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feat(prims-ts): expose merge-compatible softmax statistics for prefill and decode - #5489
Expose merge-compatible softmax statistics for PrimTS contiguous/paged prefill, paged FMHA decode, and dense paged MLA decode. Add per-query MLA KV bounds, aligned runtime-strided V for contiguous prefill, and retain independently reviewable MLA scheduling optimizations used by NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#19395.
This revision is based on FlashInfer main snapshot 911d6a9d62308b6c8a5249e8dc4aabc7518020f1, also the canonical trtllm-prims-ts-dev-20261107 snapshot adopted by NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21354. It preserves that snapshot's scalar/device-tensor global scales, dynamic Q/K lengths, compact split workspaces, independent LSE and sparse/NVFP4 APIs.
The source and downstream pin are synchronized. GitHub still reports this upstream PR as conflicting with newer FlashInfer main; this update does not claim that an additional upstream-only rebase is complete.
plan(store_softmax_stats=True) selects the specialization; run(softmax_stats=...) binds caller-owned FP32 storage shaped [*out.shape[:-1], 2]. One-shot entry points and workspace sizing use the same contract.
Export natural-log token maximum m and unscaled s = sum(exp(logit - m)), independently of LSE and output scaling. Decode sinks contribute once to the denominator without changing the token maximum.
Retain raw maxima/denominators through direct, fused, cluster and standalone reductions, including MLA 1CTA/2CTA. Preserve the original natural FP32 scale instead of reconstructing it from rounded log2 scale.
Per-query MLA bounds are runtime metadata. Supported empty local partitions produce zero output and neutral statistics; bounds and scales remain live through CUDA-graph replay.
Contiguous prefill accepts aligned non-overlapping row/batch strides for V, with compact head/channel axes. This lets frameworks pass projection views directly.
Statistics remain opt-in. Preserve statistics-disabled behavior except for the separate performance commits.
Review order
Sixteen signed commits ending at 26b197614300b549eb103fc59d736c3a0e4b3fa9:
09ad74067, f8e2d59bf, 0562893da: context statistics, public naming, then paged/decode/MLA statistics.
6726e14f2: per-query MLA KV bounds.
17573fd72, 28c5c81bb, e5f34b035, bd74ff638: bounded SM107 single split, coverage for already-upstream query pruning, full-tile LDRED, and request-local dense KV domains.
ff9c60139, dc1dc5f17, 734248179: original-scale correctness and numerical-fixture fixes.
2b789baca: runtime-strided V.
f38fe1d5a, a10e1c8cc, b570fdf7b, 26b197614: refreshed scale/workspace API reconciliation, consolidated regression coverage, MXFP8 statistics scope, and the device-scale reducer branch fix.
All twelve pre-refresh commits were retained, with before/after patch-range and file-set audits. The refreshed scale/workspace fixes are separate commits. The corresponding temporary TRT-LLM source branch uses this same source history; the canonical dev branch is not modified.
Supported combinations and limits
Statistics support plain contiguous/paged prefill, standard decode (including sinks), and dense MLA decode, alongside independent base-2 LSE. Context statistics reject VC, Sage, MXFP8 Q/K and context sinks; standard-decode statistics reject Sage. Dense MLA statistics require exact-max tuning (softmax_rescale_threshold_log2=0). Sparse/NVFP4 MLA surfaces do not expose these statistics/bounds options.
Dense contiguous context supports empty request-local K/V segments when physical storage contains at least one token overall. Paged/causal context requires positive K/V lengths. Unbounded inactive decode requests preserve caller storage; bounded MLA initializes neutral rows.
For graphs, preallocate output/statistics/metadata and capture with validate=False. This does not claim host-checking validate=True is capture-safe. Scalar/tensor scale kinds are fixed by planning; values and addresses are not compile-cache keys.
No registration in flashinfer/aot.py; wrapper usage remains experimental opt-in.
Functionality, performance, correctness and refreshed-API adaptations remain separately reviewable.
🧪 Tests
Current refresh validation
B200, CUDA13.4, CUTLASS DSL4.8.0:
Full selected changed-test run at b570fdf7b: 525 passed, 8 skipped, 2 failed.
One failure was a device-scale reducer compilation regression: assigning a float back to a pointer variable inside a dynamic CuTe branch. 26b197614 keeps a branch-local natural scale. All 22 targeted rerun cases passed, including the failing graph/prepared case, compact split reductions, and strict sink-scale cases. These overlap the full run and are not additive unique counts.
The remaining BF16 Helix page-boundary tolerance failure reproduces identically on both pre-refresh sources: upstream-port a4b6e9028 and old pinned-dev 64273c074. It affects 2/884736 output elements, with greatest absolute difference 0.0006412482 (absolute tolerance 0.0005). The test, input domain, reference and tolerances are retained unchanged; this is a known pre-existing failure, not a newly passing qualification.
The eight skips require SM107/212-SM or the normal LDTM.STAT-enabled policy; B200 does not qualify those policy-specific tests.
Test consolidation: the same 13 affected files collect 2391→2373 cases. Context statistics shrink 48→24 while retaining every input-dtype/layout/mask/geometry combination and representative output conversions; targeted scale/graph coverage is added. No proportional runtime-speedup claim.
No new full-model or performance experiment. No manual FlashInfer CI command was issued.
Historical Rubin qualification and measurements (pre-refresh sources)
Focused, overlapping CPU selections passed: standard decode/precision 298, MLA bounds plus SM107 policy 111, context contracts 41, shared statistics 42, trace consistency 97, query-pruning contracts 11, LDRED contracts 2, and runtime-KV-domain contracts 13. These phase-specific counts must not be summed as unique tests; GPU skips in local runs are not passes.
The original-scale fix additionally passed focused source/CPU review: 66 upstream and 92 dev CPU cases, with GPU cases skipped locally. The FP8 fixture correction passed seven CPU contract checks executing both fixture bodies with dependency doubles; those are not native GPU qualification.
On Rubin, exact head 005d91701b95e88a3495da84e6d384efccc606d7 passed 104 selected GPU tests with zero skips: context 31, standard decode 38, and MLA 35. Hecate job 927548 used a fresh full-source FlashInfer 0.7.3 package, not a PrimTS overlay on an older installed wheel. This includes all 12 new original-scale regression cases.
The same allocation independently tested the older canonical-dev API adaptation at eef263b: 13 passed, one failed, and seven were not executed. Its original-scale sink case [2-disabled] exposed an approximately 11% denominator error whose exact arithmetic signature is multiplication/subtraction contraction. The dev-only explicit-rounding correction at 069139a65aad98f3e5c61f049c761e28eff0b14e then passed all 21 selected GPU cases with zero skips in Hecate job 927692, without weakening tolerances. The upstream cases above passed unchanged. The first allocation exited with failure and did not time; the follow-up keeps that failure record separate from its successful dev rerun. Downstream TRT-LLM head a7da965b611830fbc1347e84646b687adc177f67, pinning this dev correction, also passed 26 matching-runtime B200 regression checks with zero skips: four native sparse-MLA GPU cases and 22 host/contract cases. This is focused regression coverage, not a full-model rerun. Upstream CI triggering is handled by the maintainer, not this qualification run.
After both correctness gates passed, job 927692 completed 36 fresh-process prepared-wrapper receipts: three ABBA blocks for each of three synthetic cases. Baseline e2203f939e6c95475d7ec609fadfb916c04a2bec and candidate 005d91701b95e88a3495da84e6d384efccc606d7 contain the same original-scale correctness fix; their production delta is only LDRED plus request-local KV domains.
Synthetic case
Baseline graph latency
Optimized graph latency
Mean paired change
Sample SD
One request, statistics ON
100.212 us
91.859 us
-8.335%
0.089 pp
Two ragged/empty requests, statistics ON
376.195 us
102.620 us
-72.721%
0.018 pp
One request, statistics OFF
73.045 us
72.087 us
-1.312%
0.040 pp
These packed dense FP8 E4M3 cases use H96, Dqk192/Dv128, and BF16 output. B1 uses Q/K lengths 1920/1920 and capacities 2048/2048. B2 uses Q lengths [1664,256], K lengths [0,3840], and capacities Q2048/K4096. Both arms pass actual runtime maxima. All eager, graph, and post-timing numerical checks passed; all input identities were unchanged. Independent audit recomputed 360 raw CUDA-event samples and all nine block summaries. Percentages average paired block ratios; SD is across three blocks in one allocation, not independent allocation replications. This measures prepared-wrapper graph replay only, not native-attention or K3 end-to-end performance. The empty-partition result does not establish its frequency in serving, and statistics ON/OFF changes precision policy as well as output storage.
FP8 empty-context fixture diagnosis
Before changing the output tolerance, nine exact-input controls compared the pre-performance-port source f5ec2e580, the combined source b787f5692, and older dev 76e822974, with and without the empty neighbor and with statistics on/off. All six statistics-enabled active outputs were identical across sources/layouts and exactly matched the BF16-rounded explanatory model that rounds P to E4M3 for PV while retaining the FP32 denominator. The original strict FP32-oracle check missed 2 of 49,920 elements; relative L2 was 2.302%, within the pre-existing expanded-FP8 contract. Empty outputs/statistics and tight active m/s checks passed. This supports the single finite-input fixture correction, not a general hardware-emulator claim or qualification of the subsequent original-scale fix. BF16 thresholds and exact empty checks remain unchanged; the revised FP8 test also requires relative L2 below 5%, active m/s agreement, and a TF32-disabled independent reference.
Historical downstream evidence and limits
The earlier Rubin K3 FP8+MTP DEP16 experiment reached near throughput parity with CuTeDSL plus trtllm-gen: mean paired-block changes +2.18% at concurrency 128 and +0.56% at concurrency 256, with sample SDs 2.57 and 2.03 percentage points. Those pre-refresh measurements do not qualify this head or establish a robust speedup or output equivalence. Native GSM8K was 96.5125% versus PrimTS 95.8302% in that configuration; both cleared the reused 93.2975% gate, but the nine-answer difference remains. Exact sources, workloads and limitations are recorded in NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#19395.
Historical CP8 timings are prepared-attention/FIFO2 component measurements, not full-model Helix results. Strict 8-GPU aggregated Helix was excluded because the scheduler/model does not support it. No KDA behavior or Small-BH NaN fix is included.
The tracking issue names an owner, reason, and graduation plan with a target release.
Core changes are limited to a thin entry point.
Tests live in tests/experimental/ and include a runnable example.
Nothing is registered in flashinfer/aot.py; calling the experimental wrapper remains explicit opt-in.
Shared experimental test scope is declared below.
tests/experimental/test_experimental_api.py
The existing PrimTS implementation and numerical tests remain in flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/ and tests/attention/. This experimental-track scope covers shared opt-in machinery, not kernel correctness; the targeted attention tests above cover the kernels. Backend relocation is outside this change.
Reviewer Notes
Please focus on the maximum/denominator contract, original-scale rounding, row ownership, split-workspace indexing, per-query bounds, and graph-live buffers/scales. Enabled low-precision probability rounding is tested against independent references; bitwise output equivalence with statistics disabled is not promised. The pre-existing BF16 boundary failure above is not waived or hidden.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Context attention, paged decode, and MLA decode can optionally return merge-compatible softmax maximum and denominator statistics.
MLA decode supports per-query KV-prefix limits, including empty prefixes.
Context attention accepts V tensors with aligned padding between token rows and batches.
Documentation
Added usage guidance and constraints for the new statistics, KV-prefix limits, and padded layouts.
No actionable comments were generated in the recent review.
Walkthrough
PrimTS now supports optional softmax statistics across context, FMHA decode, and MLA decode. MLA decode also supports per-query KV bounds that change prefix visibility, empty-row handling, and trace schemas. The PR updates plans, kernels, reducers, validation, documentation, and tests.
Changes: PrimTS attention statistics and KV bounds
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Context statistics and padded V flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/context.py, flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/kernels/fmha_context/*, tests/attention/test_attention_ts_context*.py, tests/attention/test_attention_ts_dense_q_pruning.py, flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/README.md
Contiguous and paged context plans validate the statistics option, accept padded V layouts, and pass statistics buffers into the kernels. The context kernels and tests write and check per-row maximum and denominator outputs.
Decode plans size the statistics scratch, bind the optional buffer, and route statistics through the kernel and reducers. The kernel and reduction code store and merge maximum and denominator pairs.
MLA plans, kernels, helpers, traces, and tests accept softmax statistics and per-query KV bounds. The bounds path initializes empty rows, applies query-specific prefixes, and validates the new contracts.
flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#7026: This PR changes MLA softmax maximum updates and probability scaling. PR #5489 exports MLA maximum/denominator statistics and requires the same rescale-threshold contract.
flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#6721: This PR adds VC-Attention to the contiguous context wrapper and FMHA softmax resources. PR #5489 adds statistics to the same context path and rejects the same VC combination.
flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#6617: This PR adds Sage Attention to the contiguous context wrapper and FMHA kernel. PR #5489 adds statistics to the same context path and rejects the same Sage combination.
Sequence Diagram(s)
sequenceDiagram
participant BatchMLADecodePagedTSWrapper
participant _launch_mla_decode
participant MlaDecodeTs
participant initialize_empty_rows
participant softmax_stats
BatchMLADecodePagedTSWrapper->>_launch_mla_decode: pass kv_bounds and softmax_stats
_launch_mla_decode->>MlaDecodeTs: launch with bounds-aware plan
MlaDecodeTs->>initialize_empty_rows: zero empty rows for zero bounds
MlaDecodeTs->>softmax_stats: write row statistics
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The statistics and KV-bounds changes show no new behavioral defects in this review. The pre-commit type-check failure in the trace templates should be fixed before merge. Two documentation gaps also remain: the workspace-sizing requirement and the all-empty partition merge definition.
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In `@flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/context.py`:
- Around line 2157-2162: Update the ValueError message in the total_k validation
to use min_total_k as its lower bound, while preserving the existing upper-bound
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Fix the total_k lower-bound error message for statistics-enabled dense plans.
min_total_k is 1 when enable_softmax_stats is set and mask_type == "dense". The ValueError below still says "between batch_size and batch_size * max_kv_len rows". Callers who use the new empty-chunk contract get a wrong lower bound in the message. Put min_total_k in the message.
Proposed fix
if total_k < min_total_k or total_k > (
geometry.batch_size * geometry.max_seq_len_k
):
raise ValueError(
- "k and v must contain between batch_size and "- "batch_size * max_kv_len rows; got "+ f"k and v must contain between {min_total_k} and "+ "batch_size * max_kv_len rows; got "
f"{total_k} for batch_size={geometry.batch_size} and "
f"max_kv_len={geometry.max_seq_len_k}"
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In `@flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/context.py` around lines 2157 - 2162, Update
the ValueError message in the total_k validation to use min_total_k as its lower
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Adapt the upstream statistics extension while preserving the pinned dev branch's KV dtype and standalone API contracts. Keep probability centering and extra statistics storage opt-in, and qualify reduction tests using the dev branch's supported geometries.
Upstream-PR: flashinfer-ai#5489
Upstream-Commit: a2c135a
Signed-off-by: Yuxian Qiu <142763828+yuxianq@users.noreply.github.com>
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feat(prims-ts): expose merge-compatible softmax statistics for prefill and decode
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In
`@flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/kernels/mla_decode/throughput_latency_1cta/config.py`:
- Around line 299-312: Shared-memory estimates omit statistics that may be
allocated at runtime. Thread the runtime statistics flag from launch-spec
resolution through estimated_throughput_latency_smem_data_bytes,
resolve_auto_cluster_reduction_config, and
validate_explicit_cluster_reduction_config, then pass it to
cluster_reduction_smem_bytes_for when computing the footprint so validation uses
the same flag as allocation.
In `@flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/mla_decode.py`:
- Around line 1816-1820: Update the `store_softmax_stats` documentation in both
relevant docstrings to state that a caller-owned `workspace_buffer` must be
sized using the same flag value passed to
`get_prims_ts_batch_mla_decode_workspace_size`. Preserve the existing
statistics-buffer and default descriptions.
In `@flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/README.md`:
- Around line 121-123: Update the partition-merge documentation near the weights
formula to define the all-empty case: when every partition has statistics (-inf,
0), return zero output and (-inf, 0) before calculating weights. Preserve the
existing weight formula and empty-row behavior for other cases.
In `@flashinfer/trace/templates/attention.py`:
- Around line 1648-1652: Update the dispatchers using
_make_prims_ts_decode_mla_one_shot_trace and both corresponding registry
builders to use the same store_softmax_stats cache-key behavior: either pass
false when building both registries or omit the argument from dispatch calls
when the flag is false, so dispatched templates appear in _TRACES.values() and
.templates.
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Include statistics in the shared-memory budget checks.
cluster_reduction_smem_bytes computes the estimate with store_softmax_stats=False, but TmemCorrResource allocates with the runtime statistics flag. The statistics-enabled allocation can therefore exceed the estimate. If a selectable split-KV configuration is close to MAX_CLUSTER_SMEM_DATA_BYTES, the plan can pass validation and then exceed the SM100 shared-memory budget.
Thread store_softmax_stats from launch-spec resolution through estimated_throughput_latency_smem_data_bytes, resolve_auto_cluster_reduction_config, and validate_explicit_cluster_reduction_config. Use the same flag when computing the cluster-reduction footprint. The additional bytes are determined by the split count and row count; they are not always exactly 4 * tile_size_q.
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In
`@flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/kernels/mla_decode/throughput_latency_1cta/config.py`
around lines 299 - 312, Shared-memory estimates omit statistics that may be
allocated at runtime. Thread the runtime statistics flag from launch-spec
resolution through estimated_throughput_latency_smem_data_bytes,
resolve_auto_cluster_reduction_config, and
validate_explicit_cluster_reduction_config, then pass it to
cluster_reduction_smem_bytes_for when computing the footprint so validation uses
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When store_softmax_stats=True, the selected kernel requires extra split-maxima and sums scratch. plan skips _validate_workspace_buffer when validate=False, and the one-shot accepts a caller-owned workspace_buffer. An undersized buffer can therefore be used for the statistics-enabled plan.
Add this requirement to both docstrings:
📝 Suggested docstring fix
store_softmax_stats : bool
- Compile final FP32 maximum/denominator export. Supply its caller-owned- buffer to every run when enabled. Defaults to ``False``.+ Compile final FP32 maximum/denominator export. Supply its caller-owned+ buffer to every run when enabled. A caller-owned ``workspace_buffer``+ must be sized with the same flag passed to+ :func:`get_prims_ts_batch_mla_decode_workspace_size`. Defaults to+ ``False``.
@@
store_softmax_stats : bool
- Compile statistics export; defaults to ``False``.+ Compile statistics export; defaults to ``False``. A caller-owned+ ``workspace_buffer`` must be sized with the same flag passed to+ :func:`get_prims_ts_batch_mla_decode_workspace_size`.
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In `@flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/mla_decode.py` around lines 1816 - 1820, Update
the `store_softmax_stats` documentation in both relevant docstrings to state
that a caller-owned `workspace_buffer` must be sized using the same flag value
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Define the all-empty partition merge.
If every independently computed partition is empty, each statistic pair is (-inf, 0). The documented weight can then evaluate exp(-inf - -inf) * 0 to NaN. State that an all-empty merge returns zero output and (-inf, 0) before calculating weights.
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In `@flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/README.md` around lines 121 - 123, Update the
partition-merge documentation near the weights formula to define the all-empty
case: when every partition has statistics (-inf, 0), return zero output and
(-inf, 0) before calculating weights. Preserve the existing weight formula and
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Keep dispatch results aligned with registered templates.
The cached factories treat an omitted store_softmax_stats argument and an explicit store_softmax_stats=False argument as different cache keys. The dispatchers therefore can return a distinct template that is absent from their corresponding _TRACES.values() and .templates lists.
Pass store_softmax_stats=False when building both registries, or omit the argument from dispatch calls when the flag is false.
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In `@flashinfer/trace/templates/attention.py` around lines 1648 - 1652, Update the
dispatchers using _make_prims_ts_decode_mla_one_shot_trace and both
corresponding registry builders to use the same store_softmax_stats cache-key
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Adapt the upstream statistics extension while preserving the pinned dev branch's KV dtype and standalone API contracts. Keep probability centering and extra statistics storage opt-in, and qualify reduction tests using the dev branch's supported geometries.
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Adapt the upstream statistics extension to the refreshed canonical branch, retaining separate K/V and QK/PV dtype contracts, prepared decode APIs, and current scheduling paths. Keep probability centering and extra statistics storage opt-in, with statistics-disabled arithmetic unchanged.
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Disable deferred context normalization anchors only when exporting actual maxima. Propagate the statistics flag into the MLA one-shot workspace query, and give KV256 split-column epilogues a single statistics writer. Keep statistics-disabled paths unchanged.
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Adapt the upstream statistics extension to the refreshed canonical branch, retaining separate K/V and QK/PV dtype contracts, prepared decode APIs, and current scheduling paths. Keep probability centering and extra statistics storage opt-in, with statistics-disabled arithmetic unchanged.
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Disable deferred context normalization anchors only when exporting actual maxima. Propagate the statistics flag into the MLA one-shot workspace query, and give KV256 split-column epilogues a single statistics writer. Keep statistics-disabled paths unchanged.
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Narrow template.outputs["output"] to Tensor before you read dim_names.
TraceTemplate.outputs has the type Dict[str, Tensor | Scalar]. Scalar has no dim_names attribute. The mypy pre-commit hook fails on Line 1142 with union-attr, and the pre-commit job exits with code 1. Narrow the type explicitly. The narrowing check also gives a clear error if a future template stores a scalar output under "output".
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- template.outputs["softmax_stats"] = Tensor(- [*template.outputs["output"].dim_names[:-1], "softmax_stats_width"],+ output = template.outputs["output"]+ if not isinstance(output, Tensor):+ raise TypeError("softmax statistics require a tensor 'output'")+ template.outputs["softmax_stats"] = Tensor(+ [*output.dim_names[:-1], "softmax_stats_width"],
dtype="float32",
param="softmax_stats",
description="Scaled natural-log token maximum and unscaled denominator.",
)
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description="Scaled natural-log token maximum and unscaled denominator.",
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output=template.outputs["output"]
ifnotisinstance(output, Tensor):
raiseTypeError("softmax statistics require a tensor 'output'")
template.outputs["softmax_stats"] =Tensor(
[*output.dim_names[:-1], "softmax_stats_width"],
dtype="float32",
param="softmax_stats",
description="Scaled natural-log token maximum and unscaled denominator.",
)
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[error] 1142-1142: The mypy pre-commit hook failed: Item "Scalar" of "Tensor | Scalar" has no attribute "dim_names" (union-attr). The pre-commit command pre-commit run --show-diff-on-failure --color=always --all-files exited with code 1.
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[error] 1142-1142: mypy failed in the pre-commit run: Item "Scalar" of "Tensor | Scalar" has no attribute "dim_names" (union-attr).
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Review comment at @flashinfer/trace/templates/attention.py around lines 1141 -
1146:
Narrow `template.outputs["output"]` to `Tensor` before accessing `dim_names`;
raise a clear `TypeError` if it is a `Scalar`, then use the narrowed tensor to
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Add opt-in maximum and denominator outputs to paged prefill, standard decode, and MLA decode while keeping request buffers in run and compile specialization in plan. Preserve direct partial sums and centered score differences for stable statistics, including FP8 probability normalization and split reductions. Add runtime-contract, graph, trace, partition-merge, and precision coverage.
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Use one KV split for the bounded SM107 212-SM FP8 MLA geometry while preserving the existing kernel family, static capacities, and public plan/run interfaces.
Cover the policy boundary on CPU and retain reference output, merge-statistics, and CUDA graph parity checks for fixed and packed queries across page boundaries and empty-row transitions.
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Retain the directed query-boundary, cached-prefix, output/statistics, and CUDA graph coverage from development commit 8fdc93c. Main already enables packed dense query pruning through flashinfer-ai#6774, so preserve its broader scheduler selection rather than reintroducing a narrower dispatch predicate. Adapt metadata contracts and API names to current main.
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Reuse the hardware row-maximum reduction for complete packed dense KV tiles. Recompute masked tails from the previous maximum so neighboring requests and TMA padding cannot affect softmax. Preserve the current finite mask sentinel and VC scale handling.
Cover full, partial, and empty request rows, metadata graph replay, paged layouts, and the software-reduction fallback.
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Read live KV offsets for query-paired SM107 FP8 expanded MLA task domains. Use the current launch bound as a ceiling and retain one masked tile for empty request rows so the existing head/tail output and statistics protocol remains valid.
Cover tile boundaries, dynamic launch bounds, inactive request handling, and graph replay metadata changes without specializing the public compile cache by request lengths.
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Carry the original natural FP32 scale instead of reconstructing it through base-2 arithmetic, which can alter large finite maxima and sink denominators.
Preserve current plan/run and LSE APIs while appending the original scale to internal statistics operands. Leave the existing baseline sink output normalization unchanged.
Add source-arithmetic, partition-merge, graph-replay, and sink-owner regression coverage.
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Use the established FP8 output and relative-L2 bounds while preserving exact empty outputs and statistics. Add tight active maximum and denominator checks with an independent TF32-disabled reference.
Exact-input current, pre-optimization and dev controls produced identical active results and matched probability-rounded FP8 arithmetic for the reproduced fixture.
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📌 Description
Expose merge-compatible softmax statistics for PrimTS contiguous/paged prefill, paged FMHA decode, and dense paged MLA decode. Add per-query MLA KV bounds, aligned runtime-strided V for contiguous prefill, and retain independently reviewable MLA scheduling optimizations used by NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#19395.
This revision is based on FlashInfer main snapshot
911d6a9d62308b6c8a5249e8dc4aabc7518020f1, also the canonicaltrtllm-prims-ts-dev-20261107snapshot adopted by NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#21354. It preserves that snapshot's scalar/device-tensor global scales, dynamic Q/K lengths, compact split workspaces, independent LSE and sparse/NVFP4 APIs.The source and downstream pin are synchronized. GitHub still reports this upstream PR as conflicting with newer FlashInfer main; this update does not claim that an additional upstream-only rebase is complete.
plan(store_softmax_stats=True)selects the specialization;run(softmax_stats=...)binds caller-owned FP32 storage shaped[*out.shape[:-1], 2]. One-shot entry points and workspace sizing use the same contract.mand unscaleds = sum(exp(logit - m)), independently of LSE and output scaling. Decode sinks contribute once to the denominator without changing the token maximum.Review order
Sixteen signed commits ending at
26b197614300b549eb103fc59d736c3a0e4b3fa9:09ad74067,f8e2d59bf,0562893da: context statistics, public naming, then paged/decode/MLA statistics.6726e14f2: per-query MLA KV bounds.17573fd72,28c5c81bb,e5f34b035,bd74ff638: bounded SM107 single split, coverage for already-upstream query pruning, full-tile LDRED, and request-local dense KV domains.ff9c60139,dc1dc5f17,734248179: original-scale correctness and numerical-fixture fixes.2b789baca: runtime-strided V.f38fe1d5a,a10e1c8cc,b570fdf7b,26b197614: refreshed scale/workspace API reconciliation, consolidated regression coverage, MXFP8 statistics scope, and the device-scale reducer branch fix.All twelve pre-refresh commits were retained, with before/after patch-range and file-set audits. The refreshed scale/workspace fixes are separate commits. The corresponding temporary TRT-LLM source branch uses this same source history; the canonical dev branch is not modified.
Supported combinations and limits
Statistics support plain contiguous/paged prefill, standard decode (including sinks), and dense MLA decode, alongside independent base-2 LSE. Context statistics reject VC, Sage, MXFP8 Q/K and context sinks; standard-decode statistics reject Sage. Dense MLA statistics require exact-max tuning (
softmax_rescale_threshold_log2=0). Sparse/NVFP4 MLA surfaces do not expose these statistics/bounds options.Dense contiguous context supports empty request-local K/V segments when physical storage contains at least one token overall. Paged/causal context requires positive K/V lengths. Unbounded inactive decode requests preserve caller storage; bounded MLA initializes neutral rows.
For graphs, preallocate output/statistics/metadata and capture with
validate=False. This does not claim host-checkingvalidate=Trueis capture-safe. Scalar/tensor scale kinds are fixed by planning; values and addresses are not compile-cache keys.🔍 Related Issues
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flashinfer/aot.py; wrapper usage remains experimental opt-in.🧪 Tests
Current refresh validation
B200, CUDA13.4, CUTLASS DSL4.8.0:
b570fdf7b: 525 passed, 8 skipped, 2 failed.26b197614keeps a branch-local natural scale. All 22 targeted rerun cases passed, including the failing graph/prepared case, compact split reductions, and strict sink-scale cases. These overlap the full run and are not additive unique counts.a4b6e9028and old pinned-dev64273c074. It affects 2/884736 output elements, with greatest absolute difference 0.0006412482 (absolute tolerance 0.0005). The test, input domain, reference and tolerances are retained unchanged; this is a known pre-existing failure, not a newly passing qualification.Historical Rubin qualification and measurements (pre-refresh sources)
Focused, overlapping CPU selections passed: standard decode/precision 298, MLA bounds plus SM107 policy 111, context contracts 41, shared statistics 42, trace consistency 97, query-pruning contracts 11, LDRED contracts 2, and runtime-KV-domain contracts 13. These phase-specific counts must not be summed as unique tests; GPU skips in local runs are not passes.
The original-scale fix additionally passed focused source/CPU review: 66 upstream and 92 dev CPU cases, with GPU cases skipped locally. The FP8 fixture correction passed seven CPU contract checks executing both fixture bodies with dependency doubles; those are not native GPU qualification.
On Rubin, exact head
005d91701b95e88a3495da84e6d384efccc606d7passed 104 selected GPU tests with zero skips: context 31, standard decode 38, and MLA 35. Hecate job 927548 used a fresh full-source FlashInfer 0.7.3 package, not a PrimTS overlay on an older installed wheel. This includes all 12 new original-scale regression cases.The same allocation independently tested the older canonical-dev API adaptation at
eef263b: 13 passed, one failed, and seven were not executed. Its original-scale sink case[2-disabled]exposed an approximately 11% denominator error whose exact arithmetic signature is multiplication/subtraction contraction. The dev-only explicit-rounding correction at069139a65aad98f3e5c61f049c761e28eff0b14ethen passed all 21 selected GPU cases with zero skips in Hecate job 927692, without weakening tolerances. The upstream cases above passed unchanged. The first allocation exited with failure and did not time; the follow-up keeps that failure record separate from its successful dev rerun. Downstream TRT-LLM heada7da965b611830fbc1347e84646b687adc177f67, pinning this dev correction, also passed 26 matching-runtime B200 regression checks with zero skips: four native sparse-MLA GPU cases and 22 host/contract cases. This is focused regression coverage, not a full-model rerun. Upstream CI triggering is handled by the maintainer, not this qualification run.After both correctness gates passed, job 927692 completed 36 fresh-process prepared-wrapper receipts: three ABBA blocks for each of three synthetic cases. Baseline
e2203f939e6c95475d7ec609fadfb916c04a2becand candidate005d91701b95e88a3495da84e6d384efccc606d7contain the same original-scale correctness fix; their production delta is only LDRED plus request-local KV domains.These packed dense FP8 E4M3 cases use H96, Dqk192/Dv128, and BF16 output. B1 uses Q/K lengths 1920/1920 and capacities 2048/2048. B2 uses Q lengths
[1664,256], K lengths[0,3840], and capacities Q2048/K4096. Both arms pass actual runtime maxima. All eager, graph, and post-timing numerical checks passed; all input identities were unchanged. Independent audit recomputed 360 raw CUDA-event samples and all nine block summaries. Percentages average paired block ratios; SD is across three blocks in one allocation, not independent allocation replications. This measures prepared-wrapper graph replay only, not native-attention or K3 end-to-end performance. The empty-partition result does not establish its frequency in serving, and statistics ON/OFF changes precision policy as well as output storage.FP8 empty-context fixture diagnosis
Before changing the output tolerance, nine exact-input controls compared the pre-performance-port source
f5ec2e580, the combined sourceb787f5692, and older dev76e822974, with and without the empty neighbor and with statistics on/off. All six statistics-enabled active outputs were identical across sources/layouts and exactly matched the BF16-rounded explanatory model that rounds P to E4M3 for PV while retaining the FP32 denominator. The original strict FP32-oracle check missed 2 of 49,920 elements; relative L2 was 2.302%, within the pre-existing expanded-FP8 contract. Empty outputs/statistics and tight active m/s checks passed. This supports the single finite-input fixture correction, not a general hardware-emulator claim or qualification of the subsequent original-scale fix. BF16 thresholds and exact empty checks remain unchanged; the revised FP8 test also requires relative L2 below 5%, active m/s agreement, and a TF32-disabled independent reference.Historical downstream evidence and limits
The earlier Rubin K3 FP8+MTP DEP16 experiment reached near throughput parity with CuTeDSL plus trtllm-gen: mean paired-block changes +2.18% at concurrency 128 and +0.56% at concurrency 256, with sample SDs 2.57 and 2.03 percentage points. Those pre-refresh measurements do not qualify this head or establish a robust speedup or output equivalence. Native GSM8K was 96.5125% versus PrimTS 95.8302% in that configuration; both cleared the reused 93.2975% gate, but the nine-answer difference remains. Exact sources, workloads and limitations are recorded in NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#19395.
Historical CP8 timings are prepared-attention/FIFO2 component measurements, not full-model Helix results. Strict 8-GPU aggregated Helix was excluded because the scheduler/model does not support it. No KDA behavior or Small-BH NaN fix is included.
🔬 Experimental Track
tests/experimental/and include a runnable example.flashinfer/aot.py; calling the experimental wrapper remains explicit opt-in.The existing PrimTS implementation and numerical tests remain in
flashinfer/attention/prims_ts/andtests/attention/. This experimental-track scope covers shared opt-in machinery, not kernel correctness; the targeted attention tests above cover the kernels. Backend relocation is outside this change.Reviewer Notes
Please focus on the maximum/denominator contract, original-scale rounding, row ownership, split-workspace indexing, per-query bounds, and graph-live buffers/scales. Enabled low-precision probability rounding is tested against independent references; bitwise output equivalence with statistics disabled is not promised. The pre-existing BF16 boundary failure above is not waived or hidden.
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