[Feature] Add support for naver/splade-v3 (BERT-based sparse embedding model) (#26339)

gjgjos · DarkLight1337 · web-flow · commit 18ed7746eacb · 2025-10-12T17:00:52.000Z
Signed-off-by: gjgjos &lt;gjgjos@naver.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Cyrus Leung &lt;cyrus.tl.leung@gmail.com&gt;
diff --git a/tests/models/language/pooling/test_splade_sparse_pooler.py b/tests/models/language/pooling/test_splade_sparse_pooler.py
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright contributors to the vLLM project
+
+import types
+
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+import torch
+import torch.nn as nn
+
+from vllm.model_executor.models.bert import (
+    BertMLMHead,
+    SPLADESparsePooler,
+)
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+# 1) Functional test: SPLADE formula correctness (no HF download needed)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("B,T,H,V", [(2, 3, 5, 7)])
+def test_splade_pooler_matches_reference_formula(B, T, H, V):
+    """Ensure SPLADESparsePooler forward() matches the mathematical formula:
+    log1p(relu(logits)) -> max over sequence length (after masking)."""
+    torch.manual_seed(0)
+
+    # Prepare [B] sequences of shape [T, H]
+    hs_list = [torch.randn(T, H) for _ in range(B)]
+
+    # Simulate PoolingMetadata (only required fields)
+    prompt_lens = [T, T - 1]
+    token_ids = torch.tensor(
+        [
+            [101, 5, 102],  # Batch 0: [CLS], token, [SEP]
+            [101, 6, 6],  # Batch 1: [CLS], token, token (last token ignored)
+        ],
+        dtype=torch.long,
+    )
+    meta = types.SimpleNamespace(prompt_lens=prompt_lens, prompt_token_ids=token_ids)
+
+    # MLM head (prefer BertMLMHead, fallback to Linear if unavailable)
+    try:
+        mlm_head = BertMLMHead(hidden_size=H, vocab_size=V, layer_norm_eps=1e-12)
+    except Exception:
+        mlm_head = nn.Linear(H, V, bias=True)
+
+    # Forward pass through SPLADE pooler
+    pooler = SPLADESparsePooler(mlm_head=mlm_head, pooling="max", remove_cls_sep=True)
+    pooled = pooler(hidden_states=hs_list, pooling_metadata=meta)  # list of [V]
+
+    # Basic output checks
+    assert isinstance(pooled, list) and len(pooled) == B
+    for vec in pooled:
+        assert vec.shape == (V,)
+        assert torch.isfinite(vec).all()
+        assert (vec >= 0).all(), "SPLADE outputs must be non-negative."
+
+    # Reference implementation for comparison
+    def ref_one(hs: torch.Tensor, L: int, tid_row: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        keep = torch.ones(L, dtype=torch.bool)
+        if L > 0 and tid_row[0].item() == 101:  # remove CLS
+            keep[0] = False
+        if L > 0 and tid_row[L - 1].item() == 102:  # remove SEP
+            keep[L - 1] = False
+
+        valid = hs[:L][keep[:L]]
+        if valid.numel() == 0:
+            return torch.zeros(V, dtype=torch.float32)
+
+        logits = mlm_head(valid)  # [L', V]
+        scores = torch.log1p(torch.relu(logits))  # [L', V]
+        return scores.max(dim=0).values.to(torch.float32)
+
+    torch.testing.assert_close(
+        pooled[0],
+        ref_one(hs_list[0], prompt_lens[0], token_ids[0]),
+        rtol=1e-4,
+        atol=1e-4,
+    )
+    torch.testing.assert_close(
+        pooled[1],
+        ref_one(hs_list[1], prompt_lens[1], token_ids[1]),
+        rtol=1e-4,
+        atol=1e-4,
+    )
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+# 2) Integration smoke test: end-to-end embedding path wiring
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+@pytest.mark.cpu_model
+def test_bert_splade_sparse_embed_smoke(vllm_runner, monkeypatch):
+    """Ensure BertSpladeSparseEmbeddingModel loads and produces sparse embeddings."""
+    from transformers import AutoTokenizer
+
+    MODEL_ID = "hf-internal-testing/tiny-random-bert"
+    hf_overrides = {"architectures": ["BertSpladeSparseEmbeddingModel"]}
+
+    # Enforce CPU-only execution (optional)
+    monkeypatch.setenv("CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES", "")
+    monkeypatch.setenv("VLLM_USE_TRITON_FLASH_ATTN", "False")
+
+    tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(MODEL_ID)
+    vocab_size = tok.vocab_size
+
+    # The embed path should route through SPLADESparsePooler
+    with vllm_runner(
+        MODEL_ID,
+        runner="pooling",
+        max_model_len=64,
+        hf_overrides=hf_overrides,
+    ) as vm:
+        outs = vm.embed(["hello world", "splade sparse test"])
+
+        # Basic sanity checks
+        assert len(outs) == 2
+        assert outs[0].shape[0] == vocab_size
+        assert outs[1].shape[0] == vocab_size
+        assert np.isfinite(outs[0]).all() and (outs[0] >= 0).all()
+        assert np.isfinite(outs[1]).all() and (outs[1] >= 0).all()
diff --git a/tests/models/registry.py b/tests/models/registry.py
@@ -486,6 +486,9 @@ def check_available_online(
     "RobertaModel": _HfExamplesInfo("sentence-transformers/stsb-roberta-base-v2"),
     "RobertaForMaskedLM": _HfExamplesInfo("sentence-transformers/all-roberta-large-v1"),
     "XLMRobertaModel": _HfExamplesInfo("intfloat/multilingual-e5-small"),
+    "BertSpladeSparseEmbeddingModel": _HfExamplesInfo(
+        "naver/splade-v3", is_available_online=False
+    ),
     # [Multimodal]
     "CLIPModel": _HfExamplesInfo("openai/clip-vit-base-patch32"),
     "LlavaNextForConditionalGeneration": _HfExamplesInfo("royokong/e5-v"),
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/bert.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/bert.py
@@ -572,6 +572,220 @@ def _decode_token_type_ids(input_ids: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
     return token_type_ids
 
 
+class BertMLMHead(nn.Module):
+    def __init__(
+        self, hidden_size: int, vocab_size: int, layer_norm_eps: float = 1e-12
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.dense = nn.Linear(hidden_size, hidden_size)
+        self.activation = nn.GELU()
+        self.layer_norm = nn.LayerNorm(hidden_size, eps=layer_norm_eps)
+        self.decoder = nn.Linear(hidden_size, vocab_size, bias=True)
+
+    def tie_weights_with_embeddings(self, embeddings_weight: torch.Tensor):
+        self.decoder.weight = embeddings_weight
+
+    def forward(self, hidden_states: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+        x = self.dense(hidden_states)
+        x = self.activation(x)
+        x = self.layer_norm(x)
+        logits = self.decoder(x)
+        return logits
+
+
+class SPLADESparsePooler(Pooler):
+    """
+    SPLADE sparse pooling:
+    logits = mlm_head(hidden_states)
+            -> log1p(relu(logits))
+            -> (max|sum over L)
+            -> [V]
+
+    Padding is masked with an attention mask,
+    [CLS]/[SEP] is removed (selected),
+    and then pooled.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        mlm_head: nn.Module,
+        cls_token_id: Optional[int] = 101,
+        sep_token_id: Optional[int] = 102,
+        pooling: str = "max",
+        remove_cls_sep: bool = True,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        assert pooling in ("max", "sum")
+        self.mlm_head = mlm_head
+        self.cls_token_id = cls_token_id
+        self.sep_token_id = sep_token_id
+        self.pooling = pooling
+        self.remove_cls_sep = remove_cls_sep
+
+    def get_supported_tasks(self) -> Set[PoolingTask]:
+        return {"embed"}
+
+    def get_pooling_updates(self, task: PoolingTask) -> PoolingParamsUpdate:
+        return PoolingParamsUpdate(requires_token_ids=True)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        hidden_states: torch.Tensor,
+        pooling_metadata: PoolingMetadata,
+    ) -> torch.Tensor:
+        assert isinstance(hidden_states, torch.Tensor) and hidden_states.dim() == 2
+
+        lens_tensor: torch.Tensor = pooling_metadata.prompt_lens
+        lens: list[int] = lens_tensor.tolist()
+        B: int = len(lens)
+
+        token_ids = pooling_metadata.prompt_token_ids
+        offset = 0
+        pooled_list: list[torch.Tensor] = []
+
+        for i in range(B):
+            L = int(lens[i])
+            hs = hidden_states[offset : offset + L]
+
+            start_idx = 0
+            end_idx = L
+            if self.remove_cls_sep and token_ids is not None:
+                if (
+                    self.cls_token_id is not None
+                    and token_ids[i, 0].item() == self.cls_token_id
+                ):
+                    start_idx = 1
+                if (
+                    self.sep_token_id is not None
+                    and token_ids[i, L - 1].item() == self.sep_token_id
+                ):
+                    end_idx = max(start_idx, L - 1)
+
+            if end_idx <= start_idx:
+                V = int(self.mlm_head.decoder.out_features)
+                pooled_list.append(hs.new_zeros((V,)))
+                offset += L
+                continue
+
+            logits_i = self.mlm_head(hs[start_idx:end_idx])
+            scores_i = torch.log1p(torch.relu(logits_i))
+
+            if self.pooling == "sum":
+                pooled_i = scores_i.sum(dim=0)
+            else:  # "max"
+                pooled_i = scores_i.max(dim=0).values
+
+            pooled_list.append(pooled_i.contiguous())
+            offset += L
+
+        return torch.stack(pooled_list, dim=0).contiguous()
+
+
+@default_pooling_type("CLS")
+class BertSpladeSparseEmbeddingModel(BertEmbeddingModel):
+    """
+    BertEmbeddingModel + SPLADE sparse embedding.
+    - Make logits by self.mlm_head
+    - pooler: SPLADESparsePooler(mlm_head...)
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self, *, vllm_config: VllmConfig, prefix: str = "", splade_pooling: str = "max"
+    ):
+        super().__init__(vllm_config=vllm_config, prefix=prefix)
+        cfg = vllm_config.model_config.hf_config
+
+        # MLM head
+        self.mlm_head = BertMLMHead(
+            hidden_size=cfg.hidden_size,
+            vocab_size=cfg.vocab_size,
+            layer_norm_eps=getattr(cfg, "layer_norm_eps", 1e-12),
+        )
+
+        self._splade_pooling = splade_pooling
+        pooler_config = vllm_config.model_config.pooler_config
+        assert pooler_config is not None
+        self.pooler = self._build_pooler(pooler_config)
+
+    def _build_pooler(self, pooler_config: PoolerConfig) -> Pooler:
+        cfg = self.model.config
+
+        if not hasattr(self, "mlm_head"):
+            self.mlm_head = BertMLMHead(
+                hidden_size=cfg.hidden_size,
+                vocab_size=cfg.vocab_size,
+                layer_norm_eps=getattr(cfg, "layer_norm_eps", 1e-12),
+            )
+
+        pooling_mode = getattr(self, "_splade_pooling", "max")
+
+        cls_id = getattr(cfg, "cls_token_id", None)
+        sep_id = getattr(cfg, "sep_token_id", None)
+
+        return DispatchPooler(
+            {
+                "encode": Pooler.for_encode(pooler_config),
+                "embed": SPLADESparsePooler(
+                    mlm_head=self.mlm_head,
+                    cls_token_id=cls_id,
+                    sep_token_id=sep_id,
+                    pooling=pooling_mode,  # "max" or "sum"
+                    remove_cls_sep=True,
+                ),
+            }
+        )
+
+    def load_weights(self, weights: Iterable[tuple[str, torch.Tensor]]):
+        if not hasattr(self, "mlm_head"):
+            cfg = self.model.config
+            self.mlm_head = BertMLMHead(
+                hidden_size=cfg.hidden_size,
+                vocab_size=cfg.vocab_size,
+                layer_norm_eps=getattr(cfg, "layer_norm_eps", 1e-12),
+            )
+
+        def _strip(name: str) -> str:
+            for p in ("model.", "bert."):
+                if name.startswith(p):
+                    name = name[len(p) :]
+            return name
+
+        weights_list = list(weights)
+        model_side: list[tuple[str, torch.Tensor]] = []
+        mlm_side: list[tuple[str, torch.Tensor]] = []
+
+        for k, w in weights_list:
+            name = _strip(k)
+            if name.startswith("cls.predictions."):
+                mlm_side.append((name, w))
+            else:
+                model_side.append((name, w))
+
+        loaded: set[str] = set()
+        loaded_model = self.model.load_weights(model_side)
+        loaded.update({"model." + n for n in loaded_model})
+
+        if mlm_side:
+            name_map = {
+                "cls.predictions.transform.dense.weight": "mlm_head.dense.weight",
+                "cls.predictions.transform.dense.bias": "mlm_head.dense.bias",
+                ("cls.predictions.transform.LayerNorm.weight"): (
+                    "mlm_head.layer_norm.weight"
+                ),
+                ("cls.predictions.transform.LayerNorm.bias"): (
+                    "mlm_head.layer_norm.bias"
+                ),
+                "cls.predictions.decoder.weight": "mlm_head.decoder.weight",
+                "cls.predictions.decoder.bias": "mlm_head.decoder.bias",
+            }
+            remapped = [(name_map[n], w) for n, w in mlm_side if n in name_map]
+            if remapped:
+                loaded_mlm = AutoWeightsLoader(self).load_weights(remapped)
+                loaded.update(loaded_mlm)
+
+        return loaded
+
+
 @default_pooling_type("CLS")
 class BertForSequenceClassification(nn.Module, SupportsCrossEncoding, SupportsQuant):
     """A model that uses Bert to provide embedding functionalities.
diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py b/vllm/model_executor/models/registry.py
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@
 _EMBEDDING_MODELS = {
     # [Text-only]
     "BertModel": ("bert", "BertEmbeddingModel"),
+    "BertSpladeSparseEmbeddingModel": ("bert", "BertSpladeSparseEmbeddingModel"),
     "DeciLMForCausalLM": ("nemotron_nas", "DeciLMForCausalLM"),
     "Gemma2Model": ("gemma2", "Gemma2ForCausalLM"),
     "Gemma3TextModel": ("gemma3", "Gemma3Model"),
