[RomanAnders90]

On develop: the five base PRs are merged (#1754, #1762, #1756, #1758, #1755, each with its review follow-ups), so this PR carries only
its own four commits over develop. #1763 (programmatic dependent launch on the sparse chain, a draft) is NOT a base: use_pdl=True on the
sparse chain keeps its existing typed decline here. The commits: C1 (QsaSpec.index_list_form declarable at every S_q), C2 (the binding +
the tracker + the docs, one commit per Rule S2), C3 (the measured fuse_prepare default on cc 10.7) and one follow-up commit from the review
of the restacked branch (the DSL-free home of the prepare arms' record; the admissibility-aware AUTO reading of fuse_prepare -- see below).

Summary

The block-sparse DECODE mode (kv_source="paged" on a QsaSpec geometry) now derives the step's selection ITSELF when the
geometry declares index_source="indexer": a new stage _IndexerDecode (qsa_indexer) in the indexer's slot between the
prepare / write-through and the sparse core runs, inside the block's ONE execute,

1. the indexer-query norm + RoPE (the pool-1 compress of the band's query columns; under fuse_prepare=True an arm of the
   prepare launch) -- bitwise the prefill form's,
2. the ring / block-compress step over the PAGED compressed-key cache (frost_qsa_compress_step's paged form; likewise fused into
   the prepare launch): every committed row's raw key into the ring at pos % cap, the row completing a 4-token block pools the
   block's four keys into its cache row -- bitwise the prefill compress of the same keys,
3. the paged scorer (cudnn_block_qsa_score_paged, frost(gated_attention_block): the decode indexer's scorer over the paged compressed-key cache (qsa_score_paged) and its standalone selector #1758) over each row's visible complete blocks through the block table
   (counts = the visible count, block_lens_out = min(top_k, counts)),
4. the decode top-k (cudnn_qsa_topk_decode, frost(gated_attention_block): the block-sparse indexer's decode top-k -- one CTA per row (a windowed 4096-bin histogram, a one-sweep canonical-order output) and a row-split cluster form for wide rows at few rows #1755; canonical descending ids, -1 past the count) into block_ids_out or the workspace,
5. the sparse core over the pools on the per-row list (index_list_form="per_row", the only form here).

fuse_prepare is lifted on the block-sparse decode mode (the indexer form AND the caller-list band form -- the raw-key pool arm):
None is the MEASURED default (SPARSE_INDEXER_FUSE_PREPARE_DEFAULT_CCS = ((10, 7),) since the gate below). On cc 10.7 the indexer's
decode step reads True where the fused form is admissible -- the in-place pipeline (inplace_qkv=True), no fuse_norm_rope, no thd, a
paged write-through, a RoPE'd indexer key -- and False (the unfused twin) otherwise, never True where an explicit True is declined; every
other part and the caller-list band form read False until measured there. The two readings are bitwise; the dense-geometry DECODE form
keeps its decline.

Contract and envelope (append-only)

• Constructor tail: sample_index_kv_cache [n_pages, P / 4, 1, 128] (the paged compressed-key cache: page block_table[b, j // (P / 4)],
  row j % (P / 4); page 0 the null page), sample_index_state_cache [blocks, cap >= S_q + 3, 1, 128] (the position-indexed ring of raw
  indexer keys; block 0 the null block), sample_index_state_block_table [B, 1] int32 -- REQUIRED on the form, refused off it by name;
  index_state_slot_mapping_present (the ring's write rows from execute(index_state_slot_mapping=), block x cap + pos % cap, -1
  dead, slot_mapping's dtype), index_commit_present (True = a typed follow-up), rope_position_tables_only (fused only: cos /
  sin refused, the launch rotates from the position tables at the device-derived position); fuse_prepare: Optional[bool] = None.
• Execute tail: index_kv_cache, index_state_cache, index_state_block_table, index_state_slot_mapping, cos_pos / sin_pos
  ([1 or B, >= max_pages x P, rope_dim]: the table is the CEILING on positions; one row short is a ValueError naming the bound
  before any stage runs), n_commit (refused). block_ids / block_lens, index_k_raw (the raw key lives in the ring) and
  index_k_compressed (the cache is paged) are refused by name; block_ids_out / block_lens_out hand the selection back.
• Workspace: five slots appended at the carve's END (ix_q, the fp32 logits [T, max_pages x P / 4], the counts, the ids, the
  compressed-slot report); no plan constant, allocation or host read on the execute path -- the FIRST execute of a fresh declaration
  captures into a CUDA graph with no warm-up.
• DecodeEnvelope (appended): index_sources, index_cache_dtypes, index_head_dims, index_kv_heads, index_block_sizes,
  index_top_k_range, index_query_rows_max (64 = S_q x next_pow2(index_heads)), index_state_rows_extra (3), index_page_sizes
  (16 / 32 / 64 / 128), fuse_prepare_default (the part's measured reading; a declaration's AUTO resolves it only where the fused form is
  admissible); kv_cache_dtypes narrows to the activation dtype under the indexer. Decline rows, each raised with the text the envelope
  publishes and ONE shared token: indexer_query_rows, indexer_page_size, indexer_e4m3_cache, indexer_e4m3_pool,
  indexer_shared_list, fuse_prepare_rope_tables_unfused (+ indexer_f16, indexer_head_dim, indexer_thd, shared_list_rows
  published on the decode envelope).
• Rule 9: one FE contract -- a serving stack declares the same block and reads the envelope's rows; nothing engine-specific leaks.
  Rule 7: the kernel modules are imported at plan time behind the DSL floor (qsa_topk.qsa_topk_decode_kernel_module(),
  qsa_score_paged.dsl_decline_reason, the paged scorer's and top-k's own gates; _IndexerDecode takes the top-k's default knobs
  through default_knobs_for, so the cluster form's 4.8.0 floor from frost(gated_attention_block): the block-sparse indexer's decode top-k -- one CTA per row (a windowed 4096-bin histogram, a one-sweep canonical-order output) and a row-split cluster form for wide rows at few rows #1755 applies unchanged); a DECLARATION imports no kernel module --
  the prepare arms' record QsaPrepareIndexArms is read from the DSL-free cache_write_contract.py (the follow-up commit); the ring rule
  is spelled DSL-free in the api and drift-checked at plan time.

The follow-up commit (after the restack)

• Rule 7: the declaration under fuse_prepare imported kernels/qsa_prepare.py (the CuTe DSL at module scope) for the
  QsaPrepareIndexArms record, so on a sub-floor DSL the constructor died inside cudnn.frost.tile_dsl instead of raising the stage's
  typed version decline. The record (a NamedTuple of ints / bools) and the one definition of its pool default (DEFAULT_POOL) now live
  in the DSL-free gated_attention_block/cache_write_contract.py; kernels/qsa_prepare.py and kernels/qsa_compress.py import and
  re-export both names, so every kernel-side import path is unchanged. Detector: core/test_import_boundaries.py declares the indexer
  decode block on CPU samples under an explicit fuse_prepare=True and under the measured default (the cc patched to 10.7) and asserts
  kernels.qsa_prepare, kernels.qsa_compress, kernels.cache_write and cudnn.frost.tile_dsl absent (RED before the fix); a second
  cell models the public 4.6.2 wheel and gets the typed NotImplementedError naming 4.7.0 / 4.6.2 from check_support, the kernel module
  never imported.
• The AUTO reading of fuse_prepare resolved True on every indexer-decode declaration of a measured part and ran that derived True
  through the explicit-True rows, so a legal out-of-place declaration (inplace_qkv=False) was refused with a ValueError blaming a knob
  the caller never set. _fuse_prepare_default is admissibility-aware (the Summary's rule); pinned in test_block_qsa_decode.py on every
  part: out of place AUTO constructs with fuse_prepare is False, fuse_prepare_requested is None, no prepare stage, the K / V-only write
  and four stage launches, the explicit True its ValueError; the rope_dim=0, qk_norm=True geometry the same way with the stage's
  check_support decline (RED before the fix). The docs page, the constructor comment, the class docstring, the envelope's field comment
  and the support-matrix tracker carry the clause "False out of place; never True where an explicit True is declined".

Tests (all L0; RED-first on the pre-change tree)

• test_block_qsa_decode.py: the declaration facts + carve + envelope (host; + the out-of-place AUTO cells above); one trip test per
  decline row, the raised text EQUAL to the envelope's (host); the execute refusals in both directions on an uncompiled block under
  set_sync_debug_mode("error") (host); the decode-indexer ladder vs the TWO-STAGE oracle (the set == the fp64 top-k of the block's own
  (ix_q, kbar) up to ties; every row's attention within budget of the fp32 oracle fed the kernel's list; the ring rows and the completed
  cache rows bitwise the compress kernel; dead rows exact); the identity region bitwise the caller-list block on the full list; fused vs
  unfused bitwise with the launch census by kernel name (8 vs 11), no memcpy / memset, no allocation, no host sync; the indexer's list fed
  to a caller-list block bitwise; the first-execute capture + the replay over a new step; the RoPE-table ceiling; the ring-slot forms
  (int32 / int64); the position-table arm; the MTP residues; the workspace sentinel; the caller-list band form under fuse_prepare bitwise.
• test_block_qsa_end_to_end.py: eight carried decode steps after a 301-token prefill (S_q 1 then 4, a rejected draft re-stepped;
  the cache rows bitwise a from-scratch compress of the accepted stream after every step; the completing row sees its own block); the
  R9 census (0 allocations, 0 host sorts).
• test_block_qsa.py: the carve (five slots at the end, nothing else moves) and the published rows. test_qsa_prepare.py: the paged
  decline inverted to the dense-geometry row, the sparse mode builds. test_block_serving_pdl.py: AUTO False, explicit True declined.
  test_block_serving_extend.py: the execute-tail pin moved to n_commit. core/test_import_boundaries.py: the two declaration cells
  of the follow-up commit.

Test counts on the final head (pass / fail / skip; a shared cc 10.7 development part with 204 SMs for the device halves -- functional
only, no performance number from it -- and an A100 host for the host halves, where the Rubin-only cells skip):

module	cc 10.7 part	A100 host
test_block_qsa_decode.py (all tiers on the part)	76 / 0 / 0	20 / 0 / 56
test_block_qsa_end_to_end.py	99 / 0 / 0	3 / 0 / 96
test_block_qsa.py	70 / 0 / 0	67 / 0 / 3
test_qsa_prepare.py	67 / 0 / 0	62 / 0 / 5
test_block_serving_pdl.py	19 / 0 / 0	3 / 0 / 16
test_block_serving_extend.py	55 / 0 / 0	52 / 0 / 3
test_block_serving_capture.py	23 / 0 / 0	8 / 0 / 15
test_block_serving_decode.py	140 / 0 / 0	60 / 0 / 80
test_qsa_score_paged.py	150 / 0 / 1 (the two-device cell)	--
test_qsa_topk_decode.py	63 / 0 / 2 (the two-device cells)	--
test_qsa_compress_step.py	59 / 0 / 0	--
test_qsa_compress.py	35 / 0 / 0	--
core/test_import_boundaries.py	33 / 0 / 0	33 / 0 / 0

889 passed / 0 failed / 3 skipped over the 13 modules on the part (the restacked head before the follow-up commit: 856 / 0 / 3 over the
first 12); no timeout, no hang. The stacked branch before the restack also ran sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_sparse_sm107.py (340 / 0 / 2);
it was not re-run on the restacked head, which touches no sdpa/ file (the block modules exercise the sparse core).

Launch census of one fused execute (24 / 2 geometry, kernel names): B 1 x 8K x S_q 1 (split 16) fused 8 / unfused 11;
B 32 x 8K x S_q 4 (split 1) fused 6 / unfused 9; no memset / memcpy on any path.

Measured

The end-to-end decode gate of 2026-10-21 (an exclusive Rubin cc 10.7 performance part, 212 SMs at the 2376 MHz lock, CUDA-graph replay
A/B/A 3 x 100 per cell; the measurement record, retained internally, carries the caption, the clock / power verdicts, the per-stage censuses
and the oracles) -- FROST's gated attention block with its OWN indexer in ONE execute vs the vLLM QSA attention sub-layer with its own
indexer, per layer per decode step; speed-ups POSITIVE = FROST faster (baseline / FROST - 1). Measured on the stacked branch before the
restack: the base kernels' later follow-ups are host-side gates / validation and the top-k cluster form's slot-ownership fix, and the
binding's follow-up commit changes declaration-time behaviour only; the restacked head is not re-measured.

cell (B x KV x S_q)	baseline: vLLM QSA layer (us)	FROST block, one execute (us)	speed-up (+X %)	SOL % HBM: vLLM own bytes / FROST own bytes	fused / unfused (us); prepare lever	control pair	set agreement vs vLLM's selection
B 4 x 2K x S_q 1 (identity)	38.8	37.3	+3.9 %	26.4 / 25.4	37.3 / 42.7; +14.4 %	-1.33 %	100.00 % (4 / 4 rows set-equal; 0 of 0 differing ids within the tie window)
B 1 x 8K x S_q 1	38.6	36.8	+4.7 %	22.0 / 22.6	36.8 / 41.4; +12.4 %	-1.22 %	99.80 % (0 / 1 rows set-equal; 1 of 2 differing ids within the tie window)
B 1 x 8K x S_q 4	40.7	39.8	+2.5 %	25.1 / 23.9	39.8 / 44.4; +11.7 %	-0.97 %	99.66 % (0 / 4 rows set-equal; 1 of 14 differing ids within the tie window)
B 1 x 32K x S_q 1	39.4	38.3	+2.9 %	21.9 / 22.0	38.3 / 43.5; +13.5 %	-0.84 %	99.41 % (0 / 1 rows set-equal; 0 of 6 differing ids within the tie window)
B 1 x 32K x S_q 4	43.0	41.1	+4.6 %	24.1 / 23.4	41.1 / 46.3; +12.5 %	-0.89 %	99.61 % (0 / 4 rows set-equal; 3 of 16 differing ids within the tie window)
B 1 x 128K x S_q 1	46.3	41.1	+12.5 %	19.7 / 21.8	41.1 / 45.9; +11.5 %	-1.01 %	99.41 % (0 / 1 rows set-equal; 0 of 6 differing ids within the tie window)
B 1 x 128K x S_q 4	48.8	43.3	+12.7 %	22.4 / 23.5	43.3 / 48.1; +11.2 %	-0.89 %	99.46 % (0 / 4 rows set-equal; 1 of 22 differing ids within the tie window)
B 4 x 8K x S_q 1	40.8	39.5	+3.4 %	25.3 / 24.3	39.5 / 44.1; +11.6 %	-1.01 %	99.80 % (0 / 4 rows set-equal; 3 of 8 differing ids within the tie window)
B 4 x 8K x S_q 4	47.3	46.4	+1.9 %	30.2 / 29.6	46.4 / 52.2; +12.4 %	-0.83 %	99.73 % (2 / 16 rows set-equal; 6 of 44 differing ids within the tie window)
B 4 x 32K x S_q 1	42.6	40.8	+4.4 %	25.5 / 24.8	40.8 / 45.7; +12.1 %	-0.90 %	99.41 % (0 / 4 rows set-equal; 2 of 24 differing ids within the tie window)
B 4 x 32K x S_q 4	50.0	48.8	+2.5 %	29.7 / 29.3	48.8 / 54.0; +10.7 %	-1.08 %	99.60 % (1 / 16 rows set-equal; 8 of 66 differing ids within the tie window)
B 4 x 128K x S_q 1	50.6	44.7	+13.2 %	25.4 / 27.1	44.7 / 49.8; +11.4 %	-0.93 %	99.41 % (0 / 4 rows set-equal; 4 of 24 differing ids within the tie window)
B 4 x 128K x S_q 4	59.1	52.8	+12.0 %	28.8 / 31.2	52.8 / 57.9; +9.6 %	-0.55 %	99.51 % (1 / 16 rows set-equal; 10 of 80 differing ids within the tie window)
B 32 x 8K x S_q 1	59.6	53.8	+10.9 %	34.7 / 37.5	53.8 / 59.1; +10.0 %	-0.54 %	99.68 % (1 / 32 rows set-equal; 16 of 104 differing ids within the tie window)
B 32 x 8K x S_q 4	95.3	99.6	-4.3 %	57.9 / 51.4	99.6 / 105.8; +6.3 %	0.02 %	99.70 % (17 / 128 rows set-equal; 63 of 392 differing ids within the tie window)
B 32 x 32K x S_q 1	66.3	59.2	+11.9 %	37.2 / 40.8	59.2 / 64.8; +9.4 %	-0.49 %	99.56 % (0 / 32 rows set-equal; 17 of 144 differing ids within the tie window)
B 32 x 32K x S_q 4	104.1	109.6	-5.0 %	57.1 / 50.6	109.6 / 115.4; +5.3 %	-0.16 %	99.53 % (4 / 128 rows set-equal; 72 of 618 differing ids within the tie window)
B 32 x 128K x S_q 1	87.3	77.3	+12.8 %	46.5 / 51.8	77.3 / 82.7; +6.9 %	-0.52 %	99.49 % (0 / 32 rows set-equal; 17 of 166 differing ids within the tie window)
B 32 x 128K x S_q 4	127.9	131.5	-2.7 %	60.1 / 55.4	131.5 / 137.3; +4.4 %	0.15 %	99.49 % (2 / 128 rows set-equal; 64 of 672 differing ids within the tie window)
B 1 x 32K x S_q 1, page 32	39.1	38.1	+2.5 %	22.1 / 22.2	38.1 / 43.2; +13.5 %	-0.92 %	99.61 % (0 / 1 rows set-equal; 0 of 4 differing ids within the tie window)
B 32 x 8K x S_q 4, page 32	94.6	100.8	-6.1 %	58.3 / 50.8	100.8 / 104.9; +4.1 %	0.19 %	99.72 % (15 / 128 rows set-equal; 54 of 370 differing ids within the tie window)
B 1 x 32K x S_q 1, page 64	40.1	37.9	+5.7 %	21.5 / 22.3	37.9 / 42.3; +11.7 %	-0.93 %	99.80 % (0 / 1 rows set-equal; 1 of 2 differing ids within the tie window)
B 32 x 8K x S_q 4, page 64	94.6	100.1	-5.5 %	58.3 / 51.1	100.1 / 104.7; +4.6 %	0.10 %	99.72 % (13 / 128 rows set-equal; 58 of 372 differing ids within the tie window)

Geomeans (vLLM / FROST - 1, POSITIVE = FROST faster): over the 19 page-16 cells +5.3 %; over B <= 4 +6.1 %; over B 32 +3.6 %; over the seven-cell quick subset +4.9 %; over the S_q 1 cells incl. the identity +8.0 %; over the S_q 4 cells +2.5 %. The losses sit at B 32 x S_q 4 only.

fuse_prepare lever (unfused / fused - 1, POSITIVE = the fused prepare faster): +10.4 % over the cells, +11.9 % over B <= 4, +7.0 % over B 32; every B <= 4 control pair within 1 %: False; cells losing beyond their control band: 0. Verdict (reading the control pairs): the five B <= 4 control pairs beyond 1 % are a capture-order bias AGAINST the fused arm (the twin captured last is 0.4-0.5 us faster), so the band-corrected lever is >= +9.1 % on every B <= 4 cell and a build-order control confirmed the rows of record are conservative -- the measured default FLIPS: SPARSE_INDEXER_FUSE_PREPARE_DEFAULT_CCS = ((10, 7),) (commit C3).

Every FROST arm admitted by the oracles (the selection == the fp64 top-k of the kernel's own operands up to ties; cos(out) > 0.999 vs the
fp32 reference fed that list; the gated O within 2e-2; fused == unfused bitwise on out AND the list; the caller block fed FROST's list ==
the e2e block bitwise) on all 19 + 4 cells. Functional validation of the binding itself: the test counts above.

Restack onto develop

The branch was first built on cherry-picks of the five base PRs; once all five squash-merged, the picks were dropped by range and C1-C3 were
replayed onto develop at #1495 (the develop head of the restack). C1 and C3 applied clean; C2 took one conflict and one adaptation:

• test_block_qsa_decode.py -- one positional hunk: develop merged frost(sdpa): the sparse decode split's combine takes the decode-grid / lean-walk FORM pin of the dense adapter (sparse_gqa_sm107), bitwise the former entry; the split cap's sweep provenance #1762's split-combine section before frost(gated_attention_block): the indexer band's slab (N 13952) on the small-M projection route -- capture-safe and flag-free at decode row counts #1754's band-tile sections, so the
  picks' second copy of that section (49 lines) was dropped, develop's kept, and C2's sections appended after develop's last test; the
  replayed added / removed lines are identical to the original commit's.
• api.py -- auto-merged, but Consolidate QSA APIs and add bounded-memory indexed training #1774 moved gated_attention_block/qsa_select*.py to cudnn/QSA/selection*.py without shims: six imports
  and five prose mentions adapted (MAX_QUERY_ROWS, MMA_M, padded_heads, validate_params, default_units_per_warp,
  INDEXER_SCORER_HEAD_DIM; names and signatures unchanged).
• the other eight files auto-merged with develop's follow-up text kept; the diff-stat equals the pre-restack branch's (10 files,
  +3394 / -208) before the follow-up commit, and every file outside the set equals develop's. The base PRs' merged follow-ups (the
  4.8.0 cluster-form gate and its default chooser, the strided union owner loop, the 64-bit fake row stride, the capture-safe projection
  flag at declaration and compile, the low-SM-count declaration pins, the selector's table / length validation before its gates) are present
  and untouched.
• Verification: the restacked head 856 / 0 / 3 over 12 modules on the cc 10.7 part and the host halves green; the final head with the
  follow-up commit as tabled above (889 / 0 / 3 over 13 modules).

Review notes

• Rule S2: the tracker rows + the docs page land in the SAME commit as the binding; the follow-up commit changes no Capabilities /
  EngineSpec field (a knob's AUTO reading), the tracker prose updated because it spells that reading.
• Never a tolerance widened (COS_OUT 0.999, ATOL 2e-2, TIE_TOL 1e-4 as the kernel suites); no log statement deleted.
• use_pdl=True on the sparse chain keeps the existing decline (frost(gated_attention_block): programmatic dependent launch on the block-sparse decode chain -- the sparse core's griddepcontrol sites, use_pdl served under QsaSpec, bitwise the plain chain #1763 is not a base); _IndexerDecode threads the switch it is handed
  (pdl_names spells the kernels that would take it) so frost(gated_attention_block): programmatic dependent launch on the block-sparse decode chain -- the sparse core's griddepcontrol sites, use_pdl served under QsaSpec, bitwise the plain chain #1763's restack flips one declaration site.
• black -l 160 clean; every new source file carries the SPDX header; every new test module is L0.

Open items

• No FROST writer of the PAGED compressed-key cache at PREFILL -- the prefill form writes index_k_compressed densely; a serving stack
  scatters the rows into its pages and primes the ring from the prompt's raw band (documented; the multi-step cell does so).
• The fuse_prepare default: measured and FLIPPED to True on cc 10.7 (C3) where the fused form is admissible; every other part keeps
  False until measured there.
• index_commit_present=True (a per-sequence commit count) is a typed follow-up; the indexer_e4m3_cache / indexer_e4m3_pool arms
  wait for the paged scorer's e4m3 read arm and the sparse core's in-kernel dequant arm.
• The nightly CI's CuTe DSL 4.7.0 jobs (SM90 / SM100 / A100; green before the base PRs merged) are red from the BASE kernels, not from
  this binding, and are handled in a separate fix PR: (a) the paged scorer raises a CUDA illegal instruction on SM90 / SM100 under the
  4.7.0 wheel -- its bundled PTX assembler (13.3) mis-encodes the uniform-register operands of cp.async.cg.shared.global.L2::cache_hint
  with a createpolicy register policy (the copies read uniform registers nothing writes; the 4.8.0 wheel's 13.4 assembler encodes them
  correctly; the PTX is identical; the unhinted copy passes under 4.7.0) -> the fix keys the L2-hint arm on the bundled compiler version
  (unhinted below 13.4, a typed decline if the hint is forced); (b) the top-k's cluster-form cells raise the 4.8.0 typed decline instead
  of skipping under 4.7.0, and one decline test expects the cc gate before the DSL gate -> the cells skip with the typed text and the cc
  gates precede the form's DSL floor; (c) the fresh-process front-door probe trips on the consolidated selection front door's eager
  cutlass import -> its tuple-dict helper moves to a DSL-free module and the probes are strengthened. The DSL 4.8.0 job of the same
  nightly was green on every gated_attention_block module. This PR changes none of those kernels; _IndexerDecode consumes them behind
  their Rule 7 gates.
• Coverage: the out-of-place declaration (inplace_qkv=False, the unfused twin) constructs on every part but has no executing cell yet
  (the ladder declares in place); a follow-up adds it. The fuse_prepare_rope_tables_unfused text's hint ("declare fuse_prepare=True")
  leads an out-of-place caller to the in-place ValueError next -- a wording follow-up.
• Two docstring follow-ups: the kernel listing's top-k entry (kernels/__init__.py) still reads "standalone until the decode indexer
  binds it"; _IndexerDecode.check_support re-runs the geometry rows without the e4m3-pool row (the block's declaration check carries it,
  so the stage is never built under an e4m3 pool).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added paged KV decode with an in-block indexer for gated attention, including shared or per-row selection lists and updates to compressed-key caches and ring buffers.
  • Added public options for choosing the index-list format and configuring preparation fusion. Updated API guidance, supported-use details, and serving documentation.
• Bug Fixes
  • Improved compatibility checks for unsupported DSL versions and clarified when preparation fusion is available. Dense decode continues to report unsupported fusion rather than enabling it.

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• test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_qsa_decode.py
• test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_qsa_end_to_end.py
• test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_training_forward.py

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📝 Walkthrough

The PR documents shared and per-row QSA decode lists and the in-block indexer’s paged decode path. It adds public exports, consolidates prepare-arm declarations, updates support descriptions, and adds declaration, workspace, serving, and end-to-end tests.

Changes: QSA Paged Decode

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Decode list forms docs/fe-oss-apis/gated_attention_block.md, python/cudnn/gated_attention_block/__init__.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/frost/SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md, test/python/api_index/api_index.txt	The API documentation and support matrix describe shared and per-row index lists, selection defaults, and supported decode combinations. The package exports the three index-list form constants, and the API index lists them and related decode-envelope fields.
Prepare and execute contract python/cudnn/gated_attention_block/cache_write_contract.py, python/cudnn/gated_attention_block/kernels/qsa_compress.py, python/cudnn/gated_attention_block/kernels/qsa_prepare.py, docs/fe-oss-apis/gated_attention_block.md, test/python/core/test_import_boundaries.py, test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_qsa_prepare.py, test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_serving_extend.py, test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_serving_pdl.py	QsaPrepareIndexArms and DEFAULT_POOL are defined in the shared contract module. The documentation describes prepare-fusion options and decode inputs. Tests cover import boundaries, DSL-version declines, fusion selection, execute arguments, and PDL behavior.
Paged decode flow and validation docs/fe-oss-apis/gated_attention_block.md, python/cudnn/sdpa/frost/SUPPORT_MATRIX_TRACKER.md, test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_qsa.py, test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_qsa_end_to_end.py, test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_fp4.py, test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_training_forward.py	The documentation describes query processing, ring and compressed-cache updates, paged scoring, and sparse attention. The support matrix adds decode coverage. Tests check workspace and envelope fields, state carried from prefill, selected lists, cache consistency, and repeated execution behavior.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant GatedAttentionBlock
  participant QSAIndexer
  participant PagedKVCache
  participant SparseAttention
  Caller->>GatedAttentionBlock: Paged decode inputs and indexer state
  GatedAttentionBlock->>QSAIndexer: Query and decode state
  QSAIndexer->>PagedKVCache: Score keys and update cache and ring
  QSAIndexer->>SparseAttention: Query and selected per-row lists
  SparseAttention-->>Caller: Decode output

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Possibly related issues

• NVIDIA/TransformerEngine#3729 — The PR adds query-dependent decode selection and per-row block lists, which match the requested QSA behavior.

Possibly related PRs

• NVIDIA/cudnn-frontend#1749 — This PR extends the QSA indexer, compression, scoring, and cache behavior introduced there to paged block-sparse decode.
• NVIDIA/cudnn-frontend#1652 — This PR extends the paged block-sparse decode mode and list-form behavior described in that PR with indexer-driven decode.

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2140-2322: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add an independent expected top-k assertion.

The test checks that returned IDs are descending, visible, and well formed, but its attention oracle uses the returned IDs themselves. A scorer that returns the wrong visible blocks can therefore satisfy the shape checks and produce a matching oracle result. The completion check only requires the newly completed block to appear; it does not validate the other selected blocks.

Use the existing independent top-k comparison used by the other indexer tests, based on the scorer's expected query and compressed-key inputs, so an incorrect valid top-k set fails.

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Add an independent expected top-k check for each decode step in
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• python/cudnn/gated_attention_block/kernels/qsa_compress.py
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• test/python/gated_attention_block/cutedsl/test_block_qsa_end_to_end.py
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build

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oss_tests

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• python/*/cutedsl:cutlass-rel:sm90 - ❌ New Failure! (nightly passed)
• python/*/cutedsl:cutlass-rel:sm100 - ❌ New Failure! (nightly passed)
• python/*/jax:cutlass-rel:sm100 - Skipped
• python/*/cutedsl:cutlass-4.8:sm107 - ❌ Old Failure (nightly failed)

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triage

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Codex bot review · model: gpt-6-astra

Reviewed 65cf3dcbb14a against base cfcb846a295f.

The decode composition passed the focused native checks. One nonblocking test issue remains: the unsupported-target assumption reported below also affects test_decode_indexer_declaration_facts_carve_and_the_envelope_rows in test_block_qsa_decode.py:1502. Both tests need a controlled supported-target state for their positive envelope assertions.

• [P2] Still open: Control target availability in both positive envelope tests.

Validation: SM107: 8 native tests passed with no skips, covering first-execute capture and changed-input replay in both prepare modes, int32/int64 ring slots, position-only RoPE tables, and workspace bounds. Additional native probe: out-of-place AUTO, fused/unfused output and selection equivalence, and side-cache rebinding with padded strides passed. Selection was checked against the FP64 top-k oracle on the kernel operands; attention was checked against the independent block reference. Host declaration and serving suites on DSL 4.7.1: 139 passed, 2 failed as described above, 79 skipped, 134 deselected. The two new fresh-process import and version-gate tests passed on both DSL 4.7.1 and an isolated actual 4.6.2 installation. Style, Docs, Security, and the latest merge-requirements workflow passed. Requested python/*/cutedsl CI for this head; pipeline 75942823 is running. All 14 changed files match its integration tree.

Limitations: Native validation is bounded; the full CI result is still pending.

Approved: no P0 or high-risk P1 found. Remaining findings stay with the owner; merge timing stays with the owner.

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CI 75942823 on 65cf3dcbb14a found two additional test-maintenance gaps:

• Add the absent (-1) ix_counts, ix_cslot, and ix_logits fields to the expected workspace dictionaries in test_block_fp4.py and test_block_training_forward.py. These account for 24 SM107 failures; the existing offsets match.
• Refresh the public API index for the added envelope fields, list-form field, and exports.

The reported envelope assertion also failed on SM80 and SM90. On SM107, all 76 decode tests, 99 QSA end-to-end tests, and 67 prepare tests passed. Other pipeline checks are still running.

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Pipeline 75942823 finished with failures on 65cf3dcbb14a.

The workspace snapshots, API index and envelope-test issues reported above remain. SM107 finished with 8,131 passed, 26 failed, 2,695 skipped and 2 xfailed. Of the failures, 24 are the workspace snapshots; two are launch-configuration errors in unchanged GEMM/JAX tests, with cause not established. All 76 decode, 99 QSA end-to-end and 67 prepare tests passed.

SM80 and SM90 each failed the reported envelope assertion. SM100 failed during image setup and ran no tests. No rerun was requested.

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Follow-up b52f25775 (one commit on 65cf3dcbb) addresses the CI findings on pipeline 75942823, the open CodeQL alerts and both CodeRabbit items. Each item: the change, then the evidence. Node class below is the cc 10.7 development node (204 SMs, shared, functional only); the host is an A100.

1. The 24 workspace-dictionary failures on the cc 10.7 job (test_block_fp4.py::test_workspace_layout_is_byte_identical_without_fp4, test_block_training_forward.py::test_workspace_layout_is_byte_identical_without_want_saved, 12 cells each)

• Change: _COMMON / _ABSENT name the indexer DECODE step's three absent slots, ix_logits / ix_counts / ix_cslot = -1, appended last as _Intermediates orders them (the existing offsets were already right, as reported); the comments beside them name the set.
• Evidence: on the unchanged tree the host reproduces the 24 failures with exactly {'ix_counts': -1, 'ix_cslot': -1, 'ix_logits': -1} missing from the expected dictionaries; on the fix 12 + 12 pass on the host, and on the cc 10.7 development node test_block_fp4.py L0 119 passed and test_block_training_forward.py L0 94 passed (0 failed, 0 skipped).

2. analysis:api_index (the API index mismatch)

• Change: test/python/api_index/api_index.txt lists the 16 names the bind added to cudnn.gated_attention_block, inserted by hand in the generator's sorted() order: DecodeEnvelope.{fuse_prepare_default, index_block_sizes, index_cache_dtypes, index_head_dims, index_kv_heads, index_list_form_default, index_list_forms, index_page_sizes, index_query_rows_max, index_sources, index_state_rows_extra, index_top_k_range}, QSA_INDEX_LIST_FORMS, QSA_INDEX_LIST_FORM_PER_ROW, QSA_INDEX_LIST_FORM_SHARED, QsaSpec.index_list_form. No other module's exports changed.
• Evidence: api_index.py run on cudnn.gated_attention_block alone against this branch's package derives exactly these 16 additions and nothing else; after the edit the same run matches the committed set (the only remaining delta is the Python 3.10 dir() artifact on ProjBlock's int methods, which the Python 3.11+ CI image does not show); the file stays in sorted() order with no duplicates; the api_index fixture suite is 10 ok. The full runtime check could not be run on the host (its Python 3.10 environment has no jax, so the scanner declines before diffing), so the analysis:api_index job is the arbiter for the whole index.

3. The envelope cell red on the SM80 / SM90 jobs (test_block_qsa.py::test_decode_indexer_declines_are_published_row_by_row_and_the_envelope_names_the_indexer_facts; CodeRabbit's Major on line 380 and the Codex [P2], which also named test_block_qsa_decode.py::test_decode_indexer_declaration_facts_carve_and_the_envelope_rows)

• Change: both positive envelope cells model the served DSL state the way the sibling cells already do (cudnn.frost.buffers._DSL_STATE = the public 4.8.0 wheel, _cutedsl_has_sm107 True, through monkeypatch): the facts they pin are a reading of the SERVED form, never of the host's wheel. Under a DSL at the floor but without the sm_107a target, serving_envelope(..., device_cc=(10, 7)) reports decode unserved and fuse_prepare_default False by the knob's own rule, which is what those two jobs read.
• Evidence: with a pytest plugin that models a DSL without sm_107a (what those jobs run), the unchanged tree fails both cells exactly as CI did (fuse_prepare_default False at line 380; served False at the decode cell's line 1502); the fixed tree passes both under the same plugin (2 passed) and under the host's own DSL (2 passed); on the cc 10.7 development node test_block_qsa.py L0 70 passed and test_block_qsa_decode.py at every tier 76 passed.

4. CodeQL (the ten open alerts on the PR's files)

• py/missing-call-to-init (error) test_block_qsa_decode.py:1776: _IndexerCase no longer inherits an initializer it never ran. The methods the two decode cases share (compile / execute / run / slab_views / label / check) moved verbatim into _CaseBase; _Case and _IndexerCase each derive from it and build their own state (the indexer's case declares a different geometry and primes the ring and the compressed cache, so calling _Case.__init__ would have drawn a second dataset from the generator for nothing). Behaviour is unchanged: the decode module passes at every tier (76) on the cc 10.7 development node.
• py/unused-import test_block_qsa_decode.py:78 (_qsa_decode_decline_texts) and :69 (KV_SOURCE_SELF): removed from the two import statements.
• py/import-and-import-from test_block_qsa_decode.py:1468: the one import cudnn.gated_attention_block.api as _api (the monkeypatch target) is now from cudnn.gated_attention_block import api as _api, the module's one import form.
• py/unused-local-variable test_block_qsa_decode.py:1060 (B, S): the dead assignment removed (pre-existing on develop; the file is in this diff).
• py/unused-import api.py:326 (WorkspaceLayout): removed; nothing in the package or the tests reads it through this module.
• py/unused-global-variable api.py:328 (_logger): no log line in the module uses it (so no diagnostic is lost); removed together with the then-unused import logging.
• py/comparison-of-identical-expressions api.py:2770 / :2931: the two deliberate NaN tests on v = float(...) are spelled math.isnan(v); identical semantics on a float, import math added. (These four api.py alerts and the two unused locals predate this PR on develop; fixed here because the files are in the diff.)

5. CodeRabbit nitpick (test_block_qsa_end_to_end.py, the decode-step cell: an independent expected top-k)

• Change: in that cell top_k = 512 exceeds every visible count (at most 79 complete blocks across the eight steps), so the scorer's top-k IS the complete visible set; the cell now asserts the expected list in closed form, count - 1 .. 0 then padding, so an incorrect yet well-formed selection cannot hide in the shape checks. The BINDING top-k (fewer slots than visible blocks) stays compared against the fp64 top-k of the kernel's own operands in the decode module's ladder (check_selection, top_k 4..512 at lengths up to 8192) and, for the prefill form, by _indexer_two_stage in the same module; a fp64 comparison in this cell would have been vacuous.
• Evidence: test_block_qsa_end_to_end.py L0 99 passed on the cc 10.7 development node (the decode-step cell under both knob readings included).

Host tiers on the follow-up: core/test_import_boundaries.py 33 passed (host and node); the host halves of the touched modules at the default tier: test_block_qsa.py 67 passed / 3 skipped, test_block_qsa_decode.py 20 / 56, test_block_qsa_end_to_end.py 3 / 96, test_block_fp4.py 60 / 59, test_block_training_forward.py 30 / 64 (the skips are the Rubin-only cells). black -l 160 clean; py_compile clean.

Not in this follow-up: the two test_grouped_gemm_canonical_jax.py cells red on the cc 10.7 job are the develop nightly's pre-existing gemm/jax failures (CUDADialectError), untouched by this PR; the SM100 job of the same pipeline did not run any test (the runner failed to import its image, 403 at the registry); the merge-requirements Milestone is a maintainer field.

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analysis

• analysis:cudnn_clang_disable_exception - ✅ Passed
• analysis:cudnn_v9_no_half_conversion - ✅ Passed
• analysis:cudnn_clang - ✅ Passed
• analysis:check-relative-includes - ✅ Passed
• analysis:check-CUDNN_FRONTEND_SKIP_JSON_LIB - ✅ Passed
• analysis:guardwords_scan - ✅ Passed
• analysis:jax-import-guard - ✅ Passed
• analysis:pytest-gpu - ✅ Passed
• san:build - ✅ Passed

build

• analysis:api_index - ✅ Passed
• build:dev:linux:amd64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:linux:amd64 - ✅ Passed
• build:dev:linux:arm64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:linux:arm64 - ✅ Passed
• build:rel:win:amd64 - ✅ Passed

oss_tests

• python/gemm/cutedsl:cutlass-rel:sm100 - Skipped
• python/*/cutedsl:cutlass-rel:sm80 - ✅ Passed
• python/*/cutedsl:cutlass-rel:sm90 - ✅ Passed
• python/*/cutedsl:cutlass-rel:sm100 - ❌ New Failure! (nightly passed)
• python/*/jax:cutlass-rel:sm100 - Skipped
• python/*/cutedsl:cutlass-4.8:sm107 - ❌ Old Failure (nightly failed)

sanitizer_tests

• san:cpp_test:sm80 - ✅ Passed
• san:cpp_test:sm90 - ✅ Passed
• san:cpp_test:sm100 - ✅ Passed

triage

• triage:ai - ✅ Passed

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Codex bot review · model: gpt-6-astra

Reviewed b52f25775cb6 against base cfcb846a295f.

The follow-up resolves my envelope-test finding and the reported workspace snapshot and API-index gaps. The test-method move preserves behavior, and the small production cleanup preserves validation semantics. No remaining actionable finding from this review.

Validation: Focused host run: 91 passed, 4 skipped, including the 24 workspace snapshots. The decode declaration/envelope test also passed alone on public DSL 4.7.1. On the actual public DSL 4.6.2 floor, the portable envelope test and quantization-spec validation both passed. Ten focused SM107 tests passed with no skips: fused/unfused first-execute capture and replay, ring forms, position-only RoPE, workspace bounds and the strengthened multi-step decode checks. The gated_attention_block API scan matches all 173 expected names. The six moved test methods are AST-identical. Requested pipeline 75959853 for this head and verified all 17 PR files match its integration tree. CI is pending.

Limitations: The full local API-index scan could not complete because JAX is absent from the test environment; the changed module was checked separately. CI must confirm the full index and all affected lanes. Reused earlier kernel and performance evidence: this update does not change the execution kernels.

Comment only: this PR already has an active approval; preserving existing approvals.

[Anerudhan]

Pipeline 75959853 tested b52f25775cb6; all 17 PR files match its integration tree. The API-index check now passes. SM80 passed 775 tests and SM90 passed 1,254, including the repaired portable envelope test.

SM107 passed 8,156 tests, including all 76 decode, 99 QSA end-to-end, 70 QSA, 67 prepare, 119 FP4 and 94 training-forward tests. The earlier snapshot failures are resolved. Its one failure is in unchanged GEMM/JAX code: test_canonical_jax_parity[wrapper-True-True-True-1-swiglu] rejected a CUDA launch configuration; I have not established its cause.

SM100 failed during image setup before testing. The pipeline remains red; these results confirm the PR's reported test fixes but do not provide a passing SM100 run.

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