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RFC #420 stack 9/10 (base test-h3, merge bottom-up): #483 → #484 → #485 → #486 → #487 → #488 → #489 → #493 → #494 → #586 → #587 → #588. This PR merges after #493; 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 pr494/ (links in this description are fixed to that commit). Paths such as reports/experiments/... below name where a runner writes its output.

What

• Sequence-parallel h3_rmsnorm (+ AdaLN modulation) and adaln_gate_residual.

  • Rank r holds packed positions [r·S//sp, (r+1)·S//sp) of every batch item. Any S ≥ sp works.
  • The (S,) row index is replicated, so every rank derives the same reduction plan from it.
  • Wrong shapes, a sharded index, out-of-range rows and CPU tensors fail closed.

• Row-local work is the WS1 kernels on local rows. That covers the forward, dx, d_sublayer and d_residual, so they are byte-equal by construction.

• Cross-row gradients keep the WS1 order across ranks. d_norm_w, d_shift/d_scale and d_gate are WS1 two-level folds: 256-element tiles, then an ascending fold.

  1. Each tile is computed by the rank that holds its first row, after all-gathering that tile's rows from other ranks. Only tiles that cross a shard boundary move rows.
  2. The tile partials are all-gathered back into WS1 tile order.
  3. Every rank runs the WS1 fold.

  No collective reduction arithmetic is used. The new bindings (h3_rmsnorm_backward_{dx,partials}, h3_rmsnorm_fold_partials, h3_gate_residual_backward_dy, h3_gate_grad_{partials,fold}) wrap the unchanged WS1 kernels. The WS1 dweight tile kernel also accepts explicit row lists, with the same arithmetic.

• The plan is built once per index object and shared by every norm and gated residual that uses it, which in a forward pass is every block.

Prior art & reuse decision

The row-local work and the cross-row folds are #487's and #488's verified WS1 kernels, unchanged; the new bindings only expose them per shard, and the only collective is this repository's deterministic all-gather, used as a copy. No new arithmetic is written, so the survey and batch-invariance checks of #487 and #488 apply.

Direct bitwise comparison

The sequence-parallel norm/AdaLN/gate path 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, H = 5376, BF16)

The region is norm2(residual + gate_msa[row] · y) with shift_mlp/scale_mlp modulation. It is checked on six cases: S = 4097, 32768 and 131072, block and interleaved packing, and B = 2.

	WS1 (1 GPU)	SP2	SP4	SP8
output rows, d_residual, d_sublayer, d_norm_w, d_table bitwise equal to WS1 (every rank, every case)	n/a	yes	yes	yes
fwd+bwd, S = 131072, block	10.73 ms	7.27 ms	4.66 ms	3.92 ms
fwd+bwd, S = 32768, block	3.72 ms	2.85 ms	2.40 ms	2.72 ms
most rows sent by one rank, S = 32768 (block / interleaved)	n/a	109 / 1280	148 / 1280	224 / 1536

Times are for the slowest rank. At short sequences, the backward's few host-synchronising all-gathers (~0.1 ms each) dominate. For contrast, a naive SP8 backward (each rank's WS1 backward, then a rank-order sum) differs from WS1 on 40% of d_norm_w elements and on 6% (block) or 21% (interleaved) of d_table elements. The data is in reports/experiments/h3-sp-norm-adaln-b200/report.json, written from a clean tree at ecde5bb.

Status

• Merged [WS2][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] tp_adaln_3mod: column-parallel AdaLN projection, byte-equal to WS1 (RFC #420 stack 8/10) #493's latest state (ba00517).
• tests/models/minimax_h3 at ba00517 on 8 × B200: 458 passed, 1 skipped (matplotlib not installed), including the 4- and 8-GPU sequence-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 e1db1359. 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. The updated [WS2][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] tp_adaln_3mod: column-parallel AdaLN projection, byte-equal to WS1 (RFC #420 stack 8/10) #493 dependency is merged as well: its pinned backward-only evidence and process-lifecycle regressions are retained alongside the SP-specific review fixes.
• Earlier test runs, superseded by Tests below: after the refactor merge (2× B200): 513 passed, 5 skipped; with the fast-math guard (2× B200, passed / skipped / failed): default 532 / 7 / 0, fast-math 184 / 355 / 0.

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

python -m pytest tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_sp_norm_adaln.py -v
python tools/validation/models/h3_ws2_evidence.py --op sp_norm_adaln --worlds 1,2,4,8 --out report.json && python tools/validation/models/plot_h3_evidence.py report.json

Check	Result
per-rank backward vs WS1 on one GPU, SP 2–8 (odd S, B = 2, shards smaller than a tile, block/interleaved, bf16/fp32)	passed
autograd region over real NCCL, SP2 / SP4 / SP8 vs WS1 (8 × B200)	passed
tests/models/minimax_h3 on 8 × B200 (incl. TP and SP NCCL 2/4/8)	243 passed, none skipped
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 613d1232, 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	536 / 3 / 0
KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1	no (PyTorch reference fallback)	184 / 355 / 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. The attention and FFN SP paths belong to other rows. Until they land, the region uses a seeded stand-in for the sublayer output.

.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 for timestep features and MLPs, AdaLN projection and modulation, RMSNorm, gated residuals, and final AdaLN output, with CUDA implementations and PyTorch reference support.
  • Added tensor-parallel projection and sequence-parallel normalization workflows.
  • Added tools to benchmark operators, replay conditioning stages, validate model weights, and generate performance reports and plots.
• Documentation
  • Added operator guides and benchmark evidence covering H3 operations and parallel workflows.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for H3 operations, dispatch, validation, accuracy, and repeatability.

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 705027a0. B200 and H100 are independent measurement sets (RFC #420); timings and raw bytes are not compared across GPUs. Evidence on pr_assets @ 5f14a845: h3-sp-norm-adaln-head-705027a0-h100/.

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

• default build: 666 passed, 4 skipped
• KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1 build: 205 passed, 465 skipped
• 4-GPU test_h3_sp_norm_adaln.py: 25 passed, 1 skipped in 53.83s

WS2 (h3_ws2_evidence.py --worlds 1,2,4): sp=1, sp=2 and sp=4 are byte-equal to WS1 on every rank and case (report.json). World 8 was not run (same 4-GPU / single-node IPC limit as #493).

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Walkthrough

This pull request adds MiniMax-H3 conditioning operators with PyTorch and CUDA implementations. It also adds tensor- and sequence-parallel operations, dispatch registration, tests, benchmark and evidence tools, operator documentation, and a review-configuration update.

Changes: MiniMax-H3 conditioning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Reference contracts and weight inputs rl_engine/kernels/ops/pytorch/h3/*, rl_engine/testing/h3_cases.py, rl_engine/testing/h3_manifest.json, rl_engine/testing/h3_weights.py, scripts/prepare_h3_weights.py, tests/h3/*weights*	Adds PyTorch reference operations, shared H3 dimensions and test inputs, fixed-order reduction helpers, and manifest-based loading and verification of conditioning weights.
Deterministic CUDA kernels and bindings csrc/cuda/h3/det_linear.cu, csrc/cuda/h3/timestep_sinusoid.cu, csrc/cuda/h3/adaln_row_gather.cu, csrc/ops.cpp, setup.py, rl_engine/_C.pyi, rl_engine/kernels/ops/cuda/h3/{det_linear,timestep_sinusoid,adaln_row_gather}.py, related tests	Adds deterministic linear, timestep sinusoid, and AdaLN row-gather CUDA kernels, extension bindings, Python wrappers, and operator tests.
RMSNorm and gated-residual CUDA paths csrc/cuda/h3/{rmsnorm_modulate,gate_residual}.cu, rl_engine/kernels/ops/cuda/h3/{rmsnorm,gate_residual}.py, tests/h3/test_h3_{rmsnorm,adaln_gate_residual,native_validation}.py	Adds CUDA forward and backward kernels, ordered gradient reductions, row-local and partial-gradient entry points, and Python autograd wrappers.
Operator composition and dispatch rl_engine/kernels/ops/cuda/h3/{adaln_modulation,adaln_projection,timestep_mlp,final_adaln_out}.py, rl_engine/kernels/registry.py, rl_engine/kernels/gtest/*, rl_engine/kernels/ops/pytorch/h3/*, related tests	Adds composed CUDA operators, H3 backend priorities, gtest input and operation registrations, and tests for individual operators and the conditioning chain.
Tensor- and sequence-parallel operations rl_engine/kernels/ops/cuda/h3/{sp_norm_adaln,tp_adaln_projection,ws2_comm}.py, rl_engine/testing/h3_ws2.py, scripts/h3_ws2_evidence.py, related tests and reports	Adds sharded AdaLN projection, sequence-parallel norm and gated residual, collective row gathering, and WS1 comparison and evidence coverage.
Benchmarking, evidence, and operator documentation benchmarks/benchmark_h3_conditioning.py, rl_engine/testing/h3_{chain,report}.py, scripts/h3_*.py, scripts/plot_h3_*.py, docs/operators/*, docs/usage/evidence/*	Adds chain replay, accuracy and performance reports, prior-art comparisons, plotting tools, stored B200 results, and H3 operator documentation and navigation.

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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Merge Risk: Low · previous review af0df

The sequence-parallel norm/AdaLN kernels and their tests show no outstanding correctness issues after the earlier fixes. One low-impact configuration question remains: the review settings file may not limit automated reviews to the test-h3 branch as intended. This does not affect kernel behavior, and the change is mergeable with that noted.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to af0df

The new operations accept indexing metadata that is not fully bounds-checked. Malformed input can cause out-of-bounds memory reads or disrupt a training job. No remotely reachable or cross-tenant attack path has been established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · observed: New publicly bound backward-partial and fold operations trust caller-supplied row and tile contents at the native memory boundary. For example, a well-typed row list can name a row beyond the activation buffer, while tile endpoints and segment boundaries can exceed their backing buffers. The kernels dereference these values without corresponding bounds checks. This permits out-of-bounds GPU reads; job failure or disclosure through returned gradients is possible depending on memory placement. Python-generated plans and table-index assertions do not enforce this invariant for direct native callers.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated attack surface requires the ability to invoke the native extension with CUDA tensors on the launch device. Potential impact concerns accessible GPU allocations and the invoking job. The inspected sources do not establish remote reachability, cross-tenant exposure, or host privilege escalation.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A direct caller can provide correctly typed metadata with an out-of-range row, tile endpoint, or fold boundary. Native validation accepts its representation, then GPU kernels use its contents as pointer offsets. An illegal access can fail the CUDA job; a read that lands in another accessible allocation can feed unrelated data into returned partials or gradients. These outcomes were assessed statically, not demonstrated by executing an exploit.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The normal Python entrypoints validate activations and modulation before constructing plans. Direct native bindings bypass that path. Inspected native tests cover mixed-device metadata and table-index assertion behavior, which are useful controls but are not equivalent to validating explicit tile-content bounds.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The inherited collective serializes each gather and checks matching signatures. Its native peer-sequence waits have no deadline in the inspected loops, and cleanup synchronizes before releasing the handle. The new SP backward has no coordinated abort across its separate gathers. Safe continuation after rank loss or interruption is therefore not established; these underlying wait and cleanup semantics predate this PR, and no separate security regression is asserted.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make the native boundary establish all indexing invariants before dereference: valid row values, bounded and ordered tile endpoints, paired lengths, and bounded segment-fold intervals. Alternatively, expose validated immutable plan objects rather than accepting arbitrary indexing tensors as trusted metadata.

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Use zip(..., strict=True) for gradient pairing.

The chain produces six outputs, and upstream holds six tensors. A plain zip truncates silently if the counts ever differ. Some outputs would then receive no gradient, and the gradient report would be wrong without any error. compare in the same file already uses strict=True.

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-    torch.autograd.backward(outputs, [g.to(out.dtype) for g, out in zip(upstream, outputs)])
+    torch.autograd.backward(
+        outputs, [g.to(out.dtype) for g, out in zip(upstream, outputs, strict=True)]
+    )

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Review comment at @rl_engine/testing/h3_chain.py around lines 380 - 381:
Update the gradient pairing in the backward call to use strict zip behavior, so
mismatched counts of upstream gradients and outputs raise an error instead of
silently truncating. Keep the existing dtype conversion and backward behavior
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Review comments at @.coderabbit.yaml:
- Line 6: Update the base_branches configuration so the test-h3 pattern is not
treated as an exclusive filter; use a supported mechanism to exclude the default
branch if reviews should target only test-h3, or adjust the configured branch
scope to match the intended review coverage.

Review comments at @csrc/cuda/h3/gate_residual.cu:
- Line 65: Add device-side bounds checks for AdaLN table indices before forming
row pointers or reading table rows. In csrc/cuda/h3/gate_residual.cu, add a rows
field to Gate, initialize it from gate.size(0) in make_gate, and assert each
index is within [0, rows). In csrc/cuda/h3/rmsnorm_modulate.cu, add num_rows to
Modulation, initialize it from sh.size(0) in make_modulation, and assert the
forward index is within [0, num_rows) in the forward,
rmsnorm_modulate_dx_kernel, and rmsnorm_dweight_partial_kernel sites.

Review comments at @docs/operators/h3-sp-norm-adaln.md:
- Line 68: Update the block-packing row in the H3 layout table to document the
range as 0–224, matching the cited SP8 report for rank 3 at S=32768.

Review comments at @docs/operators/h3-tp-adaln-3mod.md:
- Around line 30-32: Correct the TP-size documentation around
`adaln_column_shard`: distinguish sizes that satisfy shard alignment, including
TP=9, from the 1, 2, 4, and 8 ranks supported by `DeterministicCollective`. Do
not describe other aligned sizes as failing construction unless the code
enforces that restriction.

Review comments at @rl_engine/kernels/ops/cuda/h3/sp_norm_adaln.py:
- Around line 214-220: Update sp_plan and H3SPNormAdaLNCudaOp.norm so plain-norm
plans use the activations’ device rather than the current CUDA device: pass
x.device into plan construction when index_full is None, and include the device
in the plan-cache key. Preserve the index_full.device behavior for modulated
plans.

Review comments at @rl_engine/kernels/ops/cuda/h3/tp_adaln_projection.py:
- Around line 87-89: Update adaln_column_shard to reject n_total less than or
equal to zero during Python-side validation, before shard input validation or
CUDA dispatch; add a test confirming the zero-size projection raises an error.

Review comments at @rl_engine/testing/h3_report.py:
- Around line 593-615: Update the backward benchmark entries in _gate_perf and
_final_perf to build their autograd graphs in the corresponding *_backward_setup
callables, then time only output.backward(grad) in candidate_backward and
provider_backward. Ensure the recorded backward_timing_scope excludes forward
execution for both adaln_gate_residual and final_adaln_out.

Review comments at @rl_engine/testing/h3_ws2.py:
- Around line 362-364: Update the result-collection flow around `status` and
`procs` to monitor child exit codes while waiting for rank results, so a rank
that exits without reporting is detected promptly rather than waiting for the
queue timeout. In a `finally` block, terminate and join every child that is
still running, including when result collection or a collective fails.

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Review comments at @rl_engine/testing/h3_chain.py:
- Around line 380-381: Update the gradient pairing in the backward call to use
strict zip behavior, so mismatched counts of upstream gradients and outputs
raise an error instead of silently truncating. Keep the existing dtype
conversion and backward behavior unchanged.

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New package initializer for the relocated H3 CUDA ops. Registry entries resolve these modules by fully-qualified path (e.g. ...minimax_h3.adaln_projection.H3AdaLNProjectionCudaOp); confirm the class names in the newly added modules exactly match those strings, and that no stale imports of the pre-move rl_engine.kernels.ops.cuda.h3 package remain (the layout map shows they were relocated).

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Not changed; checked. The registry strings are resolved by test_h3_ops_prefer_cuda_and_fall_back_to_pytorch_reference (every H3 op, in tests/runtime/test_dispatch.py) and by the validation chain, which builds every H3 op through registry.get_op(..., device="cuda"). No Python file refers to the pre-move rl_engine.kernels.ops.cuda.h3 package; its paths survive only as keys of the migration map tools/migration/layout.json.

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The CUDA H3 backends are listed first in every H3 op's CUDA candidate list without any symbol/build guard. The H3 CUDA extension is optional (see tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_extension_without_h3_symbols.py), so on a CUDA build where those symbols are absent the CUDA entry is still selected by priority and fails at instantiation. Please verify that instantiation failure degrades to the PyTorch reference (via the existing failed-backend path) rather than raising to the caller, or add an explicit availability guard before selecting the CUDA H3 backend. (Same pattern applies to CUDA_H3_TIMESTEP_MLP, CUDA_H3_ADALN_PROJECTION, CUDA_H3_ADALN_ROW_GATHER, CUDA_H3_RMSNORM, CUDA_H3_GATE_RESIDUAL, CUDA_H3_FINAL_ADALN_OUT.)

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Not changed; that is the designed path. A backend whose constructor raises is recorded in _failed_backends and the next candidate, the PyTorch reference, is used. Every H3 CUDA op checks its symbols in its constructor, and the tests pin it: test_h3_ops_prefer_cuda_and_fall_back_to_pytorch_reference (every H3 op) and test_h3_extension_without_h3_symbols.py (this PR), which loads an extension without the H3 bindings and requires every CUDA op, the sequence-parallel one included, to refuse to construct. The BF16 ops also check the device in the constructor (det_linear_device_supported(), SM80 or newer, False for a device that cannot be queried), so a pre-SM80 host falls back too; a dtype is a property of the call, not of the constructor, and the validators raise TypeError for an unsupported one.

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forward_modulated inspects shift.stride(1), scale.stride(1) and shift.shape[1] before normalizing rank. If the modulation tensors are 1-D (single shared row) this raises IndexError; if they are 3-D the check silently misclassifies the layout and a non-dense table is passed straight to the kernel. Resolve the rank / table shape explicitly before the stride test (e.g. flatten leading dims or reject unsupported ranks) so the guard covers every accepted layout.

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Not changed. The rank is resolved before the stride test: validate_h3_modulation(x, shift, scale, index, ...) runs first in forward_modulated and raises ValueError: shift must be (R, H) for any tensor that is not 2-D (tensor.dim() != 2 or tensor.shape[1] != hidden), so shift.stride(1) and shift.shape[1] are only read for 2-D tables. A single shared row is a (1, H) table, which the stride test handles.