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vllm.model_executor.models.transformers.moe

Transformers modeling backend mixin for Mixture of Experts (MoE) models.

Classes:

MoEMixin

Bases: MixtureOfExperts

Methods:

Source code in vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/moe.py
class MoEMixin(MixtureOfExperts):
    def __init__(self, *, vllm_config: "VllmConfig", prefix: str = ""):
        self.check_version("5.0.0", "MoE models support")
        # Skip MixtureOfExperts.__init__ and call the next class in MRO
        super(MixtureOfExperts, self).__init__(vllm_config=vllm_config, prefix=prefix)

    def update_physical_experts_metadata(
        self,
        num_physical_experts: int,
        num_local_physical_experts: int,
    ):
        assert self.num_local_physical_experts == num_local_physical_experts
        self.num_physical_experts = num_physical_experts
        self.num_local_physical_experts = num_local_physical_experts
        self.num_redundant_experts = num_physical_experts - self.num_logical_experts
        for moe_block in self.mlp_layers:
            moe_block.n_local_physical_experts = num_local_physical_experts
            moe_block.n_physical_experts = num_physical_experts
            moe_block.n_redundant_experts = self.num_redundant_experts
            moe_block.experts.update_expert_map()

    def recursive_replace(self):
        """Initialize the MoE layers."""
        experts_name = "experts"
        text_config = self.text_config

        # Positional arguments
        num_experts = self.model_config.get_num_experts()
        top_k = getattr_iter(text_config, ["num_experts_per_tok", "top_k"], None)
        assert top_k is not None
        hidden_size = text_config.hidden_size
        intermediate_size = getattr_iter(
            text_config, ["moe_intermediate_size", "intermediate_size"], None
        )
        assert intermediate_size is not None

        num_shared_experts = getattr_iter(
            text_config,
            [
                "n_shared_experts",  # DeepSeek, Docs, GLM
                "moe_num_shared_experts",  # Aria, Ernie
            ],
            0,
        )

        # Unused kwargs since we use custom_routing_function:
        # - `scoring_func` and `e_score_correction_bias` only used for grouped
        #    topk routing inside vLLM and are non-trivial to infer
        #    and hard code `use_grouped_topk=False`
        # - `renormalize` passed anyway because it's easy to infer
        # - `num_expert_group` and `topk_group` used for inferring expert
        #    placement strategy in FusedMoE
        # - `apply_router_weight_on_input` is already applied in Transformers
        renormalize = getattr(text_config, "norm_topk_prob", top_k > 1)
        num_expert_group = getattr(text_config, "n_group", None)
        topk_group = getattr(text_config, "topk_group", None)

        # MoE activation function
        activation = "silu"
        wrapped_arch = self.config.architectures[0].lower()
        if "gptoss" in wrapped_arch:
            activation = "swigluoai"

        # Expert parallel load balancing kwargs
        enable_eplb = self.parallel_config.enable_eplb
        num_redundant_experts = self.parallel_config.eplb_config.num_redundant_experts

        # MixtureOfExperts mixin settings
        ep_size = get_ep_group().world_size

        self.mlp_layers = []  # Used for MixtureOfExperts methods
        self.moe_layers = []
        self.num_expert_groups = 1 if num_expert_group is None else num_expert_group
        self.num_logical_experts = num_experts
        self.num_physical_experts = num_experts + num_redundant_experts
        self.num_local_physical_experts = self.num_physical_experts // ep_size
        self.num_routed_experts = num_experts
        self.num_shared_experts = num_shared_experts
        self.num_redundant_experts = num_redundant_experts

        # Recursively fuse MoE layers
        def _recursive_replace(module: nn.Module, prefix: str):
            for child_name, child_module in module.named_children():
                qual_name = maybe_prefix(prefix, child_name)
                # Naive implementations will have experts as ModuleList
                is_modulelist = isinstance(child_module, nn.ModuleList)
                # Packed implementations will have experts as 3D tensors of shapes like:
                # gate_up_proj = (num_experts, 2 * intermediate_size, hidden_size)
                # down_proj = (num_experts, intermediate_size, hidden_size)
                params = list(child_module.parameters())
                is_3d = len(params) > 0 and all(p.ndim == 3 for p in params)
                if child_name == experts_name and (is_modulelist or is_3d):
                    # Alias for readability
                    moe_block = module
                    experts = child_module
                    # Class of the fused block (parent of gate/experts/shared)
                    moe_block_cls = type(moe_block).__name__
                    experts_cls = type(experts).__name__
                    # Do the experts have biases
                    has_bias = False
                    for experts_param_name, _ in experts.named_parameters():
                        if "bias" in experts_param_name:
                            has_bias = True
                            break
                    # If the config does not specify num_shared_experts, but
                    # the model has shared experts, we assume there is one.
                    if self.num_shared_experts == 0:
                        for moe_block_param_name, _ in moe_block.named_parameters():
                            if "shared_expert" in moe_block_param_name:
                                self.num_shared_experts = 1
                                break

                    kwargs: dict[str, Any] = dict(
                        num_experts=num_experts,
                        top_k=top_k,
                        hidden_size=hidden_size,
                        intermediate_size=intermediate_size,
                        renormalize=renormalize,
                        use_grouped_topk=False,
                        quant_config=self.quant_config,
                        prefix=qual_name,
                        activation=activation,
                        enable_eplb=enable_eplb,
                        num_redundant_experts=num_redundant_experts,
                        has_bias=has_bias,
                        routed_experts_cls=TransformersRoutedExperts,
                    )
                    fuser = MoEBlockFuser.match(moe_block, experts_name)
                    if self.num_expert_groups <= 1 and fuser is not None:
                        # MoE block forward is fully replaced.
                        # gate/router and shared expert (if any) runs in FusedMoE.
                        kwargs |= dict(
                            scoring_func=fuser.scoring_func,
                            is_sequence_parallel=(
                                self.parallel_config.use_sequence_parallel_moe
                            ),
                            gate=fuser.gate(moe_block, prefix),
                            shared_experts=fuser.shared_experts(moe_block, prefix),
                        )
                        fuser.rewrite_forward(moe_block)
                        routed = "gate + experts"
                        if fuser.shared_name:
                            routed += " + shared experts"
                        logger.info_once(
                            "Fused: %s (%s) -> FusedMoE (internal routing)",
                            routed,
                            moe_block_cls,
                        )
                    else:
                        # MoE block forward is unmodified.
                        # gate/router and shared expert (if any) runs in Transformers.
                        # We then smuggle the topk_ids in using a custom op.
                        moe_state = TransformersMoEState()

                        def custom_routing_function(
                            hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
                            gating_output: torch.Tensor,
                            topk: int,
                            renormalize: bool,
                            moe_state: TransformersMoEState,
                        ):
                            """Return `topk_weights` from `gating_output` and the
                            `topk_ids` we stored in the layer earlier."""
                            topk_weights = gating_output
                            topk_ids = moe_state.topk_ids
                            assert topk_ids is not None
                            # Handle all gather in expert parallel
                            if topk_ids.size(0) != hidden_states.size(0):
                                dp_metadata = get_forward_context().dp_metadata
                                sizes = dp_metadata.get_chunk_sizes_across_dp_rank()
                                is_sp = moe_state.is_sequence_parallel
                                group = get_ep_group() if is_sp else get_dp_group()
                                assert sizes[group.rank_in_group] == topk_ids.shape[0]
                                (topk_ids,) = group.all_gatherv([topk_ids], 0, sizes)
                            return topk_weights, topk_ids

                        kwargs |= dict(
                            num_expert_group=num_expert_group,
                            topk_group=topk_group,
                            custom_routing_function=partial(
                                custom_routing_function, moe_state=moe_state
                            ),
                            runner_cls=TransformersMoERunner,
                            runner_args={"moe_state": moe_state},
                        )
                        logger.info_once(
                            "Fused: experts (%s) -> FusedMoE (external routing)",
                            experts_cls,
                        )
                    fused_experts = FusedMoE(**kwargs)
                    moe_block.experts = fused_experts
                    log_replacement(qual_name, experts, fused_experts)
                    # Update MixtureOfExperts mixin state
                    self.mlp_layers.append(moe_block)
                    self.moe_layers.append(fused_experts)
                else:
                    _recursive_replace(child_module, prefix=qual_name)

        _recursive_replace(self.model, prefix="model")
        self.num_moe_layers = len(self.moe_layers)
        # Continue with the replacement of layers in Base
        super().recursive_replace()

recursive_replace()

Initialize the MoE layers.

Source code in vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/moe.py
def recursive_replace(self):
    """Initialize the MoE layers."""
    experts_name = "experts"
    text_config = self.text_config

    # Positional arguments
    num_experts = self.model_config.get_num_experts()
    top_k = getattr_iter(text_config, ["num_experts_per_tok", "top_k"], None)
    assert top_k is not None
    hidden_size = text_config.hidden_size
    intermediate_size = getattr_iter(
        text_config, ["moe_intermediate_size", "intermediate_size"], None
    )
    assert intermediate_size is not None

    num_shared_experts = getattr_iter(
        text_config,
        [
            "n_shared_experts",  # DeepSeek, Docs, GLM
            "moe_num_shared_experts",  # Aria, Ernie
        ],
        0,
    )

    # Unused kwargs since we use custom_routing_function:
    # - `scoring_func` and `e_score_correction_bias` only used for grouped
    #    topk routing inside vLLM and are non-trivial to infer
    #    and hard code `use_grouped_topk=False`
    # - `renormalize` passed anyway because it's easy to infer
    # - `num_expert_group` and `topk_group` used for inferring expert
    #    placement strategy in FusedMoE
    # - `apply_router_weight_on_input` is already applied in Transformers
    renormalize = getattr(text_config, "norm_topk_prob", top_k > 1)
    num_expert_group = getattr(text_config, "n_group", None)
    topk_group = getattr(text_config, "topk_group", None)

    # MoE activation function
    activation = "silu"
    wrapped_arch = self.config.architectures[0].lower()
    if "gptoss" in wrapped_arch:
        activation = "swigluoai"

    # Expert parallel load balancing kwargs
    enable_eplb = self.parallel_config.enable_eplb
    num_redundant_experts = self.parallel_config.eplb_config.num_redundant_experts

    # MixtureOfExperts mixin settings
    ep_size = get_ep_group().world_size

    self.mlp_layers = []  # Used for MixtureOfExperts methods
    self.moe_layers = []
    self.num_expert_groups = 1 if num_expert_group is None else num_expert_group
    self.num_logical_experts = num_experts
    self.num_physical_experts = num_experts + num_redundant_experts
    self.num_local_physical_experts = self.num_physical_experts // ep_size
    self.num_routed_experts = num_experts
    self.num_shared_experts = num_shared_experts
    self.num_redundant_experts = num_redundant_experts

    # Recursively fuse MoE layers
    def _recursive_replace(module: nn.Module, prefix: str):
        for child_name, child_module in module.named_children():
            qual_name = maybe_prefix(prefix, child_name)
            # Naive implementations will have experts as ModuleList
            is_modulelist = isinstance(child_module, nn.ModuleList)
            # Packed implementations will have experts as 3D tensors of shapes like:
            # gate_up_proj = (num_experts, 2 * intermediate_size, hidden_size)
            # down_proj = (num_experts, intermediate_size, hidden_size)
            params = list(child_module.parameters())
            is_3d = len(params) > 0 and all(p.ndim == 3 for p in params)
            if child_name == experts_name and (is_modulelist or is_3d):
                # Alias for readability
                moe_block = module
                experts = child_module
                # Class of the fused block (parent of gate/experts/shared)
                moe_block_cls = type(moe_block).__name__
                experts_cls = type(experts).__name__
                # Do the experts have biases
                has_bias = False
                for experts_param_name, _ in experts.named_parameters():
                    if "bias" in experts_param_name:
                        has_bias = True
                        break
                # If the config does not specify num_shared_experts, but
                # the model has shared experts, we assume there is one.
                if self.num_shared_experts == 0:
                    for moe_block_param_name, _ in moe_block.named_parameters():
                        if "shared_expert" in moe_block_param_name:
                            self.num_shared_experts = 1
                            break

                kwargs: dict[str, Any] = dict(
                    num_experts=num_experts,
                    top_k=top_k,
                    hidden_size=hidden_size,
                    intermediate_size=intermediate_size,
                    renormalize=renormalize,
                    use_grouped_topk=False,
                    quant_config=self.quant_config,
                    prefix=qual_name,
                    activation=activation,
                    enable_eplb=enable_eplb,
                    num_redundant_experts=num_redundant_experts,
                    has_bias=has_bias,
                    routed_experts_cls=TransformersRoutedExperts,
                )
                fuser = MoEBlockFuser.match(moe_block, experts_name)
                if self.num_expert_groups <= 1 and fuser is not None:
                    # MoE block forward is fully replaced.
                    # gate/router and shared expert (if any) runs in FusedMoE.
                    kwargs |= dict(
                        scoring_func=fuser.scoring_func,
                        is_sequence_parallel=(
                            self.parallel_config.use_sequence_parallel_moe
                        ),
                        gate=fuser.gate(moe_block, prefix),
                        shared_experts=fuser.shared_experts(moe_block, prefix),
                    )
                    fuser.rewrite_forward(moe_block)
                    routed = "gate + experts"
                    if fuser.shared_name:
                        routed += " + shared experts"
                    logger.info_once(
                        "Fused: %s (%s) -> FusedMoE (internal routing)",
                        routed,
                        moe_block_cls,
                    )
                else:
                    # MoE block forward is unmodified.
                    # gate/router and shared expert (if any) runs in Transformers.
                    # We then smuggle the topk_ids in using a custom op.
                    moe_state = TransformersMoEState()

                    def custom_routing_function(
                        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
                        gating_output: torch.Tensor,
                        topk: int,
                        renormalize: bool,
                        moe_state: TransformersMoEState,
                    ):
                        """Return `topk_weights` from `gating_output` and the
                        `topk_ids` we stored in the layer earlier."""
                        topk_weights = gating_output
                        topk_ids = moe_state.topk_ids
                        assert topk_ids is not None
                        # Handle all gather in expert parallel
                        if topk_ids.size(0) != hidden_states.size(0):
                            dp_metadata = get_forward_context().dp_metadata
                            sizes = dp_metadata.get_chunk_sizes_across_dp_rank()
                            is_sp = moe_state.is_sequence_parallel
                            group = get_ep_group() if is_sp else get_dp_group()
                            assert sizes[group.rank_in_group] == topk_ids.shape[0]
                            (topk_ids,) = group.all_gatherv([topk_ids], 0, sizes)
                        return topk_weights, topk_ids

                    kwargs |= dict(
                        num_expert_group=num_expert_group,
                        topk_group=topk_group,
                        custom_routing_function=partial(
                            custom_routing_function, moe_state=moe_state
                        ),
                        runner_cls=TransformersMoERunner,
                        runner_args={"moe_state": moe_state},
                    )
                    logger.info_once(
                        "Fused: experts (%s) -> FusedMoE (external routing)",
                        experts_cls,
                    )
                fused_experts = FusedMoE(**kwargs)
                moe_block.experts = fused_experts
                log_replacement(qual_name, experts, fused_experts)
                # Update MixtureOfExperts mixin state
                self.mlp_layers.append(moe_block)
                self.moe_layers.append(fused_experts)
            else:
                _recursive_replace(child_module, prefix=qual_name)

    _recursive_replace(self.model, prefix="model")
    self.num_moe_layers = len(self.moe_layers)
    # Continue with the replacement of layers in Base
    super().recursive_replace()

TransformersMoERunner

Bases: MoERunner

Custom FusedMoE for the Transformers modeling backend.

Methods:

  • forward

    In Transformers experts.forward will have this signature.

Source code in vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/moe.py
@PluggableLayer.register("transformers_fused_moe")
class TransformersMoERunner(MoERunner):
    """Custom FusedMoE for the Transformers modeling backend."""

    # --8<-- [end:transformers_fused_moe]
    def __init__(self, *args, moe_state: TransformersMoEState, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self._moe_state = moe_state
        self._moe_state.is_sequence_parallel = self.moe_config.is_sequence_parallel

    def forward(
        self,
        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
        topk_ids: torch.Tensor,
        topk_weights: torch.Tensor,
        **kwargs: Any,
    ) -> torch.Tensor:
        """In Transformers `experts.forward` will have this signature.

        We discard any extra kwargs because we cannot use them here."""
        # Note: we need to forward through a custom op so the topk_ids
        # can be transferred without interfering with cudagraphs.
        return torch.ops.vllm.transformers_moe_forward(
            hidden_states,
            topk_ids.to(torch.int32),
            topk_weights.to(torch.float32),
            self.layer_name,
        )

    def _forward_super(
        self,
        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
        topk_weights: torch.Tensor,
    ) -> torch.Tensor:
        return super().forward(hidden_states, topk_weights)

forward(hidden_states, topk_ids, topk_weights, **kwargs)

In Transformers experts.forward will have this signature.

We discard any extra kwargs because we cannot use them here.

Source code in vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/moe.py
def forward(
    self,
    hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
    topk_ids: torch.Tensor,
    topk_weights: torch.Tensor,
    **kwargs: Any,
) -> torch.Tensor:
    """In Transformers `experts.forward` will have this signature.

    We discard any extra kwargs because we cannot use them here."""
    # Note: we need to forward through a custom op so the topk_ids
    # can be transferred without interfering with cudagraphs.
    return torch.ops.vllm.transformers_moe_forward(
        hidden_states,
        topk_ids.to(torch.int32),
        topk_weights.to(torch.float32),
        self.layer_name,
    )

_transformers_moe_forward(hidden_states, topk_ids, topk_weights, layer_name)

Store the topk_ids in the layer and call the actual forward.

Source code in vllm/model_executor/models/transformers/moe.py
def _transformers_moe_forward(
    hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
    topk_ids: torch.Tensor,
    topk_weights: torch.Tensor,
    layer_name: str,
) -> torch.Tensor:
    """Store the `topk_ids` in the layer and call the actual forward."""
    forward_context: ForwardContext = get_forward_context()
    self = forward_context.no_compile_layers[layer_name]
    self._moe_state.topk_ids = topk_ids
    return self._forward_super(hidden_states, topk_weights)