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Type of change: new feature

Adds --no-aux-hidden-states to the HF dump script. Only the head-based modes read
aux_hidden_states, and they dominate the dump: one plane per selected layer against a
single plane for the base hidden state. OfflineSupervisedDataset gains an opt-in
aux_hidden_states_optional flag so dumps written with it still load — modes that do read
the planes (EAGLE, DFlash) still raise KeyError on a dump that omits them, which
modeling_dflash documents as required behaviour.

Also resolves num_hidden_layers through config.text_config when present; multimodal
checkpoints keep the language model's depth there and the dump previously failed on them.
Called out separately because it is an unrelated bug fix in the same function.

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pytest tests/unit/torch/speculative — 801 passed, 2 pre-existing upstream failures unrelated to this change.
pre-commit run --all-files — clean.

End-to-end validation. The series was exercised by running the whole workflow on real
models, not unit tests alone: a teacher policy was dumped from a 27B target, three drafts were
trained against it concurrently from one dump -- two sharing the target's tokenizer, one needing
the cross-tokenizer vocabulary swap -- each for a full epoch, and each exported a plain HF
checkpoint whose architectures resolves to the draft's own class. Acceptance was then measured
for all three under a matched target policy. That run surfaced four defects this series' unit
tests and several review passes had all missed, two of which corrupted training silently rather
than failing; all four are fixed here.

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  • New Features
    • Hidden-state collection can omit auxiliary hidden states from saved conversation files using a command-line option; auxiliary states remain included by default.
    • Offline speculative-decoding data can accept files without auxiliary hidden states when configured; missing values load as empty, while required values still raise an error.
    • Layer selection supports nested text, LLM, or top-level configurations; an error is raised if no supported configuration provides a layer count.
    • Sample loading accepts additional file fields and continues when auxiliary hidden states are absent. It skips files missing required fields.

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The hidden-state collector can omit aux_hidden_states from saved data. The offline dataset accepts dumps without that field when configured for optional auxiliary states. Layer selection checks text_config, llm_config, then the model configuration.

Changes: Optional Auxiliary Hidden States

Layer / File(s) Summary
Create and inspect dumps without auxiliary states
examples/speculative_decoding/collect_hidden_states/common.py, examples/speculative_decoding/collect_hidden_states/compute_hidden_states_hf.py, examples/speculative_decoding/collect_hidden_states/sample_hidden_states.py
The collector adds --no-aux-hidden-states to omit auxiliary states from saved data. Layer-count lookup checks text_config, then llm_config, then the model configuration. The sample loader accepts extra keys and continues when aux_hidden_states is absent.
Load dumps with optional auxiliary states
modelopt/torch/speculative/eagle/utils.py, examples/speculative_decoding/eagle_utils.py, tests/unit/torch/speculative/plugins/test_hf_speculative_offline.py
The data-module helper forwards aux_hidden_states_optional to the dataset. When auxiliary states are missing, the dataset raises KeyError by default or returns an empty tensor with shape (sequence_length, 0) when optional. Tests cover both outcomes.

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  Collector->>SavedDump: Save data without aux_hidden_states when requested
  SavedDump->>OfflineSupervisedDataset: Provide dump data
  OfflineSupervisedDataset-->>OfflineSupervisedDataset: Return empty auxiliary states when optional
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Series: #2635 → #2636 → #2637 → #2638 → #2639 → #2640 (merge in this order).

A vocabulary-swap PR is held back and will follow once this series lands.

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Series renumbered to eight PRs: #2635 → #2636 → #2637 → #2638 → #2639 → #2640 → #2687 → #2688 (merge in this order).

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examples/speculative_decoding/collect_hidden_states/compute_hidden_states_hf.py (1)

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Skip auxiliary-plane assembly when the flag is set.

When --no-aux-hidden-states is set, dump_hidden_states still concatenates the selected layers and copies them to CPU before omitting the field from the saved dictionary. Guard this assembly with the same condition. Keep the default path unchanged.

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-            aux_hidden_states = torch.cat(
-                [hidden_states[lid + 1].squeeze(0).cpu() for lid in selected_layer_ids], dim=-1
+            aux_hidden_states = (
+                torch.cat(
+                    [hidden_states[lid + 1].squeeze(0).cpu() for lid in selected_layer_ids], dim=-1
+                )
+                if not args.no_aux_hidden_states
+                else None
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Add --no-aux-hidden-states to the HF dump script. Only the head-based
modes read aux_hidden_states, and they dominate the dump: one plane per
selected layer against a single plane for the base hidden state.

OfflineSupervisedDataset now falls back to an empty plane when the key is
absent, so dumps written with the flag still load.

Also resolve num_hidden_layers through config.text_config when present;
multimodal checkpoints keep the language model's depth there and the dump
previously failed on them.

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Claude review passed — no blocking issues found. LGTM

Full review (5 files, +76/-5; all of modelopt/, examples/, and tests/ opened — nothing deprioritized at this size).

Findings: CRITICAL: 0 · IMPORTANT: 0 · SUGGESTION: 3

What I traced

  • Sentinel safety. The (seq_len, 0) empty plane survives EagleOfflineDataCollator._pad_or_truncate as (train_len, 0) and stacks to (B, train_len, 0). Any mode that actually consumes it — hf_eagle.py:491 (eagle_module.fc(base_outputs.aux_hiddens)) or modeling_dflash.py:157 (target_hidden=d['aux_hidden_states']) — hits a shape mismatch and fails loudly rather than silently training on zero features. The opt-in gate paired with a loud downstream failure is the right design; a zero-filled plane of the correct width would have been the dangerous choice.
  • Backward compatibility. aux_hidden_states_optional defaults to False on both OfflineSupervisedDataset.__init__ and make_speculative_data_module, and the default branch raises exactly where offline_data['aux_hidden_states'] used to KeyError. Existing dumps and existing call sites (examples/speculative_decoding/main.py:302, examples/hf_ptq/hf_ptq.py:197) are unaffected. No modelopt_state schema, mode registration, or public __init__.py export is touched, so no migration path is owed.
  • No caller sets the flag True yet. Expected for [1/8] — the consuming mode lands later in the series. The arg is not dead: __getitem__ reaches both branches and the new parametrized test exercises each, so this slice stands on its own per CONTRIBUTING's sub-PR rule.
  • text_config resolution. getattr(model.config, 'text_config', None) or model.config is sound — PretrainedConfig defines neither __bool__ nor __len__, so a present text_config is always truthy and the fallback only fires when the attribute is absent or None.

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Two posted inline:

  1. The class docstring's dump-format key list (eagle/utils.py:93) still presents aux_hidden_states as unconditionally present, and the new arg is documented in __init__ while its three siblings live in the class Args: block.
  2. The num_hidden_layers is None error message still names model.config and dumps the outer config — the wrong object precisely in the multimodal case the new lookup exists to serve.

Third, on an unchanged file so it could not be inline: collect_hidden_states/sample_hidden_states.py:62-72 gates on exact set equality against expected_keys including aux_hidden_states, so it reports --no-aux-hidden-states dumps as malformed and skips them. The repo's own dump-inspection tool then cannot inspect dumps the new flag produces. Worth switching that gate to a subset check over required keys only (input_ids, hidden_states, conversation_id) and guarding the per-key shape print with if key in data.

I did not re-raise CodeRabbit's note about assembling aux_hidden_states before discarding it — a valid but bounded waste (one torch.cat plus a D2H copy per conversation on the dump path), and the author's call.

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Claude review passed — no blocking issues found. LGTM

Full review (5 files, +76/-5; all of modelopt/, examples/, and tests/ opened — nothing deprioritized at this size). This is a re-review of the same commit (2572119) a prior Claude run approved; I re-verified its conclusions rather than inheriting them, and found one new item.

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New this round

llm_config is missing from the new config chain (compute_hidden_states_hf.py:155, posted inline). The hunk resolves text_config or model.config, but the three existing sites in modelopt/ that resolve the base LLM config all use a three-step chain including llm_config:

  • modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_eagle.py:96-102
  • modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_dflash.py:224-229
  • modelopt/torch/export/plugins/hf_spec_export.py:363-366

So a checkpoint nesting its language model under llm_config trains fine but still hits the ValueError at dump time — the same producer/consumer asymmetry this hunk exists to fix, for the other nesting convention. Not a regression, but the fix stops one arm short, and it makes a fourth copy of a chain that now disagrees with the other three (CONTRIBUTING's single-source-of-truth guidance). PretrainedConfig.get_text_config() would cover both keys; puzzletron/utils/vllm_adapter.py:139 already uses it behind a hasattr guard.

Re-verified from the prior review

  • Sentinel safety holds. The (seq_len, 0) plane survives _pad_or_truncate (eagle/utils.py:188-207 allocates out_shape[0] = train_len, leaving dim 1 at zero) and stacks to (B, train_len, 0). Every real consumer then fails loudly: hf_eagle.py:489 (eagle_module.fc(base_outputs.aux_hiddens)), modeling_dflash.py:157 (target_hidden=d["aux_hidden_states"], then k_proj(target_hidden) at line 259), modeling_lilicorr.py:621 (capture_dim unpack). A zero-filled plane of the correct width would have been the dangerous choice; this is the right direction.
  • Backward compatibility confirmed. aux_hidden_states_optional defaults False on both OfflineSupervisedDataset.__init__ and make_speculative_data_module, and the default branch raises exactly where offline_data["aux_hidden_states"] previously KeyError'd. No modelopt_state schema, mode registration, or public __init__.py export is touched, so no migration is owed. The other two collectors are untouched — note compute_hidden_states_vllm.py:390 already writes torch.empty(0) for the no-aux case, a 1-D sentinel rather than this (seq_len, 0) one; both are opt-out-of-aux markers with different shapes, worth unifying eventually but out of scope here.
  • No caller sets the flag True yet — expected for [1/8]; the consuming mode lands later. Not dead code: __getitem__ reaches both branches and the new parametrized test exercises each, so the slice stands alone per CONTRIBUTING's sub-PR rule.
  • getattr(...) or model.config is safe. PretrainedConfig defines neither __bool__ nor __len__, so a present text_config is always truthy; the fallback fires only when absent or None.

Still open from the prior review (not re-posted)

Two items from that round remain valid and I won't duplicate them: the class docstring's dump-format key list (eagle/utils.py:93) still presents aux_hidden_states as unconditionally present, and sample_hidden_states.py:62-72 gates on exact set equality against expected_keys, so the repo's own dump-inspection tool reports --no-aux-hidden-states dumps as malformed and skips them. I also did not re-raise CodeRabbit's note about assembling aux_hidden_states before discarding it — a real but bounded waste (one torch.cat plus a D2H copy per conversation), and the author's call.

Risk

Low. Additive, opt-in, default-preserving, failure mode pointed in the safe direction, both branches covered by tests. The one new suggestion is a completeness gap in an adjacent bug fix, not a defect in the feature.

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@phicksy can you take a look at unresolved suggestions from claude/coderabbit and address them before we can merge this? Seems useful to accept

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- Skip building the aux planes under --no-aux-hidden-states: the concatenation
  and device-to-host copy ran per conversation on a dump about to drop them.
- Document aux_hidden_states_optional beside its sibling arguments, and record in
  the dump-format key list that the key is absent under --no-aux-hidden-states.
  That list is the contract a new producer or consumer is written against.
- Let sample_hidden_states inspect dumps that omit an optional key. It compared
  the whole key set, so it reported every --no-aux-hidden-states dump as damaged,
  and every --answer-only-loss dump along with it.

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### What does this PR do?

Type of change: new feature

> **Part of the eight-PR external-draft series** (#2635 → #2640, #2687,
#2688). Opened against `main`,
> so this branch contains the series' commits too — **review only the
final commit**.
> Merge after #2640.

Speculative decoding needs the draft to propose tokens the target can
verify, so the two
must share a vocabulary. Until now a draft trained with a different
tokenizer was rejected
outright. `external.external_vocab_swap=true` re-indexes it onto the
base model's vocabulary
instead: embeddings and lm_head are rebuilt, rows for tokens both
tokenizers spell
identically are carried over, and the rest are initialised from the
draft's own embedding
statistics.

An untied `lm_head` is rebuilt from its own rows rather than from the
input embeddings —
they are different learned matrices, and copying one over the other
discards the pretrained
head.

The swap must run *before* `mtsp.convert` so the converted module and
the saved ModelOpt
state describe the post-swap architecture.

The replacement matrix is `base_vocab_size * hidden_size` parameters,
which on a small draft
is a large fraction of the model, and a sizeable part of it starts
untrained. Judge the
result by an acceptance measurement rather than a loss curve. Prefer a
vocabulary-matched
draft when one exists.

### Usage

```bash
torchrun --nproc_per_node 8 main.py \
  --config ../../modelopt_recipes/general/speculative_decoding/external_draft.yaml \
  model.model_name_or_path=$BASE_MODEL \
  draft_model_name_or_path=$CROSS_TOKENIZER_DRAFT \
  external.external_vocab_swap=true \
  data.sparse_data_path=$POLICY_DIR \
  training.output_dir=$OUTPUT_DIR
```

The swap reports how many rows carried over and what fraction of the
base's most frequent
ids they cover. Those describe the swap; they do not predict how well it
will accept.

### Testing

`pytest tests/unit/torch/speculative tests/unit/recipe` — 805 passed.
`pre-commit run --all-files` — clean.
Ran end to end through `main.py`: a cross-tokenizer draft swapped onto a
larger base
vocabulary, trained on a sparse teacher-policy corpus, and the resulting
checkpoint loads
with plain `AutoModelForCausalLM` at the base model's vocab size.

**End-to-end validation.** The series was exercised by running the whole
workflow on real
models, not unit tests alone: a teacher policy was dumped from a 27B
target, three drafts were
trained against it concurrently from one dump -- two sharing the
target's tokenizer, one needing
the cross-tokenizer vocabulary swap -- each for a full epoch, and each
exported a plain HF
checkpoint whose `architectures` resolves to the draft's own class.
Acceptance was then measured
for all three under a matched target policy. That run surfaced four
defects this series' unit
tests and several review passes had all missed, two of which corrupted
training silently rather
than failing; all four are fixed here.

### Before your PR is "*Ready for review*"

- Is this change backward compatible?: ✅ (opt-in; default `false`
preserves the existing error)
- If you copied code from any other sources or added a new PIP
dependency: N/A — no copied code, no new dependencies
- Did you write any new necessary tests?: ✅
- Did you update Changelog?: N/A — covered by the series entry in #2637
- Did you get Claude approval on this PR?: ❌ pending

Merge order: [1/8] -> [2/8] -> [3/8] -> [4/8] -> [5/8] -> [6/8] -> [7/8]
-> [8/8].



<!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai
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## Summary by CodeRabbit

- **New Features**
- External speculative drafts can now work with different draft and base
tokenizer vocabularies through optional vocabulary swapping.
- Matching vocabulary entries retain their model weights, while
unmatched entries are initialized consistently.
- Resumed draft checkpoints are recognized and avoid repeating
vocabulary conversion.
  - Special-token mappings are preserved when valid.

- **Bug Fixes**
- Improved validation guidance explains how to resolve vocabulary
mismatches using vocabulary swapping.
<!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->

Signed-off-by: Peter Hicks <phicks@nvidia.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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