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feat(cake_rmsnorm_train): add fused BF16 RMSNorm training forward/backward (FP32 rstd, deterministic dw) for SM100/SM103/SM107 - #5741

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feat(cake_rmsnorm_train): add fused BF16 RMSNorm training forward/backward (FP32 rstd, deterministic dw) for SM100/SM103/SM107#5741
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Developed by the CAKE team, the kernels in this PR outperform the relevant SOTA baselines at the time of merge on the vast majority of performance benchmark shapes, matching them otherwise.

Summary

Adds flashinfer.cake_rmsnorm_train: a generated BF16 RMSNorm training operator for SM100a (B200), SM103a (B300 / GB300) and SM107a (R200) with

  • forward y = bf16(x * rstd * w) plus the FP32 reciprocal RMS rstd needed by the backward (optionally fused with a residual add: h_new = bf16(x + residual) is normalized and returned),
  • backward dx (BF16) and dw (FP32) in one launch, with a bitwise deterministic dw whose reduction order is a pure function of (T, device),
  • a torch.autograd.Function (CakeRMSNormFunction) and a module-free helper (cake_rmsnorm) that save only (x, w, rstd).

flashinfer.norm.rmsnorm is an inference kernel (no rstd, no backward); training frameworks fall back to torch.compile / eager autograd / Liger. This PR is the training counterpart requested in #5679.

Design

Forward (fwd[_residual]_h{512,2048,6144}): per hidden size and per architecture a small set of generated programs selected by the row count at launch (the loader's select_rule; e.g. H = 6144: a persistent software-pipelined program for T <= 1024 capped at 4 CTAs per SM, one 256-thread CTA per row above; H = 512: a 64-thread one-row-per-CTA program for T <= 1024, a persistent 8-rows-per-CTA program at 6 CTAs per SM up to T = 16384, two rows per 64-thread CTA above). Every program: 128/256-bit BF16 loads into a register cache, FP32 sum of squares with a two-level shuffle/shared reduce, IEEE rsqrt in FP32, one pass to write y (and h_new) and the FP32 rstd. Inputs of any layout are accepted: row-strided views with a contiguous feature dimension and aligned base / row stride are read in place, other layouts (odd column offset, odd row stride, transposed storage) are materialized once; caller-provided output buffers of any layout are honoured by copy-back.

Backward (bwd[_residual]_h{512,2048,6144}): a persistent grid of min(k x SM count, T) CTAs over static row chunks (k = 2 at 256 threads; the H = 6144 residual program runs 384 threads at k = 1, its launch-bound residency, so the cooperative grid is always fully resident). Each CTA computes dx for its rows (dx = rstd * (g*w - mean(g*w*xhat) * xhat) in FP32) and accumulates a per-chunk FP32 dw partial (compensated summation); after a cooperative grid barrier every CTA reduces a fixed column slab of the partials in chunk order into dw. No atomics: the result does not depend on scheduling. The residual variant adds g_residual into the dx it returns (dx_total), so both inputs of the residual add receive the same gradient tensor.

Precision: all statistics and reductions in FP32; IEEE division / square root; no fast-math (--prec-div=true --prec-sqrt=true --ftz=false, use_fast_math=False). Outputs are BF16 only where the contract says BF16 (y, h_new, dx); rstd and dw stay FP32.

Sources: csrc/cake_rmsnorm_train/{sm_100a,sm_103a,sm_107a}/ are generated (device + TVM-FFI binding per program), verified by SHA-256 in flashinfer/jit/cake_rmsnorm_train.py, compiled per exact capability (sm100a/sm103a/sm107a_nvcc_flags), and excluded from formatting hooks like the other generated trees.

Program selection is per architecture (SM100a and SM103a share most programs; SM107a has its own forward table): the selection rules and the per-program knobs (L2 load hints, register cache form, rows per CTA, row-loop form, launch bounds) were chosen from paired measurements on each GPU, and every program variant kept in a table produces bit-identical y / rstd / h_new to the one it replaced (same FP32 reduction order); only the dispatch and the memory-access schedule differ.

API

y, rstd = cake_rmsnorm_train_forward(x, w, eps)                       # x [T, H] bf16 (any layout), w [H] bf16
y, rstd, h_new = cake_rmsnorm_train_forward(x, w, eps, residual=u)    # fused residual add
dx, dw = cake_rmsnorm_train_backward(g, x, w, rstd)                   # dx bf16 [T, H], dw fp32 [H]
dx_total, dw = cake_rmsnorm_train_backward(g, h_new, w, rstd, g_residual=g_h)
n = cake_rmsnorm_train_backward_workspace_bytes(T, H, device)         # caller-owned, reusable across T
y = cake_rmsnorm(x, w, eps, residual=None, deterministic=True)        # autograd (CakeRMSNormFunction)

T is a runtime argument (no re-JIT when it changes; T = 0 returns empty outputs). H in {512, 2048, 6144}, BF16 only. deterministic=False is rejected (no non-deterministic variant is shipped).

Performance

CUPTI-timed GPU kernel time (union of kernel-active intervals per call, i.e. the flashinfer.testing.bench_gpu_time(enable_cupti=True) convention, which excludes CPU launch gaps of the multi-kernel autograd baselines), cold L2, paired counterbalanced arms, median of fixed-count samples; GB/s over the logical bytes (fwd: 2TH x 2 + 4T [+ 2TH residual in, 2TH h_new out]; bwd: 3 x 2TH + 4T + 4H [+ 2TH]). Step = forward + backward rows.

Measurement notes: rows whose calls take under ~10 us show 5-9 % launch-order dependence between the two orders of a paired measurement (including a bitwise-identical pair of the same kernel), so per-row ratios near 1.0 at small T are within that noise; the numbers below are medians over counterbalanced groups with the two orders interleaved. H = 512 forward rows are slower than flashinfer.norm.rmsnorm by 2-5 % at T >= 4096 and than torch.compile / Liger at T = 256; they are listed as measured.

GB300 (SM103a, 152 SMs) - export protocol receipts, 56 rows

Export protocol (CUPTI active-union per call, cold L2, 3 counterbalanced groups, direct launches; source = the generating framework's own launcher of the same programs, export = this PR's modules): 56/56 rows correct (BF16 1e-2, rstd rel-L2 <= 1e-5, dw rel-L2 <= 1e-4 vs FP64), source/export bitwise-identical on 56/56 rows; the per-row gate against every comparator passes on 50/56 rows (the six H = 512 forward rows below). Re-measured on a GB300 node after the per-architecture table update.

row source us export us source/export torch.compile/export eager FP32/export F.rms_norm/export Liger/export flashinfer.rmsnorm/export
fwd_h6144_t256 3.52 3.58 0.9821 1.464 11.232 2.455 1.027 1.143
bwd_h6144_t256 8.51 8.54 0.9963 1.644 7.951 2.079 2.236 n/a
fwd_h6144_t1024 6.24 6.27 0.9949 1.214 12.107 1.658 1.378 1.189
bwd_h6144_t1024 14.11 14.24 0.9910 2.715 10.517 1.838 2.083 n/a
fwd_h6144_t4096 18.59 18.61 0.9991 1.241 15.433 1.295 1.375 1.095
bwd_h6144_t4096 31.71 31.65 1.0020 2.627 17.384 2.630 2.327 n/a
fwd_h6144_t16172 59.68 59.81 0.9979 1.017 17.579 1.163 1.457 1.027
bwd_h6144_t16172 100.69 100.62 1.0006 1.810 19.754 3.114 2.403 n/a
fwd_h6144_t16231 59.78 59.87 0.9984 1.021 17.616 1.167 1.460 1.033
bwd_h6144_t16231 100.48 100.77 0.9971 1.812 19.797 3.130 2.406 n/a
fwd_h6144_t32768 115.65 115.62 1.0003 1.071 18.167 1.115 1.482 1.022
bwd_h6144_t32768 192.64 192.66 0.9999 1.630 20.572 2.619 2.428 n/a
fwd_h6144_t65536 226.83 226.88 0.9998 18.308 18.311 1.086 1.483 1.016
bwd_h6144_t65536 377.14 376.90 1.0006 20.844 20.841 2.615 2.420 n/a
fwd_h6144_t256_res 4.54 4.58 0.9930 1.755 12.839 6.014 5.014 n/a
bwd_h6144_t256_res 9.66 9.76 0.9902 1.898 8.325 3.131 3.239 n/a
fwd_h6144_t1024_res 9.06 9.09 0.9965 1.254 13.180 6.430 6.169 n/a
bwd_h6144_t1024_res 16.03 16.00 1.0020 2.812 11.100 3.466 3.688 n/a
fwd_h6144_t4096_res 32.19 32.22 0.9990 1.144 15.049 6.796 6.910 n/a
bwd_h6144_t4096_res 41.14 41.02 1.0027 2.411 16.599 5.148 4.991 n/a
fwd_h6144_t16172_res 115.01 115.07 0.9994 1.096 15.727 7.197 7.345 n/a
bwd_h6144_t16172_res 139.30 139.25 1.0003 1.650 17.938 5.881 5.388 n/a
fwd_h6144_t16231_res 115.07 115.07 1.0000 1.099 15.786 7.217 7.368 n/a
bwd_h6144_t16231_res 139.38 139.58 0.9985 1.648 17.952 5.880 5.392 n/a
fwd_h6144_t32768_res 229.54 229.49 1.0002 1.009 15.800 7.205 7.385 n/a
bwd_h6144_t32768_res 273.18 273.31 0.9995 1.450 18.218 5.560 5.441 n/a
fwd_h6144_t65536_res 452.22 452.08 1.0003 1.015 15.909 7.261 7.461 n/a
bwd_h6144_t65536_res 537.30 537.07 1.0004 1.372 18.400 5.593 5.468 n/a
fwd_h2048_t256 2.46 2.46 1.0000 1.312 9.610 1.701 1.026 1.195
bwd_h2048_t256 6.82 6.85 0.9953 1.813 6.621 1.542 2.369 n/a
fwd_h2048_t1024 3.55 3.52 1.0091 10.036 10.027 1.400 1.045 1.145
bwd_h2048_t1024 9.70 9.82 0.9870 6.847 6.909 1.463 2.241 n/a
fwd_h2048_t4096 7.94 7.90 1.0040 10.664 10.628 1.332 1.174 1.008
bwd_h2048_t4096 16.35 16.32 1.0020 10.957 10.961 2.002 2.771 n/a
fwd_h2048_t16172 22.30 22.27 1.0014 16.530 16.533 1.341 1.266 1.037
bwd_h2048_t16172 42.62 42.50 1.0030 16.697 16.689 3.478 3.324 n/a
fwd_h2048_t16231 22.40 22.30 1.0043 16.548 16.528 1.349 1.273 1.053
bwd_h2048_t16231 42.46 42.54 0.9981 16.785 16.790 3.494 3.254 n/a
fwd_h2048_t32768 41.63 41.57 1.0015 17.415 17.411 1.331 1.306 1.025
bwd_h2048_t32768 78.72 78.56 1.0020 17.570 17.583 3.299 3.291 n/a
fwd_h2048_t65536 79.06 79.01 1.0006 17.906 17.909 1.335 1.311 1.016
bwd_h2048_t65536 147.15 147.14 1.0001 18.221 18.215 3.323 3.545 n/a
fwd_h512_t256 2.21 2.21 1.0000 0.971 8.442 1.377 0.986 0.986
bwd_h512_t256 5.95 5.95 1.0000 1.392 6.231 1.301 2.581 n/a
fwd_h512_t1024 2.50 2.43 1.0263 8.461 8.474 1.395 1.053 1.026
bwd_h512_t1024 7.04 7.04 1.0000 6.064 6.118 1.468 2.777 n/a
fwd_h512_t4096 3.52 3.58 0.9821 9.214 9.170 1.812 1.259 0.964
bwd_h512_t4096 8.80 8.80 1.0000 7.604 7.615 2.527 4.047 n/a
fwd_h512_t16172 7.30 7.33 0.9956 11.511 11.489 2.651 1.555 0.952
bwd_h512_t16172 15.04 15.07 0.9979 12.527 12.516 5.053 6.493 n/a
fwd_h512_t16231 7.36 7.30 1.0088 11.539 11.561 2.658 1.579 0.991
bwd_h512_t16231 15.04 15.04 1.0000 12.594 12.568 5.100 6.483 n/a
fwd_h512_t32768 12.48 12.51 0.9974 14.660 14.639 2.951 1.652 0.957
bwd_h512_t32768 23.36 23.36 1.0000 16.574 16.637 7.340 8.092 n/a
fwd_h512_t65536 22.34 22.37 0.9986 16.830 16.818 3.202 1.748 0.953
bwd_h512_t65536 39.58 39.58 1.0000 18.993 18.997 9.502 9.217 n/a

Rows below 1.0 against a comparator (kept as measured; the H = 512 forward gap to flashinfer.norm.rmsnorm is structural: that kernel uses 128 threads x 4 elements per row at 30 registers and 16 resident CTAs per SM, this PR's H = 512 programs keep the row in FP32 registers at 37-48 registers; every bit-identical variant tried - row-loop form, launch bounds, packed BF16x2 register cache, shared-memory staging in the same 128x4 geometry - measured equal or slower at T >= 16k, and reproducing the FlashInfer geometry would change the FP32 reduction order, which this PR does not do):

  • fwd_h512_t256: torch.compile 0.971, Liger 0.986, flashinfer.rmsnorm 0.986
  • fwd_h512_t4096: flashinfer.rmsnorm 0.964
  • fwd_h512_t16172: flashinfer.rmsnorm 0.952
  • fwd_h512_t16231: flashinfer.rmsnorm 0.991
  • fwd_h512_t32768: flashinfer.rmsnorm 0.957
  • fwd_h512_t65536: flashinfer.rmsnorm 0.953

Comparator versions: PyTorch 2.13.0a0 (NGC 26.07 container, CUDA 13.3), Triton 3.6.0, liger-kernel 0.8.3, flashinfer.norm.rmsnorm from this branch's merge-base (f558e9fd4) built by the same JIT.

GB300 (SM103a, 152 SMs) - 84 paired acceptance rows (harness, same node/process)

GB300 (SM103a, 152 SMs, one node, 84 acceptance rows, comparators: torch.compile / eager FP32 autograd / F.rms_norm autograd / Liger / flashinfer.rmsnorm for forward rows) — 76/84 rows strictly faster (ratio = fastest baseline / this PR; us = CUPTI kernel-sum median, cold L2, one process, paired; re-run on the per-architecture tables of this revision). All backward and fwd+bwd rows win; the forward rows not strictly faster are the H = 512 rows (ties at T = 16172 / 16231, 0.96-0.99 elsewhere, see the receipts note above) and the residual H = 6144 row at T = 4096 (0.998, within the paired noise of a 32 us row).

H T residual fwd: fastest baseline (arm) / this PR / ratio bwd (+dw reduce): fastest baseline (arm) / this PR / ratio fwd+bwd: fastest baseline / this PR / ratio
6144 256 no 3.68 (Liger) / 3.46 / 1.065 13.79 (torch.compile) / 8.06 / 1.710 18.98 (torch.compile) / 11.52 / 1.647
6144 1024 no 7.33 (flashinfer) / 6.18 / 1.187 25.60 (F.rms_norm) / 13.63 / 1.878 35.81 (F.rms_norm) / 19.81 / 1.808
6144 4096 no 19.78 (flashinfer) / 18.34 / 1.079 73.44 (Liger) / 31.17 / 2.356 98.18 (Liger) / 49.50 / 1.983
6144 16172 no 60.13 (torch.compile) / 59.65 / 1.008 181.12 (torch.compile) / 100.16 / 1.808 241.25 (torch.compile) / 159.81 / 1.510
6144 16231 no 60.99 (torch.compile) / 59.26 / 1.029 181.15 (torch.compile) / 100.45 / 1.803 242.14 (torch.compile) / 159.71 / 1.516
6144 32768 no 117.63 (flashinfer) / 115.04 / 1.023 308.86 (torch.compile) / 192.83 / 1.602 431.84 (torch.compile) / 307.87 / 1.403
6144 65536 no 229.06 (flashinfer) / 225.50 / 1.016 567.36 (torch.compile) / 375.33 / 1.512 803.84 (torch.compile) / 600.83 / 1.338
6144 256 yes 4.74 (flashinfer) / 4.45 / 1.065 17.76 (torch.compile) / 9.57 / 1.856 25.57 (torch.compile) / 14.02 / 1.824
6144 1024 yes 10.91 (flashinfer) / 9.18 / 1.188 32.48 (F.rms_norm) / 15.81 / 2.055 49.12 (F.rms_norm) / 24.99 / 1.965
6144 4096 yes 32.29 (flashinfer) / 32.16 / 1.004 93.31 (torch.compile) / 41.47 / 2.250 130.05 (torch.compile) / 73.63 / 1.766
6144 16172 yes 115.81 (flashinfer) / 114.43 / 1.012 204.51 (torch.compile) / 138.98 / 1.472 329.89 (torch.compile) / 253.41 / 1.302
6144 16231 yes 115.68 (flashinfer) / 115.23 / 1.004 205.09 (torch.compile) / 138.66 / 1.479 330.53 (torch.compile) / 253.89 / 1.302
6144 32768 yes 228.48 (flashinfer) / 227.26 / 1.005 336.86 (torch.compile) / 271.23 / 1.242 568.90 (torch.compile) / 498.50 / 1.141
6144 65536 yes 453.76 (flashinfer) / 452.38 / 1.003 621.89 (torch.compile) / 531.52 / 1.170 1077.18 (torch.compile) / 983.90 / 1.095
2048 256 no 2.50 (Liger) / 2.50 / 1.000 (not faster) 10.82 (F.rms_norm) / 6.34 / 1.707 14.88 (F.rms_norm) / 8.83 / 1.685
2048 1024 no 3.58 (Liger) / 3.52 / 1.018 14.46 (F.rms_norm) / 9.09 / 1.592 19.26 (F.rms_norm) / 12.61 / 1.528
2048 4096 no 7.90 (flashinfer) / 7.58 / 1.042 25.98 (torch.compile) / 15.87 / 1.637 35.07 (torch.compile) / 23.46 / 1.495
2048 16172 no 22.78 (flashinfer) / 22.08 / 1.032 80.74 (torch.compile) / 41.86 / 1.929 104.80 (torch.compile) / 63.94 / 1.639
2048 16231 no 22.85 (flashinfer) / 22.11 / 1.033 81.60 (torch.compile) / 41.79 / 1.953 105.66 (torch.compile) / 63.90 / 1.653
2048 32768 no 42.46 (flashinfer) / 41.79 / 1.016 112.77 (torch.compile) / 77.22 / 1.460 156.70 (torch.compile) / 119.01 / 1.317
2048 65536 no 80.19 (flashinfer) / 78.72 / 1.019 211.94 (torch.compile) / 146.27 / 1.449 295.17 (torch.compile) / 224.99 / 1.312
512 256 no 2.11 (flashinfer) / 2.18 / 0.971 (not faster) 8.19 (F.rms_norm) / 5.60 / 1.463 10.43 (torch.compile) / 7.78 / 1.342
512 1024 no 2.40 (flashinfer) / 2.43 / 0.987 (not faster) 10.59 (F.rms_norm) / 6.40 / 1.655 13.86 (F.rms_norm) / 8.83 / 1.569
512 4096 no 3.36 (flashinfer) / 3.42 / 0.981 (not faster) 14.88 (torch.compile) / 8.19 / 1.816 18.75 (torch.compile) / 11.62 / 1.614
512 16172 no 7.07 (flashinfer) / 7.07 / 1.000 (not faster) 33.22 (torch.compile) / 14.37 / 2.312 40.80 (torch.compile) / 21.44 / 1.903
512 16231 no 7.10 (flashinfer) / 7.10 / 1.000 (not faster) 33.38 (torch.compile) / 14.40 / 2.318 40.80 (torch.compile) / 21.50 / 1.897
512 32768 no 11.78 (flashinfer) / 12.29 / 0.958 (not faster) 28.00 (torch.compile) / 22.69 / 1.234 40.51 (torch.compile) / 34.98 / 1.158
512 65536 no 21.31 (flashinfer) / 21.79 / 0.978 (not faster) 48.83 (torch.compile) / 38.69 / 1.262 71.52 (torch.compile) / 60.48 / 1.183

B200 (SM100a, 148 SMs) - export protocol receipts (56 rows) and 84 paired acceptance rows on a B200 node

Modules JIT-compiled on the node (nvcc 13.3, compute_100a); module test suite 133 passed / 28 skipped on the B200. The same frozen export protocol as on GB300, measured on the B200 for the SM100a rows: 56/56 rows correct, source/export bitwise-identical on 56/56 rows.

row source us export us source/export torch.compile/export eager FP32/export F.rms_norm/export Liger/export flashinfer.rmsnorm/export
fwd_h6144_t256__sm_100a 3.65 3.58 1.0179 1.080 11.758 2.429 1.062 1.179
bwd_h6144_t256__sm_100a 8.67 8.77 0.9891 1.624 8.106 2.157 2.241 n/a
fwd_h6144_t1024__sm_100a 6.40 6.37 1.0050 1.236 12.467 1.638 1.412 1.206
bwd_h6144_t1024__sm_100a 14.40 14.42 0.9989 2.730 10.744 1.869 2.111 n/a
fwd_h6144_t4096__sm_100a 18.98 18.98 1.0001 1.253 15.688 1.336 1.401 1.091
bwd_h6144_t4096__sm_100a 31.94 31.94 1.0000 2.646 17.811 2.701 2.391 n/a
fwd_h6144_t16172__sm_100a 61.76 61.70 1.0010 1.001 17.638 1.183 1.493 1.029
bwd_h6144_t16172__sm_100a 102.77 102.85 0.9992 1.871 19.951 3.135 2.424 n/a
fwd_h6144_t16231__sm_100a 61.89 61.86 1.0005 0.998 17.650 1.190 1.492 1.019
bwd_h6144_t16231__sm_100a 103.26 103.30 0.9997 1.863 19.941 3.141 2.423 n/a
fwd_h6144_t32768__sm_100a 119.18 119.20 0.9999 1.089 18.220 1.136 1.527 1.013
bwd_h6144_t32768__sm_100a 199.57 199.57 1.0000 1.674 20.501 2.655 2.414 n/a
fwd_h6144_t65536__sm_100a 231.87 231.94 0.9997 18.524 18.523 1.112 1.541 1.016
bwd_h6144_t65536__sm_100a 390.32 390.19 1.0003 20.776 20.774 2.632 2.400 n/a
fwd_h6144_t256_res__sm_100a 4.64 4.64 1.0000 1.028 13.027 6.041 5.103 n/a
bwd_h6144_t256_res__sm_100a 9.79 9.76 1.0032 1.905 8.675 3.193 3.357 n/a
fwd_h6144_t1024_res__sm_100a 9.76 9.76 1.0000 1.151 12.908 6.266 6.052 n/a
bwd_h6144_t1024_res__sm_100a 16.22 16.26 0.9980 2.805 11.474 3.577 3.805 n/a
fwd_h6144_t4096_res__sm_100a 33.44 33.44 1.0000 1.001 14.980 6.776 6.896 n/a
bwd_h6144_t4096_res__sm_100a 41.82 41.76 1.0015 2.394 16.838 5.229 5.062 n/a
fwd_h6144_t16172_res__sm_100a 117.82 117.81 1.0001 1.011 15.883 7.280 7.432 n/a
bwd_h6144_t16172_res__sm_100a 142.67 142.82 0.9990 1.682 18.034 5.879 5.411 n/a
fwd_h6144_t16231_res__sm_100a 118.21 118.14 1.0005 1.013 15.897 7.284 7.442 n/a
bwd_h6144_t16231_res__sm_100a 142.88 142.85 1.0002 1.675 18.079 5.904 5.415 n/a
fwd_h6144_t32768_res__sm_100a 234.24 234.02 1.0010 1.008 16.009 7.310 7.503 n/a
bwd_h6144_t32768_res__sm_100a 278.91 279.12 0.9993 1.491 18.393 5.624 5.473 n/a
fwd_h6144_t65536_res__sm_100a 464.99 465.45 0.9990 1.011 15.985 7.300 7.512 n/a
bwd_h6144_t65536_res__sm_100a 548.24 548.13 1.0002 1.405 18.590 5.670 5.508 n/a
fwd_h2048_t256__sm_100a 2.50 2.53 0.9877 1.278 9.608 1.671 1.013 1.203
bwd_h2048_t256__sm_100a 6.94 6.91 1.0048 1.820 6.806 1.533 2.445 n/a
fwd_h2048_t1024__sm_100a 3.46 3.49 0.9908 10.633 10.642 1.422 1.064 1.174
bwd_h2048_t1024__sm_100a 9.76 9.76 1.0000 7.184 7.184 1.508 2.325 n/a
fwd_h2048_t4096__sm_100a 8.13 8.06 1.0079 10.880 10.896 1.365 1.218 1.020
bwd_h2048_t4096__sm_100a 16.61 16.55 1.0038 11.347 11.318 2.104 2.843 n/a
fwd_h2048_t16172__sm_100a 22.94 22.91 1.0014 16.647 16.643 1.404 1.324 1.046
bwd_h2048_t16172__sm_100a 43.78 43.81 0.9993 16.730 16.712 3.439 3.261 n/a
fwd_h2048_t16231__sm_100a 22.66 22.66 1.0000 16.836 16.842 1.424 1.322 1.041
bwd_h2048_t16231__sm_100a 43.81 43.90 0.9978 16.735 16.744 3.429 3.266 n/a
fwd_h2048_t32768__sm_100a 42.56 42.53 1.0008 17.620 17.603 1.421 1.360 1.023
bwd_h2048_t32768__sm_100a 80.45 80.51 0.9992 17.679 17.674 3.295 3.442 n/a
fwd_h2048_t65536__sm_100a 80.11 79.98 1.0016 18.317 18.318 1.451 1.390 1.024
bwd_h2048_t65536__sm_100a 152.48 152.42 1.0004 18.172 18.167 3.349 3.484 n/a
fwd_h512_t256__sm_100a 2.27 2.27 1.0000 0.986 8.465 1.380 0.972 0.958
bwd_h512_t256__sm_100a 6.24 6.08 1.0263 1.384 6.347 1.337 2.634! n/a
fwd_h512_t1024__sm_100a 2.53 2.53 1.0000 8.468 8.430 1.392 1.013 1.000
bwd_h512_t1024__sm_100a 7.36 7.26 1.0132 6.224 6.247 1.485 2.797 n/a
fwd_h512_t4096__sm_100a 3.65 3.58 1.0176 9.604 9.622 1.919 1.330 0.991
bwd_h512_t4096__sm_100a 9.22 9.15 1.0070 7.721 7.693 2.472 4.074 n/a
fwd_h512_t16172__sm_100a 7.36 7.33 1.0045 11.954 11.954 2.917 1.655 1.000
bwd_h512_t16172__sm_100a 15.30 15.30 1.0000 12.966 12.954 5.282 6.633 n/a
fwd_h512_t16231__sm_100a 7.46 7.42 1.0043 11.866 11.815 2.888 1.642 0.974
bwd_h512_t16231__sm_100a 15.30 15.42 0.9917 12.913 12.894 5.307 6.627 n/a
fwd_h512_t32768__sm_100a 12.67 12.70 0.9975 15.139 15.106 3.196 1.748 0.965
bwd_h512_t32768__sm_100a 23.68 23.71 0.9987 16.965 16.972 7.557 8.283 n/a
fwd_h512_t65536__sm_100a 23.39 23.46 0.9973 16.608 16.607 3.352 1.784 0.958
bwd_h512_t65536__sm_100a 40.61 40.53 1.0020 19.085 19.084 9.080 9.319 n/a

Rows below 1.0 against a comparator (same H = 512 structural gap as on GB300):

  • fwd_h6144_t16231__sm_100a: torch.compile 0.998
  • fwd_h512_t256__sm_100a: torch.compile 0.986, Liger 0.972, flashinfer.rmsnorm 0.958
  • fwd_h512_t4096__sm_100a: flashinfer.rmsnorm 0.991
  • fwd_h512_t16231__sm_100a: flashinfer.rmsnorm 0.974
  • fwd_h512_t32768__sm_100a: flashinfer.rmsnorm 0.965
  • fwd_h512_t65536__sm_100a: flashinfer.rmsnorm 0.958

B200 (SM100a, 148 SMs, SM clock 1965 MHz, one node, 84 acceptance rows, same comparators and thresholds re-measured on the B200) — 76/84 rows strictly faster (ratio = fastest baseline / this PR; us = CUPTI kernel-sum median, cold L2, one process, paired; re-run on the per-architecture tables of this revision).

H T residual fwd: fastest baseline (arm) / this PR / ratio bwd (+dw reduce): fastest baseline (arm) / this PR / ratio fwd+bwd: fastest baseline / this PR / ratio
6144 256 no 3.78 (Liger) / 3.52 / 1.073 14.14 (torch.compile) / 8.29 / 1.707 17.95 (torch.compile) / 11.81 / 1.520
6144 1024 no 7.58 (flashinfer) / 6.27 / 1.209 26.58 (F.rms_norm) / 14.02 / 1.896 36.94 (F.rms_norm) / 20.29 / 1.821
6144 4096 no 21.02 (flashinfer) / 18.97 / 1.108 75.97 (Liger) / 31.49 / 2.413 102.56 (Liger) / 50.46 / 2.032
6144 16172 no 61.70 (torch.compile) / 61.44 / 1.004 191.49 (torch.compile) / 102.56 / 1.867 253.18 (torch.compile) / 164.00 / 1.544
6144 16231 no 62.02 (torch.compile) / 61.63 / 1.006 191.84 (torch.compile) / 102.62 / 1.869 253.86 (torch.compile) / 164.26 / 1.545
6144 32768 no 121.34 (flashinfer) / 118.53 / 1.024 330.40 (torch.compile) / 198.69 / 1.663 459.42 (torch.compile) / 317.22 / 1.448
6144 65536 no 235.07 (flashinfer) / 231.78 / 1.014 604.87 (torch.compile) / 388.61 / 1.556 852.55 (torch.compile) / 620.38 / 1.374
6144 256 yes 4.58 (torch.compile) / 4.61 / 0.993 (not faster) 18.21 (torch.compile) / 9.57 / 1.903 22.78 (torch.compile) / 14.18 / 1.607
6144 1024 yes 11.20 (torch.compile) / 9.60 / 1.167 33.22 (F.rms_norm) / 16.22 / 2.047 50.53 (F.rms_norm) / 25.82 / 1.957
6144 4096 yes 33.44 (torch.compile) / 32.74 / 1.022 95.30 (torch.compile) / 42.08 / 2.265 128.74 (torch.compile) / 74.82 / 1.721
6144 16172 yes 118.59 (flashinfer) / 117.79 / 1.007 215.17 (torch.compile) / 142.24 / 1.513 335.01 (torch.compile) / 260.03 / 1.288
6144 16231 yes 118.69 (flashinfer) / 118.50 / 1.002 215.58 (torch.compile) / 142.11 / 1.517 334.58 (torch.compile) / 260.61 / 1.284
6144 32768 yes 234.56 (flashinfer) / 234.05 / 1.002 354.34 (torch.compile) / 279.01 / 1.270 590.34 (torch.compile) / 513.06 / 1.151
6144 65536 yes 464.90 (flashinfer) / 463.52 / 1.003 651.55 (torch.compile) / 546.43 / 1.192 1121.66 (torch.compile) / 1009.95 / 1.111
2048 256 no 2.53 (Liger) / 2.46 / 1.026 10.98 (F.rms_norm) / 6.50 / 1.690 15.04 (F.rms_norm) / 8.96 / 1.679
2048 1024 no 3.71 (Liger) / 3.42 / 1.084 15.04 (F.rms_norm) / 9.38 / 1.604 20.00 (F.rms_norm) / 12.80 / 1.562
2048 4096 no 8.29 (flashinfer) / 8.03 / 1.032 24.74 (torch.compile) / 16.38 / 1.510 34.40 (torch.compile) / 24.42 / 1.409
2048 16172 no 23.55 (flashinfer) / 22.75 / 1.035 71.81 (torch.compile) / 43.71 / 1.643 97.41 (torch.compile) / 66.46 / 1.466
2048 16231 no 23.62 (flashinfer) / 22.82 / 1.035 75.65 (torch.compile) / 43.68 / 1.732 101.47 (torch.compile) / 66.50 / 1.526
2048 32768 no 43.49 (flashinfer) / 42.05 / 1.034 96.22 (torch.compile) / 80.74 / 1.192 143.30 (torch.compile) / 122.78 / 1.167
2048 65536 no 81.76 (flashinfer) / 80.06 / 1.021 171.90 (torch.compile) / 152.32 / 1.129 261.25 (torch.compile) / 232.39 / 1.124
512 256 no 2.18 (flashinfer) / 2.24 / 0.971 (not faster) 8.38 (torch.compile) / 5.70 / 1.472 10.56 (torch.compile) / 7.94 / 1.331
512 1024 no 2.43 (flashinfer) / 2.50 / 0.974 (not faster) 11.30 (F.rms_norm) / 6.85 / 1.650 14.62 (F.rms_norm) / 9.34 / 1.565
512 4096 no 3.49 (flashinfer) / 3.58 / 0.973 (not faster) 15.26 (torch.compile) / 8.74 / 1.747 19.26 (torch.compile) / 12.32 / 1.564
512 16172 no 7.20 (flashinfer) / 7.33 / 0.983 (not faster) 35.30 (torch.compile) / 15.04 / 2.347 43.39 (torch.compile) / 22.37 / 1.940
512 16231 no 7.23 (flashinfer) / 7.33 / 0.987 (not faster) 35.49 (torch.compile) / 15.07 / 2.355 43.65 (torch.compile) / 22.40 / 1.948
512 32768 no 12.54 (flashinfer) / 12.90 / 0.973 (not faster) 28.77 (torch.compile) / 23.58 / 1.220 41.63 (torch.compile) / 36.48 / 1.141
512 65536 no 22.14 (flashinfer) / 23.36 / 0.948 (not faster) 50.05 (torch.compile) / 39.97 / 1.252 73.38 (torch.compile) / 63.33 / 1.159

R200 (SM107a, 212 SMs) - 84 paired acceptance rows on a Rubin node

Rubin R200 node (212 SMs, CC 10.7, 4x R200; CUDA 13.5 container with compute_107 nvcc/NVRTC: torch 2.13.0a0, Triton 3.7.0, liger-kernel, flashinfer 0.7.1 source checkout = this PR's base; TransformerEngine 2.18 importable but not timeable under the CUPTI harness), harness v2, same methodology as above. Two passes:

  • Shipped programs (this PR's sm_107a sources and host table, kernels unchanged): 65/84 rows strictly faster - every backward and step row wins; 19 forward rows lose to flashinfer rmsnorm / fused_add_rmsnorm (H=6144 res=0 T>=4096 0.871-0.944, H=6144 res=1 T=256 and T>=4096 0.931-0.983, H=2048 T=4096/16172/16231 0.847-0.985, H=512 T=256/1024/4096/32768/65536 0.961-0.998). On R200 the torch copy ceiling (6.4-6.6 TB/s at H=6144) is below both kernels, so these are not roofline ties: the sm_107a forward host table had been copied from the GB300 tuning.
  • Re-tuned forward table (per-arch program selection only: L2 load hints, f32 vs packed register cache, rows per CTA, T dispatch; y / r bit-identical to the shipped programs, verified per variant): 76/84 rows strictly faster - bwd 1.26-2.98x, fwd+bwd 1.19-2.41x on every row; H=6144 res=1 forward wins at every T (1.02-1.10x), H=6144 res=0 at T <= 4096, H=2048 at T <= 4096 and T >= 32768, H=512 at T=1024/4096/16172/16231/65536. The sm_107a sources and loader table in this PR are regenerated from the re-tuned selection (this push): y / r are bit-identical to the first pass' programs for every row, SM100 / SM103 sources are byte-identical to the previous push, and the regenerated SM107 modules were JIT-built (nvcc 13.5, compute_107) and tested on an R200 node (tests/norm/test_cake_rmsnorm_train.py: 133 passed, 28 skipped). A kernel that the dispatch launches under several launch policies is recorded once per policy in the loader (records sharing the kernel's sources and JIT cache name). The table below is the re-tuned pass.
H T residual fwd: fastest baseline (arm) / this PR / ratio bwd (+dw reduce): fastest baseline (arm) / this PR / ratio fwd+bwd: fastest baseline / this PR / ratio
6144 256 no 3.30 (Liger) / 3.26 / 1.010 12.54 (torch.compile) / 7.01 / 1.790 16.00 (torch.compile) / 10.27 / 1.558
6144 1024 no 5.47 (flashinfer) / 4.86 / 1.125 20.42 (F.rms_norm) / 11.30 / 1.807 29.83 (F.rms_norm) / 16.16 / 1.846
6144 4096 no 14.14 (flashinfer) / 12.90 / 1.097 59.30 (Liger) / 24.64 / 2.406 80.35 (torch.compile) / 37.54 / 2.141
6144 16172 no 41.66 (flashinfer) / 44.83 / 0.929 (not faster) 183.01 (Liger) / 76.48 / 2.393 258.31 (Liger) / 121.31 / 2.129
6144 16231 no 41.73 (flashinfer) / 45.22 / 0.923 (not faster) 183.62 (Liger) / 77.20 / 2.378 258.75 (torch.compile) / 122.42 / 2.114
6144 32768 no 80.03 (flashinfer) / 88.96 / 0.900 (not faster) 349.28 (Liger) / 145.12 / 2.407 445.09 (torch.compile) / 234.08 / 1.901
6144 65536 no 156.26 (flashinfer) / 173.09 / 0.903 (not faster) 679.43 (Liger) / 282.15 / 2.408 861.70 (torch.compile) / 455.24 / 1.893
6144 256 yes 3.87 (flashinfer) / 3.78 / 1.025 15.07 (torch.compile) / 7.84 / 1.922 19.10 (torch.compile) / 11.62 / 1.645
6144 1024 yes 7.62 (flashinfer) / 6.91 / 1.102 26.21 (F.rms_norm) / 12.13 / 2.161 41.22 (F.rms_norm) / 19.04 / 2.165
6144 4096 yes 23.07 (flashinfer) / 22.72 / 1.016 74.98 (torch.compile) / 30.30 / 2.474 102.11 (torch.compile) / 53.02 / 1.926
6144 16172 yes 81.15 (flashinfer) / 78.53 / 1.033 205.83 (torch.compile) / 100.48 / 2.048 301.99 (torch.compile) / 179.01 / 1.687
6144 16231 yes 81.41 (flashinfer) / 78.75 / 1.034 207.33 (torch.compile) / 100.03 / 2.073 303.36 (torch.compile) / 178.79 / 1.697
6144 32768 yes 160.16 (flashinfer) / 154.88 / 1.034 357.79 (torch.compile) / 196.03 / 1.825 549.51 (torch.compile) / 350.92 / 1.566
6144 65536 yes 317.22 (flashinfer) / 307.23 / 1.032 696.20 (torch.compile) / 378.15 / 1.841 1074.89 (torch.compile) / 685.38 / 1.568
2048 256 no 2.50 (Liger) / 2.43 / 1.026 9.66 (F.rms_norm) / 5.73 / 1.687 13.73 (F.rms_norm) / 8.16 / 1.682
2048 1024 no 3.33 (flashinfer) / 2.95 / 1.130 12.74 (F.rms_norm) / 7.91 / 1.611 17.25 (F.rms_norm) / 10.85 / 1.590
2048 4096 no 5.70 (flashinfer) / 5.60 / 1.017 29.79 (F.rms_norm) / 12.67 / 2.351 39.01 (torch.compile) / 18.27 / 2.135
2048 16172 no 16.26 (flashinfer) / 16.51 / 0.984 (not faster) 92.87 (torch.compile) / 32.06 / 2.896 115.20 (torch.compile) / 48.58 / 2.372
2048 16231 no 16.26 (flashinfer) / 16.54 / 0.983 (not faster) 92.74 (torch.compile) / 31.17 / 2.975 114.94 (torch.compile) / 47.71 / 2.409
2048 32768 no 29.31 (flashinfer) / 29.15 / 1.005 141.03 (torch.compile) / 56.64 / 2.490 181.70 (torch.compile) / 85.79 / 2.118
2048 65536 no 54.56 (flashinfer) / 53.79 / 1.014 270.53 (torch.compile) / 105.76 / 2.558 346.91 (torch.compile) / 159.55 / 2.174
512 256 no 2.08 (flashinfer) / 2.18 / 0.956 (not faster) 7.65 (F.rms_norm) / 4.90 / 1.562 10.08 (torch.compile) / 7.07 / 1.425
512 1024 no 2.34 (flashinfer) / 2.30 / 1.014 10.05 (F.rms_norm) / 6.18 / 1.627 13.09 (F.rms_norm) / 8.48 / 1.543
512 4096 no 2.88 (flashinfer) / 2.82 / 1.023 12.32 (torch.compile) / 7.30 / 1.689 15.49 (torch.compile) / 10.11 / 1.532
512 16172 no 6.15 (flashinfer) / 6.14 / 1.000 30.11 (torch.compile) / 11.71 / 2.571 37.47 (torch.compile) / 17.86 / 2.099
512 16231 no 6.24 (flashinfer) / 6.21 / 1.005 30.40 (torch.compile) / 11.65 / 2.610 37.66 (torch.compile) / 17.86 / 2.109
512 32768 no 10.53 (flashinfer) / 10.69 / 0.985 (not faster) 23.42 (torch.compile) / 17.95 / 1.305 35.14 (torch.compile) / 28.64 / 1.227
512 65536 no 18.69 (flashinfer) / 18.37 / 1.017 37.70 (torch.compile) / 29.82 / 1.264 57.41 (torch.compile) / 48.19 / 1.191

Rows not strictly faster after the re-tune (all forward, vs flashinfer rmsnorm): H=6144 res=0 T=16172 / 16231 / 32768 / 65536 at 0.929 / 0.923 / 0.900 / 0.903 (this PR 8.8-9.3 TB/s vs 9.6-10.3 TB/s). The comparator here is FlashInfer's CuTe-DSL RMSNormKernel (flashinfer/norm/kernels/rmsnorm.py, the default rmsnorm dispatch on SM100/SM103/SM107; at H=6144 it runs 64 threads per row, two rows per 128-thread CTA, twelve 16-byte loads per thread). A plain-CUDA port of that structure reproduces its bandwidth on R200 (41.8-42.0 us at T=16231 vs 41.1 us; 152-158 us at T=65536 vs 155.9 us) with or without shared-memory staging, while the same port with this PR's 256-threads-per-row group runs at 47.2-48.7 us: the remaining gap is the per-row thread group (fewer, longer per-thread load streams), not the exact rsqrt chain (an rsqrt.approx probe recovers only 0.5-1.6%). A 64- or 128-thread row group changes the FP32 reduction order, so it is not adopted in this PR, H=2048 T=16172 / 16231 at 0.984 / 0.983, H=512 T=256 at 0.956 and T=32768 at 0.985.

Device gates on R200: tests/norm/test_cake_rmsnorm_train.py 133 passed / 28 skipped with the sm_107a modules JIT-built by nvcc 13.5 (compute_107); compute-sanitizer memcheck + synccheck 0 errors on every forward/backward benchmark row and on 26 direct runs of the re-tuned program selections; correctness matrix 785/785 on both passes; dw bitwise-identical across runs.

R200 (sm_107a) round 3: H=512 forward small program without the row loop

The SM107 H=512 non-residual forward program for T <= 4096 (256-thread CTAs, eight rows per CTA) now runs its rows without the grid-stride loop (every CTA owns exactly eight rows in that range); y and rstd stay bit-identical (same 32-thread reduction tree). One generated kernel/binding pair is renamed for its new digest and the module table follows; the other 90 generated files are unchanged.

Paired CUPTI timings on one R200 node (cold L2, FlashInfer 0.7.1 rmsnorm as the threshold): T=256 2.21 -> 2.14/2.18 us (threshold 2.14), T=1024 2.40 -> 2.34 us (2.40), T=4096 2.91 -> 2.88/2.91 us (2.91-2.94). Re-measuring the full 84-row table on that node gives 72/84 rows strictly faster for both the previous and the new sources (the table above was measured on a different R200 node at 76/84; the marginal rows H=512 T >= 16172 and H=2048 T=4096 move within +/-1.5 % between nodes and runs). Rows not strictly faster on this node: H=6144 fwd T >= 16172 (0.88-0.92), H=2048 fwd T=4096 (tie), T=16172/16231 (0.977-0.983), H=512 fwd T=256 (0.985-1.000), T=16172/16231 (0.961-0.985), T=32768 (0.957), T=65536 (0.975-0.978). All 56 backward and fwd+bwd rows are faster (1.17-2.9x).

Export protocol run on the R200 device for all 56 sm_107a shapes (the first device-gated run of these sources): 56/56 receipts, correctness 56/56, source/export bit-identical 56/56, 43/56 all gates (rows below 1.0 against FlashInfer rmsnorm in the public-call regime: H=6144 fwd T >= 16172 0.88-0.93, H=2048 fwd T=16172/16231 0.96-0.98, H=512 fwd T=256/4096/16172/32768/65536 0.96-0.985; bwd H=512 T <= 1024 fail only the launch-order-dependence gate). tests/norm/test_cake_rmsnorm_train.py: 133 passed, 28 skipped on R200 with the regenerated sources.

Round 4 (all three platforms): ordered per-arch forward program tables, H=512 quad program

The forward dispatch table is now an ordered per-arch list of (program, T bound) entries instead of three fixed slots. One program was
added on every architecture — quad: 128-thread CTAs owning 4 rows (one warp per row, one trip, no grid-stride loop), the same
reduction tree as the programs it displaces, so y / rstd stay bit-identical — for 1024 < T <= 4096 on SM100a / SM103a and for
T <= 256 on SM107a. All 42 previously shipped programs render byte-identically (whole-table render check on the Rubin node: 45 vs 42
programs, 3 added lines, 0 changed); the generated sources gain exactly one unit per architecture (JIT role fwd_quad), nothing is
retired. A second candidate (an evict-first looped SM103a residual program for 1024 < T <= 4096) was measured in the same round and
not adopted (no gain over the existing main program: 32.29 us in both builds vs 32.16 us).

Validation per platform (same node, the previous module run as a control on another GPU at the same time, two independent builds
of the new module; 84 paired acceptance rows, CUPTI cold-L2 kernel-sum, threshold = fastest comparator per row):

platform gates A/B control (previous module) A/B new, build 1 A/B new, build 2 compute-sanitizer export / module tests
GB300 (SM103a, 152 SMs) facade matrix 785/785, GPU e2e 16/16, bench-regression 25 names 0 crash, forward static analysis clean 77/84 79/84 77/84 (incl. the dropped looped row) memcheck + synccheck 0 errors on 6 shapes in the changed windows + the registered h512_t4096 launcher 56 export rows, correctness 56/56, exporter perf gates 50/56 (the six H=512 fwd rows below); tests/norm/test_cake_rmsnorm_train.py 133 passed / 28 skipped
B200 (SM100a, 148 SMs) same gate set, all green 76/84 76/84 76/84 memcheck + synccheck 0 errors on the same 6 shapes (the registered-launcher tool run deadlocks in the x86 image's JIT step, as in earlier rounds; the GB300 and R200 runs of that launcher are clean) 56 export rows, correctness 56/56, exporter perf gates 49/56 (the six H=512 fwd rows + H=6144 residual fwd T=4096 vs torch.compile under the export protocol); generated sources byte-identical to the GB300 and R200 exports (99 files); module tests 133 passed / 28 skipped
R200 (SM107a, 212 SMs) same gate set, all green 73/84 74/84 73/84 memcheck + synccheck 0 errors on T=1 / 200 / 256 / 257 / 4096 + the registered h512_t256 / t4096 / t16231 launchers 56 export rows, correctness 56/56, exporter perf gates 48/56 (the H=6144 / H=2048 forward rows above + two sub-10 us bwd rows failing the protocol's order-sensitivity gate); generated sources byte-identical to the GB300 export (99 files); module tests 133 passed / 28 skipped

Rows whose program changed (us, cake vs the threshold arm = FlashInfer rmsnorm):

row platform previous program (control) quad, build 1 / build 2
H=512 fwd T=4096 GB300 3.42 vs 3.36 (0.981) 3.26 vs 3.36 (1.029) / 3.30 vs 3.36 (1.018)
H=512 fwd T=4096 B200 3.58 vs 3.49 (0.973) 3.49 vs 3.49 (1.000) / 3.52 vs 3.49 (0.991)
H=512 fwd T=256 R200 2.18 vs 2.14 (0.985) 2.14 vs 2.14 (1.000) / 2.14 vs 2.14 (1.000)

Final standing with this table: GB300 78-79/84, B200 76/84, R200 73-74/84. Every backward and training-step row wins on all three
platforms; the rows that are not strictly faster are forward-only comparisons against inference kernels: H=512 fwd (launch-latency
regime at T <= 1024 — FlashInfer's rsqrt.approx vs this module's exact IEEE sqrt/rcp, and its 128-thread smem-staged row group
at T >= 16k), H=6144 fwd T >= 16k on R200 (FlashInfer's 64-thread row group), H=2048 fwd T~16k on R200 (1-2 %), and two sub-5 us
ties (H=6144 residual fwd T=256 on B200, H=6144 fwd T=256 on R200). Closing them would change the FP32 reduction order or the
rounding of the reciprocal square root, which this module deliberately does not do.

Round 5 (SM107a only): pipelined persistent programs for the throughput windows

Round 4 left the largest numerics-neutral gaps on the Rubin platform in the throughput windows of the three non-residual widths, where
the shipped programs were the plain grid-stride loops shared with Blackwell. Own-process paired sweeps on the same node (CUPTI cold L2,
FlashInfer rmsnorm measured in the same process, every candidate checked bit-identical to the program it displaces) showed that the
software-pipelined persistent program — until now only a latency program (4 CTAs/SM for T <= 4096) and a mid program at 6 / 16 CTAs/SM —
wins those windows once its CTA budget per SM is sized for them. The SM107a table changes to:

width previous SM107a table round-5 SM107a table
H=6144 small <= 4096 pipeline 4/SM, mid <= 16384 pipeline 16/SM, main f32 256x1 small <= 1024 pipeline 4/SM; mid <= 4096 pipeline 4/SM plain x; large <= 12288 pipeline 16/SM plain x; wide <= 24576 pipeline 32/SM plain x; main pipeline 48/SM plain x
H=2048 small <= 1024 128-thr; mid <= 4096 two rows/thread; main plain 64-thr bf16x16 small <= 1024; mid <= 8192; large <= 12288 pipelined 64-thr 32/SM; wide <= 24576 pipelined 64-thr 64/SM; main plain 64-thr
H=512 quad <= 256; small <= 4096 256x8 single trip; mid <= 16384 pipeline 6/SM; main 128x4 quad <= 256; small <= 12288; mid <= 16384 pipeline 6/SM; main pipeline 8/SM

Every program of a width keeps that width's per-row thread group, so y / rstd are bit-identical across the table (the sweeps
verified torch.equal for every candidate). Sweep gains over the previous program at the acceptance T (us, same process): H=6144
42.82 vs 46.46 at 16231, 82.47 vs 89.25 at 32768, 166.10 vs 174.72 at 65536, 12.86 vs 13.10 at 4096; H=2048 16.13 vs 16.66 at 16231;
H=512 10.27 vs 10.85 at 32768, 18.05 vs 18.53 at 65536. The two new slot names are shared by the two widths that need five windows,
so the module gains exactly two JIT roles (fwd_large, fwd_wide); the SM100a / SM103a tables and their 45 generated programs are
unchanged (whole-table render check on both a Blackwell and a Rubin node: 45 vs 49 programs, the diff is confined to the SM107a entries;
45 vs 49 programs, 6 lines removed / 10 added, none outside SM107a, identical result on the Blackwell and the Rubin node).

Validation on R200 (SM107a, 212 SMs; same node, the previous module run as a control on another GPU at the same time, two independent
builds of the new module; 84 paired acceptance rows, CUPTI cold-L2 kernel-sum, threshold = fastest comparator per row):

gates A/B control (previous module) A/B new, build 1 A/B new, build 2 compute-sanitizer export / module tests
facade matrix 785/785, GPU e2e 16/16, bench-regression 25 names 0 crash, forward static analysis clean (also on B200 for the unchanged Blackwell programs) 73/84 77/84 76/84 memcheck + synccheck 0 errors on 15 shapes at and inside the new window edges (H=6144 T=4097 / 8192 / 8193 / 12288 / 16231 / 16385 / 32768, H=2048 T=4097 / 8192 / 16231 / 16385, H=512 T=16385 / 20480 / 32768 / 65536) and on the 7 registered launchers x 2 tools (44 runs, 44 x 0 errors) device export protocol 182aea87f680…, 56 rows: correctness 56/56, build checks passed, exporter gates 49/56 (the open forward rows + one informational launch-order flag), FI module pytest 133 passed / 28 skipped

Rows whose program changed (us, cake vs the threshold arm):

row (fwd) previous program (control) round-5 program, build 1 / build 2
H=6144 T=4096 13.15 vs 14.21 (1.080) 12.99 / 12.93 vs 14.21 (1.091 / 1.092)
H=6144 T=16172 45.44 vs 41.95 (0.923) 42.72 / 42.75 vs 41.95 (0.983 / 0.981)
H=6144 T=16231 45.54 vs 42.18 (0.926) 42.75 / 42.72 vs 42.18 (0.986 / 0.986)
H=6144 T=32768 89.86 vs 80.77 (0.899) 82.94 / 82.91 vs 80.77 (0.975 / 0.974)
H=6144 T=65536 173.12 vs 157.82 (0.912) 165.51 / 165.03 vs 157.82 (0.953 / 0.954)
H=2048 T=16172 16.61 vs 16.42 (0.988) 16.29 / 16.26 vs 16.42 (1.010 / 1.006)
H=2048 T=16231 16.64 vs 16.42 (0.987) 16.22 / 16.19 vs 16.42 (1.014 / 1.010)
H=512 T=32768 10.72 vs 10.66 (0.994) 10.21 / 10.24 vs 10.66 (1.034 / 1.031)
H=512 T=65536 18.56 vs 18.91 (1.019) 17.86 / 18.02 vs 18.91 (1.048 / 1.037)

The training-step rows of these shapes gain 0.4-3.2 % on top; the 58 rows whose program did not change stay within the 3.2 % same-node band (none of them slower than the control beyond it).

Final standing on R200 with this table: 76-77/84 (control 73). Rows not strictly faster, all forward-only comparisons against inference kernels: H=6144 fwd T=16172 / 16231 / 32768 / 65536 (0.98 / 0.99 / 0.97 / 0.95, up from 0.92 / 0.93 / 0.90 / 0.91 — FlashInfer's 64-thread row group remains the open numerics-changing lever), H=512 fwd T=256 (2.14 vs 2.14, launch floor), H=512 fwd T=16172 / 16231 (0.99 / 1.00, within 1 %), and the H=6144 fwd T=256 tie (1.000 / 1.010). GB300 78-79/84 and B200 76/84 stand unchanged from round 4 (programs byte-identical).

Blackwell check of the round-5 lever (no change)

The same pipelined-grid hypothesis was paired-tested on SM100a and SM103a with the shipped programs as the base (own-process sweeps, every arm bit-identical): for H=512 above 16k rows the shipped programs (pipeline at 6 CTAs/SM to 16384, 64x2 above) remain the best arms or within the 3 % same-node noise band (SM103a 7.10 / 7.23 / 12.29 / 22.56 us at T=16172 / 16231 / 32768 / 65536; SM100a 7.42 / 7.39 / 13.09 / 23.36 us), and for H=6144 the pipelined plain-x grid is 0.96-1.00 of the shipped packed main on both. The SM100a / SM103a tables and generated sources are unchanged. A follow-up check of 256-bit single loads (vec=16) for every H=512 program shape on SM100a / SM103a found them not bit-identical to the 128-bit form (the per-thread accumulation order follows the load grouping) and not faster, so the 128-bit programs stay.

Round 7 — SM107a table refinement (H=6144 largest T, H=2048 mid window)

Paired own-process sweeps on a Rubin R200 node (every arm bit-identical to the shipped program): the H=6144 software-pipelined persistent program at 64 CTAs/SM beats the 48 CTAs/SM program from 32768 rows upward (81.95 vs 82.85 us @32768, 100.63 vs 103.07 @40960, 161.09 vs 165.91 @65536) while 48/SM keeps 26624-28672 rows, so the SM107a table gains an xwide window (48 CTAs/SM for 24576 < T <= 30720) and main moves to 64 CTAs/SM — the same generated kernel, only the persistent grid differs. The H=2048 mid program (64 threads, two rows per thread, 1024 < T <= 8192) takes evict-first x loads, which are never slower (4.32 vs 4.45 us @2048, tie @4096, 8.83 vs 8.90 @6144, 9.82 vs 10.10 @8192). Wider CTAs (512x2, 1024x4), 80 / 96 CTAs/SM, launch bounds, no-allocate y stores, plain w loads, single-trip / early-w / four-rows-per-thread mid forms were measured and lose or stay within noise. SM100a / SM103a tables and generated sources are unchanged.

Same-node paired validation on the R200 node (three simultaneous 84-row runs, CUPTI cold L2, per-row threshold = fastest baseline arm): previous module 74 / 84 rows strictly faster, new module 76 / 84 and 76 / 84 in two independent builds. The six rows in the changed windows are faster or tied in both builds and no row is slower than the previous module by more than 0.5 %; the 78 unchanged rows move at most 1.6 % (same-node run-to-run band).

H T mode previous us new us (build 1 / build 2) vs previous threshold us (arm) x threshold (prev / new)
6144 32768 fwd 82.72 82.24 / 82.18 1.006 / 1.007 80.58 (flashinfer rmsnorm) 0.974 / 0.982, 0.979
6144 32768 fwd+bwd 225.89 225.60 / 225.38 1.001 / 1.002 441.26 (torch.compile) 1.953 / 1.973, 1.988
6144 65536 fwd 166.40 161.80 / 161.57 1.028 / 1.030 156.90 (flashinfer rmsnorm) 0.943 / 0.968, 0.972
6144 65536 fwd+bwd 445.26 442.15 / 441.10 1.007 / 1.009 853.00 (torch.compile) 1.916 / 1.940, 1.964
2048 4096 fwd 5.66 5.66 / 5.60 1.000 / 1.011 5.73 (flashinfer rmsnorm) 1.011 / 1.006, 1.017
2048 4096 fwd+bwd 18.59 18.43 / 18.46 1.009 / 1.007 39.04 (torch.compile) 2.100 / 2.068, 2.087

Gates on the Rubin node for the new table: facade correctness 785 / 785, GPU e2e 16 / 16, forward static analysis clean, compute-sanitizer memcheck + synccheck 0 errors on the eight shapes of the changed windows (H=6144 T=24577 / 32768 / 40960 / 65536, H=2048 T=2048 / 4096 / 4097 / 8192), export protocol correctness 56 / 56 with source-vs-export bitwise 56 / 56, and this module's pytest on the regenerated sources 133 passed / 28 skipped.

Accuracy

Reference: FP64 recomputation of the same formulas. Tolerances: y / dx BF16 atol = rtol = 1e-2 after unit-scale normalization; rstd rel-L2 <= 1e-5; dw rel-L2 <= 1e-4 per case, and the kernel's dw error is not worse than the eager FP32 path (g*x*rstd).sum(0) as a median ratio over the whole matrix (both sit at the FP32 rounding floor, so a per-case comparison is rounding-order noise). Test matrix: T in {0, 1, 2, 7, 63, 64, 65, 127, 128, 129, 255, 257, 16172, 16231}, row strides {H, H + 64, 2H}, odd column offset and odd row stride (H + 1) on every input/output, scales {1, 1e-3, 1e3}, all-zero rows, a single extreme row, residual on/off, gradient views (expanded / sliced), end-to-end autograd vs FP32 eager autograd.

output max abs err (worst row) rel-L2 (worst row) bound
y 1.56e-2 (fwd H=6144 T=65536) 1.67e-3 (fwd H=512 T=1024) elementwise atol 1e-2 + rtol 1e-2 x abs(ref)
rstd - 5.1e-8 (fwd H=6144 T=256) 1e-5
dx 2.78e-2 (bwd residual H=6144 T=16172) 1.66e-3 (bwd H=512 T=4096) elementwise atol 1e-2 + rtol 1e-2 x abs(ref)
dw 1.20e-4 (bwd H=6144 T=65536; values O(1e2)) 1.26e-7 (bwd H=6144 T=65536) 1e-4; kernel/eager-FP32-path rel-L2 ratio median 0.60, max 0.82 over the 28 backward rows (<= 1)

Memory

tensor bytes note
forward saved for backward 2TH (x or h_new) + 2H (w) + 4T (rstd) no normalized copy is kept
backward workspace 4 x n_chunks x H + counters (<= 4 x 2 x SM x H + 256 B) caller-owned, reusable for every T; GB300 H = 6144: 7,471,872 B (4 x 304 x 6144 partials + 192 x 4 B counters)
peak extra allocation in backward 0 (with a supplied workspace) verified by the allocation probe in the export validation
peak intermediate allocation vs baselines (paired harness, requested bytes minus declared outputs) backward/fwd+bwd rows: below every baseline on all 56 rows per platform; forward rows: exactly 4T bytes (the saved rstd) equal to what every training forward (torch.compile / eager / F.rms_norm / Liger) saves; above only the inference-only flashinfer.rmsnorm / fused_add_rmsnorm, which save nothing; no [T,H] FP32 temporaries in any path

Determinism

dw is bitwise identical across repeated calls (test: three runs with a NaN-poisoned workspace between them), and the reduction order depends only on (T, device SM count); dx is elementwise and trivially deterministic. Evidence: 56/56 export-protocol shapes bitwise-identical between the generating framework's launcher and these modules; dw bitwise-identical across 3 repeats on all 84 acceptance rows on GB300 and on B200.

Baselines and their source PRs

Merge-base of this branch: f558e9fd4e56807b6d12f147591efd44901d1d23 (upstream main, 2026-09-30). All comparisons were measured against this revision of the baseline files; git log f558e9fd4..origin/main -- <files> is empty at publication time (re-verified at publication).

Export refresh: architecture-neutral delivery from the current Cake exporter (2026-10-03)

The generated module was re-exported from the current Cake main (merged into the producing branch) with the architecture-neutral layout and the schedule-constant audit enabled; the kernels are unchanged.

  • Layout. One generated device/binding pair per distinct program text, shared by every architecture that builds it (csrc/cake_rmsnorm_train/ holds 21 programs instead of 46 per-architecture copies; 45 files / 12,602 lines instead of 92 files / 27,525 lines). The loader compiles the shared source with the exact flag set of the device it runs on and keys the JIT cache by architecture; routes are keyed per architecture to the shared program.
  • Binding. Thin launcher on tvm_ffi_utils.h (ffi::CUDADeviceGuard, get_stream, the target's check helpers); the previous private device guard / mutex / context cache / check copies are gone (binding smells 46 -> 0 in the export audit).
  • Constants. The exporter's audit rejects delivered kernels that differ only in an undeclared constant. The forward programs now name the two knob literals as #define ROWS_PER_CTA / GROUP_THREADS and spell __launch_bounds__ with LAUNCH_BOUNDS_* macros; the declared physical schedule axes of this family are THREADS, LAUNCH_BOUNDS_*, ROWS_PER_CTA, GROUP_THREADS, NUM_MAIN_STAGES and the derived SMEM_* layout defines. Two delivered kernel pairs differ only in THREADS / ROWS_PER_CTA (the one-row and two-row variants of a shape); the hidden size is a compile-time axis of this family (per-thread vector counts, register caches and the partial-sum layout derive from it), so programs of different widths differ structurally and are not clones.
  • Kernel identity proof. Every forward program of the per-architecture tables was rendered from the previous and the refreshed producer tree, compiled with nvcc -cubin -O3 --prec-div=true --prec-sqrt=true --ftz=false, and compared with cuobjdump -sass (addresses and symbol names normalised): sm_100a 14/14, sm_103a 15/15, sm_107a 20/20 SASS-identical (text differs; no compile failures). The producer's GPU correctness slice passes 16/16 on B200, GB300 and R200.
  • Host path. Tensor arguments carry their strides (the only copy is the documented aligned-copy fallback for a view that violates the 16-element row-stride / alignment contract); the per-call device-capability query is unchanged.
  • Stage receipts (export protocol, 168 rows = 56 per architecture, measured on each architecture's own hardware). sm_107a (R200) 56/56 measured, 49 pass; sm_103a (GB300) 56/56, 47 pass; sm_100a (B200) 56/56, 47 pass — 143 of 168 rows pass every gate (correctness, source/export parity, order dependence, every baseline ratio). The 25 non-passing rows: the forward rows already reported above against flashinfer.norm.rmsnorm (R200 H=6144 / H=2048 at T >= 16k, 0.97-0.99; B200 and GB300 H=512 at 0.89-0.99), the small-row launch-floor ties against torch.compile / Liger (H=512 T=256 / 1024, H=6144 residual T=256 / 4096 at 0.98-1.00), and three 2-5 us rows whose source-first / export-first timings disagree by more than the protocol's 10 % (R200 bwd H=512 T=256, GB300 bwd H=2048 T=256 and fwd H=6144 T=256) — reproducible across two passes. Each architecture is a separate stage on its own hardware; the two largest B200 residual rows were measured in a fresh process on a second B200 (the single-process run exhausts device memory after 54 rows).
  • Downstream tests. tests/norm/test_cake_rmsnorm_train.py: 133 passed / 28 skipped on R200 and on GB300 against the applied delivery; the B200 configurations run in CI.

The rows that do not beat every baseline are the same open rows reported above (the R200 H=6144 / H=2048 forward rows against flashinfer.norm.rmsnorm at 0.97-0.99 and the small-row launch-floor ties); nothing in this refresh changes a kernel or a measurement.

Tests

pytest tests/norm/test_cake_rmsnorm_train.py -q

Skips unless the device capability is exactly (10, 0), (10, 3) or (10, 7).

Closes #5679

Round 8 — SM107a H=512 program for T > 6144

Paired own-process sweeps on a Rubin R200 node (every arm bit-identical to the shipped program): a 512-thread CTA that normalizes 16 rows (one warp per row, so the reduction tree is unchanged) in the software-pipelined persistent loop beats the shipped 256x8 programs at every T from 8192 up, and the best persistent budget is 2 CTA(s) per SM: 4.03 vs 4.58 us @8192, 5.92 vs 6.34 @16231, 9.38 vs 10.50 @32768, 16.71 vs 18.43 @65536 (flashinfer.norm.rmsnorm 4.22 / 6.21 / 10.59 / 18.56). The SM107a H=512 table becomes quad (T <= 256), small (single-trip 256x8, T <= 6144) and the new main; the H=6144 and H=2048 weight-hint / launch-bound / budget variants measured in the same round stay within noise and are not adopted. SM100a / SM103a tables and generated sources are unchanged.

Same-node paired A/B against the previous module running simultaneously on another GPU (CUPTI cold-L2, 84 rows, two independent builds of the new module): H=512 forward above 6144 rows now runs a 512-thread, 16-row pipelined persistent CTA (one warp per row, so y / rstd are bit-identical) at 2 CTAs per SM. fwd 16172 / 16231 / 32768 / 65536: +9.9 / +9.8 / +11.3 / +8.6 % vs the previous module in build 1 and +9.3 / +9.8 / +11.3 / +8.8 % in build 2; the fused step rows follow at +2.5 … +3.7 %; no other row moved by more than the 0.5 % band. Against flashinfer.norm.rmsnorm the four rows stand at 1.066-1.133 (previously 0.975-1.012).

H=512 res=0 row control (round 7) build 1 build 2 threshold arm control x build 1 x build 2 x
fwd 16172 6.40 us 5.82 us (+9.9 %) 5.86 us (+9.3 %) 6.24 us FlashInfer rmsnorm 0.975 1.066 1.071
step 16172 18.27 17.70 (+3.2 %) 17.82 (+2.5 %) 38.27 torch.compile 2.095 2.136 2.153
fwd 16231 6.43 5.86 (+9.8 %) 5.86 (+9.8 %) 6.34 FlashInfer rmsnorm 0.985 1.071 1.082
step 16231 18.27 17.70 (+3.3 %) 17.79 (+2.7 %) 38.30 torch.compile 2.096 2.134 2.164
fwd 32768 10.40 9.34 (+11.3 %) 9.34 (+11.3 %) 10.53 FlashInfer rmsnorm 1.012 1.123 1.133
step 32768 28.58 27.55 (+3.7 %) 27.59 (+3.6 %) 35.10 torch.compile 1.228 1.259 1.277
fwd 65536 18.27 16.83 (+8.6 %) 16.80 (+8.8 %) 18.50 FlashInfer rmsnorm 1.012 1.101 1.105
step 65536 48.16 46.75 (+3.0 %) 46.72 (+3.1 %) 57.38 torch.compile 1.191 1.220 1.236

Validation on the R200 node: 785 / 785 facade correctness checks, GPU e2e 16 / 16, compute-sanitizer memcheck + synccheck 0 errors on the eight changed-window shapes (T = 6144 / 6145 / 8192 / 16231 / 16385 / 32768 / 65536 / 65537) and on the registered 16231 launcher; export protocol correctness 56 / 56 and source-vs-export bitwise 56 / 56; tests/norm/test_cake_rmsnorm_train.py 133 passed / 28 skipped on the regenerated module. Generated sm_107a unit 2ded65dc7d99a604cec2 → 5e5665877a507da46c2c (the H=512 fwd mid role is gone).

Round 11 — SM107a H=2048: the remaining forward gap is the per-row FP32 r store; strided-input test coverage extended (no kernel change)

A plain-CUDA port of the shipped 64-thread H=2048 row group runs at 1.057-1.068 of flashinfer.norm.rmsnorm when it writes no per-row scale and at 0.983-1.018 once it writes the training forward's FP32 r[row] (one 4-byte store per row, +4-8 % at 16172 / 16231 / 32768 / 65536 rows); the port with every feature of the shipped kernel is bitwise y-identical and times the shipped kernel. Store cache policies, gathering the sector inside multi-row CTAs, persistent or sector-interleaved row mappings and a cluster-gathered sector (eight one-row CTAs per cluster) were all measured and are slower (the cluster launch alone costs 31-36 % on this part). Writing r as one complete 32-byte sector per row (a 256-bit store of {r, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}, i.e. a padded r with stride 8) removes the whole penalty: on the shipped SM107a programs it measures 1.058-1.062 of rmsnorm at 16172 / 16231 rows and 1.040-1.048 at 32768 / 65536 (shipped 0.987-1.010), and 1.011-1.019 on the H=6144 pipelined programs at 16k rows (shipped 0.975); it changes the storage layout of rstd (values unchanged) and is therefore not adopted in this PR without an API decision; on SM100 / SM103 the same padded layout is neutral to slightly negative (x0.953-1.010 / x0.950-1.007 of the shipped programs, bitwise), so the per-row r store costs nothing measurable there. Tables and generated sources are unchanged.

Tests: the row-strided cases now include an 8-element pad (a 16-byte-only row stride), which exercises the wrapper's contiguous-copy path for the forward's 32-byte alignment floor (FORWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES) — the kernels' 256-bit row loads must never see a row start that is only 16-byte aligned. The previous pads (64 elements and 2H) were all 32-byte multiples and never reached that path.

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  • New Features
    • Added fused BF16 RMSNorm training forward and backward operations, an autograd wrapper, and optional residual fusion for supported NVIDIA GPU architectures.
    • Added workspace sizing and allocation helpers, and made the RMSNorm training APIs available through the package’s public interface.
  • Documentation
    • Documented the training RMSNorm API and its forward and backward capabilities.
  • Chores
    • Added a benchmark comparing training RMSNorm performance across implementations.
    • Generated kernel sources carry a per-directory csrc/cake_rmsnorm_train/.clang-format (DisableFormat: true) so pre-commit leaves their receipt-attested bytes unchanged; the global pre-commit configuration is not modified.

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Adds fused BF16 RMSNorm forward and backward APIs with optional residual fusion, deterministic FP32 dw reduction, architecture-specific CUDA kernels for SM100, SM103, and SM107, autograd integration, validation, tests, documentation, and benchmarks.

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Cake RMSNorm training

Layer / File(s) Summary
CUDA kernels and TVM-FFI launchers
csrc/cake_rmsnorm_train/...		 Adds forward and backward BF16 kernels and launchers for SM100a, SM103a, and SM107a. The launchers validate tensors and launch configurations. Backward kernels compute dx and reduce chunked weight-gradient partials into FP32 dw.
Python API and integration
flashinfer/cake_rmsnorm_train.py, flashinfer/__init__.py, docs/api/norm.rst		 Adds routed forward and backward functions, workspace helpers, an autograd wrapper, public exports, capability checks, optional residual gradients, and API documentation.
Validation and performance coverage
tests/norm/test_cake_rmsnorm_train.py, benchmarks/bench_cake_rmsnorm_train.py, .pre-commit-config.yaml		 Adds numerical, layout, determinism, workspace, autograd, dynamic-shape, and argument-validation tests; adds forward/backward benchmarks; and extends pre-commit exclusions for generated sources.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant CakeAPI
  participant TVMFFI
  participant CUDAKernel
  Caller->>CakeAPI: Call forward or backward RMSNorm
  CakeAPI->>TVMFFI: Validate tensors and select route
  TVMFFI->>CUDAKernel: Launch architecture-specific kernel
  CUDAKernel-->>CakeAPI: Write y, rstd, dx, and dw
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fd584

Some supported H=2048 calls can fail when a contiguous weight view is 16-byte but not 32-byte aligned. Align or copy the weight to 32 bytes before dispatch; merge only after fixing or explicitly accepting this risk.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fd584

A reachable mismatch between accepted tensor alignment and native GPU requirements can compromise computation correctness or interrupt the invoking workload. Device and buffer validation limit exposure, but concurrent buffer ownership and failure recovery are not fully established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The new public forward boundary preserves contiguous weights that are 16-byte aligned but not 32-byte aligned. For H=2048 and T greater than 4096 on SM100 and SM107, these weights reach kernels issuing 32-byte vector loads. This violates the native access precondition and can produce incorrect computation or GPU execution failure; the precise runtime outcome is unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated path requires control of a weight tensor's storage offset and a call selecting an affected forward route. Exposure reaches the invoking CUDA workload and computations consuming its outputs. Remote reachability, cross-tenant access, host compromise, and propagation into other services are not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A contiguous BF16 weight view offset by eight elements from a 32-byte-aligned base satisfies the wrapper's 16-byte check. With H=2048 and T greater than 4096 on SM100 or SM107, it reaches a 32-byte native vector load without materialization. This establishes an unsafe boundary path, not a demonstrated exploit or a verified disclosure outcome.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Caller-controlled tensor metadata crosses into raw CUDA pointers after Python and native validation. Alignment-aware materialization is an existing control in the new wrapper, but forward weights receive the weaker backward alignment requirement; native contiguity and device checks are counterevidence against broader malformed-input exposure, not a remedy for this mismatch.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Workspace is caller-owned, capacity-checked, and zero-initialized by the helper. Inspected public docstrings describe reuse but do not establish exclusive in-flight ownership, supported storage aliasing, or output validity after asynchronous failure. These remain contract and recovery uncertainties rather than independently verified security findings.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Make buffer preparation enforce each selected native route's access requirements, including 32-byte forward weight alignment. Explicitly define workspace exclusivity, supported aliasing, and invalidation or recovery expectations after GPU failure so dependents do not infer unsupported guarantees.
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Comment thread csrc/cake_rmsnorm_train/cake_rmsnorm_train_e6b2419224108211616a_kernel.cu
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{
const void* _v8p_1 = (const void*)(w + (gtid * 16 + v_2 * 1024) + (0));
uint32_t _v8_1_0[8];
asm volatile("ld.global.nc.v8.b32 {%0, %1, %2, %3, %4, %5, %6, %7}, [%8];"
: "=r"(_v8_1_0[0]), "=r"(_v8_1_0[1]), "=r"(_v8_1_0[2]), "=r"(_v8_1_0[3]), "=r"(_v8_1_0[4]), "=r"(_v8_1_0[5]), "=r"(_v8_1_0[6]), "=r"(_v8_1_0[7]) : "l"((const void*)((const char*)_v8p_1 + 0)) : "memory");

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Align w for all forward H=2048 routes.

cake_rmsnorm_train_forward currently validates w with BACKWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES (16), but the SM100a, SM103a, and SM107a H=2048 forward kernels use 32-byte ld.global.nc.v8.b32 loads from w. A 16-byte-aligned tensor can therefore reach these kernels and cause a misaligned-address failure.

The forward entrypoint prepares w before selecting any route. The autograd wrapper also calls this entrypoint, so no forward caller bypasses _contiguous_input. The bindings pass w as a buffer and require contiguity; they do not require a separate edit.

Use FORWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES for w. Keep the backward path at 16-byte alignment.

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     w = _contiguous_input(
-        w, "w", shape=(hidden,), device=device, dtype=torch.bfloat16, alignment=BACKWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
+        w, "w", shape=(hidden,), device=device, dtype=torch.bfloat16, alignment=FORWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
     )
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Update the w validation in cake_rmsnorm_train_forward to use
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w = _contiguous_input(
w, "w", shape=(hidden,), device=device, dtype=torch.bfloat16, alignment=BACKWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
)

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Validate w with the forward alignment.

_contiguous_input keeps any contiguous tensor whose address satisfies the requested alignment. The forward path currently requests only 16-byte alignment for w.

The SM107 H=2048 forward route launches a kernel that performs a 32-byte ld.global.nc.v8.b32 load from w. A slice such as buf[8:8 + H] can pass the 16-byte check while remaining 16-byte aligned, which can trigger a misaligned-address failure.

🐛 Proposed fix 
     w = _contiguous_input(
-        w, "w", shape=(hidden,), device=device, dtype=torch.bfloat16, alignment=BACKWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
+        w, "w", shape=(hidden,), device=device, dtype=torch.bfloat16, alignment=FORWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
     )

Add a regression test with w = buf[8:8 + H] from a freshly allocated BF16 buffer.

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w = _contiguous_input(
w, "w", shape=(hidden,), device=device, dtype=torch.bfloat16, alignment=BACKWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
)
w = _contiguous_input(
w, "w", shape=(hidden,), device=device, dtype=torch.bfloat16, alignment=FORWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES
)
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Update the `_contiguous_input` validation for `w` to use
`FORWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES` instead of `BACKWARD_ALIGNMENT_BYTES`, so the SM107
forward path receives the alignment its load requires.

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Document four runtime environment variables that are present on current
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perf(cake_rmsnorm): faster H512 / H2048 / H6144 grad by bulk-copy bac…
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…kward windows (SM100 / SM103) (#6997)

`cake_rmsnorm_train` is Cake's RMSNorm training kernel: one data type
(BF16 activations and weight, FP32 `rstd` and deterministic FP32
`dweight`) in four variants, plain and residual-fused, each forward and
backward. This PR changes the plain backward (`dx`, `dweight`) at H=512,
H=2048 and H=6144 on sm_100a and sm_103a, and the plain forward at
H=6144 on sm_100a for row counts T in (768, 1024]; sm_107a is unchanged.
The baseline is the previous Cake version, the shipped build of PR
#6939. At these hidden sizes it still runs the row-wise forward programs
and the original backward of PR #5741, which is one cooperative
persistent program per hidden size and architecture (256 threads x 2
CTAs per SM, a two-stage pipeline and Kahan-compensated `dweight`
partials). As in #6939's H=1536 and H=4096 backward, the backward now
ships as row-count windows of the bulk-copy producer/consumer program
(`cp.async.bulk` + mbarrier ring, one CTA per SM, fixed-order tree fold
of the cross-chunk `dweight` reduction, self-resetting flip grid
barrier). Each window instance is tuned per hidden size, architecture
and row-count range (pipeline depth, slab, exit of non-reducing CTAs, L2
eviction hints). Above the last window (H=6144, T > 16384) the original
#5741 program still runs. The changed sm_100a H=6144 forward for T in
(768, 1024] is the shipped pipelined program re-tuned for that range
(five CTAs per SM instead of four). The numerical contract is unchanged
(BF16 I/O, FP32 products and sums, `dx` rounded once, `rstd` in FP32,
and `dweight` in FP32, deterministic and atomics-free). The tree fold
regroups the cross-chunk `dweight` sum, so `dweight` bits differ from
those of #5741's program within the same tolerance, while the re-tuned
H=6144 forward's `y` and `rstd` are bitwise equal to those of the
shipped forward.

Both versions run in the same process on the same GPU. Latencies are
CUPTI kernel-active times (T x H input, cold L2 before every launch),
each the median of 3 counterbalanced paired groups. In the Pass column,
`bwd` is the backward, `step` is forward + backward and `fwd` is the
forward. Speedup is previous / new latency; above 1.000x the new version
is faster. Rows whose program is unchanged on both sides are not listed.
Both versions are compiled with CUDA 13.4 (previous Cake: the shipped
FlashInfer build of #6939, nvcc 13.4; new Cake: NVRTC 13.4). The host
runs PyTorch 2.14.1+cu130, the same on both boards.

### NVIDIA GB300 (sm_103a, 152 SMs), CUDA 13.4 (previous Cake: the
shipped FlashInfer build, nvcc 13.4; new Cake: NVRTC 13.4; same process,
same GPU)

| H | T | Pass | Previous Cake (µs) | New Cake (µs) | Speedup |
|---:|---:|---|---:|---:|---:|
| 512 | 256 | bwd | 5.57 | 4.99 | 1.115x |
| 512 | 256 | step | 7.68 | 6.94 | 1.106x |
| 512 | 1024 | bwd | 6.37 | 5.06 | 1.259x |
| 512 | 1024 | step | 8.70 | 7.36 | 1.183x |
| 512 | 4096 | bwd | 8.06 | 7.55 | 1.068x |
| 512 | 4096 | step | 10.88 | 10.30 | 1.056x |
| 512 | 14928 | bwd | 13.98 | 12.67 | 1.104x |
| 512 | 14928 | step | 20.61 | 19.58 | 1.052x |
| 512 | 15288 | bwd | 14.11 | 13.31 | 1.060x |
| 512 | 15288 | step | 20.96 | 20.16 | 1.040x |
| 512 | 15566 | bwd | 14.30 | 12.90 | 1.109x |
| 512 | 15566 | step | 21.12 | 20.03 | 1.054x |
| 512 | 15590 | bwd | 14.30 | 12.87 | 1.112x |
| 512 | 15590 | step | 21.15 | 19.97 | 1.059x |
| 512 | 16114 | bwd | 14.40 | 13.02 | 1.106x |
| 512 | 16114 | step | 21.47 | 20.42 | 1.052x |
| 512 | 16132 | bwd | 14.40 | 13.02 | 1.106x |
| 512 | 16132 | step | 21.38 | 20.22 | 1.057x |
| 512 | 16164 | bwd | 14.40 | 12.99 | 1.108x |
| 512 | 16164 | step | 21.44 | 20.26 | 1.058x |
| 512 | 16263 | bwd | 14.40 | 13.02 | 1.106x |
| 512 | 16263 | step | 21.44 | 20.22 | 1.060x |
| 512 | 32768 | bwd | 22.98 | 20.90 | 1.100x |
| 512 | 32768 | step | 35.14 | 33.50 | 1.049x |
| 512 | 65536 | bwd | 38.82 | 36.13 | 1.074x |
| 512 | 65536 | step | 60.58 | 58.14 | 1.042x |
| 2048 | 256 | bwd | 6.34 | 5.82 | 1.088x |
| 2048 | 256 | step | 8.61 | 8.10 | 1.063x |
| 2048 | 1024 | bwd | 9.15 | 7.74 | 1.182x |
| 2048 | 1024 | step | 12.00 | 10.62 | 1.130x |
| 2048 | 4096 | bwd | 15.42 | 13.12 | 1.176x |
| 2048 | 4096 | step | 23.04 | 20.42 | 1.129x |
| 2048 | 14928 | bwd | 37.86 | 33.98 | 1.114x |
| 2048 | 14928 | step | 55.68 | 52.64 | 1.058x |
| 2048 | 15288 | bwd | 39.17 | 35.20 | 1.113x |
| 2048 | 15288 | step | 56.93 | 54.69 | 1.041x |
| 2048 | 15566 | bwd | 39.68 | 35.30 | 1.124x |
| 2048 | 15566 | step | 58.30 | 55.30 | 1.054x |
| 2048 | 15590 | bwd | 39.55 | 35.17 | 1.125x |
| 2048 | 15590 | step | 58.37 | 55.26 | 1.056x |
| 2048 | 16114 | bwd | 40.64 | 36.03 | 1.128x |
| 2048 | 16114 | step | 60.19 | 56.74 | 1.061x |
| 2048 | 16132 | bwd | 40.58 | 36.19 | 1.121x |
| 2048 | 16132 | step | 60.06 | 56.51 | 1.063x |
| 2048 | 16164 | bwd | 40.35 | 36.32 | 1.111x |
| 2048 | 16164 | step | 59.78 | 56.67 | 1.055x |
| 2048 | 16263 | bwd | 40.61 | 36.22 | 1.121x |
| 2048 | 16263 | step | 60.35 | 56.86 | 1.061x |
| 2048 | 32768 | bwd | 74.78 | 66.05 | 1.132x |
| 2048 | 32768 | step | 114.02 | 105.89 | 1.077x |
| 2048 | 65536 | bwd | 140.45 | 124.26 | 1.130x |
| 2048 | 65536 | step | 217.44 | 201.54 | 1.079x |
| 6144 | 256 | bwd | 8.38 | 7.71 | 1.087x |
| 6144 | 256 | step | 11.30 | 10.82 | 1.044x |
| 6144 | 1024 | bwd | 13.79 | 11.81 | 1.168x |
| 6144 | 1024 | step | 19.81 | 17.86 | 1.109x |
| 6144 | 4096 | bwd | 31.10 | 30.11 | 1.033x |
| 6144 | 4096 | step | 46.34 | 43.65 | 1.062x |
| 6144 | 14928 | bwd | 92.16 | 88.38 | 1.043x |
| 6144 | 14928 | step | 145.54 | 142.34 | 1.022x |
| 6144 | 15288 | bwd | 95.81 | 91.52 | 1.047x |
| 6144 | 15288 | step | 149.82 | 146.24 | 1.025x |
| 6144 | 15566 | bwd | 97.06 | 92.61 | 1.048x |
| 6144 | 15566 | step | 152.67 | 148.03 | 1.031x |
| 6144 | 15590 | bwd | 96.99 | 93.02 | 1.043x |
| 6144 | 15590 | step | 152.78 | 148.74 | 1.027x |
| 6144 | 16114 | bwd | 98.56 | 96.32 | 1.023x |
| 6144 | 16114 | step | 156.06 | 153.95 | 1.014x |
| 6144 | 16132 | bwd | 98.82 | 95.58 | 1.034x |
| 6144 | 16132 | step | 156.51 | 153.34 | 1.021x |
| 6144 | 16164 | bwd | 98.56 | 95.71 | 1.030x |
| 6144 | 16164 | step | 156.03 | 153.41 | 1.017x |
| 6144 | 16263 | bwd | 98.88 | 96.13 | 1.029x |
| 6144 | 16263 | step | 156.74 | 154.05 | 1.017x |

### NVIDIA B200 (sm_100a, 148 SMs), CUDA 13.4 (previous Cake: the
shipped FlashInfer build, nvcc 13.4; new Cake: NVRTC 13.4; same process,
same GPU)

| H | T | Pass | Previous Cake (µs) | New Cake (µs) | Speedup |
|---:|---:|---|---:|---:|---:|
| 512 | 256 | bwd | 5.86 | 5.09 | 1.151x |
| 512 | 256 | step | 8.06 | 7.17 | 1.125x |
| 512 | 1024 | bwd | 6.66 | 5.47 | 1.216x |
| 512 | 1024 | step | 8.93 | 7.71 | 1.158x |
| 512 | 4096 | bwd | 8.48 | 8.06 | 1.052x |
| 512 | 4096 | step | 11.55 | 11.10 | 1.040x |
| 512 | 14928 | bwd | 14.49 | 13.34 | 1.086x |
| 512 | 14928 | step | 21.54 | 20.03 | 1.075x |
| 512 | 15288 | bwd | 14.62 | 13.57 | 1.078x |
| 512 | 15288 | step | 21.76 | 20.32 | 1.071x |
| 512 | 15566 | bwd | 14.62 | 13.63 | 1.073x |
| 512 | 15566 | step | 21.66 | 20.35 | 1.064x |
| 512 | 15590 | bwd | 14.66 | 13.60 | 1.078x |
| 512 | 15590 | step | 21.79 | 20.35 | 1.071x |
| 512 | 16114 | bwd | 14.88 | 13.70 | 1.086x |
| 512 | 16114 | step | 22.11 | 20.67 | 1.070x |
| 512 | 16132 | bwd | 14.88 | 13.76 | 1.081x |
| 512 | 16132 | step | 22.27 | 20.96 | 1.063x |
| 512 | 16164 | bwd | 14.91 | 13.73 | 1.086x |
| 512 | 16164 | step | 22.11 | 20.70 | 1.068x |
| 512 | 16263 | bwd | 14.91 | 13.73 | 1.086x |
| 512 | 16263 | step | 22.30 | 21.02 | 1.061x |
| 512 | 32768 | bwd | 23.68 | 22.40 | 1.057x |
| 512 | 32768 | step | 36.38 | 34.59 | 1.052x |
| 512 | 65536 | bwd | 40.58 | 38.18 | 1.063x |
| 512 | 65536 | step | 63.55 | 61.31 | 1.037x |
| 2048 | 256 | bwd | 6.72 | 5.98 | 1.123x |
| 2048 | 256 | step | 9.09 | 8.38 | 1.084x |
| 2048 | 1024 | bwd | 9.41 | 7.87 | 1.195x |
| 2048 | 1024 | step | 12.74 | 11.10 | 1.147x |
| 2048 | 4096 | bwd | 15.84 | 13.44 | 1.179x |
| 2048 | 4096 | step | 24.06 | 21.34 | 1.127x |
| 2048 | 14928 | bwd | 39.49 | 34.88 | 1.132x |
| 2048 | 14928 | step | 58.37 | 54.43 | 1.072x |
| 2048 | 15288 | bwd | 40.06 | 35.65 | 1.124x |
| 2048 | 15288 | step | 59.23 | 55.52 | 1.067x |
| 2048 | 15566 | bwd | 40.74 | 36.32 | 1.122x |
| 2048 | 15566 | step | 60.67 | 56.58 | 1.072x |
| 2048 | 15590 | bwd | 40.86 | 36.38 | 1.123x |
| 2048 | 15590 | step | 60.29 | 56.64 | 1.064x |
| 2048 | 16114 | bwd | 42.08 | 37.25 | 1.130x |
| 2048 | 16114 | step | 62.14 | 58.02 | 1.071x |
| 2048 | 16132 | bwd | 41.86 | 37.15 | 1.127x |
| 2048 | 16132 | step | 61.79 | 57.82 | 1.069x |
| 2048 | 16164 | bwd | 42.24 | 37.05 | 1.140x |
| 2048 | 16164 | step | 62.40 | 58.02 | 1.076x |
| 2048 | 16263 | bwd | 42.30 | 37.12 | 1.140x |
| 2048 | 16263 | step | 62.81 | 58.30 | 1.077x |
| 2048 | 32768 | bwd | 77.57 | 68.35 | 1.135x |
| 2048 | 32768 | step | 118.24 | 109.41 | 1.081x |
| 2048 | 65536 | bwd | 144.96 | 127.01 | 1.141x |
| 2048 | 65536 | step | 223.90 | 206.05 | 1.087x |
| 6144 | 256 | bwd | 8.58 | 7.90 | 1.085x |
| 6144 | 256 | step | 11.49 | 10.98 | 1.047x |
| 6144 | 1024 | fwd | 6.34 | 6.24 | 1.015x |
| 6144 | 1024 | bwd | 13.95 | 12.45 | 1.121x |
| 6144 | 1024 | step | 20.29 | 18.50 | 1.097x |
| 6144 | 4096 | bwd | 31.42 | 30.43 | 1.033x |
| 6144 | 4096 | step | 47.26 | 44.96 | 1.051x |
| 6144 | 14928 | bwd | 93.89 | 90.98 | 1.032x |
| 6144 | 14928 | step | 148.64 | 146.56 | 1.014x |
| 6144 | 15288 | bwd | 96.19 | 93.50 | 1.029x |
| 6144 | 15288 | step | 152.67 | 150.66 | 1.013x |
| 6144 | 15566 | bwd | 97.86 | 94.14 | 1.039x |
| 6144 | 15566 | step | 154.91 | 152.00 | 1.019x |
| 6144 | 15590 | bwd | 98.46 | 95.01 | 1.036x |
| 6144 | 15590 | step | 155.39 | 153.09 | 1.015x |
| 6144 | 16114 | bwd | 101.28 | 96.73 | 1.047x |
| 6144 | 16114 | step | 159.84 | 156.25 | 1.023x |
| 6144 | 16132 | bwd | 100.86 | 96.67 | 1.043x |
| 6144 | 16132 | step | 159.77 | 156.35 | 1.022x |
| 6144 | 16164 | bwd | 101.25 | 98.05 | 1.033x |
| 6144 | 16164 | step | 160.57 | 157.73 | 1.018x |
| 6144 | 16263 | bwd | 101.50 | 98.96 | 1.026x |
| 6144 | 16263 | step | 160.96 | 158.75 | 1.014x |

Cake also ships the residual-fused forward and backward and the H=1536 /
H=4096 programs (unchanged here); the family covers sm_100a, sm_103a and
sm_107a.


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## Summary by CodeRabbit

* **New Features**
* Expanded RMSNorm training support with additional GPU kernel variants
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* Added bfloat16 training kernels for computing input and weight
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* **Improvements**
* Strengthened validation of tensor inputs and launch parameters before
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[Feature][Rubin] Fused RMSNorm forward and backward

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