Add vLLM v0.18.1 source tree with KV transfer abort fix

third_party/vllm/ now tracked in git for direct patch management.
Based on vLLM v0.18.1 release with one patch applied:

  vllm/v1/core/sched/scheduler.py:
    Replace fatal assert with graceful skip when KV transfer callback
    arrives for an already-aborted request during PD disaggregated serving.

Future vLLM modifications should be made directly in third_party/vllm/
and committed normally. The patches/ directory is kept as documentation
of what changed from upstream.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

third_party/vllm/docs/features/speculative_decoding/n_gram.md

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+# N-Gram Speculation
+
+The following code configures vLLM to use speculative decoding where proposals are generated by
+matching n-grams in the prompt. For more information read [this thread.](https://x.com/joao_gante/status/1747322413006643259)
+
+```python
+from vllm import LLM, SamplingParams
+
+prompts = ["The future of AI is"]
+sampling_params = SamplingParams(temperature=0.8, top_p=0.95)
+
+llm = LLM(
+    model="Qwen/Qwen3-8B",
+    tensor_parallel_size=1,
+    speculative_config={
+        "method": "ngram",
+        "num_speculative_tokens": 5,
+        "prompt_lookup_max": 4,
+    },
+)
+outputs = llm.generate(prompts, sampling_params)
+
+for output in outputs:
+    prompt = output.prompt
+    generated_text = output.outputs[0].text
+    print(f"Prompt: {prompt!r}, Generated text: {generated_text!r}")
+```