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cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants selects which one-engine speculative-decoding graph variants to capture: greedy, advanced, and supported temperature_only. When unset, the engine captures all supported variants. Uncaptured variants use eager execution; under attention DP, the whole step runs eagerly on every rank. The change also adds a once-per-variant warning and updates SpecMetadata to control whether greedy batches use greedy graphs.

Argument validation rejects duplicate values, incompatible speculative-decoding modes, confidence scheduling, and unsupported temperature_only configurations. Both serve schemas, the LLM-args golden manifest, and the speculative-decoding guide document the new prototype field. The attention-DP fallback path has not been tested on multiple GPUs. The committed tests do not cover argument-validation errors or attention-DP graph agreement.

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QA Engineer Review

Added test_sampling_variants_capture_only_the_listed_graphs in tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py. It checks selective graph capture, greedy decoding through sampled graphs, eager fallback and warning for an uncaptured sampled variant, and sampled-output validity. It skips when CUDA is unavailable or device memory is below 35 GB. The test is not listed in the searched integration CI or manual-QA lists. Other test changes set greedy_graphs=True in metadata fixtures. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. Add committed tests for argument-validation errors and multi-GPU attention-DP graph agreement.

Per-File QA Perspective

• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/cuda_graph_runner.py — Verify sampling-variant classification, graph-key selection, and eager fallback for uncaptured variants.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/graphs.py — Verify default and selective graph capture, unsupported-variant rejection, and once-per-variant warnings.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/metadata.py — Verify that temperature_only metadata is enabled only when supported and selected, and that other configurations use the intended path.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/runner.py — Verify propagation of sampling_variants and warnings for eager speculative decode batches.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py — Verify that greedy_graphs selects the intended sampling path for all-greedy batches.
• tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py — Verify allowed values, duplicate rejection, and compatibility checks for speculative decoding, confidence scheduling, and temperature_only.
• tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-config.schema.json — Verify the optional field, allowed values, and documented fallback behavior.
• tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-disagg-config.schema.json — Verify the optional field and documented temperature_only constraints.
• tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json — Verify the categorical field and its allowed values.
• docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md — Verify that documented variant support, fallback behavior, and sampling tradeoffs match runtime behavior.
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py — Covers selective capture, greedy replay, eager fallback and warning, and sampled-output validity. It is not listed in the searched integration CI or manual-QA lists.
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_ragged_spec_sampler.py — Sets greedy_graphs=True in sampling-parameter metadata; verify that uniform and ragged cases still exercise the intended behavior. It is not listed in the searched integration CI or manual-QA lists.
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_sampling_scan_cache.py — Defaults metadata to greedy_graphs=True; verify sampling-scan cache and temperature-only graph-selection cases. It is not listed in the searched integration CI or manual-QA lists.
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_capture_sampling_params.py — Sets greedy_graphs=True in fake metadata; verify capture and sampling-parameter tests use the intended path. It is not listed in the searched integration CI or manual-QA lists.
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_group_all_greedy_sync.py — Sets greedy_graphs=True in its fixture; verify all-greedy synchronization coverage. It is not listed in the searched integration CI or manual-QA lists.

Description

One-engine speculative decoding (MTP, Eagle3 one-model, and the other modes that sample inside the speculative worker)
captures one set of decode CUDA graphs per sampling variant: greedy, advanced (sampled requests), and, for models that
sample from vocabulary-sharded logits, temperature-only. A deployment whose requests all use one variant still pays the
warmup and capture time, and the graph memory, of every variant at each startup.

This PR adds cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants, a list of the variants to capture (greedy, advanced,
temperature_only):

• Unset (the default) keeps the current behavior: every variant the engine supports is captured.
• greedy serves decode batches whose requests all decode greedily; advanced serves batches with a sampled request,
  one whose temperature, top-k, top-p or min-p does not resolve to greedy decoding (a seed or a penalty alone does not);
  temperature_only serves sampled batches whose sampled requests set only a temperature, on models whose MTP-Eagle
  one-model decode samples vocabulary-sharded logits (the spec-decode fast paths; today Qwen3.5 checkpoints on
  SM 10.0/10.3 GPUs) with tensor parallelism, without attention DP, relaxed acceptance, rejection sampling or penalties.
  On other models the first CUDA graph capture rejects it.
• A batch whose variant is not listed falls back to a captured variant that can serve it:
  • Without temperature_only, temperature-only batches replay the advanced graphs.
  • Without greedy, greedy batches take the sampled path and replay the temperature_only graphs if listed, else the
    advanced ones; their rows still decode greedily through the sentinel sampling parameters. This has a cost: they
    add sampling-parameter and RNG-state uploads, take the sampled path in eager steps too, and on the advanced
    graphs exact ties can break differently than on the greedy graphs. They also lose the argmax fast paths: with
    rejection sampling, argmax drafting and its LM-head-TP path; and the vocabulary-sharded target argmax where the
    model has one. A model with the spec-decode fast paths keeps that argmax by listing temperature_only, unless it
    uses rejection sampling; DFlash with tensor parallelism keeps its shard selection when it runs without rejection
    sampling and with advanced_sampling_mode: no_topk_no_topp.
  • Without advanced, a sampled batch that temperature_only does not serve runs eagerly. The first such batch of
    each variant logs a warning that names the captured variants; warmup batches are not reported.
• The variant check is part of the attention-DP graph agreement (the allgather that already agrees graph eligibility and
  batch size), so a rank with a batch that must run eagerly sends every rank eager in that step, as replay assumes: it
  freezes all_rank_num_tokens. The graph key and the check read the variant from one helper, sampling_variant().
• Under attention DP, leaving greedy out no longer sends steps eager because of an idle or all-greedy rank. This holds
  by construction, from four facts of the code; it has not been measured on multiple GPUs yet:
  1. An idle attention-DP rank runs a dummy or retained padding row, which carries no sampling parameters and so is a
     greedy row, and every rank's batch goes through the sampling scan (update_is_all_greedy_sample) before the graph
     key is built.
  2. With greedy unlisted, create_spec_metadata sets SpecMetadata.greedy_graphs to False and the scan never
     reports an all-greedy batch, so the flag is False at both capture and replay; the graphs' metadata copies inherit
     it.
  3. A list without greedy names a sampled variant, and the variant a greedy batch then resolves to
     (temperature_only if listed, else advanced) is one of the listed ones; the graph key and the
     can_run_cuda_graph check read it through the same sampling_variant().
  4. _agree_graph_shape all-gathers each rank's can_run_cuda_graph, and by 1-3 the variant term reports False only
     on a rank holding an unlisted sampled variant. Steps still go eager on every rank for main's own reasons (a
     batch-size mismatch across ranks, or a batch that cannot run a graph), as before.
• Argument validation rejects an empty or repeated list; a list without one-engine speculative decoding (AUTO is
  accepted: it becomes suffix-automaton decoding, a one-engine mode); a list with DSpark confidence scheduling, which plans
  each step's graph before the step's variant is known; and temperature_only where the arguments rule it out (not
  MTP-Eagle one-model, no tensor parallelism, attention DP, relaxed acceptance, rejection sampling or penalties: with
  rejection sampling or penalties no batch selects the temperature-only graphs). The validator rejects the
  configurations it can see; the first graph capture rejects a variant the model cannot serve, and for a model without
  the spec-decode fast paths, which the arguments do not show, that is the only check on temperature_only.
• The temperature-only condition is factored into supports_temperature_only_graphs, shared by the capture and the
  speculative metadata.
• docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md gains a "CUDA graph sampling variants" section with an example, the
  fallbacks and their cost.

The new field is in the LLM-args golden manifest (tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json, one new categorical
row), and both serve config schemas carry it. It needs telemetry/privacy CODEOWNER approval. The field is marked
prototype; the protected LLM API signatures (tests/unittest/api_stability) are unchanged.

Measured results

DeepSeek-R1-0528-NVFP4-v2 on one GB300 node, DEP4
(attention DP, EP4, CUTLASS MoE) with MTP (3 draft tokens), cuda_graph_config with padding up to batch 256 (21 batch
sizes). Under attention DP the engine captures greedy and advanced graphs, 42 per rank. Two sets of runs on two nodes; on
each node the arms ran in sequence with the checkpoint in the page cache. Rank 0 (ranks 1-3 within 0.4 s):

Arm	Graphs per rank	Final executor's cuda_graph_capture, node 1 / node 2	KV-cache estimation executor's, node 1 / node 2
stock	42	36.2 s / 33.2 s	34.0 s / 32.8 s
sampling_variants: [greedy]	21	18.5 s / 16.4 s	17.5 s / 21.0 s
stock again	42	35.1 s / 32.3 s	33.5 s / 37.2 s

• The final executor's capture: -17.2 s (-48%) on node 1 and -16.4 s (-50%) on node 2 against the mean of the two stock
  runs. With the estimation executor's capture, a startup that estimates the KV cache saves about 30 s here.
• Final executor creation: 24.9 s against 42.1 and 41.2 s (node 1), 21.5 s against 38.1 and 37.3 s (node 2).
• On a model that also captures temperature-only graphs, keeping one of three variants should save about two thirds
  (estimated, not measured here).
• Token equality could not be checked on this model: two stock runs on the same node, with the autotuner tactics shared
  through TLLM_AUTOTUNER_CACHE_PATH, already decode different greedy tokens for 7 of the 8 prompts (from the 2nd to the
  10th token on). The end-to-end test below checks tokens instead.

Attention DP check

DeepSeek-R1-0528-NVFP4-v2, DEP4 with MTP (3 draft tokens), batch_sizes: [1, 2, 4, 8] with padding,
sampling_variants: [greedy], TRTLLM_FORCE_COMM_METHOD=ALLGATHER; five concurrent requests, one of them at
temperature 0.8 / top-p 0.9:

• With the check: all five finished (64 tokens each, 4.4 s); the rank holding the sampled request logged
  A decode batch with advanced sampling runs eagerly.
• Without the check: the same probe also completed (4.9 s), with ranks mixing replay and eager in one step. Whether such a
  step hangs or miscounts depends on the communication backend and the shapes; the check keeps every rank on the same
  path, which replay assumes.

The measurements and this check used this PR's first commit (22c7228), applied to the touched files of a build of
main 0bdadaa plus #21438, which also changes cuda_graph_runner.py, graphs.py, runner.py and metadata.py (the
get_graph_key hunk was applied by hand there: #21438 adds a second temperature-only flag, which sampling_variant()
then reads too). The later commits (ce6a3fc to f7ef562) do not change the [greedy] path measured here. The
greedy-unlisted path under attention DP has not been run on multiple GPUs.

Test Coverage

• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py (new; runs in the pre-merge H100
  PyTorch stage through unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic): Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct with an Eagle3 one-model draft,
  engines with sampling_variants=["greedy"] and ["advanced"], counting CUDA graph replays per generate call:
  • the two lists each capture one variant, of the same graph shapes;
  • greedy requests on ["advanced"] replay its graphs without the eager-variant warning and decode the same tokens as
    on ["greedy"];
  • a seeded sampled request on ["greedy"] replays no graph, runs under the once-per-variant warning and returns a
    well-formed output (its length and token ids). Its tokens are not compared with another engine: in CI
    they differed between the ["greedy"] engine and an engine without CUDA graphs.
  • Against the code without this PR the test fails (the field does not exist); without the greedy fallback, the
    ["advanced"] engine logs the eager-variant warning and the test fails.
  • This version passed on one GB300 node, on an image of main 0bdadaa plus [TRTLLM-16622][feat] DeepSeek-V4.1: Perf optimizations for DS-V4.1-Flash-NVFP4 #21438 with this branch's Python merged
    in. The previous version also compared the sampled request's tokens with an engine without CUDA graphs; that
    comparison failed in CI and is replaced by the replay count.
• The argument validation was checked by hand on the rebased branch, 20 cases. Rejected with the sampling_variants
  error: an empty, repeated, unknown or hyphenated variant; no speculative config; NGram; and temperature_only with
  Eagle3, with MTP on one GPU, under attention DP, with relaxed acceptance, with penalties and with rejection sampling.
  Accepted: AUTO with [greedy], MTP with [greedy], MTP under attention DP with [advanced], MTP with TP2 and
  [greedy, temperature_only] or [temperature_only], MTP with TP2 and penalties with [advanced], Eagle3 with the
  dict form, and DraftTarget (a one-engine mode) with [greedy]. The two temperature_only lists then also need a
  model with the spec-decode fast paths, or the first capture rejects them.
• The existing CPU tests of the touched files pass on the rebased branch, as on its main base:
  tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/test_group_all_greedy_sync.py, test_capture_sampling_params.py,
  hw_agnostic/test_ragged_spec_sampler.py and hw_agnostic/test_sampling_scan_cache.py (their metadata stand-ins gain
  greedy_graphs), tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/, tests/unittest/_torch/pyexecutor/test_cuda_graph_runner.py,
  tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py::TestTorchLlmArgsCudaGraphSettings, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_trtllm_serve_config_schemas.py,
  tests/unittest/api_stability/test_llm_api.py, tests/unittest/usage/test_llmapi_config_capture.py and
  tests/unittest/usage/test_llmapi_config_telemetry_docs.py, with the golden manifest and the serve schemas matching
  their generators. Their cases that need a GPU are left to the GPU stages.

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Adds optional sampling-variant selection for CUDA graphs in one-engine speculative decoding. The selection controls graph capture and decode-time graph eligibility. Uncaptured variants use the eager path, and applicable decode batches produce a warning.

Changes

Sampling variant graph selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sampling variant configuration tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py, tensorrt_llm/schemas/trtllm-serve-*-config.schema.json, tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json	Adds sampling_variants with three allowed values. Validation restricts its use to supported decoding configurations. The serving schemas and golden manifest include the option.
Graph capture and decode selection tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/cuda_graph_runner.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/*	Classifies sampling metadata and uses the selected variants for graph capture and eligibility. Uncaptured variants use the eager path, and the runner warns for applicable decode batches.
Metadata and behavior validation tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/*, docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md	Adds metadata for whether greedy batches use their own graphs. Tests check selective capture, eager fallback, warnings, and token output. Documentation describes variant requirements and effects.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TorchLlmArgs
  participant DecoderRunner
  participant DecoderCudaGraphs
  participant CUDAGraphRunner
  TorchLlmArgs->>DecoderRunner: provide validated sampling_variants
  DecoderRunner->>DecoderCudaGraphs: select variants for graph capture
  DecoderRunner->>CUDAGraphRunner: configure graph eligibility
  CUDAGraphRunner->>DecoderRunner: return graph key or eager selection
  DecoderRunner->>DecoderCudaGraphs: warn for an uncaptured variant

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Security architecture risk: Low · up to f7ef5

Configuration checks constrain the new behavior, and no new privilege or data-access path was identified. Requests can cause an entire distributed step to run without acceleration when their sampling mode was not captured. Multi-rank and interrupted-startup behavior remain only partially verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — After a deployment selects a reduced capture set, request sampling parameters can influence whether their batch, and an associated attention-DP step, loses graph acceleration. The evidenced scope is shared inference execution within that rank group; broader tenant or service exposure cannot be established without deployment topology.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The configured list determines which graphs exist; batch metadata selects among execution paths but does not expand that list. Configuration validation rejects incompatible selections, and replay eligibility rejects an unlisted variant before graph lookup.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Normal capture finalization resets temporary sampling flags, and subsequent iterations refresh metadata. The added test checks repeated calls, greedy output agreement, and eager fallback, but does not establish interruption recovery or multi-rank behavior.

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tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py: 1

8446-8476: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add CPU tests for sampling_variants validation.

The GPU test covers an accepted advanced configuration, but it does not check the rejection paths. A regression could therefore allow an invalid configuration.

Add tests to TestTorchLlmArgsCudaGraphSettings for:

• Empty and duplicate lists.
• Missing and non-one-engine speculative configurations.
• Confidence scheduling.
• temperature_only without sharded-sampling support.
• Acceptance of AUTO with ["greedy"].

Assert the relevant validation errors so an unrelated error cannot satisfy a rejection test. The file is already in the CPU test list.

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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py around lines 8446 - 8476:
Extend TestTorchLlmArgsCudaGraphSettings with CPU tests for empty and duplicate
sampling_variants lists, missing and non-one-engine speculative configurations,
confidence scheduling, and temperature_only without sharded-sampling support;
also verify AUTO with ["greedy"] is accepted. For rejection cases, assert the
specific validation error from validate_cuda_graph_sampling_variants so
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tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/engine/runners/decoder/graphs.py: 1

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warn_uncaptured_sampling_variant has no direct test and runs on a hot path.

runner.py calls this method on every eager decode step. It calls sampling_variant and builds sorted(self._sampling_variants) for the message before warning_once can deduplicate it. This costs one sort and one f-string per eager step.

Build the message only on the first occurrence. Track emitted variants in a small set.

Proposed change

-        variant = sampling_variant(spec_metadata)
-        if variant not in self._sampling_variants:
-            logger.warning_once(
-                f"A decode batch with {variant} sampling runs eagerly: "
-                f"cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants captured {sorted(self._sampling_variants)}",
-                key=f"uncaptured_sampling_variant_{variant}",
-            )
+        variant = sampling_variant(spec_metadata)
+        if variant in self._sampling_variants or variant in self._warned_variants:
+            return
+        self._warned_variants.add(variant)
+        logger.warning_once(
+            f"A decode batch with {variant} sampling runs eagerly: "
+            f"cuda_graph_config.sampling_variants captured {sorted(self._sampling_variants)}",
+            key=f"uncaptured_sampling_variant_{variant}",
+        )

Also initialize self._warned_variants: set[str] = set() in __init__.

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- Around line 328-333: Add a parametrized test in the decoder metadata tests for
TP=2 one-model MTP-Eagle with fast paths enabled and attention DP disabled.
Exercise an unset sampling_variants list, one containing temperature_only, and
one excluding it, and assert the resulting metadata flag in each case; use
captures_temperature_only_graphs and the existing metadata setup patterns to
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- Around line 8446-8476: Extend TestTorchLlmArgsCudaGraphSettings with CPU tests
for empty and duplicate sampling_variants lists, missing and non-one-engine
speculative configurations, confidence scheduling, and temperature_only without
sharded-sampling support; also verify AUTO with ["greedy"] is accepted. For
rejection cases, assert the specific validation error from
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Runtime part looks right to me: with the field unset, graph selection and capture match main, and the variant check rides the existing attention-DP agreement, so ranks stay on one path. One gap inline: temperature_only is accepted with rejection sampling or penalties, where it can never be selected, so sampled batches would run eagerly. There is also a doc note on idle attention-DP ranks and a small test request.

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Two gaps to close before merge, plus housekeeping.

1. The new test never runs on a GPU in CI. tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/ has no GPU-list entry for test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py. It is only collected by the unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic directory glob in l0_cpu.yml, and the torch.cuda.is_available() skip fires there. Add it to a GPU list with ≥35 GB, such as l0_h100.yml or l0_b200.yml. Also add CPU-only tests for the TorchLlmArgs validator: duplicates, non-one-engine modes, confidence scheduling, and temperature_only with ADP or TP=1. Those need no GPU.

2. Attention DP with greedy unlisted. Under ADP, an idle rank's dummy batch has no sampling params, so sampling_variant() classifies it as greedy. With sampling_variants: [advanced], that rank reports can_run_cuda_graph=False, and _agree_graph_shape then makes the whole step eager on every rank. Workloads that never send greedy requests are still affected. The docstring's advice to "list every variant the workload sends" does not cover this case. See the inline comment for options.

Housekeeping

• The title carries [None] for a new user-facing config option. Link a JIRA ticket.
• docs/ has no coverage of the option. It is prototype, but the ADP behavior and the temperature_only fallback to advanced should be documented somewhere other than the field description, e.g. the CUDA graph or speculative decoding feature docs.
• The description is cut off mid-sentence ("pays the warmup and capt"). The auto-generated review block also states that validation failures and ADP have no test coverage, which matches item 1.

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@brnguyen2 thanks for the review. On the points in your summary:

1. The new test does run on a GPU in CI: l0_h100.yml lists unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic in its pre-merge block, GPU stages run with -m "not cpu_only", and CI ran and passed its first version in the H100 PyTorch stage. It now also covers the greedy-only selection. For the validator I kept to the end-to-end test and re-ran 20 validation cases by hand; the inline thread lists them.
2. Attention DP with greedy unlisted: 172c44a takes your first option, so greedy batches and idle-rank dummy rows replay the sampled graphs instead of running eagerly. This holds by construction (the PR description lists the four code facts); it has not been run on multiple GPUs yet.

Housekeeping:

• JIRA: there is no JIRA ticket for this change, so the title keeps [None].
• Docs: docs/source/features/speculative-decoding.md has a new "CUDA graph sampling variants" section with the fallbacks (172c44a) and the cost of leaving greedy out (00b41e2 and 6eac31e).
• The description is rewritten for the current behavior: the greedy and temperature_only fallbacks, the temperature_only conditions, the attention-DP reasoning and the new test.

On CodeRabbit's review-level points: the CPU validator tests are left out for the same reason, with the 20 cases run by hand; warn_uncaptured_sampling_variant runs only on decode steps that already run eagerly and warning_once deduplicates its output, so its cost is negligible next to an eager forward; and the field validator now has a docstring (ce6a3fc).

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8520-8556: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add CPU tests for the temperature_only rejection rules.

A regression could allow temperature_only with rejection sampling or penalties, even though those batches cannot select that variant. In tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py, use an otherwise eligible MTP-Eagle configuration and assert rejection for each flag separately. Also assert acceptance with both flags disabled. Mock FlashInfer availability for the rejection-sampling case so another validator does not mask this check.

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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py around lines 8520 - 8556:
Add CPU tests in the existing test module for the
`TorchLlmArgs.validate_cuda_graph_sampling_variants` rejection rules: use an
otherwise eligible MTP-Eagle configuration and assert rejection when
`use_rejection_sampling` is enabled and, separately, when `enable_penalty` is
enabled; also assert acceptance when both are disabled. Mock FlashInfer
availability in the rejection-sampling case so another validator does not mask
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tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py: 1

70-93: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Test mixed-batch graph admission.

Add a case with greedy and sampled requests in the same decode batch and ["greedy"]. Assert that the batch runs eagerly and that both requests match eager results. The current separate calls can pass if a mixed batch is incorrectly classified as greedy.

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Extend test_sampling_variants_capture_only_the_listed_graphs with a mixed decode
batch containing both greedy and sampled requests under the ["greedy"] graph
configuration. Assert that the mixed batch runs eagerly and that each request’s
result matches its corresponding eager result, so the test verifies mixed-batch
admission rather than separate request behavior.

tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/cuda_graph_runner.py: 1

733-738: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Add a mixed-variant attention-DP test.

In test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py, use equal-size batches and disable rejection synchronization. With ["greedy"], put greedy requests on one rank and sampled requests on another. Assert that both ranks run eagerly; otherwise a regression could let one rank replay while the other runs eagerly.

With ["advanced"], test the same requests and assert that both ranks select captured advanced graphs. Greedy requests select the advanced variant in this configuration, so both ranks must be eligible for replay.

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Review comment at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/cuda_graph_runner.py around
lines 733 - 738:
Add mixed-variant attention-DP coverage for the `can_run_cuda_graph` eligibility
behavior in `test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py`: use equal-size batches and
disable rejection synchronization, with greedy requests on one rank and sampled
requests on the other. With `["greedy"]`, assert both ranks run eagerly; with
`["advanced"]`, assert both select captured advanced graphs, since greedy
requests use the advanced variant in that configuration.

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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/cuda_graph_runner.py:
- Around line 733-738: Update the execution path controlled by
can_run_cuda_graph to remove graph-padding rows after rank agreement when a
sampled batch falls back to eager execution. Distinguish padding rows from the
attention-DP idle row, and preserve that idle row and symmetric collective
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Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/cuda_graph_runner.py:
- Around line 733-738: Add mixed-variant attention-DP coverage for the
`can_run_cuda_graph` eligibility behavior in
`test_cuda_graph_sampling_variants.py`: use equal-size batches and disable
rejection synchronization, with greedy requests on one rank and sampled requests
on the other. With `["greedy"]`, assert both ranks run eagerly; with
`["advanced"]`, assert both select captured advanced graphs, since greedy
requests use the advanced variant in that configuration.

Review comments at @tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py:
- Around line 8520-8556: Add CPU tests in the existing test module for the
`TorchLlmArgs.validate_cuda_graph_sampling_variants` rejection rules: use an
otherwise eligible MTP-Eagle configuration and assert rejection when
`use_rejection_sampling` is enabled and, separately, when `enable_penalty` is
enabled; also assert acceptance when both are disabled. Mock FlashInfer
availability in the rejection-sampling case so another validator does not mask
the expected rejection.

Review comments at
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- Around line 70-93: Extend
test_sampling_variants_capture_only_the_listed_graphs with a mixed decode batch
containing both greedy and sampled requests under the ["greedy"] graph
configuration. Assert that the mixed batch runs eagerly and that each request’s
result matches its corresponding eager result, so the test verifies mixed-batch
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[JunyiXu-nv]

Thanks, my comments are addressed: temperature_only is now rejected with rejection sampling or penalties, and without 'greedy' greedy batches (idle ADP dummy rows too) take the sampled graphs; the group greedy flag is gathered from the already-adjusted local flag, so ranks stay on one path. Fine with the e2e test covering the graph-key term. Runtime part LGTM.

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