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SUMMARY

  • Replace linear searches through partition node lists with average O(1) set membership checks and direct dictionary lookups for node partition indices.
  • Preserve ordered partition lists for deterministic, topologically valid FX graph construction.
  • Avoid temporary list allocation when calculating node indegrees.
  • Add a configurable synthetic benchmark supporting approximately 100K matched sequential targets, including a shared get_attr node with many consumers to exercise delayed partition placement.

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BENCHMARKS

The benchmark was run on a WSL2 with Python 3.13.4 and PyTorch 2.12.1 on CPU.

The workload contains 100,000 matched targets grouped into 335 subgraphs with up to 300 targets each. The synthetic model reads a shared model buffer each layer, producing one shared get_attr node with many consumers. Grouping targets creates sufficiently large partitions to exercise the membership-check optimization without constructing 100,001 single-target subgraphs.

Only trace_subgraphs was timed. Results are medians of three runs.

Revision Run 1 (s) Run 2 (s) Run 3 (s) Median (s)
Baseline (2d7a7ea0) 587.682 574.621 543.853 574.621
This PR 37.253 34.790 33.020 34.790

This provides a 16.5x speedup on the benchmark workload. The baseline regresses heavily on the get_attr case because it repeatedly scans partition lists to locate each consumer; this PR avoids that with node_to_partition lookups.

The baseline was measured by exporting commit 2d7a7ea058793447faa40b75d285c7ce2111c11f to an isolated directory and pointing PYTHONPATH at its src/ tree. The complete workload and reproduction instructions are documented in benchmarks/trace_subgraphs/README.md.

TEST PLAN

python3 -m pytest -q tests/llmcompressor/pipelines/sequential/
CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="" python benchmarks/trace_subgraphs/benchmark.py --smoke

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Happy to standardize on benchmarks by #2992 since those came first.

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The change updates sequential graph partitioning, adds tests for partition execution and ordering, and introduces a configurable trace_subgraphs benchmark with validation, timing, memory, and documentation support.

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Trace subgraph partitioning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Partition assignment and graph boundaries
src/llmcompressor/pipelines/sequential/helpers.py
topological_partition records node assignments and places get_attr nodes by consumer partition. partition_graph uses sets for boundary checks.
Partition execution and validation tests
tests/llmcompressor/pipelines/sequential/test_helpers.py
Tests execute partitioned subgraphs, validate coverage and ordering, compare sequential and branched outputs, check last-use consumption, and verify stable submodule ordering.
Configurable trace benchmark
benchmarks/trace_subgraphs/benchmark.py, benchmarks/trace_subgraphs/README.md
The benchmark supports configurable synthetic models, target grouping, graph validation, timing, peak RSS measurement, structured output, and documented run workflows.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ac173

The tracing change is mergeable with owner awareness, but the benchmark CLI should reject non-positive dimensions instead of failing with division by zero; this is limited to benchmark tooling and does not indicate a production runtime issue.

Possibly related PRs

Suggested labels: enhancement, refactor, tracing

Suggested reviewers: dsikka, kylesayrs

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sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant TraceTargetModel
  participant trace_subgraphs
  participant validate_subgraphs
  participant ResultLogger
  CLI->>TraceTargetModel: build configurable model
  CLI->>trace_subgraphs: match targets and trace subgraphs
  trace_subgraphs-->>validate_subgraphs: return target matches and subgraphs
  validate_subgraphs-->>CLI: validate counts and graph structure
  CLI->>ResultLogger: record timing, RSS, and summary output
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This pull request introduces a synthetic benchmark and unit tests for trace_subgraphs and optimizes the topological partitioning algorithm by replacing linear searches with set membership checks. The reviewer suggests further optimizing the partition lookup from O(P) to O(1) by replacing the list of sets with a single flat dictionary mapping nodes directly to their partition indices, eliminating nested loops.

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partitions: list[list[Node]] = [[]]
partition_sets: list[set[Node]] = [set()]

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Instead of maintaining a list of sets (partition_sets) which requires a sequential scan of $O(P)$ partitions to find which partition a node belongs to, we can use a single flat dictionary node_to_partition: dict[Node, int] to map each node directly to its partition index. This reduces the lookup time from $O(P)$ to $O(1)$.

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partition_sets: list[set[Node]] = [set()]
node_to_partition: dict[Node, int] = {}

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This is not a bad suggestion

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Hi Kyle! Yeahp, let me undraft this the soonest. 🙏🏻

Comment thread src/llmcompressor/pipelines/sequential/helpers.py
Comment on lines +308 to +309
partitions[partition_index].append(node)
partition_sets[partition_index].add(node)

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Update the partition assignment to record the node's partition index in our node_to_partition dictionary.

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partitions[partition_index].append(node)
partition_sets[partition_index].add(node)
partitions[partition_index].append(node)
node_to_partition[node] = partition_index

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user_partitions = []
for user in node.users:
for index in range(len(partitions)):
if user in partitions[index]:
if user in partition_sets[index]:
user_partitions.append(index)
break

# workaround
if len(user_partitions):
partition_index = min(user_partitions)
partitions[partition_index].insert(0, node)
partition_sets[partition_index].add(node)

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With the node_to_partition dictionary, we can now perform a direct $O(1)$ lookup for each user instead of sequentially scanning all partitions. This eliminates the nested loop and provides a massive speedup when there are many partitions.

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user_partitions = []
for user in node.users:
for index in range(len(partitions)):
if user in partitions[index]:
if user in partition_sets[index]:
user_partitions.append(index)
break
# workaround
if len(user_partitions):
partition_index = min(user_partitions)
partitions[partition_index].insert(0, node)
partition_sets[partition_index].add(node)
user_partitions = []
for user in node.users:
if user in node_to_partition:
user_partitions.append(node_to_partition[user])
# workaround
if len(user_partitions):
partition_index = min(user_partitions)
partitions[partition_index].insert(0, node)
node_to_partition[node] = partition_index

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…many consumers, assert it in validation, and update benchmark timings.

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In `@benchmarks/trace_subgraphs/benchmark.py`:
- Around line 87-123: Validate --num-targets and --targets-per-subgraph in
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with an argparse error. Keep valid positive dimensions unchanged and ensure zero
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- Around line 117-126: The test_topological_partition_coverage fixture lacks an
actual get_attr node, making _assert_get_attr_precedes_consumers ineffective.
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Looks great, thanks for the PR! Awesome jobs measuring speedups. Because #2992 was submitted first, I'll merge the other and then merge this after


# create subgraphs
for partition_nodes in partitions:
partition_set = set(partition_nodes)

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Would it be better to have partitions just be a partitions: list[set[Node]] from the beginning?

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Oh, I wanted the partitions (from topological_partition) to stay topologically ordered, so I maintained the list data structure. partition_graph relies on that ordering, since node_copy resolves each node's in-partition inputs through node_map, which requires producers to be copied first.

partition_set = set(partition_nodes)'s mainly there for O(1) membership checks.

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