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# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
"""
Expert parallelism load balancer (EPLB) for vLLM.
This module implements the core rearrangement algorithm.
The rearrangement algorithm is adapted from
[DeepSeek EPLB](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/eplb).
Please find at [#12](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/EPLB/issues/12) an example
on how the EPLB algorithm works.
"""
import numpy as np
import torch
from .abstract import AbstractEplbPolicy
class DefaultEplbPolicy(AbstractEplbPolicy):
@classmethod
def balanced_packing(
cls, weight: torch.Tensor, num_packs: int
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Pack n weighted objects to m packs, such that each bin contains exactly
n/m objects and the weights of all packs are as balanced as possible.
Parameters:
weight: [X, n], the weight of each item
num_packs: number of packs
Returns:
pack_index: [X, n], the pack index of each item
rank_in_pack: [X, n], the rank of the item in the pack
"""
num_layers, num_groups = weight.shape
assert num_groups % num_packs == 0
groups_per_pack = num_groups // num_packs
device = weight.device
if groups_per_pack == 1:
pack_index = torch.arange(
weight.size(-1), dtype=torch.int64, device=device
).expand(weight.shape)
rank_in_pack = torch.zeros_like(weight, dtype=torch.int64, device=device)
return pack_index, rank_in_pack
weight_np = weight.cpu().numpy()
# Sort and get indices in decending order
indices_np = np.argsort(-weight_np, axis=-1)
pack_index_np = np.full((num_layers, num_groups), -1, dtype=np.int64)
rank_in_pack_np = np.full((num_layers, num_groups), -1, dtype=np.int64)
# Run the packing algorithm
for i in range(num_layers):
pack_weights = [0.0] * num_packs
pack_items = [0] * num_packs
for group in indices_np[i]:
# Find a pack with capacity that has the lowest weight
pack = min(
(j for j in range(num_packs) if pack_items[j] < groups_per_pack),
key=pack_weights.__getitem__,
)
assert pack_items[pack] < groups_per_pack
pack_index_np[i, group] = pack
rank_in_pack_np[i, group] = pack_items[pack]
pack_weights[pack] += weight_np[i, group]
pack_items[pack] += 1
pack_index = torch.from_numpy(pack_index_np).to(device)
rank_in_pack = torch.from_numpy(rank_in_pack_np).to(device)
return pack_index, rank_in_pack
@classmethod
def replicate_experts(
cls, weight: torch.Tensor, num_phy: int
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Replicate `num_log` experts to `num_phy` replicas, such that the maximum
load of all replicas is minimized.
Parameters:
weight: [X, num_log]
num_phy: total number of experts after replication
Returns:
phy2log: [X, num_phy], logical expert id of each physical expert
replica_idx: [X, num_phy], the index of the replica for each logical expert
logcnt: [X, num_log], number of replicas for each logical expert
"""
n, num_log = weight.shape
num_redundant = num_phy - num_log
assert num_redundant >= 0
device = weight.device
phy2log = torch.arange(num_phy, dtype=torch.int64, device=device).repeat(n, 1)
replica_idx = torch.zeros(n, num_phy, dtype=torch.int64, device=device)
logcnt = torch.ones(n, num_log, dtype=torch.int64, device=device)
arangen = torch.arange(n, dtype=torch.int64, device=device)
for i in range(num_log, num_phy):
redundant_indices = (weight / logcnt).max(dim=-1).indices
phy2log[:, i] = redundant_indices
replica_idx[:, i] = logcnt[arangen, redundant_indices]
logcnt[arangen, redundant_indices] += 1
return phy2log, replica_idx, logcnt
@classmethod
def rebalance_experts_hierarchical(
cls,
weight: torch.Tensor,
num_physical_experts: int,
num_groups: int,
num_nodes: int,
num_gpus: int,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Parameters:
weight: [num_moe_layers, num_logical_experts]
num_physical_experts: number of physical experts after replication
num_groups: number of expert groups
num_nodes: number of server nodes, where the intra-node network
(e.g, NVLink) is faster
num_gpus: number of GPUs, must be a multiple of `num_nodes`
Returns:
phy2log: [layers, num_replicas], the expert
index of each replica
pphy_replicas_idx: [layers, num_logical_experts, X],
the replica indices for each expert
logcnt: [layers, num_logical_experts], number of
physical replicas for each logical expert
"""
num_layers, num_logical_experts = weight.shape
assert num_logical_experts % num_groups == 0
group_size = num_logical_experts // num_groups
assert num_groups % num_nodes == 0
groups_per_node = num_groups // num_nodes
assert num_gpus % num_nodes == 0
assert num_physical_experts % num_gpus == 0
phy_experts_per_gpu = num_physical_experts // num_gpus
def inverse(perm: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
inv = torch.empty_like(perm)
inv.scatter_(
1,
perm,
torch.arange(
perm.size(1), dtype=torch.int64, device=perm.device
).expand(perm.shape),
)
return inv
# Step 1: pack groups to nodes
tokens_per_group = weight.unflatten(-1, (num_groups, group_size)).sum(-1)
group_pack_index, group_rank_in_pack = cls.balanced_packing(
tokens_per_group, num_nodes
)
log2mlog = (
(
(group_pack_index * groups_per_node + group_rank_in_pack) * group_size
).unsqueeze(-1)
+ torch.arange(
group_size, dtype=torch.int64, device=group_pack_index.device
)
).flatten(-2)
mlog2log = inverse(log2mlog)
# Step 2: construct redundant experts within nodes
# [num_layers * num_nodes, num_logical_experts // num_nodes]
tokens_per_mlog = weight.gather(-1, mlog2log).view(
-1, num_logical_experts // num_nodes
)
phy2mlog, replicas_idx, mlogcnt = cls.replicate_experts(
tokens_per_mlog, num_physical_experts // num_nodes
)
# Step 3: pack physical_experts to GPUs
# [num_layers * num_nodes, num_physical_experts // num_nodes]
tokens_per_phy = (tokens_per_mlog / mlogcnt).gather(-1, phy2mlog)
pack_index, rank_in_pack = cls.balanced_packing(
tokens_per_phy, num_gpus // num_nodes
)
phy2pphy = pack_index * phy_experts_per_gpu + rank_in_pack
pphy2phy = inverse(phy2pphy)
pphy2mlog = phy2mlog.gather(
-1, pphy2phy
) # [num_layers * num_nodes, num_log_per_nodes]
pphy2mlog = (
pphy2mlog.view(num_layers, num_nodes, -1)
+ torch.arange(
0,
num_logical_experts,
num_logical_experts // num_nodes,
device=group_pack_index.device,
).view(1, -1, 1)
).flatten(-2)
pphy2log = mlog2log.gather(-1, pphy2mlog)
pphy_replicas_idx = replicas_idx.gather(-1, pphy2phy).view(num_layers, -1)
logcnt = mlogcnt.view(num_layers, -1).gather(-1, log2mlog)
return pphy2log, pphy_replicas_idx, logcnt
@classmethod
def preserve_intragpu_slots(
cls,
phy2log: torch.Tensor,
phy_replicas_idx: torch.Tensor,
num_ranks: int,
old_global_expert_indices: torch.Tensor,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Reorder the new mapping per GPU so that experts that remain on the same GPU
keep their previous slot positions when possible. Incoming experts to that GPU
fill any remaining available slots. This is applied only when the number of GPUs
is unchanged and the slots per GPU remain the same between
the old and new mappings.
"""
device = phy2log.device
num_phy_experts = phy2log.shape[1]
if num_ranks <= 0 or num_phy_experts % num_ranks != 0:
return phy2log, phy_replicas_idx
# Move to CPU and convert to NumPy for processing
new_phy2log_np = phy2log.cpu().numpy()
replicas_idx_np = phy_replicas_idx.cpu().numpy()
old_phy2log_np = old_global_expert_indices.cpu().numpy()
slots_per_gpu = num_phy_experts // num_ranks
num_layers = new_phy2log_np.shape[0]
post_phy2log_np = new_phy2log_np.copy()
post_phy_replicas_idx_np = replicas_idx_np.copy()
for gpu_idx in range(num_ranks):
start = gpu_idx * slots_per_gpu
end = start + slots_per_gpu
# Experts across all layers for this GPU
old_local = old_phy2log_np[:, start:end] # [layers, slots]
new_local = new_phy2log_np[:, start:end] # [layers, slots]
new_ridx = replicas_idx_np[:, start:end] # [layers, slots]
used_new_indices = np.zeros((num_layers, slots_per_gpu), dtype=bool)
preserved_positions = np.zeros((num_layers, slots_per_gpu), dtype=bool)
# First pass: preserve same-logical experts in their previous slots
for slot_idx in range(slots_per_gpu):
# matches: [layers, slots], True where new local experts have
# the same logical value as the old from 'slot_idx' and not checked yet
matches = (new_local == old_local[:, slot_idx][:, None]) & (
~used_new_indices
)
has_any = matches.any(axis=1)
if np.any(has_any):
first_idx = np.argmax(matches, axis=1)
layer_indices = np.nonzero(has_any)[0]
matched_new_positions = first_idx[layer_indices]
post_phy2log_np[layer_indices, start + slot_idx] = new_local[
layer_indices, matched_new_positions
]
post_phy_replicas_idx_np[layer_indices, start + slot_idx] = (
new_ridx[layer_indices, matched_new_positions]
)
used_new_indices[layer_indices, matched_new_positions] = True
preserved_positions[layer_indices, slot_idx] = True
# Second pass: fill remaining slots with remaining new experts
remaining_mask = ~used_new_indices # [layers, slots]
fill_mask = ~preserved_positions # [layers, slots]
if remaining_mask.any() and fill_mask.any():
idx_base = np.tile(np.arange(slots_per_gpu), (num_layers, 1))
# Sentinel value for unavailable positions.
large = slots_per_gpu + 1
# Priorities: keep original index for available spots, set sentinel
# for unavailable; lower is earlier.
remaining_priority = np.where(remaining_mask, idx_base, large)
fill_priority = np.where(fill_mask, idx_base, large)
# Sort to get ordered indices of available src/dst positions per layer.
remaining_indices = np.argsort(remaining_priority, axis=1)
fill_indices = np.argsort(fill_priority, axis=1)
# Fill count per layer (cannot exceed either side).
remaining_counts = remaining_mask.sum(axis=1)
fill_counts = fill_mask.sum(axis=1)
take_counts = np.minimum(remaining_counts, fill_counts)
# Assign remaining new experts to remaining slots per layer.
for layer_idx in range(num_layers):
k = int(take_counts[layer_idx])
if k <= 0:
continue
src_pos = remaining_indices[layer_idx, :k]
dst_pos = fill_indices[layer_idx, :k]
post_phy2log_np[layer_idx, start + dst_pos] = new_local[
layer_idx, src_pos
]
post_phy_replicas_idx_np[layer_idx, start + dst_pos] = new_ridx[
layer_idx, src_pos
]
# Convert back to torch and move to original device
post_phy2log = torch.from_numpy(post_phy2log_np).to(device)
post_phy_replicas_idx = torch.from_numpy(post_phy_replicas_idx_np).to(device)
return post_phy2log, post_phy_replicas_idx
@classmethod
def rebalance_experts(
cls,
weight: torch.Tensor,
num_replicas: int,
num_groups: int,
num_nodes: int,
num_ranks: int,
old_global_expert_indices: torch.Tensor | None = None,
) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
"""
Entry point for expert-parallelism load balancer.
Parameters:
weight: [layers, num_logical_experts], the load statistics for all
logical experts
num_replicas: number of physical experts, must be a multiple of
`num_gpus`
num_groups: number of expert groups
num_nodes: number of server nodes, where the intra-node network
(e.g, NVLink) is faster
num_ranks: number of ranks, must be a multiple of `num_nodes`
old_global_expert_indices: [layers, num_logical_experts], the old global
expert indices. Used to avoid unnecessary weight copying
for experts moving within one rank.
Returns:
phy2log: [layers, num_replicas], the expert
index of each replica
log2phy: [layers, num_logical_experts, X],
the replica indices for each expert
logcnt: [layers, num_logical_experts], number of
physical replicas for each logical expert
"""
num_layers, num_logical_experts = weight.shape
weight = weight.float()
if num_groups % num_nodes == 0:
# use hierarchical load-balance policy
phy2log, phy_replicas_idx, logcnt = cls.rebalance_experts_hierarchical(
weight, num_replicas, num_groups, num_nodes, num_ranks
)
else:
# use global load-balance policy
phy2log, phy_replicas_idx, logcnt = cls.rebalance_experts_hierarchical(
weight, num_replicas, 1, 1, num_ranks
)
# Optional postprocessing to preserve slots for experts moving
# within the same GPU
# Only apply when the number of GPUs and slots per GPU remain unchanged.
# Helps to avoid unnecessary weight copying when experts move
# within the same GPU.
if old_global_expert_indices is not None:
phy2log, phy_replicas_idx = cls.preserve_intragpu_slots(
phy2log, phy_replicas_idx, num_ranks, old_global_expert_indices
)
num_redundant_experts = num_replicas - num_logical_experts
maxlogcnt = num_redundant_experts + 1
log2phy: torch.Tensor = torch.full(
(num_layers, num_logical_experts, maxlogcnt),
-1,
dtype=torch.int64,
device=logcnt.device,
)
log2phy.view(num_layers, -1).scatter_(
-1,
phy2log * maxlogcnt + phy_replicas_idx,
torch.arange(num_replicas, dtype=torch.int64, device=log2phy.device).expand(
num_layers, -1
),
)
return phy2log, log2phy, logcnt