- keep training attention on dense 4d tensors
- use packed 3d tensors with KV cache for inference
- extend CUDA rotary embedding to packed 3d inputs
- adapt torch, CUDA and FlashAttention backend dispatch
- store page-table, request-row, and cache-location indices as int32
- preserve CUDA graph replay with bit-exact logits and KV cache coverage
- improve B=1 decode latency by 1-6% across 1K-32K contexts on L20
- amax for delayed scale was the quantized max (always ~448), so scale collapsed to 1
- this made fp8 gradients diverge (cosine 0.05) and training stall
- stop w/x transpose-quantize amax from polluting the grad scale
- fp8_ops is the only module touching the pybind (kernel interface)
- fp8.py keeps scaling state, delayed amax and aten::linear dispatch
- remove circular imports between old fp8_ops/fp8_state/fp8_dispatch
- dX/dW run as fp8 cublasLt gemms via fused transpose-cast
- shared (m,k,n) algo cache for fwd/bwd, mutex-protected
- bias add in-place on bf16 output, drop output copy
- pass w as param A (op=T) and x as param B (op=N) so the col-major [N,M] output storage is row-major C[M,N] directly, zero copy
- transpose_bias_cast kernel becomes a plain bias+write kernel
- fp8 e2e now beats bf16: 1.09x at M=4096, 1.06x at M=8192 (was 0.88x)
- cast gradients and inputs to weight.dtype instead of hardcoded bf16
- single code path covers bf16 and fp32 models, no branch needed
- gradient dtype now matches the leaf parameter dtype exactly
- register yaml 1.2 float resolver so scientific notation (2e-5) becomes float, not str
- replaces the decimal-point workaround in train configs
- add containerized training doc under docs/developer
- rewrite docker.sh with gpu default and --no-gpu override
- inject host uid/gid via ASTRAI_UID/GID in train.sh compose()
- filter readonly UID/GID lines when sourcing .env.train
- build image user via USER_UID/USER_GID args matching host uid/gid
- pass all GPUs (count: all) and filter by CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES inside the container
- forward NCCL vars through compose environment
- add a GPU trainer Compose profile with mounted data, models, and checkpoints
- add host commands for preflight, lifecycle, logs, status, and checkpoint cleanup
- resume from the latest complete checkpoint with external config or CLI arguments
- rename output pointer field o to o_ptr for consistency with q_ptr/k_ptr/v_ptr
- regroup AttentionParams fields by responsibility and fix misleading comments
- drop unused max_seq_len/total_q fields and paged decode max_seq_len arg
- drop redundant group_size param from decode launchers (computed from p)
- rename q_stride_* to q_*_stride to match mask stride convention
- rename mask_q_stride to mask_l_stride for consistent l-dim naming
- merge k/v and k_cache/v_cache into k_ptr/v_ptr; rename q to q_ptr
- KVSource policy selects contiguous vs paged mode at compile time
- fix scalar prefill head_dim=32 out-of-bounds via G=4 dispatch
- fix MMA decode 4D mask head indexing and invalid-row mask access
- add q_head/kv_head divisibility and head-dim contiguity checks
- validate split-KV scratch and decode out_buf layout in bindings
- set max dynamic shared memory for scalar decode D=256
- cover scalar prefill D=32 in pure C test
- route decode benchmark through InferenceEngine generate path
- add enable_cuda_graph toggle to engine, scheduler, and executor
- make benchmark --cuda-graph/--no-cuda-graph control the toggle
- hoist local time imports to module top
- Replace C++20 explicit lambda template parameters with file-scope structs (DecodeDispatch/PrefillDispatch etc.)
- Remove unused gs variable in run_decode_test
- Tighten paged test atol/rtol from 0.02 to 0.01 to match contiguous tests
- Match steady-state metadata to the active task IDs
- Rebuild request mappings for cached prefix pages
- Add regressions for batch refill and prefix reuse
- Eliminate core/ directory into cache/, runtime/, network/ subpackages plus flat modules
- Split cache.py (647 lines) into cache/{buffer,strategy,pool}.py by layer
- Add explicit ContiguousStrategy, make AllocationStrategy a real ABC
- Move TaskCacheState to cache/strategy.py, drop string forward references
- Rename api/ to network/, server.py to app.py
- Move sample.py into runtime/ alongside executor and graph
- Simplify TaskCacheManager.__init__ to single pool param
- Expose pool.strategy and pool.req_pool as public properties
- Fix KVCache import in attention_backend.py (TYPE_CHECKING guard)
- Fix steady-state decode reading uninitialized position_ids on first step
- TaskCacheRegistry -> TaskCacheManager (independent, held by scheduler)
- TaskCacheState co-locates 5 parallel dicts into one dataclass
- AllocationStrategy base class + PagedStrategy subclass (page_size is a parameter)
- _rollback() helper for unified cleanup (no duplicate free paths)
- Task._kv_len + prefill_done property (explicit, no output_tokens proxy)
- Steady-state detection single-sourced in TaskCacheManager.bind()
- PagePool is now pure physical layer (no task knowledge)
- Removed dead _page_to_hash dict in RadixCache
- drop Executor unused tokenizer field, _head_dim, stale metrics docstring
- unify greedy sampling via SamplingPipeline.sample, drop top-level duplicate
- drop Task.flush_remaining no-op and unreachable prompt-length branch
- drop ProtocolHandler redundant chunks list (reuse body)
- fix page_size=1 token-slot leak on task_free
- clear _task_pages/_task_slots on alloc-failure paths
- reset _bind_state on task_free to avoid stale steady-state reuse
- remove unreachable contiguous branches in paged-only helpers
- StreamingSeqDataset yields windows sequentially through each shard
- Shard-level shuffle, distributed and multi-worker shard partitioning
- __len__ returns total window count for scheduler total_steps
- Better OS page-cache locality than random-access map-style datasets
- cudaEvent.elapsed_time gives microsecond precision vs perf_counter
- cudaEvent measures actual GPU execution, not just kernel launch
- falls back to time.perf_counter on CPU-only devices
- 64-token prefill forward triggers cuBLAS auto-tuning at init
- reduces first-chat prefill from ~520ms to ~27ms
- warmup decode also drops from ~215ms to ~71ms
- move setup_logging to astrai/logging.py
- timed() now uses logger.isEnabledFor(DEBUG) instead of separate env var
- enable ASTR_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG to see per-step timing logs
- call setup_logging() in stream_chat.py
- extract TaskTiming + MetricsCollector out of Task/TaskManager
- unify prefill/decode timing into single record() context manager
- expose avg_ttft_ms, avg_decode_tps, avg_e2e_latency_ms via /stats
- all three release builds (pure, cu128, cu130) produce the same .whl filename, causing uploads to overwrite each other
- append the CUDA tag as a local version label (e.g. +cu128, +cu130)
- move JSONL transform auto-creation from JsonlStore.load to DatasetFactory.load via _build_jsonl_transform helper
- remove TokenizeTransform and PipelineConfig imports from storage module
- JsonlStore.load now requires explicit transform= for eager mode
- DatasetFactory.load remains the public API with identical convenience behavior
- add _BindState dataclass and _is_steady_increment() to cache.py
- replace _bind_sig/_bind_seq_lens dual fields with single _bind_state
- replace DecodeSteadyState bare tuple with named dataclass
- use _is_steady_increment() in both PagePool.bind_tasks and Executor.execute_decode
- merge _generate_streaming/_generate_non_streaming into single _generate() with stream flag
- delete dead GenerationRequest class and generate_with_request method
- inline _next_token helper into generate_async
- replace flash-attn double-checked locking with functools.lru_cache
- extract _write_and_gather_kv helper shared by TorchNative/FlashAttn backends
- inline _kv_cache_is_contiguous into its sole call site in FlashAttnBackend
- change default backend priority from flash>cuda>torch to cuda>flash>torch
- add ASTR_BACKEND env var to override default backend at resolve time
- add supports_graph() static method to AttentionBackend ABC, override in CudaBackend
- replace isinstance(get_backend(), CudaBackend) with get_backend().supports_graph() in executor
- add torch.cuda.is_available() guard to CudaBackend.supports()
- Pre-allocate decode_out in InferenceWorkspace so attn_paged_decode does not call torch::empty inside graph capture
- Run live forward before graph capture to get valid output (graph pool memory is zeroed after capture block exits)
- Greedy generation with graph replay is bit-exact across all batch sizes
- _warmup_cuda_graphs pre-captures graphs at init for power-of-two batch sizes
- Graph enabled only when CudaBackend + supported head_dim + warmup succeeds
- Decode speedups vs no-graph: B=1 2.09x, B=4 1.80x, B=8 1.94x, B=16 1.76x
- Pre-allocate decode_out in InferenceWorkspace so attn_paged_decode does not call torch::empty inside graph capture
- Wire decode_out through KVCache, PagePool.bind_tasks, and CudaBackend.fwd_decode
- Run live forward before graph capture to get valid output (graph pool memory is zeroed after capture block exits)
- Greedy generation with graph replay is bit-exact across all batch sizes
- Decode speedups vs no-graph: B=1 2.09x, B=4 1.80x, B=8 1.94x, B=16 1.76x
- Decode with contiguous cache uses flash_attn_with_kvcache instead of materializing full KV via gather + flash_attn_func
- _backend_supports allows FlashAttnBackend for decode (q_len==1) even with explicit mask
- Decode speedups vs TorchNative (B=1,4,8,16 mean): cuda 1.55x, flash 1.40x, torch_native 1.00x
- Read K/V directly from flat pool via cache_batch_idx + cache_seqlens, zero-copy view reshape
- PagedKV::host_kv_len now returns max_context_len instead of max_seq_len
- Eliminates grid-z instability for CUDA graph capture/replay
- Restore skip_no_kernel re-export accidentally removed by ruff --fix
- Remove unused local variable b in attention_backend.py
- Remove unused variable rank0_sd in test_broadcast_state_dict.py
- Remove unused imports across test files
- New CudaGraphContext class: warmup -> capture -> replay lifecycle
- One graph per batch_size key, all inputs at fixed workspace addresses
- Added position_ids buffer to InferenceWorkspace (required for graph capture)
- Graph only activates when CUDA backend is the current backend
- Default off (opt-in) due to slight numerical divergence in graph replay
- Sampling stays outside the graph (torch.multinomial uses mutable RNG)
- Resolved circular import: KVCache -> TYPE_CHECKING in attention_backend.py
- Replace per-.cu-file static cached tensors with workspace-managed pre-allocated buffers
- InferenceWorkspace now owns decode_o_part / decode_ml_part (mirrors FlashInfer's workspace pattern)
- KVCache carries the buffers through the backend -> C++ kernel chain
- C++ kernels accept optional pre-allocated buffers; fallback to alloc_split_partials for backward compat
- Pre-allocates once at Executor init, zero allocation in the decode hot loop
- Prerequisite for CUDA-graph capture (all kernel addresses are stable)
- Preload V into shared memory alongside K to eliminate per-element KV address lookups in the inner softmax/accum loop (doubles smem)
- Cache split-KV partial tensors (o_part, ml_part) with static tensors instead of per-call allocation in both decode and paged-decode paths
- Force is_causal=True in CUDA decode backend (decode is always causal)
- adapt bind_tasks to workspace API and reuse a stable workspace
- drop required checkpoint, randomize default 1B GQA preset
- add config override flag for arbitrary model architectures
- sample the first token from prefill logits without duplicating the prompt tail
- reject incomplete multi-output records before preprocessing alignment
- cover cached generation and partial DPO records with regression tests
- add FlashAttnBackend (ATTN_BACKEND.FLASH) using flash_attn_func with KV-cache gather + GQA, mirroring TorchNativeBackend
- add flash_attn_available() probe gated on compute capability plus a real-kernel smoke test, cached at first use
- lazy-import flash-attn via importlib so it stays an optional dependency, raising clear errors when unusable
- add 'flash' optional extra (flash-attn>=2.6) and export the new backend
- merge AttentionParams and PagedAttentionParams into one struct
- add attn_kv_source.cuh with ContigKV/PagedKV addressing policies
- template prefill/decode kernels (MMA + scalar) on the KV policy, deleting the four duplicated attn_paged_*.cuh variants
- template dispatcher launchers on KV; single combine kernel
- verify: all correctness tests pass and SASS matches baseline (no perf regression)
- Fix rotary docs to describe cos/sin freqs_cis table, not complex buffer
- Replace attn_prefill with attn_paged_prefill for the CudaBackend path
- Register attn_paged_prefill in kernel overview, layout, and module list
- Add qo_indptr and InferenceWorkspace to architecture class diagram
- Add FrequencyPenaltyStrategy to sampling design patterns
- Extract _step() as the single prefill-group + task_extend + decode primitive
- _run_generation_loop and run_batch now both call it, so the two cannot drift
- run_batch now records prefix hashes (paged mode) and uses input order for
decode, matching the loop thread
- hoist prefill qo_indptr into the workspace so CudaBackend.fwd_prefill does not rebuild it per layer
- cache has_freq in SamplingBatchInfo to drop the per-step GPU any() sync
- drop pin_memory host staging for input_ids; sync copy suffices for a small batch
- add InferenceWorkspace with fixed-shape per-step buffers (input_ids, decode mask, KV bind metadata) for CUDA-graph capture
- bind_tasks derives seq_lens from the pool's own _task_len tracking, dropping the seq_lens parameter
- update decode metadata in-place (position_ids, seq_lens, kv_indptr) instead of re-allocating per step
- task_extend advances _task_len in contiguous mode so the pool tracks current length
- skip log_softmax when logprobs are not requested
- SamplingBatchInfo: sample params built once per task set (top_k int32, pinned async H2D)
- position_ids advances by +1 on steady-state decode instead of re-building
- DecodeBindCache: bind_tasks increments seq_lens/kv_indptr, reuses req_pool_indices
- saves ~240us of python/launch overhead per decode step
- Drop hardcoded CACHE_MAX_SEQ=2048 which overflowed at long prompts
- Size prefill pool to prompt_length and decode pool to prompt+5+gen*num_trials
- Unblocks decode/prefill benchmark at prompt 4096+ (was KV cache index OOB)
- compute_num_splits used 2*sm/base, undersplitting at large batch
- single-warp decode blocks host ~11/SM, not 1/2-SM, so B=16 got 3 splits when 8 was optimal
- Grid search on L20: bandwidth saturates near 256-512 total blocks; target 512
- Pass num_passes into base_blocks for the non-paged decode to match the paged path
- B=16 kv=2048: 0.0230->0.0157ms (-32%); paged B=16: 0.0527->0.0243ms (-54%); B=32: 0.0406->0.0241ms (-41%)
- Thread a cudaStream_t through attn dispatchers onto torch's current stream
- Scope the device guard to the entry function so kernels run on tensor device
- DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM now forwards varargs so stream reaches each dispatch
- Parallelize CPU reference kernels with OpenMP (paged test 31s -> 7s)
- Merge decode/prefill standalone tests into attn_test.cu with correctness tables
- Drop bench error column (CPU ref too slow at large sizes)
- Update cuda_kernels.md for the merged test layout
- Converts detached strategy metrics before returning loss output
- Removes redundant item conversion from the trainer loop
- Updates the documented contract and regression tests
- Propagates MoE load-balancing loss through model outputs
- Logs task, auxiliary, and weighted losses across strategies
- Computes only explicitly requested callback metrics
- Preserves tensor compute_loss API and adds regression tests
- bind_tasks builds kv_indptr (prefix sum of seq_lens) a single time
- fwd_decode/fwd_prefill reuse it instead of rebuilding per layer
- Removes 24 cumsum launches per decode step (was ~1ms/step at B=4)
- Decode B=4: 9.60 -> 7.82 ms/step (-18.5%), +22.8% tok/s
- Remove tautological test_trainer assertions that never trained
- Drop grpo isfinite-only smokes and merge frozen-model checks via parametrize
- Merge duplicate tool_parser cases (find/streaming/factory) with parametrize
- Collapse duplicate dataset store/detect_format tests
- Remove misleading scheduler/task tests that asserted the opposite of their names
- Merge signal-handler SIGTERM/SIGINT into one parametrized case
- Drop cross-file grpo strategy duplication kept in online_strategy
- CudaBackend.fwd_decode passes attn_mask directly instead of kv_cache.decode_mask
- TorchNativeBackend derives pos_mask from attn_mask[:,0,0] on decode
- Drop decode_mask and page_table fields from KVCache and bind_tasks
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