[QNN EP] Add QuickGELU operator support for QNN provider #27034

tirupath-qti · 2026-01-16T02:08:09Z

Description

Add support for the QuickGELU operator in the QNN provider:

Implement QuickGeluOpBuilder to handle QuickGELU operations
Add registration for QuickGELU in op_builder_factory
Add comprehensive tests for CPU and HTP backends
Support both float and quantized (QDQ) versions

Motivation and Context

QNN doesn't have a direct operator to map QuickGelu so decompose it as x * sigmoid(alpha * x) for computing the whole model on HTP to improve inference time.

This commit adds support for the QuickGELU operator in the QNN provider: - Implement QuickGeluOpBuilder to handle QuickGELU operations - Add registration for QuickGELU in op_builder_factory - Add comprehensive tests for CPU and HTP backends - Support both float and quantized (QDQ) versions Implementation details: - QNN doesn't have a direct operator to map QuickGelu - QuickGELU is decomposed as x * sigmoid(alpha * x)

tirupath-qti · 2026-01-16T02:09:33Z

@edgchen1 and @yuslepukhin
If possible, can we get this reviewed and tracked for 1.24 release. This is needed for enabling one customer model.

edgchen1 · 2026-01-16T02:32:48Z

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@edgchen1 and @yuslepukhin
Could you please trigger remaining CI jobs as well.

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Pull request overview

This PR adds support for the QuickGELU operator in the QNN provider by decomposing it into basic operations: x * sigmoid(alpha * x). Since QNN doesn't have a direct QuickGELU operator, the implementation uses element-wise multiplication and sigmoid operations to enable running models with QuickGELU on HTP backend.

Changes:

Implemented QuickGeluOpBuilder to decompose QuickGELU into basic QNN operations
Registered QuickGELU operator in the QNN op builder factory
Added comprehensive test coverage for CPU and HTP backends supporting float32, float16, and quantized (QDQ) modes

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onnxruntime/core/providers/qnn/builder/opbuilder/quick_gelu_op_builder.cc	Implements QuickGeluOpBuilder that decomposes QuickGELU into multiplication and sigmoid operations, with optimization to skip alpha multiplication when alpha≈1.0
onnxruntime/core/providers/qnn/builder/op_builder_factory.h	Declares CreateQuickGeluOpBuilder function for operator registration
onnxruntime/core/providers/qnn/builder/op_builder_factory.cc	Registers QuickGelu operator with the builder factory
onnxruntime/test/providers/qnn/quick_gelu_op_test.cc	Comprehensive test suite covering CPU/HTP backends with float32, float16, and QDQ quantized modes using various alpha values

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tirupath-qti · 2026-01-16T18:53:03Z

@edgchen1 and @yuslepukhin
I committed the copilot suggestion. Could you please help to re-trigger CI jobs.

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### Description Add support for the QuickGELU operator in the QNN provider: - Implement QuickGeluOpBuilder to handle QuickGELU operations - Add registration for QuickGELU in op_builder_factory - Add comprehensive tests for CPU and HTP backends - Support both float and quantized (QDQ) versions ### Motivation and Context - QNN doesn't have a direct operator to map QuickGelu so decompose it as x * sigmoid(alpha * x) for computing the whole model on HTP to improve inference time. --------- Co-authored-by: Copilot <175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> (cherry picked from commit 9d108d0)

### Description This PR cherry-picks the following changes for the 1.24.0 release. ### Cherry-picked Commits | Commit | Commit Title | Author | |---|---|---| | 744e7fe | Add type definitions, registration, utilities for INT2/UINT2 support (#26824) | vraspar | | 530a1fb | [QNN EP] Add BFloat16 dtype support in QNN EP (#26987) | tirupath-qti | | 8e050d1 | Implement new experimental lookup-based matrix multiplication method(TMAC) (#26695) | vraspar | | 2d2ba6b | [MLAS/CPU EP] Improve performance of Silu activation path within the QuickGelu CPU kernel (#26753) | Hariharan Seshadri | | 1c02b79 | [QNN EP] Add support for handling 0-dimension for Concat Op (#27000) | Ashwath Shankarnarayan | | cc2b01b | Fix ClipQuantFusion crash when Clip has multiple input edges (#27016) | Edward Chen | | bbd3850 | [QNN EP] Support quantized BatchNorm with per-channel DQ params on QNN HTP (#26959) | qti-yuduo | | d8f0318 | Add API to get ep graph partitioning info (#26781) | Adrian Lizarraga | | b912b18 | [OVEP] OpenVINO EP Features and bug-fixes for ORT-1.24 - Follow up (#27007) | Preetha Veeramalai | | ba11af4 | [QNN-EP] Add MatMulNBits translation for GPU (#26340) | quic-tirupath | | c03c419 | [MLAS/NEON] Add dedicated kernel for depthwise convolution for ARM64 using NEON intrinsics (#26688) | Hariharan Seshadri | | e7dfd69 | [QNN-EP] Support alternate Layernorm fusion pattern in QNN preprocess (#26060) | qti-mattsinc | | 4013dc1 | Implement multithreading in qgemm_kleidi (#26301) | Melike Kaptan | | 9f06181 | [CXX] Enable users to specify custom OrtSyncStream via RunOptions (#26988) | Dmitri Smirnov | | cfccd64 | Added support for QMX kernels in MLAS (#26849) | qti-vaiskv | | 29d9b2f | Tweak external resource importer handle structs (#27040) | Scott McKay | | 9d108d0 | [QNN EP] Add QuickGELU operator support for QNN provider (#27034) | tirupath-qti | | b35688f | Add INT2 and UINT2 support for QDQ, transpose and cast ops (#27022) | vraspar | | 6d34aba | Introducing BF16 Pointwise 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[QNN EP] Add QuickGELU operator support for QNN provider #27034

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