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[TRTLLM-17389][feat] Serve MiniMax-M3.1-Flash with its bundled DSpark drafter - #20922

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The change adds MiniMax-M3.1-Flash DSpark drafter support through the existing GQA DSpark path. It adds architecture routing, config flattening, checkpoint-name remapping, MXFP8 weight conversion, and Gemma norm handling.

For DSpark layers with finite windows, TRTLLM can lower non-causal attention to causal decode plus future-block attention. Explicit causality metadata can retain causal behavior. The runtime validation API now returns per-layer lowering modes, and the DFlash worker uses those modes to detect context attention.

Prompts around 131k tokens or longer can fail during draft KV context resizing when block reuse is disabled or DSpark runs on a disaggregated generation server. Review findings and severity counts are unavailable. Test execution and current-head completion status are not established.

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Four unit-test files changed. test_minimax_dspark_draft.py covers config flattening and routing, architecture registration, weight remapping and conversion, quantized-config rejection, and norm construction. test_dflash2_semantics.py covers attention metadata and TRTLLM lowering. test_dspark_noncausal_window.py covers attention-oracle comparisons, window bounds, causality metadata, head-size validation, TRTLLM execution, long contexts, and CUDA Graph replay. test_dflash_worker.py updates its fake model to return lowering modes.

The B200 CI list includes test_dspark_noncausal_window.py. The supplied search found no CI or manual-QA list entries for the other three changed unit-test files. The evidence does not establish end-to-end checkpoint loading and generation. Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. Test execution results are unavailable.

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  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/_arch_index.py: Registers DSparkMiniMaxDraftModel. Verify architecture discovery.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dspark.py: Adds MiniMax model construction, checkpoint conversion, and drafter dispatch. Verify weight loading and generation with the supported checkpoint.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/config_utils.py: Adds MiniMax config flattening and routing. Verify nested-field precedence, dtype selection, and sliding-window translation, including null fields and the use_swa and use_sliding_window overrides.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dflash.py: Adds TRTLLM lowering for finite non-causal windows. Verify window boundaries and backend behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py: Uses lowering modes for context-attention validation. Verify each lowering mode.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash_attention.py: Defines DFLASH_CONTEXT_LOWERING. Verify that the identifier matches the model lowering result.
  • tensorrt_llm/usage/architecture_allowlist.py: Adds the MiniMax architecture to telemetry allowlisting. Verify architecture reporting.
  • docs/source/models/supported-models.md: Documents DSpark support and the long-prompt limitation. Verify that the documented condition matches runtime behavior.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_minimax_dspark_draft.py: Covers config, routing, registration, remapping, dequantization, quantized-config rejection, and norm construction. No CI or manual-QA list entry was found.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash2_semantics.py: Covers attention metadata and TRTLLM lowering. No CI or manual-QA list entry was found.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_noncausal_window.py: Covers attention correctness, window resolution, TRTLLM execution, long contexts, and CUDA Graph replay. Listed in test-db/l0_b200.yml; no manual-QA entry was found.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_worker.py: Updates fake-model validation to return two lowering modes. No CI or manual-QA list entry was found.
  • tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml: Adds the DSpark non-causal-window test to B200 CI. The list comment says it skips off SM100/SM103. Verify CI execution on supported GPU architectures and skips elsewhere.

Description

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash ships a standalone DSpark drafter in its dspark/ directory (architecture DSparkMiniMaxDraftModel, 5 GQA layers with 4096-token sliding attention, MXFP8 weights). This change lets speculative_config: {decoding_type: DSpark, speculative_model: <checkpoint>/dspark} load and run it on the existing GQA DSpark path.

  • config_utils.py: the drafter's config.json is VL-shaped (model_type: minimax_m3_vl, backbone under text_config, no auto_map), so load_pretrained_config routes it by architecture to build_minimax_dspark_draft_config, which flattens it into a plain PretrainedConfig, drops the quantization block (the weights are dequantized at load) and maps the HF sliding_attention + sliding_window spelling to the DFlash use_swa / swa_window_size keys. The window declarations follow one rule: every layout the drafter runs is accepted (either config level, either spelling, a null counts as unset, use_sliding_window: false disables both the context window and the block windows), and two non-null declarations that disagree, a layer_types schedule that does not match num_hidden_layers, or opposed disable switches raise an error naming both sources, so the context path and the block decode can never end up with different windows.
  • modeling_dspark.py: MiniMaxDSparkBackbone is the registry entry for DSparkMiniMaxDraftModel (GQA attention with per-head Q/K norm and partial NeoX RoPE, dense swiglu-oai MLP). _build_dspark_draft picks MiniMaxDSparkForCausalLM, a GQADSparkForCausalLM that renames the checkpoint tensors out of their language_model.model.dspark. namespace, dequantizes the MXFP8 linears to the compute dtype before the DFlash loader sees them. The backbone norms are built as Gemma norms (use_gemma=True, so the kernel forms 1 + w in fp32); only q_norm / k_norm and the wrapper-owned hidden_norm, whose consumers read the raw weight, get 1 + w folded in at load.
  • _arch_index.py: lazy-zoo entry for the architecture.
  • modeling_dspark.py / modeling_dflash.py: the drafter was trained with a non-causal block. Each block query attends every block position plus the context keys inside its 4096-token window, but the windowed GQA DSpark layers were forced causal. GQADSparkForCausalLM now declares windowed layers non-causal with a two-sided window. This is a class-wide change for every GQA DSpark drafter whose config carries a sliding_window, not only MiniMax; explicit checkpoint metadata still wins (is_causal: true, or the speculators sliding_window_non_causal: false, keeps the causal windowed decode), and the speculators Kimi K3 conversion drops its window, so no existing checkpoint changes behavior. On the TRTLLM backend dflash_trtllm_windowed_block_attention lowers this exactly: a causal sliding-window decode over the paged cache, returning its log-sum-exp (converted from base 2), merged with the block keys after each query. validate_block_attention_windows logs and returns the lowering per layer instead of rejecting windowed non-causal layers, and the TRTLLM runtime check derives its context-kernel requirement from those lowerings, so a windowed layer is no longer held to the context kernel's head-size limits. On GB300 TP4 with K=7 on SPEED-Bench coding prompts, acceptance length goes from 3.21 to 3.77-3.83 with rejection sampling and from 3.61 to 3.96-4.08 with greedy drafting.

The drafter runs on the existing separate draft KV pool; no runtime or KV cache manager change is part of this PR.

Dependency: loading the MiniMax-M3.1-Flash target itself needs #20847 (NVFP4 MoE packaging); this PR shares no files with it and can merge in either order.

Known limitation, fix to follow in a separate PR: with block reuse disabled, or with DSpark on a disaggregated generation server, the draft KV mirror is sized to the whole prompt and the first prompt of about 131k tokens or more fails with Draft KV cache context resize failed. With block reuse enabled (the default), the drafter and target pools are paired and long prompts serve correctly. This is also documented in the [^21] footnote of the supported-models page.

Follow-up, not in this PR: an accuracy-suite entry for MiniMax-M3.1-Flash + DSpark in tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py, once the target loads on main (#20847).

Test Coverage

  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_minimax_dspark_draft.py (new, cpu_only): config flattening of the shipped drafter config (reduced to the loader fields), the window declarations (41 accepted layouts checked through both window resolvers, 14 contradictions checked for the named-source error), routing by architecture in load_pretrained_config, backbone registration, tensor-name remap, MXFP8 dequantization against a per-block reference (uint8 and float8_e8m0fnu scales, non-byte scales rejected), the Gemma norm pairing (backbone norms use_gemma=True, the fold only on q_norm / k_norm / hidden_norm), and the refusal to build the drafter from a quantized draft config.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_noncausal_window.py (new; CPU, plus TRTLLM cases on Blackwell, added to l0_b200.yml): mask semantics of the windowed non-causal block, the explicit-metadata escape hatch, the head-size regression (windowed layers at head_dim 72/80/96 are not rejected by the context-kernel check), the TRTLLM lowering against a dense reference across window, block-size and history-length edges, and CUDA-graph replay. The CPU cases carry cpu_only; the TRTLLM cases run in the l0_b200.yml stage.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash2_semantics.py: the TRTLLM backend now lowers windowed non-causal layers instead of rejecting them. The CPU cases carry cpu_only individually; the four needs_gpu tests stay collectable on the GPU stages.
  • l0_cpu.yml and l0_h100.yml list the whole hw_agnostic directory, so both new files run pre-merge; l0_b300.yml carries only test_dspark_v41.py, so the B200 stage is the one that runs the TRTLLM cases of test_dspark_noncausal_window.py.
  • CI: L0 pipeline 66667 on 99428dc ran every DGX_B200 and B300 stage green, including test_dspark_noncausal_window.py; the pipeline's red stages were an H100 test-process leak and a CPU-arm disaggregated timing flake, neither in files this PR touches. A new pipeline on the current head follows the review fixes.
  • tests/unittest/others/test_lazy_model_zoo.py covers the _arch_index.py entry.

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The drafter's VL-shaped config.json is flattened by architecture, with its
sliding-window layers mapped to the DFlash use_swa spelling. Its checkpoint
tensors are renamed out of their namespace, MXFP8-dequantized and Gemma
norm-folded at load, and run on the GQA DSpark block decode.

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This change adds standalone MiniMax DSpark drafter configuration, checkpoint conversion, model registration, and dispatch. It also adds TRTLLM support for non-causal finite-window DFlash attention through causal decode and future-block merging.

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MiniMax DSpark drafter

Layer / File(s) Summary
Build drafter configuration
tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/config_utils.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_minimax_dspark_draft.py
The config builder flattens nested text_config fields, sets the drafter architecture and dtype, and derives DFlash sliding-window settings under specified conditions. Config loading routes matching architectures to this builder. Tests check normalized fields and routing.
Convert MiniMax checkpoint weights
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dspark.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_minimax_dspark_draft.py
Weight preparation remaps checkpoint names, dequantizes MXFP8 weights using 32-column scale blocks, removes scale tensors, and adjusts specified Gemma norm weights. Tests cover these conversions and quantized-config rejection.
Register and select the drafter
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/_arch_index.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dspark.py, tensorrt_llm/usage/architecture_allowlist.py, docs/source/models/supported-models.md
Adds MiniMax model classes and standalone dispatch. The architecture index and telemetry allowlist include the draft architecture. The supported-models documentation describes the drafter configuration and a documented prompt-size failure condition.

Non-causal DFlash window attention

Layer / File(s) Summary
Merge future-block attention
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dflash.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_noncausal_window.py
Adds attention merging for eligible future block keys and a TRTLLM decode helper that combines this merge with paged decode. Tests compare outputs with dense attention references.
Report and dispatch attention lowering
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dflash.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/speculative/dflash_attention.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash2_semantics.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dflash_worker.py
TRTLLM validation reports per-layer lowering paths. Runtime validation checks for context-kernel lowering, and tests assert the reported paths. Applicable semantics tests are marked CPU-only.
Resolve DSpark masks and validate paged attention
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_dspark.py, tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_dspark_noncausal_window.py, tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml
DSpark uses non-causal symmetric window bounds by default and honors explicit causality metadata. Tests cover mask resolution, paged caches, dense-oracle comparisons, and CUDA Graph replay. The B200 test list includes the new test.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DFlashForward
  participant TRTLLMDecode
  participant FutureBlockMerge
  participant RuntimeValidation
  DFlashForward->>TRTLLMDecode: Run causal paged decode with window
  TRTLLMDecode->>FutureBlockMerge: Provide causal output, LSE, and block keys
  FutureBlockMerge->>DFlashForward: Return merged attention output
  RuntimeValidation->>RuntimeValidation: Check reported context-kernel lowering
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Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20940: Changes DFlash execution arguments and standalone DSpark block placement used by the MiniMax drafter path.
  • NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#19989: Changes GQA DSpark construction and standalone-draft dispatch, which this change extends.
  • NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#20664: Changes standalone-draft KV-cache layout and paging contracts used by the MiniMax drafter path.

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The drafter’s windowed attention path appears ready to merge. Strengthen the worker test so a regression in its validation flag is detected.

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3734-3736: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Test the checkpoint through the drafter loader.

The tests call prepare_minimax_dspark_weights directly. None constructs MiniMaxDSparkForCausalLM and passes translated tensors through load_weights. A key or tensor-shape mismatch between conversion and the DFlash loader can therefore escape these tests. Add the smallest practical synthetic-checkpoint test that constructs the drafter, loads a complete minimal weight set, and checks one draft step. Put a GPU-dependent case in the applicable integration test location and select its test list if it must run in CI. As per path instructions, “Leave an INLINE review comment on the smallest relevant changed production-code hunk when a material test coverage gap exists.”

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DSpark drafters are trained with a non-causal block and a two-sided window,
but DFlash resolved every windowed draft layer as causal. GQA DSpark now
resolves non-causal (W-1, W-1); the TRTLLM backend serves it as the causal
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3738-3748: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Add a loader-path regression test for the MiniMax drafter.

The tests in test_minimax_dspark_draft.py cover config routing, the architecture constant, backbone registration, the GQADSparkForCausalLM subclass relationship, and the output of prepare_minimax_dspark_weights. No test builds the drafter through _build_dspark_draft or passes converted tensors through MiniMaxDSparkForCausalLM.load_weights. A checkpoint-key, tensor-shape, or partial-RoPE mismatch in the load path can therefore pass the current tests.

Add a synthetic-checkpoint case to tests/unittest/_torch/speculative/hw_agnostic/test_minimax_dspark_draft.py. Build the drafter from a config with "architectures": ["DSparkMiniMaxDraftModel"], pass a checkpoint in the source tensor naming through load_weights, and run one draft step. The sibling DSpark test in test_kimi_k3_dspark_semantics.py builds through _build_dspark_draft and moves the model to CUDA under @needs_gpu. If the new case needs CUDA, use the same marker.

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3813-3813: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Add a load-and-decode test for the MiniMax drafter.

The new tests check transformed tensors and the MiniMaxDSparkForCausalLM class relationship. No test calls load_weights or runs a forward pass through the drafter. A split Q/K/V or MLP shape error, or a checkpoint-name mismatch with the backbone parameters, can pass these tests and then fail on the first draft step. Add a small synthetic-checkpoint test that builds the drafter, calls load_weights with split Q/K/V and MLP tensors, and checks one block's output against a small reference. Place it beside test_minimax_dspark_draft.py if its execution requirements fit that suite. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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… block windows

build_minimax_dspark_draft_config skips the use_swa / swa_window_size
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Assert the resolved block window.

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swa_window_size when the drafter config carries use_sliding_window: false,
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Assert the worker’s derived has_context_attention flag.

DFlashWorker derives this flag from validate_block_attention_windows(), but the test stub discards the validator arguments. The test can therefore pass if the worker always enables or always disables context validation. The DSpark test calls the validator directly and does not cover this worker call.

Parameterize the fake lowerings with a causal-only list and a list containing DFLASH_CONTEXT_LOWERING. Capture the validator arguments and assert has_context_attention is False and True, respectively. Import the constant from tensorrt_llm._torch.speculative.dflash_attention.

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     monkeypatch.setattr(
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+        lambda **kwargs: validator_calls.append(kwargs),
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