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What
The RMSNorm kernel replays PyTorch's own reduction order. It reproduces vectorized_layer_norm_kernel:
one (32, 4) block per row;
4-element vectors;
shuffle-down and cross-warp trees;
rsqrtf, then w * (rstd * x).
As a result it is bitwise equal to nn.RMSNorm for all four pinned H3 norm weights (block norm1/norm2, refiner final_norm, norm_out.norm), and rows are batch-invariant.
The AdaLN modulation is fused in.n * (1 + scale[i]) + shift[i]:
each step is rounded where the eager expression rounds, and FP32 is kept from contracting operations into an FMA.
The result is bitwise equal to diffusers for the block (indexed by adaln_indices) and norm_out (indexed by timestep_indices) in bf16, fp16 and fp32.
The backward is deterministic:
dx is row-local;
dweight is folded over fixed row tiles;
dshift/dscale are sorted segment sums, replacing index_select's BF16 atomics.
The golden is FP64. The modulated golden rounds only the two values the model stores in x's dtype, norm(x) and 1 + scale, straight-through for the gradient.
Harness: the pinned manifest adds the norm weights and norm_out.* (shard 1). The chain gains a per-mode history and a block norm1 + modulation stage, which the e2e test covers.
Prior art & reuse decision
Measured with tools/validation/models/h3_prior_art.py, committed in this stack. norm_modulate.json was written from a clean tree at f6ad7a23 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.
torch F.rms_norm and Transformer Engine's RMSNorm are batch-invariant, but they compute only the norm, not the modulation. Liger's modulated RMSNorm is the existing implementation of the whole op with a backward. It needs the shift/scale rows gathered per token first. Through index_select, its table gradients are not repeatable and are as inaccurate as diffusers' (0.20 at S = 32768). Through #486's deterministic gather it is batch-invariant, with table-gradient errors of at most 4.0e-3, but slower than this fused kernel: 1.8 ms vs 1.1 ms at S = 4097, and 4.8 ms vs 2.7 ms at S = 32768. SGLang's fused_norm_scale_shift is batch-invariant but forward-only. This kernel's forward is bitwise equal to the diffusers composition H3 uses; Liger's and SGLang's round differently, with a lower forward error. Question for @Flink-ddd@inaniloquentee: keep the fused kernel, or reuse Liger with #486's gather?
Direct bitwise check (2026-10-13). This kernel's forward is bitwise identical to the diffusers composition at every S. Liger differs in 41.8–46.5% of the BF16 outputs, with either gather, and SGLang in 36.0–36.7%. Reusing either would give up the bitwise-to-diffusers promise that #489's chain and #586's block checks rely on.
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. norm_modulate.json was written from a clean tree at 83797833 (python tools/validation/models/h3_bitwise_reuse.py --op norm_modulate); the operator doc's "Direct bitwise comparison" section has the figure and the plot command. B200, torch 2.13.0+cu130. Cells give the share of output elements that differ: vs diffusers / vs this kernel, where 0 means bitwise identical.
At S = 4097 the backward is 1.23 ms, against diffusers' 0.85 ms. The difference is the fixed cost of the sort and tile setup. The data is in reports/experiments/h3-rmsnorm-b200/report.json, written from a clean tree at d2a6546. Backward timings exclude leaf setup and the forward pass; candidate/provider order alternates each iteration and is recorded in the JSON. The report measures accuracy against its own FP64 reference, not forward_modulated_fp32, and the norm kernel has not changed since d2a6546, so the golden fix leaves these numbers as they are.
Status
Seeded the plain-norm evidence inputs (95186cb7, test shim 8725b3d2). _norm_accuracy drew the inputs of its four plain-RMSNorm bitwise checks from the process's default CUDA generator; they now come from one seeded generator. All four checks stay bitwise equal to F.rms_norm, and the rest of the accuracy section matches the committed report, so it is unchanged. The CPU shim in test_h3_benchmark_timing.py now maps seeded CUDA generators to CPU generators with the same seed. With this, every random draw in h3_report.py is seeded.
Row-gather evidence on this branch regenerated after the projection golden fix (a1e37ef3). This branch carries a newer reports/experiments/h3-adaln-row-gather-b200/report.json (backward-only timings), now rewritten from a clean tree at 4315cee1; chain_replay.json comes from [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_row_gather: fused six-way AdaLN row gather (RFC #420 stack 4/10) #486's regeneration. Every CUDA pass/fail flag is unchanged. Since fe0350c1 the report comes from a clean tree at 29b07c5d with the op-backward check seeded ([WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_row_gather: fused six-way AdaLN row gather (RFC #420 stack 4/10) #486a6c85451); its CUDA correctly rounded fraction is 99.99931%. The earlier draw was not random from run to run: it used the process's default CUDA generator, so the fraction depended on the runner version (99.99965% at d2a6546). The h3_rmsnorm evidence is not affected.
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 df9b836 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.
Fixed: the modulated golden (93c692f). forward_modulated_fp32 computed norm(x) and 1 + scale in FP64, but the model stores both in BF16. 1 + scale is shared by every position of a row, so the missing rounding produced a systematic error that grew with S. Against the old golden, the CUDA d_weight missed the BF16 reduction tolerance from S = 1024 (up to 3.6×) and d_scale missed at S = 4097. With both roundings declared straight-through, every gradient passes at S = 257, 1024 and 4097, with a worst case of 0.29×. The new test_modulated_gradients_meet_contract_against_golden fails on the old golden and passes on the new one. No existing check had compared modulated gradients against this golden, so nothing failed before. [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] final_adaln_out: norm_out projection + final norm/modulation (RFC #420 stack 7/10) #489 got the same fix for norm_out.
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). This PR's kernel is one of the two that broke. 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 db552988 (adds rmsnorm_modulate.cu). 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): 366 passed, 0 skipped; with the fast-math guard (2× B200, passed / skipped / failed): default 370 / 17 / 0, fast-math 134 / 253 / 0.
Pre-refactor validation (historical, before 2026-10-10)
passes at S = 257 / 1024 / 4097; on the old golden it fails at 1024 and 4097
tests/test_ws1_gtest_gpu.py at df9b836
9 passed
Original implementation: tests/models/minimax_h3 with CUDA disabled
43 passed, 190 GPU tests skipped
Black, Python E/F lint, and whitespace checks
passed
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Tests
Measured at commit 8725b3d2, 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 modulation backward is also deterministic. The token-refiner blocks' own norm weights are in shard 14, which is not pinned. They are the same module as the four pinned norms tested here.
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Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Added MiniMax-H3 conditioning operators for timestep features and embeddings, AdaLN projection and row gathering, and RMSNorm with optional modulation.
Added fused AdaLN modulation and deterministic CUDA implementations, alongside PyTorch reference options and backend dispatch.
Added tools to measure performance, compare accuracy and repeatability, replay conditioning stages, and generate reports and visualizations.
Added utilities to prepare and validate model weights.
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 26a7cab3. Evidence files live on the pr_assets branch under pr487/reports/experiments/*-h100/.
default build: 385 passed, 2 skipped in 60.59s (0:01:00)
KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1 build: 134 passed, 253 skipped in 9.08s (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 sc, sh (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 sh and sc (up to 0.15 and 0.11) 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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RFC RL-Align#420 step 4, row `h3_rmsnorm` (stacked on adaln_row_gather).
- CUDA kernel replaying PyTorch's own RMSNorm reduction order
(vectorized_layer_norm_kernel: (32, 4) block per row, 4-element
vectors, shuffle-down and cross-warp trees, rsqrtf, w * (rstd * x)):
bitwise equal to nn.RMSNorm on all four pinned H3 norm weights and
batch/position invariant.
- Fused AdaLN modulation n * (1 + scale[i]) + shift[i] with the rows
gathered in-kernel from strided table views and each step rounded where
the eager expression rounds: bitwise equal to diffusers for the block
(adaln_indices) and norm_out (timestep_indices), without materialising
the (S, H) gathered tensors; 2.5x faster forward at S = 131072.
- Deterministic backward: row-local dx, dweight over fixed 256-row tiles,
dshift/dscale as sorted segment sums (diffusers: non-deterministic BF16
atomics, ~15x larger error).
- Manifest pins the block/refiner-final/norm_out norm weights and
norm_out.linear (all in shard 1); chain gains a per-mode history and the
block norm1 + modulation stage (covered by the end-to-end test).
- Registry, gtest, report/figure hooks, doc.
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This change adds five MiniMax-H3 operator paths across PyTorch references and deterministic CUDA implementations. It integrates Python autograd wrappers and backend dispatch, and adds chain replay, tests, benchmarks, weight validation tools, and operator documentation.
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Normal operator calls validate inputs, but the new native functions do not consistently enforce the same safety contract. Direct or explicitly unchecked calls can read outside supplied GPU tensors or fault the calling worker. No remote attack path or privilege escalation is established. Downloaded test weights are revision- and hash-pinned, while deployment and interrupted-publication behavior remain partly unverified.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: The new RMSNorm and AdaLN row-gather native paths rely on wrapper-only index-value validation before using indices in GPU pointer arithmetic. RMSNorm additionally accepts weight and index tensors without requiring their devices to match the launch device. Direct native calls or explicitly unchecked wrapper calls can therefore cause out-of-bounds GPU reads or worker faults instead of rejecting malformed inputs. Default wrapper validation is strong counterevidence; remote reachability and cross-tenant impact are not established.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The supported native-input failure scope is the calling process's GPU tensor access and worker availability. Index values influence native source addresses, but no remote caller, tenant boundary crossing, credential gain, or access to another process's GPU context is established. Direct Python-call capability alone does not demonstrate an authorization escalation.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — A conditional attack path is malformed tensor index data reaching a direct native call or a wrapper with range checking disabled, followed by unchecked row-offset calculation and a GPU read outside the supplied table. Such reads may expose accessible adjacent data through results or cause a CUDA fault. The default validating wrappers block this index path; a lower-trust ingress bypassing them has not been demonstrated.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Normal RMSNorm calls enforce matching devices and bounded indices before native dispatch. Deterministic-linear native entrypoints independently check matching devices and compatible matrix shapes, showing stronger enforcement at a comparable CUDA boundary. Weight downloads are separately constrained by a pinned revision and explicit hash checks.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Artifact identity and tensor-schema failures stop preparation before a new save. A failed validation rerun does not invalidate an existing output file, and the loader has no preparation-success marker to distinguish that prior file. This leaves recovery semantics implicit, but the available evidence places the cache under caller-selected filesystem authority rather than a demonstrated privileged publication boundary.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — A hardened native contract would enforce index bounds and launch-device ownership at independently callable entrypoints, validate externally supplied backward metadata, and explicitly distinguish trusted unchecked paths from the fail-closed public interface.
proposed — If weight caches become shared or concurrently rebuilt, a stronger publication design would use atomic replacement, enforce cache ownership, validate output provenance during loading, and document whether failed preparation intentionally retains the previous artifact. These are conditional hardening proposals, not verified attacker-controlled cache vulnerabilities.
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[WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] h3_rmsnorm: RMSNorm with fused AdaLN modulation
[WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] h3_rmsnorm: RMSNorm with fused AdaLN modulation (RFC #420 stack 5/7)
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Check timestep and modality bounds on the device before computing gather addresses, including unchecked calls and overflowing int64 indices. Reject non-prefix replay stage selections and partial backward chains before loading weights.
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measure times every timed key in the fixed TIMED_KEYS order. The candidate always runs before the provider. Clock drift, thermal state and the caching allocator change over the run, so this order biases the reported speedup in one direction. The bias matters most where the margins are small, for example adaln_projection_3mod at T>=2 (about 2%) and the h3_rmsnorm backward at S=4097. Interleave the samples per iteration, or randomize the key order, and record the order in the report.
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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.
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Brings in the relaxed-math detection, the device-aware SM80 check, the bitwise-reuse report and the MLP/AdaLN validator fixes of the previous PRs.
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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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…once, and align the reference validators
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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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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The SP entry points take caller-built row lists and tile lists, which the pre-pass of the other backward kernels
did not cover. h3_gate_grad_partials, h3_gate_grad_fold, h3_rmsnorm_backward_partials and
h3_rmsnorm_fold_partials now run a pre-pass (h3_tiles::check_lists in tile_metadata.cuh, one small launch) that
asserts on the device that every listed row is a row of the activation, every tile lies inside its list, and
the segment boundaries are non-decreasing and inside the partial buffer; they check that the column blocks fit
grid.y (65535) and N fits the int indices of the segment kernels, require at least one segment boundary, and
skip a fold launch with no segments. One test per entry point runs the corrupted lists in a child process and
expects the device assert; the rmsnorm table-layout tests of RL-Align#487 (overlapping rows rejected, a view of a
wider table read by its row pitch) are ported into test_h3_native_validation.py.
sp_norm_adaln: no code change. The padding slots of the send blocks and of the partial gathers hold a valid
table row but no tile list refers to them; a test now pads both with NaN (sp = 3, 4 and 8, B = 1 and 2,
shards smaller than a tile) and the gradients still equal WS1 bitwise, so a read of the padding would show.
The plain-norm backward passes None segment tiles because the binding takes optionals; it is covered by
test_plain_norm_ranks_reproduce_ws1, and plan.families[1] is only read when the plan was built with an index.
The local-slice validator receives x with S_local positions and the matching slice of the index, which is
what validate_h3_modulation checks (S = len(index)), against the full tables for the range check.
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The modulation row index is only validated by CUDA_KERNEL_ASSERT, which compiles to nothing in NDEBUG builds. A caller passing an index value >= R (or negative) gets shift/scale read out of bounds with no host check on either forward or backward. Unlike the tile metadata path (which has a dedicated device-side check pass), index contents are never checked; please validate index on the host (e.g. ((ix >= 0) & (ix < R)).all()) in make_modulation, or add a device check pass like h3_tiles::check_tile_metadata, so the out-of-range condition can never become an OOB read in release builds.
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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 index values are checked where the contract puts the check: the Python operators validate them on the host by default (check_range=True raises IndexError before any launch), and check_range=False, which exists so a hot path does not pay a device-to-host synchronisation per call, and direct extension calls get the device-side assert instead of an out-of-bounds read. A host-side min/max inside the native function would put that synchronisation back. The forward and dx kernels assert the index once per row; the dweight kernel reads it inside its row loop, where an assert cost about 11% of the backward, so the entry points run a one-launch check over the S index values before it (5601118; measurements in the thread on rmsnorm_dweight_partial_kernel).
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n is passed to every kernel as int (static_cast<int>(n)), but check_xw only requires N % 4 == 0 and never bounds N. The backward path separately guards width = 2 * n <= INT_MAX (line 426) while the forward path has no equivalent guard, so an N between INT_MAX and 2*INT_MAX truncates (even to a negative n) in rmsnorm_modulate_fwd_kernel, producing wrong r * n offsets and OOB writes. Please add TORCH_CHECK(n <= std::numeric_limits<int>::max(), ...) in check_xw (or h3_rmsnorm_forward) so both entry points reject oversized N consistently.
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Fixed in 5601118: check_xw, which every rmsnorm entry point calls, now rejects N > INT_MAX (and M > INT_MAX, the grid.x limit), so forward, backward and the sequence-parallel partials refuse an oversized row up front; the modulated backward also bounds the table rows and tiles it launches as blocks. Test: test_rejects_a_row_wider_than_the_int_the_kernels_count_with allocates a (1, 2**31) FP16 row (4 GiB, uninitialised) and checks both entry points.
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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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…odulation index once before the dweight loop
* `check_xw`, called by every rmsnorm entry point, rejects N or M above INT_MAX (the kernels take N as
`int` and launch one block per row), and the modulated backward bounds the table rows and tiles it
launches as blocks. A test allocates a (1, 2**31) FP16 row and checks forward and backward.
* The per-row `CUDA_KERNEL_ASSERT` on the modulation index inside `rmsnorm_dweight_partial_kernel` cost
about 11% of the modulated backward (A/B, interleaved min of 300, B200: 1770 -> 1586 us at S = 32768,
6346 -> 5694 us at S = 131072, 378 -> 371 us at S = 4097 once removed). The loop now reads the index
unchecked and the entry point runs `h3_tiles::check_index_range` over the S index values first, a
4 us launch like the tile-metadata pre-pass. The forward and dx kernels keep their once-per-row assert.
A child-process test requires the device-side assert for negative, past-the-table and far indices in
both forward and backward, with a valid-index control.
* The backward header states the exact rounding chain of dx (coef = ((rstd*rstd)*rstd)*dot/N, one cast,
FMA contraction allowed with fixed flags) and that the backward is measured against FP64, not claimed
bitwise to autograd; the empty `Modulation` initialiser says why `seq` is 1.
* `_C.pyi`: contracts for `h3_rmsnorm_forward` / `h3_rmsnorm_backward`.
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h3_adaln_row_gather_backward derives width = chunks * hidden from the gradient's shape (grad.size(0) and grad.size(2)) and the output table {num_rows, width} is returned without any cross-check against the forward's rows.size(1). The Python caller passes grad of shape (chunks, S, H) — if a caller builds a (C', S, H') gradient whose width differs from the forward table's row width, the result silently has a different width and broadcasts/mismatches only later. The forward validates rows.size(1) % chunks == 0 and requires R % modality_num == 0, but the backward has no equivalent shape contract. Add a check that grad.size(0) > 0 && grad.size(2) > 0 and document/enforce that the output width matches the forward's table width, or accept an expected width argument to validate against.
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Not changed. The entry point has no forward state to compare with: chunks and hidden are properties of the gradient it is given, which for the module is the forward's output (6, S, H), and autograd checks both sides of that. A cotangent of another shape never reaches backward (torch.autograd.grad(out, rows, wrong_shape) raises Mismatch in shape: grad_output[0] has a shape of ...), and the table gradient the backward returns is validated against the shape of rows. A zero-sized chunks or hidden is refused by the native function (gradient dimensions and table row count must be positive, checked by running it), and the Python validators require H > 0.
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The BF16 MMA forward's row/column guard is based on the lane's g, but the MMA tile writes cover 16 output columns and 8 input rows per warp. hi_ok = n0 + g + 8 < n_out is computed from the lane index, so lanes with g >= 8 (i.e. lane >= 32) can never exist in a 32-lane warp, but the accumulator acc[i] for i >= 2 holds the column n0 + g + 8 which is loaded by another lane's a_hi. The load guard is fine per-lane; the real problem is x_row = x + (t0 + g) * k_in combined with bx[u] = (k_ok && x_ok) ? *reinterpret_cast<const uint4*>(x_row + k) : zero;: when k_ok is true but k + 8 > k_in (K not a multiple of 8), the 16-byte uint4 read straddles the end of the row. check_matrix + k_in % vec == 0 with vec = 16 / element_size() gives 8 for BF16, so this specific case is guarded. However, the same uint4 read is done at k = kb + 32*u + 8*q, requiring K % 8 == 0 only, while the loop reads 8 elements starting at 8*q; when k + 8 > k_in for the last q, k_ok = k < k_in is true for k = k_in - 4 (possible only if k_in % 8 != 0). Since the entry point enforces k_in % 8 == 0 before the branch, this is currently safe. Consider asserting k_in % 8 == 0 explicitly in the BF16 branch so a future relaxation of check_matrix does not silently turn into an out-of-bounds read.
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Not changed. The host requires K % vec == 0 (vec = 16 / sizeof(T): 8 for BF16, 4 for FP32), and the forward MMA kernel loads the 16-byte chunk at k = kb + 32u + 8q only when k < K; with K % 8 == 0 that already means k + 8 <= K, so no chunk straddles the end of a row, and a quad whose k is past K is zero-filled. Requiring K % 32 == 0 would reject shapes the kernel supports, and the tests run them: test_k_that_is_not_a_multiple_of_the_lane_stride_matches_the_golden covers BF16 K = 8, 24, 40, 72, 264, 520 (none a multiple of 32) and FP32 K = 4, 12, 20, 36, 132, 1044 against an FP64 golden, and K = 64 (a multiple of 32) runs in the odd-width suite. The same sweep ran under compute-sanitizer --tool memcheck in an earlier round with 0 errors. The finding itself concludes the code is safe as written.
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h3_det_linear_backward_weight does not validate grad.size(1) == x.size(1)'s counterpart — it checks grad.size(0) == x.size(0) but never that x.size(1) == weight.size(1) from the forward, which is expected (dW has x's K). That is fine. The actual gap: n_out = grad.size(1) and the kernel reads x[t * k_in + k] with k_in = x.size(1), and dw is {n_out, k_in}. This matches. But unlike h3_det_linear_forward, this entry point never checks x.element_size()-based alignment (check_matrix does require 16-byte aligned data pointer, which is sufficient here since the kernel uses scalar loads). No defect; flagging for completeness only — no change needed.
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Not changed; the finding says there is no defect. x is read with scalar loads, so the 16-byte alignment check_matrix requires is stricter than this kernel needs, and dW has x's K by construction.
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The gather backward is asked for an FP32 table gradient, and d_table (FP32) is then passed to det_linear_backward_weight/det_linear_backward_input. That is the whole point of this fused op (keep the segment sum in FP32 into the projection backward), but it only works if the native h3_adaln_row_gather_backward and the h3_det_linear_backward_* entries accept an FP32 gradient while act/weight are BF16. If they require the grad dtype to match the saved forward dtype, this will either fail the native dtype check or silently produce a different rounding than the two-op path; also note record_backward here has no gradient of the two-op path to compare against. Please confirm the C++ signature accepts FP32 d_rows and FP32 grad against BF16 act/weight, otherwise cast d_rows/d_table back to the table dtype before the projection backward (and update the docstring claim about no extra BF16 rounding).
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Not changed; the signatures take it. h3_det_linear_backward_weight(grad, x, w_dtype, with_bias) and h3_det_linear_backward_input(grad, weight, out_dtype) both require grad to be a contiguous float32 tensor (grad must be a contiguous 2-D float32 CUDA tensor) and take the BF16 act / weight as x / weight; the gather backward is asked for torch.float32 as its out_dtype. Nothing is cast to BF16 between the gather and the projection backward, which is what the docstring claims. test_backward_keeps_table_gradient_fp32 compares d_temb, dW and db with an FP64 golden.
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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validate_h3_modulation read index.dtype first, so forward_modulated(..., index=None)
failed with an AttributeError. All three tensors are required for the modulated
form; a missing one now raises a TypeError that names it.
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positions_by_row silently misbehaves if any index value is >= num_rows (or negative): torch.bincount then returns more than num_rows buckets (or raises on negatives), and the caller's enumerate(...) loop indexes out[row]/d_shift[row] per bucket. In _DeterministicModulation.backward, ctx.rows is shift.shape[0] (table rows R) while forward_modulated only guarantees range checking through validate_h3_modulation, which is skippable via check_range=False. Since positions_by_row is a public helper shared by both ops, add an explicit guard so an out-of-range index fails loudly instead of producing extra buckets / a confusing IndexError deep in the loop.
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The RMSNorm kernel replays PyTorch's own reduction order. It reproduces
vectorized_layer_norm_kernel:rsqrtf, thenw * (rstd * x).As a result it is bitwise equal to
nn.RMSNormfor all four pinned H3 norm weights (blocknorm1/norm2, refinerfinal_norm,norm_out.norm), and rows are batch-invariant.The AdaLN modulation is fused in.
n * (1 + scale[i]) + shift[i]:(S, H)tensors of [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_row_gather: fused six-way AdaLN row gather (RFC #420 stack 4/10) #486 are never materialised;The result is bitwise equal to diffusers for the block (indexed by
adaln_indices) andnorm_out(indexed bytimestep_indices) in bf16, fp16 and fp32.The backward is deterministic:
dxis row-local;dweightis folded over fixed row tiles;dshift/dscaleare sorted segment sums, replacingindex_select's BF16 atomics.The golden is FP64. The modulated golden rounds only the two values the model stores in
x's dtype,norm(x)and1 + scale, straight-through for the gradient.Harness: the pinned manifest adds the norm weights and
norm_out.*(shard 1). The chain gains a per-mode history and a blocknorm1+ modulation stage, which the e2e test covers.Prior art & reuse decision
Measured with
tools/validation/models/h3_prior_art.py, committed in this stack.norm_modulate.jsonwas written from a clean tree atf6ad7a23on 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.torch
F.rms_normand Transformer Engine's RMSNorm are batch-invariant, but they compute only the norm, not the modulation. Liger's modulated RMSNorm is the existing implementation of the whole op with a backward. It needs the shift/scale rows gathered per token first. Throughindex_select, its table gradients are not repeatable and are as inaccurate as diffusers' (0.20 at S = 32768). Through #486's deterministic gather it is batch-invariant, with table-gradient errors of at most 4.0e-3, but slower than this fused kernel: 1.8 ms vs 1.1 ms at S = 4097, and 4.8 ms vs 2.7 ms at S = 32768. SGLang'sfused_norm_scale_shiftis batch-invariant but forward-only. This kernel's forward is bitwise equal to the diffusers composition H3 uses; Liger's and SGLang's round differently, with a lower forward error. Question for @Flink-ddd @inaniloquentee: keep the fused kernel, or reuse Liger with #486's gather?Direct bitwise check (2026-10-13). This kernel's forward is bitwise identical to the diffusers composition at every S. Liger differs in 41.8–46.5% of the BF16 outputs, with either gather, and SGLang in 36.0–36.7%. Reusing either would give up the bitwise-to-diffusers promise that #489's chain and #586's block checks rely on.
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.norm_modulate.jsonwas written from a clean tree at83797833(python tools/validation/models/h3_bitwise_reuse.py --op norm_modulate); the operator doc's "Direct bitwise comparison" section has the figure and the plot command. B200, torch 2.13.0+cu130. Cells give the share of output elements that differ: vs diffusers / vs this kernel, where 0 means bitwise identical.Results (B200, B = 1, H = 5376, BF16)
dshift/dscaleerror vs FP64 (relative to max)At S = 4097 the backward is 1.23 ms, against diffusers' 0.85 ms. The difference is the fixed cost of the sort and tile setup. The data is in
reports/experiments/h3-rmsnorm-b200/report.json, written from a clean tree atd2a6546. Backward timings exclude leaf setup and the forward pass; candidate/provider order alternates each iteration and is recorded in the JSON. The report measures accuracy against its own FP64 reference, notforward_modulated_fp32, and the norm kernel has not changed sinced2a6546, so the golden fix leaves these numbers as they are.Status
Seeded the plain-norm evidence inputs (
95186cb7, test shim8725b3d2)._norm_accuracydrew the inputs of its four plain-RMSNorm bitwise checks from the process's default CUDA generator; they now come from one seeded generator. All four checks stay bitwise equal toF.rms_norm, and the rest of the accuracy section matches the committed report, so it is unchanged. The CPU shim intest_h3_benchmark_timing.pynow maps seeded CUDA generators to CPU generators with the same seed. With this, every random draw inh3_report.pyis seeded.Row-gather evidence on this branch regenerated after the projection golden fix (
a1e37ef3). This branch carries a newerreports/experiments/h3-adaln-row-gather-b200/report.json(backward-only timings), now rewritten from a clean tree at4315cee1;chain_replay.jsoncomes from [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_row_gather: fused six-way AdaLN row gather (RFC #420 stack 4/10) #486's regeneration. Every CUDA pass/fail flag is unchanged. Sincefe0350c1the report comes from a clean tree at29b07c5dwith the op-backward check seeded ([WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_row_gather: fused six-way AdaLN row gather (RFC #420 stack 4/10) #486a6c85451); its CUDA correctly rounded fraction is 99.99931%. The earlier draw was not random from run to run: it used the process's default CUDA generator, so the fraction depended on the runner version (99.99965% atd2a6546). Theh3_rmsnormevidence is not affected.Added: existing-implementation comparison, committed (
tools/validation/models/h3_prior_art.py; report and figure for this op inreports/experiments/h3-prior-art-b200). Sincedf9b836the branch gained only that runner, its evidence and the merges carrying them through the stack (no change outsidedocs/and those scripts). See Prior art.Fixed: the modulated golden (
93c692f).forward_modulated_fp32computednorm(x)and1 + scalein FP64, but the model stores both in BF16.1 + scaleis shared by every position of a row, so the missing rounding produced a systematic error that grew with S. Against the old golden, the CUDAd_weightmissed the BF16 reduction tolerance from S = 1024 (up to 3.6×) andd_scalemissed at S = 4097. With both roundings declared straight-through, every gradient passes at S = 257, 1024 and 4097, with a worst case of 0.29×. The newtest_modulated_gradients_meet_contract_against_goldenfails on the old golden and passes on the new one. No existing check had compared modulated gradients against this golden, so nothing failed before. [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] final_adaln_out: norm_out projection + final norm/modulation (RFC #420 stack 7/10) #489 got the same fix fornorm_out.Merged [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_row_gather: fused six-way AdaLN row gather (RFC #420 stack 4/10) #486's latest state (
df9b836), including [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_projection_3mod: three-modality AdaLN projection (RFC #420 stack 3/10) #485's review fixes. The pinned manifest now carries asha256for every tensor, the norm weights andnorm_out.*included; the hashes were checked against the pinned shard. Benchmark rows also record raw samples and the per-iteration order.No known failures at
df9b836.History
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). This PR's kernel is one of the two that broke. 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: mergedb552988(addsrmsnorm_modulate.cu). 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_h3atdf9b836, two B200s visibletest_modulated_gradients_meet_contract_against_goldentests/test_ws1_gtest_gpu.pyatdf9b836tests/models/minimax_h3with CUDA disabledThe 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
8725b3d2, 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 modulation backward is also deterministic. The token-refiner blocks' own norm weights are in shard 14, which is not pinned. They are the same module as the four pinned norms tested here.
.coderabbit.yamlis not part of this operator. The branch carries thetest-h3CodeRabbit auto-review config, inherited through the stack 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 at26a7cab3. Evidence files live on thepr_assetsbranch underpr487/reports/experiments/*-h100/.Tests (
pytest tests/models/minimax_h3 tests/build tests/runtime/test_dispatch.py)KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1build: 134 passed, 253 skipped in 9.08s (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
sc,sh(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).xwshscData and runner:
h3-backward-h100/onpr_assets(commit37a9e6ad).Repeat check with 30 replays per size (report): native diffusers gives 30 distinct bitwise results for
shandsc(up to 0.15 and 0.11) 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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