampling or penalties no batch selects the temperature-only graphs, and with a
watermark the decode graphs keep the ordinary sampler). The validator rejects the
configurations it can see; the first graph capture rejects a variant the model cannot serve, and for a model without
the spec-decode fast paths, which the arguments do not show, that is the only check on temperature_only.
The temperature-only condition is factored into supports_temperature_only_graphs, shared by the capture and the
speculative metadata.
The branch is rebased on main 762a8dc. Main's text watermarking ([TRTLLM-424][feat] Add Gumbel-max text watermarking with spec dec support #21047) keeps the ordinary sampler when watermark_config is set, so supports_temperature_only_graphs carries that exclusion and the last commit makes the
validator reject temperature_only with a watermark_config.
docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md gains a "CUDA graph sampling variants" section with an example, the
fallbacks and their cost.
The new field is in the LLM-args golden manifest (tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json, one new categorical
row), and both serve config schemas carry it. It needs telemetry/privacy CODEOWNER approval. The field is marked prototype; the protected LLM API signatures (tests/unittest/api_stability) are unchanged.
Measured results
DeepSeek-R1-0528-NVFP4-v2 on one GB300 node, DEP4
(attention DP, EP4, CUTLASS MoE) with MTP (3 draft tokens), cuda_graph_config with padding up to batch 256 (21 batch
sizes). Under attention DP the engine captures greedy and advanced graphs, 42 per rank. Two sets of runs on two nodes; on
each node the arms ran in sequence with the checkpoint in the page cache. Rank 0 (ranks 1-3 within 0.4 s):
Arm
Graphs per rank
Final executor's cuda_graph_capture, node 1 / node 2
KV-cache estimation executor's, node 1 / node 2
stock
42
36.2 s / 33.2 s
34.0 s / 32.8 s
sampling_variants: [greedy]
21
18.5 s / 16.4 s
17.5 s / 21.0 s
stock again
42
35.1 s / 32.3 s
33.5 s / 37.2 s
The final executor's capture: -17.2 s (-48%) on node 1 and -16.4 s (-50%) on node 2 against the mean of the two stock
runs. With the estimation executor's capture, a startup that estimates the KV cache saves about 30 s here.
Final executor creation: 24.9 s against 42.1 and 41.2 s (node 1), 21.5 s against 38.1 and 37.3 s (node 2).
On a model that also captures temperature-only graphs, keeping one of three variants should save about two thirds
(estimated, not measured here).
Token equality could not be checked on this model: two stock runs on the same node, with the autotuner tactics shared
through TLLM_AUTOTUNER_CACHE_PATH, already decode different greedy tokens for 7 of the 8 prompts (from the 2nd to the
10th token on). The end-to-end test below checks tokens instead.
Attention DP check
DeepSeek-R1-0528-NVFP4-v2, DEP4 with MTP (3 draft tokens), batch_sizes: [1, 2, 4, 8] with padding, sampling_variants: [greedy], TRTLLM_FORCE_COMM_METHOD=ALLGATHER; five concurrent requests, one of them at
temperature 0.8 / top-p 0.9:
With the check: all five finished (64 tokens each, 4.4 s); the rank holding the sampled request logged A decode batch with advanced sampling runs eagerly.
Without the check: the same probe also completed (4.9 s), with ranks mixing replay and eager in one step. Whether such a
step hangs or miscounts depends on the communication backend and the shapes; the check keeps every rank on the same
path, which replay assumes.
The measurements and this check used this PR's first commit before the rebases (cd205a1), applied to the touched files of a build of
main 0bdadaa plus #21438, which also changes cuda_graph_runner.py, graphs.py, runner.py and metadata.py (the get_graph_key hunk was applied by hand there: #21438 adds a second temperature-only flag, which sampling_variant()
then reads too). The later commits (5a1ff25 to 82f7faf) do not change the [greedy] path measured here. The greedy-unlisted path under attention DP has not been run on multiple GPUs.
Test Coverage
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py (new; runs in the pre-merge H100
PyTorch stage through unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic): Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with an Eagle3 one-model draft,
engines with sampling_variants=["greedy"] and ["advanced"], counting CUDA graph replays per generate call:
the two lists each capture one variant, of the same graph shapes;
greedy requests on ["advanced"] replay its graphs without the eager-variant warning and decode the same tokens as
on ["greedy"];
a seeded sampled request on ["greedy"] replays no graph, runs under the once-per-variant warning and returns a
well-formed output (its length and token ids). Its tokens are not compared with another engine: in CI
they differed between the ["greedy"] engine and an engine without CUDA graphs.
Against the code without this PR the test fails (the field does not exist); without the greedy fallback, the ["advanced"] engine logs the eager-variant warning and the test fails.
This version passed on one GB300 node, on an image of main 0bdadaa plus [TRTLLM-16622][feat] DeepSeek-V4.1: Perf optimizations for DS-V4.1-Flash-NVFP4 #21438 with this branch's Python merged
in; it has not been run on a GPU since the rebases onto main 2722406 and 762a8dc. The previous version also compared the
sampled request's tokens with an engine without CUDA graphs; that comparison failed in CI and is replaced by the
replay count.
The argument validation was checked by hand on the branch rebased on main a9bc4fe, 20 cases. Rejected with the sampling_variants
error: an empty, repeated, unknown or hyphenated variant; no speculative config; NGram; and temperature_only with
Eagle3, with MTP on one GPU, under attention DP, with relaxed acceptance, with penalties and with rejection sampling.
Accepted: AUTO with [greedy], MTP with [greedy], MTP under attention DP with [advanced], MTP with TP2 and [greedy, temperature_only] or [temperature_only], MTP with TP2 and penalties with [advanced], Eagle3 with the
dict form, and DraftTarget (a one-engine mode) with [greedy]. The two temperature_only lists then also need a
model with the spec-decode fast paths, or the first capture rejects them. On the branch rebased on main 2722406,
MTP with TP2 and [greedy, temperature_only] is accepted without a watermark_config and rejected with one.
On the branch rebased on main 762a8dc, the serve schemas and the golden manifest still match their generators, and api_stability/test_llm_api.py and llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py pass.
The existing CPU tests of the touched files pass on the branch rebased on main 2722406, as on that main: tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_group_all_greedy_sync.py, test_capture_sampling_params.py, hw_agnostic/test_ragged_spec_sampler.py and hw_agnostic/test_sampling_scan_cache.py (their metadata stand-ins gain greedy_graphs), tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_cuda_graph_runner.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py::TestTorchLlmArgsCudaGraphSettings, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py, tests/unittest/api_stability/test_llm_api.py, tests/unittest/usage/test_llmapi_config_capture.py and tests/unittest/usage/test_llmapi_config_telemetry_docs.py, with the golden manifest and the serve schemas matching
their generators. Their cases that need a GPU are left to the GPU stages.
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Adds optional sampling-variant selection for CUDA graphs in one-engine speculative decoding. The selection controls graph capture and decode-time graph eligibility. Uncaptured variants use eager execution, and applicable decode batches produce a warning.
Adds sampling_variants with three allowed values. Validation restricts its use to supported decoding configurations. The serving schemas, golden manifest, and documentation describe the option and its behavior.
Capture selection and speculative metadata tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/graphs.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/metadata.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/*
Selects supported variants for capture. Metadata controls whether greedy and temperature-only graphs are used. Test fixtures set greedy_graphs explicitly.
Classifies sampling metadata and applies the configured selection to graph eligibility. Uncaptured variants use eager execution, and applicable batches produce a warning. The test checks selective capture, replay, fallback, and output.
sequenceDiagram
participant DecoderRunner
participant CUDAGraphRunner
participant DecoderCudaGraphs
DecoderRunner->>CUDAGraphRunner: configure sampling variants
CUDAGraphRunner->>CUDAGraphRunner: classify batch and check graph eligibility
DecoderRunner->>DecoderCudaGraphs: warn when selected graph is unavailable
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Possibly related PRs
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20815: Adds temperature-only graph metadata and capture behavior used by this change’s sampling-variant classification and selection.
NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20841: Extends CUDA graph capture and graph-key dimensions, which this change also modifies for sampling variants.
Merge Risk: Low · up to fc442
The new option leaves existing behavior unchanged when it is unset. Automated coverage of the validation rules, the metadata flags and the attention-DP fallback is still missing, and the attention-DP fallback has not been run on multiple GPUs. These are worth following up, but they do not block the merge.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to fc442
The change is opt-in and retains compatibility checks and coordinated fallback. No new privilege or data-access path was identified. Requests can cause shared decoding steps to run eagerly when their sampling variant was not captured, so operational impact depends on deployment configuration and traffic. Hardware-specific failure behavior remains unvalidated.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — With a restricted capture list, a request selecting an uncaptured variant can force its shared decode step to execute eagerly, including participating attention-DP ranks. Repeated requests can repeat that effect. The demonstrated scope is shared execution cost, not mutation of capture policy or acquisition of additional authority; deployment-wide performance impact was not measured.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Capture policy is supplied through engine configuration and copied into the graph runner as a frozenset. The inspected inference path derives a variant from request sampling parameters but does not assign those parameters to capture policy.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The sampling scan cache distinguishes ordered request identity, request state, sequence slots, draft length, and group overrides. Ragged and non-capture dummy batches bypass caching. These controls preserve batch-specific sampling state as execution switches between captured and eager paths.
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The GPU test covers an accepted advanced configuration, but it does not check the rejection paths. A regression could therefore allow an invalid configuration.
Add tests to TestTorchLlmArgsCudaGraphSettings for:
Empty and duplicate lists.
Missing and non-one-engine speculative configurations.
Confidence scheduling.
temperature_only without sharded-sampling support.
Acceptance of AUTO with ["greedy"].
Assert the relevant validation errors so an unrelated error cannot satisfy a rejection test. The file is already in the CPU test list.
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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py around lines 8446 - 8476:
Extend TestTorchLlmArgsCudaGraphSettings with CPU tests for empty and duplicate
sampling_variants lists, missing and non-one-engine speculative configurations,
confidence scheduling, and temperature_only without sharded-sampling support;
also verify AUTO with ["greedy"] is accepted. For rejection cases, assert the
specific validation error from validate_cuda_graph_sampling_variants so
unrelated failures cannot pass the tests.
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warn_uncaptured_sampling_variant has no direct test and runs on a hot path.
runner.py calls this method on every eager decode step. It calls sampling_variant and builds sorted(self._sampling_variants) for the message before warning_once can deduplicate it. This costs one sort and one f-string per eager step.
Build the message only on the first occurrence. Track emitted variants in a small set.
Proposed change
- variant = sampling_variant(spec_metadata)- if variant not in self._sampling_variants:- logger.warning_once(- f"A decode batch with {variant} sampling runs eagerly: "- f"cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants captured {sorted(self._sampling_variants)}",- key=f"uncaptured_sampling_variant_{variant}",- )+ variant = sampling_variant(spec_metadata)+ if variant in self._sampling_variants or variant in self._warned_variants:+ return+ self._warned_variants.add(variant)+ logger.warning_once(+ f"A decode batch with {variant} sampling runs eagerly: "+ f"cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants captured {sorted(self._sampling_variants)}",+ key=f"uncaptured_sampling_variant_{variant}",+ )
Also initialize self._warned_variants: set[str] = set() in __init__.
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- Around line 328-333: Add a parametrized test in the decoder metadata tests for
TP=2 one-model MTP-Eagle with fast paths enabled and attention DP disabled.
Exercise an unset sampling_variants list, one containing temperature_only, and
one excluding it, and assert the resulting metadata flag in each case; use
captures_temperature_only_graphs and the existing metadata setup patterns to
locate the relevant behavior.
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- Around line 267-276: Assess whether adding the
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for empty and duplicate sampling_variants lists, missing and non-one-engine
speculative configurations, confidence scheduling, and temperature_only without
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Runtime part looks right to me: with the field unset, graph selection and capture match main, and the variant check rides the existing attention-DP agreement, so ranks stay on one path. One gap inline: temperature_only is accepted with rejection sampling or penalties, where it can never be selected, so sampled batches would run eagerly. There is also a doc note on idle attention-DP ranks and a small test request.
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Two gaps to close before merge, plus housekeeping.
1. The new test never runs on a GPU in CI.tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/ has no GPU-list entry for test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py. It is only collected by the unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic directory glob in l0_cpu.yml, and the torch.cuda.is_available() skip fires there. Add it to a GPU list with ≥35 GB, such as l0_h100.yml or l0_b200.yml. Also add CPU-only tests for the TorchLlmArgs validator: duplicates, non-one-engine modes, confidence scheduling, and temperature_only with ADP or TP=1. Those need no GPU.
2. Attention DP with greedy unlisted. Under ADP, an idle rank's dummy batch has no sampling params, so sampling_variant() classifies it as greedy. With sampling_variants: [advanced], that rank reports can_run_cuda_graph=False, and _agree_graph_shape then makes the whole step eager on every rank. Workloads that never send greedy requests are still affected. The docstring's advice to "list every variant the workload sends" does not cover this case. See the inline comment for options.
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The title carries [None] for a new user-facing config option. Link a JIRA ticket.
docs/ has no coverage of the option. It is prototype, but the ADP behavior and the temperature_only fallback to advanced should be documented somewhere other than the field description, e.g. the CUDA graph or speculative decoding feature docs.
The description is cut off mid-sentence ("pays the warmup and capt"). The auto-generated review block also states that validation failures and ADP have no test coverage, which matches item 1.
@brnguyen2 thanks for the review. On the points in your summary:
The new test does run on a GPU in CI: l0_h100.yml lists unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic in its pre-merge block, GPU stages run with -m "not cpu_only", and CI ran and passed its first version in the H100 PyTorch stage. It now also covers the greedy-only selection. For the validator I kept to the end-to-end test and re-ran 20 validation cases by hand; the inline thread lists them.
Attention DP with greedy unlisted: 172c44a takes your first option, so greedy batches and idle-rank dummy rows replay the sampled graphs instead of running eagerly. This holds by construction (the PR description lists the four code facts); it has not been run on multiple GPUs yet.
Add CPU tests for the temperature_only rejection rules.
A regression could allow temperature_only with rejection sampling or penalties, even though those batches cannot select that variant. In tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py, use an otherwise eligible MTP-Eagle configuration and assert rejection for each flag separately. Also assert acceptance with both flags disabled. Mock FlashInfer availability for the rejection-sampling case so another validator does not mask this check.
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Add CPU tests in the existing test module for the
`TorchLlmArgs.validate_cuda_graph_sampling_variants` rejection rules: use an
otherwise eligible MTP-Eagle configuration and assert rejection when
`use_rejection_sampling` is enabled and, separately, when `enable_penalty` is
enabled; also assert acceptance when both are disabled. Mock FlashInfer
availability in the rejection-sampling case so another validator does not mask
the expected rejection.
Add a case with greedy and sampled requests in the same decode batch and ["greedy"]. Assert that the batch runs eagerly and that both requests match eager results. The current separate calls can pass if a mixed batch is incorrectly classified as greedy.
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around lines 70 - 93:
Extend test_sampling_variants_capture_only_the_listed_graphs with a mixed decode
batch containing both greedy and sampled requests under the ["greedy"] graph
configuration. Assert that the mixed batch runs eagerly and that each request’s
result matches its corresponding eager result, so the test verifies mixed-batch
admission rather than separate request behavior.
733-738: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Add a mixed-variant attention-DP test.
In test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py, use equal-size batches and disable rejection synchronization. With ["greedy"], put greedy requests on one rank and sampled requests on another. Assert that both ranks run eagerly; otherwise a regression could let one rank replay while the other runs eagerly.
With ["advanced"], test the same requests and assert that both ranks select captured advanced graphs. Greedy requests select the advanced variant in this configuration, so both ranks must be eligible for replay.
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Add mixed-variant attention-DP coverage for the `can_run_cuda_graph` eligibility
behavior in `test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py`: use equal-size batches and
disable rejection synchronization, with greedy requests on one rank and sampled
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- Around line 733-738: Update the execution path controlled by
can_run_cuda_graph to remove graph-padding rows after rank agreement when a
sampled batch falls back to eager execution. Distinguish padding rows from the
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- Around line 733-738: Add mixed-variant attention-DP coverage for the
`can_run_cuda_graph` eligibility behavior in
`test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py`: use equal-size batches and disable
rejection synchronization, with greedy requests on one rank and sampled requests
on the other. With `["greedy"]`, assert both ranks run eagerly; with
`["advanced"]`, assert both select captured advanced graphs, since greedy
requests use the advanced variant in that configuration.
Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py:
- Around line 8520-8556: Add CPU tests in the existing test module for the
`TorchLlmArgs.validate_cuda_graph_sampling_variants` rejection rules: use an
otherwise eligible MTP-Eagle configuration and assert rejection when
`use_rejection_sampling` is enabled and, separately, when `enable_penalty` is
enabled; also assert acceptance when both are disabled. Mock FlashInfer
availability in the rejection-sampling case so another validator does not mask
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Thanks, my comments are addressed: temperature_only is now rejected with rejection sampling or penalties, and without 'greedy' greedy batches (idle ADP dummy rows too) take the sampled graphs; the group greedy flag is gathered from the already-adjusted local flag, so ranks stay on one path. Fine with the e2e test covering the graph-key term. Runtime part LGTM.
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Add focused CPU tests for the sampling-variant rejection rules.
The existing GPU test indirectly covers accepted greedy and advanced configurations, but it does not cover the new rejection branches or temperature_only acceptance. Add a parametrized test in tests/unittest/llmapi/ that:
rejects a valid non-one-engine speculative configuration and matches the one-engine error;
rejects one-engine DSpark confidence scheduling with confidence_cost_table_path set and matches the confidence-scheduling error;
rejects temperature_only for unsupported tensor parallelism, attention DP, rejection sampling, and penalties, matching the temperature_only error;
accepts ["greedy"] with AutoDecodingConfig;
accepts ["temperature_only"] with the supported MTP-Eagle one-model configuration, tensor_parallel_size=2, and attention DP disabled.
The DSpark-only qualification is accurate. DSpark reaches the one-engine guard through is_parallel_draft() and is_external_drafter(), so the confidence-scheduling branch can be exercised directly.
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Add focused CPU parametrized tests for validate_cuda_graph_sampling_variants covering rejection of non-one-engine speculative decoding, one-engine DSpark confidence scheduling with confidence_cost_table_path set, and temperature_only with unsupported tensor parallelism, attention DP, rejection sampling, or penalties; assert each matching error. Also verify greedy is accepted with AutoDecodingConfig and temperature_only is accepted with supported MTP-Eagle one-model decoding, tensor_parallel_size=2, and attention DP disabled.
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…ptured sampling variants
One-engine speculative decoding captures one set of decode CUDA graphs per sampling variant:
greedy, advanced and, where the model samples vocabulary-sharded logits, temperature_only. A
workload that sends one variant still pays the warmup, capture time and graph memory of all of
them at every startup.
cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants lists the variants to capture; unset keeps the current
behavior. A decode batch of an unlisted variant runs eagerly, and the first such batch of each
variant logs a warning with the captured set (warmup batches are not reported). The variant
check is part of the attention-DP graph agreement, so one rank's unlisted variant sends every
rank eager in that step, as replay assumes (it freezes all_rank_num_tokens); the graph key and
the check read the variant from one helper. Without temperature_only in the list,
temperature-only batches use the advanced graphs.
Argument validation rejects an empty or repeated list, a list without one-engine speculative
decoding (AUTO is accepted: it becomes suffix-automaton decoding), a list with DSpark confidence
scheduling (it plans each step's graph before the step's variant is known), and temperature_only
without MTP-Eagle one-model decoding with tensor parallelism, no attention DP and no relaxed
acceptance. A variant the model cannot capture is rejected at the first capture. The golden
manifest and the serve config schemas gain the new field.
Measured on GB300, DeepSeek-R1-0528 NVFP4, DEP4 with MTP (3 draft tokens), 21 decode batch
sizes, two sets of runs on two GB300 nodes, stock runs before and after:
sampling_variants=["greedy"] captures 21 graphs instead of 42; the final executor's CUDA graph
phase took 18.5 s against 36.2 / 35.1 s and 16.4 s against 33.2 / 32.3 s (rank 0; -48% and
-50%), and the KV-cache estimation executor's capture drops the same way, about 30 s per
startup in all. With the check, DEP4 with [greedy], forced all-gather MoE communication and a
mixed batch (five requests, one sampled) completed 5/5. Without it the same probe also completed
here, with ranks mixing replay and eager in one step; whether that hangs or miscounts depends on
the communication backend and the shapes.
Tested on main 0bdadaa plus NVIDIA#21438, which also changes cuda_graph_runner.py, graphs.py,
runner.py and metadata.py.
Test: tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py runs
Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with an Eagle3 one-model draft: sampling_variants=["advanced"] captures
exactly the advanced graphs of the default engine, and its greedy requests run eagerly under the
once-per-variant warning and decode the same tokens as an engine without CUDA graphs; it fails
without this change.
Signed-off-by: ziyixiong-nv <219238287+ziyixiong-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
…ampling or penalties
No batch selects the temperature-only graph key while use_rejection_sampling or enable_penalty
is set, so listing temperature_only there captured nothing and sent every sampled batch eager.
The argument validator and the capture-time check now reject it.
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…mpling_variants omits greedy
Without 'greedy' in cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants, a greedy decode batch ran eagerly. Under
attention DP an idle rank's dummy row is greedy, so ['advanced'] sent every step with an idle rank
eager on all ranks. Greedy batches now take the sampled path, whose greedy rows still decode
greedily, and replay the temperature_only or advanced graphs; only a sampled batch that no listed
variant serves runs eagerly. The field description, the serve schemas and the speculative decoding
docs describe the fallbacks.
Test: test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py runs ['greedy'] and ['advanced'] engines. They capture
the two variants of the same shapes; greedy requests on ['advanced'] replay its graphs without the
eager notice and decode the same tokens as on ['greedy']; a seeded sampled request on ['greedy']
runs eagerly under the notice and decodes as on an engine without CUDA graphs.
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…ariants description
A seed or a penalty alone leaves a request greedy, and rejection sampling is an engine flag,
so the 'advanced' variant is now described by the temperature, top-k, top-p and min-p that
decide whether a request samples. The serve schemas are regenerated.
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Greedy batches on the sampled graphs lose the argmax fast paths (the vocabulary-sharded target
argmax and, with rejection sampling, argmax drafting and its LM-head-TP path), add sampling-parameter
and RNG-state uploads, take the sampled path in eager steps too, and on the advanced graphs can
break exact ties differently. The field description and the docs now say so, and point MTP-Eagle
with tensor parallelism to temperature_only, which keeps the exact sharded argmax. The serve
schemas are regenerated.
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…e models that have them
The temperature-only variant also needs the model's spec-decode fast paths (today Qwen3.5
checkpoints on SM 10.0/10.3 GPUs); on other models the first capture rejects it, which the
argument validator cannot see. The field description and the docs now say so, scope the hint to
list temperature_only to those models without rejection sampling, and scope the lost sharded
target argmax to models that have one: DFlash with tensor parallelism keeps its shard selection
without rejection sampling and with advanced_sampling_mode no_topk_no_topp. The serve schemas are
regenerated.
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…ross-engine tokens
In CI the seeded sampled request's tokens differed between the ['greedy'] engine and an engine
without CUDA graphs, so they are no longer compared. The test counts graph replays
per generate call instead: greedy requests replay graphs on both engines, the sampled request on
['greedy'] replays none and logs the once-per-variant warning, and its output has a valid length
and token ids. The engine without CUDA graphs is dropped.
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…mark configuration
Main's text watermarking keeps the ordinary sampler when watermark_config is
set, so the decode CUDA graphs do not capture temperature_only then. Reject
the variant at argument validation, as with rejection sampling and penalties,
instead of at the first capture, and list watermark_config with those
exclusions in the field description and the speculative decoding guide.
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cuda_graph_config.sampling_variantsselectsgreedy,advanced, and supportedtemperature_onlyCUDA graph variants for one-engine speculative decoding. When unset, the engine captures all supported variants. The change adds variant classification, selective capture, eager fallback, warnings, attention-DP eligibility agreement, andSpecMetadata.greedy_graphsfor all-greedy batches.Validation checks allowed values, duplicates, one-engine speculative decoding, confidence scheduling, and
temperature_onlyrequirements. The schemas, LLM-args manifest, and speculative-decoding guide document the field and fallback behavior. Multi-GPU attention-DP behavior remains untested. Current-head CI, build, and test results are not available.QA Engineer Review
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test_sampling_variants_capture_only_the_listed_graphsintests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py. It covers selective capture, greedy replay through sampled graphs, and eager fallback with a warning for an uncaptured sampled variant. It requires CUDA and skips below 35 GB of device memory.Four existing tests update metadata fixtures to set
greedy_graphs=True. The new test and the modifiedtest_ragged_spec_sampler.pyandtest_sampling_scan_cache.pyare included by theunittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnosticentry intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml.test_capture_sampling_params.pyis listed explicitly in that file.test_group_all_greedy_sync.pyhas no matching entry in the inspected CI or manual-QA lists. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up for validation-error cases and multi-GPU attention-DP behavior.Per-File QA Perspective
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/cuda_graph_runner.py— Verify variant classification, graph-key selection, attention-DP agreement, and eager fallback.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/graphs.py— Verify default and selective capture, unsupported-variant rejection, and warning behavior.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/metadata.py— Verify temperature-only eligibility and capture selection.tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/runner.py— Verify configuration propagation and warnings for uncaptured variants.tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py— Verifygreedy_graphsrouting for all-greedy batches.tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py— Verify accepted values, duplicate rejection, and compatibility validation.tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-config.schema.json— Verify the optional field, allowed values, and fallback documentation.tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-disagg-config.schema.json— Verify the prototype field and documented constraints.tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json— Verify the categorical field and allowed values.docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md— Verify that documented variant support and fallback behavior match runtime behavior.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py— Covers selective capture, greedy replay, and eager fallback with a warning. It is included by thehw_agnosticCI test-list entry.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_ragged_spec_sampler.py— Updates metadata to enable greedy graphs. Verify uniform and ragged sampling coverage; it is included by thehw_agnosticCI test-list entry.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_sampling_scan_cache.py— Defaults helper metadata to enable greedy graphs. Verify cache and temperature-only selection coverage; it is included by thehw_agnosticCI test-list entry.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_capture_sampling_params.py— Updates fake metadata for greedy-graph behavior. The file is explicitly listed intests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_h100.yml.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_group_all_greedy_sync.py— Updates its fixture for greedy-graph behavior. It has no matching entry in the inspected CI or manual-QA lists.Description
One-engine speculative decoding (MTP, Eagle3 one-model, and the other modes that sample inside the speculative worker)
captures one set of decode CUDA graphs per sampling variant: greedy, advanced (sampled requests), and, for models that
sample from vocabulary-sharded logits, temperature-only. A deployment whose requests all use one variant still pays the
warmup and capture time, and the graph memory, of every variant at each startup.
This PR adds
cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants, a list of the variants to capture (greedy,advanced,temperature_only):greedyserves decode batches whose requests all decode greedily;advancedserves batches with a sampled request,one whose temperature, top-k, top-p or min-p does not resolve to greedy decoding (a seed or a penalty alone does not);
temperature_onlyserves sampled batches whose sampled requests set only a temperature, on models whose MTP-Eagleone-model decode samples vocabulary-sharded logits (the spec-decode fast paths; today Qwen3.5 checkpoints on
SM 10.0/10.3 GPUs) with tensor parallelism, without attention DP, relaxed acceptance, rejection sampling, penalties
or a
watermark_config. On other models the first CUDA graph capture rejects it.temperature_only, temperature-only batches replay theadvancedgraphs.greedy, greedy batches take the sampled path and replay thetemperature_onlygraphs if listed, else theadvancedones; their rows still decode greedily through the sentinel sampling parameters. This has a cost: theyadd sampling-parameter and RNG-state uploads, take the sampled path in eager steps too, and on the
advancedgraphs exact ties can break differently than on the
greedygraphs. They also lose the argmax fast paths: withrejection sampling, argmax drafting and its LM-head-TP path; and the vocabulary-sharded target argmax where the
model has one. A model with the spec-decode fast paths keeps that argmax by listing
temperature_only, unless ituses rejection sampling; DFlash with tensor parallelism keeps its shard selection when it runs without rejection
sampling and with
advanced_sampling_mode: no_topk_no_topp.advanced, a sampled batch thattemperature_onlydoes not serve runs eagerly. The first such batch ofeach variant logs a warning that names the captured variants; warmup batches are not reported.
batch size), so a rank with a batch that must run eagerly sends every rank eager in that step, as replay assumes: it
freezes
all_rank_num_tokens. The graph key and the check read the variant from one helper,sampling_variant().greedyout no longer sends steps eager because of an idle or all-greedy rank. This holdsby construction, from four facts of the code; it has not been measured on multiple GPUs yet:
greedy row, and every rank's batch goes through the sampling scan (
update_is_all_greedy_sample) before the graphkey is built.
greedyunlisted,create_spec_metadatasetsSpecMetadata.greedy_graphsto False and the scan neverreports an all-greedy batch, so the flag is False at both capture and replay; the graphs' metadata copies inherit
it.
greedynames a sampled variant, and the variant a greedy batch then resolves to(
temperature_onlyif listed, elseadvanced) is one of the listed ones; the graph key and thecan_run_cuda_graphcheck read it through the samesampling_variant()._agree_graph_shapeall-gathers each rank'scan_run_cuda_graph, and by 1-3 the variant term reports False onlyon a rank holding an unlisted sampled variant. Steps still go eager on every rank for main's own reasons (a
batch-size mismatch across ranks, or a batch that cannot run a graph), as before.
AUTOisaccepted: it becomes suffix-automaton decoding, a one-engine mode); a list with DSpark confidence scheduling, which plans
each step's graph before the step's variant is known; and
temperature_onlywhere the arguments rule it out (notMTP-Eagle one-model, no tensor parallelism, attention DP, relaxed acceptance, rejection sampling, penalties or a
watermark_config: with rejection sampling or penalties no batch selects the temperature-only graphs, and with awatermark the decode graphs keep the ordinary sampler). The validator rejects the
configurations it can see; the first graph capture rejects a variant the model cannot serve, and for a model without
the spec-decode fast paths, which the arguments do not show, that is the only check on
temperature_only.supports_temperature_only_graphs, shared by the capture and thespeculative metadata.
watermark_configis set, sosupports_temperature_only_graphscarries that exclusion and the last commit makes thevalidator reject
temperature_onlywith awatermark_config.docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.mdgains a "CUDA graph sampling variants" section with an example, thefallbacks and their cost.
The new field is in the LLM-args golden manifest (
tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json, one new categoricalrow), and both serve config schemas carry it. It needs telemetry/privacy CODEOWNER approval. The field is marked
prototype; the protected LLM API signatures (tests/unittest/api_stability) are unchanged.Measured results
DeepSeek-R1-0528-NVFP4-v2 on one GB300 node, DEP4
(attention DP, EP4, CUTLASS MoE) with MTP (3 draft tokens),
cuda_graph_configwith padding up to batch 256 (21 batchsizes). Under attention DP the engine captures greedy and advanced graphs, 42 per rank. Two sets of runs on two nodes; on
each node the arms ran in sequence with the checkpoint in the page cache. Rank 0 (ranks 1-3 within 0.4 s):
cuda_graph_capture, node 1 / node 2sampling_variants: [greedy]runs. With the estimation executor's capture, a startup that estimates the KV cache saves about 30 s here.
(estimated, not measured here).
through
TLLM_AUTOTUNER_CACHE_PATH, already decode different greedy tokens for 7 of the 8 prompts (from the 2nd to the10th token on). The end-to-end test below checks tokens instead.
Attention DP check
DeepSeek-R1-0528-NVFP4-v2, DEP4 with MTP (3 draft tokens),
batch_sizes: [1, 2, 4, 8]with padding,sampling_variants: [greedy],TRTLLM_FORCE_COMM_METHOD=ALLGATHER; five concurrent requests, one of them attemperature 0.8 / top-p 0.9:
A decode batch with advanced sampling runs eagerly.step hangs or miscounts depends on the communication backend and the shapes; the check keeps every rank on the same
path, which replay assumes.
The measurements and this check used this PR's first commit before the rebases (cd205a1), applied to the touched files of a build of
main 0bdadaa plus #21438, which also changes
cuda_graph_runner.py,graphs.py,runner.pyandmetadata.py(theget_graph_keyhunk was applied by hand there: #21438 adds a second temperature-only flag, whichsampling_variant()then reads too). The later commits (5a1ff25 to 82f7faf) do not change the
[greedy]path measured here. Thegreedy-unlisted path under attention DP has not been run on multiple GPUs.Test Coverage
tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py(new; runs in the pre-merge H100PyTorch stage through
unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic): Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with an Eagle3 one-model draft,engines with
sampling_variants=["greedy"]and["advanced"], counting CUDA graph replays per generate call:["advanced"]replay its graphs without the eager-variant warning and decode the same tokens ason
["greedy"];["greedy"]replays no graph, runs under the once-per-variant warning and returns awell-formed output (its length and token ids). Its tokens are not compared with another engine: in CI
they differed between the
["greedy"]engine and an engine without CUDA graphs.["advanced"]engine logs the eager-variant warning and the test fails.in; it has not been run on a GPU since the rebases onto main 2722406 and 762a8dc. The previous version also compared the
sampled request's tokens with an engine without CUDA graphs; that comparison failed in CI and is replaced by the
replay count.
sampling_variantserror: an empty, repeated, unknown or hyphenated variant; no speculative config; NGram; and
temperature_onlywithEagle3, with MTP on one GPU, under attention DP, with relaxed acceptance, with penalties and with rejection sampling.
Accepted:
AUTOwith[greedy], MTP with[greedy], MTP under attention DP with[advanced], MTP with TP2 and[greedy, temperature_only]or[temperature_only], MTP with TP2 and penalties with[advanced], Eagle3 with thedict form, and DraftTarget (a one-engine mode) with
[greedy]. The twotemperature_onlylists then also need amodel with the spec-decode fast paths, or the first capture rejects them. On the branch rebased on main 2722406,
MTP with TP2 and
[greedy, temperature_only]is accepted without awatermark_configand rejected with one.api_stability/test_llm_api.pyandllmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.pypass.tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_group_all_greedy_sync.py,test_capture_sampling_params.py,hw_agnostic/test_ragged_spec_sampler.pyandhw_agnostic/test_sampling_scan_cache.py(their metadata stand-ins gaingreedy_graphs),tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/,tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_cuda_graph_runner.py,tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py::TestTorchLlmArgsCudaGraphSettings,tests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py,tests/unittest/api_stability/test_llm_api.py,tests/unittest/usage/test_llmapi_config_capture.pyandtests/unittest/usage/test_llmapi_config_telemetry_docs.py, with the golden manifest and the serve schemas matchingtheir generators. Their cases that need a GPU are left to the GPU stages.
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