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### What this PR does / why we need it?
Currently, the MTP model still runs in eager in full graph mode. This PR
adapts the MTP with the full graph capture and execution. When the graph
mode is set to "FULL_DECODE_ONLY", the MTP will run in full-graph to
improve the performance.
The change in both disable_padded_drafter_batch is True and False case
include:
1. Add _mtp_graph_params in acl_graph.py to isolate the data of main
model and the data of MTP.
2. Padding some metadata in mla_v1.py when in fullgraph mode.
3. Fixed the essential data address that will be used in model.forward.
4. Adapted according to the aclgraph capture framwork:
1). Rebuild MTP model with ACLGraphWrapper.
2). Add common attn metadata when start capture in MTP dummy_run.
3). Add common attn metadata update in MTP.
4). Addapted data update when num_speculative_tokens > 1.
5. Add a patch of MTP to adapt vllm v0.11.0.
Existing Issues:
1. When disable_padded_drafter_batch=True and running in FullGraph mode,
the data of the first-round requests in MTP is abnormal. We need to
identify the cause subsequently.
2. When disable_padded_drafter_batch=False and running in FullGraph
mode, the acceptance rate of the second and third tokens will decrease
(For example, if we set the num_speculative_tokens=3, the acceptance
rate of first token is 90%, the second is only 50% lower than 60%, the
third is only 20% lower than 30%). The reason is that the data processed
after the model runs does not match. This is a problem from another PR.
It works fine in eager and PIECEWISE mode, but has problem in FullGraph
mode. Once we have a solution, we will submit a bugfix.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.11.0
- vLLM main:
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Signed-off-by: anon189Ty <Stari_Falcon@outlook.com>
vLLM Ascend Plugin
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- [2025/09] We released the new official version v0.9.1! Please follow the official guide to start deploy large scale Expert Parallelism (EP) on Ascend.
- [2025/08] We hosted the vLLM Beijing Meetup with vLLM and Tencent! Please find the meetup slides here.
- [2025/06] User stories page is now live! It kicks off with LLaMA-Factory/verl//TRL/GPUStack to demonstrate how vLLM Ascend assists Ascend users in enhancing their experience across fine-tuning, evaluation, reinforcement learning (RL), and deployment scenarios.
- [2025/06] Contributors page is now live! All contributions deserve to be recorded, thanks for all contributors.
- [2025/05] We've released first official version v0.7.3! We collaborated with the vLLM community to publish a blog post sharing our practice: Introducing vLLM Hardware Plugin, Best Practice from Ascend NPU.
- [2025/03] We hosted the vLLM Beijing Meetup with vLLM team! Please find the meetup slides here.
- [2025/02] vLLM community officially created vllm-project/vllm-ascend repo for running vLLM seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
- [2024/12] We are working with the vLLM community to support [RFC]: Hardware pluggable.
Overview
vLLM Ascend (vllm-ascend) is a community maintained hardware plugin for running vLLM seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
It is the recommended approach for supporting the Ascend backend within the vLLM community. It adheres to the principles outlined in the [RFC]: Hardware pluggable, providing a hardware-pluggable interface that decouples the integration of the Ascend NPU with vLLM.
By using vLLM Ascend plugin, popular open-source models, including Transformer-like, Mixture-of-Expert, Embedding, Multi-modal LLMs can run seamlessly on the Ascend NPU.
Prerequisites
- Hardware: Atlas 800I A2 Inference series, Atlas A2 Training series, Atlas 800I A3 Inference series, Atlas A3 Training series, Atlas 300I Duo (Experimental)
- OS: Linux
- Software:
- Python >= 3.10, < 3.12
- CANN >= 8.3.rc1 (Ascend HDK version refers to here)
- PyTorch == 2.7.1, torch-npu == 2.7.1
- vLLM (the same version as vllm-ascend)
Getting Started
Please use the following recommended versions to get started quickly:
| Version | Release type | Doc |
|---|---|---|
| v0.11.0rc1 | Latest release candidate | QuickStart and Installation for more details |
| v0.9.1 | Latest stable version | QuickStart and Installation for more details |
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING for more details, which is a step-by-step guide to help you set up development environment, build and test.
We welcome and value any contributions and collaborations:
- Please let us know if you encounter a bug by filing an issue
- Please use User forum for usage questions and help.
Branch
vllm-ascend has main branch and dev branch.
- main: main branch，corresponds to the vLLM main branch, and is continuously monitored for quality through Ascend CI.
- vX.Y.Z-dev: development branch, created with part of new releases of vLLM. For example,
v0.7.3-devis the dev branch for vLLMv0.7.3version.
Below is maintained branches:
| Branch | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|
| main | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM main branch and vLLM v0.11.0 tag |
| v0.7.1-dev | Unmaintained | Only doc fixed is allowed |
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| rfc/feature-name | Maintained | Feature branches for collaboration |
Please refer to Versioning policy for more details.
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