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  • Root cause: Ultra-550B TEP4 block_reuse test ran with free_gpu_memory_fraction=0.6, under-allocating KV cache and causing aggressive eviction that broke prefix-cache correctness, dropping GSM8K accuracy ~9 pt below threshold.
  • Fix: One-line bump of free_gpu_memory_fraction from 0.6 to 0.8 in TestNemotronV3Ultra.test_nvfp4_4gpus_block_reuse; only the test file staged.
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    • Updated test configuration for GPU memory allocation optimization in inference testing scenarios.

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In TestNemotronV3Ultra.test_nvfp4_4gpus_block_reuse, the KvCacheConfig parameter free_gpu_memory_fraction is increased from 0.6 to 0.8.

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NVFP4 Block-Reuse Test KV Cache Configuration

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KvCacheConfig memory fraction update
tests/integration/defs/accuracy/test_llm_api_pytorch.py
free_gpu_memory_fraction in test_nvfp4_4gpus_block_reuse is changed from 0.6 to 0.8.

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…_reuse test

The TEP4 variant (tp=4, ep=4, max_batch_size=32, enable_block_reuse=True)
on the 550B Ultra model was failing GSM8K accuracy at 85.292 vs threshold
91.452 (~6 pt drop).

Root cause: 'max_seq_len' was inferred from the model HF config to 262144.
With tokens_per_block=32 that gives blocks_per_seq=8192, which is essentially
equal to the per-window primary KV pool size (8224 blocks at
free_gpu_memory_fraction=0.5). Block reuse on Nemotron-Ultra at this scale
cannot retain prefix snapshots: a single in-flight sequence consumes the
entire pool, every previously-cached prefix is evicted, and the Mamba
snapshot pool (sized off the same primary budget per
resource_manager.py:1820-1869 and the 'intercept = 0 when mamba_slope > 0'
heuristic in mamba_cache_manager.py:1750-1770) is also starved. Block reuse
is logically enabled but functionally inert, so multi-step generation
drifts numerically and GSM8K drops ~6 points.

GSM8K (MAX_INPUT_LEN=4096, MAX_OUTPUT_LEN=256) and MMLU (MAX_INPUT_LEN=4094)
never need anywhere near 262144 tokens. Capping max_seq_len=8192 reduces
blocks_per_seq from 8192 to 256, leaving room for ~32 sequences of cache
plus the snapshot pool, so block_reuse becomes effective and GSM8K accuracy
returns to spec.

The same value is already used by analogous large-model tests in this file
(TestLlama3_3_70BInstruct.test_fp8_tp4 and TestLlama4MaverickInstruct
.test_auto_dtype with the comment 'Keep this low to avoid warmup OOM in CI').

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@tensorrt-cicd tensorrt-cicd force-pushed the repair-bot-bug6317074 branch from 11cdf22 to 0b1e9a3 Compare June 20, 2026 01:15
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