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Refs #420. Target: test-h3.

Summary

Add the MiniMax-H3 FP32 input projection with optional bias and gradients for X, W and bias.

X: [..., 96]    W: [5376, 96]    bias: [5376]
Y = X @ W.T + bias

Tested on one H20. Supports eager forward/backward and CUDA Graph forward under torch.no_grad().

Implementation

• Reuse the repository's FP32 Triton GEMM and canonical gradient session.
• Add optional bias and a GEMM callable to canonical_linear_fp32. Existing callers keep their default dispatch.
• Use fixed 128-term chunks for long dX/dW reductions and the existing tree machinery for dbias.
• Reuse stable row ordering. Share ordering work between weight and bias gradients.
• Add dispatch registration, an independent CPU FP32 reference, tests and a benchmark.
• Use an explicit Boolean condition for Triton 3.0 compatibility; add shared FP32/BF16 accumulation regressions.

Reuse investigation

The table summarizes development experiments and source review for FP32 H3 projection with parameter gradients.

Source	Findings	Selection rationale
vLLM BI GEMM / SGLang BI GEMM	The tested kernels passed forward/input-gradient BI checks but failed the FP32 accuracy threshold.	Selected RL-Kernel's IEEE FP32 GEMM to meet the accuracy requirement.
vLLM-Omni H3 projection	Defines the projection's model location, FP32 dtype, dimensions and bias usage.	Used as the reference for the operator's tensor contract.
CUTLASS FP32 SIMT candidate	The tested candidate passed its accuracy and BI checks. It was slower than Triton on larger tested H3 inputs.	Selected Triton for lower latency and reuse of the existing repository integration.
RL-Kernel Triton FP32 GEMM and canonical gradient session	Provide FP32 GEMM and parameter-gradient ordering by logical row. The bias-only extension still failed some long-reduction accuracy cases.	Reused the GEMM and gradient session, then extended bias support and FP32 reductions for H3.

The chunk scheduling follows merged #396.

Files changed — 6 added, 12 modified

[A] = added. [M] = modified.

├── benchmarks/
│   └── operators/
│       └── gemm/
│           └── benchmark_video_input_projection_fp32.py [A] # Public operator checks, timing and JSON output
├── docs/
│   ├── .nav.yml [M] # Operator page navigation
│   └── operators/
│       └── video-input-projection-fp32.md [A] # API, arithmetic, scope and reproduction
├── rl_engine/
│   ├── backends/
│   │   └── shared/
│   │       └── triton/
│   │           └── gemm/
│   │               ├── det_gemm.py [M] # FP32 bias, fixed-chunk gradients and bias-tree reduction
│   │               └── video_input_projection_fp32.py [A] # H3 schedule selection and Triton wrapper
│   ├── ops/
│   │   ├── autograd/
│   │   │   └── canonical_backward.py [M] # Share matching weight/bias ordering; check ordered keys
│   │   └── gemm/
│   │       ├── canonical_linear.py [M] # Optional bias and GEMM callable in shared autograd
│   │       └── video_input_projection_fp32.py [A] # Public tensor contract and input checks
│   ├── reference/
│   │   └── gemm/
│   │       └── video_input_projection_fp32.py [A] # Independent CPU FP32 forward and gradients
│   ├── runtime/
│   │   └── registry.py [M] # Dispatch, SM90 eligibility and implementation identity
│   └── validation/
│       └── operators/
│           ├── op_checks.py [M] # Optional backward context for canonical sessions
│           ├── operator_inputs.py [M] # Projection inputs and logical row keys
│           └── operator_specs.py [M] # Candidate, reference and gradient validation wiring
└── tests/
    ├── ops/
    │   └── gemm/
    │       ├── test_det_gemm.py [M] # Shared GEMM and reduction regression coverage
    │       └── test_video_input_projection_fp32.py [A] # Accuracy, BI, bias, dispatch and packed projection chain
    ├── runtime/
    │   └── test_kernel_registry.py [M] # Registration and hardware eligibility tests
    └── validation/
        └── operators/
            ├── test_op_checks.py [M] # Backward-context regression tests
            └── test_operator_inputs.py [M] # Input builder and key tests

Call path: get_op → registry → Triton wrapper → canonical_linear_fp32 → projection_gemm_fp32.
The canonical session orders parameter-gradient contributions.

Tests

Test group	Result
H3 projection	154/154 passed
Shared Triton GEMM (-k triton)	27/27 selected cases passed

The CI extension smoke check, operator CLI, formatting checks and strict documentation build also passed.

Coverage includes forward/gradients, bias, microbatches, padding, row permutation,
noncontiguous gradients, packed inputs and CUDA Graph forward.
Packed-input accuracy and BI cover 124-, 243- and 345-frame videos, plus the
maximum FL2VA and Ref2VA layouts under the released H3-Base defaults (B=1).
The chunked GEMM also covers the 256-to-257-partial boundary (K=32768/32769).

Accuracy uses atol=rtol=1e-4 against an independent CPU FP32 reference.
Batch invariance (BI) requires equal FP32 bits for the same logical contributions.

Implementation	Accuracy: Y/dX/dW/dbias	Row-permutation BI: Y/dX/dW/dbias
PyTorch F.linear	10/10 cases	1/10 cases
This PR (Triton)	10/10 cases	10/10 cases

These are the ten seeded benchmark shapes below. The one-row permutation is trivial.

Accuracy and BI figure

Left: elements outside the accuracy tolerance. Right: elements whose FP32 bits change when rows are reversed. Zero means pass.

Performance

Compare ordinary PyTorch F.linear and autograd with this PR's complete operator calls.
The PR timings include input checks and canonical gradient handling.

FP32, TF32 disabled, seed 420. Each measurement uses 5 warmups and 40 CUDA-event samples.
The table reports median eager forward + backward latency.

Rows	PyTorch F.linear F+B (ms)	This PR F+B (ms)	PR / PyTorch latency
1	0.128	0.982	7.67x
128	0.153	1.117	7.32x
1,024	0.228	1.130	4.95x
4,096	0.705	1.403	1.99x
13,104	2.055	3.239	1.58x
37,296	5.356	8.068	1.51x
72,576	11.065	15.549	1.41x
102,816	14.567	21.959	1.51x
108,576	15.831	22.912	1.45x
364,608	54.387	86.077	1.58x

The benchmark covers synthetic input sizes and supported H3 task layouts:

• 1 / 128 / 1,024 / 4,096 / 13,104: synthetic input sizes. The 13,104-row case uses 768p spatial dimensions with a synthetic temporal length.
• 37,296 / 72,576 / 102,816: 124-frame landscape, 243-frame portrait and 345-frame landscape videos at 1344×768 or its transpose.
• 108,576 (FL2VA): target video plus two keyframes.
• 364,608 (Ref2VA): target video plus nine reference images and three reference videos.

The conditioned-layout maxima use the released H3-Base preprocessing defaults for
one request. The operator document
records the frame, canvas and reference-count calculations. These dimensions
represent supported H3 tasks. All benchmark tensor values are generated with
seed 420; timing covers the projection.

At 364,608 rows, this PR takes 86.077 ms versus 54.387 ms for PyTorch
(1.58× latency). Throughput is 4.24 vs 6.70 million rows/s.
Triton passes accuracy and parameter-gradient BI at all ten sizes.

Incremental peak allocated memory at this size is 7.67 GiB (PyTorch) vs 13.51 GiB (this PR).
This measures one warmed eager F+B call above the pre-call allocation, excluding inputs and persistent caches.

Left: eager forward + backward. Right: CUDA Graph forward replay.
Top: 1–13,104 projection rows. Bottom: H3 video and reference layouts (37,296–364,608 rows).
Each panel has its own scale.
Both implementations use the same execution mode within each panel.

Reproduce

Environment follows ci/scripts/run_gpu_ci.sh.
H20, driver 535.261.03, Python 3.11.10, PyTorch 2.4.1+cu124,
CUDA 12.4, Triton 3.0.0, pytest 9.1.1, NumPy 1.26.3.
Transformers 5.13.1, Accelerate 1.15.0, FlashInfer 0.6.18.post1.

Check out feat/h3-video-input-projection-fp32 from walker-ai/RL-Kernel.
Run from the repository root in the CI image
runpod/pytorch:2.4.0-py3.11-cuda12.4.1-devel-ubuntu22.04.
On H20, build the extension and install dependencies in CI order:

export FORCE_CUDA=1 MAX_JOBS=8 KERNEL_ALIGN_FORCE_SM90=1
export TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST=9.0+PTX
python3.11 -m pip install --no-cache-dir torch==2.4.1 --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu124
python3.11 -m pip install --no-build-isolation --no-deps -e .
python3.11 -m pip install --no-cache-dir numpy tabulate accelerate "transformers==5.13.1" pytest triton "flashinfer-python>=0.6.0,<0.7"

The CI script pins PyTorch and Transformers and sets a FlashInfer version range.
The versions above record this run's resolved environment.

The benchmark generates inputs and weights with seed 420.

export PYTHONPATH=.
export OMP_NUM_THREADS=4

python3.11 tools/checks/ci_smoke.py

python3.11 -m pytest -q -rs tests/ops/gemm/test_video_input_projection_fp32.py

python3.11 -m pytest -q tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py -k triton

python3.11 tools/validation/operators/check_operator.py \
  --op video_input_projection_fp32 --candidate triton --device cuda \
  --dtype fp32 --batch 1 --seq 129 --check-grad --grad-mode random

python3.11 benchmarks/operators/gemm/benchmark_video_input_projection_fp32.py \
  --backends pytorch triton \
  --rows 1 128 1024 4096 13104 37296 72576 102816 108576 364608 \
  --seed 420 --warmup 5 --samples 40 \
  --output /tmp/h3-input-projection.json

The JSON contains raw timing samples, memory measurements, seed, source hashes, backend metadata, accuracy errors and BI mismatch counts.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added FP32 video input projection support for MiniMax-H3 on supported CUDA SM90 systems, including input, weight, and bias gradients.
  • Added deterministic gradient handling and checks for numerical accuracy and consistency across row orderings.
  • Added a benchmark comparing supported implementations across forward, backward, and combined workloads, with timing and memory results.
• Documentation
  • Documented supported input layouts, execution constraints, numerical behavior, and benchmark results.

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Walkthrough

This change adds an FP32 video input projection for MiniMax-H3, with an SM90 Triton backend, a CPU reference, canonical weight and bias gradients, runtime and validation integration, tests, documentation, and a benchmark.

Changes: H3 FP32 Video Input Projection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
FP32 GEMM kernels and schedules rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/gemm/det_gemm.py, rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py, tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py, tests/ops/gemm/test_video_input_projection_fp32.py	Adds FP32 chunked and tree GEMM paths, optional bias handling, and canonical-key order checks. The projection backend selects full-K, chunked, or tree GEMM based on reduction and output widths. Tests cover numerical accuracy, workspace limits, and output consistency.
Canonical parameter gradients rl_engine/ops/autograd/canonical_backward.py, rl_engine/ops/gemm/canonical_linear.py, tests/ops/gemm/test_video_input_projection_fp32.py	Adds contribution-aware normalization reuse and extends canonical linear gradients to support bias and a custom GEMM callable. Tests cover ordering, dispatch, and shared bias contributions.
Projection operator and runtime integration rl_engine/ops/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py, rl_engine/reference/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py, rl_engine/runtime/registry.py, rl_engine/validation/operators/*, tests/runtime/test_kernel_registry.py, tests/validation/operators/*, tests/ops/gemm/test_video_input_projection_fp32.py, docs/operators/video-input-projection-fp32.md, docs/.nav.yml	Adds the projection adapter, CPU reference, CUDA SM90 registration, input generation, and canonical-session validation. Tests cover input and registry contracts, gradients, and projection behavior. The documentation describes the tensor contract, dispatch, accuracy rules, test coverage, and qualification limits.
Benchmark and accuracy reporting benchmarks/operators/gemm/benchmark_video_input_projection_fp32.py, tests/ops/gemm/test_video_input_projection_fp32.py, docs/operators/video-input-projection-fp32.md	Adds benchmark accuracy checks, timing and memory measurements, and JSON reporting. The documentation includes the benchmark procedure and report contents.

Priority: Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant VideoInputProjectionFP32Op
  participant canonical_linear_fp32
  participant projection_gemm_fp32
  participant CanonicalBackwardSession
  Caller->>VideoInputProjectionFP32Op: Call with input, weight, bias, and logical keys
  VideoInputProjectionFP32Op->>canonical_linear_fp32: Flatten rows and dispatch trainable projection
  canonical_linear_fp32->>projection_gemm_fp32: Compute forward projection
  projection_gemm_fp32-->>canonical_linear_fp32: Return projected rows
  canonical_linear_fp32->>CanonicalBackwardSession: Register parameter uses and submit gradients
  CanonicalBackwardSession-->>canonical_linear_fp32: Return normalized parameter gradients
  canonical_linear_fp32-->>VideoInputProjectionFP32Op: Return output and gradients
  VideoInputProjectionFP32Op-->>Caller: Reshape output to leading dimensions and width 5376

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• RL-Align/RL-Kernel issue 420: Describes the MiniMax-H3 FP32 video input projection from width 96 to hidden size 5376, which this change implements.

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 26789

The projection works as described, but backward can pay a compile cost for each new row count. Very large batches, above about 2.1M rows, fail with an unclear Triton compile error instead of a clear message. Both are small fixes that can be made before or shortly after merge.

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please resolve the conflicts first, thanks!

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please resolve the conflicts first, thanks!

Get. I will inform you promptly once ready. Thx.

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@maxiaosong1124 @Flink-ddd Sorry, I’ve only just realized this might be an issue.
Branches such as test-h3 will eventually be merged into main, and their tests will need to pass CI before merging. Does this mean we must run our reproduction commands and unit tests in the same Docker image used by CI, and report the results from that environment?

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@maxiaosong1124 @Flink-ddd Sorry, I’ve only just realized this might be an issue. Branches such as test-h3 will eventually be merged into main, and their tests will need to pass CI before merging. Does this mean we must run our reproduction commands and unit tests in the same Docker image used by CI, and report the results from that environment?

The current implementation passed in our previously validated environment using Triton 3.5.1. However, testing with the repository’s CI image and installation steps (PyTorch 2.4.1+cu124, Triton 3.0.0) on a single H20 exposed a compiler compatibility issue.

For test_video_input_projection_fp32.py:

Result	Cases
Passed	103 / 145
Failed during Triton compilation	42 / 145

All 42 failures point to the same expression:

if CHUNK_K and k >= tl.cdiv(CHUNK_K, 2 * BLOCK_K):

This expression combines an integer compile-time constant with a Boolean condition. Triton 3.5.1 handles the constant condition before combining the operands, while Triton 3.0.0 attempts an unsupported conversion and reports:

Cannot bitcast data-type of size 32 to data-type of size 1

The affected tests fail before numerical comparisons execute.

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Thanks for fixing the Triton 3.0 compatibility issue and rerunning the projection and shared GEMM tests in the CI environment. LGTM

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📄 rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/gemm/det_gemm.py (L890-L892)

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The row-split recursion reuses the parent tile/strides, but the sliced a[start:start+rows_per_chunk] is a view whose row stride is unchanged while the kernel addresses rows as offs_m * stride_am with 0-based offs_m; that is fine, however a is never made contiguous here whereas _triton_gemm_fp32 always calls .contiguous(). If a caller passes a non-contiguous a (e.g. a transposed view), stride_ak/stride_am are whatever the view exposes and the kernel must honour them — currently only a.stride() is forwarded, which is correct for 2-D strides, but the recursion's rows_per_chunk can be 0 for large chunks * n_size, raising instead of splitting over N. Consider splitting columns as the FP32 tree path does so the workspace budget can always be met.

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📄 tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py (L403-L404)

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This test exercises only the full-K FP32 path (K=65 <= 96, so _triton_gemm_fp32), not the newly added _triton_chunked_gemm_fp32 (K > 96, required for dX/dW) nor the bias epilogue nor the FP32 tree/bias-gradient path. The non-divisible-K chunk tail bug in _det_gemm_fp32_kernel (k_rem computed from full K) would not be caught here. Add a case with k_size > 128 and k_size % 128 != 0 through the chunked entry point so the chunk tail mask is validated.

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📄 rl_engine/ops/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py (L93-L103)

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The Triton backend's _check_backend asserts the op is "input-projection", but this adapter accepts [M,96] and [B,S,96] input. With a 3D input and gradients enabled, x.reshape(-1, 96) produces a view mirroring (B, S) blocks.

canonical_linear_fp32 → _CanonicalLinearFn.forward calls _gemm_fp32(a, weight.t().contiguous(), ...), which dispatches to projection_gemm_fp32 → _triton_gemm_fp32. That path immediately does a.contiguous(), fine. But for the dX VJP, backward passes grad32 (contiguous) and the weight, so a.shape[1] = 5376 > 96, and b.shape[1] = 96 (weight is [5376, 96] there, K=5376), so it takes the chunked branch with K=5376 > 128. That splits dX into 128-term chunks — which matches the declared dx_dw_chunk_k: 128 contract and is fine numerically, but note this is the dX path, not just dW/dbias as the comments in projection_gemm_fp32 state. The comments ("Long input and weight gradients both have 96 output columns") are inaccurate for dX: its output has 96 columns only because K=5376, which is coincidentally the hidden width, not the patch width. The dispatch is correct by accident — if VIDEO_HIDDEN_WIDTH were ever not a multiple of 128, or if the chunked kernel's workspace budget (_MAX_TREE_WORKSPACE_ELEMENTS // (chunks * n_size)) is exceeded for large row counts, dX would fail at runtime.

Concretely: for the real H3 case (M rows, dX is [M, 96]), chunks = 5376/128 = 42, n_size = 96, so rows_per_chunk = 134217728 // (42*96) ≈ 33280. For M > 33280 (e.g. a long video token batch in the [B,S,96] 3D form, which the op explicitly permits), _triton_chunked_gemm_fp32 splits over M and recursively calls itself — it still works, but the recursion base condition rows_per_chunk = _MAX_TREE_WORKSPACE_ELEMENTS // (chunks * n_size) recomputes the same value on sliced a, so it terminates. Not a defect, but worth documenting.

The real actionable point: the docstring/comments in projection_gemm_fp32 mislabel which GEMM each branch handles (calling the dX case "weight gradients" and the 96-column case "input and weight gradients"). Given downstream readers rely on these comments to map shapes to reduction contracts, fix the mapping.

💡 Suggested Change

Before:

"""Project [M, 96] or [B, S, 96] to FP32 hidden width 5376.

        When gradients are enabled, trainable weight or bias requires an active
        canonical backward session, logical_keys, and parameter_id. Calls that
        need only input gradients do not require parameter-gradient registration.
        """

        validate_projection_inputs(x, weight, bias)
        self._check_backend(x)
        # Flatten batch and sequence axes without changing logical row order.
        rows = x.reshape(-1, VIDEO_PATCH_WIDTH)

After:

    # dX: a is [M, 5376] (K=hidden), b is [5376, 96] -> output [M, 96].
    # dW: a is [5376, rows] (K=rows), b is [rows, 96] -> output [5376, 96].
    # dbias: a is [1, rows], b is [rows, 5376] -> tree reduction over K=rows.

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• rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py,rl_engine/ops/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py,rl_engine/reference/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py (review_limit_reached): reached the aggregate token budget before finishing; the grace round did not complete the task
• rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py (token_budget_reached): stopped group "rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py,rl_engine/ops/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py,rl_engine/reference/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py" mid-review: used 661623 tokens exceeds budget 500000
• rl_engine/runtime/registry.py (token_budget_reached): stopped dispatch: used 661623 tokens + group estimate 108608 = projected 770231 exceeds budget 500000
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The permutation (batch-invariance) check raises for every non-pytorch candidate, but triton is a default backend choice. At the very first M-value (default --rows starts at 1), a bitwise mismatch in y/dx/dw/dbias aborts the whole benchmark before any results are written, i.e. a performance run can never complete for the backend it exists to measure. Only the accuracy gate is a genuine correctness criterion here; invariance should be recorded in the report (it is, via permutation_bit_mismatches) rather than terminating the run. Also note the strict bitwise comparison itself is only justified if the operator contract mandates it (the test suite asserts bytes for the Triton path, so this is consistent) — but a failure must not prevent measurement.

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The expected active-row predicate here filters on key[0] >= 0 only, while other rows in the parametrization (e.g. [[0, 2**63-1], [1, -(2**63)]]) retain rows whose second component is negative. If production _normalize/_keys_are_canonical treats a negative component at any position as padding (or requires all components >= 0), expected_order silently diverges and the assertion either false-fails or validates the wrong ordering. Confirm the production predicate and mirror it exactly.

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- Around line 833-853: Make CHUNKS a runtime argument in
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• rl_engine/ops/gemm/canonical_linear.py
• rl_engine/ops/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py
• rl_engine/reference/gemm/video_input_projection_fp32.py
• rl_engine/runtime/registry.py
• rl_engine/validation/operators/op_checks.py
• rl_engine/validation/operators/operator_inputs.py
• rl_engine/validation/operators/operator_specs.py
• tests/ops/gemm/test_det_gemm.py
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• tests/runtime/test_kernel_registry.py
• tests/validation/operators/test_op_checks.py
• tests/validation/operators/test_operator_inputs.py

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Minor · Performance & Scalability · Quick win

Make CHUNKS a runtime argument so the merge kernel does not recompile for each new row count.

CHUNKS is a tl.constexpr. Triton therefore compiles a new _det_gemm_fp32_chunk_merge_kernel for each distinct ceil(K / 128). The dW VJP uses K = R, the total number of active token rows. A new video length or conditioning layout therefore triggers a JIT compile during backward. The cost is about one second or more per new shape on Triton 3.0. In RL training, request lengths vary, so this cost recurs.

The kernel uses CHUNKS only in a load mask. A runtime value gives the same reduction: same padded width, same zero padding, same tl.sum tree. The compiled variants then depend only on PADDED_CHUNKS, which is a power of two.

The bias tree has a related cost. _det_gemm_tree_leaf_kernel declares K: tl.constexpr but never reads K. The non-fused one-row bias path therefore also recompiles for each R. Consider removing that specialization in a follow-up. It is pre-existing code, but this PR introduces the per-R FP32 caller.

♻️ Proposed change

     def _det_gemm_fp32_chunk_merge_kernel(
         partial_ptr,
         output_ptr,
         ELEMENTS,
-        CHUNKS: tl.constexpr,
+        CHUNKS,
         PADDED_CHUNKS: tl.constexpr,
         BLOCK_C: tl.constexpr,
     ):

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	@triton.jit
	def _det_gemm_fp32_chunk_merge_kernel(
	partial_ptr,
	output_ptr,
	ELEMENTS,
	CHUNKS: tl.constexpr,
	PADDED_CHUNKS: tl.constexpr,
	BLOCK_C: tl.constexpr,
	):
	"""Sum [chunk, element] partials with a fixed padded reduction width."""
	offsets = tl.program_id(0) * BLOCK_C + tl.arange(0, BLOCK_C)
	chunks = tl.arange(0, PADDED_CHUNKS)
	values = tl.load(
	partial_ptr + chunks[:, None] * ELEMENTS + offsets[None, :],
	mask=(chunks[:, None] < CHUNKS) & (offsets[None, :] < ELEMENTS),
	other=0.0,
	)
	# Pinned padded width and launch configuration define this FP32 tree.
	total = tl.sum(values, axis=0)
	tl.store(output_ptr + offsets, total, mask=offsets < ELEMENTS)
	@triton.jit
	def _det_gemm_fp32_chunk_merge_kernel(
	partial_ptr,
	output_ptr,
	ELEMENTS,
	CHUNKS,
	PADDED_CHUNKS: tl.constexpr,
	BLOCK_C: tl.constexpr,
	):
	"""Sum [chunk, element] partials with a fixed padded reduction width."""
	offsets = tl.program_id(0) * BLOCK_C + tl.arange(0, BLOCK_C)
	chunks = tl.arange(0, PADDED_CHUNKS)
	values = tl.load(
	partial_ptr + chunks[:, None] * ELEMENTS + offsets[None, :],
	mask=(chunks[:, None] < CHUNKS) & (offsets[None, :] < ELEMENTS),
	other=0.0,
	)
	# Pinned padded width and launch configuration define this FP32 tree.
	total = tl.sum(values, axis=0)
	tl.store(output_ptr + offsets, total, mask=offsets < ELEMENTS)

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Review comment at @rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/gemm/det_gemm.py around
lines 833 - 853:
Make CHUNKS a runtime argument in _det_gemm_fp32_chunk_merge_kernel instead of a
tl.constexpr, while keeping PADDED_CHUNKS and BLOCK_C specialized and using
CHUNKS only for the load mask. Preserve the existing padded reduction behavior.

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Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Reject chunk counts whose merge tile exceeds Triton's tensor size limit, with a clear error.

The merge kernel loads one [PADDED_CHUNKS, 64] block. Triton limits a block to 2^20 elements (TRITON_MAX_TENSOR_NUMEL). That limit is exceeded when next_power_of_2(chunks) > 16384, which happens for K above 2,097,152. For dW, K is the total active row count.

validate_projection_inputs does not bound M, and the workspace check at Lines 890-892 does not catch this case. A batch of about six Ref2VA layouts fails inside Triton compilation with an unrelated-looking error, and only during backward. Add an explicit check next to the workspace check.

🛡️ Proposed guard

     chunks = triton.cdiv(k_size, _FP32_CHUNK_K)
+    if triton.next_power_of_2(chunks) * 64 > 1 << 20:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"FP32 chunk GEMM supports at most {(1 << 14) * _FP32_CHUNK_K} reduction terms; got {k_size}"
+        )
     rows_per_chunk = _MAX_TREE_WORKSPACE_ELEMENTS // (chunks * n_size)

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	m_size, k_size = a.shape
	n_size = b.shape[1]
	chunks = triton.cdiv(k_size, _FP32_CHUNK_K)
	rows_per_chunk = _MAX_TREE_WORKSPACE_ELEMENTS // (chunks * n_size)
	if rows_per_chunk < 1:
	raise RuntimeError("FP32 chunk GEMM exceeds the workspace budget for one row")
	m_size, k_size = a.shape
	n_size = b.shape[1]
	chunks = triton.cdiv(k_size, _FP32_CHUNK_K)
	if triton.next_power_of_2(chunks) * 64 > 1 << 20:
	raise RuntimeError(
	f"FP32 chunk GEMM supports at most {(1 << 14) * _FP32_CHUNK_K} reduction terms; got {k_size}"
	)
	rows_per_chunk = _MAX_TREE_WORKSPACE_ELEMENTS // (chunks * n_size)
	if rows_per_chunk < 1:
	raise RuntimeError("FP32 chunk GEMM exceeds the workspace budget for one row")

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Review comment at @rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/gemm/det_gemm.py around
lines 887 - 892:
Add a guard beside the workspace check in the FP32 chunk GEMM path after
computing `chunks`; reject reductions whose padded chunk count times the
64-element merge width exceeds Triton’s 2^20-element tensor limit, and raise a
clear RuntimeError that reports the supported reduction limit and actual
`k_size`.

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In chunked mode reduction_size = CHUNK_K, but the tail mask still uses the global k_rem = K - k * BLOCK_K while offs_k starts at chunk * CHUNK_K. For K not divisible by 128 (e.g. the H3 dW path with K != 96*n tokens) the last chunk masks against the wrong bound: k_rem is computed from full K, so offs_k < k_rem stays true past the chunk end and the loads read past the chunk's K range (and b_ptrs/a_ptrs walk beyond the intended 128-term window), silently corrupting partials. Also offs_k does not wrap per chunk, so offs_k < k_rem is not a chunk-local bound even when K % 128 != 0. Masking must be based on the chunk-local remaining width (start_k + (k+1)*BLOCK_K - offs_k bounded by CHUNK_K and K).

Suggestion:

Suggested change

	reduction_size = CHUNK_K if CHUNK_K else K
	second_half = tl.zeros((BLOCK_M, BLOCK_N), dtype=tl.float32)
	for k in range(0, tl.cdiv(reduction_size, BLOCK_K)):
	k_rem = K - k * BLOCK_K
	reduction_size = CHUNK_K if CHUNK_K else K
	second_half = tl.zeros((BLOCK_M, BLOCK_N), dtype=tl.float32)
	for k in range(0, tl.cdiv(reduction_size, BLOCK_K)):
	# Chunk-local tail bound: offsets beyond K or past this chunk are masked.
	k_rem = tl.minimum(start_k + (k + 1) * BLOCK_K, K) - offs_k

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The shared-normalization cache is keyed only by the contribution signature and popped on first use, but submit_linear and submit_rows pass different tensor kinds (grads vs rows) for the same signature. With weight+bias both requiring grads, the first consumer (weight -> submit_linear) populates _normalized[signature] with reordered grads; submit_rows then pops it and passes those gradients to the bias reducer as if they were rows, producing a wrong dbias (or a shape error when grads width differs from row width). The cache also mixes values from different kinds entirely. Cache per values is required: either don't cache, or include a values-kind discriminator in the key, or store the ordering only and apply it independently to each values tensor.

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rows is concatenated in original order while grads returned by _normalize is already ordered by order (and — in the reuse path — trimmed to active rows only). The previous code applied index_select(0, order) to both all_rows and all_grads. Calling reducer(rows.index_select(0, order), grads) is only correct if rows keeps the full untrimmed length; but _normalize uses valid = torch.nonzero(keys[:, 0] >= 0) and order = valid.index_select(...), i.e. order indexes into the full concatenation, while grads is already gathered to active rows. Applying that index to rows is fine only because values were concatenated in full and trimmed by the same order inside _normalize — however the reuse_order branch builds order = arange(keys.shape[0]) and does NOT filter invalid rows, so padded entries reach the reducer. Verify the row/grad pairing is consistent between both branches; safest is to have _normalize return the row selection explicitly alongside grads rather than re-deriving it here.