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QSA: expose packed causal-top-k backward through the indexed API - #1787
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🟡 Minor · Release the selector-scoring temporaries before building the benchmark… · benchmark_relax.py:104
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRelease the selector-scoring temporaries before building the benchmark state.
logits,visible,values, andidsremain bound to the final scoring iteration. At the maximum supported length, the finallogitsandvisibletensors retain tens of MiB while the benchmark builds indices and runs correctness checks. This reduces available GPU memory and can cause an avoidable OOM. Delete these tensors at the end of the inner scoring loop so the all-short-sequence case remains valid.Proposed fix
selected[a:b, : ids.shape[1]] = ids.masked_fill(values == -torch.inf, -1).int() + del logits, visible, values, ids🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Addressed the second review's outside-diff memory-retention note in c053095: selector The GPU results in the PR were collected at ec83d86. The two follow-ups only make diagnostics optional and release input-generation temporaries outside timing; QSA source, input generation/RNG operations, FP32 oracle, and timed calls are unchanged. The complete raw reports retain their original source and harness hashes. |
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Reviewed c053095b1c6e against base cfcb846a295f.
Reviewed the explicit causal_topk route, packed metadata contract and benchmark changes. The default general path remains separate, saved FP32 output/LSE pass through directly, and the new options preserve positional calls. No actionable defect found.
Validation: Built a matching extension and ran all 16 indexed API L0 tests on SM100 with CuTe DSL 4.7.1 and its CUDA 13 compiler: 16 passed, no skips. This covers sparse 32K inputs, packed boundaries, changed-boundary graph replay, general-mode isolation and option rejection. Four benchmark host tests passed, including the direct-index oracle checked against independent dense autograd. A separate same-input public-call comparison at 8K and 32K packed tokens matched all three gradients before and after timing. GPU time improved for the opt-in route in both local cases; host-call time was measured separately. With an actual CuTe DSL 4.6.2 installation, the new mode raises the version-naming error before importing the kernel. Style, Docs and Security checks passed.
Limitations: Local GPU tests used an SM100 engineering device; they do not reproduce the author's qualified B300 or Relax performance results. The current standard PR CI target skips this mode because of its DSL/platform coverage. Used direct native validation instead of starting a run that would skip the affected GPU tests.
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Summary
Make the bounded-workspace backward from #1781 available through
cudnn.ops.qsa_indexed_backwardfor 12Q/1KV packed THD workloads. Callers declareselection_mode="causal_topk"and pass devicecu_seqlensfor packed inputs; optionalmax_seq_lenbounds document lengths. The kernel consumes the public forward's FP32 output and head-major LSE directly.The default remains
general: arbitrary supported block ordering, padding holes, empty rows, and its nonfinite fallback keep their existing behavior. Shape alone never selects the canonical backend. The new mode requires finite operands, exactly the top-512 complete four-token blocks plus causal tail, width 2052, scale 1/16, and the CUDA 13 DSL compiler for sparse execution. These device-value relationships are documented caller contracts; there is no host readback. Existing positional signatures and the bitmap/Miles API remain intact.Extend the unchanged-Relax benchmark to exercise this public route, compare the general indexed backward on identical saved state, and time combined forward-plus-backward directly. Indexed validation now gathers tokens without allocating a quadratic bitmap. Reports include correctness before/after timing, source/input hashes, allocation identity, compiler versions, GPU limits, and peak extra allocation.
Related: #1739, #1774, #1781. Shared DSA scorer/top-k remains in place.
Validation
pytest -c test/python/pytest.ini -v -m L0 test/python/QSA/cutedsl/test_qsa_indexed_training.py: 16 passed, including 32K single/packed sparse windows, native saved state, replay that removes/restores sparse rows, general-selection isolation, and existing regressions. A final metadata-guard addition passed the focused options test.pytest -q benchmark/qsa/test_reference.py benchmark/qsa/test_benchmark_qsa.py: 4 passed. The direct-index oracle is checked against independent dense PyTorch autograd.pre-commit runandgit diff --check: passed. Optional-diagnostic success, missing executable, nonzero exit and timeout paths were checked; the real ComputeLab snapshot is preserved.(1,2,3)and(3,13,17)both pass all six outputs, the general-backward control, and post-timing checks.ComputeLab B300 performance
Warm full public calls, medians of 14 CUDA-event samples across two reversed-order rounds; three warmups per arm. Combined calls are measured directly. Allocations, metadata, preparation and casts are included; compilation, selector/top-k, route expansion and TP are excluded. Packed lengths are 43691, 43691, 43690. Relax backward uses BK=32, stages=3, warps=4, exactly as explicitly set by the pinned public Relax benchmark script. This is synthetic attention, not training E2E.
At 128K, canonical backward workspace is about 2.487 GiB (0.376 GiB reusable sparse records). Measured peak extra allocation, including outputs, is 3.362 GiB versus 2.884 GiB for FE general and 2.625 GiB for Relax. The bounded two-pass path is faster but still uses more memory than those two current alternatives.
Measurements were collected at ec83d86. The later review fixes only handle optional diagnostic failures and release selector temporaries outside timing; the QSA implementation, input RNG operations, oracle, and timed calls are unchanged. Raw reports preserve their original hashes.
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causal_topkmode for indexed backward on supported 12Q/1KV workloads, with optional packed-sequence boundaries and maximum sequence length.generalmode remains the default. The new mode requires specific selection inputs and supported hardware and compiler versions.