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RFC #420 stack 8/10 (base test-h3, merge bottom-up): #483 → #484 → #485 → #486 → #487 → #488 → #489 → #493 → #494 → #586 → #587 → #588. This PR merges after #489; until the lower PRs merge, GitHub also shows their commits. This PR's own diff.

Evidence location: the measurement outputs of this PR (JSON, figures, audit files) are not part of its diff. They are on the fork's pr_assets branch under pr493/ (links in this description are fixed to that commit). Paths such as reports/experiments/... below name where a runner writes its output.

What

• Tensor-parallel AdaLN projection (2688 → 96768, 520 MB of BF16 weight per block). Rank r owns the contiguous output columns [r·N/tp, (r+1)·N/tp), which are the same weight and bias rows.

  • N/tp must be a multiple of the 64-column d_input chunk of the WS1 contract, so a shard never splits a WS1 partial sum.
  • TP 1/2/3/4/6/7/8 qualify. Anything else fails closed when the op is built.
  • The gathered table is the WS1 table, so the six tensors and the 3T modality rows are views of it, exactly as in WS1.

• Every floating-point operation is the WS1 kernel, so every rank ends with the WS1 bytes:

  • forward: the local tensor-core GEMV produces the WS1 columns, and a rank-ordered all-gather (a copy) rebuilds the table;
  • dW/db: shard-local;
  • d_temb: each rank computes the WS1 chunk partials of its columns, the all-gather puts them in global chunk order, and every rank runs the WS1 ascending fold.

  No collective reduction arithmetic is used. To expose these pieces, h3_det_linear_backward_input is split into _partials and _fold_chunks; the kernels are unchanged.

• Readback: tp, rank, owned columns and (modality, chunk) slots, collective backend, kernel ids and fallback state.

• ws2_comm.gather_rows pads small gathers past DeterministicCollective's single-block byte-copy path. That path takes about 4 µs per KiB for outputs up to 256 KiB, and the padding brings the T = 1 forward from 0.9–1.35 ms down to 0.12 ms.

Prior art & reuse decision

Every floating-point operation here is #485's verified WS1 kernel, unchanged, and the only collective is this repository's deterministic all-gather, used as a copy. No new kernel is written, so the survey and batch-invariance checks of #485 apply.

Direct bitwise comparison

The column-parallel AdaLN projection is composed of the WS1 rows below it, and their reuse candidates are compared byte for byte with tools/validation/models/h3_bitwise_reuse.py (committed in #483, merged down the stack). It runs every candidate that h3_prior_art.candidates() defines on identical inputs and compares every output and leaf gradient with diffusers' path and with the rl-kernel op. Each row's report, written from a clean tree on its own branch: #483 timestep_sinusoid; #484 timestep_mlp; #485 adaln_projection; #486 adaln_row_gather; #487 norm_modulate; #488 gate_residual; #489 final_adaln_out.

Results (8 × B200, real NCCL, one GPU per rank, pinned block-0 weights)

	WS1 (1 GPU)	TP2	TP4	TP8
table, d_temb, dW/db shards bitwise equal to WS1 (every rank, T = 1..4)	n/a	yes	yes	yes
forward, T = 1 / 3	0.10 / 0.10 ms	0.12 / 0.11 ms	0.11 / 0.11 ms	0.12 / 0.12 ms
forward + backward, T = 1 / 3	1.90 / 2.25 ms	1.49 / 1.77 ms	1.19 / 1.48 ms	1.04 / 1.32 ms

Times are for the slowest rank, and each rank holds 1/tp of the weight and its gradient. The WS1 forward already streams the weight at about 5 TB/s, so the TP forward is bounded by the collective's host-synchronising all-gather (~0.1 ms). The data is in reports/experiments/h3-tp-adaln-3mod-b200/report.json, written from a clean tree at 507c9ad.

Status

• Final-AdaLN-out evidence on this branch regenerated after the golden fix (76594af5). This branch carries a newer reports/experiments/h3-final-adaln-out-b200/report.json, now rewritten from a clean tree at ddca8f95 on an idle B200; chain_replay.json comes from [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] final_adaln_out: norm_out projection + final norm/modulation (RFC #420 stack 7/10) #489's regeneration. CUDA accuracy and every pass/fail flag are unchanged; the doc's latency table follows the new report. The TP evidence is not affected.

• Merged [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] final_adaln_out: norm_out projection + final norm/modulation (RFC #420 stack 7/10) #489's latest state (61c80d7), carrying the review fixes of [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_projection_3mod: three-modality AdaLN projection (RFC #420 stack 3/10) #485–[WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] final_adaln_out: norm_out projection + final norm/modulation (RFC #420 stack 7/10) #489. This PR splits h3_det_linear_backward_input into _partials and _fold_chunks; the merge carries [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] adaln_projection_3mod: three-modality AdaLN projection (RFC #420 stack 3/10) #485's empty-dimension handling into that structure, so an N == 0 input still returns zeros.

• tests/models/minimax_h3 at 61c80d7 on 8 × B200: 439 passed, 1 skipped (matplotlib not installed), including the 4- and 8-GPU tensor-parallel tests.

History

• 2026-10-26: the stack is one ancestor chain. [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] timestep_sinusoid_h3: FP32 timestep features + shared H3 harness (RFC #420 stack 1/10) #483 → [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] timestep_mlp_fp32: deterministic FP32 timestep MLP (RFC #420 stack 2/10) #484 → … → [WS2][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] sp_norm_adaln: sequence-parallel norm/AdaLN/gated residual, byte-equal to WS1 (RFC #420 stack 9/10) #494 are merged forward in order (merge commits only, no force-push), so each branch contains its parent's head and merging the PRs in order does not conflict. All commits are signed off; GitHub's DCO check reports "could not be evaluated" on PRs above 250 commits ([WS2][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] tp_adaln_3mod: column-parallel AdaLN projection, byte-equal to WS1 (RFC #420 stack 8/10) #493, [WS2][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] sp_norm_adaln: sequence-parallel norm/AdaLN/gated residual, byte-equal to WS1 (RFC #420 stack 9/10) #494), which is an app limit, not a missing sign-off.
• 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 ebd21664. 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): 480 passed, 3 skipped; with the fast-math guard (2× B200, passed / skipped / failed): default 499 / 5 / 0, fast-math 168 / 336 / 0.

Pre-refactor validation (historical, before 2026-10-10)

python -m pytest tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_tp_adaln.py -v
python tools/validation/models/h3_ws2_evidence.py --op tp_adaln_3mod --worlds 1,2,4,8 --out report.json && python tools/validation/models/plot_h3_evidence.py report.json

Check	Result
ownership (shards tile the table once; unsupported TP fails closed)	passed
shard arithmetic on one GPU (columns and chunk partials equal the WS1 slice; the fold equals WS1 d_input)	passed
real NCCL TP2 / TP4 / TP8 vs WS1 (8 × B200)	passed (tests/models/minimax_h3: 243 passed, none skipped)
tests/models/minimax_h3 + dispatch + gtest-GPU	all pass; the only failure is the npu dispatch test that already fails on test-h3

The repository's CI workflows 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 a65a02b9, an earlier head of this PR (later commits are listed under History and these runs were not repeated for the current head), 8× B200, pinned MiniMax-H3@42ed227 weights; each build compiled from a clean checkout of that commit:

python tools/weights/prepare_h3_weights.py --out <dir> && export RL_KERNEL_H3_WEIGHTS=<dir>
python setup.py build_ext --inplace                                  # default build
python -m pytest tests/models/minimax_h3 tests/build tests/runtime/test_dispatch.py -q
KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1 python setup.py build_ext --inplace     # fast-math build, same pytest

Build	H3 kernels in _C	passed / skipped / failed
default	yes	501 / 3 / 0
KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1	no (PyTorch reference fallback)	168 / 336 / 0

Default-build skips (environment only): 1 × could not import 'matplotlib'; 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-h3 arrives with #586), so the GPU results above are the test evidence.

Scope / Known limitations

CUDA only. The ROCm column stays open. DeterministicCollective supports world sizes 1, 2, 4 and 8. norm_out.linear (2688 → 10752) is small and stays replicated.

.coderabbit.yaml is not part of this operator. The branch carries the test-h3 CodeRabbit auto-review config, inherited through the stack 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 operations, including timestep embeddings, AdaLN projection and gathering, RMSNorm modulation, gated residuals, and final AdaLN output.
  • Added CUDA implementations with deterministic gradient calculations, plus PyTorch reference implementations and automatic backend selection across supported devices.
  • Added tensor-parallel AdaLN projection support and tools for benchmarking, replaying conditioning workflows, and generating accuracy and performance reports.
  • Added utilities to prepare and validate pinned H3 model weights.
• Documentation
  • Added operator guides covering supported inputs, behavior, backend availability, and limitations.

Results (H100 / Hopper)

Measured on 4 x NVIDIA H100 94GB (sm90), driver 580.173.02, CUDA 13.0, torch 2.13.0+cu130, pinned MiniMax-H3@42ed227, clean tree at 6aaca7d7. B200 and H100 are independent measurement sets (RFC #420); timings and raw bytes are not compared across GPUs. Evidence on pr_assets @ 5f14a845: h3-tp-adaln-3mod-head-6aaca7d7-h100/.

Tests (pytest tests/models/minimax_h3 tests/build tests/runtime/test_dispatch.py)

• default build: 636 passed, 3 skipped
• KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1 build: 189 passed, 450 skipped
• 4-GPU test_h3_tp_adaln.py: 20 passed, 1 skipped in 32.82s

WS2 (h3_ws2_evidence.py --worlds 1,2,4): tp=1, tp=2 and tp=4 are byte-equal to WS1 on every rank and case (report.json). World 8 was not run: single-node 4 GPUs only; deterministic collective uses CUDA IPC on one node.

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• build_tools/extensions.py
• csrc/cuda/h3/adaln_row_gather.cu
• csrc/cuda/h3/det_linear.cu
• csrc/cuda/h3/gate_residual.cu
• csrc/cuda/h3/rmsnorm_modulate.cu
• csrc/cuda/h3/tile_metadata.cuh
• csrc/cuda/h3/timestep_sinusoid.cu
• docs/operators/h3-adaln-row-gather.md
• docs/operators/h3-final-adaln-out.md
• docs/operators/h3-timestep-mlp.md
• docs/operators/h3-tp-adaln-3mod.md
• rl_engine/_C.pyi
• rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/adaln_modulation.py
• rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/adaln_projection.py
• rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/det_linear.py
• rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/final_adaln_out.py
• rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/gate_residual.py
• rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/rmsnorm.py
• rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/timestep_mlp.py
• rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/timestep_sinusoid.py
• rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/tp_adaln_projection.py
• rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/__init__.py
• rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/adaln_projection.py
• rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/adaln_row_gather.py
• rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/gate_residual.py
• rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/rmsnorm.py
• rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/timestep_mlp.py
• rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/timestep_sinusoid.py
• rl_engine/validation/models/h3_chain.py
• tests/build/test_build_platform_collectives.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_adaln_gate_residual.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_adaln_modulation.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_adaln_projection.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_adaln_row_gather.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_assert_in_release_build.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_bitwise_reuse_plot.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_det_linear.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_det_linear_odd_width.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_final_adaln_out.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_report_timing.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_rmsnorm.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_rmsnorm_native_validation.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_timestep_mlp.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_timestep_sinusoid.py
• tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_tp_adaln.py
• tests/runtime/test_dispatch.py
• tools/validation/models/h3_bitwise_reuse.py
• tools/validation/models/plot_h3_bitwise_reuse.py
• tools/validation/models/plot_h3_evidence.py

Walkthrough

This change adds MiniMax-H3 PyTorch reference and CUDA conditioning operators, including deterministic linear operations, timestep processing, AdaLN projection and gathering, RMSNorm, gated residual, and final AdaLN output. It also adds tensor-parallel projection, runtime dispatch, validation and evidence tools, tests, and operator documentation.

Changes: MiniMax-H3 conditioning operators

Layer / File(s)	Summary
H3 contracts and reference operations rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/*, rl_engine/validation/models/h3_provider.py, rl_engine/validation/models/h3_manifest.json, rl_engine/validation/models/h3_cases.py	Adds H3 layout constants, PyTorch reference operators, FP64 comparison paths, provider calculations, seeded input helpers, and manifest metadata.
Deterministic linear CUDA foundation csrc/cuda/h3/det_linear.cu, build_tools/extensions.py, csrc/bindings/ops.cpp, rl_engine/_C.pyi, rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/det_linear.py, tests/build/*, tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_det_linear*	Adds fixed-order FP32 and BF16 linear forward and backward kernels, extension build and binding support, Python wrappers, and edge-dimension and build-configuration tests.
Timestep sinusoid and MLP csrc/cuda/h3/timestep_sinusoid.cu, rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/timestep_{sinusoid,mlp}.py, rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/timestep_{sinusoid,mlp}.py, tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_timestep_*	Adds sinusoidal timestep features and the FP32 linear–SiLU–linear timestep MLP, with CUDA wrappers and reference and CUDA tests.
AdaLN projection and row gathering csrc/cuda/h3/adaln_row_gather.cu, rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/adaln_{projection,row_gather,modulation}.py, rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/adaln_{projection,row_gather}.py, tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_adaln*	Adds deterministic projection and gather operations, plus a fused projection-and-gather autograd path. Tests cover output layout, gradients, and validation.
RMSNorm, gated residual, and final AdaLN csrc/cuda/h3/{rmsnorm_modulate,gate_residual}.cu, rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/{rmsnorm,gate_residual,final_adaln_out}.py, rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3/{rmsnorm,gate_residual,final_adaln_out}.py, tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_{rmsnorm,adaln_gate_residual,final_adaln_out,native_validation,rmsnorm_native_validation}.py	Adds modulated RMSNorm, gated residual, and final AdaLN operations with CUDA and reference paths. Tests cover forward and backward results, metadata, and invalid inputs.
Tensor-parallel AdaLN projection rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/{tp_adaln_projection,ws2_comm}.py, rl_engine/validation/models/h3_ws2.py, tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_tp_adaln.py, tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_ws2_processes.py	Adds rank-local projection shards, rank-ordered gathering, and ordered gradient folding. Validation helpers compare tensor-parallel results with WS1 and test process cleanup.
Dispatch and conditioning-chain replay rl_engine/runtime/registry.py, rl_engine/validation/operators/{operator_inputs,operator_specs}.py, rl_engine/validation/models/h3_chain.py, tools/validation/models/h3_chain_replay.py, tests/runtime/test_dispatch.py, tests/models/minimax_h3/{test_h3_conditioning_e2e,test_h3_chain_replay_cli,test_h3_cli}.py	Registers H3 operators and backend priorities. Adds chain replay and CLI validation, with dispatch and end-to-end coverage.
Weights, benchmarks, and evidence tooling rl_engine/validation/models/{h3_report,h3_weights}.py, tools/validation/models/*h3*, tools/weights/prepare_h3_weights.py, benchmarks/models/benchmark_h3_conditioning.py, tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_{report*,weights,weight_source,benchmark_timing,bitwise_reuse_plot}.py	Adds manifest-checked weight loading and preparation, operator timing and accuracy reports, comparison and plotting tools, and benchmark CLIs and tests.
Operator documentation and migration records docs/operators/h3-*.md, docs/operators/README.md, docs/.nav.yml, tools/migration/{README.md,layout.json}	Adds H3 operator documentation and navigation entries, and records H3 file migration mappings.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant KernelRegistry
  participant TimestepFeatures
  participant TimestepMLP
  participant AdaLNProjection
  participant AdaLNRowGather
  participant RMSNorm
  participant GateResidual
  participant FinalAdaLNOut
  KernelRegistry->>TimestepFeatures: resolve CUDA operator and compute features
  TimestepFeatures->>TimestepMLP: pass timestep features
  TimestepMLP->>AdaLNProjection: pass timestep embeddings
  AdaLNProjection->>AdaLNRowGather: pass projected modulation table
  AdaLNRowGather->>RMSNorm: pass indexed modulation rows
  RMSNorm->>GateResidual: pass normalized activation
  GateResidual->>FinalAdaLNOut: pass residual activation

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Possibly related issues

• RL-Align/RL-Kernel issue 420 — Its WS2 roadmap includes sharded AdaLN output channels and deterministic communication; this change adds tensor-parallel AdaLN projection with WS1 comparison checks.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 6aaca

No functional defect in the production kernels remains. Several documentation statements and a few tests and evidence tools are inaccurate or fragile. Fix them before or soon after merge. None of them affects kernel numerics.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c7223

A new lower-level GPU call accepts unchecked indexing metadata that can cause out-of-bounds reads or GPU faults. Normal validated calls construct safe metadata, and no remote attack path was established. Distributed execution also depends on trusted participants and caller-managed recovery.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · observed: The newly exported native row-gather backward API trusts caller-supplied tile metadata before raw GPU indexing. Tile boundaries index sorted_pos, sorted positions index grad, and segment boundaries index partial without value bounds or same-device validation. Direct in-process callers can bypass the Python metadata producer and trigger out-of-bounds reads or CUDA faults. The normal Python wrapper constructs bounded metadata on the index device; no remote or cross-tenant reachability was established.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The evidenced memory-access concern requires an in-process caller of the native extension. Its demonstrated scope is GPU memory and execution accessible to that CUDA context; source evidence does not establish access to another tenant, service, data store, or environment. TP intentionally shares the full projection table and gradient partials with collective members, so those members must belong to the same trusted computation.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A direct native caller can supply correctly typed metadata containing an out-of-range sorted position, tile interval, or segment boundary. The checks accept its representation, after which CUDA kernels use those values as raw offsets. Possible outcomes include returning values derived from out-of-allocation reads or faulting the context. The normal wrapper does not expose arbitrary tile metadata, and no end-to-end external exploit was demonstrated.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Weight preparation downloads manifest-selected files at a pinned revision and verifies file hashes before parsing shards. Extracted tensor dtype, shape, and raw-byte hashes are checked before writing. The loader uses safetensors and repeats tensor checks before transferring requested weights to the target device. The bundled manifest and local execution environment remain trusted inputs.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The reused collective serializes calls with an instance lock and validates operation, shape, and dtype signatures within its process group. This supports ordered normal execution, but does not establish cross-instance ordering, identical gradient contents, or recovery after a participant stops. The new TP operator inherits these caller-managed constraints rather than adding fault-tolerant execution.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Enforce the backward metadata contract at the native boundary: require metadata on the gradient device and validate sorted positions, tile intervals, and segment boundaries before raw indexing. Alternatively, keep metadata construction inside a non-bypassable native operation.

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Align the table with the PR figure and the report.

The PR description reports 1.83 ms for TP2 fwd+bwd at T = 4. This table lists only T = 1 and T = 3. The report data (report.json) shows about 1.82 ms for TP2 at T = 4. Add a T = 4 row so the doc matches the headline figure.

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Review comment at @docs/operators/h3-tp-adaln-3mod.md around lines 80 - 85:
Add a T = 4 forward + backward row to the table near the existing T = 1 and T =
3 rows, using the TP measurements from report.json so the TP2 value aligns with
the reported approximately 1.82 ms result.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @csrc/cuda/h3/adaln_row_gather.cu:
- Around line 209-213: Update the backward-loop validation for sorted_pos,
tile_begin, tile_end, and seg_first_tile to require each tensor’s device to
match grad.device(), consistent with the sibling backward entrypoints. Preserve
the existing CUDA, rank, contiguity, and dtype checks.

Review comments at @csrc/cuda/h3/gate_residual.cu:
- Around line 62-63: Add `num_rows` to `Gate`, populate it from `gate.size(0)`
in `make_gate`, and check the selected gate index is within bounds before
forming `g` at `csrc/cuda/h3/gate_residual.cu:62-63`. Add `num_rows` to
`Modulation`, populate it from `sh.size(0)` in `make_modulation`, and assert
index bounds in each RMSNorm-modulation kernel at
`csrc/cuda/h3/rmsnorm_modulate.cu:121-125`, `159-161`, and `196-198`.

Review comments at @docs/operators/h3-adaln-projection.md:
- Around line 138-141: Clarify the latency comparison in the prior-art table by
stating that the sizes are row or timestep counts and that the
H3AdaLNProjectionCudaOp streams its 520 MB weight once per 8 rows, so sizes
above 8 incur additional weight passes; alternatively, mark those measurements
as outside the intended T ≤ 8 range. Keep the explanation tied to the table’s
reported timings.

Review comments at @rl_engine/testing/h3_report.py:
- Around line 593-614: Update the backward timing setup in _gate_perf and
_final_perf so candidate_backward and provider_backward only call backward on
precomputed outputs, while their corresponding *_backward_setup callbacks build
the inputs and forward graph outside the timed region, following _norm_perf.

Review comments at @rl_engine/testing/h3_ws2.py:
- Around line 179-187: Update `run_world` to inspect each queue result as it
arrives and raise immediately on the first rank error, preserving its traceback.
Wrap process handling in a `finally` block that terminates and joins any
processes still alive so they do not linger after failures.

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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @docs/operators/h3-tp-adaln-3mod.md:
- Around line 80-85: Add a T = 4 forward + backward row to the table near the
existing T = 1 and T = 3 rows, using the TP measurements from report.json so the
TP2 value aligns with the reported approximately 1.82 ms result.

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[fusheng-ji]

Addressed the standalone documentation nitpick from review 5464611830 in bde1d8d:

Added the T=4 forward+backward row to docs/operators/h3-tp-adaln-3mod.md, using the slowest rank in the committed TP report: WS1 2.09 ms, TP2 1.83 ms, TP4 1.57 ms, TP8 1.45 ms. TP2's raw value is 1.826928 ms, which rounds to 1.83 ms at the table's precision.

All five inline findings have separate replies on their respective threads. Fixes and refreshed backward-only B200 reports/figures are pushed in bde1d8d and 4c1744a. Validation: native extension rebuilt; 252 tests passed and 3 skipped across the targeted CPU/GPU runs (one optional matplotlib test in the test environment, plus TP4/TP8 on this two-GPU machine). Both evidence figures were separately regenerated with the available matplotlib environment. The real TP2 NCCL test passed; the prior TP4/TP8 evidence was not rerun.

[github-actions]

h3_enabled only accounts for the three env vars checked by _external_relaxed_math(), but the H3 sources land in the same rl_engine._C extension as every other operator and are compiled with the same nvcc_flags list. The RL_KERNEL_H3_STRICT path (envs.h3_strict_cuda_flags) is not consulted here at all, and any relaxed flag that arrives without one of those env vars (e.g. an -D__FAST_MATH__-style define injected through another env helper, or a relaxed flag added to nvcc_flags above) leaves h3_enabled true while the H3 .cu files are built with relaxed math. The result is a build that claims bitwise parity and ships a module exposing h3_* symbols that no longer match the reference, instead of falling back to the PyTorch reference. Please derive h3_enabled from the final flag set that is actually handed to the compiler (i.e. after all appends, including the external ones PyTorch's BuildExtension adds) rather than from a partial env-only predicate.

[fusheng-ji]

Not changed. Every relaxing flag this build can contain arrives through the three channels the predicate reads: the local nvcc list adds --use_fast_math only when use_fast_math is set (the same variable that gates h3_enabled), RL_KERNEL_H3_STRICT flags belong to the separate _H3_C attention extension and never reach the sources of _C, and BuildExtension adds --expt-relaxed-constexpr/-D__CUDA_NO_HALF_* style flags that do not touch FP32 math (-D__FAST_MATH__ is not an nvcc option). To keep that true, test_no_flag_built_here_relaxes_math_while_the_h3_define_is_set (ac225c7) runs the predicate over the final nvcc list handed to the compiler, so a relaxed flag added to the list later cannot ship together with the H3 define. While checking this I found a real gap in the environment channel and fixed it: nvcc expands --options-file/-optf (a comma-separated list) itself, also when it comes from NVCC_APPEND_FLAGS, and the predicate read only @file, which nvcc 13.0 does not expand. NVCC_APPEND_FLAGS='--options-file flags.txt' with --use_fast_math inside built the H3 kernels with approximated math; fixed in ac225c7, with an nvcc --dryrun oracle test that compares the predicate with the cicc flags nvcc would use for every spelling.

[github-actions]

_validate_indices builds a stand-in of num_timesteps * H3_MODALITY_NUM rows to reuse the gather validator, but the tensor actually fed to h3_adaln_row_gather_forward is table.view(-1, 18 * hidden), i.e. only num_timesteps rows. The real rows never get the shape/range validation the two-op path applies (H3AdaLNRowGatherCudaOp.forward validates rows), and an out-of-range index/tag can reach the native kernel unchecked. Pass the real table/rows shape through validation instead of a stand-in.

[fusheng-ji]

Not changed (answered in the previous round for the same lines). The validation runs before the table exists, so it uses a stand-in with the shape of the table the op is about to build: (T, 18H) viewed as (3T, 6H) has 3T rows, which is what the stand-in has, and the same validator range-checks timestep_indices against T and token_tags against 3. The real rows tensor is produced by det_linear_forward inside the op, so its shape is correct by construction and there is nothing to validate on it.