Ports vllm-omni's canonical qwen2_5_omni omni-speech cascade as a v2 card:
a third weight-sharing topology — three disjoint experts (thinker, talker,
vocoder) on three loop types (ar_decode → ar_decode → audio_decode) in one
request, with chained cross-stage conditioning and streaming codec→waveform.
vllm-omni runs these as three opaque request-scheduled stages; v2 makes every
thinker token, talker token, and vocoder chunk a runtime-visible WorkUnit.
- models/backend.py: ToyTalker (a genuinely distinct AR expert, weight-salted)
+ ToyVocoder (streaming code2wav: codec tokens → waveform chunks).
- models/omni/vocoder_loop.py: VocoderLoop filling the pre-declared
LoopKind.AUDIO_DECODE / WorkUnitKind.AUDIO_CHUNK slot.
- models/omni/ar_loop.py: ARDecodeLoop gains a configurable prompt_slot so two
chained AR loops don't collide on the prefill slot (thinker vs talker).
- models/qwen_omni/: card (3 experts/3 loops) + program (tokenize → thinker →
emit_text → thinker→talker full-payload hand-off → talker → talker→vocoder →
vocoder → emit_audio). Cross-stage hand-offs are explicit Program nodes, the
model-native form of vllm-omni's custom_process_input_func.
- _enums.py: Capability.TEXT_TO_SPEECH.
- tests/test_thinker_talker.py: 6 tests incl. three-loop interleave parity,
cascade conditioning, AUDIO_CHUNK streaming. Full suite 97 passed.
designv4.md: §2.3 topology table extended to four topologies; new §9.5 on the
cascade; reference-synthesis + package layout updated.
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