### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR introduces a new model loader called Netloader, which leverages
high-bandwidth P2P direct transfer between NPU cards to achieve weight
loading. Netloader is implemented as a plugin through the newly added
'register_model_loader' function in vLLM 0.10. It facilitates the
process of weight loading by sending weights from a pre-loaded model
(server) to an empty model of a newly started instance (client). The
server operates concurrently with normal inference tasks through
sub-threads and the 'stateless_init_torch_distributed_process_group' in
vLLM. The client initiates a transfer request after verifying that the
model and partitioning method are the same as the server's, and uses
HCCL's collective communication (send/recv) to load the weights in the
order they are stored in the model.
Application Scenarios:
1. Significantly Reduces Inference Instance Startup Time By reusing the
weights of already loaded instances and performing high-speed transfers
directly between computing cards, this method reduces model loading
latency compared to traditional remote/local pull methods.
2. Reduces Network and Storage Pressure Avoids the need to repeatedly
download weight files from remote repositories, reducing the impact on
centralized storage and network traffic, thereby enhancing overall
system stability and service quality.
3. Improves Resource Utilization and Reduces Costs Accelerating the
loading process reduces reliance on redundant computing pools, allowing
computing resources to be elastically scaled and reclaimed as needed.
4. Enhances Business Continuity and High Availability In fault recovery
scenarios, new instances can quickly take over existing services,
avoiding prolonged business interruptions and improving the system's
high availability and user experience.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
Netloader utilizes the existing --load-format=netloader and
--model-loader-extra-config to be activated. The
model-loader-extra-config needs to be input as a JSON string (as it is
now)
Afterwards, you can check whether the outputs for the same sentence are
consistent when the temperature is set to 0.
Signed-off-by: destinysky <kangrui10@126.com>
- vLLM version: v0.11.0rc3
- vLLM main: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/commit/v0.11.0
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Signed-off-by: destinysky <kangrui10@126.com>
### 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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Signed-off-by: offline0806 <3337230449@qq.com>
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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Signed-off-by: offline0806 <3337230449@qq.com>
Co-authored-by: offline0806 <3337230449@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
1.Support deepseek w4a8 per-channel quantization
2.The eager mode supports converting weights to the NZ format
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
no
### How was this patch tested?
#### How to get weights using Modelslim
##### Installation steps
git clone https://gitcode.com/Ascend/msit.git
cd msit/msmodelslim
bash install.sh
##### Generate w4a8 per-channel weights
cd /example/DeepSeek
Command reference: msmodelslim/example/DeepSeek/README.md
- vLLM version: v0.10.2
- vLLM main:
f225ea7dd9
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Signed-off-by: Wang Kunpeng <1289706727@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>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
The branch `br_release_MindStudio_8.1.RC2_TR5_20260624` is commercial
delivery version of modelslim in Q3, and has been verified available
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.10.1.1
- vLLM main:
7d67a9d9f9
Signed-off-by: wangli <wangli858794774@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Update DOC. Guide users to run LoRA with ACLGraph.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No.
### How was this patch tested?
No.
- vLLM version: v0.10.0
- vLLM main:
de7b67a023
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Signed-off-by: paulyu12 <507435917@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
Fixed the expression of msit for code clone
- vLLM version: v0.10.0
- vLLM main:
afa5b7ca0b
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Signed-off-by: wangli <wangli858794774@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
In fact, the kimi-k2 model is similar to the deepseek model, and we only
need to make a few changes to support it. what does this pr do:
1. Add kimi-k2-w8a8 deployment doc
2. Update quantization doc
3. Upgrade torchair support list
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.10.0
- vLLM main:
9edd1db02b
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Signed-off-by: wangli <wangli858794774@gmail.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
When using deepseek series models generated by the --dynamic parameter,
if torchair graph mode is enabled, we should modify the configuration
file in the CANN package to prevent incorrect inference results.
- vLLM version: v0.10.0
- vLLM main:
7728dd77bb
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Signed-off-by: Wang Kunpeng <1289706727@qq.com>
### What this PR does / why we need it?
1. Enable pymarkdown check
2. Enable python `__init__.py` check for vllm and vllm-ascend
3. Make clean code
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.9.2
- vLLM main:
29c6fbe58c
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Signed-off-by: wangli <wangli858794774@gmail.com>
1. Add the tutorials for qwen3-embedding-8b
2. Remove VLLM_USE_V1=1 in docs, it's useless any more from 0.9.2
- vLLM version: v0.9.2
- vLLM main:
5923ab9524
Signed-off-by: wangxiyuan <wangxiyuan1007@gmail.com>
Add user doc index to make the user guide more clear
- vLLM version: v0.9.1
- vLLM main:
49e8c7ea25
Signed-off-by: wangxiyuan <wangxiyuan1007@gmail.com>
