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perf(pt): fuse rotate+mix backward segment reduction (DP_ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSED_INFER) - #6057
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…FUSED_INFER) Opt-in (default off) via DP_ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSED_INFER. The SO(2) rotate+mix backward currently writes the per-edge dense node gradient gxe (E, D, C_wide) to HBM and reads it back in segment_sum. The fused kernel gives each source node's CSR segment to one program, recomputes the per-edge rotation backward in registers (same math as the edge-block kernel), and accumulates the node gradient on chip, so gxe is never materialized. Measured on the SeZM N=4096 eval workload (RTX 5090, torch 2.12.1+cu130, DP_COMPILE_INFER=1): per-eval 153.5 -> 149.0 ms (-2.9%), eliminating a ~2.6 GB transient allocation and ~5.3 GB/frame of HBM round-trip. Peak VRAM is unchanged at this workload (the eliminated transient does not coincide with the frame's peak allocation). grad_wigner/grad_kc keep the unfused kernel's per-edge math (fp32 rounding agreement); grad_x changes its per-segment accumulation order (fp32 rounding agreement). Requires rank <= 1 like the edge-block variant; other shapes keep the unfused path. Tests: TestSeZMTritonRotMixBwdFused, 3 passed / 4 subtests.
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- Around line 4198-4213: Update _TritonRotateMix to save explicit module
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Reviewed the three-file change at this exact head, its CSR callers, the unfused backward/reference formulas, and the existing review. The first-order indexing and reduction math look consistent, but the existing higher-order-autograd issue is a merge blocker.
I independently traced the issue already reported at #6057 (comment), so I am not adding a duplicate inline thread. SO2Convolution binds _TritonRotateMix for training when triton_train_level >= 1 and hidden_channels >= 128. _rotate_mix_backward then selects the new operator solely from the flag and rank <= 1. The new operator registers a fake implementation but no autograd formula, while the replaced backward and segment-sum operators both have formulas for the next derivative. Enabling the advertised inference flag can therefore route force-loss/higher-order differentiation into an operator without that support. Preserve the supported path for those callers, or implement and test the fused operator's higher-order formula; the documentation currently promises training is unaffected.
Additional validation: I replayed the exact new kernel body through a NumPy shim against independent dense first-order formulas for 24 cases: ranks 0/1, lmax 1–4, one/two focuses, padded channel lanes, and empty, isolated, short, chunk-tail and highly uneven CSR segments. All three gradients agreed within the replay's fp32 tolerances, with no masked out-of-bounds accesses. I also ran the exact flag-parser test in isolation. This checks arithmetic/indexing only; it does not establish Triton compilation, GPU numerics, autograd, or performance.
The committed tests cover fp32 first-order parity and dispatch, but not create_graph=True/double backward, non-power-of-two channel widths, or the rank>1 fallback. Adding higher-order coverage with the flag enabled is important for the blocker above. The pure environment-parser test can also run outside the CUDA-gated class.
At 12:02 UTC, the exact-head test/build/CodeQL workflows are action_required and provide no independent execution evidence. No local PyTorch/CUDA/Triton runtime was available, and I did not reproduce the reported performance measurements.
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Review finding (PR deepmodeling#6057): the Triton rotate+mix path also binds for training (triton_train_level >= 1 with wide channels), and the fused operator registers only a fake implementation with no next-derivative formula, while the unfused backward and segment-sum operators carry formulas for the next derivative. Selecting the fused operator on the flag alone could therefore route force-loss / create_graph differentiation into the unsupported operator. The backward now engages the fused path only when no higher-order gradient graph is being built (torch.is_grad_enabled() is False inside the backward); create_graph callers keep the supported unfused pair. The gate docstring no longer claims the path is inference-only. Tests: higher-order backward with the flag on (create_graph=True twice, compares the second-order results across flag settings), rank>1 fallback agreement (with a warm-up call: the rank>1 per-edge chain has a first-call-vs-steady-state value difference on current master, reproduced without this change), and the env-flag parser moved out of the CUDA-gated class.
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Addressed in 6b2e7d7, taking the "preserve the supported path" option:
One upstream observation found while testing this (not caused by this change; happy to file a separate issue): on current master the rank>1 per-edge rotate+mix backward returns a different value on its first invocation than on every subsequent one (steady-state calls are bitwise identical after that; reproduced with a minimal script on 5b9fe07 without this PR). The production rank<=1 block path does not show this. The new rank>1 test warms up once and documents it.
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Reviewed only 3b3e937..6b2e7d7 and the relevant existing operator/fixture contracts. The previous higher-order-autograd blocker is fixed at the dispatch boundary: create_graph=True retains the backward + segment-sum pair with their registered next-derivative formulas. The revised documentation accurately permits ordinary first-order training backward, and the parser test is now outside the CUDA-gated class.
One new blocking defect is attached inline: the added rank-2 fallback test still receives rank-1-sized buffers from _inputs. This produces out-of-bounds kernel reads and a too-small grad_kc output for the kernel's writes. A warm-up does not make that test valid, and the first-call difference should be reassessed using correctly shaped buffers before attributing it to current master.
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- Executed the exact _rotate_mix_backward body with call-recording operator doubles across all 12 combinations of flag off/on, rank 0/1/2, and grad mode off/on; every dispatch matched the intended contract.
- Executed the exact test fixture with NumPy allocation doubles, then replayed the unchanged forward/backward kernel bodies with bounds-checking pointer/Triton-language shims. The rank-2 fixture reproduced out-of-bounds cb and kc reads and grad_kc writes. The eager reference's corresponding kc reshape also rejects this element count.
- Inspected the new higher-order test and the unchanged registered second-order path. These local checks are structural/arithmetic checks, not actual PyTorch autograd or GPU execution.
The author's reported five passing GPU tests do not resolve the invalid fixture. Exact-head test/build/CodeQL workflows remain action_required at 13:04 UTC, so no independent CI execution is available yet.
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[P1] Allocate rank-2-sized buffers before calling the kernels
_inputs only distinguishes rank == 0 from nonzero rank. For these arguments it returns kc with shape (20000, 25) and cb with shape (1, 64), but rank=2 requires (20000, 50) (or an equivalent trailing rank dimension) and (2, 64). The generic forward kernel loads cb[r * CW + chan] and kc[edge * KSZ * rank + ...]; both exceed these allocations. Worse, _rotate_mix_bwd_impl creates grad_kc with empty_like(kc), and the backward kernel writes the same rank-2 indexing beyond that output. This occurs even though the test only requests x's gradient.
Please make the fixture allocate every requested rank and rerun without treating warm-up as a workaround. A bounds-checked replay of the exact kernel bodies reproduces all three violations. The reported first-call instability cannot be attributed to the upstream kernel from this undersized fixture.
Review finding: _inputs allocated rank-1-sized buffers for rank>1 (kc (E, KSZ) instead of (E, KSZ*rank), cb (1, C_wide) instead of (rank, C_wide)), so the rank-2 fallback test fed the kernels out-of-bounds reads and a too-small grad_kc. The fixture now sizes both by rank. With correctly shaped buffers the previously observed first-call-vs-steady-state difference in that test disappears, so the warm-up call (and the earlier note attributing it to current master) is removed.
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🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCapture this setting during descriptor construction, not module import.
use_rot_mix_bwd_fused()documentsDP_ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSED_INFERas a module-construction-time setting, but_ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSEDis fixed whenso2_value_path.pyis imported. If that import occurs before the variable is set and a laterSO2Convolutionbinds the Triton path, the cache stays false. Eligible backward calls (rank <= 1with gradient recording disabled) then use_rotate_mix_bwd_opand_segment_sum_op, so the opt-in still materializesgxeinstead of using the fused path. Capture and pass the setting from the descriptor-construction path.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 170-172: Remove the import-time capture in _ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSED and
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Scope:6b2e7d76..14c22ce only, plus the already-reviewed kernel buffer contract.
The rank-R fixture blocker from review5442704901 is resolved. kc now has EKSZrank elements, cb has rank*C_wide elements, and empty_like(kc) therefore provides the required grad_kc capacity. Rank0 behavior is unchanged and rank1 has the same shape as before. The invalid warm-up workaround is removed; the author's retraction of the claimed upstream first-call defect correctly distinguishes a bad fixture from a production issue.
I executed the exact updated _inputs body with NumPy allocation doubles for64 combinations of lmax1–4, narrow/wider channels, one/two focuses and rank0/1/2/3, checking all shapes and maximum flattened kc/cb/grad_kc address bounds. All passed. This is fixture/indexing validation, not actual PyTorch autograd, Triton compilation or GPU execution. The author separately reports5 tests/4 subtests on RTX5090 with no warm-up; I did not rerun that device result.
No new blocking defect found in this one-file delta; the higher-order fallback fix from6b2e7d76 remains unchanged. Existing CodeRabbit feedback about import-time versus descriptor-construction-time flag capture is a separate documented concern and is not duplicated inline here. Exact-head test/build/CodeQL workflows remain action_required, so no CI approval or blanket device qualification is implied. No code, branch, CI, auto-merge or merge action performed.
…import Follow-up to the review note on flag-capture timing: the repository convention for these switches is construction/call time, not module import. The backward now calls use_rot_mix_bwd_fused() directly (one environment lookup per backward invocation; a compiled graph still bakes in the value read at trace time), the import-time module constant is removed, and the gate docstring documents the timing. Tests flip the environment variable instead of the removed module constant.
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Reviewed delta 14c22ce → b1ec712, plus its backward dispatch context. No new blocking defect found.
Calling use_rot_mix_bwd_fused() inside backward resolves import-time capture. The rank <= 1 and not torch.is_grad_enabled() guards are preserved, so higher-order differentiation retains the supported unfused path. Updated tests change the environment after forward and restore it in finally blocks. Compiled graphs still use the value observed during tracing; this change does not claim dynamic retracing of an existing graph.
Independent focused validation: all three files pass syntax checks; eight cases exercise the exact environment parser; the exact backward body passes all 12 flag × rank 0/1/2 × grad-mode combinations with recording operator doubles, including gradient return slots and channel-basis dispatch. This checks source dispatch, not actual PyTorch autograd, Triton compilation, GPU numerics or compiled-graph capture. The prior rank-fixture and higher-order findings remain resolved; they were not re-reviewed or duplicated.
At this check, seven build/test/CodeQL workflows remain action_required; pre-commit passes and RTD fails. No CI activation, source changes or merge action was performed. Minor prose still referring to import capture/the removed constant can be updated separately.
The higher-order-backward test still referenced _ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSED, a module constant that no longer exists; name the environment variable instead.
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2174-2215: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAssert the selected backward helper.
The rank-1, first-order call is eligible for the fused branch, but this test only compares outputs. An enabled call that incorrectly uses
_rotate_mix_bwd_opcan still pass because the direct helper test already establishes numerical agreement between the fused and unfused implementations. Assert that_rotate_mix_bwd_fused_opis called only when the flag is enabled.Suggested fix
from deepmd.pt_expt.kernels.triton.sezm import so2_value_path as vp + from unittest import mock ... os.environ["DP_ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSED_INFER"] = "1" if flag else "0" try: - grads[flag] = torch.autograd.grad( - out, [xg, wg, kg], grad_u, retain_graph=True - ) + with mock.patch.object( + vp, + "_rotate_mix_bwd_fused_op", + wraps=vp._rotate_mix_bwd_fused_op, + ) as fused: + grads[flag] = torch.autograd.grad( + out, [xg, wg, kg], grad_u, retain_graph=True + ) + self.assertEqual(fused.call_count, 1 if flag else 0) finally:🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Thanks for the fused backward. The kernel math matches the edge-block and per-edge kernels and the eager reference. I also ran the fused kernel against the unfused kernels under the Triton CPU interpreter, in fp32, for rank 0 and rank 1, including non-power-of-two C_wide, an isolated node, and a segment that crosses a BLOCK_E boundary. Against the edge-block kernel, gw and gkc were bitwise equal and gx differed by about 1e-7 relative. Against an fp64 reference, gx and gkc were within about 2e-7 relative.
One inline note on test coverage is below; otherwise this looks good to me.
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All four cases use a power-of-two C_wide (32, 32, 128, 64), so the kernel's PADDED = CP != CW branch (masked channel lanes, chan_c clamping, the em mask that combines edge and channel, and the chan < CW store mask) never runs in this test. channels is a free config value, so a C_wide such as 48 or 96 takes that branch in practice. Could you add one non-power-of-two case, e.g. (2, 24, 2, 1) (C_wide = 48) and a rank-0 one such as (1, 40, 1, 0)? (A side note on the comment: (3, 64, 2, 1) gives C_wide = 128, not 64.)
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Thank you for the thorough verification — including the CPU-interpreter cross-check, that is more coverage than we had. Addressed in 36e63b0:
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I reviewed the exact head. The existing rank-2 fixture finding remains a correctness blocker because the test allocates undersized kc/cb/grad_kc buffers for the kernel's indexing. Please fix that fixture, cover a non-power-of-two C_wide case, remove the unused cmask warning, and rerun the failing documentation check.
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I reviewed the exact head. The existing rank-2 fixture finding remains a correctness blocker because the test allocates undersized kc/cb/grad_kc buffers for the kernel's indexing. Please fix that fixture, cover a non-power-of-two C_wide case, remove the unused cmask warning, and rerun the failing documentation check.
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Reviewed 39440fd6f1ea5988d5aba3edc57fd004ea5ea38e. Eliminating the per-edge gxe materialization by accumulating node gradients inside the source-segmented backward is a meaningful optimization. The current integration and regression checks need changes before merge.
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Remove the new public micro-switch and use the existing level contract.
DP_ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSED_INFERshould not be added to the public interface. Do not replace it with another environment variable or introduce a new acceleration level. First determine whether the optimization can meet the existing level-1 universal-kernel contract; if so, implement it there. Do not assume every new fused kernel belongs to level 2. If hardware/shape-dependent table selection is actually required, integrate it into level 2 and include the freeze-time autotuning/registration path in this PR, with correctness and performance/configuration evidence from hardware available to the author. Precomputed entries for inaccessible GPUs are not required. The fixed configuration alone does not establish either universal profitability or the need for level 2. Also preserve the existing inference/training boundary: the shared backward currently reads this inference-named flag during ordinary first-order training too. -
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Share the per-edge rotation/mixer derivative calculations between the new source-segmented kernel and the existing edge-block kernel where their mathematical contracts coincide; retain only genuinely different scheduling/reduction code. Validate that consolidation preserves correctness and performance rather than introducing a wrapper-heavy abstraction. There is also a direct, uncomplicated duplication in the CPU fallback: the counts/repeat-interleave/index-add sequence already exists in_segment_sum_impland should be reused. Maintainability is a merge criterion, not optional polish. -
Restore a meaningful Wigner-gradient assertion instead of labeling the comparison an upstream defect.
The new rank-2 branch computesgw_ebut checks only thatgw_refis finite. The kernel returns structural block-diagonal Wigner gradients, whereas the dense reference also returns off-block entries. This same file already masks the comparison to the structural blocks. In a small rank-2 CPU-interpreter replay of the exact kernel, the full-matrix discrepancy was approximately 0.69 entirely on those off-block entries, while the structural-block maximum error was approximately 1.5e-7. That does not support the current upstream-bug attribution. Compare the promised gradient region numerically and remove the unsupported explanation;isfinite()would also accept an incorrect all-zero result. This observation does not rule out unrelated GPU-specific defects. -
Make the tests target their contracts with less redundant work.
The dispatch checks need not repeatedly run the shared 20,000-edge workload. Use small deterministic topology covering isolated nodes, short segments, a segment crossingBLOCK_E=8, and padded channels. Assert the selected helper directly:test_autograd_branch_follows_env_flagcurrently compares only outputs, so always choosing the unfused path could still pass. Reuse existing numerical/higher-order coverage and remove the parser tests together with the new switch. Keep production-scale performance validation outside ordinary GPU CI.
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Small CPU-interpreter checks covered the rank-0/rank-1 fused kernels with padded channels, isolated nodes and a chunk tail, plus the rank-2 unfused reference comparison. Twelve flag/rank/grad-mode dispatch combinations passed with recording operator doubles. Ruff and diff whitespace checks passed. CUDA was hidden and remained uninitialized: this review does not claim GPU code-generation, performance or full higher-order validation.
The old rank-2 buffer-size and missing padded-channel findings have been addressed in this head and are not being raised again.
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Thank you for the careful re-review — particularly the structural-block analysis, which corrects my earlier attribution. All four items are addressed in 4a37e7f:
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Reviewed the delta 39440fd → 4a37e7f, with the forward-dispatch integration context. The public micro-switch/parser is removed, the CPU fallback now reuses _segment_sum_impl, and the rank-2 Wigner assertion compares the promised structural blocks numerically. The old buffer-size/padded-channel findings are not being raised again.
One remaining integration defect in the new level gate is detailed inline: backward rereads the environment instead of retaining the level that selected forward.
The switch removal also leaves the existing dispatch-coverage request unaddressed in a concrete new way: test_autograd_branch_follows_env_flag (lines 2219–2237), test_higher_order_backward_preserved_with_flag_on (2272–2273), and test_rank_above_one_falls_back (2315–2316) still toggle DP_ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSED_INFER, which production no longer reads. At the real levels' default zero, both iterations take the unfused path; the rank/higher-order tests therefore do not demonstrate their exclusion guards with fusion otherwise enabled. Retarget these checks to the supported level/forward configuration and assert which backward helper runs. The separate direct fused-kernel numerical test still provides its own coverage. This supplements the existing review request rather than opening another duplicate test thread.
Verification: exact-source Python-function replay with operator doubles reproduced the construction/ambient-level discrepancy for evaluation and training, and all 12 deleted-flag × rank × grad-mode combinations used the same unfused route at default levels. No Torch/Triton execution, CUDA compilation, numerical or performance result is claimed. The seven current-head Actions workflows require approval and have not executed. OutisLi's broader consolidation/qualification review remains for its original reviewer; this is not an overall approval.
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[P2] Retain the level that selected the forward path
The new condition rereads ambient environment variables, but SO2 construction stores triton_infer_level/triton_train_level and _active_triton_level(module) selects those stored values for forward (deepmd/pt_expt/descriptor/dpa4_nn/so2.py:52–70,190–191,391–400). Construct a supported module with DP_TRITON_INFER=1 inside a temporary environment, restore the default environment, then evaluate it: forward still selects Triton at its captured level 1, while this backward reads 0/0 and silently takes the unfused backward plus segment sum. The analogous training-level construction has the same discrepancy. Consequently the level-1 fused optimization disappears for an already-configured model, contrary to the stated forward/backward contract.
Please propagate/capture the selected configuration for backward, or use an operator boundary that already guarantees the required forward eligibility, instead of rereading unrelated ambient levels. Add a regression that constructs under a temporary level setting and executes after that scope exits. Exact-source dispatch replay confirms the routing discrepancy; this is not a claim of wrong numerical gradients.
The fused backward reread the ambient DP_TRITON_INFER/DP_TRITON_TRAIN, so a module constructed under level 1 whose environment was later restored kept its Triton forward but silently fell back to the unfused backward plus segment sum. The governing level now travels as an explicit operator argument from the construction-bound wrappers (the per-block level captured at construction, following the module's current train/eval mode) and reaches the backward through the autograd context, retaining exactly the selection the forward made. The three tests that still toggled the deleted DP_ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSED_INFER switch are retargeted to the level argument with a counting stand-in asserting which backward helper runs, and a new regression test covers the construction-then-env-restore scenario end to end.
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Addressed in b10b427 — thank you for the level-lifecycle finding. Retaining the forward's selection. The fused backward no longer reads the ambient environment. The governing level now travels as an explicit trailing argument of The stale flag tests. Full |
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Reviewed only the delta 4a37e7f → 158e77e and its forward-dispatch integration. The prior level-lifecycle finding is addressed: both construction-bound wrappers pass the current mode's captured level, setup_context retains it, and backward uses that value rather than the ambient environment. The removed-switch tests now target the actual level argument and count fused helper calls. Those previous findings are not being raised again.
There is one new test-isolation defect detailed inline: the new checks permanently delete both configured Triton levels from the test process. Please scope the environment override and restore it even on failure.
Verification: 36 exact-source setup_context/backward controls (levels 0/1/2 × ranks 0/1/2 × first/higher-order mode × two ambient configurations) passed with recording operator doubles, including the updated 11-input gradient return. An exact-method replay with an intentionally failing fixture reproduced the environment leak. These are bounded Python control-flow checks, not Torch/Triton or GPU execution. The author's reported 42 passes / 1 pre-existing skip are supplementary evidence; I did not rerun them. Seven substantive current-head Actions workflows are action_required and have not executed. The author's level-3 failures remain disclosed as pre-existing, not validated here. This incremental review does not supersede the other reviewer's broader consolidation/performance-contract requests.
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[P2] Restore the configured levels after these tests
This unconditional pop (and the same loop in test_backward_retains_construction_level_across_env_restore at lines 2392–2393) permanently removes DP_TRITON_INFER and DP_TRITON_TRAIN from the process. This class has no environment-restoring setUp/tearDown or cleanup. When the suite is launched with nonzero levels, every subsequently constructed model in the same process sees the default level zero instead, silently changing which kernels later tests exercise; an assertion/fixture failure leaks the change too. The old tests restored their switch in finally, so this is new in the delta. Use a scoped mock.patch.dict/monkeypatch or addCleanup to restore the original environment on both success and failure. I reproduced the leak by invoking the exact new test method with initial levels 3/2 and an intentionally failing _inputs fixture.
Motivation
The SO(2) rotate+mix backward materializes the per-edge dense node
gradient
gxe(E, D, C_wide)to HBM and reads it straight back insezm_triton::segment_sum. At the SeZM N=4096 eval workload(E ~ 646k, C_wide = 64) that is a ~2.6 GB transient allocation and
~5.3 GB/frame of HBM round-trip for a reduction.
Change
Opt-in via
DP_ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSED_INFER(default OFF, read when thebackward runs via
use_rot_mix_bwd_fused(), matching the repository'sconvention of construction/call-time reads for these switches).
When enabled, and
rank <= 1(the same regime as the edge-blockkernel), a single source-segmented kernel replaces the pair: one
program per source node walks its CSR segment (
src_order/src_rowptr, which the forward already saves for the backward),recomputes the per-edge rotation backward in registers with exactly the
edge-block kernel's math, and accumulates the node gradient on chip --
gxenever exists.grad_wigner/grad_kckeep the unfused kernel's per-edge math(fp32-rounding agreement; instruction scheduling differs);
grad_xchanges its per-segment accumulation order (chunked
tl.sum), so italso agrees at fp32-rounding level. Other shapes keep the unfused
path.
Measurements
SeZM model, N=4096 atoms (~646k edges), RTX 5090, torch 2.12.1+cu130,
DP_COMPILE_INFER=1, throughput mode (16 evals, P50):Peak VRAM is unchanged at this workload: the eliminated transient does
not coincide with the frame's peak allocation; what it removes is the
allocation itself and the HBM round-trip.
Accuracy (same input, flag off vs on, compiled eval): energy rel diff
1.5e-10; max force diff 4.7e-6 with max |f| ~ 3.9 (fp32 rounding level,
consistent with the accumulation-order change).
Tests
New
TestSeZMTritonRotMixBwdFusedintest_descriptor_sezm_triton.py:3 passed / 4 subtests -- fused-vs-unfused cross-check over
(lmax, channels, n_focus, rank) including the production shape
(3, 32, 2, 1), autograd backward dispatch agreement at fp32-rounding
tolerance, and the env-flag default.
Summary by CodeRabbit
DP_ROT_MIX_BWD_FUSED_INFER=1.