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[Bugfix][Parser] Stream DeepSeek V4/V3.2 string tool arguments incrementally - #58780

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Purpose

Fixes #52846.

DeepSeek V4, V4.1 and V3.2 streamed a long string tool argument as one fragment when </|DSML|parameter> arrived. The configs set arg_structural_chars=frozenset(">"), so the engine skipped every plain body delta.

The fix now uses the per-parser arg_value_extender hook, the same way GLM (#61253) and Gemma4 (#61494) do. The earlier engine-level gate change is dropped.

  • vllm/parser/deepseek_v4.py: _dsml_arg_value_extender returns an extender while the last parameter is an open string="true" value. Each delta streams as escaped JSON text without rerunning the converter. It stops on a parameter tag, keeping a tail so a tag split across deltas is caught.
  • Wired into deepseek_v4_config, deepseek_v32_config, and deepseek_v41_config (spaced DSML tags via functools.partial).
  • _param_patterns: the trailing-partial regex holds back an unfinished next <|DSML|parameter tag, so a streamed value never includes it (implicit close case).

Test Plan

New tests:

  • tests/tool_parsers/test_deepseekv4_tool_parser.py: test_streaming_long_string_argument_is_incremental (4096-char body in 32-char chunks, needs >1 non-empty body delta and exact round-trip), test_streaming_non_string_argument_is_withheld_until_close, test_streaming_string_argument_with_markup_is_incremental.
  • tests/tool_parsers/test_deepseekv32_tool_parser.py::TestExtractToolCallsStreaming::test_long_string_argument_streams_before_close
  • tests/parser/engine/test_deepseek_v41.py::test_long_string_argument_streams_before_close (spaced DSML)
  • tests/parser/engine/test_deepseek_v4.py::TestArgValueExtender (split close tag, closed value, non-string value, repeated key)

Commands (CPU only):

pytest tests/tool_parsers/test_deepseekv4_tool_parser.py tests/tool_parsers/test_deepseekv32_tool_parser.py \
  tests/tool_parsers/test_deepseekv31_tool_parser.py tests/tool_parsers/test_deepseekv3_tool_parser.py

pytest tests/parser/engine/test_deepseek_v4.py tests/parser/engine/test_deepseek_v41.py \
  tests/parser/engine/test_glm47_moe.py tests/parser/engine/test_gemma4_streaming_reasoning.py \
  tests/parser/engine/test_parser_engine.py tests/tool_parsers/test_glm47_moe_tool_parser.py \
  tests/tool_parsers/test_gemma4_tool_parser.py tests/tokenizers_/test_deepseek_v41.py

pytest tests/parser tests/tool_parsers --ignore=tests/parser/cohere

ruff check <changed files>; ruff format --check <changed files>

Test Result

On this branch:

deepseek v3/v31/v32/v4 tool parsers:  82 passed, 1 xfailed
engine + glm47 + gemma4 + v41 set:     589 passed
tests/parser + tests/tool_parsers:     7672 passed, 1 skipped, 30 xfailed, 41 errors
ruff: All checks passed! / 6 files already formatted

The 41 errors are setup errors in test_harmony.py and test_llama3_json_tool_parser.py (gated or unreachable HF downloads on my machine). tests/parser/cohere was skipped: cohere_melody is not installed.

Same new tests against upstream/main parser code:

FAILED test_deepseekv4_tool_parser.py::test_streaming_long_string_argument_is_incremental - assert 0 > 1
FAILED test_deepseekv32_tool_parser.py::...::test_long_string_argument_streams_before_close - assert 0 > 1
FAILED parser/engine/test_deepseek_v41.py::test_long_string_argument_streams_before_close - assert 2 > (4096 // 64)

V4, 4096-char body in 128 chunks: 0/128 body chunks emit arguments on main, 128/128 on this branch.

AI disclosure: I used Claude Code to port the fix and write tests; I reviewed the diff and test results.

…entally

DeepSeek V4/V3.2 set arg_structural_chars=frozenset(">"), so
ParserEngine._compute_arg_delta skipped the converter for every
parameter-body delta and a long string argument was buffered until
</parameter>. Only apply the structural gate when the tool has no
streamable string keys.

The gate was also hiding a trailing, still-unclosed next parameter tag
from the DSML partial regex; hold it back so an implicitly closed string
value never streams the tag.

Fixes vllm-project#52846

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eugenio "Jay" Zuccarelli <[email protected]>

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This pull request has merge conflicts that must be resolved before it can be
merged. Please rebase the PR, @jayzuccarelli.

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jayzuccarelli and others added 2 commits October 15, 2026 09:27
Upstream added a per-parser arg_value_extender hook (vllm-project#61253 for GLM,
vllm-project#61494 for Gemma4), so drop the engine-level gate change and port the
fix onto that hook instead.

_dsml_arg_value_extender returns an extender while the last parameter
is an open string="true" value, so each delta streams as escaped JSON
text instead of waiting for a ">" to rerun the converter. It keeps a
tail to stop on a parameter tag split across deltas. Wired into the
V3.2, V4 and V4.1 (spaced DSML) configs.

Adds a V4.1 long-string streaming test, extender unit tests, and a
string-with-markup streaming test.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eugenio "Jay" Zuccarelli <[email protected]>
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This looks like the correct direction after rebasing on top of the recent extender work merged for other models. Because this is a performance-sensitive PR, there's one quadratic regex added in this fix that I'd like us to fix just to not fix one performance problem but expose another. Let me know if you need help following what I pointed out there.

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LGTM. I checked 6d41084 locally, rebased on main, and both of @bbrowning's points are fixed: 2,200 bare <|DSML|parameter markers in one value now take 5.5 ms in the converter (1.8 s on the previous head, same as main now), and a value ending in \n arms the extender. The new tests catch both.

# ── Open string values stream without re-running the converter (#52846) ──


class TestArgValueExtender:

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nit: could we add a check like test_conversions_do_not_grow_with_argument_length from the Qwen3 tests? With a string value whose lines contain >, main does 22 partial conversions for 20 lines and 202 for 200, and this PR does 2 for both, so it would catch the per-delta reconversion if it comes back.

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uv pip install pre-commit>=4.5.1
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bbrowning and others added 2 commits October 27, 2026 08:46
main now runs tests/parser under strict mypy (vllm-project#62142), which flags calling
the Optional `arg_converter`/`arg_value_extender` as "None" not callable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ben Browning <[email protected]>
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/ci run

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✅ Triggered Buildkite CI #97621 for commit dba66e0770e9.

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Looks good - thanks for tackling this! This is a nice win for long tool call generations.

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Hmm looks like something merged that broke CI - will have to separately dig into that before this can merge. The failure here is a timeout unrelated to this change.

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✅ Triggered Buildkite CI #97952 for commit 35de007816d4.

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✅ Triggered Buildkite CI #98295 for commit b4be75cc3f93.

ℹ️ This PR is 3 commits behind upstream main. Merged upstream main into this branch as b4be75cc3f93 before starting CI. Pull the branch before pushing more changes.

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Align _dsml_arg_converter and _dsml_arg_value_extender with vllm-project#58780 while
preserving unclosed/truncated DSML parameter recovery (vllm-project#62051), partial
close-marker holdback, and wrapper-argument streaming holdback across
deepseek_v4, deepseek_v41, and deepseek_v32.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Parth Vadera <[email protected]>
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