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What
Sequence-parallel h3_rmsnorm (+ AdaLN modulation) and adaln_gate_residual.
Rank r holds packed positions [r·S//sp, (r+1)·S//sp) of every batch item. Any S ≥ sp works.
The (S,) row index is replicated, so every rank derives the same reduction plan from it.
Wrong shapes, a sharded index, out-of-range rows and CPU tensors fail closed.
Row-local work is the WS1 kernels on local rows. That covers the forward, dx, d_sublayer and d_residual, so they are byte-equal by construction.
Cross-row gradients keep the WS1 order across ranks.d_norm_w, d_shift/d_scale and d_gate are WS1 two-level folds: 256-element tiles, then an ascending fold.
Each tile is computed by the rank that holds its first row, after all-gathering that tile's rows from other ranks. Only tiles that cross a shard boundary move rows.
The tile partials are all-gathered back into WS1 tile order.
Every rank runs the WS1 fold.
No collective reduction arithmetic is used. The new bindings (h3_rmsnorm_backward_{dx,partials}, h3_rmsnorm_fold_partials, h3_gate_residual_backward_dy, h3_gate_grad_{partials,fold}) wrap the unchanged WS1 kernels. The WS1 dweight tile kernel also accepts explicit row lists, with the same arithmetic.
The plan is built once per index object and shared by every norm and gated residual that uses it, which in a forward pass is every block.
Prior art & reuse decision
The row-local work and the cross-row folds are #487's and #488's verified WS1 kernels, unchanged; the new bindings only expose them per shard, and the only collective is this repository's deterministic all-gather, used as a copy. No new arithmetic is written, so the survey and batch-invariance checks of #487 and #488 apply.
Results (8 × B200, real NCCL, one GPU per rank, H = 5376, BF16)
The region is norm2(residual + gate_msa[row] · y) with shift_mlp/scale_mlp modulation. It is checked on six cases: S = 4097, 32768 and 131072, block and interleaved packing, and B = 2.
WS1 (1 GPU)
SP2
SP4
SP8
output rows, d_residual, d_sublayer, d_norm_w, d_table bitwise equal to WS1 (every rank, every case)
n/a
yes
yes
yes
fwd+bwd, S = 131072, block
10.73 ms
7.27 ms
4.66 ms
3.92 ms
fwd+bwd, S = 32768, block
3.72 ms
2.85 ms
2.40 ms
2.72 ms
most rows sent by one rank, S = 32768 (block / interleaved)
n/a
109 / 1280
148 / 1280
224 / 1536
Times are for the slowest rank. At short sequences, the backward's few host-synchronising all-gathers (~0.1 ms each) dominate. For contrast, a naive SP8 backward (each rank's WS1 backward, then a rank-order sum) differs from WS1 on 40% of d_norm_w elements and on 6% (block) or 21% (interleaved) of d_table elements. The data is in reports/experiments/h3-sp-norm-adaln-b200/report.json, written from a clean tree at ecde5bb.
2026-10-23: history rewritten. Measurement outputs (JSON, figures, audit files) were removed from every branch and live on pr_assets (see the evidence note at the top), and all commits got a Signed-off-by trailer. Commit hashes in this body, including the clean-tree commit of the measurement, are the rewritten ones; the ZIPs and JSON files on pr_assets still carry the pre-rewrite hashes.
2026-10-13: fast-math guard (from the #483 review). KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1 adds --use_fast_math to the whole _C build, which approximates expf/sinf/cosf/rsqrtf/division and flushes denormals. Before the fix a fast-math build of the top of the stack failed 33 H3 tests (the timestep_sinusoid_h3 and h3_rmsnorm bitwise tests and the chain/block tests built on them). nvcc 13 defines no fast-math macro, so the guard is in the build: every csrc/cuda/h3 source is listed in H3_BITWISE_SOURCES and left out of fast-math builds, the bindings are gated on KERNEL_ALIGN_WITH_H3_KERNELS, dispatch falls back to the PyTorch references, and tests that assert CUDA dispatch skip through require_h3_kernels. On this branch: merge e1db1359. Results for both builds are under Tests.
2026-10-10: repository refactor. Merged upstream test-h3@16b81175874e (notice): H3 CUDA code moved to rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3, references to rl_engine/reference/minimax_h3, the harness to rl_engine/validation/models, with registration, build, tests, tools, docs and tools/migration/layout.json updated. Native arithmetic is unchanged; pinned evidence keeps its original commit metadata. The updated [WS2][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] tp_adaln_3mod: column-parallel AdaLN projection, byte-equal to WS1 (RFC #420 stack 8/10) #493 dependency is merged as well: its pinned backward-only evidence and process-lifecycle regressions are retained alongside the SP-specific review fixes.
Earlier test runs, superseded by Tests below: after the refactor merge (2× B200): 513 passed, 5 skipped; with the fast-math guard (2× B200, passed / skipped / failed): default 532 / 7 / 0, fast-math 184 / 355 / 0.
Pre-refactor validation (historical, before 2026-10-10)
per-rank backward vs WS1 on one GPU, SP 2–8 (odd S, B = 2, shards smaller than a tile, block/interleaved, bf16/fp32)
passed
autograd region over real NCCL, SP2 / SP4 / SP8 vs WS1 (8 × B200)
passed
tests/models/minimax_h3 on 8 × B200 (incl. TP and SP NCCL 2/4/8)
243 passed, none skipped
dispatch + gtest-GPU
all pass; the only failure is the npu dispatch test that already fails on test-h3
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Tests
Measured at commit 613d1232, an earlier head of this PR (later commits are listed under History and these runs were not repeated for the current head), 8× B200, pinned MiniMax-H3@42ed227 weights; each build compiled from a clean checkout of that commit:
Default-build skips (environment only): 1 × could not import 'matplotlib'; 1 × could not import 'sglang.kernels.ops.diffusion.modulate.timestep_embedding_jit'; 1 × extension enforcement is CI-only (orchestrator sets RL_KERNEL_REQUIRE_EXT=1).
On this PR the GitHub checks are DCO and CodeRabbit only (the CPU lint/unit/docs workflow for test-h3 arrives with #586), so the GPU results above are the test evidence.
Scope / Known limitations
CUDA only. The ROCm column stays open. DeterministicCollective supports world sizes 1, 2, 4 and 8. The attention and FFN SP paths belong to other rows. Until they land, the region uses a seeded stand-in for the sublayer output.
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Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Added CUDA tensor-parallel AdaLN projection and sequence-parallel normalization and AdaLN operations, including distributed backward support.
Added callable operations for computing and combining backward-gradient partials.
Added tools for comparing distributed results and performance with single-GPU reference behavior.
Bug Fixes
Invalid empty table dimensions now produce a clear error instead of proceeding with backward computation.
Documentation
Added guides for the distributed operators and updated H3 performance and benchmark details.
Results (H100 / Hopper)
Measured on 4 x NVIDIA H100 94GB (sm90), driver 580.173.02, CUDA 13.0, torch 2.13.0+cu130, pinned MiniMax-H3@42ed227, clean tree at 705027a0. B200 and H100 are independent measurement sets (RFC #420); timings and raw bytes are not compared across GPUs. Evidence on pr_assets @ 5f14a845: h3-sp-norm-adaln-head-705027a0-h100/.
4-GPU test_h3_sp_norm_adaln.py: 25 passed, 1 skipped in 53.83s
WS2 (h3_ws2_evidence.py --worlds 1,2,4): sp=1, sp=2 and sp=4 are byte-equal to WS1 on every rank and case (report.json). World 8 was not run (same 4-GPU / single-node IPC limit as #493).
…ated residual, byte-equal to WS1
RFC RL-Align#420 WS2 row `sp_norm_adaln` (stacked on tp_adaln_3mod).
- Ownership: rank r holds packed positions [r*S//sp, (r+1)*S//sp) of every
batch item with the matching metadata; any S >= sp. The (S,) row index
is replicated and every rank derives the same reduction plan from it.
- Forward, dx, d_sublayer and d_residual: the WS1 kernels on local rows.
- d_norm_weight, d_shift/d_scale, d_gate keep the WS1 two-level order
(256-element tiles, then an ascending fold): each tile is computed by
the rank holding its first row, after all-gathering the tile's rows
from other ranks (only tiles crossing a shard boundary move rows); the
partials are all-gathered into WS1 tile order and every rank runs the
WS1 fold. Rank-ordered all-gathers only; no collective arithmetic.
- New bindings around the unchanged WS1 kernels:
h3_rmsnorm_backward_{dx,partials}, h3_rmsnorm_fold_partials,
h3_gate_residual_backward_dy, h3_gate_grad_{partials,fold}; the WS1
dweight tile kernel also takes explicit row lists (same arithmetic).
- The plan is built once per index object and shared by every norm and
gated residual that uses it.
- Tests: layout, per-rank backward vs WS1 for SP 2-8 on one GPU (odd S,
B = 2, shards smaller than a tile, block and interleaved packing,
bf16/fp32), fail-closed inputs, and the autograd block region over real
NCCL SP2/4/8.
- h3_block_layout (H3's block packing), evidence sweep with rows
exchanged, timing and a naive-SP comparison; figure; operator doc.
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Adds CUDA partial-generation and folding APIs for H3 backward operations, plus tensor-parallel AdaLN projection and sequence-parallel norm/AdaLN operators. Adds distributed validation and evidence tools, and updates operator documentation and benchmark reports.
Changes: MiniMax-H3 parallel operators
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Summary
CUDA partial and fold operations csrc/cuda/h3/*, csrc/bindings/ops.cpp, csrc/cuda/h3/tile_metadata.cuh, rl_engine/_C.pyi, rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/det_linear.py, tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_native_validation.py, tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_adaln_row_gather.py, tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_extension_without_h3_symbols.py
Adds partial-generation, fold, and row-local gradient APIs for deterministic linear, RMSNorm, and gated-residual operations. Adds device-side metadata checks and native validation tests. Row-gather backward now rejects nonpositive dimensions and table row counts.
Adds contiguous output-column sharding, local projection and gradient computation, and gathered output and input-gradient partials. Tests cover shard constraints and WS1 comparisons; documentation describes the API and supported configurations.
Sequence-parallel norm and AdaLN rl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3/sp_norm_adaln.py, rl_engine/validation/models/h3_cases.py, tests/distributed/sp/*, docs/operators/h3-sp-norm-adaln.md, docs/.nav.yml, docs/operators/README.md
Adds sequence-row layouts, reduction plans, boundary-row exchange, and WS1-ordered gradient folds for RMSNorm/AdaLN and gated residual. Tests compare distributed results with WS1 across layouts and dtypes; documentation describes the operator and limitations.
Adds distributed WS1 comparison sweeps, process orchestration, JSON evidence reports, and TP/SP plots. Updates backward timing setup and benchmark evidence, and adds tests for process cleanup and plot output.
The CUDA validation tests need a corrected error-message assertion before merging. Confirm the intended review-branch scope and address the invalid CLI bounds; SP1-only reports can now be plotted.
Security Architecture Review
Security architecture risk:🟡 Moderate · up to af0df
The new operations accept indexing metadata that is not fully bounds-checked. Malformed input can cause out-of-bounds memory reads or disrupt a training job. No remotely reachable or cross-tenant attack path has been established.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · observed: New publicly bound backward-partial and fold operations trust caller-supplied row and tile contents at the native memory boundary. For example, a well-typed row list can name a row beyond the activation buffer, while tile endpoints and segment boundaries can exceed their backing buffers. The kernels dereference these values without corresponding bounds checks. This permits out-of-bounds GPU reads; job failure or disclosure through returned gradients is possible depending on memory placement. Python-generated plans and table-index assertions do not enforce this invariant for direct native callers.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated attack surface requires the ability to invoke the native extension with CUDA tensors on the launch device. Potential impact concerns accessible GPU allocations and the invoking job. The inspected sources do not establish remote reachability, cross-tenant exposure, or host privilege escalation.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — A direct caller can provide correctly typed metadata with an out-of-range row, tile endpoint, or fold boundary. Native validation accepts its representation, then GPU kernels use its contents as pointer offsets. An illegal access can fail the CUDA job; a read that lands in another accessible allocation can feed unrelated data into returned partials or gradients. These outcomes were assessed statically, not demonstrated by executing an exploit.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The normal Python entrypoints validate activations and modulation before constructing plans. Direct native bindings bypass that path. Inspected native tests cover mixed-device metadata and table-index assertion behavior, which are useful controls but are not equivalent to validating explicit tile-content bounds.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The inherited collective serializes each gather and checks matching signatures. Its native peer-sequence waits have no deadline in the inspected loops, and cleanup synchronizes before releasing the handle. The new SP backward has no coordinated abort across its separate gathers. Safe continuation after rank loss or interruption is therefore not established; these underlying wait and cleanup semantics predate this PR, and no separate security regression is asserted.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Make the native boundary establish all indexing invariants before dereference: valid row values, bounded and ordered tile endpoints, paired lengths, and bounded segment-fold intervals. Alternatively, expose validated immutable plan objects rather than accepting arbitrary indexing tensors as trusted metadata.
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An index created under torch.inference_mode() has no version counter, so reading index._version in
H3SPNormAdaLNCudaOp.plan raised for both the modulated norm and the gated residual. Such an index is now
planned every time (an in-place edit cannot be seen without a version), with a regression test that runs
both ops under inference mode and edits the index in place.
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- Around line 514-516: Update the `rstd` validation in both
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Minor · Validate the CLI sweep bounds. · h3_ws2_evidence.py:95-100
tools/validation/models/h3_ws2_evidence.py:95-100 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Validate the CLI sweep bounds.
The CLI accepts zero or negative world sizes and --max-timesteps 0. With world size 0, run_world launches no workers, while the TP equality reduction over empty results evaluates to True. With zero timesteps, the TP sweep performs no checks and also reports success. Reject non-positive world sizes and timestep limits before running the sweep. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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In main, validate the CLI world sizes and --max-timesteps before running the
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Minor · Handle SP1-only reports in plot_sp_norm. · h3_ws2_evidence.py:94-100
tools/validation/models/h3_ws2_evidence.py:94-100 Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Handle SP1-only reports in plot_sp_norm.
The CLI accepts --op sp_norm_adaln --worlds 1 and can write the report. plot_sp_norm removes the only run because it keeps only sp > 1, then _bars evaluates max(...) over empty values and raises. Add an SP1-only guard or reject SP1-only world sets.
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- _bars(- ax,- [f"SP{run['sp']}" for run in sp_runs],- [("SP", RL_KERNEL, [worst(run, "sp_forward_backward_us") for run in sp_runs])],- "{:.2f}",- )+ if sp_runs:+ _bars(+ ax,+ [f"SP{run['sp']}" for run in sp_runs],+ [("SP", RL_KERNEL, [worst(run, "sp_forward_backward_us") for run in sp_runs])],+ "{:.2f}",+ )+ else:+ ax.text(0.5, 0.5, "No SP > 1 runs", ha="center", va="center", color=MUTED)
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Update plot_sp_norm to handle an empty sp_runs list after filtering out SP1
runs, avoiding the empty-value max calculation in _bars; display an appropriate
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- Around line 95-100: In main, validate the CLI world sizes and --max-timesteps
before running the sweep, rejecting any value that is zero or negative.
- Around line 94-100: Update plot_sp_norm to handle an empty sp_runs list after
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Reply to the CodeRabbit finding "Validate the CLI sweep bounds" (tools/validation/models/h3_ws2_evidence.py:95-100): fixed in 769b0bc0. main now rejects a non-positive --worlds entry and a non-positive --max-timesteps before launching any worker.
Reply to the CodeRabbit finding "Handle SP1-only reports in plot_sp_norm" (tools/validation/models/h3_ws2_evidence.py:94-100): already fixed in 47620c77; the plot shows "no run with SP > 1 in this report" for such a report, covered by test_sp_figure_for_reports_with_and_without_sp_above_one.
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_dweight_tiles defines family 0 as fixed 256-element tiles over the flattened B*S axis (all batch items in one axis), while _segment_tiles(index.repeat(batch), ...) defines family 1. The docstring claims every gradient is byte-equal to WS1 because the partial/fold kernels are the WS1 kernels. This is only true if WS1's dweight reduction also tiles the flattened B*S axis in ascending 256-element chunks with the same origin. Please verify against csrc/cuda/h3/rmsnorm_modulate.cu/tile_metadata.cuh; a different axis or tile origin would produce plausible but not byte-equal gradients that only torch.equal in the tests would catch.
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The plain-norm and modulated paths assume h3_rmsnorm_backward_partials returns exactly one partial (family 0 = dweight) for the unmodulated case and exactly two (family 0 = dweight, family 1 = modulation) for the modulated case, and that h3_rmsnorm_fold_partials correspondingly returns 1 vs 3 values. sp_rmsnorm_backward enumerates partials and passes the enumeration index directly as the family index to gather_partials, so any arity mismatch (for example a separate d_shift/d_scale partial, or a None modulation slot) silently mis-maps family 0/1 tiles or raises IndexError. Please confirm the exact arity against the _C binding/pyi before relying on the family indices here.
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What
Sequence-parallel
h3_rmsnorm(+ AdaLN modulation) andadaln_gate_residual.rholds packed positions[r·S//sp, (r+1)·S//sp)of every batch item. AnyS ≥ spworks.(S,)row index is replicated, so every rank derives the same reduction plan from it.Row-local work is the WS1 kernels on local rows. That covers the forward,
dx,d_sublayerandd_residual, so they are byte-equal by construction.Cross-row gradients keep the WS1 order across ranks.
d_norm_w,d_shift/d_scaleandd_gateare WS1 two-level folds: 256-element tiles, then an ascending fold.No collective reduction arithmetic is used. The new bindings (
h3_rmsnorm_backward_{dx,partials},h3_rmsnorm_fold_partials,h3_gate_residual_backward_dy,h3_gate_grad_{partials,fold}) wrap the unchanged WS1 kernels. The WS1dweighttile kernel also accepts explicit row lists, with the same arithmetic.The plan is built once per index object and shared by every norm and gated residual that uses it, which in a forward pass is every block.
Prior art & reuse decision
The row-local work and the cross-row folds are #487's and #488's verified WS1 kernels, unchanged; the new bindings only expose them per shard, and the only collective is this repository's deterministic all-gather, used as a copy. No new arithmetic is written, so the survey and batch-invariance checks of #487 and #488 apply.
Direct bitwise comparison
The sequence-parallel norm/AdaLN/gate path is composed of the WS1 rows below it, and their reuse candidates are compared byte for byte with
tools/validation/models/h3_bitwise_reuse.py(committed in #483, merged down the stack). It runs every candidate thath3_prior_art.candidates()defines on identical inputs and compares every output and leaf gradient with diffusers' path and with the rl-kernel op. Each row's report, written from a clean tree on its own branch: #483timestep_sinusoid; #484timestep_mlp; #485adaln_projection; #486adaln_row_gather; #487norm_modulate; #488gate_residual; #489final_adaln_out.Results (8 × B200, real NCCL, one GPU per rank, H = 5376, BF16)
The region is
norm2(residual + gate_msa[row] · y)withshift_mlp/scale_mlpmodulation. It is checked on six cases: S = 4097, 32768 and 131072, block and interleaved packing, and B = 2.d_residual,d_sublayer,d_norm_w,d_tablebitwise equal to WS1 (every rank, every case)Times are for the slowest rank. At short sequences, the backward's few host-synchronising all-gathers (~0.1 ms each) dominate. For contrast, a naive SP8 backward (each rank's WS1 backward, then a rank-order sum) differs from WS1 on 40% of
d_norm_welements and on 6% (block) or 21% (interleaved) ofd_tableelements. The data is inreports/experiments/h3-sp-norm-adaln-b200/report.json, written from a clean tree atecde5bb.Status
ba00517).tests/models/minimax_h3atba00517on 8 × B200: 458 passed, 1 skipped (matplotlib not installed), including the 4- and 8-GPU sequence-parallel tests.History
pr_assets(see the evidence note at the top), and all commits got aSigned-off-bytrailer. Commit hashes in this body, including the clean-tree commit of the measurement, are the rewritten ones; the ZIPs and JSON files onpr_assetsstill carry the pre-rewrite hashes.KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1adds--use_fast_mathto the whole_Cbuild, which approximatesexpf/sinf/cosf/rsqrtf/division and flushes denormals. Before the fix a fast-math build of the top of the stack failed 33 H3 tests (thetimestep_sinusoid_h3andh3_rmsnormbitwise tests and the chain/block tests built on them). nvcc 13 defines no fast-math macro, so the guard is in the build: everycsrc/cuda/h3source is listed inH3_BITWISE_SOURCESand left out of fast-math builds, the bindings are gated onKERNEL_ALIGN_WITH_H3_KERNELS, dispatch falls back to the PyTorch references, and tests that assert CUDA dispatch skip throughrequire_h3_kernels. On this branch: mergee1db1359. Results for both builds are under Tests.test-h3@16b81175874e(notice): H3 CUDA code moved torl_engine/backends/cuda/model_specific/minimax_h3, references torl_engine/reference/minimax_h3, the harness torl_engine/validation/models, with registration, build, tests, tools, docs andtools/migration/layout.jsonupdated. Native arithmetic is unchanged; pinned evidence keeps its original commit metadata. The updated [WS2][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] tp_adaln_3mod: column-parallel AdaLN projection, byte-equal to WS1 (RFC #420 stack 8/10) #493 dependency is merged as well: its pinned backward-only evidence and process-lifecycle regressions are retained alongside the SP-specific review fixes.Pre-refactor validation (historical, before 2026-10-10)
python -m pytest tests/models/minimax_h3/test_h3_sp_norm_adaln.py -v python tools/validation/models/h3_ws2_evidence.py --op sp_norm_adaln --worlds 1,2,4,8 --out report.json && python tools/validation/models/plot_h3_evidence.py report.jsontests/models/minimax_h3on 8 × B200 (incl. TP and SP NCCL 2/4/8)test-h3The repository's CI workflows only run on PRs to
mainortest, so ontest-h3only the DCO and CodeRabbit checks run. The results above come from local runs on B200s.Tests
Measured at commit
613d1232, an earlier head of this PR (later commits are listed under History and these runs were not repeated for the current head), 8× B200, pinnedMiniMax-H3@42ed227weights; each build compiled from a clean checkout of that commit:_CKERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1Default-build skips (environment only): 1 × could not import 'matplotlib'; 1 × could not import 'sglang.kernels.ops.diffusion.modulate.timestep_embedding_jit'; 1 × extension enforcement is CI-only (orchestrator sets RL_KERNEL_REQUIRE_EXT=1).
Fast-math regression tests:
tests/build/test_build_platform_collectives.py::test_cuda_build_compiles_h3_kernels_without_fast_math,::test_fast_math_build_excludes_bitwise_h3_kernels,tests/runtime/test_dispatch.py::test_h3_timestep_falls_back_when_fast_math_build_omits_kernel,::test_h3_ops_prefer_cuda_and_fall_back_to_pytorch_reference.On this PR the GitHub checks are DCO and CodeRabbit only (the CPU lint/unit/docs workflow for
test-h3arrives with #586), so the GPU results above are the test evidence.Scope / Known limitations
CUDA only. The ROCm column stays open.
DeterministicCollectivesupports world sizes 1, 2, 4 and 8. The attention and FFN SP paths belong to other rows. Until they land, the region uses a seeded stand-in for the sublayer output..coderabbit.yamlis not part of this operator. The branch carries thetest-h3CodeRabbit auto-review config, inherited through the stack from commitsd113891and5c79216. The file is byte-identical to #490's, so it drops out of this diff once #490 merges intotest-h3.Summary by CodeRabbit
Results (H100 / Hopper)
Measured on 4 x NVIDIA H100 94GB (sm90), driver 580.173.02, CUDA 13.0, torch 2.13.0+cu130, pinned
MiniMax-H3@42ed227, clean tree at705027a0. B200 and H100 are independent measurement sets (RFC #420); timings and raw bytes are not compared across GPUs. Evidence onpr_assets@5f14a845:h3-sp-norm-adaln-head-705027a0-h100/.Tests (
pytest tests/models/minimax_h3 tests/build tests/runtime/test_dispatch.py)KERNEL_ALIGN_USE_FAST_MATH=1build: 205 passed, 465 skippedtest_h3_sp_norm_adaln.py: 25 passed, 1 skipped in 53.83sWS2 (
h3_ws2_evidence.py --worlds 1,2,4): sp=1, sp=2 and sp=4 are byte-equal to WS1 on every rank and case (report.json). World 8 was not run (same 4-GPU / single-node IPC limit as #493).Figures
