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[None][fix] serve: take Kimi-K3 chat prompt ids from its renderer; count_tokens matches usage - #21111
The chat route renders a prompt to text, and the engine tokenizes that text. Kimi-K3 renders its prompt with the checkpoint's own Python renderer (apply_chat_template in its tokenizer, no Jinja template). That renderer tokenizes segment by segment: its markup becomes control tokens and message content stays ordinary text. Encoding its rendered text again loses that distinction. A control-token string inside message content, such as a tool result or a file that contains <|im_end|> or <|open|>, becomes a control token. <|im_end|> is not in the Kimi-K3 vocabulary, so it encodes to id 163840, past the 163840-entry vocabulary, and the request fails with "Token ID out of range". Claude Code resends the whole history on every turn, so every later turn of that session fails too.
Changes:
The condition apply_chat_template uses to pick the tokenizer's own renderer (no Jinja template on the request, the server, the processor or the tokenizer, and a Python apply_chat_template override) is now one function, uses_tokenizer_native_renderer. The dispatch and the serving layer share it.
When that renderer builds a chat prompt and nothing is added to it or cut from it (no forced tool-call prefix, no add_special_tokens, no truncate_prompt_tokens), the chat route takes the renderer's own token ids instead of its text (render_conversation(prefer_native_ids=True)). /v1/messages goes through the chat route, so it gets the same prompt.
Prompts with media keep the text path, because the model's input processor expands the media placeholders in the text. A request with an image therefore behaves as before, including re-encoding its text.
render_chat takes the same ids. It is the render behind count_tokens, the KV-aware router and the standalone renderer, so they now see the prompt the chat route executes. On a Kimi-K3 server this also stops count_tokens from falling back to the media-free length estimate. That fallback skipped the model's chat extensions; it was taken because the model's input processor is not the default text tokenizer.
count_tokens counted the 3-token generation channel opener that Kimi-K3 usage leaves out, so it reported 3 more tokens than the turn was billed for. It now leaves out what the chat route's usage leaves out. Both use one function, prompt_tokens_excluded_from_usage (a request-level wrapper over RenderResources.prompt_tokens_excluded_from_usage), which keeps the existing rule that a server-level chat template reports unadjusted usage.
Kimi-K3's render_version goes from 2 to 3. For content that spells out control tokens, the rendered ids now differ from the previous re-encoding of the text (for example 279 ids instead of 267 for a tool result with <|open|>tools<|sep|>), including requests without a generation prompt, whose ids the KV-aware router forwards. The version bump keeps a router on an older revision from writing such ids back to a worker on this one. For prompts that do not spell out control tokens, the ids are unchanged.
Models with a selected Jinja template keep the text path. For Kimi-K3’s native segment renderer (including its kimi_linear text-model path), that selected-template path explicitly invokes the Hugging Face Jinja renderer because the native renderer ignores the template. Other Python overrides remain active, preserving preprocessing such as Kimi-K2.5/K2.6 tool declarations before they delegate to Jinja. The Python renderer remains active when no Jinja template is declared. For Kimi-K3, the renderer's ids equal the engine's tokenization of the same text unless the content spells out control tokens. This was checked with the real tokenizer on prompts with a system message, tools, tool calls, tool results, CJK text, and thinking on and off. The tokenize=True path that Responses and the resource governor use is not changed.
A prompt taken as ids carries no text, so a reasoning parser that reads its mode off the prompt text cannot do that for it. The kimi_k3 reasoning parser takes its mode from the request.
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CPU tests (cpu_only, all in files already listed in l0_cpu.yml):
tests/unittest/inputs/test_chat_template_dispatch.py::TestPythonChatTemplate::test_the_native_renderer_is_used_only_without_any_jinja_template: the shared condition, including a Python override next to a Jinja template and a Jinja tokenizer wrapped in TransformersTokenizer.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_render_core.py::TestRenderChat::test_takes_a_native_renderers_ids_exactly_when_the_chat_route_does: render_chat takes a native renderer's ids for a plain request, and the text path for add_special_tokens, truncation and a server template, as the chat route does.
test_kimi_k3_control_token_strings_in_a_tool_result_stay_text: with the Kimi-K3 tokenizer, a tool result that spells out control tokens renders to ids that decode to the rendered text, stay inside the vocabulary, and contain the same control tokens as the same conversation without the markup.
test_kimi_k3_keeps_the_text_when_the_engine_changes_the_prompt: forced prefix, add_special_tokens and truncate_prompt_tokens keep the text.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_chat_multimodal_prompt.py, through openai_chat with a stub engine:
a text-only prompt reaches the engine as the renderer's ids;
a prompt with an image reaches it as text with the image;
a tokenizer template, a server template, add_special_tokens and truncate_prompt_tokens each keep the text, and the tokenizer is never asked for ids.
TestCountTokens::test_the_count_leaves_out_the_tokens_the_usage_leaves_out: the count leaves out what the extension excludes from usage, and nothing under a server template.
TestKimiK3MessagesAndCountTokens: on a Kimi-K3 server stub with the real tokenizer, a /v1/messages turn whose tool result spells out control tokens executes ids inside the vocabulary that keep the markup as text, and /v1/messages/count_tokens for the same input equals the billed input. Covered with and without Claude Code's adaptive thinking and effort fields.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_serving_extensions.py::TestOpenAIChatIntegration::test_a_server_chat_template_leaves_the_usage_unadjusted: the chat route keeps the server-template usage rule.
Two existing Kimi-K3 render tests now compare token ids (or ask for text explicitly), since render_chat returns ids for Kimi-K3.
The Kimi-K3 tests use the checkpoint's tokenizer from LLM_MODELS_ROOT and are skipped without it, like the existing Kimi-K3 render tests.
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Both tokenized and text render paths now share the native-token predicate, including the special-token flag and Jinja-template guard. Token counts are clamped to zero if an extension excludes more tokens than the prompt contains. The strengthened Jinja test also exposed the checkpoint renderer ignoring the selected template. It now verifies the SERVER: prefix and matching token IDs for both tokenizer-owned and request-selected templates. The prefix assertion failed before the dispatch fix. Tool-preprocessing regressions also verify that tools_ts_str reaches tokenizer-owned and request-selected templates, including a template-capable override using the kimi_linear model type. The original two preprocessing cases failed before the fix. All 213 renderer, caller, dispatch, and template-kwargs CPU tests passed in the local overlay; normal formatting, lint, and DCO commit hooks passed. This is focused CPU validation, not a complete build or GPU run.
Known limitation: Kimi-K3 requests containing media still use the text path. A control-token string in the content of such a request can still encounter the existing re-encoding failure. The native-ID fix here covers text-only requests. The release note documents both that scope and the count_tokens/usage alignment.
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uses_tokenizer_native_renderer centralizes native-renderer selection. It excludes requests with a selected call, processor, or tokenizer chat template.
Eligible text-only chat requests can use the renderer’s token IDs. Media, forced tool prefixes, added special tokens, and truncation retain text tokenization.
prompt_tokens_excluded_from_usage aligns count_tokens with chat usage. A server-level chat template disables the extension exclusion.
Media requests retain the existing text-reencoding path. The supplied context notes that control-token strings in media content can still trigger an existing failure.
The supplied context reports 130 render-core and caller tests passing locally. CI run #80916 completed successfully, but the L0 MergeRequest pipeline was unstable. No result was supplied for run #81554.
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Five unit-test files changed. They cover renderer selection, native-ID use and fallback, multimodal and modified prompts, usage exclusions, and Kimi-K3 count alignment.
Four changed test files are listed in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml. test_chat_template_dispatch.py has no matching CI-list entry. No matching manual-QA entries were found.
The supplied context reports that Kimi-K3 tests requiring the checkpoint tokenizer are skipped when it is unavailable.
Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The renderer-dispatch tests are not listed in the CI or manual-QA lists. Test status varies by source: local passes were reported, while the CI pipeline was unstable.
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tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py: Adds shared native-renderer detection and preserves explicitly selected Jinja templates. Verify template precedence across the call, processor, and tokenizer.
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py: Passes native IDs for eligible chat requests and applies prompt-token exclusions to usage counts. Verify media and prompt-modification fallbacks.
tensorrt_llm/serve/render/__init__.py: Re-exports the usage-exclusion helper. Verify package imports remain compatible.
tensorrt_llm/serve/render/chat.py: Adds prefer_native_ids and centralizes usage exclusions. Verify ID eligibility and text fallback when templates or prompt modifications apply.
tests/unittest/inputs/test_chat_template_dispatch.py: Tests native-renderer detection for template sources and tokenizer wrappers. It is not listed in the CI or manual-QA lists.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_chat_multimodal_prompt.py: Tests native IDs for eligible text-only requests and text handling for media, templates, and prompt modifications. It is listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_render_callers.py: Tests usage exclusions and Kimi-K3 count alignment. It is listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_render_core.py: Tests native-ID selection and fallback, including Kimi-K3 prompt cases. It is listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_serving_extensions.py: Tests that a server-level template disables extension usage exclusions. It is listed in test-db/l0_cpu.yml.
docs/source/release-notes.md: Documents native IDs for eligible Kimi-K3 requests and token-count alignment. Verify that the stated behavior matches the served behavior.
…unt_tokens matches usage
The chat route rendered a Kimi-K3 prompt to text and let the engine
tokenize that text. The checkpoint's own renderer keeps message content
as ordinary text, but encoding its rendered string turns a control-token
string inside content (a tool result or a file containing `<|im_end|>`
or `<|open|>`) into a control token. `<|im_end|>` becomes an id past the
vocabulary, and the request fails with "Token ID out of range".
- Factor the condition apply_chat_template uses to pick the tokenizer's
own renderer into uses_tokenizer_native_renderer.
- When that renderer builds a text-only chat prompt and nothing is added
to or cut from it, the chat route takes the renderer's own ids
(render_conversation(prefer_native_ids=True)). Prompts with media keep
the text path. render_chat (count_tokens, the KV-aware router, the
standalone renderer) takes the same ids.
- count_tokens leaves out the prompt tokens that usage leaves out (the
3-token generation channel opener for Kimi-K3), through one shared
function, prompt_tokens_excluded_from_usage.
Other models are unchanged: only prompts built by a tokenizer-native
renderer change.
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Eligible text-only chat prompts can use tokenizer-native IDs. Media prompts and requests with templates or rendering options that change tokenization use rendered text. A shared helper calculates prompt-token exclusions for chat preparation and token-count endpoints.
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Chat rendering and token usage
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Summary
Native ID selection tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py, tensorrt_llm/serve/render/chat.py, tests/unittest/inputs/test_chat_template_dispatch.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_render_core.py
A shared predicate identifies tokenizer-native renderers. The render path selects native IDs only when no selected template, forced prefix, special-token addition, or truncation prevents native rendering. Tests cover renderer detection and prompt-option cases.
Request rendering and media handling tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_chat_multimodal_prompt.py
openai_chat requests native IDs for eligible text-only prompts. Media prompts and requests with tokenizer or server templates, special-token addition, or truncation send rendered text.
A shared helper returns the applicable prompt-token exclusion. Chat preparation, OpenAI chat usage, and Anthropic token counting use that value. Tests cover server-template behavior and Kimi K3 token counts. The release note describes native IDs and token-count behavior.
Tool-calling requests to tokenizers that preprocess tools before rendering a Jinja template, such as Kimi-K2.5, may now receive a different prompt. Restrict the base-renderer fallback to overrides that cannot honor the selected template, and add a regression test, before merging.
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The fixture returned a canned chat response with prompt_tokens=1, so the
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the usage the reply reports. The stand-in now runs the real
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_engine_inputs posts to /v1/chat/completions, but every added request omits tools and tool_choice. These tests therefore cannot detect a regression that stops the route from passing forced_tool_begin_prefix to render_conversation. A named-tool request could then incorrectly reach the engine with native IDs instead of text.
Add one endpoint test with a supported named function choice. Assert that the captured engine input contains prompt and not prompt_token_ids. This checks route wiring without duplicating the renderer-level prefix assertions.
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A named tool_choice appends the parser's begin prefix to the rendered
text, so the route must not hand the engine the native renderer's ids.
The test posts one through /v1/chat/completions and fails when the route
stops passing the prefix to the renderer.
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@coderabbitai Re the forced-tool nitpick: added test_a_forced_tool_call_reaches_the_engine_as_text in 3ea6f2e. It posts a named tool_choice through /v1/chat/completions with the qwen3 parser. It asserts that the engine gets prompt equal to the rendered text plus the parser's begin prefix, with no prompt_token_ids, and that the tokenizer is never asked for ids. With forced_prefix=None passed to render_conversation in the route, the test fails.
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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.
The change itself holds up: I traced the render endpoint and the KV-aware router and both consume only token_ids and the prepared context, so render_chat returning ids without text does not change their output. K3's required-tool mode is "template", so the thinking is None raise in the chat route stays unreachable, and the K3 reasoning parser does not read its mode off the prompt.
Two whole-PR points:
Image turns still fail the same way. The description says prompts with media keep the text path, which means a K3 session that attaches an image still re-encodes and still hits "Token ID out of range" on any control-token string in content. That gap is wider than the title suggests. Please state it as a known limitation in the description, and consider tracking a follow-up (e.g. having the K3 input processor accept the renderer's ids alongside media).
Tracking reference. This fixes a concrete user-facing failure and changes count_tokens output for K3 deployments (3 tokens fewer, now matching usage). It should carry an NVBug or JIRA id rather than [None], and a one-line release note entry would help anyone reconciling token counts across versions.
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tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py:2383: When rendered.text is None, rendered_prompt stays None, so a reasoning parser with resolves_thinking_from_prompt can never resolve the mode for a native-id prompt and thinking falls through as None. That is harmless for kimi_k3 today (its parser reads the request, and its required-tool mode is "template" so the raise at the required_tool_grammar check below is unreachable), but the disaggregated generation-worker branch warns in the same situation and this one is silent. Consider logging once here too, so a future prompt-resolving parser paired with a native renderer is diagnosable instead of silently running in the wrong mode.
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The chat route renders a prompt to text, and the engine tokenizes that text. Kimi-K3 renders its prompt with the checkpoint's own Python renderer (
apply_chat_templatein its tokenizer, no Jinja template). That renderer tokenizes segment by segment: its markup becomes control tokens and message content stays ordinary text. Encoding its rendered text again loses that distinction. A control-token string inside message content, such as a tool result or a file that contains<|im_end|>or<|open|>, becomes a control token.<|im_end|>is not in the Kimi-K3 vocabulary, so it encodes to id 163840, past the 163840-entry vocabulary, and the request fails with "Token ID out of range". Claude Code resends the whole history on every turn, so every later turn of that session fails too.Changes:
apply_chat_templateuses to pick the tokenizer's own renderer (no Jinja template on the request, the server, the processor or the tokenizer, and a Pythonapply_chat_templateoverride) is now one function,uses_tokenizer_native_renderer. The dispatch and the serving layer share it.add_special_tokens, notruncate_prompt_tokens), the chat route takes the renderer's own token ids instead of its text (render_conversation(prefer_native_ids=True))./v1/messagesgoes through the chat route, so it gets the same prompt.render_chattakes the same ids. It is the render behindcount_tokens, the KV-aware router and the standalone renderer, so they now see the prompt the chat route executes. On a Kimi-K3 server this also stopscount_tokensfrom falling back to the media-free length estimate. That fallback skipped the model's chat extensions; it was taken because the model's input processor is not the default text tokenizer.count_tokenscounted the 3-token generation channel opener that Kimi-K3 usage leaves out, so it reported 3 more tokens than the turn was billed for. It now leaves out what the chat route's usage leaves out. Both use one function,prompt_tokens_excluded_from_usage(a request-level wrapper overRenderResources.prompt_tokens_excluded_from_usage), which keeps the existing rule that a server-level chat template reports unadjusted usage.render_versiongoes from 2 to 3. For content that spells out control tokens, the rendered ids now differ from the previous re-encoding of the text (for example 279 ids instead of 267 for a tool result with<|open|>tools<|sep|>), including requests without a generation prompt, whose ids the KV-aware router forwards. The version bump keeps a router on an older revision from writing such ids back to a worker on this one. For prompts that do not spell out control tokens, the ids are unchanged.Models with a selected Jinja template keep the text path. For Kimi-K3’s native segment renderer (including its
kimi_lineartext-model path), that selected-template path explicitly invokes the Hugging Face Jinja renderer because the native renderer ignores the template. Other Python overrides remain active, preserving preprocessing such as Kimi-K2.5/K2.6 tool declarations before they delegate to Jinja. The Python renderer remains active when no Jinja template is declared. For Kimi-K3, the renderer's ids equal the engine's tokenization of the same text unless the content spells out control tokens. This was checked with the real tokenizer on prompts with a system message, tools, tool calls, tool results, CJK text, and thinking on and off. Thetokenize=Truepath that Responses and the resource governor use is not changed.A prompt taken as ids carries no text, so a reasoning parser that reads its mode off the prompt text cannot do that for it. The kimi_k3 reasoning parser takes its mode from the request.
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cpu_only, all in files already listed inl0_cpu.yml):tests/unittest/inputs/test_chat_template_dispatch.py::TestPythonChatTemplate::test_the_native_renderer_is_used_only_without_any_jinja_template: the shared condition, including a Python override next to a Jinja template and a Jinja tokenizer wrapped inTransformersTokenizer.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_render_core.py::TestRenderChat::test_takes_a_native_renderers_ids_exactly_when_the_chat_route_does:render_chattakes a native renderer's ids for a plain request, and the text path foradd_special_tokens, truncation and a server template, as the chat route does.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_render_core.py::TestRenderConversation:test_kimi_k3_control_token_strings_in_a_tool_result_stay_text: with the Kimi-K3 tokenizer, a tool result that spells out control tokens renders to ids that decode to the rendered text, stay inside the vocabulary, and contain the same control tokens as the same conversation without the markup.test_kimi_k3_keeps_the_text_when_the_engine_changes_the_prompt: forced prefix,add_special_tokensandtruncate_prompt_tokenskeep the text.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_chat_multimodal_prompt.py, throughopenai_chatwith a stub engine:add_special_tokensandtruncate_prompt_tokenseach keep the text, and the tokenizer is never asked for ids.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_render_callers.py:TestCountTokens::test_the_count_leaves_out_the_tokens_the_usage_leaves_out: the count leaves out what the extension excludes from usage, and nothing under a server template.TestKimiK3MessagesAndCountTokens: on a Kimi-K3 server stub with the real tokenizer, a/v1/messagesturn whose tool result spells out control tokens executes ids inside the vocabulary that keep the markup as text, and/v1/messages/count_tokensfor the same input equals the billed input. Covered with and without Claude Code's adaptive thinking and effort fields.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_serving_extensions.py::TestOpenAIChatIntegration::test_a_server_chat_template_leaves_the_usage_unadjusted: the chat route keeps the server-template usage rule.render_chatreturns ids for Kimi-K3.The Kimi-K3 tests use the checkpoint's tokenizer from
LLM_MODELS_ROOTand are skipped without it, like the existing Kimi-K3 render tests.Review follow-up validation
Both tokenized and text render paths now share the native-token predicate, including the special-token flag and Jinja-template guard. Token counts are clamped to zero if an extension excludes more tokens than the prompt contains. The strengthened Jinja test also exposed the checkpoint renderer ignoring the selected template. It now verifies the SERVER: prefix and matching token IDs for both tokenizer-owned and request-selected templates. The prefix assertion failed before the dispatch fix. Tool-preprocessing regressions also verify that
tools_ts_strreaches tokenizer-owned and request-selected templates, including a template-capable override using thekimi_linearmodel type. The original two preprocessing cases failed before the fix. All 213 renderer, caller, dispatch, and template-kwargs CPU tests passed in the local overlay; normal formatting, lint, and DCO commit hooks passed. This is focused CPU validation, not a complete build or GPU run.Known limitation: Kimi-K3 requests containing media still use the text path. A control-token string in the content of such a request can still encounter the existing re-encoding failure. The native-ID fix here covers text-only requests. The release note documents both that scope and the count_tokens/usage alignment.
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uses_tokenizer_native_renderercentralizes native-renderer selection. It excludes requests with a selected call, processor, or tokenizer chat template.prompt_tokens_excluded_from_usagealignscount_tokenswith chat usage. A server-level chat template disables the extension exclusion.#80916completed successfully, but the L0 MergeRequest pipeline was unstable. No result was supplied for run#81554.QA Engineer Review
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tensorrt_llm/inputs/utils.py: Adds shared native-renderer detection and preserves explicitly selected Jinja templates. Verify template precedence across the call, processor, and tokenizer.tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py: Passes native IDs for eligible chat requests and applies prompt-token exclusions to usage counts. Verify media and prompt-modification fallbacks.tensorrt_llm/serve/render/__init__.py: Re-exports the usage-exclusion helper. Verify package imports remain compatible.tensorrt_llm/serve/render/chat.py: Addsprefer_native_idsand centralizes usage exclusions. Verify ID eligibility and text fallback when templates or prompt modifications apply.tests/unittest/inputs/test_chat_template_dispatch.py: Tests native-renderer detection for template sources and tokenizer wrappers. It is not listed in the CI or manual-QA lists.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_openai_chat_multimodal_prompt.py: Tests native IDs for eligible text-only requests and text handling for media, templates, and prompt modifications. It is listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_render_callers.py: Tests usage exclusions and Kimi-K3 count alignment. It is listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_render_core.py: Tests native-ID selection and fallback, including Kimi-K3 prompt cases. It is listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.tests/unittest/llmapi/apps/test_serving_extensions.py: Tests that a server-level template disables extension usage exclusions. It is listed intest-db/l0_cpu.yml.docs/source/release-notes.md: Documents native IDs for eligible Kimi-K3 requests and token-count alignment. Verify that the stated behavior matches the served behavior.