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### What this PR does / why we need it?
This PR extends original `rope_triton_forward` and
`split_qkv_rmsnorm_rope` to support `cos_sin_cache` && `positions` as
inputs. This fully aligns to vLLM RoPE api interface. Compared with
earlier implementation for RoPE, the benefits are:
1. avoiding pre-computation of `cos` `sin` before model execution, which
helps to remove redundant codes.
2. allowing eagle3 draft model to have different rope parameters with
main model (see #6612 ). This help to recover accept rate && accuracy in
that case.
In addition, this kernel change only introduces very small performance
degradation. Those `index_select` or `chunk` operations are now changed
into simple memory access in triton kernel (For example,
https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-ascend/pull/5450/changes#diff-a4c2d3071530df193b98f9bf38553874bc4d47571336711f116c26d019cfbb6aR77-R81).
**Highlights**
- **RoPE Cache Unification**: Replaced separate _sin and _cos global
tensors with a unified cos_sin_cache and explicit positions tensor for
Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE), streamlining data handling.
- **Triton Kernel Integration**: Updated Triton kernels
(split_qkv_rmsnorm_rope_kernel, _triton_rope) to directly consume the
cos_sin_cache and positions for more efficient and integrated RoPE
calculations.
- **Custom Operation Registration**: Registered `rope_forward_oot` as a
new custom operation, allowing its use in fused compilation passes and
providing a dedicated entry point for the new RoPE implementation.
- **Refactored RoPE Forward Pass**: Modified the rope_forward_oot
function to accept the new cos_sin_cache and positions arguments,
enabling a more flexible and integrated RoPE application within the
system.
### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change?
No.
### How was this patch tested?
- vLLM version: v0.13.0
- vLLM main:
5326c89803
Additional test on Qwen3-235b accuracy:
| Aime2024 | GSM8K | Livecodebench |
| -------- | -------- | -------- |
| 83.33 | 96.26 | 70.23 |
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Signed-off-by: Angazenn <supperccell@163.com>
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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-Experts (MoE), 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 == 8.5.0 (Ascend HDK version refers to here)
- PyTorch == 2.9.0, torch-npu == 2.9.0
- vLLM (the same version as vllm-ascend)
Getting Started
Please use the following recommended versions to get started quickly:
| Version | Release type | Doc |
|---|---|---|
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