feat: Comprehensive code cleanup for speculators Eagle support

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Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: rahul-tuli

vllm/engine/arg_utils.py

@@ -1483,7 +1483,8 @@ def _is_v1_supported_oracle(self, model_config: ModelConfig) -> bool:
                 if speculative_model:
                     if speculative_model in ("ngram", "[ngram]"):
                         is_ngram_enabled = True
-                    # Special case: Check if it's a speculators Eagle model
+                    # Detect speculators format Eagle models which don't set the method
+                    # field explicitly but can be identified by their config structure
                     elif is_speculators_eagle_config(speculative_model):
                         is_eagle_enabled = True
 

vllm/model_executor/models/llama_eagle.py

@@ -43,6 +43,26 @@ def __init__(
 
 @support_torch_compile
 class LlamaModel(nn.Module):
+    """
+    Eagle draft model based on Llama architecture with projection layer.
+    
+    This model extends the standard Llama architecture for Eagle speculative decoding
+    by adding a projection layer that combines input embeddings with hidden states
+    from the target model. It also supports HASS (Hierarchical Aggregation for
+    Sequence Sketching) variants that include additional layernorm layers.
+    
+    The projection layer takes concatenated input embeddings and hidden states
+    (2 * hidden_size) and projects them back to hidden_size for processing
+    through the transformer layers.
+    """
+    
+    # Weight name mapping for speculators format compatibility
+    SPECULATORS_WEIGHT_MAP = {
+        "fusion_fc.weight": "projection_layer.weight",
+        "fusion_fc.bias": "projection_layer.bias",
+        "embedding_layernorm.weight": "embedding_layernorm.weight",
+        "pre_lm_head_layernorm.weight": "hidden_states_layernorm.weight",
+    }
 
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -69,34 +89,55 @@ def __init__(
                 prefix=maybe_prefix(prefix, f"layers.{i + start_layer_id}"),
             ) for i in range(self.config.num_hidden_layers)
         ])
-        self.fc = torch.nn.Linear(self.config.hidden_size * 2,
-                                  self.config.hidden_size,
-                                  bias=False)
+        
+        # Projection layer: combines input embeddings with target hidden states
+        self.projection_layer = torch.nn.Linear(self.config.hidden_size * 2,
+                                               self.config.hidden_size,
+                                               bias=False)
 
         # Support for additional layernorms (HASS variant)
-        self.add_para_norm = False
+        # HASS adds layernorms to input embeddings and hidden states for better
+        # representation alignment between draft and target models
+        self.has_embedding_layernorms = False
         if hasattr(self.config, "add_para_norm") and self.config.add_para_norm:
-            self.enorm = RMSNorm(self.config.hidden_size, 
-                               eps=self.config.rms_norm_eps)
-            self.hnorm = RMSNorm(self.config.hidden_size,
-                               eps=self.config.rms_norm_eps)
-            self.add_para_norm = True
+            self.embedding_layernorm = RMSNorm(self.config.hidden_size, 
+                                             eps=self.config.rms_norm_eps)
+            self.hidden_states_layernorm = RMSNorm(self.config.hidden_size,
+                                                 eps=self.config.rms_norm_eps)
+            self.has_embedding_layernorms = True
 
     def forward(
         self,
         input_ids: torch.Tensor,
         positions: torch.Tensor,
         hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
     ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        """
+        Forward pass through the Eagle draft model.
+        
+        Args:
+            input_ids: Input token IDs for the draft model
+            positions: Position indices for the tokens
+            hidden_states: Hidden states from the target model at the same positions
+        
+        Returns:
+            Tuple of (output_hidden_states, output_hidden_states) for compatibility
+        """
         input_embeds = self.embed_tokens(input_ids)
 
         # Apply layernorms if enabled (HASS variant)
-        if self.add_para_norm:
-            input_embeds = self.enorm(input_embeds)
-            hidden_states = self.hnorm(hidden_states)
+        # HASS normalizes both input embeddings and target hidden states
+        # before combining them to improve alignment
+        if self.has_embedding_layernorms:
+            input_embeds = self.embedding_layernorm(input_embeds)
+            hidden_states = self.hidden_states_layernorm(hidden_states)
 
-        hidden_states = self.fc(
+        # Project concatenated embeddings and hidden states
+        # This combines information from both the input tokens and target model
+        hidden_states = self.projection_layer(
             torch.cat((input_embeds, hidden_states), dim=-1))
+        
+        # Process through transformer layers
         residual = None
         for layer in self.layers:
             hidden_states, residual = layer(
@@ -107,8 +148,38 @@ def forward(
         hidden_states = hidden_states + residual
         return hidden_states, hidden_states
 
+    def _remap_weight_name(self, name: str) -> str | None:
+        """
+        Remap speculators format weight names to vLLM names.
+        
+        Args:
+            name: Original weight name from the checkpoint
+        
+        Returns:
+            Remapped weight name, or None if the weight should be skipped
+        """
+        if name in self.SPECULATORS_WEIGHT_MAP:
+            return self.SPECULATORS_WEIGHT_MAP[name]
+        elif name.startswith("transformer."):
+            # Skip transformer weights - they're loaded separately by the target model
+            return None
+        return name
+    
     def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[tuple[str,
                                                    torch.Tensor]]) -> set[str]:
+        """
+        Load model weights with support for speculators format.
+        
+        This method handles weight name mapping between speculators format
+        and vLLM's expected naming convention, ensuring compatibility
+        with both standard Eagle models and speculators-packaged models.
+        
+        Args:
+            weights: Iterable of (weight_name, weight_tensor) pairs
+        
+        Returns:
+            Set of parameter names that were successfully loaded
+        """
         stacked_params_mapping = [
             # (param_name, shard_name, shard_id)
             (".qkv_proj", ".q_proj", "q"),
@@ -120,22 +191,14 @@ def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[tuple[str,
         params_dict = dict(self.named_parameters())
         loaded_params: set[str] = set()
 
-        # Support for speculators format weights
-        speculators_name_map = {
-            "fusion_fc.weight": "fc.weight",
-            "fusion_fc.bias": "fc.bias",
-            "embedding_layernorm.weight": "enorm.weight",
-            "pre_lm_head_layernorm.weight": "hnorm.weight",
-        }
-        
         for name, loaded_weight in weights:
-            # Handle speculators format weight names
-            if name in speculators_name_map:
-                name = speculators_name_map[name]
-            elif name.startswith("transformer."):
-                # Skip transformer weights - they're loaded separately
+            # Remap weight names for speculators compatibility
+            remapped_name = self._remap_weight_name(name)
+            if remapped_name is None:
                 continue
+            name = remapped_name
 
+            # Handle stacked parameters (attention and MLP projections)
             for param_name, weight_name, shard_id in stacked_params_mapping:
                 if weight_name not in name:
                     continue
@@ -145,8 +208,8 @@ def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[tuple[str,
                 weight_loader(param, loaded_weight, shard_id)
                 break
             else:
-
-                # if PP disabled then draft will share embed with target
+                # Skip embedding weights if pipeline parallelism is disabled
+                # In this case, draft model shares embeddings with target model
                 if get_pp_group().world_size == 1 and \
                     "embed_tokens." in name:
                     continue
@@ -164,6 +227,28 @@ def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[tuple[str,
 
 
 class EagleLlamaForCausalLM(LlamaForCausalLM):
+    """
+    Eagle draft model for causal language modeling.
+    
+    This class implements the Eagle draft model architecture for speculative
+    decoding with Llama-based models. It consists of:
+    1. A subset of transformer layers (starting after the target model layers)
+    2. A projection layer that combines input embeddings with target hidden states
+    3. Optional layernorms for HASS variant
+    4. Logits processing for token generation
+    
+    The model generates draft tokens by processing the combination of input
+    embeddings and hidden states from the target model, enabling faster
+    speculative decoding.
+    """
+    
+    # Weight name mapping for speculators format compatibility
+    SPECULATORS_WEIGHT_MAP = {
+        "fusion_fc.weight": "projection_layer.weight",
+        "fusion_fc.bias": "projection_layer.bias",
+        "embedding_layernorm.weight": "embedding_layernorm.weight",
+        "pre_lm_head_layernorm.weight": "hidden_states_layernorm.weight",
+    }
 
     def __init__(self, *, vllm_config: VllmConfig, prefix: str = ""):
         nn.Module.__init__(self)
@@ -185,31 +270,60 @@ def forward(
         positions: torch.Tensor,
         hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
     ) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
+        """
+        Forward pass through the Eagle draft model.
+        
+        Args:
+            input_ids: Input token IDs for the draft model
+            positions: Position indices for the tokens  
+            hidden_states: Hidden states from the target model
+        
+        Returns:
+            Tuple of (output_hidden_states, output_hidden_states) for compatibility
+        """
         return self.model(input_ids, positions, hidden_states)
 
+    def _remap_weight_name(self, name: str) -> str | None:
+        """
+        Remap speculators format weight names to vLLM names.
+        
+        Args:
+            name: Original weight name from the checkpoint
+        
+        Returns:
+            Remapped weight name, or None if the weight should be skipped
+        """
+        if name in self.SPECULATORS_WEIGHT_MAP:
+            return self.SPECULATORS_WEIGHT_MAP[name]
+        elif name.startswith("transformer."):
+            # Skip transformer weights - they're loaded separately by the target model
+            return None
+        return name
+    
     def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[tuple[str, torch.Tensor]]):
+        """
+        Load model weights with support for speculators format.
+        
+        This method handles weight name mapping between speculators format
+        and vLLM's expected naming convention.
+        
+        Args:
+            weights: Iterable of (weight_name, weight_tensor) pairs
+        """
         loader = AutoWeightsLoader(
             self,
             skip_prefixes=None,
         )
 
-        # Support for speculators format weights
-        speculators_name_map = {
-            "fusion_fc.weight": "fc.weight",
-            "fusion_fc.bias": "fc.bias",
-            "embedding_layernorm.weight": "enorm.weight",
-            "pre_lm_head_layernorm.weight": "hnorm.weight",
-        }
-
         model_weights = {}
         for name, loaded_weight in weights:
-            # Handle speculators format weight names
-            if name in speculators_name_map:
-                name = speculators_name_map[name]
-            elif name.startswith("transformer."):
-                # Skip transformer weights - they're loaded separately
+            # Remap weight names for speculators compatibility
+            remapped_name = self._remap_weight_name(name)
+            if remapped_name is None:
                 continue
+            name = remapped_name
 
+            # Add model prefix for non-lm_head weights
             if "lm_head" not in name:
                 name = "model." + name
             model_weights[name] = loaded_weight

vllm/transformers_utils/config.py

@@ -349,7 +349,9 @@ def get_config(
             raise ValueError(error_message) from e
 
     if config_format == ConfigFormat.HF:
-        # Check if this is a speculators Eagle model
+        # Speculators Eagle models use a different config format that requires
+        # translation to vLLM's expected format. This must be handled before
+        # the standard config loading to ensure proper model initialization.
         if is_speculators_eagle_config(model):
             config = SpeculatorsEagleConfig.from_pretrained(
                 model,