feat: implement the min_tokens sampling parameter (#3124)

Signed-off-by: Travis Johnson <tsjohnso@us.ibm.com>
Co-authored-by: Nick Hill <nickhill@us.ibm.com>

tests/samplers/test_sampler.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from vllm.model_executor.layers.sampler import Sampler
 from vllm.model_executor.utils import set_random_seed
 from vllm.sequence import SamplingParams, SequenceData, SequenceGroupMetadata
 from vllm.worker.model_runner import ModelRunner
+from vllm.utils import Counter
 
 
 class MockLogitsSampler(Sampler):
@@ -25,9 +26,8 @@ class MockLogitsSampler(Sampler):
 def _prepare_test(
     batch_size: int
 ) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, MockLogitsSampler, ModelRunner]:
-    vocab_size = 32000
     input_tensor = torch.rand((batch_size, 1024), dtype=torch.float16)
-    fake_logits = torch.full((batch_size, vocab_size),
+    fake_logits = torch.full((batch_size, VOCAB_SIZE),
                              1e-2,
                              dtype=input_tensor.dtype)
     sampler = MockLogitsSampler(fake_logits)
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ def _prepare_test(
     return input_tensor, fake_logits, sampler, model_runner
 
 
+VOCAB_SIZE = 32000
 RANDOM_SEEDS = list(range(128))
 CUDA_DEVICES = [
     f"cuda:{i}" for i in range(1 if torch.cuda.device_count() == 1 else 2)
@@ -184,6 +185,225 @@ def test_sampler_all_beam(seed: int, device: str):
     del model_runner
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("seed", RANDOM_SEEDS)
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("device", CUDA_DEVICES)
+def test_sampler_min_tokens_penalty(seed: int, device: str):
+    seq_id_counter = Counter(start=random.randint(0, 100))
+    set_random_seed(seed)
+    torch.set_default_device(device)
+
+    def create_sampling_params(min_tokens,
+                               eos_token_id=0,
+                               stop_token_ids=None):
+        sampling_params = SamplingParams(
+            min_tokens=min_tokens,
+            max_tokens=9999,  # keep higher than max of min_tokens
+            stop_token_ids=stop_token_ids,
+        )
+        sampling_params.eos_token_id = eos_token_id
+        return sampling_params
+
+    def create_sequence_data(num_input=3, num_generated=0):
+        seq_data = SequenceData(
+            random.choices(range(0, VOCAB_SIZE), k=num_input))
+        if num_generated > 0:
+            seq_data.output_token_ids = random.choices(range(0, VOCAB_SIZE),
+                                                       k=num_generated)
+        return seq_data
+
+    def generate_test_case():
+        # generate multiple seq groups but limit total batch size
+        batch_size = random.randint(1, 128)
+
+        expected_penalization = []
+        sequence_metadata_list = []
+        while batch_size > 0:
+            # 20% chance to generate prompt seq group with single sequence
+            is_prompt = random.random() < 0.2
+            num_seqs = 1 if is_prompt else random.randint(1, batch_size)
+
+            eos_token_id = random.randint(0, VOCAB_SIZE - 1)
+            min_tokens = random.randint(0, 50)
+            num_stop_tokens = random.randint(0, 8)
+            if num_stop_tokens > 0:
+                stop_token_ids = random.choices(range(0, VOCAB_SIZE - 1),
+                                                k=num_stop_tokens)
+            else:
+                stop_token_ids = None
+
+            sampling_params = create_sampling_params(
+                min_tokens=min_tokens,
+                eos_token_id=eos_token_id,
+                stop_token_ids=stop_token_ids)
+
+            seq_data = {}
+            seq_group_penalization = []
+            for _ in range(num_seqs):
+                num_input = random.randint(1, 100)
+                num_generated = random.randint(1, 100) if not is_prompt else 0
+                seq_data[next(seq_id_counter)] = create_sequence_data(
+                    num_input=num_input, num_generated=num_generated)
+                seq_group_penalization.append(num_generated < min_tokens)
+
+            expected_penalization.extend(seq_group_penalization)
+            sequence_metadata_list.append(
+                SequenceGroupMetadata(
+                    request_id=f"test_{batch_size}",
+                    is_prompt=is_prompt,
+                    seq_data=seq_data,
+                    sampling_params=sampling_params,
+                    block_tables={},
+                ))
+            batch_size -= num_seqs
+
+        return {
+            "expected_penalization": expected_penalization,
+            "seq_group_metadata_list": sequence_metadata_list,
+        }
+
+    # define some explicit test cases for edge case behavior
+    prompt_without_penalization = {
+        "expected_penalization": [False],
+        "seq_group_metadata_list": [
+            SequenceGroupMetadata(
+                request_id="test_1",
+                is_prompt=True,
+                seq_data={
+                    next(seq_id_counter): create_sequence_data(),
+                },
+                sampling_params=create_sampling_params(0),
+                block_tables={},
+            ),
+        ]
+    }
+
+    prompt_with_penalization = {
+        "expected_penalization": [True],
+        "seq_group_metadata_list": [
+            SequenceGroupMetadata(
+                request_id="test_1",
+                is_prompt=True,
+                seq_data={
+                    next(seq_id_counter): create_sequence_data(),
+                },
+                sampling_params=create_sampling_params(1),
+                block_tables={},
+            ),
+        ]
+    }
+
+    stop_penalizing_after_min_tokens = {
+        "expected_penalization": [False],
+        "seq_group_metadata_list": [
+            SequenceGroupMetadata(
+                request_id="test_1",
+                is_prompt=False,
+                seq_data={
+                    next(seq_id_counter):
+                    create_sequence_data(num_generated=1),
+                },
+                sampling_params=create_sampling_params(1),
+                block_tables={},
+            )
+        ]
+    }
+
+    stop_token_ids = [42, 99, 42, 0]  # intentional duplication
+    simple_combination = {
+        "expected_penalization": [True, False, False],
+        "seq_group_metadata_list": [
+            SequenceGroupMetadata(
+                request_id="test_1",
+                is_prompt=False,
+                seq_data={
+                    next(seq_id_counter):
+                    create_sequence_data(num_generated=1),
+                    next(seq_id_counter):
+                    create_sequence_data(num_generated=100),
+                },
+                sampling_params=create_sampling_params(
+                    2, stop_token_ids=stop_token_ids),
+                block_tables={},
+            ),
+            SequenceGroupMetadata(
+                request_id="test_2",
+                is_prompt=True,
+                seq_data={
+                    next(seq_id_counter): create_sequence_data(),
+                },
+                sampling_params=create_sampling_params(
+                    0, stop_token_ids=stop_token_ids),
+                block_tables={},
+            )
+        ]
+    }
+
+    if seed == 0:
+        test_cases = [
+            prompt_without_penalization,
+            prompt_with_penalization,
+            stop_penalizing_after_min_tokens,
+            simple_combination,
+        ]
+    else:
+        test_cases = [generate_test_case()]
+
+    def run_test_case(*,
+                      expected_penalization=None,
+                      seq_group_metadata_list=None):
+        assert expected_penalization, "Invalid test case"
+        assert seq_group_metadata_list, "Invalid test case"
+
+        batch_size = 0
+        prompt_lens = []
+        sampling_params_per_seq = []
+        for sgm in seq_group_metadata_list:
+            num_seqs = len(sgm.seq_data)
+            batch_size += num_seqs
+            sampling_params = sgm.sampling_params
+            for seq_id in sgm.seq_data:
+                prompt_lens.append(sgm.seq_data[seq_id].get_prompt_len())
+                sampling_params_per_seq.append(sampling_params)
+
+        _, fake_logits, sampler, model_runner = _prepare_test(batch_size)
+        sampling_metadata = model_runner._prepare_sample(
+            seq_group_metadata_list,
+            prompt_lens=prompt_lens,
+            subquery_lens=prompt_lens)
+        # the logits tensor is modified in-place by the sampler
+        _ = sampler(logits=fake_logits, sampling_metadata=sampling_metadata)
+
+        for logits_idx, (should_penalize, sampling_params) in enumerate(
+                zip(expected_penalization, sampling_params_per_seq)):
+
+            tokens_to_check = [sampling_params.eos_token_id]
+            if sampling_params.stop_token_ids:
+                tokens_to_check.extend(sampling_params.stop_token_ids)
+            tokens_to_check = set(tokens_to_check)
+
+            if should_penalize:
+                for token_id in tokens_to_check:
+                    assert fake_logits[logits_idx, token_id] == -float(
+                        'inf'
+                    ), f"Expected token {token_id} for logits row {logits_idx}"
+                    " to be penalized"
+                # no other tokens should be set to -inf
+                assert torch.count_nonzero(
+                    fake_logits[logits_idx, :] == -float('inf')) == len(
+                        tokens_to_check
+                    ), f"Expected only {len(tokens_to_check)} to be penalized"
+            else:
+                # no tokens should be set to -inf
+                assert torch.count_nonzero(
+                    fake_logits[logits_idx, :] ==
+                    -float('inf')) == 0, "No tokens should have been penalized"
+
+        del model_runner
+
+    for test_case in test_cases:
+        run_test_case(**test_case)
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("seed", RANDOM_SEEDS)
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("device", CUDA_DEVICES)
 def test_sampler_mixed(seed: int, device: str):

vllm/engine/llm_engine.py

@@ -282,6 +282,9 @@ class LLMEngine:
         # Defensive copy of SamplingParams, which are used by the sampler,
         # this doesn't deep-copy LogitsProcessor objects
         sampling_params = sampling_params.clone()
+        # inject the eos token id into the sampling_params to support min_tokens
+        # processing
+        sampling_params.eos_token_id = seq.eos_token_id
 
         # Create the sequence group.
         seq_group = SequenceGroup(request_id, [seq], sampling_params,
@@ -713,6 +716,21 @@ class LLMEngine:
     def _check_stop(self, seq: Sequence,
                     sampling_params: SamplingParams) -> None:
         """Stop the finished sequences."""
+        # Check if the sequence has reached max_model_len.
+        if seq.get_len() > self.scheduler_config.max_model_len:
+            seq.status = SequenceStatus.FINISHED_LENGTH_CAPPED
+            return
+
+        # Check if the sequence has reached max_tokens.
+        if seq.get_output_len() == sampling_params.max_tokens:
+            seq.status = SequenceStatus.FINISHED_LENGTH_CAPPED
+            return
+
+        # Check if the minimum number of tokens has been generated yet;
+        # skip the stop string/token checks if not
+        if seq.get_output_len() < sampling_params.min_tokens:
+            return
+
         for stop_str in sampling_params.stop:
             if seq.output_text.endswith(stop_str):
                 self._finalize_sequence(seq, sampling_params, stop_str)
@@ -725,16 +743,6 @@ class LLMEngine:
             seq.status = SequenceStatus.FINISHED_STOPPED
             return
 
-        # Check if the sequence has reached max_model_len.
-        if seq.get_len() > self.scheduler_config.max_model_len:
-            seq.status = SequenceStatus.FINISHED_LENGTH_CAPPED
-            return
-
-        # Check if the sequence has reached max_tokens.
-        if seq.get_output_len() == sampling_params.max_tokens:
-            seq.status = SequenceStatus.FINISHED_LENGTH_CAPPED
-            return
-
         # Check if the sequence has generated the EOS token.
         if ((not sampling_params.ignore_eos)
                 and seq.get_last_token_id() == seq.eos_token_id):

vllm/entrypoints/openai/protocol.py

@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ class ChatCompletionRequest(BaseModel):
     length_penalty: Optional[float] = 1.0
     early_stopping: Optional[bool] = False
     ignore_eos: Optional[bool] = False
+    min_tokens: Optional[int] = 0
     stop_token_ids: Optional[List[int]] = Field(default_factory=list)
     skip_special_tokens: Optional[bool] = True
     spaces_between_special_tokens: Optional[bool] = True
@@ -165,6 +166,7 @@ class ChatCompletionRequest(BaseModel):
             stop=self.stop,
             stop_token_ids=self.stop_token_ids,
             max_tokens=self.max_tokens,
+            min_tokens=self.min_tokens,
             logprobs=self.top_logprobs if self.logprobs else None,
             prompt_logprobs=self.top_logprobs if self.echo else None,
             best_of=self.best_of,
@@ -224,6 +226,7 @@ class CompletionRequest(BaseModel):
     early_stopping: Optional[bool] = False
     stop_token_ids: Optional[List[int]] = Field(default_factory=list)
     ignore_eos: Optional[bool] = False
+    min_tokens: Optional[int] = 0
     skip_special_tokens: Optional[bool] = True
     spaces_between_special_tokens: Optional[bool] = True
     # doc: end-completion-sampling-params
@@ -296,6 +299,7 @@ class CompletionRequest(BaseModel):
             stop_token_ids=self.stop_token_ids,
             ignore_eos=self.ignore_eos,
             max_tokens=self.max_tokens if not echo_without_generation else 1,
+            min_tokens=self.min_tokens,
             logprobs=self.logprobs,
             use_beam_search=self.use_beam_search,
             early_stopping=self.early_stopping,

vllm/model_executor/layers/sampler.py

 """A layer that samples the next tokens from the model's outputs."""
+import itertools
 from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
 
 import torch
@@ -36,6 +37,10 @@ class Sampler(nn.Module):
         assert logits is not None
         _, vocab_size = logits.shape
 
+        # Apply min_tokens penalty which sets stop tokens to -inf if min_tokens
+        # have not been generated yet
+        logits = _apply_min_tokens_penalty(logits, sampling_metadata)
+
         # Prepare sampling tensors with pinned memory to avoid blocking.
         (sampling_tensors, do_penalties, do_top_p_top_k,
          do_min_p) = SamplingTensors.from_sampling_metadata(
@@ -94,6 +99,42 @@ def _get_bin_counts_and_mask(
     return bin_counts, mask
 
 
+def _apply_min_tokens_penalty(
+    logits: torch.Tensor,
+    sampling_metadata: SamplingMetadata,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    # list of indices in logits that will be set to -inf
+    logits_to_penalize = []
+    start_idx = 0
+    for seq_ids, sampling_params in sampling_metadata.seq_groups:
+        min_tokens = sampling_params.min_tokens
+        if min_tokens > 0:
+            seqs_to_penalize = []
+            for i, seq_id in enumerate(seq_ids):
+                seq_data = sampling_metadata.seq_data[seq_id]
+                if len(seq_data.output_token_ids) < min_tokens:
+                    seqs_to_penalize.append(i)
+
+            if seqs_to_penalize:
+                # convert to the index into logits
+                seqs_to_penalize = [start_idx + i for i in seqs_to_penalize]
+                # use set() to remove any duplicates
+                token_ids_to_penalize = set(sampling_params.stop_token_ids +
+                                            [sampling_params.eos_token_id])
+                # itertools.product pairs each seq index with every token id
+                logits_to_penalize.extend(
+                    itertools.product(seqs_to_penalize, token_ids_to_penalize))
+
+        start_idx += len(seq_ids)
+
+    if logits_to_penalize:
+        # use zip and * to group indices along each dimension
+        # eg. [ (1,2), (1,3), (5,6) ] -> ( (1,1,5), (2,3,6) )
+        logits[tuple(zip(*logits_to_penalize))] = -float("inf")
+
+    return logits
+
+
 def _apply_penalties(logits: torch.Tensor, prompt_tokens_tensor: torch.Tensor,
                      output_tokens_tensor: torch.Tensor,
                      presence_penalties: torch.Tensor,

vllm/sampling_params.py

@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ class SamplingParams:
         ignore_eos: Whether to ignore the EOS token and continue generating
             tokens after the EOS token is generated.
         max_tokens: Maximum number of tokens to generate per output sequence.
+        min_tokens: Minimum number of tokens to generate per output sequence
+            before EOS or stop_token_ids can be generated
         logprobs: Number of log probabilities to return per output token.
             Note that the implementation follows the OpenAI API: The return
             result includes the log probabilities on the `logprobs` most likely
@@ -113,6 +115,7 @@ class SamplingParams:
         include_stop_str_in_output: bool = False,
         ignore_eos: bool = False,
         max_tokens: Optional[int] = 16,
+        min_tokens: int = 0,
         logprobs: Optional[int] = None,
         prompt_logprobs: Optional[int] = None,
         skip_special_tokens: bool = True,
@@ -144,6 +147,7 @@ class SamplingParams:
             self.stop_token_ids = list(stop_token_ids)
         self.ignore_eos = ignore_eos
         self.max_tokens = max_tokens
+        self.min_tokens = min_tokens
         self.logprobs = logprobs
         self.prompt_logprobs = prompt_logprobs
         self.skip_special_tokens = skip_special_tokens
@@ -161,6 +165,8 @@ class SamplingParams:
                 self.top_k = -1
                 self.min_p = 0.0
                 self._verify_greedy_sampling()
+        # injected by the engine
+        self.eos_token_id = None
 
     def _verify_args(self) -> None:
         if self.n < 1:
@@ -191,6 +197,13 @@ class SamplingParams:
         if self.max_tokens is not None and self.max_tokens < 1:
             raise ValueError(
                 f"max_tokens must be at least 1, got {self.max_tokens}.")
+        if self.min_tokens < 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"min_tokens must be greater than or equal to 0, "
+                             f"got {self.min_tokens}.")
+        if self.max_tokens is not None and self.min_tokens > self.max_tokens:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"min_tokens must be less than or equal to "
+                f"max_tokens={self.max_tokens}, got {self.min_tokens}.")
         if self.logprobs is not None and self.logprobs < 0:
             raise ValueError(
                 f"logprobs must be non-negative, got {self.logprobs}.")
@@ -272,6 +285,7 @@ class SamplingParams:
             f"include_stop_str_in_output={self.include_stop_str_in_output}, "
             f"ignore_eos={self.ignore_eos}, "
             f"max_tokens={self.max_tokens}, "
+            f"min_tokens={self.min_tokens}, "
             f"logprobs={self.logprobs}, "
             f"prompt_logprobs={self.prompt_logprobs}, "
             f"skip_special_tokens={self.skip_special_tokens}, "