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[TRTLLM-15761][refactor] Parameterize decoder invocation state and separate decoder-only engine state - #19696

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PyTorchModelEngine now passes enable_spec_decode, runtime_draft_len, and is_dummy as invocation state instead of relying on mutable engine fields. Warmup and CUDA graph capture build separate scheduled inputs, and warmup uses configured speculation state. Decoder buffers and decoder-only state are initialized only for engine-fallback runners. CUDA-graph release now includes decoder graphs.

make_scheduled_inputs centralizes ScheduledInputs construction and context-logit aggregation. resolve_draft_len separates draft-length selection and request-buffer updates from update_draft_len. These changes alter internal call signatures and draft-buffer behavior; callers and decoder fallback, pooling, and encoder-decoder paths should remain consistent.

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The PR changes seven unit-test files under tests/unittest/_torch/executor/: engine/test_common.py, engine/test_runners.py, test_breakable_cuda_graph.py, test_distributed_warmup_oom.py, test_eager_workspace_engine.py, test_pytorch_model_engine.py, and test_pytorch_model_engine_warmup.py. Coverage includes scheduled-input construction, explicit dummy and speculation-state propagation, decoder-state preservation on success and failure, warmup OOM handling, engine initialization, warmup and graph-capture state isolation, and draft-length selection and buffer updates.

No changed integration test or test-list file for these behaviors is identified in the supplied change summary. The listed unit tests do not require entries in the integration CI or manual-QA lists. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up because the supplied CI evidence includes failed L0_MergeRequest_PR pipelines (#62504 and #62904); job 76295 itself reported success, and job 75801 was aborted. Test results for individual changed tests are unavailable.

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  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/common.py — Adds make_scheduled_inputs, which carries speculation state and gathers context-logit settings from context requests. Verify both ordinary scheduled execution and requests that mix context-logit settings.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py — Passes invocation state through preparation, graph selection, and forward paths; isolates warmup and capture inputs; and limits decoder-state allocation to engine fallback. Verify serving-state preservation on warmup and capture failures, plus fallback, pooling, and encoder-decoder paths.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/utils.py — Adds resolve_draft_len for static, scheduled, explicit, and permanently disabled speculation cases. Verify request draft buffers and PARD and rejection-sampling layouts remain correct.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/engine/test_common.py — Tests scheduled-input construction and context-logit aggregation. It is a unit test, not an integration CI or manual-QA list entry.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/engine/test_runners.py — Tests decoder fallback propagation of dummy and speculation state, including state preservation on success and failure. It is a unit test, not an integration CI or manual-QA list entry.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_breakable_cuda_graph.py — Updates the decoder callback to accept and check is_dummy. It is a unit test, not an integration CI or manual-QA list entry.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_distributed_warmup_oom.py — Tests warmup error handling through _forward_warmup, including distributed failure and recovery paths. It is a unit test, not an integration CI or manual-QA list entry.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_eager_workspace_engine.py — Checks that dummy calls do not enter the reclaimer’s forward scope. It is a unit test, not an integration CI or manual-QA list entry.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_pytorch_model_engine.py — Adds coverage for engine initialization, decoder-only state allocation, and speculative input preparation. It is a unit test, not an integration CI or manual-QA list entry.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_pytorch_model_engine_warmup.py — Covers explicit warmup state, graph-capture state restoration, and draft-length resolution and buffer behavior. It is a unit test, not an integration CI or manual-QA list entry.

Description

The engine's decoder path read per-call state (enable_spec_decode, runtime_draft_len, is_warmup) from engine fields, so the scheduled-runner contract from #19592 had to write those fields before each call and read the effective draft length back afterwards. Decoder preparation, graph selection and forward now take the speculation state and is_dummy as arguments and return the effective draft length in the result. Warmup and CUDA graph capture build their own inputs and no longer overwrite the engine's serving state. Decoder buffers are allocated in one method, only on engines that fall back to the in-engine decoder.

The second commit removes what would block moving the decoder into its own runner unchanged. Warmup follows the configured is_spec_decode; decoder-only runtime state is gated on the same fallback; scheduled-input construction moves to engine/runners/common.py. With an external drafter, warmup after KV-cache estimation now runs with speculation on as configured, instead of inheriting the flag left by the estimation run.

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  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_pytorch_model_engine.py
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_pytorch_model_engine_warmup.py
  • tests/unittest/_torch/executor/engine/test_common.py
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/ (draft-length schedule, dynamic spec decode, PARD, MTP and Eagle3 with CUDA graphs)
  • tests/integration/defs/llmapi/test_llm_api_pytorch_{bart,t5,whisper}.py

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…olate warmup in place

Decoder preparation and forward steps take speculation state and the dummy flag as arguments and return the effective draft length. Decoder buffers are allocated in one method gated by the engine fallback.

Signed-off-by: Lori Ren <lorir@nvidia.com>
…runner migration

Warmup follows the configured speculation state, and decoder state, graph release and input-copy waits are gated by the engine fallback. Model predicates and scheduled-input construction move to the runners' common module.

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…n state

Replace helper-only tests with full engine construction and per-phase warmup checks; drop duplicate and vacuous cases.

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The engine now passes speculative-decoding and dummy-pass settings through scheduled execution. It adds explicit warmup forwarding and draft-length resolution, and separates decoder state and buffers from runner-owned execution.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Scheduled-input utilities and engine ownership
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/common.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/engine/test_common.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_pytorch_model_engine.py
Runner utilities construct scheduled inputs. Engine initialization and lifecycle handling separate decoder-specific state from runner-owned execution. Tests cover scheduled-input fields and engine-versus-runner ownership.
Draft-length resolution and warmup
tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/utils.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_pytorch_model_engine_warmup.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_distributed_warmup_oom.py
resolve_draft_len selects a draft length and synchronizes request proposal buffers. Warmup and graph-capture calls use explicit speculative settings through _forward_warmup. Tests cover proposal-buffer changes and warmup behavior.
Per-call execution settings
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/engine/test_runners.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_pytorch_model_engine.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_breakable_cuda_graph.py, tests/unittest/_torch/executor/test_eager_workspace_engine.py
Input preparation and decoder execution receive speculative settings, runtime draft length, and dummy status as per-call values. Tests check forwarding, engine-state preservation, fast paths, and dummy-pass handling.

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  participant PyTorchModelEngine
  participant Decoder
  ScheduledInputs->>PyTorchModelEngine: provide speculative settings and draft length
  PyTorchModelEngine->>Decoder: prepare and execute with call-local settings
  Decoder-->>PyTorchModelEngine: return outputs and resolved draft length
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Resolutions:
- model_engine.py (content conflict): main's NVIDIA#19696 moved the engine
  decoder buffers and state into _allocate_decoder_buffers() and
  _init_decoder_state(). Kept main's layout and ported this branch's
  __init__ changes into it:
  - _allocate_decoder_buffers(): no num_accepted_draft_tokens_cuda; this
    branch removes the num_accepted_draft_tokens plumbing, and main adds
    no reader of it.
  - _init_decoder_state(): _staged_previous_batch_indices and
    _staged_previous_pos_indices next to
    _encoder_decoder_staged_request_ids; _step_input_stage next to
    _prepare_inputs_event.
  - _prepare_tp_inputs(): the gather_ids upload stays
    copy_to_device_if_changed, under main's enable_spec_decode argument.
- model_engine.py (semantic): the step-copy selection reads the
  enable_spec_decode argument that NVIDIA#19696 passes to _prepare_tp_inputs,
  not self.enable_spec_decode.
- kv_cache_manager_v2.py (semantic): stage_batch_block_offsets builds its
  copy index as main's copy_batch_block_offsets now does (beam width up
  to max_copy_beam_width, beam 0 replicated for cross KV).
- test_pytorch_model_engine.py (semantic): the staged-step test passes
  _prepare_tp_inputs' keyword-only enable_spec_decode, runtime_draft_len
  and is_dummy arguments.

Signed-off-by: Vasanth Sabavat <vsabavat@nvidia.com>
vsabavat added a commit to vsabavat/TensorRT-LLM that referenced this pull request Oct 8, 2026
This branch carries NVIDIA#19816's content at 546e567. The conflicts and
semantic fixes below are the ones NVIDIA#19816 resolved in its published merges
0c9ab14 (main 70193ec) and 44a06db (main a1f562a), applied to
this branch's copies of those files.

Conflicts:
- model_engine.py: main's NVIDIA#19696 moved the engine decoder buffers and
  state into _allocate_decoder_buffers() and _init_decoder_state(). Kept
  main's layout with this branch's __init__ changes ported into it
  (_staged_previous_batch_indices / _staged_previous_pos_indices next to
  _encoder_decoder_staged_request_ids, _step_input_stage next to
  _prepare_inputs_event, no num_accepted_draft_tokens_cuda). The
  gather_ids upload stays copy_to_device_if_changed, under main's
  enable_spec_decode argument.
- cuda_graph_runner.py: main's NVIDIA#19306 strict-buffer snapshot now follows
  the captured forward directly; the post-capture postprocess_fn call
  stays removed.
- test_cuda_graph_capture_replay.py: both sides' test classes kept.
- l0_b200.yml: both sides appended to the same B200 pre-merge block;
  main's MiniMax-H3 line first, then the Kimi K3 kernel tests.

Semantic fixes:
- model_engine.py: the step-copy selection reads the enable_spec_decode
  argument that NVIDIA#19696 passes to _prepare_tp_inputs.
- kv_cache_manager_v2.py: stage_batch_block_offsets builds its copy index
  as main's copy_batch_block_offsets now does (NVIDIA#17306: beam width up to
  max_copy_beam_width, beam 0 replicated for cross KV).
- test_pytorch_model_engine.py: the staged-step test passes
  _prepare_tp_inputs' keyword-only enable_spec_decode, runtime_draft_len
  and is_dummy arguments.
- test_cuda_graph_capture_replay.py: the postprocess_fn case of main's
  test_replay_rejects_rebound_graph_attr needs the post-capture call and
  is dropped; test_postprocess_fn_follows_only_the_warmup_forwards pins
  that postprocess_fn runs only after the warmup forward.

Also: cpp/tensorrt_llm/kernels/kdaDecode/kdaDecodeLegacy.cu now equals
main's (NVIDIA#19830 is this branch's two __syncwarp() calls).

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Main's NVIDIA#19696 dropped the per-invocation enable_spec_decode term from
_should_use_full_generation_page_table (page-table sizing now depends on
static config only). Carry that into the extracted
uses_full_generation_page_table helper: drop its enable_spec_decode
parameter and update the executor-creator call, which passed a literal
True, so behavior is unchanged on both paths.

Signed-off-by: Brian Nguyen <brnguyen@nvidia.com>
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