Add a dense BF16 SwiGLU MLP autograd op with fused forward and dSwiGLU backward - #609
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAdds a cuDNN-based bf16 SwiGLU MLP autograd operation with cached and autotuned forward and backward graphs. It also adds public exports, SM100+ validation, a runnable demonstration, performance guidance, and end-to-end benchmarking. ChangesSwiGLU integration and performance
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The current head adds a fused autograd operation and public integration, but it can reuse one cached workspace across concurrent CUDA streams and corrupt outputs or gradients; required API, packaging, runtime-gating, and validation fixes also remain unresolved, so it is not safe to merge until the concurrency and integration issues are addressed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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…bprop) A dense bf16 SwiGLU-MLP as a cuDNN autograd op, for the GEMM owner to review. It shows what the cuDNN graph fuses today and, with measured B200 numbers, exactly where a dense fused GEMM+SwiGLU training op is gated. - forward gate_gemm + up_gemm + SiLU + mul fuse into ONE cuDNN kernel; down GEMM is separate (a 3-GEMM single graph does not compile). - backward dSwiGLU runs as fused cuDNN pointwise kernels; a probe shows matmul(dout,Wd) with the dSwiGLU as a matmul EPILOGUE is ~2.3x the unfused dh-GEMM + elementwise. - weights enter the GEMMs as strided .t() views (cuDNN reads them column-major); a materialized .t().contiguous() would add a transpose kernel costing more than the GEMM. - each graph is autotuned (build ALL plans, time execute_plan_at_index, keep fastest); on these Qwen3.5 shapes the heuristic top plan is already ~optimal (~1.01x). Measured vs torch+cuBLAS at the Qwen3.5-27B MLP shape (M2048 H5120 I17408): forward-only ~1.03x, but forward+backward ~0.86x — a regression. The MLP is GEMM-bound and every GEMM routed through cuDNN pays a per-call tax (plain cuDNN matmul is 0.90-0.96x of torch.mm from dispatch overhead; cuDNN's own kernels ~13% off cuBLAS), which across 6-8 GEMMs outweighs the fusion. The lever is GEMM throughput + per-GEMM dispatch, i.e. a cuBLAS-class fused GEMM+epilogue in one launch — not more fusion. Numerically matches torch to bf16 noise (fwd + all four gradients). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…raps) A customer- and internal-facing guide for driving cuDNN Frontend op-by-op from a framework without leaving performance on the table to host overhead. Distilled from a measured B200 investigation: the cuDNN backend execute is already at cuBLAS parity (~8.4us vs ~7.6us for a 256^3 matmul); the gap in a naive integration is avoidable FE wrapper cost (per-call set_stream, generic execute vs a pinned execute_plan_at_index, variant-pack/object churn, materialized transposed weights). Covers the traps, the fix for each, when to CUDA-graph, and how to benchmark (graph replay for kernels, eager for integration overhead). Companion to the fused SwiGLU-MLP sample in this PR. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@docs/framework_integration_performance.md`:
- Around line 21-22: Update the CUDA Graph performance guidance to call event
timing around graph replay “captured-workload GPU time,” acknowledging
graph-launch overhead and other captured non-kernel work; reserve kernel
profiling for kernel-only comparisons.
In `@samples/python/gemm_swiglu_mlp_fusion.py`:
- Around line 231-233: Update the comment on the _dswiglu call to accurately
state that it executes two cuDNN pointwise kernels, or remove the kernel-count
claim; do not change the surrounding gate, up, or gradient computation.
- Around line 131-136: Rename each ambiguous I variable to intermediate_size in
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168 and 245, updating all local references while preserving behavior and
resolving Ruff E741.
- Around line 91-94: Update the autotune logging assignment in the flow
containing _AUTOTUNE_LOG so heur_first uses times[0] directly, preserving
infinity when plan 0 fails instead of selecting the first successful plan. Leave
best and the return values unchanged.
- Around line 75-88: Update _autotune around the graph execution and timing loop
to run under torch.cuda.device(dev), ensuring cuDNN work and event recording use
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- Around line 53-62: Update _handle to cache the stream associated with each
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streams does not share one handle simultaneously by maintaining separate handles
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- _handle: cache the stream per device handle, call set_stream only on change (the guide's own recommendation; ~5us/call) — single-stream sample, noted. - _autotune: create events/workspace and synchronize under torch.cuda.device(dev). - autotune log: heuristic-first uses times[0] (the top heuristic pick; inf if it failed). - rename ambiguous `I` -> `interm` (Ruff E741). - fix the backward comment: _dswiglu runs two cuDNN pointwise kernels (dup, dgate). - doc: graph replay reports captured-workload GPU time (kernels + in-graph launch), not a pure kernel-only profile; reserve a profiler for per-kernel numbers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@samples/python/gemm_swiglu_mlp_fusion.py`:
- Around line 96-100: Update the autotuning loop around execute_plan_at_index to
catch and record RuntimeError failures while continuing to evaluate remaining
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Fail autotuning when no plan executes.
execute_plan_at_index reports execution failures as Python RuntimeError. Catch this error for each plan, record it, and continue timing other plans. If all timings remain inf, raise a diagnostic error instead of selecting index 0 and caching a known-failing plan.
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In `@samples/python/gemm_swiglu_mlp_fusion.py` around lines 96 - 100, Update the
autotuning loop around execute_plan_at_index to catch and record RuntimeError
failures while continuing to evaluate remaining plans. After timing, detect when
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…lu_mlp Move the fused dense bf16 SwiGLU-MLP autograd op out of the NVIDIA#609 sample and into the GEMM op family as cudnn.gemm.ops.swiglu_mlp, mirroring moe_grouped_matmul: exported at cudnn.gemm.swiglu_mlp and aliased into cudnn.experimental.ops. The sample now imports the op and keeps only the demo + the 1-kernel evidence. out = (silu(x @ Wg^T) * (x @ Wu^T)) @ Wd^T; the forward fuses gate GEMM + up GEMM + SiLU + mul into one cuDNN kernel (FORT-native runtime fusion, SM100), the win. Adds test/python/gemm/test_swiglu_mlp.py (L0, SM100-gated): forward + all four gradients match torch to bf16 noise, and the fused forward is a single GPU launch. Verified on SM100 (fwd/grad rel-L2 ~4e-3; 3 passed). Also folds in the CodeRabbit follow-ups on the moved code: the autotuner now raises a diagnostic when no plan executes instead of caching a failing index 0, and the ambiguous single-letter dim name is dropped. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@python/cudnn/gemm/ops/__init__.py`:
- Around line 7-9: Preserve lazy loading of the frontend-only swiglu_mlp
dependency: in python/cudnn/gemm/ops/__init__.py lines 7-9, replace the eager
import with lazy attribute resolution while retaining __all__; in
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In `@python/cudnn/gemm/ops/swiglu_mlp.py`:
- Around line 197-236: add the required APIBase subclass and public wrapper for
the SwiGLU MLP frontend API, using _SwigluMLP and swiglu_mlp as the underlying
implementation symbols. Keep both public names behind the [cutedsl]
optional-dependency boundary, and export the subclass and wrapper through the
relevant frontend kernel package __all__ definitions.
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In `@test/python/gemm/test_swiglu_mlp.py`:
- Around line 36-45: Adjust the parameterization and test-level markers for
test_swiglu_mlp_parity so the uncached M=2048, H=1024, inter=2048 configuration
runs only at a higher test level; retain only the small cached configuration
under L0, preserving the existing SM100 skip condition.
Apply the same fix in `@test/python/gemm/test_swiglu_mlp.py` around lines 37 - 40:
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…LP swap Adds benchmark/e2e/, one folder per model (named by the model, extensible to Kimi Linear / DeepSeek-V3), with a model-agnostic timing/profiling harness in _perfshare.py. benchmark/e2e/Qwen3-Next/run_model.py builds flash-linear-attention's Gated DeltaNet model and profiles a fwd+bwd step by category and backend. --accelerate_mlp routes the SwiGLU MLP through cudnn.gemm.ops.swiglu_mlp (this PR) by monkeypatching FLA's bias-free swish GatedMLP.forward; --accelerate_attn routes linear attention through cudnn.fla (PR NVIDIA#596) when installed. The MLP GEMMs are the dominant block (~70% at real dims), so this benchmark is where the SwiGLU-MLP op's e2e effect shows: the forward fusion wins, the fwd+bwd still pays the backward recompute. Verified end-to-end on SM100 (MLP swap active, perf-share prints). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hybrid-LM perf-share benchmark moves to benchmark/e2e/ in PR NVIDIA#609, next to the cudnn.gemm.ops.swiglu_mlp op it exercises (the MLP GEMMs are the dominant block; linear attention is a small share here). Keeps this PR focused on the cudnn.fla linear-attention drop-in. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The backward previously ran the dh = dout @ Wd dgrad GEMM and the dSwiGLU elementwise (dup = dh*silu(gate), dgate = dh*silu'(gate)*up) as a separate matmul followed by two cuDNN pointwise kernels. Express the same math as a cuDNN graph (matmul + swish/swish_backward/mul, two outputs, gate/up as per-element aux inputs) and JIT it through the FROST cuTeDSL engine, so the whole stage is ONE bare-launch kernel: no separate elementwise pass, no dh round-trip to HBM, no per-GEMM FE wrapper tax. FROST already had every op this needs (swish_backward + per-element aux + multi-output), so no engine change was required. The FROST TN mainloop needs B contiguous in K, so the natural I-contiguous down weight is bound as its K-contiguous [I,H] view. CUDA-graph kernel time on the Qwen3.5-27B dense MLP shape (SM100, B200): ~1.5x the recompute+pointwise backward and ~1.25x a fair torch backward with saved pre-activations; ~2x the isolated dh-GEMM + two-pointwise stage. The forward SwiGLU fusion already wins 1.05-1.20x, so the full training step now flips to a cuDNN win. Correct to bf16 noise on all four gradients. Guarded: any unsupported shape/arch falls back to the pointwise path; CUDNN_GEMM_SWIGLU_FROST_BWD=0 forces the fallback. New test asserts the FROST backward matches the pointwise path it replaces. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…g-step win Update the perf-share docs: the MLP backward no longer just pays the recompute + pointwise cost — it fuses the dgrad GEMM + dSwiGLU into one FROST kernel (~1.25x vs a fair torch backward, SM100). With the 1.05-1.20x forward fusion, the MLP is now a training-step win, not only an inference one. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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38-58: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftDo not share cached workspaces between CUDA streams.
_MM_CACHE,_SWIGLU_CACHE, and_DSWIGLU_CACHEretainws._handleonly changes the handle stream. It does not synchronize prior work. If two streams execute the same cached entry, both launches can use the same workspace concurrently. This can corrupt outputs or gradients.Store workspaces per stream, or allocate a distinct workspace for each invocation.
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277-281: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftRestrict FROST fallback exceptions.
_frost_dswiglu()can raise errors during compilation, validation, allocation, and kernel launch. Catch only the explicit unsupported-shape or unsupported-architecture exception. Propagate invalid bindings, resource failures, CUDA launch failures, and implementation defects.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@python/cudnn/gemm/ops/swiglu_mlp.py`:
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In `@python/cudnn/gemm/ops/swiglu_mlp.py`:
- Around line 277-281: Update the _FROST_BWD branch around _frost_dswiglu to
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architectures, then use _dswiglu as the fallback. Allow binding errors, resource
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- Keep cudnn.gemm.ops / cudnn.experimental.ops import-lazy: the op modules import torch, so resolve moe_grouped_matmul / swiglu_mlp via module __getattr__ (mirrors cudnn/gemm/__init__.py) instead of eagerly. `import cudnn.gemm.ops` no longer pulls torch; `from cudnn.gemm.ops import swiglu_mlp` and the submodule aliases still resolve. - swiglu_mlp._autotune: raise if the graph produced zero plans, before max() over an empty range. - Shorten the tile-config lookup to a tuple comparison (was exactly 160 cols). - benchmark/e2e: pick_sm100 now selects SM100-family (100 <= SM < 120) so it does not grab an SM120 device where the fused engine is absent; the SDPA stand-in pins SDPBackend.CUDNN_ATTENTION so the full-attention layers are actually counted as cuDNN; drop an F541 empty f-string. Not changed (replied on the PR): APIBase is the CuTeDSL kernel-wrapper contract, not the gemm/ops torch-custom-op layer (sibling moe_grouped_matmul has none either); the L0 gate with the SM100 device check matches repo convention (no test/python/gemm test uses L1+, and there is no documented cuDNN-version floor for this op). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…sion stage The fused forward now emits the pre-activations, so the backward reads them instead of recomputing two GEMMs -- that is the real backward win (parity with a torch autograd MLP). The dSwiGLU-as-epilogue fusion is a ~2.3x stage win only in isolation; the GEMM-bound full backward does not surface it. Measure the whole step, not the stage. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…NVIDIA#596) * Add cudnn.fla: a cuDNN-accelerated drop-in for flash-linear-attention GDN `cudnn.fla.accelerate_fla()` monkeypatches the flash-linear-attention ops cuDNN can serve so an existing `import fla` training/inference script gets cuDNN's Blackwell Gated DeltaNet kernels with no code change, and transparently falls back to FLA where cuDNN has no kernel — results never change and never regress. Named `cudnn.fla` to sit alongside the `cudnn.torch` / `cudnn.jax` framework integration packages. The shim maps FLA's `chunk_gated_delta_rule` onto the native THD `gated_delta_net` and reproduces the FLA GatedDeltaNet layer's in-kernel fusions in torch so autograd flows to the raw inputs and the A_log/dt_bias parameters: - use_gate_in_kernel -> g = -exp(A_log) * softplus(g + dt_bias) (per-token log decay) - use_beta_sigmoid_in_kernel -> beta = sigmoid(beta) - use_qk_l2norm_in_kernel -> q/k L2-normalized via FLA's l2norm kernel (torch F.normalize fwd+bwd is ~2.6x slower and would erase the win) Unserved variants (allow_neg_eigval / state_v_first with state / cp_context / pre-Blackwell) and any native decline route to the wrapped FLA function. test_fla_compat.py is the correctness gate: cuDNN (through the shim) must match FLA within FLA's own bf16 noise on the output AND every gradient, calibrated to a fp32 reference — for both the precomputed-input path and the layer's fused path. Skipped unless flash-linear-attention is importable and the device is SM100. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Add KDA (Kimi Delta Attention) to cudnn.fla `chunk_kda` is now accelerated alongside `chunk_gated_delta_rule`: `accelerate_fla()` patches both. cuDNN's `kimi_delta_attention` L2-normalizes q/k in-kernel (fwd+bwd) so that stays fused; its beta-sigmoid and safe-gate transforms are forward-only, so the shim reproduces the channel-wise gate (`g = -exp(A_log)*softplus(g+dt_bias)`, or the safe-gate form) and the beta sigmoid in torch, with autograd flowing to the raw inputs and the A_log/dt_bias parameters. cuDNN KDA is bf16-only here (fp16 produces NaN -> the shim declines fp16 to FLA). The parity test (test_kda_parity_fused) calibrates to a fp32 FLA reference: output and the data gradients match to bf16 noise; the channel-gate parameter gradients (dg / dA_log) sit at ~3x FLA's own error and use a wider slack (they amplify bf16 noise through exp(A_log)). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Add an end-to-end hybrid-model perf-share / support-gap benchmark benchmark/linear_attention/fla_e2e_perf_share.py builds a Qwen3-Next-style hybrid Gated DeltaNet LM (FLA's model: linear-attention layers + a few full-attention layers + SwiGLU MLP), runs cudnn.fla.accelerate_fla(), does a fwd+bwd step, and profiles the CUDA time by category (linear-attn / full-attn / gemm / norm / misc) and by backend (cuDNN / cuBLAS / torch) so a reader can see what fraction of a training step already runs on cuDNN. Full-attention layers use torch SDPA (which dispatches to cuDNN on SM100), so flash-attn is not required. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Address CodeRabbit review - kda: use H (not HO=max(H,HV)) to reshape A_log/dt_bias, matching g's [B,T,H,K] layout; validate element counts and raise _Decline (fall back) instead of crashing on a mismatched GVA layout. - kda: on safe_gate, decline when lower_bound is omitted rather than guessing -5.0; let FLA apply its own default. - fla.restore_fla: set the owning module's attribute back explicitly (handles the case where a third party removed/replaced it), not only the captured references. - benchmark: reject attn_every < 1 (avoid ZeroDivisionError); label the host/overhead gap as approximate (best and profiler totals come from separate runs). - test: give the non-deterministic KDA gate-parameter gradients (dg, dA_log, dt_bias; cross-CTA atomicAdd) a wider slack than the data gradients, removing a ~1/4 flake. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * cudnn.fla: fuse L2-norm/gate/beta in-kernel via the NVIDIA#616 native flags The GDN/KDA shims reproduced FLA's use_*_in_kernel fusions in torch (F.normalize for L2-norm, -exp(A_log)*softplus for the gate, sigmoid for beta) and called the native op with fusion off. NVIDIA#616 added in-kernel L2-norm / beta-sigmoid / safe-gate to gated_delta_net and kimi_delta_attention (fwd+bwd), so the shims now forward the raw inputs and the fusion flags: * gated_delta_net: use_qk_l2norm_in_kernel, use_beta_sigmoid_in_kernel, and safe_gate + a_log/dt_bias (kernel computes -exp(a_log)*softplus(g+dt_bias), matching FLA exactly; a zero dt_bias is synthesized when FLA omits it). beta is io-dtype under the in-kernel sigmoid, else fp32. * kimi_delta_attention: safe_gate + gate_lower_bound + a_log/dt_bias and use_beta_sigmoid_in_kernel forwarded; KDA's non-safe -exp*softplus gate has no native param and stays in torch. Parity (test_fla_compat.py) stays green on the output and every gradient for the plain and fused-layer paths (bf16 + fp16). Full-fat B200, CUDA-graph kernel time, the FLA GatedDeltaNet layer's fused call: T2048 H16 2.34x (was 1.94x, small-T instability gone), T4096 2.87x, bs4 T2048 2.47x. The 0.77x full-layer regression is resolved (1.00x at hidden=2048, projection-bound; 1.27x eager from fewer launches). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * cudnn.fla: decline all non-bf16 KDA inputs, not just fp16 CodeRabbit: the KDA fast path gated only torch.float16 and still routed fp32 to the bf16-only kimi_delta_attention. Gate on q.dtype != torch.bfloat16 so fp32 (and any non-bf16) falls back to FLA transparently. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * Drop the e2e perf-share benchmark (moved to PR NVIDIA#609) The hybrid-LM perf-share benchmark moves to benchmark/e2e/ in PR NVIDIA#609, next to the cudnn.gemm.ops.swiglu_mlp op it exercises (the MLP GEMMs are the dominant block; linear attention is a small share here). Keeps this PR focused on the cudnn.fla linear-attention drop-in. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> * cudnn.fla: lazily export `fla` from the top-level package `import cudnn; cudnn.fla.accelerate_fla()` now resolves without a separate `import cudnn.fla`, mirroring the existing lazy `jax` / `experimental` branches in `cudnn/__init__.py`'s `__getattr__`. It stays deferred, so `import cudnn` never eagerly imports torch or the FLA shim — the import fires only on attribute access. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
dup and dgate now come from a single multi-output pointwise graph instead of two single-output graphs. cuDNN's tensor-ir engine declines multi-output (it logs "unsupported multi-output fusion"), but another engine serves the graph as one kernel that reads dh/gate/up once instead of twice and computes sigmoid once. Measured B200 M8192 dgrad+dSwiGLU stage: the pointwise drops 561us -> 266us (2.1x), so the stage (nvjet GEMM + pointwise) goes 1441us -> 1146us. End to end through autograd, the full fwd+bwd step moves from ~parity to ~0.96-0.98x a torch autograd MLP (Qwen3.5-27B shape). All 5 L0 tests pass; the two outputs match torch to bf16 noise (rel-L2 dup 0.0, dgate 3.6e-6). The prior docstring claimed a single graph writing both outputs was unsupported; that was a misread of the tensor-ir engine's per-engine decline -- the graph builds (5 plans) and runs as one kernel on cuDNN 9.26. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CUDNN_GEMM_SWIGLU_FROST_BWD now defaults to on (set =0 for the pointwise path). On this dense bf16 shape the FROST fused kernel (dh GEMM + dup/dgate epilogue in one cuTeDSL kernel, dh never materialised to HBM) ties the separate nvjet GEMM + one-kernel pointwise (~1.15ms each, B200 M8192 stage) -- ~1% behind only because its cuTeDSL GEMM trails nvjet. Making it the default keeps it exercised (verified it runs through autograd, not silently falling back) so the GEMM gap can be closed, and the fusion advantage grows as the workload gets pointwise-heavier (fp8 halves the GEMM and adds quant/scale pointwise; MoE grouped GEMMs are smaller and more memory-bound). Falls back to the pointwise path on any FROST exception, so correctness is unchanged; 5/5 L0 tests pass with it on. Handoff for follow-up: HANDOFF_2026-08-19_frost_swiglu_bwd_for_yanqin.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ing) Update the module docstring and _frost_dswiglu docstring to match aaa8bbf: FROST is the default backward stage (set =0 for pointwise), it TIES the one-kernel pointwise on dense bf16 (~1% behind on the cuTeDSL GEMM, not a loss vs the old 2-kernel baseline), tile autotune does not help, and the fusion advantage grows on fp8/MoE. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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cudnn.gemm.ops.swiglu_mlp, a dense BF16 autograd op foron SM100.
gateandup, avoiding two recompute GEMMs.dh = dout @ Wdwith the two-output dSwiGLU epilogue in one FROST kernel, keepingdhon chip. On its supported homogeneous-architecture path, the direct launch runs under the operand's CUDA device context and follows the caller's PyTorch CUDA stream; explicitly unsupported layout, architecture, and optional-dependency cases decline to nvjet + pointwise, while binding, allocation, and launch failures propagate.M128/N256/Kbytes128, cluster2x1, 2-CTA MMA, CLC scheduler. The earlier geometry sweep fixed 1 CTA / cluster1x1, so it did not contain this candidate.requires_grad. Inference, all-frozen, and Wd-only calls use an h-only forward; partial-gradient calls save and compute only what their requested input gradients consume.cudnn.gemm.swiglu_mlpandcudnn.experimental.ops.swiglu_mlp.Performance
Isolated all-gradient MLP: raw Torch, stock FLA, and PR #609
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M=8192, H=5120, I=17408on a full 148-SM B200. All three arms share the exact input, fixed upstream gradient, andWg/Wu/Wdparameter objects. The timed CUDA-event region is a fresh forward plus backward; gradient clearing, loss, optimizer, JIT/autotune, and warmup are excluded. Forty balanced batches use three repeats per arm and retain the per-batch median.GatedMLP(fuse_swiglu=True)swiglu_mlpStock FLA is an optimized baseline, not the literal Torch expression: its gate/up remain separate linears, Triton fuses SiLU + multiply and supplies its backward/recompute path, and the down projection remains separate. At this shape it was
1.01327versus raw eager Torch and won 7/40 paired batches. PR #609 took the FROST route 133 times with zero pointwise fallback. Output and all four gradients matched the raw eager reference within 0.46% relative L2.A separate balanced whole-op campaign split the same MLP into forward and backward: PR #609 was 1.127x in forward, 1.077x in backward, and 1.109x for fresh forward+backward versus eager Torch. It was 1.084x versus the tested default
torch.compile/Inductor configuration, which did not enable CUDA graphs or GEMM max-autotune. These are separate-run ratios; their absolute latencies are not mixed with the three-way table above.For the fused backward stage itself, same-run round-robin p50 was 1014.9 us for the pure 2-CTA FROST GEMM, 1027.1 us for cuDNN nvjet, and 1053.9 us with the dSwiGLU epilogue. The epilogue adds 39.0 us while replacing a separate ~333 us two-output pointwise kernel. SASS reports 80 registers, zero local memory, and no
LDL/STLspill instructions.Selective gradients
The control forces the old all-gradient mask while requesting only the listed leaf gradients.
The mask is fixed from GradMode and
requires_gradat forward time; it cannot infer a narrower target list passed later totorch.autograd.grad.Three-axis attribution in the Qwen3.8 proxy
“True vanilla” here means the unaccelerated Qwen layer-period proxy, not an all-eager-PyTorch implementation. Its
000arm uses stock FLA 0.5.2 GDN, stock FLA 0.5.2GatedMLP(fuse_swiglu=True), and the unforced publictorch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention(..., enable_gqa=True)path. AtB=4, S=2048, Hq/Hkv=20/4, d=256on Torch 2.13/B200, that SDPA call selects PyTorch FlashAttention (ScaledDotProductFlashAttentionBackward0,pytorch_flash::*), not cuDNN. The literal eager Torch MLP above is a separate microbenchmark reference; it is not the model-level000MLP.0incumbent1acceleratedcudnn.flashim, including the packed-QKV compatibility copyGatedMLPcudnn.gemm.ops.swiglu_mlpEmbedding, normalization, RoPE, Q/K/V and O projections, LM head, loss, and proxy shape are common. Combined timings therefore measure the cuDNN software stack; only the M-axis saving is attributable to this PR. The GDN shim and d256 SDPA route are orthogonal features included solely to show stack-level composition; neither is implemented by nor required for #609.
benchmark/e2e/Qwen3.8/run_model.pyfollows the published Qwen3.8-27B config at the kernel-relevant dimensions:H=5120,I=17408, BF16, batch 4, sequence 2048 (M=8192for each MLP)The FLA full-attention stand-in uses 20 Q / 4 KV heads at d256 rather than Qwen's gated 24 Q / 4 KV module. The timed region is model forward + causal-LM loss + backward, excluding optimizer, communication, JIT/autotune, correctness, warmup, and gradient clearing. Forty Williams-balanced batches use three repeats per arm and the per-batch median.
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111/000result is 16.31% lower elapsed time, or 1.195x. The conditional main effects below average each axis over all four contexts within every batch, so interactions are measured rather than multiplying isolated speedups. Shapley savings are mean per-batch attribution values, not module-time shares.An independently attributed true-vanilla CUDA profile gives approximate, mutually exclusive GPU active-time shares of 51.6% for the four MLP blocks, 34.7% for the three GDN blocks, 6.4% for the full-attention block, and 7.2% for LM head/norms/embedding/misc. Generic GEMM kernels account for about 70% of active work, but that view overlaps the module groups because it includes MLP GEMMs, GDN and attention projections, and the LM head.
The GDN arm includes a one-line benchmark-shim compatibility fix that compacts FLA short-conv's strided packed-QKV views before the native kernel; that copy is inside the timed region. It is separate from #609's FROST backward dense-layout admission and is not shipped by this PR. This is a four-layer, reduced-vocabulary shape proxy on one B200 job, not full 64-layer Qwen throughput.
Orthogonal d256 GQA attention result (develop feature, not #609)
At the proxy shape, vanilla Torch selected PyTorch FlashAttention while the FE public op selected cuDNN backend FORT. The FE run requires backend >=9.23 and installs fail-fast sentinels on the older OSS/CuteDSL d256 entry points.
AttentionblockThe block comparison includes the same Q/K/V projections, RoPE, output layout conversion, O projection, and all corresponding gradients in both arms; only the SDPA core changes. Its paired forward and backward ratios were
0.75983and0.63486. The standalone core uses contiguous BHSD tensors and excludes the block's output repack, whereas projected block inputs are strided BHSD views; core latency must not be subtracted from block latency to infer projection cost. Maximum observed BF16 relative L2 was 0.27% for the block outputs/gradients and 0.22% for the standalone core.API and compatibility
x:[..., H]Wg,Wu:[I, H]Wd:[H, I][..., H]nn.Linearweights are consumed through strided transpose views; no transpose copiesWdviews fall back to nvjet + pointwise without being reinterpreteddoutand restoredgate/uptensors are normalized to dense layout before the backward descriptor boundaryCUDNN_GEMM_SWIGLU_FROST_BWD=0forces the separate nvjet GEMM + pointwise pathTesting
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Coverage includes output/all four gradients versus Torch, sum-loss/expanded-gradient handling, FROST-versus-pointwise backward, the 1-CTA and 2-CTA strategies, single-input and weights-only gradients, no-grad/inference/all-frozen inputs, h-only/full cache switching, saved-tensor counts, non-contiguous saved-tensor restoration, square-transposed
Wdfallback, misaligned-view decline, typed-fallback versus runtime-error propagation, non-default-stream CUDA Graph capture/replay, homogeneous non-current-device execution, mixed-device rejection, both checkpoint modes, and one-kernel forward launch counts for both output signatures.Latest mirror pipeline after the correctness closeout: 63664942 — success. All 26 required jobs passed; Blackwell Python dev/release each reported 4826 passed / 249 skipped, and FROST SM100 GEMM reported 5805 passed / 2995 skipped. The sole failed job was the expected allow-failure
guardwords_scan.For the three-axis proxy, all eight arms passed the multi-layer BF16 composition diagnostic, and route counters matched exactly: 1984 FROST dSwiGLU calls with zero pointwise fallback and 496 calls to each full-attention backend. Focused op/block comparisons are the primary numerical gates. The exact attention block matched within 0.27% relative L2 across output, input gradient, and Q/K/V/O weight gradients; the standalone core matched within 0.22% across output and dQ/dK/dV. The packed-QKV GDN shim also passed its focused forward/backward parity test on B200.
Related issues
Related to #591 / #589, #612, and #626. No functional dependency.