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Cuts CuTeDSL grouped-GEMM host overhead by memoizing work that is a pure function of
values the memo keys already hold. No check is skipped, and no operand is trusted
because of its identity.

Wall-clock microseconds per call, torch wrapper path, 2048x2048x2048 with 8 experts,
B200, 30 calls amortized behind one sync. Kernel time is 18.4 us.

wrapper develop this PR
grouped_gemm_wrapper_sm100 118.1 39.6
grouped_gemm_glu_wrapper_sm100 161.1 40.6
grouped_gemm_dglu_wrapper_sm100 185.0 51.1

The pre-allocated execute() path isolates the descriptor cache on its own:
68.2 to 24.7 us on unfused, 69.2 to 24.8 us on GLU.

Medians of 3 interleaved runs against base d811df965 on an otherwise idle B200. Each
variant was guarded at import to confirm which tree had loaded before timing.
Benchmark harness:
https://gitlab-master.nvidia.com/cudnn/cudnn_frontend/-/merge_requests/2332

Three changes, smallest first

  1. Two process-wide lookup caches, 34 lines. _convert_to_cutlass_data_type and the
    torch.Tensor class probe in is_torch_tensor each get called tens of times per
    launch, and each answers from a fixed table. Every CuTeDSL op benefits.

  2. Per-launch descriptor and stream caches, about 14 lines per op. execute() rebuilds
    a canonical TensorDesc for every operand on every launch, which is the largest
    single cost in execute(), and it re-resolves the launch stream. Both outcomes are
    decided entirely by values that now sit in the cache key. A miss runs the full check.

  3. The wrapper memo, which is most of the diff. Everything between the wrapper entry and
    op.execute() is derivation: resolving dtypes, deriving (m, n, experts), rebuilding
    the op cache key. All of it is a pure function of operand metadata plus the scalar
    config. A hit skips the derivation and reuses the result. It still calls
    op.execute(), which validates every operand.

Why the key is metadata and not id()

An identity-keyed memo is unsound here. CPython recycles a tensor's address as soon as
it is freed, so a freshly allocated tensor routinely lands on an address the memo has
already seen. Measured on this branch's benchmark, 200 freshly allocated tensors
produced 1 distinct id(). That means 199 of 200 calls would take a fast path derived
from an object the memo never validated, silently returning a wrong-sized output once
the token count changed.

_operand_meta reads shape, strides, dtype and device. That is everything the
derivation consumes and nothing else. Data pointers stay out because they vary per call
and nothing derived depends on them. Their alignment gets re-checked inside execute().

What this PR deliberately does not do

Four things were built, measured, and then cut because the win did not justify the code.

The validation hoist, _metadata_validated, 141 lines. It let a memo hit skip the
metadata block inside execute(). It looked worth 53 us on dGLU, but only because dGLU
lacked change 2. Give dGLU the 14-line descriptor cache instead and the hoist drops to
5-10 us across the three ops. It also put a validation-skipping parameter on the public
execute() signature. Dropped.

The wgrad memo, 180 lines for roughly 15 us. Worst ratio in the set by 3-5x. Dropped.

A _stride_order rewrite. I originally claimed the tuple-sort form beat the key=
lambda it replaced by about 1.3 us per operand. Measured in isolation, it is not faster
at all: 10.30 vs 10.38 us for nine operands. Reverted, and the comment claiming
otherwise is gone.

A dsrelu memo, which broke 12 cache-behaviour tests. use_full_dynamic masks shapes
from the cache key on purpose, valid_m == 0 returns before the derivation runs, and
deterministic=None resolves from a global. A metadata key cannot hold any of those
honestly. Reverted.

Of the 17 CuTeDSL GEMM ops, 3 are optimized here. Of the remaining 14, none has the
_validate_live_tensor layer that change 2 attaches to, so there is nothing there to
cache. Seven mask shapes via use_full_dynamic or return early on valid_m == 0, which
rules out the wrapper memo. The last six are tractable but unbenchmarked, and I would
not memoize one without building its benchmark first.

Two traps worth knowing if you extend this

dGLU defaults linear_offset during normalization. The memo bypasses normalization, so
the hit path has to resolve the same default from act_func or it hands None to the
kernel. A single-call test cannot catch this, because only the second call takes the hit
path.

A parameter added to a wrapper but not to its memo key collides silently. This has now
happened twice on rebases: sf_fp8_dtype_override in GLU, then situ_beta1 and
situ_beta2 in both GLU and dGLU after the SiTU-GLU activation landed in #645. Both
feed the op cache key, so a hit would have served an op compiled for different betas.
Wrong numerics, no error. test_memo_key_covers_every_wrapper_parameter auto-discovers
every memoized wrapper and fails on an uncovered parameter. It caught both.

Type of change

  • Performance improvement

Testing

test/python/fe_api/test_grouped_gemm_wrapper_memo.py, 6 tests, pins that a hit matches
the cold path byte for byte, that alternating token counts with freshly built operands
each step still return correct shapes, that a fresh wrongly-typed tensor is still
rejected once the memo is warm, that a transposed operand takes a different key, that
the GLU hit matches its cold path, and the key-coverage guard above.

Scoped to what this diff can reach: test/python/fe_api/grouped_gemm/ plus the memo
tests. test_gemm_swiglu.py, test_sdpa_bwd.py and test_NSA_swa.py were also run
against develop, because datatypes.py and tensor_adapter.py are process-wide.

Those three files fail 80 tests identically on develop with this branch reverted, same
64 / 12 / 4 split and same test IDs. They are tolerance misses in dense GEMM and
attention backward, plus an NSA gate that wants backend 9.26.0 against 9.24 here. This
PR adds no new failures.

Checklist

  • Code follows the style guidelines, black --line-length 160
  • Self-review performed
  • Comments added where the reasoning is not obvious from the code
  • New tests added and passing

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test/python/fe_api/test_grouped_gemm_wrapper_memo.py (2)

71-76: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Neither equivalence test confirms the second call took the memo hit. Both tests assert the memo is populated after the cold call, then compare bytes. If a key were unstable across two identical calls, the second call would miss, take the cold path, and produce identical bytes. Both tests would pass and the regression would go unnoticed. The shared fix is to pin the entry count across the repeat call.

  • test/python/fe_api/test_grouped_gemm_wrapper_memo.py#L71-L76: capture len(_wrapper_memo) after the cold call and assert it is unchanged after the warm call.
  • test/python/fe_api/test_grouped_gemm_wrapper_memo.py#L134-L139: capture len(_glu_wrapper_memo) after the cold call and assert it is unchanged after the warm call.
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In `@test/python/fe_api/test_grouped_gemm_wrapper_memo.py` around lines 71 - 76,
Update both equivalence tests in
test/python/fe_api/test_grouped_gemm_wrapper_memo.py: at lines 71-76 for
_wrapper_memo and 134-139 for _glu_wrapper_memo, capture the memo length after
the cold call and assert it remains unchanged after the warm call, while
preserving the existing output comparisons.

32-35: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document that the b binding keeps the pointer targets alive.

b_ptrs stores raw data_ptr() values that point into b. Every test must keep b alive for the whole call, or the kernel dereferences freed device memory.

Ruff reports b as an unused unpacked variable at lines 68, 86, 94, 105, and 120. A maintainer who removes the binding to silence that warning would introduce a use-after-free. Rename the binding and state the requirement so the lifetime is explicit.

♻️ Proposed change
 def _weights():
+    # b_ptrs holds raw data pointers into b. Callers must keep the returned b alive
+    # for the duration of every wrapper call, or the kernel reads freed memory.
     b = torch.randn(EXPERTS, N_OUT, K, dtype=torch.bfloat16, device="cuda")
     b_ptrs = torch.tensor([b[i].data_ptr() for i in range(EXPERTS)], dtype=torch.int64, device="cuda")
     return b, b_ptrs

Then rename the unused bindings at each call site, for example:

-    b, b_ptrs = _weights()
+    _b, b_ptrs = _weights()  # _b must stay in scope; b_ptrs points into it

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In `@test/python/fe_api/test_grouped_gemm_wrapper_memo.py` around lines 32 - 35,
Rename the returned weights binding from _weights call sites to an intentionally
retained name that signals its lifetime purpose, and add a concise comment or
documentation explaining that it must remain alive while b_ptrs is used because
those values are raw pointers into b. Apply this consistently at all reported
unpacking sites without removing the binding.

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Inline comments:
In `@python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/glu/_bf16_api.py`:
- Around line 514-523: Both descriptor-cache keys use the raw tensor.device
attribute, which can be a per-object bound method and prevent cache reuse. In
python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/glu/_bf16_api.py lines 514-523 and
python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/unfused/_bf16_api.py lines 548-557, update the
identical key construction to call get_device(tensor) and store the normalized
(device.type, device.index) values, preserving the existing shape, stride,
dtype, and name components.
- Around line 221-236: In both
python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/glu/_bf16_api.py:221-236 and
python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/unfused/_bf16_api.py:262-276, update the
launch-stream caching blocks to cache only current_stream and default-stream
objects; construct torch.cuda.ExternalStream for foreign handles on each launch
instead of caching by the raw handle. Apply the same behavior at both sites.

In `@python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/unfused/_bf16_api.py`:
- Line 585: Restrict _metadata_validated to the internal wrapper path: remove it
from the public GroupedGemmSm100.execute interface and have the wrapper invoke
self._implementation.execute directly on memoized-layout hits. Preserve metadata
validation for all public calls while retaining the existing memoized fast path.

In `@python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/unfused/api.py`:
- Around line 309-346: Correct the memoization comments to state that
_wrapper_memo and _glu_wrapper_memo grow per distinct concrete M value because
their operand metadata keys retain M, even though compiled op-cache entries are
shared across M; alternatively, bound both memo stores with equivalent LRU
behavior. In python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/unfused/api.py lines 309-346,
update the related comment at lines 121-123 or implement the bound for
_wrapper_memo; apply the same correction or equivalent bound to
_glu_wrapper_memo in python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/glu/api.py lines
1036-1038.
- Around line 126-135: Add a torch import guarded by TYPE_CHECKING so
annotations in _stride_order and _operand_meta resolve for static analysis
without eagerly importing the optional torch dependency at runtime.

In `@test/python/fe_api/test_grouped_gemm_wrapper_memo.py`:
- Around line 163-173: The memo-key validation around the grouped GEMM wrapper
test currently extracts the key with fragile source-text indices, which can
include later code such as cache_key. Replace the marker and terminator slicing
in the memo-key inspection logic with AST-based extraction of the _memo_key
assignment, while preserving exclusion of current_stream and
deliberately_excluded and the existing missing-parameter assertion.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@test/python/fe_api/test_grouped_gemm_wrapper_memo.py`:
- Around line 71-76: Update both equivalence tests in
test/python/fe_api/test_grouped_gemm_wrapper_memo.py: at lines 71-76 for
_wrapper_memo and 134-139 for _glu_wrapper_memo, capture the memo length after
the cold call and assert it remains unchanged after the warm call, while
preserving the existing output comparisons.
- Around line 32-35: Rename the returned weights binding from _weights call
sites to an intentionally retained name that signals its lifetime purpose, and
add a concise comment or documentation explaining that it must remain alive
while b_ptrs is used because those values are raw pointers into b. Apply this
consistently at all reported unpacking sites without removing the binding.
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python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/dglu/api.py (2)

1323-1346: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Share the execute-and-return block with the miss path.

Lines 1323-1346 repeat the execute call and the TupleDict construction from lines 1204-1227. Extract one helper that takes the resolved implementation, the operands, d_row_tensor, dbias_tensor, and linear_offset. This keeps the returned key order identical if the result contract changes later.

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In `@python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/dglu/api.py` around lines 1323 - 1346,
Extract the duplicated execute-and-return logic into a shared helper used by
both the hit and miss paths, accepting the resolved implementation, required
operands, d_row_tensor, dbias_tensor, and linear_offset. Have the helper perform
the implementation execute call and construct the TupleDict with the existing
key order and values, then replace both inline blocks with calls to it.

1096-1107: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

One operand-metadata helper is copied per wrapper family. Both helpers return the same (shape, strides, dtype, device.type, device.index) tuple, so memo-key semantics can drift between wrappers after a later edit.

  • python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/dglu/api.py#L1096-L1107: move this implementation into the shared grouped helper module and import it here.
  • python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/wgrad/api.py#L51-L61: import the shared helper and delete _wgrad_operand_meta.
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In `@python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/dglu/api.py` around lines 1096 - 1107, The
operand-metadata logic is duplicated across wrapper families. Move
_dglu_operand_meta’s implementation into the shared grouped helper module and
import it in python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/dglu/api.py (anchor lines
1096-1107); in python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/wgrad/api.py (sibling lines
51-61), import that shared helper and remove _wgrad_operand_meta, preserving the
existing tuple and passthrough behavior.
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In `@python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/dglu/api.py`:
- Around line 1110-1112: Bound both wrapper memos to prevent unbounded growth:
update python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/dglu/api.py lines 1110-1112 for
_dglu_wrapper_memo and python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/wgrad/api.py lines
64-66 for _wgrad_wrapper_memo by either enforcing a size cap or keying them on
the dynamic dimensions used by _dglu_tensor_signature and
_wgrad_tensor_signature. Correct both comments so they accurately describe the
resulting growth behavior.

In `@test/python/fe_api/test_grouped_gemm_wrapper_memo.py`:
- Around line 169-181: The wrapper-discovery test must not silently skip import
or source-inspection failures. In the module import loop and inspect.getsource
handling, propagate unexpected exceptions so affected wrappers cannot evade
memo-key coverage; if any API is intentionally unavailable, replace implicit
skipping with an explicit exclusion list and assertion, while preserving the
existing wrapper-name and memo-key filtering.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/dglu/api.py`:
- Around line 1323-1346: Extract the duplicated execute-and-return logic into a
shared helper used by both the hit and miss paths, accepting the resolved
implementation, required operands, d_row_tensor, dbias_tensor, and
linear_offset. Have the helper perform the implementation execute call and
construct the TupleDict with the existing key order and values, then replace
both inline blocks with calls to it.
- Around line 1096-1107: The operand-metadata logic is duplicated across wrapper
families. Move _dglu_operand_meta’s implementation into the shared grouped
helper module and import it in python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/dglu/api.py
(anchor lines 1096-1107); in python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/wgrad/api.py
(sibling lines 51-61), import that shared helper and remove _wgrad_operand_meta,
preserving the existing tuple and passthrough behavior.
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python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/glu/api.py (2)

1067-1068: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use get_device() for output allocation.

If a supported JAX array exposes device as a callable, Line 1068 passes a bound method to jax.numpy.empty. Lines 1273-1274 repeat the failure on memo hits.

Pass get_device(call.a_tensor) and get_device(a_tensor) to _glu_allocate_output.

Proposed fix
- return _glu_allocate_output(framework, shape, stride, dtype, call.a_tensor.device)
+ return _glu_allocate_output(framework, shape, stride, dtype, get_device(call.a_tensor))

- c_out = _glu_allocate_output(framework, (valid_m, n_full, 1), (n_full, 1, valid_m * n_full), memo_c_dtype, a_tensor.device)
- d_out = _glu_allocate_output(framework, (valid_m, n_out, 1), (n_out, 1, valid_m * n_out), memo_d_dtype, a_tensor.device)
+ c_out = _glu_allocate_output(framework, (valid_m, n_full, 1), (n_full, 1, valid_m * n_full), memo_c_dtype, get_device(a_tensor))
+ d_out = _glu_allocate_output(framework, (valid_m, n_out, 1), (n_out, 1, valid_m * n_out), memo_d_dtype, get_device(a_tensor))

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In `@python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/glu/api.py` around lines 1067 - 1068,
Update the output allocation helpers to pass the resolved device from get_device
rather than the array’s device attribute: use get_device(call.a_tensor) in
_allocate_output and get_device(a_tensor) in the memo-hit allocation path, while
preserving the existing _glu_allocate_output arguments.

349-390: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Keep the metadata shortcut out of the public execute() API.

Line 349 lets any caller provide _metadata_validated. Line 390 forwards it to code that skips dtype, device, shape, and stride validation before kernel launch. Invalid tensors can then reach the compiled kernel.

Move this path to a wrapper-only method. Require an opaque, instance-bound validation token instead of an arbitrary tuple.

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In `@python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/glu/api.py` around lines 349 - 390, Remove
_metadata_validated from the public execute() API and stop forwarding
caller-supplied metadata through it. Move the validation-bypass path into a
private wrapper-only method, and require an opaque token bound to the specific
instance before skipping dtype, device, shape, and stride checks; reject missing
or invalid tokens and preserve normal validation for public callers.
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In `@python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/glu/api.py`:
- Around line 1144-1154: Bound the _glu_wrapper_memo cache to prevent unbounded
growth from entries keyed by changing token counts. Prefer replacing it with a
bounded LRU implementation while preserving existing memo lookup and storage
behavior, or exclude dynamic M from the key and recompute only the output
extents.

---

Outside diff comments:
In `@python/cudnn/gemm/cutedsl/grouped/glu/api.py`:
- Around line 1067-1068: Update the output allocation helpers to pass the
resolved device from get_device rather than the array’s device attribute: use
get_device(call.a_tensor) in _allocate_output and get_device(a_tensor) in the
memo-hit allocation path, while preserving the existing _glu_allocate_output
arguments.
- Around line 349-390: Remove _metadata_validated from the public execute() API
and stop forwarding caller-supplied metadata through it. Move the
validation-bypass path into a private wrapper-only method, and require an opaque
token bound to the specific instance before skipping dtype, device, shape, and
stride checks; reject missing or invalid tokens and preserve normal validation
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_convert_to_cutlass_data_type and the torch.Tensor class probe are both called
tens of times per launch and both answer from a fixed table, so memoize them.
Process-wide, so every CuTeDSL op benefits, and neither changes what is checked.
execute() rebuilds a canonical TensorDesc for every operand on every launch and
re-resolves the launch stream, both of which are decided entirely by values that
are in the new cache keys. A miss still runs the full check, so no operand is
trusted on account of its identity -- an operand differing in shape, stride,
dtype or device takes a different key. Data-pointer alignment is checked by the
caller on every launch and is not cached.
Everything between the wrapper entry and op.execute() -- resolving dtypes,
deriving (m, n, experts), rebuilding the op cache key -- is a pure function of
the operands' metadata plus the scalar config, so memoize on exactly that.

The key is metadata, deliberately not object identity: CPython recycles a
tensor's address as soon as it is freed, so an id-keyed memo answers for tensors
it never saw. A hit still calls op.execute(), which validates every operand
including the data pointers the key omits.

Covers the unfused, GLU and dGLU wrappers.
The SiTU-GLU activation (NVIDIA#645) added both to the wrappers after these keys were
written. Both feed the op cache key via activation_cache_signature, so without
them a memo hit serves an op compiled for different betas -- wrong numerics, no
error. Caught by test_memo_key_covers_every_wrapper_parameter on the rebase.
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