Support encoder_only attention for FlexAttention (#22273)

Signed-off-by: Max de Bayser <mbayser@br.ibm.com>

tests/kernels/test_flex_attention.py

@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ import pytest
 import torch
 from packaging import version
 
-from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
+from vllm import SamplingParams
+
+from ..models.utils import check_embeddings_close
 
 TORCH_VERSION = version.parse(torch.__version__)
 MINIMUM_TORCH_VERSION = version.parse("2.7.0")
@@ -28,7 +30,7 @@ def set_seed(seed):
     not torch.cuda.is_available() or TORCH_VERSION < MINIMUM_TORCH_VERSION,
     reason="CUDA not available or PyTorch version < 2.7",
 )
-def test_flex_attention_vs_default_backend(monkeypatch):
+def test_flex_attention_vs_default_backend(vllm_runner, monkeypatch):
     """Test that FlexAttention produces the same outputs as the default backend.
 
     This test compares the outputs from the FlexAttention backend with
@@ -36,7 +38,7 @@ def test_flex_attention_vs_default_backend(monkeypatch):
     """
     model_name = "Qwen/Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct"
     seed = 42
-    max_tokens = 32
+    max_tokens = 24
     prompts = [
         "Hello, my name is",
         "The president of the United States is",
@@ -54,33 +56,30 @@ def test_flex_attention_vs_default_backend(monkeypatch):
         m.setenv("VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND", "FLEX_ATTENTION")
 
         set_seed(seed)
-
-        llm_flex = LLM(
-            model_name,
+        with vllm_runner(model_name,
+                         runner="generate",
                          tensor_parallel_size=1,
                          num_gpu_blocks_override=128,
-            enforce_eager=True,
-        )
+                         enforce_eager=True) as llm_flex:
             output_flex = llm_flex.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
 
     # Run with default backend
     with monkeypatch.context() as m:
         m.setenv("VLLM_USE_V1", "1")
         set_seed(seed)
-        llm_default = LLM(
-            model_name,
+        with vllm_runner(model_name,
+                         runner="generate",
                          tensor_parallel_size=1,
                          num_gpu_blocks_override=128,
-            enforce_eager=True,
-        )
+                         enforce_eager=True) as llm_default:
             output_default = llm_default.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
 
     # Compare outputs from both backends
     for i, (flex_result,
             default_result) in enumerate(zip(output_flex, output_default)):
         prompt = prompts[i]
-        flex_text = flex_result.outputs[0].text
-        default_text = default_result.outputs[0].text
+        flex_text = flex_result[1][0]
+        default_text = default_result[1][0]
 
         assert flex_text == default_text, (
             f"FlexAttention output doesn't match default for: {prompt!r}\n"
@@ -88,5 +87,54 @@ def test_flex_attention_vs_default_backend(monkeypatch):
             f"Default: {default_text!r}")
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(
+    not torch.cuda.is_available() or TORCH_VERSION < MINIMUM_TORCH_VERSION,
+    reason="CUDA not available or PyTorch version < 2.7",
+)
+def test_encoder_flex_attention_vs_default_backend(vllm_runner, monkeypatch):
+    """Test that FlexAttention produces the same outputs as the default backend.
+
+    This test compares the outputs from the FlexAttention backend with
+    the default backend for encoder models.
+    """
+    model_name = "BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5"
+    prompts = [
+        "Hello, my name is",
+        "The president of the United States is",
+        "The capital of France is",
+    ]
+
+    # Run with flex attention
+    with monkeypatch.context() as m:
+        m.setenv("VLLM_USE_V1", "1")
+        m.setenv("VLLM_ATTENTION_BACKEND", "FLEX_ATTENTION")
+        with vllm_runner(model_name,
+                         runner="pooling",
+                         dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+                         tensor_parallel_size=1,
+                         max_model_len=100,
+                         enforce_eager=True) as llm_flex:
+            flex_outputs = llm_flex.embed(prompts)
+
+    # Run with default backend
+    with monkeypatch.context() as m:
+        m.setenv("VLLM_USE_V1", "1")
+        with vllm_runner(model_name,
+                         runner="pooling",
+                         dtype=torch.bfloat16,
+                         tensor_parallel_size=1,
+                         max_model_len=100,
+                         enforce_eager=True) as llm_default:
+            default_outputs = llm_default.embed(prompts)
+
+    check_embeddings_close(
+        embeddings_0_lst=flex_outputs,
+        embeddings_1_lst=default_outputs,
+        name_0="flex",
+        name_1="default",
+        tol=1e-2,
+    )
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     pytest.main([__file__])

vllm/v1/attention/backends/flex_attention.py

@@ -148,6 +148,7 @@ def causal_mask_mod(b: torch.Tensor, h: torch.Tensor, q_idx: torch.Tensor,
 
 @dataclass
 class FlexAttentionMetadata:
+    causal: bool
     num_actual_tokens: int  # Number of tokens excluding padding.
     max_query_len: int
     query_start_loc: torch.Tensor
@@ -177,10 +178,9 @@ class FlexAttentionMetadata:
     num_blocks = 0
     block_mask: Optional[BlockMask] = None
     score_mod: Optional[_score_mod_signature] = None
-    mask_mod: Optional[_mask_mod_signature] = None
     logical_mask_mod: _mask_mod_signature = causal_mask_mod
 
-    def get_mask_mod(self) -> _mask_mod_signature:
+    def get_causal_mask_mod(self) -> _mask_mod_signature:
         """Creates the mask_mod function for FlexAttention.
 
         This function creates the combined mask mod function that handles:
@@ -233,14 +233,39 @@ class FlexAttentionMetadata:
 
         return final_mask_mod
 
+    def get_bidirectional_mask_mod(self) -> _mask_mod_signature:
+        """Creates the encoder mask_mod function for FlexAttention.
+
+        Since the encoder bidirectional attention doesn't run with 
+        KV cache, this function creates a mask based on the
+        packed query sequences.
+        """
+        # Create a lookup mapping from query indices -> request number
+        request_lookup = _offsets_to_doc_ids_tensor(self.query_start_loc)
+
+        def final_mask_mod(
+            b: torch.Tensor,
+            h: torch.Tensor,
+            q_idx: torch.Tensor,
+            kv_idx: torch.Tensor,
+        ) -> torch.Tensor:
+            return request_lookup[q_idx] == request_lookup[kv_idx]
+
+        return final_mask_mod
+
     def build_block_mask(self) -> BlockMask:
-        assert self.mask_mod is not None
+        if self.causal:
+            mask_mod = self.get_causal_mask_mod()
+            kv_len = self.total_cache_tokens
+        else:
+            mask_mod = self.get_bidirectional_mask_mod()
+            kv_len = self.num_actual_tokens
         return create_block_mask_compiled(
-            self.mask_mod,
+            mask_mod,
             None,
             None,
             self.num_actual_tokens,
-            self.total_cache_tokens,
+            kv_len,
             device=self.block_table.device,
         )
 
@@ -251,7 +276,6 @@ class FlexAttentionMetadata:
         assert self.prefix_kv_lens is None, "Not implemented yet."
         assert self.suffix_kv_lens is None, "Not implemented yet."
         self.num_blocks = self.total_cache_tokens // self.block_size
-        self.mask_mod = self.get_mask_mod()
         self.block_mask = self.build_block_mask()
 
 
@@ -306,6 +330,7 @@ class FlexAttentionMetadataBuilder(
             self.device, non_blocking=True)
 
         out = FlexAttentionMetadata(
+            causal=common_attn_metadata.causal,
             num_actual_tokens=num_actual_tokens,
             max_query_len=max_query_len,
             query_start_loc=query_start_loc,
@@ -350,6 +375,12 @@ class FlexAttentionImpl(AttentionImpl):
         self.head_size = head_size
         self.scale = float(scale)
         self.num_kv_heads = num_kv_heads
+        self.attn_type = attn_type
+
+        if attn_type not in (AttentionType.ENCODER_ONLY,
+                             AttentionType.DECODER):
+            raise NotImplementedError(
+                f"FlexAttention does not support {attn_type} attention")
 
         if alibi_slopes is not None:
             raise NotImplementedError(
@@ -425,6 +456,16 @@ class FlexAttentionImpl(AttentionImpl):
 
         num_actual_tokens = attn_metadata.num_actual_tokens
 
+        if not attn_metadata.causal:
+            assert self.attn_type == AttentionType.ENCODER_ONLY
+
+            query, key_tensor, value_tensor = map(
+                lambda x: self.view_as_4d(x).permute(0, 2, 1, 3),
+                (query, key, value),
+            )
+
+        else:
+            assert self.attn_type == AttentionType.DECODER
             key_cache, value_cache = kv_cache.unbind(0)
 
             torch.ops._C_cache_ops.reshape_and_cache_flash(
@@ -440,11 +481,13 @@ class FlexAttentionImpl(AttentionImpl):
 
             # View out the block_size dim
             key_cache = key_cache.view(-1, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_size)
-        value_cache = value_cache.view(-1, self.num_kv_heads, self.head_size)
-        query, key_cache, value_cache = map(
+            value_cache = value_cache.view(-1, self.num_kv_heads,
+                                           self.head_size)
+            query, key_tensor, value_tensor = map(
                 lambda x: self.view_as_4d(x).permute(0, 2, 1, 3),
                 (query, key_cache, value_cache),
             )
+
         query = query[:, :, :num_actual_tokens, :]
         # Doesn't work for now -> constraint violation
         # torch._dynamo.try_mark_dynamic(query, 2)
@@ -465,8 +508,8 @@ class FlexAttentionImpl(AttentionImpl):
 
         out = flex_attention_compiled(
             query,
-            key_cache,
-            value_cache,
+            key_tensor,
+            value_tensor,
             attn_metadata.score_mod,
             attn_metadata.block_mask,
             self.scale,