[ROCm] Fix AITER AR+RMSNorm no-residual fusion

[akii96]

Purpose

Fix the ROCm AITER allreduce + RMSNorm fusion for the no-residual pattern.

AiterAllreduceFusedRMSNormPattern replaces an allreduce followed by RMSNorm without a residual input. However, the AITER fused kernel computes RMSNorm over allreduce(input) + residual, so the synthetic residual for this pattern must be zero.

The AITER replacement used torch.empty_like(input), which can add uninitialized memory into the layer output. This PR changes it to torch.zeros_like(input), matching the existing FlashInfer no-residual fusion patterns in the same file.

This restores MiniMax-M2.5 GSM8K accuracy while keeping the AITER fusion enabled.

Test Plan

Serve MiniMax-M2.5 with ROCm AITER and allreduce RMSNorm fusion enabled:

vllm serve MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-M2.5 \
  --tensor-parallel-size 4 \
  --attention-backend ROCM_AITER_UNIFIED_ATTN \
  --max-model-len 12288 \
  --block-size 64 \
  --max-num-seqs 512 \
  --max-num-batched-tokens 32768 \
  --gpu-memory-utilization 0.95 \
  --performance-mode balanced \
  --async-scheduling \
  --no-enable-prefix-caching \
  --kv-cache-dtype auto \
  --compilation-config '{"mode":3}'

Test Result

Before this fix, GSM8K accuracy collapsed with ROCm AITER allreduce RMSNorm fusion enabled

Tasks	Version	Filter	n-shot	Metric		Value		Stderr
gsm8k	3	flexible-extract	5	exact_match	↑	0	±	0
		strict-match	5	exact_match	↑	0	±	0

After this fix:

Tasks	Version	Filter	n-shot	Metric		Value		Stderr
gsm8k	3	flexible-extract	5	exact_match	↑	0.9515	±	0.0059
		strict-match	5	exact_match	↑	0.9454	±	0.0063

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Code Review

This pull request modifies the all-reduce RMS normalization fusion pass to initialize the residual tensor with zeros using torch.zeros_like instead of torch.empty_like. This change ensures that the residual tensor has a deterministic initial state before it is processed by the fused operation. There were no review comments provided for this pull request, and I have no feedback to provide on the implementation.

[dllehr-amd]

Looks good! Nice catch @akii96 !

[rbrugaro-amd]

@gshtras @dllehr-amd we created #41767 few days back addressing this issue. The empty/zeros fix on this PR addressed the accuracy but without the variance_size_override the fusion was not getting picked up correctly. Can you trigger the CICD test on 41767?

[tjtanaa]

LGTM