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- Line 131: Move the external draft speculative-decoding entry from the 0.47.0
section to the unreleased 0.48.0 → New Features → Speculative Decoding section,
and shorten it to a brief summary of the new feature.
Review comments at
@examples/speculative_decoding/collect_hidden_states/compute_sparse_policy_hf.py:
- Around line 198-206: In the scored-position handling before constructing the
sparse policy record, reject non-contiguous masks by checking whether the span
from the first to last scored position matches the number of scored positions.
Increment num_invalid and skip the record when the check fails; preserve the
existing handling for empty and contiguous masks.
Review comments at @examples/speculative_decoding/main.py:
- Around line 304-306: Update the external vocabulary swap condition in the
speculative decoding flow to run whenever
external_cfg.get("external_vocab_swap") is enabled, regardless of whether the
vocab sizes differ. Keep the existing swap behavior unchanged.
- Around line 280-288: Update the ModelOptExternalDraftRecipe setup so dense
runs load the base model and call attach_base_lm_head after either
checkpoint-resume or fresh-load branch, preserving the vocabulary and tokenizer
checks; leave sparse-mode behavior unchanged.
Review comments at @modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_external.py:
- Around line 296-299: Update the mask alignment in compute_loss so position t
is weighted by loss_mask[t+1], matching compute_sparse_loss; set the final
position’s mask to zero and preserve the existing dtype and sequence-length
handling.
- Around line 125-126: Update the sparse path to expose accuracy on the output
consumed by EagleTrainerWithAccLog.compute_loss: set draft_out.train_acc when
acc is available instead of storing it only in _last_accuracy, preserving the
detached accuracy value.
Review comments at @tests/unit/torch/speculative/test_external_draft_sparse.py:
- Line 192: Move the SPARSE_CAPABLE_LOSSES and DataArguments imports used by the
test functions to module scope after the transformers skip, so import errors
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Move the entry to the unreleased 0.48.0 section.
The entry is under 0.47.0 (2026-09-23), and that release has already shipped. The external draft mode is a new feature in this PR. Move the bullet to 0.48.0 (2026-10-xx) → New Features → Speculative Decoding.
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Move the external draft speculative-decoding entry from the 0.47.0 section to
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| # The supervised span is the response; everything before it is context. | ||
| scored = loss_mask.squeeze(0).nonzero().flatten() | ||
| if scored.numel() == 0: | ||
| num_invalid += 1 | ||
| continue | ||
| # Position 0 has no preceding context, so it can carry no policy. Without | ||
| # --answer-only-loss the mask covers the whole sequence and would start at 0. | ||
| first = max(int(scored[0]), 1) | ||
| ids = input_ids.squeeze(0) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Multi-turn conversations lose the answer-only mask.
Line 205 uses only the first scored position. policy_record then marks every token after that position as gen_ids. In a multi-turn conversation, later user turns and system text fall after the first assistant token. SparsePolicyDataset scores the whole gen_ids span, so the draft trains on user-turn tokens, and --answer-only-loss silently stops working after the first response.
The record schema stores one split point. It cannot represent a mask that has gaps. Use one of these fixes:
- Store the per-position
loss_mask, or the scored spans, in the record. Then have_build_cacheand__getitem__apply that mask. - Reject or warn on a
loss_maskthat is not contiguous:scored[-1] - scored[0] + 1 != scored.numel().
Minimal guard
scored = loss_mask.squeeze(0).nonzero().flatten()
if scored.numel() == 0:
num_invalid += 1
continue
+ if int(scored[-1]) - int(scored[0]) + 1 != scored.numel():
+ # The sparse schema stores one prompt/response split; a gapped mask
+ # (multi-turn) would supervise the user turns in between.
+ num_invalid += 1
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| # The supervised span is the response; everything before it is context. | |
| scored = loss_mask.squeeze(0).nonzero().flatten() | |
| if scored.numel() == 0: | |
| num_invalid += 1 | |
| continue | |
| # Position 0 has no preceding context, so it can carry no policy. Without | |
| # --answer-only-loss the mask covers the whole sequence and would start at 0. | |
| first = max(int(scored[0]), 1) | |
| ids = input_ids.squeeze(0) | |
| # The supervised span is the response; everything before it is context. | |
| scored = loss_mask.squeeze(0).nonzero().flatten() | |
| if scored.numel() == 0: | |
| num_invalid += 1 | |
| continue | |
| if int(scored[-1]) - int(scored[0]) + 1 != scored.numel(): | |
| # The sparse schema stores one prompt/response split; a gapped mask | |
| # (multi-turn) would supervise the user turns in between. | |
| num_invalid += 1 | |
| continue | |
| # Position 0 has no preceding context, so it can carry no policy. Without | |
| # --answer-only-loss the mask covers the whole sequence and would start at 0. | |
| first = max(int(scored[0]), 1) | |
| ids = input_ids.squeeze(0) |
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In the scored-position handling before constructing the sparse policy record,
reject non-contiguous masks by checking whether the span from the first to last
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| elif isinstance(recipe, ModelOptExternalDraftRecipe): | ||
| # This mode inverts the usual relationship: we train a pretrained draft, and | ||
| # `model` loaded above is the base, kept only for its lm_head and vocabulary. | ||
| if recipe.draft_model_name_or_path is None: | ||
| raise ValueError( | ||
| "draft_model_name_or_path must be set in the recipe YAML " | ||
| "or via a dotlist override." | ||
| ) | ||
| base_model = model |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Resuming a dense external run from an HF-format checkpoint does not attach the base lm_head.
The external setup runs only in the else branch, which handles a fresh load. get_last_checkpoint picks up checkpoint-N automatically. Its model.safetensors makes checkpoint_is_hf true, so the run takes the Line 222 branch. That branch loads the draft from the checkpoint, never calls attach_base_lm_head, and skips the vocabulary and tokenizer checks. On the first dense step, _teacher_logits raises Base lm_head is not attached. This affects any interrupted or requeued dense run that writes to the same output_dir. The sparse path is not affected.
Move the base-model load and attach_base_lm_head into a step that runs after both branches whenever the recipe is a ModelOptExternalDraftRecipe in a non-sparse mode. Or reject HF-format resume for this mode with a clear error.
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Review comment at @examples/speculative_decoding/main.py around lines 280 - 288:
Update the ModelOptExternalDraftRecipe setup so dense runs load the base model
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| if external_cfg.get("external_vocab_swap") and ( | ||
| model.config.vocab_size != base_vocab_size | ||
| ): |
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The vocabulary swap is skipped when the two tokenizers differ but have the same size.
The swap runs only when model.config.vocab_size != base_vocab_size. Line 341 then rejects tokenizers that have the same size but different contents. Its error message tells the user to set external_vocab_swap=true, and doc/external_draft.md §5 says the same. A user who follows that advice gets the same error again, because the swap is never run. The workflow has no path forward.
Run the swap whenever external_vocab_swap is set. A swap between identical vocabularies only copies matching rows, so it is safe.
Proposed fix
--- "a/examples/speculative_decoding/main.py"
+++ "b/examples/speculative_decoding/main.py"
@@ -301,9 +301,7 @@
model_max_length=training_args.training_seq_len,
trust_remote_code=recipe.model.trust_remote_code,
)
- if external_cfg.get("external_vocab_swap") and (
- model.config.vocab_size != base_vocab_size
- ):
+ if external_cfg.get("external_vocab_swap"):
# Must precede convert: the converted module and the saved ModelOpt
# state have to describe the post-swap architecture.
base_tokenizer = transformers.AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(📝 Committable suggestion
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| if external_cfg.get("external_vocab_swap") and ( | |
| model.config.vocab_size != base_vocab_size | |
| ): | |
| if external_cfg.get("external_vocab_swap"): |
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Update the external vocabulary swap condition in the speculative decoding flow
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| if acc is not None: | ||
| object.__setattr__(self, "_last_accuracy", acc.detach()) |
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The sparse path never reports training accuracy.
EagleTrainerWithAccLog.compute_loss reads only outputs.train_acc. The dense path sets that attribute at Line 146. The sparse path stores the value in _last_accuracy, and nothing reads that attribute. With external_report_acc=true, which the recipe sets, a sparse run therefore logs no top-1 agreement.
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--- "a/modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_external.py"
+++ "b/modelopt/torch/speculative/plugins/hf_external.py"
@@ -121,10 +121,10 @@
loss, acc = self.compute_sparse_loss(
draft_out.logits, teacher_topk_tok, teacher_topk_prob, loss_mask
)
draft_out.loss = loss
if acc is not None:
- object.__setattr__(self, "_last_accuracy", acc.detach())
+ draft_out.train_acc = [acc.detach()]
return draft_out
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| object.__setattr__(self, "_last_accuracy", acc.detach()) | |
| if acc is not None: | |
| draft_out.train_acc = [acc.detach()] |
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| seq_len = draft_logits.shape[1] | ||
| base_logits = base_logits[:, :seq_len] | ||
| mask = loss_mask[:, :seq_len].to(draft_logits.dtype) | ||
| denom = mask.sum() + 1e-5 |
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The dense loss mask is not shifted, but the sparse mask is.
In compute_loss, position t compares the two distributions over token t+1. Line 298 weights that position with loss_mask[t], which describes token t. With an answer-only mask, this drops the prediction of the first response token and scores one position past the end of each response. compute_sparse_loss handles the same case correctly with loss_mask[:, 1:seq]. The dense and sparse objectives therefore supervise different positions for the same mask.
Shift the mask so that position t uses loss_mask[t+1]. Pad the last position with zero.
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- mask = loss_mask[:, :seq_len].to(draft_logits.dtype)
+ # position t predicts token t+1, so it is supervised iff token t+1 is
+ mask = torch.zeros_like(loss_mask[:, :seq_len], dtype=draft_logits.dtype)
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| seq_len = draft_logits.shape[1] | |
| base_logits = base_logits[:, :seq_len] | |
| mask = loss_mask[:, :seq_len].to(draft_logits.dtype) | |
| denom = mask.sum() + 1e-5 | |
| seq_len = draft_logits.shape[1] | |
| base_logits = base_logits[:, :seq_len] | |
| # position t predicts token t+1, so it is supervised iff token t+1 is | |
| mask = torch.zeros_like(loss_mask[:, :seq_len], dtype=draft_logits.dtype) | |
| mask[:, :-1] = loss_mask[:, 1:seq_len].to(draft_logits.dtype) | |
| denom = mask.sum() + 1e-5 |
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| def test_every_sparse_capable_loss_runs_and_backprops(tmp_path): | ||
| """The guard in main.py and the implementations here must not drift apart, and the | ||
| sparse path must train without a teacher lm_head.""" | ||
| from modelopt.torch.speculative.plugins.hf_external import SPARSE_CAPABLE_LOSSES |
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Move the in-function imports to the top of the file.
SPARSE_CAPABLE_LOSSES and DataArguments are imported inside test functions. Neither import has a circular-import or optional-dependency justification. The file already imports from modelopt.torch.speculative at the top. Move both imports to module level, after pytest.importorskip("transformers"), so that import errors surface at collection time.
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- Line 143: Update the cross-tokenizer training command’s
training.num_train_epochs setting to match the recommendation to train beyond
one epoch, or clearly label the command as a one-epoch example. Keep the
surrounding guidance and command behavior consistent.
- Around line 163-164: Extend the guide’s deployment handoff to identify the
checkpoint to load from training.output_dir and explain how to measure
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Align the cross-tokenizer epoch count with the recommendation.
This command sets training.num_train_epochs=1, but the next paragraph advises training well beyond one epoch. Increase the command’s epoch count or label it as a one-epoch example.
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Walks the full workflow end to end: dump a teacher policy once, then train several drafts against it, including one whose tokenizer differs from the target's and so needs the vocabulary swap. Documents the objectives and what each one actually scores, the export path (no export step -- the draft is already a plain HF checkpoint), and the failure modes that produce a falling loss curve with no acceptance. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Hicks <phicks@nvidia.com>
What does this PR do?
Type of change: documentation
Adds
examples/speculative_decoding/doc/external_draft.md, a runbook for the whole externaldraft workflow, and links it from the example README.
The seven PRs before this one each document their own piece, but nothing ties them together into
"here is how you actually train a draft". This does: dump a teacher policy once, then train
several drafts against the same dataset, including a cross-tokenizer draft needing the
vocabulary swap.
Covers:
right one
draft_model_name_or_pathplus one flagexternal_lossactually scores, and whytvd_deployis the deployment metricrather than a proxy for it
Deliberately carries no benchmark numbers. Acceptance results depend on the target, the
corpus and the truncation, so a number quoted here would be misleading more often than
useful; the guide tells readers to measure acceptance under their own deployment policy
instead.
Testing
pre-commit run --files examples/speculative_decoding/doc/external_draft.md examples/speculative_decoding/README.md— passes, markdownlint included.Every command in the guide was run against the implementation in the series.
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
architecturesresolves to the draft's own class. Acceptance was then measuredfor 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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Merge order: [1/8] -> [2/8] -> [3/8] -> [4/8] -> [5/8] -> [6/8] -> [7/8] -> [8/8].
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