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[V1] Multi-config sampler warmup for seeded native and greedy paths (#54425, #54455) - #54630

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Purpose

Fixes #54425.
Fixes #54455.

Root Cause

During engine startup, warmup_kernels() previously used only a single unseeded stochastic SamplingParams instance. This left two dispatch paths uncompiled before serving:

  1. Seeded requests ([Bug]: V2 sampler warmup misses explicit-seed native path when FlashInfer is enabled #54425): Explicit seeds bypass FlashInfer and route to native gumbel_sample / apply_top_k_top_p, triggering live Triton JIT compilation warnings and potential OOMs on the first seeded request.
  2. Greedy speculative decoding ([Bug]: sampler warmup misses the plain-greedy path — spec-decode rejection kernels JIT on the first request #54455): Pure greedy requests (temp=0.0) bypass float32 logits processing, requiring bfloat16 rejection sampling kernels that were never compiled during warmup.

Fix

  1. Added SamplingParams.for_all_sampler_warmup_configs() covering stochastic, seeded (seed=42), and greedy (temp=0.0) configurations.
  2. Cycled these configs across warmup requests during prefill, and consolidated single-request decode steps ([0], [1], [2]) to cover all dispatch shapes.
  3. Added unit test test_all_sampler_warmup_configs in tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_sampler_flags.py.

Validation

  • Unit Tests: pytest tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_sampler_flags.py passes (14/14).
  • Hardware Validation (Qwen3-4B-Thinking on NVIDIA A100):
    • Seeded request: _gumbel_sample_kernel JIT warning eliminated; latency improved from ~0.53s to ~0.17s.
    • Greedy spec-decode request: _rejection_kernel pre-warmed in bfloat16, zero live JIT warnings from jit_monitor.py.

cc @malaiwah @TSUMUGI-XE


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Tested on Intel XPU. It fixes it: 3 JIT compilations → 0, and the first-request penalty
drops from +94% to +15%.

Setup: 1× Intel Arc Pro B70, Qwen3.6-35B-A3B MXFP4, spec decode qwen3_5_mtp
(num_speculative_tokens=2), cudagraph_mode=FULL_DECODE_ONLY, kv-cache-dtype fp8.
Patch applied as a diff onto cacc429f6 (all three files applied cleanly). Requests are
temperature=0 — the path #54455 was about. No warmup workaround of my own in either arm,
otherwise the control would not show the effect.

                   1st req    reqs 2-4    penalty        JIT warnings
control (no PR)     1.127 s     0.581 s   +93.7% (+545 ms)     3
this PR             0.664 s     0.581 s   +14.5%  (+84 ms)     0

The three that disappear are exactly the ones from the report:
_compute_local_logits_stats_kernel, _rejection_kernel, _resample_kernel.

Steady state is identical (0.581 s in both), so no regression on this box.

One honest note: the remaining +84 ms is not JIT — jit_monitor reports zero. So there
is some other first-request cost left over that this PR is not responsible for and that I have
not chased. Worth knowing if someone measures the same thing and wonders why it is not 0%.

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Thanks a lot @TSUMUGI-XE for testing this on Intel XPU!

…m-project#54455)

Pre-compile native Gumbel and bfloat16 rejection kernels by cycling stochastic,
seeded, and greedy sampling configs during startup warmup.

Signed-off-by: Manikanta Bandham <bandhammanikanta@gmail.com>
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  • Improvements

    • Expanded model warmup coverage across unseeded, seeded, and greedy sampling configurations.
    • Improved warmup handling for single-request decoding, including speculative decoding scenarios.
    • Added compatibility for models using different model and logits data types during warmup.
  • Tests

    • Added validation to ensure all supported sampler warmup configurations and processing behaviors are exercised.

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Changes

The PR adds unseeded, seeded, and greedy sampler warmup configurations. GPU warmup cycles through these configurations, expands single-request decode coverage, and warms the rejection sampler with model-dtype logits when required.

Sampler warmup coverage

Layer / File(s) Summary
Sampler warmup configurations
vllm/sampling_params.py, tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_sampler_flags.py
Adds configurations for unseeded stochastic, seeded stochastic, and greedy sampling. Tests validate their properties and sampler logits-processing flags.
Warmup request orchestration
vllm/v1/worker/gpu/warmup.py
Cycles configurations across warmup requests and adds single-request decode steps with and without speculative decoding.
Model-dtype sampler warmup
vllm/v1/worker/gpu_model_runner.py
Casts dummy logits to the model dtype and repeats the greedy rejection-sampler warmup when logits and model dtypes differ.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3b7c6

Engines limited to fewer than three warmup requests may still compile seeded or greedy sampler kernels on the first live request, causing avoidable post-readiness latency. This should be fixed before merge.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GPUWarmup
  participant SamplingParams
  participant Sampler
  participant GPUModelRunner
  GPUWarmup->>SamplingParams: obtain unseeded, seeded, and greedy configurations
  SamplingParams-->>GPUWarmup: return sampling parameter list
  GPUWarmup->>Sampler: submit cycling warmup requests
  GPUWarmup->>Sampler: submit single-request decode steps
  GPUModelRunner->>Sampler: run greedy warmup with original logits
  GPUModelRunner->>Sampler: run greedy warmup with model-dtype logits when dtypes differ
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Rebased onto main and ready for review. Unit tests in tests/v1/worker/test_gpu_sampler_flags.py pass (14/14) and verified on A100.

cc @njhill @NickLucche — could someone please trigger the CI run?

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- Line 312: Update the warmup flow around sampling_params_list and the num_reqs
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Warm all configurations when fewer than three requests fit.

num_reqs can be 1 or 2 because scheduler and KV-cache limits are applied before this list is consumed. Cycling the list then creates only the first one or two configurations, and the greedy decode steps are skipped unless num_reqs >= 3. A one-request warmup never exercises seeded or greedy sampling. A two-request warmup never exercises greedy sampling. Run separate warmup passes for configurations that do not fit in one batch.

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In `@vllm/v1/worker/gpu/warmup.py` at line 312, Update the warmup flow around
sampling_params_list and the num_reqs limit so every sampling configuration is
exercised, even when fewer than three requests fit in a batch. Run additional
warmup passes for configurations that cannot be included together, and ensure
seeded and greedy decode paths are executed independently of the num_reqs >= 3
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