[Build] Download CUDA 12.9 nvcc/ptxas/cicc for better codegen in Docker build

Use CUDA 12.9.86 compiler toolchain (nvcc, ptxas, cicc) for better GPU
code generation while keeping CUDA 12.8 headers/libs for runtime
compatibility with PyTorch cu128 wheels.

nvcc is replaced (not just ptxas/cicc) so that setup.py's
get_nvcc_cuda_version() reports 12.9, which is required for FlashMLA
registration. PyTorch's CMake nvcc-vs-header version check is patched
to a warning in base (for extensions-build), csrc-build, and build
stages (re-applied after torch pip reinstall overwrites cmake files).

Controlled by ARG MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION (default 12.9.86):
- Skipped if system nvcc is already >= the specified version
- Set to empty string to disable entirely
- Archive integrity verified via SHA256 checksums from NVIDIA's
  redistrib manifest

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Michael Smith <tlrmchlsmth@gmail.com>

.buildkite/image_build/image_build.sh

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ clean_docker_tag() {
 }
 
 print_usage_and_exit() {
-    echo "Usage: $0 <registry> <repo> <commit> <branch> <vllm_use_precompiled> <vllm_merge_base_commit> <cache_from> <cache_to>"
+    echo "Usage: $0 <registry> <repo> <commit> <branch> <image_tag> [<image_tag_latest>]"
     exit 1
 }
 
@@ -142,11 +142,16 @@ resolve_parent_commit() {
 
 print_bake_config() {
     echo "--- :page_facing_up: Resolved bake configuration"
-    BAKE_CONFIG_FILE="bake-config-build-${BUILDKITE_BUILD_NUMBER:-local}.json"
+    # Write to a temp directory to avoid polluting the repo root (which is the
+    # Docker build context). Files left in the repo root get COPY'd into the
+    # image and can cause duplicate artifact uploads from downstream steps.
+    local bake_tmp
+    bake_tmp="$(mktemp -d)"
+    BAKE_CONFIG_FILE="${bake_tmp}/bake-config-build-${BUILDKITE_BUILD_NUMBER:-local}.json"
     docker buildx bake -f "${VLLM_BAKE_FILE_PATH}" -f "${CI_HCL_PATH}" --print "${TARGET}" | tee "${BAKE_CONFIG_FILE}" || true
     echo "Saved bake config to ${BAKE_CONFIG_FILE}"
     echo "--- :arrow_down: Uploading bake config to Buildkite"
-    buildkite-agent artifact upload "${BAKE_CONFIG_FILE}"
+    (cd "$(dirname "${BAKE_CONFIG_FILE}")" && buildkite-agent artifact upload "$(basename "${BAKE_CONFIG_FILE}")")
 }
 
 #################################
@@ -154,7 +159,7 @@ print_bake_config() {
 #################################
 print_instance_info
 
-if [[ $# -lt 7 ]]; then
+if [[ $# -lt 5 ]]; then
     print_usage_and_exit
 fi
 
@@ -163,10 +168,8 @@ REGISTRY=$1
 REPO=$2
 BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
 BRANCH=$4
-VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED=$5
-VLLM_MERGE_BASE_COMMIT=$6
-IMAGE_TAG=$7
-IMAGE_TAG_LATEST=${8:-} # only used for main branch, optional
+IMAGE_TAG=$5
+IMAGE_TAG_LATEST=${6:-} # only used for main branch, optional
 
 # build config
 TARGET="test-ci"
@@ -193,8 +196,6 @@ export CACHE_FROM
 export CACHE_FROM_BASE_BRANCH
 export CACHE_FROM_MAIN
 export CACHE_TO
-export VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED
-export VLLM_MERGE_BASE_COMMIT
 
 # print args
 echo "--- :mag: Arguments"
@@ -202,8 +203,6 @@ echo "REGISTRY: ${REGISTRY}"
 echo "REPO: ${REPO}"
 echo "BUILDKITE_COMMIT: ${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}"
 echo "BRANCH: ${BRANCH}"
-echo "VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED: ${VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED}"
-echo "VLLM_MERGE_BASE_COMMIT: ${VLLM_MERGE_BASE_COMMIT}"
 echo "IMAGE_TAG: ${IMAGE_TAG}"
 echo "IMAGE_TAG_LATEST: ${IMAGE_TAG_LATEST}"
 

.buildkite/image_build/image_build.yaml

@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ steps:
     depends_on: []
     timeout_in_minutes: 600
     commands:
-    - if [[ "$BUILDKITE_BRANCH" != "main" ]]; then .buildkite/image_build/image_build.sh $REGISTRY $REPO $BUILDKITE_COMMIT $BRANCH $VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED $VLLM_MERGE_BASE_COMMIT $IMAGE_TAG; fi
-    - if [[ "$BUILDKITE_BRANCH" == "main" ]]; then .buildkite/image_build/image_build.sh $REGISTRY $REPO $BUILDKITE_COMMIT $BRANCH $VLLM_USE_PRECOMPILED $VLLM_MERGE_BASE_COMMIT $IMAGE_TAG $IMAGE_TAG_LATEST; fi
+    - if [[ "$BUILDKITE_BRANCH" == "main" ]]; then .buildkite/image_build/image_build.sh $REGISTRY $REPO $BUILDKITE_COMMIT $BRANCH $IMAGE_TAG $IMAGE_TAG_LATEST; else .buildkite/image_build/image_build.sh $REGISTRY $REPO $BUILDKITE_COMMIT $BRANCH $IMAGE_TAG; fi
     retry:
       automatic:
         - exit_status: -1  # Agent was lost

.buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu.sh

@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ REPO=$2
 BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
 
 # authenticate with AWS ECR
-aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $REGISTRY
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY"
 
 # skip build if image already exists
-if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu) ]]; then
+if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-cpu) ]]; then
   echo "Image not found, proceeding with build..."
 else
   echo "Image found"
@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ fi
 # build
 docker build --file docker/Dockerfile.cpu \
   --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
-  --build-arg buildkite_commit=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT \
+  --build-arg buildkite_commit="$BUILDKITE_COMMIT" \
   --build-arg VLLM_CPU_AVX512BF16=true \
   --build-arg VLLM_CPU_AVX512VNNI=true \
   --build-arg VLLM_CPU_AMXBF16=true \
-  --tag $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu \
+  --tag "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-cpu \
   --target vllm-test \
   --progress plain .
 
 # push
-docker push $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu
+docker push "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-cpu

.buildkite/image_build/image_build_cpu_arm64.sh

@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ REPO=$2
 BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
 
 # authenticate with AWS ECR
-aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $REGISTRY
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY"
 
 # skip build if image already exists
-if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu) ]]; then
+if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-cpu) ]]; then
   echo "Image not found, proceeding with build..."
 else
   echo "Image found"
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ fi
 # build
 docker build --file docker/Dockerfile.cpu \
   --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
-  --build-arg buildkite_commit=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT \
-  --tag $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu \
+  --build-arg buildkite_commit="$BUILDKITE_COMMIT" \
+  --tag "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-cpu \
   --target vllm-test \
   --progress plain .
 
 # push
-docker push $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-cpu
+docker push "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-cpu

.buildkite/image_build/image_build_hpu.sh

@@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ REPO=$2
 BUILDKITE_COMMIT=$3
 
 # authenticate with AWS ECR
-aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $REGISTRY
+aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin "$REGISTRY"
 
 # skip build if image already exists
-if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-hpu) ]]; then
+if [[ -z $(docker manifest inspect "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-hpu) ]]; then
   echo "Image not found, proceeding with build..."
 else
   echo "Image found"
@@ -25,10 +25,10 @@ fi
 docker build \
   --file tests/pytorch_ci_hud_benchmark/Dockerfile.hpu \
   --build-arg max_jobs=16 \
-  --build-arg buildkite_commit=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT \
-  --tag $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-hpu \
+  --build-arg buildkite_commit="$BUILDKITE_COMMIT" \
+  --tag "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-hpu \
   --progress plain \
   https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-gaudi.git
 
 # push
-docker push $REGISTRY/$REPO:$BUILDKITE_COMMIT-hpu
+docker push "$REGISTRY"/"$REPO":"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"-hpu

.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-chartqa-vllm-vlm-baseline.sh

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # We can use this script to compute baseline accuracy on chartqa for vllm.
 #
 # Make sure you have lm-eval-harness installed:
-#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.9.2"
+#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
 
 usage() {
     echo``
@@ -41,4 +41,4 @@ lm_eval --model vllm-vlm \
   --tasks chartqa \
   --batch_size auto \
   --apply_chat_template \
-  --limit $LIMIT
+  --limit "$LIMIT"

.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-gsm-hf-baseline.sh

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # We can use this script to compute baseline accuracy on GSM for transformers.
 #
 # Make sure you have lm-eval-harness installed:
-#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.9.2"
+#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
 
 usage() {
     echo``

.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-gsm-vllm-baseline.sh

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # We use this for fp8, which HF does not support.
 #
 # Make sure you have lm-eval-harness installed:
-#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.9.2"
+#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
 
 usage() {
     echo``

.buildkite/lm-eval-harness/run-lm-eval-mmlupro-vllm-baseline.sh

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # We use this for fp8, which HF does not support.
 #
 # Make sure you have lm-eval-harness installed:
-#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.9.2"
+#   pip install "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
 
 usage() {
     echo``
@@ -20,14 +20,11 @@ usage() {
     echo
 }
 
-while getopts "m:b:l:f:t:" OPT; do
+while getopts "m:l:f:t:" OPT; do
   case ${OPT} in
     m )
         MODEL="$OPTARG"
         ;;
-    b )
-        BATCH_SIZE="$OPTARG"
-        ;;
     l )
         LIMIT="$OPTARG"
         ;;

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/scripts/compare-json-results.py

@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ import json
 import os
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from importlib import util
+from pathlib import Path
 
 import pandas as pd
+import regex as re
 
 pd.options.display.float_format = "{:.2f}".format
 plotly_found = util.find_spec("plotly.express") is not None
@@ -275,6 +277,131 @@ def _apply_two_decimals(
     return styler.format({c: "{:.2f}" for c in num_cols}, na_rep="")
 
 
+# -----------------------------
+# Export helpers (Excel + CSV)
+# -----------------------------
+def _sanitize_sheet_name(name: str) -> str:
+    """
+    Excel sheet constraints:
+      - max 31 chars
+      - cannot contain: : \ / ? * [ ]
+      - cannot be empty
+    """
+    name = "sheet" if name is None else str(name)
+    name = re.sub(r"[:\\/?*\[\]]", "_", name)
+    name = name.strip().strip("'")
+    name = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", name)
+    if not name:
+        name = "sheet"
+    return name[:31]
+
+
+def _group_to_sheet_base(group_cols: list[str], gkey_tuple) -> str:
+    d = dict(zip(group_cols, gkey_tuple))
+    model = d.get("Model", "model")
+    model_short = str(model).split("/")[-1]
+    ilen = d.get("Input Len", "")
+    olen = d.get("Output Len", "")
+    lens = f"_{ilen}x{olen}" if ilen != "" and olen != "" else ""
+    return _sanitize_sheet_name(f"{model_short}{lens}")
+
+
+def _write_tables_to_excel_sheet(
+    writer: pd.ExcelWriter, sheet: str, blocks: list[tuple[str, pd.DataFrame]]
+):
+    startrow = 0
+    for title, df in blocks:
+        pd.DataFrame([[title]]).to_excel(
+            writer, sheet_name=sheet, index=False, header=False, startrow=startrow
+        )
+        startrow += 1
+        df.to_excel(writer, sheet_name=sheet, index=False, startrow=startrow)
+        startrow += len(df) + 3
+
+
+def _safe_filename(s: str) -> str:
+    s = re.sub(r"[^\w\-.]+", "_", str(s).strip())
+    return s[:180] if len(s) > 180 else s
+
+
+# -----------------------------
+# vLLM environment export helper
+# -----------------------------
+def _parse_vllm_env_txt(env_path: Path) -> pd.DataFrame:
+    """Parse vllm_env.txt into a flat table (Section, Key, Value).
+
+    Supports:
+      - section headers as standalone lines (no ':' or '=')
+      - key-value lines like 'OS: Ubuntu ...'
+      - env var lines like 'HF_HOME=/data/hf'
+    """
+    lines = env_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8", errors="replace").splitlines()
+    section = "General"
+    rows: list[dict] = []
+
+    def set_section(s: str):
+        nonlocal section
+        s = (s or "").strip()
+        if s:
+            section = s
+
+    for raw in lines:
+        stripped = raw.strip()
+        if not stripped:
+            continue
+        # divider lines like =====
+        if set(stripped) <= {"="}:
+            continue
+
+        # section header heuristic: short standalone line
+        if ":" not in stripped and "=" not in stripped and len(stripped) <= 64:
+            if stripped.lower().startswith("collecting environment information"):
+                continue
+            set_section(stripped)
+            continue
+
+        # env var style: KEY=VALUE (and not a URL with :)
+        if "=" in stripped and ":" not in stripped:
+            k, v = stripped.split("=", 1)
+            k = k.strip()
+            v = v.strip()
+            if k:
+                rows.append({"Section": section, "Key": k, "Value": v})
+            continue
+
+        # key: value
+        if ":" in stripped:
+            k, v = stripped.split(":", 1)
+            k = k.strip()
+            v = v.strip()
+            if k:
+                rows.append({"Section": section, "Key": k, "Value": v})
+            continue
+
+    return pd.DataFrame(rows, columns=["Section", "Key", "Value"])
+
+
+def _load_env_df_for_inputs(args, files: list[str]) -> pd.DataFrame | None:
+    """Load vllm_env.txt next to the *original* input JSON file.
+
+    Note: when only one -f is provided, the script may split JSON into ./splits/...,
+    but vllm_env.txt typically lives next to the original benchmark_results.json.
+    """
+    base_dir: Path | None = None
+    if getattr(args, "file", None):
+        base_dir = Path(args.file[0]).resolve().parent
+    elif files:
+        base_dir = Path(files[0]).resolve().parent
+    if base_dir is None:
+        return None
+
+    env_path = base_dir / "vllm_env.txt"
+    if not env_path.exists():
+        return None
+    df = _parse_vllm_env_txt(env_path)
+    return df
+
+
 # -----------------------------
 # Valid max concurrency summary helpers
 # -----------------------------
@@ -428,7 +555,6 @@ def build_valid_max_concurrency_summary_html(
 
     summary_df = pd.DataFrame(rows)
 
-    # --- Coerce numeric columns so Styler doesn't miss them due to object dtype ---
     for c in summary_df.columns:
         if c == "Configuration":
             continue
@@ -436,12 +562,10 @@ def build_valid_max_concurrency_summary_html(
 
     both_col = f"Max {conc_col} (Both)"
 
-    # --- Strict 2-decimal formatting for ALL non-Configuration columns ---
     formatters = {}
     for c in summary_df.columns:
         if c == "Configuration":
             continue
-        # default argument binds per-column formatter correctly
         formatters[c] = lambda v: "" if pd.isna(v) else f"{float(v):.2f}"
 
     styler = summary_df.style.format(formatters)
@@ -460,6 +584,95 @@ def build_valid_max_concurrency_summary_html(
     return title + styler.to_html(table_attributes='border="1" class="dataframe"')
 
 
+def build_valid_max_concurrency_summary_df(
+    tput_group_df: pd.DataFrame | None,
+    ttft_group_df: pd.DataFrame | None,
+    tpot_group_df: pd.DataFrame | None,
+    conc_col: str,
+    args,
+) -> pd.DataFrame | None:
+    if ttft_group_df is None and tpot_group_df is None:
+        return None
+
+    ttft_cols = (
+        _config_value_columns(ttft_group_df, conc_col)
+        if ttft_group_df is not None
+        else []
+    )
+    tpot_cols = (
+        _config_value_columns(tpot_group_df, conc_col)
+        if tpot_group_df is not None
+        else []
+    )
+    tput_cols = (
+        _config_value_columns(tput_group_df, conc_col)
+        if tput_group_df is not None
+        else []
+    )
+
+    if ttft_group_df is not None and tpot_group_df is not None:
+        cfg_cols = [c for c in ttft_cols if c in tpot_cols]
+        if tput_group_df is not None:
+            cfg_cols = [c for c in cfg_cols if c in tput_cols] or cfg_cols
+    else:
+        cfg_cols = ttft_cols or tpot_cols
+
+    if not cfg_cols:
+        cfg_cols = sorted(set(ttft_cols) | set(tpot_cols) | set(tput_cols), key=str)
+
+    rows = []
+    for cfg in cfg_cols:
+        ttft_max = (
+            _max_concurrency_ok(ttft_group_df, conc_col, cfg, args.ttft_max_ms)
+            if ttft_group_df is not None
+            else pd.NA
+        )
+        tpot_max = (
+            _max_concurrency_ok(tpot_group_df, conc_col, cfg, args.tpot_max_ms)
+            if tpot_group_df is not None
+            else pd.NA
+        )
+        both = (
+            pd.NA
+            if (pd.isna(ttft_max) or pd.isna(tpot_max))
+            else min(ttft_max, tpot_max)
+        )
+
+        tput_at_both = (
+            _value_at_concurrency(tput_group_df, conc_col, cfg, both)
+            if tput_group_df is not None
+            else pd.NA
+        )
+        ttft_at_both = (
+            _value_at_concurrency(ttft_group_df, conc_col, cfg, both)
+            if ttft_group_df is not None
+            else pd.NA
+        )
+        tpot_at_both = (
+            _value_at_concurrency(tpot_group_df, conc_col, cfg, both)
+            if tpot_group_df is not None
+            else pd.NA
+        )
+
+        rows.append(
+            {
+                "Configuration": cfg,
+                f"Max {conc_col} (TTFT ≤ {args.ttft_max_ms:g} ms)": ttft_max,
+                f"Max {conc_col} (TPOT ≤ {args.tpot_max_ms:g} ms)": tpot_max,
+                f"Max {conc_col} (Both)": both,
+                "Output Tput @ Both (tok/s)": tput_at_both,
+                "TTFT @ Both (ms)": ttft_at_both,
+                "TPOT @ Both (ms)": tpot_at_both,
+            }
+        )
+
+    df = pd.DataFrame(rows)
+    for c in df.columns:
+        if c != "Configuration":
+            df[c] = pd.to_numeric(df[c], errors="coerce")
+    return df
+
+
 # -----------------------------
 # Plot helper
 # -----------------------------
@@ -537,6 +750,21 @@ def build_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
         default=100.0,
         help="Reference limit for TPOT plots (ms)",
     )
+
+    # ---- NEW: export options ----
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--excel-out",
+        type=str,
+        default="perf_comparison.xlsx",
+        help="Write one sheet per (Model, Dataset, Input Len, Output Len).",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--csv-out-dir",
+        type=str,
+        default="",
+        help="If set, write per-group per-metric CSVs into this directory.",
+    )
+
     return parser
 
 
@@ -657,7 +885,6 @@ def maybe_write_plot(
         markers=True,
     )
 
-    # Ensure plot hover + y tick labels are also 2 decimals.
     fig.update_traces(hovertemplate="%{y:.2f}<extra></extra>")
     fig.update_yaxes(tickformat=".2f")
 
@@ -730,87 +957,151 @@ def write_report_group_first(
         for metric_label, (df, _) in metric_cache.items()
     }
 
-    with open("perf_comparison.html", "w", encoding="utf-8") as main_fh:
-        main_fh.write('<meta charset="utf-8">\n')
-        for gkey in group_keys:
-            gkey_tuple = normalize_group_key(gkey)
-            suffix = build_group_suffix(group_cols_canonical, gkey_tuple)
-            sub_path = group_filename(gkey_tuple)
-            group_header = (
-                '<div style="font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: 700; '
-                'margin: 18px 0 10px 0;">'
-                f"{_html.escape(suffix)}"
-                "</div>\n"
-            )
+    csv_dir = Path(args.csv_out_dir) if args.csv_out_dir else None
+    if csv_dir:
+        csv_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
 
-            main_fh.write(group_header)
-            with open(sub_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as sub_fh:
-                sub_fh.write('<meta charset="utf-8">\n')
-                sub_fh.write(group_header)
-                tput_group_df = None
-                ttft_group_df = None
-                tpot_group_df = None
-                conc_col = args.xaxis
+    excel_path = args.excel_out or "perf_comparison.xlsx"
+    with pd.ExcelWriter(excel_path, engine="openpyxl") as xw:
+        # ---- Environment sheet (first) ----
+        env_sheet = _sanitize_sheet_name("Environment")
+        env_df = _load_env_df_for_inputs(args, files)
+        if env_df is None or env_df.empty:
+            pd.DataFrame(
+                [
+                    {
+                        "Section": "Environment",
+                        "Key": "vllm_env.txt",
+                        "Value": "NOT FOUND (or empty)",
+                    }
+                ]
+            ).to_excel(xw, sheet_name=env_sheet, index=False)
+        else:
+            env_df.to_excel(xw, sheet_name=env_sheet, index=False)
+        with open("perf_comparison.html", "w", encoding="utf-8") as main_fh:
+            main_fh.write('<meta charset="utf-8">\n')
+            for gkey in group_keys:
+                gkey_tuple = normalize_group_key(gkey)
+                suffix = build_group_suffix(group_cols_canonical, gkey_tuple)
+                sub_path = group_filename(gkey_tuple)
+                group_header = (
+                    '<div style="font-size: 1.4em; font-weight: 700; '
+                    'margin: 18px 0 10px 0;">'
+                    f"{_html.escape(suffix)}"
+                    "</div>\n"
+                )
 
-                for metric_label in plan.data_cols:
-                    gb = metric_groupbys[metric_label]
-                    df_sorted, raw_data_cols = metric_cache[metric_label]
+                main_fh.write(group_header)
 
-                    try:
-                        group_df = gb.get_group(gkey)
-                    except KeyError:
-                        missing = (
-                            '<div style="font-size: 1.1em; font-weight: 600; '
-                            'margin: 10px 0;">'
-                            f"{_html.escape(metric_label)} — missing for this group"
-                            "</div>\n"
+                sheet = _group_to_sheet_base(group_cols_canonical, gkey_tuple)
+                sheet_base = sheet
+                dedup_i = 1
+                while sheet in xw.sheets:
+                    dedup_i += 1
+                    sheet = _sanitize_sheet_name(f"{sheet_base}_{dedup_i}")
+
+                excel_blocks: list[tuple[str, pd.DataFrame]] = []
+
+                with open(sub_path, "w", encoding="utf-8") as sub_fh:
+                    sub_fh.write('<meta charset="utf-8">\n')
+                    sub_fh.write(group_header)
+                    tput_group_df = None
+                    ttft_group_df = None
+                    tpot_group_df = None
+                    conc_col = args.xaxis
+
+                    for metric_label in plan.data_cols:
+                        gb = metric_groupbys[metric_label]
+                        df_sorted, raw_data_cols = metric_cache[metric_label]
+
+                        try:
+                            group_df = gb.get_group(gkey)
+                        except KeyError:
+                            missing = (
+                                '<div style="font-size: 1.1em; font-weight: 600; '
+                                'margin: 10px 0;">'
+                                f"{_html.escape(metric_label)} — missing for this group"
+                                "</div>\n"
+                            )
+                            main_fh.write(missing)
+                            sub_fh.write(missing)
+                            continue
+
+                        if conc_col not in group_df.columns:
+                            conc_col = _find_concurrency_col(group_df)
+
+                        mn = metric_label.lower().strip()
+                        if "tok/s" in mn:
+                            tput_group_df = group_df
+                        elif "ttft" in mn:
+                            ttft_group_df = group_df
+                        elif mn in ("p99", "median") or "tpot" in mn:
+                            tpot_group_df = group_df
+
+                        display_group = group_df.drop(
+                            columns=group_cols_canonical, errors="ignore"
                         )
 
-                        main_fh.write(missing)
-                        sub_fh.write(missing)
-                        continue
+                        html = render_metric_table_html(
+                            display_group, metric_label, suffix, args
+                        )
+                        main_fh.write(html)
+                        sub_fh.write(html)
 
-                    if conc_col not in group_df.columns:
-                        conc_col = _find_concurrency_col(group_df)
+                        maybe_write_plot(
+                            main_fh,
+                            sub_fh,
+                            group_df=group_df,
+                            raw_data_cols=raw_data_cols,
+                            metric_label=metric_label,
+                            y_axis_col=y_axis_col,
+                            args=args,
+                        )
 
-                    mn = metric_label.lower().strip()
-                    if "tok/s" in mn:
-                        tput_group_df = group_df
-                    elif "ttft" in mn:
-                        ttft_group_df = group_df
-                    elif mn in ("p99", "median") or "tpot" in mn:
-                        tpot_group_df = group_df
+                        excel_blocks.append(
+                            (metric_label, display_group.reset_index(drop=True))
+                        )
+                        if csv_dir:
+                            fn = _safe_filename(
+                                f"{sheet}__{metric_label}".replace(" ", "_").replace(
+                                    "/", "_"
+                                )
+                            )
+                            display_group.to_csv(csv_dir / f"{fn}.csv", index=False)
 
-                    display_group = group_df.drop(
-                        columns=group_cols_canonical, errors="ignore"
-                    )
-
-                    html = render_metric_table_html(
-                        display_group, metric_label, suffix, args
-                    )
-                    main_fh.write(html)
-                    sub_fh.write(html)
-
-                    maybe_write_plot(
-                        main_fh,
-                        sub_fh,
-                        group_df=group_df,
-                        raw_data_cols=raw_data_cols,
-                        metric_label=metric_label,
-                        y_axis_col=y_axis_col,
+                    summary_html = build_valid_max_concurrency_summary_html(
+                        tput_group_df=tput_group_df,
+                        ttft_group_df=ttft_group_df,
+                        tpot_group_df=tpot_group_df,
+                        conc_col=conc_col,
                         args=args,
                     )
+                    if summary_html:
+                        main_fh.write(summary_html)
+                        sub_fh.write(summary_html)
 
-                summary_html = build_valid_max_concurrency_summary_html(
-                    tput_group_df=tput_group_df,
-                    ttft_group_df=ttft_group_df,
-                    tpot_group_df=tpot_group_df,
-                    conc_col=conc_col,
-                    args=args,
-                )
-                if summary_html:
-                    main_fh.write(summary_html)
-                    sub_fh.write(summary_html)
+                    summary_df = build_valid_max_concurrency_summary_df(
+                        tput_group_df=tput_group_df,
+                        ttft_group_df=ttft_group_df,
+                        tpot_group_df=tpot_group_df,
+                        conc_col=conc_col,
+                        args=args,
+                    )
+                    if summary_df is not None:
+                        excel_blocks.append(
+                            ("Valid Max Concurrency Summary", summary_df)
+                        )
+                        if csv_dir:
+                            fn = _safe_filename(
+                                f"{sheet}__Valid_Max_Concurrency_Summary"
+                            )
+                            summary_df.to_csv(csv_dir / f"{fn}.csv", index=False)
+
+                _write_tables_to_excel_sheet(xw, sheet, excel_blocks)
+
+    print(f"Wrote Excel: {excel_path}")
+    if csv_dir:
+        print(f"Wrote CSVs under: {csv_dir}")
 
 
 def main():

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/scripts/run-performance-benchmarks.sh

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-
-# This script should be run inside the CI process
 # This script assumes that we are already inside the vllm/ directory
 # Benchmarking results will be available inside vllm/benchmarks/results/
 
@@ -9,14 +7,19 @@
 set -x
 set -o pipefail
 
+# Environment-driven debug controls (like ON_CPU=1)
+DRY_RUN="${DRY_RUN:-0}"
+MODEL_FILTER="${MODEL_FILTER:-}"
+DTYPE_FILTER="${DTYPE_FILTER:-}"
+
 check_gpus() {
   if command -v nvidia-smi; then
     # check the number of GPUs and GPU type.
-    declare -g gpu_count=$(nvidia-smi --list-gpus | wc -l)
+    declare -g gpu_count=$(nvidia-smi --list-gpus | grep -c . || true)
   elif command -v amd-smi; then
-    declare -g gpu_count=$(amd-smi list | grep 'GPU' | wc -l)
+    declare -g gpu_count=$(amd-smi list | grep -c 'GPU' || true)
   elif command -v hl-smi; then
-    declare -g gpu_count=$(hl-smi --list | grep -i "Module ID" | wc -l)
+    declare -g gpu_count=$(hl-smi --list | grep -ci "Module ID" || true)
   fi
 
   if [[ $gpu_count -gt 0 ]]; then
@@ -44,7 +47,7 @@ check_cpus() {
   declare -g numa_count=$(lscpu | grep "NUMA node(s):" | awk '{print $3}')
   if [[ $numa_count -gt 0 ]]; then
     echo "NUMA found."
-    echo $numa_count
+    echo "$numa_count"
   else
     echo "Need at least 1 NUMA to run benchmarking."
     exit 1
@@ -112,13 +115,12 @@ json2envs() {
 }
 
 wait_for_server() {
-  # wait for vllm server to start
-  # return 1 if vllm server crashes
   local timeout_val="1200"
   timeout "$timeout_val" bash -c '
-    until curl -X POST localhost:8000/v1/completions; do
+    until curl -sf http://localhost:8000/v1/models >/dev/null; do
       sleep 1
-    done' && return 0 || return 1
+    done
+  '
 }
 
 kill_processes_launched_by_current_bash() {
@@ -252,37 +254,16 @@ run_benchmark_tests() {
   done
 }
 
-run_latency_tests() {
-  run_benchmark_tests "latency" "$1"
-}
+run_latency_tests() { run_benchmark_tests "latency" "$1"; }
+run_startup_tests() { run_benchmark_tests "startup" "$1"; }
+run_throughput_tests() { run_benchmark_tests "throughput" "$1"; }
 
-run_startup_tests() {
-  run_benchmark_tests "startup" "$1"
-}
-
-run_throughput_tests() {
-  run_benchmark_tests "throughput" "$1"
-}
-
-run_serving_tests() {
-  # run serving tests using `vllm bench serve` command
-  # $1: a json file specifying serving test cases
-  #
-  # Supported JSON formats:
-  # 1) Plain format: top-level array
-  #    [ { "test_name": "...", "server_parameters": {...}, ... }, ... ]
-  #
-  # 2) Default parameters field + plain format tests
-  #    {
-  #      "defaults": { ... },
-  #      "tests": [ { "test_name": "...", "server_parameters": {...}, ... }, ... ]
-  #    }
-
-  local serving_test_file
-  serving_test_file=$1
-
-  # Iterate over serving tests
-  jq -c '
+merge_serving_tests_stream() {
+  # Emit merged serving test objects, optionally filtered by MODEL_FILTER/DTYPE_FILTER in DRY_RUN mode.
+  # This helper does NOT modify JSON; it only filters the stream in dry-run mode.
+  local serving_test_file="$1"
+  # shellcheck disable=SC2016
+  local merged='
     if type == "array" then
       # Plain format: test cases array
       .[]
@@ -304,7 +285,50 @@ run_serving_tests() {
     else
       error("Unsupported serving test file format: must be array or object with .tests")
     end
-  ' "$serving_test_file" | while read -r params; do
+  '
+
+  jq -c "$merged" "$serving_test_file" | \
+  if [[ "${DRY_RUN:-0}" == "1" && ( "${MODEL_FILTER}${DTYPE_FILTER}" != "" ) ]]; then
+    jq -c --arg model "$MODEL_FILTER" --arg dtype "$DTYPE_FILTER" '
+      select((($model|length)==0)
+             or ((.server_parameters.model // "") == $model)
+             or ((.client_parameters.model // "") == $model))
+      | select((($dtype|length)==0) or ((.server_parameters.dtype // "") == $dtype))
+    '
+  else
+    cat
+  fi
+}
+
+run_serving_tests() {
+  # run serving tests using `vllm bench serve` command
+  # $1: a json file specifying serving test cases
+  #
+  # Supported JSON formats:
+  # 1) Plain format: top-level array
+  #    [ { "test_name": "...", "server_parameters": {...}, ... }, ... ]
+  #
+  # 2) Default parameters field + plain format tests
+  #    {
+  #      "defaults": { ... },
+  #      "tests": [ { "test_name": "...", "server_parameters": {...}, ... }, ... ]
+  #    }
+
+  local serving_test_file
+  serving_test_file=$1
+
+  # In dry-run mode, if filters are provided but no tests match, fail fast.
+  if [[ "${DRY_RUN:-0}" == "1" && ( "${MODEL_FILTER}${DTYPE_FILTER}" != "" ) ]]; then
+    local count
+    count=$(merge_serving_tests_stream "$serving_test_file" | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
+    if [[ "$count" -eq 0 ]]; then
+      echo "No matching serving tests found in $serving_test_file for model='$MODEL_FILTER' dtype='$DTYPE_FILTER'." >&2
+      return 0
+    fi
+  fi
+
+  # Iterate over serving tests (merged + optional filtered stream)
+  merge_serving_tests_stream "$serving_test_file" | while read -r params; do
     # get the test name, and append the GPU type back to it.
     test_name=$(echo "$params" | jq -r '.test_name')
     if [[ ! "$test_name" =~ ^serving_ ]]; then
@@ -373,7 +397,7 @@ run_serving_tests() {
     echo "Server command: $server_command"
     # support remote vllm server
     client_remote_args=""
-    if [[ -z "${REMOTE_HOST}" ]]; then
+    if [[ -z "${REMOTE_HOST}" && "${DRY_RUN:-0}" != "1" ]]; then
       bash -c "$server_command" &
       server_pid=$!
       # wait until the server is alive
@@ -384,6 +408,9 @@ run_serving_tests() {
         echo ""
         echo "vLLM failed to start within the timeout period."
       fi
+    elif [[ "${DRY_RUN:-0}" == "1" ]]; then
+        # dry-run: don't start server
+        echo "Dry Run."
     else
       server_command="Using Remote Server $REMOTE_HOST $REMOTE_PORT"
       if [[ ${REMOTE_PORT} ]]; then
@@ -402,14 +429,12 @@ run_serving_tests() {
     for qps in $qps_list; do
       # remove the surrounding single quote from qps
       if [[ "$qps" == *"inf"* ]]; then
-        echo "qps was $qps"
         qps="inf"
-        echo "now qps is $qps"
       fi
 
       # iterate over different max_concurrency
       for max_concurrency in $max_concurrency_list; do
-        new_test_name=$test_name"_qps_"$qps"_concurrency_"$max_concurrency
+        new_test_name="${test_name}_qps_${qps}_concurrency_${max_concurrency}"
         echo " new test name $new_test_name"
         # pass the tensor parallel size, the compilation mode, and the optimization
         # level to the client so that they can be used on the benchmark dashboard
@@ -425,7 +450,9 @@ run_serving_tests() {
         echo "Running test case $test_name with qps $qps"
         echo "Client command: $client_command"
 
-        bash -c "$client_command"
+        if [[ "${DRY_RUN:-0}" != "1" ]]; then
+          bash -c "$client_command"
+        fi
 
         # record the benchmarking commands
         jq_output=$(jq -n \
@@ -443,12 +470,15 @@ run_serving_tests() {
     done
 
     # clean up
-    kill -9 $server_pid
-    kill_gpu_processes
+    if [[ "${DRY_RUN:-0}" != "1" ]]; then
+      kill -9 "$server_pid"
+      kill_gpu_processes
+    fi
   done
 }
 
 main() {
+
   local ARCH
   ARCH=''
   if [[ "$ON_CPU" == "1" ]]; then
@@ -458,7 +488,13 @@ main() {
      check_gpus
      ARCH="$arch_suffix"
   fi
-  check_hf_token
+
+  # DRY_RUN does not execute vLLM; do not require HF_TOKEN.
+  if [[ "${DRY_RUN:-0}" != "1" ]]; then
+    check_hf_token
+  else
+    echo "DRY_RUN=1 -> skip HF_TOKEN validation"
+  fi
 
   # dependencies
   (which wget && which curl) || (apt-get update && apt-get install -y wget curl)
@@ -479,11 +515,16 @@ main() {
 
   # dump vllm info via vllm collect-env
   env_output=$(vllm collect-env)
-
   echo "$env_output" >"$RESULTS_FOLDER/vllm_env.txt"
 
   # benchmarking
-  run_serving_tests $QUICK_BENCHMARK_ROOT/tests/"${SERVING_JSON:-serving-tests$ARCH.json}"
+  run_serving_tests $QUICK_BENCHMARK_ROOT/tests/"${SERVING_JSON:-serving-tests$ARCH.json}" || exit $?
+
+  if [[ "${DRY_RUN:-0}" == "1" ]]; then
+    echo "DRY_RUN=1 -> skip latency/startup/throughput suites"
+    exit 0
+  fi
+
   run_latency_tests $QUICK_BENCHMARK_ROOT/tests/"${LATENCY_JSON:-latency-tests$ARCH.json}"
   run_startup_tests $QUICK_BENCHMARK_ROOT/tests/"${STARTUP_JSON:-startup-tests$ARCH.json}"
   run_throughput_tests $QUICK_BENCHMARK_ROOT/tests/"${THROUGHPUT_JSON:-throughput-tests$ARCH.json}"

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/serving-tests-cpu-embed.json

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+{
+  "defaults": {
+    "qps_list": [
+      "inf"
+    ],
+    "max_concurrency_list": [
+      32,
+      64,
+      128
+    ],
+    "server_environment_variables": {
+      "VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT": 100000,
+      "VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN": 1,
+      "VLLM_ENGINE_ITERATION_TIMEOUT_S": 120,
+      "VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 1,
+      "VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE": 40
+    },
+    "server_parameters": {
+      "dtype": "bfloat16",
+      "model": "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v3",
+      "trust_remote_code": ""
+    },
+    "client_parameters": {
+      "model": "jinaai/jina-embeddings-v3",
+      "backend": "openai-embeddings",
+      "endpoint": "/v1/embeddings",
+      "dataset_name": "sharegpt",
+      "dataset_path": "ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json",
+      "num_prompts": 200
+    }
+  },
+  "tests": [
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_jina_embed_v3_tp1_sharegpt",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {}
+    }
+  ]
+}

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/serving-tests-cpu-text.json

@@ -0,0 +1,283 @@
+{
+  "defaults": {
+    "qps_list": [
+      "inf"
+    ],
+    "max_concurrency_list": [12, 16, 24, 32, 64, 128, 200],
+    "server_environment_variables": {
+      "VLLM_RPC_TIMEOUT": 100000,
+      "VLLM_ALLOW_LONG_MAX_MODEL_LEN": 1,
+      "VLLM_ENGINE_ITERATION_TIMEOUT_S": 120,
+      "VLLM_CPU_SGL_KERNEL": 1,
+      "VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE": 40
+    },
+    "server_parameters": {
+      "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
+      "tensor_parallel_size": 1,
+      "dtype": "bfloat16",
+      "distributed_executor_backend": "mp",
+      "block_size": 128,
+      "trust_remote_code": "",
+      "disable_log_stats": "",
+      "max_num_batched_tokens": 2048,
+      "max_num_seqs": 256
+    },
+    "client_parameters": {
+      "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct",
+      "backend": "vllm",
+      "ignore-eos": "",
+      "num_prompts": 200
+    }
+  },
+  "tests": [
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_sharegpt",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "sharegpt",
+        "dataset_path": "./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp2_sharegpt",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "sharegpt",
+        "dataset_path": "./ShareGPT_V3_unfiltered_cleaned_split.json"
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp2_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp4_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 4
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_random_128_2048",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 2048
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp2_random_128_2048",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 2048
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp4_random_128_2048",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 4
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 2048
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp1_random_2048_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 2048,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp2_random_2048_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 2048,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_tp4_random_2048_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 4
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 2048,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int4_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int4_tp2_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int4_tp4_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 4
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_llama3B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct",
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_granite2B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "ibm-granite/granite-3.2-2b-instruct",
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "ibm-granite/granite-3.2-2b-instruct",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_qwen1.7B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B",
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_qwen4B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-4B",
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-4B",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_qwen8B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_glm9B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "zai-org/glm-4-9b-hf",
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "zai-org/glm-4-9b-hf",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "test_name": "serving_gemma7B_tp1_random_128_128",
+      "server_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-7b",
+        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
+      },
+      "client_parameters": {
+        "model": "google/gemma-7b",
+        "dataset_name": "random",
+        "random-input-len": 128,
+        "random-output-len": 128
+      }
+    }
+  ]
+}

.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/serving-tests-cpu.json

@@ -148,136 +148,6 @@
         "random-input-len": 2048,
         "random-output-len": 128
       }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int4_tp1_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int4_tp2_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 2
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama8B_int4_tp4_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 4
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "hugging-quants/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-AWQ-INT4",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_llama3B_tp1_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "meta-llama/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_granite2B_tp1_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "ibm-granite/granite-3.2-2b-instruct",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "ibm-granite/granite-3.2-2b-instruct",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_qwen1.7B_tp1_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-1.7B",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_qwen4B_tp1_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-4B",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-4B",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_qwen8B_tp1_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_glm9B_tp1_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "zai-org/glm-4-9b-hf",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "zai-org/glm-4-9b-hf",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
-    },
-    {
-      "test_name": "serving_gemma7B_tp1_random_128_128",
-      "server_parameters": {
-        "model": "google/gemma-7b",
-        "tensor_parallel_size": 1
-      },
-      "client_parameters": {
-        "model": "google/gemma-7b",
-        "dataset_name": "random",
-        "random-input-len": 128,
-        "random-output-len": 128
-      }
     }
   ]
 }

.buildkite/scripts/annotate-rocm-release.sh

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ S3_REGION="${AWS_DEFAULT_REGION:-us-west-2}"
 S3_URL="http://${S3_BUCKET}.s3-website-${S3_REGION}.amazonaws.com"
 
 # Format ROCm version for path (e.g., "7.1" -> "rocm710")
-ROCM_VERSION_PATH="rocm$(echo ${ROCM_VERSION} | tr -d '.')"
+ROCM_VERSION_PATH="rocm$(echo "${ROCM_VERSION}" | tr -d '.')"
 ROCM_PATH="rocm/${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}/${ROCM_VERSION_PATH}"
 buildkite-agent annotate --style 'success' --context 'rocm-release-workflow' << EOF
 ## ROCm Wheel and Docker Image Releases

.buildkite/scripts/cache-rocm-base-wheels.sh

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ case "${1:-}" in
             exit 1
         fi
 
-        WHEEL_COUNT=$(ls artifacts/rocm-base-wheels/*.whl 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
+        WHEEL_COUNT=$(find artifacts/rocm-base-wheels -maxdepth 1 -name '*.whl' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
         if [[ "$WHEEL_COUNT" -eq 0 ]]; then
             echo "ERROR: No wheels found in artifacts/rocm-base-wheels/" >&2
             exit 1
@@ -110,9 +110,9 @@ case "${1:-}" in
 
         echo ""
         echo "Downloaded wheels:"
-        ls -lh artifacts/rocm-base-wheels/
+        find artifacts/rocm-base-wheels -maxdepth 1 -name '*.whl' -exec ls -lh {} \;
 
-        WHEEL_COUNT=$(ls artifacts/rocm-base-wheels/*.whl 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
+        WHEEL_COUNT=$(find artifacts/rocm-base-wheels -maxdepth 1 -name '*.whl' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
         echo ""
         echo "Total: $WHEEL_COUNT wheels"
         echo "========================================"

.buildkite/scripts/cherry-pick-from-milestone.sh

@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ log_info "Fetching merged PRs from milestone '${MILESTONE}'..."
 
 # Store PR data in a temp file
 PR_DATA=$(mktemp)
-trap "rm -f $PR_DATA" EXIT
+trap 'rm -f "$PR_DATA"' EXIT
 
 if ! gh pr list --state merged --search "milestone:${MILESTONE}" \
     --limit 1000 \

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test-ppc64le.sh

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ function cpu_tests() {
   podman exec -it "$container_id" bash -c "
     export TORCH_COMPILE_DISABLE=1
     set -xve
-    python3 examples/offline_inference/basic/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m" >> $HOME/test_basic.log
+    python3 examples/offline_inference/basic/generate.py --model facebook/opt-125m" >> "$HOME"/test_basic.log
 
   # Run basic model test
   podman exec -it "$container_id" bash -c "
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ function cpu_tests() {
     pytest -v -s tests/models/language/generation/test_common.py::test_models[False-False-5-32-google/gemma-1.1-2b-it]
     pytest -v -s tests/models/language/pooling/test_classification.py::test_models[float-jason9693/Qwen2.5-1.5B-apeach]
     # TODO: Below test case tests/models/language/pooling/test_embedding.py::test_models[True-ssmits/Qwen2-7B-Instruct-embed-base] fails on ppc64le. Disabling it for time being.
-    # pytest -v -s tests/models/language/pooling/test_embedding.py -m cpu_model" >> $HOME/test_rest.log
+    # pytest -v -s tests/models/language/pooling/test_embedding.py -m cpu_model" >> "$HOME"/test_rest.log
 }
 
 # All of CPU tests are expected to be finished less than 40 mins.

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-cpu-test.sh

@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ echo "--- :docker: Building Docker image"
 docker build --progress plain --tag "$IMAGE_NAME" --target vllm-test -f docker/Dockerfile.cpu .
 
 # Run the image, setting --shm-size=4g for tensor parallel.
-docker run --rm --cpuset-cpus=$CORE_RANGE --cpuset-mems=$NUMA_NODE -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface --privileged=true -e HF_TOKEN -e VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=16 -e VLLM_CPU_CI_ENV=1 -e VLLM_CPU_SIM_MULTI_NUMA=1 --shm-size=4g $IMAGE_NAME \
-        timeout $TIMEOUT_VAL bash -c "set -euox pipefail; echo \"--- Print packages\"; pip list; echo \"--- Running tests\"; ${TEST_COMMAND}"
+docker run --rm --cpuset-cpus="$CORE_RANGE" --cpuset-mems="$NUMA_NODE" -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface --privileged=true -e HF_TOKEN -e VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=16 -e VLLM_CPU_CI_ENV=1 -e VLLM_CPU_SIM_MULTI_NUMA=1 --shm-size=4g "$IMAGE_NAME" \
+        timeout "$TIMEOUT_VAL" bash -c "set -euox pipefail; echo \"--- Print packages\"; pip list; echo \"--- Running tests\"; ${TEST_COMMAND}"

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-hpu-test.sh

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ set -exuo pipefail
 # Try building the docker image
 image_name="hpu/upstream-vllm-ci:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}"
 container_name="hpu-upstream-vllm-ci-${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}-container"
-cat <<EOF | docker build -t ${image_name} -f - .
+cat <<EOF | docker build -t "${image_name}" -f - .
 FROM gaudi-base-image:latest
 
 COPY ./ /workspace/vllm
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@ EOF
 # functions, while other platforms only need one remove_docker_container
 # function.
 EXITCODE=1
-remove_docker_containers() { docker rm -f ${container_name} || true; }
+remove_docker_containers() { docker rm -f "${container_name}" || true; }
 trap 'remove_docker_containers; exit $EXITCODE;' EXIT
 remove_docker_containers
 
 echo "Running HPU plugin v1 test"
-docker run --rm --runtime=habana --name=${container_name} --network=host \
+docker run --rm --runtime=habana --name="${container_name}" --network=host \
   -e HABANA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=all \
   -e VLLM_SKIP_WARMUP=true \
   -e PT_HPU_ENABLE_LAZY_COLLECTIVES=true \

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-npu-test.sh

@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ get_config() {
         echo "Error: file '${TEST_RUN_CONFIG_FILE}' does not exist in the warehouse" >&2
         exit 1
     fi
+    # shellcheck source=/dev/null
     source "${TEST_RUN_CONFIG_FILE}"
     echo "Base docker image name that get from configuration: ${BASE_IMAGE_NAME}"
     return 0
@@ -48,9 +49,8 @@ get_config() {
 
 # get test running configuration.
 fetch_vllm_test_cfg
-get_config
 # Check if the function call was successful. If not, exit the script.
-if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+if ! get_config; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
@@ -62,14 +62,14 @@ agent_idx=$(echo "${BUILDKITE_AGENT_NAME}" | awk -F'-' '{print $(NF-1)}')
 echo "agent_idx: ${agent_idx}"
 builder_name="cachebuilder${agent_idx}"
 builder_cache_dir="/mnt/docker-cache${agent_idx}"
-mkdir -p ${builder_cache_dir}
+mkdir -p "${builder_cache_dir}"
 
 # Try building the docker image
 cat <<EOF | DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build \
-    --add-host cache-service-vllm.nginx-pypi-cache.svc.cluster.local:${PYPI_CACHE_HOST} \
-    --builder ${builder_name} --cache-from type=local,src=${builder_cache_dir} \
-                           --cache-to type=local,dest=${builder_cache_dir},mode=max \
-    --progress=plain --load -t ${image_name} -f - .
+    --add-host cache-service-vllm.nginx-pypi-cache.svc.cluster.local:"${PYPI_CACHE_HOST}" \
+    --builder "${builder_name}" --cache-from type=local,src="${builder_cache_dir}" \
+                           --cache-to type=local,dest="${builder_cache_dir}",mode=max \
+    --progress=plain --load -t "${image_name}" -f - .
 FROM ${BASE_IMAGE_NAME}
 
 # Define environments
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/pip \
     export PIP_EXTRA_INDEX_URL=https://mirrors.huaweicloud.com/ascend/repos/pypi && \
     source /usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/set_env.sh && \
     source /usr/local/Ascend/nnal/atb/set_env.sh && \
-    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/latest/`uname -i`-linux/devlib && \
+    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/Ascend/ascend-toolkit/latest/$(uname -i)-linux/devlib && \
     python3 -m pip install -v -e /workspace/vllm-ascend/ --extra-index https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu/
 
 ENV VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ trap remove_docker_container EXIT
 # Generate corresponding --device args based on BUILDKITE_AGENT_NAME
 # Ascend NPU BUILDKITE_AGENT_NAME format is {hostname}-{agent_idx}-{npu_card_num}cards, and agent_idx starts from 1.
 #   e.g. atlas-a2-001-1-2cards means this is the 1-th agent on atlas-a2-001 host, and it has 2 NPU cards.
-#   returns --device /dev/davinci0 --device /dev/davinci1
+#   returns one argument per line: --device, /dev/davinciX, ...
 parse_and_gen_devices() {
     local input="$1"
     local index cards_num
@@ -151,29 +151,24 @@ parse_and_gen_devices() {
         return 1
     fi
 
-    local devices=""
     local i=0
     while (( i < cards_num )); do
         local dev_idx=$(((index - 1)*cards_num + i ))
-        devices="$devices --device /dev/davinci${dev_idx}"
+        printf '%s\n' "--device"
+        printf '%s\n' "/dev/davinci${dev_idx}"
         ((i++))
     done
-
-    # trim leading space
-    devices="${devices#"${devices%%[![:space:]]*}"}"
-    # Output devices: assigned to the caller variable
-    printf '%s' "$devices"
 }
 
-devices=$(parse_and_gen_devices "${BUILDKITE_AGENT_NAME}") || exit 1
+mapfile -t device_args < <(parse_and_gen_devices "${BUILDKITE_AGENT_NAME}") || exit 1
 
 # Run the image and execute the Out-Of-Tree (OOT) platform interface test case on Ascend NPU hardware.
 # This test checks whether the OOT platform interface is functioning properly in conjunction with
 # the hardware plugin vllm-ascend.
 model_cache_dir=/mnt/modelscope${agent_idx}
-mkdir -p ${model_cache_dir}
+mkdir -p "${model_cache_dir}"
 docker run \
-    ${devices} \
+    "${device_args[@]}" \
     --device /dev/davinci_manager \
     --device /dev/devmm_svm \
     --device /dev/hisi_hdc \
@@ -182,7 +177,7 @@ docker run \
     -v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/lib64/ \
     -v /usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info:/usr/local/Ascend/driver/version.info \
     -v /etc/ascend_install.info:/etc/ascend_install.info \
-    -v ${model_cache_dir}:/root/.cache/modelscope \
+    -v "${model_cache_dir}":/root/.cache/modelscope \
     --entrypoint="" \
     --name "${container_name}" \
     "${image_name}" \

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-tpu-v1-test-part2.sh

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ echo "Results will be stored in: $RESULTS_DIR"
 echo "--- Installing Python dependencies ---"
 python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off git+https://github.com/thuml/depyf.git \
     && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off pytest pytest-asyncio tpu-info \
-    && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.9.2" \
+    && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11" \
     && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off hf-transfer tblib==3.1.0
 echo "--- Python dependencies installed ---"
 

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-tpu-v1-test.sh

@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ echo "Results will be stored in: $RESULTS_DIR"
 echo "--- Installing Python dependencies ---"
 python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off git+https://github.com/thuml/depyf.git \
     && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off pytest pytest-asyncio tpu-info \
-    && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.9.2" \
+    && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11" \
     && python3 -m pip install --progress-bar off hf-transfer tblib==3.1.0
 echo "--- Python dependencies installed ---"
 

.buildkite/scripts/hardware_ci/run-xpu-test.sh

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ image_name="xpu/vllm-ci:${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}"
 container_name="xpu_${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}_$(tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 < /dev/urandom | head -c 10; echo)"
 
 # Try building the docker image
-docker build -t ${image_name} -f docker/Dockerfile.xpu .
+docker build -t "${image_name}" -f docker/Dockerfile.xpu .
 
 # Setup cleanup
 remove_docker_container() {

.buildkite/scripts/push-nightly-builds.sh

@@ -21,16 +21,16 @@ echo "Pushing original tag $ORIG_TAG_NAME$ORIG_TAG_SUFFIX to new nightly tag nam
 
 # pull original arch-dependent images from AWS ECR Public
 aws ecr-public get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7
-docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$ORIG_TAG_NAME-x86_64$ORIG_TAG_SUFFIX
-docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$ORIG_TAG_NAME-aarch64$ORIG_TAG_SUFFIX
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:"$ORIG_TAG_NAME"-x86_64"$ORIG_TAG_SUFFIX"
+docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:"$ORIG_TAG_NAME"-aarch64"$ORIG_TAG_SUFFIX"
 # tag arch-dependent images
-docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$ORIG_TAG_NAME-x86_64$ORIG_TAG_SUFFIX vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME-x86_64
-docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:$ORIG_TAG_NAME-aarch64$ORIG_TAG_SUFFIX vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME-aarch64
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:"$ORIG_TAG_NAME"-x86_64"$ORIG_TAG_SUFFIX" vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME"-x86_64
+docker tag public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-release-repo:"$ORIG_TAG_NAME"-aarch64"$ORIG_TAG_SUFFIX" vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME"-aarch64
 # push arch-dependent images to DockerHub
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME-x86_64
-docker push vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME-aarch64
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME"-x86_64
+docker push vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME"-aarch64
 # push arch-independent manifest to DockerHub
-docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME-aarch64 --amend
-docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME-$BUILDKITE_COMMIT vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME-aarch64 --amend
-docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME
-docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:$TAG_NAME-$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME" vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME"-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME"-aarch64 --amend
+docker manifest create vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME"-"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT" vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME"-x86_64 vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME"-aarch64 --amend
+docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME"
+docker manifest push vllm/vllm-openai:"$TAG_NAME"-"$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"

.buildkite/scripts/run-multi-node-test.sh

@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ start_nodes() {
         # 3. map the huggingface cache directory to the container
         # 3. assign ip addresses to the containers (head node: 192.168.10.10, worker nodes:
         #    starting from 192.168.10.11)
-        docker run -d $GPU_DEVICES --shm-size=10.24gb -e HF_TOKEN \
+        docker run -d "$GPU_DEVICES" --shm-size=10.24gb -e HF_TOKEN \
             -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface --name "node$node" \
             --network docker-net --ip 192.168.10.$((10 + $node)) --rm "$DOCKER_IMAGE" \
             /bin/bash -c "tail -f /dev/null"

.buildkite/scripts/run-prime-rl-test.sh

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ fi
 if ! command -v uv &> /dev/null; then
     echo "Installing UV package manager..."
     curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
-    source $HOME/.local/bin/env
+    source "$HOME"/.local/bin/env
 fi
 
 # Clone Prime-RL repository at specific branch for reproducible tests

.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/deepseek_v2_lite_ep_eplb.sh

@@ -51,14 +51,14 @@ for BACK in "${BACKENDS[@]}"; do
     --enable-eplb \
     --trust-remote-code \
     --max-model-len 2048 \
-    --all2all-backend $BACK \
-    --port $PORT &
+    --all2all-backend "$BACK" \
+    --port "$PORT" &
   SERVER_PID=$!
-  wait_for_server $PORT
+  wait_for_server "$PORT"
 
   TAG=$(echo "$MODEL" | tr '/: \\n' '_____')
   OUT="${OUT_DIR}/${TAG}_${BACK}.json"
-  python3 tests/evals/gsm8k/gsm8k_eval.py --host http://127.0.0.1 --port $PORT --num-questions ${NUM_Q} --save-results ${OUT}
+  python3 tests/evals/gsm8k/gsm8k_eval.py --host http://127.0.0.1 --port "$PORT" --num-questions "${NUM_Q}" --save-results "${OUT}"
   python3 - <<PY
 import json; acc=json.load(open('${OUT}'))['accuracy']
 print(f"${MODEL} ${BACK}: accuracy {acc:.3f}")

.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen30b_a3b_fp8_block_ep_eplb.sh

@@ -47,20 +47,20 @@ for BACK in "${BACKENDS[@]}"; do
   vllm serve "$MODEL" \
     --enforce-eager \
     --enable-eplb \
-    --all2all-backend $BACK \
+    --all2all-backend "$BACK" \
     --eplb-config '{"window_size":10, "step_interval":100, "num_redundant_experts":0, "log_balancedness":true}' \
-    --tensor-parallel-size ${TENSOR_PARALLEL_SIZE} \
-    --data-parallel-size ${DATA_PARALLEL_SIZE} \
+    --tensor-parallel-size "${TENSOR_PARALLEL_SIZE}" \
+    --data-parallel-size "${DATA_PARALLEL_SIZE}" \
     --enable-expert-parallel \
     --trust-remote-code \
     --max-model-len 2048 \
-    --port $PORT &
+    --port "$PORT" &
   SERVER_PID=$!
-  wait_for_server $PORT
+  wait_for_server "$PORT"
 
   TAG=$(echo "$MODEL" | tr '/: \\n' '_____')
   OUT="${OUT_DIR}/${TAG}_${BACK}.json"
-  python3 tests/evals/gsm8k/gsm8k_eval.py --host http://127.0.0.1 --port $PORT --num-questions ${NUM_Q} --save-results ${OUT}
+  python3 tests/evals/gsm8k/gsm8k_eval.py --host http://127.0.0.1 --port "$PORT" --num-questions "${NUM_Q}" --save-results "${OUT}"
   python3 - <<PY
 import json; acc=json.load(open('${OUT}'))['accuracy']
 print(f"${MODEL} ${BACK}: accuracy {acc:.3f}")

.buildkite/scripts/scheduled_integration_test/qwen3_next_mtp_async_eplb.sh

@@ -51,20 +51,20 @@ for BACK in "${BACKENDS[@]}"; do
     --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
     --enable-expert-parallel \
     --enable-eplb \
-    --all2all-backend $BACK \
+    --all2all-backend "$BACK" \
     --eplb-config '{"window_size":200,"step_interval":600,"use_async":true}' \
     --speculative-config '{"method":"qwen3_next_mtp","num_speculative_tokens":1}' \
     --trust-remote-code \
     --max-model-len 2048 \
     --gpu-memory-utilization 0.9 \
     "${PLATFORM_ARGS[@]}" \
-    --port $PORT &
+    --port "$PORT" &
   SERVER_PID=$!
-  wait_for_server $PORT
+  wait_for_server "$PORT"
 
   TAG=$(echo "$MODEL" | tr '/: \\n' '_____')
   OUT="${OUT_DIR}/${TAG}_${BACK}.json"
-  python3 tests/evals/gsm8k/gsm8k_eval.py --host http://127.0.0.1 --port $PORT --num-questions ${NUM_Q} --save-results ${OUT}
+  python3 tests/evals/gsm8k/gsm8k_eval.py --host http://127.0.0.1 --port "$PORT" --num-questions "${NUM_Q}" --save-results "${OUT}"
   python3 - <<PY
 import json; acc=json.load(open('${OUT}'))['accuracy']
 print(f"${MODEL} ${BACK}: accuracy {acc:.3f}")

.buildkite/scripts/tpu/docker_run_bm.sh

@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ ENV_FILE=$1
 
 # For testing on local vm, use `set -a` to export all variables
 source /etc/environment
-source $ENV_FILE
+# shellcheck source=/dev/null
+source "$ENV_FILE"
 
 remove_docker_container() { 
-    docker rm -f $CONTAINER_NAME || true;
+    docker rm -f "$CONTAINER_NAME" || true;
 }
 
 trap remove_docker_container EXIT
@@ -41,13 +42,13 @@ echo
 echo "starting docker...$CONTAINER_NAME"
 echo    
 docker run \
- -v $DOWNLOAD_DIR:$DOWNLOAD_DIR \
- --env-file $ENV_FILE \
+ -v "$DOWNLOAD_DIR":"$DOWNLOAD_DIR" \
+ --env-file "$ENV_FILE" \
  -e HF_TOKEN="$HF_TOKEN" \
- -e TARGET_COMMIT=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT \
- -e MODEL=$MODEL \
+ -e TARGET_COMMIT="$BUILDKITE_COMMIT" \
+ -e MODEL="$MODEL" \
  -e WORKSPACE=/workspace \
- --name $CONTAINER_NAME \
+ --name "$CONTAINER_NAME" \
  -d \
  --privileged \
  --network host \

.buildkite/scripts/tpu/run_bm.sh

@@ -42,21 +42,21 @@ echo "lanching vllm..."
 echo "logging to $VLLM_LOG"
 echo
 
-vllm serve $MODEL \
+vllm serve "$MODEL" \
  --seed 42 \
- --max-num-seqs $MAX_NUM_SEQS \
- --max-num-batched-tokens $MAX_NUM_BATCHED_TOKENS \
- --tensor-parallel-size $TENSOR_PARALLEL_SIZE \
+ --max-num-seqs "$MAX_NUM_SEQS" \
+ --max-num-batched-tokens "$MAX_NUM_BATCHED_TOKENS" \
+ --tensor-parallel-size "$TENSOR_PARALLEL_SIZE" \
  --no-enable-prefix-caching \
- --download_dir $DOWNLOAD_DIR \
- --max-model-len $MAX_MODEL_LEN > "$VLLM_LOG" 2>&1 &
+ --download_dir "$DOWNLOAD_DIR" \
+ --max-model-len "$MAX_MODEL_LEN" > "$VLLM_LOG" 2>&1 &
 
 
 echo "wait for 20 minutes.."
 echo
 # sleep 1200
 # wait for 10 minutes...
-for i in {1..120}; do
+for _ in {1..120}; do
     # TODO: detect other type of errors.
     if grep -Fq "raise RuntimeError" "$VLLM_LOG"; then
         echo "Detected RuntimeError, exiting."
@@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ echo "logging to $BM_LOG"
 echo
 vllm bench serve \
     --backend vllm \
-    --model $MODEL  \
+    --model "$MODEL"  \
     --dataset-name sonnet \
     --dataset-path benchmarks/sonnet_4x.txt \
-    --sonnet-input-len $INPUT_LEN \
-    --sonnet-output-len $OUTPUT_LEN \
+    --sonnet-input-len "$INPUT_LEN" \
+    --sonnet-output-len "$OUTPUT_LEN" \
     --ignore-eos > "$BM_LOG"
 
 echo "completed..."

.buildkite/scripts/upload-nightly-wheels.sh

@@ -76,16 +76,15 @@ mkdir -p "$INDICES_OUTPUT_DIR"
 # this indices have relative paths that could work as long as it is next to the wheel directory in s3
 # i.e., the wheels are always in s3://vllm-wheels/<commit>/
 # and indices can be placed in /<commit>/, or /nightly/, or /<version>/
-if [[ ! -z "$DEFAULT_VARIANT_ALIAS" ]]; then
-    alias_arg="--alias-to-default $DEFAULT_VARIANT_ALIAS"
-else
-    alias_arg=""
+alias_args=()
+if [[ -n "$DEFAULT_VARIANT_ALIAS" ]]; then
+    alias_args=(--alias-to-default "$DEFAULT_VARIANT_ALIAS")
 fi
 
 # HACK: we do not need regex module here, but it is required by pre-commit hook
 # To avoid any external dependency, we simply replace it back to the stdlib re module
 sed -i 's/import regex as re/import re/g' .buildkite/scripts/generate-nightly-index.py
-$PYTHON .buildkite/scripts/generate-nightly-index.py --version "$SUBPATH" --current-objects "$obj_json" --output-dir "$INDICES_OUTPUT_DIR" --comment "commit $BUILDKITE_COMMIT" $alias_arg
+$PYTHON .buildkite/scripts/generate-nightly-index.py --version "$SUBPATH" --current-objects "$obj_json" --output-dir "$INDICES_OUTPUT_DIR" --comment "commit $BUILDKITE_COMMIT" "${alias_args[@]}"
 
 # copy indices to /<commit>/ unconditionally
 echo "Uploading indices to $S3_COMMIT_PREFIX"
@@ -100,9 +99,9 @@ fi
 # re-generate and copy to /<pure_version>/ only if it does not have "dev" in the version
 if [[ "$version" != *"dev"* ]]; then
     echo "Re-generating indices for /$pure_version/"
-    rm -rf "$INDICES_OUTPUT_DIR/*"
+    rm -rf "${INDICES_OUTPUT_DIR:?}/*"
     mkdir -p "$INDICES_OUTPUT_DIR"
     # wheel-dir is overridden to be the commit directory, so that the indices point to the correct wheel path
-    $PYTHON .buildkite/scripts/generate-nightly-index.py --version "$pure_version" --wheel-dir "$SUBPATH" --current-objects "$obj_json" --output-dir "$INDICES_OUTPUT_DIR" --comment "version $pure_version" $alias_arg
+    $PYTHON .buildkite/scripts/generate-nightly-index.py --version "$pure_version" --wheel-dir "$SUBPATH" --current-objects "$obj_json" --output-dir "$INDICES_OUTPUT_DIR" --comment "version $pure_version" "${alias_args[@]}"
     aws s3 cp --recursive "$INDICES_OUTPUT_DIR/" "s3://$BUCKET/$pure_version/"
 fi

.buildkite/scripts/upload-release-wheels-pypi.sh

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ SUBPATH=$BUILDKITE_COMMIT
 S3_COMMIT_PREFIX="s3://$BUCKET/$SUBPATH/"
 
 RELEASE_VERSION=$(buildkite-agent meta-data get release-version)
-GIT_VERSION=$(git describe --exact-match --tags $BUILDKITE_COMMIT 2>/dev/null)
+GIT_VERSION=$(git describe --exact-match --tags "$BUILDKITE_COMMIT" 2>/dev/null)
 
 echo "Release version from Buildkite: $RELEASE_VERSION"
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ mkdir -p $DIST_DIR
 aws s3 cp --recursive --exclude "*" --include "vllm-${PURE_VERSION}*.whl" --exclude "*dev*" --exclude "*rc[0-9]*" "$S3_COMMIT_PREFIX" $DIST_DIR
 echo "Wheels copied to local directory"
 # generate source tarball
-git archive --format=tar.gz --output="$DIST_DIR/vllm-${PURE_VERSION}.tar.gz" $BUILDKITE_COMMIT
+git archive --format=tar.gz --output="$DIST_DIR/vllm-${PURE_VERSION}.tar.gz" "$BUILDKITE_COMMIT"
 ls -la $DIST_DIR
 
 # upload wheels to PyPI (only default variant, i.e. files without '+' in the name)
@@ -65,6 +65,6 @@ if [[ -z "$PYPI_WHEEL_FILES" ]]; then
   exit 1
 fi
 
-python3 -m twine check $PYPI_WHEEL_FILES
-python3 -m twine upload --non-interactive --verbose $PYPI_WHEEL_FILES
+python3 -m twine check "$PYPI_WHEEL_FILES"
+python3 -m twine upload --non-interactive --verbose "$PYPI_WHEEL_FILES"
 echo "Wheels uploaded to PyPI"

.buildkite/scripts/upload-rocm-wheels.sh

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ mkdir -p all-rocm-wheels
 cp artifacts/rocm-base-wheels/*.whl all-rocm-wheels/ 2>/dev/null || true
 cp artifacts/rocm-vllm-wheel/*.whl all-rocm-wheels/ 2>/dev/null || true
 
-WHEEL_COUNT=$(ls all-rocm-wheels/*.whl 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
+WHEEL_COUNT=$(find all-rocm-wheels -maxdepth 1 -name '*.whl' 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
 echo "Total wheels to upload: $WHEEL_COUNT"
 
 if [ "$WHEEL_COUNT" -eq 0 ]; then
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ if [[ "$BUILDKITE_BRANCH" == "main" && "$BUILDKITE_PULL_REQUEST" == "false" ]] |
 fi
 
 # Extract version from vLLM wheel and update version-specific index
-VLLM_WHEEL=$(ls all-rocm-wheels/vllm*.whl 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+VLLM_WHEEL=$(find all-rocm-wheels -maxdepth 1 -name 'vllm*.whl' 2>/dev/null | head -1)
 if [ -n "$VLLM_WHEEL" ]; then
     VERSION=$(unzip -p "$VLLM_WHEEL" '**/METADATA' | grep '^Version: ' | cut -d' ' -f2)
     echo "Version in wheel: $VERSION"

.buildkite/test_areas/distributed.yaml

@@ -197,6 +197,17 @@ steps:
     - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
     - DP_EP=1 bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
 
+- label: CrossLayer KV layout Distributed NixlConnector PD accuracy tests (4 GPUs)
+  timeout_in_minutes: 30
+  working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"
+  num_devices: 4
+  source_file_dependencies:
+    - vllm/distributed/kv_transfer/kv_connector/v1/nixl_connector.py
+    - tests/v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/
+  commands:
+    - uv pip install --system -r /vllm-workspace/requirements/kv_connectors.txt
+    - CROSS_LAYERS_BLOCKS=True bash v1/kv_connector/nixl_integration/config_sweep_accuracy_test.sh
+
 - label: Pipeline + Context Parallelism (4 GPUs))
   timeout_in_minutes: 60
   working_dir: "/vllm-workspace/tests"

.buildkite/test_areas/misc.yaml

@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ steps:
   - tests/test_inputs.py
   - tests/test_outputs.py
   - tests/test_pooling_params.py
+  - tests/test_ray_env.py
   - tests/multimodal
   - tests/renderers
   - tests/standalone_tests/lazy_imports.py
@@ -136,6 +137,7 @@ steps:
   - pytest -v -s test_inputs.py
   - pytest -v -s test_outputs.py
   - pytest -v -s test_pooling_params.py
+  - pytest -v -s test_ray_env.py
   - pytest -v -s -m 'cpu_test' multimodal
   - pytest -v -s renderers
   - pytest -v -s tokenizers_

.github/CODEOWNERS

@@ -2,7 +2,9 @@
 # for more info about CODEOWNERS file
 
 # This lists cover the "core" components of vLLM that require careful review
-/vllm/executor/executor_base.py @zhuohan123 @youkaichao @alexm-redhat @njhill @22quinn
+/vllm/compilation @zou3519 @youkaichao @ProExpertProg
+/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer @NickLucche @ApostaC @orozery
+/vllm/lora @jeejeelee
 /vllm/model_executor/layers/attention @LucasWilkinson
 /vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe @mgoin @pavanimajety
 /vllm/model_executor/layers/quantization @mgoin @robertgshaw2-redhat @tlrmchlsmth @yewentao256 @pavanimajety
@@ -11,18 +13,34 @@
 /vllm/model_executor/layers/batch_invariant.py @yewentao256 
 /vllm/multimodal @DarkLight1337 @ywang96 @NickLucche @tjtanaa
 /vllm/vllm_flash_attn @LucasWilkinson
-/vllm/lora @jeejeelee
-/vllm/reasoning @aarnphm @chaunceyjiang
-/vllm/entrypoints @aarnphm @chaunceyjiang
-/vllm/tool_parsers @aarnphm @chaunceyjiang
-/vllm/compilation @zou3519 @youkaichao @ProExpertProg
-/vllm/distributed/kv_transfer @NickLucche @ApostaC @orozery
 CMakeLists.txt @tlrmchlsmth @LucasWilkinson
 
 # Any change to the VllmConfig changes can have a large user-facing impact,
 # so spam a lot of people
 /vllm/config @WoosukKwon @youkaichao @robertgshaw2-redhat @mgoin @tlrmchlsmth @houseroad @hmellor @yewentao256 @ProExpertProg
-/vllm/config/cache.py @WoosukKwon @youkaichao @robertgshaw2-redhat @mgoin @tlrmchlsmth @houseroad @hmellor @yewentao256 @ProExpertProg @heheda12345
+/vllm/config/cache.py @heheda12345
+
+# Entrypoints
+/vllm/entrypoints/anthropic @mgoin @DarkLight1337
+/vllm/entrypoints/cli @hmellor @mgoin @DarkLight1337 @russellb
+/vllm/entrypoints/mcp @heheda12345
+/vllm/entrypoints/openai @aarnphm @chaunceyjiang @DarkLight1337 @russellb
+/vllm/entrypoints/openai/realtime @njhill
+/vllm/entrypoints/openai/speech_to_text @NickLucche
+/vllm/entrypoints/pooling @noooop
+/vllm/entrypoints/sagemaker @DarkLight1337
+/vllm/entrypoints/serve @njhill
+/vllm/entrypoints/*.py @njhill
+/vllm/entrypoints/chat_utils.py @DarkLight1337
+/vllm/entrypoints/llm.py @DarkLight1337
+
+# Input/Output Processing
+/vllm/sampling_params.py @njhill @NickLucche
+/vllm/pooling_params.py @noooop @DarkLight1337
+/vllm/tokenizers @DarkLight1337 @njhill
+/vllm/renderers @DarkLight1337 @njhill
+/vllm/reasoning @aarnphm @chaunceyjiang
+/vllm/tool_parsers @aarnphm @chaunceyjiang
 
 # vLLM V1
 /vllm/v1/attention @LucasWilkinson
@@ -115,8 +133,8 @@ mkdocs.yaml @hmellor
 /vllm/model_executor/models/mixtral*.py @patrickvonplaten
 /vllm/model_executor/models/voxtral*.py @patrickvonplaten
 /vllm/model_executor/models/pixtral*.py @patrickvonplaten
+/vllm/tokenizers/mistral.py @patrickvonplaten
 /vllm/transformers_utils/configs/mistral.py @patrickvonplaten
-/vllm/transformers_utils/tokenizers/mistral.py @patrickvonplaten
 
 # Kernels
 /vllm/v1/attention/ops/chunked_prefill_paged_decode.py @tdoublep
@@ -152,9 +170,7 @@ mkdocs.yaml @hmellor
 /examples/pooling @noooop
 /tests/models/*/pooling* @noooop
 /tests/entrypoints/pooling @noooop
-/vllm/entrypoints/pooling @noooop
 /vllm/config/pooler.py @noooop
-/vllm/pooling_params.py @noooop
 /vllm/model_executor/layers/pooler @noooop
 
 # Security guide and policies

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ repos:
   rev: 0.9.1
   hooks:
     - id: pip-compile
-      args: [requirements/test.in, -o, requirements/test.txt, --index-strategy, unsafe-best-match, --torch-backend, cu129, --python-platform, x86_64-manylinux_2_28, --python-version, "3.12"]
+      args: [requirements/test.in, -o, requirements/test.txt, --index-strategy, unsafe-best-match, --torch-backend, cu128, --python-platform, x86_64-manylinux_2_28, --python-version, "3.12"]
       files: ^requirements/test\.(in|txt)$
 - repo: local
   hooks:

benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/benchmark.py

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ from common import (
     ModelParameterSweep,
     ParameterSweep,
     ResultsFormatter,
+    batch_spec_sort_key,
     is_mla_backend,
 )
 
@@ -218,10 +219,13 @@ def run_model_parameter_sweep(
                         by_param_and_spec[key].append(r)
                         break
 
-    # Sort by param value then spec
+    # Sort by param value then spec (batch_size, q_len, kv_len)
     sorted_keys = sorted(
         by_param_and_spec.keys(),
-        key=lambda x: (int(x[0]) if x[0].isdigit() else x[0], x[1]),
+        key=lambda x: (
+            int(x[0]) if x[0].isdigit() else x[0],
+            batch_spec_sort_key(x[1]),
+        ),
     )
 
     current_param_value = None
@@ -330,7 +334,7 @@ def run_parameter_sweep(
                 by_spec[spec] = []
             by_spec[spec].append(r)
 
-    for spec in sorted(by_spec.keys()):
+    for spec in sorted(by_spec.keys(), key=batch_spec_sort_key):
         results = by_spec[spec]
         best = min(results, key=lambda r: r.mean_time)
         console.print(
@@ -496,15 +500,18 @@ def main():
         if "description" in yaml_config:
             console.print(f"[dim]{yaml_config['description']}[/]")
 
-        # Override args with YAML values
-        # (YAML takes precedence unless CLI arg was explicitly set)
-        # Backend(s)
-        if "backend" in yaml_config:
-            args.backend = yaml_config["backend"]
-            args.backends = None
-        elif "backends" in yaml_config:
-            args.backends = yaml_config["backends"]
-            args.backend = None
+        # Override args with YAML values, but CLI args take precedence
+        # Check if CLI provided backends (they would be non-None and not default)
+        cli_backends_provided = args.backends is not None or args.backend is not None
+
+        # Backend(s) - only use YAML if CLI didn't specify
+        if not cli_backends_provided:
+            if "backend" in yaml_config:
+                args.backend = yaml_config["backend"]
+                args.backends = None
+            elif "backends" in yaml_config:
+                args.backends = yaml_config["backends"]
+                args.backend = None
 
         # Check for special modes
         if "mode" in yaml_config:
@@ -544,13 +551,15 @@ def main():
             args.num_kv_heads = model.get("num_kv_heads", args.num_kv_heads)
             args.block_size = model.get("block_size", args.block_size)
 
-        # Benchmark settings
-        if "benchmark" in yaml_config:
-            bench = yaml_config["benchmark"]
-            args.device = bench.get("device", args.device)
-            args.repeats = bench.get("repeats", args.repeats)
-            args.warmup_iters = bench.get("warmup_iters", args.warmup_iters)
-            args.profile_memory = bench.get("profile_memory", args.profile_memory)
+        # Benchmark settings (top-level keys)
+        if "device" in yaml_config:
+            args.device = yaml_config["device"]
+        if "repeats" in yaml_config:
+            args.repeats = yaml_config["repeats"]
+        if "warmup_iters" in yaml_config:
+            args.warmup_iters = yaml_config["warmup_iters"]
+        if "profile_memory" in yaml_config:
+            args.profile_memory = yaml_config["profile_memory"]
 
         # Parameter sweep configuration
         if "parameter_sweep" in yaml_config:

benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/common.py

@@ -16,13 +16,32 @@ from batch_spec import get_batch_type, parse_batch_spec
 from rich.console import Console
 from rich.table import Table
 
+
+def batch_spec_sort_key(spec: str) -> tuple[int, int, int]:
+    """
+    Extract sorting key from batch spec: (batch_size, max_q_len, max_kv_len).
+
+    This ensures results are sorted by batch size first, then query length,
+    then sequence length, rather than alphabetically.
+    """
+    try:
+        requests = parse_batch_spec(spec)
+        batch_size = len(requests)
+        max_q_len = max(r.q_len for r in requests) if requests else 0
+        max_kv_len = max(r.kv_len for r in requests) if requests else 0
+        return (batch_size, max_q_len, max_kv_len)
+    except Exception:
+        # Fallback for unparseable specs
+        return (0, 0, 0)
+
+
 # Mock classes for vLLM attention infrastructure
 
 
 class MockHfConfig:
     """Mock HuggingFace config that satisfies vLLM's requirements."""
 
-    def __init__(self, mla_dims: dict):
+    def __init__(self, mla_dims: dict, index_topk: int | None = None):
         self.num_attention_heads = mla_dims["num_q_heads"]
         self.num_key_value_heads = mla_dims["num_kv_heads"]
         self.hidden_size = mla_dims["head_dim"] * mla_dims["num_q_heads"]
@@ -33,6 +52,8 @@ class MockHfConfig:
         self.qk_rope_head_dim = mla_dims["qk_rope_head_dim"]
         self.v_head_dim = mla_dims["v_head_dim"]
         self.qk_head_dim = mla_dims["qk_nope_head_dim"] + mla_dims["qk_rope_head_dim"]
+        if index_topk is not None:
+            self.index_topk = index_topk
 
     def get_text_config(self):
         return self
@@ -83,6 +104,38 @@ class MockKVBProj:
         return (result,)  # Return as tuple to match ColumnParallelLinear API
 
 
+class MockIndexer:
+    """Mock Indexer for sparse MLA backends.
+
+    Provides topk_indices_buffer that sparse MLA backends use to determine
+    which KV cache slots to attend to for each token.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        max_num_tokens: int,
+        topk_tokens: int,
+        device: torch.device,
+    ):
+        self.topk_tokens = topk_tokens
+        self.topk_indices_buffer = torch.zeros(
+            (max_num_tokens, topk_tokens),
+            dtype=torch.int32,
+            device=device,
+        )
+
+    def fill_random_indices(self, num_tokens: int, max_kv_len: int):
+        """Fill topk_indices_buffer with random valid indices for benchmarking."""
+        indices = torch.randint(
+            0,
+            max_kv_len,
+            (num_tokens, self.topk_tokens),
+            dtype=torch.int32,
+            device=self.topk_indices_buffer.device,
+        )
+        self.topk_indices_buffer[:num_tokens] = indices
+
+
 class MockLayer(AttentionLayerBase):
     """Mock attention layer with scale parameters and impl.
 
@@ -327,6 +380,9 @@ class ResultsFormatter:
                 specs_order.append(spec)
             by_spec[spec][r.config.backend] = r
 
+        # Sort specs by (batch_size, q_len, kv_len) instead of alphabetically
+        specs_order = sorted(by_spec.keys(), key=batch_spec_sort_key)
+
         # Create shortened backend names for display
         def shorten_backend_name(name: str) -> str:
             """Shorten long backend names for table display."""
@@ -493,10 +549,11 @@ def get_attention_scale(head_dim: int) -> float:
 
 def is_mla_backend(backend: str) -> bool:
     """
-    Check if backend is an MLA backend using the backend's is_mla() property.
+    Check if backend is an MLA backend using the AttentionBackendEnum.
 
     Args:
-        backend: Backend name (e.g., "CUTLASS_MLA", "FLASHINFER_MLA")
+        backend: Backend name matching AttentionBackendEnum exactly
+        (e.g., "FLASHMLA_SPARSE")
 
     Returns:
         True if the backend is an MLA backend, False otherwise
@@ -504,7 +561,8 @@ def is_mla_backend(backend: str) -> bool:
     from vllm.v1.attention.backends.registry import AttentionBackendEnum
 
     try:
-        backend_class = AttentionBackendEnum[backend.upper()].get_class()
+        backend_enum = AttentionBackendEnum[backend]
+        backend_class = backend_enum.get_class()
         return backend_class.is_mla()
-    except (KeyError, ValueError, ImportError):
+    except (KeyError, ValueError, ImportError, AttributeError):
         return False

benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/configs/mla_decode.yaml

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 model:
   name: "deepseek-v3"
   num_layers: 60
-  num_q_heads: 128
+  num_q_heads: 128  # Base value, can be swept for TP simulation
   num_kv_heads: 1  # MLA uses single latent KV
   head_dim: 576
   kv_lora_rank: 512
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ model:
   v_head_dim: 128
   block_size: 128  # CUTLASS MLA and FlashAttn MLA use 128
 
+# Model parameter sweep: simulate tensor parallelism by varying num_q_heads
+# TP=1: 128 heads, TP=2: 64 heads, TP=4: 32 heads, TP=8: 16 heads
+model_parameter_sweep:
+  param_name: "num_q_heads"
+  values: [128, 64, 32, 16]
+  label_format: "{backend}_{value}h"
+
 batch_specs:
   # Small batches, varying sequence lengths
   - "16q1s512"     # 16 requests, 512 KV cache
@@ -34,28 +41,30 @@ batch_specs:
   # Very large batches
   - "128q1s1k"     # 128 requests, 1k KV cache
   - "128q1s2k"     # 128 requests, 2k KV cache
+  - "128q1s4k"     # 128 requests, 4k KV cache
+  - "128q1s8k"     # 128 requests, 8k KV cache
 
   # Long context
   - "32q1s16k"     # 32 requests, 16k KV cache
   - "32q1s32k"     # 32 requests, 32k KV cache
 
 backends:
-  - cutlass_mla
-  - flashinfer_mla
-  - flashattn_mla  # Hopper only
-  - flashmla        # Hopper only
+  - CUTLASS_MLA
+  - FLASHINFER_MLA
+  - FLASH_ATTN_MLA  # Hopper only
+  - FLASHMLA        # Hopper only
 
 device: "cuda:0"
-repeats: 5
-warmup_iters: 3
+repeats: 100
+warmup_iters: 10
 profile_memory: true
 
 # Backend-specific tuning
-cutlass_mla:
+CUTLASS_MLA:
   num_kv_splits: auto  # or specific value like 4, 8, 16
 
-flashattn_mla:
+FLASH_ATTN_MLA:
   reorder_batch_threshold: 512
 
-flashmla:
+FLASHMLA:
   reorder_batch_threshold: 1

benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/configs/mla_mixed_batch.yaml

@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ batch_specs:
   - "4q4k_60q1s4k"          # 4 prefill + 60 decode
 
 backends:
-  - cutlass_mla
-  - flashinfer_mla
-  - flashattn_mla   # Hopper only
-  - flashmla        # Hopper only
+  - CUTLASS_MLA
+  - FLASHINFER_MLA
+  - FLASH_ATTN_MLA   # Hopper only
+  - FLASHMLA         # Hopper only
 
 device: "cuda:0"
 repeats: 5

benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/configs/mla_prefill.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+# MLA prefill-only benchmark configuration for sparse backends
+
+model:
+  name: "deepseek-v3"
+  num_layers: 60
+  num_q_heads: 128
+  num_kv_heads: 1
+  head_dim: 576
+  kv_lora_rank: 512
+  qk_nope_head_dim: 128
+  qk_rope_head_dim: 64
+  v_head_dim: 128
+  block_size: 128
+
+# Model parameter sweep: simulate tensor parallelism by varying num_q_heads
+# TP=1: 128 heads, TP=2: 64 heads, TP=4: 32 heads, TP=8: 16 heads
+model_parameter_sweep:
+  param_name: "num_q_heads"
+  values: [128, 64, 32, 16]
+  label_format: "{backend}_{value}h"
+
+batch_specs:
+  # Pure prefill
+  - "1q512"
+  - "1q1k"
+  - "1q2k"
+  - "1q4k"
+  - "1q8k"
+
+  # Batched pure prefill
+  - "2q512"
+  - "2q1k"
+  - "2q2k"
+  - "2q4k"
+  - "2q8k"
+  - "4q512"
+  - "4q1k"
+  - "4q2k"
+  - "4q4k"
+  - "4q8k"
+  - "8q512"
+  - "8q1k"
+  - "8q2k"
+  - "8q4k"
+  - "8q8k"
+
+  # Extend
+  - "1q512s4k"
+  - "1q512s8k"
+  - "1q1ks8k"
+  - "1q2ks8k"
+  - "1q2ks16k"
+  - "1q4ks16k"
+
+backends:
+  - FLASHMLA_SPARSE
+  - FLASHINFER_MLA_SPARSE
+
+device: "cuda:0"
+repeats: 10
+warmup_iters: 3
+profile_memory: true

benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/configs/reorder_threshold.yaml

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 description: "Decode vs Prefill pipeline crossover analysis"
 
 # Test FlashAttn MLA
-backend: flashattn_mla
+backend: FLASH_ATTN_MLA
 
 # Mode: decode_vs_prefill comparison (special sweep mode)
 # For each batch spec, we'll test both decode and prefill pipelines
@@ -62,11 +62,10 @@ model:
   block_size: 128
 
 # Benchmark settings
-benchmark:
-  device: "cuda:0"
-  repeats: 15          # More repeats for spec decode variance
-  warmup_iters: 5
-  profile_memory: false
+device: "cuda:0"
+repeats: 15          # More repeats for spec decode variance
+warmup_iters: 5
+profile_memory: false
 
 # Output
 output:

benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/configs/speculative_decode.yaml

@@ -41,18 +41,17 @@ batch_specs:
 
 # Backends that support query length > 1
 backends:
-  - flashattn_mla    # reorder_batch_threshold = 512
-  - flashmla          # reorder_batch_threshold = 1 (tunable)
+  - FLASH_ATTN_MLA    # reorder_batch_threshold = 512
+  - FLASHMLA          # reorder_batch_threshold = 1 (tunable)
 
 # FlashInfer-MLA also supports uniform spec-as-decode but with different mechanism
-# - flashinfer_mla
+# - FLASHINFER_MLA
 
 # Benchmark settings
-benchmark:
-  device: "cuda:0"
-  repeats: 10  # More repeats for statistical significance
-  warmup_iters: 5
-  profile_memory: false
+device: "cuda:0"
+repeats: 10  # More repeats for statistical significance
+warmup_iters: 5
+profile_memory: false
 
 # Test these threshold values for optimization
 parameter_sweep:

benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/configs/standard_attention.yaml

@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ batch_specs:
   - "q1ks2k"          # 1k query, 2k sequence
   - "2q1ks4k"         # 2 requests: 1k query, 4k sequence
 
-# Available backends: flash, triton, flashinfer
+# Available backends: FLASH_ATTN, TRITON_ATTN, FLASHINFER
 backends:
-  - flash
-  - triton
-  - flashinfer
+  - FLASH_ATTN
+  - TRITON_ATTN
+  - FLASHINFER
 
 device: "cuda:0"
 repeats: 5

benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/mla_runner.py

@@ -8,14 +8,13 @@ This module provides helpers for running MLA backends without
 needing full VllmConfig integration.
 """
 
-import importlib
-
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 from batch_spec import parse_batch_spec
 from common import (
     BenchmarkResult,
     MockHfConfig,
+    MockIndexer,
     MockKVBProj,
     MockLayer,
     setup_mla_dims,
@@ -62,6 +61,7 @@ def create_minimal_vllm_config(
     block_size: int = 128,
     max_num_seqs: int = 256,
     mla_dims: dict | None = None,
+    index_topk: int | None = None,
 ) -> VllmConfig:
     """
     Create minimal VllmConfig for MLA benchmarks.
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ def create_minimal_vllm_config(
         max_num_seqs: Maximum number of sequences
         mla_dims: Optional custom MLA dimensions dict. If not provided, uses
                   setup_mla_dims(model_name)
+        index_topk: Optional topk value for sparse MLA backends. If provided,
+                    the config will include index_topk for sparse attention.
 
     Returns:
         VllmConfig for benchmarking
@@ -82,7 +84,7 @@ def create_minimal_vllm_config(
         mla_dims = setup_mla_dims(model_name)
 
     # Create mock HF config first (avoids downloading from HuggingFace)
-    mock_hf_config = MockHfConfig(mla_dims)
+    mock_hf_config = MockHfConfig(mla_dims, index_topk=index_topk)
 
     # Create a temporary minimal config.json to avoid HF downloads
     # This ensures consistent ModelConfig construction without network access
@@ -120,16 +122,12 @@ def create_minimal_vllm_config(
             seed=0,
             max_model_len=32768,
             quantization=None,
-            quantization_param_path=None,
             enforce_eager=False,
-            max_context_len_to_capture=None,
-            max_seq_len_to_capture=8192,
             max_logprobs=20,
             disable_sliding_window=False,
             skip_tokenizer_init=True,
             served_model_name=None,
             limit_mm_per_prompt=None,
-            use_async_output_proc=True,
             config_format="auto",
         )
     finally:
@@ -180,56 +178,65 @@ def create_minimal_vllm_config(
 # ============================================================================
 
 
-# Backend name to class name prefix mapping
-_BACKEND_NAME_MAP = {
-    "flashattn_mla": "FlashAttnMLA",
-    "flashmla": "FlashMLA",
-    "flashinfer_mla": "FlashInferMLA",
-    "cutlass_mla": "CutlassMLA",
-}
-
-# Special properties that differ from defaults
+# Backend-specific properties that can't be inferred from the backend class
+# Keys are AttentionBackendEnum names (uppercase)
 _BACKEND_PROPERTIES = {
-    "flashmla": {
+    "FLASHMLA": {
         "query_format": "concat",  # Single concatenated tensor (vs tuple)
-        "block_size": 64,  # FlashMLA uses fixed block size
     },
-    "flashinfer_mla": {
-        "block_size": 64,  # FlashInfer MLA only supports 32 or 64
+    "FLASHMLA_SPARSE": {
+        "query_format": "concat",  # Single concatenated tensor (vs tuple)
     },
 }
 
 
 def _get_backend_config(backend: str) -> dict:
     """
-    Get backend configuration using naming conventions.
+    Get backend configuration from AttentionBackendEnum.
 
-    All MLA backends follow the pattern:
-    - Module: vllm.v1.attention.backends.mla.{backend}
-    - Impl: {Name}Impl
-    - Metadata: {Name}Metadata (or MLACommonMetadata)
-    - DecodeMetadata: {Name}DecodeMetadata (or MLACommonDecodeMetadata)
-    - MetadataBuilder: {Name}MetadataBuilder
+    Uses the registry to get the backend class and extract configuration
+    from its methods (get_impl_cls, get_builder_cls, is_sparse, etc.).
+
+    Args:
+        backend: Backend name matching AttentionBackendEnum exactly
+        (e.g., "FLASHMLA_SPARSE")
+
+    Returns:
+        Dict with backend configuration
     """
-    if backend not in _BACKEND_NAME_MAP:
-        raise ValueError(f"Unknown backend: {backend}")
+    from vllm.v1.attention.backends.registry import AttentionBackendEnum
 
-    name = _BACKEND_NAME_MAP[backend]
+    try:
+        backend_enum = AttentionBackendEnum[backend]
+        backend_class = backend_enum.get_class()
+    except (KeyError, ValueError) as e:
+        valid_backends = [e.name for e in AttentionBackendEnum if e.name != "CUSTOM"]
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"Unknown backend: {backend}. "
+            f"Valid MLA backends: {[b for b in valid_backends if 'MLA' in b]}"
+        ) from e
+
+    # Get block size from backend class
+    block_sizes = backend_class.get_supported_kernel_block_sizes()
+    # Use first supported block size (backends typically support one for MLA)
+    block_size = block_sizes[0] if block_sizes else None
+    if hasattr(block_size, "value"):
+        # Handle MultipleOf enum
+        block_size = None
+
+    # Check if sparse via class method if available
+    is_sparse = getattr(backend_class, "is_sparse", lambda: False)()
+
+    # Get properties that can't be inferred
     props = _BACKEND_PROPERTIES.get(backend, {})
 
-    # Check if backend uses common metadata (FlashInfer, CUTLASS)
-    uses_common = backend in ("flashinfer_mla", "cutlass_mla")
-
     return {
-        "module": f"vllm.v1.attention.backends.mla.{backend}",
-        "impl_class": f"{name}Impl",
-        "metadata_class": "MLACommonMetadata" if uses_common else f"{name}Metadata",
-        "decode_metadata_class": "MLACommonDecodeMetadata"
-        if uses_common
-        else f"{name}DecodeMetadata",
-        "builder_class": f"{name}MetadataBuilder",
+        "backend_class": backend_class,
+        "impl_class": backend_class.get_impl_cls(),
+        "builder_class": backend_class.get_builder_cls(),
         "query_format": props.get("query_format", "tuple"),
-        "block_size": props.get("block_size", None),
+        "block_size": block_size,
+        "is_sparse": is_sparse,
     }
 
 
@@ -447,22 +454,26 @@ def _create_backend_impl(
     mla_dims: dict,
     vllm_config: VllmConfig,
     device: torch.device,
+    max_num_tokens: int = 8192,
+    index_topk: int | None = None,
 ):
     """
     Create backend implementation instance.
 
     Args:
-        backend_cfg: Backend configuration dict
+        backend_cfg: Backend configuration dict from _get_backend_config()
         mla_dims: MLA dimension configuration
         vllm_config: VllmConfig instance
         device: Target device
+        max_num_tokens: Maximum number of tokens for sparse indexer buffer
+        index_topk: Topk value for sparse MLA backends
 
     Returns:
-        Tuple of (impl, layer, builder_instance)
+        Tuple of (impl, layer, builder_instance, indexer)
     """
-    # Import backend classes
-    backend_module = importlib.import_module(backend_cfg["module"])
-    impl_class = getattr(backend_module, backend_cfg["impl_class"])
+    # Get classes from backend config (already resolved by _get_backend_config)
+    impl_class = backend_cfg["impl_class"]
+    builder_class = backend_cfg["builder_class"]
 
     # Calculate scale
     scale = 1.0 / np.sqrt(mla_dims["qk_nope_head_dim"] + mla_dims["qk_rope_head_dim"])
@@ -474,26 +485,44 @@ def _create_backend_impl(
         v_head_dim=mla_dims["v_head_dim"],
     )
 
+    # Create indexer for sparse backends
+    indexer = None
+    if backend_cfg.get("is_sparse", False):
+        if index_topk is None:
+            index_topk = 2048  # Default topk for sparse MLA
+        indexer = MockIndexer(
+            max_num_tokens=max_num_tokens,
+            topk_tokens=index_topk,
+            device=device,
+        )
+
+    # Build impl kwargs
+    impl_kwargs = {
+        "num_heads": mla_dims["num_q_heads"],
+        "head_size": mla_dims["head_dim"],
+        "scale": scale,
+        "num_kv_heads": mla_dims["num_kv_heads"],
+        "alibi_slopes": None,
+        "sliding_window": None,
+        "kv_cache_dtype": "auto",
+        "logits_soft_cap": None,
+        "attn_type": "decoder",
+        "kv_sharing_target_layer_name": None,
+        "q_lora_rank": None,
+        "kv_lora_rank": mla_dims["kv_lora_rank"],
+        "qk_nope_head_dim": mla_dims["qk_nope_head_dim"],
+        "qk_rope_head_dim": mla_dims["qk_rope_head_dim"],
+        "qk_head_dim": mla_dims["qk_nope_head_dim"] + mla_dims["qk_rope_head_dim"],
+        "v_head_dim": mla_dims["v_head_dim"],
+        "kv_b_proj": mock_kv_b_proj,
+    }
+
+    # Add indexer for sparse backends
+    if indexer is not None:
+        impl_kwargs["indexer"] = indexer
+
     # Create impl
-    impl = impl_class(
-        num_heads=mla_dims["num_q_heads"],
-        head_size=mla_dims["head_dim"],
-        scale=scale,
-        num_kv_heads=mla_dims["num_kv_heads"],
-        alibi_slopes=None,
-        sliding_window=None,
-        kv_cache_dtype="auto",
-        logits_soft_cap=None,
-        attn_type="decoder",
-        kv_sharing_target_layer_name=None,
-        q_lora_rank=None,
-        kv_lora_rank=mla_dims["kv_lora_rank"],
-        qk_nope_head_dim=mla_dims["qk_nope_head_dim"],
-        qk_rope_head_dim=mla_dims["qk_rope_head_dim"],
-        qk_head_dim=mla_dims["qk_nope_head_dim"] + mla_dims["qk_rope_head_dim"],
-        v_head_dim=mla_dims["v_head_dim"],
-        kv_b_proj=mock_kv_b_proj,
-    )
+    impl = impl_class(**impl_kwargs)
 
     # Initialize DCP attributes
     if not hasattr(impl, "dcp_world_size") or impl.dcp_world_size in (None, -1):
@@ -515,9 +544,7 @@ def _create_backend_impl(
 
     # Create builder instance if needed
     builder_instance = None
-    if backend_cfg["builder_class"]:
-        builder_class = getattr(backend_module, backend_cfg["builder_class"])
-
+    if builder_class:
         # Populate static_forward_context so builder can find the layer
         # MockLayer inherits from AttentionLayerBase, so isinstance checks pass
         vllm_config.compilation_config.static_forward_context = {"placeholder": layer}
@@ -529,7 +556,7 @@ def _create_backend_impl(
             device=device,
         )
 
-    return impl, layer, builder_instance
+    return impl, layer, builder_instance, indexer
 
 
 # ============================================================================
@@ -594,6 +621,7 @@ def _run_single_benchmark(
     backend_cfg: dict,
     mla_dims: dict,
     device: torch.device,
+    indexer=None,
 ) -> BenchmarkResult:
     """
     Run a single benchmark iteration.
@@ -606,6 +634,7 @@ def _run_single_benchmark(
         backend_cfg: Backend configuration dict
         mla_dims: MLA dimension configuration
         device: Target device
+        indexer: Optional MockIndexer for sparse backends
 
     Returns:
         BenchmarkResult with timing statistics
@@ -613,7 +642,9 @@ def _run_single_benchmark(
     # Parse batch spec
     requests = parse_batch_spec(config.batch_spec)
     q_lens = [r.q_len for r in requests]
+    kv_lens = [r.kv_len for r in requests]
     total_q = sum(q_lens)
+    max_kv_len = max(kv_lens)
 
     # Determine block size
     block_size = backend_cfg["block_size"] or config.block_size
@@ -641,8 +672,16 @@ def _run_single_benchmark(
         torch.bfloat16,
     )
 
-    # Determine which forward method to use based on metadata
-    if metadata.decode is not None:
+    # Fill indexer with random indices for sparse backends
+    is_sparse = backend_cfg.get("is_sparse", False)
+    if is_sparse and indexer is not None:
+        indexer.fill_random_indices(total_q, max_kv_len)
+
+    # Determine which forward method to use
+    if is_sparse:
+        # Sparse backends use forward_mqa
+        forward_fn = lambda: impl.forward_mqa(decode_inputs, kv_cache, metadata, layer)
+    elif metadata.decode is not None:
         forward_fn = lambda: impl._forward_decode(
             decode_inputs, kv_cache, metadata, layer
         )
@@ -693,11 +732,13 @@ def _run_single_benchmark(
 def _run_mla_benchmark_batched(
     backend: str,
     configs_with_params: list[tuple],  # [(config, threshold, num_splits), ...]
+    index_topk: int = 2048,
 ) -> list[BenchmarkResult]:
     """
     Unified batched MLA benchmark runner for all backends.
 
-    Works for: flashattn_mla, flashmla, flashinfer_mla, cutlass_mla
+    Works for: flashattn_mla, flashmla, flashinfer_mla, cutlass_mla,
+               flashinfer_mla_sparse, flashmla_sparse
 
     This function reuses backend initialization across multiple benchmarks
     to avoid setup/teardown overhead.
@@ -707,6 +748,7 @@ def _run_mla_benchmark_batched(
         configs_with_params: List of (config, threshold, num_splits) tuples
             - threshold: reorder_batch_threshold (FlashAttn/FlashMLA only)
             - num_splits: num_kv_splits (CUTLASS only)
+        index_topk: Topk value for sparse MLA backends (default 2048)
 
     Returns:
         List of BenchmarkResult objects
@@ -730,19 +772,27 @@ def _run_mla_benchmark_batched(
     if mla_dims is None:
         mla_dims = setup_mla_dims("deepseek-v3")
 
+    # Determine if this is a sparse backend
+    is_sparse = backend_cfg.get("is_sparse", False)
+
     # Create and set vLLM config for MLA (reused across all benchmarks)
     vllm_config = create_minimal_vllm_config(
         model_name="deepseek-v3",  # Used only for model path
         block_size=block_size,
         mla_dims=mla_dims,  # Use custom dims from config or default
+        index_topk=index_topk if is_sparse else None,
     )
 
     results = []
 
     with set_current_vllm_config(vllm_config):
-        # Create backend impl, layer, and builder (reused across benchmarks)
-        impl, layer, builder_instance = _create_backend_impl(
-            backend_cfg, mla_dims, vllm_config, device
+        # Create backend impl, layer, builder, and indexer (reused across benchmarks)
+        impl, layer, builder_instance, indexer = _create_backend_impl(
+            backend_cfg,
+            mla_dims,
+            vllm_config,
+            device,
+            index_topk=index_topk if is_sparse else None,
         )
 
         # Run each benchmark with the shared impl
@@ -768,6 +818,7 @@ def _run_mla_benchmark_batched(
                     backend_cfg,
                     mla_dims,
                     device,
+                    indexer=indexer,
                 )
                 results.append(result)
 
@@ -793,20 +844,24 @@ def run_mla_benchmark(
     config,
     reorder_batch_threshold: int | None = None,
     num_kv_splits: int | None = None,
+    index_topk: int = 2048,
 ) -> BenchmarkResult | list[BenchmarkResult]:
     """
     Unified MLA benchmark runner for all backends.
 
-    Works for: flashattn_mla, flashmla, flashinfer_mla, cutlass_mla
+    Works for: flashattn_mla, flashmla, flashinfer_mla, cutlass_mla,
+               flashinfer_mla_sparse, flashmla_sparse
 
     Always uses batched execution internally for optimal performance.
 
     Args:
-        backend: Backend name (flashattn_mla, flashmla, flashinfer_mla, cutlass_mla)
+        backend: Backend name (flashattn_mla, flashmla, flashinfer_mla, cutlass_mla,
+                 flashinfer_mla_sparse, flashmla_sparse)
         config: BenchmarkConfig or list of (BenchmarkConfig, param) tuples
         reorder_batch_threshold: Threshold override for FlashAttn/FlashMLA
                                  (single config mode only)
         num_kv_splits: Number of KV splits for CUTLASS (single config mode only)
+        index_topk: Topk value for sparse MLA backends (default 2048)
 
     Returns:
         BenchmarkResult (single mode) or list of BenchmarkResult (batched mode)
@@ -816,9 +871,9 @@ def run_mla_benchmark(
         # Already in batched format
         if len(config) > 0 and isinstance(config[0], tuple):
             # Format: [(cfg, param), ...] where param is threshold or num_splits
-            if backend in ("flashattn_mla", "flashmla"):
+            if backend in ("flashattn_mla", "flashmla", "flashmla_sparse"):
                 configs_with_params = [(cfg, param, None) for cfg, param in config]
-            else:  # cutlass_mla or flashinfer_mla
+            else:  # cutlass_mla, flashinfer_mla, or sparse backends
                 configs_with_params = [(cfg, None, param) for cfg, param in config]
         else:
             # Format: [cfg, ...] - just configs
@@ -830,7 +885,7 @@ def run_mla_benchmark(
         return_single = True
 
     # Use unified batched execution
-    results = _run_mla_benchmark_batched(backend, configs_with_params)
+    results = _run_mla_benchmark_batched(backend, configs_with_params, index_topk)
 
     # Return single result or list based on input
     return results[0] if return_single else results

benchmarks/attention_benchmarks/runner.py

@@ -40,29 +40,29 @@ from vllm.v1.kv_cache_interface import FullAttentionSpec
 # ============================================================================
 
 
-_BACKEND_CONFIG = {
-    "flash": {
-        "module": "vllm.v1.attention.backends.flash_attn",
-        "backend_class": "FlashAttentionBackend",
-    },
-    "triton": {
-        "module": "vllm.v1.attention.backends.triton_attn",
-        "backend_class": "TritonAttentionBackend",
-    },
-    "flashinfer": {
-        "module": "vllm.v1.attention.backends.flashinfer",
-        "backend_class": "FlashInferBackend",
-    },
-}
-
-
 def _get_backend_config(backend: str) -> dict:
-    if backend not in _BACKEND_CONFIG:
+    """
+    Get backend configuration from AttentionBackendEnum.
+
+    Args:
+        backend: Backend name matching AttentionBackendEnum exactly
+                 (e.g., "FLASH_ATTN", "TRITON_ATTN", "FLASHINFER")
+
+    Returns:
+        Dict with backend_class
+    """
+    from vllm.v1.attention.backends.registry import AttentionBackendEnum
+
+    try:
+        backend_enum = AttentionBackendEnum[backend]
+        backend_class = backend_enum.get_class()
+    except (KeyError, ValueError) as e:
+        valid_backends = [b.name for b in AttentionBackendEnum if b.name != "CUSTOM"]
         raise ValueError(
-            f"Unknown backend: {backend}. "
-            f"Available: {', '.join(_BACKEND_CONFIG.keys())}"
-        )
-    return _BACKEND_CONFIG[backend]
+            f"Unknown backend: {backend}. Valid backends: {valid_backends}"
+        ) from e
+
+    return {"backend_class": backend_class}
 
 
 @contextmanager
@@ -205,10 +205,7 @@ def _create_backend_impl(
     dtype: torch.dtype,
 ):
     """Create backend implementation instance."""
-    import importlib
-
-    backend_module = importlib.import_module(backend_cfg["module"])
-    backend_class = getattr(backend_module, backend_cfg["backend_class"])
+    backend_class = backend_cfg["backend_class"]
 
     scale = get_attention_scale(config.head_dim)
 
@@ -247,7 +244,7 @@ def _create_metadata_builder(
 
     # Flashinfer needs get_per_layer_parameters mocked since we don't have
     # real model layers registered
-    if backend_name == "flashinfer":
+    if backend_name == "FLASHINFER":
         import unittest.mock
 
         from vllm.v1.attention.backends.utils import PerLayerParameters
@@ -438,7 +435,7 @@ def run_attention_benchmark(config: BenchmarkConfig) -> BenchmarkResult:
     """
     Run standard attention benchmark with real kernels.
 
-    Supports: flash, triton, flashinfer
+    Supports: FLASH_ATTN, TRITON_ATTN, FLASHINFER
 
     Args:
         config: Benchmark configuration
@@ -453,7 +450,7 @@ def run_attention_benchmark(config: BenchmarkConfig) -> BenchmarkResult:
 
     requests = parse_batch_spec(config.batch_spec)
 
-    if config.backend == "flashinfer":
+    if config.backend == "FLASHINFER":
         requests = reorder_for_flashinfer(requests)
 
     q_lens = [r.q_len for r in requests]

benchmarks/auto_tune/auto_tune.sh

@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ echo "VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL=$VLLM_LOGGING_LEVEL"
 echo "RESULT_FILE=$RESULT"
 echo "====================== AUTO TUNEPARAMETERS ===================="
 
-rm -rf $LOG_FOLDER
-rm -rf $PROFILE_PATH
-mkdir -p $LOG_FOLDER
-mkdir -p $PROFILE_PATH
+rm -rf "$LOG_FOLDER"
+rm -rf "$PROFILE_PATH"
+mkdir -p "$LOG_FOLDER"
+mkdir -p "$PROFILE_PATH"
 
 cd "$BASE/vllm"
 
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ start_server() {
 
     # wait for 10 minutes...
     server_started=0
-    for i in {1..60}; do
+    for _ in {1..60}; do
         # This line checks whether the server is still alive or not,
         # since that we should always have permission to send signal to the server process.
         kill -0 $server_pid 2> /dev/null || break
@@ -145,12 +145,12 @@ run_benchmark() {
     local vllm_log="$LOG_FOLDER/vllm_log_${max_num_seqs}_${max_num_batched_tokens}.txt"
     echo "vllm_log: $vllm_log"
     echo
-    rm -f $vllm_log
+    rm -f "$vllm_log"
     pkill -if "vllm serve" || true
 
     echo "starting server..."
     # Call start_server without a profile_dir to avoid profiling overhead
-    start_server $gpu_memory_utilization $max_num_seqs $max_num_batched_tokens $vllm_log ""
+    start_server "$gpu_memory_utilization" "$max_num_seqs" "$max_num_batched_tokens" "$vllm_log" ""
     result=$?
     if [[ "$result" -eq 1 ]]; then
         echo "server failed to start. gpu_memory_utilization:$gpu_memory_utilization, max_num_seqs:$max_num_seqs, max_num_batched_tokens: $max_num_batched_tokens"
@@ -168,15 +168,15 @@ run_benchmark() {
     # --profile flag is removed from this call
     vllm bench serve \
         --backend vllm \
-        --model $MODEL  \
+        --model "$MODEL"  \
         --dataset-name random \
         --random-input-len $adjusted_input_len \
-        --random-output-len $OUTPUT_LEN \
+        --random-output-len "$OUTPUT_LEN" \
         --ignore-eos \
         --disable-tqdm \
         --request-rate inf \
         --percentile-metrics ttft,tpot,itl,e2el \
-        --goodput e2el:$MAX_LATENCY_ALLOWED_MS \
+        --goodput e2el:"$MAX_LATENCY_ALLOWED_MS" \
         --num-prompts 1000 \
         --random-prefix-len $prefix_len \
         --host "$HOSTNAME" \
@@ -195,20 +195,20 @@ run_benchmark() {
         request_rate=$((${throughput%.*} + 1))
         while ((request_rate > 0)); do
             # clear prefix cache
-            curl -X POST http://${HOSTNAME}:8004/reset_prefix_cache
+            curl -X POST http://"${HOSTNAME}":8004/reset_prefix_cache
             sleep 5
             bm_log="$LOG_FOLDER/bm_log_${max_num_seqs}_${max_num_batched_tokens}_requestrate_${request_rate}.txt"
             vllm bench serve \
                 --backend vllm \
-                --model $MODEL  \
+                --model "$MODEL"  \
                 --dataset-name random \
                 --random-input-len $adjusted_input_len \
-                --random-output-len $OUTPUT_LEN \
+                --random-output-len "$OUTPUT_LEN" \
                 --ignore-eos \
                 --disable-tqdm \
                 --request-rate $request_rate \
                 --percentile-metrics ttft,tpot,itl,e2el \
-                --goodput e2el:$MAX_LATENCY_ALLOWED_MS \
+                --goodput e2el:"$MAX_LATENCY_ALLOWED_MS" \
                 --num-prompts 100 \
                 --random-prefix-len $prefix_len \
                 --host "$HOSTNAME" \
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ gpu_memory_utilization=0.98
 find_gpu_memory_utilization=0
 while (( $(echo "$gpu_memory_utilization >= 0.9" | bc -l) )); do
     # Pass empty string for profile_dir argument
-    start_server $gpu_memory_utilization "${num_seqs_list[-1]}" "${num_batched_tokens_list[-1]}" "$LOG_FOLDER/vllm_log_gpu_memory_utilization_$gpu_memory_utilization.log" ""
+    start_server "$gpu_memory_utilization" "${num_seqs_list[-1]}" "${num_batched_tokens_list[-1]}" "$LOG_FOLDER/vllm_log_gpu_memory_utilization_$gpu_memory_utilization.log" ""
     result=$?
     if [[ "$result" -eq 0 ]]; then
         find_gpu_memory_utilization=1
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ fi
 
 for num_seqs in "${num_seqs_list[@]}"; do
     for num_batched_tokens in "${num_batched_tokens_list[@]}"; do
-        run_benchmark $num_seqs $num_batched_tokens $gpu_memory_utilization
+        run_benchmark "$num_seqs" "$num_batched_tokens" "$gpu_memory_utilization"
     done
 done
 echo "finish permutations"
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ echo "finish permutations"
 if (( $(echo "$best_throughput > 0" | bc -l) )); then
     echo
     echo "Benchmark tuning finished. Now running profiling on the best configuration found..."
-    echo "Best config: max_num_seqs: $best_max_num_seqs, max_num_batched_tokens: $best_num_batched_tokens, throughput: $best_throughput"
+    echo "Best config: max_num_seqs: $best_max_num_seqs, max_num_batched_tokens: $best_num_batched_tokens, throughput: $best_throughput, goodput: $best_goodput"
     echo
 
     vllm_log="$LOG_FOLDER/vllm_log_BEST_PROFILE.txt"
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ if (( $(echo "$best_throughput > 0" | bc -l) )); then
 
     # Start server with the best params and profiling ENABLED
     echo "Starting server for profiling..."
-    start_server $gpu_memory_utilization $best_max_num_seqs $best_num_batched_tokens "$vllm_log" "$PROFILE_PATH"
+    start_server "$gpu_memory_utilization" "$best_max_num_seqs" "$best_num_batched_tokens" "$vllm_log" "$PROFILE_PATH"
 
     # Run benchmark with the best params and the --profile flag
     echo "Running benchmark with profiling..."
@@ -301,15 +301,15 @@ if (( $(echo "$best_throughput > 0" | bc -l) )); then
     adjusted_input_len=$(( INPUT_LEN - prefix_len ))
     vllm bench serve \
         --backend vllm \
-        --model $MODEL \
+        --model "$MODEL" \
         --dataset-name random \
         --random-input-len $adjusted_input_len \
-        --random-output-len $OUTPUT_LEN \
+        --random-output-len "$OUTPUT_LEN" \
         --ignore-eos \
         --disable-tqdm \
-        --request-rate $best_request_rate \
+        --request-rate "$best_request_rate" \
         --percentile-metrics ttft,tpot,itl,e2el \
-        --goodput e2el:$MAX_LATENCY_ALLOWED_MS \
+        --goodput e2el:"$MAX_LATENCY_ALLOWED_MS" \
         --num-prompts 100 \
         --random-prefix-len $prefix_len \
         --host "$HOSTNAME" \

benchmarks/auto_tune/batch_auto_tune.sh

@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ for i in $(seq 0 $(($num_runs - 1))); do
   else
     STATUS="FAILURE"
     ((FAILURE_COUNT++))
-    FAILED_RUNS+=("Run #$((i+1)): $(echo $run_object | jq -c .)")
+    FAILED_RUNS+=("Run #$((i+1)): $(echo "$run_object" | jq -c .)")
   fi
 
   RUN_OUTPUT=$(<"$RUN_OUTPUT_FILE")

benchmarks/benchmark_topk_topp.py

@@ -0,0 +1,471 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+"""
+Benchmark comparing Triton vs PyTorch sort-based top-k/top-p implementations.
+
+Compares:
+- apply_top_k_top_p_triton (Triton binary search)
+- apply_top_k_top_p (PyTorch sort-based)
+
+Scenarios:
+- top_k only (whole batch, partial batch)
+- top_p only (whole batch, partial batch)
+- mix of top_k and top_p
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import gc
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+import torch
+
+from vllm.v1.sample.ops.topk_topp_sampler import apply_top_k_top_p_pytorch
+from vllm.v1.sample.ops.topk_topp_triton import (
+    apply_top_k_top_p_triton,
+    reset_buffer_cache,
+)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class BenchmarkConfig:
+    """Configuration for a benchmark run."""
+
+    name: str
+    batch_size: int
+    vocab_size: int
+    # k and p can be tensors or None
+    k_values: torch.Tensor | None  # [batch_size] or None
+    p_values: torch.Tensor | None  # [batch_size] or None
+    description: str
+    ops_pct: float = 0.0  # Percentage of ops relative to batch size
+
+
+def calculate_ops_pct(
+    k_values: torch.Tensor | None,
+    p_values: torch.Tensor | None,
+    vocab_size: int,
+    batch_size: int,
+) -> float:
+    """
+    Calculate the percentage of active top-k and top-p operations.
+
+    Returns percentage where 100% = batch_size ops.
+    E.g., if all rows have both top-k and top-p active, returns 200%.
+    """
+    active_ops = 0
+
+    if k_values is not None:
+        # Count rows where k < vocab_size (active top-k filtering)
+        active_ops += (k_values < vocab_size).sum().item()
+
+    if p_values is not None:
+        # Count rows where p < 1.0 (active top-p filtering)
+        active_ops += (p_values < 1.0).sum().item()
+
+    return (active_ops / batch_size) * 100 if batch_size > 0 else 0.0
+
+
+def create_logits(
+    batch_size: int, vocab_size: int, device: str = "cuda"
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Create random logits mimicking a realistic LLM distribution.
+
+    Uses a Zipf-like probability distribution (rank^-1.1) converted to logits
+    via log, then randomly permuted per row. This produces a peaked distribution
+    where a small number of tokens capture most probability mass, similar to
+    real model outputs.
+    """
+    # Create Zipf-like probabilities: p(rank) ~ rank^(-alpha)
+    ranks = torch.arange(1, vocab_size + 1, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
+    probs = ranks.pow(-1.1)
+    probs = probs / probs.sum()
+
+    # Convert to logits (log-probabilities, unnormalized is fine)
+    base_logits = probs.log()
+
+    # Broadcast to batch and randomly permute each row
+    logits = base_logits.unsqueeze(0).expand(batch_size, -1).clone()
+    for i in range(batch_size):
+        logits[i] = logits[i, torch.randperm(vocab_size, device=device)]
+
+    return logits
+
+
+def measure_memory() -> tuple[int, int]:
+    """Return (allocated, reserved) memory in bytes."""
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+    return torch.cuda.memory_allocated(), torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated()
+
+
+def reset_memory_stats():
+    """Reset peak memory statistics."""
+    reset_buffer_cache()
+    torch.cuda.reset_peak_memory_stats()
+    torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+    gc.collect()
+
+
+def benchmark_function(
+    func,
+    logits: torch.Tensor,
+    k: torch.Tensor | None,
+    p: torch.Tensor | None,
+    warmup_iters: int = 5,
+    benchmark_iters: int = 20,
+) -> tuple[float, int]:
+    """
+    Benchmark a function and return (avg_time_ms, peak_memory_bytes).
+
+    Returns average time in milliseconds and peak memory usage.
+    """
+    # Warmup
+    for _ in range(warmup_iters):
+        logits_copy = logits.clone()
+        func(logits_copy, k, p)
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    # Reset memory stats before benchmark
+    reset_memory_stats()
+
+    # Benchmark
+    start_events = [
+        torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True) for _ in range(benchmark_iters)
+    ]
+    end_events = [torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True) for _ in range(benchmark_iters)]
+
+    for i in range(benchmark_iters):
+        logits_copy = logits.clone()
+        start_events[i].record()
+        func(logits_copy, k, p)
+        end_events[i].record()
+
+    torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+    # Calculate timing
+    times = [
+        start_events[i].elapsed_time(end_events[i]) for i in range(benchmark_iters)
+    ]
+    avg_time = sum(times) / len(times)
+
+    # Get peak memory
+    _, peak_memory = measure_memory()
+
+    return avg_time, peak_memory
+
+
+def create_benchmark_configs(
+    batch_sizes: list[int],
+    vocab_sizes: list[int],
+    device: str = "cuda",
+) -> list[BenchmarkConfig]:
+    """Create all benchmark configurations."""
+    configs = []
+
+    for vocab_size in vocab_sizes:
+        for batch_size in batch_sizes:
+            # 1. Top-k only - whole batch (all rows have k < vocab_size)
+            k_all = torch.full((batch_size,), 50, dtype=torch.int32, device=device)
+            configs.append(
+                BenchmarkConfig(
+                    name=f"topk_whole_b{batch_size}_v{vocab_size // 1000}k",
+                    batch_size=batch_size,
+                    vocab_size=vocab_size,
+                    k_values=k_all,
+                    p_values=None,
+                    description=f"Top-k only (whole batch, k=50), "
+                    f"batch={batch_size}, vocab={vocab_size}",
+                    ops_pct=calculate_ops_pct(k_all, None, vocab_size, batch_size),
+                )
+            )
+
+            # 2. Top-k only - partial batch (half have k=50, half have k=vocab_size)
+            k_partial = torch.full((batch_size,), 50, dtype=torch.int32, device=device)
+            k_partial[batch_size // 2 :] = vocab_size  # No filtering for second half
+            configs.append(
+                BenchmarkConfig(
+                    name=f"topk_partial_b{batch_size}_v{vocab_size // 1000}k",
+                    batch_size=batch_size,
+                    vocab_size=vocab_size,
+                    k_values=k_partial,
+                    p_values=None,
+                    description=f"Top-k only (partial batch, 50% k=50, 50% k=vocab), "
+                    f"batch={batch_size}, vocab={vocab_size}",
+                    ops_pct=calculate_ops_pct(k_partial, None, vocab_size, batch_size),
+                )
+            )
+
+            # 3. Top-p only - whole batch (all rows have p < 1.0)
+            p_all = torch.full((batch_size,), 0.9, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
+            configs.append(
+                BenchmarkConfig(
+                    name=f"topp_whole_b{batch_size}_v{vocab_size // 1000}k",
+                    batch_size=batch_size,
+                    vocab_size=vocab_size,
+                    k_values=None,
+                    p_values=p_all,
+                    description=f"Top-p only (whole batch, p=0.9), "
+                    f"batch={batch_size}, vocab={vocab_size}",
+                    ops_pct=calculate_ops_pct(None, p_all, vocab_size, batch_size),
+                )
+            )
+
+            # 4. Top-p only - partial batch (half have p=0.9, half have p=1.0)
+            p_partial = torch.full(
+                (batch_size,), 0.9, dtype=torch.float32, device=device
+            )
+            p_partial[batch_size // 2 :] = 1.0  # No filtering for second half
+            configs.append(
+                BenchmarkConfig(
+                    name=f"topp_partial_b{batch_size}_v{vocab_size // 1000}k",
+                    batch_size=batch_size,
+                    vocab_size=vocab_size,
+                    k_values=None,
+                    p_values=p_partial,
+                    description=f"Top-p only (partial batch, 50% p=0.9, 50% p=1.0), "
+                    f"batch={batch_size}, vocab={vocab_size}",
+                    ops_pct=calculate_ops_pct(None, p_partial, vocab_size, batch_size),
+                )
+            )
+
+            # 5. Mix of top-k and top-p (both applied to whole batch)
+            k_mix = torch.full((batch_size,), 100, dtype=torch.int32, device=device)
+            p_mix = torch.full((batch_size,), 0.9, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
+            configs.append(
+                BenchmarkConfig(
+                    name=f"topk_topp_whole_b{batch_size}_v{vocab_size // 1000}k",
+                    batch_size=batch_size,
+                    vocab_size=vocab_size,
+                    k_values=k_mix,
+                    p_values=p_mix,
+                    description=f"Top-k + Top-p (whole batch, k=100, p=0.9), "
+                    f"batch={batch_size}, vocab={vocab_size}",
+                    ops_pct=calculate_ops_pct(k_mix, p_mix, vocab_size, batch_size),
+                )
+            )
+
+            # 6. Mix with partial application (some rows k only, some p only, some both)
+            k_mixed = torch.full(
+                (batch_size,), vocab_size, dtype=torch.int32, device=device
+            )
+            p_mixed = torch.full((batch_size,), 1.0, dtype=torch.float32, device=device)
+            # First third: k only
+            third = batch_size // 3
+            k_mixed[:third] = 50
+            # Second third: p only
+            p_mixed[third : 2 * third] = 0.5
+            # Last third: both k and p
+            k_mixed[2 * third :] = 100
+            p_mixed[2 * third :] = 0.9
+            configs.append(
+                BenchmarkConfig(
+                    name=f"mixed_partial_b{batch_size}_v{vocab_size // 1000}k",
+                    batch_size=batch_size,
+                    vocab_size=vocab_size,
+                    k_values=k_mixed,
+                    p_values=p_mixed,
+                    description=f"Mixed partial (1/3 k=50, 1/3 p=0.9, 1/3 both), "
+                    f"batch={batch_size}, vocab={vocab_size}",
+                    ops_pct=calculate_ops_pct(k_mixed, p_mixed, vocab_size, batch_size),
+                )
+            )
+
+    return configs
+
+
+def format_memory(bytes_val: int) -> str:
+    """Format memory in human-readable form."""
+    if bytes_val >= 1024**3:
+        return f"{bytes_val / (1024**3):.2f} GB"
+    elif bytes_val >= 1024**2:
+        return f"{bytes_val / (1024**2):.2f} MB"
+    elif bytes_val >= 1024:
+        return f"{bytes_val / 1024:.2f} KB"
+    return f"{bytes_val} B"
+
+
+def run_benchmark(
+    configs: list[BenchmarkConfig],
+    warmup_iters: int = 5,
+    benchmark_iters: int = 20,
+    verbose: bool = True,
+):
+    """Run all benchmarks and print results."""
+    results = []
+
+    print("=" * 100)
+    print("Top-k/Top-p Benchmark: Triton vs PyTorch Sort-based")
+    print("=" * 100)
+    print()
+
+    for config in configs:
+        if verbose:
+            print(f"Running: {config.description}")
+
+        # Create fresh logits for this config
+        logits = create_logits(config.batch_size, config.vocab_size)
+
+        # Benchmark Triton
+        reset_memory_stats()
+        triton_time, triton_mem = benchmark_function(
+            apply_top_k_top_p_triton,
+            logits,
+            config.k_values,
+            config.p_values,
+            warmup_iters,
+            benchmark_iters,
+        )
+
+        # Benchmark PyTorch
+        reset_memory_stats()
+        pytorch_time, pytorch_mem = benchmark_function(
+            apply_top_k_top_p_pytorch,
+            logits,
+            config.k_values,
+            config.p_values,
+            warmup_iters,
+            benchmark_iters,
+        )
+
+        speedup = pytorch_time / triton_time if triton_time > 0 else float("inf")
+        mem_ratio = pytorch_mem / triton_mem if triton_mem > 0 else float("inf")
+
+        result = {
+            "config": config,
+            "triton_time_ms": triton_time,
+            "pytorch_time_ms": pytorch_time,
+            "triton_mem": triton_mem,
+            "pytorch_mem": pytorch_mem,
+            "speedup": speedup,
+            "mem_ratio": mem_ratio,
+        }
+        results.append(result)
+
+        if verbose:
+            print(f"  Triton:  {triton_time:.3f} ms, {format_memory(triton_mem)}")
+            print(f"  PyTorch: {pytorch_time:.3f} ms, {format_memory(pytorch_mem)}")
+            print(f"  Speedup: {speedup:.2f}x, Memory ratio: {mem_ratio:.2f}x")
+            print()
+
+        # Clean up
+        del logits
+        reset_memory_stats()
+
+    return results
+
+
+def print_summary_table(results: list[dict]):
+    """Print a summary table of results."""
+    print()
+    print("=" * 130)
+    print("SUMMARY TABLE")
+    print("=" * 130)
+    print()
+
+    # Header
+    header = (
+        f"{'Scenario':<40} {'Batch':>6} {'Vocab':>7} {'Ops%':>6} "
+        f"{'Triton (ms)':>12} {'PyTorch (ms)':>13} {'Speedup':>8} "
+        f"{'Tri Mem':>10} {'Pyt Mem':>10}"
+    )
+    print(header)
+    print("-" * 130)
+
+    # Group by scenario type
+    current_vocab = None
+    for result in results:
+        config = result["config"]
+
+        # Add separator between vocab sizes
+        if current_vocab != config.vocab_size:
+            if current_vocab is not None:
+                print("-" * 130)
+            current_vocab = config.vocab_size
+
+        scenario = config.name.split("_b")[0]  # Extract scenario name
+        print(
+            f"{scenario:<40} {config.batch_size:>6} {config.vocab_size:>7} "
+            f"{config.ops_pct:>5.0f}% "
+            f"{result['triton_time_ms']:>12.3f} {result['pytorch_time_ms']:>13.3f} "
+            f"{result['speedup']:>7.2f}x "
+            f"{format_memory(result['triton_mem']):>10} "
+            f"{format_memory(result['pytorch_mem']):>10}"
+        )
+
+    print("=" * 130)
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Benchmark Triton vs PyTorch sort-based top-k/top-p implementations"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--batch-sizes",
+        type=int,
+        nargs="+",
+        default=[1, 4, 16, 64, 128, 512, 1024, 2048],
+        help="Batch sizes to test (default: 1 4 16 64)",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--vocab-sizes",
+        type=int,
+        nargs="+",
+        default=[32768, 131072],  # 32k, 128k
+        help="Vocabulary sizes to test (default: 32768 131072)",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--warmup-iters",
+        type=int,
+        default=5,
+        help="Number of warmup iterations (default: 5)",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--benchmark-iters",
+        type=int,
+        default=20,
+        help="Number of benchmark iterations (default: 20)",
+    )
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--quiet",
+        action="store_true",
+        help="Only print summary table",
+    )
+
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    # Print configuration
+    print(f"Batch sizes: {args.batch_sizes}")
+    print(f"Vocab sizes: {args.vocab_sizes}")
+    print(f"Warmup iterations: {args.warmup_iters}")
+    print(f"Benchmark iterations: {args.benchmark_iters}")
+    print()
+
+    # Check CUDA
+    if not torch.cuda.is_available():
+        print("ERROR: CUDA is not available. This benchmark requires a GPU.")
+        return
+
+    device_name = torch.cuda.get_device_name(0)
+    print(f"GPU: {device_name}")
+    print()
+
+    # Create configs
+    configs = create_benchmark_configs(
+        args.batch_sizes,
+        args.vocab_sizes,
+    )
+
+    # Run benchmarks
+    results = run_benchmark(
+        configs,
+        warmup_iters=args.warmup_iters,
+        benchmark_iters=args.benchmark_iters,
+        verbose=not args.quiet,
+    )
+
+    # Print summary
+    print_summary_table(results)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

benchmarks/kernels/benchmark_moe.py

@@ -100,13 +100,38 @@ def benchmark_config(
     dtype: torch.dtype,
     use_fp8_w8a8: bool,
     use_int8_w8a16: bool,
+    use_int4_w4a16: bool = False,
     num_iters: int = 100,
     block_quant_shape: list[int] = None,
     use_deep_gemm: bool = False,
 ) -> float:
     init_dtype = torch.float16 if use_fp8_w8a8 else dtype
     x = torch.randn(num_tokens, hidden_size, dtype=dtype)
-    if use_int8_w8a16:
+    if use_int4_w4a16:
+        # Int4 packed weights: 2 int4 values per uint8 byte
+        # K dimension is packed (halved)
+        intermediate_size = shard_intermediate_size // 2  # after silu_and_mul
+        w1 = torch.randint(
+            0,
+            255,
+            (
+                num_experts,
+                shard_intermediate_size,
+                hidden_size // 2,  # int4 packing
+            ),
+            dtype=torch.uint8,
+        )
+        w2 = torch.randint(
+            0,
+            255,
+            (
+                num_experts,
+                hidden_size,
+                intermediate_size // 2,  # int4 packing
+            ),
+            dtype=torch.uint8,
+        )
+    elif use_int8_w8a16:
         w1 = torch.randint(
             -127,
             127,
@@ -140,7 +165,20 @@ def benchmark_config(
     w2_scale = None
     a1_scale = None
     a2_scale = None
-    if use_int8_w8a16:
+    if use_int4_w4a16:
+        if block_quant_shape is None:
+            raise ValueError("block_quant_shape is required for int4_w4a16")
+        group_size = block_quant_shape[1]
+        # Scales shape: (E, N, K // group_size) in fp16
+        w1_scale = torch.rand(
+            (num_experts, shard_intermediate_size, hidden_size // group_size),
+            dtype=dtype,
+        )
+        w2_scale = torch.rand(
+            (num_experts, hidden_size, intermediate_size // group_size),
+            dtype=dtype,
+        )
+    elif use_int8_w8a16:
         w1_scale = torch.randn(
             (num_experts, 2 * shard_intermediate_size), dtype=torch.float32
         )
@@ -199,6 +237,7 @@ def benchmark_config(
             a1_scale=a1_scale,
             a2_scale=a2_scale,
             block_shape=block_quant_shape,
+            weight_dtype="int4" if use_int4_w4a16 else None,
         )
 
         deep_gemm_experts = None
@@ -481,6 +520,7 @@ class BenchmarkWorker:
         dtype: torch.dtype,
         use_fp8_w8a8: bool,
         use_int8_w8a16: bool,
+        use_int4_w4a16: bool = False,
         block_quant_shape: list[int] = None,
         use_deep_gemm: bool = False,
     ) -> tuple[dict[str, int], float]:
@@ -488,7 +528,10 @@ class BenchmarkWorker:
 
         set_random_seed(self.seed)
         dtype_str = _get_config_dtype_str(
-            dtype, use_int8_w8a16=use_int8_w8a16, use_fp8_w8a8=use_fp8_w8a8
+            dtype,
+            use_int8_w8a16=use_int8_w8a16,
+            use_fp8_w8a8=use_fp8_w8a8,
+            use_int4_w4a16=use_int4_w4a16,
         )
         # NOTE(woosuk): The current naming convention uses w2.shape[2], which
         # is the intermediate size after silu_and_mul.
@@ -519,6 +562,7 @@ class BenchmarkWorker:
             dtype,
             use_fp8_w8a8,
             use_int8_w8a16,
+            use_int4_w4a16=use_int4_w4a16,
             num_iters=100,
             block_quant_shape=block_quant_shape,
             use_deep_gemm=use_deep_gemm,
@@ -535,6 +579,7 @@ class BenchmarkWorker:
         dtype: torch.dtype,
         use_fp8_w8a8: bool,
         use_int8_w8a16: bool,
+        use_int4_w4a16: bool,
         search_space: list[dict[str, int]],
         block_quant_shape: list[int],
         use_deep_gemm: bool,
@@ -545,7 +590,7 @@ class BenchmarkWorker:
         best_config = None
         best_time = float("inf")
         if current_platform.is_rocm():
-            is_fp16 = not (use_fp8_w8a8 or use_int8_w8a16)
+            is_fp16 = not (use_fp8_w8a8 or use_int8_w8a16 or use_int4_w4a16)
             search_space = prune_rocm_search_space(
                 num_tokens,
                 shard_intermediate_size,
@@ -574,6 +619,7 @@ class BenchmarkWorker:
                         dtype,
                         use_fp8_w8a8,
                         use_int8_w8a16,
+                        use_int4_w4a16,
                         num_iters=20,
                         block_quant_shape=block_quant_shape,
                         use_deep_gemm=use_deep_gemm,
@@ -621,6 +667,7 @@ def sort_config(config: BenchmarkConfig) -> BenchmarkConfig:
             else {}
         ),
         **({"kpack": config["kpack"]} if "kpack" in config else {}),
+        **({"SPLIT_K": config["SPLIT_K"]} if "SPLIT_K" in config else {}),
     }
 
 
@@ -633,11 +680,15 @@ def save_configs(
     dtype: torch.dtype,
     use_fp8_w8a8: bool,
     use_int8_w8a16: bool,
+    use_int4_w4a16: bool,
     block_quant_shape: list[int],
     save_dir: str,
 ) -> None:
     dtype_str = _get_config_dtype_str(
-        dtype, use_int8_w8a16=use_int8_w8a16, use_fp8_w8a8=use_fp8_w8a8
+        dtype,
+        use_int8_w8a16=use_int8_w8a16,
+        use_fp8_w8a8=use_fp8_w8a8,
+        use_int4_w4a16=use_int4_w4a16,
     )
 
     # NOTE(woosuk): The current naming convention uses w2.shape[2], which
@@ -739,6 +790,38 @@ def get_model_params(config):
     return E, topk, intermediate_size, hidden_size
 
 
+def get_quantization_group_size(config) -> int | None:
+    """Extract the quantization group size from the HF model config.
+
+    This reads directly from the HuggingFace config object (as returned by
+    ``get_config()``), not from vLLM's quantization config classes.
+
+    Supports AWQ/GPTQ-style configs (direct 'group_size' key) and
+    compressed-tensors configs (nested inside 'config_groups').
+    """
+    quantization_config = getattr(config, "quantization_config", {})
+    if not isinstance(quantization_config, dict):
+        return None
+    # AWQ / GPTQ style: group_size is a top-level key
+    gs = quantization_config.get("group_size")
+    if gs is not None:
+        return gs
+    # compressed-tensors style: group_size is nested in config_groups
+    config_groups = quantization_config.get("config_groups", {})
+    if not isinstance(config_groups, dict):
+        return None
+    for group_cfg in config_groups.values():
+        if not isinstance(group_cfg, dict):
+            continue
+        weights = group_cfg.get("weights", {})
+        if not isinstance(weights, dict):
+            continue
+        gs = weights.get("group_size")
+        if gs is not None:
+            return gs
+    return None
+
+
 def main(args: argparse.Namespace):
     print(args)
 
@@ -757,7 +840,20 @@ def main(args: argparse.Namespace):
     dtype = torch.float16 if current_platform.is_rocm() else config.dtype
     use_fp8_w8a8 = args.dtype == "fp8_w8a8"
     use_int8_w8a16 = args.dtype == "int8_w8a16"
+    use_int4_w4a16 = args.dtype == "int4_w4a16"
     block_quant_shape = get_weight_block_size_safety(config)
+    if use_int4_w4a16:
+        group_size = get_quantization_group_size(config)
+        if group_size is None:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Could not determine group_size from model config. "
+                "The model's quantization_config must contain a 'group_size' "
+                "field (AWQ/GPTQ) or 'config_groups.*.weights.group_size' "
+                "(compressed-tensors)."
+            )
+        # For int4_w4a16, block_shape = [0, group_size]
+        # block_shape[0]=0 means no block quantization on N dimension
+        block_quant_shape = [0, group_size]
 
     if args.batch_size is None:
         batch_sizes = [
@@ -811,8 +907,20 @@ def main(args: argparse.Namespace):
         return ray.get(outputs)
 
     if args.tune:
-        is_fp16 = not (use_fp8_w8a8 or use_int8_w8a16)
-        search_space = get_configs_compute_bound(is_fp16, block_quant_shape)
+        # int4_w4a16 weights are uint8-packed, not fp16; treat like fp8 for
+        # search space generation (no matrix_instr_nonkdim/kpack exploration).
+        is_fp16 = not (use_fp8_w8a8 or use_int8_w8a16 or use_int4_w4a16)
+        # For int4_w4a16, the group_size constraint on BLOCK_SIZE_K does not
+        # apply: the gptq_awq kernel handles arbitrary BLOCK_SIZE_K regardless
+        # of group_size. Skip block_quant_shape filtering to keep the full
+        # search space (e.g. BLOCK_SIZE_K=64 with group_size=128).
+        tune_block_quant_shape = None if use_int4_w4a16 else block_quant_shape
+        search_space = get_configs_compute_bound(is_fp16, tune_block_quant_shape)
+        if use_int4_w4a16:
+            # SPLIT_K is a required kernel constexpr for gptq_awq kernel;
+            # only SPLIT_K=1 is used at runtime, so fix it during tuning.
+            for cfg in search_space:
+                cfg["SPLIT_K"] = 1
         print(f"Start tuning over {len(search_space)} configurations...")
         if use_deep_gemm:
             raise ValueError(
@@ -832,6 +940,7 @@ def main(args: argparse.Namespace):
                     dtype,
                     use_fp8_w8a8,
                     use_int8_w8a16,
+                    use_int4_w4a16,
                     search_space,
                     block_quant_shape,
                     use_deep_gemm,
@@ -851,6 +960,7 @@ def main(args: argparse.Namespace):
             dtype,
             use_fp8_w8a8,
             use_int8_w8a16,
+            use_int4_w4a16,
             block_quant_shape,
             args.save_dir,
         )
@@ -869,6 +979,7 @@ def main(args: argparse.Namespace):
                     dtype,
                     use_fp8_w8a8,
                     use_int8_w8a16,
+                    use_int4_w4a16,
                     block_quant_shape,
                     use_deep_gemm,
                 )
@@ -891,7 +1002,10 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     )
     parser.add_argument("--enable-expert-parallel", "-enable-ep", action="store_true")
     parser.add_argument(
-        "--dtype", type=str, choices=["auto", "fp8_w8a8", "int8_w8a16"], default="auto"
+        "--dtype",
+        type=str,
+        choices=["auto", "fp8_w8a8", "int8_w8a16", "int4_w4a16"],
+        default="auto",
     )
     parser.add_argument("--use-deep-gemm", action="store_true")
     parser.add_argument(

benchmarks/run_structured_output_benchmark.sh

@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
       usage
       ;;
     *)
-      echo "Unknown argument: $1\n"
+      printf "Unknown argument: %s\n" "$1"
       usage
       ;;
   esac
@@ -84,15 +84,17 @@ mkdir -p "$OUTPUT_DIR"
 QPS_VALUES=(25 20 15 10 5 1)
 
 # Common parameters
-COMMON_PARAMS="--backend $BACKEND \
-               --model $MODEL \
-               --dataset $DATASET \
-               --structured-output-ratio $STRUCTURED_OUTPUT_RATIO \
-               --save-results \
-               --result-dir $OUTPUT_DIR \
-               --output-len $MAX_NEW_TOKENS \
-               --port $PORT \
-               --tokenizer-mode $TOKENIZER_MODE"
+COMMON_PARAMS=(
+  --backend "$BACKEND"
+  --model "$MODEL"
+  --dataset "$DATASET"
+  --structured-output-ratio "$STRUCTURED_OUTPUT_RATIO"
+  --save-results
+  --result-dir "$OUTPUT_DIR"
+  --output-len "$MAX_NEW_TOKENS"
+  --port "$PORT"
+  --tokenizer-mode "$TOKENIZER_MODE"
+)
 
 echo "Starting structured output benchmark with model: $MODEL"
 echo "Backend: $BACKEND"
@@ -109,17 +111,17 @@ for qps in "${QPS_VALUES[@]}"; do
   GIT_BRANCH=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null || echo "unknown")
 
   # Construct filename for this run
-  FILENAME="${BACKEND}_${qps}qps_$(basename $MODEL)_${DATASET}_${GIT_HASH}.json"
+  FILENAME="${BACKEND}_${qps}qps_$(basename "$MODEL")_${DATASET}_${GIT_HASH}_${GIT_BRANCH}.json"
 
   NUM_PROMPTS=$(echo "$TOTAL_SECONDS * $qps" | bc)
   NUM_PROMPTS=${NUM_PROMPTS%.*}  # Remove fractional part
   echo "Running benchmark with $NUM_PROMPTS prompts"
 
   # Run the benchmark
-  python "$SCRIPT_DIR/benchmark_serving_structured_output.py" $COMMON_PARAMS \
-    --request-rate $qps \
+  python "$SCRIPT_DIR/benchmark_serving_structured_output.py" "${COMMON_PARAMS[@]}" \
+    --request-rate "$qps" \
     --result-filename "$FILENAME" \
-    --num-prompts $NUM_PROMPTS
+    --num-prompts "$NUM_PROMPTS"
 
   echo "Completed benchmark with QPS: $qps"
   echo "----------------------------------------"

cmake/cpu_extension.cmake

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ set(ENABLE_AVX512 $ENV{VLLM_CPU_AVX512})
 set(ENABLE_AVX512BF16 $ENV{VLLM_CPU_AVX512BF16})
 set(ENABLE_AVX512VNNI $ENV{VLLM_CPU_AVX512VNNI})
 set(ENABLE_AMXBF16 $ENV{VLLM_CPU_AMXBF16})
+set(ENABLE_ARM_BF16 $ENV{VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16})
 
 include_directories("${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/csrc")
 
@@ -115,6 +116,10 @@ else()
         set(AVX512_FOUND ON)
         message(STATUS "AVX512 support enabled via VLLM_CPU_AVX512 environment variable")
     endif()
+    if (ENABLE_ARM_BF16)
+        set(ARM_BF16_FOUND ON)
+        message(STATUS "ARM BF16 support enabled via VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16 environment variable")
+    endif()
 endif()
 
 if (AVX512_FOUND AND NOT AVX512_DISABLED)

cmake/external_projects/flashmla.cmake

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ else()
   FetchContent_Declare(
         flashmla
         GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/vllm-project/FlashMLA
-        GIT_TAG c2afa9cb93e674d5a9120a170a6da57b89267208
+        GIT_TAG 692917b1cda61b93ac9ee2d846ec54e75afe87b1
         GIT_PROGRESS TRUE
         CONFIGURE_COMMAND ""
         BUILD_COMMAND ""

csrc/cuda_view.cu

@@ -2,33 +2,58 @@
 #include <torch/cuda.h>
 #include <cuda_runtime.h>
 
-// This function assumes that `cpu_tensor` is a CPU tensor allocated with pinned
-// memory, and that UVA (Unified Virtual Addressing) is enabled.
+// This function assumes that `cpu_tensor` is a CPU tensor,
+// and that UVA (Unified Virtual Addressing) is enabled.
 torch::Tensor get_cuda_view_from_cpu_tensor(torch::Tensor& cpu_tensor) {
   TORCH_CHECK(cpu_tensor.device().is_cpu(), "Input tensor must be on CPU");
 
-  // Get raw host pointer from CPU tensor
-  void* host_ptr = cpu_tensor.data_ptr();
+  // handle empty tensor
+  if (cpu_tensor.numel() == 0) {
+    return torch::empty(cpu_tensor.sizes(),
+                        cpu_tensor.options().device(torch::kCUDA));
+  }
+
+  if (cpu_tensor.is_pinned()) {
+    // If CPU tensor is pinned, directly get the device pointer.
+    void* host_ptr = const_cast<void*>(cpu_tensor.data_ptr());
+    void* device_ptr = nullptr;
+    cudaError_t err = cudaHostGetDevicePointer(&device_ptr, host_ptr, 0);
+    TORCH_CHECK(err == cudaSuccess,
+                "cudaHostGetDevicePointer failed: ", cudaGetErrorString(err));
+
+    return torch::from_blob(
+        device_ptr, cpu_tensor.sizes(), cpu_tensor.strides(),
+        [base = cpu_tensor](void*) {},  // keep cpu tensor alive
+        cpu_tensor.options().device(torch::kCUDA));
+  }
+
+  // If CPU tensor is not pinned, allocate a new pinned memory buffer.
+  torch::Tensor contiguous_cpu = cpu_tensor.contiguous();
+  size_t nbytes = contiguous_cpu.nbytes();
+
+  void* host_ptr = nullptr;
+  cudaError_t err = cudaHostAlloc(&host_ptr, nbytes, cudaHostAllocMapped);
+  if (err != cudaSuccess) {
+    AT_ERROR("cudaHostAlloc failed: ", cudaGetErrorString(err));
+  }
+
+  err = cudaMemcpy(host_ptr, contiguous_cpu.data_ptr(), nbytes,
+                   cudaMemcpyDefault);
+  if (err != cudaSuccess) {
+    cudaFreeHost(host_ptr);
+    AT_ERROR("cudaMemcpy failed: ", cudaGetErrorString(err));
+  }
 
-  // Get a device pointer corresponding to the pinned host memory
   void* device_ptr = nullptr;
-  cudaError_t err = cudaHostGetDevicePointer(&device_ptr, host_ptr, 0);
-  TORCH_CHECK(err == cudaSuccess,
-              "cudaHostGetDevicePointer failed: ", cudaGetErrorString(err));
+  err = cudaHostGetDevicePointer(&device_ptr, host_ptr, 0);
+  if (err != cudaSuccess) {
+    cudaFreeHost(host_ptr);
+    AT_ERROR("cudaHostGetDevicePointer failed: ", cudaGetErrorString(err));
+  }
 
-  // We'll use the same sizes, strides, and dtype as the CPU tensor.
-  // TODO: check if layout is respected.
-  auto sizes = cpu_tensor.sizes();
-  auto strides = cpu_tensor.strides();
-  auto options = cpu_tensor.options().device(torch::kCUDA);
+  auto deleter = [host_ptr](void*) { cudaFreeHost(host_ptr); };
 
-  // use default no-op deleter, since the memory is owned by the original CPU
-  // tensor
-  torch::Tensor cuda_tensor =
-      torch::from_blob(device_ptr, sizes, strides, options);
-
-  TORCH_CHECK(cuda_tensor.device().is_cuda(),
-              "Resulting tensor is not on CUDA device");
-
-  return cuda_tensor;
-}
+  return torch::from_blob(device_ptr, contiguous_cpu.sizes(),
+                          contiguous_cpu.strides(), deleter,
+                          contiguous_cpu.options().device(torch::kCUDA));
+}

csrc/rocm/skinny_gemms.cu

@@ -1568,8 +1568,7 @@ __global__ void __launch_bounds__(WvPrGrp* THRDS)
         {
   #endif
           unsigned int kOff = k + (thrd * A_CHUNK);
-          unsigned int kOffcp =
-              k_str + kOff;  // min__(K - A_CHUNK, k_str + kOff);
+          unsigned int kOffcp = min__(K - A_CHUNK, k_str + kOff);
           for (unsigned int n = 0; n < N; n += CHUNKK * sprdN) {
             __builtin_amdgcn_global_load_lds(
                 (int*)(&A[min__(

csrc/sparse/cutlass/sparse_scaled_mm_entry.cu

@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@
 #include "cutlass_extensions/common.hpp"
 
 bool cutlass_sparse_scaled_mm_supported(int64_t cuda_device_capability) {
-  // sparse CUTLASS kernels need at least
+  // sparse CUTLASS kernels need exactly hopper and are not forward compatible
   //   CUDA 12.2 and SM90 (Hopper)
 
 #if defined CUDA_VERSION
-  return CUDA_VERSION >= 12020 && cuda_device_capability >= 90;
+  return CUDA_VERSION >= 12020 && cuda_device_capability == 90;
 #endif
 
   return false;
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ std::vector<torch::Tensor> cutlass_sparse_compress(torch::Tensor const& a) {
 
   TORCH_CHECK_NOT_IMPLEMENTED(
       false,
-      "No compiled cutlass_sparse_compress for a compute capability less than "
+      "No compiled cutlass_sparse_compress for a compute capability equal to "
       "CUDA device capability: ",
       version_num);
 }

csrc/topk.cu

@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ void setup_kernel_smem_once() {
 void large_context_topk(
     const torch::Tensor& logits, torch::Tensor& indices,
     const torch::Tensor& seq_lens,
-    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> row_starts = c10::nullopt) {
+    std::optional<torch::Tensor> row_starts = std::nullopt) {
   TORCH_CHECK(logits.is_cuda(), "logits must be a CUDA tensor");
   TORCH_CHECK(indices.is_cuda(), "indices must be a CUDA tensor");
   TORCH_CHECK(seq_lens.is_cuda(), "seq_lens must be a CUDA tensor");

docker/Dockerfile

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 #   docker buildx bake -f docker/docker-bake.hcl -f docker/versions.json
 # =============================================================================
 
-ARG CUDA_VERSION=12.9.1
+ARG CUDA_VERSION=12.8.1
 ARG PYTHON_VERSION=3.12
 
 # By parameterizing the base images, we allow third-party to use their own
@@ -183,6 +183,50 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
 # From versions.json: .torch.cuda_arch_list
 ARG torch_cuda_arch_list='7.0 7.5 8.0 8.9 9.0 10.0 12.0'
 ENV TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST=${torch_cuda_arch_list}
+
+# Download newer CUDA compiler toolchain for better GPU code generation
+# while keeping CUDA 12.8 headers/libs for runtime compatibility with PyTorch cu128.
+# We replace nvcc, ptxas, and cicc so that setup.py's get_nvcc_cuda_version() reports
+# the newer version (required for FlashMLA registration which gates on >= 12.9).
+# PyTorch's CMake checks nvcc version vs CUDA header version; that check is patched
+# to a warning in the csrc-build and build stages (after torch is pip-installed).
+# Skipped if system nvcc is already >= this version (e.g. when building with CUDA 13+).
+# Set MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION="" to disable.
+ARG MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION=12.9.86
+# SHA256 checksums from https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/redistrib_<cuda_version>.json
+ARG NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_SHA256_X86_64=7a1a5b652e5ef85c82b721d10672fc9a2dbaab44e9bd3c65a69517bf53998c35
+ARG NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_SHA256_AARCH64=2432ef8a7c12d0a9ce3332a8af42b123c07f256390b3390802b1b2c6254c6c74
+RUN if [ -n "${MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION}" ]; then \
+        CURRENT_VERSION=$(nvcc --version | sed -n 's/.*V\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/p') && \
+        SMALLEST=$(printf '%s\n' "${MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION}" "${CURRENT_VERSION}" | sort -V | head -n1) && \
+        if [ "${SMALLEST}" = "${MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION}" ]; then \
+            echo "System nvcc ${CURRENT_VERSION} >= ${MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION}, skipping toolchain download"; \
+        else \
+            ARCH=$(uname -m) && \
+            case "${ARCH}" in \
+                x86_64)  EXPECTED_SHA256="${NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_SHA256_X86_64}" ;; \
+                aarch64) EXPECTED_SHA256="${NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_SHA256_AARCH64}" ;; \
+                *) echo "Unsupported architecture: ${ARCH}" >&2; exit 1 ;; \
+            esac && \
+            curl -sL -o cuda_nvcc.tar.xz \
+                "https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/redist/cuda_nvcc/linux-${ARCH}/cuda_nvcc-linux-${ARCH}-${MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION}-archive.tar.xz" && \
+            echo "${EXPECTED_SHA256}  cuda_nvcc.tar.xz" | sha256sum -c && \
+            tar xJf cuda_nvcc.tar.xz && \
+            cp -f cuda_nvcc-linux-${ARCH}-${MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION}-archive/bin/nvcc /usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc && \
+            cp -f cuda_nvcc-linux-${ARCH}-${MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION}-archive/bin/ptxas /usr/local/cuda/bin/ptxas && \
+            cp -f cuda_nvcc-linux-${ARCH}-${MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION}-archive/nvvm/bin/cicc /usr/local/cuda/nvvm/bin/cicc && \
+            rm -rf cuda_nvcc-linux-${ARCH}-${MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION}-archive cuda_nvcc.tar.xz && \
+            echo "Upgraded nvcc/ptxas/cicc from ${CURRENT_VERSION} to ${MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION}"; \
+        fi; \
+    fi
+
+# Patch PyTorch cmake to allow nvcc/header version mismatch (for newer nvcc toolchain).
+# Stages that reinstall torch (csrc-build, build) must re-apply this patch.
+RUN python3 -c "\
+import pathlib; \
+files = list(pathlib.Path('/opt/venv').rglob('Caffe2/public/cuda.cmake')); \
+assert files, 'ERROR: Caffe2/public/cuda.cmake not found under /opt/venv'; \
+[print(f'Patching {f}') or f.write_text(f.read_text().replace('FATAL_ERROR \"FindCUDA says', 'WARNING \"FindCUDA says')) for f in files]"
 #################### BUILD BASE IMAGE ####################
 
 #################### CSRC BUILD IMAGE ####################
@@ -222,6 +266,14 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
         --extra-index-url ${PYTORCH_CUDA_INDEX_BASE_URL}/cu$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1,2 | tr -d '.'); \
     fi
 
+# Patch PyTorch cmake to allow nvcc/header version mismatch (for newer nvcc toolchain).
+# This must run after pip install since torch reinstall overwrites the cmake files.
+RUN python3 -c "\
+import pathlib; \
+files = list(pathlib.Path('/opt/venv').rglob('Caffe2/public/cuda.cmake')); \
+assert files, 'ERROR: Caffe2/public/cuda.cmake not found under /opt/venv'; \
+[print(f'Patching {f}') or f.write_text(f.read_text().replace('FATAL_ERROR \"FindCUDA says', 'WARNING \"FindCUDA says')) for f in files]"
+
 WORKDIR /workspace
 
 COPY pyproject.toml setup.py CMakeLists.txt ./
@@ -388,6 +440,14 @@ RUN --mount=type=cache,target=/root/.cache/uv \
         --extra-index-url ${PYTORCH_CUDA_INDEX_BASE_URL}/cu$(echo $CUDA_VERSION | cut -d. -f1,2 | tr -d '.'); \
     fi
 
+# Patch PyTorch cmake to allow nvcc/header version mismatch (for newer nvcc toolchain).
+# This must run after pip install since torch reinstall overwrites the cmake files.
+RUN python3 -c "\
+import pathlib; \
+files = list(pathlib.Path('/opt/venv').rglob('Caffe2/public/cuda.cmake')); \
+assert files, 'ERROR: Caffe2/public/cuda.cmake not found under /opt/venv'; \
+[print(f'Patching {f}') or f.write_text(f.read_text().replace('FATAL_ERROR \"FindCUDA says', 'WARNING \"FindCUDA says')) for f in files]"
+
 WORKDIR /workspace
 
 # Copy pre-built csrc wheel directly

docker/Dockerfile.cpu

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #   VLLM_CPU_AVX512BF16=false (default)|true (for cross-compilation)
 #   VLLM_CPU_AVX512VNNI=false (default)|true (for cross-compilation)
 #   VLLM_CPU_AMXBF16=false (default)|true (for cross-compilation)
+#   VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16=false (default)|true (for cross-compilation)
 #
 
 ######################### COMMON BASE IMAGE #########################
@@ -108,9 +109,22 @@ ENV VLLM_CPU_AVX512VNNI=${VLLM_CPU_AVX512VNNI}
 # Support for building with AMXBF16 ISA: docker build --build-arg VLLM_CPU_AMXBF16="true" ...
 ARG VLLM_CPU_AMXBF16=1
 ENV VLLM_CPU_AMXBF16=${VLLM_CPU_AMXBF16}
+# Support for cross-compilation with ARM BF16 ISA: docker build --build-arg VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16="true" ...
+ARG VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16=0
+ENV VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16=${VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16}
 
 WORKDIR /vllm-workspace
 
+# Validate build arguments - prevent mixing incompatible ISA flags
+RUN if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "arm64" ] && { [ "$VLLM_CPU_AVX2" != "0" ] || [ "$VLLM_CPU_AVX512" != "0" ] || [ "$VLLM_CPU_AVX512BF16" != "0" ] || [ "$VLLM_CPU_AVX512VNNI" != "0" ]; }; then \
+        echo "ERROR: Cannot use x86-specific ISA flags (AVX2, AVX512, etc.) when building for ARM64 (--platform=linux/arm64)"; \
+        exit 1; \
+    fi && \
+    if [ "$TARGETARCH" = "amd64" ] && [ "$VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16" != "0" ]; then \
+        echo "ERROR: Cannot use ARM-specific ISA flags (ARM_BF16) when building for x86_64 (--platform=linux/amd64)"; \
+        exit 1; \
+    fi
+
 # Copy build requirements
 COPY requirements/cpu-build.txt requirements/build.txt
 
@@ -224,6 +238,7 @@ ARG VLLM_CPU_AVX512
 ARG VLLM_CPU_AVX512BF16
 ARG VLLM_CPU_AVX512VNNI
 ARG VLLM_CPU_AMXBF16
+ARG VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16
 ARG PYTHON_VERSION
 
 LABEL ai.vllm.build.target-arch="${TARGETARCH}"
@@ -233,6 +248,7 @@ LABEL ai.vllm.build.cpu-avx512="${VLLM_CPU_AVX512:-false}"
 LABEL ai.vllm.build.cpu-avx512bf16="${VLLM_CPU_AVX512BF16:-false}"
 LABEL ai.vllm.build.cpu-avx512vnni="${VLLM_CPU_AVX512VNNI:-false}"
 LABEL ai.vllm.build.cpu-amxbf16="${VLLM_CPU_AMXBF16:-false}"
+LABEL ai.vllm.build.cpu-arm-bf16="${VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16:-false}"
 LABEL ai.vllm.build.python-version="${PYTHON_VERSION:-3.12}"
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["vllm", "serve"]

docker/Dockerfile.rocm_base

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ARG BASE_IMAGE=rocm/dev-ubuntu-22.04:7.0-complete
-ARG TRITON_BRANCH="f332c492"
+ARG TRITON_BRANCH="57c693b6"
 ARG TRITON_REPO="https://github.com/ROCm/triton.git"
 ARG PYTORCH_BRANCH="89075173"
 ARG PYTORCH_REPO="https://github.com/ROCm/pytorch.git"
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ ARG PYTORCH_AUDIO_BRANCH="v2.9.0"
 ARG PYTORCH_AUDIO_REPO="https://github.com/pytorch/audio.git"
 ARG FA_BRANCH="0e60e394"
 ARG FA_REPO="https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention.git"
-ARG AITER_BRANCH="6af8b687"
+ARG AITER_BRANCH="v0.1.10.post2"
 ARG AITER_REPO="https://github.com/ROCm/aiter.git"
 ARG MORI_BRANCH="2d02c6a9"
 ARG MORI_REPO="https://github.com/ROCm/mori.git"
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ RUN pip install pyyaml && cd aiter \
            export HIP_CLANG_PATH=/opt/sccache-wrappers \
            && sccache --show-stats; \
        fi \
-    && PREBUILD_KERNELS=1 GPU_ARCHS=${AITER_ROCM_ARCH} python3 setup.py bdist_wheel --dist-dir=dist \
+    && GPU_ARCHS=${AITER_ROCM_ARCH} python3 setup.py bdist_wheel --dist-dir=dist \
     && if [ "$USE_SCCACHE" = "1" ]; then sccache --show-stats; fi \
     && ls /app/aiter/dist/*.whl
 RUN mkdir -p /app/install && cp /app/aiter/dist/*.whl /app/install

docker/versions.json

@@ -2,16 +2,16 @@
   "_comment": "Auto-generated from Dockerfile ARGs. Do not edit manually. Run: python tools/generate_versions_json.py",
   "variable": {
     "CUDA_VERSION": {
-      "default": "12.9.1"
+      "default": "12.8.1"
     },
     "PYTHON_VERSION": {
       "default": "3.12"
     },
     "BUILD_BASE_IMAGE": {
-      "default": "nvidia/cuda:12.9.1-devel-ubuntu20.04"
+      "default": "nvidia/cuda:12.8.1-devel-ubuntu20.04"
     },
     "FINAL_BASE_IMAGE": {
-      "default": "nvidia/cuda:12.9.1-base-ubuntu22.04"
+      "default": "nvidia/cuda:12.8.1-base-ubuntu22.04"
     },
     "GET_PIP_URL": {
       "default": "https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py"
@@ -31,6 +31,15 @@
     "TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST": {
       "default": "7.0 7.5 8.0 8.9 9.0 10.0 12.0"
     },
+    "MIN_NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_VERSION": {
+      "default": "12.9.86"
+    },
+    "NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_SHA256_X86_64": {
+      "default": "7a1a5b652e5ef85c82b721d10672fc9a2dbaab44e9bd3c65a69517bf53998c35"
+    },
+    "NVCC_TOOLCHAIN_SHA256_AARCH64": {
+      "default": "2432ef8a7c12d0a9ce3332a8af42b123c07f256390b3390802b1b2c6254c6c74"
+    },
     "MAX_JOBS": {
       "default": "2"
     },

docs/design/attention_backends.md

@@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ Priority is **1 = highest** (tried first).
 | 4 | `FLASHMLA` |
 | 5 | `TRITON_MLA` |
 | 6 | `FLASHMLA_SPARSE` |
+| 7 | `FLASHINFER_MLA_SPARSE` |
 
 **Ampere/Hopper (SM 8.x-9.x):**
 
@@ -204,6 +205,7 @@ configuration.
 |---------|--------|-----------|-------------|------------|------|--------|-----------|-----|-----------------|--------------|
 | `CUTLASS_MLA` | fp16, bf16 | `auto`, `bfloat16`, `fp8`, `fp8_e4m3` | 128 | Any | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | Decoder | 10.x |
 | `FLASHINFER_MLA` | fp16, bf16 | `auto`, `bfloat16`, `fp8`, `fp8_e4m3` | 32, 64 | Any | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | Decoder | 10.x |
+| `FLASHINFER_MLA_SPARSE` | fp16, bf16 | `auto`, `bfloat16` | 32, 64 | 576 | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | Decoder | 10.x |
 | `FLASHMLA` | fp16, bf16 | `auto`, `bfloat16`, `fp8`, `fp8_e4m3` | 64 | Any | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | Decoder | 9.x-10.x |
 | `FLASHMLA_SPARSE` | bf16 | `auto`, `bfloat16`, `fp8_ds_mla` | 64 | 576 | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | Decoder | 9.x-10.x |
 | `FLASH_ATTN_MLA` | fp16, bf16 | `auto`, `bfloat16` | %16 | Any | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | Decoder | 9.x |

docs/design/cuda_graphs.md

@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ The following table lists backends that support full CUDA Graphs at the time of
 | FlashInfer | `UNIFORM_SINGLE_TOKEN_DECODE` | Will be set to `UNIFORM_BATCH` when using TRTLLM attention on Blackwell |
 | FlashMLA | `UNIFORM_BATCH` | |
 | FlashInferMLA | `UNIFORM_BATCH` | |
+| FlashInferMLASparse | `UNIFORM_BATCH` | |
 | AITER MLA | `UNIFORM_SINGLE_TOKEN_DECODE` | |
 | CUTLASS MLA | `UNIFORM_SINGLE_TOKEN_DECODE` | |
 | Mamba attention| `UNIFORM_SINGLE_TOKEN_DECODE` | |

docs/features/batch_invariance.md

@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ Batch invariance has been tested and verified on the following models:
 - **Qwen2.5**: `Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct`, `Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct`, `Qwen/Qwen2.5-3B-Instruct`, `Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct`, `Qwen/Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct`, `Qwen/Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct`
 - **Llama 3**: `meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct`, `meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct`
 - **GPT-OSS**: `openai/gpt-oss-20b`, `openai/gpt-oss-120b`
+- **Mistral**: `mistralai/Mistral-7B-v0.3`
 
 Other models may also work, but these have been explicitly validated. If you encounter issues with a specific model, please report them on the [GitHub issue tracker](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/new/choose).
 

docs/features/quantization/fp8.md

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Since simple RTN does not require data for weight quantization and the activatio
 Install `vllm` and `lm-evaluation-harness` for evaluation:
 
 ```bash
-pip install vllm "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.9.2"
+pip install vllm "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
 ```
 
 Load and run the model in `vllm`:

docs/features/quantization/int4.md

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ pip install llmcompressor
 Additionally, install `vllm` and `lm-evaluation-harness` for evaluation:
 
 ```bash
-pip install vllm "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.9.2"
+pip install vllm "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
 ```
 
 ## Quantization Process

docs/features/quantization/int8.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pip install llmcompressor
 Additionally, install `vllm` and `lm-evaluation-harness` for evaluation:
 
 ```bash
-pip install vllm "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.9.2"
+pip install vllm "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
 ```
 
 ## Quantization Process

docs/features/quantization/quark.md

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ for more installation details.
 Additionally, install `vllm` and `lm-evaluation-harness` for evaluation:
 
 ```bash
-pip install vllm "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.9.2"
+pip install vllm "lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11"
 ```
 
 ## Quantization Process

docs/features/spec_decode/README.md

@@ -1,10 +1,5 @@
 # Speculative Decoding
 
-!!! warning
-    Please note that speculative decoding in vLLM is not yet optimized and does
-    not usually yield inter-token latency reductions for all prompt datasets or sampling parameters.
-    The work to optimize it is ongoing and can be followed here: <https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/4630>
-
 !!! warning
     Currently, speculative decoding in vLLM is not compatible with pipeline parallelism.
 

docs/getting_started/installation/cpu.arm.inc.md

@@ -172,25 +172,78 @@ docker pull public.ecr.aws/q9t5s3a7/vllm-ci-postmerge-repo:${VLLM_COMMIT}-arm64-
 
 # --8<-- [end:pre-built-images]
 # --8<-- [start:build-image-from-source]
+
+## Building for your target ARM CPU
+
 ```bash
 docker build -f docker/Dockerfile.cpu \
-        --tag vllm-cpu-env .
+        --platform=linux/arm64 \
+        --build-arg VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16=<false (default)|true> \
+        --tag vllm-cpu-env \
+        --target vllm-openai .
+```
 
-# Launching OpenAI server
+!!! note "Auto-detection by default"
+    By default, ARM CPU instruction sets (BF16, NEON, etc.) are automatically detected from the build system's CPU flags. The `VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16` build argument is used for cross-compilation:
+
+    - `VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16=true` - Force-enable ARM BF16 support (build with BF16 regardless of build system capabilities)
+    - `VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16=false` - Rely on auto-detection (default)
+
+### Examples
+
+**Auto-detection build (native ARM)**
+
+```bash
+# Building on ARM64 system - platform auto-detected
+docker build -f docker/Dockerfile.cpu \
+        --tag vllm-cpu-arm64 \
+        --target vllm-openai .
+```
+
+**Cross-compile for ARM with BF16 support**
+
+```bash
+# Building on ARM64 for newer ARM CPUs with BF16
+docker build -f docker/Dockerfile.cpu \
+        --build-arg VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16=true \
+        --tag vllm-cpu-arm64-bf16 \
+        --target vllm-openai .
+```
+
+**Cross-compile from x86_64 to ARM64 with BF16**
+
+```bash
+# Requires Docker buildx with ARM emulation (QEMU)
+docker buildx build -f docker/Dockerfile.cpu \
+        --platform=linux/arm64 \
+        --build-arg VLLM_CPU_ARM_BF16=true \
+        --build-arg max_jobs=4 \
+        --tag vllm-cpu-arm64-bf16 \
+        --target vllm-openai \
+        --load .
+```
+
+!!! note "ARM BF16 requirements"
+    ARM BF16 support requires ARMv8.6-A or later (FEAT_BF16). Supported on AWS Graviton3/4, AmpereOne, and other recent ARM processors.
+
+## Launching the OpenAI server
+
+```bash
 docker run --rm \
-            --privileged=true \
+            --security-opt seccomp=unconfined \
+            --cap-add SYS_NICE \
             --shm-size=4g \
             -p 8000:8000 \
             -e VLLM_CPU_KVCACHE_SPACE=<KV cache space> \
             -e VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND=<CPU cores for inference> \
-            vllm-cpu-env \
-            --model=meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct \
+            vllm-cpu-arm64 \
+            meta-llama/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct \
             --dtype=bfloat16 \
             other vLLM OpenAI server arguments
 ```
 
-!!! tip
-    An alternative of `--privileged=true` is `--cap-add SYS_NICE --security-opt seccomp=unconfined`.
+!!! tip "Alternative to --privileged"
+    Instead of `--privileged=true`, use `--cap-add SYS_NICE --security-opt seccomp=unconfined` for better security.
 
 # --8<-- [end:build-image-from-source]
 # --8<-- [start:extra-information]

docs/getting_started/installation/cpu.md

@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ For the full and up-to-date list of models validated on CPU platforms, please se
 
 ### How to find benchmark configuration examples for supported CPU models?
 
-For any model listed under [Supported Models on CPU](../../models/hardware_supported_models/cpu.md), optimized runtime configurations are provided in the vLLM Benchmark Suite’s CPU test cases, defined in [cpu test cases](../../../.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/tests/serving-tests-cpu.json)
+For any model listed under [Supported Models on CPU](../../models/hardware_supported_models/cpu.md), optimized runtime configurations are provided in the vLLM Benchmark Suite’s CPU test cases, defined in cpu test cases as serving-tests-cpu.json. Full test cases for Text-only models, Multi-Modal models and Embedded models are in cpu Text-Only test cases as serving-tests-cpu-text.json, cpu Multi-Modal test cases as serving-tests-cpu-multimodal.json and cpu Embedded test cases as serving-tests-cpu-embed.json.  
 For details on how these optimized configurations are determined, see: [performance-benchmark-details](../../../.buildkite/performance-benchmarks/README.md#performance-benchmark-details).
 To benchmark the supported models using these optimized settings, follow the steps in [running vLLM Benchmark Suite manually](../../benchmarking/dashboard.md#manually-trigger-the-benchmark) and run the Benchmark Suite on a CPU environment.  
 
@@ -199,6 +199,28 @@ lscpu | grep "NUMA node(s):" | awk '{print $3}'
 For performance reference, users may also consult the [vLLM Performance Dashboard](https://hud.pytorch.org/benchmark/llms?repoName=vllm-project%2Fvllm&deviceName=cpu)
 , which publishes default-model CPU results produced using the same Benchmark Suite.
 
+#### Dry-Run
+
+For users only need to get the optimized runtime configurations without running benchmark, a Dry-Run mode is provided.
+By passing an environment variable DRY_RUN=1 with run-performance-benchmarks.sh,
+all commands will be generated under `./benchmark/results/`.
+
+```bash
+ON_CPU=1 DRY_RUN=1 bash .buildkite/performance-benchmarks/scripts/run-performance-benchmarks.sh
+```
+
+By providing different JSON file, users can get runtime configurations for different models such as Embedded Models.
+
+```bash
+ON_CPU=1 SERVING_JSON=serving-tests-cpu-embed.json DRY_RUN=1 bash .buildkite/performance-benchmarks/scripts/run-performance-benchmarks.sh
+```
+
+By providing MODEL_FILTER and DTYPE_FILTER, only commands for related model ID and Data Type will be generated.
+
+```bash
+ON_CPU=1 SERVING_JSON=serving-tests-cpu-text.json DRY_RUN=1 MODEL_FILTER=meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct DTYPE_FILTER=bfloat16  bash .buildkite/performance-benchmarks/scripts/run-performance-benchmarks.sh
+```
+
 ### How to decide `VLLM_CPU_OMP_THREADS_BIND`?
 
 - Default `auto` thread-binding is recommended for most cases. Ideally, each OpenMP thread will be bound to a dedicated physical core respectively, threads of each rank will be bound to the same NUMA node respectively, and 1 CPU per rank will be reserved for other vLLM components when `world_size > 1`. If you have any performance problems or unexpected binding behaviours, please try to bind threads as following.

docs/models/pooling_models.md

@@ -311,20 +311,31 @@ An OpenAI client example can be found here: [examples/pooling/embed/openai_embed
 
 [ColBERT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12832) (Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT) is a retrieval model that uses per-token embeddings and MaxSim scoring for document ranking. Unlike single-vector embedding models, ColBERT retains token-level representations and computes relevance scores through late interaction, providing better accuracy while being more efficient than cross-encoders.
 
-vLLM supports ColBERT models for reranking tasks, automatically applying MaxSim scoring for query-document relevance:
+vLLM supports ColBERT models with multiple encoder backbones:
+
+| Architecture | Backbone | Example HF Models |
+|---|---|---|
+| `HF_ColBERT` | BERT | `answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1`, `colbert-ir/colbertv2.0` |
+| `ColBERTModernBertModel` | ModernBERT | `lightonai/GTE-ModernColBERT-v1` |
+| `ColBERTJinaRobertaModel` | Jina XLM-RoBERTa | `jinaai/jina-colbert-v2` |
+
+**BERT-based ColBERT** models work out of the box:
 
 ```shell
 vllm serve answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1
 ```
 
-Currently supports ColBERT models with standard BERT encoders (e.g., `answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1`, `colbert-ir/colbertv2.0`).
-
-ColBERT models with modified encoder architectures are not yet supported, including BERT variants with rotary embeddings (e.g., `jinaai/jina-colbert-v2`) or other custom encoders (e.g., `LiquidAI/LFM2-ColBERT-350M`).
-
-If your standard BERT ColBERT model's config doesn't specify the architecture as `HF_ColBERT`, override it with:
+For **non-BERT backbones**, use `--hf-overrides` to set the correct architecture:
 
 ```shell
-vllm serve your-colbert-model --hf-overrides '{"architectures": ["HF_ColBERT"]}'
+# ModernBERT backbone
+vllm serve lightonai/GTE-ModernColBERT-v1 \
+    --hf-overrides '{"architectures": ["ColBERTModernBertModel"]}'
+
+# Jina XLM-RoBERTa backbone
+vllm serve jinaai/jina-colbert-v2 \
+    --hf-overrides '{"architectures": ["ColBERTJinaRobertaModel"]}' \
+    --trust-remote-code
 ```
 
 Then you can use the rerank endpoint:
@@ -363,6 +374,77 @@ curl -s http://localhost:8000/pooling -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
 
 An example can be found here: [examples/pooling/score/colbert_rerank_online.py](../../examples/pooling/score/colbert_rerank_online.py)
 
+### ColQwen3 Multi-Modal Late Interaction Models
+
+ColQwen3 is based on [ColPali](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01449), which extends ColBERT's late interaction approach to **multi-modal** inputs. While ColBERT operates on text-only token embeddings, ColPali/ColQwen3 can embed both **text and images** (e.g. PDF pages, screenshots, diagrams) into per-token L2-normalized vectors and compute relevance via MaxSim scoring. ColQwen3 specifically uses Qwen3-VL as its vision-language backbone.
+
+| Architecture | Backbone | Example HF Models |
+|---|---|---|
+| `ColQwen3` | Qwen3-VL | `TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b`, `TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-8b` |
+| `OpsColQwen3Model` | Qwen3-VL | `OpenSearch-AI/Ops-Colqwen3-4B`, `OpenSearch-AI/Ops-Colqwen3-8B` |
+
+Start the server:
+
+```shell
+vllm serve TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b --max-model-len 4096
+```
+
+Then you can use the rerank endpoint:
+
+```shell
+curl -s http://localhost:8000/rerank -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
+    "model": "TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b",
+    "query": "What is machine learning?",
+    "documents": [
+        "Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence.",
+        "Python is a programming language.",
+        "Deep learning uses neural networks."
+    ]
+}'
+```
+
+Or the score endpoint:
+
+```shell
+curl -s http://localhost:8000/score -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
+    "model": "TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b",
+    "text_1": "What is the capital of France?",
+    "text_2": ["The capital of France is Paris.", "Python is a programming language."]
+}'
+```
+
+You can also get the raw token embeddings using the pooling endpoint with `token_embed` task:
+
+```shell
+curl -s http://localhost:8000/pooling -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
+    "model": "TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b",
+    "input": "What is machine learning?",
+    "task": "token_embed"
+}'
+```
+
+For **image inputs**, use the chat-style `messages` field so that the vLLM multimodal processor handles them correctly:
+
+```shell
+curl -s http://localhost:8000/pooling -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
+    "model": "TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b",
+    "messages": [
+        {
+            "role": "user",
+            "content": [
+                {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": "data:image/png;base64,<BASE64>"}},
+                {"type": "text", "text": "Describe the image."}
+            ]
+        }
+    ]
+}'
+```
+
+Examples can be found here:
+
+- Multi-vector retrieval: [examples/pooling/token_embed/colqwen3_token_embed_online.py](../../examples/pooling/token_embed/colqwen3_token_embed_online.py)
+- Reranking: [examples/pooling/score/colqwen3_rerank_online.py](../../examples/pooling/score/colqwen3_rerank_online.py)
+
 ### BAAI/bge-m3
 
 The `BAAI/bge-m3` model comes with extra weights for sparse and colbert embeddings but unfortunately in its `config.json`

docs/models/supported_models.md

@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ Some model architectures are supported via vLLM plugins. These plugins extend vL
 | Architecture | Models | Plugin Repository |
 |--------------|--------|-------------------|
 | `BartForConditionalGeneration` | BART | [bart-plugin](https://github.com/vllm-project/bart-plugin) |
+| `Florence2ForConditionalGeneration` | Florence-2 | [bart-plugin](https://github.com/vllm-project/bart-plugin) |
 
 For other model architectures not natively supported, in particular for Encoder-Decoder models, we recommend following a similar pattern by implementing support through the plugin system.
 
@@ -728,6 +729,8 @@ These models primarily accept the [`LLM.generate`](./generative_models.md#llmgen
 | `OpenPanguVLForConditionalGeneration` | openpangu-VL | T + I<sup>E+</sup> + V<sup>E+</sup> |`FreedomIntelligence/openPangu-VL-7B` | ✅︎ | ✅︎ |
 | `Ovis` | Ovis2, Ovis1.6 | T + I<sup>+</sup> | `AIDC-AI/Ovis2-1B`, `AIDC-AI/Ovis1.6-Llama3.2-3B`, etc. | | ✅︎ |
 | `Ovis2_5` | Ovis2.5 | T + I<sup>+</sup> + V | `AIDC-AI/Ovis2.5-9B`, etc. | | |
+| `Ovis2_6ForCausalLM` | Ovis2.6 | T + I<sup>+</sup> + V | `AIDC-AI/Ovis2.6-2B`, etc. | | |
+| `Ovis2_6_MoeForCausalLM` | Ovis2.6 | T + I<sup>+</sup> + V | `AIDC-AI/Ovis2.6-30B-A3B`, etc. | | |
 | `PaddleOCRVLForConditionalGeneration` | Paddle-OCR | T + I<sup>+</sup> | `PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR-VL`, etc. | | |
 | `PaliGemmaForConditionalGeneration` | PaliGemma, PaliGemma 2 | T + I<sup>E</sup> | `google/paligemma-3b-pt-224`, `google/paligemma-3b-mix-224`, `google/paligemma2-3b-ft-docci-448`, etc. | ✅︎ | ✅︎ |
 | `Phi3VForCausalLM` | Phi-3-Vision, Phi-3.5-Vision | T + I<sup>E+</sup> | `microsoft/Phi-3-vision-128k-instruct`, `microsoft/Phi-3.5-vision-instruct`, etc. | | ✅︎ |

docs/usage/v1_guide.md

@@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ Please note that prefix caching is not yet supported for any of the above models
 Whisper is supported natively. Other encoder-decoder models are supported via the plugin system:
 
 - **BART**: `BartForConditionalGeneration` is supported via the official [bart-plugin](https://github.com/vllm-project/bart-plugin).
+- **Florence-2**: `Florence2ForConditionalGeneration` is supported via the official [bart-plugin](https://github.com/vllm-project/bart-plugin).
 
 For other encoder-decoder models (e.g., `MllamaForConditionalGeneration`), we recommend
 following a similar pattern by implementing support through the [plugin system](../design/plugin_system.md).

examples/online_serving/data_parallel_pause_resume.py

@@ -0,0 +1,135 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+"""
+Test pause/resume with Data Parallel (DP) via HTTP API.
+
+This example demonstrates coordinated pause/resume across multiple DP ranks.
+The pause synchronizes across all DP engines via all-reduce.
+
+Prerequisites:
+    Start a vLLM server with data parallelism:
+
+    $ VLLM_SERVER_DEV_MODE=1 vllm serve facebook/opt-125m \
+        --enforce-eager \
+        --data-parallel-size 4 \
+        --tensor-parallel-size 1
+
+    Then run this script:
+
+    $ python data_parallel_pause_resume.py
+
+The test verifies pause works by:
+1. Starting a streaming generation request
+2. Pausing the server mid-generation
+3. Sleeping for PAUSE_DURATION seconds
+4. Resuming the server
+5. Verifying there was a gap in token generation matching the pause duration
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import threading
+import time
+
+import requests
+from openai import OpenAI
+
+BASE_URL = "http://localhost:8000"
+MODEL_NAME = "facebook/opt-125m"
+PAUSE_DURATION = 3.0
+
+
+def pause_generation(base_url: str, mode: str = "keep") -> None:
+    """Pause generation via HTTP endpoint."""
+    url = f"{base_url}/pause"
+    response = requests.post(url, params={"mode": mode}, timeout=60)
+    response.raise_for_status()
+    print("Server paused")
+
+
+def resume_generation(base_url: str) -> None:
+    """Resume generation via HTTP endpoint."""
+    url = f"{base_url}/resume"
+    response = requests.post(url, timeout=60)
+    response.raise_for_status()
+    print("Server resumed")
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--base-url", default=BASE_URL)
+    parser.add_argument("--model", default=MODEL_NAME)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    client = OpenAI(
+        base_url=f"{args.base_url}/v1",
+        api_key="EMPTY",
+    )
+
+    prompt = "Write a long story about a dragon. Once upon a time"
+    token_times: list[float] = []
+    pause_token_idx = 0
+    pause_triggered = threading.Event()
+
+    def generator_thread():
+        """Stream tokens and record timestamps."""
+        stream = client.completions.create(
+            model=args.model,
+            prompt=prompt,
+            max_tokens=50,
+            stream=True,
+        )
+        for chunk in stream:
+            if chunk.choices[0].text:
+                token_times.append(time.monotonic())
+                token_count = len(token_times)
+                print(f"Token {token_count}: {chunk.choices[0].text!r}")
+
+                # Signal controller after some tokens
+                if token_count >= 5 and not pause_triggered.is_set():
+                    pause_triggered.set()
+
+    def controller_thread():
+        """Pause and resume the server."""
+        nonlocal pause_token_idx
+
+        # Wait for some tokens
+        pause_triggered.wait()
+
+        print(f"\nPausing server (keep mode) at token {len(token_times)}...")
+        pause_generation(args.base_url, mode="keep")
+        pause_token_idx = len(token_times)
+        print(f"Sleeping for {PAUSE_DURATION}s...")
+
+        time.sleep(PAUSE_DURATION)
+
+        print("Resuming server...")
+        resume_generation(args.base_url)
+        print("Resumed!\n")
+
+    # Run both threads
+    gen_thread = threading.Thread(target=generator_thread)
+    ctrl_thread = threading.Thread(target=controller_thread)
+
+    gen_thread.start()
+    ctrl_thread.start()
+
+    gen_thread.join()
+    ctrl_thread.join()
+
+    # Check gap at the pause point
+    if pause_token_idx < len(token_times):
+        pause_gap = token_times[pause_token_idx] - token_times[pause_token_idx - 1]
+        print(
+            f"\nGap after pause (token {pause_token_idx} -> "
+            f"{pause_token_idx + 1}): {pause_gap:.3f}s"
+        )
+        if pause_gap >= PAUSE_DURATION * 0.9:
+            print("Test passed! Pause synchronized across DP ranks.")
+        else:
+            print(f"Test failed! Expected ~{PAUSE_DURATION}s gap, got {pause_gap:.3f}s")
+    else:
+        print("Test failed! No tokens were generated after resuming.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

examples/online_serving/disaggregated_encoder/disagg_1e1p1d_example.sh

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ declare -a PIDS=()
 ###############################################################################
 MODEL="${MODEL:-Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct}"
 LOG_PATH="${LOG_PATH:-./logs}"
-mkdir -p $LOG_PATH
+mkdir -p "$LOG_PATH"
 
 ENCODE_PORT="${ENCODE_PORT:-19534}"
 PREFILL_PORT="${PREFILL_PORT:-19535}"
@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ trap cleanup TERM
 
 # clear previous cache
 echo "remove previous ec cache folder"
-rm -rf $EC_SHARED_STORAGE_PATH
+rm -rf "$EC_SHARED_STORAGE_PATH"
 
 echo "make ec cache folder"
-mkdir -p $EC_SHARED_STORAGE_PATH
+mkdir -p "$EC_SHARED_STORAGE_PATH"
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Encoder worker
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="$GPU_E" vllm serve "$MODEL" \
     --no-enable-prefix-caching \
     --max-num-batched-tokens 114688 \
     --max-num-seqs 128 \
-    --allowed-local-media-path ${GIT_ROOT}/tests/v1/ec_connector/integration \
+    --allowed-local-media-path "${GIT_ROOT}"/tests/v1/ec_connector/integration \
     --ec-transfer-config '{
         "ec_connector": "ECExampleConnector",
         "ec_role": "ec_producer",
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ vllm serve "$MODEL" \
     --enforce-eager \
     --enable-request-id-headers \
     --max-num-seqs 128 \
-    --allowed-local-media-path ${GIT_ROOT}/tests/v1/ec_connector/integration \
+    --allowed-local-media-path "${GIT_ROOT}"/tests/v1/ec_connector/integration \
     --ec-transfer-config '{
         "ec_connector": "ECExampleConnector",
         "ec_role": "ec_consumer",
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ vllm serve "$MODEL" \
     --enforce-eager \
     --enable-request-id-headers \
     --max-num-seqs 128 \
-    --allowed-local-media-path ${GIT_ROOT}/tests/v1/ec_connector/integration \
+    --allowed-local-media-path "${GIT_ROOT}"/tests/v1/ec_connector/integration \
     --kv-transfer-config '{
         "kv_connector": "NixlConnector",
         "kv_role": "kv_consumer"
@@ -162,9 +162,9 @@ vllm serve "$MODEL" \
 PIDS+=($!)
 
 # Wait for workers
-wait_for_server $ENCODE_PORT
-wait_for_server $PREFILL_PORT
-wait_for_server $DECODE_PORT
+wait_for_server "$ENCODE_PORT"
+wait_for_server "$PREFILL_PORT"
+wait_for_server "$DECODE_PORT"
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Proxy
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ python disagg_epd_proxy.py \
 
 PIDS+=($!)
 
-wait_for_server $PROXY_PORT
+wait_for_server "$PROXY_PORT"
 echo "All services are up!"
 
 ###############################################################################
@@ -187,14 +187,14 @@ echo "All services are up!"
 ###############################################################################
 echo "Running benchmark (stream)..."
 vllm bench serve \
-  --model               $MODEL \
+  --model               "$MODEL" \
   --backend             openai-chat \
   --endpoint            /v1/chat/completions \
   --dataset-name        hf \
   --dataset-path        lmarena-ai/VisionArena-Chat \
   --seed                0 \
-  --num-prompts         $NUM_PROMPTS \
-  --port                $PROXY_PORT
+  --num-prompts         "$NUM_PROMPTS" \
+  --port                "$PROXY_PORT"
 
 PIDS+=($!)
 
@@ -202,10 +202,10 @@ PIDS+=($!)
 # Single request with local image
 ###############################################################################
 echo "Running single request with local image (non-stream)..."
-curl http://127.0.0.1:${PROXY_PORT}/v1/chat/completions \
+curl http://127.0.0.1:"${PROXY_PORT}"/v1/chat/completions \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
-    "model": "'${MODEL}'",
+    "model": "'"${MODEL}"'",
     "messages": [
     {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
     {"role": "user", "content": [

examples/online_serving/disaggregated_encoder/disagg_1e1pd_example.sh

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ declare -a PIDS=()
 ###############################################################################
 MODEL="${MODEL:-Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct}"
 LOG_PATH="${LOG_PATH:-./logs}"
-mkdir -p $LOG_PATH
+mkdir -p "$LOG_PATH"
 
 ENCODE_PORT="${ENCODE_PORT:-19534}"
 PREFILL_DECODE_PORT="${PREFILL_DECODE_PORT:-19535}"
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ trap cleanup TERM
 
 # clear previous cache
 echo "remove previous ec cache folder"
-rm -rf $EC_SHARED_STORAGE_PATH
+rm -rf "$EC_SHARED_STORAGE_PATH"
 
 echo "make ec cache folder"
-mkdir -p $EC_SHARED_STORAGE_PATH
+mkdir -p "$EC_SHARED_STORAGE_PATH"
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Encoder worker
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="$GPU_E" vllm serve "$MODEL" \
     --no-enable-prefix-caching \
     --max-num-batched-tokens 114688 \
     --max-num-seqs 128 \
-    --allowed-local-media-path ${GIT_ROOT}/tests/v1/ec_connector/integration \
+    --allowed-local-media-path "${GIT_ROOT}"/tests/v1/ec_connector/integration \
     --ec-transfer-config '{
         "ec_connector": "ECExampleConnector",
         "ec_role": "ec_producer",
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="$GPU_PD" vllm serve "$MODEL" \
     --enforce-eager \
     --enable-request-id-headers \
     --max-num-seqs 128 \
-    --allowed-local-media-path ${GIT_ROOT}/tests/v1/ec_connector/integration \
+    --allowed-local-media-path "${GIT_ROOT}"/tests/v1/ec_connector/integration \
     --ec-transfer-config '{
         "ec_connector": "ECExampleConnector",
         "ec_role": "ec_consumer",
@@ -128,8 +128,8 @@ CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="$GPU_PD" vllm serve "$MODEL" \
 PIDS+=($!)
 
 # Wait for workers
-wait_for_server $ENCODE_PORT
-wait_for_server $PREFILL_DECODE_PORT
+wait_for_server "$ENCODE_PORT"
+wait_for_server "$PREFILL_DECODE_PORT"
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Proxy
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ python disagg_epd_proxy.py \
 
 PIDS+=($!)
 
-wait_for_server $PROXY_PORT
+wait_for_server "$PROXY_PORT"
 echo "All services are up!"
 
 ###############################################################################
@@ -152,14 +152,14 @@ echo "All services are up!"
 ###############################################################################
 echo "Running benchmark (stream)..."
 vllm bench serve \
-  --model               $MODEL \
+  --model               "$MODEL" \
   --backend             openai-chat \
   --endpoint            /v1/chat/completions \
   --dataset-name        hf \
   --dataset-path        lmarena-ai/VisionArena-Chat \
   --seed                0 \
-  --num-prompts         $NUM_PROMPTS \
-  --port                $PROXY_PORT
+  --num-prompts         "$NUM_PROMPTS" \
+  --port                "$PROXY_PORT"
 
 PIDS+=($!)
 
@@ -167,10 +167,10 @@ PIDS+=($!)
 # Single request with local image
 ###############################################################################
 echo "Running single request with local image (non-stream)..."
-curl http://127.0.0.1:${PROXY_PORT}/v1/chat/completions \
+curl http://127.0.0.1:"${PROXY_PORT}"/v1/chat/completions \
     -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
     -d '{
-    "model": "'${MODEL}'",
+    "model": "'"${MODEL}"'",
     "messages": [
     {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant."},
     {"role": "user", "content": [

examples/online_serving/disaggregated_prefill.sh

@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ wait_for_server() {
 # You can also adjust --kv-ip and --kv-port for distributed inference.
 
 # prefilling instance, which is the KV producer
-CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 vllm serve $MODEL_NAME \
+CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 vllm serve "$MODEL_NAME" \
     --host 0.0.0.0 \
     --port 8100 \
     --max-model-len 100 \
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 vllm serve $MODEL_NAME \
     '{"kv_connector":"P2pNcclConnector","kv_role":"kv_producer","kv_rank":0,"kv_parallel_size":2,"kv_buffer_size":"1e9","kv_port":"14579","kv_connector_extra_config":{"proxy_ip":"'"$VLLM_HOST_IP"'","proxy_port":"30001","http_ip":"'"$VLLM_HOST_IP"'","http_port":"8100","send_type":"PUT_ASYNC"}}' &
 
 # decoding instance, which is the KV consumer  
-CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1 vllm serve $MODEL_NAME \
+CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1 vllm serve "$MODEL_NAME" \
     --host 0.0.0.0 \
     --port 8200 \
     --max-model-len 100 \

examples/online_serving/disaggregated_serving/disagg_proxy_demo.py

@@ -328,9 +328,9 @@ class Proxy:
         if instance_type == "decode" and instance in self.decode_instances:
             self.decode_instances.remove(instance)
             self.decode_cycler = itertools.cycle(self.decode_instances)
-        if instance_type == "prefill" and instance in self.decode_instances:
+        if instance_type == "prefill" and instance in self.prefill_instances:
             self.prefill_instances.remove(instance)
-            self.prefill_cycler = itertools.cycle(self.decode_instances)
+            self.prefill_cycler = itertools.cycle(self.prefill_instances)
 
 
 class RoundRobinSchedulingPolicy(SchedulingPolicy):

examples/online_serving/disaggregated_serving/kv_events.sh

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ wait_for_server() {
     done" && return 0 || return 1
 }
 
-vllm serve $MODEL_NAME \
+vllm serve "$MODEL_NAME" \
     --port 8100 \
     --max-model-len 100 \
     --enforce-eager \

examples/online_serving/disaggregated_serving/mooncake_connector/run_mooncake_connector.sh

@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ main() {
     IFS=',' read -ra BOOTSTRAP_PORT_ARRAY <<< "$BOOTSTRAP_PORTS"
     IFS=',' read -ra DECODE_PORT_ARRAY <<< "$DECODE_PORTS"
 
-    proxy_param=""
+    proxy_args=()
 
     # =============================================================================
     # Launch Prefill Servers (X Producers)
@@ -156,12 +156,12 @@ main() {
         local bootstrap_port=${BOOTSTRAP_PORT_ARRAY[$i]}
 
         echo "  Prefill server $((i+1)): GPU $gpu_id, Port $port, Bootstrap Port $bootstrap_port"
-        VLLM_MOONCAKE_BOOTSTRAP_PORT=$bootstrap_port CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$gpu_id vllm serve $MODEL \
-        --port $port \
+        VLLM_MOONCAKE_BOOTSTRAP_PORT=$bootstrap_port CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$gpu_id vllm serve "$MODEL" \
+        --port "$port" \
         --kv-transfer-config \
         "{\"kv_connector\":\"MooncakeConnector\",\"kv_role\":\"kv_producer\"}" > prefill$((i+1)).log 2>&1 &
         PIDS+=($!)
-        proxy_param="${proxy_param} --prefill http://0.0.0.0:${port} $bootstrap_port"
+        proxy_args+=(--prefill "http://0.0.0.0:${port}" "$bootstrap_port")
     done
 
     # =============================================================================
@@ -174,12 +174,12 @@ main() {
         local port=${DECODE_PORT_ARRAY[$i]}
 
         echo "  Decode server $((i+1)): GPU $gpu_id, Port $port"
-        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$gpu_id vllm serve $MODEL \
-        --port $port \
+        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$gpu_id vllm serve "$MODEL" \
+        --port "$port" \
         --kv-transfer-config \
         "{\"kv_connector\":\"MooncakeConnector\",\"kv_role\":\"kv_consumer\"}" > decode$((i+1)).log 2>&1 &
         PIDS+=($!)
-        proxy_param="${proxy_param} --decode http://0.0.0.0:${port}"
+        proxy_args+=(--decode "http://0.0.0.0:${port}")
     done
 
     # =============================================================================
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ main() {
     # =============================================================================
     echo ""
     echo "Starting proxy server on port $PROXY_PORT..."
-    python3 mooncake_connector_proxy.py $proxy_param --port $PROXY_PORT > proxy.log 2>&1 &
+    python3 mooncake_connector_proxy.py "${proxy_args[@]}" --port "$PROXY_PORT" > proxy.log 2>&1 &
     PIDS+=($!)
 
     # =============================================================================
@@ -196,9 +196,10 @@ main() {
     echo ""
     echo "Waiting for all servers to start..."
     for port in "${PREFILL_PORT_ARRAY[@]}" "${DECODE_PORT_ARRAY[@]}"; do
-        if ! wait_for_server $port; then
+        if ! wait_for_server "$port"; then
             echo "Failed to start server on port $port"
             cleanup
+            # shellcheck disable=SC2317
             exit 1
         fi
     done
@@ -209,8 +210,8 @@ main() {
     # =============================================================================
     # Run Benchmark
     # =============================================================================
-    vllm bench serve --port $PROXY_PORT --seed $(date +%s) \
-        --backend vllm --model $MODEL \
+    vllm bench serve --port "$PROXY_PORT" --seed "$(date +%s)" \
+        --backend vllm --model "$MODEL" \
         --dataset-name random --random-input-len 7500 --random-output-len 200 \
         --num-prompts 200 --burstiness 100 --request-rate 2 | tee benchmark.log
 

examples/online_serving/disaggregated_serving_p2p_nccl_xpyd/disagg_example_p2p_nccl_xpyd.sh

@@ -166,10 +166,10 @@ main() {
         local kv_port=$((21001 + i))
 
         echo "  Prefill server $((i+1)): GPU $gpu_id, Port $port, KV Port $kv_port"
-        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$gpu_id vllm serve $MODEL \
+        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$gpu_id vllm serve "$MODEL" \
         --enforce-eager \
         --host 0.0.0.0 \
-        --port $port \
+        --port "$port" \
         --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
         --seed 1024 \
         --dtype float16 \
@@ -194,10 +194,10 @@ main() {
         local kv_port=$((22001 + i))
 
         echo "  Decode server $((i+1)): GPU $gpu_id, Port $port, KV Port $kv_port"
-        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$gpu_id vllm serve $MODEL \
+        CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=$gpu_id vllm serve "$MODEL" \
         --enforce-eager \
         --host 0.0.0.0 \
-        --port $port \
+        --port "$port" \
         --tensor-parallel-size 1 \
         --seed 1024 \
         --dtype float16 \
@@ -217,9 +217,10 @@ main() {
     echo ""
     echo "Waiting for all servers to start..."
     for port in "${PREFILL_PORT_ARRAY[@]}" "${DECODE_PORT_ARRAY[@]}"; do
-        if ! wait_for_server $port; then
+        if ! wait_for_server "$port"; then
             echo "Failed to start server on port $port"
             cleanup
+            # shellcheck disable=SC2317
             exit 1
         fi
     done
@@ -231,8 +232,8 @@ main() {
     # Run Benchmark
     # =============================================================================
     cd ../../../benchmarks/
-    vllm bench serve --port 10001 --seed $(date +%s) \
-        --model $MODEL \
+    vllm bench serve --port 10001 --seed "$(date +%s)" \
+        --model "$MODEL" \
         --dataset-name random --random-input-len 7500 --random-output-len 200 \
         --num-prompts 200 --burstiness 100 --request-rate 2 | tee benchmark.log
 

examples/online_serving/elastic_ep/bench.sh

@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@ while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
 done
 
 vllm bench serve \
-    --model $MODEL_NAME \
-    --host $HOST \
-    --port $PORT \
-    --num-prompts $NUM_PROMPTS \
-    --request-rate $REQUEST_RATE
+    --model "$MODEL_NAME" \
+    --host "$HOST" \
+    --port "$PORT" \
+    --num-prompts "$NUM_PROMPTS" \
+    --request-rate "$REQUEST_RATE"

examples/online_serving/elastic_ep/serve_deepseek_v2.sh

@@ -57,15 +57,15 @@ echo "Starting vLLM server for $MODEL_NAME with data parallel size: $DATA_PARALL
 export RAY_DEDUP_LOGS=0
 export VLLM_USE_DEEP_GEMM=1
 
-vllm serve $MODEL_NAME \
-    --data-parallel-size $DATA_PARALLEL_SIZE \
-    --data-parallel-size-local $DATA_PARALLEL_SIZE \
+vllm serve "$MODEL_NAME" \
+    --data-parallel-size "$DATA_PARALLEL_SIZE" \
+    --data-parallel-size-local "$DATA_PARALLEL_SIZE" \
     --data-parallel-backend ray \
     --enforce-eager \
     --enable-expert-parallel \
     --enable-eplb \
     --all2all-backend pplx \
-    --num-redundant-experts $REDUNDANT_EXPERTS \
+    --num-redundant-experts "$REDUNDANT_EXPERTS" \
     --trust-remote-code \
-    --host $HOST \
-    --port $PORT
+    --host "$HOST" \
+    --port "$PORT"

examples/online_serving/multi-node-serving.sh

@@ -57,8 +57,7 @@ case "$subcommand" in
 
     # Retry until the worker node connects to the head node or the timeout expires.
     for (( i=0; i < $ray_init_timeout; i+=5 )); do
-      ray start --address=$ray_address:$ray_port --block "${start_params[@]}"
-      if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+      if ray start --address="$ray_address":"$ray_port" --block "${start_params[@]}"; then
         echo "Worker: Ray runtime started with head address $ray_address:$ray_port"
         exit 0
       fi
@@ -95,12 +94,12 @@ case "$subcommand" in
     fi
 
     # Start the Ray head node.
-    ray start --head --port=$ray_port "${start_params[@]}"
+    ray start --head --port="$ray_port" "${start_params[@]}"
 
     # Poll Ray until every worker node is active.
     for (( i=0; i < $ray_init_timeout; i+=5 )); do
-        active_nodes=`python3 -c 'import ray; ray.init(); print(sum(node["Alive"] for node in ray.nodes()))'`
-        if [ $active_nodes -eq $ray_cluster_size ]; then
+        active_nodes=$(python3 -c 'import ray; ray.init(); print(sum(node["Alive"] for node in ray.nodes()))')
+        if [ "$active_nodes" -eq "$ray_cluster_size" ]; then
           echo "All ray workers are active and the ray cluster is initialized successfully."
           exit 0
         fi

examples/others/lmcache/disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/disagg_example_nixl.sh

@@ -22,11 +22,10 @@ check_hf_token() {
 
 check_num_gpus() {
     # can you check if the number of GPUs are >=2 via nvidia-smi/rocm-smi?
-    which rocm-smi > /dev/null 2>&1
-    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    if ! which rocm-smi > /dev/null 2>&1; then
 	num_gpus=$(nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name --format=csv,noheader | wc -l)
     else
-	num_gpus=$(rocm-smi --showid | grep Instinct | wc -l)
+	num_gpus=$(rocm-smi --showid | grep -c Instinct)
     fi
 
     if [ "$num_gpus" -lt 2 ]; then
@@ -39,8 +38,7 @@ check_num_gpus() {
 
 ensure_python_library_installed() {
     echo "Checking if $1 is installed..."
-    python3 -c "import $1" > /dev/null 2>&1
-    if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    if ! python3 -c "import $1" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
         if [ "$1" == "nixl" ]; then
             echo "$1 is not installed. Please refer to https://github.com/ai-dynamo/nixl for installation."
         else
@@ -102,12 +100,12 @@ main() {
     bash disagg_vllm_launcher.sh prefiller \
         > >(tee prefiller.log) 2>&1 &
     prefiller_pid=$!
-    PIDS+=($prefiller_pid)
+    PIDS+=("$prefiller_pid")
 
     bash disagg_vllm_launcher.sh decoder  \
         > >(tee decoder.log)  2>&1 &
     decoder_pid=$!
-    PIDS+=($decoder_pid)
+    PIDS+=("$decoder_pid")
 
     python3 disagg_proxy_server.py \
         --host localhost \
@@ -118,7 +116,7 @@ main() {
         --decoder-port 8200  \
         > >(tee proxy.log)    2>&1 &
     proxy_pid=$!
-    PIDS+=($proxy_pid)
+    PIDS+=("$proxy_pid")
 
     wait_for_server 8100
     wait_for_server 8200
@@ -128,7 +126,7 @@ main() {
 
     # begin benchmark
     cd ../../../../benchmarks/
-    vllm bench serve --port 9000 --seed $(date +%s) \
+    vllm bench serve --port 9000 --seed "$(date +%s)" \
         --model meta-llama/Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct \
         --dataset-name random --random-input-len 7500 --random-output-len 200 \
         --num-prompts 200 --burstiness 100 --request-rate 3.6 | tee benchmark.log

examples/others/lmcache/disagg_prefill_lmcache_v1/disagg_vllm_launcher.sh

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ if [[ $1 == "prefiller" ]]; then
         VLLM_ENABLE_V1_MULTIPROCESSING=1 \
         VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn \
         CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0 \
-        vllm serve $MODEL \
+        vllm serve "$MODEL" \
         --port 8100 \
         --enforce-eager \
         --kv-transfer-config \
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ elif [[ $1 == "decoder" ]]; then
         VLLM_ENABLE_V1_MULTIPROCESSING=1 \
         VLLM_WORKER_MULTIPROC_METHOD=spawn \
         CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=1 \
-        vllm serve $MODEL \
+        vllm serve "$MODEL" \
         --port 8200 \
         --enforce-eager \
         --kv-transfer-config \

examples/pooling/embed/openai_embedding_long_text/service.sh

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ vllm serve "$MODEL_NAME" \
   --tensor-parallel-size "$GPU_COUNT" \
   --enforce-eager \
   --pooler-config "$POOLER_CONFIG" \
-  --served-model-name ${MODEL_CODE} \
+  --served-model-name "${MODEL_CODE}" \
   --api-key "$API_KEY" \
   --trust-remote-code \
   --port "$PORT" \

examples/pooling/plugin/prithvi_geospatial_mae_io_processor.py

@@ -20,15 +20,17 @@ def main():
     torch.set_default_dtype(torch.float16)
     image_url = "https://huggingface.co/christian-pinto/Prithvi-EO-2.0-300M-TL-VLLM/resolve/main/valencia_example_2024-10-26.tiff"  # noqa: E501
 
-    img_prompt = dict(
+    img_data = dict(
         data=image_url,
         data_format="url",
         image_format="tiff",
         out_data_format="b64_json",
     )
 
+    prompt = dict(data=img_data)
+
     llm = LLM(
-        model="christian-pinto/Prithvi-EO-2.0-300M-TL-VLLM",
+        model="ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-EO-2.0-300M-TL-Sen1Floods11",
         skip_tokenizer_init=True,
         trust_remote_code=True,
         enforce_eager=True,
@@ -41,7 +43,7 @@ def main():
         enable_mm_embeds=True,
     )
 
-    pooler_output = llm.encode(img_prompt, pooling_task="plugin")
+    pooler_output = llm.encode(prompt, pooling_task="plugin")
     output = pooler_output[0].outputs
 
     print(output)

examples/pooling/plugin/prithvi_geospatial_mae_offline.py

@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     parser.add_argument(
         "--model",
         type=str,
-        default="christian-pinto/Prithvi-EO-2.0-300M-TL-VLLM",
+        default="ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-EO-2.0-300M-TL-Sen1Floods11",
         help="Path to a checkpoint file to load from.",
     )
     parser.add_argument(

examples/pooling/plugin/prithvi_geospatial_mae_online.py

@@ -14,9 +14,7 @@ import requests
 # - install TerraTorch v1.1 (or later):
 #   pip install terratorch>=v1.1
 # - start vllm in serving mode with the below args
-#   --model='christian-pinto/Prithvi-EO-2.0-300M-TL-VLLM'
-#   --model-impl terratorch
-#   --trust-remote-code
+#   --model='ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-EO-2.0-300M-TL-Sen1Floods11'
 #   --skip-tokenizer-init --enforce-eager
 #   --io-processor-plugin terratorch_segmentation
 #   --enable-mm-embeds
@@ -34,7 +32,7 @@ def main():
             "out_data_format": "b64_json",
         },
         "priority": 0,
-        "model": "christian-pinto/Prithvi-EO-2.0-300M-TL-VLLM",
+        "model": "ibm-nasa-geospatial/Prithvi-EO-2.0-300M-TL-Sen1Floods11",
     }
 
     ret = requests.post(server_endpoint, json=request_payload_url)

examples/pooling/score/colbert_rerank_online.py

@@ -1,15 +1,27 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
 """
-Example of using ColBERT late interaction model for reranking.
+Example of using ColBERT late interaction models for reranking and scoring.
 
 ColBERT (Contextualized Late Interaction over BERT) uses per-token embeddings
 and MaxSim scoring for document reranking, providing better accuracy than
 single-vector models while being more efficient than cross-encoders.
 
-Start the server with:
+vLLM supports ColBERT with multiple encoder backbones. Start the server
+with one of the following:
+
+    # BERT backbone (works out of the box)
     vllm serve answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1
 
+    # ModernBERT backbone
+    vllm serve lightonai/GTE-ModernColBERT-v1 \
+        --hf-overrides '{"architectures": ["ColBERTModernBertModel"]}'
+
+    # Jina XLM-RoBERTa backbone
+    vllm serve jinaai/jina-colbert-v2 \
+        --hf-overrides '{"architectures": ["ColBERTJinaRobertaModel"]}' \
+        --trust-remote-code
+
 Then run this script:
     python colbert_rerank_online.py
 """
@@ -18,39 +30,62 @@ import json
 
 import requests
 
-url = "http://127.0.0.1:8000/rerank"
+# Change this to match the model you started the server with
+MODEL = "answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1"
+BASE_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:8000"
 
 headers = {"accept": "application/json", "Content-Type": "application/json"}
 
-data = {
-    "model": "answerdotai/answerai-colbert-small-v1",
-    "query": "What is machine learning?",
-    "documents": [
-        "Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence.",
-        "Python is a programming language.",
-        "Deep learning uses neural networks for complex tasks.",
-        "The weather today is sunny.",
-    ],
-}
+documents = [
+    "Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence.",
+    "Python is a programming language.",
+    "Deep learning uses neural networks for complex tasks.",
+    "The weather today is sunny.",
+]
+
+
+def rerank_example():
+    """Use the /rerank endpoint to rank documents by query relevance."""
+    print("=== Rerank Example ===")
+
+    data = {
+        "model": MODEL,
+        "query": "What is machine learning?",
+        "documents": documents,
+    }
+
+    response = requests.post(f"{BASE_URL}/rerank", headers=headers, json=data)
+    result = response.json()
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2))
+
+    print("\nRanked documents (most relevant first):")
+    for item in result["results"]:
+        doc_idx = item["index"]
+        score = item["relevance_score"]
+        print(f"  Score {score:.4f}: {documents[doc_idx]}")
+
+
+def score_example():
+    """Use the /score endpoint for pairwise query-document scoring."""
+    print("\n=== Score Example ===")
+
+    data = {
+        "model": MODEL,
+        "text_1": "What is machine learning?",
+        "text_2": [
+            "Machine learning is a subset of AI.",
+            "The weather is sunny.",
+        ],
+    }
+
+    response = requests.post(f"{BASE_URL}/score", headers=headers, json=data)
+    result = response.json()
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2))
 
 
 def main():
-    response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data)
-
-    if response.status_code == 200:
-        print("ColBERT Rerank Request successful!")
-        result = response.json()
-        print(json.dumps(result, indent=2))
-
-        # Show ranked results
-        print("\nRanked documents (most relevant first):")
-        for item in result["results"]:
-            doc_idx = item["index"]
-            score = item["relevance_score"]
-            print(f"  Score {score:.4f}: {data['documents'][doc_idx]}")
-    else:
-        print(f"Request failed with status code: {response.status_code}")
-        print(response.text)
+    rerank_example()
+    score_example()
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":

examples/pooling/score/colqwen3_rerank_online.py

@@ -0,0 +1,130 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+"""
+Example of using ColQwen3 late interaction model for reranking.
+
+ColQwen3 is a multi-modal ColBERT-style model based on Qwen3-VL.
+It produces per-token embeddings and uses MaxSim scoring for retrieval
+and reranking. Supports both text and image inputs.
+
+Start the server with:
+    vllm serve TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b --max-model-len 50000
+
+Then run this script:
+    python colqwen3_rerank_online.py
+"""
+
+import requests
+
+MODEL = "TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b"
+BASE_URL = "http://127.0.0.1:8000"
+
+headers = {"accept": "application/json", "Content-Type": "application/json"}
+
+
+def rerank_text():
+    """Text-only reranking via /rerank endpoint."""
+    print("=" * 60)
+    print("1. Text reranking (/rerank)")
+    print("=" * 60)
+
+    data = {
+        "model": MODEL,
+        "query": "What is machine learning?",
+        "documents": [
+            "Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence.",
+            "Python is a programming language.",
+            "Deep learning uses neural networks for complex tasks.",
+            "The weather today is sunny.",
+        ],
+    }
+
+    response = requests.post(f"{BASE_URL}/rerank", headers=headers, json=data)
+
+    if response.status_code == 200:
+        result = response.json()
+        print("\n  Ranked documents (most relevant first):")
+        for item in result["results"]:
+            doc_idx = item["index"]
+            score = item["relevance_score"]
+            print(f"    [{score:.4f}] {data['documents'][doc_idx]}")
+    else:
+        print(f"  Request failed: {response.status_code}")
+        print(f"  {response.text[:300]}")
+
+
+def score_text():
+    """Text-only scoring via /score endpoint."""
+    print()
+    print("=" * 60)
+    print("2. Text scoring (/score)")
+    print("=" * 60)
+
+    query = "What is the capital of France?"
+    documents = [
+        "The capital of France is Paris.",
+        "Berlin is the capital of Germany.",
+        "Python is a programming language.",
+    ]
+
+    data = {
+        "model": MODEL,
+        "text_1": query,
+        "text_2": documents,
+    }
+
+    response = requests.post(f"{BASE_URL}/score", headers=headers, json=data)
+
+    if response.status_code == 200:
+        result = response.json()
+        print(f"\n  Query: {query}\n")
+        for item in result["data"]:
+            idx = item["index"]
+            score = item["score"]
+            print(f"    Doc {idx} (score={score:.4f}): {documents[idx]}")
+    else:
+        print(f"  Request failed: {response.status_code}")
+        print(f"  {response.text[:300]}")
+
+
+def score_text_top_n():
+    """Text reranking with top_n filtering via /rerank endpoint."""
+    print()
+    print("=" * 60)
+    print("3. Text reranking with top_n=2 (/rerank)")
+    print("=" * 60)
+
+    data = {
+        "model": MODEL,
+        "query": "What is the capital of France?",
+        "documents": [
+            "The capital of France is Paris.",
+            "Berlin is the capital of Germany.",
+            "Python is a programming language.",
+            "The Eiffel Tower is in Paris.",
+        ],
+        "top_n": 2,
+    }
+
+    response = requests.post(f"{BASE_URL}/rerank", headers=headers, json=data)
+
+    if response.status_code == 200:
+        result = response.json()
+        print(f"\n  Top {data['top_n']} results:")
+        for item in result["results"]:
+            doc_idx = item["index"]
+            score = item["relevance_score"]
+            print(f"    [{score:.4f}] {data['documents'][doc_idx]}")
+    else:
+        print(f"  Request failed: {response.status_code}")
+        print(f"  {response.text[:300]}")
+
+
+def main():
+    rerank_text()
+    score_text()
+    score_text_top_n()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()

examples/pooling/token_embed/colqwen3_token_embed_online.py

@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+# ruff: noqa: E501
+
+"""
+Example online usage of Pooling API for ColQwen3 multi-vector retrieval.
+
+ColQwen3 is a multi-modal late interaction model based on Qwen3-VL that
+produces per-token embeddings (320-dim, L2-normalized) for both text and
+image inputs. Similarity is computed via MaxSim scoring.
+
+This example mirrors the official TomoroAI inference code
+(https://huggingface.co/TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b) but uses the
+vLLM serving API instead of local HuggingFace model loading.
+
+Start the server with:
+    vllm serve TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b --max-model-len 4096
+
+Then run this script:
+    python colqwen3_token_embed_online.py
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import base64
+from io import BytesIO
+
+import numpy as np
+import requests
+from PIL import Image
+
+# ── Helpers ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def post_http_request(payload: dict, api_url: str) -> requests.Response:
+    headers = {"User-Agent": "Test Client"}
+    return requests.post(api_url, headers=headers, json=payload)
+
+
+def load_image(url: str) -> Image.Image:
+    """Download an image from URL (handles Wikimedia 403)."""
+    for hdrs in ({}, {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ColQwen3-demo/1.0)"}):
+        resp = requests.get(url, headers=hdrs, timeout=10)
+        if resp.status_code == 403:
+            continue
+        resp.raise_for_status()
+        return Image.open(BytesIO(resp.content)).convert("RGB")
+    raise RuntimeError(f"Could not fetch image from {url}")
+
+
+def encode_image_base64(image: Image.Image) -> str:
+    """Encode a PIL image to a base64 data URI."""
+    buf = BytesIO()
+    image.save(buf, format="PNG")
+    return "data:image/png;base64," + base64.b64encode(buf.getvalue()).decode()
+
+
+def compute_maxsim(q_emb: np.ndarray, d_emb: np.ndarray) -> float:
+    """Compute ColBERT-style MaxSim score between query and document."""
+    sim = q_emb @ d_emb.T
+    return float(sim.max(axis=-1).sum())
+
+
+# ── Encode functions ────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def encode_queries(texts: list[str], model: str, api_url: str) -> list[np.ndarray]:
+    """Encode text queries → list of multi-vector embeddings."""
+    resp = post_http_request({"model": model, "input": texts}, api_url)
+    return [np.array(item["data"]) for item in resp.json()["data"]]
+
+
+def encode_images(image_urls: list[str], model: str, api_url: str) -> list[np.ndarray]:
+    """Encode image documents → list of multi-vector embeddings.
+
+    Images are sent via the chat-style `messages` field so that the
+    vLLM multimodal processor handles them correctly.
+    """
+    embeddings = []
+    for url in image_urls:
+        print(f"  Loading: {url.split('/')[-1]}...")
+        image = load_image(url)
+        image_uri = encode_image_base64(image)
+        resp = post_http_request(
+            {
+                "model": model,
+                "messages": [
+                    {
+                        "role": "user",
+                        "content": [
+                            {"type": "image_url", "image_url": {"url": image_uri}},
+                            {"type": "text", "text": "Describe the image."},
+                        ],
+                    }
+                ],
+            },
+            api_url,
+        )
+        result = resp.json()
+        if resp.status_code != 200 or "data" not in result:
+            print(f"    Error ({resp.status_code}): {str(result)[:200]}")
+            continue
+        embeddings.append(np.array(result["data"][0]["data"]))
+    return embeddings
+
+
+# ── Main ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def parse_args():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--host", type=str, default="localhost")
+    parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=8000)
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--model",
+        type=str,
+        default="TomoroAI/tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b",
+    )
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def main(args):
+    pooling_url = f"http://{args.host}:{args.port}/pooling"
+    score_url = f"http://{args.host}:{args.port}/score"
+    model = args.model
+
+    # Same sample data as the official TomoroAI example
+    queries = [
+        "Retrieve the city of Singapore",
+        "Retrieve the city of Beijing",
+        "Retrieve the city of London",
+    ]
+    image_urls = [
+        "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/Singapore_skyline_2022.jpg",
+        "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Beijing_skyline_at_night.JPG",
+        "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/London_skyline.jpg",
+    ]
+
+    # ── 1) Text query embeddings ────────────────────────────
+    print("=" * 60)
+    print("1. Encode text queries (multi-vector)")
+    print("=" * 60)
+    query_embeddings = encode_queries(queries, model, pooling_url)
+    for i, emb in enumerate(query_embeddings):
+        norm = float(np.linalg.norm(emb[0]))
+        print(f'  Query {i}: {emb.shape}  (L2 norm: {norm:.4f})  "{queries[i]}"')
+
+    # ── 2) Image document embeddings ────────────────────────
+    print()
+    print("=" * 60)
+    print("2. Encode image documents (multi-vector)")
+    print("=" * 60)
+    doc_embeddings = encode_images(image_urls, model, pooling_url)
+    for i, emb in enumerate(doc_embeddings):
+        print(f"  Doc {i}:   {emb.shape}  {image_urls[i].split('/')[-1]}")
+
+    # ── 3) Cross-modal MaxSim scoring ───────────────────────
+    if doc_embeddings:
+        print()
+        print("=" * 60)
+        print("3. Cross-modal MaxSim scores (text queries × image docs)")
+        print("=" * 60)
+        # Header
+        print(f"{'':>35s}", end="")
+        for j in range(len(doc_embeddings)):
+            print(f"  Doc {j:>2d}", end="")
+        print()
+        # Score matrix
+        for i, q_emb in enumerate(query_embeddings):
+            print(f"  {queries[i]:<33s}", end="")
+            for j, d_emb in enumerate(doc_embeddings):
+                score = compute_maxsim(q_emb, d_emb)
+                print(f"  {score:6.2f}", end="")
+            print()
+
+    # ── 4) Text-only /score endpoint ────────────────────────
+    print()
+    print("=" * 60)
+    print("4. Text-only late interaction scoring (/score endpoint)")
+    print("=" * 60)
+    text_query = "What is the capital of France?"
+    text_docs = [
+        "The capital of France is Paris.",
+        "Berlin is the capital of Germany.",
+        "Python is a programming language.",
+    ]
+    resp = post_http_request(
+        {"model": model, "text_1": text_query, "text_2": text_docs},
+        score_url,
+    )
+    print(f'  Query: "{text_query}"\n')
+    for item in resp.json()["data"]:
+        idx = item["index"]
+        print(f"  Doc {idx} (score={item['score']:.4f}): {text_docs[idx]}")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    args = parse_args()
+    main(args)

requirements/common.txt

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ partial-json-parser # used for parsing partial JSON outputs
 pyzmq >= 25.0.0
 msgspec
 gguf >= 0.17.0
-mistral_common[image] >= 1.9.0
+mistral_common[image] >= 1.9.1
 opencv-python-headless >= 4.13.0    # required for video IO
 pyyaml
 six>=1.16.0; python_version > '3.11' # transitive dependency of pandas that needs to be the latest version for python 3.12
@@ -52,4 +52,4 @@ anthropic >= 0.71.0
 model-hosting-container-standards >= 0.1.13, < 1.0.0
 mcp
 grpcio
-grpcio-reflection
+grpcio-reflection

requirements/nightly_torch_test.txt

@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ jiwer # required for audio tests
 timm # required for internvl test
 transformers_stream_generator # required for qwen-vl test
 matplotlib # required for qwen-vl test
-mistral_common[image,audio] >= 1.9.0 # required for voxtral test
+mistral_common[image,audio] >= 1.9.1 # required for voxtral test
 num2words # required for smolvlm test
 opencv-python-headless >= 4.13.0 # required for video test
 datamodel_code_generator # required for minicpm3 test
-lm-eval[api]>=0.4.9.2 # required for model evaluation test
+lm-eval[api]>=0.4.11 # required for model evaluation test
 mteb>=1.38.11, <2 # required for mteb test
 transformers==4.57.5
 tokenizers==0.22.0