[Bug]: ChatCompletionRequest rejects its own defaults

[schoennenbeck]

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Python version: 3.10.16 (main, Jan  5 2025, 05:32:43) [Clang 19.1.6 ] (64-bit runtime)
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Versions of relevant libraries:
[pip3] mypy==1.12.0
[pip3] mypy-extensions==1.0.0
[pip3] numpy==1.26.4
[pip3] nvidia-cublas-cu12==12.4.5.8
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12==12.4.127
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12==12.4.127
[pip3] nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12==12.4.127
[pip3] nvidia-cudnn-cu12==9.1.0.70
[pip3] nvidia-cufft-cu12==11.2.1.3
[pip3] nvidia-curand-cu12==10.3.5.147
[pip3] nvidia-cusolver-cu12==11.6.1.9
[pip3] nvidia-cusparse-cu12==12.3.1.170
[pip3] nvidia-nccl-cu12==2.21.5
[pip3] nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12==12.4.127
[pip3] nvidia-nvtx-cu12==12.4.127
[pip3] onnxruntime-gpu==1.20.1
[pip3] pyzmq==26.2.0
[pip3] torch==2.5.1
[pip3] torchaudio==2.5.1
[pip3] torchvision==0.20.1
[pip3] transformers==4.48.3
[pip3] triton==3.1.0
[conda] Could not collect
ROCM Version: Could not collect
Neuron SDK Version: N/A
vLLM Version: 0.7.3
vLLM Build Flags:
CUDA Archs: Not Set; ROCm: Disabled; Neuron: Disabled
GPU Topology:
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NCCL_CUMEM_ENABLE=0
TORCHINDUCTOR_COMPILE_THREADS=1

🐛 Describe the bug

The pydantic model ChatCompletionRequest found in vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol rejects its own default configuration of logprobs and top_logprobs.

Example to reproduce the problem:

from vllm.entrypoints.openai.protocol import ChatCompletionRequest
request = ChatCompletionRequest(model="model", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "content"}])
ChatCompletionRequest.model_validate(request.model_dump())

Output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/.../.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pydantic/main.py", line 596, in model_validate
    return cls.__pydantic_validator__.validate_python(
pydantic_core._pydantic_core.ValidationError: 1 validation error for ChatCompletionRequest
  Value error, when using `top_logprobs`, `logprobs` must be set to true. [type=value_error, input_value={'messages': [{'content':...ogits_processors': None}, input_type=dict]
    For further information visit https://errors.pydantic.dev/2.9/v/value_error

This becomes a problem when an instance of the class is instantiated at some point (and consequently filled with its defaults if no values for logprobs and top_logprobs are given), then converted to json/ a dict and later reinstantiated from this dump. (Also just generally: Either the defaults are valid or they are not (in which case it should not be possible to create an instance that has the default values by not passing the values explicitly).)

To fix this the validator should change as follows:

@model_validator(mode="before")
    @classmethod
    def check_logprobs(cls, data):
        if (prompt_logprobs := data.get("prompt_logprobs")) is not None:
            if data.get("stream") and prompt_logprobs > 0:
                raise ValueError(
                    "`prompt_logprobs` are not available when `stream=True`.")

            if prompt_logprobs < 0:
                raise ValueError("`prompt_logprobs` must be a positive value.")

        if (top_logprobs := data.get("top_logprobs")) is not None:
            if top_logprobs < 0:
                raise ValueError("`top_logprobs` must be a positive value.")

            if top_logprobs > 0 and not data.get("logprobs"):
                raise ValueError(
                    "when using `top_logprobs`, `logprobs` must be set to true."
                )

        return data

Where the line if top_logprobs > 0 and not data.get("logprobs"): contains the relevant fix. I.e. logprobs must only be set to True if we actually request any top_logprobs.

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[DarkLight1337]

@hmellor might this be caused by the change to the priority of generation_config.json?

[hmellor]

Are you referring to #12622? If so, it has not been merged yet

[DarkLight1337]

Didn't realize that, never mind then.

[hmellor]

Is the issue here that top_logprobs is explicitly 0, which is triggering the error because:

• it is not None
• and logprobs is false