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Cake's context-parallel GDN training kernel has one data-type variant: BF16 q/k/v/out/dout and FP32 scalar log-decay g and beta. dq/dk are reduced in FP32 over the value heads of each Q/K head and converted to the output type once. The grouped Q/K head counts (H_qk, HV) are runtime parameters, and the production shape is (16, 48). The kernel has three partition layouts: contiguous, whole-buffer zigzag, and per-document zigzag + ragged. It provides fused forward, backward from the saved set, checkpoint replay (non-reentrant and reentrant), an optional causal-conv1d halo exchange, and exact cross-rank state passing. This PR delivers the same variant with two changes. First, the backward state-propagation (adjoint-walk) kernel for the 64-wide value-head "offset" form now loads its two 256-bit dv/i carriers one step ahead. It also keeps its chunk table in a two-slot shared-memory ring, as the "tape" form already did. Its dynamic shared memory grows from 82944 to 83968 bytes. Second, the host-side partition plan now uses an LPT (longest-processing-time) per-rank segment rule by default to choose each rank's segment count. The previous rule is still available through the keyword-only p_rule option. The rule is a pure function of the fragment tables, HV and the SM count, so it is identical on every rank. At 152 SMs it changes the segment vector on five of the 120 measured (pack, CP, layout) rows. All other kernels are unchanged. The forward columns therefore show the plan change only where its segment vector changed, and the training-step columns show both changes. The baseline is the previous version of this package, PR #7668.

NVIDIA GB300 (sm_103a, CUDA 13.4) — context-parallel GDN layer, (H_qk, HV) = (16, 48), head dim 128, CP = 2, 4, 8, 16; latency per call of the slowest rank (median over repeats). Forward = module forward; training step = forward + checkpoint recompute + backward, communication included. Baseline: the previous version of this package (#7668) on the same layout.

Pack (tokens / docs) CP Layout Forward: this PR ms previous ms Speedup Training step: this PR ms previous ms Speedup
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 2 contiguous 8.003 8.002 1.00x 24.170 24.131 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 2 zigzag 7.978 7.972 1.00x 24.256 24.269 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 2 per-document zigzag + ragged 8.334 8.338 1.00x 24.942 24.932 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 4 contiguous 4.444 4.441 1.00x 13.204 13.234 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 4 zigzag 4.353 4.532 1.04x 12.980 13.474 1.04x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 4 per-document zigzag + ragged 4.504 4.502 1.00x 13.430 13.421 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 8 contiguous 2.509 2.526 1.01x 7.788 7.890 1.01x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 8 zigzag 2.700 2.702 1.00x 7.638 7.682 1.01x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 8 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.726 2.738 1.00x 7.866 7.867 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 16 contiguous 2.148 2.190 1.02x 6.996 6.953 0.99x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 16 zigzag 1.747 1.773 1.02x 5.762 5.776 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 16 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.133 2.157 1.01x 6.876 6.902 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 2 contiguous 8.584 8.587 1.00x 26.173 26.189 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 2 zigzag 8.709 8.710 1.00x 26.332 26.338 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 2 per-document zigzag + ragged 8.735 8.730 1.00x 26.701 26.723 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 4 contiguous 4.481 4.476 1.00x 13.271 13.301 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 4 zigzag 4.726 4.721 1.00x 14.042 14.045 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 4 per-document zigzag + ragged 5.061 5.064 1.00x 14.956 14.957 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 8 contiguous 2.618 2.625 1.00x 8.009 8.254 1.03x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 8 zigzag 2.895 2.904 1.00x 8.182 8.233 1.01x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 8 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.842 2.828 1.00x 8.108 8.140 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 16 contiguous 2.191 2.154 0.98x 6.923 6.909 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 16 zigzag 1.854 1.825 0.98x 5.878 5.914 1.01x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 16 per-document zigzag + ragged 1.968 1.961 1.00x 6.394 6.382 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 2 contiguous 7.347 7.336 1.00x 25.537 25.631 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 2 zigzag 9.472 9.472 1.00x 28.758 28.743 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 2 per-document zigzag + ragged 8.412 8.419 1.00x 25.742 25.737 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 4 contiguous 4.442 4.734 1.07x 13.414 14.366 1.07x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 4 zigzag 4.449 5.050 1.14x 13.416 14.962 1.12x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 4 per-document zigzag + ragged 5.037 5.039 1.00x 14.927 14.919 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 8 contiguous 2.653 2.677 1.01x 7.948 7.991 1.01x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 8 zigzag 2.888 2.872 0.99x 8.133 8.167 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 8 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.871 2.889 1.01x 8.222 8.251 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 16 contiguous 2.178 2.174 1.00x 6.884 6.978 1.01x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 16 zigzag 1.819 1.827 1.00x 5.870 5.842 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 16 per-document zigzag + ragged 1.903 1.910 1.00x 6.164 6.171 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 2 contiguous 8.452 8.444 1.00x 25.548 25.525 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 2 zigzag 8.621 8.627 1.00x 26.172 26.168 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 2 per-document zigzag + ragged 8.684 8.691 1.00x 26.260 26.261 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 4 contiguous 4.341 4.351 1.00x 12.902 12.942 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 4 zigzag 4.384 4.379 1.00x 13.005 13.030 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 4 per-document zigzag + ragged 4.516 4.523 1.00x 13.428 13.441 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 8 contiguous 2.551 2.555 1.00x 7.550 7.622 1.01x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 8 zigzag 2.834 2.855 1.01x 8.063 8.094 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 8 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.894 2.911 1.01x 8.288 8.327 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 16 contiguous 2.172 2.151 0.99x 6.871 7.127 1.04x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 16 zigzag 1.849 1.864 1.01x 5.863 6.061 1.03x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 16 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.308 2.308 1.00x 7.269 7.495 1.03x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 2 contiguous 8.226 8.251 1.00x 25.260 25.259 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 2 zigzag 8.882 8.887 1.00x 27.170 27.186 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 2 per-document zigzag + ragged 8.465 8.472 1.00x 25.649 25.652 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 4 contiguous 4.309 4.576 1.06x 12.990 13.845 1.07x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 4 zigzag 4.411 4.798 1.09x 13.167 14.266 1.08x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 4 per-document zigzag + ragged 4.596 4.566 0.99x 13.711 13.687 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 8 contiguous 2.611 2.749 1.05x 7.972 8.059 1.01x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 8 zigzag 2.784 2.815 1.01x 7.859 7.876 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 8 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.699 2.707 1.00x 7.778 7.791 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 16 contiguous 2.176 2.182 1.00x 6.935 7.084 1.02x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 16 zigzag 1.806 1.787 0.99x 5.859 6.010 1.03x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 16 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.034 2.006 0.99x 6.612 6.768 1.02x

NVIDIA GB200 (sm_100a, CUDA 13.4) — context-parallel GDN layer, (H_qk, HV) = (16, 48), head dim 128, CP = 2, 4, 8, 16; latency per call of the slowest rank (median over repeats); CP 2: median over 1 back-to-back session(s) on the same nodes; CP 4: median over 3 back-to-back session(s) on the same nodes; CP 8: median over 1 back-to-back session(s) on the same nodes; CP 16: median over 3 back-to-back session(s) on the same nodes. Forward = module forward; training step = forward + checkpoint recompute + backward, communication included. Baseline: the previous version of this package (#7668) on the same layout.

Pack (tokens / docs) CP Layout Forward: this PR ms previous ms Speedup Training step: this PR ms previous ms Speedup
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 2 contiguous 8.167 8.171 1.00x 24.557 24.607 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 2 zigzag 8.129 8.134 1.00x 24.715 24.721 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 2 per-document zigzag + ragged 8.500 8.501 1.00x 25.386 25.405 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 4 contiguous 4.532 4.534 1.00x 13.457 13.498 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 4 zigzag 4.447 4.647 1.05x 13.231 13.756 1.04x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 4 per-document zigzag + ragged 4.613 4.610 1.00x 13.674 13.676 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 8 contiguous 2.554 2.556 1.00x 7.900 7.893 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 8 zigzag 2.733 2.741 1.00x 7.775 7.803 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 8 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.757 2.764 1.00x 7.956 7.970 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 16 contiguous 2.213 2.226 1.01x 7.010 7.024 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 16 zigzag 1.760 1.759 1.00x 5.818 5.815 1.00x
P1 (241,817 tokens / 6 docs) 16 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.145 2.144 1.00x 6.974 6.961 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 2 contiguous 8.736 8.771 1.00x 26.657 26.691 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 2 zigzag 8.874 8.877 1.00x 26.846 26.835 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 2 per-document zigzag + ragged 8.904 8.925 1.00x 27.205 27.247 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 4 contiguous 4.577 4.569 1.00x 13.563 13.569 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 4 zigzag 4.828 4.821 1.00x 14.297 14.341 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 4 per-document zigzag + ragged 5.154 5.156 1.00x 15.243 15.220 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 8 contiguous 2.639 2.663 1.01x 8.092 8.144 1.01x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 8 zigzag 2.933 2.941 1.00x 8.325 8.370 1.01x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 8 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.875 2.882 1.00x 8.274 8.306 1.00x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 16 contiguous 2.171 2.193 1.01x 6.983 7.033 1.01x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 16 zigzag 1.832 1.837 1.00x 5.876 5.936 1.01x
P2 (261,987 / 3) 16 per-document zigzag + ragged 1.942 1.951 1.00x 6.397 6.471 1.01x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 2 contiguous 7.512 7.513 1.00x 26.072 26.183 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 2 zigzag 9.616 9.615 1.00x 29.168 29.157 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 2 per-document zigzag + ragged 8.575 8.582 1.00x 26.229 26.208 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 4 contiguous 4.539 4.824 1.06x 13.680 14.621 1.07x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 4 zigzag 4.542 5.149 1.13x 13.678 15.253 1.12x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 4 per-document zigzag + ragged 5.139 5.131 1.00x 15.204 15.196 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 8 contiguous 2.699 2.717 1.01x 7.997 8.098 1.01x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 8 zigzag 2.916 2.920 1.00x 8.292 8.318 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 8 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.897 2.904 1.00x 8.386 8.420 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 16 contiguous 2.222 2.211 0.99x 7.011 6.945 0.99x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 16 zigzag 1.830 1.829 1.00x 5.878 5.882 1.00x
P3 (259,174 / 2) 16 per-document zigzag + ragged 1.894 1.898 1.00x 6.111 6.111 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 2 contiguous 8.590 8.584 1.00x 26.059 26.061 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 2 zigzag 8.762 8.765 1.00x 26.639 26.611 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 2 per-document zigzag + ragged 8.827 8.824 1.00x 26.679 26.696 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 4 contiguous 4.438 4.442 1.00x 13.169 13.220 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 4 zigzag 4.475 4.482 1.00x 13.266 13.297 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 4 per-document zigzag + ragged 4.617 4.617 1.00x 13.704 13.734 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 8 contiguous 2.567 2.641 1.03x 7.756 7.745 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 8 zigzag 2.887 2.933 1.02x 8.195 8.239 1.01x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 8 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.938 2.994 1.02x 8.448 8.495 1.01x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 16 contiguous 2.149 2.157 1.00x 6.909 6.907 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 16 zigzag 1.856 1.857 1.00x 5.894 5.915 1.00x
P4 (254,976 / 1) 16 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.292 2.294 1.00x 7.366 7.331 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 2 contiguous 8.417 8.393 1.00x 25.712 25.701 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 2 zigzag 9.026 9.027 1.00x 27.587 27.608 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 2 per-document zigzag + ragged 8.613 8.621 1.00x 26.103 26.099 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 4 contiguous 4.395 4.674 1.06x 13.242 14.124 1.07x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 4 zigzag 4.504 4.908 1.09x 13.433 14.558 1.08x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 4 per-document zigzag + ragged 4.670 4.674 1.00x 13.981 13.975 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 8 contiguous 2.640 2.688 1.02x 8.042 8.081 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 8 zigzag 2.824 2.831 1.00x 7.993 8.016 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 8 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.721 2.726 1.00x 7.907 7.913 1.00x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 16 contiguous 2.243 2.264 1.01x 7.115 7.178 1.01x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 16 zigzag 1.798 1.792 1.00x 5.894 5.991 1.02x
P5 (249,856 / 4) 16 per-document zigzag + ragged 2.002 2.011 1.00x 6.654 6.687 1.00x

Cake's GDN inference kernels for chunked prefill and decode ship separately, the KDA context-parallel training sibling flashinfer/experimental/cake_kda_train covers the per-channel-gate form, and this kernel ships on sm_100a, sm_103a and sm_107a.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Row planning now defaults to a workload-aware strategy that can reduce the slowest rank’s processing steps. The existing row_cost strategy remains available.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Corrected handling of additional state segments and input columns in training kernels.
    • Updated shared-memory requirements for a kernel to support its revised execution.

averyhNV and others added 2 commits October 28, 2026 04:22
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perf(cake_gdn): LPT per-rank segment rule as the KCP plan default
64ae2c0 
The KCP plan picks P segments per fragment on every rank from the row's fragment
tables. The shipped rule "row_cost" chose one whole-row program ("wave_fill1",
"occ" or "one"). The new rule "row_cost_lpt" starts from that plan and lets a
rank that "row_cost" planned at P > 1 in the wave regime (1 <= n_frag <= 3,
NC_max_frag >= 257) move to the P that minimises its crossing-aware LPT walk
cost (smallest P within ROW_COST_LPT_MARGIN_PCT = 2 % of the optimum), under two
gates: (i) the rank's walk steps (5 * summary + 3 * tape LPT makespans) must not
grow, (ii) the row's slowest-rank walk steps must shorten by at least
ROW_COST_LPT_ROW_MARGIN_PCT = 4 % or the row keeps the "row_cost" vector. A rank
"row_cost" plans at P = 1 never enters the replacement, and a candidate that
moves such a rank off P = 1 is rejected for the whole row. The rule is a pure
function of (fragment tables, HV, SM count), identical on every rank.

P_RULE_DEFAULT becomes "row_cost_lpt" (build_kcp_context / KcpContext default);
"row_cost" and the per-rank rules stay selectable through the keyword-only
p_rule knob. kcp_plan_row keeps p_rule="row_cost" as its own default.

Changed rows (zero-GPU census of the plan module over every perf, correctness
and adversarial row at every CP and layout, SM count 152 = GB300 and the GB200
of record): exactly the five rows below; CP1, CP2, CP8 and CP16 rows and all
C/A rows keep their "row_cost" vector.

  row       P row_cost      -> P row_cost_lpt   model ratio  slowest-rank walk shortening
  P1 CP4 Z  [2, 2, 2, 2]     -> [2, 2, 3, 3]      0.8542       14.58 %
  P3 CP4 C  [6, 11, 6, 6]    -> [6, 6, 6, 6]      0.9389       6.11 %
  P3 CP4 Z  [3, 3, 3, 2]     -> [3, 3, 3, 3]      0.6983       30.17 %
  P5 CP4 C  [3, 11, 11, 6]   -> [3, 6, 6, 6]      0.9588       4.12 %
  P5 CP4 Z  [2, 3, 2, 2]     -> [3, 3, 3, 3]      0.7235       27.65 %

Measured per-row A/B (A = shipped "row_cost" plan, C = "row_cost_lpt" via
p_rule; measurement protocol: 3 ABBA groups, min_steady 8, warmup 2, median of the
steady slowest-rank samples; B1 = forward, B3 = forward + backward; adoption
line: B3 C/A <= 0.985 and B1 C/A <= 1.01). Medians in ms.

  row        arch   B1 A -> C ms (C/A)            B3 A -> C ms (C/A)              verdict
  P1 CP4 Z   GB300  4.70021 -> 4.48118 (0.9534)   13.84280 -> 13.28301 (0.9596)   PASS
  P1 CP4 Z   GB200  4.63954 -> 4.43862 (0.9567)   13.75442 -> 13.21686 (0.9609)   PASS
  P3 CP4 C   GB300  4.84845 -> 4.56995 (0.9426)   14.69357 -> 13.75165 (0.9359)   PASS
  P3 CP4 C   GB200  4.82768 -> 4.51459 (0.9351)   14.61782 -> 13.65990 (0.9345)   PASS
  P3 CP4 Z   GB300  5.22389 -> 4.58445 (0.8776)   15.36746 -> 13.74262 (0.8943)   PASS
  P3 CP4 Z   GB200  5.13766 -> 4.54838 (0.8853)   15.22053 -> 13.64166 (0.8963)   PASS
  P5 CP4 C   GB300  4.71139 -> 4.42032 (0.9382)   14.17469 -> 13.28813 (0.9375)   PASS
  P5 CP4 C   GB200  4.67139 -> 4.37504 (0.9366)   14.09208 -> 13.20675 (0.9372)   PASS
  P5 CP4 Z   GB300  4.96848 -> 4.51485 (0.9087)   14.64814 -> 13.47462 (0.9199)   PASS
  P5 CP4 Z   GB200  4.91470 -> 4.47638 (0.9108)   14.52336 -> 13.39280 (0.9222)   PASS
  P2 CP4 Z   GB300  4.87278 -> 4.80109 (0.9853)   14.42054 -> 14.23251 (0.9870)   FAIL
  P3 CP2 C   GB300  7.51109 -> 9.07677 (1.2084)   26.33456 -> 27.07482 (1.0281)   FAIL
  P3 CP2 Z   GB200  9.63267 -> 9.63510 (1.0003)   29.24046 -> 29.22427 (0.9994)   A/A, row unchanged
  P5 CP2 C   GB300  8.47757 -> 8.58723 (1.0129)   25.88240 -> 25.86483 (0.9993)   FAIL
  P5 CP2 Z   GB200  9.03336 -> 9.02931 (0.9996)   27.62752 -> 27.61195 (0.9994)   A/A, row unchanged

Session controls (cake_C B3 self-ratio of the same session, band 0.99-1.01):
  GB300 session rowz4: 1.0009776762342963 ok=True
  GB300 session rowc4: 1.0006496759091728 ok=True
  GB300 session rowc2: 0.9990840762205644 ok=True
  GB200 session g2z4: 1.000465878244251 ok=True
  GB200 session g2z2: 1.0002893538841673 ok=True
  GB200 session g2c4: 1.0000722839564324 ok=True

Rows that did not pass and what happened to them: P2 CP4 Z, P3 CP2 C and P5 CP2 C
were changed by the first spelling of the rule and failed the adoption line
(their GB300 PAIR lines are in the table). P3 CP2 C is structural: the ranks
left the unsegmented P = 1 path for a 9-19-segment chain, a cost the walk-step
model does not contain; the final rule excludes delivered-P = 1 ranks for that
reason. P2 CP4 Z and P5 CP2 C had modelled bounds of 3.65 % and 3.16 %, below
the final 4 % row margin, so the final rule keeps their "row_cost" vectors.
The GB200 P3 CP2 Z and P5 CP2 Z sessions ran identical plans on both arms (the
device reports 152 SMs; the census's 148-SM column is model output for a
device that was not measured) and read as A/A controls.

Composition order, disclosed: the GB300 sessions measured spelling v2 of the
rule (walk-monotone rank gate + 2 % row gate) selected via p_rule. Spelling v3
(the delivered-P = 1 exclusion and the 4 % row margin, calibrated on the GB300
results without the structurally failed P3 CP2 C row) was composed after those
measurements; v3 plans the five changed rows exactly as v2 did (census), so the
GB300 lines apply to the delivered rule unchanged, and every GB200 session ran
v3. History of record: v1 (census spelling, failed the pre-registered kill line
on 8 rows) -> v2 -> v3 (final); a v4 with an NC_max_frag <= 512 regime bound
was attempted and withdrawn (it would have dropped the measured-PASS P3 CP4 C
and P5 CP4 C rows, and its motivation was the void 148-SM reading).

Regression and precision gates of the delivered text:
- G4 multi-node (GB300, 2 and 4 nodes): P1-P5 x {C, Z, D} at real CP8 and CP16, one forward + backward
  under p_rule="row_cost" and p_rule="row_cost_lpt" on identical operands: P vectors equal on every rank and
  equal to the census of record, out/dq/dk/dv/dg/dbeta bitwise equal (CP8: 15/15 rows PASS; CP16: 15/15 rows PASS).
- tests/experimental/test_cake_gdn_train_kcp.py on the rows of record: 185 passed, 18 warnings in 111.91s (0:01:51).
- G1 (FP64 oracle of the whole pack; elementwise clause ATOL = RTOL = 1e-2 on out/dq/dk/dv/dg/dbeta, error metrics
  beside it), G3 (bitwise classes: repeat, saved vs replay, light vs full, autograd vs saved, checkpoint forms, strided
  and copy layouts, ring vs a2a, save_transfer, backward twice, kept-set forms) and G10 (graph capture, retained zero,
  bytes match) through the distributed test body at real CP4 on the five changed rows:
  P1 CP4 Z  GB200 P=[2,2,3,3]   G3/G10 26/26 PASS  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 7.87e-03 chunked x8 oracle
  P3 CP4 C  GB200 P=[6,6,6,6]   G3/G10 26/26 PASS  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 8.03e-03 chunked x8 oracle
  P3 CP4 Z  GB200 P=[3,3,3,3]   G3/G10 26/26 PASS  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 8.03e-03 chunked x8 oracle
  P5 CP4 C  GB200 P=[3,6,6,6]   G3/G10 26/26 PASS  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 8.06e-03 chunked x8 oracle
  P5 CP4 Z  GB200 P=[3,3,3,3]   G3/G10 26/26 PASS  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 8.06e-03 chunked x8 oracle
  P1 CP4 Z  GB300 P=[2,2,3,3]   G3/G10 26/26 PASS  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 7.87e-03 whole-pack oracle
  P3 CP4 C  GB300 P=[6,6,6,6]   G3/G10 26/26 PASS  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 8.03e-03 whole-pack oracle
  P3 CP4 Z  GB300 P=[3,3,3,3]   G3/G10 26/26 PASS  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 8.03e-03 whole-pack oracle
  P5 CP4 C  GB300 P=[3,6,6,6]   G3/G10 26/26 PASS  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 8.06e-03 whole-pack oracle
  P5 CP4 Z  GB300 P=[3,3,3,3]   G3/G10 26/26 PASS  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 8.06e-03 whole-pack oracle
  The harness runs the cells of one step in one process; the shipped test spawns a fresh process per row.
  An in-process run of a cell after another cell's FP64 oracle tripped the allocator-block statistic
  retained_block_lt_1mib at exactly 1 MiB (requested retained bytes 0); the cell was re-run alone in a fresh
  process and the line above is that run. Superseded in-process result(s):
  P5 CP4 Z  GB300 P=[3,3,3,3]   G3/G10 25/26 FAIL  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 8.06e-03 whole-pack oracle
  P5 CP4 Z  GB200 P=[3,3,3,3]   G3/G10 25/26 FAIL  G1 mism 0 PASS  rel-RMS 3.11e-03 max-abs 8.06e-03 chunked x8 oracle
- G1 budget form (GB300, real CP4 on the delivered rule): per-tensor rel-RMS and max-abs budgets = 1.10 x
  max(Cake CP = 1 local-path error, FLA tf32x3 error) against the FP64 reference of the same row, declared before
  the measurement; U1 clause = max-abs may exceed its budget by one storage ulp of |ref| at the worst element:
  G1 verdict: 6 items judged, 6 pass (U1 clause), 0 FAIL
  P1 CP4 C    PASS  declared-before True
  P1 CP4 Z    PASS (U1 decisive) on dv  declared-before True
  P3 CP4 C    PASS  declared-before True
  P3 CP4 Z    PASS  declared-before True
  P5 CP4 C    PASS  declared-before True
  P5 CP4 Z    PASS  declared-before True
- G2 adversarial rows (A1-A4 at their CP of record, Cake arm of the delivered text vs the final G1 budgets, with the
  plain-TF32 negative control): G2 PASS: Cake within the final budgets (U1 clause) on all of ['A1', 'A2', 'A3',
  'A4']; the plain-TF32 control exceeds the same budgets on ['A1', 'A2', 'A3', 'A4'] (control rows judged ['A1',
  'A2', 'A3', 'A4'])
  A1 CP8 C    cake pass_u1=True control_exceeds_u1=True budget=final
  A2 CP8 C    cake pass_u1=True control_exceeds_u1=True budget=final
  A3 CP4 D    cake pass_u1=True control_exceeds_u1=True budget=final
  A4 CP8 C    cake pass_u1=True control_exceeds_u1=True budget=final
  The unchanged rows A1-A4, C6 and C8 keep the shipped vectors by construction (census of record) and were re-run
  under both rules at real CP2 and CP4 with bitwise-equal out/dq/dk/dv/dg/dbeta (G4 tool).
- G8 memory: steady rank-max MiB of the candidate arm <= the FLA baseline of the same cell (rc19 interleaved
  verdicts of record); shipped arm beside it. GB300:
  P1 CP4 Z B1: candidate 5226 MiB | shipped 5219 MiB | B_fla 5807.703125 MiB | candidate - B_fla -581.7 | PASS
  P1 CP4 Z B3: candidate 10267 MiB | shipped 10267 MiB | B_fla 10816.6865234375 MiB | candidate - B_fla -549.7 | PASS
  P3 CP4 C B1: candidate 5601 MiB | shipped 5692 MiB | B_fla 6221.2822265625 MiB | candidate - B_fla -620.3 | PASS
  P3 CP4 C B3: candidate 10986 MiB | shipped 10986 MiB | B_fla 11581.3984375 MiB | candidate - B_fla -595.4 | PASS
  P3 CP4 Z B1: candidate 5588 MiB | shipped 5564 MiB | B_fla 6225.5556640625 MiB | candidate - B_fla -637.6 | PASS
  P3 CP4 Z B3: candidate 10984 MiB | shipped 10984 MiB | B_fla 11589.171875 MiB | candidate - B_fla -605.2 | PASS
  P5 CP4 C B1: candidate 5400 MiB | shipped 5491 MiB | B_fla 5994.09375 MiB | candidate - B_fla -594.1 | PASS
  P5 CP4 C B3: candidate 10580 MiB | shipped 10580 MiB | B_fla 11161.15625 MiB | candidate - B_fla -581.2 | PASS
  P5 CP4 Z B1: candidate 5394 MiB | shipped 5368 MiB | B_fla 5997.171875 MiB | candidate - B_fla -603.2 | PASS
  P5 CP4 Z B3: candidate 10594 MiB | shipped 10594 MiB | B_fla 11166.546875 MiB | candidate - B_fla -572.5 | PASS
  GB200:
  P1 CP4 Z B1: candidate 5226 MiB | shipped 5219 MiB | B_fla 5807.703125 MiB | PASS
  P1 CP4 Z B3: candidate 10267 MiB | shipped 10267 MiB | B_fla 10816.6865234375 MiB | PASS
  P3 CP2 Z B1: candidate 11511 MiB | shipped 11511 MiB | B_fla 12436.205078125 MiB | PASS
  P3 CP2 Z B3: candidate 21939 MiB | shipped 21939 MiB | B_fla 23149.9375 MiB | PASS
  P3 CP4 Z B1: candidate 5588 MiB | shipped 5564 MiB | B_fla 6225.5556640625 MiB | PASS
  P3 CP4 Z B3: candidate 10984 MiB | shipped 10984 MiB | B_fla 11589.171875 MiB | PASS
  P5 CP2 Z B1: candidate 11110 MiB | shipped 11110 MiB | B_fla 11989.1875 MiB | PASS
  P5 CP2 Z B3: candidate 21157 MiB | shipped 21157 MiB | B_fla 22321.8125 MiB | PASS
  P5 CP4 Z B1: candidate 5395 MiB | shipped 5367 MiB | B_fla 5997.171875 MiB | PASS
  P5 CP4 Z B3: candidate 10594 MiB | shipped 10594 MiB | B_fla 11166.546875 MiB | PASS
  P3 CP4 C B1: candidate 5601 MiB | shipped 5692 MiB | B_fla 6221.2822265625 MiB | PASS
  P3 CP4 C B3: candidate 10986 MiB | shipped 10986 MiB | B_fla 11581.3984375 MiB | PASS
  P5 CP4 C B1: candidate 5400 MiB | shipped 5491 MiB | B_fla 5994.09375 MiB | PASS
  P5 CP4 C B3: candidate 10580 MiB | shipped 10580 MiB | B_fla 11161.15625 MiB | PASS

Docstring correction, text only: the four passages that still called "row_cost" the shipped default (module
docstring, the P_RULES comment, the kcp_plan_row and build_kcp_context docstrings) now name "row_cost_lpt" as the
default and "row_cost" as the selectable legacy rule; with docstrings and comments stripped the module's AST is
identical before and after the edit (sha256 of both dumps in the delivery record), so the gate evidence above was
measured on this code unchanged.

Tests: ROW_COST_LPT_CHANGED pins the five changed vectors (census fixture, SM count 152); a new rows-of-record test
checks the default context against it; the "row_cost" tests select that rule explicitly; the default-rule test
asserts P_RULE_DEFAULT == "row_cost_lpt" and that kcp_plan refuses both row rules.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
@averyhNV @claude
perf(cake_gdn): faster adjoint-walk offset kernel
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speedup table follows

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The PR changes the default KCP row-planning rule to row_cost_lpt, updates GDN kernel data handling and offset-walk pipelining, and refreshes Cake build metadata and hashes. Tests add coverage for the new planner behavior.

Changes: GDN KCP planning and kernels

Layer / File(s) Summary
Row-planning rule and validation
flashinfer/experimental/cake_gdn_train/cake_kcp_plan.py, tests/experimental/test_cake_gdn_train_kcp.py		 Adds row_cost_lpt as the context default, with per-rank and whole-row gates. Keeps row_cost selectable. Tests cover the new rule, recorded plan vectors, and row-planning constraints.
Kernel data handling and table pipeline
flashinfer/experimental/cake_gdn_train/cake_jit.py, flashinfer/experimental/cake_gdn_train/csrc/cake_gdn_train_*.cu		 Adds a two-stage shared-memory table pipeline to the offset-walk kernel and updates input-segment residual calculations and state-segment handling in related kernels. The binding and JIT launch record use 83,968 bytes of dynamic shared memory.
Generated kernel updates and build records
flashinfer/experimental/cake_gdn_train/csrc/cake_gdn_train_*.cu, flashinfer/experimental/cake_gdn_train/build*.json		 Revises local variable names in generated kernels while retaining the described calculations and memory operations. Updates Cake revision metadata and source and closure hashes; library configurations remain unchanged.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Refactor

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sequenceDiagram
  participant LoadWarp as Load warp
  participant SharedTable as Shared-memory table
  participant ComputeWarps as Compute warps
  LoadWarp->>SharedTable: Publish row scales and chunk lengths
  LoadWarp->>SharedTable: Prefetch dv_intra values
  ComputeWarps->>SharedTable: Read table entries and prefetched values
  ComputeWarps->>SharedTable: Signal table slots empty
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  • flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#7082: The issue describes GDN context-parallel state passing and fragment assignment; this PR changes the KCP partition plan and offset-adjoint walk path.
  • flashinfer-ai/flashinfer#7251: The issue covers the vh64 offset-walk kernel and KCP launch rules, which overlap with this PR’s kernel, binding, and planner changes.

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The new default planning branch lacks a regression test that runs without external row files. Adding one would improve confidence, but the identified gap does not itself block merging.

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tests/experimental/test_cake_gdn_train_kcp.py: 1

724-746: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add an unconditional CPU-only regression test for the LPT branch.

The row-of-record test is skipped when GDN_ROWS_DIR is unset. The unconditional test derives want from the same row_cost_lpt call that it checks, so it does not independently protect wave_regime, lpt_rank_P, or the row gate.

Add a synthetic case that has 1–3 fragments, NC_max_frag >= 257, and row_cost.P > 1. Pin an expected row_cost_lpt vector that differs from row_cost. Include cases for the rank walk gate and the 4% row gate, plus a repeated-call determinism check.

Do not assert that every non-wave rank always equals its row_cost value. The whole-row occ/one alternatives remain active and can change all ranks. Assert that a non-wave rank is unchanged only in a case where the whole-row policy is unchanged.

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Review comment at @tests/experimental/test_cake_gdn_train_kcp.py around lines
724 - 746:
Add an unconditional CPU-only synthetic regression test alongside
test_row_cost_lpt_rule_on_rows_of_record that exercises gp.kcp_plan_row with 1–3
fragments, NC_max_frag >= 257, and row_cost.P > 1. Pin expected row_cost_lpt
vectors that differ from row_cost and cover the rank-walk and 4% row gates,
including repeated-call determinism; assert non-wave ranks remain unchanged only
where the whole-row policy is unchanged.
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flashinfer/experimental/cake_gdn_train/cake_kcp_plan.py: 1

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Extract the chain construction that walk_steps_rank_b3 copies from row_cost_rank_10ns.

Lines 837-842 repeat the summary and tape list construction of row_cost_rank_10ns (Lines 787-792). This includes the P > 1 or crossing_out condition. Both models must use the same chain definition. If one copy changes alone, the row_cost_lpt walk-step gates and the cost model silently disagree. Move the construction into one helper that both functions call.

def _rank_chains(table, HV: int, P: int):
    summary = [
        (_ceil_div(nc, P), P * HV)
        for nc, crossing_out in table
        if nc > 0 and (P > 1 or crossing_out)
    ]
    tape = [(_ceil_div(nc, P), P * HV) for nc, _ in table if nc > 0]
    return summary, tape

Then use summary, tape = _rank_chains(table, HV, P) in walk_steps_rank_b3. Make the same change in row_cost_rank_10ns.

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Review comments at @tests/experimental/test_cake_gdn_train_kcp.py:
- Around line 724-746: Add an unconditional CPU-only synthetic regression test
alongside test_row_cost_lpt_rule_on_rows_of_record that exercises
gp.kcp_plan_row with 1–3 fragments, NC_max_frag >= 257, and row_cost.P > 1. Pin
expected row_cost_lpt vectors that differ from row_cost and cover the rank-walk
and 4% row gates, including repeated-call determinism; assert non-wave ranks
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