- Convert protocol and MoE test classes to plain functions
- Add real server/engine integration and generate_async tests
- Isolate test model per test and use pytest tmp_path
- Reset FastAPI engine state after inference tests
- Fix generate_async StopIteration handling on Python 3.12
- Fix HF adapter MoE dense/shared and Gemma qk_norm mapping
- Correct dev dependency httpx2 to httpx
- avoid constructing model_fn more than once when reading config
- keep inference package exports focused on public entry points
- rename extra strategy arguments to strategy_kwargs
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Precompute page_table and decode_mask on KVCache once per step in PagePool.bind_tasks, instead of per-layer in CudaBackend/TorchNativeBackend
- Skip frequency penalty history tensor construction when all penalties are 0 in Executor.execute_decode
- Omit FrequencyPenaltyStrategy from sampling pipeline when penalty is 0
- Deduplicate get_active_tasks calls in scheduler loop (3 to 1), remove redundant sorted() on decode tasks
- Benchmark (L20, bf16, CUDA backend): B=1 9.48->9.40ms (+1%), B=4 10.73->9.89ms (+8.6%), B=8 10.77->10.13ms (+6.4%)
- Replace all buffer[layer_id][loc] double indexing with buffer[layer_id, loc] single advanced indexing in cache.py and attention.py
- Revert KVStorage buffers back to 4D [n_layers, size, n_kv_heads, head_dim], remove leftover 3D reshape/view in MLA path
- Update docs/guides/inference.md, docs/developer/internals.md, docs/developer/architecture.md to reflect new PagePool/KVStorage/ReqToTokenPool/KVCache classes
- Replace hand-rolled BaseConfig (from_dict/to_dict/_coerce/_unwrap_optional) with pydantic.dataclasses
- from_dict now uses cls(**d), to_dict uses dataclasses.asdict + json.dumps filter
- TrainConfig: required fields are now truly required (no default=None), delete manual validate()/__post_init__
- Remove dead required() helper and metadata={'help': ...} annotations
- Fix gradient_checkpointing_modules type from List[str] to List[type]
- Add pydantic>=2.0 as direct dependency in pyproject.toml
- Add numpy-style Parameters docstrings to all config classes
- Enable use_attribute_docstrings in BaseConfig for schema generation
- LoRAConfig also migrated to pydantic dataclass
- Replace hand-rolled StreamDecoder (O(n^2) full-history re-decode per token) with tokenizers.decoders.DecodeStream
- Keep O(1) bounded token buffer internally via prefix drain instead of accumulating all token IDs
- Simplify flush_remaining to no-op since stream always emits completed text per step
- Benchmark on 8000 tokens: 2305ms -> 3.9ms (~592x speedup)
- Replace .tolist() calls with _total_len in gather(); move _slot_len updates from per-layer write to once-per-step bind_tasks
- Use torch.as_tensor instead of torch.tensor in decode penalty history construction
- RolloutGenerator._instruction_to_messages builds system/user/assistant list (instruction->system, input->user, output->assistant), replacing single-user-turn concatenation
- Remove _iter_samples helper; _prepare_prompts zips parallel list-of-strings fields directly per the collate_fn contract
- Tests adopt a system-aware chat template and pin the three-field role mapping
- Drop unused imports caught by ruff F401 (torch.Tensor in scheduler.py, iter_raw_records in pipeline.py, Tuple in evaluate_rouge.py)
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