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Mamba inference opt - #4414

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What does this PR do ?

Inference optimizations for nano

Cached -exp(A_log.float()) in the Mamba decode path so the three elementwise kernels (float-cast, exp, neg) that ran per-layer per-token are now computed once per inference session. Moved the batch_indices int64 upcast from the per-layer forward into the MambaMetadata buffer allocation, eliminating a fourth small kernel from the hot path.

edit: we added more on here:

Config Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Mean vs baseline vs previous
Baseline 115.04 114.76 115.64 115.15
Opt1 (cached A + int64 buf) 116.64 116.94 116.56 116.71 +1.35% +1.35%
Opt2 (+ pre-expanded A) 117.63 118.47 118.47 118.19 +2.64% +1.27%

MoE optimization not part of this graph
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/ok to test a0dda2c

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LGTM

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/ok to test b67fd23

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/ok to test 8d27f1d

@svcnvidia-nemo-ci svcnvidia-nemo-ci added Approved All necessary approvals have been made and removed Final Review PR is in the "final review" stage labels Apr 22, 2026
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