[Feature]: Support cfg kv-cache transfer in multi-stage (#1422)

Signed-off-by: princepride <wangzhipeng628@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: 汪志鹏 <wangzhipeng628@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

docs/configuration/stage_configs.md

@@ -135,6 +135,14 @@ Each stage in the `stage_args` list contains the following configuration options
 
 A unique identifier for each stage in the multi-stage pipeline. Stages are numbered sequentially starting from 0, and this ID is used to reference stages in inter-stage dependencies (e.g., `engine_input_source`).
 
+### `prompt_expand_func` (Optional)
+
+A custom Python function hook for the LLM stage (Stage 0) that expands a single incoming prompt object into multiple prompts. This is primarily used for multi-modal Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG), where it generates the necessary companion requests (like a negative text prompt) and tags them with internal roles (e.g., `cfg_text`). This ensures the upstream LLM generates the needed contextual hidden states for both the conditional and unconditional generations simultaneously.
+
+### `cfg_kv_collect_func` (Optional)
+
+A custom Python function hook for downstream diffusion stages (Stage 1+) to collect, map, and process the KV caches transferred from the companion requests fired by `prompt_expand_func`. It aggregates the hidden condition states cleanly (e.g., binding them as `cfg_text_past_key_values` and `cfg_text_kv_metadata`), allowing the diffusion runtime to perform CFG smoothly without redundantly evaluating text paths on the DiT workers.
+
 ### `runtime`
 
 Configuration for disaggregated execution of the stage, controlling how the stage is deployed and executed.

docs/design/architecture_overview.md

@@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ The framework achieves high performance through several optimization techniques:
     * **Quantization:** Supports various quantization implementations including FP8 and AWQ.
     * **FusedOps:** Allows for custom and third-party integration.
 
+### Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) Companion Flow
+
+vLLM-Omni natively models Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) across disaggregated multi-stage setups via a "companion request" paradigm, eliminating redundant textual/multimodal context computation boundaries:
+1. **Prompt Expansion:** In the initial autoregressive (AR) stage, a customized `prompt_expand_func` hook intercepts incoming generation prompts and pairs them directly with negative companion prompts (e.g., a default negative prompt) on the fly, tagging the secondary prompt with a specific internal role (`cfg_text`).
+2. **Synchronized KV Cache Transfer:** The AR stage evaluates both the primary and companion sequence batches concurrently. The `OmniConnector` captures these specific structural dependencies and reliably passes the positive and negative outcome KV caches seamlessly across stage boundaries via shared memory or network protocols.
+3. **KV Cache Collection & Injection:** Upon reaching the downstream Diffusion (DiT) Engine, an assigned `cfg_kv_collect_func` automatically intercepts the mapped companion caches (`cfg_text_past_key_values`). These auxiliary dependencies are natively gathered and seamlessly bound to the primary generation sequence variables, enabling the DiT Engine to cleanly implement cross-attention CFG guidance over accurate conditioning and unconditioning structures in parallel.
+
 ### Flexibility and Usability
 
 vLLM-Omni is designed to be flexible and straightforward for users: