[spec decode] Consolidate speculative decode method name for MTP (#25232)

Signed-off-by: zixi-qi <qizixi@meta.com>

examples/offline_inference/spec_decode.py

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ def parse_args():
         "--method",
         type=str,
         default="eagle",
+        choices=["ngram", "eagle", "eagle3", "mtp"],
     )
     parser.add_argument("--num-spec-tokens", type=int, default=2)
     parser.add_argument("--prompt-lookup-max", type=int, default=5)
@@ -118,9 +119,9 @@ def main(args):
             "prompt_lookup_max": args.prompt_lookup_max,
             "prompt_lookup_min": args.prompt_lookup_min,
         }
-    elif args.method.endswith("mtp"):
+    elif args.method == "mtp":
         speculative_config = {
-            "method": args.method,
+            "method": "mtp",
             "num_speculative_tokens": args.num_spec_tokens,
         }
     else:

tests/v1/e2e/test_spec_decode.py

@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ from vllm.assets.image import VLM_IMAGES_DIR
 from vllm.distributed import cleanup_dist_env_and_memory
 from vllm.platforms import current_platform
 
+MTP_SIMILARITY_RATE = 0.8
+
 
 def get_test_prompts(mm_enabled: bool):
     prompt_types = ["repeat", "sentence"]
@@ -222,3 +224,66 @@ def test_eagle_correctness(
         del spec_llm
         torch.cuda.empty_cache()
         cleanup_dist_env_and_memory()
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(["model_setup", "mm_enabled"], [
+    (("mtp", "XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-7B-Base", 1), False),
+    (("mtp", "ZixiQi/DeepSeek-V3-4layers-MTP-FP8", 1), False),
+],
+                         ids=["mimo", "deepseek"])
+def test_mtp_correctness(
+    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
+    sampling_config: SamplingParams,
+    model_setup: tuple[str, str, int],
+    mm_enabled: bool,
+):
+    # Generate test prompts inside the function instead of using fixture
+    test_prompts = get_test_prompts(mm_enabled)
+    '''
+    Compare the outputs of a original LLM and a speculative LLM
+    should be the same when using MTP speculative decoding.
+    model_setup: (method, model_name, tp_size)
+    '''
+    with monkeypatch.context() as m:
+        m.setenv("VLLM_USE_V1", "1")
+        m.setenv("VLLM_MLA_DISABLE", "1")
+
+        method, model_name, tp_size = model_setup
+
+        ref_llm = LLM(model=model_name,
+                      max_model_len=2048,
+                      tensor_parallel_size=tp_size,
+                      trust_remote_code=True)
+        ref_outputs = ref_llm.chat(test_prompts, sampling_config)
+        del ref_llm
+        torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+        cleanup_dist_env_and_memory()
+
+        spec_llm = LLM(
+            model=model_name,
+            trust_remote_code=True,
+            tensor_parallel_size=tp_size,
+            speculative_config={
+                "method": method,
+                "num_speculative_tokens": 1,
+                "max_model_len": 2048,
+            },
+            max_model_len=2048,
+        )
+        spec_outputs = spec_llm.chat(test_prompts, sampling_config)
+        matches = 0
+        misses = 0
+        for ref_output, spec_output in zip(ref_outputs, spec_outputs):
+            if ref_output.outputs[0].text == spec_output.outputs[0].text:
+                matches += 1
+            else:
+                misses += 1
+                print(f"ref_output: {ref_output.outputs[0].text}")
+                print(f"spec_output: {spec_output.outputs[0].text}")
+
+        # Heuristic: expect at least 80% of the prompts to match exactly
+        # Upon failure, inspect the outputs to check for inaccuracy.
+        assert matches > int(MTP_SIMILARITY_RATE * len(ref_outputs))
+        del spec_llm
+        torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+        cleanup_dist_env_and_memory()

tests/v1/spec_decode/test_mtp.py

@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+from unittest import mock
+
+import pytest
+import torch
+
+from tests.v1.attention.utils import (BatchSpec, _Backend,
+                                      create_common_attn_metadata,
+                                      create_standard_kv_cache_spec,
+                                      get_attention_backend)
+from vllm.config import (CacheConfig, DeviceConfig, ModelConfig,
+                         ParallelConfig, SchedulerConfig, SpeculativeConfig,
+                         VllmConfig)
+from vllm.config.load import LoadConfig
+from vllm.model_executor.models.llama import LlamaForCausalLM
+from vllm.platforms import current_platform
+from vllm.v1.spec_decode.eagle import EagleProposer
+
+mimo_7b_dir = "XiaomiMiMo/MiMo-7B-Base"
+
+
+def _create_mtp_proposer(num_speculative_tokens: int) -> EagleProposer:
+    """Create an MTP proposer with unified model configuration."""
+    model_config = ModelConfig(model=mimo_7b_dir,
+                               runner="generate",
+                               max_model_len=100,
+                               trust_remote_code=True)
+
+    speculative_config = SpeculativeConfig(
+        target_model_config=model_config,
+        target_parallel_config=ParallelConfig(),
+        model=mimo_7b_dir,
+        method="mtp",
+        num_speculative_tokens=num_speculative_tokens,
+    )
+
+    vllm_config = VllmConfig(
+        model_config=model_config,
+        cache_config=CacheConfig(),
+        speculative_config=speculative_config,
+        device_config=DeviceConfig(device=current_platform.device_type),
+        parallel_config=ParallelConfig(),
+        load_config=LoadConfig(),
+        scheduler_config=SchedulerConfig())
+
+    return EagleProposer(vllm_config=vllm_config,
+                         device=current_platform.device_type)
+
+
+@mock.patch('vllm.v1.spec_decode.eagle.get_pp_group')
+@mock.patch('vllm.v1.spec_decode.eagle.get_layers_from_vllm_config')
+@mock.patch('vllm.v1.spec_decode.eagle.get_model')
+def test_mtp_load_model_unified(mock_get_model, mock_get_layers,
+                                mock_get_pp_group):
+    """Test MTP-specific model loading with unified model approach."""
+
+    # Setup mocks
+    mock_model = mock.MagicMock()
+    mock_model.model.embed_tokens.weight.shape = (131072, 4096)
+    mock_get_model.return_value = mock_model
+
+    target_attn_layers = {"target_attn_1": mock.MagicMock()}
+    all_attn_layers = {**target_attn_layers, "draft_attn_1": mock.MagicMock()}
+    mock_get_layers.side_effect = [target_attn_layers, all_attn_layers]
+
+    mock_pp_group = mock.MagicMock()
+    mock_pp_group.world_size = 1
+    mock_get_pp_group.return_value = mock_pp_group
+
+    # Create target model
+    class _TargetModelStub(LlamaForCausalLM):
+        model: mock.MagicMock
+        lm_head: mock.MagicMock
+
+    target_model = mock.create_autospec(_TargetModelStub, instance=True)
+    target_model.model = mock.MagicMock()
+    target_model.model.embed_tokens.weight.shape = (131072, 4096)
+    target_model.lm_head = mock.MagicMock()
+
+    # Create MTP proposer
+    proposer = _create_mtp_proposer(num_speculative_tokens=4)
+    proposer.load_model(target_model)
+
+    # Verify MTP-specific behavior:
+    # Model is loaded
+    mock_get_model.assert_called_once()
+    # MTP shares lm_head with target model
+    assert proposer.model.lm_head == target_model.lm_head
+    # MTP shares embed_tokens with target model
+    assert proposer.model.model.embed_tokens == target_model.model.embed_tokens
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("num_speculative_tokens", [1])
+def test_mtp_propose(num_speculative_tokens, monkeypatch):
+    """Test that MTP's forward method returns hidden states directly"""
+
+    device = torch.device(current_platform.device_type)
+    batch_size = 2
+    seq_lens = [5, 3]
+    total_tokens = sum(seq_lens)
+    vocab_size = 100
+
+    proposer = _create_mtp_proposer(num_speculative_tokens)
+    hidden_size = proposer.hidden_size
+
+    # Mock the MTP model to verify it returns hidden states directly
+    model_mock = mock.MagicMock()
+
+    # MTP returns hidden states directly
+    if num_speculative_tokens == 1:
+        model_mock.return_value = torch.zeros(total_tokens,
+                                              hidden_size,
+                                              device=device)
+    else:
+        # Multiple forward passes for multi-token speculation
+        forward_returns = []
+        for i in range(num_speculative_tokens):
+            if i == 0:
+                h_states = torch.zeros(total_tokens,
+                                       hidden_size,
+                                       device=device)
+            else:
+                h_states = torch.zeros(batch_size, hidden_size, device=device)
+            forward_returns.append(h_states)
+        model_mock.side_effect = forward_returns
+
+    # Mock compute_logits
+    def create_deterministic_logits(batch_size, vocab_size, token_offset):
+        logits = torch.full((batch_size, vocab_size), -100.0, device=device)
+        logits[:, token_offset] = 100.0
+        return logits
+
+    if num_speculative_tokens == 1:
+        model_mock.compute_logits.return_value = create_deterministic_logits(
+            batch_size, vocab_size, 42)
+    else:
+        logits_returns = [
+            create_deterministic_logits(batch_size, vocab_size, 42 + i)
+            for i in range(num_speculative_tokens)
+        ]
+        model_mock.compute_logits.side_effect = logits_returns
+
+    proposer.model = model_mock
+    proposer.attn_layer_names = ["layer.0"]
+
+    # Prepare inputs
+    batch_spec = BatchSpec(seq_lens=seq_lens, query_lens=seq_lens)
+    common_attn_metadata = create_common_attn_metadata(batch_spec,
+                                                       block_size=16,
+                                                       device=device)
+
+    target_token_ids = torch.randint(0,
+                                     vocab_size, (total_tokens, ),
+                                     device=device)
+    target_positions = torch.cat([
+        torch.arange(seq_lens[0], device=device),
+        torch.arange(seq_lens[1], device=device)
+    ])
+    target_hidden_states = torch.randn(total_tokens,
+                                       hidden_size,
+                                       device=device)
+    next_token_ids = torch.randint(0,
+                                   vocab_size, (batch_size, ),
+                                   dtype=torch.int32,
+                                   device=device)
+    sampling_metadata = mock.MagicMock()
+
+    # Setup attention metadata
+    attn_metadata_builder_cls, _ = get_attention_backend(_Backend.FLASH_ATTN)
+
+    attn_metadata_builder = attn_metadata_builder_cls(
+        kv_cache_spec=create_standard_kv_cache_spec(proposer.vllm_config),
+        layer_names=proposer.attn_layer_names,
+        vllm_config=proposer.vllm_config,
+        device=device,
+    )
+
+    proposer.runner = mock.MagicMock()
+    proposer.attn_metadata_builder = attn_metadata_builder
+
+    # Run propose
+    result = proposer.propose(target_token_ids=target_token_ids,
+                              target_positions=target_positions,
+                              target_hidden_states=target_hidden_states,
+                              next_token_ids=next_token_ids,
+                              last_token_indices=None,
+                              common_attn_metadata=common_attn_metadata,
+                              sampling_metadata=sampling_metadata)
+
+    # Verify the model was called correctly
+    assert model_mock.called
+    # Verify output shape
+    assert result.shape == (batch_size, num_speculative_tokens)

vllm/config/speculative.py

@@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ logger = init_logger(__name__)
 SpeculativeMethod = Literal["ngram", "eagle", "eagle3", "medusa",
                             "mlp_speculator", "draft_model", "deepseek_mtp",
                             "ernie_mtp", "qwen3_next_mtp", "mimo_mtp",
-                            "longcat_flash_mtp"]
+                            "longcat_flash_mtp", "mtp"]
+MTP_MODEL_TYPES = ("deepseek_mtp", "mimo_mtp", "glm4_moe_mtp", "ernie_mtp",
+                   "qwen3_next_mtp", "longcat_flash_mtp")
 
 
 @config
@@ -207,11 +209,16 @@ class SpeculativeConfig:
         # can not be detected, it will be considered as the "draft_model" by
         # default.
 
+        if self.method in MTP_MODEL_TYPES:
+            logger.warning("method `%s` is deprecated and replaced with mtp.",
+                           self.method)
+            self.method = "mtp"
+
         if self.model is None and self.num_speculative_tokens is not None:
-            # TODO(Shangming): Refactor mtp configuration logic when supporting
+            if self.method == "mtp":
-            if (self.target_model_config
+                assert (
-                    and self.target_model_config.hf_text_config.model_type
+                    self.target_model_config
-                    in ("deepseek_v3", "mimo", "ernie4_5_moe", "qwen3_next")):
+                    is not None), "target_model_config must be present for mtp"
                 # use the draft model from the same model:
                 self.model = self.target_model_config.model
                 # Align the quantization of draft model for cases such as
@@ -314,31 +321,13 @@ class SpeculativeConfig:
                       "mlp_speculator"):
                     self.method = "mlp_speculator"
                 elif (self.draft_model_config.hf_config.model_type
-                      in ("deepseek_mtp", "mimo_mtp", "glm4_moe_mtp")):
+                      in MTP_MODEL_TYPES):
-                    self.method = "deepseek_mtp"
+                    self.method = "mtp"
                     if self.num_speculative_tokens > 1:
                         logger.warning(
-                                "All Deepseek MTP models only have " \
+                                "Enabling num_speculative_tokens > 1 will run" \
-                                "one layer. Might need some code changes " \
+                                "multiple times of forward on same MTP layer" \
-                                "to support multiple layers."
+                                ",which may result in lower acceptance rate" \
-                            )
-                elif (self.draft_model_config.hf_config.model_type ==
-                      "ernie_mtp"):
-                    self.method = "ernie_mtp"
-                    if self.num_speculative_tokens > 1:
-                        logger.warning(
-                                "All Ernie MTP models only have " \
-                                "one layer. Might need some code changes " \
-                                "to support multiple layers."
-                            )
-                elif (self.draft_model_config.hf_config.model_type ==
-                      "qwen3_next_mtp"):
-                    self.method = "qwen3_next_mtp"
-                    if self.num_speculative_tokens > 1:
-                        logger.warning(
-                                "All Qwen3Next MTP models only have " \
-                                "one layer. Might need some code changes " \
-                                "to support multiple layers."
                             )
                 elif (self.draft_model_config.hf_config.model_type
                       in ("longcat_flash_mtp")):
@@ -355,7 +344,7 @@ class SpeculativeConfig:
                         "Speculative decoding with draft model is not "
                         "supported yet. Please consider using other "
                         "speculative decoding methods such as ngram, medusa, "
-                        "eagle, or deepseek_mtp.")
+                        "eagle, or mtp.")
 
                 # Replace hf_config for EAGLE draft_model
                 if self.method in ("eagle", "eagle3"):
@@ -564,8 +553,7 @@ class SpeculativeConfig:
         return self.num_speculative_tokens
 
     def use_eagle(self) -> bool:
-        return self.method in ("eagle", "eagle3", "deepseek_mtp", "ernie_mtp",
+        return self.method in ("eagle", "eagle3", "mtp")
-                               "qwen3_next_mtp", "longcat_flash_mtp")
 
     def __repr__(self) -> str:
         method = self.method

vllm/engine/arg_utils.py

@@ -1486,7 +1486,7 @@ class EngineArgs:
                 raise NotImplementedError(
                     "Draft model speculative decoding is not supported yet. "
                     "Please consider using other speculative decoding methods "
-                    "such as ngram, medusa, eagle, or deepseek_mtp.")
+                    "such as ngram, medusa, eagle, or mtp.")
 
         V1_BACKENDS = [
             "FLASH_ATTN",

vllm/v1/spec_decode/eagle.py

@@ -235,8 +235,7 @@ class EagleProposer:
                 hidden_states=self.hidden_states[:num_input_tokens],
                 inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
             )
-            if self.method in ("deepseek_mtp", "ernie_mtp", "qwen3_next_mtp",
+            if self.method == "mtp":
-                               "longcat_flash_mtp"):
                 last_hidden_states = ret_hidden_states
                 hidden_states = last_hidden_states
             else:
@@ -365,8 +364,7 @@ class EagleProposer:
                     hidden_states=self.hidden_states[:input_batch_size],
                     inputs_embeds=inputs_embeds,
                 )
-                if self.method in ("deepseek_mtp", "ernie_mtp",
+                if self.method == "mtp":
-                                   "qwen3_next_mtp", "longcat_flash_mtp"):
                     last_hidden_states = ret_hidden_states
                     hidden_states = ret_hidden_states
                 else:
@@ -922,10 +920,10 @@ class EagleProposer:
     def _get_attention_metadata_builder(
             self) -> list[AttentionMetadataBuilder]:
         """Find and return the attention metadata builders for EAGLE layers.
-        
+
         Returns:
             The metadata builders for EAGLE layers.
-            
+
         Raises:
             AssertionError: If no metadata builders are found for EAGLE layers.
         """