fix: reorder cache for all cache key names during beam search
Author: arnavkewalram
Pull request: yes
Labels: name: Code agent slop

## Summary

- `_beam_search` hardcoded `\"past_key_values\"` when checking whether to call `reorder_cache`
- Models that store their state under a different key (e.g. Mamba uses `\"cache_params\"`) never had their cache reordered during beam search, silently producing incorrect output
- Fix: iterate over `ALL_CACHE_NAMES` to find whichever cache key is present in `model_kwargs` — the same list already used in `_update_model_kwargs_for_generation` and in the return-dict assembly block at the end of `_beam_search`

Fixes #46612

## Before / after

Before (`_beam_search`, line 3395):
```python
if model_kwargs.get("past_key_values") is not None:
    beam_idx = self._flatten_beam_dim(...)
    if hasattr(self, "_reorder_cache"):
        model_kwargs["past_key_values"] = self._reorder_cache(model_kwargs["past_key_values"], beam_idx)
    else:
        model_kwargs["past_key_values"].reorder_cache(beam_idx)
```

After:
```python
cache_name = next((k for k in ALL_CACHE_NAMES if model_kwargs.get(k) is not None), None)
if cache_name is not None:
    beam_idx = self._flatten_beam_dim(...)
    if hasattr(self, "_reorder_cache"):
        model_kwargs[cache_name] = self._reorder_cache(model_kwargs[cache_name], beam_idx)
    else:
        model_kwargs[cache_name].reorder_cache(beam_idx)
```

## Test plan

- [ ] Added `test_beam_search_reorders_cache_params` to `tests/models/mamba/test_modeling_mamba.py`
  - Creates a tiny `MambaForCausalLM` with random config
  - Spies on `DynamicCache.reorder_cache` using `unittest.mock.patch`
  - Runs `model.generate(num_beams=2, max_new_tokens=3)`
  - Asserts `reorder_cache` was called exactly 3 times (once per generated token)
  - This test would have **failed** before the fix (zero calls observed) and **passes** after

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The only remaining CI failure (`tests_tokenization shard 0/8`) is an infrastructure error unrelated to this PR:

```
OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/mnt/cache/hub/.locks/models--mistralai--Ministral-8B-Instruct-2410/...'
```

All generate, torch, processors, and other tests pass on the new push. Could a maintainer re-run the tokenization shard or confirm this is a known flaky infra issue?

The two remaining CircleCI failures are pre-existing issues unrelated to this PR:

**`ci/circleci: tests_generate`** (build 2356488, shard 5):
```
OlmoModelTest.test_generate_with_static_cache
AssertionError: Generate outputs are not similar enough (atol=1e-05, rtol=1e-05)
```
This tests static-cache vs dynamic-cache output similarity for Olmo — nothing to do with beam search or cache key routing.

**`ci/circleci: tests_torch`** (build 2356486, shard 3):
```
PaliGemmaForConditionalGenerationModelTest.test_attention_mask_with_token_types
AssertionError: Found non-zero attention weights for padding token at batch 2, sequence position 0
```
This is a PaliGemma attention mask test, again entirely unrelated to this fix.

Notably, the GitHub Actions `pr-ci` run (same commit `623b01d`) shows all 8 shards of both `tests_generate` and `tests_torch` passing. These CircleCI failures appear to be pre-existing flakiness on specific CircleCI machines.

Could a maintainer re-run the two failing CircleCI jobs, or confirm these are known flaky tests?

Hi @gante and @ArthurZucker — could one of you take a look at this when you get a chance?

The fix is small (6 lines in `utils.py`): beam search's `_reorder_cache` call was hardcoded to only look for `past_key_values`, so any model using `cache_params`, `state`, `mems`, or other non-standard cache keys would silently skip cache reordering during beam search, producing incorrect outputs.

On the CI failures: the two CircleCI failures (`tests_generate` shard 5 and `tests_torch` shard 3) are pre-existing failures on unrelated tests — `OlmoModelTest.test_generate_with_static_cache` and `PaliGemmaForConditionalGenerationModelTest.test_attention_mask_with_token_types` — neither of which touches beam search or the `_reorder_cache` path. Happy to provide more detail, or if it's easier, a re-run would confirm they're pre-existing. Thanks!

No drive-by PRs on other people's issues like this please! It's just overwhelming when people use agents to spam us like that