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/suffix.md

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+# Suffix Decoding
+
+The following code configures vLLM to use speculative decoding where proposals are generated using Suffix Decoding ([technical report](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04975)).
+
+Like n-gram, Suffix Decoding can generate draft tokens by pattern-matching using the last `n` generated tokens. Unlike n-gram, Suffix Decoding (1) can pattern-match against both the prompt and previous generations, (2) uses frequency counts to propose the most likely continuations, and (3) speculates an adaptive number of tokens for each request at each iteration to get better acceptance rates.
+
+Suffix Decoding can achieve better performance for tasks with high repetition, such as code-editing, agentic loops (e.g. self-reflection, self-consistency), and RL rollouts.
+
+!!! tip "Install Arctic Inference"
+    Suffix Decoding requires [Arctic Inference](https://github.com/snowflakedb/ArcticInference). You can install it with `pip install arctic-inference`.
+
+!!! tip "Suffix Decoding Speculative Tokens"
+    Suffix Decoding will speculate a dynamic number of tokens for each request at each decoding step, so the `num_speculative_tokens` configuration specifies the *maximum* number of speculative tokens. It is suggested to use a high number such as `16` or `32` (default).
+
+```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": "suffix",
+        "num_speculative_tokens": 32,
+    },
+)
+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}")
+```