ferrox_models/speculative.rs
1//! Speculative decoding: propose several candidate next tokens with
2//! something cheap, then verify them all in a single
3//! `Decoder::forward_batch` call instead of one `forward_token` call
4//! per token.
5//!
6//! Two halves, deliberately separated:
7//!
8//! * **Drafting** is the [`Drafter`] trait. The only implementation in
9//! the tree is [`PromptLookupSpeculator`], an n-gram match over the
10//! history with no model at all (the same idea as vLLM's "prompt
11//! lookup decoding"), chosen because it needs no GPU, no second set
12//! of weights and no checkpoint to be useful. A model-based drafter
13//! (MTP head, EAGLE, dFlash) is a second impl of the same trait.
14//! * **Verification** is [`speculative_decode_with`], and it does not
15//! know or care which drafter proposed the block.
16//!
17//! # Losslessness is the property that matters most here
18//!
19//! Speculative decoding is only worth having if it produces exactly the
20//! same *distribution* the target model would have produced on its own,
21//! just faster. This module implements the speculative-sampling
22//! rejection rule (Leviathan et al. 2023 / Chen et al. 2023): a draft
23//! token `x` proposed with draft probability `q(x)` is accepted with
24//! probability `min(1, p(x)/q(x))`, and on rejection the position is
25//! resampled from the normalised residual `max(0, p - q)`. That rule is
26//! lossless at *every* temperature.
27//!
28//! It is worth being precise about what the previous accept test --
29//! `argmax(target_logits[i]) == guess` -- actually guaranteed, because
30//! it looks like the same thing and is not. Argmax matching is exactly
31//! the special case of the rule above at `temperature = 0`, where `p`
32//! is a point mass: `p(x)` is 1 when the guess is the argmax and 0
33//! otherwise, so acceptance is certain or impossible and the residual
34//! collapses back onto the argmax. Above temperature 0 it is a
35//! different algorithm with a different output distribution -- it
36//! silently biases generation toward the target's argmax, because a
37//! draft token only survives if it happens to be the most likely one.
38//! [`accept_or_resample`] is therefore not an optimisation; it is the
39//! difference between "lossless" being true and being a claim.
40//!
41//! The invariant is tested directly, not assumed:
42//! `resampling_reproduces_the_target_distribution` pushes two hundred
43//! thousand tokens through the accept/reject rule with deliberately bad
44//! draft distributions and asserts the empirical output matches the
45//! target distribution;
46//! `speculative_decode_at_temperature_matches_plain_sampling` compares
47//! a real decode at temperature 1.0 against the target's own exactly
48//! enumerated per-position marginals; and
49//! `speculative_decode_matches_greedy_token_for_token` asserts
50//! token-for-token identity with a plain `forward_token` loop at
51//! temperature 0.
52
53use crate::decoder::Decoder;
54use crate::penalty_window::PenaltyWindow;
55use crate::sampling::{sampling_distribution, Sampler, SamplingParams};
56use ferrox_core::cache::KvCache;
57
58/// The distribution one drafted position was sampled from, as its
59/// complete support: `(token id, probability)` pairs summing to 1.
60///
61/// Sparse rather than a dense vocabulary-length vector because the
62/// distributions drafters actually produce are sparse: a prompt-lookup
63/// drafter's support is a single token, and a real drafter's is a
64/// top-k, not 150k floats per drafted position per step.
65///
66/// # Contract
67///
68/// The support must be the distribution the draft token was *actually*
69/// sampled from. Losslessness does not require the drafter to be good,
70/// or even sane -- the rejection rule corrects any `q` -- but it does
71/// require `q` to be honest. A drafter that truncates its own softmax
72/// to a top-k before sampling must report the truncated, renormalised
73/// distribution, not the full softmax it started from.
74#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Default)]
75pub struct DraftDist {
76 support: Vec<(usize, f32)>,
77}
78
79impl DraftDist {
80 /// A drafter that is certain: all probability on one token. This is
81 /// what a lookup-table drafter honestly reports -- it did not
82 /// sample, it asserted.
83 pub fn deterministic(token: usize) -> Self {
84 DraftDist {
85 support: vec![(token, 1.0)],
86 }
87 }
88
89 /// The nonzero entries of a dense probability vector.
90 pub fn from_dense(probs: &[f32]) -> Self {
91 DraftDist {
92 support: probs
93 .iter()
94 .enumerate()
95 .filter(|&(_, &p)| p > 0.0)
96 .map(|(i, &p)| (i, p))
97 .collect(),
98 }
99 }
100
101 /// Builds from explicit `(token, probability)` pairs.
102 pub fn from_support(support: Vec<(usize, f32)>) -> Self {
103 DraftDist { support }
104 }
105
106 pub fn support(&self) -> &[(usize, f32)] {
107 &self.support
108 }
109
110 /// `q(token)`, or 0.0 for a token outside the support.
111 pub fn prob(&self, token: usize) -> f32 {
112 self.support
113 .iter()
114 .find(|&&(t, _)| t == token)
115 .map(|&(_, p)| p)
116 .unwrap_or(0.0)
117 }
118}
119
120/// A block of drafted tokens plus, per position, the distribution that
121/// position was drawn from.
122///
123/// `tokens` and `dists` are the same length by construction: the
124/// verification rule needs `q` for every token it might have to reject,
125/// so a block that carried tokens without distributions could not be
126/// verified losslessly at all.
127#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq)]
128pub struct DraftBlock {
129 tokens: Vec<usize>,
130 dists: Vec<DraftDist>,
131}
132
133impl DraftBlock {
134 pub fn empty() -> Self {
135 DraftBlock::default()
136 }
137
138 /// Panics if the two vectors disagree in length -- an unverifiable
139 /// block is a programming error in the drafter, not a runtime
140 /// condition to degrade around.
141 pub fn new(tokens: Vec<usize>, dists: Vec<DraftDist>) -> Self {
142 assert_eq!(
143 tokens.len(),
144 dists.len(),
145 "a draft block needs one draft distribution per drafted token"
146 );
147 DraftBlock { tokens, dists }
148 }
149
150 /// A block from a drafter that has no distribution to offer: every
151 /// position is reported as certain. Correct (and lossless) for a
152 /// lookup drafter; wrong for a model-based one, which must report
153 /// its real softmax.
154 pub fn deterministic(tokens: Vec<usize>) -> Self {
155 let dists = tokens
156 .iter()
157 .map(|&t| DraftDist::deterministic(t))
158 .collect();
159 DraftBlock { tokens, dists }
160 }
161
162 pub fn tokens(&self) -> &[usize] {
163 &self.tokens
164 }
165
166 pub fn dists(&self) -> &[DraftDist] {
167 &self.dists
168 }
169
170 pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
171 self.tokens.len()
172 }
173
174 pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
175 self.tokens.is_empty()
176 }
177
178 /// Drops everything past `len` positions, keeping tokens and
179 /// distributions in step.
180 pub fn truncate(&mut self, len: usize) {
181 self.tokens.truncate(len);
182 self.dists.truncate(len);
183 }
184}
185
186/// Proposes a block of candidate continuation tokens.
187///
188/// The signature carries two things a plain `fn(&[usize]) -> Vec<usize>`
189/// cannot express, and both are load-bearing:
190///
191/// * **Per-position draft probabilities**, without which
192/// [`accept_or_resample`] cannot run and speculation is only lossless
193/// at temperature 0.
194/// * **The target model's hidden state** for the last position whose KV
195/// is committed. Every model-based drafter worth having (EAGLE, MTP,
196/// dFlash) conditions on it, and `Decoder::forward_batch_with_hidden`
197/// already computes it as a by-product of verification, so a drafter
198/// that wanted it would otherwise have to run the target twice.
199/// Drafters that do not need it, like [`PromptLookupSpeculator`],
200/// ignore the argument.
201pub trait Drafter {
202 /// Proposes at most `max_len` tokens to follow `history`.
203 /// `target_hidden` is the target model's final-layer hidden state
204 /// for `history`'s last token, or empty when none is available yet
205 /// (which a drafter that needs it must handle by proposing
206 /// nothing).
207 /// Takes `&mut self` because a drafter that is itself a model
208 /// carries KV state across calls, and hiding that behind interior
209 /// mutability would put a runtime borrow check on the hot path to
210 /// buy nothing. A stateless drafter simply ignores it.
211 fn propose(&mut self, history: &[usize], target_hidden: &[f32], max_len: usize) -> DraftBlock;
212}
213
214/// Proposes candidate continuation tokens by looking for the longest
215/// available match of the most recent `ngram_size` tokens earlier in
216/// `history`, and returning up to `max_draft_len` tokens that followed
217/// that earlier occurrence. Returns an empty block if no match is found
218/// or `history` is too short to contain one.
219///
220/// This is deliberately simple (last-match-wins, not best-match or a
221/// frequency-weighted choice): the whole point of prompt-lookup
222/// decoding is that it's nearly free to compute, since a wrong guess
223/// costs nothing but a rejected batch position, not a correctness bug.
224#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
225pub struct PromptLookupSpeculator {
226 pub ngram_size: usize,
227 pub max_draft_len: usize,
228}
229
230impl PromptLookupSpeculator {
231 pub fn new(ngram_size: usize, max_draft_len: usize) -> Self {
232 assert!(ngram_size >= 1, "ngram_size must be at least 1");
233 assert!(max_draft_len >= 1, "max_draft_len must be at least 1");
234 PromptLookupSpeculator {
235 ngram_size,
236 max_draft_len,
237 }
238 }
239
240 /// Looks for the most recent earlier occurrence of `history`'s
241 /// last `ngram_size` tokens, scanning from the end backwards so
242 /// the *most recent* match wins (most likely to reflect current
243 /// context, e.g. a loop the model is currently in). Returns the
244 /// tokens that followed that occurrence, truncated to
245 /// `max_draft_len`.
246 pub fn propose_tokens(&self, history: &[usize]) -> Vec<usize> {
247 if history.len() < self.ngram_size + 1 {
248 return Vec::new();
249 }
250 let needle = &history[history.len() - self.ngram_size..];
251
252 // Search every earlier start position, latest first. The last
253 // possible start that still leaves room for the needle without
254 // overlapping into the needle itself is history.len() -
255 // ngram_size - 1 (exclusive of the needle's own occurrence).
256 let last_possible_start = history.len() - self.ngram_size - 1;
257 for start in (0..=last_possible_start).rev() {
258 if &history[start..start + self.ngram_size] == needle {
259 let continuation_start = start + self.ngram_size;
260 let available = history.len() - continuation_start;
261 let take = available.min(self.max_draft_len);
262 return history[continuation_start..continuation_start + take].to_vec();
263 }
264 }
265 Vec::new()
266 }
267}
268
269impl Drafter for PromptLookupSpeculator {
270 fn propose(&mut self, history: &[usize], _target_hidden: &[f32], max_len: usize) -> DraftBlock {
271 let mut tokens = self.propose_tokens(history);
272 tokens.truncate(max_len.min(self.max_draft_len));
273 DraftBlock::deterministic(tokens)
274 }
275}
276
277/// The speculative-sampling accept/reject decision for one drafted
278/// position.
279///
280/// `target` is the target model's *final* sampling distribution for
281/// this position -- what [`sampling_distribution`] returns, i.e. after
282/// penalties, temperature, top-k and top-p, because that is the
283/// distribution the non-speculative path would have drawn from.
284/// `draft` is the distribution `token` was drawn from.
285///
286/// Returns `None` when the draft token is accepted, and
287/// `Some(replacement)` when it is rejected -- the replacement is drawn
288/// from the normalised residual `max(0, target - draft)`, which is what
289/// makes the combined procedure's output distribution equal to
290/// `target` exactly rather than approximately.
291///
292/// A token with `draft(token) == 0.0` violates the [`DraftDist`]
293/// contract (it could not have been sampled from `draft`); it is
294/// accepted, matching the `p/q -> infinity` limit, rather than
295/// silently biasing the result.
296pub fn accept_or_resample(
297 target: &[f32],
298 draft: &DraftDist,
299 token: usize,
300 rng: &mut Sampler,
301) -> Option<usize> {
302 let p = target.get(token).copied().unwrap_or(0.0);
303 let q = draft.prob(token);
304 if q <= 0.0 || p >= q {
305 return None;
306 }
307 // p < q, so the accept probability p/q is a real coin flip.
308 if rng.uniform() < p / q {
309 return None;
310 }
311
312 // Rejected: draw the replacement from the normalised residual.
313 let mut residual = target.to_vec();
314 for &(t, qt) in draft.support() {
315 if let Some(r) = residual.get_mut(t) {
316 *r = (*r - qt).max(0.0);
317 }
318 }
319 let total: f32 = residual.iter().sum();
320 if total <= 0.0 {
321 // Only reachable when target and draft are the same
322 // distribution, in which case acceptance was certain and we
323 // cannot be here -- but sampling from nothing is not an option,
324 // so fall back to the target itself.
325 return Some(rng.sample_from(target));
326 }
327 for r in residual.iter_mut() {
328 *r /= total;
329 }
330 Some(rng.sample_from(&residual))
331}
332
333/// Everything `speculative_decode_with` needs beyond the model, the
334/// prompt and the drafter.
335#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
336pub struct SpeculativeOptions {
337 pub max_new_tokens: usize,
338 /// Absolute position of the first `prompt_tokens` token in the KV
339 /// cache: 0 for a fresh cache, `cache.seq_len` when resuming a
340 /// warm one (a prefix-cache hit, or a second call continuing the
341 /// first). Every position and every rollback length inside the
342 /// decode loop is absolute, so a non-zero base is not a special
343 /// case -- see `rolls_back_to_absolute_positions_on_a_warm_cache`.
344 pub start_pos: usize,
345 /// The sampling configuration the *target* model would have used
346 /// without speculation. Verification is lossless with respect to
347 /// exactly these parameters (see [`accept_or_resample`]).
348 pub sampling: SamplingParams,
349 pub seed: u64,
350}
351
352/// Result of a speculative decode run, with the counters that make its
353/// actual savings observable rather than just assumed.
354#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default)]
355pub struct SpeculativeDecodeResult {
356 pub generated_tokens: Vec<usize>,
357 /// Number of `Decoder::forward_batch` calls made (prefill counts as
358 /// one call, each subsequent accept/reject round counts as one
359 /// more, regardless of how many tokens that round produced).
360 pub forward_calls: usize,
361 /// Total tokens produced across all rounds -- always equal to
362 /// `generated_tokens.len()`, kept as a separate field so the ratio
363 /// `tokens_generated / forward_calls` (the actual speedup metric)
364 /// is easy to read directly off this struct.
365 pub tokens_generated: usize,
366 /// Verification rounds: `forward_calls` minus the prefill call.
367 /// This is the denominator of the published *acceptance length*
368 /// metric.
369 pub verification_steps: usize,
370 /// Draft tokens the target actually evaluated. Positions past a
371 /// rejection are never evaluated, so they are not counted here --
372 /// counting them would deflate the accept rate by the drafter's
373 /// block size rather than by its accuracy.
374 pub drafted_tokens: usize,
375 /// Draft tokens accepted.
376 pub accepted_tokens: usize,
377 /// Per drafted position (0 = first token after the anchor), how
378 /// many times that position was *evaluated*, i.e. reached without
379 /// an earlier rejection ending the round.
380 pub evaluated_at_position: Vec<usize>,
381 /// Per drafted position, how many times it was accepted.
382 pub accepted_at_position: Vec<usize>,
383}
384
385impl SpeculativeDecodeResult {
386 /// Average tokens produced per `forward_batch` call. 1.0 means
387 /// speculation never helped (every round produced exactly the
388 /// anchor token); higher means draft tokens were accepted.
389 pub fn tokens_per_call(&self) -> f64 {
390 if self.forward_calls == 0 {
391 0.0
392 } else {
393 self.tokens_generated as f64 / self.forward_calls as f64
394 }
395 }
396
397 /// The published metric: completion tokens per verification step.
398 /// `None` when nothing was verified (an empty run), because a zero
399 /// there would read as "speculation made things worse" rather than
400 /// "speculation did not run".
401 ///
402 /// Deliberately not the same number as [`Self::tokens_per_call`],
403 /// which charges the one-off prefill call against the average and
404 /// so understates a short run.
405 pub fn acceptance_length(&self) -> Option<f64> {
406 if self.verification_steps == 0 {
407 None
408 } else {
409 Some(self.tokens_generated as f64 / self.verification_steps as f64)
410 }
411 }
412
413 /// Fraction of drafted positions accepted, over all positions.
414 pub fn accept_rate(&self) -> Option<f64> {
415 if self.drafted_tokens == 0 {
416 None
417 } else {
418 Some(self.accepted_tokens as f64 / self.drafted_tokens as f64)
419 }
420 }
421
422 /// Accept rate at each drafted position, conditional on that
423 /// position having been reached.
424 ///
425 /// A single mean cannot distinguish a drafter that is uniformly
426 /// mediocre from one that is excellent at position 0 and useless by
427 /// position 7, and the two want opposite responses (raise the block
428 /// size, or lower it). The published motivation for dFlash2's
429 /// two-tap convolution is exactly this curve falling from 99.5% to
430 /// 87.8% across a block, so it has to be visible per position or
431 /// the diagnosis is not testable here.
432 pub fn accept_rate_per_position(&self) -> Vec<f64> {
433 self.evaluated_at_position
434 .iter()
435 .zip(self.accepted_at_position.iter())
436 .map(|(&seen, &ok)| {
437 if seen == 0 {
438 0.0
439 } else {
440 ok as f64 / seen as f64
441 }
442 })
443 .collect()
444 }
445
446 fn record_position(&mut self, position: usize, accepted: bool) {
447 if self.evaluated_at_position.len() <= position {
448 self.evaluated_at_position.resize(position + 1, 0);
449 self.accepted_at_position.resize(position + 1, 0);
450 }
451 self.evaluated_at_position[position] += 1;
452 self.drafted_tokens += 1;
453 if accepted {
454 self.accepted_at_position[position] += 1;
455 self.accepted_tokens += 1;
456 }
457 }
458}
459
460/// Greedy speculative decode over a **fresh** KV cache, with
461/// prompt-lookup drafting. Thin wrapper over
462/// [`speculative_decode_with`], kept for callers that want the original
463/// no-options shape.
464pub fn speculative_decode<D: Drafter + ?Sized>(
465 decoder: &Decoder,
466 prompt_tokens: &[usize],
467 max_new_tokens: usize,
468 kv_caches: &mut [KvCache],
469 drafter: &mut D,
470) -> SpeculativeDecodeResult {
471 speculative_decode_observed(
472 decoder,
473 prompt_tokens,
474 kv_caches,
475 drafter,
476 &mut |_| true,
477 &SpeculativeOptions {
478 max_new_tokens,
479 ..SpeculativeOptions::default()
480 },
481 )
482}
483
484/// Decodes `options.max_new_tokens` tokens, using `drafter` to propose
485/// candidate continuations and verifying each block in a single batched
486/// call.
487///
488/// `prompt_tokens` is processed as one prefill batch (one
489/// `forward_batch` call for the whole prompt, not one per prompt token
490/// -- itself a real saving independent of speculation).
491///
492/// # Cache state
493///
494/// `kv_caches` may be warm. `options.start_pos` states where
495/// `prompt_tokens` begins, and must equal every cache's current
496/// `seq_len` -- the caches hold exactly the context preceding the
497/// prompt, and this function appends to them. On return they hold that
498/// context plus the prompt plus every generated token *except* the last
499/// (whose KV is not computed until it is fed, which the next call does
500/// for free by passing it as the anchor).
501///
502/// # Output distribution
503///
504/// Identical to plain token-at-a-time sampling from `decoder` with
505/// `options.sampling`, at any temperature. See the module docs.
506pub fn speculative_decode_with<D: Drafter + ?Sized>(
507 decoder: &Decoder,
508 prompt_tokens: &[usize],
509 kv_caches: &mut [KvCache],
510 drafter: &mut D,
511 options: &SpeculativeOptions,
512) -> SpeculativeDecodeResult {
513 speculative_decode_observed(
514 decoder,
515 prompt_tokens,
516 kv_caches,
517 drafter,
518 &mut |_| true,
519 options,
520 )
521}
522
523/// [`speculative_decode_with`], plus an observer called once per
524/// committed token, in order, which can end the run by returning
525/// `false`.
526///
527/// This exists so a caller that streams output, or that stops on an EOS
528/// or a stop string, does not have to write a second copy of the
529/// verification loop. Copying that loop to vary it is how this project
530/// lost five model features from one duplicated decode path, and the
531/// rejection rule is the last code in the tree that should be
532/// duplicated: a subtly different copy is still lossless-looking.
533///
534/// The observer sees a token only once it is COMMITTED, so it never
535/// sees a draft that was rejected. Returning `false` ends generation
536/// after the current verification block finishes, which keeps the KV
537/// caches in the single consistent state this function documents;
538/// `generated_tokens` is truncated at the token that said stop, so the
539/// caller's output and the returned tokens agree.
540pub fn speculative_decode_observed<D: Drafter + ?Sized>(
541 decoder: &Decoder,
542 prompt_tokens: &[usize],
543 kv_caches: &mut [KvCache],
544 drafter: &mut D,
545 on_token: &mut dyn FnMut(usize) -> bool,
546 options: &SpeculativeOptions,
547) -> SpeculativeDecodeResult {
548 assert!(!prompt_tokens.is_empty(), "prompt must not be empty");
549 for cache in kv_caches.iter() {
550 assert_eq!(
551 cache.seq_len, options.start_pos,
552 "start_pos must be the caches' current length: they hold exactly the \
553 context preceding the prompt"
554 );
555 }
556
557 let mut result = SpeculativeDecodeResult::default();
558 if options.max_new_tokens == 0 {
559 return result;
560 }
561
562 let mut rng = Sampler::new(options.seed);
563 let mut history: Vec<usize> = prompt_tokens.to_vec();
564 let mut generated: Vec<usize> = Vec::with_capacity(options.max_new_tokens);
565
566 // Prefill: one batched call over the whole prompt.
567 let (prefill_logits, prefill_hidden) =
568 decoder.forward_batch_with_hidden(prompt_tokens, options.start_pos, kv_caches);
569 result.forward_calls += 1;
570 let last = prefill_logits
571 .last()
572 .expect("prompt_tokens is non-empty, so forward_batch returns at least one logits vector");
573 let mut target_hidden = prefill_hidden.last().cloned().unwrap_or_default();
574
575 // `pending` is decided but its KV is not in the cache yet: it is
576 // fed as the anchor of the next batch, which is what lets one
577 // forward call both commit it and verify a block after it.
578 let mut pending = {
579 // Split ONE structure rather than pairing `history` with the
580 // separate `generated` vector: the two would then have to agree
581 // about every push, which is exactly the shape this fix exists
582 // to remove.
583 let (seen_prompt, seen_generated) = history.split_at(prompt_tokens.len());
584 let probs = sampling_distribution(
585 last,
586 &options.sampling,
587 PenaltyWindow::new(seen_prompt, seen_generated),
588 );
589 rng.sample_from(&probs)
590 };
591 let mut pos = options.start_pos + prompt_tokens.len();
592
593 // Set when the observer asks to stop. The current block still runs
594 // to completion so the caches end in the one state this function
595 // documents, and `generated` is cut back to this length afterwards.
596 let mut stop_at: Option<usize> = None;
597
598 loop {
599 generated.push(pending);
600 history.push(pending);
601 if !on_token(pending) {
602 stop_at = Some(generated.len());
603 break;
604 }
605 if generated.len() == options.max_new_tokens {
606 break;
607 }
608 // One short of the remaining budget on purpose: the last token
609 // of the run is always committed as an anchor at the top of the
610 // loop, never as an accepted draft. That keeps the cache in
611 // exactly one state on return (see the doc comment) instead of
612 // one state when the budget runs out on an anchor and another
613 // when it runs out mid-block -- and it costs nothing, because
614 // the drafted position it gives up is one whose KV would have
615 // had to be discarded anyway.
616 let draft_budget = options.max_new_tokens - generated.len() - 1;
617
618 // The drafter is asked to continue a history that *includes*
619 // `pending`, because the first drafted token lands at pos + 1.
620 let mut draft = drafter.propose(&history, &target_hidden, draft_budget);
621 draft.truncate(draft_budget);
622
623 let mut batch = Vec::with_capacity(1 + draft.len());
624 batch.push(pending);
625 batch.extend_from_slice(draft.tokens());
626
627 let (batch_logits, batch_hidden) =
628 decoder.forward_batch_with_hidden(&batch, pos, kv_caches);
629 result.forward_calls += 1;
630 result.verification_steps += 1;
631
632 // batch_logits[i] is the target's distribution for the position
633 // right after batch[i], i.e. the distribution draft token i
634 // should be judged against.
635 let mut accepted = 0usize;
636 let mut replacement: Option<usize> = None;
637 for (i, (&token, dist)) in draft.tokens().iter().zip(draft.dists()).enumerate() {
638 let (seen_prompt, seen_generated) = history.split_at(prompt_tokens.len());
639 let target = sampling_distribution(
640 &batch_logits[i],
641 &options.sampling,
642 PenaltyWindow::new(seen_prompt, seen_generated),
643 );
644 match accept_or_resample(&target, dist, token, &mut rng) {
645 None => {
646 result.record_position(i, true);
647 accepted += 1;
648 history.push(token);
649 generated.push(token);
650 if stop_at.is_none() && !on_token(token) {
651 // Keep verifying the rest of the block: the
652 // loop below truncates the caches to exactly
653 // what was committed, and leaving early here
654 // would skip that.
655 stop_at = Some(generated.len());
656 }
657 }
658 Some(resampled) => {
659 result.record_position(i, false);
660 replacement = Some(resampled);
661 break;
662 }
663 }
664 }
665
666 // Every position past `accepted` was computed from a token that
667 // is not going to be committed, so its KV is wrong. Lengths are
668 // absolute, which is what makes a warm cache work: `pos` is
669 // already offset by start_pos.
670 let committed_len = pos + 1 + accepted;
671 if accepted < draft.len() {
672 for cache in kv_caches.iter_mut() {
673 cache.truncate(committed_len);
674 }
675 }
676 debug_assert!(kv_caches.iter().all(|c| c.seq_len == committed_len));
677
678 target_hidden = batch_hidden[accepted].clone();
679 pending = match replacement {
680 // A rejected position was resampled from the residual; that
681 // token is committed and becomes the next anchor.
682 Some(tok) => tok,
683 // Every draft token was accepted, so the last row of the
684 // batch predicts a genuinely new position -- the free bonus
685 // token that makes a fully-accepted block worth `k + 1`.
686 None => {
687 let (seen_prompt, seen_generated) = history.split_at(prompt_tokens.len());
688 let probs = sampling_distribution(
689 &batch_logits[accepted],
690 &options.sampling,
691 PenaltyWindow::new(seen_prompt, seen_generated),
692 );
693 rng.sample_from(&probs)
694 }
695 };
696 pos = committed_len;
697 if stop_at.is_some() {
698 break;
699 }
700 debug_assert!(generated.len() < options.max_new_tokens);
701 }
702
703 if let Some(len) = stop_at {
704 // The observer said stop at this token. Everything after it was
705 // produced by a block that had already been dispatched, and the
706 // caller never saw it.
707 generated.truncate(len);
708 } else {
709 debug_assert_eq!(generated.len(), options.max_new_tokens);
710 }
711 result.tokens_generated = generated.len();
712 result.generated_tokens = generated;
713 result
714}
715
716#[cfg(test)]
717mod tests {
718 use super::*;
719 use crate::config::glm_5_2;
720 use crate::ModelConfig;
721 use std::cell::RefCell;
722
723 fn tiny_test_config() -> ModelConfig {
724 let mut cfg = glm_5_2();
725 cfg.hidden_dim = 16;
726 cfg.n_heads = 4;
727 cfg.n_kv_heads = 2;
728 cfg.head_dim = 4;
729 cfg.moe.hidden_dim = 16;
730 cfg.moe.n_experts = 6;
731 cfg.moe.n_experts_active = 2;
732 cfg.moe.n_shared_experts = 1;
733 cfg.moe.expert_ffn_dim = 8;
734 cfg
735 }
736
737 fn caches(decoder: &Decoder) -> Vec<KvCache> {
738 (0..decoder.layers.len())
739 .map(|_| KvCache::new(decoder.config.n_kv_heads, decoder.config.head_dim))
740 .collect()
741 }
742
743 fn argmax(logits: &[f32]) -> usize {
744 logits
745 .iter()
746 .enumerate()
747 .max_by(|a, b| a.1.partial_cmp(b.1).unwrap())
748 .map(|(i, _)| i)
749 .unwrap_or(0)
750 }
751
752 /// A drafter that always proposes the same block, with a
753 /// configurable draft distribution, and records the history it was
754 /// asked about.
755 struct FixedDrafter {
756 block: DraftBlock,
757 seen_history: RefCell<Vec<Vec<usize>>>,
758 seen_hidden_len: RefCell<Vec<usize>>,
759 }
760
761 impl FixedDrafter {
762 fn new(block: DraftBlock) -> Self {
763 FixedDrafter {
764 block,
765 seen_history: RefCell::new(Vec::new()),
766 seen_hidden_len: RefCell::new(Vec::new()),
767 }
768 }
769 }
770
771 impl Drafter for FixedDrafter {
772 fn propose(
773 &mut self,
774 history: &[usize],
775 target_hidden: &[f32],
776 max_len: usize,
777 ) -> DraftBlock {
778 self.seen_history.borrow_mut().push(history.to_vec());
779 self.seen_hidden_len.borrow_mut().push(target_hidden.len());
780 let mut block = self.block.clone();
781 block.truncate(max_len);
782 block
783 }
784 }
785
786 // ---- PromptLookupSpeculator tests ----
787
788 #[test]
789 fn proposes_the_continuation_after_a_real_repeat() {
790 let mut spec = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 4);
791 // "...1 2 3 4 5 9 9 9 1 2" -> earlier "1 2" occurs at the very
792 // start (indices 0-1); the 4 tokens that followed it are
793 // "3 4 5 9" (capped at max_draft_len=4).
794 let history = vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 9, 9, 1, 2];
795 assert_eq!(spec.propose_tokens(&history), vec![3, 4, 5, 9]);
796 assert_eq!(
797 spec.propose(&history, &[], 8),
798 DraftBlock::deterministic(vec![3, 4, 5, 9])
799 );
800 }
801
802 #[test]
803 fn respects_max_draft_len() {
804 let spec = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 2);
805 let history = vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 1, 2];
806 assert_eq!(spec.propose_tokens(&history), vec![3, 4]);
807 }
808
809 #[test]
810 fn returns_empty_when_no_earlier_match_exists() {
811 let spec = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 4);
812 let history = vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
813 assert_eq!(spec.propose_tokens(&history), Vec::<usize>::new());
814 }
815
816 #[test]
817 fn returns_empty_when_history_too_short() {
818 let spec = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(3, 4);
819 let history = vec![1, 2, 3];
820 assert_eq!(spec.propose_tokens(&history), Vec::<usize>::new());
821 }
822
823 #[test]
824 fn finds_the_most_recent_match_when_several_exist() {
825 let spec = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(1, 3);
826 // needle = [9]. Earlier occurrences at index 0 (-> [8,7,6]) and
827 // index 4 (-> [5,4,9]); most recent (index 4) should win.
828 let history = vec![9, 8, 7, 6, 9, 5, 4, 9];
829 assert_eq!(spec.propose_tokens(&history), vec![5, 4, 9]);
830 }
831
832 #[test]
833 fn the_trait_caps_a_block_at_the_callers_budget() {
834 let mut spec = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 4);
835 let history = vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 9, 9, 1, 2];
836 let block = spec.propose(&history, &[], 2);
837 assert_eq!(block.tokens(), &[3, 4]);
838 assert_eq!(block.dists().len(), 2);
839 }
840
841 // ---- the rejection rule ----
842
843 #[test]
844 fn a_draft_at_least_as_likely_under_the_target_is_always_accepted() {
845 let target = vec![0.6f32, 0.3, 0.1];
846 let draft = DraftDist::from_dense(&[0.5, 0.4, 0.1]);
847 let mut rng = Sampler::new(1);
848 for _ in 0..100 {
849 // p(0)=0.6 >= q(0)=0.5, so token 0 is never rejected.
850 assert_eq!(accept_or_resample(&target, &draft, 0, &mut rng), None);
851 }
852 }
853
854 #[test]
855 fn a_draft_the_target_rules_out_is_always_rejected() {
856 let target = vec![0.5f32, 0.5, 0.0];
857 let draft = DraftDist::deterministic(2);
858 let mut rng = Sampler::new(2);
859 for _ in 0..50 {
860 let replacement = accept_or_resample(&target, &draft, 2, &mut rng);
861 let tok = replacement.expect("p(2) = 0 means token 2 can never be accepted");
862 assert!(tok < 2, "residual must never resample the rejected token");
863 }
864 }
865
866 #[test]
867 fn resampling_reproduces_the_target_distribution() {
868 // THE invariant. Draw a token from the draft distribution, run
869 // it through the accept/reject rule, and the result must be
870 // distributed as the TARGET, no matter how bad the draft is.
871 //
872 // A test that only checked "it runs" would pass on the old
873 // argmax rule, which concentrates mass on the target's argmax
874 // and is not the target distribution at all.
875 let target = vec![0.30f32, 0.25, 0.20, 0.15, 0.07, 0.03];
876 let drafts = [
877 // A drafter that is simply wrong about which token is likely.
878 DraftDist::from_dense(&[0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.10, 0.30, 0.50]),
879 // A deterministic drafter, i.e. prompt lookup.
880 DraftDist::deterministic(3),
881 // A drafter whose support misses most of the target's.
882 DraftDist::from_support(vec![(0, 0.5), (5, 0.5)]),
883 // A perfect drafter.
884 DraftDist::from_dense(&target),
885 ];
886 let draws = 200_000;
887 for (d, draft) in drafts.iter().enumerate() {
888 let mut rng = Sampler::new(0xA11CE + d as u64);
889 let mut counts = vec![0usize; target.len()];
890 for _ in 0..draws {
891 // Sample the draft token from the draft distribution --
892 // the rule is only lossless when q is honest about
893 // where the token came from.
894 let dense = {
895 let mut v = vec![0.0f32; target.len()];
896 for &(t, p) in draft.support() {
897 v[t] = p;
898 }
899 v
900 };
901 let x = rng.sample_from(&dense);
902 let out = accept_or_resample(&target, draft, x, &mut rng).unwrap_or(x);
903 counts[out] += 1;
904 }
905 let tv: f64 = counts
906 .iter()
907 .enumerate()
908 .map(|(i, &c)| (c as f64 / draws as f64 - target[i] as f64).abs())
909 .sum::<f64>()
910 / 2.0;
911 assert!(
912 tv < 0.01,
913 "draft {d}: speculative output distribution differs from the target \
914 (total variation {tv:.4}); counts={counts:?}"
915 );
916 }
917 }
918
919 // ---- speculative_decode correctness tests ----
920
921 #[test]
922 fn speculative_decode_matches_greedy_token_for_token() {
923 // Quality-neutrality at temperature 0: token-for-token identity
924 // against a plain sequential forward_token loop on a
925 // separately constructed but identically-seeded decoder.
926 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
927 let vocab = 8;
928 let prompt = vec![1usize, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2];
929 let max_new = 6;
930
931 let decoder_a = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg.clone(), 2, vocab);
932 let mut caches_a = caches(&decoder_a);
933 let mut speculator = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 3);
934 let result =
935 speculative_decode(&decoder_a, &prompt, max_new, &mut caches_a, &mut speculator);
936
937 let decoder_b = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, vocab);
938 let mut caches_b = caches(&decoder_b);
939 let mut pending = decoder_b
940 .forward_batch(&prompt, 0, &mut caches_b)
941 .pop()
942 .unwrap();
943 let mut greedy = Vec::with_capacity(max_new);
944 for pos in (prompt.len()..).take(max_new) {
945 let tok = argmax(&pending);
946 greedy.push(tok);
947 pending = decoder_b.forward_token(tok, pos, &mut caches_b);
948 }
949
950 assert_eq!(
951 result.generated_tokens, greedy,
952 "speculative decode must produce exactly the same tokens as plain greedy decode"
953 );
954 }
955
956 /// The exact per-position marginal distributions of plain
957 /// token-at-a-time sampling from `decoder`, by enumerating every
958 /// prefix rather than sampling them. Only tractable because the
959 /// test model has a 6-token vocabulary and the horizon is 3, but
960 /// worth it: the speculative sampler is then compared against the
961 /// truth, not against a second noisy estimate of it.
962 fn exact_marginals(
963 decoder: &Decoder,
964 prompt: &[usize],
965 params: &SamplingParams,
966 depth: usize,
967 vocab: usize,
968 ) -> Vec<Vec<f64>> {
969 #[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
970 fn walk(
971 decoder: &Decoder,
972 kv: &[KvCache],
973 logits: &[f32],
974 history: &mut Vec<usize>,
975 weight: f64,
976 level: usize,
977 depth: usize,
978 pos: usize,
979 params: &SamplingParams,
980 marginals: &mut [Vec<f64>],
981 ) {
982 // `history` is already prompt-then-generated, and the
983 // window only ever reads the tail of the two halves
984 // together, so the whole sequence goes in the first one.
985 let probs = sampling_distribution(logits, params, PenaltyWindow::new(history, &[]));
986 for (token, &p) in probs.iter().enumerate() {
987 if p <= 0.0 {
988 continue;
989 }
990 marginals[level][token] += weight * p as f64;
991 if level + 1 == depth {
992 continue;
993 }
994 let mut branch: Vec<KvCache> = kv.to_vec();
995 let next = decoder.forward_token(token, pos, &mut branch);
996 history.push(token);
997 walk(
998 decoder,
999 &branch,
1000 &next,
1001 history,
1002 weight * p as f64,
1003 level + 1,
1004 depth,
1005 pos + 1,
1006 params,
1007 marginals,
1008 );
1009 history.pop();
1010 }
1011 }
1012
1013 let mut marginals = vec![vec![0.0f64; vocab]; depth];
1014 let mut kv = caches(decoder);
1015 let logits = decoder.forward_batch(prompt, 0, &mut kv).pop().unwrap();
1016 let mut history = prompt.to_vec();
1017 walk(
1018 decoder,
1019 &kv,
1020 &logits,
1021 &mut history,
1022 1.0,
1023 0,
1024 depth,
1025 prompt.len(),
1026 params,
1027 &mut marginals,
1028 );
1029 marginals
1030 }
1031
1032 /// Speculation and plain token-at-a-time decoding must agree about
1033 /// WHICH tokens the penalties look back over, including the prompt.
1034 ///
1035 /// This is issue #55's other half. `SpeculativeOptions` used to
1036 /// carry a `penalty_history_start` knob whose only job was to let a
1037 /// caller line the two paths up by hand, which meant nothing failed
1038 /// when they drifted -- and `--model-draft` shipped setting it to
1039 /// `prompt.len()` because the plain loop penalised the generated
1040 /// tokens alone. Both now go through `PenaltyWindow`, and this test
1041 /// is what notices if one of them stops.
1042 ///
1043 /// Greedy on purpose: the assertion is token-for-token equality, so
1044 /// a one-token disagreement in the window is a hard failure rather
1045 /// than a shift in a sampled distribution. The prompt repeats
1046 /// tokens 1 and 2, so the penalty has something to bite on from the
1047 /// very first generated position.
1048 #[test]
1049 fn speculation_and_plain_decoding_penalise_the_same_window() {
1050 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1051 let vocab = 6;
1052 let prompt = vec![0usize, 1, 2, 3, 1];
1053 let max_new = 6;
1054 let params = SamplingParams {
1055 temperature: 0.0,
1056 repetition_penalty: 3.0,
1057 penalty_last_n: 8,
1058 ..SamplingParams::default()
1059 };
1060
1061 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, vocab);
1062
1063 // Plain token-at-a-time decoding, penalising over the same
1064 // window `Sampler::sample` would use on any decode loop.
1065 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1066 let mut pos = 0usize;
1067 let mut logits = Vec::new();
1068 for &tok in &prompt {
1069 logits = decoder.forward_token(tok, pos, &mut kv);
1070 pos += 1;
1071 }
1072 let mut sampler = Sampler::new(7);
1073 let mut plain: Vec<usize> = Vec::new();
1074 for _ in 0..max_new {
1075 let next = sampler.sample(&logits, ¶ms, PenaltyWindow::new(&prompt, &plain));
1076 plain.push(next);
1077 logits = decoder.forward_token(next, pos, &mut kv);
1078 pos += 1;
1079 }
1080
1081 let mut speculator = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 3);
1082 let mut spec_kv = caches(&decoder);
1083 let out = speculative_decode_with(
1084 &decoder,
1085 &prompt,
1086 &mut spec_kv,
1087 &mut speculator,
1088 &SpeculativeOptions {
1089 max_new_tokens: max_new,
1090 sampling: params.clone(),
1091 seed: 7,
1092 ..SpeculativeOptions::default()
1093 },
1094 );
1095 assert_eq!(
1096 out.generated_tokens, plain,
1097 "speculation changed the text at --repeat-penalty {}",
1098 params.repetition_penalty
1099 );
1100
1101 // And the penalty is doing something here, or the equality
1102 // above is satisfied by a window nobody reads.
1103 let mut off = params.clone();
1104 off.repetition_penalty = 1.0;
1105 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1106 let mut pos = 0usize;
1107 let mut logits = Vec::new();
1108 for &tok in &prompt {
1109 logits = decoder.forward_token(tok, pos, &mut kv);
1110 pos += 1;
1111 }
1112 let mut sampler = Sampler::new(7);
1113 let mut unpenalised: Vec<usize> = Vec::new();
1114 for _ in 0..max_new {
1115 let next = sampler.sample(&logits, &off, PenaltyWindow::new(&prompt, &unpenalised));
1116 unpenalised.push(next);
1117 logits = decoder.forward_token(next, pos, &mut kv);
1118 pos += 1;
1119 }
1120 assert_ne!(
1121 unpenalised, plain,
1122 "the penalty must change this generation, or the agreement above proves nothing"
1123 );
1124 }
1125
1126 #[test]
1127 fn speculative_decode_at_temperature_matches_plain_sampling() {
1128 // The end-to-end half of the losslessness claim, and the one
1129 // the old argmax accept test fails: at temperature > 0 the
1130 // per-position output distribution of speculative decoding must
1131 // equal that of plain token-at-a-time sampling from the same
1132 // target. Argmax matching passes every other test in this file
1133 // and fails this one, because accepting a draft only when it is
1134 // the target's most likely token pushes mass onto the argmax.
1135 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1136 let vocab = 6;
1137 let prompt = vec![1usize, 2, 3, 1, 2];
1138 let max_new = 3;
1139 let params = SamplingParams {
1140 temperature: 1.0,
1141 ..SamplingParams::default()
1142 };
1143 let seeds = 4_000u64;
1144
1145 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 1, vocab);
1146 let mut speculator = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 3);
1147 let exact = exact_marginals(&decoder, &prompt, ¶ms, max_new, vocab);
1148
1149 let mut spec_counts = vec![vec![0usize; vocab]; max_new];
1150 for seed in 0..seeds {
1151 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1152 let out = speculative_decode_with(
1153 &decoder,
1154 &prompt,
1155 &mut kv,
1156 &mut speculator,
1157 &SpeculativeOptions {
1158 max_new_tokens: max_new,
1159 sampling: params.clone(),
1160 seed,
1161 ..SpeculativeOptions::default()
1162 },
1163 );
1164 for (i, &t) in out.generated_tokens.iter().enumerate() {
1165 spec_counts[i][t] += 1;
1166 }
1167 }
1168
1169 for i in 0..max_new {
1170 let tv: f64 = (0..vocab)
1171 .map(|t| (spec_counts[i][t] as f64 / seeds as f64 - exact[i][t]).abs())
1172 .sum::<f64>()
1173 / 2.0;
1174 assert!(
1175 tv < 0.03,
1176 "position {i}: speculative sampling drifted from the target's own \
1177 distribution (total variation {tv:.4})\n speculative = {:?}\n exact = {:?}",
1178 spec_counts[i]
1179 .iter()
1180 .map(|&c| c as f64 / seeds as f64)
1181 .collect::<Vec<_>>(),
1182 exact[i]
1183 );
1184 }
1185 }
1186
1187 #[test]
1188 fn speculative_decode_saves_real_calls_when_drafts_hit() {
1189 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1190 let vocab = 8;
1191 let prompt = vec![1usize, 2, 3, 1, 2];
1192 let max_new = 8;
1193
1194 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, vocab);
1195 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1196 let mut speculator = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 4);
1197 let result = speculative_decode(&decoder, &prompt, max_new, &mut kv, &mut speculator);
1198
1199 assert_eq!(result.tokens_generated, max_new);
1200 // Plain sequential decode needs exactly `max_new` calls here:
1201 // one prefill plus one per token except the last, whose KV is
1202 // never needed. Speculation must never need more.
1203 assert!(
1204 result.forward_calls <= max_new,
1205 "speculative decode must never need MORE forward_batch calls than plain \
1206 sequential decode would (calls={}, tokens={})",
1207 result.forward_calls,
1208 max_new
1209 );
1210 }
1211
1212 #[test]
1213 fn speculative_decode_with_no_repeats_falls_back_to_one_token_per_call() {
1214 // A prompt with no internal repeats at all must still work
1215 // correctly, just without any speedup.
1216 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1217 let vocab = 8;
1218 let prompt = vec![1usize, 2, 3];
1219 let max_new = 5;
1220
1221 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, vocab);
1222 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1223 let mut speculator = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(10, 4); // ngram far longer than any possible history
1224 let result = speculative_decode(&decoder, &prompt, max_new, &mut kv, &mut speculator);
1225
1226 assert_eq!(result.tokens_generated, max_new);
1227 assert_eq!(
1228 result.forward_calls,
1229 1 + max_new - 1,
1230 "prefill (1 call) + one call per token, minus the last token, whose KV is \
1231 never needed because generation stopped"
1232 );
1233 assert_eq!(result.drafted_tokens, 0);
1234 assert_eq!(result.accept_rate(), None);
1235 }
1236
1237 // ---- drafter trait plumbing ----
1238
1239 #[test]
1240 fn the_drafter_is_asked_to_continue_the_anchor_token() {
1241 // The block the drafter proposes lands *after* the pending
1242 // token, so the history it sees must already contain it.
1243 // Drafting from a history that stopped one token short would
1244 // shift every proposal by one position and quietly halve the
1245 // accept rate without breaking any output-correctness test.
1246 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1247 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, 8);
1248 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1249 let prompt = vec![1usize, 2, 3];
1250 let mut drafter = FixedDrafter::new(DraftBlock::deterministic(vec![5, 6]));
1251
1252 let result = speculative_decode(&decoder, &prompt, 4, &mut kv, &mut drafter);
1253
1254 let seen = drafter.seen_history.borrow();
1255 assert!(!seen.is_empty(), "the drafter must actually be consulted");
1256 for (round, history) in seen.iter().enumerate() {
1257 assert_eq!(
1258 history.len(),
1259 prompt.len() + round + 1,
1260 "round {round}: history must grow by the committed tokens"
1261 );
1262 assert_eq!(
1263 history[..prompt.len()],
1264 prompt[..],
1265 "the prompt must stay at the front of the drafter's history"
1266 );
1267 }
1268 assert_eq!(seen[0][prompt.len()], result.generated_tokens[0]);
1269 }
1270
1271 #[test]
1272 fn the_drafter_receives_the_targets_hidden_state() {
1273 // The conditioning tensor dFlash/EAGLE need. It is already
1274 // computed by verification; the trait exists so it stops being
1275 // discarded.
1276 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1277 let hidden_dim = cfg.hidden_dim;
1278 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, 8);
1279 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1280 let mut drafter = FixedDrafter::new(DraftBlock::deterministic(vec![5, 6]));
1281
1282 speculative_decode(&decoder, &[1usize, 2, 3], 4, &mut kv, &mut drafter);
1283
1284 let lens = drafter.seen_hidden_len.borrow();
1285 assert!(!lens.is_empty());
1286 for len in lens.iter() {
1287 assert_eq!(
1288 *len, hidden_dim,
1289 "every round must pass a full target hidden state, not an empty slice"
1290 );
1291 }
1292 }
1293
1294 // ---- cache resume + rollback arithmetic ----
1295
1296 #[test]
1297 fn resuming_a_warm_cache_gives_the_same_tokens_as_one_fresh_run() {
1298 // The serving shape: a prefix cache hands the decode loop a
1299 // cache that already holds part of the context.
1300 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1301 let vocab = 8;
1302 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, vocab);
1303 let mut speculator = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 3);
1304 let full_prompt = vec![1usize, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2];
1305 let max_new = 6;
1306
1307 let mut fresh = caches(&decoder);
1308 let cold = speculative_decode(&decoder, &full_prompt, max_new, &mut fresh, &mut speculator);
1309
1310 // Warm: feed the first 4 prompt tokens through the decoder
1311 // first, then resume speculative decoding from position 4.
1312 let split = 4;
1313 let mut warm = caches(&decoder);
1314 decoder.forward_batch(&full_prompt[..split], 0, &mut warm);
1315 let resumed = speculative_decode_with(
1316 &decoder,
1317 &full_prompt[split..],
1318 &mut warm,
1319 &mut speculator,
1320 &SpeculativeOptions {
1321 max_new_tokens: max_new,
1322 start_pos: split,
1323 ..SpeculativeOptions::default()
1324 },
1325 );
1326
1327 assert_eq!(
1328 resumed.generated_tokens, cold.generated_tokens,
1329 "resuming a warm cache must not change the output"
1330 );
1331 }
1332
1333 #[test]
1334 fn rolls_back_to_absolute_positions_on_a_warm_cache() {
1335 // Rollback lengths are absolute cache lengths, not offsets from
1336 // the start of this call. With a warm cache the two differ by
1337 // start_pos, and a rollback that used the offset would truncate
1338 // into the caller's context. Forced rejections every round make
1339 // the rollback path run every round.
1340 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1341 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, 8);
1342 // Token 7 is a fixed guess; whether it is accepted is up to the
1343 // model, but the invariant below holds either way.
1344 let mut drafter = FixedDrafter::new(DraftBlock::deterministic(vec![7, 7, 7]));
1345 let context = vec![1usize, 2, 3, 4];
1346 let prompt = vec![5usize, 6];
1347 let max_new = 6;
1348
1349 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1350 decoder.forward_batch(&context, 0, &mut kv);
1351 assert_eq!(kv[0].seq_len, context.len());
1352
1353 let result = speculative_decode_with(
1354 &decoder,
1355 &prompt,
1356 &mut kv,
1357 &mut drafter,
1358 &SpeculativeOptions {
1359 max_new_tokens: max_new,
1360 start_pos: context.len(),
1361 ..SpeculativeOptions::default()
1362 },
1363 );
1364
1365 assert_eq!(result.tokens_generated, max_new);
1366 // Exact invariant: the cache holds the context, the prompt and
1367 // every generated token except the last (whose KV is not
1368 // computed until it is fed).
1369 let expected = context.len() + prompt.len() + result.tokens_generated - 1;
1370 for cache in kv.iter() {
1371 assert_eq!(
1372 cache.seq_len,
1373 expected,
1374 "cache length must be absolute: context {} + prompt {} + generated {} - 1",
1375 context.len(),
1376 prompt.len(),
1377 result.tokens_generated
1378 );
1379 }
1380 }
1381
1382 #[test]
1383 fn a_resumed_run_continues_a_previous_one() {
1384 // Two back-to-back calls on the same caches must equal one long
1385 // call: this is what "not a demo" means for the serving path.
1386 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1387 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, 8);
1388 let mut speculator = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 3);
1389 let prompt = vec![1usize, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2];
1390
1391 let mut one = caches(&decoder);
1392 let long = speculative_decode(&decoder, &prompt, 8, &mut one, &mut speculator);
1393
1394 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1395 let first = speculative_decode(&decoder, &prompt, 4, &mut kv, &mut speculator);
1396 // The last generated token's KV is not in the cache yet, so it
1397 // is the first token of the continuation's "prompt".
1398 let resume_prompt = vec![*first.generated_tokens.last().unwrap()];
1399 let start = prompt.len() + first.tokens_generated - 1;
1400 let second = speculative_decode_with(
1401 &decoder,
1402 &resume_prompt,
1403 &mut kv,
1404 &mut speculator,
1405 &SpeculativeOptions {
1406 max_new_tokens: 5,
1407 start_pos: start,
1408 ..SpeculativeOptions::default()
1409 },
1410 );
1411
1412 let mut stitched = first.generated_tokens.clone();
1413 stitched.pop(); // re-fed as the continuation's prompt
1414 stitched.extend_from_slice(&second.generated_tokens);
1415 assert_eq!(
1416 &stitched[..8],
1417 &long.generated_tokens[..],
1418 "a decode split across two calls must equal the same decode in one"
1419 );
1420 }
1421
1422 #[test]
1423 #[should_panic(expected = "start_pos must be the caches' current length")]
1424 fn a_mismatched_start_pos_is_refused_rather_than_silently_wrong() {
1425 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1426 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, 8);
1427 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1428 decoder.forward_batch(&[1usize, 2, 3], 0, &mut kv);
1429 let mut speculator = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 2);
1430 speculative_decode(&decoder, &[4usize, 5], 2, &mut kv, &mut speculator);
1431 }
1432
1433 // ---- acceptance metrics ----
1434
1435 #[test]
1436 fn per_position_accept_rates_expose_suffix_decay() {
1437 // A drafter whose first guess is always right and whose later
1438 // guesses are always wrong has the same mean accept rate as one
1439 // that is uniformly mediocre. Only the per-position curve tells
1440 // them apart, which is the whole reason it exists.
1441 let mut result = SpeculativeDecodeResult::default();
1442 for _ in 0..100 {
1443 result.record_position(0, true);
1444 result.record_position(1, false);
1445 }
1446 result.verification_steps = 100;
1447 result.tokens_generated = 200;
1448
1449 assert_eq!(result.accept_rate(), Some(0.5));
1450 assert_eq!(result.accept_rate_per_position(), vec![1.0, 0.0]);
1451 assert_eq!(result.acceptance_length(), Some(2.0));
1452 }
1453
1454 #[test]
1455 fn positions_after_a_rejection_are_not_counted_as_drafted() {
1456 // A round that rejects at position 0 never evaluates positions
1457 // 1..k. Counting them would report an accept rate that falls
1458 // with the block size rather than with the drafter's accuracy.
1459 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1460 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, 8);
1461 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1462 // Token 7 against a random model: whatever happens, every
1463 // counted position must have been reachable.
1464 let mut drafter = FixedDrafter::new(DraftBlock::deterministic(vec![7, 7, 7, 7]));
1465 let result = speculative_decode(&decoder, &[1usize, 2, 3], 6, &mut kv, &mut drafter);
1466
1467 let evaluated = &result.evaluated_at_position;
1468 let accepted = &result.accepted_at_position;
1469 assert!(
1470 result.drafted_tokens > result.accepted_tokens,
1471 "the scenario is pointless unless something was actually rejected \
1472 (drafted {}, accepted {})",
1473 result.drafted_tokens,
1474 result.accepted_tokens
1475 );
1476 // The sharp invariant: position i+1 is only reached when
1477 // position i was accepted, so it can never have been evaluated
1478 // more often. Merely checking that the counts are
1479 // non-increasing is not enough -- crediting every position of
1480 // every proposed block, rejected or not, keeps them
1481 // non-increasing (it makes them equal) while reporting an
1482 // accept rate that decays with the block size rather than with
1483 // the drafter.
1484 for (i, &seen) in evaluated.iter().enumerate().skip(1) {
1485 assert!(
1486 seen <= accepted[i - 1],
1487 "position {i} was evaluated {seen} times but position {} was only \
1488 accepted {} times: evaluated={evaluated:?} accepted={accepted:?}",
1489 i - 1,
1490 accepted[i - 1]
1491 );
1492 }
1493 assert_eq!(
1494 result.drafted_tokens,
1495 evaluated.iter().sum::<usize>(),
1496 "drafted_tokens must be the per-position counts' total"
1497 );
1498 assert_eq!(
1499 result.accepted_tokens,
1500 result.accepted_at_position.iter().sum::<usize>()
1501 );
1502 assert!(result.accepted_tokens <= result.drafted_tokens);
1503 }
1504
1505 #[test]
1506 fn acceptance_length_is_reported_per_verification_step_not_per_call() {
1507 // The published metric divides by verification steps; charging
1508 // the one-off prefill against it understates short runs.
1509 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1510 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, 8);
1511 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1512 let mut speculator = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 3);
1513 let result =
1514 speculative_decode(&decoder, &[1usize, 2, 3, 1, 2], 6, &mut kv, &mut speculator);
1515
1516 assert_eq!(result.verification_steps, result.forward_calls - 1);
1517 let length = result.acceptance_length().unwrap();
1518 assert!(length >= 1.0, "every verification step commits >= 1 token");
1519 assert!(
1520 length > result.tokens_per_call(),
1521 "acceptance length must not be diluted by the prefill call"
1522 );
1523 }
1524
1525 #[test]
1526 fn an_empty_run_reports_no_acceptance_length_rather_than_zero() {
1527 let result = SpeculativeDecodeResult::default();
1528 assert_eq!(result.acceptance_length(), None);
1529 assert_eq!(result.accept_rate(), None);
1530 assert_eq!(result.tokens_per_call(), 0.0);
1531 }
1532
1533 /// The observer sees exactly the committed tokens, in order, and
1534 /// stopping through it truncates the result to the token that said
1535 /// so.
1536 ///
1537 /// This is what lets `ferrox run` stream and stop on an EOS without
1538 /// a second copy of the verification loop. A copy is how this
1539 /// project lost five model features from one duplicated decode
1540 /// path, and the rejection rule is the last code in the tree that
1541 /// should be duplicated: a subtly wrong copy still looks lossless.
1542 #[test]
1543 fn the_observer_sees_every_committed_token_and_can_end_the_run() {
1544 let cfg = tiny_test_config();
1545 let vocab = 8;
1546 let prompt = vec![1usize, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2];
1547
1548 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg.clone(), 2, vocab);
1549 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1550 let mut spec = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 3);
1551
1552 let mut seen = Vec::new();
1553 let result = speculative_decode_observed(
1554 &decoder,
1555 &prompt,
1556 &mut kv,
1557 &mut spec,
1558 &mut |t| {
1559 seen.push(t);
1560 true
1561 },
1562 &SpeculativeOptions {
1563 max_new_tokens: 6,
1564 start_pos: 0,
1565 sampling: SamplingParams::default(),
1566 seed: 0,
1567 },
1568 );
1569 assert_eq!(
1570 seen, result.generated_tokens,
1571 "the observer must see exactly what the run returns, in order"
1572 );
1573
1574 // Now stop after three tokens.
1575 let decoder = Decoder::new_random_small(cfg, 2, vocab);
1576 let mut kv = caches(&decoder);
1577 let mut spec = PromptLookupSpeculator::new(2, 3);
1578 let mut count = 0usize;
1579 let stopped = speculative_decode_observed(
1580 &decoder,
1581 &prompt,
1582 &mut kv,
1583 &mut spec,
1584 &mut |_| {
1585 count += 1;
1586 count < 3
1587 },
1588 &SpeculativeOptions {
1589 max_new_tokens: 6,
1590 start_pos: 0,
1591 sampling: SamplingParams::default(),
1592 seed: 0,
1593 },
1594 );
1595 assert_eq!(
1596 stopped.generated_tokens.len(),
1597 3,
1598 "the run must end at the token that said stop, not at the end of its block"
1599 );
1600 assert_eq!(
1601 stopped.generated_tokens,
1602 result.generated_tokens[..3],
1603 "and the tokens up to the stop must be the ones an unstopped run produced"
1604 );
1605 }
1606}