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specdec_bench already measures everything needed to describe how good a draft
checkpoint is -- per-position conditional and joint acceptance, an acceptance
length histogram, per-category means. It just never leaves the benchmark output
directory in a form a deployment can consume, so downstream tools guess instead.
Dynamo's simulator, for example, models every draft model in existence with one
hardcoded vector.
Emit a versioned speculation_profile.json so those numbers can travel with an
exported checkpoint.
Both acceptance conventions are published, explicitly named, because the two
known consumers disagree: dynamo's mocker wants conditional rates
(P(draft i+1 accepted | first i accepted)) while vLLM's synthetic rejection
sampler wants marginals (P(first i+1 all accepted)). Emitting one and letting a
consumer assume the other is a silent, plausible-looking failure.
Two conversion traps get a single implementation and explicit tests:
- acceptance length counts the target's bonus token, so draft position i maps
to length i+2, not i+1;
- the histogram is sparse while consumers need a dense vector of length K.
Each profile carries a self-check that mean accept length equals 1 + sum of the
marginals, which is the identity a bad offset would break. A failure is recorded
in the artifact and warned about rather than raised, so the discrepancy stays
inspectable.
accept_length_model records whether K may be extrapolated: chain-drafted methods
(EAGLE*) truncate cleanly, block-parallel ones (DFlash, DSpark) re-plan the whole
block when K changes and must be measured per K. max_supported_k publishes the
hard ceiling, since serving a block-parallel draft above its trained block size
is invalid rather than merely degraded.
Emission hangs off _process_lengths(), the single point where the acceptance
distribution is final and which AcceptanceRate, MTBench and SpecBench all route
through, so no variant can silently stop producing a profile. Runs without
--save_dir are unaffected.
Validated against nvidia/MiniMax-M2.7-DFlash: a histogram reproducing the AL of
3.05 published on that model card yields marginals [0.88, 0.70, 0.47] and
1 + sum = 3.05 exactly.
Design notes: docs/design/modelopt-specdec-for-dynamo.md in nmm-sandbox.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe benchmark now builds portable speculation profiles from acceptance measurements, validates rate data, records checkpoint and measurement metadata, writes profiles with benchmark output, and clears profile metadata when no output directory is configured. ChangesSpeculation profile generation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The current changes can make benchmark runs without --save_dir fail before execution and omit the required configuration record for saved runs, leaving the new profile incomplete; they also expose full filesystem paths in logs and can leave a partially written profile after interruption. Merge should be blocked until the control-flow regression is fixed, with the bounded disclosure and publication concerns addressed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant run_py
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run_py->>AcceptanceRate: set profile metadata with checkpoint identifiers
AcceptanceRate->>build_profile: build profile from acceptance statistics
build_profile-->>AcceptanceRate: return profile and validation results
AcceptanceRate->>speculation_profile_json: write profile JSON
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In `@examples/specdec_bench/run.py`:
- Around line 81-82: Update the profile construction around the draft_checkpoint
and target_model fields to avoid serializing raw values from
args.draft_model_dir and args.model_dir; store the established redacted model
identifier or approved fingerprint instead, while preserving the existing
omission of draft_checkpoint when no draft model is configured.
In `@examples/specdec_bench/specdec_bench/metrics/acceptance_rate.py`:
- Around line 23-41: Reset AcceptanceRate.profile_metadata and
AcceptanceRate.directory at the start of each run when args.save_dir is absent,
or otherwise scope both values to the current run. Update the run_simple flow in
run.py and the AcceptanceRate class state so a second invocation cannot reuse
the prior run’s speculation_profile.json destination.
In `@examples/specdec_bench/specdec_bench/speculation_profile.py`:
- Around line 42-48: Declare the module’s public API with __all__ containing
build_profile and stub_profile, then update the package API to re-export those
names from this module using the established package import pattern.
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| # Methods whose K=n draft is a strict prefix of their K=n+1 draft. For those, the | ||
| # marginal vector determines accept_length at every K <= num_speculative_tokens, so a | ||
| # single measurement extrapolates. Block-parallel methods (dflash, dspark) and tree | ||
| # drafting re-plan the whole block when K changes, so each K must be measured. | ||
| _CHAIN_DRAFTING_METHODS = frozenset({"eagle", "eagle1", "eagle2", "eagle3", "draft_model"}) |
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Declare the module public API.
build_profile and stub_profile are public functions, but this module has no __all__. Add __all__ = ("build_profile", "stub_profile") and re-export the module through the package API.
As per coding guidelines, "Define the public API with __all__ and re-export via from .module import *."
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The first version of _speculation_profile_metadata() read K off --draft_length unconditionally and derived max_supported_k as block_size - 1. Both are wrong for DFlash, which is the method this profile is most needed for. Reading the engine wrappers: DFLASH is configured by --block_size, which both models/vllm.py and models/sglang.py forward as num_speculative_tokens / speculative_num_draft_tokens while ignoring --draft_length -- sglang.py emits an explicit warning saying so. Every other method uses --draft_length as speculative_num_steps. Labelling the vectors with K from the wrong flag would be silent and plausible, so derive it per method. max_supported_k now defaults to the measured K rather than block_size - 1. --block_size here is the number handed to the engine as num_speculative_tokens, which despite the shared name is not the trained dflash_block_size in the checkpoint config. specdec_bench cannot observe the real architectural ceiling, and publishing an unverifiable one is worse than publishing none. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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In `@examples/specdec_bench/run.py`:
- Around line 89-92: Validate that DFLASH block_size is present and positive
before building the profile or starting the run; reject missing or non-positive
values instead of falling back to draft_length. Keep the profile’s speculative
token count aligned with the value passed by run_simple to the DFLASH wrappers.
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| if method == "dflash" and block_size: | ||
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Require a valid DFLASH block_size before building the profile.
args.block_size defaults to None, but the profile falls back to args.draft_length while run_simple passes None to the wrappers as speculative_num_draft_tokens. The wrappers therefore receive None instead of their fallback value, so the profile can record a K that does not match the DFLASH engine configuration. Reject a missing or non-positive block_size before starting the run.
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Three points from CodeRabbit on NVIDIA#2247. Publish identifiers, not paths. The profile is intended to ship alongside a checkpoint, so serialising args.model_dir / args.draft_model_dir verbatim would bake internal cluster layout (/lustre/fsw/portfolios/...) into a public artifact, and an absolute path is not portable for a reader in any case. checkpoint_id() reduces a path to its trailing org/model, which is both the useful part and the HuggingFace-style id. configuration.json still records full paths for local debugging. Clear profile metadata when a run has no --save_dir. The metadata is class-level state (following the existing Metric.update_directory pattern), so an in-process second run -- the AR-vs-K sweep this schema is built for is exactly that shape -- could otherwise inherit the previous run's destination. Declare __all__. Not re-exported from specdec_bench/__init__.py as suggested: that module deliberately exposes only __version__ and must stay importable without modelopt (the vLLM container has no modelopt), so widening it would break its own convention. Noted inline so the omission reads as deliberate. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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In `@examples/specdec_bench/specdec_bench/speculation_profile.py`:
- Around line 42-45: Update the package-level __init__ API to expose the public
symbols listed by speculation_profile.__all__, using a lazy re-export mechanism
if needed to preserve importability without modelopt and the existing
__version__ behavior.
- Around line 56-72: Update checkpoint_id and its callers in run.py to publish
only approved org/model identifiers or an explicitly approved
identifier/fingerprint; reject arbitrary model_dir and draft_model_dir paths
rather than deriving identifiers from their final components. Preserve the
existing None handling and ensure invalid or unapproved values cannot enter the
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Require an approved model identifier for published profiles.
run.py passes arbitrary --model_dir and --draft_model_dir values to checkpoint_id, which publishes their final path components. This can expose proprietary model details and may mislabel paths that do not use the org/model format. Validate the format or require an explicit approved identifier or fingerprint.
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The first real measurement (nvidia/MiniMax-M2.7-DFlash on MT-Bench, 30653 decode steps) failed the profile's own consistency check: 1 + sum(marginals) = 2.4733 against a reported 2.5467. The vectors were right; the mean was the wrong one. Average_AL averages per-request accept length over requests, weighting a short request the same as a long one. The acceptance vectors describe a per-*step* distribution -- both dynamo's mocker and vLLM's synthetic sampler draw a length per decode step -- so the identity was comparing incompatible quantities and would have flagged every real run. mean_accept_length is now computed from the acceptance-length histogram, which is what the vectors describe. The per-request figure is kept as mean_accept_length_per_request, since published model cards do not always state which mean they quote and the comparison is worth preserving. This also sharpens what the check guards. Both sides now derive from the same histogram, so the identity holds exactly whenever the published vector spans every observed acceptance length -- meaning what it actually detects is truncation: a num_speculative_tokens that understates the K the run used cuts the vector short and would otherwise silently describe a weaker draft than was measured. Given K is derived from CLI flags whose meaning varies by method, that is the failure mode worth catching. Test updated accordingly, plus one pinning both means on the real MiniMax histogram. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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- Around line 269-272: Move the dump_env() call out of the no-save_dir branch
and into the if args.save_dir is not None branch, passing the saved-run
directory so configuration.json is written there. Keep
metrics.AcceptanceRate.set_profile_metadata(None) for unsaved runs to clear
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In `@examples/specdec_bench/specdec_bench/metrics/acceptance_rate.py`:
- Line 114: Update the completion log in the relevant acceptance-rate metrics
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Two real bugs from review on NVIDIA#2313/NVIDIA#2315/NVIDIA#2316. dump_env() had been pulled out of the --save_dir branch by the earlier profile-metadata change, so configuration.json stopped being written for runs that requested it, and a run without --save_dir would have called dump_env(args, None, ...) -> os.makedirs(None). Restored to the branch it belongs in; the metadata reset stays in the else. Densification defaulted an absent acceptance length to 0.0. That is only correct past the maximum observed length. For a gap -- lengths 1 and 3 observed but not 2 -- P(len >= 2) still equals P(len >= 3), because no step ended at exactly 2. Filling the gap with zero understated acceptance and broke the AL identity while looking entirely plausible: exactly the silent-wrongness this schema exists to prevent. Marginals are now built as a proper survival function, walking lengths downward so a missing entry inherits the value above it, and conditionals are derived as ratios of consecutive marginals rather than read from the sparse per-length map. That also keeps the two vectors mutually consistent when a length was never observed. Verified the real MiniMax-M2.7 DFlash profile is bit-for-bit unchanged by the fix (its histogram is dense, so the old path happened to be right there), with new regression tests covering the gapped and empty cases. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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The problem: a draft checkpoint's weights say nothing about how good it is, so deployment tooling guesses. dynamo's simulator models every draft model in existence with one hardcoded acceptance vector ( Validated on real data. Measured Note the shape, not just the mean: dynamo assumes acceptance collapses after position 2, while this draft still accepts 75% at position 3. Feeding the measured vector into dynamo's simulator moves predicted throughput 13.7–31.0% and ITL 19–26%. Three things worth your eye specifically, since each is a silent-failure mode rather than a crash:
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…thod Three review points from NVIDIA#2313/NVIDIA#2315/NVIDIA#2316, all guarding against a profile that looks valid to a consumer but is not. Rates are validated at the public boundary. Both known consumers treat them as probabilities -- dynamo feeds them to rng.random_bool(), vLLM's synthetic sampler expects a survival function -- and neither validates, so a NaN or an out-of-range entry does not fail there, it produces nonsense acceptance. Rejected before serialization instead. An empty measurement no longer reports measured=true. Zero observed steps would otherwise advertise a draft that accepts nothing, which reads identically to a genuinely terrible draft. Block verification now withholds the vectors rather than publishing them. These rates describe longest-prefix verification, where acceptance stops at the first rejection. vLLM also offers block verification, which accepts or rejects a drafted block jointly and produces a different length distribution entirely; publishing the vectors under that method would invite a consumer to read them as longest-prefix data. They are set to null with an explicit vectors_unavailable_reason, while the histogram and mean -- which still describe something real -- are kept. Verified the real MiniMax-M2.7 DFlash profile is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ye Yu <yeyu@nvidia.com>
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specdec_bench already measures everything needed to describe how good a draft checkpoint is — per-position conditional and joint acceptance, an acceptance-length histogram, per-category means. Today those numbers never leave the benchmark output directory in a form a deployment can consume, so downstream tools guess instead. Dynamo's simulator, for example, models every draft model in existence with one hardcoded vector (
[0.85, 0.3, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]), which numerically describes a fairly weak draft.This adds a versioned
speculation_profile.jsonso those measurements can travel with an exported draft checkpoint.Both acceptance conventions are published, explicitly named, because the two known consumers disagree:
conditional_accept_ratesmarginal_accept_ratesEmitting one and letting a consumer assume the other is a silent, plausible-looking failure.
Two conversion traps get a single implementation and explicit tests:
imaps to lengthi + 2— noti + 1.Kentries.Each profile carries a self-check that mean accept length equals
1 + sum(marginals)— the identity a bad offset would break. Failures are recorded in the artifact and warned about rather than raised, so a discrepancy stays inspectable instead of aborting a long benchmark run.accept_length_modelrecords whetherKmay be extrapolated: chain-drafted methods (EAGLE*) truncate cleanly, so one measurement covers every smallerK; block-parallel methods (DFlash, DSpark) re-plan the whole block whenKchanges and must be measured perK.max_supported_kpublishes the hard ceiling, since serving a block-parallel draft above its trained block size is invalid rather than merely degraded.Usage
No new flags. Any run with
--save_dirthat computes acceptance now also writesspeculation_profile.json:{ "schema_version": "1.0", "method": "dflash", "num_speculative_tokens": 3, "max_supported_k": 3, "conditional_accept_rates": [0.88, 0.795455, 0.671429], "marginal_accept_rates": [0.88, 0.7, 0.47], "mean_accept_length": 3.05, "accept_length_model": "measured_per_k", "validation": {"mean_consistency": {"passed": true, "abs_delta": 0.0}} }Testing
11 new unit tests in
examples/specdec_bench/tests/test_speculation_profile.py, driving the real metric rather than a reimplementation. They cover the offset, densification of sparse histograms, the mean-consistency identity (both passing and deliberately-broken), marginal monotonicity (which vLLM's synthetic sampler requires), tolerance of JSON-round-tripped string keys, and the per-methodaccept_length_modeldefault.Validated end to end against
nvidia/MiniMax-M2.7-DFlash: a histogram reproducing the AL of 3.05 published on that model card yields marginals[0.88, 0.70, 0.47]with1 + sum = 3.05exactly.Emission hangs off
_process_lengths()— the single point where the acceptance distribution is final, and whichAcceptanceRate,MTBenchandSpecBenchall route through — so no variant can silently stop producing a profile. Runs without--save_dirare unaffected.pre-commit run --files ...passes (ruff, ruff-format, mypy, bandit, license headers).Before your PR is "Ready for review"
--save_diris set.CONTRIBUTING.md: ✅ — no new dependencies; the new module is stdlib-only.Additional Information
Two points where I'd particularly value maintainer input:
Module placement.
speculation_profile.pyis deliberately dependency-free soexamples/speculative_decoding/scripts/ar_validate.pycan become a second producer of the same schema without pulling in the benchmark harness. There is no shared package between the two examples today, so it currently lives underspecdec_bench/. If you'd prefer it start inmodelopt/torch/speculative/, much easier to move now than after it has consumers.Ksemantics. I treat--draft_length(which becomesspeculative_num_steps) as the number of draft positions, record--block_sizeseparately, and setmax_supported_k = block_size - 1. The current--block_sizehelp text calls it "num_speculative_tokens" while also statingblock_size = draft_length + 1, which read as conflicting — I documented the interpretation I took rather than silently picking one. Correction welcome.Separately noticed while working on this, out of scope here:
--speculative_algorithmhas noDSPARKchoice, which will block profiling DSpark checkpoints.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
speculation_profile.jsonwith conditional and marginal acceptance metrics.Bug Fixes