Support dynamic LoRA loading / unloading in engine/server API (#7446)

python/sglang/srt/entrypoints/EngineBase.py

@@ -48,6 +48,14 @@ class EngineBase(ABC):
         """Update model weights with in-memory tensor data."""
         pass
 
+    def load_lora_adapter(self, lora_name: str, lora_path: str):
+        """Load a new LoRA adapter without re-launching the engine."""
+        pass
+
+    def unload_lora_adapter(self, lora_name: str):
+        """Unload a LoRA adapter without re-launching the engine."""
+        pass
+
     @abstractmethod
     def release_memory_occupation(self):
         """Release GPU memory occupation temporarily."""

python/sglang/srt/entrypoints/engine.py

@@ -48,10 +48,12 @@ from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import (
     GetWeightsByNameReqInput,
     ImageDataItem,
     InitWeightsUpdateGroupReqInput,
+    LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
     ReleaseMemoryOccupationReqInput,
     ResumeMemoryOccupationReqInput,
     RpcReqInput,
     RpcReqOutput,
+    UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
     UpdateWeightFromDiskReqInput,
     UpdateWeightsFromDistributedReqInput,
     UpdateWeightsFromTensorReqInput,
@@ -478,6 +480,29 @@ class Engine(EngineBase):
             self.tokenizer_manager.get_weights_by_name(obj, None)
         )
 
+    def load_lora_adapter(self, lora_name: str, lora_path: str):
+        """Load a new LoRA adapter without re-launching the engine."""
+
+        obj = LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput(
+            lora_name=lora_name,
+            lora_path=lora_path,
+        )
+
+        loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
+        return loop.run_until_complete(
+            self.tokenizer_manager.load_lora_adapter(obj, None)
+        )
+
+    def unload_lora_adapter(self, lora_name: str):
+        """Unload a LoRA adapter without re-launching the engine."""
+
+        obj = UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput(lora_name=lora_name)
+
+        loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
+        return loop.run_until_complete(
+            self.tokenizer_manager.unload_lora_adapter(obj, None)
+        )
+
     def release_memory_occupation(self, tags: Optional[List[str]] = None):
         obj = ReleaseMemoryOccupationReqInput(tags=tags)
         loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()

python/sglang/srt/entrypoints/http_server.py

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import (
     GenerateReqInput,
     GetWeightsByNameReqInput,
     InitWeightsUpdateGroupReqInput,
+    LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
     OpenSessionReqInput,
     ParseFunctionCallReq,
     ProfileReqInput,
@@ -80,6 +81,7 @@ from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import (
     SeparateReasoningReqInput,
     SetInternalStateReq,
     SlowDownReqInput,
+    UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
     UpdateWeightFromDiskReqInput,
     UpdateWeightsFromDistributedReqInput,
     UpdateWeightsFromTensorReqInput,
@@ -595,6 +597,40 @@ async def slow_down(obj: SlowDownReqInput, request: Request):
         return _create_error_response(e)
 
 
+@app.api_route("/load_lora_adapter", methods=["POST"])
+async def load_lora_adapter(obj: LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput, request: Request):
+    """Load a new LoRA adapter without re-launching the server."""
+    result = await _global_state.tokenizer_manager.load_lora_adapter(obj, request)
+
+    if result.success:
+        return ORJSONResponse(
+            result,
+            status_code=HTTPStatus.OK,
+        )
+    else:
+        return ORJSONResponse(
+            result,
+            status_code=HTTPStatus.BAD_REQUEST,
+        )
+
+
+@app.api_route("/unload_lora_adapter", methods=["POST"])
+async def unload_lora_adapter(obj: UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput, request: Request):
+    """Load a new LoRA adapter without re-launching the server."""
+    result = await _global_state.tokenizer_manager.unload_lora_adapter(obj, request)
+
+    if result.success:
+        return ORJSONResponse(
+            result,
+            status_code=HTTPStatus.OK,
+        )
+    else:
+        return ORJSONResponse(
+            result,
+            status_code=HTTPStatus.BAD_REQUEST,
+        )
+
+
 @app.api_route("/open_session", methods=["GET", "POST"])
 async def open_session(obj: OpenSessionReqInput, request: Request):
     """Open a session, and return its unique session id."""

python/sglang/srt/lora/lora.py

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ class LoRAAdapter(nn.Module):
         self.layers: List[LoRALayer] = nn.ModuleList(
             [
                 LoRALayer(config, base_hf_config)
-                for i in range(base_hf_config.num_hidden_layers)
+                for _ in range(base_hf_config.num_hidden_layers)
             ]
         )
 
@@ -88,10 +88,9 @@ class LoRAAdapter(nn.Module):
             else:
                 self.weights[name] = loaded_weight.cpu()
 
-        # stack kv_proj and gate_up_proj
-        for i in range(self.base_hf_config.num_hidden_layers):
-            layer = self.layers[i]
-            weight_names = [name for name, _ in layer.weights.items()]
+        # normalize kv_proj and gate_up_proj
+        for layer in self.layers:
+            weight_names = list(layer.weights.keys())
             self.normalize_qkv_proj(weight_names, layer.weights)
             self.normalize_gate_up_proj(weight_names, layer.weights)
 

python/sglang/srt/lora/lora_manager.py

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ from sglang.srt.lora.utils import (
     get_normalized_lora_weight_names,
     get_weight_name,
 )
+from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import LoRAUpdateResult
 from sglang.srt.model_executor.forward_batch_info import ForwardBatch
 from sglang.srt.utils import replace_submodule
 
@@ -98,44 +99,96 @@ class LoRAManager:
                 ],
             )
 
-    def load_lora_adapters(self, lora_paths: Dict[str, str]):
+    def create_lora_update_result(
+        self, success: bool, error_message: str = ""
+    ) -> LoRAUpdateResult:
+        return LoRAUpdateResult(
+            success=success,
+            error_message=error_message,
+            loaded_adapters={
+                name: config.path for name, config in self.configs.items()
+            },
+        )
+
+    def load_lora_adapters(self, lora_paths: Dict[str, str]) -> LoRAUpdateResult:
         """
         Load LoRA adapters from the specified paths.
-        TODO (lifuhuang): This method should be exposed to the server/engine API to support dynamic LoRA loading.
 
         Args:
             lora_paths (Dict[str, str]): A dictionary mapping LoRA adapter names to their file paths.
             If a LoRA adapter is already loaded, it will be skipped with a warning.
         """
 
+        results = []
         for lora_name, lora_path in lora_paths.items():
-            if lora_name in self.loras:
-                logger.warning(
-                    f"LoRA adapter {lora_name} is already loaded."
-                    "If you want to reload it, please unload it first."
+            result = self.load_lora_adapter(lora_name, lora_path, update_state=False)
+            results.append(result)
+
+        self.update_state_from_configs()
+
+        return self.create_lora_update_result(
+            success=all(result.success for result in results),
+            error_message="\n".join(
+                result.error_message for result in results if not result.success
+            ),
         )
-                continue
 
+    def load_lora_adapter(
+        self, lora_name: str, lora_path: str, update_state: bool = True
+    ) -> LoRAUpdateResult:
+        """
+        Load a single LoRA adapter from the specified path.
+
+        Args:
+            lora_name (str): The name of the LoRA adapter.
+            lora_path (str): The file path to the LoRA adapter.
+            update_state (bool): Whether to refresh the internal state after loading the adapter. This is useful for batch loading.
+        """
+
+        success = True
+        error_message = ""
+
+        if lora_name in self.loras:
+            success = False
+            error_message = f"LoRA adapter {lora_name} is skipped as it is already loaded. If you want to reload it, please unload it first."
+
+        try:
             self.configs[lora_name] = LoRAConfig(lora_path)
+        except Exception as e:
+            success = False
+            error_message = (
+                f"Failed to load LoRA adapter {lora_name} from {lora_path}: {str(e)}"
+            )
 
+        if update_state:
             self.update_state_from_configs()
 
-    def unload_lora_adapters(self, lora_names: Set[str]):
+        return self.create_lora_update_result(
+            success=success,
+            error_message=error_message,
+        )
+
+    def unload_lora_adapter(self, lora_name: str) -> LoRAUpdateResult:
         """
         Unload LoRA adapters by their names. This will remove the adapters from the memory pool and
         delete the corresponding LoRA modules.
-
-        Args:
-            lora_names (Set[str]): A set of LoRA adapter names to unload.
         """
-        for lora_name in lora_names:
+
+        success = True
+        error_message = ""
         if lora_name in self.loras:
             del self.configs[lora_name]
         else:
-                logger.warning(f"LoRA adapter {lora_name} is not loaded.")
+            error_message = f"LoRA adapter {lora_name} is not loaded."
+            success = False
 
         self.update_state_from_configs()
 
+        return self.create_lora_update_result(
+            success=success,
+            error_message=error_message,
+        )
+
     def prepare_lora_batch(self, forward_batch: ForwardBatch):
         # load active loras into lora memory pool
         cur_uids = set(forward_batch.lora_paths)
@@ -372,8 +425,8 @@ class LoRAManager:
                 lora_adapter.initialize_weights()
                 self.loras[name] = lora_adapter
 
-        # Clean up unused LoRA adapters
-        for name in self.loras:
+        # Clean up unused LoRA adapters, copying the list to avoid modifying the dict during iteration.
+        for name in list(self.loras):
             if name not in self.configs:
                 logger.info(f"Unloading LoRA adapter {name}")
                 del self.loras[name]

python/sglang/srt/managers/io_struct.py

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import copy
 import uuid
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from enum import Enum
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Dict, List, Optional, Set, Union
 
 from sglang.srt.multimodal.mm_utils import has_valid_data
 
@@ -1002,3 +1002,27 @@ class RpcReqInput:
 class RpcReqOutput:
     success: bool
     message: str
+
+
+@dataclass
+class LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput:
+    # The name of the lora module to newly loaded.
+    lora_name: str
+    # The path of loading.
+    lora_path: str
+
+
+@dataclass
+class UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput:
+    # The name of lora module to unload.
+    lora_name: str
+
+
+@dataclass
+class LoRAUpdateResult:
+    success: bool
+    error_message: Optional[str] = None
+    loaded_adapters: Dict[str, str] = field(default_factory=dict)
+
+
+LoadLoRAAdapterReqOutput = UnloadLoRAAdapterReqOutput = LoRAUpdateResult

python/sglang/srt/managers/scheduler.py

@@ -82,6 +82,8 @@ from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import (
     HealthCheckOutput,
     InitWeightsUpdateGroupReqInput,
     InitWeightsUpdateGroupReqOutput,
+    LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
+    LoadLoRAAdapterReqOutput,
     OpenSessionReqInput,
     OpenSessionReqOutput,
     ProfileReq,
@@ -99,6 +101,8 @@ from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import (
     SlowDownReqOutput,
     TokenizedEmbeddingReqInput,
     TokenizedGenerateReqInput,
+    UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
+    UnloadLoRAAdapterReqOutput,
     UpdateWeightFromDiskReqInput,
     UpdateWeightFromDiskReqOutput,
     UpdateWeightsFromDistributedReqInput,
@@ -519,6 +523,8 @@ class Scheduler(
                 (SetInternalStateReq, self.set_internal_state),
                 (RpcReqInput, self.handle_rpc_request),
                 (ExpertDistributionReq, self.expert_distribution_handle),
+                (LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput, self.load_lora_adapter),
+                (UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput, self.unload_lora_adapter),
             ]
         )
 
@@ -2241,6 +2247,36 @@ class Scheduler(
             logger.error(message)
         return UpdateWeightFromDiskReqOutput(success, message, 0)
 
+    def load_lora_adapter(
+        self, recv_req: LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput
+    ) -> LoadLoRAAdapterReqOutput:
+        """In-place loading a new lora adapter from disk or huggingface."""
+
+        result = self.tp_worker.load_lora_adapter(recv_req)
+
+        if result.success:
+            flush_cache_success = self.flush_cache()
+            assert flush_cache_success, "Cache flush failed after loading lora adapter."
+        else:
+            logger.error(result.error_message)
+        return result
+
+    def unload_lora_adapter(
+        self, recv_req: UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput
+    ) -> UnloadLoRAAdapterReqOutput:
+        """Unload the lora adapter."""
+
+        result = self.tp_worker.unload_lora_adapter(recv_req)
+
+        if result.success:
+            flush_cache_success = self.flush_cache()
+            assert (
+                flush_cache_success
+            ), "Cache flush failed after unloading LoRA weights"
+        else:
+            logger.error(result.error_message)
+        return result
+
     def init_weights_update_group(self, recv_req: InitWeightsUpdateGroupReqInput):
         """Initialize the online model parameter update group."""
         success, message = self.tp_worker.init_weights_update_group(recv_req)

python/sglang/srt/managers/tokenizer_manager.py

@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import (
     HealthCheckOutput,
     InitWeightsUpdateGroupReqInput,
     InitWeightsUpdateGroupReqOutput,
+    LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
+    LoadLoRAAdapterReqOutput,
+    LoRAUpdateResult,
     OpenSessionReqInput,
     OpenSessionReqOutput,
     ProfileReq,
@@ -99,6 +102,8 @@ from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import (
     SlowDownReqOutput,
     TokenizedEmbeddingReqInput,
     TokenizedGenerateReqInput,
+    UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
+    UnloadLoRAAdapterReqOutput,
     UpdateWeightFromDiskReqInput,
     UpdateWeightFromDiskReqOutput,
     UpdateWeightsFromDistributedReqInput,
@@ -311,6 +316,9 @@ class TokenizerManager:
         self.expert_distribution_communicator = _Communicator(
             self.send_to_scheduler, server_args.dp_size
         )
+        self.update_lora_adapter_communicator = _Communicator(
+            self.send_to_scheduler, server_args.dp_size
+        )
 
         self._result_dispatcher = TypeBasedDispatcher(
             [
@@ -377,6 +385,10 @@ class TokenizerManager:
                     ExpertDistributionReqOutput,
                     self.expert_distribution_communicator.handle_recv,
                 ),
+                (
+                    LoRAUpdateResult,
+                    self.update_lora_adapter_communicator.handle_recv,
+                ),
                 (HealthCheckOutput, lambda x: None),
             ]
         )
@@ -960,6 +972,49 @@ class TokenizerManager:
             result = (await self.update_weights_from_tensor_communicator(obj))[0]
             return result.success, result.message
 
+    async def load_lora_adapter(
+        self,
+        obj: LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
+        _: Optional[fastapi.Request] = None,
+    ) -> LoadLoRAAdapterReqOutput:
+        self.auto_create_handle_loop()
+
+        # TODO (lifuhuang): Remove this after we verify that dynamic lora loading works
+        # with dp_size > 1.
+        assert (
+            self.server_args.dp_size == 1
+        ), "dp_size must be 1 for dynamic lora loading"
+        logger.info(
+            "Start load Lora adapter. Lora name=%s, path=%s",
+            obj.lora_name,
+            obj.lora_path,
+        )
+
+        async with self.model_update_lock.writer_lock:
+            result = (await self.update_lora_adapter_communicator(obj))[0]
+            return result
+
+    async def unload_lora_adapter(
+        self,
+        obj: UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
+        _: Optional[fastapi.Request] = None,
+    ) -> UnloadLoRAAdapterReqOutput:
+        self.auto_create_handle_loop()
+
+        # TODO (lifuhuang): Remove this after we verify that dynamic lora loading works
+        # with dp_size > 1.
+        assert (
+            self.server_args.dp_size == 1
+        ), "dp_size must be 1 for dynamic lora loading"
+        logger.info(
+            "Start unload Lora adapter. Lora name=%s",
+            obj.lora_name,
+        )
+
+        async with self.model_update_lock.writer_lock:
+            result = (await self.update_lora_adapter_communicator(obj))[0]
+            return result
+
     async def get_weights_by_name(
         self, obj: GetWeightsByNameReqInput, request: Optional[fastapi.Request] = None
     ):

python/sglang/srt/managers/tp_worker.py

@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ from sglang.srt.layers.logits_processor import LogitsProcessorOutput
 from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import (
     GetWeightsByNameReqInput,
     InitWeightsUpdateGroupReqInput,
+    LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
+    UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
     UpdateWeightFromDiskReqInput,
     UpdateWeightsFromDistributedReqInput,
     UpdateWeightsFromTensorReqInput,
@@ -275,3 +277,13 @@ class TpModelWorker:
             recv_req.name, recv_req.truncate_size
         )
         return parameter
+
+    def load_lora_adapter(self, recv_req: LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput):
+        result = self.model_runner.load_lora_adapter(
+            recv_req.lora_name, recv_req.lora_path
+        )
+        return result
+
+    def unload_lora_adapter(self, recv_req: UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput):
+        result = self.model_runner.unload_lora_adapter(recv_req.lora_name)
+        return result

python/sglang/srt/managers/tp_worker_overlap_thread.py

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ import torch
 from sglang.srt.managers.io_struct import (
     GetWeightsByNameReqInput,
     InitWeightsUpdateGroupReqInput,
+    LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
+    UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput,
     UpdateWeightFromDiskReqInput,
     UpdateWeightsFromDistributedReqInput,
     UpdateWeightsFromTensorReqInput,
@@ -268,6 +270,12 @@ class TpModelWorkerClient:
     def get_weights_by_name(self, recv_req: GetWeightsByNameReqInput):
         return self.worker.get_weights_by_name(recv_req)
 
+    def load_lora_adapter(self, recv_req: LoadLoRAAdapterReqInput):
+        return self.worker.load_lora_adapter(recv_req)
+
+    def unload_lora_adapter(self, recv_req: UnloadLoRAAdapterReqInput):
+        return self.worker.unload_lora_adapter(recv_req)
+
     def __delete__(self):
         self.input_queue.put((None, None))
         self.copy_queue.put((None, None, None))

python/sglang/srt/model_executor/model_runner.py

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ from typing import List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 import torch
 import torch.distributed as dist
 
-from sglang.srt import debug_utils
 from sglang.srt.configs.device_config import DeviceConfig
 from sglang.srt.configs.load_config import LoadConfig
 from sglang.srt.configs.model_config import AttentionArch, ModelConfig
@@ -819,8 +818,47 @@ class ModelRunner:
             tp_size=self.tp_size,
             tp_rank=self.tp_rank,
         )
-        self.lora_manager.load_lora_adapters(self.server_args.lora_paths)
-        logger.info("LoRA manager ready.")
+        result = self.lora_manager.load_lora_adapters(self.server_args.lora_paths)
+        if result.success:
+            logger.info(
+                f"LoRA manager ready. Loaded LoRA adapters: {', '.join(result.loaded_adapters)}"
+            )
+        else:
+            raise RuntimeError(f"Failed to load LoRA adapters: {result.error_message}")
+
+    def load_lora_adapter(self, lora_name: str, lora_path: str):
+        """Load a new lora adapter from disk or huggingface."""
+
+        logger.info(
+            f"LoRA adapter loading starts: name={lora_name}, path={lora_path}. "
+            f"avail mem={get_available_gpu_memory(self.device, self.gpu_id):.2f} GB"
+        )
+
+        result = self.lora_manager.load_lora_adapter(lora_name, lora_path)
+
+        logger.info(
+            f"LoRA adapter loading completes: name={lora_name}, path={lora_path}. "
+            f"avail mem={get_available_gpu_memory(self.device, self.gpu_id):.2f} GB"
+        )
+
+        return result
+
+    def unload_lora_adapter(self, lora_name: str):
+        """Unload a lora adapter that was previously loaded during initialization or dynamic loading."""
+
+        logger.info(
+            f"LoRA adapter unloading starts: name={lora_name}. "
+            f"avail mem={get_available_gpu_memory(self.device, self.gpu_id):.2f} GB"
+        )
+
+        result = self.lora_manager.unload_lora_adapter(lora_name)
+
+        logger.info(
+            f"LoRA adapter unloading completes: name={lora_name}. "
+            f"avail mem={get_available_gpu_memory(self.device, self.gpu_id):.2f} GB"
+        )
+
+        return result
 
     def profile_max_num_token(self, total_gpu_memory: int):
         available_gpu_memory = get_available_gpu_memory(

python/sglang/test/runners.py

@@ -503,6 +503,7 @@ class SRTRunner:
         disable_overlap_schedule: bool = False,
         disable_custom_all_reduce: bool = False,
         torchao_config: Optional[str] = None,
+        cuda_graph_max_bs: int = 4,
         sleep_on_idle=False,
     ):
         self.model_type = model_type
@@ -539,7 +540,7 @@ class SRTRunner:
             tokenizer_path=tokenizer_path,
             enable_ep_moe=enable_ep_moe,
             disable_overlap_schedule=disable_overlap_schedule,
-            cuda_graph_max_bs=4,
+            cuda_graph_max_bs=cuda_graph_max_bs,
             disable_custom_all_reduce=disable_custom_all_reduce,
             sleep_on_idle=sleep_on_idle,
             **spec_kwargs,
@@ -552,6 +553,12 @@ class SRTRunner:
         else:
             self.tokenizer = None
 
+    def load_lora_adapter(self, lora_name: str, lora_path: str):
+        return self.engine.load_lora_adapter(lora_name, lora_path)
+
+    def unload_lora_adapter(self, lora_name: str):
+        return self.engine.unload_lora_adapter(lora_name)
+
     def forward(
         self,
         prompts: Union[

test/srt/run_suite.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ suites = {
         TestFile("models/lora/test_lora_backend.py", 99),
         TestFile("models/lora/test_multi_lora_backend.py", 60),
         TestFile("models/lora/test_lora_cuda_graph.py", 250),
+        TestFile("models/lora/test_lora_update.py", 400),
         TestFile("models/test_embedding_models.py", 73),
         # TestFile("models/test_clip_models.py", 52),
         TestFile("models/test_encoder_embedding_models.py", 100),