frost(sdpa): bottom-right diagonal + sliding window on the SM100 rows - #584
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The band shifts wholesale with its diagonal: under BOTTOM_RIGHT the SWA lower limit is q + (S_kv - S_q) - W, the same causal_diag offset the upper (causal) limit has always applied. Add that offset to the two SWA terms — the KV-loop tile bounds (compute_kv_loop_bounds: the swa left bound and the unmasked-lo anchor) and the per-element mask (apply_mask_chunk) — where it folds to the plain top-left math when the diagonal is zero. Lift the three gates (config validation, adapter backstop, bottom_right_with_swa on the f16 and per-tensor FP8 rows); THD gets the per-sequence diagonal for free through resolve_seqlen_q, and the widened band composes (BR + SWA + window_right). The MXFP8 row stays gated: the one mhas graph BR+SWA admits there trips the executor's pre-existing SF-size mismatch (SF-layout issue independent of the mask) — flip once that plumbing is fixed. Suite: swa_br joins the dense and THD combo axes (48 combos), the torch reference's SWA term becomes diagonal-aware, probe tests updated. mhas routing (paged/bwd_ragged excluded, pip-9.23 env): 949/2274 (41.7%), up from 38.6% — d128 +29, d192x128 +5, d256 +17, fp8 +20 graphs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/engines.py`:
- Line 498: Update the FP8 bottom-right sliding-window attention path around
bottom_right_with_swa to reject cases where seq_len_kv is less than S_q, or
exclude fully masked query rows from amax_s before the FP8 epilogue computes its
maximum. Add a regression covering seq_len_kv < S_q rather than only the
existing S_kv >= S_q case, and preserve current behavior for valid unmasked
rows.
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# Expected: dense FP8 bottom-right padding either rejects KV-shorter sequences
# or excludes fully masked rows before computing amax_s.
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'bottom_right_with_swa|eff_seqlen_kv|eff_seqlen_q|seq_len_kv|seq_len_q|amax_s|total_sum' \
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python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm107.py
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python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d128_fp8_sm100.py \
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'def _execute_fp8|def _execute_mxfp8|amax_s|scale_s|descale_s|total_sum' \
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def live_columns(q, sq, skv, window_left, window_right=0, bottom_right=True):
diag = skv - sq if bottom_right else 0
return [
k for k in range(skv)
if k >= q + diag - window_left
and k <= q + diag + window_right
]
sq, skv = 8, 4
for window_left in (None, 7):
wl = sq if window_left is None else window_left
rows = [live_columns(q, sq, skv, wl) for q in range(sq)]
empty = [q for q, cols in enumerate(rows) if not cols]
# Mirrors the FP8 epilogue: total_sum == 0 is clamped before 1/total_sum.
amax_s = max(1.0 / max(len(cols), 1e-30) for cols in rows)
print({
"window_left": window_left,
"live_columns": rows,
"fully_masked_rows": empty,
"amax_s_contribution": amax_s,
"lse_for_empty_rows": "-inf" if empty else "finite",
})
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Reject FP8 bottom-right padding when seq_len_kv < S_q, or exclude fully masked rows from amax_s.
With bottom-right masking, shorter KV lengths create fully masked leading query rows. The FP8 epilogue includes these rows in amax_s; when total_sum == 0, it contributes approximately 1e30 instead of excluding the row. Add a regression for seq_len_kv < S_q; the current S_kv >= S_q matrix does not cover it.
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In `@python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/engines.py` at line 498, Update the FP8 bottom-right
sliding-window attention path around bottom_right_with_swa to reject cases where
seq_len_kv is less than S_q, or exclude fully masked query rows from amax_s
before the FP8 epilogue computes its maximum. Add a regression covering
seq_len_kv < S_q rather than only the existing S_kv >= S_q case, and preserve
current behavior for valid unmasked rows.
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Closes the
bottom_right_with_swakernel gap on the SM100 rows — the next lever from the routing census (~157 graphs blocked solely by "bottom-right causal combined with a sliding window").The change: the band shifts wholesale with its diagonal. Under
BOTTOM_RIGHTthe SWA lower limit isq + (S_kv − S_q) − W— the samecausal_diagoffset the upper (causal) limit has always applied. That offset now enters the two SWA terms:compute_kv_loop_bounds: the SWA left tile bound and the unmasked-lo anchor;apply_mask_chunk: the per-element SWA limit.Both fold to the plain top-left math when the diagonal is zero. THD gets the per-sequence diagonal for free through
resolve_seqlen_q, and the widened band composes —BR + SWA + window_rightall work together. Gates lifted in the config validation, the adapter backstop, andbottom_right_with_swa=Trueon the f16 and per-tensor FP8 rows.Deliberately not flipped: the MXFP8 row — the single mhas graph BR+SWA admits there trips the executor's pre-existing SF-size mismatch (an SF-layout issue independent of the mask); it flips once that plumbing is fixed.
Validation (B200, pip cuDNN 9.23):
s_q > s_kvis rejected by cuDNN graph validation itself, so it cannot reach any engine.)swa_brjoins the dense and THD combo axes — 48 new combos pass; the torch reference's SWA term is diagonal-aware; probe tests updated (the old rejection test superseded by accepts-tests).cu_seq_lentests (9.23 backend) — the earlier mxfp8 red disappeared with the row gated.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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