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…ights The in-repo demonstration of dflash_fp32_master_weights, and the current best-known Gemma-4-E4B DSpark configuration: lr 2e-3, RoPE theta 1e6, attention scale 1.0, 3 nodes split 1 serve + 2 trainer for a global batch of 64. Its header carries the two measurements that justify the settings, because neither is recoverable from the file: why the draft attends at 1.0 rather than head_dim**-0.5, and why the master weights are fp32. Rebased onto main: moved after the PR #2279 commits, since the run sets dflash_use_flex_attention, which the first of them introduces. dflash_fp32_master_weights now means main's optimizer-held master copy (#2483) rather than this stack's earlier .float() of the draft, which the rebase drops in favour of main's; the comments describing the flag are updated to match. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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…in fp32 Two unit tests failed in CI on #2279 (run 36999463172). - TestDFlash2Forward.test_overfits_a_single_batch hit the 60 s cap in the py3.11 and py3.14 torch 2.14 jobs. The tiny base is bf16, and the draft keeps Qwen3Config's default 22016-wide MLP and 32x128 attention. On a CPU without AVX-512, bf16 matmul has no fast kernel: on 4 Zen3 cores a [104, 22016] @ [22016, 32] mm takes 57 ms in bf16 and 0.93 ms in fp32. For this test the CI runners split into a fast group (2-9 s) and a slow one (51-58 s in other PRs' runs); the logs carry no CPU model, but the slow group behaves like such a CPU. The test had already timed out once on code that does not touch DFlash (#2580, unit-3.12 torch_212, 60.14 s). The pinned anchor count added one masked block here (13 instead of 12 at SEQ_LEN=16, block 4), 8% more rows in eager mode, and moved this PR's slow jobs to 58.5 s and past the cap. In fp32 the test runs in about 5 s on 4 cores, as the LiLiCorr overfit test already does. The test also asserts selector coverage now, which is what guards the target alignment in fp32. With the selector's gold token one position early, bf16 training ends at train_acc 0.847, but fp32 ends at 0.903 and slips past 0.9. Coverage separates the two cleanly: over 71 correct trajectories (batch content, draft init or base init reseeded) it ends at 0.986 or above, and over 112 trajectories with the gold token one position early or late at 0.764 or below. Of six selector misalignments, the fp32 test catches the same two the bf16 test did; shifting the predecessor or the hidden state goes unnoticed in both, as before. - TestDraftStackCompile.test_compiled_matches_eager failed on torch 2.10 with 2/256 elements over atol=2e-2. In bf16, Inductor and eager round at different points: the worst element already used 82% of the tolerance locally, and 3 of 61 random inits and inputs went over. In fp32 the difference stays below 2e-6 across torch 2.8-2.14, so the check runs in fp32 at 1e-4. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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…-sparse mask
The DFlash draft handed SDPA a materialized [B, 1, Q, KV] additive float mask.
That mask disqualifies every fused backend -- FlashAttention rejects arbitrary
masks and caps head_dim at 256 -- so PyTorch fell through to the cutlass
memory-efficient backend, whose only kernel is **sm80**. Every DFlash-family
drafter was therefore running an Ampere attention kernel on Blackwell, at roughly
2.5% of peak. Kernel attribution put that one backward kernel at 59% of the whole
training step.
The predicate is block-sparse by construction -- each query block sees a context
PREFIX up to its anchor plus its own block on the diagonal, about 33% dense -- so
it expresses exactly as a FlexAttention BlockMask, and the generated Triton kernel
skips the ~67% of tiles that are entirely masked.
Measured on PDX B300, 3 nodes (1 vLLM serve + 2 trainer = 16 DP ranks), Gemma-4-E4B
DSpark, bs 4 x seq 4096, median over 16 ranks x 20 steady-state steps:
step 1.690 -> 0.711 s (2.38x)
attention bwd 0.997 -> 0.094 s
attention fwd 0.124 -> 0.011 s
Two portability constraints are baked into dflash_flex_attention.py because both
were found the hard way on torch 2.11 / sm103:
* head_dim > 256 must pin 32x32 kernel tiles. 64x32 and 64x64 give
"misaligned address"; 128x32 gives "unspecified launch failure".
* The BlockMask block size must divide the kernel's BLOCK_M/BLOCK_N. head_dim > 256
pins 32x32 so 64 is safe, but head_dim <= 256 lets Inductor autotune up to
BLOCK_M=128, where a 64-wide mask block raises "Q and KV block size must be
divisible by BLOCK_M and BLOCK_N". Gemma-4 dodged this only because head_dim 512
pins the tiles; every head_dim <= 256 drafter (Qwen3, Kimi) would have hit it.
Also note enable_gqa=True is deliberately NOT used: forward matches, but backward
took 568 ms -- 10x the pre-repeated path and 2.5x worse than the SDPA baseline it
replaces. K/V are always pre-repeated instead.
The branch sits inside _build_draft_attention_mask rather than at its three call
sites, so DFlash, DSpark and Domino all benefit and the existing monkeypatch-spy
tests keep observing a single mask build per forward. Off by default
(dflash_use_flex_attention).
OPERATIONAL PREREQUISITE: TRITON_CACHE_DIR must be node-local. FlexAttention
compiles Triton templates on the first backward, and pointing that cache at a
shared filesystem makes concurrent ranks race -- 16 ranks on lustre died with
"OSError: [Errno 14] Bad address" reading a .json mid-write.
main's dflash_draft_attention="causal" term sits in the dense mask builder
after the flex branch returns, so build_draft_block_mask takes causal and adds
the same block-causal term to mask_mod. The flex route sits next to the
attention-sink path in DFlashAttention.forward and raises when a sink is
configured: the flex kernel has no sink column, and running without it would
export a sink-enabled draft that never trained with one.
Signed-off-by: Hao Guo <haoguo@nvidia.com>
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…park metric syncs Three independent inefficiencies in the DSpark training step, all of which grew out of materializing or synchronizing more than the loss actually consumes. * The offline/streaming path built full-sequence [B, seq, vocab] base logits and then gathered a few thousand rows out of them. DFlashBaseModelOutput now carries the post-final-norm base hidden and takes defer_lm_head, so the loss projects only the rows it reads. At the Gemma-4-E4B shape that removes roughly 17 GB/step of memory traffic. * The Markov bias was added out-of-place, allocating a third [B, N, bs, vocab] tensor (8.6 GB at this shape). It now folds in place when the uncorrected logits are dead, which is the case whenever dflash_report_acc is off -- their only consumer is the base_accuracy diagnostic. Numerically identical: a.add_(b) and a + b compute the same elementwise rounded sum, and neither lm_head nor markov_w2 saves its OUTPUT for backward. * Five per-step .item() calls were collapsed into a single torch.stack([...]).tolist(). Each .item() is a full device synchronize, and five of them chop up the window in which DDP's all-reduce can hide behind backward. This one change was worth 39 ms of NCCL exposure on its own. compute_markov_latent() is split out of compute_markov_bias() so the rank-r argument to markov_w2 is reachable without the vocab-wide projection; _rnn_step returns the latent rather than a bias, and both call sites are updated. Measured on PDX B300, 3 nodes (1 vLLM serve + 2 trainer = 16 DP ranks), Gemma-4-E4B DSpark, bs 4 x seq 4096, median over 16 ranks x 20 steady-state steps: 0.711 -> 0.629 s/step. Signed-off-by: Hao Guo <haoguo@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
…slicing _tvd_per_token chunked its row axis with final_logits[i : i + chunk_size]. Slicing and splitting agree on every value, so no numerical test can tell them apart -- only the backward graph can, and there the difference is asymptotic. A slice per chunk creates one SliceBackward0 each, and every one of those allocates a zero tensor of the FULL [N, vocab] shape and scatters its own chunk's gradient into it: O(n_chunks * N * vocab). Tensor.split creates a single SplitBackward0 whose backward is one cat: O(N * vocab). At the Gemma-4-E4B shape (N = 4 * 512 * 8 = 16384 rows, vocab = 262144, so 8 GiB per [N, vocab] bf16 tensor, 16 chunks) that 16x amplification was 93.2 ms/step -- 15% of the step and the second-largest item in the profile after the DDP all-reduce. It had been flat at 97 +/- 1 ms across three earlier optimisation rounds, invisible because it was never broken out of the elementwise bucket. Measured on PDX B300, 3 nodes (1 vLLM serve + 2 trainer = 16 DP ranks), bs 4 x seq 4096, median over 16 ranks x 20 steady-state steps: 0.629 -> 0.541 s/step, with -85.7 ms of the -87.9 ms landing in backward and forward unchanged. In isolation at the production shape, backward went 198.0 -> 107.9 ms while peak memory was unchanged (41.9 -> 42.1 GiB). Bitwise identical, verified elementwise at the production shape: the returned per-token TVD, grad(hidden) and grad(markov_w2.weight) all compare exactly equal. End to end over 40 logged steps, max |this - previous| on the loss is 0.018, against a 0.025 spread among three earlier runs -- i.e. inside the pipeline's own run-to-run noise. The new tests do two things the existing suite could not. TestTvdPerTokenChunking parametrises chunk_size over values that divide N and values that leave a ragged tail: every existing DSpark test runs 96 rows against the default chunk_size of 1024, so all of them fit in a single chunk and no chunk-boundary bug could ever fail CI. test_chunks_via_split_not_slice walks the autograd graph and asserts SplitBackward is present and SliceBackward is not -- pinning the optimisation itself, since it has no observable numerical signature. Signed-off-by: Hao Guo <haoguo@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
…ion has one shape
_sample_anchor_positions sized its output by the batch: min(num_anchors,
valid_counts.max() - 1), i.e. the longest answer in the batch. n_blocks sets the
draft's q_len and kv_len, and both the block-mask builder and flex_attention are
torch.compile(..., dynamic=False), so every distinct value was a distinct shape and
a fresh compile. Each cost 170-300 s, and new ones kept arriving, because any batch
whose answers are all shorter than the cap mints a width never seen before.
That is not a warm-up cost, it is the run. A 3-node Gemma-4-E4B job spent 1360 of
its first 1510 training seconds frozen in recompilation. Reconstructing the
consumption rate from the serve's request log shows the trainer alternating between
0.6 s/step bursts and multi-minute stalls -- seven of them in ~107 steps, the last
still arriving at step 102.
max_n is now min(num_anchors, max_anchor + 1), a function of the config and the
sequence length alone. The bound the old code computed survives as `cap`, a 0-dim
tensor applied before the sort rather than as a slice width, so the sampled anchors
are bitwise what they were. Widening the slice and sorting after would instead pull
anchors from past the bound into the front of the row and silently move which
positions are trained on, while every shape assertion still passed. The surplus
columns carry keep=False, which every consumer already handles because rows shorter
than the batch maximum have always produced them. Dropping the .item() also takes a
host sync out of every step.
Measured on 3 nodes (1 serve, 2 trainer, bs 4 x 4096 over 16 ranks), 40 steps:
before after
compile events 4 1
compile seconds 772.1 173.5
wall (s) 799.1 204.7 3.90x
The 20-step mean loss is unchanged against a production run of the same recipe --
3.211 / 2.660 / 2.621 / 2.614 before, 3.211 / 2.661 / 2.623 / 2.601 after, inside
this pipeline's 0.025 run-to-run spread. Steady-state step time moves 0.534 ->
0.556 s: short batches now pay for 512 blocks they used to skip, which is the trade.
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…e reached The RDMA hidden-states pool is a ring: the producer reuses slots, and the consumer detects a mid-read overwrite by asking /done whether the slot's generation still matches the one its bytes were written under. That check is the only guard against a lapped slot -- the token_ids comparison right after it comes from the server's per-request record, not from the bytes just read, so it passes on a mis-slotted read -- and it defaulted to `valid = True` whenever the /done call itself raised. The two mistakes are not symmetric. Discarding a good sample costs one resample. Keeping a lapped one trains the draft on another prompt's activations, silently: nothing downstream can tell, and the loss curve absorbs it. A /done that errors proves nothing about the slot either, so it now takes the same path an explicit lap does. The transport failure gets its own message rather than reusing the lap warning: a wave of unreachable /done is a sidecar problem, a wave of laps is ring pressure, and the two call for different fixes (a sick server vs. more pool_slots). Not theoretical -- a 3-node Gemma-4-E4B run logged 62 lapped-slot resamples over 80 steps at the launch script's default pool_slots=16, and 16 at pool_slots=128, so the guard fires in normal operation. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
The draft's decoder loop was where the step's small-kernel tail lived: a profiled
Gemma-4-E4B step ran ~1500 pointwise launches, 403 aten::copy_ and 205 device-to-device
memcpys, individually microseconds and collectively about a third of the step. Nothing
but a compiler fixes that shape of cost, and dflash_use_torch_compile -- despite
promising "torch.compile on DFlash forward/loss methods" -- only ever reached the DSpark
TVD chunk. It now also wraps DFlashModule's body.
dynamic=False is affordable only because the block count is pinned; while n_blocks
tracked the batch this would have recompiled per width at minutes each. The lazy rotary
construction stays outside the compiled region (it mutates the module), and the compiled
body is used in training only: generation runs the same module at a varying length, which
under dynamic=False would mint one compile per length.
On a batch whose loss terms are all skipped, _compute_dspark_loss returned
`flat_final.sum() * 0`, and the confidence head hangs off its own projection rather than
final_logits, so it received nothing, which DDP with find_unused_parameters=False aborts
on. That branch now walks dflash_module.parameters() the way forward()'s no-valid-anchor
early return already did.
Both paths are pinned by tests, since the failure mode is a crash hours into a run.
Measured on 3 nodes, 80 steps, against the same recipe without the change:
before after
step time (median) 0.5497 s 0.4927 s -10.4%
forward 0.1305 s 0.1005 s -23%
backward 0.3478 s 0.3048 s -12%
one-time compile 173.5 s 201.3 s
That run also set ddp_find_unused_parameters to false, which a later A/B priced at
about 0.1% of the step; the rest is the compile. The extra 28 s of compile pays for
itself after ~490 steps, so an 80-step profile
actually gets slower (228.8 s -> 243.3 s) while the 88k-step run this targets goes 13.5 h
-> 12.1 h. The 20-step mean loss is unchanged: 3.209 / 2.661 / 2.621 / 2.625 against
3.209 / 2.661 / 2.621 / 2.588, the first three windows equal to three decimals.
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…s reads it, family-wide DSpark already projected its teacher this way; the rest of the DFlash family did not. DFlash's self-logit distillation (on by default) rebuilt [B, seq, vocab] base logits every step -- offline/streaming by running the whole captured final hidden through lm_head, online through the CausalLM forward -- then gathered the N * block_size rows it uses out of them. LiLiCorr's distractor penalty read k candidate logits per slot out of that same full tensor. Now there is one way in: - DFlashBaseModelOutput carries the base final hidden (and whether it was captured before the final norm), never logits built from it; from_offline_dict loses need_logits, defer_lm_head and base_model_lm_head. - HFDFlashModel._base_outputs builds it for the whole family: replayed offline, and online through the inner model only, as DSpark and Domino already did, so text batches never run the base lm_head. Multimodal batches still need the top-level forward and keep its logits as the teacher, since hidden_states[-1] is not lm_head's input on every transformers version (Qwen3-VL on 4.57). - HFDFlashModel._teacher_logits gathers the requested rows, re-applies the base final norm when the capture was pre-norm, and projects just those rows -- or, given token_ids, just those vocab entries, which is all LiLiCorr's penalty needs. DFlash KD (and DFlash2 through the shared loss), DSpark and LiLiCorr all read the teacher through it; _compute_loss takes it as a DFlashBaseModelOutput instead of a logits tensor. Domino reads no base distribution and is unchanged. One behavior change: online, the teacher used to be the CausalLM forward's logits, which for Gemma-family bases include final_logit_softcapping; it is now lm_head on the final hidden, which is what offline/streaming training and DSpark have always used. Bases without softcapping get the same teacher up to matmul rounding. Tested: tests/unit/torch/speculative 369 passed on transformers 5.12 and the affected files 156 passed on 4.57; the speculative GPU tests 15 passed. New tests pin the teacher against the full-sequence projection (post- and pre-norm capture, token_ids, handed-over logits) and that a training step never feeds lm_head the whole sequence; each fails when its property is broken. On JHB, Gemma-4-E4B DSpark streaming for 80 steps against the same config before this commit: fwd+bwd 374.7 ms vs 373.3 / 376.7, mean loss over steps 21-45 2.6541 vs 2.6543 / 2.6545, and the loss spikes this config shows at steps 46-55 land on the same steps within the controls' range. Rebased over #2589, which let LiLiCorr train offline by rebuilding full-sequence target logits whenever _needs_base_logits says a term reads them. Here the target is read per row instead: _candidate_target_logits, which #2589 shares between the distractor penalty and its new calibration term, projects just the candidates through _teacher_logits; offline, _needs_base_logits now only makes the entry fail early when the batch carries neither logits nor the final hidden; and #2589's cast of a wider-dtype captured hidden to lm_head's dtype moves into _teacher_logits, still ahead of the final norm. #2670 dropped the Qwen3-VL position-id workaround, so the multimodal branch passes position_ids through as main does. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…her per row offline only Narrows 576b312 to offline/streaming training, where the full-sequence logits were ours to avoid: from_offline_dict used to run the whole captured final hidden through lm_head. That part stays -- the hidden is carried unprojected and _teacher_logits projects just the rows a loss reads -- and online training goes back to the base forward each model had before: - DFlash (and with it DFlash2 and LiLiCorr) runs the CausalLM forward again and hands its logits over as the teacher, which _teacher_logits now only gathers from. - DSpark keeps its own inner-model call with lm_head applied per row, as before. - LiLiCorr reads its candidate logits through _teacher_logits, which online just gathers them from the handed-over logits; offline (possible since #2589) it projects only those candidates from the captured hidden. Gone with it: the shared online helper (_base_outputs), and the one behavior change 576b312 made -- the online KD teacher again includes Gemma's final_logit_softcapping, as before. Tested: tests/unit/torch/speculative 368 passed on transformers 5.12 and the affected files 238 passed on 4.57; the speculative GPU tests 15 passed. The offline full-sequence test fails when _teacher_logits is made to project the whole sequence. The streaming path is the one JHB job 738406 validated for 576b312 and is unchanged here. Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
dd58ca8 folded the Markov bias into the backbone logits with add_ whenever dflash_report_acc was off, to skip one [B, N, bs, V] allocation. The add lands on a reshape view of the lm_head output, so autograd records CopySlices on the base and AsStrided on the view; backward then clones, zero-fills and copies back the full-vocab gradient several times, where the out-of-place AddBackward passes it straight through. At the Gemma-4-E4B DSpark shape (4 x 512 x 8 rows, 262k vocab) each pass is ~8.6 GB, so the saved allocation costs more traffic than it frees. It was also unreachable by default: dflash_report_acc defaults to True and no recipe turns it off. Nothing else reads that flag, so gating on it gave a dead field a DSpark-only meaning that its description ("report eval accuracy") does not cover. _apply_markov_head and forward's step 6 match main again, and base_accuracy is computed unconditionally. The single-sync metric readout stays. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
…se_torch_compile The draft stack learned whether to compile from _dflash_compile_stack, a private attribute HFDFlashModel.modify() set on the module after building it and _body() read back with a getattr default of False. A missed hand-off would quietly train eager, the same failure this PR started from, when dflash_use_torch_compile never reached the stack at all. modify() now calls dflash_module.compile_body() when the flag is set, and _body() only picks between the compiled and eager callables. torch.compile wraps without compiling, so building the wrapper at convert time instead of on the first training step costs nothing; compilation still happens on the first step. The DSpark TVD chunk gets the same treatment: modify() picks the chunk function once. That replaces a module-level cache whose try/except could only catch wrap-time errors -- real compile failures surface on the first call, outside it -- so the eager fallback it promised could not happen. A new test pins that the flag reaches the TVD chunk. On GPU, a compiled DSpark step builds both graphs and matches eager: loss 1.15335 vs 1.15319, grad cosine 0.99996. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
…e DSpark loss Cleanups from a static review of this PR, with training results unchanged. An old-vs-new harness found losses, gradients, 48 random dense masks and GPU BlockMasks bitwise equal across DFlash (CE, KD, D-PACE, offline KD), DFlash2, LiLiCorr and DSpark. The one exception is DSpark's rnn head, which moves at bf16 rounding level and which no recipe uses. - One mask rule. The training visibility rule (context before the anchor, the window from the query's real position, same block, block-causal, keep flag) lived twice: as dense tensor ops and as the flex mask_mod, kept in step by a docstring. It already drifted once, when main's causal term merged into the dense copy only. _draft_mask_mod is now the only copy on the training path: FlexAttention compiles it into the BlockMask, and the dense path evaluates it on broadcast index grids. A hand-written expected mask and a keep-term test pin the rule on their own. Generation's _build_generate_swa_mask, which is main's code, still mirrors it by hand. - KD from the config. _compute_loss took the step's DFlashBaseModelOutput twice, as teacher (None with KD off) and as base_outputs, so KD vs CE hinged on which copy was None; LiLiCorr passed only teacher. It now reads dflash_self_logit_distillation and takes the teacher from base_outputs. KD without base outputs raises, and the optional arguments are keyword-only. - DSpark projects its teacher rows after the valid_count <= 1 early return, which never read them, as DFlash already did. - modeling_dspark.py is back to main. compute_markov_latent was cut for the in-place fold that d02859e removed, and had no other caller. - dflash_use_flex_attention is read directly; its getattr default could only hide a broken hand-off. - DFlashBaseModelOutput's docstring says when it holds full base logits. - Three tests that no longer checked anything of their own are gone: a compile-once assert made tautological by b0818ad, a GPU offline-KD duplicate, and a weaker copy of the /done resample test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
…in fp32 Two unit tests failed in CI on #2279 (run 36999463172). - TestDFlash2Forward.test_overfits_a_single_batch hit the 60 s cap in the py3.11 and py3.14 torch 2.14 jobs. The tiny base is bf16, and the draft keeps Qwen3Config's default 22016-wide MLP and 32x128 attention. On a CPU without AVX-512, bf16 matmul has no fast kernel: on 4 Zen3 cores a [104, 22016] @ [22016, 32] mm takes 57 ms in bf16 and 0.93 ms in fp32. For this test the CI runners split into a fast group (2-9 s) and a slow one (51-58 s in other PRs' runs); the logs carry no CPU model, but the slow group behaves like such a CPU. The test had already timed out once on code that does not touch DFlash (#2580, unit-3.12 torch_212, 60.14 s). The pinned anchor count added one masked block here (13 instead of 12 at SEQ_LEN=16, block 4), 8% more rows in eager mode, and moved this PR's slow jobs to 58.5 s and past the cap. In fp32 the test runs in about 5 s on 4 cores, as the LiLiCorr overfit test already does. The test also asserts selector coverage now, which is what guards the target alignment in fp32. With the selector's gold token one position early, bf16 training ends at train_acc 0.847, but fp32 ends at 0.903 and slips past 0.9. Coverage separates the two cleanly: over 71 correct trajectories (batch content, draft init or base init reseeded) it ends at 0.986 or above, and over 112 trajectories with the gold token one position early or late at 0.764 or below. Of six selector misalignments, the fp32 test catches the same two the bf16 test did; shifting the predecessor or the hidden state goes unnoticed in both, as before. - TestDraftStackCompile.test_compiled_matches_eager failed on torch 2.10 with 2/256 elements over atol=2e-2. In bf16, Inductor and eager round at different points: the worst element already used 82% of the tolerance locally, and 3 of 61 random inits and inputs went over. In fp32 the difference stays below 2e-6 across torch 2.8-2.14, so the check runs in fp32 at 1e-4. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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…ex attention Pinning N to min(dflash_num_anchors, seq_len - block_size + 1) gives the compiled (dynamic=False) and FlexAttention graphs a single shape, but eager attention pays for every padding block in full. With answer-only loss on short answers that is most of the work. The DFlash regression recipe (Qwen3-0.6B, seq 512, 512 anchors, block 8, compile and flex off) ran N = 505 blocks per sample instead of the batch's supervised span, and test_dflash_training went from 105.6 s on main to past its 300 s cap in CI. With neither torch.compile nor FlexAttention on, N follows the batch again, as on main, at the cost of the one host sync main also pays; with either on, it stays pinned. Running the regression test's training command on one RTX PRO 6000 (3 epochs, wall time including startup): main 120 s, this PR before the change 496 s, after it 121 s, with loss, grad norm and accuracy identical to main's at every logged step. The static-shape tests now say which mode they cover. The legacy-equivalence test runs in both, and in eager mode the width must match main's exactly. The no-sync check runs the static sampler with every tensor-to-host read patched to fail, which also catches int(t) and `if t:`, which the AST check could not see. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
…; one tile rule for all layers Cleanups from a design review of this PR. Training is unchanged; only when a bad config is reported moves. - FlexAttention's conflicts with dflash_attention_sink and with attention dropout were checked inside DFlashAttention.forward, on every layer of every step, so a bad config failed only at the first training step, after the model, the data and, when streaming, the vLLM servers were up. HFDFlashModel.modify() now rejects them while converting. Resume runs modify() as well: from_pretrained replays it from the saved config with the base still on meta, and the checks read only config. A new test resumes a flex + compile model through save_pretrained/from_pretrained and checks that the compiled body is still the one trained. - The tile choice for head_dim > 256 lived in two places: the BlockMask's block size, read from layers[0], and the kernel options, read per layer. With per-layer head dims (Gemma 4's sliding 256 vs global 512) the result depended on which kind of layer came first: a global first layer gave a 64-token mask block that the sliding layers' autotuned 128 tiles cannot use. _tiles(head_dim) now gives both, and the mask takes the largest block among all layers' head dims, which every tile in use divides. - Reuse HF's repeat_kv instead of a copy, import the flex module at module level (it pulls in no dynamo), and drop the ImportError fallback and the "torch >= 2.5" note, both moot on the torch >= 2.8 that CI runs. The conflict tests fail with the convert-time checks removed, and the tile test fails when the mask takes the smallest block instead of the largest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
On main the flag defaulted to True but nothing read it. This PR wires it up, so the old default would silently compile the draft for anyone who builds a config without a recipe: a first-step compile, plus a C++ toolchain and Python headers on CPU. Every recipe and every test helper already sets it to false, so default it to False and make compile opt-in. Checkpoints keep the config they were saved with, so a run saved before this change with the old default resumes with compile on; recipe runs recorded false and are unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
Failing closed on an unreachable /done is a correctness fix unrelated to training speed, so it gets its own PR, #2756, which also narrows the except to the module's transient errors. This restores hf_streaming_dataset.py and its test to main's. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: h-guo18 <67671475+h-guo18@users.noreply.github.com>
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Type of change: new feature (performance), bug fix
Speeds up DFlash-family drafter training. On Gemma-4-E4B DSpark streaming (PDX B300, 3 nodes = 1 vLLM serve + 2 trainers, 16 DP ranks, batch 4 × 4096), step time goes 1.690 → 0.484 s (3.49×), with the loss unchanged within run-to-run noise. Every round below was measured on the same window (steps 21-40, profiler off).
dflash_use_flex_attention, opt-in). The dense[B, 1, Q, KV]mask had forced SDPA onto its sm80-only memory-efficient kernel.[B, seq, vocab]logits; one device sync for DSpark's metrics instead of fiveTensor.splitinstead of slicing, whose backward zero-filled a full[N, vocab]tensor per chunktorch.compileof the draft stack and the DSpark TVD chunk (dflash_use_torch_compile, opt-in). With compile or FlexAttention on, the anchor count is fixed by the config andseq_len, so the compiled shapes stay static: recompiles in 40 steps drop from 4 to 1. Eager runs still size it to the batch.The same rounds, by phase and by GPU kernel:
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_draft_mask_mod) for SDPA and FlexAttention, and KD is switched bydflash_self_logit_distillationrather than by a nullable argument.Usage
On multi-node runs, point
TRITON_CACHE_DIRandTORCHINDUCTOR_CACHE_DIRat node-local paths: on a shared filesystem, concurrent ranks race on the compile cache.Testing
tests/unit/torch/speculative: 387 passed on transformers 5.12.tests/gpu/torch/speculative/plugins: 14 passed, 1 skipped.splitin the backward graph, anchor sampling vs. the legacy sampler in eager and static modes, the per-row teacher (lm_head never sees the full sequence offline), and FlexAttention conflicts at convert time and through afrom_pretrainedresume.Before your PR is "Ready for review"
dflash_use_flex_attentionanddflash_use_torch_compiledefault off. The latter defaulted to True on main but did nothing; the shipped recipes set it false.CONTRIBUTING.md: N/AAdditional Information
Based on main. The step times were measured on Gemma-4-E4B, which needs #2186 to run; nothing in this PR is Gemma-specific.
The streaming
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