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### What this PR does / why we need it? This backports the forced-tool-choice `content=None` guard to the `releases/v0.18.0` compatibility layer. Upstream vLLM still has forced named tool-choice branches that assert `content is not None` after reasoning extraction. Some reasoning parsers can legally consume the full output and return `(reasoning, None)`, which makes the assert reachable and can surface as a server-side failure. This PR follows the same compatibility-patch pattern used by: - `7314bbe2` fix(platform): reimplement MiniMax usage accounting patch (#7835) - `f83cb0e6` [Bugfix][Platform] Fix GLM47 tool-call finish backfill (#7710) The patch is intentionally narrow: - normalize `content=None` to `""` only for forced named tool choice - patch both chat-completions and responses parser entry points - keep the rest of upstream behavior unchanged Upstream tracking: - issue: vllm-project/vllm#40147 - PR: vllm-project/vllm#40148 ### Does this PR introduce _any_ user-facing change? Yes. Forced named tool choice becomes robust when the reasoning parser returns no post-reasoning content, avoiding an internal assertion failure and emitting an empty-argument function call instead. ### How was this patch tested? Unit tests: ```bash pytest -sv tests/ut/patch/platform/test_patch_tool_choice_none_content.py \ tests/ut/patch/platform/test_patch_glm_tool_call_parser.py \ tests/ut/patch/platform/test_patch_minimax_usage_accounting.py ``` Result: 22 passed. --------- Signed-off-by: QwertyJack <7554089+QwertyJack@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: QwertyJack <7554089+QwertyJack@users.noreply.github.com>
vLLM Ascend Plugin
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Latest News 🔥
- [2026/02] We released the new official version v0.13.0! Please follow the official guide to start using vLLM Ascend Plugin on Ascend.
- [2025/12] We released the new official version v0.11.0! Please follow the official guide to start using vLLM Ascend Plugin on Ascend.
- [2025/09] We released the new official version v0.9.1! Please follow the official guide to start deploying 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 the 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-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 |
|---|---|---|
| v0.17.0rc1 | Latest release candidate | See QuickStart and Installation for more details |
| v0.13.0 | Latest stable version | See QuickStart and Installation for more details |
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING for more details, which is a step-by-step guide to help you set up the 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 a main branch and a dev branch.
- main: main branch, corresponds to the vLLM main branch, and is continuously monitored for quality through Ascend CI.
- releases/vX.Y.Z: development branch, created alongside new releases of vLLM. For example,
releases/v0.13.0is the dev branch for vLLMv0.13.0version.
Below are the maintained branches:
| Branch | Status | Note |
|---|---|---|
| main | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM main branch and vLLM v0.17.0 tag |
| v0.7.1-dev | Unmaintained | Only doc fixes are allowed |
| v0.7.3-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.7.3 version, only bug fixes are allowed, and no new release tags anymore. |
| v0.9.1-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.9.1 version |
| v0.11.0-dev | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.11.0 version |
| releases/v0.13.0 | Maintained | CI commitment for vLLM 0.13.0 version |
| rfc/feature-name | Maintained | Feature branches for collaboration |
Please refer to Versioning policy for more details.
Weekly Meeting
- vLLM Ascend Weekly Meeting: https://tinyurl.com/vllm-ascend-meeting
- Wednesday, 15:00 - 16:00 (UTC+8, Convert to your timezone)
License
Apache License 2.0, as found in the LICENSE file.