- add logits_positions to AutoRegressiveLM.forward, gathering rows before the final norm so the lm_head GEMM covers only the positions prefill samples from
- execute_prefill builds last_token_indices up front and passes them in, dropping the post-forward gather of a [tokens, vocab] tensor
- prefill graph warmup passes a single index; decode stays untouched (every row is sampled) and prefill itself runs eager, so graph capture is unaffected
- update the ragged-prefill fake to slice by the received index and add a packed-row exact-equality test
Benchmark: NVIDIA L20 (idle), CUDA 12.8, torch 2.11.0+cu128, 1.2B bf16 checkpoint, 512-token prompts, greedy; prefill B=32: 368.1 -> 323.5 ms (44.5k -> 50.6k tok/s, +13.8%), B=8: 89.3 -> 78.9 ms (+13.2%), B=1: 12.3 -> 11.4 ms (+7.9%); decode step unchanged; full suite: 897 passed
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Extract _resolve_base_type and _validate_component as module-level helpers
- Replace ForwardRef._evaluate private API with eval in module namespace
- Remove broad except Exception in __init_subclass__, _component_base always set
- Replace direct _entries mutation in strategy.py with register() call form
- Remove dead TOKENIZER_CLASSES registry from AutoTokenizer
- Extract ModelFactory(BaseFactory[nn.Module]) as pure factory
- AutoModel now inherits only nn.Module, no factory state
- Move @AutoModel.register to @ModelFactory.register in transformer.py and encoder.py
- Add KVCache/CacheView abstract base classes in cache.py
- Add ContiguousCache (contiguous per-slot buffer, default) alongside PageCache (paged, renamed from old KVCache)
- Merge make_table_tensor + bind into bind_tasks on KVCache interface
- Remove task_cached/task_record_hashes from base class (PageCache-only)
- Scheduler: decode all position groups instead of just the largest (eliminates 63% group skip rate)
- Scheduler: accept optional cache param for swapping implementations
- Model layer type hints use CacheView base class
- Batch 1-32: 1-7% speedup from eliminating Storage.gather overhead
- All 183 inference tests pass
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