What this PR does / why we need it?
This pull request performs a comprehensive cleanup of the vLLM Ascend
documentation. It fixes numerous typos, grammatical errors, and phrasing
issues across community guidelines, developer documents, hardware
tutorials, and feature guides. Key improvements include correcting
hardware names (e.g., Atlas 300I), fixing broken links, cleaning up code
examples (removing duplicate flags and trailing commas), and improving
the clarity of technical explanations. These changes are necessary to
ensure the documentation is professional, accurate, and easy for users
to follow.
Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
No, this PR contains documentation-only updates.
How was this patch tested?
The changes were manually reviewed for accuracy and grammatical
correctness. No functional code changes were introduced.
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### What this PR does / why we need it?
To intuitively show the effect of the eplb algorithm, we print the
expert heat before and after eplb.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.16.0
- vLLM main:
15d76f74e2
Signed-off-by: shenchuxiaofugui <1311027364@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
1. Rename num_iterations_eplb_update to expert_heat_collection_interval.
2. Rename num_wait_worker_iterations to algorithm_execution_interval.
3. Rename init_redundancy_expert to num_redundant_experts because the
variable with the same meaning in vLLM is named this way.
4. Delete gate_eplb because we don't need this feature.
5. Move eplb config into a dict in additional config.
6. Depend on pr5817
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
before this pr：
`--additional-config '{"dynamic_eplb":true,
"num_iterations_eplb_update": 4000, "num_wait_worker_iterations": 150,
"init_redundancy_expert": 16, "expert_map_path": "xxx.json"}'`
after this pr:
`--additional-config
'{"eplb_config":{"dynamic_eplb":true,"expert_heat_collection_interval":4000,
"algorithm_execution_interval":150,"num_redundant_experts": 16,
"expert_map_path": "xxx.json"}}'`
### How was this patch tested?
#### test qwen3-235b eplb num_redundant_experts=16
without pr5817
| dataset | version | metric | mode | vllm-api-general-chat |
|----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | -----|
| aime2024 | 604a78 | accuracy | gen | 83.33 |
with pr5817
| dataset | version | metric | mode | vllm-api-general-chat |
|----- | ----- | ----- | ----- | -----|
| aime2024 | 604a78 | accuracy | gen | 86.67 |
- vLLM version: v0.13.0
- vLLM main:
45c1ca1ca1
Signed-off-by: shenchuxiaofugui <1311027364@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Correct mistakes in doc
- vLLM version: v0.12.0
- vLLM main:
ad32e3e19c
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Signed-off-by: lilinsiman <lilinsiman@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Redundant experts bugfix
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
After configuring the path for experts_map, users do not need to
configure iinit_redundancy_expert.
### How was this patch tested?
The accuracy of EPLB was tested with and without the use of redundant
experts.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0
- vLLM main:
2918c1b49c
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### What this PR does / why we need it?
1.Add eplb ci to check the change of eplb feature.
2.Add param checking of eplb params.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
### How was this patch tested?
Qwen in A3.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
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Signed-off-by: offline0806 <3337230449@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: offline0806 <3337230449@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
when using dynamic eplb, patch v1 executor to avoid create child process
failed.
### How was this patch tested?
deepseek in v3.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
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Co-authored-by: offline0806 <3337230449@qq.com>
What this PR does / why we need it?
1.Record expert map without dynamic eplb.
2.Add export PYTHONOPTIMIZE=1 when using dynamic eplb.
3.change eplb doc
Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
How was this patch tested?
Qwen3_moe in A3.
- vLLM version: v0.11.0
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Co-authored-by: offline0806 <3337230449@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Revise the EPLB feature guide content.Add eplb params to ascend config.
### Does this PR introduce any user-facing change?
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.10.2
- vLLM main:
52d0cb8458
Co-authored-by: offline0806 <3337230449@qq.com>
### Motivation
Currently dynamically experts balancing would stop-the-world.
Asynchronously expert load balancing would be better without flowing
problems:
Host-bound latency:
There are many cpu operations during EPLB such as
eplb-algorithm、creating p2p ops、and log2phy expert converting would
spend long cpu time, as ~1s.
Communication latency: The transfer time would cost much in the
situation without nvlink. As the weight of an expert maybe transfer to
multiple new positions, thus N times send/recv for one expert, with
result long latency. We had tested that batch_isend_irecv cost more
100ms for 16 experts weight transmission in A2 server of ascend.
SwiftBalancer would not stop-the-world anymore, in out test on NPU 1~2ms
cost for each layer while benefit 5ms-8ms decode latency with ep_size =
64.
The following updates have been made:
1、expert distribution recording with lower cost.
2、async cpu computing for eplb algo and other python operator.
3、new eplb algo with less expert rebalancing while almost the same
effect.
### Proposed Change
We will gradually migrate the EPLB logic to the VLLM community and
implement a generalized design. Relevant RFC:
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/22246
The overall workflow involves:
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alt="474430541-23b06f58-23bc-44a3-a1be-00f268aeb15c"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1d73a459-1b23-4b0a-812a-bf0a75debfed"
/>
1. Record experts distribution during forward. We using expert_token_num
after disptach instead of topk_ids, thus we got much smaller tensor
shape to reduce cost of hbm recording and add-operator.
2. Do all-gather for experts distribution. Using all-gather instead of
all-reduce as less traffic volume.
3. Wake up eplb worker process with experts distribution when
num_iterations comes. Run eplb algorithm in eplb worker.
4. Generate p2p send/recv ops and other operator such as log2phy would
cost long cpu time.
5. Lanch ibatch_send_recv in async_stream before forward.
6. After forward, wait for the ibatch_send_recv finish, then do uapte
expert map and expert weights.
### Co-author
Co-authored-by: raindaywhu raindaywhu@raindaywhu@ 163.con
Co-authored-by: njuyuan yuanjl19@smail.nju.edu.cn
Co-authored-by: qmkakaxi wjh1594260677@qq.com
Co-authored-by: Skywalker-EP 173723846@qq.com
- vLLM version: v0.10.2
- vLLM main:
567939953b
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Signed-off-by: offline0806 <z00858301@china.huawei.com>
Co-authored-by: offline0806 <z00858301@china.huawei.com>
