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[ROCm][Kimi-K3] Add moonmath kernels for gfx942 MXFP4 SiTU MoE and MLA decode, with decode context parallelism - #57412

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Stacked on #56723: the first commit is its net diff at 903e47e4fd, unchanged. This PR is
the four commits after it (17 files, +862/-33). E2E results also use #56434 (ROCm drafter
hidden-state fix) and, for the TRITON_ATTN drafter, #57409.

Purpose

Kimi-K3 on AMD MI325X (gfx942) has no kernel for its MXFP4 SiTU MoE, no bf16-query / fp8-KV MLA
decode for its 12 heads per rank, and no MLA decode that works under decode context parallelism
(DCP). This PR adds them from the optional
moonmath_amd package; without it nothing changes.

  • MoE (moonmath_mxfp4_moe.py): MoonmathW4A16SituExperts subclasses the AITER W4A16
    experts and claims only SiTU. The routing weight is applied in an fp32 top-k reduce.
    AITER_TRITON_MXFP4_BF16 aligns SiTU to 128, since the generic 256 round-up adds 33% MoE memory.
  • MLA (moonmath_mla.py, ROCM_MOONMATH_MLA): subclasses the AITER MLA backend and replaces
    only decode and verify; batches outside the kernel's domain go to AITER.
  • DCP: each rank's decode walks its shard using the global lengths and returns the LSE. To boot
    K3 with [PCP][DCP] Support DCP target model with non-DCP Dspark #56723 on ROCm:
    • resolve_kv_cache_layout keeps a layer-outer layout (padding the draft pages) when no
      backend has a block-outer one, instead of failing.
    • AiterMLABackend declares layer-contiguous layouts: its decode .view()s each layer's cache,
      which crashed under BLNHC with a TRITON_ATTN drafter.
  • AITER_FA: accepts K3's unsplittable 1536-token drafter block, which failed at boot.

Why this is not a duplicate

Test Plan

Unit tests on MI325X with ROCm nightly 0bfc7a15d0, as shipped vs with this branch: the test files
this PR and #56723 touch, plus the AITER MLA / AITER_FA tests.

pytest tests/kernels/attention/test_moonmath_mla.py tests/kernels/attention/test_rocm_aiter_fa.py \
  tests/kernels/attention/test_rocm_aiter_mla_sink.py tests/kernels/moe/test_ocp_mx_moe.py \
  tests/v1/core/test_kv_cache_utils.py tests/v1/attention/test_attention_backends.py \
  tests/v1/attention/test_rocm_aiter_mla_mtp_split.py tests/v1/worker/test_attn_utils.py \
  tests/v1/worker/test_cp_utils.py tests/v1/worker/test_dspark_utils.py

E2E: Kimi-K3, TP8 + DCP8, c=8, same-prompt decode differential (first probe discarded).

vllm serve kimi-k3 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --decode-context-parallel-size 8 \
  --max-model-len 163840 --moe-backend aiter_triton_mxfp4_bf16 --kv-cache-dtype fp8 \
  --max-num-seqs 16 --no-enable-prefix-caching \
  --speculative-config '{"method":"dspark","model":"kimi-k3-dspark","num_speculative_tokens":3,
                         "attention_backend":"ROCM_AITER_FA"}'   # or TRITON_ATTN

Test Result

Unit: no test goes from pass to fail, and all 99 new or DCP-specific tests pass. The 4 failures
are identical in both arms (a model not cached offline).

E2E (backends ROCM_MOONMATH_MLA and MoonmathW4A16SituExperts; step = 8 x acceptance / tok/s):

drafter ROCM_AITER_FA drafter TRITON_ATTN (#57409)
Needle, 3 in ~120k 3/3 3/3
GSM8K, first 200, greedy 97.0%, acceptance 3.66 97.0%, acceptance 3.65
8k decode 470, 459, 465 tok/s (50.8 ms/step) 504, 516, 539 tok/s (45.7 ms/step)
131k decode 322, 320, 334 tok/s (71.2 ms/step) 429, 431, 491 tok/s (51.1 ms/step)

GPU KV cache at DCP8: 5.08M tokens.

LucasWilkinson and others added 5 commits September 17, 2026 09:04
…#56723)

Net diff of vllm-project#56723 at 903e47e, applied unchanged as the
base for the ROCm moonmath DCP change; it is not part of that PR.

Signed-off-by: Lucas Wilkinson <lwilkins@redhat.com>
…oE and MLA decode

Signed-off-by: Tarik Sarac <tariksarac120@gmail.com>
…rallelism

Builds on vllm-project#56723, which runs the dense DSpark drafter at DCP=1 next to a DCP
target. On gfx942 the moonmath kernel now serves decode and verify for a DCP
target: each rank attends its own KV shard, with the causal limit taken from
the global lengths, and returns its LSE, converted from base 2 to the natural
log the merge expects.

- moonmath_mla: accept the fused query DCP gathers, pass the global lengths
  and CP rank, and return the LSE.
- rocm_aiter_mla: segmented_dcp_verify lets a subclass keep varlen DCP verify
  on the flat per-token view instead of AITER's segmented metadata.
- Layout: the AITER backends have no block-outer KV layout, so a replicated
  draft next to a sharded target falls back to padded pages rather than
  failing.

Signed-off-by: Tarik Sarac <tariksarac120@gmail.com>
…in fp32

- MLA: the AITER MLA builder gets _decode_reads_aiter_schedule. The moonmath
  builder skips get_mla_metadata_v1 for batches its kernel serves, using the
  same routing predicate as the impl (5 fewer launches per decode step).
- MoE: the down GEMM no longer applies a bf16 copy of the routing weight; one
  Triton kernel sums each token's top-k rows weighted in fp32 (2 fewer kernels
  per MoE layer, and the weight keeps the router's precision).

Signed-off-by: Tarik Sarac <tariksarac120@gmail.com>
AITER MLA decode, and moonmath's decode built on it, flattens each layer's
cache with .view(), which fails when the layout does not keep the layer's
pages contiguous. The backend did not declare that, so under DCP with a
replicated drafter whose backend has a block-outer layout (e.g. TRITON_ATTN),
vllm-project#56723's layout preference picked BLNHC and decode crashed at startup.
Declare the layer-contiguous layouts, as the sparse AITER MLA backend does.

Signed-off-by: Tarik Sarac <tariksarac120@gmail.com>

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