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Add DeepSeek-V4 inference support, including the base model, MTP and DSpark speculative decoding, vision inputs, prefill/decode disaggregation, and GPU/CPU/disk KV caching.
The implementation handles DeepSeek-V4’s compressed-attention layout explicitly: compressed history can be shared between requests, while sliding-window KV and continuation state remain request-owned.
Model Architecture and Inference
Add model registration, checkpoint configuration handling, and weight loading for DeepSeek-V4.
Support sliding-window attention together with C4 and C128 compressed history.
Integrate the packed FP8 KV layout with FlashMLA sparse attention, including indexer KV storage and sparse index construction.
Implement the model-specific routing/top-k and clamped SwiGLU behavior through the existing MoE execution paths.
Add fused normalization/RoPE, packed KV writers, and compression/indexing kernels.
KV Layout
DeepSeek-V4 uses separate physical layouts for its attention components:
Component
Physical page layout
Ownership
SWA KV
128 slots per page
Request-private
C4 compressed KV
64 slots per page
Shareable compressed history
C128 compressed KV
2 slots per page
Shareable compressed history
Compressor/indexer continuation state
Checkpoint-specific layout
Request-private runtime state
Compressed history is addressed through the existing request-to-token table using 256-token allocation pages. Closed compression groups derive their physical locations from the corresponding group-ending token slots.
Requests sharing a cached prefix reuse the compressed history but restore independent SWA and continuation state. Prefill retains the SWA pages needed for the entire current chunk, rather than recycling them before attention finishes.
Vision Support
Add DeepSeek-V4 image preprocessing, visual model execution, and visual embedding integration.
Support model-specific image-token encoding and multimodal message construction.
Integrate vision inputs with the existing visual-server execution path.
Preserve image-block boundaries during chunked prefill.
Adjust CPU-cache resume boundaries when a matched checkpoint would resume inside an image block.
This allows vision requests to use the same model inference, prefix-cache, and PD paths while keeping image blocks atomic where required.
Tokenizer and Response Protocol
Add the DeepSeek-V4 tokenizer and message encoder.
Support the model’s chat-template and thinking/reasoning request semantics.
Register DeepSeek-V4 reasoning-output parsing.
Support DSML tool-call parsing, including streaming output.
Prefill/Decode Disaggregation and DP Cache Transfer
Add model-specific pack/unpack and copy operations for DeepSeek-V4 caches.
PD Transfer
Transfer compressed history separately from the final continuation block.
Include SWA, compressor state, and indexer continuation in the final block.
Support arbitrary prompt endpoints, including partially completed compression groups.
Integrate the packed layout with both NCCL and NIXL transporters.
Support different transfer byte lengths for history-only blocks and full continuation blocks.
Keep actual transfer lengths separate from the request’s page-aligned reserved capacity.
P/D nodes must run compatible versions because the DeepSeek-V4 continuation layout is part of the transfer contract.
Cross-DP Prefix Reuse
Copy compressed history and restore request-private continuation state when fetching a cached prefix from another DP rank.
Preserve the distinction between shared history references and request-owned SWA resources.
CPU and Disk KV Cache
Support packed DeepSeek-V4 checkpoint pages through the existing multi-level cache pipeline.
Each CPU checkpoint contains compressed history and the tail state required to resume inference. CPU continuation checkpoints retain the final 256-token SWA region and the relevant C4/indexer state; aligned checkpoint boundaries close the C128 compression group.
Save checkpoints incrementally as prefill reaches cache-page boundaries.
Pack GPU cache data into staging buffers before asynchronous CPU storage.
Track packing completion separately from CPU-store completion so source pages can be safely reused.
Restore missing compressed history and request-private continuation state on cache hits.
Register restored checkpoints for subsequent GPU radix-cache reuse.
Retain matched CPU-page references until asynchronous load/store work completes.
Publish disk-cache entries only after the complete prefix group is ready, preserving cumulative hash-chain ordering.
Skip CPU-cache loading for prompt-logprobs requests, since skipped prompt computation cannot produce the requested log probabilities.
Validation
Regression coverage includes:
Packed SWA/C4/C128 indexing and logical compression boundaries.
Keep history allocation and request mappings in token units, with packed
attention addressing confined to the V4 cache operators. Derive storage
shapes and top-k capacity, and name request compressor/window state.
Separate intermediate prefill snapshots from runtime state, use canonical
chronological CPU/PD windows, and restore through the existing request
position. Fix cross-device copy ordering and batched workspace bounds.
Validation: 994 targeted regressions passed; 9 raw compressor outputs match
bit for bit. Main-only/DSpark outputs match in 47 cases. GPU and CPU prefix
cache regressions pass. TP4+TP4 NCCL PD passes 61 cases / 4867 output tokens,
including the 1000/512/600 prefix fork and concurrent requests.
Add --disable_chunked_mm_input, enabled by default for Neo, DeepSeek-V4,
and Gemma4. Record tokenizer positions and keep multimodal blocks intact
across prefill chunks and GPU/CPU/disk cache restore boundaries.
Trim unusable radix match tails along existing ancestors while preserving
reference accounting and access times. Keep state slots for every big-page
boundary crossed by a chunk and save state only at the chunk endpoint.
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Walkthrough
This pull request adds DeepSeek V4 support across model execution, cache management, multimodal processing, tokenization, parsers, draft models, and serving configuration. It also updates shared kernels, MoE paths, autotuning, Docker setup, and checkpoint conversion tools.
Changes: DeepSeek V4 runtime
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Summary
Model execution and attention lightllm/models/deepseek_v4/*, lightllm/common/basemodel/attention/*
Adds tensor-parallel execution, sparse FlashMLA attention, compressed-KV and SWA indexing, C4 metadata, routing, layer weights, and inference kernels.
Cache, request state, and draft models lightllm/common/state_cache_manager/*, lightllm/common/kv_cache_mem_manager/*, lightllm/common/req_manager/*, lightllm/models/deepseek_v4_{mtp,dspark}/*
Vision, encoding, and serving lightllm/models/deepseek_v4/*, lightllm/models/builtin.py, lightllm/server/*, lightllm/utils/*
Adds vision encoding, image preprocessing, chat encoding, tokenizer handling, parser registration, startup configuration, and multimodal span handling.
Shared runtime and tools
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Summary
Kernels, MoE, quantization, and autotuning lightllm/common/basemodel/triton_kernel/*, lightllm/common/basemodel/layer_weights/meta_weights/*, lightllm/common/quantization/*, lightllm/common/triton_utils/*
Adds mHC kernels and configurations, extends MoE top-k and activation paths, updates FP8 scale handling, and adds configurable autotuner benchmarks.
Build and checkpoint conversion docker/Dockerfile, tools/convert_deepseek_v4_*.py
Updates vLLM and FlashMLA build inputs and adds MTP BF16 and FP8-scale conversion workflows.
Sequence Diagram(s)
sequenceDiagram
participant Request as Request
participant DeepseekV4Tokenizer as DeepseekV4Tokenizer
participant DeepseekV4Model as DeepseekV4Model
participant DeepseekV4ReqManager as DeepseekV4ReqManager
participant FlashMLA as FlashMLA
Request->>DeepseekV4Tokenizer: Encode text, tools, and image placeholders
DeepseekV4Tokenizer->>DeepseekV4Model: Submit token IDs and multimodal metadata
DeepseekV4Model->>DeepseekV4ReqManager: Build SWA and compressed-KV state
DeepseekV4Model->>FlashMLA: Run sparse prefill or decode attention
FlashMLA-->>DeepseekV4Model: Return local query-head outputs
DeepseekV4Model-->>Request: Produce model output
Vision chat requests and some model startup or padded-prefill paths may fail. Resolve those concerns before merging; the remaining converter, test, and cache-configuration issues are narrower.
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Review comments at @lightllm/common/kv_cache_mem_manager/mem_utils.py:
- Around line 23-30: Update the memory-manager selection flow so it does not
resolve `DeepseekV4TpPartModel` for non-V4 models. Check the model type with
`get_model_type_v1()` before importing `DeepseekV4TpPartModel`, then retain the
existing `issubclass` check and `DeepseekV4MemoryManager` selection within the
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Review comments at @lightllm/models/deepseek_v4/tokenizer.py:
- Around line 126-131: Update content normalization in _build_multimodal_params
so mixed text and image parts are flattened into a string before build_prompt
passes messages to apply_chat_template; preserve text and add one DeepSeek-V4
image placeholder for each image part to prevent render_message from receiving a
content list.
Review comments at @tools/convert_deepseek_v4_mtp_to_bf16.py:
- Around line 588-602: Update the output preparation flow around
unchanged_weight_map so --finalize-only and single-worker resume call
_prepare_output_dir to provide required metadata and referenced non-MTP shards;
make the helper safe for an existing output directory by preserving existing
files. Keep multi-worker resume workers from copying files that they are
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Review comments at @unit_tests/common/quantization/test_no_quant.py:
- Around line 30-31: Update the tolerance in this test’s assert_close
comparison: keep 1e-5 for fp32_output, and use a dtype-appropriate tolerance for
lower-precision outputs (1.6e-2 for torch.bfloat16 and 2e-3 for fp16) so the
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lightllm.models exposes model classes lazily, but this statement still resolves and imports DeepseekV4TpPartModel for every memory-manager selection. That import loads flash_mla and deep_gemm before the issubclass check. Non-V4 models can therefore fail in environments that do not install the Docker-only V4 dependencies.
Suggested fix
--- "a/lightllm/common/kv_cache_mem_manager/mem_utils.py"+++ "b/lightllm/common/kv_cache_mem_manager/mem_utils.py"@@ -19,15 +19,18 @@
def select_mem_manager_class():
# case 1
# 先判断是否是 deepseek 系列的模型
model_class = get_llm_model_class()
- from lightllm.models import DeepseekV4TpPartModel-- if issubclass(model_class, DeepseekV4TpPartModel):- from . import DeepseekV4MemoryManager-- mem_class = DeepseekV4MemoryManager- logger.info(f"Model kv cache using default, mem_manager class: {mem_class}")- return mem_class+ from lightllm.utils.config_utils import get_model_type_v1++ if get_model_type_v1() == "deepseek_v4":+ from lightllm.models import DeepseekV4TpPartModel++ if issubclass(model_class, DeepseekV4TpPartModel):+ from . import DeepseekV4MemoryManager++ mem_class = DeepseekV4MemoryManager+ logger.info(f"Model kv cache using default, mem_manager class: {mem_class}")+ return mem_class
from lightllm.models import Deepseek3_2TpPartModel
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fromlightllm.modelsimportDeepseekV4TpPartModel
ifissubclass(model_class, DeepseekV4TpPartModel):
from . importDeepseekV4MemoryManager
mem_class=DeepseekV4MemoryManager
logger.info(f"Model kv cache using default, mem_manager class: {mem_class}")
logger.info(f"Model kv cache using default, mem_manager class: {mem_class}")
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Update the memory-manager selection flow so it does not resolve
`DeepseekV4TpPartModel` for non-V4 models. Check the model type with
`get_model_type_v1()` before importing `DeepseekV4TpPartModel`, then retain the
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Flatten image content into the DeepSeek-V4 placeholder.
_build_multimodal_params extracts image data but does not modify message content. build_prompt therefore passes mixed content lists to DeepSeekV4Tokenizer.apply_chat_template. The current normalization preserves those lists, and render_message then concatenates them with strings for user and developer messages, which raises TypeError.
The tokenizer also requires one <｜deepseek_image｜> placeholder for each image. Add the placeholder while flattening image content.
Proposed fix
--- "a/lightllm/models/deepseek_v4/tokenizer.py"+++ "b/lightllm/models/deepseek_v4/tokenizer.py"@@ -123,12 +123,19 @@
# build_prompt normalizes tool arguments to dicts. The DSML encoder needs
# JSON strings to encode each named argument separately.
for msg in msgs:
content = msg.get("content")
- if isinstance(content, list) and all(- isinstance(part, dict) and part.get("type") == "text" for part in content- ):- msg["content"] = "".join(part.get("text") or "" for part in content)+ if isinstance(content, list) and all(isinstance(part, dict) for part in content):+ pieces = []+ for part in content:+ part_type = part.get("type")+ if part_type == "text":+ pieces.append(part.get("text") or "")+ elif part_type in ("image_url", "image"):+ pieces.append("<｜deepseek_image｜>")+ else:+ raise ValueError(f"Unsupported content part type: {part_type}")+ msg["content"] = "".join(pieces)
for tc in msg.get("tool_calls") or []:
fn = tc.get("function")
if isinstance(fn, dict) and isinstance(fn.get("arguments"), dict):
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131:
Update content normalization in _build_multimodal_params so mixed text and image
parts are flattened into a string before build_prompt passes messages to
apply_chat_template; preserve text and add one DeepSeek-V4 image placeholder for
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rg -n '_prepare_output_dir|finalize_only|resume|worker_count|shutil|link_mode' tools/convert_deepseek_v4_mtp_to_bf16.py
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Prepare unchanged model files before multi-worker finalization.
For the default prefix conversion, --resume and --finalize-only skip _prepare_output_dir. The output therefore lacks config.json, tokenizer files, and referenced non-MTP shards unless they already exist. The final index still references those non-MTP shard names.
The --all-weights finalization path writes config.json explicitly, so the missing-config.json claim applies only to the default prefix conversion.
Make _prepare_output_dir idempotent and call it from --finalize-only or the single-worker path:
Suggested fix
def _prepare_output_dir(
source_dir: Path,
output_dir: Path,
*,
referenced_non_mtp_shards: Iterable[str],
link_mode: str,
+ allow_existing: bool = False,
) -> None:
if output_dir.exists():
- if any(output_dir.iterdir()):+ if not allow_existing and any(output_dir.iterdir()):
raise FileExistsError(f"output directory is not empty: {output_dir}")
else:
output_dir.mkdir(parents=True)
for entry in source_dir.iterdir():
if not entry.is_file() or entry.name == "model.safetensors.index.json":
continue
if entry.suffix == ".safetensors":
continue
- _copy_or_link(entry, output_dir / entry.name, link_mode)+ destination = output_dir / entry.name+ if not destination.exists():+ _copy_or_link(entry, destination, link_mode)
for shard in sorted(set(referenced_non_mtp_shards)):
- _copy_or_link(source_dir / shard, output_dir / shard, link_mode)+ destination = output_dir / shard+ if not destination.exists():+ _copy_or_link(source_dir / shard, destination, link_mode)
Call the helper for --finalize-only, or for a single-worker resume, while leaving multi-worker resume workers to write converted shards:
- if args.resume or args.finalize_only:- if not output_dir.is_dir():- raise FileNotFoundError(f"output directory does not exist: {output_dir}")- else:- unchanged_weight_map = {- name: shard- for name, shard in weight_map.items()- if selected_prefix is not None and not name.startswith(selected_prefix)- }+ unchanged_weight_map = {+ name: shard+ for name, shard in weight_map.items()+ if selected_prefix is not None and not name.startswith(selected_prefix)+ }+ if args.resume or args.finalize_only:+ if not output_dir.is_dir():+ raise FileNotFoundError(f"output directory does not exist: {output_dir}")++ if not args.resume or args.finalize_only or args.worker_count == 1:
_prepare_output_dir(
source_dir,
output_dir,
referenced_non_mtp_shards=unchanged_weight_map.values(),
link_mode=args.link_mode,
+ allow_existing=args.resume or args.finalize_only,
)
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602:
Update the output preparation flow around unchanged_weight_map so
--finalize-only and single-worker resume call _prepare_output_dir to provide
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Set the tolerance from the output dtype.
The fp32_output=False case compares two results that are each rounded to bf16 or fp16. expected is an fp32 GEMM that is rounded once. result is a cuBLAS half-precision GEMM. On that GEMM, PyTorch allows reduced-precision reductions by default (allow_bf16_reduced_precision_reduction / allow_fp16_reduced_precision_reduction), and the accumulation order can differ. A single bf16 rounding step is about 0.4% relative, and a single fp16 step is about 0.05%. rtol=1e-5, atol=1e-5 does not allow even one step. The test can therefore fail on a given GPU or cuBLAS version while NoQuantization.apply is correct. Keep the strict tolerance only for the fp32-output case.
💚 Proposed fix
--- "a/unit_tests/common/quantization/test_no_quant.py"+++ "b/unit_tests/common/quantization/test_no_quant.py"@@ -26,9 +26,10 @@
projection.bias = None
result = projection.mm(x, out=out)
assert result is out
expected = torch.mm(x.float(), weight.float().t()).to(out.dtype)
- torch.testing.assert_close(result, expected, rtol=1e-5, atol=1e-5)+ tol = 1e-5 if fp32_output else (1.6e-2 if dtype == torch.bfloat16 else 2e-3)+ torch.testing.assert_close(result, expected, rtol=tol, atol=tol)
@pytest.mark.skipif(not torch.cuda.is_available(), reason="requires CUDA")
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- Line 15: Update the DeepSeek-V4 workspace initialization so token_capacity
covers prefill padding beyond model.batch_max_tokens, using the same
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#!/bin/bashset -u
printf'%s\n''--- prefill padding definition and callers ---'
rg -n -F -- '_create_padded_prefill_model_input' lightllm/common/basemodel lightllm/models
python3 - <<'PY'from pathlib import Pathp = Path('lightllm/common/basemodel/basemodel.py')lines = p.read_text().splitlines()for i, line in enumerate(lines): if '_create_padded_prefill_model_input' in line: start = max(0, i - 12) end = min(len(lines), i + 75) print(f'--- basemodel.py:{start+1}-{end} ---') for n in range(start, end): print(f'{n+1:5}\t{lines[n]}')PYprintf'%s\n''--- prefill token-count construction ---'
rg -n -C12 -e 'infer_handle_token_num' -e 'handle_token_num' -e 'total_token_num.*input' -e 'input_ids.*total_token_num' lightllm/common/basemodel/basemodel.py lightllm/server lightllm/models | head -360
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Size DeepSeek-V4 prefill scratch for the padded token count.
BaseModel._prefill can round the input token count up for TPSP or a prefill graph. _create_padded_prefill_model_input then pads input_ids to that count. If the padded count exceeds model.batch_max_tokens, DeepSeek-V4 allocates too few rows. The prefill query slice can then have fewer rows than q_in, and C4 scratch views can fail to reshape.
Suggested fix
def __init__(self, model):
- self.token_capacity = int(model.batch_max_tokens)+ # Match the SWA prefill workspace bound, which includes padding tokens.+ self.token_capacity = int(max(model.batch_max_tokens, model.max_req_num) + 2 * model.tp_world_size_)
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Update the DeepSeek-V4 workspace initialization so token_capacity covers prefill
padding beyond model.batch_max_tokens, using the same padded-token bound as the
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Adopt request-owned rings, attention-owned SWA workspace, forward-owned
indices, common PD state transfer, and weight-loader quant utilities.
Retain V4.1 shared C1/C2 KV, hierarchical indexing, CED, causal vision,
Engram continuation, and block-32 FP8 loading through the shared interfaces.
Preserve the measured graph-pool, rotary-table, MoE scratch, and native
FlashMLA output memory improvements. Use the existing vLLM TopK path when
the installed FlashInfer API lacks page-size/output support.
Route model KV and CPU page defaults through config_utils and include V4.1
in the existing DeepSeek cache alignment rules. Extend startup coverage
for V4.1 defaults, checkpoint boundaries, and invalid page sizes.
Record merge validation in test.md: 446 core checks, 262 common/model
checks, 433 server checks, 137 page/startup checks, and two peer-GPU PD
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- Line 113: In the hybrid-model configuration flow around
get_model_type(args.model_dir), reject DeepSeek-V4 decode mode when CPU caching
is enabled before starting the cache manager; raise a clear configuration error
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Reject this unsupported combination before starting the cache manager.
With DeepSeek-V4 decode mode and CPU caching enabled, the computed metadata has zero pages. CpuKVCacheMeta.calcu_size() therefore returns zero, and create_shm_kv_cache_ptr() calls shmget() with a zero size. Linux rejects that allocation, so MultiLevelKVCacheManager fails before sending "init ok". The later decode assertion is not reached.
This affects an already unsupported configuration, so it does not make supported decode serving unavailable. Early validation still avoids the low-level startup failure.
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--- "a/lightllm/utils/config_utils.py"+++ "b/lightllm/utils/config_utils.py"@@ -109,8 +109,10 @@
if not args.enable_cpu_cache:
return
if is_hybrid_model:
+ if get_model_type(args.model_dir) == "deepseek_v4" and args.run_mode == "decode":+ raise ValueError("DeepSeek-V4 decode mode does not support --enable_cpu_cache")
if get_model_type(args.model_dir) == "deepseek_v4" and args.run_mode != "decode":
big_page_tokens = args.linear_att_hash_page_size * args.linear_att_page_block_num
if big_page_tokens > args.max_req_total_len:
# CPU pages need the same boundary snapshots as GPU prefix caching.
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Review comment at @lightllm/utils/config_utils.py at line 113:
In the hybrid-model configuration flow around get_model_type(args.model_dir),
reject DeepSeek-V4 decode mode when CPU caching is enabled before starting the
cache manager; raise a clear configuration error and preserve the existing
handling for other model and run-mode combinations.
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Remove DeepSeek configuration normalization and keep runtime-added cache
layer counts in DeepseekV4CacheConfig. Derive DSpark backbone size from
dspark_target_layer_ids, including the nested V4.1 text configuration.
Validate 363 model/cache checks and 200 speculative/config/startup checks.
Record three existing environment-default assertion failures reproduced
on the pre-merge baseline, with logs and validation details in test.md.
Rely on model initialization and allocated tensor layouts instead of repeating assertions. Read required checkpoint fields directly, use normal file-loading errors, and pass unsupported reasoning effort to the encoder validation without silently resetting it.
Validation: 348 CPU tests passed; CUDA-dependent case passed separately; 509 CUDA model, kernel and cache tests passed; 94 cache and transfer checks passed; both checkpoint conversion smoke tests passed.
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Summary
Add DeepSeek-V4 inference support, including the base model, MTP and DSpark speculative decoding, vision inputs, prefill/decode disaggregation, and GPU/CPU/disk KV caching.
The implementation handles DeepSeek-V4’s compressed-attention layout explicitly: compressed history can be shared between requests, while sliding-window KV and continuation state remain request-owned.
Model Architecture and Inference
KV Layout
DeepSeek-V4 uses separate physical layouts for its attention components:
Compressed history is addressed through the existing request-to-token table using 256-token allocation pages. Closed compression groups derive their physical locations from the corresponding group-ending token slots.
Requests sharing a cached prefix reuse the compressed history but restore independent SWA and continuation state. Prefill retains the SWA pages needed for the entire current chunk, rather than recycling them before attention finishes.
Vision Support
This allows vision requests to use the same model inference, prefix-cache, and PD paths while keeping image blocks atomic where required.
Tokenizer and Response Protocol
Prefill/Decode Disaggregation and DP Cache Transfer
Add model-specific pack/unpack and copy operations for DeepSeek-V4 caches.
PD Transfer
P/D nodes must run compatible versions because the DeepSeek-V4 continuation layout is part of the transfer contract.
Cross-DP Prefix Reuse
CPU and Disk KV Cache
Support packed DeepSeek-V4 checkpoint pages through the existing multi-level cache pipeline.
Each CPU checkpoint contains compressed history and the tail state required to resume inference. CPU continuation checkpoints retain the final 256-token SWA region and the relevant C4/indexer state; aligned checkpoint boundaries close the C128 compression group.
Validation
Regression coverage includes:
Targeted regression validation:
These results cover targeted regression suites, not a complete end-to-end accuracy or performance evaluation.
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