LiLiCorr training - #2342
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The DFlash draft backbone is trained on per-position marginals, so the tokens it proposes are individually plausible yet jointly incoherent. LiLiCorr keeps the top-k candidates per block slot and scores transitions between adjacent candidates as cosine similarities between an `out` and an `in` vector, then commits a path greedily left to right. One network pass produces every vector and the pairwise scores are a batched matmul, so only the walk is sequential. Selected by `dflash_architecture_config.projector_type=lilicorr`, and trained jointly with the backbone on three terms added to the block loss: a softmax over each slot's candidate scores, a hinge on the same scores, and a distractor penalty weighted by the target's own logit gap. The weights are absolute with no outer multiplier, so `loss == origin_loss + lilicorr_loss` holds exactly. `_compute_loss` gains `draft_hidden`, `target_hidden` and `target_logits` so a variant can consume them without changing base DFlash numerics. Export writes the z-lab drafter format with `architectures: ["LiLiCorrDraftModel"]` and every geometry field the serving loader rebuilds the head from -- including `lilicorr_logit_scale` and `lilicorr_vector_eps`, which change the score without changing any tensor shape, so a guessed default would load cleanly and score a different function. Requires online training: the distractor penalty reads the target's logits. Training and export only; the serving path is not in this repository. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
Covers the head's geometry and the pieces that fail silently rather than loudly: the absolute-weight identity `loss == origin_loss + lilicorr_loss`, the greedy path decode against a reference walk, and that the exported config carries every geometry field the serving loader needs. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
`modelopt_recipes/general/speculative_decoding/lilicorr.yaml` is the `base` variant (`w_ce=0.25`, `w_margin=0`, `w_pen=0.25`), plus a Qwen3-8B online launcher example. `data.mode: online` is required rather than preferred: the distractor penalty reads the target model's logits. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
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…r hook Same exemption the DFlash and DSpark plugins already carry. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
…g, and a DDP hang fix Three independent improvements to DFlash training, none specific to any projector_type: all three apply to dflash, domino, dspark and dflash2 alike. 1. `dflash_fp32_master_weights` (default False). Keeps the draft's parameters in fp32 while training under bf16 autocast -- classic mixed precision with fp32 master weights. Matmuls still run in bf16, so the cost is memory, not speed. The parameter dtype decides the OPTIMIZER's dtype, because AdamW allocates its moments with `zeros_like(p)`, and that is where bf16 hurts most. Adam's second moment `v` is a running average of the squared gradient. At beta2=0.999 a single step can change `v` by at most 0.1%, but the smallest change bf16 can represent near `v` is about 0.4%. Every decrease rounds back to the same number, so `v` can only grow, and since the update is divided by `sqrt(v)` the effective step size only shrinks -- from step 1, at any learning rate. The promotion is placed after the base-dtype match (which is also what moves the module to the right device) and necessarily before the Trainer builds the optimizer. Only the draft is promoted; the frozen base keeps its dtype, since it has no trainable parameters and no optimizer state. Whether the promotion actually happened is logged rather than assumed. ⓘ h-guo18 has the same change in flight on `haoguo/dflash-fp32-master-weights` with the same field name and the same placement, plus an HF-format-resume fix this commit does not have. The field name is shared deliberately so that there is only ever one knob rather than two spellings of it, and both default to off. Whichever lands first, this PR can be rebased onto it. 2. Activation checkpointing now reaches the draft. `PreTrainedModel._set_gradient_checkpointing` walks `self.modules()` and flips the flag on every module declaring a `gradient_checkpointing` attribute. `DFlashModule` declared none, so `training.gradient_checkpointing` landed only on the frozen target -- which runs under `no_grad`, stores no activations, and so reported the feature as enabled while saving nothing. The draft is the only trainable part of a DFlash setup, so it is the only part where checkpointing does anything. Recompute is mathematically neutral and gradients are bit-identical with the flag on and off, but it trades step time for memory, so a run using it is not step-time-comparable with one that does not. The default checkpoint function is non-reentrant, unlike HuggingFace's default, because the reentrant implementation loses track of unused parameters and can hang under `ddp_find_unused_parameters=True`. 3. A DDP hang at scale. The draft's non-persistent rotary `inv_freq` buffer was created on its first forward, and the DFlash forward returns early -- without running the draft -- for a rank whose batch has no valid anchor. That rank ends the step one buffer short, and `broadcast_buffers` then coalesces buffer lists of differing flattened size across ranks, which hangs rather than raising. Building the buffer during `modify()` makes every rank's buffer list identical for the whole run. Numerically inert: `inv_freq` is a pure function of the config and, being non-persistent, is absent from the state dict either way. Kept inside the existing non-meta guard so the meta-device path the laziness exists for still defers. Rank-count probabilistic, so single-node runs never see it. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
The published results for these recipes were trained with fp32 master weights for the draft. Leaving the flag off would ship a recipe whose optimizer arithmetic differs from the one the numbers came from, so it is set here rather than left to the reader. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
DEPENDS ON THE DFLASH2 BRANCH. The convolution class is not reimplemented here: this commit imports `DFlashGroupedConv` from `modeling_dflash2`, which exists only on `haoguo/dflash2-support` and is not yet in `main`. Importing rather than copying is deliberate -- it is the only way the two variants cannot drift apart arithmetically -- but it does mean the convolutions in this commit CANNOT RUN until that branch merges. So the import is DEFERRED into `_install_sublayer_convs` instead of taken at module scope. Everything else in this PR, including the plain LiLiCorr reranker, has no DFlash2 dependency at all and works on `main` today; an eager import would have made the whole plugin unimportable for the sake of one optional feature. Asking for the convolutions without DFlash2 present raises an ImportError naming the two config keys to remove, rather than failing at import time or, worse, building a draft whose convolutions never run. Also carried, for the same reason: `1419d47e`, the no-op sublayer seam. Without it `DFlashDecoderLayer.forward` never calls the wrappers this commit installs, so the convolution modules would be built, counted and exported while computing nothing. Selected by putting `conv_kernel_size` and `conv_group_size` in `dflash_architecture_config`. They are optional -- unlike DFlash2, which requires them -- but all-or-nothing: one alone is rejected, because it would otherwise build a draft with no convolutions and say nothing. The init is the one deliberate difference from DFlash2. `kernel_projection` is zero by default, and `base_kernel` is identity at tap 0, so the wrapper is an exact identity at step 0 and a conv run begins as the plain reranker. DFlash2 draws the same projection from `normal_(0, initializer_range)`. `conv_projection_init_std` is a separate key because `initializer_range` also seeds the reranker. Export emits the two geometry keys. Without them the serving loader defaults both to 0, builds no convolution modules and then drops all 20 conv tensors in silence, so the draft would serve as its conv-free parent at a believable acceptance length. The geometry is read off the built modules rather than the config dict, so what is written always describes the tensors beside it. Recipe: modelopt_recipes/general/speculative_decoding/lilicorr_conv.yaml. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
Cherry-picked from h-guo18's `haoguo/dflash2-support`, where this fix currently sits behind an unmerged feature branch. Authorship is preserved. It is carried here because it is an independent bug fix that the LiLiCorr recipes in this PR need in order to train a correct draft, and because it applies to every DFlash variant rather than only to DFlash2. A Transformers 5 config can carry BOTH a top-level rope_theta and a rope_parameters dict holding a different value: the real base lives in rope_parameters while the config class default (10000.0 for Qwen3) stays visible as the flat attribute. Reading the flat field first therefore picked up 10000.0 for a Qwen3-8B target whose actual base is 1000000. DFlash injects the target's KV into every draft layer, so a draft built this way trains, exports and loads without complaint while its RoPE base is 100x off the target's. Prefer rope_parameters in both the exporter's _get_rope_theta and the training-side enforcement in HFDFlashModel.modify, and keep the draft's own rope_parameters dict in sync with the flat field it is derived from. This is h-guo18's work and belongs to their branch; it is carried here only so that this PR stands on its own. If that branch lands first, this commit can be dropped and the PR rebased onto it. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
…t layer DFlash2 wraps every attention and MLP sublayer in a grouped dynamic convolution. Give DFlashDecoderLayer a prepare()/finish() seam around each sublayer so a variant can transform the sublayer's input and output without the layer's forward growing a branch. The default wrapper is a parameterless no-op, so DFlash, Domino and DSpark drafts keep their exact numerics and state_dict contents. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com> Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds LiLiCorr speculative decoding with candidate-lattice reranking, configurable objectives, export metadata, grouped convolutions, FP32 master weights, activation checkpointing, training recipes, launcher configuration, and unit tests. ChangesLiLiCorr speculative decoding
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to LiLiCorr training can report slot and gap diagnostics for blocks that do not contribute to optimization, while a required test dependency can fail only during execution. These are localized issues that should be corrected before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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HFLiLiCorrModel->>LiLiCorrModule: compute lattice loss and metrics
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279-280: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winFold the origin metrics into the single stacked readback.
float(origin_loss.detach())forces a device-to-host sync per step, andfloat(origin_accuracy)adds a second one when it is a tensor. Lines 452-454 already batch every other scalar into onetolist(), and the docstring at line 299 states a single sync.Pass both tensors through
_compute_lilicorr_loss's stacked readback, or stack them with it here, so the step keeps one sync.As per coding guidelines: "Avoid Python scalar extraction and operators such as
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In `@CHANGELOG.rst`:
- Around line 35-39: Rewrite the five changelog bullets for external users,
limiting each to one or two concise sentences. Retain only the user-visible
feature or fix and any required configuration, training, export, or serving
action; remove internal loss mechanics, initialization details, implementation
specifics, and root-cause analysis while preserving the relevant configuration
names and recipe references.
- Line 38: Classify the DDP hang entry according to its release history: move it
to the Bug Fixes section if it addresses a prior-release or known bug, otherwise
remove it from the changelog when introduced and fixed within the same
unreleased cycle.
In `@modelopt/torch/speculative/config.py`:
- Around line 301-302: Update the dflash_lilicorr_w_ce field definition to
reject NaN and positive or negative infinity by configuring its Pydantic field
constraints with allow_inf_nan=False, while preserving the existing default and
type.
In `@modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_lilicorr.py`:
- Around line 400-401: Update the runner-up score logic near z_runner_up and
gap_slots so candidate_topk == 1 produces a zero gap instead of using the finfo
sentinel; preserve the existing runner-up calculation and gap behavior when
competing candidates exist, ensuring downstream lilicorr_gap_mean and
lilicorr_gap_frac_hit remain finite.
In `@tools/launcher/examples/Qwen/Qwen3-8B/hf_online_lilicorr.yaml`:
- Line 78: Add the required MLM_MODEL_CFG and QUANT_CFG entries under
task_1.environment in the launcher configuration, setting MLM_MODEL_CFG to the
model’s Hugging Face repository ID and QUANT_CFG to the appropriate quantization
configuration.
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In `@modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_lilicorr.py`:
- Around line 279-280: Update the origin metric handling around
_compute_lilicorr_loss so origin_loss and origin_accuracy are included in the
existing stacked tensor readback and converted to Python values through the
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- dflash_fp32_master_weights: change default to True. The flag is worth
7-14% acceptance length and should be on by default; users who need to
reduce optimizer memory can set it to False explicitly. Description
updated to match.
- dflash_lilicorr_w_{ce,margin,pen} / dflash_lilicorr_margin: add
allow_inf_nan=False so Pydantic rejects NaN and +/-inf before they
can reach the training loss.
- Guard candidate_topk==1 in gap_slots: previously the scatter buried
the only entry and z_runner_up became finfo.min, producing a gap of
~3.4e38 and overflowing lilicorr_gap_mean/frac_hit to +inf. Return
zeros_like(z_gt) when there is no competing candidate.
- Batch origin_loss / origin_accuracy into one device-to-host sync
(torch.stack + tolist) instead of two per-step float() calls.
- CHANGELOG: trim speculative-decoding bullets to one or two external-
user sentences each. Move the DDP hang fix (pre-existing bug in main)
to the Bug Fixes section of the current unreleased cycle.
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608-609: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse the training supervision mask for slot diagnostics.
supervised_weightomitsvalid_block, unlike the loss mask at Lines 413-415. A partial trailing block can have a forced prefix because target IDs are clamped, then contribute tolilicorr_slot_acc,lilicorr_gap_mean, andlilicorr_gap_frac_hiteven though training excludes that block. Multiply this weight byvalid_blockto keep diagnostics aligned with the objective.Proposed fix
- supervised_weight = forced_prefix.reshape(bsz, n_blocks, num_slots).float() + supervised_weight = ( + forced_prefix.reshape(bsz, n_blocks, num_slots).float() + * valid_block.reshape(bsz, n_blocks, 1).float() + )🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 404-406: Update the margin-objective calculation in the topk
handling and hinge logic so candidate_topk == 1 leaves lilicorr_margin at zero
and does not add dflash_lilicorr_margin for supervised slots. Apply the margin
hinge only when topk > 1, while preserving the existing gap computation for
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In `@modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_lilicorr.py`:
- Around line 608-609: Update the supervised_weight calculation used by
lilicorr_slot_acc, lilicorr_gap_mean, and lilicorr_gap_frac_hit to multiply the
reshaped forced_prefix mask by valid_block, matching the training loss mask.
Keep supervised_count derived from this validity-filtered weight so partial
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When topk == 1 gap is zero, so relu(margin - 0) fires at full strength for every supervised slot, adding a constant to the loss with no gradient reaching any parameter. Gate the margin block on topk > 1 so lilicorr_margin stays zero for this geometry. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
…pointing Make DFlashDecoderLayer inherit GradientCheckpointingLayer instead of declaring gradient_checkpointing attributes on DFlashModule and duck-typing on PreTrainedModel._set_gradient_checkpointing. GradientCheckpointingLayer is the supported public contract for this: _set_gradient_checkpointing reaches the draft layers directly via isinstance check, and each layer's __call__ handles the checkpoint branch internally. The two manual attributes, the if/else in DFlashModule.forward, and the now-unused functools / torch.utils.checkpoint imports all come out. Net -28 lines. use_reentrant=False is guaranteed in the normal Trainer path by ModelOptTrainer._apply_gradient_checkpointing_defaults, which forces the flag on TrainingArguments before gradient_checkpointing_enable is called. Suggested by h-guo18 in review. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
dflash_fp32_master_weights promotes the draft to fp32 while the frozen target keeps emitting bf16 hidden states. Nothing in this package cast them back: HF Trainer wraps compute_loss in autocast under TrainingArguments.bf16, so training worked, but evaluation, pseudo_speculative_generate and a plain convert() + forward got no wrapper and raised 'expected m1 and m2 to have the same dtype' on the draft's first matmul. With the default now True that reached every dflash, domino and dspark user, and turned 24 unit tests red. The draft now enters the autocast itself, on HFDFlashModel.__call__ so that the variants' forward overrides and the heads they apply after the backbone are all covered, plus explicitly on the two pseudo_speculative_generate paths, which are called directly rather than through __call__. Where the Trainer's autocast is already active this nests with the same device type and dtype and is inert. Verified bitwise, not argued: draft initialisation, the loss under Trainer-style autocast, and every draft gradient after one backward are unchanged for both dflash and lilicorr. The unwrapped forward now returns a loss bit-identical to the autocast one, which is the check that the installed context reproduces the Trainer's rather than merely not raising. Also in this commit, all previously untested: - Tests for fp32 master weights and for draft activation checkpointing. The CHANGELOG claimed both were covered and neither was. The fp32 case asserts AdamW's moment dtypes rather than only the parameters, since the moments are the point of the change, and pins the initialisation parity described below. Checkpointing is asserted to leave draft gradients bit-identical with the flag on and off. - A comment explaining why the dtype move casts through the base model's dtype before promoting, which reads as a redundant round trip and is not. The draft is drawn in fp32; rounding it to bf16 and back leaves a promoted run's initialisation bit-identical to an unpromoted run of the same seed, so a bf16/fp32 pair differs in the precision it trains at and not in the weights it starts from. A test now pins it. - The promotion log no longer prints an empty dtype list when the draft has no trainable parameters. - The field description says where the autocast comes from, and replaces 'the cost is memory, not speed' with the DDP all-reduce caveat: fp32 parameters mean fp32 gradients, so the gradient all-reduce moves twice the bytes a bf16 draft would. - ruff format on hf_lilicorr.py, unformatted since de514d7. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
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608-609: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winMask partial blocks in slot and gap diagnostics. When
loss_maskmasks the tail of a padded divisible sequence,valid_blockexcludes that partial block from the LiLiCorr loss._lattice_metricsdoes not applyvalid_blocktoslot_weightorsupervised_weight, so slot and gap metrics include it. The inherited forward rejects non-divisible sequence lengths, but masked tails remain reachable. Multiply both metric weights byvalid_blockso diagnostics match the optimized population.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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…esume Follows the review on the previous commit. The dtype is now chosen once instead of casting the draft to the base model's dtype and immediately promoting it back. The round trip left the initialisation carrying bf16 mantissas; a promoted run now keeps the full fp32 initialisation, and both arms of a bf16/fp32 pair still see the same draw at the precision each trains in. The empty-set logging case goes with the branch. The flag also did nothing after a resume. modify() runs under from_pretrained with the base still on meta, so it skipped the dtype move, the device move and the eager rotary buffer alike: a resumed run kept whatever dtype the checkpoint loaded at, AdamW allocated its moments to match, and dflash_fp32_master_weights was inert for the rest of the run. The rotary half of this is the DDP hang raised in review; it shares the guard, so it is fixed here rather than left as a TODO. The three are extracted into _place_draft and re-applied by restore_draft_precision once the weights are loaded. restore_draft_precision also reads the draft's tensors back out of the checkpoint at the dtype they were saved in: checkpoints store the draft in fp32 while the base is bf16, and from_pretrained(dtype="auto") gives every tensor one dtype, so the stored precision is otherwise dropped on load. examples/speculative_decoding/main.py calls it before the Trainer is built, the last point that can still decide the moment dtype. Verified bitwise against the pre-review tree for both dflash and lilicorr: the loss under Trainer-style autocast and every draft gradient are identical, and only the initialisation moves, by less than bf16 resolution, which is the first change above. Also from review: - _compute_loss takes base_outputs instead of HFDFlashModel.forward publishing target_hidden and target_logits onto the instance. The container already holds both, so a variant needing a third tensor adds a field rather than a parameter, and the uninitialised-attribute and silent-typo failure modes go away. Any out-of-tree override of _compute_loss needs base_outputs=None added to its signature. - The activation-checkpointing comment moves to the DFlashModule docstring. - _lattice_metrics weights the slot and gap diagnostics by valid_block, so they cover the population the loss does. A masked trailing block can hold a forced prefix and was being averaged in. Diagnostics only. - GradientCheckpointingLayer is imported at module scope in the test. - A test that a resumed model comes back with fp32 parameters, fp32 Adam moments and its stored weights intact. - The LiLiCorr overfit test compares a five-step mean at each end over forty steps instead of two endpoints over fifteen. The forward draws its own masks, so the endpoint form read noise as much as signal. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
…ack to off Splits the fp32 work per review. The resume fix stays, because without it a resumed run silently loses the feature. The autocast change moves to a follow-up, because the paths it repairs are not exercised by any shipped recipe and it touches every dflash variant. dflash_fp32_master_weights defaults to False again, so existing dflash, domino and dspark recipes are unaffected. Both LiLiCorr recipes set it to true, which is the arithmetic their published results were trained with. The field description now states the requirement the flag carries: a bf16 autocast around the forward, which HF Trainer supplies under TrainingArguments.bf16. Paths outside the Trainer -- evaluation, pseudo_speculative_generate, a plain convert() and forward -- need the caller to supply it, and no shipped recipe exercises those (estimate_ar: false, do_eval: false). What is fixed here: - The draft dtype is chosen once rather than cast to the base model's dtype and promoted back. The round trip left the initialisation carrying bf16 mantissas; a promoted run now keeps the full fp32 initialisation, and both arms of a bf16/fp32 pair still see the same draw at the precision each trains in. - The flag did nothing after a resume. modify() runs under from_pretrained with the base still on meta, so it skipped the dtype move, the device move and the eager rotary buffer alike: a resumed run kept whatever dtype the checkpoint loaded at, AdamW allocated its moments to match, and the flag was inert for the rest of the run. The rotary half of this is the DDP hang raised in review; it shares the guard, so it is fixed rather than deferred. The three are extracted into _place_draft and re-applied by restore_draft_precision once the weights are loaded, which also reads the draft's tensors back out of the checkpoint at the dtype they were saved in -- checkpoints store the draft in fp32 while the base is bf16, and from_pretrained(dtype="auto") gives every tensor one dtype, so the stored precision is otherwise dropped on load. It goes through read_safetensors_subset and weight_map_for so only the draft's tensors are read, rather than materialising whole shards on every rank. examples/speculative_decoding/main.py calls it before the Trainer is built, the last point that can still decide the moment dtype. Verified bitwise against the pre-review tree for both dflash and lilicorr: the loss under Trainer-style autocast and every draft gradient are identical; only the initialisation moves, by less than bf16 resolution, which is the first item above. Also from review: - _compute_loss takes base_outputs instead of HFDFlashModel.forward publishing target_hidden and target_logits onto the instance. The container already holds both, so a variant needing a third tensor adds a field rather than a parameter. Any out-of-tree override of _compute_loss needs base_outputs=None added to its signature. - _lattice_metrics weights the slot and gap diagnostics by valid_block, so they cover the population the loss does. A masked trailing block can hold a forced prefix and was being averaged in. Diagnostics only. - Comment trims in hf_spec_export.py, modeling_dflash.py and hf_dflash.py, and GradientCheckpointingLayer imported at module scope in the test. - Tests for fp32 master weights and for draft activation checkpointing, neither of which had any. The fp32 case asserts AdamW's moment dtypes rather than only the parameters, since the moments are the point of the change, and covers the resume path. The forwards there wrap themselves in torch.autocast, mirroring what the Trainer does. - The LiLiCorr overfit test compares a five-step mean at each end over forty steps instead of two endpoints over fifteen. The forward draws its own masks, so the endpoint form read noise as much as signal. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
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| if not hasattr(base_config, attr): | ||
| if attr in base_rope_params: | ||
| base_val = base_rope_params[attr] | ||
| elif hasattr(base_config, attr): | ||
| base_val = getattr(base_config, attr) | ||
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] Reading rope_type / rope_interleaved out of base_rope_params newly propagates the target's scaling family into the draft, which the comment 12 lines above says is deliberately not inherited.
What changes. Before this PR the loop only copied an attr when hasattr(base_config, attr) was true. On Transformers 5, PretrainedConfig exposes flat back-compat aliases for rope_theta / rope_scaling but not for rope_type, so rope_type was effectively never copied. Now rope_type is read from rope_parameters, where it is always present, and then written both onto self.dflash_config (line 450) and into the draft's own rope_parameters dict (line 456).
Why it matters. For a plain Qwen3 target this is harmless (rope_type == "default"). For any target with a non-default RoPE family it is not:
- Llama-3.1:
rope_parameters = {"rope_type": "llama3", "factor": 8.0, "low_freq_factor": …, "high_freq_factor": …, "original_max_position_embeddings": 8192, "rope_theta": 500000.0} - a YaRN long-context config:
{"rope_type": "yarn", "factor": 4.0, "original_max_position_embeddings": …, "rope_theta": …}
Only rope_type and rope_theta get copied — the companion fields do not. The draft's rope_parameters ends up {"rope_type": "llama3", "rope_theta": 500000.0}, and Qwen3RotaryEmbedding then dispatches to ROPE_INIT_FUNCTIONS["llama3"], which reads config.rope_parameters["factor"] and raises KeyError. Because _place_draft now calls _maybe_init_rotary_emb eagerly, this fails inside mtsp.convert() rather than at first forward — so it turns a previously-working conversion into a hard failure for those targets. Where a scaling function tolerates the missing keys, the outcome is worse: a silently mis-scaled draft rotary.
This is separable from the actual bug the commit fixes, which is only about rope_theta living in the dict.
Suggested fix. Restrict the dict lookup to rope_theta, and leave the other two on their previous flat-attribute path:
for attr in ("rope_theta", "rope_type", "rope_interleaved"):
# Only rope_theta is read from rope_parameters: the dict also carries the
# target's scaling family and its parameters, and copying rope_type without
# them would build a rotary the draft has no fields for.
if attr == "rope_theta" and attr in base_rope_params:
base_val = base_rope_params[attr]
elif hasattr(base_config, attr):
base_val = getattr(base_config, attr)
else:
continueIf inheriting the family really is wanted, it has to be the whole rope_parameters dict, not two keys of it — and that contradicts the comment at lines 422-424.
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Confirmed both directions by running mtsp.convert() against three target configs on this branch and on the PR base: a llama3- or yarn-scaled target converts on the base and raises KeyError: 'factor' here.
Root cause is a little broader than the comment suggests: on Transformers 5 the flat rope_theta
attribute does not exist either, which is the bug the commit was written for. Moving to the dict
fixed rope_theta and swept up rope_type as collateral. Fixed as you suggested: the dict lookup is restricted to rope_theta, with a comment naming the constraint. Both scaled targets now convert, rope_theta still propagates (1000000.0 for a Qwen3 target), and it is bitwise identical to the previous commit on draft initialisation, loss and gradients, since for a default-rope target nothing changes.
| draft_dtype = torch.float32 if self.dflash_fp32_master_weights else self._base_model.dtype | ||
| self.dflash_module.to(device=base_device, dtype=draft_dtype) |
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[IMPORTANT Compatibility] dflash_fp32_master_weights makes the non-Trainer paths raise an opaque dtype error rather than degrade — worth a guard rather than only a docstring.
The config description says these paths "currently need the caller to supply" the autocast. In practice no caller does, and the failure is not a precision regression but a hard crash: with the draft in fp32 and the frozen base in bf16, self.fc(target_hidden) in DFlashModule.forward hits F.linear with an fp32 weight and a bf16 input and raises RuntimeError: expected m1 and m2 to have the same dtype.
The reason a bf16 TrainingArguments does not cover it: Accelerate wraps only model.forward in the autocast context (prepare_model rebinds forward). pseudo_speculative_generate is a separate method called directly from EagleTrainingPlot.on_log, so it runs outside that wrapper. So dflash_fp32_master_weights: true + estimate_ar: true trains fine and then dies at the first ar_validate_steps boundary — potentially an hour in, on a multi-node job. The shipped recipes set estimate_ar: false and do_eval: false, so the documented path is safe, but nothing stops a user flipping one line.
Two options, either is fine:
- Wrap the draft call in
pseudo_speculative_generate(and the eval forward) in an autocast when the flag is on — this is the follow-up already described in the PR body:
draft_ctx = (
torch.autocast(device_type=device.type, dtype=self._base_model.dtype)
if self.dflash_fp32_master_weights
else contextlib.nullcontext()
)
with draft_ctx:
hidden = self.dflash_module(...)- If that is genuinely out of scope for this PR, fail loudly at the boundary instead — raise in
pseudo_speculative_generatewhenself.dflash_fp32_master_weightsis set and no autocast is active (torch.is_autocast_enabled()), naming the flag andestimate_ar. A clear message at the first call beats a matmul dtype error.
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Taking option 2. The autocast itself is deliberately held for a follow-up, so a loud failure at the
boundary is the right thing here. The EagleTrainingPlot.on_log path is missed. Both pseudo_speculative_generate paths now check before the draft call and raise naming dflash_fp32_master_weights, estimate_ar and the autocast to wrap in. One correction to the snippet: torch.is_autocast_enabled() with no argument reports CUDA, so it returns False inside a CPU autocast and the guard would fire spuriously. The check passes device.type.
| def _init_head_weights(self, config): | ||
| """Initialize the head's Linear layers to the draft's own convention.""" | ||
| std = getattr(config, "initializer_range", 0.02) | ||
| for module in self.lilicorr.modules(): | ||
| if isinstance(module, nn.Linear): | ||
| nn.init.normal_(module.weight, mean=0.0, std=std) | ||
| if module.bias is not None: | ||
| nn.init.zeros_(module.bias) |
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[SUGGESTION] _init_head_weights misses the lattice attention's QKV projection, so the head is not actually initialized to "the draft's own convention" as __init__ claims.
nn.MultiheadAttention keeps its fused QKV projection as a bare in_proj_weight Parameter (plus in_proj_bias), not an nn.Linear. Only out_proj (a NonDynamicallyQuantizableLinear, hence an nn.Linear subclass) is reached by the isinstance filter. So each LiLiCorrLayer.attn keeps PyTorch's xavier_uniform_ on the largest tensor in the layer while its output projection is re-drawn at normal_(std=initializer_range).
Not a correctness bug — xavier is a perfectly reasonable init for QKV, and arguably better than std=0.02 at hidden_size=1024. But it makes the init non-uniform in a way the comment at lines 505-508 ("Re-run the draft's convention over them") says it is not, and it means initializer_range does not actually control most of the head's parameters. Either extend the sweep:
for module in self.lilicorr.modules():
if isinstance(module, nn.MultiheadAttention):
nn.init.normal_(module.in_proj_weight, mean=0.0, std=std)
if module.in_proj_bias is not None:
nn.init.zeros_(module.in_proj_bias)
elif isinstance(module, nn.Linear):
...or say in the docstring that the fused QKV keeps PyTorch's default on purpose. Since the published checkpoints were trained under the current behaviour, documenting it is the lower-risk choice.
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Correct: in_proj_weight is a bare Parameter, so out_proj is the only nn.Linear the sweep
reaches and initializer_range does not control most of the head. Documented rather than changed, for the reason you give: re-initialising it changes the numerics relative to the runs the reported results came from, so it is not something to alter inside this PR. The docstring now says the fused QKV keeps PyTorch's xavier_uniform_.
| # Optional: wrap every draft sublayer in DFlash2's grouped dynamic convolution, | ||
| # installed only when the recipe asks for it, so this module still builds the | ||
| # plain reranker when the two geometry keys are absent. Last in __init__ on | ||
| # purpose -- _init_head_weights above iterates self.lilicorr.modules(), and | ||
| # keeping the convolutions out of its reach is what makes the init below | ||
| # authoritative. | ||
| taps = getattr(config, "conv_kernel_size", None) | ||
| group_size = getattr(config, "conv_group_size", None) | ||
| if taps is not None and group_size is not None: | ||
| self._install_sublayer_convs(config, int(taps), int(group_size)) |
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[SUGGESTION] The stated reason for placing _install_sublayer_convs last is not the real one, which makes the constraint easy to break later.
_init_head_weights iterates self.lilicorr.modules(). The convolutions are installed onto self.layers[*], which is never inside self.lilicorr — so the ordering relative to _init_head_weights is irrelevant, and "keeping the convolutions out of its reach is what makes the init below authoritative" does not hold.
The ordering that does matter is against DFlashModule.__init__, which runs self._init_weights(config) over self.modules() and would re-draw kernel_projection at initializer_range, undoing the deliberate zero-init in _install_sublayer_convs. Since super().__init__(config) is line 465, any placement after it is safe — but the comment should name that constraint so a future reorder does not silently break the exact-identity-at-init property the helper's docstring depends on.
Suggest something like: "Installed after super().__init__, whose _init_weights sweep over self.modules() would otherwise re-draw kernel_projection and destroy the exact identity at init."
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Right, and worth fixing precisely because the property it guards is load-bearing. _init_head_weights iterates self.lilicorr.modules() and the convolutions go onto self.layers, so the two never interact. The comment now names the real constraint: super().__init__, whose _init_weights sweeps self.modules() and would re-draw kernel_projection, destroying the exact identity at init.
| # [batch_blocks * num_heads, S, S] is the layout nn.MultiheadAttention wants. | ||
| return ( | ||
| bias.unsqueeze(0) | ||
| .expand(batch_blocks, -1, -1, -1) | ||
| .reshape(batch_blocks * self.num_heads, bias.shape[-2], bias.shape[-1]) | ||
| ) |
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[SUGGESTION] The expand(...).reshape(...) here materializes a large per-step copy of a tensor that is constant across blocks.
bias is [num_heads, S, S] and genuinely block-independent (the docstring says so: "one bias serves every block and is simply broadcast"). But reshape on an expanded view cannot return a view, so it allocates batch_blocks * num_heads * S * S elements every forward. With the shipped recipe — dflash_num_anchors: 512, lilicorr_num_heads: 8, block_size: 16, lilicorr_candidate_topk: 8, so S = 15 * 8 = 120 — that is 512 × 8 × 120 × 120 ≈ 59 M elements, ~118 MB in bf16, allocated and written once per step purely to satisfy nn.MultiheadAttention's 3-D [bsz * num_heads, L, S] mask contract.
Not a correctness issue, and it is reused across the num_layers layers rather than rebuilt per layer, which is the important part. But if the lattice tower shows up in memory profiling, replacing nn.MultiheadAttention in LiLiCorrLayer with an explicit F.scaled_dot_product_attention would let the bias stay [1, num_heads, S, S] and broadcast, dropping the copy entirely. Worth noting in a comment either way so the allocation is not mistaken for something inherent to the design.
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Arithmetic checks out, and it stays as it is for now. Swapping nn.MultiheadAttention for F.scaled_dot_product_attention changes the numerics, which would put the implementation out of step with the runs the reported results came from, so it is a deliberate hold rather than an oversight. Worth revisiting if the lattice tower shows up in memory profiling.
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Claude review — LiLiCorr training
Scope. Trigger was a bare /claude review, so this is a full pass. 16 files changed (+2868/-28). Reviewed all of modelopt/ (hf_lilicorr.py, modeling_lilicorr.py, hf_dflash.py, modeling_dflash.py, config.py, dflash/conversion.py, plugins/__init__.py, export/plugins/hf_spec_export.py) and examples/speculative_decoding/main.py, plus lilicorr.yaml and the surrounding context in eagle_utils.py / unified_export_hf.py / export_hf_checkpoint.py needed to trace the export and resume paths. Did not open tools/launcher/…/hf_online_lilicorr.yaml, .pre-commit-config.yaml, CHANGELOG.rst, or the test files beyond checking which symbols they exercise — CodeRabbit already commented on the first two and the changelog.
Findings: CRITICAL 0 · IMPORTANT 3 · SUGGESTION 4
What I traced and found correct
The lattice objective checks out end to end. Slot/anchor alignment matches the parent exactly — _block_targets reproduces HFDFlashModel._compute_loss's anchor + arange(block_size) indexing and drops position 0 by slicing rather than by the parent's pos_in_block > 0 mask, which is equivalent; _distractor_penalty's anchor + s for the token at anchor + s + 1 agrees with the KD branch's safe_label_indices - 1. The out/in factor convention lines up in both directions: pair_scores[…, i, j] is slot s candidate i → slot s+1 candidate j, and the wrapper's gather(log_pair[:, slot-1], 1, previous) reads exactly that. Conditioning the chain on gt_indices[:, slot-1] is safe despite argmax returning 0 on a miss, because forced_prefix's cumprod zeroes every slot at or after the first miss. The soft-value channel is the right trick: hard top-k ids under no_grad plus a live logsumexp re-gather is what gets the lattice terms into the drafter body rather than only the head, and it avoids a second vocab-sized backward buffer. _lattice_metrics correctly guards the two degenerate geometries (block_size == 2 → empty pair tensors, candidate_topk == 1 → undefined per-row std).
On composability: _compute_loss is only defined by HFDFlashModel and this subclass — Domino and DSpark have their own forwards — so widening the signature with draft_hidden / base_outputs breaks no override. LiLiCorrDMRegistry keeps HFLiLiCorrModel from shadowing HFDFlashModel, matching the DSpark/Domino pattern. _IdentitySublayerWrapper holds no parameters or buffers, so the sublayer seam adds no state_dict keys and existing DFlash/Domino/DSpark checkpoints still load. All new config fields are additive with defaults, so old modelopt_state deserializes. The DFlash2 import is deferred with a message naming the two keys to remove, and the LiLiCorrModule.required() sweep means a half-specified head fails at convert instead of exporting a differently-scored function. The n_blocks == 0 early return already keeps every draft parameter in the graph via dummy, so the eager rotary build addresses the remaining (buffer-list) half of the DDP problem rather than duplicating it. use_reentrant=False is genuinely forced — modelopt/torch/opt/plugins/transformers.py:606-621 — which is what makes closure-captured target_hidden still receive gradients under GradientCheckpointingLayer.
CodeRabbit's four earlier findings (batched origin-metric sync, topk == 1 gap sentinel, topk == 1 margin hinge, valid_block in the slot diagnostics) are all addressed in the current tree; I re-verified each rather than assuming.
IMPORTANT
1. rope_type is newly propagated from the target's rope_parameters — hf_dflash.py:433-439 (inline). The RoPE-θ fix reads three attrs out of the dict, not one. rope_theta is the bug being fixed; rope_type was previously unreachable (Transformers 5 exposes flat aliases for rope_theta/rope_scaling, not rope_type) and is now always present in the dict. For a Llama-3.1 or YaRN target the draft inherits rope_type: "llama3" / "yarn" without the companion factor / original_max_position_embeddings, so ROPE_INIT_FUNCTIONS[…] raises KeyError — and because _place_draft now builds the rotary eagerly, that fails inside mtsp.convert(). It also directly contradicts the comment 12 lines above ("rope_scaling is intentionally NOT inherited"). Harmless for the Qwen3 targets this PR benchmarks; a hard regression for others.
2. dflash_fp32_master_weights crashes rather than degrades outside the Trainer — hf_dflash.py:571-572 (inline). Accelerate wraps only model.forward in autocast, so pseudo_speculative_generate (called directly from EagleTrainingPlot.on_log) runs without one. fp32 draft weight × bf16 activations is not a precision loss, it is RuntimeError: expected m1 and m2 to have the same dtype — so dflash_fp32_master_weights: true + estimate_ar: true trains happily and then dies at the first ar_validate_steps boundary. The shipped recipes set estimate_ar: false, so the documented path is safe, but a one-line change by a user is not. Either supply the autocast or raise a message naming the flag.
3. The FSDP2 mid-training draft export writes fp32 tensors under a torch_dtype: bfloat16 config. Two export paths exist and only one of them casts. export_hf_checkpoint.py → export_speculative_decoding(dtype=None) is fine: the model was reloaded with dtype="auto", so the draft is already bf16 and config.json agrees. The DFlash callback in examples/speculative_decoding/eagle_utils.py:344-351 is not — it saves the live state dict with no dtype coercion and then writes exporter._export_config(), whose torch_dtype comes from base_config.torch_dtype. With dflash_fp32_master_weights: true (both shipped recipes) the emitted draft is 2× the expected size and its declared dtype disagrees with its tensors. Serving loaders will cast and it will probably work, which is what makes it easy to miss.
The shipped recipes use dp_shard_size: 1 (DDP), so they don't hit this — it needs FSDP2 plus the flag. Simplest fix, in that callback, just before the existing CPU coercion:
# The draft may be in fp32 under dflash_fp32_master_weights while the base — and
# hence the exported config's torch_dtype — is bf16. Match them.
export_dtype = model._base_model.dtype
drafter_sd = {k: v.to(export_dtype) for k, v in drafter_sd.items()}Alternatively, write the draft's real dtype into config["torch_dtype"] instead of casting.
SUGGESTION
_init_head_weightsmissesnn.MultiheadAttention.in_proj_weight— the largest tensor per lattice layer keeps PyTorch'sxavier_uniform_whileout_projis re-drawn atinitializer_range(inline)._install_sublayer_convs's placement comment names the wrong constraint —_init_head_weightsiteratesself.lilicorr.modules()and can never reachself.layers; the real constraint isDFlashModule.__init__'s_init_weightssweep (inline)._attention_bias'sexpand().reshape()materializes ~118 MB per step at the shipped geometry to satisfynn.MultiheadAttention's 3-D mask contract (inline).- The PR description's
convert()usage snippet raisesValueErroras written —LiLiCorrModule.required()demandslilicorr_num_layers,lilicorr_num_heads,lilicorr_mlp_ratio,lilicorr_factor_dim,lilicorr_vector_epsandlilicorr_logit_scale, and the snippet sets onlylilicorr_candidate_topk. The recipe YAML sets all of them correctly; it is just the copy-pasteable snippet that is short. Worth fixing, since it is the first thing a reader tries.
Risk assessment
Moderate, and well contained. The new variant is entirely opt-in behind projector_type: "lilicorr", the three DFlash-wide changes are default-off or behaviour-preserving, and the objective itself is the part I checked hardest and found sound. The two IMPORTANT items worth resolving before merge are #1 (a real regression for non-Qwen3 targets, and separable from the θ fix it rode in on) and #2 (a config combination that fails opaquely mid-run). #3 is narrower — it needs FSDP2 and the flag — but it silently mislabels a shipped artifact, which is the kind of thing that surfaces as a confusing serving bug much later.
Unverifiable from main, as the PR itself flags: DFlashGroupedConv's prepare/finish interface, the taps/group_size attributes LiLiCorrExporter reads off it, and its kernel_projection — all live on haoguo/dflash2-support. The conv_kernel_size/conv_group_size path is therefore unreviewed here beyond its all-or-nothing validation and the deferred-import guard, both of which look right.
…to the draft Reading rope_theta out of rope_parameters also began copying rope_type, which the comment above it says is deliberately not inherited. On Transformers 5 the flat rope_type attribute does not exist, so the previous hasattr() form never copied it; the dict always has it. Only rope_type is copied, not the fields the family needs, so the draft ends up with a rope_parameters the rotary init function cannot use. A llama3 or yarn target raises KeyError: 'factor' -- and since the draft's rotary buffer is now built during modify(), it fails inside mtsp.convert() rather than at first forward. Verified against the PR base: those targets convert there and raise here, so this was a regression rather than a pre-existing limitation. Restricting the dict lookup to rope_theta keeps the fix it was written for and leaves the family alone. Verified bitwise identical to the previous commit on draft initialisation, loss and gradients: for a default-rope target, which is every target the shipped recipes use, nothing changes. Also raise by name when a promoted draft would run without an autocast. dflash_fp32_master_weights needs a bf16 autocast around the forward, and HF Trainer only wraps forward. AR validation reaches the draft through pseudo_speculative_generate, which AcceptanceRateValidation calls directly, so it runs outside that wrapper: with estimate_ar true a run trains normally and then dies at the first ar_validate_steps boundary on a bare F.linear dtype mismatch, possibly hours in. Both generate paths now check first and raise naming dflash_fp32_master_weights, estimate_ar and the autocast. The check passes the device type to torch.is_autocast_enabled, which otherwise reports CUDA and returns False inside a CPU autocast. Two documentation corrections, both about constraints the comments got wrong rather than about the code: - _init_head_weights reaches nn.Linear only. The lattice attention's fused QKV is a bare in_proj_weight parameter on nn.MultiheadAttention rather than a submodule, so it keeps PyTorch's xavier_uniform_ and initializer_range does not reach it. Documented rather than changed: that is the arithmetic the published heads were trained with. - The reason given for installing the sublayer convolutions last was wrong. _init_head_weights iterates self.lilicorr.modules() and the convolutions go onto self.layers, so the two never interact. The constraint that does bind is super().__init__, whose _init_weights sweeps self.modules() and would re-draw kernel_projection, destroying the exact identity at init. Reported by claude[bot] on the PR. Signed-off-by: mrusanovsky <mrusanovsky@nvidia.com>
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What does this PR do?
Type of change: new feature
Adds LiLiCorr, a candidate-lattice reranker for DFlash drafts, as a new
projector_typeon theexisting
dflashmode — plus three DFlash-wide improvements that apply to every variant, and anoptional composition with DFlash2's grouped convolutions.
A DFlash drafter is trained on per-position marginals rather than on the joint block distribution,
so its drafted tokens are individually plausible yet jointly incoherent. LiLiCorr keeps the top-
kcandidates the backbone already produces at each block position, scores transitions between adjacent
candidates with a small two-layer transformer, and commits a path through the lattice greedily.
Serving is unchanged in kind: verify still checks every drafted token against the target, so the
emitted distribution is untouched and only acceptance length moves.
This PR is the training half. It trains the drafters and exports them; the companion PR above is
what serves the resulting checkpoints, and is what the comparison table below was measured through.
What is in the commits
hf_lilicorr.py,modeling_lilicorr.py, conversion routing, config fields, exportdflash,domino,dsparkanddflash2alikeDFlashGroupedConv; see the dependency note belowlilicorr.yamlandlilicorr_conv.yamlmodeling_lilicorr.pyimportsDFlashGroupedConvfrommodeling_dflash2, which today exists onlyon
haoguo/dflash2-support. The class is imported rather than copied on purpose — it is the onlyway the two variants cannot drift apart arithmetically — but the consequence is that the
convolutional recipe cannot run against
mainas it stands.So the import is deferred into
_install_sublayer_convsrather than taken at module scope.Everything else in this PR, including the plain LiLiCorr reranker, has no DFlash2 dependency at all
and works on
maintoday; an eager import would have made the whole plugin unimportable for the sakeof one optional feature. Requesting the convolutions without DFlash2 present raises an
ImportErrornaming the two config keys to remove, rather than failing at import time.
This PR carries two of @h-guo18's commits, with authorship and sign-off preserved. Both are
independent of DFlash2 itself and both are needed here:
1419d47e, the no-op sublayer seam. Without itDFlashDecoderLayer.forwardnever calls thewrappers the convolutions install onto, so the modules would be built, counted and exported while
computing nothing. It is arithmetically an identity on its own.
ba377e7a, the RoPE-θ fix. On Transformers 5 a config carries both a top-levelrope_thetaand arope_parametersdict; the real base lives in the dict while the class default (10,000 for Qwen3)stays visible as the flat attribute. Reading the flat field first builds a draft whose RoPE base is
100× off a Qwen3-8B target's, which trains and exports without complaint. Both the training-side
enforcement and the exporter's
_get_rope_thetaare affected onmaintoday.Both are @h-guo18's work and belong to their branches; they are carried here only so that this PR
stands on its own. If those branches land first, this PR can be rebased onto them and the two
commits dropped, and they can equally be split out now if that is easier to review.
The same applies to
dflash_fp32_master_weights, which is also in flight onhaoguo/dflash-fp32-master-weights. The field name is shared deliberately so that there is onlyever one knob rather than two spellings of it, and both versions default to off. Whichever lands
first, this PR can be rebased onto it.
Usage
Train with the shipped recipe:
Or convert directly:
Results
Six drafters for a Qwen3-8B target, all trained in ModelOpt on one matched contract — the
same corpus, schedule and block geometry for every arm, so no row carries a training advantage.
Training data is NVIDIA's
Nemotron Post-Training Dataset v2
with the multilingual split excluded, generated from the target with thinking disabled;
6 epochs; block size 16 (15 drafted slots, 16 verified); DFlash decay objective at gamma 7;
8 nodes × 8 H100, global batch size 64 (one sequence per device, no gradient accumulation).
All six were then exported and served through SGLang on a single H100 80GB,
tp_size 1, atconcurrency 1, greedy,
fa3, mean of two replicates, with the whole node held exclusive perbenchmark. Speedup is output tokens/s against an autoregressive baseline measured in the same
allocation.
Cells are
acceptance length / speedup-vs-AR; ★ fastest, ☆ second fastest:Against every other approach in the table, LiLiCorr with convolutions is the fastest on all eight
benchmarks. Plain LiLiCorr is the fastest on seven of the eight; the exception is humaneval, a
164-prompt slice, where DFlash2 is ahead by 0.5%.
DFlashis the deliberately head-free control; every head clears it by +7.60% to +21.67% onacceptance, which is the check that a head actually loaded. Reproducing the
LiLiCorr+convcolumnadditionally needs the DFlash2 variant.
Acceptance length is bit-reproducible under greedy decoding and its replicate spread here was 0.00%
on every benchmark; throughput has a ~0.2% floor.
What
dflash_fp32_master_weightsdoes, and what it is worthToday the draft is cast to the frozen base model's dtype — bf16 — before the optimizer is built.
AdamW then allocates its moments with
zeros_like(p), so the optimizer state becomes bf16 too.That is the problem: bf16 has too few mantissa bits to represent the small updates Adam's second
moment accumulates, so those updates round away and the effective step size decays on its own,
independently of the learning-rate schedule.
The flag is standard mixed precision instead: the draft's master weights stay in fp32 while the
matmuls run in bf16. It requires a bf16 autocast around the forward, which HF
Trainersuppliesunder
TrainingArguments.bf16. Paths that do not go through the Trainer — evaluation,pseudo_speculative_generate, a plainconvert()and forward — currently need the caller tosupply it, and no shipped recipe exercises those (
estimate_ar: false,do_eval: false). Makingthe draft supply its own autocast is a follow-up, held back from here on review because it touches
every DFlash variant and wants e2e coverage of the existing recipes.
Compute speed is unchanged. The cost is memory, about 12 bytes per parameter for the weight plus
Adam's two moments instead of 6, plus a doubled gradient all-reduce under DDP, since fp32
parameters mean fp32 gradients. Under FSDP2 that second cost is what
MixedPrecisionPolicy(reduce_dtype=...)exists to control.It is worth 7 to 14 percent of acceptance length, measured at the end of training on gsm8k, and
it helps every projector type:
Every arm in the comparison table above was trained with it on, and both shipped recipes set it
true, so the documented path gets it.It defaults to off, so no existing DFlash, Domino or DSpark run changes behaviour. Both shipped
LiLiCorr recipes set it
true, which is the arithmetic their numbers were trained with. Flippingthe default is a reasonable follow-up once the autocast above is in.
The draft is drawn in fp32 and, under this flag, kept there; an unpromoted run rounds the same draw
to the base model's dtype. So the bf16 and fp32 rows of the table above start from the same
initialization at the precision each trains in, rather than from two different draws. A unit test
pins that.
The flag also survives a resume.
modify()runs underfrom_pretrainedwith the base model stillon meta and cannot place the draft at all, so
restore_draft_precisionre-applies the dtype, thedevice and the rotary buffer once the weights are loaded and before the Trainer builds the
optimizer — the last point that can still decide the Adam moment dtype. It also reloads the draft's
tensors at the dtype they were saved in, since checkpoints store the draft in fp32 while the base is
bf16 and
dtype="auto"gives every tensor one dtype.@h-guo18 has the same field in flight on
haoguo/dflash-fp32-master-weights, plus anHF-format-resume fix this PR does not have. The name is shared deliberately so there is only ever
one knob; whichever lands first, the other should be dropped rather than merged.
Testing
tests/unit/torch/speculative/, including the existing DFlash,Domino, DSpark and Eagle suites. 48 of them are new and cover LiLiCorr specifically: conversion
routing, head geometry, the required-field validation, the three-term objective and its absolute
weights, gradient reach into both the head and the drafter body, and the export contract.
modelopt.recipe.load_recipe.optimizer's moment dtypes rather than only on parameters, since the moments are the point of the
change, and on the initialization described above; activation checkpointing is asserted to leave
draft gradients bit-identical with the flag on and off; and the rotary buffer is asserted present
after
modify()on a real device while still deferred on meta, which is the case the lazinessexisted for.
save_pretrained/from_pretrainedround trip,restore_draft_precisionis asserted to return the draft to fp32 with its stored weights intactand its Adam moments in fp32. Without it the draft comes back in the base dtype with the flag
still set, which is the failure it exists to prevent.
TestDFlashLazyRotaryEmbwas updated rather than left passing: it asserted the rotary buffer doesnot exist after convert, and the DDP fix deliberately changes that on non-meta devices. The
replacement pins the refined invariant in both directions.
fingerprint over draft initialisation, loss and gradients is compared against the pre-review tree
for both
dflashandlilicorr. Loss and gradients are bitwise identical. Initialisationmoves, by less than bf16 resolution, and that is the single-dtype change described above.
Before your PR is "Ready for review"
projector_typeisselected only by config,
dflash_fp32_master_weightsdefaults to off, and theactivation-checkpointing and DDP fixes preserve behaviour. No existing default changes.
CONTRIBUTING.md: ✅ — no new dependencies. Four files carry# Adapted from https://github.com/sgl-project/SpecForge/...headers for the DFlash backbone and loss they derivefrom (Apache-2.0), matching the attribution already on
hf_dflash.pyin this repo. The twocommits described above are @h-guo18's, cherry-picked with authorship and sign-off preserved.
/claude reviewonce opened.Additional Information
The convolutional recipe is the memory worst case: at an 8B target, combined with fp32 master
weights, it may need
training.gradient_checkpointing: trueto fit on 80 GiB, and it fits without at4B. Checkpointing is mathematically neutral — same objective, same data order, same resulting model —
but it trades step time for memory, so a run using it is not step-time-comparable with one that does
not. The recipe header says so.
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