fix: stop words leak unparsed text into streamed content - #2203
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StopSequenceDecoder withheld the last `jail_max_bytes` of decoded text on every token, where `jail_max_bytes` is the length of the longest stop sequence. Only a suffix that is a proper prefix of a stop sequence can ever grow into a match, so the rest of that window was being held for no reason. Two consequences. Every streamed token was delayed by up to the length of the longest stop string whenever a request set `stop`. And because the remainder was still sitting in the jail when generation ended, the streaming layer released it through `flush()` at end of stream — a path that emits text straight to the client without running the reasoning or tool parsers over it. Whatever the window happened to cut through leaked verbatim. Withhold only the longest suffix that is a proper prefix of some stop sequence instead. That is usually zero bytes, so text now leaves with the token that produced it and the jail is empty at end of stream. The Aho-Corasick search window went away with it: the buffer is now bounded by one token plus a partial match, so scanning it whole is cheap. Emitted text is unchanged — the spanning-token test still sees exactly "test " before a hidden stop, just delivered earlier. Signed-off-by: Keyang Ru <rukeyang@gmail.com>
Every chunk of decoded text in the chat and messages streaming loops runs through the reasoning parser and then the tool parser before anything is written to the client. The `Complete` arm did not: it called `stop_decoder.flush()` and wrote the result straight out as assistant content. Anything still jailed at end of stream therefore reached the client unparsed — reasoning text arriving as `content` instead of `reasoning_content`, and structural control tokens arriving verbatim. Funnel both sources into one place. The match over the response variant now yields the text to emit rather than emitting it, and the shared block after it runs the parsers. The `Chunk` arm hands over its decoded text, the `Complete` arm hands over the flush, and neither can bypass parsing. Ordering is unchanged: the flush is still emitted before the finish-reason and usage chunks, which Phase 4 sends after the loop. `/v1/completions` keeps its direct flush — that path has no reasoning or tool parser to route through, so its raw text is the response. Most of the diff is re-indentation from lifting the emission out of the match arms; `git diff -w` shows the change itself. Signed-off-by: Keyang Ru <rukeyang@gmail.com>
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR changes streaming stop handling so only possible stop-word prefixes are withheld and flushed text still passes through reasoning and tool parsing. It is mergeable with owner awareness that the regression test compares separate model calls and may be sensitive to backend nondeterminism. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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Backend->>StopSequenceDecoder: Send generated text
StopSequenceDecoder->>StreamingRouter: Emit decoded or flushed text
StreamingRouter->>StreamingRouter: Parse reasoning, tools, and content
StreamingRouter->>SSEClient: Send SSE events and completion metadata
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161-171: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win🟡 Nit: The equality assertions assume byte-identical output across two separate requests.
The test runs the same prompt twice and requires
stopped_content == baseline_contentandstopped_reasoning == baseline_reasoning.temperature=0reduces sampling variance, but it does not guarantee identical token sequences across two independent server requests. Batch composition and floating-point reduction order can change the output. A mismatch then fails the test for a reason unrelated to stop-word handling.Consider a leak-specific assertion instead of full equality. For example, assert that
stopped_contentis a prefix ofbaseline_contentplus nothing, or assert that no substring of the stop word appears at the tail ofstopped_content, or run the baseline once per session and pinseedif the backend supports it.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@e2e_test/chat_completions/test_reasoning_content.py`:
- Around line 161-171: Update the assertions in the run(None)/run(stop)
comparison to avoid requiring byte-identical outputs from independent requests.
Use a deterministic seed if the existing API supports it, or change the checks
to validate only stop-word leakage and reasoning/content separation while
preserving the intended behavior.
Apply the same fix in `@crates/tokenizer/src/stop.rs` around lines 546 - 568.
Apply the same fix in `@model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs`
around lines 479 - 485.
Apply the same fix in `@e2e_test/chat_completions/test_reasoning_content.py`
around lines 124 - 127.
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Clean, well-reasoned fix for two distinct defects that combined to leak unparsed text into streamed content.
What I verified:
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pending_match_len(): Correctly computes the minimal hold window — only a suffix that is a proper prefix of some stop sequence is withheld. The inner loop's byte-level filter, char-boundary guard, and proper-prefix bound (saturating_sub(1)) are all correct. The buffer after draining is bounded bylongest_prefix + one_token, so the full-buffer AC scan is cheap. -
Streaming restructure (chat completions + messages): Both paths now funnel the
Completearm's flush through the same reasoning/tool parser pipeline as regular chunks. The ordering is safe — metadata is stored in theCompletearm, but finish-reason and usage chunks are emitted in Phase 4/5 (after the loop), so flushed content always precedes them. -
Completions path: Correctly keeps its direct flush —
/v1/completionshas no parsers to route through. -
Tests: The new unit tests cover the key behavioral changes (immediate emit for non-matching text, pending partial match held then released, control token not sliced, flush returns only genuinely pending text). The e2e test verifies the fix end-to-end by comparing with-stop-word and without-stop-word outputs.
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A `stop` word the model never emits should be invisible to the client. It was not: the stop decoder held back text that the end-of-stream flush then released unparsed, so the reasoning tail — or a fragment of the model's structural tokens — surfaced as assistant content. Generate twice at temperature 0, with and without the stop word, and require the reasoning/content split to be identical. `max_tokens` cuts the stream mid-reasoning so there is always text held back when it ends. Parametrized over stop words of different lengths because the leak was exactly as long as the longest stop sequence. Signed-off-by: Keyang Ru <rukeyang@gmail.com>
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159-169: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift🟡 Nit: Avoid relying on two independent model calls being byte-identical.
run(None)andrun(stop)issue separate streaming requests.temperature=0does not establish identical output unless the test backend guarantees deterministic decoding. Load balancing, model revisions, or backend nondeterminism can make this test fail before it checks stop handling. Pin a deterministic fixture or seed if supported, or compare each response with a fixed expected fixture.This verification depends on the deterministic-output contract of the test backend.
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In `@e2e_test/chat_completions/test_reasoning_content.py`:
- Around line 124-160: The test method
test_streaming_unmatched_stop_word_does_not_change_output should verify that
generation terminates due to max_tokens and that the stop decoder held a partial
prefix before flushing, using finish_reason and the exposed generated output
when available. Keep the comparison with the baseline, but add assertions
ensuring the scenario actually exercises the end-of-stream flush rather than
passing when no partial stop match occurs.
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In `@e2e_test/chat_completions/test_reasoning_content.py`:
- Around line 159-169: The test around run(None) and run(stop) should not assume
separate model requests produce byte-identical output. Use a deterministic
fixture or supported seed, or compare each response against fixed expected
reasoning and content values, while preserving the existing stop-decoder
assertions.
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Can we put this in test_openai_server.py and see if we can improve the existing test_stop_sequences_stream instead of creating a new test ?
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Only a comment about e2e tests. Other changes LGTM
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Description
Problem
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stream: trueand astopword set, the client receives characters that are not part of the model's answer. Against Kimi-K3 the reported string isep|>— the tail of K3's<|sep|>control token.Two defects combine to produce it.
StopSequenceDecoderwithholds far more text than it needs to. The jail retains the lastjail_max_bytesof decoded text on every token, wherejail_max_bytesis the length of the longest stop sequence. But only a suffix that is a proper prefix of a stop sequence can ever grow into a match — the rest of that window is held for nothing. Every streamed token is therefore delayed by up to the length of the longest stop string, and the window slices whatever happens to be crossing it.The end-of-stream flush skips the parsers. Every chunk in the chat and messages streaming loops runs through the reasoning parser and then the tool parser before anything is written out. The
Completearm did not: it calledstop_decoder.flush()and wrote the result straight to the client as assistant content. So whatever the window had sliced went out verbatim.This is not a Kimi problem
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ep|>string is Kimi-specific; neither defect is. It was reproduced against Kimi-K3 because that is where it was reported, but both live in paths shared by every model:contentwhatever they are. On a truncated stream the client gets the tail of the model's reasoning delivered as answer text — a wrongreasoning_content/contentsplit on DeepSeek-R1, Qwen3, GLM, Step3, MiniMax, or any other.requires_special_tokens()forceskip_special_tokens = false, putting structural tokens in the decoded stream where the window can cut one in half.kimi_k3is one such parser, not the only one.contentinstead of being parsed.stopis enough — no unusual configuration required.The latency half is unconditional: every request that sets
stop, on every model, has been paying up tolen(longest_stop)bytes of streaming delay per token.Solution
Withhold only what could still match, and make sure nothing reaches the client without being parsed.
Changes
crates/tokenizer/src/stop.rs— withhold only the longest suffix that is a proper prefix of some stop sequence. That is usually zero bytes, so text leaves with the token that produced it and the jail is empty at end of stream. Emitted text is unchanged; it just arrives earlier. The Aho-Corasick search window went away with it, since the buffer is now bounded by one token plus a partial match.model_gateway/src/routers/grpc/regular/streaming.rs— the match over the response variant now yields the text to emit rather than emitting it, and one shared block after it runs the parsers. TheChunkarm hands over its decoded text, theCompletearm hands over the flush, and neither can bypass parsing. Ordering is unchanged: the flush still precedes the finish-reason and usage chunks./v1/completionskeeps its direct flush — that path has no parsers to route through, so its raw text is the response.e2e_test/chat_completions/test_reasoning_content.py— regression coverage, described below.Test Plan
Reproduction
8×B300,
vLLM 0.1.dev19262gRPC serving Kimi-K3 (TP=8, EP on), behind this gateway with--reasoning-parser kimi_k3 --tool-call-parser kimi_k3.Before: a content delta of exactly
"ep|>". After: no content delta at all, matching the same request withoutstop.Before / after
max_tokens: 82cuts the stream just past the think→response boundary. At that point the model is still inside its reasoning block, sodelta.contentmust be empty. Varying onlystop:stopdelta.contentbefore""""["wtf"]"p|>"""["wtfx"]"ep|>"""["wtfxy"]"sep|>"""["0123456789"]"ink<|sep|>"""The leak is exactly as long as the stop word, which is what pins the mechanism to the jail window. Cutting one token earlier or later leaked the other markers —
"e|>","se|>"from<|close|>;"n|>","en|>"from<|open|>— all""after the fix.Sweeping
max_tokensfrom 8 to 96: before, every stop word produced a stray content fragment at every truncation point; after,contentmatches the no-stop baseline at every one.No regression in stop handling
Verified for matched stops that the stop string is absent from the output, the content is an exact prefix of the unstopped baseline, the cut lands exactly where the stop word starts, and
matched_stopis correct — including multi-byte stop words (助手,，由), which exercise the character-boundary handling.Tests added
crates/tokenizer/src/stop.rs:</that never becomes</think>case)flush()returns a genuinely pending partial matchThe spanning-token test now asserts the emitted text rather than per-token
Held/Text— the timing is what changed, and the output is what must not.e2e_test/chat_completions/test_reasoning_content.py: generate twice attemperature: 0, with and without a stop word the model never emits, and require an identical reasoning/content split. Parametrized over stop-word lengths because the leak was exactly as long as the stop word.Suite status
cargo test --workspacepasses. Two pre-existing conditions onmain, unchanged by this branch and verified by reproducing them onmain: a clippy lint atmodel_gateway/src/worker/monitor.rs:825that only fires on rustc 1.97.1 (unneeded_wildcard_pattern, newer than CI's toolchain — CI skips clippy in pre-commit), and two order-dependentmiddleware::metricsinterner tests that fail in a full-suite run and pass in isolation.Checklist
cargo +nightly fmtpassescargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warningspasses (modulo the pre-existingmonitor.rslint above, which also fires onmain)