### What this PR does / why we need it?
During the prefill phase of Qwen3-Next and Qwen3.5, the
`torch.ops._C_ascend.causal_conv1d_fn` operator exhibits significant
performance bottlenecks. To address this, we have re-implemented the
optimization using `torch.ops._C_ascend.npu_causal_conv1d_custom`.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
no
### How was this patch tested?
1 accuracy test
```
[2026-03-20 16:44:22,961] [ais_bench] [INFO] Start launch task state board ...
+-----------------------------+-----------+------------+-------------+----------+-------------------------------------------+---------------------+
| Task Name | Process | Progress | Time Cost | Status | Log Path | Extend Parameters |
+=============================+===========+============+=============+==========+===========================================+=====================+
| vllm-api-general-chat/gsm8k | 2918978 | NA | 0:00:01 | finish | logs/eval/vllm-api-general-chat/gsm8k.out | None |
+-----------------------------+-----------+------------+-------------+----------+-------------------------------------------+---------------------+
[2026-03-20 16:44:34,284] [ais_bench] [INFO] Evaluation tasks completed.
[2026-03-20 16:44:34,287] [ais_bench] [INFO] Summarizing evaluation results...
dataset version metric mode vllm-api-general-chat
--------- --------- -------- ------ -----------------------
gsm8k 271d0b accuracy gen 96.21
```
2 ut modify test
`pytest -sv
/home/c30006096/vllm-ascend/tests/e2e/nightly/single_node/ops/singlecard_ops/triton/test_causal_conv1d.py::test_ascend_causal_conv1d`
- vLLM version: v0.17.0
- vLLM main:
8b6325758c
Signed-off-by: wenba0 <3054239545@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: jiaojiao <56385650+wenba0@users.noreply.github.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR restores #7029, which adds W8A8C8 support for dsv3.2/glm5 using
the `lightning_indexer_quant` ops in the pd-mix stage.
The original PR was reverted by #7288 because the patch did not work
with the recompute scheduler.
This PR also fixes the patching issue so that it works correctly with
the recompute scheduler.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Yes. To enable LI C8, users need to set the `enable_sparse_c8` option to
`"true"` in `additional_config`.
- vLLM version: v0.17.0
- vLLM main:
4034c3d32e
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Signed-off-by: rjg-lyh <1318825571@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This reverts commit 7ed9e9de69, which
introduces an issue that the patch doesn't work with recompute scheduler
enabled.
- vLLM version: v0.17.0
- vLLM main:
4034c3d32e
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Signed-off-by: MengqingCao <cmq0113@163.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR supports W8A8C8 in dsv3.2/glm5 with lightning_indexer_quant ops
in pd-mix stage mainly.
Because the code for the current PD-disaggregated scenario is still
under refactoring and cleanup, this PR prioritizes ensuring the C8
functionality in the pd-mix scenario.
The next steps are planned in two parts:
① Once the optimized scatter operator is updated, we will replace the
original operator to improve the performance of storing k_scale.
② Once the code logic for the PD-disaggregated scenario becomes stable,
we will carry out more comprehensive validation and make appropriate
adaptations.
③ Because enabling C8 currently introduces several new operators whose
performance still needs improvement, performance may regress in some
scenarios. Therefore, only after all the operators are fully ready can
we ensure that this feature does not cause any performance degradation.
At that point, we will enable this feature by default and remove the
switch in `additional_config`.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No.
### How was this patch tested?
CI passed with new added/existing test.
- vLLM version: v0.16.0
- vLLM main:
4034c3d32e
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Signed-off-by: rjg-lyh <1318825571@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
GMM custom operator optimization in small batch scenarios
### How was this patch tested?
Submit the GMM custom operator for subsequent integration into the MOE
process.
- vLLM version: v0.16.0
- vLLM main:
15d76f74e2
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Signed-off-by: chenxi-hh <chen464822955@163.com>
Signed-off-by: chenxi-hh <32731611+chenxi-hh@users.noreply.github.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
1. New Custom NPU Operation: Introduced npu_gemma_rms_norm in
csrc/torch_binding.cpp to provide optimized Gemma RMS Normalization
support for Ascend NPUs. This function includes logic to handle dynamic
shapes for the gamma tensor.
2. PyTorch Operator Registration: The new npu_gemma_rms_norm operation
has been registered with the PyTorch custom operator library, making it
accessible from Python.
Meta-Implementation for ACLGraph: A corresponding meta-implementation,
npu_gemma_rms_norm_meta, was added in csrc/torch_binding_meta.cpp. This
is crucial for symbolic tracing and allowing the custom kernel to be
captured and optimized by ACLGraph.
3. Python Frontend Integration: The vllm_ascend/ops/layernorm.py file
was updated to utilize the newly added
torch.ops._C_ascend.npu_gemma_rms_norm for Gemma RMS Normalization,
replacing the generic torch_npu.npu_rms_norm
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.14.1
- vLLM main:
dc917cceb8
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Signed-off-by: SunnyLee219 <3294305115@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: LeeWenquan <83354342+SunnyLee151064@users.noreply.github.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR removes the custom `rotary_embedding` operator and its
associated C++ kernel implementation, PyTorch bindings, and tests.
The codebase now falls back to using the native
`torch_npu._npu_rotary_embedding` implementation. This change simplifies
the codebase by removing custom, platform-specific kernel code and
relying on the standard NPU library implementation, which is presumably
more optimized and easier to maintain.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No. This is an internal refactoring and does not introduce any
user-facing changes.
### How was this patch tested?
The tests for the custom `rotary_embedding` operator have been removed
along with the operator itself. The correctness of the fallback to the
native `torch_npu` implementation is verified by existing CI tests for
attention layers and models that use rotary embeddings.
- vLLM version: v0.15.0
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.15.0
Signed-off-by: wangxiyuan <wangxiyuan1007@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
As #2947 describe, we need to transpose kv cache layout after GQA kv
transfer when prefill and decode tensor parallel size are heterogeneous,
in the previous implementation, we use `npu_paged_cache_load ` +
`tranpose` + `_npu_reshape_and_cache` to do this work.
But obviously, it is not an efficient plan, the ops above need to be
called for each layer, which introduces 3 * layer_num kernel launch, and
6 * layer_num data movement between L1 Cache and HBM for one request on
decode node. Usually, decode node uses graph mode, so these op kernels
will be called between decode forward launched by an async thread in
mooncacke connector, this kernels maybe last for several decode forward
and TTFT will increase by 3~4 decode forward time.
In this PR, we implement an AscendC fused op
`transpose_kv_cache_by_block` to do this with only once kernel launch
and move data between L1 Cache and HBM only once.
After using this fused op, the time cost in transpose kv cacke layout
can be decreased to 0.24ms from 7ms in UT on 910C, and in PD
disaggregation scenario, TTFT can decrease about 90 ~ 110 ms in
qwen3-235B.
| request_num | original | fused_op|
|:----------------------:|:---------------:|:-------------------:|
| 1 | 643 ms | 578 ms |
| 128 | 1480 ms | 1368 ms |
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Use fused op by default, incase the op has bug in any scenario, provide
fallback choice using env to disable it.
**DISABLE fused op by add following env**
`export VLLM_ASCEND_FUSION_OP_TRANSPOSE_KV_CACHE_BY_BLOCK=0`
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.14.1
- vLLM main:
dc917cceb8
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Signed-off-by: lidenghui <lidenghui1110@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Add New Output for Expert Token Count
An additional output tensor expert_token_nums is added to both operators
to meet the requirement of tracking token distribution among experts:
Tensor Name: expert_token_nums
Dimension: 1D tensor
Shape: (local_expert_num,)
Data Type: int32
Semantics: Represents the number of tokens actually received by each
expert on the current card.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.14.1
- vLLM main:
dc917cceb8
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Signed-off-by: guanguan0308 <1546542263@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: guanguan0308 <162653673+guanguan0308@users.noreply.github.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR is to replace addRmsNorm and Add With addRmsNormBias. This way
can lead to a more effecient result.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No
### How was this patch tested?
Full Test Pass
- vLLM version: v0.13.0
- vLLM main:
2f4e6548ef
Signed-off-by: Chen_HaoWen <chenhaowen12@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: Chen_HaoWen <chenhaowen12@huawei.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
To support tensorList for dispatch_ffn_combine, to adjust eplb
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
N/A
### How was this patch tested?
Single Operator Testing
- vLLM version: v0.13.0
- vLLM main:
2f4e6548ef
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Signed-off-by: lhchg <lhao_cheng@163.com>
Co-authored-by: lihaocheng <lihaosheng1@h-partners.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
1.replace moe_gating_top_k from torch_npu with custom op
2.enable the renorm function of moe_gating_top_k in softmax scenerio
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No
### How was this patch tested?
No need test
- vLLM version: v0.13.0
- vLLM main:
7157596103
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Signed-off-by: ZCG12345 <2097562023@qq.com>
#### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR adapt DispatchGmmCombineDecode operator to eplb tensor list and
expert token numbers.
This operator support gmm1, gmm2, gmm1Scale and gmm2Scale in format of
list.
This operator support couting how many token each local expert recieves
by expertTokensNum .
- vLLM version: v0.13.0
- vLLM main:
7157596103
More info about this operator, please refer to RFC: issue
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/5476
1. What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR supports the moe_gating_top_k operator, which enables
post-positioned renormalization (renorm) on the basis of softmax.
2. Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
No user-facing changes are required.
3. How was this patch tested?
This patch was tested with the test_npu_moe_gating_top_k test case.
vLLM version: release/v0.13.0
vLLM main:
ad32e3e19c
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Signed-off-by: ZCG12345 <2097562023@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: zzzzwwjj <34335947+zzzzwwjj@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: zzzzwwjj <34335947+zzzzwwjj@users.noreply.github.com>
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This pull request introduces a new custom operator
`aclnnMoeInitRoutingCustom` for Mixture-of-Experts models.
It can be replaced by `aclnnMoeInitRoutingV3` once CANN 8.5 becomes
available.
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Signed-off-by: jiazhengyi <jiazhengyi@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Chenxi Qian <chenxi.qian.cq@outlook.com>
Co-authored-by: jiazhengyi <jiazhengyi@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: Chenxi Qian <chenxi.qian.cq@outlook.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
In this PR, DispatchGmmCombineDecode add an optional input
x_active_mask, with which
only token masked True will be dispatched and handle.
- vLLM version: v0.12.0
- vLLM main:
ad32e3e19c
Signed-off-by: wangqiankun <wangqiankun13@huawei.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR adds mlapo operation support for bf16 no_quant mode.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
This PR makes quant related parameters optional.
### How was this patch tested?
CI passed with new added/existing test.
- vLLM version: v0.12.0
- vLLM main:
ad32e3e19c
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Signed-off-by: chenjunyi <isjunyi.chen@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR adds mlapo operation support qdown of output.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
mlapo operation add enable_inner_out of input
### How was this patch tested?
CI passed with new added/existing test.
- vLLM version: v0.12.0
- vLLM main:
ad32e3e19c
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Signed-off-by: h1074112368 <h1074112368@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: wangxiyuan <wangxiyuan1007@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR introduces the Ascend implementation of the
`dispatch_ffn_combine` kernel and wires it into the vLLM-Ascend runtime,
together with follow‑up fixes to ensure the kernel builds and runs
correctly in CI.
- Add full host and device implementation of the `dispatch_ffn_combine`
kernel under `csrc/dispatch_ffn_combine`, including tiling logic, MOE
routing helpers, and kernel utilities for quantized FFN dispatch.
- Integrate the new kernel with the PyTorch binding
(csrc/torch_binding.cpp, csrc/torch_binding_meta.cpp) and the Ascend
runtime (vllm_ascend/ascend_forward_context.py,
vllm_ascend/worker/model_runner_v1.py).
- Extend fused MoE communication and token dispatch support in
`vllm_ascend/ops/fused_moe`, adding methods/utilities needed by the new
dispatch path.
- Update quantization logic in vllm_ascend/quantization/w8a8_dynamic.py
to support the new FFN dispatch flow.
- Fix kernel build issues by adjusting `csrc/build_aclnn.sh`, CMake
configuration, and include/namespace usage in the new kernel files.
- Add an end‑to‑end nightly test
`tests/e2e/nightly/ops/test_dispatch_ffn_combine.py` and helper
utilities in `vllm_ascend/utils.py` to validate the new kernel.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.12.0
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.12.0
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Signed-off-by: mojave2 <chenchen145@huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: wangxiyuan <wangxiyuan1007@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Provide high-performance AscendC operators lightning_indexer and
sparse_flash_attention to boost the execution performance of the
DeepSeek v3.2 model. Meanwhile, adapt the two AscendC operators to
vllm-ascend framework.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No (only underlying operator optimizations, with no user-facing changes)
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.11.2
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.2
Signed-off-by: MingYang119 <songmingyang@huawei.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Add a new fusion ops to custom_op, which can cobime the torch.bmm() and
transpsose to achieve better peformance. This ops is used in mla_v1 to
replace the bmm and transpose
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.11.2
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Signed-off-by: hust17yixuan <303660421@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR introduces support for adding custom CANN `aclnn` ops to
`vllm-ascend`, allowing users to define and use their own custom
operators.
Key changes include:
- Building and installing custom ops into the `vllm-ascend`-specified
directory
- Binding the `aclnn` op interface to the `torch.ops._C_ascend` module
- Enabling invocation of these ops within `vllm-ascend`
This PR includes a sample custom op:
`aclnnGroupedMatmulSwigluQuantWeightNzTensorList`, which is adapted from
the CANN operator
[`aclnnGroupedMatmulSwigluQuantWeightNZ`](https://www.hiascend.com/document/detail/zh/canncommercial/83RC1/API/aolapi/context/aclnnGroupedMatmulSwigluQuantWeightNZ.md).
Its input parameters `weight` and `weight_scale` now accept
`list[torch.Tensor]` (i.e., `at::TensorList`).
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No.
- vLLM version: v0.11.2
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Signed-off-by: QianChenxi <chenxi.qian.cq@outlook.com>
This PR introduces the `EXEC_NPU_CMD` macro, serving as an adapter layer
to simplify the invocation of `aclnn` operators on Ascend NPUs.
**Key Changes:**
* **Adapter Layer:** Added `EXEC_NPU_CMD` macro and related dependencies
to standardize `aclnn` calls.
* **Operator Support:** Integrated `grouped_matmul_swiglu_quant` as a
reference implementation to demonstrate the usage of the new macro.
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- vLLM version: v0.11.2
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Signed-off-by: SlightwindSec <slightwindsec@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
This pull request removes the redundant parameters `gamma1` and `beta1`
(also named `gamma0`/`beta0` in some places) from the `mla_preprocess`
kernel and its calling hierarchy. The changes are consistent across C++
kernel code, bindings, and Python call sites. The parameters were unused
in the lower-level functions, so their removal is a good cleanup.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
The python interface of the kernel is affected, and the params of
`gamma0` and `beta0` are not needed.
### How was this patch tested?
The unit-test of the kernel is adapted accordingly.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
Signed-off-by: mojave2 <chenchen145@huawei.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
- Adds the `mla_preprocess` custom kernel to provide an optimized
pre-processing operator for Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) on Ascend
NPUs.
- Wires the new kernel into the C++ extension pipeline so vLLM can
invoke it directly, cutting Python-side tensor shuffling and memory
copies that previously bottlenecked MLA compilation paths.
### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
- No. The change only introduces a low-level kernel; public APIs and
inference behavior remain unchanged.
### How was this patch tested?
- Dedicated Ascend kernels are not covered by our CI yet, so no extra
automated tests were added. Future MLA-focused regression runs will
cover this path.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0
Signed-off-by: Chen Chen <0109chenchen@gmail.com>
**Background:**
There are two principles about operator registration in PyTorch
- The same namespace can be only registered once by `TORCH_LIBRARY`
- The operator signatures can be only registered once by `def`
Considering that all custom operators defined in the current repo are
only used by Ascend, instead of defining a common operator schema by
vLLM, all accelerators then follow this operator schema and complete the
implementation based on their respective hardware, which is conducive to
functional abstraction.
Therefore, we can rename the operator registration namespace to an
Ascend-specific namespace(**_C_ascend**).
Related ISSUE: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/issues/2742
- vLLM version: main
- vLLM main:
f592b3174b
Signed-off-by: FFFrog <ljw1101.vip@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Add two custom operators (sgmv_shrink and sgmv_expand) to address the
performance issues of LoRA. Meanwhile, enable the graph mode for LoRA
operators to enter ACL, so as to improve the model inference
performance.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
no user-facing change
### How was this patch tested?
Based on the actual test of the QWen2.5 7B model using vllm-ascend
version v0.9.2.rc1, in acl graph mode, the TTFT, TPOT and throughput
have increased by about 100%.
Signed-off-by: liuchn <909698896@qq.com>
- vLLM version: v0.10.0
- vLLM main:
1f83e7d849
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Signed-off-by: liuchn <909698896@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: liuchn <909698896@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Thanks to the PR https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/426
make vllm-ascend support the aclgraph inference to reduce the host
overhead. However, the capability of aclgraph strongly relies on the
functionality provided by `torch.compile`, which is the key feature
supported in torch 2.x . Therefore, capture custom op into aclgraph is
only possible when it can be recognize and captured by `torch.compile`.
In this PR, we register the meta implementation of current custom ops to
enable the fx graph capture. And by doing that, insert those custom ops
into aclgraph become a natural thing to the ascend runtime.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No user face change.
### How was this patch tested?
Tested in unittest, we will integrate the `rotary_embedding` op into a
small custom model and use `torch.compile` and aclgraph to capture and
replay it to verify its functionality.
- vLLM version: v0.10.0
- vLLM main:
1b99028069
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Signed-off-by: ganyi <pleaplusone.gy@gmail.com>
