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The 38:27 skew folded into the DSpark swap already does what step 3 asks: the draft-carrying card sits 2.08 GiB above the other (5.49 / 3.41 GiB free) instead of the ~9 GiB a 1:1 split would leave. Chasing an exact balance is a mistake worth recording: 39:26 measured tighter (3.86 / 4.69 GiB free) but that server died on its eighth request with SDMA0 UTCL2 page faults in the amdgpu driver -- "ROCm error: an illegal memory access was encountered" -> ggml_abort, in the cross-card boundary copy that is the layer split's hot path. 38:27 has since served the whole e2e gate and 12 varied requests with no fault, so the residual 2.08 GiB gap is the safe side of this trade. Comment-only: no restart needed.
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# Tunables for frank-medium (ajgazin/Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-Dynamic-MTP
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# UD-Q8_K_XL + magnitudedev/Qwen3.8-27B-DSpark-GGUF Q8_0 drafter), mainline llama.cpp
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# on Dankserver, 2x AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 (gfx1201). Since 2026-09-16 this
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# is the SOLE LLM runtime on the box: the vllm-radiance replica pair and its
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# routing proxy are retired.
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#
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# Hardware: two R9700 (Navi 48, RDNA4, 32,624 MiB each), no XGMI, different
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# IOMMU groups -- every cross-card byte goes over PCIe. The Raphael iGPU
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# (gfx1036/Radeon 610M) enumerates as HIP device 2 and is hidden below so
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# nothing can drift onto shared system RAM.
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#
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# WHY LAYER SPLIT AND NOT TENSOR (operator call, 2026-09-16): tensor parallel
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# needs a cross-card allreduce per layer, and this host cannot dispatch one.
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# RCCL's kernels carry a hidden hostcall-buffer parameter, and ROCr refuses it
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# on a device without PCIe atomics -- the second card sits behind the B650
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# chipset bridges (AtomicOpsCap: Routing-, read-only), so every collective that
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# touches it dies with hipErrorIllegalState. Measured on this box 2026-09-15
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# (llama-bench, pp4096 / tg128, f16 KV, fa on):
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#
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# single R9700 1160.9 / 19.42
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# layer 2x 1991.2 / 18.76 (859.1 / 17.64 at depth 32768)
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# tensor 2x 271.8 / 26.26 (no RCCL: butterfly fallback, -7x prefill)
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#
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# Layer split distributes layers in order; only the activation at the boundary
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# crosses the wire, once per forward pass. That is the "pipeline parallelism"
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# this service wanted, and it needs no collective at all.
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#
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# Runtime: mainline llama.cpp master fb27a525 (2026-09-16), gfx1201, built by
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# scripts/build-llama-rdna4.sh against a private ROCm 7.14.0a20260624 toolchain
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# that is bundled next to the binary (RPATH $ORIGIN/../lib, no LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
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# The ref is pinned by TWO features: DFlash2 (ggml-org/llama.cpp#27342 -- the
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# drafter is detected from its GGUF) and qwen35 MTP. Do not float it.
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#
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# Model: ajgazin/Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-Dynamic-MTP-GGUF @ UD-Q8_K_XL,
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# 29.29 GiB, arch qwen35, Unsloth Dynamic 3.0 (per-tensor types from Unsloth's
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# own quant of the same size, on Unsloth's importance matrix). Abliteration is
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# orcarouter's single refusal direction projected out of 131 tensors; the vision
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# tower is untouched but unused here (text only, see NO_MMPROJ). The file also
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# carries the model's MTP head (blk.64.nextn.*), so a file-level switch to
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# --spec-type draft-mtp is available without a second copy in VRAM.
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#
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# Drafter: magnitudedev/Qwen3.8-27B-DSpark-GGUF @ Q8_0, 1.27 GiB: 5 layers,
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# hidden 5120, block-diffusion proposal with the Markov head (dspark).
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# Decoding stays lossless -- the target verifies every drafted token. Its KV
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# spans the whole context (see SIZING): unlike DFlash2 it declares no sliding
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# window, and that is what the tensor split below pays for.
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#
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# Architecture (GGUF arch qwen35): 64 layers as 16 x (3 x (Gated DeltaNet ->
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# FFN) + 1 x (Gated Attention -> FFN)) -- 48 linear-attention layers whose
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# per-sequence state is CONSTANT-SIZE, 16 full-attention layers at 4 KV heads x
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# 256 head_dim. A token therefore costs 2 x 4 x 256 x 2 B = 64 KiB of KV at f16
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# in the attention layers only, plus ~0.16 GiB per sequence of f32 DeltaNet
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# state at any depth.
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#
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# SIZING, measured (rocm-smi, 2026-09-16). Weights split across the two cards;
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# the drafter AND its KV ride the second. The loader's compute buffers are part
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# of what is seen below -- they are allocated at load, not per request:
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#
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# CTX_SIZE split GPU 0 GPU 1 headroom on the busier card
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# 131072 1,1 19.89 GB 24.30 GB 9.9 GB / 31 % (DFlash2)
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# 262144 1,1 24.72 GB 29.14 GB 5.07 GB / 15 % (DFlash2) <- before
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# 262144 38,27 28.52 GB 30.71 GB 3.50 GB / 10 % (DSpark) <- deployed
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#
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# 262144 is the window the model ships (n_ctx_train) and it fits with room, so
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# the fleet gets the whole thing; the arithmetic that used to cap this endpoint
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# at 114688 was the vLLM predecessor's, not this runtime's. If a future change
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# adds VRAM (a longer drafter, quantized KV, more slots) re-read the numbers
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# rather than assuming, and prefer CTX_SIZE over --gpu-layers.
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#
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# WHY THE SPLIT IS 38:27. The draft context is built with `n_ctx =
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# llama_n_ctx(ctx_tgt)` (common/speculative.cpp), so the drafter's KV scales
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# with the target window, and DSpark -- unlike DFlash2, which declared
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# sliding_window 2048 and cost ~40 MiB -- caches all of it: 5 layers x 2 x 8 kv
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# heads x 128 dim x 2 B = 20 KiB per position, i.e. 5.0 GiB at 262144. At a
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# 1:1 split that put ROCm1 at 33.9 GB of 34.2 GB and the draft's first graph
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# capture died with `ROCm error: out of memory` (in
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# common_speculative_impl_draft_dflash::process). Handing three target layers
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# to ROCm0 buys back ~3 GiB of headroom on both cards at the full window.
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#
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# EQUALITY WAS TRIED AND REJECTED. 39:26 levels the cards more closely (3.86 /
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# 4.69 GiB free -- an 0.83 GiB gap, against 2.08 GiB here), but that server
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# died on its eighth request: the amdgpu driver logged SDMA0 UTCL2 page faults
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# and the engine surfaced `ROCm error: an illegal memory access was
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# encountered` -> ggml_abort, i.e. a fault in the cross-card boundary copy,
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# which is this layer split's hot path. 38:27 has since served the whole e2e
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# gate plus a burst of varied requests with none. Do not chase an exact
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# balance: take the skew that fits and leave the drafter's card on the safe
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# side of the gap.
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#
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# WARNING: do not name any variable TEMP, HOST, or GPU_MAX_HEAP_SIZE (HIP reads
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# those bare vars; 2026-08-13 incident). llama.cpp takes --host/--port/--temp
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# as flags only.
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# llama-server: mainline fb27a525 built for gfx1201 by scripts/build-llama-rdna4.sh.
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LLAMA_BIN=/home/dank/GitPackages/llama.cpp-dflash2/build-rdna4-rocm714/bin/llama-server
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# Payload, fetched with scripts/download-frank-medium-gguf.sh.
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MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models/Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-Dynamic-MTP-GGUF
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MODEL_FILE=Swift-Qwen3.8-27B-Uncensored-Dynamic-MTP-UD-Q8_K_XL.gguf
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DRAFT_MODEL_DIR=/home/dank/models/Qwen3.8-27B-DSpark-GGUF
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DRAFT_MODEL_FILE=Qwen3.8-27B-DSpark-Q8_0.gguf
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# Fleet identity. 7770 is the fleet's dankserver endpoint; the alias is the id
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# at /v1/models and what every client asks for.
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ALIAS=frank-medium
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BIND_ADDR=0.0.0.0
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LISTEN_PORT=7770
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# Device placement. HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES hides the Raphael iGPU (HIP device 2)
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# so nothing can drift onto shared system RAM; DEVICES is what llama.cpp splits
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# across, and neither of the two cards has an XGMI link to the other.
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HIP_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1
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DEVICES=ROCm0,ROCm1
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SPLIT_MODE=layer
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# Skewed 38:27 rather than 1:1: ROCm1 also carries the drafter and the whole of
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# its KV, so it must hold fewer target layers for the cards to end level -- at
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# 1:1 the drafter's card would sit ~9 GiB above the other. This is the measured
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# point that keeps BOTH cards above a 3 GiB floor at the full window; a tighter
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# balance was tried and rejected (see SIZING above).
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TENSOR_SPLIT=38,27
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NGL=999
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# Auto-fit has no business resizing a context we set explicitly.
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FIT=off
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FLASH_ATTN=on
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# One slot at the model's full configured window (n_ctx_train 262144), which was
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# measured to fit before it was deployed: see SIZING above. --parallel DIVIDES
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# --ctx-size between slots, so one slot carries the whole window and a second
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# concurrent request queues behind it.
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CTX_SIZE=262144
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PARALLEL=1
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BATCH_SIZE=2048
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UBATCH_SIZE=512
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# Threads cover tokenization, sampling and HTTP only: every layer is on a GPU.
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NUM_THREADS=8
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THREAD_BATCH=8
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# f16 K/V: an agentic checkpoint is the wrong place to spend KV precision.
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CACHE_TYPE_K=f16
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CACHE_TYPE_V=f16
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# Context checkpoints: 0 is the build's default -- no per-slot KV snapshots, so
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# a re-sent or rewound conversation re-prefills instead of rewinding. Stated
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# explicitly so the tunable stays visible rather than merely absent.
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CTX_CHECKPOINTS=0
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CACHE_RAM=8192
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# Sampling defaults for requests that send none -- the values the vLLM
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# predecessor served on this endpoint (`--override-generation-config`), so a
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# client sees no change across the runtime swap. The model card's own
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# recommendation is temp 1.0 / top_p 0.95; the harness sets its own per model in
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# models.yml, so this is the floor, not the contract.
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TEMPERATURE=0.7
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TOP_P=0.95
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TOP_K=20
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MIN_P=0.0
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PRESENCE_PENALTY=0.0
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# Reasoning on, projected into reasoning_content (deepseek format) with no
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# budget: the model decides how long to think.
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REASONING=on
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REASONING_FORMAT=deepseek
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REASONING_BUDGET=-1
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# Chat template: empty = the one embedded in the GGUF (Qwen3.8's own).
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CHAT_TEMPLATE_FILE=
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CHAT_TEMPLATE_KWARGS='{"enable_thinking":true,"preserve_thinking":true}'
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# Speculative decoding: the DSpark block-diffusion drafter PLUS the draftless
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# n-gram matcher. DSpark's GGUF carries block_size 7, so at most 6 draft
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# tokens per verification step (llama.cpp asserts n_max <= block_size - 1).
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# The drafter rides ROCm1, the card that ends up holding the target's last
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# layers.
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SPEC_TYPE=draft-dspark,ngram-mod
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SPEC_DRAFT_N_MAX=6
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SPEC_DRAFT_NGL=999
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SPEC_DRAFT_DEVICE=ROCm1
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SPEC_DRAFT_TYPE_K=f16
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SPEC_DRAFT_TYPE_V=f16
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# MTP (the model's own head) vs the drafter -- MEASURED 2026-09-16 (temperature
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# 0, 1k prompt / 512 out; the autoregressive baseline and both MTP depths were
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# run against the deployed configuration in one session, same binary, same
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# prompts):
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#
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# none 17.7 tok/s card1 26.07 GB
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# draft-mtp n=3 32.4 tok/s 58 % accepted card1 29.35 GB
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# draft-mtp n=7 26.7 tok/s 33 % accepted card1 29.65 GB
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# draft-dflash 7 43.5 tok/s 41 % accepted card1 29.42 GB
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#
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# All four produced IDENTICAL greedy text, so verification is lossless whichever
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# proposer runs. DFlash2 is worth 2.46x over autoregressive and 34 % over the
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# best MTP; deeper MTP drafting costs more than it returns (n=7 accepts 33 % of
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# 147 proposals, n=3 accepts 58 % of 72). The MTP head is not free either:
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# selecting it loads blk.64.nextn.* and adds ~3.3 GB to the card that holds it,
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# against 2.06 GB for the drafter's file. Do not switch this without
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# re-measuring.
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#
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# THE TWO CANNOT BE CHAINED. `--spec-type draft-mtp,draft-dflash` dies at load:
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# context type MTP requested but model doesn't contain MTP layers
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# failed to create MTP context
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# A chain has ONE draft context, and MTP builds against whatever model that
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# context holds -- here the DFlash2 file, which has no MTP layers. MTP's head is
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# only loaded when MTP IS the draft model ("creating MTP draft context against
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# the target model ..."), so a chain of the two is a structural dead end, not a
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# tuning question. See serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-medium-llamacpp-dflash2.md.
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# ngram-mod: the draftless n-gram matcher (CPU hash table in host RAM, no VRAM,
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# no model file, no draft context). It joins the chain unconditionally --
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# unlike MTP, which needs a draft context and therefore cannot share one with
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# DFlash2. Verified on the loaded server: with ngram-mod as the ONLY spec type,
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# a prose prompt produces ZERO drafts (plain autoregressive) while a
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# prompt-echo prompt accepts 100 % of them, so its drafts are unmistakable.
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#
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# WINDOW MEASURED 2026-09-16 (chain at each window, decode tok/s):
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#
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# n_min/n_max prose 1k/512 prompt-echo 1.5k/400
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# 48/64 43.9 200.6 <- deployed
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# 16/32 36.0 161.0
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# 8/16 36.2 113.8
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#
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# The long window is the right one, and not only because it wins on echo: a
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# SHORT window makes the matcher propose on short fragments of ordinary prose,
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# where the proposals are rejected and the verification still costs -- which is
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# the "ngram hurts" result the fleet measured on other payloads twice before.
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# With 48/64 the chain is byte-identical to DFlash2 alone on prose (same 119
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# drafts / 49 accepted) and on the identity prompt (70/53).
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#
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# Do not shorten these without re-running scripts/bench-spec-ab.py: the
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# no-penalty property is what makes the chain safe as a default.
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SPEC_NGRAM_N_MATCH=24
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SPEC_NGRAM_N_MIN=48
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SPEC_NGRAM_N_MAX=64
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# Text only: the server must not autoload a vision tower. Vision stays on
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# frank-small (Dankclaw, RTX 3090), which is the fleet's image endpoint.
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NO_MMPROJ=1
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