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# Dense Attention Backends
Use these backends when you want dense attention without backend-specific
sparsity. Start with `TORCH_SDPA` for correctness comparisons, then benchmark
the fastest compatible kernel for your model, shape, and hardware.
For selection precedence and per-role configuration, see the
[attention backend overview](../attention_backends.md).
## `TORCH_SDPA`
`TORCH_SDPA` calls PyTorch `scaled_dot_product_attention` and lets PyTorch's
dispatcher choose the implementation. It is always available and is the most
conservative reference when validating another backend.
```bash
vllm-omni serve <model> --diffusion-attention-backend TORCH_SDPA
```
## `FLASH_ATTN`
`FLASH_ATTN` uses the installed FlashAttention implementation. On Blackwell it
prefers the CuTe-based FlashAttention 4 path and falls back to
FlashAttention 3 or 2 when that path is unavailable. On Hopper, Ada, and
Ampere it is the preferred automatic route when a compatible package is
installed.
```bash
vllm-omni serve <model> --diffusion-attention-backend FLASH_ATTN
```
### FlashAttention 4 on Blackwell
Install the optional CUDA 13 extra:
```bash
pip install 'vllm-omni[fa4]'
```
Version `4.0.0b18` is required; earlier beta wheels had known JIT failures on
Blackwell. If the CuTe path is unavailable, the backend falls back to the
compatible FlashAttention 3 or 2 path.
## `CUDNN_ATTN`
`CUDNN_ATTN` pins PyTorch SDPA to `CUDNN_ATTENTION`. It is particularly useful
for mask-heavy DiTs and is automatically preferred on Blackwell when cuDNN
9.5 or newer is available and the higher-priority TRTLLM route is not
compatible.
```bash
vllm-omni serve <model> --diffusion-attention-backend CUDNN_ATTN
```
### LTX-2.0 limitation
LTX-2 audio attention has a symbolic head dimension during `torch.compile`
tracing. The cuDNN SDPA selector rejects that symbolic dimension and Dynamo
aborts compilation. This is tracked in
[issue #3121](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm-omni/issues/3121).
Use `FLASHINFER_ATTN` or `TORCH_SDPA` as a workaround:
```bash
DIFFUSION_ATTENTION_BACKEND=FLASHINFER_ATTN \
python examples/offline_inference/text_to_video/text_to_video.py \
--model Lightricks/LTX-2 ...
```
## `FLASHINFER_ATTN`
`FLASHINFER_ATTN` uses FlashInfer's batch-prefill wrapper. It is an explicit
option on CUDA platforms and an automatic Blackwell fallback when FlashInfer
is installed but cuDNN is too old for `CUDNN_ATTN`.
```bash
vllm-omni serve <model> --diffusion-attention-backend FLASHINFER_ATTN
```
### FlashInfer quantized attention
The backend accepts an `AttentionSpec.quant` block. For QK16/V8, keep Q and K
in FP16 or BF16 and use FP8 E4M3 for V:
```python
from vllm_omni.diffusion.data import (
AttentionConfig,
AttentionSpec,
AttnQuantSpec,
OmniDiffusionConfig,
)
config = OmniDiffusionConfig(
diffusion_attention_config=AttentionConfig(
default=AttentionSpec(
backend="FLASHINFER_ATTN",
quant=AttnQuantSpec(
dtype_qk="bfloat16",
dtype_vo="fp8_e4m3",
),
),
),
...,
)
```
`dtype_qk` controls Q and K; `dtype_vo` controls V. Mixed-dtype
configurations require FlashInfer 0.6.16rc1 or newer. The shared quantization
schema is also consumed by TRTLLM, but each backend validates its own allowed
fields and values; see [TRTLLM SAGE quantization](trtllm.md#sage-quantization).
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# Hugging Face Hub Attention Backends
Hub backends load the same published kernels commonly used with Hugging Face
Diffusers. They are useful when training and serving must use matching kernel
implementations to reduce numerical drift and sampling divergence.
| Backend | Kernel | Platform |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `FLASH_ATTN_HUB` | `kernels-community/flash-attn2` | Compatible CUDA GPUs |
| `FLASH_ATTN_3_HUB` | `kernels-community/flash-attn3` | Hopper sm_90 or newer |
## Installation
```bash
pip install kernels==0.14.1
```
If `kernels` is unavailable, vLLM-Omni warns and falls back to the
corresponding local FlashAttention implementation. On CUDA devices older than
Hopper, `FLASH_ATTN_3_HUB` falls back to `FLASH_ATTN_HUB`.
## Usage
```bash
export DIFFUSION_ATTENTION_BACKEND=FLASH_ATTN_HUB
# Equivalent CLI selection
vllm-omni serve <model> --diffusion-attention-backend FLASH_ATTN_HUB
```
For per-role kernel alignment, configure the Hub backend on only the relevant
role; see the [attention backend overview](../attention_backends.md#per-role-configuration).
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# RainFusion Attention
`RAINFUSION_ATTN` runs MindIE-SD RainFusion (`rf_v2`) block-sparse video
attention on Ascend NPU. It pools 128-token key blocks, ranks them per query
block, and attends to the highest-scoring blocks after arranging video tokens
in `(t, h, w)` order.
Only the video segment is sparse. Prefix rows such as text, visual conditions,
and audio, plus first-frame blocks, remain dense. Unsupported calls—including
warmup steps, skipped layers, missing video geometry, and video segments below
32 blocks—delegate to `FLASH_ATTN`, so compatible models can select RainFusion
globally.
## Configuration
| Key | Valid values | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `sparsity` | finite, `[0, 1]` | Nominal dropped-key-block fraction; default `0.8`; `0` disables sparsity |
| `start_step` | integer, `>= 0` | Number of early denoise steps kept dense |
| `skip_layers` | selector such as `"0-3,38"` | DiT blocks kept dense |
```bash
vllm-omni serve MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 \
--diffusion-attention-config '{"default":{"backend":"RAINFUSION_ATTN",\
"block_sparse":{"sparsity":0.8,"start_step":0}}}'
```
```python
from vllm_omni.diffusion.data import AttentionConfig, AttentionSpec, BlockSparseSpec
config = AttentionConfig(
default=AttentionSpec(
backend="RAINFUSION_ATTN",
block_sparse=BlockSparseSpec(
sparsity=0.8,
start_step=0,
skip_layers="0-1",
),
),
)
```
Tune `start_step`, then `sparsity`, then `skip_layers`. Increasing the dense
early-step window is usually the cheapest way to recover global structure;
use layer exclusions only after a same-seed dense comparison identifies
sensitive blocks.
## Requirements and compatibility
RainFusion requires Ascend NPU and `mindiesd`. Selecting it on another
platform raises. It is incompatible with ring sequence parallelism because
the kernel needs the complete key sequence for ranking; use Ulysses sequence
parallelism with `ring_degree=1`.
## Geometry handling
RainFusion handles arbitrary video grids by rearranging video spatially and,
when necessary, promoting a real-video suffix to the always-kept prefix. It
does not pad because `rf_v2` does not consume a padding attention mask.
For MiniMax-H3 at 1344x768, grid `(62, 24, 42)` produces 62,496 video rows.
The implementation promotes 2,976 rows and leaves 59,520 sparse rows
(`465 x 128`) so the mask and kernel tiling remain aligned.
Spatial grids aligned to 8x8 are still preferable. A latent height or width
not divisible by 8 creates an always-kept suffix and reduces realized
sparsity. At the image level, that means width and height divisible by 256.
Protected video tails require a compatible MindIE-SD release.
For common configuration and selector behavior, see the
[attention backend overview](../attention_backends.md) and the
[backend selection design](../../../design/feature/attention_backend_selection.md).
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# SageAttention
SageAttention backends provide lossy low-precision attention for diffusion
models. Validate output quality against `TORCH_SDPA` at the same seed before
using either backend in production.
## `SAGE_ATTN`
`SAGE_ATTN` uses SageAttention 2.2 with INT8-quantized attention and FP16
accumulation.
### Installation
Install SageAttention into the same environment as vLLM-Omni:
```bash
git clone https://github.com/thu-ml/SageAttention.git
cd SageAttention
export EXT_PARALLEL=4 NVCC_APPEND_FLAGS="--threads 8" MAX_JOBS=32
pip install . --no-build-isolation
```
Verify the installation:
```bash
python -c "import sageattention; print(sageattention.__file__)"
```
Select it globally:
```bash
vllm-omni serve <model> --diffusion-attention-backend SAGE_ATTN
```
## `SAGE_ATTN_3`
`SAGE_ATTN_3` uses the SageAttention3 Blackwell implementation.
### SageAttention3 installation
```bash
git clone https://github.com/thu-ml/SageAttention.git
cd SageAttention/sageattention3_blackwell
python setup.py install
```
Verify the installation:
```bash
python -c "import sageattn3; print(sageattn3.__file__)"
```
```bash
vllm-omni serve <model> --diffusion-attention-backend SAGE_ATTN_3
```
`SAGE_ATTN_3` requires CUDA, an importable `sageattn3`, and a Blackwell-class
GPU. Its kernel assumes the query-head count equals the key/value-head count.
GQA and MQA diffusion calls therefore fall back to PyTorch SDPA for
correctness.
For common configuration and platform routing, see the
[attention backend overview](../attention_backends.md).
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# TRTLLM Attention
`TRTLLM_ATTN` runs FlashInfer's trtllm-gen FMHA kernels. It supports dense
BF16 attention plus optional Skip-Softmax sparsity or SAGE quantization.
For common selection and per-role configuration, see the
[attention backend overview](../attention_backends.md).
## Requirements
Selecting `TRTLLM_ATTN` requires:
- datacenter Blackwell, sm_100 or sm_103;
- `head_dim=128`;
- FlashInfer; and
- a model-declared packed or mask-free compatible path.
It is not supported on workstation Blackwell (sm_120/sm_121). An incompatible
explicit selection raises instead of silently changing the backend.
## Dense mode
Select `TRTLLM_ATTN` without `skip_softmax` or `quant` to run dense BF16:
```bash
vllm-omni serve <model> --diffusion-attention-backend TRTLLM_ATTN
```
## Skip-Softmax
Skip-Softmax trades some fidelity for speed by skipping low-contribution
attention work. See the [feature design](../../../design/feature/skip_softmax.md)
for the algorithm and implementation contract.
| Key | Valid values | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `target_sparsity` | finite, `[0, 1]` | Point on a model-calibrated curve |
| `threshold` | finite, `>= 0` | Direct threshold; mutually exclusive with `target_sparsity` |
| `disabled_until_timestep` | finite, `[0, 1]` | Keep early high-noise steps dense until normalized `t <= D` |
```bash
vllm-omni serve Wan-AI/Wan2.2-T2V-A14B-Diffusers \
--diffusion-attention-config '{"default":{"backend":"TRTLLM_ATTN",\
"skip_softmax":{"target_sparsity":0.65,"disabled_until_timestep":0.86}}}'
```
```python
from vllm_omni.diffusion.data import AttentionConfig, AttentionSpec, SkipSoftmaxSpec
config = AttentionConfig(
default=AttentionSpec(
backend="TRTLLM_ATTN",
skip_softmax=SkipSoftmaxSpec(
target_sparsity=0.65,
disabled_until_timestep=0.86,
),
),
)
```
Start with `target_sparsity=0.65` and `disabled_until_timestep=0.86`. Increase
sparsity only after comparing quality against dense output at the same seed.
The benefit grows with sequence length because only attention is accelerated.
## SAGE quantization
TRTLLM SAGE quantizes Q/K per block and V per channel so both attention
matrix multiplications use low precision.
| Key | Valid values | Meaning |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `dtype_qk` | `int8`, `fp8_e4m3` | Q/K quantization dtype; absent means dense |
| `q_block_size` | `1`, `4`, `16` | Q scale block size; default `1` |
| `k_block_size` | `1`, `4`, `16` | K scale block size; default `16` |
V is always quantized per channel to FP8 E4M3 and K-smoothing is internal.
Only block sizes with compiled kernels are accepted.
```bash
vllm-omni serve Wan-AI/Wan2.2-T2V-A14B-Diffusers \
--diffusion-attention-config '{"default":{"backend":"TRTLLM_ATTN",\
"quant":{"dtype_qk":"fp8_e4m3","q_block_size":1,"k_block_size":16}}}'
```
```python
from vllm_omni.diffusion.data import AttentionConfig, AttentionSpec, AttnQuantSpec
config = AttentionConfig(
default=AttentionSpec(
backend="TRTLLM_ATTN",
quant=AttnQuantSpec(
dtype_qk="fp8_e4m3",
q_block_size=1,
k_block_size=16,
),
),
)
```
This path requires FlashInfer 0.6.16rc1 or newer. FP8 Q/K kernels are
available on sm_100 and sm_103; INT8 Q/K kernels are compiled for sm_100 only.
The shared `AttnQuantSpec` is backend typed: values intended for
`FLASHINFER_ATTN` are rejected here and vice versa.