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@TimFelixBeyer TimFelixBeyer commented May 15, 2025

What does this PR do?

Gemma3 generates incoherent output when manually calling forward with an instance of HybridCache which contains more than sliding_window tokens of content.

This is because the call to past_key_values.get_seq_len() always returns the sequence length as measured by the cache of the very first layer. Because this is a local attention layer, its sequence_length never extends beyond config.sliding_window. This leads to an incorrect computation of cache_position and incoherent generations down the line.

To fix it you can simply provide the correct cache_position manually.
This behavior is impossible to fix without changing get_seq_len of HybridCache, so I propose to simply raise an informative error message for now.

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