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Use vLLM LBHNC capture geometry and carry each requests hidden-state cache blocks through connector metadata. This prevents runner reordering from associating a request with another requests captured hidden states.

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  • Improvements

    • Improved speculative generation with more reliable hidden-state cache handling.
    • Added support for request-specific, noncontiguous cache block addressing.
    • Preserved capture-plane information when transferring hidden-state features.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added validation for cache dimensions, capture-plane counts, available blocks, and unsupported or ambiguous cache configurations.
    • Requests using cached data are now handled safely during scheduling.
    • Updated compatibility to the LBHNC hidden-state cache layout.

Use vLLM LBHNC capture geometry and carry each requests hidden-state cache blocks through connector metadata. This prevents runner reordering from associating a request with another requests captured hidden states.

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RDMA hidden-state cache integration

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Cache contract and extraction
modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/rdma_hidden_states_connector.py
The connector now uses the LBHNC cache layout, validates four-dimensional tensors, preserves capture planes, and stores request cache block IDs in metadata.
Cache group initialization and registration
modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/rdma_hidden_states_connector.py
Initialization selects one hidden-state cache group. Registration validates capture-plane counts and computes feature shapes without using block size as a feature dimension.
Request scheduling and capture
modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/rdma_hidden_states_connector.py, tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_rdma_hidden_states_connector.py
Scheduling propagates per-request block IDs and rejects cached requests. Capture uses request-specific mappings. Tests cover indexing, validation, metadata propagation, capture, and unsupported layouts.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: h-guo18

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  participant Scheduler
  participant RdmaHiddenStatesConnector
  participant vLLMCache
  participant RDMAHiddenStatePool
  Scheduler->>RdmaHiddenStatesConnector: provide uncached request and cache block IDs
  RdmaHiddenStatesConnector->>vLLMCache: read request-specific LBHNC entries
  vLLMCache-->>RdmaHiddenStatesConnector: return capture-plane features
  RdmaHiddenStatesConnector->>RDMAHiddenStatePool: transfer shaped features
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This change corrects how captured hidden states are addressed so each request reads its own cache blocks, and it is supported by new regression tests. The one remaining gap is a missing range check on the cache block identifiers before they are used to index the cache; no path was found that supplies invalid identifiers today, so this is a bounded hardening follow-up rather than a merge blocker.

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Remove the prohibited Bandit bypass and secure the sidecar boundary.

Line 338 suppresses Bandit for an all-interface bind. _Sidecar has no authentication control and returns agent metadata, transfer descriptors, shapes, and token IDs. A cluster-network peer with a request ID can query this data.

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In `@modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/rdma_hidden_states_connector.py`:
- Around line 88-90: Update build_request_slot_mapping to accept num_blocks and
validate every block ID is within [0, num_blocks) before indexing; pass
kv_layer.shape[0] from save_kv_layer, preserving the existing capacity
validation and slot-mapping behavior for valid IDs.

In `@tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_rdma_hidden_states_connector.py`:
- Line 99: Move the extract_hidden_states import to module scope immediately
after pytest.importorskip("vllm") in the test module, and remove the nested
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blocks = torch.as_tensor(block_ids, device=device, dtype=torch.long)
positions = torch.arange(num_tokens, device=device)
return blocks[positions // block_size] * block_size + positions % block_size

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Validate cache block IDs before building the slot mapping.

build_request_slot_mapping checks only capacity. Add num_blocks, reject IDs outside [0, num_blocks), and pass kv_layer.shape[0] from save_kv_layer. Invalid IDs can select an unintended cache block or cause indexing errors.

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In `@modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/rdma_hidden_states_connector.py` around
lines 88 - 90, Update build_request_slot_mapping to accept num_blocks and
validate every block ID is within [0, num_blocks) before indexing; pass
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def test_save_kv_layer_captures_each_requests_own_noncontiguous_blocks(monkeypatch):
"""Production capture must not associate scheduler order with cache position."""
from vllm.model_executor.models import extract_hidden_states

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Move this import to module scope.

The import has no comment that identifies a circular-import or optional-dependency requirement. A nested-module import failure will occur during this test instead of during collection.

Place this import after pytest.importorskip("vllm").

As per path instructions, “Imports belong at the top of the file so import errors surface at collection time, not mid-test.”

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 pytest.importorskip("vllm")
+from vllm.model_executor.models import extract_hidden_states

 def test_save_kv_layer_captures_each_requests_own_noncontiguous_blocks(monkeypatch):
-    from vllm.model_executor.models import extract_hidden_states
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Thanks for chasing this down — we hit the mispairing bug you're describing on our side too, and I think the core of this PR is right.

The addressing fix in particular: walking slot_mapping with a running per-request offset assumed the runner's batch order matches scheduler metadata order, and carrying each request's own block_ids through ReqMeta removes that assumption rather than asserting around it. That's the right shape of fix, and it's independent of any vLLM version question. Same for resolving _capture_group_id from HiddenStateCacheSpec instead of hardcoding group 0 — that one matters a lot for hybrid models. We're running Nemotron-H Super 3.5 (Mamba2 + attention + MoE), where block_ids[0] is emphatically not the capture group. And rejecting num_computed_tokens != 0 is correct: with prefix caching the blocks cover the prompt, but the cached tokens' hidden states were never written that step.

One thing that bit us, and the reason I'm commenting: the LBHNC premise is version-specific.

The PR reads the per-layer view as [blocks, planes, block_size, hidden]. On vLLM 0.28.0 it's [blocks, block_size, planes, hidden]. From the image we serve with, vllm/model_executor/models/extract_hidden_states.py:

def get_kv_cache_shape(cls, num_blocks, block_size, num_kv_heads, head_size, ...):
    # We set `num_kv_heads = num_hidden_layers` and `head_size = hidden_size`
    return (num_blocks, block_size, num_kv_heads, head_size)

That's a backend constant, so get_required_kvcache_layout can't move it — and "LBHNC" isn't a legal value there anyway; vllm/envs.py declares VLLM_KV_CACHE_LAYOUT: Literal["NHD", "HND"] | None.

Both our 4-node DFlash2 runs died ~5 minutes in on this PR's own guard:

RuntimeError: Worker failed with error 'RdmaHiddenStatesConnector cache exposes
16 hidden-state planes but EAGLE requested 6 ids: [2, 23, 44, 65, 86, 88].'

16 is the block size, not a plane count. To be clear, the guard did its job — without it we'd have gotten the silent 16-plane capture instead, which is exactly the failure mode you're guarding against. The check was right; the geometry behind it just doesn't hold on 0.28.

What worked for us: detecting the layout from the cache shape at registration instead of asserting one, so a single connector serves both views. Key it on the number of capture planes EAGLE requested (the one quantity known independently of the cache) and take the block size from whichever axis is left over. Ambiguity — planes on both candidate axes — is worth refusing rather than guessing, since the two readings differ by a transpose and a wrong guess corrupts every captured hidden state without raising.

A trap worth knowing about, which I walked straight into: my first attempt sourced the block size from cache_config.block_size. On a hybrid model that's wrong — vLLM bumps it after the hidden-state cache is allocated. Nemotron-H reports 2096 against a cache built with 16, so my detection rejected a perfectly good (20912, 16, 6, 4096). Your build_request_slot_mapping(..., kv_layer.shape[2], ...) takes it off the tensor, which is correct; I'd just flag it as something a future contributor could easily get wrong. vLLM's own writer does the same (basic_cache reads kv_cache.shape[1]).

Both our arms are now training on the detection-based variant (step 150, streaming hidden states over RDMA, 6 capture planes), so the addressing half of this PR is confirmed working end-to-end on 0.28.

Two smaller things:

  • getattr(hf_config, "eagle_aux_hidden_state_layer_ids", ()) defaulting to () feeds a strict equality check, so a missing or renamed attribute surfaces as "EAGLE requested 0 ids: []" rather than as the attribute problem it is.
  • In the test, from vllm.model_executor.models import extract_hidden_states sits under pytest.importorskip("vllm"). On stock vLLM that's an ImportError rather than a skip, since the symbol only exists on the patched build — pytest.importorskip("vllm.model_executor.models.extract_hidden_states") would skip cleanly.

Would it make sense to land the addressing fix on its own? It's unblocking regardless of vLLM version, and it'd let the layout change take whatever time it needs to settle on a version floor or a detection approach. Happy to send our detection patch as a PR against your branch if that's useful — or to test any variant you prefer against 0.28, since we have the repro standing up.

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