Add: an AUTO-scope twin of the qwen3_14b_decode scene test

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Why

qwen3_14b_decode runs under ScopeMode::MANUAL, which returns from
compute_task_fanin immediately and bypasses TensorMap entirely. It exercises
no dependency derivation at all, so no large-model workload covers the AUTO
path and no change to it can be measured.

This adds qwen3_14b_decode_auto: the same network, fixture and golden under
ScopeMode::AUTO, where every WAIT edge is derived from tensor overlap. The two
directories are an A/B pair on one real workload.

qwen3_14b_decode is byte-for-byte unchanged. This PR is additions only —
17 files, all new.

Switching scope mode alone costs 6.3×, and the derivation is not why

The naive reading of that number is "AUTO's derivation is expensive". It is not.
The cost is two things the harvested codegen never had to express.

1. Declaration width

A task that declares a whole buffer while writing one column band makes
TensorMap order it against every other band. down_acc_all is [16, 17408];
its 17 k-splits each write their own 1024-wide band, and the parent declaration
serialized all 17.

Narrowing an argument moves its base, so this only works where the kernel
indexes relative to the view — every kernel here that lost a column term did so
for that reason. Two places keep the parent declaration because they cannot:
out_proj_0 resolves its band as (idx / 5) * 512 from the buffer base, and
idx is block_idx-derived, so there is no constant to drop. Narrowing it
anyway shifts every store out of range — confirmed on hardware.

2. Commutative accumulation

AtomicAdd into a shared band does not care about order, but INOUT cannot say
so, so TensorMap must serialize the writers. down_proj, out_proj,
gate_proj_4 and up_proj_4 now write private partials that a
partials_reduce_* task sums — an N-deep chain becomes one parallel round plus
one task.

out_proj's reducer accumulates rather than stores: out_proj_0's SPMD blocks
write the same bands from a block_idx-derived offset, so the sum has to join
them. Its split count is per-band, because the direct loop stops at
N_OUT_DIRECT and summing a fixed five would fold in slabs no task wrote.

residual_rms_cast and its four variants needed only the first fix: they write
disjoint bands with plain stores, so narrowing their two outputs removed the
chain outright.

Measured

Critical path = longest path over the WAIT subgraph, one decode step on a2a3,
same die, from --enable-dep-gen.

variant	critical path	per layer	edges
MANUAL sibling	443	11.1	23,605
AUTO, parent declarations everywhere	7,963	199.1	58,404
AUTO, banded declarations	1,563	39.1	66,604
AUTO, + private split-K partials (this PR)	684	17.1	87,938

11.6× off the naive AUTO baseline; 1.54× off MANUAL.

Note the edge count rises as the critical path falls. Narrowing a declaration
replaces one long-range edge with several short-range ones. Edge count is not a
proxy for parallelism.

What the remaining 241 steps are

Both modes walk the same per-layer skeleton — AUTO takes 17 edges where MANUAL
takes 11 — and the 6 extra split evenly:

• 120 steps — gate_proj, gate_proj_0..3. Five separate SPMD tasks, one
  per k-split, all accumulating into columns [0, 6144). The six blocks inside
  each task run in parallel and cost one node; the five tasks are what
  serialize. Curable by the same private-partial treatment, at the cost of ten
  near-duplicate kernels differing from the sibling's only by
  AtomicAdd → AtomicNone — which is why this PR stops short of it.
• 120 steps — the reducers themselves. MANUAL gets atomic accumulation for
  free: it declares by hand that its 85 down_proj tasks are mutually
  independent, so accumulation costs zero critical-path steps. AUTO's floor is
  two edges. Closing this needs an argument direction that marks a write
  commutative, letting TensorMap leave the writers unordered. No amount of
  slicing reaches it.

That second item is the most useful thing this example produces: it locates what
automatic derivation is missing at a specific, absent primitive rather than at a
vague "auto is worse than manual".

Layout — identical kernels are shared, not copied

Only the 13 incores that had to differ live in the new directory. The CALLABLE
names the other 27 as ../qwen3_14b_decode/kernels/… (scene_test resolves
source relative to the class's directory), so the harvested codegen keeps one
home — including the ~16k-line vendored CANN FusedInferAttentionScore tree —
and a refresh touches one place.

Scope

a2a3 / tensormap_and_ringbuffer only. These are ptoas-harvested files; the
real fix belongs upstream in pypto-lib's codegen, which should emit banded views
and private partials directly. This lands the measurement in simpler first so
the effect is demonstrable before pushing the change up.

Verification

Both cases pass on a2a3 hardware at RTOL=5e-2 / ATOL=1e-1 — output and all
40 layers' KV caches:

PASSED qwen3_14b_decode/test_qwen3_14b_decode.py::TestQwen314BDecode::test_run
PASSED qwen3_14b_decode_auto/test_qwen3_14b_decode_auto.py::TestQwen314BDecodeAuto::test_run

Both run in the daily full scene-test sweep, not per-PR CI.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The PR adds an AUTO TensorMap variant of the Qwen3 14B decode example. It includes generated Ascend AIC and AIV kernels, split-K partial reducers, orchestration and validation, and documentation for dependency generation and measured execution paths.

Changes

Qwen3 14B AUTO decode

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Projection matrix-multiplication kernels examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aic/*	Adds tiled gate, up, down, and output projection kernels with PTO matrix operations, argument unpacking, and pipe synchronization.
Residual normalization and activation kernels examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/residual_rms_cast*.cpp, examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/silu.cpp	Adds residual RMS scaling, FP32-to-BF16 conversion, and SiLU kernels with synchronized vector-pipeline execution.
Split-K partial reduction examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/partials_reduce*	Adds shared reduction logic and entry points for hidden-width and intermediate-width partial buffers, with replace and atomic-add modes.
AUTO orchestration and validation examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/test_qwen3_14b_decode_auto.py, examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/README.md	Registers kernels and TensorMap signatures, adds full-device Qwen3 decode validation, and documents dependency generation, execution commands, and measured paths.

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

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 50cb7

This PR adds an isolated AUTO-scope scene and private-partial reductions without replacing the existing workload. The remaining issues are limited to documentation accuracy and optional reducer synchronization tuning; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Possibly related PRs

• hw-native-sys/simpler#1818: Adds the related Qwen3-14B decode implementation with overlapping projection, residual, SiLU, and test coverage.

Poem

A rabbit hops through tiles of light

Projection sums align just right
Private partials gather near
Reducers make the bands appear
AUTO paths now run clear and bright

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examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/partials_reduce.h (1)

54-68: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Consider narrower synchronization than pipe_barrier(PIPE_ALL) in the reduction loop.

Each split iteration executes two pipe_barrier(PIPE_ALL) calls, and each chunk adds a third after the store. PIPE_ALL drains every pipe, so the MTE2 load of split j+1 cannot overlap the vector add of split j. For 5 splits over a 1024-wide band this adds 11 full drains per chunk.

A set_flag/wait_flag pair between PIPE_MTE2 and PIPE_V (and PIPE_V to PIPE_MTE3 before the store) keeps the same ordering guarantees and allows load/compute overlap. This matters because the PR tracks the AUTO critical path as its main metric.

The correctness of the current code is not in question. Measure before and after, since the reducer runs once per band per layer.

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In
`@examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/partials_reduce.h`
around lines 54 - 68, Replace the broad pipe_barrier(PIPE_ALL) calls in the
reduction loop around TLOAD, TADD, and TSTORE with narrower set_flag/wait_flag
synchronization between PIPE_MTE2 and PIPE_V, and between PIPE_V and PIPE_MTE3
before storing. Preserve the required ordering while allowing the next split
load to overlap the current vector addition.

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In `@examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/README.md`:
- Line 18: Correct the incore total in the README sentence from 41 to 40,
matching the 40 entries registered by CALLABLE["incores"] and the 27 shared plus
13 local incores.

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Nitpick comments:
In
`@examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/partials_reduce.h`:
- Around line 54-68: Replace the broad pipe_barrier(PIPE_ALL) calls in the
reduction loop around TLOAD, TADD, and TSTORE with narrower set_flag/wait_flag
synchronization between PIPE_MTE2 and PIPE_V, and between PIPE_V and PIPE_MTE3
before storing. Preserve the required ordering while allowing the next split
load to overlap the current vector addition.

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• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/README.md
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aic/down_proj.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aic/gate_proj_4.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aic/out_proj.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aic/up_proj_4.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/partials_reduce.h
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/partials_reduce_hidden.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/partials_reduce_hidden_add.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/partials_reduce_inter.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/residual_rms_cast.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/residual_rms_cast_0.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/residual_rms_cast_1.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/residual_rms_cast_2.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/residual_rms_cast_3.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/aiv/silu.cpp
• examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/kernels/orchestration/decode_fwd_layers.cpp
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Correct the total incore count.

Line 18 says that 27 of 41 incores are shared. CALLABLE["incores"] registers 40 entries, and 27 shared plus 13 local incores also equals 40. Change 41 to 40.

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In `@examples/a2a3/tensormap_and_ringbuffer/qwen3_14b_decode_auto/README.md` at
line 18, Correct the incore total in the README sentence from 41 to 40, matching
the 40 entries registered by CALLABLE["incores"] and the 27 shared plus 13 local
incores.