feat(dflash): support multimodal (VL) training with plain-rope drafts - #1050
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughDFlash now supports multimodal verifier training. Draft configurations remove MRoPE fields, the repository adds online and offline multimodal examples, and the documentation describes data requirements and current image-processing limitations. ChangesMultimodal DFlash verifier support
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In `@docs/user_guide/algorithms/dflash.md`:
- Around line 50-57: Update the DFlash documentation paragraph to remove the
claim that SpecForge PR `#730` validates stripping MRoPE from draft configs;
either remove the PR reference entirely or describe it only as related
multimodal DFlash work without attributing the plain-rope design or reported
validation results to it.
In `@examples/train/dflash_qwen3_5_4b_sharegpt4v_online_5k.sh`:
- Around line 80-83: Update the vLLM readiness loop around VLLM_PID and the
health curl check to exit with an error when the launched process is no longer
alive, and enforce a bounded startup timeout so an unresponsive /health endpoint
cannot wait indefinitely. Preserve the existing polling behavior while reporting
the startup failure clearly.
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| The draft config is built **plain-rope**: `mrope_section` (and the coupled | ||
| `partial_rotary_factor`) inherited from the verifier's `text_config` is | ||
| stripped for DFlash drafts. The draft's rope is only an internal | ||
| distance metric for its own attention, decoupled from the verifier's position | ||
| scheme, and vLLM's DFlash serving path rejects MRoPE draft configs outright - | ||
| so plain rope keeps train/serve consistent for free. This mirrors the design | ||
| validated end-to-end in [SpecForge PR #730](https://github.com/sgl-project/SpecForge/pull/730) | ||
| (46.2% server accept rate on CC-OCR vs 35.0% for the untrained draft). |
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Correct the SpecForge PR #730 validation claim.
SpecForge PR #730 describes a DFlash draft that uses 3D MRoPE positions. It does not validate stripping MRoPE from the draft config. Remove this reference or describe it only as related multimodal DFlash work. (github.com)
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In `@docs/user_guide/algorithms/dflash.md` around lines 50 - 57, Update the DFlash
documentation paragraph to remove the claim that SpecForge PR `#730` validates
stripping MRoPE from draft configs; either remove the PR reference entirely or
describe it only as related multimodal DFlash work without attributing the
plain-rope design or reported validation results to it.
| echo "Waiting for vLLM server to be ready..." | ||
| until curl -sf "http://localhost:${VLLM_PORT}/health" > /dev/null 2>&1; do | ||
| sleep 2 | ||
| done |
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Stop the readiness loop when vLLM cannot start.
If scripts/launch_vllm.py exits or /health never responds, this loop waits forever. Check that VLLM_PID is still alive and apply a bounded startup timeout.
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echo "Waiting for vLLM server to be ready..."
-until curl -sf "http://localhost:${VLLM_PORT}/health" > /dev/null 2>&1; do
+startup_deadline=$((SECONDS + 300))
+until curl --connect-timeout 2 --max-time 5 -sf \
+ "http://localhost:${VLLM_PORT}/health" > /dev/null 2>&1; do
+ if ! kill -0 "$VLLM_PID" 2>/dev/null; then
+ echo "vLLM exited before becoming ready." >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
+ if (( SECONDS >= startup_deadline )); then
+ echo "Timed out waiting for vLLM to become ready." >&2
+ exit 1
+ fi
sleep 2
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| echo "Waiting for vLLM server to be ready..." | |
| until curl -sf "http://localhost:${VLLM_PORT}/health" > /dev/null 2>&1; do | |
| sleep 2 | |
| done | |
| echo "Waiting for vLLM server to be ready..." | |
| startup_deadline=$((SECONDS + 300)) | |
| until curl --connect-timeout 2 --max-time 5 -sf \ | |
| "http://localhost:${VLLM_PORT}/health" > /dev/null 2>&1; do | |
| if ! kill -0 "$VLLM_PID" 2>/dev/null; then | |
| echo "vLLM exited before becoming ready." >&2 | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| if (( SECONDS >= startup_deadline )); then | |
| echo "Timed out waiting for vLLM to become ready." >&2 | |
| exit 1 | |
| fi | |
| sleep 2 | |
| done |
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In `@examples/train/dflash_qwen3_5_4b_sharegpt4v_online_5k.sh` around lines 80 -
83, Update the vLLM readiness loop around VLLM_PID and the health curl check to
exit with an error when the launched process is no longer alive, and enforce a
bounded startup timeout so an unresponsive /health endpoint cannot wait
indefinitely. Preserve the existing polling behavior while reporting the startup
failure clearly.
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@curnane-lab does vLLM have a reason for rejecting the mrope drafter configs? If not, perhaps it would make more sense to add support for mrope drafters on the vllm side, rather than removing the support on the speuclators training side? |
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MRoPE support is unimplemented upstream; adding it for DFlash would mean position materialization, MRoPE rope application in the proposer, and position-buffer headroom (cf. vllm-project/vllm#48725) - a large engine feature for one algorithm. More importantly, plain-rope is the correct form for DFlash rather than a workaround: the draft's inputs are the verifier's aux hidden states - which already fuse the vision content and the verifier's own MRoPE effect - plus token embeddings and its own position encoding; vision never flows through the draft's rope, and there is no KV/attention sharing between draft and verifier (the draft's K is an fc projection of hidden features). The draft's rope is an internal distance metric whose only hard requirement is train/serve consistency. The official z-lab/Qwen3.5-4B-DFlash checkpoint ships rope_scaling: null, and the same design was validated end-to-end in sgl-project/SpecForge#730. |
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Purpose
Enable DFlash drafts to train against multimodal (VL) such as Qwen3.5-4B and Qwen3-VL.
The data pipeline is already algorithm-agnostic and multimodal-capable: image rows ride the Chat Completions path (vLLM is served with
--allowed-local-media-pathand runs the full VLM forward), and the captured verifier hidden states already encode the image content - the draft itself never sees pixels. The training forward uses plain 1D position ids for every speculator.The one gap was draft config construction:
create_transformer_layer_configinheritedmrope_sectionfrom the verifier'stext_configinto the draft config (the EAGLE-3 mechanism), whileThis PR strips
mrope_section(and, via the existing guard, the coupledpartial_rotary_factor) from the draft config for DFlash speculators (PLAIN_ROPE_DRAFT_SPECULATORS). The draft's rope is only an internal distance metric for its own attention - the verifier's (3, N) MRoPE positions carry no signal for the draft - so plain rope keeps train/serve consistent for free. This also matches the officialQwen/Qwen3.5-4B-DFlashcheckpoint, whose draft config shipsrope_scaling: null.Also adds:
examples/train/dflash_qwen3_5_4b_sharegpt4v_online_5k.sh, mirroring the official Qwen3.5-4B-DFlash draft geometry (block size 16, 5 draft layers, aux target layers [1, 8, 15, 22, 29], vocab 248320);docs/user_guide/algorithms/dflash.md.The same plain-rope design was validated end-to-end in the SpecForge implementation, see sgl-project/SpecForge#730 for details.
Tests
Unit tests for the new rope-config behavior:
dflashstripsmrope_sectionon both the transformers>=5rope_parameterspath and the pre-5rope_scalingpath (the coupledpartial_rotary_factoris dropped by the existing guard,rope_thetapreserved), whileeagle3keepsmrope_sectionwhenspeculator_typeis passed.python -m pytest tests/unit/train/test_rope_config.py tests/unit/train/test_draft_config_init.py tests/unit/train/config -q # 129 passedE2E: a new multimodal dflash case in
tests/e2e/smoke/test_offline_training.py(Qwen3-VL-2B-Instruct +sharegpt4v_coco) covers render -> offline hidden-state extraction with images -> training -> vLLM inference validation of the trained checkpoint; a leakedmrope_sectionwould surface at the vLLM engine step. The multimodal online path is already covered by the existing MM case intest_online_training.py.Checklist
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