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Description

Enable draft_len_schedule for dspark. Adds some machinery to keep drafter state consistent when draft length drops to 0. The drafter can still only produce whole blocks at a time - we truncate them if necessary to achieve the requested draft length.

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Added new unit tests.

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DSpark now supports dynamic draft lengths. When runtime_draft_len is zero, the worker skips verification and proposal generation, but advances generation windows to match the target step. It also preserves persistent state during CUDA-graph warmup and keeps required draft-MoE calls in cross-rank lockstep, including for idle ranks.

Configuration validation rejects combining DSpark confidence scheduling with draft_len_schedule or max_concurrency. Review findings and completed CI, build, and test results are not available.

QA Engineer Review

Added one unit-test file and modified three existing unit-test files. The tests cover schedule-based trimming, zero-draft steps, window state, warmup restoration, padding rows, cross-rank MoE calls, and configuration validation. No test-list files changed; integration test-list status is not applicable to these unit tests. Coverage verdict: sufficient for the changed behaviors. Test execution results are not available.

Per-File QA Perspective

• tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dspark.py: Verify zero-draft steps keep rolling windows aligned with target tokens, preserve warmup state, and make required draft-MoE calls across ranks.
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py: DSpark now reports support for dynamic draft lengths. Verify callers can select this mode without changing other modes’ behavior.
• tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py: Confidence scheduling now rejects draft_len_schedule and max_concurrency; verify the validation error and that the existing K1 path remains unaffected.
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_draft_len_schedule.py: Adds CPU tests for schedule trimming, zero-draft worker behavior, warmup state, padding, and MoE lockstep. It is not an integration test-list entry.
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_worker.py: Sets runtime draft length in mixed-batch and guided-batch tests. It is not an integration test-list entry.
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_worker_confidence_state.py: Sets runtime draft length in the warmup regression test. It is not an integration test-list entry.
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_ragged_spec_sampler.py: Sets runtime draft length in the DSpark forward test. It is not an integration test-list entry.
• tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py: Adds tests for confidence-scheduling conflicts and draft-schedule normalization. It is not an integration test-list entry.

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Walkthrough

DSpark now supports dynamic draft lengths and handles target steps with no drafting. The worker updates rolling-window state, preserves state during non-capturing warmup, and makes the required cross-rank draft-MoE calls. Configuration validation and tests cover these paths.

Changes

DSpark runtime draft-length handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Dynamic draft-length contract tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py, tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_draft_len_schedule.py, tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py	DSpark now reports support for dynamic draft lengths. With confidence scheduling enabled, validation rejects draft_len_schedule and max_concurrency. Tests cover schedule trimming, the max_concurrency cutoff, and configuration validation.
Zero-draft execution and state handling tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dspark.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_draft_len_schedule.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_worker.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_worker_confidence_state.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_ragged_spec_sampler.py	When runtime_draft_len is zero, the worker skips drafting and acceptance, updates context windows, and advances generation state or performs the required rank calls. It restores persistent state after non-capturing warmup and publishes outputs without verification lengths. Tests cover these behaviors and set runtime draft-length metadata in existing worker tests.

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant DSv4DSparkWorker
  participant ContextWindows
  participant DraftMoE
  participant StepOutputs
  DSv4DSparkWorker->>ContextWindows: seed and advance rolling windows
  DSv4DSparkWorker->>DraftMoE: run draft forward or lockstep no-op when rank counts require it
  DSv4DSparkWorker->>StepOutputs: publish outputs without verify lengths

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Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21067: Both changes address generation-state and warmup handling in the DSpark worker.
• NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20746: Both changes modify DSpark rolling-window operations and context seeding.
• NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20078: Both changes involve runtime draft lengths and DSpark confidence-scheduling configuration.

Suggested labels: Agent Code Review: High Risk

Merge Risk: Low · up to b06ad

DSpark zero-draft steps are added with tests that never include context requests in the batch. A wrong row offset in mixed batches would go undetected. Adding one mixed-batch test would close the gap.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to b06ad

The change introduces runtime scheduling transitions that must preserve request isolation and coordinated execution. No new control bypass was established, but failure and recovery coverage remains incomplete.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The relevant shared failure domain includes active requests on the serving executor and cooperating GPU ranks, not just one generation request. This failure domain predates the PR; the new zero-draft route adds execution within it rather than introducing a demonstrated cross-service authority boundary.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Draft length is selected through executor scheduling and configuration, not passed directly from a request into the worker. The zero-draft branch retains guided-decoder enforcement and target sampling; positive lengths retain target verification. Omitting draft acceptance when no draft exists is therefore not an observed bypass of these controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The worker wrapper restores speculative attention metadata in a finally block, but persistent-window warmup restoration runs only after successful operations. That limitation also existed in positive drafting before this PR. Existing ordinary forward-error handling fails active requests, and later metadata preparation clears departed slots, which counters the proposed same-request retry corruption path. Interrupted warmup and distributed failure recovery remain incompletely established.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Validate the complete positive-to-repeated-zero-to-positive sequence with request cancellation, slot reuse, and injected mid-forward or rank failure. Assert target-control enforcement and that failed or synthetic execution cannot leave state consumable by another request or a subsequent warmup attempt. This is transition hardening, not a verified defect.

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Nitpick comments: 1

tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_draft_len_schedule.py: 1

92-102: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add a zero-draft test with context requests in the batch.

The _forward helper always passes num_contexts=0 and num_ctx_tokens=0. Two parts of _forward_without_drafting are therefore never run:

• The _seed_context_windows call under num_contexts > 0.
• The generation row offset attn_metadata.num_ctx_tokens + arange(num_gens) in _follow_target_step.

A wrong offset would read the hidden state or position of a context token. That corrupts the rolling windows. The current tests would still pass.

Add one case with num_contexts=1 and num_ctx_tokens=N > 0. Use captured rows that differ per token. Assert that the window write uses the generation rows. Put it in this file and pass num_contexts and num_ctx_tokens through _forward.

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Extend the `_forward` test helper to accept and pass through `num_contexts` and
`num_ctx_tokens` when constructing its attention metadata. Add a zero-draft test
case with one context request and a positive context-token count, using distinct
`captured` rows and asserting that the rolling-window write uses generation rows
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@tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_draft_len_schedule.py:
- Around line 92-102: Extend the `_forward` test helper to accept and pass
through `num_contexts` and `num_ctx_tokens` when constructing its attention
metadata. Add a zero-draft test case with one context request and a positive
context-token count, using distinct `captured` rows and asserting that the
rolling-window write uses generation rows rather than context-token rows.

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• tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dspark.py
• tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/interface.py
• tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_draft_len_schedule.py
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_worker.py
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_worker_confidence_state.py
• tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_ragged_spec_sampler.py
• tests/unittest/llmapi/test_llm_args.py

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