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77 lines
2.9 KiB
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# Dynamic Speculative Decoding
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## Why is Dynamic SD needed?
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SD methods need to verify K tokens for each sequence during decoding. As BS increases, the effective BS becomes BS\*K which increases the compute requirement during verification. When this BS\*K goes beyond a critical BS then SD negatively impacts the decode speed (TPOT). DSD helps by tuning the K to an optimal value such that we continue to reap the benefits from SD.
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## Use cases
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* Variable concurrency workload using same deployment. K would decrease as concurrency increases.
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* During RL rollout where we start off with high BS but then end up with small BS due to very few long tail request which end up generating a lot of tokens stalling the progress of the current rollout. Here K would go up during the end of rollout.
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## `--speculative-config` schema
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To use Dynamic SD, add `num_speculative_tokens_per_batch_size` to the config of an SD method which is a list of list. Here, an entry is `[start_bs, end_bs, optimal_K]` which means when the concurrency is within range `[start_bs, end_bs]` then `optimal_K` number of draft tokens are used. For e.g.,
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```bash
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--speculative-config '{
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"method": "eagle",
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"model": "yuhuili/EAGLE-LLaMA3.1-Instruct-8B",
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"num_speculative_tokens": 3,
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"num_speculative_tokens_per_batch_size": [
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[1, 64, 3],
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[65, 128, 1],
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[129, 512, 0]
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]
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}'
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```
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implies that:
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* K=3 will be used when the concurrency is in range [1, 64]
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* K=1 will be used when the concurrency is in range [65, 128]
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* K=0 will be used when the concurrency is in range [129, 512], i.e., no draft tokens will be produced.
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## Online Examples
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### Dynamic SD Eagle Drafter
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```bash
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VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=0 vllm serve meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct \
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--speculative-config '{
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"method": "eagle",
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"model": "yuhuili/EAGLE-LLaMA3.1-Instruct-8B",
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"num_speculative_tokens": 3,
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"num_speculative_tokens_per_batch_size": [
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[1, 64, 3],
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[65, 128, 1],
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[129, 512, 0]
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]
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}'
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```
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### Dynamic SD Eagle3 Drafter
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```bash
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VLLM_USE_V2_MODEL_RUNNER=0 vllm serve meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct \
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--speculative-config '{
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"method": "eagle3",
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"model": "yuhuili/EAGLE3-LLaMA3.1-Instruct-8B",
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"num_speculative_tokens": 3,
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"num_speculative_tokens_per_batch_size": [
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[1, 16, 5],
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[17, 32, 4],
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[33, 64, 3],
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[65, 128, 1],
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[129, 512, 0]
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]
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}'
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```
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## Limitations
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* Tested with Eagle, Eagle-3, and DFlash. Other SD methods may or may not work out of the box
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* Full Cudagraph only works with Model Runner V2. MRv1 only supports piece-wise cuda graph with this feature
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* Not compatible with data parallelism (`--data-parallel-size > 1`). Each DP rank schedules independently, so ranks can pick different K values, causing DP collective divergence and deadlocks. When DP is enabled, vLLM automatically disables `num_speculative_tokens_per_batch_size` and falls back to the static `num_speculative_tokens` value.
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