[Perf][Kernel] Fused DSA indexer Top-k kernel (LiteTopk) - #48726
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Thanks for the contribution. Review in progress. One important thing missing is a model-level accuracy eval; the PR currently provides no results supporting the “no accuracy loss” claim.
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I recommend running some similar MRCR 2-needle eval as #43008 for different context-lens vs upstream
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@Heisenberg-Yin what are these numbers exactly? Time needed to execute the eval? I think this is secondary, we need the accuracy scores to make sure everything is correct. Thanks! |
The above time is the prefill time of different sequence. The MRCR 2-needle eval scores is as below: MRCR 2-needle results
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Thank you for the accuracy numbers @Heisenberg-Yin! Could you clarify why LiteTopK and LiteDSA differ by up to around 9 percentage points in some buckets? I can’t tell whether it’s statistically significant from these numbers alone, but it seems a bit large to dismiss as noise. Were they run on the same prompts with deterministic settings?
Also, would you consider splitting this into multiple PRs? LiteTopK, generic LiteDSA, and the DeepSeek-V4 packed-attention specialization have largely independent implementation and validation paths. The PR adds about 23K lines. Separate PRs, each including its tests and benchmarks, would make the code and performance/correctness claims substantially easier to review.
Dear LopezCastroRoberto I’ll integrate only LiteTopK into this repo, minimize the number of files changed, and present the reason of the 2-needle test results. Best, |
SummaryDear @LopezCastroRoberto This PR updates the LiteTopK implementation used by vLLM. With the updated implementation, enabling LiteTopK no longer affects the 2-Needle Evaluation
1M-Token PerformanceAt a sequence length of 1,048,320 tokens (approximately 1M), LiteTopK reduces
The maximum observed difference from the native baseline is 0.04 points. These We also cleans up parts of the implementation to keep the diff focused and reduce the number of changed lines and files. |
Signed-off-by: Ziqi Yin <ziqi003@e.ntu.edu.sg>
Signed-off-by: Ziqi Yin <ziqi003@e.ntu.edu.sg>
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WalkthroughLiteTopK adds a fused sparse-indexer path for supported CUDA prefill workloads. It adds DeepGEMM output-buffer reuse, planner metadata, TP query sharding, PCP carry handling, runtime fallback logic, kernel packaging, environment controls, and comprehensive tests. ChangesLiteTopK fused indexing
Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to LiteTopK's TP-sharded prefill path can fail requests or abort a worker when one rank declines, and configuration mismatches can make that path reachable unexpectedly. These material runtime issues should be corrected before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant PrefillPlanner
participant SparseAttnIndexer
participant LiteTopKIndexer
participant DeepGEMM
participant CUDAKernels
PrefillPlanner->>SparseAttnIndexer: create fused chunk metadata
SparseAttnIndexer->>LiteTopKIndexer: prepare fused gather and seed state
LiteTopKIndexer->>DeepGEMM: compute seed MQA logits into output slab
LiteTopKIndexer->>CUDAKernels: scan suffix and select winners
CUDAKernels-->>LiteTopKIndexer: return indices and carry votes
LiteTopKIndexer-->>SparseAttnIndexer: publish fused top-k results
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In `@tests/model_executor/layers/test_litetopk.py`:
- Around line 129-130: Update the affected LiteTopK tests to use
monkeypatch.setattr on litetopk_indexer.MERGE_CAP, OVF_WATERMARK, and
PRODUCTION_MIN_S, pinning each to its expected default before assertions or
seed-window checks run so environment overrides cannot affect results.
In `@vllm/envs.py`:
- Around line 580-590: The legacy VLLM_TRITON_ATTN_USE_TD name must be
registered before validate_environ(hard_fail=True) runs, and
_deprecated_triton_attn_use_td must be invoked during startup so its warning is
emitted. Add the legacy variable to the environment registration and call the
helper in the startup validation flow, while keeping VLLM_TRITON_USE_TD as the
supported variable.
In `@vllm/model_executor/layers/litetopk_indexer.py`:
- Around line 68-78: Guard the import-time validation for PRODUCTION_MIN_S,
FP4_PRODUCTION_MIN_S, MERGE_CAP, and PROBE_EVERY with ENABLED, or defer it until
the fused LiteTopK path is selected. When ENABLED is false, importing the module
must not raise for unsupported environment values; preserve the existing
validation behavior when LiteTopK is enabled.
- Around line 192-194: Remove the os.environ.setdefault mutation for
TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST in the _EXT initialization path, while retaining the
explicit compute_100a/sm_100a extra_cuda_cflags entry used by
torch.utils.cpp_extension.load.
- Around line 321-325: Route LiteTopK diagnostics through a module logger
initialized with init_logger(__name__). Replace activation prints, including the
fixed vendored B200 kernel message, with logger.info_once; replace per-chunk
decline messages in prepare_permuted_gather and try_large_exact_once_chunk with
logger.warning; convert all remaining diagnostic prints to the configured logger
while preserving their messages.
- Around line 59-66: Make litetopk_indexer the single envs-backed accessor for
LiteTopK configuration: have MLA and sparse_attn_indexer delegate threshold
lookups to production_min_s, and resolve TP_QUERY_SHARD_ENABLED through envs at
use time rather than import-time os.environ capture. Update the vllm.envs FP4
getter to retain the shared production-to-FP4 fallback before delegating to the
accessor.
In `@vllm/model_executor/layers/sparse_attn_indexer.py`:
- Around line 911-940: Update the TP-shard handling around tp_query_shard and
the gathered all_status so the gathered status is read on the host and any
declined rank raises the same fail-closed RuntimeError used by the non-shard
path. Do not unconditionally set fused_ok to true or continue to stash -1 top-k
rows after a decline; preserve normal stashing only when every rank reports
success, and cover runtime-ineligible planned chunks as well as fused-call
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| assert litetopk_indexer.MERGE_CAP == 49152 | ||
| assert litetopk_indexer.OVF_WATERMARK == 40960 |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Pin the LiteTopK constants in environment-sensitive tests. vllm.model_executor.layers.litetopk_indexer reads these values at import time, and the Buildkite pytest -v -s model_executor command does not clear them. An exported VLLM_LITETOPK_MERGE_CAP or VLLM_LITETOPK_OVF_WATERMARK can fail the exact-value assertions, while VLLM_LITETOPK_PRODUCTION_MIN_S can change the dense seed-window results. Use monkeypatch.setattr to pin MERGE_CAP, OVF_WATERMARK, and PRODUCTION_MIN_S to their expected defaults in the affected tests.
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In `@tests/model_executor/layers/test_litetopk.py` around lines 129 - 130, Update
the affected LiteTopK tests to use monkeypatch.setattr on
litetopk_indexer.MERGE_CAP, OVF_WATERMARK, and PRODUCTION_MIN_S, pinning each to
its expected default before assertions or seed-window checks run so environment
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| def _deprecated_triton_attn_use_td() -> None: | ||
| """Warn that VLLM_TRITON_ATTN_USE_TD was renamed to VLLM_TRITON_USE_TD. | ||
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| The old name is ignored; VLLM_TRITON_USE_TD is the supported variable. | ||
| """ | ||
| if "VLLM_TRITON_ATTN_USE_TD" in os.environ: | ||
| logger.warning( | ||
| "VLLM_TRITON_ATTN_USE_TD is deprecated and will be removed in " | ||
| "v0.25. Use VLLM_TRITON_USE_TD instead." | ||
| ) | ||
| return None |
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Register the legacy variable before strict validation.
validate_environ(hard_fail=True) raises for any unregistered VLLM_* variable. VLLM_TRITON_ATTN_USE_TD is not registered, and _deprecated_triton_attn_use_td() has no call site. Setting the legacy variable can therefore fail startup without showing the deprecation warning. Allow the legacy name and invoke the helper during startup.
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In `@vllm/envs.py` around lines 580 - 590, The legacy VLLM_TRITON_ATTN_USE_TD name
must be registered before validate_environ(hard_fail=True) runs, and
_deprecated_triton_attn_use_td must be invoked during startup so its warning is
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| _PRODUCTION_MIN_S_OVERRIDE = os.environ.get("VLLM_LITETOPK_PRODUCTION_MIN_S") | ||
| PRODUCTION_MIN_S = int(_PRODUCTION_MIN_S_OVERRIDE or "196608") | ||
| FP4_PRODUCTION_MIN_S = int( | ||
| os.environ.get( | ||
| "VLLM_LITETOPK_FP4_PRODUCTION_MIN_S", | ||
| _PRODUCTION_MIN_S_OVERRIDE or "65536", | ||
| ) | ||
| ) |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Use one envs-backed accessor for all LiteTopK controls. The planner and sparse_attn_indexer can enable envs.VLLM_LITETOPK_TP_QUERY_SHARD, while litetopk_indexer.TP_QUERY_SHARD_ENABLED remains False because it was captured from os.environ at import. Its query-length gate then returns None; the TP path fills shard results with -1 and fails the peer-status assertion.
The three threshold copies also snapshot configuration independently. Make litetopk_indexer the shared accessor, make MLA and sparse_attn_indexer delegate to production_min_s, and evaluate the TP-shard setting through envs at use time. Update the vllm.envs FP4 getter to preserve the shared production-to-FP4 fallback before delegating to it.
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In `@vllm/model_executor/layers/litetopk_indexer.py` around lines 59 - 66, Make
litetopk_indexer the single envs-backed accessor for LiteTopK configuration:
have MLA and sparse_attn_indexer delegate threshold lookups to production_min_s,
and resolve TP_QUERY_SHARD_ENABLED through envs at use time rather than
import-time os.environ capture. Update the vllm.envs FP4 getter to retain the
shared production-to-FP4 fallback before delegating to the accessor.
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| if not ( | ||
| 16384 <= PRODUCTION_MIN_S <= PRODUCTION_MAX_S | ||
| and 16384 <= FP4_PRODUCTION_MIN_S <= PRODUCTION_MAX_S | ||
| ): | ||
| # The exact-once prefix/suffix split needs HOT12288 plus a chunk-step of | ||
| # certified suffix below the crossover (16384 is the compressed-coordinate | ||
| # floor for DeepSeek-V4's ratio-4 indexer; the selector cap floor is | ||
| # enforced K-relative at the call sites). | ||
| raise ValueError( | ||
| "LiteTopK FP8/FP4 production min-S values must be in [16384, 1<<20]" | ||
| ) |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Do not raise at import time for out-of-range env values; LiteTopK is disabled by default.
Lines 68-78, 128-132, and 138-139 raise unconditionally during module import. ENABLED does not guard them. vllm/model_executor/layers/sparse_attn_indexer.py imports this module at line 19 for every DSA model, so a stale or unsupported value of VLLM_LITETOPK_PRODUCTION_MIN_S, VLLM_LITETOPK_MERGE_CAP, or VLLM_LITETOPK_PROBE_EVERY makes the whole sparse-indexer path fail to import even when VLLM_LITETOPK=0 and no LiteTopK code would ever run.
Validate these values when the fused path is first selected, or skip validation when ENABLED is false.
🛡️ Proposed fix to scope validation to the enabled path
-if not (
- 16384 <= PRODUCTION_MIN_S <= PRODUCTION_MAX_S
- and 16384 <= FP4_PRODUCTION_MIN_S <= PRODUCTION_MAX_S
-):
+if ENABLED and not (
+ 16384 <= PRODUCTION_MIN_S <= PRODUCTION_MAX_S
+ and 16384 <= FP4_PRODUCTION_MIN_S <= PRODUCTION_MAX_S
+):Apply the same ENABLED and ... condition to the MERGE_CAP check at line 128 and the PROBE_EVERY check at line 138.
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In `@vllm/model_executor/layers/litetopk_indexer.py` around lines 68 - 78, Guard
the import-time validation for PRODUCTION_MIN_S, FP4_PRODUCTION_MIN_S,
MERGE_CAP, and PROBE_EVERY with ENABLED, or defer it until the fused LiteTopK
path is selected. When ENABLED is false, importing the module must not raise for
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LiteTopK is enabled.
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| if _EXT is None and not _FAILED: | ||
| try: | ||
| os.environ.setdefault("TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST", "10.0a") |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Remove the TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST mutation.
torch.utils.cpp_extension.load already receives an explicit -gencode=arch=compute_100a,code=sm_100a, so this build does not need the environment variable. If _ext() runs first, a later CUDA JIT build without explicit architecture flags can inherit 10.0a and generate unusable code for another GPU architecture. Keep the explicit extra_cuda_cflags entry and remove the setdefault call.
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In `@vllm/model_executor/layers/litetopk_indexer.py` around lines 192 - 194,
Remove the os.environ.setdefault mutation for TORCH_CUDA_ARCH_LIST in the _EXT
initialization path, while retaining the explicit compute_100a/sm_100a
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| print( | ||
| f"[litetopk] using {load_kind} fixed vendored B200 " | ||
| f"production kernel (source={source_id})", | ||
| flush=True, | ||
| ) |
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Route LiteTopK diagnostics through init_logger(__name__).
prepare_permuted_gather and try_large_exact_once_chunk run per prefill chunk. When their exception handlers decline a chunk, lines 855 and 1375 print on every such call, so repeated failures can flood stdout independently of the configured logging level. Add logger = init_logger(__name__); use logger.info_once for activation messages and logger.warning for decline messages. Use configured logger calls for the remaining diagnostics.
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In `@vllm/model_executor/layers/litetopk_indexer.py` around lines 321 - 325, Route
LiteTopK diagnostics through a module logger initialized with
init_logger(__name__). Replace activation prints, including the fixed vendored
B200 kernel message, with logger.info_once; replace per-chunk decline messages
in prepare_permuted_gather and try_large_exact_once_chunk with logger.warning;
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| if not fused_ok: | ||
| fused_topk_indices.fill_(-1) | ||
| tp_group = get_tp_group() | ||
| torch.distributed.all_gather_into_tensor( | ||
| topk_indices, | ||
| fused_topk_indices, | ||
| group=tp_group.device_group, | ||
| ) | ||
| local_status.fill_(int(fused_ok)) | ||
| torch.distributed.all_gather_into_tensor( | ||
| all_status, | ||
| local_status, | ||
| group=tp_group.device_group, | ||
| ) | ||
| torch._assert_async( | ||
| torch.all(all_status == 1), | ||
| "LiteTopK TP query shard declined on a peer rank", | ||
| ) | ||
| litetopk_indexer.stash_carry( | ||
| k_cache_prefix, | ||
| topk_indices, | ||
| chunk.max_local_total_seq_lens, | ||
| broadcast_src=( | ||
| carry_broadcast[0] if carry_broadcast is not None else None | ||
| ), | ||
| broadcast_extent=( | ||
| carry_broadcast[1] if carry_broadcast is not None else None | ||
| ), | ||
| ) | ||
| fused_ok = True |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
A TP-shard decline produces -1 top-k rows and reports success.
When tp_query_shard is not None and the fused call declines, line 912 fills this rank's shard with -1, and line 940 sets fused_ok = True unconditionally. logits then becomes None at line 942, so ops.top_k_per_row_prefill never runs and the dense fallback is skipped. The all-gathered topk_indices therefore contains -1 for every query row owned by the declining rank, and downstream sparse attention consumes those rows.
Line 832 reaches the same state from a different direction: a planned chunk that is not runtime-eligible skips the fail-closed raise when tp_query_shard is not None, then falls through to this block.
The only protection is torch._assert_async at line 925. That enqueues a device-side assert; it does not stop the current step, and when it fires it aborts the CUDA context with a generic device-side assert message rather than the actionable error the non-shard path raises at line 950.
Read the gathered status on the host and raise the same fail-closed RuntimeError when any rank declined, so the failure is deterministic and attributable.
🐛 Proposed fix
local_status.fill_(int(fused_ok))
torch.distributed.all_gather_into_tensor(
all_status,
local_status,
group=tp_group.device_group,
)
- torch._assert_async(
- torch.all(all_status == 1),
- "LiteTopK TP query shard declined on a peer rank",
- )
+ if not bool(torch.all(all_status == 1).item()):
+ raise RuntimeError(
+ "LiteTopK TP query shard declined on at least one "
+ "rank; dense fallback is unsafe for an unsplit "
+ "prefill chunk"
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| if not fused_ok: | |
| fused_topk_indices.fill_(-1) | |
| tp_group = get_tp_group() | |
| torch.distributed.all_gather_into_tensor( | |
| topk_indices, | |
| fused_topk_indices, | |
| group=tp_group.device_group, | |
| ) | |
| local_status.fill_(int(fused_ok)) | |
| torch.distributed.all_gather_into_tensor( | |
| all_status, | |
| local_status, | |
| group=tp_group.device_group, | |
| ) | |
| torch._assert_async( | |
| torch.all(all_status == 1), | |
| "LiteTopK TP query shard declined on a peer rank", | |
| ) | |
| litetopk_indexer.stash_carry( | |
| k_cache_prefix, | |
| topk_indices, | |
| chunk.max_local_total_seq_lens, | |
| broadcast_src=( | |
| carry_broadcast[0] if carry_broadcast is not None else None | |
| ), | |
| broadcast_extent=( | |
| carry_broadcast[1] if carry_broadcast is not None else None | |
| ), | |
| ) | |
| fused_ok = True | |
| if not fused_ok: | |
| fused_topk_indices.fill_(-1) | |
| tp_group = get_tp_group() | |
| torch.distributed.all_gather_into_tensor( | |
| topk_indices, | |
| fused_topk_indices, | |
| group=tp_group.device_group, | |
| ) | |
| local_status.fill_(int(fused_ok)) | |
| torch.distributed.all_gather_into_tensor( | |
| all_status, | |
| local_status, | |
| group=tp_group.device_group, | |
| ) | |
| if not bool(torch.all(all_status == 1).item()): | |
| raise RuntimeError( | |
| "LiteTopK TP query shard declined on at least one " | |
| "rank; dense fallback is unsafe for an unsplit " | |
| "prefill chunk" | |
| ) | |
| litetopk_indexer.stash_carry( | |
| k_cache_prefix, | |
| topk_indices, | |
| chunk.max_local_total_seq_lens, | |
| broadcast_src=( | |
| carry_broadcast[0] if carry_broadcast is not None else None | |
| ), | |
| broadcast_extent=( | |
| carry_broadcast[1] if carry_broadcast is not None else None | |
| ), | |
| ) | |
| fused_ok = True |
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In `@vllm/model_executor/layers/sparse_attn_indexer.py` around lines 911 - 940,
Update the TP-shard handling around tp_query_shard and the gathered all_status
so the gathered status is read on the host and any declined rank raises the same
fail-closed RuntimeError used by the non-shard path. Do not unconditionally set
fused_ok to true or continue to stash -1 top-k rows after a decline; preserve
normal stashing only when every rank reports success, and cover
runtime-ineligible planned chunks as well as fused-call failures.
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📌 Description
Hi @youkaichao @WoosukKwon @mgoin @hmellor @njhill @Isotr0py @DarkLight1337, could you please take a look at this PR when you have a chance?
This PR introduces two complementary SM100 prefill optimizations for DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA):
[num_q, seq_len]score matrix.To the best of our knowledge, LiteTopk is the first Indexer-Topk implementation that avoids to store the score matrix, and LiteDSA is the first that converts multiple small per-token sparse-attention GEMMs into a grouped masked GEMM while preserving each query's original attend set. The corresponding paper is available on arXiv.
At 1M-token prefill, LiteTopK accelerates GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek-V4-Flash by 1.29× and 1.08×, respectively. LiteDSA increases the end-to-end speedups to 1.40× and 1.25×, with no accuracy loss.
Thanks to my collaborators Jianyang Gao (@gaoj0017) from ETH Zurich, Peiqi Yin (@yinpeiqi) from CUHK, and Jiangneng Li (@gravesprite) from NTU.
Motivation
DSA models such as DeepSeek-V3.2/DeepSeek-V4, GLM-4.6/GLM-5.2, and LongCat-2.0 use a sparse-attention indexer during prefill. The current indexer computes an FP8 MQA score for every query/KV pair, materializes a
[num_q, seq_len]matrix in HBM, and then runs a per-row TopK:At 256K–1M context, this transient matrix is both large and expensive to write and read. After the indexer, the sparse-attention path launches many narrow per-token attention GEMMs. Neighboring queries usually select substantially overlapping KV positions, so those kernels repeatedly load and process much of the same KV data; at high tensor-parallel degrees, padding a small number of local heads to the kernel tile shape also wastes tensor-core work.
LiteTopK: fused indexer scoring and TopK
LiteTopK avoids storing the score matrix:
The candidate workspace is bounded independently of
seq_len, replacing the denseO(num_q × seq_len)logits allocation and its extra HBM pass.LiteDSA: grouped masked sparse attention
LiteDSA targets the attention stage after TopK. If a rank owns
Hquery heads, it groupsG = 128 / Hadjacent query tokens and packs theirG × Hreal query/head rows into one 128-row tensor-core tile. For example, GLM-5.2 TP8 packs 16 neighboring tokens per attention call. Instead of runningGsmall sparse GEMMs, LiteDSA performs one larger GEMM over the union of their selected KV positions.The grouped computation remains query-exact:
DeepSeek-V4's C128A path uses the same packing principle with a structure-aware specialization. At TP8, 16 tokens × 8 real heads fill one 128-row tile instead of padding each token from 8 to 64 heads. Its compressed-prefix plus sliding-window structure is represented by exact per-query ranges over the group union; the ranges are derived directly from positions, cached per chunk, and avoid materializing the
[num_tokens, topk + window]combined-index matrix. The measured union size is only 1.002× that of a single token.In both paths, each union KV entry is loaded once for the group rather than repeatedly for every neighboring query. Unsupported shapes, CUDA Graph capture, non-SM100 devices, and other ineligible configurations transparently fall back to the existing attention path.
Configuration
🧪 Test Plan
✅ Test Results
LiteTopK kernel-level validation
Hardware: NVIDIA B200 (SM100). Inputs: real GLM-5.2 indexer tensors,
Q=8192,top_k=2048.The dense FP32 logits buffer consumes 8 GiB at 256K, 16 GiB at 512K, 24 GiB at 768K, and 32 GiB at 1M. LiteTopK removes this allocation.
Recall rounds to 100.00% at two decimal places across the tested settings.
LiteDSA kernel-level validation
On captured DeepSeek-V4 C128A production data, head packing reduces sparse-attention kernel time from 6.565 ms to 0.839 ms (7.83×). Validation reports LSE max absolute error of
3e-6and output relative error of0.0025.End-to-end 1M-token prefill
Author
Ziqi Yin, Nanyang Technological University