[https://nvbugs/6676511][fix] Reject unsupported speculative outputs

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• validate_request now rejects unsupported speculative-decoding requests at the LLM request boundary.
• The validation rejects context logits, generation logits, and log-probability outputs before executor submission.
• Non-speculative requests retain these output options.
• The change removes unused logging and per-request warnings.
• The implementation provides one admission-time error that lists all unsupported options.
• No public API declarations, configuration files, or test-list files changed.

QA Engineer Review

• Modified test file: tests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.py.
• The tests now use TorchLlmArgs and _TestLLM to exercise BaseLLM generation-config behavior.
• No test functions were added, removed, or explicitly identified as renamed in the provided change summary.
• No corresponding entries were found in tests/integration/test_lists/, test-db/, or qa/.
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Description

• Why?

Speculative decoding does not support context or generation logits and their derived log probabilities. Allowing these requests to reach the executor can crash forked postprocessing workers and leave serving requests permanently hung.

• What?

Reject unsupported logits and log-probability output options at the LLM request boundary whenever speculative decoding is configured. Preserve these options for non-speculative requests and treat top-0 log-probability requests as explicitly requested outputs.

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Walkthrough

The speculative sampler now rejects unsupported logits and log-probability requests during validation. Sampling-parameter tests now use TorchLlmArgs and a lightweight BaseLLM subclass.

Changes

Speculative output validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Admission-time output validation tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/spec_sampler_base.py	Validation reports all unsupported output options in one ValueError. Runtime warnings and the unused logger import were removed.
Production-compatible sampling tests tests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.py	Tests initialize BaseLLM with TorchLlmArgs through _TestLLM while preserving generation-config default checks.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 39ade

The change rejects unsupported logits-related outputs only for speculative decoding while preserving non-speculative behavior. The remaining annotation cleanup is localized and non-blocking, so no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the fix and matches the main change: rejecting unsupported outputs for speculative decoding.
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tests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.py (1)

53-53: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Narrow the helper annotations.

mode: str permits values that TorchLlmArgs.generation_config rejects. The bare dict annotation also loses the generation-config mapping contract. Use Literal["auto", "trtllm"] and dict[str, Any].

Proposed change

-from typing import Any
+from typing import Any, Literal
...
-    mode: str,
+    mode: Literal["auto", "trtllm"],
...
-    generation_config_explicit_values: dict,
+    generation_config_explicit_values: dict[str, Any],

As per coding guidelines, “use precise types instead of dict/object/Any.”

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In `@tests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.py` at line 53, Update the helper
annotations for mode and generation-config mappings: constrain mode to the
accepted “auto” or “trtllm” values using Literal, and replace the bare dict
annotation with dict[str, Any] to match TorchLlmArgs.generation_config. Apply
the same changes to both affected parameter declarations.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@tests/unittest/llmapi/test_sampling_params.py`:
- Line 53: Update the helper annotations for mode and generation-config
mappings: constrain mode to the accepted “auto” or “trtllm” values using
Literal, and replace the bare dict annotation with dict[str, Any] to match
TorchLlmArgs.generation_config. Apply the same changes to both affected
parameter declarations.

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