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Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
JSONL data and time/memory plots for the GB200 forward-time sweeps: - results_8_hidden_16M_tokens/: hidden 8 reach sweep (HyenaND / Attention / Mamba2 out to 16M tokens; attention is the non-flash head_dim-4 path). - results_512_hidden/: hidden 512, head_dim 128 flash-kernel comparison (HyenaND vs SDPA / FlexAttention / FlashAttention-4 / Mamba2). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Consolidate the two benchmark sets under benchmarks/results/ and document them in one README (protocol, configs, headline numbers, reproduce steps): - reach_hidden8/ (hidden 8, head_dim 4 — scaling reach to 16M tokens) - flash_hidden512/ (hidden 512, head_dim 128 — SDPA/Flex/FA4/Mamba2 comparison) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds `subquadratic_ops_torch.fused_fft_conv2d` as a first-class 2D FFT-conv path. Unlike every other FFT backend it runs the whole rfft2/multiply/irfft2 pipeline in a single cuFFTDx launch and natively in fp32/fp16/bf16 rather than upcasting to fp32. Measured on H200 (B=8, H=768, fwd+bwd, bf16): 3.6-3.9x over `torch_fft` and 1.2-2.4x over the existing `subq_ops` path. Two entry points: * `fft_backend="subq_ops_fused"` on CKConvND — explicit and predictable. Restricted to data_dim=2, non-causal, zero padding, and spatial extents of at most 64 per axis (the kernel's largest FFT tile is 128 and it requires max(X, Y) <= fft_size // 2). The spatial cap is enforced on the first forward pass, not at construction, since input size is unknown there. * `nvsubquadratic.ops.fftconv_lowering` — an inductor pre-grad pass that rewrites fftconv.py's chain onto the fused kernel, so a model already on `fft_backend="torch_fft"` picks it up without a config change. This matters because inductor cannot codegen complex operators and otherwise falls back to eager cuFFT for the entire chain. Enable per-callable with `torch.compile(model, options=fused_fftconv2d_options())`, or for a scope with the `fused_fftconv2d_lowering()` context manager. Pre-grad rather than post-grad so autograd is derived from the custom op's registered backward instead of requiring a consistent forward+backward rewrite. It fires only on an exact match of the reference recipe (padding rule, crop offset, shape limits, CUDA device, and a compute capability that supports the required tile — the 128 tile needs SM90+, as SM80/SM86 lack the shared memory). `lowering_stats()` reports rewrite and per-reason skip counts, since a silent pass is otherwise indistinguishable from one that never ran. Crop-offset reconciliation: the upstream kernel crops the 'same' window at fft_size // 2 whereas fftconv.py crops at K // 2. The wrapper pre-pads the filter's top/left by the difference, making results interchangeable with the other backends (~3e-7 normwise in fp32, ~3e-3 in bf16). Without it the output is shifted by fft_size // 2 - K // 2 pixels — which reads as a ~1.41 (sqrt 2, fully decorrelated) error, not as reduced accuracy. A regression test pins this so the pre-pad cannot be optimised away. Also registers the fused operators eagerly when the pass is constructed: inductor's on-disk FX cache lets a compiled artifact call torch.ops.subquadratic_ops_torch.* on a cache hit without any Python call having triggered the wrappers' lazy import, which failed with an opaque op-namespace AttributeError. Fixes a pre-existing test-gate bug: tests/conftest.py resolved the kernel version from the `subquadratic-ops-torch-cu12` distribution only. On the `-cu13` install that pyproject.toml pins it returned (0, 0, 0), silently turning `requires_subq_ops_v2` into a blanket xfail and hiding every `subq_ops` test result. It now checks both distributions. Includes the in-flight CUDA 13.2 build changes already present in the working tree (Dockerfile base image, cu132 torch/DALI pins, cu13 kernel distribution). Tests: 138 new (op-level equivalence across dtypes/shapes/layouts/FiLM, forward and backward, CKConvND integration, and lowering fire/decline behaviour). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Dockerfile: base nvcr.io/nvidia/cuda:13.0.3-devel (matched to torch cu130 so apex/mamba's CUDA-version check passes), torch/torchvision cu130, nvidia-dali-cuda130. The [cuda] extra resolves subquadratic-ops-torch-cu13 (>=0.2.2) from the internal GitLab registry via a build secret; FlashAttention-4 uses the [cu13] extra. - build_sqsh.sh: pass the gitlab_token secret (+ preflight), and refresh QEMU binfmt for arm64-on-x86 cross-builds (fixes the nvcc SIGSEGV under stale QEMU). - pyproject: [cuda] → subquadratic-ops-torch-cu13, [dali] → nvidia-dali-cuda130. - Docs / examples / conftest / CHANGELOG updated to CUDA 13.0 / cu130 / cu13. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Brings in fft_backend="subq_ops_fused" and the torch.compile lowering pass so the 2D forward-time benchmarks can exercise the fused cuFFTDx kernel. Conflict resolutions: * pyproject.toml — take #138's subquadratic-ops-torch-cu13>=0.2.2 pin (needed for fused_fft_conv2d), noting that 0.2.2 currently ships only from the internal NVIDIA GitLab registry (public PyPI tops out at 0.2.1). * Dockerfile — keep this branch's CUDA 13.0 base + torch 2.10.0/cu130 pins rather than #138's 13.2/2.12.1: apex and mamba only build when the base nvcc CUDA matches torch's exactly, and the benchmark image builds both. Adopted #138's ARG parameterisation with cu130 defaults so a cu132 image is a build-arg away, and added SUBQ_OPS_INDEX_URL for the 0.2.2 registry. * tests/conftest.py — take #138's version (queries both the cu12 and cu13 distributions instead of only cu13). * CHANGELOG.md — keep both entries. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
benchmark_forward_time_nd_resolution.py
* --fft-backend gains "subq_ops_fused".
* resolve_hyena_backend() picks the effective backend PER POINT instead of
once per run. The fused kernel is 2D-only and capped at 64 per axis (its
largest FFT tile is 128 and it needs max(X,Y) <= fft_size//2), so a single
--fft-backend choice cannot cover a 16..16M sweep: 2D R<=64 runs fused, 2D
R>=128 and all of 1D fall back to subq_ops, 3D to torch_fft. The per-point
backend is echoed before the sweep and recorded in each JSONL row, so the
plots do not imply the fused kernel ran where it could not.
submit_forward_time_nd.sh
* Sweeps every power of two from a 16-wide grid to ~16M tokens (1D 16..16M,
2D 16..4096, 3D 16..256).
* FFT_BACKEND now defaults to subq_ops_fused.
* SUBQ_OPS_WHEEL_DIR mounts a host directory of pre-staged wheels and installs
them offline (--no-index) at job start, so the newer kernel can be swapped in
without rebuilding the .sqsh. Verifies fused_fft_conv2d imports and aborts if
it does not, rather than silently timing the fallback path.
submit_forward_time_flash_kernels.sh
* Extend the same sweeps down to R=16.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The merge pinned subquadratic-ops-torch-cu13>=0.2.2 for fused_fft_conv2d, but public PyPI only carries 0.2.1, so the Dockerfile's `.[all]` layer now fails on a clean build. Resolve it from an internal GitLab index instead. The token is passed as a BuildKit secret rather than a --build-arg: a build-arg is recorded in the image's layer history, so the token would ship with every .sqsh built from it. build_sqsh.sh reads GITLAB_TOKEN from the environment or ~/.gitlab_token, builds the index URL, and fails early with the token-creation steps rather than letting the build run for hours before dying on pip install. Drop the secret once 0.2.2 is published to public PyPI. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
build_sqsh.sh needs `docker buildx`, plus QEMU binfmt emulation to produce an arm64 image from an x86 host. Cluster login nodes here have neither — no docker daemon or any other builder, no qemu-aarch64 registered, and no root to install either — so there was no way to produce a GB200 image from the login node. `enroot import` is not a way around it: /tmp is a 2 GB tmpfs (too small to extract a CUDA devel image) and redirecting it to lustre fails because lustre cannot hold the capability xattrs enroot sets while extracting layers. Instead, let pyxis pull the base image onto a GB200 node, take root inside it with --container-remap-root, replay the Dockerfile's steps natively, and write the result out with --container-save. Building on the target architecture also removes QEMU, so the MAX_JOBS=1 throttle build_sqsh.sh needs to survive emulated apex/mamba compiles does not apply: this defaults to MAX_JOBS=32. The token reaches the container as a read-only mounted file rather than an env var — srun's environment is visible via `scontrol show job`, and an exported var would be captured into the saved image. This script REPLAYS the Dockerfile rather than parsing it, so the version pins are duplicated in both and will drift if only one is edited. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PR #138 raised pyproject's floor to torch>=2.12.0,<2.13.0, but the Dockerfile kept TORCH_VERSION=2.10.0. Those two contradict, and the failure was silent: apex, mamba-ssm and causal-conv1d compiled against 2.10.0 in the middle of the build, then the final `.[all]` step resolved nvsubquadratic's own requirement and upgraded torch to 2.12.1 underneath them — leaving compiled extensions built against headers that no longer matched the installed torch. Nothing caught this, because the build's verification printed package METADATA versions, which report happily regardless of what the extension was built against. Add a guard that compares torch.__version__ to the pin and fails the build, and note the coupling on both pins so they are not edited apart. Also fix the FA4 probe in both files: nvidia_cutlass_dsl exposes no __version__, so reading the attribute raised AttributeError and made a perfectly working FA4 install report as failed on every build. Read the version from metadata instead. Verified on the rebuilt image: torch 2.12.1+cu130, apex / causal_conv1d / flash_attn.cute / Mamba2 / fused_fft_conv2d all import, and causal_conv1d_fn executes on-GPU. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
HyenaND's short conv was always a torch ConvNd with symmetric padding, in every
config. SubqOpsCausalConv1d — the wrapper around the fused
subquadratic_ops_torch.causal_conv1d kernel — existed and was unit-tested, but
nothing on any Hyena path used it (the module docstring cites two example configs
that in fact select CausalConv1D / torch.nn.Conv1d).
Make the short conv follow the operator's causality rather than always padding
symmetrically:
* is_causal (the 1D sweeps) -> left-only padding: SubqOpsCausalConv1d with
--short-conv=subq_ops (the default), else CausalConv1D. The kernel is
depthwise-only, which this config already satisfies (groups == in_channels
== out_channels == 3*hidden_dim), stride/dilation 1.
* non-causal (2D/3D) -> symmetric torch.nn.ConvNd, unchanged. A causal 1D
kernel does not apply there, so --short-conv=subq_ops falls back with a note.
This also closes a causality hole in the 1D config: it paired a causal long conv
with a symmetric short conv, so the operator could see one token of future
context. 1D Hyena timings will therefore shift slightly against earlier runs.
The effective short conv is printed before the sweep and recorded per JSONL row,
so a plot cannot silently mix short-conv implementations across points.
Mamba keeps its own causal_conv1d (Dao-AILab's) — untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The fused kernel picks its specialisation from the INPUT dtype and then requires
every tensor to match exactly. Under torch.autocast the activations arrive as
bf16/fp16 while nn.Module parameters stay fp32, so passing self.weight through
unchanged aborted with:
ValueError: in_w expected dtype (code=4, bits=16) but got (code=2, bits=32)
That made the module unusable on the standard mixed-precision path — it only
worked when the caller had already narrowed the parameters by hand, which is why
the existing tests (all same-dtype) did not catch it.
Cast weight/bias to the input dtype in forward, mirroring what autocast does for
the built-in conv ops: fp32 master parameters are untouched, only the values
handed to the kernel are narrowed.
Verified on GB200 against CausalConv1D: fp32 max|fused-ref| = 2.4e-07, bf16
1.6e-02, fp16 2.0e-03 (rounding), and perturbing position t changes outputs at
t..L-1 while leaving 0..t-1 bit-identical.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every existing test feeds fp32 activations to fp32 parameters, so all tensors agree by construction and the kernel's exact-dtype check passes. That is why the module could not run under torch.autocast at all without any test noticing. Add TestAutocast: that the module runs under bf16/fp16 autocast, that the fp32 master weight is not mutated (only the kernel's inputs are narrowed), and that the result still matches CausalConv1D at a tolerance appropriate to the narrowed dtype rather than the fp32 ATOL. 14 passed on GB200. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
GDP is what Nemotron is evaluating to replace its Mamba-2 layers, so it is the
operator HyenaND actually has to beat. The existing sweeps cannot answer that:
Nemotron pretrains at L=8192, where nemotron_workspace/FLOPS_MATCHING.md measures
the long conv at ~3.4% of a Hyena layer ("the layer is projection-bound"). A
6496x advantage at 16.7M says nothing about 8192.
New benchmark at the 1B A315M rung (the plan's decision gate): hidden 768,
mamba_state_dim 128, mamba_head_dim 64, mamba_num_groups 8, expand 2, L around
8192. New output stem (nemotron_1d.*), so the reach/flash results are untouched.
benchmarks/gated_delta_product_ref.py
Standalone port of megatron-lm @ dev-arch-mar2026-v2's GatedDeltaProductMixer.
Ported rather than imported: the operator being timed is fla's
chunk_gated_delta_product, identical either way, while importing Megatron's
module would need TransformerEngine (absent), a megatron-core built from the
ADLR branch (the released 0.18.2 has no GDP at all) and an initialised
ProcessGroupCollection — all inert at TP=1/CP=1 on one GPU. TP/CP, inference
contexts and sequence packing are dropped; in_proj/out_proj are nn.Linear
rather than TE fused linears, which the module docstring records.
Verified against the upstream formula: in_proj width 10336 at the 1B rung,
forward finite, and causal (perturbing token t leaves 0..t-1 bit-identical).
Two config bugs this surfaced in the existing harness:
* _mamba_mixer_cfg never passed ngroups, so every earlier mamba number used
mamba-ssm's default of 1 where Nemotron runs 8 — a narrower layer than the
baseline it stands for. Now explicit via --mamba-ngroups/--mamba-state-dim.
* Mamba ran bidirectional everywhere, right for the vision/ND sweeps but wrong
for a language model. --mamba-causal added and used here.
And a timing bug that biased JIT-compiled mixers specifically: n_timed is derived
from the first forward, which for fla (and torch.compile'd FlexAttention) is
dominated by kernel compilation. GDP was landing on the floor of 3 iterations
with extra_warmup forced to 0, while eager mixers got 30 — timed unwarmed against
warmed competitors. Now one untimed priming forward absorbs compilation before
the sizing forward, itself budget-checked so a hopeless point still bails after
one pass. Re-measured, GDP's value barely moved (1.820 -> 1.828 ms at L=4096), so
the effect was noise rather than bias, but the comparison was not fair as run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…th runnable Two problems, found because HyenaND came out slower than Mamba-2 in nemotron-1d when every earlier 1D sweep said the opposite. 1. The 1D sweeps were not comparing like with like. build_module sets is_causal=(data_dim == 1) for hyena but bidirectional=True for mamba unconditionally, so in 1D a one-pass causal Hyena was timed against a two-pass bidirectional Mamba-2. Ablated at L=8192, holding everything else fixed, bidirectional costs 1.98x at hidden 8 and 2.22x at hidden 768 — enough to reverse the comparison's sign. hidden_dim does not change the sign and ngroups is worth ~8%, so directionality is the whole effect. The published 1D mamba-vs-hyena gaps therefore overstate Hyena by roughly 2x; 2D/3D are consistent (non-causal hyena vs bidirectional mamba) and unaffected. Rather than change the existing series, add `mamba_causal` alongside `mamba` so both baselines appear and the reader picks the one their question needs: bidirectional for vision/ND, causal for a language model. 2. Hyena's FLOP-matched width could not be benchmarked at all. QKVSequenceMixer pinned the inner width to hidden_dim, so e=2.36 — the central number in nemotron_workspace/FLOPS_MATCHING.md — had no code path, and every Hyena-vs-Mamba comparison ran at e=1, which that document measures at 0.423x an M layer. Add an optional inner_dim to QKVSequenceMixer (defaulting to hidden_dim, so nothing existing changes) and thread `expansion` through _hyena_mixer_cfg, sizing the long conv, short conv and norm from it. flop_count already derived from in_features/out_features and picks it up. Measured at L=8192, 1B A315M rung, Hyena at e=2.36 (all n=30): mamba_causal 0.968 ms / 0.56 GB hyena 1.276 ms / 0.50 GB mamba(bidir) 2.048 ms / 0.37 GB gdp 2.292 ms / 1.53 GB Widening Hyena 2.36x cost no wall-clock (1.302 -> 1.276 ms): at this size it is launch-bound, not compute-bound, so FLOP-matching is nearly free in time. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
benchmarks.md said the Mamba2 kernel "runs out of memory" at 1M tokens. Measured
on GB200 (184 GiB) with mamba-ssm 2.3.2.post1, it does not: it fails with a CUDA
illegal memory access while using 22 GiB, i.e. 12% of available memory. The
*reach* on that plot still reproduces — at hidden 768 the last working point is
262,144, right where the curve ends — so only the stated cause was wrong.
The distinction matters because it is load-bearing. "Runs out of memory" reads as
an architectural limit on Mamba-2. What is actually there are two separate
implementation limits in the shipping kernels, both of which someone could patch:
* 32-bit index overflow in the Triton SSD scan (ssd_chunk_state.py ->
_chunk_state_fwd), failing at ~2^31 ELEMENTS. Bisected at two widths: hidden
768 breaks between 598,016 and 606,208, hidden 1536 between 253,952 and
262,144 — both landing within 2.5% of 2^31 elements. The threshold halving as
width doubles is the signature of an element-count limit rather than a
sequence-length or memory one. Confirmed by patching: casting program_id to
int64 in that file makes L=1M pass.
* A CUDA grid-dimension cap in causal_conv1d's channels-last path at exactly
65,535 x 64 = 4,194,240 tokens, verified block-by-block. The contiguous path
has no such limit and runs to at least 32M.
Upstream (state-spaces/mamba#686) is open and unfixed: 2.3.2.post1 is the latest
release, ssd_chunk_state.py is byte-identical between v2.3.2 and main, and the
mamba_ssm tree contains no int64 index widening anywhere. The wdykas@bfec072
"more int64" commit referenced in that thread does not fix this — it widens
program_id in ssd_chunk_scan.py and layernorm_gated.py, not in the file that
faults; applying a strict superset of its changes (40 casts vs its 4) still fails
at 1M.
New docs/mamba2_limits.md carries the diagnosis, the evidence and copy-pasteable
reproductions for both limits, and is linked from the corrected claim.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds the primary measurement record for the six forward-time sweeps plus the FLOP-matched nemotron-1d run, and BENCHMARK_RESULTS.md — a single self-contained digest meant to be handed to someone (or something) that needs to understand these numbers without reading the whole history. The digest is GENERATED by scripts/visualization/gen_benchmark_digest.py from the JSONL rows, not written by hand, so it cannot drift from the data it describes. Rerun it after new sweeps rather than editing the markdown. Most of its value is the caveats, since several of these results mislead without them: the sub-65K region measures dispatch overhead rather than attention; the R=2048 dip is a reproducible SDPA backend-selection effect, not hardware; mamba's error points are kernel limits and not OOM (see docs/mamba2_limits.md); subq_ops_fused covers only 2D at R<=64; 1D HyenaND is not comparable to runs before the causality fix; and tail points are single-shot. .gitignore keeps slurm logs and plots out of the record — the logs are per-job and large, the plots are regenerable from the JSONL with visualize_forward_time_nd.py. Smoke and bring-up runs are excluded too: they are superseded, and some contain rows produced by since-fixed harness bugs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
main now contains the curated extraction of this branch's library work, shipped as v0.2.0 via PR #139, plus #140 and #141. Every file both sides touched was resolved to main's version, because main is authoritative for all of it: - fftconv_lowering.py: this branch carried the original 533-line pass. main has the 631-line revision with _erase_chain, which fixes two correctness bugs — an unguarded whole-graph eliminate_dead_code that could delete unrelated in-place ops, and an any() short-circuit that fused only the first chain per graph. Keeping this branch's copy would reintroduce both. - pyproject.toml: torch >=2.12 here vs >=2.14 on main. The 2.14 floor is not a preference — torch pins nvidia-cudnn-cu13 exactly, and subquadratic-ops-torch-cu13 >=0.3.0 needs >=9.24.0.43, which only 2.14 satisfies. 2.12 makes `pip install nvsubquadratic[cuda]` unresolvable. - ckconv_nd.py, fftconv_custom.py, tests/conftest.py, the Dockerfile and enroot scripts, and the docs: same work, later revision on main. 21 files resolved this way. What this branch uniquely owns is untouched — the ND benchmark harness, the sweep JSONLs and results digest, the visualization and submit scripts, docs/mamba2_limits.md, and the FA4/FlexAttention additions to attention.py and sequence_mixer.py. Merged rather than rebased: 37 commits against 21 overlapping files would replay the same conflicts repeatedly, and Alireza has commits here, so rewriting the branch's history has a cost a merge does not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
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flexandfa4quadratically.
_predicted_msapplies the quadratic law only to"attention". Theflexandfa4series run the same softmax attention and grow as O(L^2), but they fall through to the linear branch. The predictive skip therefore never fires for them, so each oversized point runs a full forward before the budget guard marks ittimeout. At multi-million-token resolutions that costs one slow forward per point.♻️ Proposed fix
- if name == "attention": + if name in ("attention", "flex", "fa4"): return last_ms * r * r🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@benchmarks/benchmark_forward_time_nd_resolution.py`:
- Line 769: Apply formatting fixes across the affected sites: align the
“short_conv” entry with the other keys in the record dictionary in
benchmarks/benchmark_forward_time_nd_resolution.py:769; collapse the wrapped
in_width expressions in benchmarks/gated_delta_product_ref.py:170-172 and
244-246; and add a language identifier to the code fence in
docs/mamba2_limits.md:34, then preserve the formatter’s resulting changes.
In `@benchmarks/results/forward_time_2d.jsonl`:
- Line 1: Regenerate all result records to include the schema-defined short_conv
field, using the actual Hyena implementation rather than omitting or hardcoding
it. Apply this consistently in benchmarks/results/forward_time_2d.jsonl lines
1-1, benchmarks/results/forward_time_3d.jsonl lines 1-1,
benchmarks/results/forward_time_flash_2d.jsonl lines 1-1, and
benchmarks/results/forward_time_flash_3d.jsonl lines 1-1.
In `@nvsubquadratic/modules/attention.py`:
- Around line 610-613: Update the attention module’s __init__ validation to
reject the combination of attn_impl="flex" and is_causal=True, raising the
established configuration error before execution. Keep the existing flex, fa4,
and sdpa behavior unchanged for supported argument combinations.
- Around line 600-637: Update the attention dispatch around _flex_attention and
_fa4_func to preserve the documented attn_dropout behavior: reject nonzero
training-time dropout for attn_impl="flex", and pass the existing dropout_p
value to the FA4 call. Keep dropout_p at zero during evaluation and leave the
SDPA behavior unchanged.
In `@scripts/slurm/submit_nemotron_1d.sh`:
- Around line 50-51: Correct the output-file comment near the OUT=nemotron_1d
configuration to list the helper’s actual artifacts: nemotron_1d.jsonl plus the
time and memory PNG and PDF plot files when matplotlib is available.
In `@scripts/visualization/gen_benchmark_digest.py`:
- Line 13: The RESULTS path in the benchmark digest generator is tied to a
workspace-specific absolute location. Update the RESULTS initialization in the
generator to derive the repository root from __file__ and resolve the
repository’s results directory relative to it, preserving the existing JSONL
reading and BENCHMARK_RESULTS.md update behavior.
- Line 1: Update the module header of gen_benchmark_digest.py to include the
NVIDIA license header required by the license-header-check hook, preserving the
existing docstring. Ensure the generated header and any resulting Markdown
formatting changes are staged so pre-commit passes.
In `@scripts/visualization/visualize_forward_time_nd.py`:
- Line 251: Update the visualization legend label associated with FAIL_STATUS so
kernel errors are not categorized as “OOM / timeout”; use the neutral “Failure”
label while preserving the existing marker behavior.
- Around line 152-153: In the row-filtering flow, add an empty-result check
immediately after filtering rows by ok_seq and before accessing rows[0] for
_dim_of(rows). Raise ValueError with the message “No successful values available
for plotting” when no successful rows remain.
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In `@benchmarks/benchmark_forward_time_nd_resolution.py`:
- Around line 395-399: Update _predicted_ms so the quadratic extrapolation
branch applies to “attention”, “flex”, and “fa4”. Keep the existing hyena
logarithmic scaling and linear fallback unchanged, ensuring oversized flex and
fa4 points are skipped before running a forward pass.
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| "seq_len": seq_len, | ||
| "data_dim": data_dim, | ||
| "backend": backend_at[R] if mixer == "hyena" else None, | ||
| "short_conv": short_conv_eff if mixer == "hyena" else None, |
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Run the pre-commit formatter and commit its output. The Lint job fails on three files in this PR because the formatting hook rewrites them. Run pre-commit run --all-files once and commit the result.
benchmarks/benchmark_forward_time_nd_resolution.py#L769-L769: fix the over-indented"short_conv"entry so it aligns with the other keys of therecorddict.benchmarks/gated_delta_product_ref.py#L170-L172: let the formatter collapse the manually wrappedin_widthexpression, and the same at lines 244-246.docs/mamba2_limits.md#L34-L34: add a language to the fence (for example```text) to clear markdownlint MD040, then let the hook reformat the rest of the file.
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formatting fixes across the affected sites: align the “short_conv” entry with
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Emit a consistent short_conv field in all ND result records. These files omit a field that the published JSONL schema defines and that the 1D datasets provide.
benchmarks/results/forward_time_2d.jsonl#L1-L1: regenerate rows withshort_conv, including the actual Hyena implementation.benchmarks/results/forward_time_3d.jsonl#L1-L1: regenerate rows withshort_conv, including the actual Hyena implementation.benchmarks/results/forward_time_flash_2d.jsonl#L1-L1: regenerate rows withshort_conv, including the actual Hyena implementation.benchmarks/results/forward_time_flash_3d.jsonl#L1-L1: regenerate rows withshort_conv, including the actual Hyena implementation.
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In `@benchmarks/results/forward_time_2d.jsonl` at line 1, Regenerate all result
records to include the schema-defined short_conv field, using the actual Hyena
implementation rather than omitting or hardcoding it. Apply this consistently in
benchmarks/results/forward_time_2d.jsonl lines 1-1,
benchmarks/results/forward_time_3d.jsonl lines 1-1,
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| # When QK-norm is applied (cosine attention), disable the default | ||
| # 1/sqrt(d) scaling — it would flatten the normalised logits. | ||
| scale = self.scale if not self.apply_qk_norm else 1.0 | ||
| dropout_p = self.attn_dropout if self.training else 0.0 | ||
| if self.attn_impl in ("flex", "fa4"): | ||
| # RoPE / qk_norm can upcast q,k to fp32 while v stays in the autocast | ||
| # dtype. SDPA's math fallback tolerates the mismatch, but flash-class | ||
| # kernels (FlexAttention, FA4) require q,k,v to share one dtype. | ||
| query = query.to(value.dtype) | ||
| key = key.to(value.dtype) | ||
| if self.attn_impl == "flex": | ||
| # Compiled FlexAttention. Non-causal here (no block_mask); is_causal | ||
| # would need a causal BlockMask, unused by the ND benchmark. | ||
| out = self._flex_attention(query, key, value, scale=scale) | ||
| elif self.attn_impl == "fa4": | ||
| # FlashAttention-4. flash_attn expects [B, S, H, D], not SDPA's [B, H, S, D]. | ||
| # softmax_scale/causal are the args common to FA2/FA3/FA4; dropout_p is | ||
| # omitted (dropped in FA3+, and 0 here anyway). Some builds return | ||
| # (out, softmax_lse) — take the first element. | ||
| out = self._fa4_func( | ||
| query.transpose(1, 2), | ||
| key.transpose(1, 2), | ||
| value.transpose(1, 2), | ||
| softmax_scale=scale, | ||
| causal=self.is_causal, | ||
| ) | ||
| if isinstance(out, tuple): | ||
| out = out[0] | ||
| out = out.transpose(1, 2) | ||
| else: # sdpa — PyTorch auto-selects cuDNN / flash / fallback. | ||
| out = F.scaled_dot_product_attention( | ||
| query, | ||
| key, | ||
| value, | ||
| dropout_p=dropout_p, | ||
| is_causal=self.is_causal, | ||
| scale=scale, | ||
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for mod_name in ("flash_attn.cute", "flash_attn_interface", "flash_attn"):
try:
mod = __import__(mod_name, fromlist=["flash_attn_func"])
fn = getattr(mod, "flash_attn_func", None)
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In PyTorch 2.14, the official torch.nn.attention.flex_attention API does not include a dropout argument [1][2]. The flex_attention function supports scaled dot product attention with a user-defined score modification function (score_mod) and block-sparsity control (block_mask), but it does not natively implement post-softmax dropout [1][3]. Users seeking dropout functionality with FlexAttention are generally advised to use the model in evaluation mode (model.eval) [4] or to implement custom dropout logic via score_mod, though native support is not currently provided [5]. For FlashAttention-4, the flash_attn_func API includes a dropout_p argument [6][7]. Its signature is as follows: flash_attn_func(q, k, v, dropout_p=0.0, softmax_scale=None, causal=False, window_size=(-1, -1), alibi_slopes=None, deterministic=False) [7] The dropout_p parameter (float) specifies the dropout probability, which should be set to 0.0 during evaluation [8][7].
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Citations:
- 1: http://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.14/nn.attention.flex%5Fattention.html
- 2: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.attention.flex_attention.md
- 3: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.13/nn.attention.flex_attention.html
- 4: https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/src/transformers/integrations/flex_attention.py
- 5: GitHub issue 77 in pytorch-labs/attention-gym (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 6: https://deepwiki.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/3.2-flashattention-4-python-interface
- 7: https://github.com/dao-AILab/flash-attention
- 8: https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/blob/184b992dcb2a0890adaa19eb9b541c3e4f9d2a08/flash_attn/flash_attn_interface.py
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The official source for FlashAttention is the Dao-AILab/flash-attention repository on GitHub [1][2]. The core interface defining attention functions, including flash_attn_func and flash_attn_qkvpacked_func, is located in the flash_attn/flash_attn_interface.py file [3][4][5]. Regarding your query on dropout_p: Function Signature and Role: In flash_attn_func, the dropout_p parameter represents the dropout probability [3][4]. It is a float value that should be set to 0.0 during evaluation (inference) to ensure deterministic results [3][4]. Technical Implementation: The parameter is passed to the underlying PyTorch autograd function (often implemented via FlashAttnFunc.apply) [4][6]. Recent updates, such as those related to CuTe DSL kernels, have integrated dropout support more deeply, adding parameters like dropout_seed alongside dropout_p to maintain control over random number generation during training [7]. Key Notes: - The function expects dropout_p to be a float [3][4]. - When using the function, setting dropout_p=0.0 is the standard practice for evaluation to disable dropout, which is crucial as the forward pass is generally deterministic while the backward pass behavior depends on the implementation and settings [3][1][8]. - You can find the most authoritative and up-to-date documentation and implementation details directly within the flash_attn_interface.py file in the official repository [3][4][5].
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Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/dao-ailab/flash-attention
- 2: https://github.com/dao-AILab/flash-attention
- 3: https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/blob/main/flash_attn/flash_attn_interface.py
- 4: https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/blob/184b992dcb2a0890adaa19eb9b541c3e4f9d2a08/flash_attn/flash_attn_interface.py
- 5: https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/blob/df1847a74ad0f9cee007ed186fab44f83fa03fad/flash_attn/flash_attn_interface.py
- 6: https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/blob/v2.7.0/hopper/flash_attn_interface.py
- 7: GitHub pull request 2439 in Dao-AILab/flash-attention (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
- 8: https://github.com/Dao-AILab/flash-attention/blob/main/hopper/flash_attn_interface.py
Preserve attention dropout across backends.
Attention exposes both attn_dropout and attn_impl. During training, the documented contract applies attn_dropout to attention weights. The SDPA branch forwards dropout_p, but the flex and fa4 branches omit it. A caller that selects either backend with nonzero dropout therefore gets different training regularization.
flex_attention has no native dropout argument, so reject nonzero dropout for attn_impl="flex". FlashAttention's flash_attn_func supports dropout_p, so forward the training-time value for fa4.
Suggested fix
self.attn_impl = attn_impl
if attn_impl == "flex":
+ if attn_dropout > 0:
+ raise ValueError(
+ "attn_impl='flex' does not support nonzero attention dropout."
+ )
from torch.nn.attention.flex_attention import flex_attention
self._flex_attention = torch.compile(flex_attention)
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- # softmax_scale/causal are the args common to FA2/FA3/FA4; dropout_p is
- # omitted (dropped in FA3+, and 0 here anyway). Some builds return
- # (out, softmax_lse) — take the first element.
+ # Some builds return (out, softmax_lse) — take the first element.
out = self._fa4_func(
query.transpose(1, 2),
key.transpose(1, 2),
value.transpose(1, 2),
+ dropout_p=dropout_p,
softmax_scale=scale,
causal=self.is_causal,
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In `@nvsubquadratic/modules/attention.py` around lines 600 - 637, Update the
attention dispatch around _flex_attention and _fa4_func to preserve the
documented attn_dropout behavior: reject nonzero training-time dropout for
attn_impl="flex", and pass the existing dropout_p value to the FA4 call. Keep
dropout_p at zero during evaluation and leave the SDPA behavior unchanged.
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| if self.attn_impl == "flex": | ||
| # Compiled FlexAttention. Non-causal here (no block_mask); is_causal | ||
| # would need a causal BlockMask, unused by the ND benchmark. | ||
| out = self._flex_attention(query, key, value, scale=scale) |
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Reject is_causal=True when attn_impl="flex".
The flex path passes no block_mask, so self.is_causal has no effect. The fa4 path forwards causal=self.is_causal and the sdpa path forwards is_causal=self.is_causal. A caller that sets is_causal=True with attn_impl="flex" therefore gets full bidirectional attention with no error and no warning, and every position sees future tokens. Both arguments are public and documented, so the combination is reachable outside the benchmark.
Reject the combination in __init__, or build a causal BlockMask for the flex path.
🐛 Proposed fix in `__init__`
if attn_impl == "flex":
from torch.nn.attention.flex_attention import flex_attention
+ if is_causal:
+ raise ValueError(
+ "attn_impl='flex' does not implement is_causal=True; it would need a "
+ "causal BlockMask. Use 'sdpa' or 'fa4' for causal attention."
+ )
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In `@nvsubquadratic/modules/attention.py` around lines 610 - 613, Update the
attention module’s __init__ validation to reject the combination of
attn_impl="flex" and is_causal=True, raising the established configuration error
before execution. Keep the existing flex, fa4, and sdpa behavior unchanged for
supported argument combinations.
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| # Writes benchmarks/results/nemotron_1d.{jsonl,png,pdf} — a NEW output stem, so the | ||
| # reach/flash results are untouched. |
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OUT=nemotron_1d produces nemotron_1d.jsonl. When matplotlib is available, the helper also produces both PNG and PDF files for the time and memory plots.
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| # Writes benchmarks/results/nemotron_1d.{jsonl,png,pdf} — a NEW output stem, so the | |
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| # Writes benchmarks/results/nemotron_1d.jsonl and, when matplotlib is available, | |
| # nemotron_1d.{png,pdf} and nemotron_1d_memory.{png,pdf} — a NEW output stem, | |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Resolve the results directory from the repository.
This absolute Lustre path exists only in the original benchmark workspace. Running the tracked generator from another clone fails before it can read JSONL or update BENCHMARK_RESULTS.md. Derive the repository root from __file__, or add a results-directory argument.
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In `@scripts/visualization/gen_benchmark_digest.py` at line 13, The RESULTS path
in the benchmark digest generator is tied to a workspace-specific absolute
location. Update the RESULTS initialization in the generator to derive the
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| ok_seq = {int(r["seq_len"]) for r in rows if r.get("status") == "ok" and r.get(mkey) is not None} | ||
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Handle an all-failure sweep before indexing rows.
If no row has status == "ok" with a non-null metric, ok_seq is empty and the filter removes every row. data_dim = _dim_of(rows[0]) then raises IndexError. Raise a clear no-successful-values error before indexing:
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In the row-filtering flow, add an empty-result check immediately after filtering
rows by ok_seq and before accessing rows[0] for _dim_of(rows). Raise ValueError
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Do not label kernel errors as OOM or timeout.
FAIL_STATUS includes error, and the tracked Mamba failures use that status. The legend labels their green markers as OOM / timeout, which misstates the failure mode. Use a neutral Failure label or separate markers by status.
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PR #137's required `lint` check has been failing on this branch. The causes are all pre-existing here, not from the v0.2.0 merge: - ruff RUF046: `int(round(...))` at benchmark_patch_size_2d.py:206 — `round` already returns an int. - ruff C408: a `dict(...)` call rewritten as a literal at :298. - ruff format and mdformat reflow across the benchmark scripts, the results digest and docs/mamba2_limits.md. Both ruff errors are fixed by hand; the rest is hook autofix, verified idempotent over two full passes. Also documents a trap in gen_benchmark_digest.py. It emits pipe tables unaligned and leaves square brackets unescaped, both of which mdformat rewrites — so the committed BENCHMARK_RESULTS.md is deliberately NOT byte-identical to the generator's output, and regenerating it re-breaks lint every time. The script now prints that after writing. Making the generator emit mdformat-stable output is the real fix; this stops the next person losing time to it first. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Farhad Ramezanghorbani <farhadr@nvidia.com>
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