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Reuse each KV chunk across fixed K=3 verification rows and provide an opt-in graph-safe sparse selection policy. Assisted-by: OpenAI Codex Signed-off-by: myshytf <9619163+myshytf@users.noreply.github.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughDense MLA adds per-query cache lengths and dynamic sparse chunk selection. Planning, validation, reference execution, kernel launch, forward execution, tests, and a verify-plan benchmark now support these options. ChangesDense MLA sparse verify execution
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Some valid verification requests can return incomplete attention results or be rejected, while malformed request boundaries may silently omit outputs. These correctness and compatibility regressions should be fixed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Plan as dense_mla.Plan
participant Binding as Binding validation
participant Launch as _forward_launch
participant Kernel as DenseMlaForwardKernel
participant Reference as dense_mla_reference
Plan->>Binding: configure query_cache_seqlens and sparse settings
Binding->>Launch: provide validated binding and scratch
Launch->>Kernel: launch configured forward kernel
Kernel->>Kernel: read per-query visibility and select chunks
Kernel->>Reference: benchmark correctness comparison
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Full details: Context-Independent Repository ProseExplanation The supplied PR description contains context-dependent prose. It refers to “the prior long-context decode degradation” without introducing that degradation. It also uses the shorthand “TP8/DCP8 Kimi-K3” and “PIECEWISE/FULL CUDA graphs” without defining the profiles, model context, or graph modes. The final validation paragraph narrates a production backport, graph captures, canary serving, and an operator report instead of stating reproducible conditions, measurements, results, and conclusions. This matches failure conditions 2, 3, 4, 6, and 9. The changed source and commit prose are otherwise locally descriptive: the sparse API, validation errors, tests, and benchmark report fields state their concepts and conditions. Resolution Rewrite or remove the final operational-history paragraph in the PR description. Define any retained TP/DCP profile, model, and graph-mode terms before use. Replace the canary and operator narrative with a self-contained validation record that states the test conditions, measurements, results, and conclusion. State the status of the benchmark and sparse path directly as implemented, research-only, or unsupported. Full details: Serving Hot-Path InvariantsExplanation The PR adds the same new query-tile policy in both Resolution Make the policy resolution own the query-tile decision. Add the required metadata, including Full details: Performance Claim EvidenceExplanation The PR makes performance claims, including a claimed absence of prior long-context decode degradation and benchmark speedup reporting. The new benchmark is relevant CUDA graph code, but the PR contains no measured result artifact. Its runtime JSON records one Resolution Either remove the production/no-regression and speedup claims, or add repository-visible benchmark evidence. Run the real target command
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In `@b12x/attention/dense_mla/_forward.py`:
- Around line 494-495: Update _validate_binding to reject non-tile-aligned
query-cache sequence boundaries: when uses_query_cache_seqlens is enabled,
require every cu_seqlens_q[i] to equal i multiplied by scratch.query_tile,
including intermediate request boundaries. Preserve the existing total-row
validation and accept bindings only when all request boundaries align with query
tiles.
In `@b12x/attention/dense_mla/_reference.py`:
- Around line 194-199: Update the sparse chunk selection around
dynamic_sparse_chunk_indices so each query derives its selection from its
row-specific visible length rather than the request-wide kv_len. Modify the
tiled kernel to stage the required per-row selection or its union while
preserving per-query visibility, and add a GPU test covering visible lengths
crossing a 64-token chunk boundary below cache_seqlens.
In `@b12x/attention/dense_mla/_scratch.py`:
- Around line 531-538: Update the complete query-tile validation in the
verify-mode guard to also require scratch.uses_query_cache_seqlens, preserving
partial-tile support for other verify plans while retaining the existing batch
and query_tile conditions for per-query cache-length plans.
In `@benchmarks/benchmark_dense_mla_verify.py`:
- Line 2: Update the module docstring used by _arguments() to describe the
actual benchmark arms created by main(): deployed, row_specialized, tiled,
optional tiled_s<max_splits>, and tiled_sparse when --sparse-stride is greater
than 1; remove the nonexistent fused-q4 reference.
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| elif cutlass.const_expr(self.uses_query_cache_seqlens): | ||
| request = query_tile_index |
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Reject non-tile-aligned verify boundaries at bind time. With uses_query_cache_seqlens and query_tile > 1, _validate_binding checks only the total row count. It accepts cu_seqlens_q=[0, 3, 8] for query_tile=4. The first tile selects request 0, but row 3 is outside request 0’s range and query_valid prevents its output write. Require cu_seqlens_q[i] == i * scratch.query_tile for every request boundary.
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In `@b12x/attention/dense_mla/_forward.py` around lines 494 - 495, Update
_validate_binding to reject non-tile-aligned query-cache sequence boundaries:
when uses_query_cache_seqlens is enabled, require every cu_seqlens_q[i] to equal
i multiplied by scratch.query_tile, including intermediate request boundaries.
Preserve the existing total-row validation and accept bindings only when all
request boundaries align with query tiles.
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| selected_chunks = dynamic_sparse_chunk_indices( | ||
| (kv_len + 63) // 64, | ||
| stride=sparse_stride, | ||
| sink_chunks=sparse_sink_chunks, | ||
| recent_chunks=sparse_recent_chunks, | ||
| ) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Select sparse chunks from each query's visible cache.
selected_positions uses kv_len before the row-specific visible value is applied. Filtering removes future chunks, but it cannot add a recent visible chunk that request-wide selection skipped.
For example, with kv_len=240, visible=175, sparse_stride=3, sparse_sink_chunks=1, and sparse_recent_chunks=1, this code selects chunks (0, 1, 3). Chunk 3 is masked. Chunk 2 contains the recent visible tokens but is absent.
Build sparse selection from each row's visible length. Update the tiled kernel to stage the required per-row selection or its union. Add a GPU case where visible lengths cross a 64-token chunk boundary below cache_seqlens.
As per path instructions, preserve per-query visibility and validate the real GPU boundary.
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In `@b12x/attention/dense_mla/_reference.py` around lines 194 - 199, Update the
sparse chunk selection around dynamic_sparse_chunk_indices so each query derives
its selection from its row-specific visible length rather than the request-wide
kv_len. Modify the tiled kernel to stage the required per-row selection or its
union while preserving per-query visibility, and add a GPU test covering visible
lengths crossing a 64-token chunk boundary below cache_seqlens.
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| if ( | ||
| scratch.mode == "verify" | ||
| and scratch.query_tile > 1 | ||
| and int(q.shape[0]) != batch * scratch.query_tile | ||
| ): | ||
| raise ValueError( | ||
| "tiled verify plan requires one complete query tile per request" | ||
| ) |
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Restrict the complete-tile check to per-query cache-length plans.
bind previously accepted 1 <= q.shape[0] <= max_total_q. The forward kernel computes ceil(total_q / query_tile) and sets query_valid = 0 for rows beyond total_q, so non-uses_query_cache_seqlens verify plans support partial tiles. Apply the check only when scratch.uses_query_cache_seqlens is true.
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if (
- scratch.mode == "verify"
- and scratch.query_tile > 1
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+ and scratch.query_tile > 1
and int(q.shape[0]) != batch * scratch.query_tile
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| if ( | |
| scratch.mode == "verify" | |
| and scratch.query_tile > 1 | |
| and int(q.shape[0]) != batch * scratch.query_tile | |
| ): | |
| raise ValueError( | |
| "tiled verify plan requires one complete query tile per request" | |
| ) | |
| if ( | |
| scratch.uses_query_cache_seqlens | |
| and scratch.query_tile > 1 | |
| and int(q.shape[0]) != batch * scratch.query_tile | |
| ): | |
| raise ValueError( | |
| "tiled verify plan requires one complete query tile per request" | |
| ) |
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In `@b12x/attention/dense_mla/_scratch.py` around lines 531 - 538, Update the
complete query-tile validation in the verify-mode guard to also require
scratch.uses_query_cache_seqlens, preserving partial-tile support for other
verify plans while retaining the existing batch and query_tile conditions for
per-query cache-length plans.
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| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |||
| """Compare deployed, row-specialized, and fused-q4 dense MLA plans.""" | |||
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Align the module docstring with the benchmark arms.
_arguments() passes __doc__ to argparse.ArgumentParser, so --help exposes the nonexistent fused-q4 arm. main() builds deployed, row_specialized, and tiled, plus optional tiled_s<max_splits> arms and tiled_sparse when --sparse-stride > 1.
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-"""Compare deployed, row-specialized, and fused-q4 dense MLA plans."""
+"""Compare dense MLA verification plans: deployed, row_specialized, and tiled,
+plus optional tiled_s<max_splits> arms from --split-candidates and tiled_sparse
+when --sparse-stride is greater than one.
+
+Each arm validates output against the reference before timing, then reports
+median CUDA-graph replay latency relative to the deployed arm.
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| """Compare deployed, row-specialized, and fused-q4 dense MLA plans.""" | |
| """Compare dense MLA verification plans: deployed, row_specialized, and tiled, | |
| plus optional tiled_s<max_splits> arms from --split-candidates and tiled_sparse | |
| when --sparse-stride is greater than one. | |
| Each arm validates output against the reference before timing, then reports | |
| median CUDA-graph replay latency relative to the deployed arm. | |
| """ |
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In `@benchmarks/benchmark_dense_mla_verify.py` at line 2, Update the module
docstring used by _arguments() to describe the actual benchmark arms created by
main(): deployed, row_specialized, tiled, optional tiled_s<max_splits>, and
tiled_sparse when --sparse-stride is greater than 1; remove the nonexistent
fused-q4 reference.
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Summary
K=3, including multi-request batches and per-query DCP-visible cache lengthssparse_stride=1is the exact default and the production profile keeps it disabledCorrectness and compatibility
The default path is exact dense attention. The fused verifier preserves the original page table and supplies an
int32[total_q]visibility vector, so each of the four causal rows sees exactly its rank-local DCP prefix. Existing decode/extend plans do not accept that metadata and retain their prior behavior.Dynamic sparsity is deliberately opt-in and quality-changing. It is not enabled or presented as production-qualified by this PR. A model-level quality evaluation is required before any stride above one is used.
Validation
SM120 GPU suite against the current
mastersource:The test suite covers eager execution and CUDA Graph replay against the FP32 paged oracle. The fused and dense outputs pass cosine and LSE checks; the experimental sparse kernel is checked only against its explicitly sparse reference.
benchmarks/benchmark_dense_mla_verify.pyrecords the source identity, device, correctness state, cold-L2 raw samples, split geometry, and ratio direction. No formal release performance number is claimed here: the operator is collecting the final serving receipt separately before a formal release performance claim can be made.The exact production-generation backport loaded TP8/DCP8 Kimi-K3, captured all PIECEWISE/FULL CUDA graphs without eager fallback, served text canaries, and the operator reported that the prior long-context decode degradation was no longer observed.
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local-inference-lab/b12xPRs fordense MLA verify,query tile, andK3 fused verificationfound no PR implementing this path.Review status
AI assistance from OpenAI Codex was used to prepare this change. This PR is published for review at the operator’s request. The submitting human must review every changed line, rerun the relevant tests and final benchmark, and understand and defend the implementation before merge.
Publication status
Published as a non-draft on 2026-09-07 at the operator’s explicit request to expose all prepared PRs in local-inference-lab. Research-only code is exposed for review; unmeasured/unsupported paths above remain unqualified. No code, deployment configuration, merge approval or automatic merge is changed by this status update.
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Summary
K=3, with multi-request batches and per-query cache lengths.dynamic_sparse_chunk_indicesand extends planning, binding, reference, and kernel APIs for query cache lengths and sparse configuration.Validation