### What this PR does / why we need it?
`vllm_ascend` already supports several speculative decoding strategies
such as MTP, EAGLE, N-gram, and suffix decoding. However, Medusa is not
yet supported. Medusa is an efficient speculative decoding framework
that leverages a lightweight draft model to propose multiple tokens in a
single step, which can significantly improve decoding throughput and
reduce latency.
To enable Medusa-based speculative decoding on Ascend hardware and
provide more decoding options for users, this PR adds Medusa support
into the `vllm_ascend` speculative decoding pipeline.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
This PR introduces Medusa speculative decoding as an additional
speculative decoding method:
✔ Adds `MedusaProposer` and integrates it into the speculative decoding
registry
✔ Extends `SpecDcodeType` with a `MEDUSA` enum entry
✔ Updates `NPUModelRunner` to recognize and invoke Medusa during
decoding
✔ Adds Medusa-specific handling in the draft token generation logic
✔ Ensures backward compatibility — Medusa is only used when explicitly
enabled
Key code changes include:
* New file: `vllm_ascend/spec_decode/medusa_proposer.py`
* Register Medusa in `get_spec_decode_method`
* Extend proposer type hints to include `MedusaProposer`
* Add a Medusa-specific branch in `generate_draft_token_ids`
* Pass `sample_hidden_states` required by Medusa
### How was this patch tested?
Medusa is implemented as a new proposer class (`MedusaProposer`)
following the existing speculative decoding interface. The integration
works as follows:
1. Users enable Medusa via the speculative decoding configuration.
2. `get_spec_decode_method()` returns a `MedusaProposer` instance when
`method="medusa"`.
3. During decoding, `NPUModelRunner` detects that the active drafter is
a `MedusaProposer`.
4. Instead of the generic speculative decoding path, the Medusa-specific
`generate_token_ids()` method is invoked, which consumes:
* `valid_sampled_token_ids`
* `sampling_metadata`
* `spec_decode_metadata`
* `sample_hidden_states`
5. The proposed tokens are validated by the target model as usual.
When Medusa is not enabled, the decoding pipeline behaves exactly as
before, ensuring full backward compatibility.
- vLLM version: v0.13.0
- vLLM main:
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Signed-off-by: simplzyu <191163281@qq.com>
Signed-off-by: simplzyu <zhenyuguo@cmbchina.com>
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