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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to For SM107/Rubin per-token activation runs with four or more tokens, the new default selects an auxiliary amax path that the producer rejects, causing supported workloads to fail at runtime. The Rubin dispatch guard should be fixed before merge; callers of the public auxiliary-input API must also provide correct maxima. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant _moe_core_impl
participant GEMM1
participant BlackwellEpilogue
participant nvfp4_quantize_per_token_cute_dsl
_moe_core_impl->>GEMM1: allocate and pass intermediate_amax
GEMM1->>BlackwellEpilogue: enable output-amax storage
BlackwellEpilogue-->>_moe_core_impl: write blocked-8 output maxima
_moe_core_impl->>nvfp4_quantize_per_token_cute_dsl: pass input_amax and valid rows
nvfp4_quantize_per_token_cute_dsl-->>_moe_core_impl: write quantized output
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tests/utils/test_nvfp4_per_token_input_amax.py (1)
215-216: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winPoison the aux tail so the test proves the tail is not read.
_exact_tile_amaxwrites every row ofinput_amax, including rows 8 through 16. The bound then makes those cells unused, so the assertion at line 234 passes whether or not the kernel reads them. Fill the out-of-bound aux rows with a sentinel that would change the result if read. The test then verifies the docstring claim that rows at or above the bound are not read.🧪 Proposed change to make the tail discriminating
input = torch.randn(17, 256, device="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16) input_amax = _exact_tile_amax(input, num_tiles=5) + # Rows at or above the bound must not be read. A large sentinel would + # change the per-token scale of any row that wrongly consumed it. + input_amax[1:] = 1.0e4 valid_rows = torch.tensor([8], device="cuda", dtype=torch.int32)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@flashinfer/fused_moe/cute_dsl/fused_moe.py`:
- Around line 336-337: Update the intermediate_amax allocation condition in the
fused MoE path to also require not is_rubin, keeping Rubin on the legacy path
while preserving per-token activation behavior for non-Rubin targets with at
least four tokens.
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In `@flashinfer/cute_dsl/fp4_common.py`:
- Line 611: Add docstring documentation to both packed helpers using
max.xorsign.abs.f16x2 and max.xorsign.abs.bf16x2, stating that they require PTX
ISA 7.2 and sm_86 or newer; keep the helpers reusable without changing their
behavior.
In `@tests/utils/test_nvfp4_per_token_input_amax.py`:
- Around line 215-216: Update the test setup around _exact_tile_amax and
valid_rows so aux rows at and above the row bound are overwritten with a
distinctive sentinel value after initialization. Keep the in-bounds row data
unchanged, and ensure the existing assertion would fail if the kernel
incorrectly reads the poisoned tail.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Keep the legacy path on Rubin.
When an SM107 tactic uses per-token activation with four or more tokens, this condition allocates intermediate_amax and passes it to GEMM1. flashinfer/fused_moe/cute_dsl/blockscaled_contiguous_gather_grouped_gemm_act_fusion.py rejects out_amax on Rubin, so these supported runs fail with NotImplementedError. Include not is_rubin in this condition until the Rubin producer supports the handoff.
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use_intermediate_amax = (
- use_per_token_activation and num_tokens >= _PER_TOKEN_AUX_AMAX_MIN_TOKENS
+ use_per_token_activation
+ and not is_rubin
+ and num_tokens >= _PER_TOKEN_AUX_AMAX_MIN_TOKENS
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| use_per_token_activation and num_tokens >= _PER_TOKEN_AUX_AMAX_MIN_TOKENS | |
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| use_intermediate_amax = ( | |
| use_per_token_activation | |
| and not is_rubin | |
| and num_tokens >= _PER_TOKEN_AUX_AMAX_MIN_TOKENS | |
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In `@flashinfer/fused_moe/cute_dsl/fused_moe.py` around lines 336 - 337, Update
the intermediate_amax allocation condition in the fused MoE path to also require
not is_rubin, keeping Rubin on the legacy path while preserving per-token
activation behavior for non-Rubin targets with at least four tokens.
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This PR accelerates the SM100-family CuTe DSL NVFP4 W4A4 MoE per-token path by
reusing exact row-local maxima produced by the fused GEMM1 activation epilogue.
The intermediate per-token quantizer no longer rescans every GEMM1 output
element solely to rediscover each row's
amax.fused activation and after conversion to the materialized FP16/BF16 output
dtype. It writes one exact local maximum per output row and GEMM-N tile.
(row, GEMM-N tile)entries, so producers need neither atomics nor inter-CTAsynchronization. The native-width blocked-8 layout is
[permuted_m / 8, num_output_n_tiles, 8], with logical(row, tile)stored at[row // 8, tile, row % 8].nvfp4_quantize_per_token_cute_dslaccepts optionalinput_amaxandinput_amax_valid_rowstensors. One 128-thread CTA handlesup to eight rows, reduces the tile-local maxima, and retains the existing
scale-selection and FP4-quantization math. With PDL enabled, the consumer
keeps the existing grid-dependency wait before reading the intermediate or
auxiliary maxima.
shapes at or above 4 use the aux handoff.
num_tokensis host-static, so eachCUDA-graph capture specializes one path without a device-side branch or host
readback.
intermediate. Reducing maxima after FP16/BF16 conversion is exactly
equivalent to reducing the stored intermediate, including the existing
maxNum behavior for NaN, infinity, signed zero, and subnormals. Packed E2M1
values, E4M3 scale bytes, FP32 per-token scales, and final MoE outputs remain
bitwise equal; no tolerance is relaxed.
int32input_amax_valid_rowsbound prevents the consumer from reading or writingunused rows in a maximum-sized routing buffer. It remains device-resident.
token to the tuner key because the handoff and its token threshold can change
GEMM tactic ranking.
The GEMM's logical work remains two-dimensional in route-M and GEMM-N. The
static persistent scheduler flattens those logical clusters into a 1-D work
sequence, while the physical launch uses
grid=(cluster_m, cluster_n, persistent_clusters)andcluster=(cluster_m, cluster_n, 1). FC1 tactics currently requirecluster_n=1, so a(1, 1)tactic is physically 1-D and(2, 1)is physically2-D. The x/y launch dimensions are cooperating CTAs within a cluster, not
expert axes; the expert is selected indirectly from the route-M tile mapping.
This ownership makes the aux writes synchronization-free.
API and validation rules
input_amaxis optional; calls that omit it retain the legacy specialization.When supplied, it must be:
[ceil(M / 8), num_tiles, 8], withnum_tiles > 0; andinput_amax_valid_rows, when supplied, must be a contiguous one-element CUDAint32tensor on the same device. It is accepted only withinput_amaxandmust contain a multiple-of-eight value in
[0, M]; row blocks starting at orbeyond the bound are neither read nor written, and their returned values are
undefined. The fused MoE producer has the stronger shape
[permuted_m / 8, num_output_n_tiles, 8]because its routing extent is paddedto eight rows and its intermediate width is tiled exactly. Its optional
out_amaxis supported only by the SM100 GEMM1 path with a materializedFP16/BF16 output and must match that output's dtype/device, blocked-8 shape,
contiguity, and 4-byte alignment.
Scope and non-goals
intermediate activation quantization.
are unchanged.
adds no C++ or CUDA source files.
MoE workspace.
recompute the full-row maximum to validate caller-provided values.
Final implementation state
231f70828dfe93f5bbba7f0360a64435a7a846beb6e4cdaddcfb716bf757f343c5cad5823c6dd362b6e4cdaddcfb716bf757f343c5cad5823c6dd362a76ea9b9(feat(moe): reuse GEMM1 tile amax for per-token NVFP4)32f7b6d0(perf(moe): coalesce per-token aux maxima)26d2e099(perf(moe): enable per-token aux amax by default)81caf642(test(moe): cover FP16 aux amax handoff)0aeed372(perf(moe): bypass aux amax for tiny token batches)b6e4cdad(chore(moe): type per-token tuner cache extras)pre-commit, including mypy, passed at
b6e4cdad.FLASHINFER_CUTEDSL_MOE_PER_TOKEN_AUX_AMAXA/B switch existsonly in the sealed benchmark/profile revision. The final head exposes no
experiment gate and selects legacy for
<4tokens and aux for>=4tokens.🔍 Related Issues
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Environment
measurements used visible GPU 0 (SM103 / native
sm103a).nvcr.io/nvidia/pytorch:26.05-py3sha256:ca73b4795f0d3ae27e9cd81b1b1f1b7fc6c0a129f7d51a359d2326e95af48a3d590.48.0113.2.78; PyTorch CUDA:13.22.12.0a0+5aff3928d8.nv26.050.6.18, imported from the recorded checkoutnvidia-cutlass-dsl:4.8.0.dev0; Python:3.12.3cuda-cupti-13-2=13.2.75-1,cupti-python=13.2.0, and/usr/local/cuda/targets/x86_64-linux/lib/libcupti.so.132026.1.1.0Exact numerical validation at the final head
Coverage includes FP16/BF16, all scale-factor layouts, PDL on/off, ordinary and
deterministic 4-over-6 quantization, maxNum edge cases, device-side valid-row
tails, the
<4/>=4dispatch boundary, a real FP16 GEMM1-to-aux-quantizer PDLhandoff, EP/unused routing rows, large token counts, and multiple GEMM tactics.
Assertions compare aux maxima, packed FP4 bytes, scale bytes, per-token scales,
and final MoE outputs exactly. The one expected skip is a two-GPU same-device
negative test while only GPU 0 is visible.
Static validation
At
b6e4cdaddcfb716bf757f343c5cad5823c6dd362:Raw output:
Selected-file pre-commit passed every configured hook, including mypy. The test
rerun used warm JIT caches whose source hashes were validated against the exact
head. The complete exact-head GPU/static validation archive has SHA-256
3bc2a299cbf0156ca5c59544a4896034bc72e3d927118ab2fb95915f17d2e160;its
SHA256SUMSmanifest has SHA-2561d7b7f3729ee902d801472ebafb2b33da7c50ca13c42ad78d2287b823f43c7d6.Performance methodology
The sealed benchmark used
benchmarks/bench_moe_deepseek.pyat revision32f7b6d001182a0a55b453a512bf737ed93b547a: DeepSeek-V3, 256 experts,EP=8, TP=1, per-token NVFP4 activations, logits routing, CUDA graphs, CUPTI
timing, cold-L2 flushing, 20 warmups, and 200 measured iterations. It covered
1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096tokens with five adjacent,parity-alternated pairs per cell.
inference: fused finalize and ordinary per-token quantization.deterministic-rl:--no-fused-finalizeplus the feat(moe): support BF16 activations in CuTe DSL NVFP4 MoE #4048 4-over-6 MSEsettings.
activation-inclusive: includes initial input activation quantization.moe-only: starts from quantized input but includes the targeted GEMM1-to-GEMM2 intermediate quantization.
fixed: tune aux-off once and byte-copy one cache to both arms; this is theprimary kernel-change attribution.
native: tune each arm independently; this measures each implementationwith its preferred tactics.
The common command shape was:
Deterministic-RL additionally set:
Inference inserted a TRTLLM process between each CuTe DSL pair. TRTLLM is not
reported as a deterministic-RL control because
--no-fused-finalizechangesonly the CuTe DSL arm. Speedups are geometric means of adjacent-pair latency
ratios. Confidence intervals use a deterministic paired bootstrap with 10,000
draws and seed 42.
Production-policy performance results
These tables are a deterministic derivation from the sealed same-source A/B
rows, not a fresh timing run of the final head. The helper substitutes the
legacy row for token shapes 1 and 2, the measured aux row for shapes at or above
4, and recomputes the paired aggregate/bootstrap. Commits after
32f7b6d0change only Python policy/cache-schema, tests, and typing; the measured kernel
specializations are unchanged.
All-token aggregate (13 shapes, five adjacent pairs per shape; W4A16 is the
observed same-process off/on drift control):
Inference gap versus TRTLLM under the same production policy:
Complete per-token production results follow. Each cell is
speedup (latency reduction);legacyrows are exactly1.0xby production-policyconstruction.
The aux path has a small, repeatable 16-token regression: 0.74-0.94% under the
fixed policy and 0.65-1.16% under native tuning. It is included in every
aggregate above. Also, the gate sees the host-static tensor shape captured by
the CUDA graph. A caller that pads logical work into a larger static bucket
selects from that bucket shape; this PR does not add a device-side active-token
dispatch. The benchmark captured each listed token shape directly.
Benchmark provenance
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34380b47a2c6695b0cfd547af044782b5ab48ba5d1c51c3b7fba4978931c4c67;the sealed run contract retains the exact parser identity above. The production
helper revalidates all raw checksums and all 2,340 process-median keys, then
reproduces the sealed 104 W4A4, 104 W4A16, 8 aggregate, and 56 TRT rows before
applying the threshold.
Nsight Compute mechanism evidence
Paired
--set fullreports were captured at32f7b6d0for the 4096-token,EP8/TP1, MoE-only point with fresh JIT roots and byte-identical fixed tactic
caches. CUDA graphs and CUPTI benchmark timing were disabled for this isolated
one-forward kernel replay; all-cache flushing and base clocks were enabled.
(2,1,74)/ 384(40704,1,1)/ 128(2,1,74)/ 384(5088,1,1)/ 128(2,1,74)/ 384(40704,1,1)/ 128(2,1,74)/ 384(5088,1,1)/ 128L/S sectorsare L1TEX global sectors (32 bytes each), not logical payload orDRAM bytes. Aux-on GEMM1 reported 24,576 local-spilling requests, 24,576 bytes,
and 24,576 local-load instructions with no local-store instructions in each
profile; all quant actions and both aux-off GEMM1 actions reported zero. The
serialized sums are mechanism diagnostics, not CUDA-graph critical-path or
end-to-end claims when kernels overlap; those claims come only from the paired
benchmark matrix.
NCU raw identities:
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to
Kbyte; the saved reports were re-exported in base units and passed the samestrict raw/details identity checks without rerunning a kernel.
Reviewer Notes
whether the post-conversion maxNum reduction exactly matches the legacy
full-row reduction, and whether the device valid-row bound is sufficient for
graph-replayed maximum routing buffers.
tile rather than one scalar for an entire
(M tile, N tile). This avoidsproducer synchronization while letting the consumer finish the row reduction.
caller-specific CUDA-graph bucketing were not measured.
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