Bring the sglang Python backend up to feature parity with vllm by adding
the same engine_args:-map plumbing the vLLM backend already has. Any
ServerArgs field (~380 in sglang 0.5.11) becomes settable from a model
YAML, including the speculative-decoding flags needed for Multi-Token
Prediction. Validation matches the vllm backend's: keys are checked
against dataclasses.fields(ServerArgs), unknown keys raise ValueError
with a difflib close-match suggestion at LoadModel time, and the typed
ModelOptions fields keep their existing meaning with engine_args
overriding them.
Backend code:
* backend/python/sglang/backend.py: add _apply_engine_args, import
dataclasses/difflib/ServerArgs, call from LoadModel; rename Seed ->
sampling_seed (sglang 0.5.11 renamed the SamplingParams field).
* backend/python/sglang/test.py + test.sh + Makefile: six unit tests
exercising the helper directly (no engine load required).
Build / CI / backend gallery (cuda13 + l4t13 paths are now first-class):
* backend/python/sglang/install.sh: add --prerelease=allow because
sglang 0.5.11 hard-pins flash-attn-4 which only ships beta wheels;
add --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match for cublas12 so the cu128
torch index wins over default-PyPI's cu130; new pyproject.toml-driven
l4t13 install path so [tool.uv.sources] can pin torch/torchvision/
torchaudio/sglang to the jetson-ai-lab index without forcing every
transitive PyPI dep through the L4T mirror's flaky proxy (mirrors the
equivalent fix in backend/python/vllm/install.sh).
* backend/python/sglang/pyproject.toml (new): L4T project spec with
explicit-source jetson-ai-lab index. Replaces requirements-l4t13.txt
for the l4t13 BUILD_PROFILE; other profiles still go through the
requirements-*.txt pipeline via libbackend.sh's installRequirements.
* backend/python/sglang/requirements-l4t13.txt: removed; superseded
by pyproject.toml.
* backend/python/sglang/requirements-cublas{12,13}{,-after}.txt: pin
sglang>=0.5.11 (Gemma 4 floor); add cu130 torch index for cublas13
(new files) and cu128 torch index for cublas12 (default PyPI now
ships cu130 torch wheels by default and breaks cu12 hosts).
* backend/index.yaml: add cuda13-sglang and cuda13-sglang-development
capability mappings + image entries pointing at
quay.io/.../-gpu-nvidia-cuda-13-sglang.
* .github/workflows/backend.yml: new cublas13 sglang matrix entry,
mirroring vllm's cuda13 build.
Model gallery + docs:
* gallery/sglang.yaml: base sglang config template, mirrors vllm.yaml.
* gallery/sglang-gemma-4-{e2b,e4b}-mtp.yaml: Gemma 4 MTP demos
transcribed verbatim from the SGLang Gemma 4 cookbook MTP commands.
* gallery/sglang-mimo-7b-mtp.yaml: MiMo-7B-RL with built-in MTP heads
+ online fp8 weight quantization, verified end-to-end on a 16 GB
RTX 5070 Ti at ~88 tok/s. Uses mem_fraction_static: 0.7 because the
MTP draft worker's vocab embedding is loaded unquantised and OOMs
the static reservation at sglang's 0.85 default.
* gallery/index.yaml: three new entries (gemma-4-e2b-it:sglang-mtp,
gemma-4-e4b-it:sglang-mtp, mimo-7b-mtp:sglang).
* docs/content/features/text-generation.md: new SGLang section with
setup, engine_args reference, MTP demos, version requirements.
* .agents/sglang-backend.md (new): agent one-pager covering the flat
ServerArgs structure, the typed-vs-engine_args precedence, the
speculative-decoding cheatsheet, and the mem_fraction_static gotcha
documented above.
* AGENTS.md: index entry for the new agent doc.
Known limitation: the two Gemma 4 MTP gallery entries ship a recipe
that doesn't yet run on stock libraries. The drafter checkpoints
(google/gemma-4-{E2B,E4B}-it-assistant) declare
model_type: gemma4_assistant / Gemma4AssistantForCausalLM, which
neither transformers (<=5.6.0, including the SGLang cookbook's pinned
commit 91b1ab1f... and main HEAD) nor sglang's own model registry
(<=0.5.11) registers as of 2026-05-06. They will start working when
HF or sglang upstream registers the architecture -- no LocalAI
changes needed. The MiMo MTP demo and the non-MTP Gemma 4 paths work
today on this build (verified on RTX 5070 Ti, 16 GB).
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Signed-off-by: Richard Palethorpe <io@richiejp.com>
* feat(backends): add CUDA 13 + L4T arm64 CUDA 13 variants for vllm/vllm-omni/sglang
Adds new build profiles mirroring the diffusers/ace-step pattern so vLLM
serving (and SGLang on arm64) can be deployed on CUDA 13 hosts and
JetPack 7 boards:
- vllm: cublas13 (PyPI cu130 channel) + l4t13 (jetson-ai-lab SBSA cu130
prebuilt vllm + flash-attn).
- vllm-omni: cublas13 + l4t13. Floats vllm version on cu13 since vllm
0.19+ ships cu130 wheels by default and vllm-omni tracks vllm master;
cu12 path keeps the 0.14.0 pin to avoid disturbing existing images.
- sglang: l4t13 arm64 only — uses the prebuilt sglang wheel from the
jetson-ai-lab SBSA cu130 index, so no source build is needed.
Cublas13 sglang on x86_64 is intentionally deferred.
CI matrix gains five new images (-gpu-nvidia-cuda-13-vllm{,-omni},
-nvidia-l4t-cuda-13-arm64-{vllm,vllm-omni,sglang}); backend/index.yaml
gains the matching capability keys (nvidia-cuda-13, nvidia-l4t-cuda-13)
and latest/development merge entries.
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* fix(backends): use unsafe-best-match index strategy on l4t13 builds
The jetson-ai-lab SBSA cu130 index lists transitive deps (decord, etc.)
at limited versions / older Python ABIs. uv defaults to the first index
that contains a package and refuses to fall through to PyPI, so sglang
l4t13 build fails resolving decord. Mirror the existing cpu sglang
profile by setting --index-strategy=unsafe-best-match on l4t13 across
the three backends, and apply it to the explicit vllm install line in
vllm-omni's install.sh (which doesn't honor EXTRA_PIP_INSTALL_FLAGS).
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* fix(sglang): drop [all] extras on l4t13, floor version at 0.5.0
The [all] extra brings in outlines→decord, and decord has no aarch64
cp312 wheel on PyPI nor the jetson-ai-lab index (only legacy cp35-cp37
tags). With unsafe-best-match enabled, uv backtracked through sglang
versions trying to satisfy decord and silently landed on
sglang==0.1.16, an ancient version with an entirely different dep
tree (cloudpickle/outlines 0.0.44, etc.).
Drop [all] so decord is no longer required, and floor sglang at 0.5.0
to prevent any future resolver misfire from degrading the version
again.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7 [Read] [Edit] [Bash]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* feat(backends): add sglang
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(sglang): force AVX-512 CXXFLAGS and disable CI e2e job
sgl-kernel's shm.cpp uses __m512 AVX-512 intrinsics unconditionally;
-march=native fails on CI runners without AVX-512 in /proc/cpuinfo.
Force -march=sapphirerapids so the build always succeeds, matching
sglang upstream's docker/xeon.Dockerfile recipe.
The resulting binary still requires an AVX-512 capable CPU at runtime,
so disable tests-sglang-grpc in test-extra.yml for the same reason
tests-vllm-grpc is disabled. Local runs with make test-extra-backend-sglang
still work on hosts with the right SIMD baseline.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
* fix(sglang): patch CMakeLists.txt instead of CXXFLAGS for AVX-512
CXXFLAGS with -march=sapphirerapids was being overridden by
add_compile_options(-march=native) in sglang's CPU CMakeLists.txt,
since CMake appends those flags after CXXFLAGS. Sed-patch the
CMakeLists.txt directly after cloning to replace -march=native.
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
