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Affected area

  • FE OSS kernels or CuTeDSL

Summary

  • Sanitize dead rows in the SM100 d192/d128 per-tensor FP8 and MXFP8 forward epilogues by selecting literal zero before output conversion and amax_o accumulation.
  • Add deterministic NaN-primed regressions for a leading zero-length KV batch across FP8 and half output types, with and without attention sinks.
  • Also fix a style issue introduced by 781e338.

Why

When a row has no visible KV column, BMM2 may leave its output accumulator in TMEM unwritten. Multiplying the loaded value by a zero normalization factor is insufficient because an unwritten value can decode as NaN and NaN * 0 remains NaN. That can contaminate both O and amax_o.

The epilogues now apply a per-element arith.select to replace every dead-row value with literal zero before amax reduction, FP8 packing, or half conversion. This also covers dead rows inside otherwise live tiles and preserves the existing TMEM load pipeline and barrier protocol.

Related issues

Fixes #702.

API and compatibility impact

No public API or ABI change. Dead rows now produce zero O, retain the expected LSE and sink semantics, and do not affect output amax.

Testing

On SM100 with cuDNN backend 9.26, all five targeted regression cases passed:

pytest -q \
  sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py::test_fp8_d192_d128_leading_zero_length_kv \
  sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_mxfp8_sm100.py::test_mxfp8_d192_d128_leading_zero_length_kv

Also passed:

  • pre-commit run on the four changed files
  • python -m py_compile on the two changed kernels and two changed test modules
  • git diff --check

The full test suite was not run; validation was targeted to the affected SM100 kernels.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected scaled dot-product attention handling for rows with empty or invalid key/value ranges.
    • Such rows now reliably produce zero outputs, negative-infinity log-sum-exp values, and valid amax results.
    • Improved behavior across FP8, MXFP8, FP16, BF16, and attention-sink configurations.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for leading zero-length key/value sequences, padding-mask scenarios, and declared packed-token totals.
    • Added validation for zero outputs and finite quantization metrics.

@Aneureka Aneureka added this to the Frontend 1.29.0 milestone Aug 26, 2026
@Aneureka Aneureka added orig-nv-eng Reported or requested by NVIDIA engineering. mod-cutedsl CuTeDSL kernels, generated kernels, examples, or related integration work. mod-frost cat-bugfix labels Aug 26, 2026
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The change sanitizes dead rows in SM100 d192/d128 FP8 and MXFP8 forward epilogues. It adds poisoned-TMEM regression coverage for leading zero-length KV batches and validates declared THD packed totals. A grouped GEMM test contains formatting-only edits.

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SM100 zero-KV correctness

Layer / File(s) Summary
Epilogue dead-row sanitization
python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d192_d128_fp8_sm100.py, python/cudnn/sdpa/fwd/kernels/prefill_d192_d128_mxfp8_sm100.py
Dead rows are detected from empty KV bounds or nonpositive probability sums. Their normalization inverse is set to zero, LSE is set to -inf, and output elements are explicitly zeroed before amax calculation and storage.
Zero-length KV regression coverage
test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py, test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_mxfp8_sm100.py
The test runners can poison TMEM before execution. Parameterized tests cover leading zero-length KV batches, sinks, FP8 inputs, FP16 and FP8 outputs, zero outputs, LSE values, reference results, and finite amax values.
Declared THD totals validation
test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py, test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_mxfp8_sm100.py
THD runners can pass exact packed Q and KV totals. Tests compare declared-total and inferred-total execution results.

Grouped GEMM test formatting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Test expression and error formatting
test/python/fe_api/grouped_gemm/test_grouped_gemm_glu_hadamard_quant.py
The scale-factor index expression and NVFP4 quantization error message were reformatted without changing computed values.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to b59d8

The PR fixes empty-row quantized attention outputs by forcing dead rows to zero before conversion and amax accumulation, with targeted regressions. Merge readiness is still moderate because validation documentation is inconsistent, one platform-specific test may fail on SM107 without its required skip, and the new regression lacks a tier marker that could cause it to be omitted from tiered test runs; these should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The PR fixes the d192/d128 FP8 and MXFP8 hazards and adds regression coverage, but issue #702 also identifies all f16 SM100 forward kernels as in scope. Those f16 kernel fixes are not included. Either update the PR to sanitize dead rows in the affected f16 SM100 forward kernels listed in issue #702, or limit the issue linkage and description to the narrower FP8 and MXFP8 scope.
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The SDPA kernel and regression changes match issue #702, but the formatting-only changes in test/python/fe_api/grouped_gemm/test_grouped_gemm_glu_hadamard_quant.py are unrelated to the linked SDPA iss… Remove the unrelated grouped-GEMM formatting changes or link them to a separate issue and submit them separately.
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Check name Status Explanation
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 92.31% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 6 files.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: guarding empty d192 quantized O-TMEM loads in the SDPA path.
Description check ✅ Passed The description follows the repository template, identifies the affected area, explains the problem and solution, references the related issue, states compatibility impact, and lists targeted testing …
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The SDPA kernel and regression changes match issue #702, but the formatting-only changes in test/python/fe_api/grouped_gemm/test_grouped_gemm_glu_hadamard_quant.py are unrelated to the linked SDPA issue.

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- Around line 27-30: Clarify the overlapping d128 scope in the affected table
rows: distinguish the exact kernel or epilogue variants covered by “d128
per-tensor FP8” versus “d192/d128 per-tensor FP8,” or remove the duplicate
coverage. Align the regression and validation descriptions with the corrected
scope.
- Around line 174-181: Correct the validation results in NOTES.md so both Slurm
job summaries use accurate, directly comparable matrix counts and case
descriptions; update the “same primed matrix” statement if the fixed run used a
different set of cases, and preserve the reported outcomes and job metadata.

In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_dsl_sm100.py`:
- Around line 300-308: Add the same SM107 capability exclusion used by
_check_dsl_sm100_strided_stats to test_dsl_sm100_leading_zero_length_kv, while
retaining _require_dsl(). Ensure the test skips on SM107 because its d192-d128,
d256, and d512 cases are unsupported, without changing other architectures or
test behavior.

In `@test/python/sdpa/frost/test_sdpa_fwd_fp8_sm100.py`:
- Around line 398-408: Add the L0 test-level marker to
test_fp8_d192_d128_leading_zero_length_kv, matching the companion
test_mxfp8_d192_d128_leading_zero_length_kv and ensuring inclusion in tiered CI
selection.
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