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What
The six-way gather in one launch, indexed by timestep_index * 3 + token_tag. It is bitwise equal to diffusers' six index_select calls. Out-of-range tags or timesteps raise
(probes H2/H3); they are never clamped.
A deterministic backward: an FP32 segmented sum in stable sorted order. It replaces index_select's atomic BF16 scatter-add.
H3AdaLNModulationCudaOp: projection and gather as one autograd node. The forward is
bitwise equal to running them separately. In the backward, the table gradient stays FP32
instead of being rounded to BF16 at the op boundary.
The end-to-end test now covers the whole chain, forward and backward:
timestep → MLP → projection → gather.
Prior art & reuse decision
Measured with tools/validation/models/h3_prior_art.py, committed in this stack. adaln_row_gather.json was written from a clean tree at 604c134c on an otherwise idle B200, and the operator doc's "Existing implementations" section has the figure and the command. Batch invariance is bitwise, for the forward, the per-row gradients and repeatability of every table and parameter gradient. It has three checks: every row computed alone vs inside full batches of 64, 257 and 2048 rows over three seeds; the full 131072-token batch vs sub-batches that together cover every row; and a dense batch-size sweep. Errors are max|err| / max|ref| against FP64; latency is the median forward + backward time. Libraries checked: diffusers, SGLang 0.5.21, Liger 0.8.4, Transformer Engine 2.20.2, vLLM 0.30.0 and Megatron-LM 52fbcbc (the training path of Miles and Vime); verl, Miles and Vime have no H3 diffusion operators.
Implementation
Batch-invariant
S = 4097: fwd err / worst grad err / fwd + bwd
S = 32768: fwd err / worst grad err / fwd + bwd
diffusers six index_select calls
no (table / parameter gradients not repeatable)
0.0e+00 / 6.0e-02 / 1381 µs
0.0e+00 / 2.1e-01 / 9753 µs
rl-kernel H3AdaLNRowGatherCudaOp
yes
0.0e+00 / 2.5e-03 / 1106 µs
0.0e+00 / 3.0e-03 / 2776 µs
The forward is a byte copy in both, bitwise equal. The backward differs: index_select accumulates the table gradient with atomics in BF16, so it changes from run to run and loses accuracy (0.21 of the largest gradient at S = 32768). This PR's backward is a deterministic FP32 segmented sum in a stable sorted order: 3.0e-3, and faster (2.8 ms vs 9.8 ms forward + backward at S = 32768). No other candidate exists: SGLang 0.5.21's diffusion kernels define no backward, and Liger 0.8.4 and FLA 0.5.2 have no table-gather op. This PR writes its own backward.#487's evidence shows what this buys downstream: Liger's modulated RMSNorm fed through index_select has non-repeatable table gradients, and fed through this gather it is batch-invariant.
Direct bitwise comparison (2026-10-13). There is no reuse candidate beyond diffusers' six index_select calls. The forward is bitwise identical to them at every S from 1 to 32768. The table gradient matches at S = 1 and differs from S = 257 on, where index_select accumulates it with BF16 atomics and this kernel in a fixed FP32 order.
Direct bitwise comparison
Measured with tools/validation/models/h3_bitwise_reuse.py (committed in #483, merged down the stack), which runs every candidate that h3_prior_art.candidates() defines on identical inputs, with each global batch-invariant mode in its own process, and compares every forward output and leaf gradient byte for byte with diffusers' path and with this kernel. adaln_row_gather.json was written from a clean tree at 62f8009e (python tools/validation/models/h3_bitwise_reuse.py --op adaln_row_gather); the operator doc's "Direct bitwise comparison" section has the figure and the plot command.
Results (B200, T = 3, H = 5376, BF16, pinned weights)
RL-Kernel CUDA
diffusers (index_select)
forward, S = 131072
1.26 ms (6.6 TB/s write)
2.40 ms
backward, S = 131072
6.82 ms
34.8 ms
forward bitwise equal to diffusers (S = 1 … 32768)
yes
n/a
op backward: repeat-bitwise / correctly rounded
yes / 99.99931%
no / 7.8%
Whole chain (S ≥ 257): 72 parameter gradients across 12 cases.
separate ops
fused
diffusers
repeat-bitwise
72 / 72
72 / 72
0 / 72
time-embedder gradient error / golden max
5e-4 to 2e-3
7e-7 to 5e-6
4e-3 to 1e-1 (varies run to run)
AdaLN BF16 gradients correctly rounded, worst
59.8%
99.6%
1.6%
The data is in reports/experiments/h3-adaln-row-gather-b200/{report,chain_replay}.json, written from clean trees at a6c85451 (report.json, with the seeded op-backward check) and 61d23ade (chain_replay.json), regenerated 2026-10-13 after the projection golden fix. The time-embedder and AdaLN gradient rows above come from the earlier replay; their CUDA columns are deterministic and unchanged, and the diffusers column varies from run to run.
Status
Seeded the evidence report's timing inputs (2553881b). _gather_perf drew its table rows and upstream gradients from the process's default CUDA generator; they are now seeded, like the op-backward check (a6c85451). No reported accuracy field depends on them, so the committed report is unchanged.
Seeded the row-gather op-backward check (a6c85451, evidence cbbfaedc). _gather_accuracy in h3_report.py took its rows and upstream gradients from the process's default CUDA generator. Its fraction was reproducible per runner version but depended on how many draws the runner made before it (99.99999% here, 99.99965% and 99.99931% on [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] h3_rmsnorm: RMSNorm with fused AdaLN modulation (RFC #420 stack 5/10) #487's newer runner). Both draws now come from a seeded generator, and three runs give the same CUDA fraction, 99.99931%. report.json was regenerated from a clean tree at a6c85451; every other CUDA field and pass/fail flag is unchanged.
Evidence regenerated after the projection golden fix (ecb30e25). report.json and chain_replay.json were rewritten from a clean tree at 61d23ade on an idle B200, after [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_projection_3mod: three-modality AdaLN projection (RFC #420 stack 3/10) #485's forward_fp32 started rounding the FP32 SiLU. Every CUDA field and every pass/fail flag matches the previous files. Only timings and the diffusers backward errors, which vary from run to run, moved.
Fixed: flaky FP32 table-gradient test (62f8009e). test_backward_keeps_table_gradient_fp32 drew temb unseeded and failed about 1 run in 30. The kernel is deterministic (150 repeats bitwise equal). The golden rounded an FP64 SiLU to BF16 where the kernel and diffusers round the FP32 SiLU; near a BF16 tie the two differ for 1–2 of the 8064 activations, which shifts a whole dW column (10 of 300 draws fell below 0.9999). The golden now rounds F.silu(temb.float()) and temb is seeded. Over 300 draws the correctly-rounded fraction is 0.999981–0.999982 and the d_temb error is at most 2.0e-6 (limits 0.9999 and 1e-5).
Added: existing-implementation comparison, committed (tools/validation/models/h3_prior_art.py; report and figure for this op in reports/experiments/h3-prior-art-b200). Since 1438c4c the branch gained only that runner, its evidence and the merges carrying them through the stack (no change outside docs/ and those scripts). See Prior art.
Added: per-row batch-invariance tests (e880a10). A position's six gathered rows are bitwise the same whichever other positions share the call: a single position, a span, the tail, or a shuffled repacking. A table row's gradient from the full packing equals the gradient from a packing of only that row's own positions. With about 455 positions per row and 256-position tiles, this test crosses tile boundaries; it holds because each row's segment is tiled on its own.
Merged [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_projection_3mod: three-modality AdaLN projection (RFC #420 stack 3/10) #485's latest review fixes (1438c4c). tools/validation/models/h3_chain_replay.py --stages now accepts any selection of known stages: the stages up to the last one requested run automatically, only the requested ones are reported, and the evidence gains executed_stages. Unknown stages are still rejected before any CUDA check, and --backward still needs the whole chain.
2026-10-23: history rewritten. Measurement outputs (JSON, figures, audit files) were removed from every branch and live on pr_assets (see the evidence note at the top), and all commits got a Signed-off-by trailer. Commit hashes in this body, including the clean-tree commit of the measurement, are the rewritten ones; the ZIPs and JSON files on pr_assets still carry the pre-rewrite hashes.
2026-10-13: fast-math guard (from the #483 review). KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1 adds --use_fast_math to the whole _C build, which approximates expf/sinf/cosf/rsqrtf/division and flushes denormals. Before the fix a fast-math build of the top of the stack failed 33 H3 tests (the timestep_sinusoid_h3 and h3_rmsnorm bitwise tests and the chain/block tests built on them). nvcc 13 defines no fast-math macro, so the guard is in the build: every csrc/cuda/h3 source is listed in H3_BITWISE_SOURCES and left out of fast-math builds, the bindings are gated on KERNEL_ALIGN_WITH_H3_KERNELS, dispatch falls back to the PyTorch references, and tests that assert CUDA dispatch skip through require_h3_kernels. On this branch: merge 92437184 (adds adaln_row_gather.cu) and b52916ac (backward e2e skip). Results for both builds are under Tests.
2026-10-10: repository refactor. Merged upstream test-h3@16b81175874e (notice): H3 CUDA code moved to rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3, references to rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3, the harness to rl_engine/validation/models, with registration, build, tests, tools, docs and tools/migration/layout.json updated. Native arithmetic is unchanged; pinned evidence keeps its original commit metadata.
Earlier test runs, superseded by Tests below: after the refactor merge (2× B200): 274 passed, 0 skipped; with the fast-math guard (2× B200, passed / skipped / failed): default 287 / 8 / 0, fast-math 123 / 172 / 0.
Pre-refactor validation (historical, before 2026-10-10)
python -m pytest tests/models/minimax_h3 -v # all ops + fused + end to end (fwd + bwd)
python -m pytest tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_adaln_row_gather.py -k "invariant or independent" -v # per-row BI
python tools/validation/operators/check_operator.py --op adaln_row_gather --candidate cuda --device cuda --dtype bf16 --batch 3 --seq 1365 --normalized-dim 5376 --check-grad
python tools/validation/models/h3_chain_replay.py --timesteps 1,2,3,4 --seq-lens 3,257,4097,32768 --backward --out chain_replay.json
python tools/validation/models/h3_evidence.py --op adaln_row_gather --out report.json && python tools/validation/models/plot_h3_evidence.py report.json
Check
Result
tests/models/minimax_h3 at 1438c4c, two B200s visible
256 passed, 0 skipped
tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_adaln_row_gather.py at e880a10
54 passed, including the two new per-row BI tests
tests/test_ws1_gtest_gpu.py at 1438c4c
9 passed
Original implementation: gtest --check-grad, all 4 ops × CUDA/PyTorch
8 / 8 passed
Original implementation: full suite
3072 passed; the 19 failures and 1 collection error all occur on unmodified test-h3 too
The repository's CI workflows (ci.yml, gpu-ci.yml) only run on PRs to main or test, so on test-h3 only the DCO and CodeRabbit checks run. The results above come from local runs on B200s.
Tests
Measured at commit 2553881b, an earlier head of this PR (later commits are listed under History and these runs were not repeated for the current head), 2× B200, pinned MiniMax-H3@42ed227 weights; each build compiled from a clean checkout of that commit:
On this PR the GitHub checks are DCO and CodeRabbit only (the CPU lint/unit/docs workflow for test-h3 arrives with #586), so the GPU results above are the test evidence.
Scope / Known limitations
CUDA only. The ROCm column stays open. ROCm dispatches the PyTorch reference, whose backward
for this op is also deterministic. The six (S, H) outputs are materialised as in diffusers.
Fusing them into their consumers belongs to the next rows (h3_rmsnorm, adaln_gate_residual).
.coderabbit.yaml is not part of this operator. The branch carries the test-h3 CodeRabbit auto-review config from commits d113891 and 5c79216. The file is byte-identical to #490's, so it drops out of this diff once #490 merges into test-h3.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Added MiniMax-H3 conditioning operators for sinusoidal timestep features, timestep MLPs, AdaLN projection, and row gathering, with CUDA acceleration where supported and PyTorch reference implementations.
Added fused AdaLN modulation and automatic backend selection, with reference implementations on other platforms.
Added tools to benchmark, validate, and visualize operator accuracy and performance, and to prepare and verify model weights.
Improvements
Added input validation and deterministic gradient calculations for supported conditioning operations.
Documentation
Added operator guides covering usage, supported backends, input requirements, and known limitations.
Results (H100 / Hopper)
Measured on 4 x NVIDIA H100 80GB (sm90), driver 580, CUDA 13.0.88, torch 2.13.0+cu130, pinned MiniMax-H3@42ed227, clean tree at 1a8e7b26. Evidence files live on the pr_assets branch under pr486/reports/experiments/*-h100/.
default build: 293 passed, 2 skipped in 60.10s (0:01:00)
KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1 build: 123 passed, 172 skipped in 6.92s (the fast-math build omits the H3 CUDA sources to keep bitwise parity, so H3 CUDA tests skip there)
Bitwise vs diffusers: every case and tensor matches the B200 result (same equal / not-equal outcome on the shared diffusers and rl_kernel entries).
Backward (H100): gradients of the op on identical inputs and upstream gradients, each run twice, sizes 1, 257, 4097, 32768. The kernel gradient is bitwise repeatable for every gradient at every size; native diffusers is not repeatable for table (atomic index_select backward). Errors are max|err| / max|ref| against an FP64 autograd of the reference formula at size 4097; "det diffusers" is the same diffusers replay under torch.use_deterministic_algorithms(True).
Repeat check with 30 replays per size (report): native diffusers gives 30 distinct bitwise results for table (spread up to 0.15 of max|grad|) at 32768 rows. These are exactly the gradients fed through index_select; the native backward launches the atomic indexFuncLargeIndex (index_add) kernel, which accumulates BF16 in arrival order. Deterministic diffusers and the kernel give 1 distinct result for every gradient and size; all other gradients are repeatable in all three.
Diffusers-side fix (report): replacing the index_select backward by a stable-sort plus FP32 segmented sum (RowGather, forward unchanged) makes the diffusers replay bitwise repeatable (1 distinct result in 30 runs at every size, native: 30) and brings its error vs FP64 to within about 1.3x of this kernel (10 to 20x below native). It is also repeatable on 4 GPUs for sharded tokens plus all_reduce and for replicated tokens, where native replicas disagree across ranks. It costs about 2 to 3x native backward time at small sizes and about the same at 32768 rows, and does not reproduce this kernel's bits. This is a validation harness, not a change to diffusers.
For the gradients that go through the gather the kernel is about 10 to 30x more accurate than diffusers (native or deterministic): diffusers accumulates BF16 values in a fixed order, the kernel reduces in FP32 in a fixed tree. Element-wise and non-gather gradients are at the same rounding level as diffusers.
RFC RL-Align#420 step 3, row `adaln_row_gather` (stacked on adaln_projection_3mod).
- Forward: one launch gathers all six (S, H) modulation tensors by
timestep_index * 3 + token_tag with 16-byte copies; bitwise equal to
diffusers' six index_select calls. Out-of-range tags or timesteps fail
closed (RFC probes H2/H3), never clamped.
- Backward: deterministic FP32 segmented sum (stable sort by row, fixed
256-position tiles, ordered fold, one cast; no atomics) instead of
index_select's atomic BF16 scatter-add. The PyTorch reference gets an
equally deterministic backward.
- H3AdaLNModulationCudaOp: projection + gather as one autograd node,
bitwise-equal forward, FP32 table gradient into the projection backward.
- Chain replay gains the gather stage and a backward mode (separate,
fused and diffusers chains vs an FP64 golden); the end-to-end test now
covers the whole chain forward and backward.
- Report/figure hooks, registry, gtest (reduction class: the VJP is a
segmented sum), doc.
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…y and figure
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This pull request adds MiniMax-H3 timestep sinusoid, deterministic linear, AdaLN projection, and row-gather operators. It adds PyTorch references, CUDA kernels, dispatch, fused modulation, validation tools, benchmarks, tests, and documentation.
Changes: MiniMax-H3 conditioning operators
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Reference contracts and validation models rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/*, rl_engine/validation/models/*, rl_engine/validation/operators/*
Native CUDA kernels and Python operators csrc/cuda/h3/*, csrc/bindings/ops.cpp, build_tools/extensions.py, rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/*
Adds deterministic CUDA kernels, tile metadata validation, guarded bindings, relaxed-math build gating, CUDA wrappers, autograd paths, and fused AdaLN modulation.
Dispatch, validation, evidence, and documentation rl_engine/runtime/registry.py, tests/models/minimax_h3/*, tools/validation/models/*, docs/operators/h3-*.md, benchmarks/models/*
Adds backend priorities, chain replay, timing and evidence reports, weight preparation, plotting, regression tests, migration mappings, navigation, and operator documentation.
Output-count mismatches can no longer be silently omitted from the bitwise report. No actionable merge-blocking issue remains after normal checks.
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inferred — The demonstrated native exposure is to callers within the Python process. Invalid unchecked addresses could affect that process's CUDA memory or execution context, but the inspected call paths do not establish remote reachability, cross-tenant access, or increased service privileges.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Default wrapper calls enforce semantic index ranges, while direct native forward calls assume valid values. Native backward checks metadata schema and some lengths, but not metadata value bounds or equality with the gradient's device. Ordinary autograd callers construct that metadata internally, limiting the demonstrated exposure of these assumptions.
observed — The weight consumer selects a local cache through RL_KERNEL_H3_WEIGHTS and validates requested tensor shapes and dtypes. It does not authenticate extracted tensor values or compare the producer's revision metadata; pinned provenance therefore depends on trusting the preparation process and local cache ownership.
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Review comments at @csrc/cuda/h3/adaln_row_gather.cu:
- Around line 79-80: Add a device-side bounds assertion in
h3_adaln_row_gather_forward before computing the source pointer, validating the
tag and computed row against modality_num and num_rows. Pass rows.size(0) into
the kernel so direct native calls and calls that skip wrapper checks fail closed
before reading out of bounds.
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…, and an elided gather example
- H3AdaLNModulationCudaOp validated the indices against a stand-in allocated on the indices' own
device, so the device check was always true; the stand-in now sits on temb's device and a mismatch
raises ValueError before the native call (also with check_range=False).
- H3AdaLNModulationCudaOp refuses a pre-SM80 device in __init__ like the projection op, so the
registry falls back to the PyTorch reference.
- The row-gather doc passes all six tensors to gather_chunks instead of an Ellipsis.
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The kernel writes both cos and sin for every (row, k), but the loop is indexed over total = num_timesteps * half while the writes use half-strided offsets out_row[k] and out_row[half + k] where out_row = out + row * 2 * half. That part is consistent; however the check_range contract advertised by the caller (timestep_sinusoid.py passes check_range=False after only a shape/dtype check, see validate_h3_timesteps(..., check_range=False)) means non-finite inputs (NaN/inf) are accepted here and silently produce NaN features, while the docstring (_C.pyi) claims values are checked. Either keep validation on for the CUDA op or document that range validation is the caller's responsibility — the current split lets an unvalidated path through with a misleading error contract.
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Not changed. The native entry point checks the range by default (check_range=True, the docstring and the operator doc say so: it costs one host read-back). check_range=False is the explicit opt-out for callers that already validated t; the Python wrapper only passes it when its own caller does.
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Inconsistency with the two-op path: adaln_projection.py calls det_linear_forward(act, weight, bias, activation=ACT_NONE) explicitly, while the fused op relies on the default. Since this fused op must be bitwise equal to projection+gather, it should pass ACT_NONE explicitly too (and import it). Otherwise a change to the default activation, or a caller/dev reading this in isolation, silently introduces a second SiLU activation and the fused forward diverges from the decomposed path.
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_segment_tiles is sized by the table row count (num_timesteps * H3_MODALITY_NUM), but the gather backward tiles segments of the index built from timestep_indices/token_tags. The row width passed here is H3_ADALN_CHUNKS-wide only if the gather forward's rows argument was the (T*3, 6H) view; here grad_packed is the packed (6, S, H) output. Verify the native h3_adaln_row_gather_backward expects grad_packed in this (6, S, H) layout and num_rows == num_timesteps*H3_MODALITY_NUM; if the backward expects the per-row table width (6H) or a different output layout, the fold here silently produces a mis-shaped/incorrect d_table, corrupting both dw/db and d_temb.
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Not an issue. table is (T, 18H); the rows given to the gather are table.view(-1, 6H), i.e. (3T, 6H), so the gathered gradient (3T, 6H) viewed back as (T, 18H) is the exact inverse of that reshape. The fused backward is compared with the separate ops and the FP64 golden in test_h3_adaln_modulation.py.
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The doc comment and the FP32 op replay claim bitwise equality with diffusers' get_timestep_embedding, but the k-dependent exponent is computed as (neg_log * float(k)) * inv_half, i.e. (-ln(P) * k) / half folded into two __fmul_rns. The torch reference builds -math.log(max_period) * arange(half, dtype=float32) then divides by half as x * (1/half). The reference's first product semantics are preserved, but -math.log(max_period) is rounded to FP32 from a Python double (static_cast<float>(-std::log(max_period))) while torch's TensorIterator uses the double scalar multiplied against an FP32 tensor under opmath, which for a GPU mul keeps the double scalar and rounds only the final product. With max_period non-exactly representable (e.g. 10000.0), float(-ln(10000.0)) * k can differ by 1 ulp from float(-ln(10000.0) * k), which then shifts expf and every cos/sin value. This silently breaks the declared bitwise contract for the op; either compute the product in double and round once, or drop the bitwise claim.
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Not changed. PyTorch evaluates x / half with a scalar divisor as x * (1 / half) in FP32, and -math.log(max_period) as an FP32 scalar times the arange, which is what the kernel does (see the comment above inv_half). Checked against the repo's op-for-op replay of diffusers' get_timestep_embedding (provider_time_proj) on the same inputs (2^20 uniform timesteps, a 100001-point grid and every 997th FP32 bit pattern in [0, 1]): 0 differing elements for num_channels 96, 250, 256, 320 and 1000 (half = 48, 125, 128, 160, 500, i.e. not only powers of two); 212,845,056 to 2,217,136,000 elements per width. A true __fdiv_rn would break that parity.
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Three of the four H3 CUDA backends (H3TimestepMLPCudaOp, H3AdaLNProjectionCudaOp, H3AdaLNRowGatherCudaOp) are now first in the CUDA chain, but unlike H3TimestepSinusoidCudaOp (which raises in __init__ when h3_sinusoid_cuda_available() is false) their modules expose availability helpers (det_linear_available, etc.) without the class constructor verifying they hold. _get_or_create_backend only returns None when import/instantiation raises, so verify each of these CUDA classes raises in __init__ when the extension lacks its H3 binding (e.g. a KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1 build, where all h3_* bindings are compiled out). Otherwise dispatch would select a CUDA op that fails at call time instead of falling back to PYTORCH_H3_*, and test_h3_timestep_falls_back_when_fast_math_build_omits_kernel only covers timestep_sinusoid_h3.
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Verified, no change needed. Every H3 CUDA class checks its binding in __init__ and raises when the extension lacks it (h3_sinusoid_cuda_available, det_linear_available, adaln_row_gather_available, the RMSNorm, gate and final-norm availability helpers), so _get_or_create_backend falls back to PYTORCH_H3_*. test_h3_ops_prefer_cuda_and_fall_back_to_pytorch_reference pins the chains for all H3 ops.
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- _repeat_positions() builds the table row of every flattened position and raises when the row count is
not a whole number of repeats of the index (the native forward already requires it); the backwards of
the stacked ops use it instead of index.repeat(rows // len(index)), which truncates silently.
- The fused modulation passes ACT_NONE to det_linear_forward explicitly, like the projection op.
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_segment_tiles(index, num_rows) is given num_timesteps * H3_MODALITY_NUM as the row count, but index = h3_adaln_indices(timestep_indices, token_tags) has length len(timestep_indices) * <modalities per position> (the packed table has one row per (timestep, modality), not one per timestep). In the sibling adaln_row_gather op the same helper is called with rows.shape[0], i.e. the real number of table rows, and _repeat_positions explicitly requires rows % len(index) == 0. If len(timestep_indices) != num_timesteps * H3_MODALITY_NUM (e.g. an index list that does not cover exactly every (t, m) pair), torch.bincount(index, minlength=num_timesteps * H3_MODALITY_NUM) and the subsequent seg_start/counts indexing operate on the wrong row space, so the FP32 segment sum writes to the wrong rows and the modulation gradients are silently incorrect. Please derive num_rows from the actual index/table row count (matching what _repeat_positions/rows.shape[0] enforce in adaln_row_gather.py) instead of assuming num_timesteps * H3_MODALITY_NUM.
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Not changed. num_timesteps * H3_MODALITY_NUM is the number of rows of the table, not a guess about the index: the projection output is (T, 18H), its view(-1, 6H) has 3T rows by construction, and index (length S, the packed positions) holds values in [0, 3T). _segment_tiles(index, rows) takes the number of table rows (the segment space), which for the standalone gather is rows.shape[0] and here is the same quantity, 3T. _validate_indices range-checks both index tensors against exactly that table when check_range=True. test_backward_keeps_table_gradient_fp32 compares d_temb, dW and db with an FP64 golden (rel. error < 1e-5 for d_temb).
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- Around line 45-51: Update _external_relaxed_math to recognize relaxed-math
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… gather backward without the forward, scan rows once
adaln_row_gather.cu: a small pre-pass kernel (check_tile_metadata in the new csrc/cuda/h3/tile_metadata.cuh, which the
other segment-tile kernels of the stack reuse) checks the tile metadata before anything reads through it: every
sorted position is a position of the sequence, every tile lies inside sorted_pos, and the segment boundaries
are non-decreasing and inside the tile list (including the case of no tiles with a non-trivial seg_first_tile,
where the partial buffer holds one uninitialized row). A stale or short list ends in a device-side assert
instead of an out-of-bounds read. The checks are not made inside the partial and fold kernels: an assert in or
before their loops changes how the compiler schedules the loads and slowed the native backward by 6-12% (and,
inside the loop, by several times); the pre-pass costs about 4 us per call (native backward, idle kernel
timing, min of 400 on an idle B200: 105.4 -> 109.2 us at S = 4097, 662.9 -> 665.8 us at S = 32768,
2578.0 -> 2581.3 us at S = 131072). A seg_first_tile with no boundary at all is a TORCH_CHECK, a table with no rows returns an empty
gradient instead of launching a zero-sized grid, and the forward and backward check the grid.y limit (65535)
for chunks and for the column blocks with a message that names the shape. Tests run corrupted metadata in a
child process and expect the device assert, plus the host checks.
h3_report: the row-gather backward cases build the forward graph in candidate_backward_setup /
provider_backward_setup, so the timed region and the peak memory hold only autograd.backward, which is what
backward_timing_scope = backward_only says. A test pins that every perf case with a timed backward has its
setup. The numbers in docs/operators/h3-adaln-row-gather.md and the B200/H100 reports predate this and still
include the forward pass.
The reference backward (_DeterministicRowGather) takes the positions of all 3T rows from one stable sort and
one host read (positions_by_row) instead of one torch.nonzero scan and sync per row; the sums are over the
same ascending positions, and a test compares the gradient bitwise with the loop it replaces.
adaln_modulation: det_linear_backward_weight skips the bias fold when only the weight needs a gradient (a
test freezes each input in turn and compares the others bitwise). chain_grads zips with strict=True. The
gather_chunks output shape in the doc is (S, 5376), not (3T, 5376).
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The B200 report and figure are regenerated from a clean tree at c416a10 on an otherwise idle GPU (utilization
0% before and after) with the backward cases built by candidate_backward_setup / provider_backward_setup. The
backward columns of the latency table are now backward-only: 1.01 vs 1.30 ms at S = 4097, 1.76 vs 8.00 ms at
S = 32768, 5.59 vs 32.2 ms at S = 131072 (CUDA vs index_select); the peak-memory sentence describes the
backward-only increment. The H100 report and chain_replay.json are not regenerated and still carry the earlier
timing. Links point at the pr_assets commit that holds the new files.
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rmsnorm_modulate.cu: make_modulation rejects a shift/scale table whose row stride is smaller than N (an
expanded or overlapping view is not a table of rows; a view of a wider table, such as table.chunk(2, dim=-1)
with row stride 2N, is still read by its row pitch and a test pins that it is bitwise the copy). The
modulated backward runs the shared tile-metadata pre-pass (tile_metadata.cuh, RL-Align#486) before the segment kernels:
sorted positions, tiles and segment boundaries that do not describe the rows end in a device-side assert
instead of an out-of-bounds read, and the fold launch is skipped for zero segments. N is checked against the
int and grid.y limits of the segment kernels. The column indices of the segment kernels were already int64
in the tile term, so nothing changes there. Tests run corrupted metadata in a child process.
rmsnorm.py (CUDA op): a table that is not made of dense rows (stride(0) < H) is copied before the call, like
mixed layouts; a wider-table view goes through as it is.
Reference: the modulation backward takes the positions of all rows from positions_by_row (one sort and one host
read instead of two torch.nonzero scans per row; a test compares the gradient bitwise with the loop it
replaces). forward_modulated_fp32 takes check_range like forward_modulated. A device mismatch of shift/scale
is a ValueError, as in the other H3 validators; a dtype mismatch stays a TypeError.
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gate_residual.cu: the backward runs the shared tile-metadata pre-pass (tile_metadata.cuh, RL-Align#486) before the
segment kernels, so sorted positions, tiles and segment boundaries that do not describe the rows end in a
device-side assert instead of an out-of-bounds read, including the case of no tiles with a non-trivial
seg_first_tile (the partial buffer then holds one uninitialized row). Host checks: sorted_pos has M entries,
tile_begin and tile_end have the same length, seg_first_tile has at least one entry, and the column blocks fit
grid.y (65535); the fold launch is skipped for zero segments. Native gate backward, idle B200, min of 400:
86.6 -> 90.7 us at S = 4097, 362.7 -> 367.5 us at S = 32768, 1315.0 -> 1319.7 us at S = 131072 (one extra
launch of about 4 us). Tests run corrupted metadata in a child process and the host checks.
gate_residual.py: dy is viewed as the shape of y (validate_h3_gate_residual makes it the residual's shape, so
nothing changes for valid calls) and the saved shapes are named for the tensor they belong to.
Reference: the gate gradient takes the positions of all rows from positions_by_row (one sort and one host read
instead of one torch.nonzero scan and sync per row); a test compares the gradient bitwise with the loop it
replaces.
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CUDA_KERNEL_ASSERT is the CUDA runtime assertion macro and expands to nothing when NDEBUG is defined (the usual configuration for release PyTorch extension builds). In that build this validation kernel becomes a no-op, so the only check of tile_begin/tile_end/seg_first_tile disappears. h3_adaln_row_gather_backward then reads partial[tile * width + j] for tile indices taken straight from the unvalidated seg_first_tile in the fold kernel, and out-of-range sorted_pos[p] rows in the partial kernel — an out-of-bounds device read rather than a clean error. Since check_tile_metadata exists specifically because in-kernel asserts were too costly (per the header comment), the metadata must be validated with something that survives release builds. Either use a device-side error path that always executes (e.g. printf + __trap() on violation, as done for the MMA arch guard) or add a host-side bound (seg_first_tile.back() <= tiles, tile_end[i] <= seq, etc.) in the backward wrapper before launch.
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Not changed: the premise does not hold for this build. CUDA_KERNEL_ASSERT is not assert(). In the torch this extension is built against (2.13, torch/headeronly/macros/Macros.h) it expands to if (C10_UNLIKELY(!(cond))) __assert_fail(...), and the header says it "checks the assertion even when NDEBUG is defined"; it is a no-op only on Android, Apple and FreeBSD, and on ROCm it becomes abort() (the H3 sources are not built for ROCm). TORCH_DISABLE_GPU_ASSERTS is not defined anywhere in the build, and the nvcc line of the H3 sources is -O3 with no -G. Checked on the build rather than only on the header: test_h3_assert_in_release_build.py (65e8620) compiles a one-kernel program with -O3 -DNDEBUG against these headers and requires device-side assert triggered for a bad value and a clean run for a good one, and the tests that run the built extension on bad metadata and bad indices in a child process (test_native_bounds_assertions, test_the_backward_stops_on_metadata..., test_gate_row_outside_the_table_asserts_in_the_kernel) require the same stop. The host-side half of the suggestion is already covered where it can be: the entry point checks the tensors' dtype, dimensions and lengths on the host, and the pre-pass is the bound check on the contents. 65e8620 also makes it require that the segments cut the tile list exactly (seg_first_tile[0] == 0, seg_first_tile[R] == tiles), so a tile that no row owns can no longer drop out of a sum silently; two more corrupted-metadata cases run in the child-process test.
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Pass an explicit strict= to both zip() calls.
Ruff reports B905 on both lines. The other H3 code in this PR already uses strict=True. The iterables here always have equal length, so strict=True is safe. It also fails the test if a future edit makes the lengths differ.
♻️ Proposed fix
- for leaf, name in zip(leaves, names):+ for leaf, name in zip(leaves, names, strict=True):
leaf.requires_grad_(name not in frozen)
torch.autograd.backward(list(fused(*leaves, ti, tags)), grads)
- for leaf, name, expected in zip(leaves, names, full):+ for leaf, name, expected in zip(leaves, names, full, strict=True):
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137:
Add explicit strict length checking to both zip calls in the test’s leaf/name
loops, including the loop that also pairs each item with full, so mismatched
iterables fail instead of being silently truncated.
Compare output lists with equal length. A length mismatch is currently dropped without a signal.
zip(run["out"], ref_run["out"]) stops at the shorter list. If the candidate and the reference return different numbers of outputs, the extra outputs are not compared. The report can then show the case as bitwise equal.
This tool exists to detect bit differences, so a count mismatch must appear in the report as a difference. Ruff also flags this line (B905). Other H3 code in this PR already uses strict=True for the same pattern.
Do not use bare strict=True here. It would raise and abort the whole comparison, which the docstring says must not happen. Record the mismatch and compare strictly after that.
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if ref_run is None:
return {"unavailable": "the reference run has no saved result for this case"}
+ if len(run["out"]) != len(ref_run["out"]):+ note = f"{len(run['out'])} vs {len(ref_run['out'])} outputs"+ return {"out": [{"equal": False, "note": note}], "grads": {}}
return {
- "out": [_same(a, b) for a, b in zip(run["out"], ref_run["out"])],+ "out": [_same(a, b) for a, b in zip(run["out"], ref_run["out"], strict=True)],
"grads": {g: _same(run["grads"].get(g), ref_run["grads"].get(g)) for g in run["grads"]},
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_cell in plot_h3_bitwise_reuse.py already maps an entry without differ to a full-difference cell, so the plot shows the mismatch.
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…d show the device asserts survive a release build
* The tile-metadata pre-pass also requires `seg_first_tile[0] == 0` and `seg_first_tile[R] == tiles`.
The old bound (`<= tiles`) kept every read inside `partial`, but a tile that no segment owns, or
a first segment that starts after tile 0, would drop contributions from a row's sum without an
error. Two more corrupted-metadata cases run in the child-process test. The launch uses at least
one block, so an empty list is a no-op instead of an invalid configuration.
* `CUDA_KERNEL_ASSERT` is not removed by NDEBUG on CUDA (c10 expands it to
`if (!cond) __assert_fail(...)`; only Android, Apple and FreeBSD compile it out). The header says
so, and `test_h3_assert_in_release_build.py` compiles a one-kernel program with `-O3 -DNDEBUG`
against the torch headers in use and requires the "device-side assert triggered" stop (and a
clean run for a valid value) so the claim is checked for the torch this runs against.
* `test_backward_writes_the_requested_dtype_whatever_the_gradient_dtype` pins that the gather
backward allocates the table gradient in `out_dtype` for FP32, BF16 and FP16 gradients (exact
integer data, torch.equal against the FP64 sum).
* `_C.pyi`: contracts for `h3_adaln_row_gather_forward` / `_backward`; the modulation tests zip
strictly (Ruff B905).
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check_tile_metadata bounded every tile and cut the tile list exactly by segment,
but a gap between tiles (positions dropped from every row's sum) or an overlap
(positions counted twice) passed all of it. Each tile must now start where the
one before it ends, the first at 0 and the last at the number of positions, and
a tile list that is empty over a non-empty sequence is refused on the host.
Mutation tests cover a gap, an overlap, a first tile not at 0, a last tile that
stops short, and the empty list with and without matching segment bounds.
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The BF16 MMA path loads 16-byte chunks (uint4 = 8 bfloat16 elements) at k = kb + 32u + 8q, but only guards with k < k_in. The host check is k_in % vec == 0 with vec = 16 / x.element_size() = 8, so k_in may be a multiple of 8 but not 16 (e.g. K=24, 40, ...). In that case the last K step has k < k_in yet reads k + 8 > k_in, i.e. an out-of-bounds 16-byte read past the end of the weight/x row (and past the buffer for the last row). The FP32 forward does not have this problem because there kStride = 32 * kVec (multiplying by 32 keeps the 16-byte granularity). Fix: require k_in % 16 == 0 for the BF16 path (or guard with k + 8 <= k_in for the 16-byte loads).
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Not changed (answered in the previous rounds). The load is 16 bytes = 8 BF16 elements, not 16 elements. k = kb + 32u + 8q is a multiple of 8 and the host requires K % 8 == 0 (vec = 16 / sizeof(T)), so k < K implies k + 8 <= K: no chunk straddles the end of a row and every row start stays 16-byte aligned (the header comment above the kernel says so). Requiring K % 16 would reject shapes the kernel supports. test_k_that_is_not_a_multiple_of_the_lane_stride_matches_the_golden runs BF16 K = 8, 24, 40, 72, 264, 520 against an FP64 golden, and the same sweep ran clean under compute-sanitizer --tool memcheck.
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if (k_in == 0) return out; returns an uninitialized torch::empty buffer. When K == 0 the gradient of sum_n g[t,n] * W[n,k] over an empty K is 0 (the reference produces zeros), so a caller gets garbage here. det_linear_backward_input in rl_engine/backends/.../minimax_h3/det_linear.py passes the caller's tensors straight through without a K>0 check, so a zero-width projection yields an uninitialized dx silently. Return a zeroed tensor for symmetry with the n_out == 0 branch below.
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TORCH_CHECK(rows > 0, "grad must have at least one row");
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Not changed. With k_in == 0 the output is torch::empty({rows, 0}), which has no elements, so there is nothing uninitialised to return and the zero gradient of an empty sum is exactly this empty tensor. It is covered by test_backward_input_handles_empty_columns (K = 0 and N = 0, both output dtypes), which compares against the PyTorch reference. The n_out == 0 branch zeroes because its output does have rows * K elements.
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The vectorized path reinterprets src = rows + r*row_stride + c*hidden and dst = out + (c*seq+s)*hidden as uint4*, but the vector flag only proves that hidden and row_stride are 16-byte multiples and that the base pointer is 16-byte aligned. dst is not checked at all, and src relies on c*hidden/r*row_stride being 16-byte multiples, which is only guaranteed when the totalrows.size(1) = chunks*hidden is also aligned in a particular way. Concretely, with rows = table[::2] (the test_strided_rows_view case) row_stride*elem is 16-byte aligned but rows.data_ptr() is not checked for the c*hidden offset combination, and any rows view whose stride(0) is aligned while rows.size(1) is not a multiple of 16/elem (e.g. odd hidden accepted by the API when chunks*hidden happens to be a multiple) makes c*hidden misalign src for intermediate c. A misaligned uint4 load/store is undefined behaviour on CUDA and can silently return garbage or fault. Please derive vector from every offset that is actually dereferenced, e.g. require hidden*elem % 16 == 0 && row_stride*elem % 16 == 0 && (chunks*hidden)*elem % 16 == 0 plus alignment of both rows and out base pointers (and verify hidden % (16/sizeof(T)) == 0 so the hidden / kVec loop has no dropped tail).
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Not changed. Every address the vector path dereferences is a multiple of 16 bytes:
src = rows + r*row_stride + c*hidden: rows.data_ptr() is checked 16-byte aligned, row_stride*elem % 16 == 0 is checked, and hidden*elem % 16 == 0 is checked, so c*hidden*elem is a multiple of 16 for every chunk c. rows.size(1) = chunks*hidden does not enter the offset, so its alignment does not matter.
dst = out + (c*seq+s)*hidden: the offset is a multiple of hidden*elem, hence of 16, and out comes from torch::empty in the same call (allocator alignment is at least 512 bytes), so it needs no separate check.
hidden*elem % 16 == 0 means hidden % (16/sizeof(T)) == 0, so hidden / kVec drops no tail.
The strided rows = table[::2] case is covered by test_strided_rows_view; a view whose stride(0) or base pointer is misaligned takes the scalar path.
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tiles are built with num_timesteps * H3_MODALITY_NUM rows, so h3_adaln_row_gather_backward returns (3T, width) (R = 3T). ctx.table_shape = table.shape is the projection output's shape (T, 18H), i.e. num_timesteps = T, width = 18H. The resulting num_timesteps * width equals 3T * 6H, so the element count matches and view will not error, but the 2-D shape is wrong: it reinterprets the 3T gathered rows as T rows of 18H. d_table is then handed to det_linear_backward_weight / det_linear_backward_input, which expect the forward's (T, 18H) grad; here rows are silently interleaved across timesteps, so dW/db and d_temb are computed against a permuted gradient. The forward also narrowed the intended num_timesteps semantics: ctx.table_shape should be the projection output shape, not the gather's row count. Reshape from the gather's row count and then to the table shape explicitly.
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Not changed. The forward does rows = table.view(-1, 6H), turning the table (T, 18H) into (3T, 6H) with row 3t+m = modality m of timestep t. The gather backward returns (3T, 6H) (R = 3T), and d_rows.view(T, 18H) is the exact inverse of that forward view, so no rows are interleaved across timesteps. The suggested view(T, 3, width) would not even run: with width = 18H it asks for T*3*18H elements from T*18H. test_backward_keeps_table_gradient_fp32 (test_h3_adaln_modulation.py) checks the table gradient against the reference.
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timestep_index * 3 + token_tag. It isbitwise equal to diffusers' six
index_selectcalls. Out-of-range tags or timesteps raise(probes H2/H3); they are never clamped.
index_select's atomic BF16 scatter-add.H3AdaLNModulationCudaOp: projection and gather as one autograd node. The forward isbitwise equal to running them separately. In the backward, the table gradient stays FP32
instead of being rounded to BF16 at the op boundary.
timestep → MLP → projection → gather.
Prior art & reuse decision
Measured with
tools/validation/models/h3_prior_art.py, committed in this stack.adaln_row_gather.jsonwas written from a clean tree at604c134con an otherwise idle B200, and the operator doc's "Existing implementations" section has the figure and the command. Batch invariance is bitwise, for the forward, the per-row gradients and repeatability of every table and parameter gradient. It has three checks: every row computed alone vs inside full batches of 64, 257 and 2048 rows over three seeds; the full 131072-token batch vs sub-batches that together cover every row; and a dense batch-size sweep. Errors are max|err| / max|ref| against FP64; latency is the median forward + backward time. Libraries checked: diffusers, SGLang 0.5.21, Liger 0.8.4, Transformer Engine 2.20.2, vLLM 0.30.0 and Megatron-LM52fbcbc(the training path of Miles and Vime); verl, Miles and Vime have no H3 diffusion operators.The forward is a byte copy in both, bitwise equal. The backward differs:
index_selectaccumulates the table gradient with atomics in BF16, so it changes from run to run and loses accuracy (0.21 of the largest gradient at S = 32768). This PR's backward is a deterministic FP32 segmented sum in a stable sorted order: 3.0e-3, and faster (2.8 ms vs 9.8 ms forward + backward at S = 32768). No other candidate exists: SGLang 0.5.21's diffusion kernels define no backward, and Liger 0.8.4 and FLA 0.5.2 have no table-gather op. This PR writes its own backward. #487's evidence shows what this buys downstream: Liger's modulated RMSNorm fed throughindex_selecthas non-repeatable table gradients, and fed through this gather it is batch-invariant.Direct bitwise comparison (2026-10-13). There is no reuse candidate beyond diffusers' six
index_selectcalls. The forward is bitwise identical to them at every S from 1 to 32768. The table gradient matches at S = 1 and differs from S = 257 on, whereindex_selectaccumulates it with BF16 atomics and this kernel in a fixed FP32 order.Direct bitwise comparison
Measured with
tools/validation/models/h3_bitwise_reuse.py(committed in #483, merged down the stack), which runs every candidate thath3_prior_art.candidates()defines on identical inputs, with each global batch-invariant mode in its own process, and compares every forward output and leaf gradient byte for byte with diffusers' path and with this kernel.adaln_row_gather.jsonwas written from a clean tree at62f8009e(python tools/validation/models/h3_bitwise_reuse.py --op adaln_row_gather); the operator doc's "Direct bitwise comparison" section has the figure and the plot command.Results (B200, T = 3, H = 5376, BF16, pinned weights)
index_select)Whole chain (S ≥ 257): 72 parameter gradients across 12 cases.
The data is in
reports/experiments/h3-adaln-row-gather-b200/{report,chain_replay}.json, written from clean trees ata6c85451(report.json, with the seeded op-backward check) and61d23ade(chain_replay.json), regenerated 2026-10-13 after the projection golden fix. The time-embedder and AdaLN gradient rows above come from the earlier replay; their CUDA columns are deterministic and unchanged, and the diffusers column varies from run to run.Status
Seeded the evidence report's timing inputs (
2553881b)._gather_perfdrew its table rows and upstream gradients from the process's default CUDA generator; they are now seeded, like the op-backward check (a6c85451). No reported accuracy field depends on them, so the committed report is unchanged.Seeded the row-gather op-backward check (
a6c85451, evidencecbbfaedc)._gather_accuracyinh3_report.pytook its rows and upstream gradients from the process's default CUDA generator. Its fraction was reproducible per runner version but depended on how many draws the runner made before it (99.99999% here, 99.99965% and 99.99931% on [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] h3_rmsnorm: RMSNorm with fused AdaLN modulation (RFC #420 stack 5/10) #487's newer runner). Both draws now come from a seeded generator, and three runs give the same CUDA fraction, 99.99931%.report.jsonwas regenerated from a clean tree ata6c85451; every other CUDA field and pass/fail flag is unchanged.Evidence regenerated after the projection golden fix (
ecb30e25).report.jsonandchain_replay.jsonwere rewritten from a clean tree at61d23adeon an idle B200, after [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_projection_3mod: three-modality AdaLN projection (RFC #420 stack 3/10) #485'sforward_fp32started rounding the FP32 SiLU. Every CUDA field and every pass/fail flag matches the previous files. Only timings and the diffusers backward errors, which vary from run to run, moved.Fixed: flaky FP32 table-gradient test (
62f8009e).test_backward_keeps_table_gradient_fp32drewtembunseeded and failed about 1 run in 30. The kernel is deterministic (150 repeats bitwise equal). The golden rounded an FP64 SiLU to BF16 where the kernel and diffusers round the FP32 SiLU; near a BF16 tie the two differ for 1–2 of the 8064 activations, which shifts a wholedWcolumn (10 of 300 draws fell below 0.9999). The golden now roundsF.silu(temb.float())andtembis seeded. Over 300 draws the correctly-rounded fraction is 0.999981–0.999982 and thed_temberror is at most 2.0e-6 (limits 0.9999 and 1e-5).Added: existing-implementation comparison, committed (
tools/validation/models/h3_prior_art.py; report and figure for this op inreports/experiments/h3-prior-art-b200). Since1438c4cthe branch gained only that runner, its evidence and the merges carrying them through the stack (no change outsidedocs/and those scripts). See Prior art.Added: per-row batch-invariance tests (
e880a10). A position's six gathered rows are bitwise the same whichever other positions share the call: a single position, a span, the tail, or a shuffled repacking. A table row's gradient from the full packing equals the gradient from a packing of only that row's own positions. With about 455 positions per row and 256-position tiles, this test crosses tile boundaries; it holds because each row's segment is tiled on its own.Merged [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_projection_3mod: three-modality AdaLN projection (RFC #420 stack 3/10) #485's latest review fixes (
1438c4c).tools/validation/models/h3_chain_replay.py --stagesnow accepts any selection of known stages: the stages up to the last one requested run automatically, only the requested ones are reported, and the evidence gainsexecuted_stages. Unknown stages are still rejected before any CUDA check, and--backwardstill needs the whole chain.No known failures at
1438c4c.History
measure()block of [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] h3_rmsnorm: RMSNorm with fused AdaLN modulation (RFC #420 stack 5/10) #487-[WS2][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] sp_norm_adaln: sequence-parallel norm/AdaLN/gated residual, byte-equal to WS1 (RFC #420 stack 9/10) #494 (alternating order, setup outside the timed region, backward-only scope;343fa40b), so all nine branches carry the same harness. Block order bias is below 0.6% and ranking and ratios do not change (measurement in the [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] timestep_sinusoid_h3: FP32 timestep features + shared H3 harness (RFC #420 stack 1/10) #483 thread); the published latency tables predate the harness and stay provisional until regenerated.pr_assets(see the evidence note at the top), and all commits got aSigned-off-bytrailer. Commit hashes in this body, including the clean-tree commit of the measurement, are the rewritten ones; the ZIPs and JSON files onpr_assetsstill carry the pre-rewrite hashes.KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1adds--use_fast_mathto the whole_Cbuild, which approximatesexpf/sinf/cosf/rsqrtf/division and flushes denormals. Before the fix a fast-math build of the top of the stack failed 33 H3 tests (thetimestep_sinusoid_h3andh3_rmsnormbitwise tests and the chain/block tests built on them). nvcc 13 defines no fast-math macro, so the guard is in the build: everycsrc/cuda/h3source is listed inH3_BITWISE_SOURCESand left out of fast-math builds, the bindings are gated onKERNEL_ALIGN_WITH_H3_KERNELS, dispatch falls back to the PyTorch references, and tests that assert CUDA dispatch skip throughrequire_h3_kernels. On this branch: merge92437184(addsadaln_row_gather.cu) andb52916ac(backward e2e skip). Results for both builds are under Tests.test-h3@16b81175874e(notice): H3 CUDA code moved torl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3, references torl_engine/reference/minimax_h3, the harness torl_engine/validation/models, with registration, build, tests, tools, docs andtools/migration/layout.jsonupdated. Native arithmetic is unchanged; pinned evidence keeps its original commit metadata.Pre-refactor validation (historical, before 2026-10-10)
tests/models/minimax_h3at1438c4c, two B200s visibletests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_adaln_row_gather.pyate880a10tests/test_ws1_gtest_gpu.pyat1438c4c--check-grad, all 4 ops × CUDA/PyTorchtest-h3tooThe repository's CI workflows (
ci.yml,gpu-ci.yml) only run on PRs tomainortest, so ontest-h3only the DCO and CodeRabbit checks run. The results above come from local runs on B200s.Tests
Measured at commit
2553881b, an earlier head of this PR (later commits are listed under History and these runs were not repeated for the current head), 2× B200, pinnedMiniMax-H3@42ed227weights; each build compiled from a clean checkout of that commit:_CKERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1Default-build skips (environment only): 1 × could not import 'sglang.kernels.ops.diffusion.modulate.timestep_embedding_jit'; 1 × extension enforcement is CI-only (orchestrator sets RL_KERNEL_REQUIRE_EXT=1).
Fast-math regression tests:
tests/build/test_build_platform_collectives.py::test_cuda_build_compiles_h3_kernels_without_fast_math,::test_fast_math_build_excludes_bitwise_h3_kernels,tests/runtime/test_dispatch.py::test_h3_timestep_falls_back_when_fast_math_build_omits_kernel,::test_h3_ops_prefer_cuda_and_fall_back_to_pytorch_reference.On this PR the GitHub checks are DCO and CodeRabbit only (the CPU lint/unit/docs workflow for
test-h3arrives with #586), so the GPU results above are the test evidence.Scope / Known limitations
CUDA only. The ROCm column stays open. ROCm dispatches the PyTorch reference, whose backward
for this op is also deterministic. The six
(S, H)outputs are materialised as in diffusers.Fusing them into their consumers belongs to the next rows (
h3_rmsnorm,adaln_gate_residual)..coderabbit.yamlis not part of this operator. The branch carries thetest-h3CodeRabbit auto-review config from commitsd113891and5c79216. The file is byte-identical to #490's, so it drops out of this diff once #490 merges intotest-h3.Summary by CodeRabbit
Results (H100 / Hopper)
Measured on 4 x NVIDIA H100 80GB (sm90), driver 580, CUDA 13.0.88, torch 2.13.0+cu130, pinned
MiniMax-H3@42ed227, clean tree at1a8e7b26. Evidence files live on thepr_assetsbranch underpr486/reports/experiments/*-h100/.Tests (
pytest tests/models/minimax_h3 tests/build tests/runtime/test_dispatch.py)KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1build: 123 passed, 172 skipped in 6.92s (the fast-math build omits the H3 CUDA sources to keep bitwise parity, so H3 CUDA tests skip there)Bitwise vs diffusers: every case and tensor matches the B200 result (same equal / not-equal outcome on the shared diffusers and rl_kernel entries).
Backward (H100): gradients of the op on identical inputs and upstream gradients, each run twice, sizes 1, 257, 4097, 32768. The kernel gradient is bitwise repeatable for every gradient at every size; native diffusers is not repeatable for
table(atomicindex_selectbackward). Errors are max|err| / max|ref| against an FP64 autograd of the reference formula at size 4097; "det diffusers" is the same diffusers replay undertorch.use_deterministic_algorithms(True).tableData and runner:
h3-backward-h100/onpr_assets(commit37a9e6ad).Repeat check with 30 replays per size (report): native diffusers gives 30 distinct bitwise results for
table(spread up to 0.15 of max|grad|) at 32768 rows. These are exactly the gradients fed throughindex_select; the native backward launches the atomicindexFuncLargeIndex(index_add) kernel, which accumulates BF16 in arrival order. Deterministic diffusers and the kernel give 1 distinct result for every gradient and size; all other gradients are repeatable in all three.Diffusers-side fix (report): replacing the
index_selectbackward by a stable-sort plus FP32 segmented sum (RowGather, forward unchanged) makes the diffusers replay bitwise repeatable (1 distinct result in 30 runs at every size, native: 30) and brings its error vs FP64 to within about 1.3x of this kernel (10 to 20x below native). It is also repeatable on 4 GPUs for sharded tokens plus all_reduce and for replicated tokens, where native replicas disagree across ranks. It costs about 2 to 3x native backward time at small sizes and about the same at 32768 rows, and does not reproduce this kernel's bits. This is a validation harness, not a change to diffusers.For the gradients that go through the gather the kernel is about 10 to 30x more accurate than diffusers (native or deterministic): diffusers accumulates BF16 values in a fixed order, the kernel reduces in FP32 in a fixed tree. Element-wise and non-gather gradients are at the same rounding level as diffusers.
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