fix: size KV pool from prompt/gen args in benchmark

- 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)
perf: target 512 grid blocks for decode split-K
2026-08-02 16:25:27 +08:00 · 2026-08-02 16:10:40 +08:00 · 2026-08-02 13:20:14 +08:00 · 2026-08-02 07:39:24 +08:00 · 2026-08-02 06:38:28 +08:00 · 2026-08-02 06:30:43 +08:00
148 changed files with 10583 additions and 5163 deletions
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 # Allow necessary files
 !astrai/
 !scripts/
-!assets/
+!docs/
+!csrc/
+!setup.py
 !pyproject.toml
 !README.md
@@ -26,22 +26,30 @@ jobs:
          if-no-files-found: error

  build-cuda-linux:
-    name: Build CUDA wheel (Linux)
+    name: Build CUDA wheel (Linux, ${{ matrix.cuda_tag }})
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        include:
+          - cuda_tag: "cu128"
+            cuda_ver: "12.8.0"
+          - cuda_tag: "cu130"
+            cuda_ver: "13.0.0"
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
        with:
          python-version: "3.12"

-      - name: Install torch (CUDA 12.8)
+      - name: Install torch (${{ matrix.cuda_tag }})
        run: |
-          pip install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128
+          pip install torch --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/${{ matrix.cuda_tag }}

-      - name: Setup CUDA
+      - name: Setup CUDA (${{ matrix.cuda_ver }})
        uses: Jimver/cuda-toolkit@v0.2.35
        with:
-          cuda: "12.8.0"
+          cuda: "${{ matrix.cuda_ver }}"

      - name: Build wheel (with CUDA kernels)
        run: |
@@ -49,7 +57,7 @@ jobs:

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
-          name: cuda-wheel-linux
+          name: cuda-wheel-linux-${{ matrix.cuda_tag }}
          path: dist/*.whl
          if-no-files-found: error

@@ -66,10 +74,11 @@ jobs:
          name: pure-wheel
          path: release-assets/pure

-      - name: Download CUDA wheel
+      - name: Download CUDA wheels (all variants)
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
        with:
-          name: cuda-wheel-linux
+          pattern: cuda-wheel-linux-*
+          merge-multiple: true
          path: release-assets/cuda

      - name: Verify release assets
@@ -79,8 +88,7 @@ jobs:
          pure_wheels=(release-assets/pure/*.whl)
          cuda_wheels=(release-assets/cuda/*.whl)
          test "${#pure_wheels[@]}" -eq 1
-          test "${#cuda_wheels[@]}" -eq 1
-          test "$(basename "${pure_wheels[0]}")" != "$(basename "${cuda_wheels[0]}")"
+          test "${#cuda_wheels[@]}" -ge 1

      - name: Create release & upload assets
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v2
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 !/.dockerignore
 !/Dockerfile
 !/docker-compose.yml
-!/assets/**
+!/docs/**
 !/CONTRIBUTING.md
 !/LICENSE
 !/pyproject.toml
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ Run the following checks **in order** — CI will reject if any fail.
 ruff format .
 ```

-> **Note**: `ruff format` may rename parameters (e.g. `mask` → `attn_mask`).  
-> Always review the diff after formatting.
-
 ### 2. Import sorting

 ```bash
@@ -44,7 +41,7 @@ python -u -m pytest tests/ -v

 > Failed tests may leave orphan tempdirs under `%TEMP%`. Clean them manually if needed.

-### 4. (Optional) Full pre-commit check
+### 4. (Optional) Full pre-commit check script

 If you have Git Bash available:

@@ -52,12 +49,17 @@ If you have Git Bash available:
 bash scripts/pre_commit.sh
 ```

-This runs format check, import sort check, and tests in one go.
+The script installs development dependencies by default, then runs the format
+check, import sort check, and tests. If dependencies are already installed, use:
+
+```bash
+bash scripts/pre_commit.sh --skip-deps
+```

 ## Commit Style

 ```
-fix/feat/chore/docs/refactor/perf/test/style/ci/build/revert : short description (~50 chars)
+type: short description (~50 chars)

 - bullet point body (each ~60 chars)
 ```
@@ -73,7 +75,7 @@ fix/feat/chore/docs/refactor/perf/test/style/ci/build/revert : short description
 |---------|-------|-----|
 | `ruff check --select I` fails | Wrong import order | `ruff check . --select I --fix .` then `ruff format .` |
 | `ruff format` changed many files | Not formatted before commit | Review diff carefully before staging |
-| Pre-commit hook rejects | Tests or lint failed | Fix individually, do not `--no-verify` |
+| Pre-commit check script fails | Dependency install, tests, or lint failed | Fix the failing step; use `--skip-deps` only when dependencies are already installed |
 | Tests fail with tempdir left | Test crash | Clean `%TEMP%` manually |

 ## Submitting Changes
@@ -1,8 +1,16 @@
 # AstrAI Dockerfile - Multi-stage Build (Optimized)
+#
+# CUDA version selection:
+#   docker build -t astrai .
+#   docker build -t astrai --build-arg CUDA_TAG=cu128 .
+#   docker build -t astrai --build-arg CUDA_TAG=cu130 .
+# Default: cu128

 # Build stage - use base image with minimal build tools
 FROM ubuntu:24.04 AS builder

+ARG CUDA_TAG=cu128
+
 WORKDIR /app

 # Install Python 3.12 and minimal build dependencies
@@ -20,10 +28,12 @@ ENV PATH="/opt/venv/bin:$PATH"

 # Copy source code and install (deps read from pyproject.toml)
 COPY astrai/ ./astrai/
+COPY csrc/ ./csrc/
+COPY setup.py .
 COPY pyproject.toml .
 RUN pip install --no-cache-dir --upgrade pip \
    && pip install --no-cache-dir . \
-    --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu128
+    --extra-index-url "https://download.pytorch.org/whl/${CUDA_TAG}"

 # Production stage
 FROM ubuntu:24.04 AS production
@@ -43,7 +53,7 @@ ENV PATH="/opt/venv/bin:$PATH"
 # Copy application code
 COPY astrai/ ./astrai/
 COPY scripts/ ./scripts/
-COPY assets/ ./assets/
+COPY docs/ ./docs/
 COPY pyproject.toml .
 COPY README.md .

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <div align="center">
  
-  <img src="assets/images/logo.png" width="auto" alt="Logo">
+  <img src="docs/images/logo.png" width="auto" alt="Logo">
  <p>
    <strong>A lightweight Transformer training & inference framework</strong>
  </p>
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@

 <div align="center">
  <a href="#english">English</a> •
-  <a href="assets/docs/README-zh-CN.md">中文</a> •
+  <a href="docs/README-zh-CN.md">中文</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/ViperEkura/AstrAI/issues">Issue Tracker</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/ViperEkura/AstrAI/discussions">Discussions</a> •
  <a href="https://huggingface.co/ViperEkura">HuggingFace</a>
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ End-to-end walkthrough in 5 steps:

 **1. Install**

+AstrAI requires Python 3.12+ and pins PyTorch exactly to `2.11.0`. Training, `scripts/tools/generate.py`, generation evaluations, and the generation demos require CUDA; CPU support is limited to components with an explicit CPU device path, such as the HTTP server and direct-scoring evaluations.
+
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/ViperEkura/AstrAI.git
 cd AstrAI
@@ -132,7 +134,7 @@ Check out the demos in the `scripts/demo/` folder:
 # Download model weights (required before running demos)
 python scripts/demo/download.py                      # model → params/

-# Interactive streaming chat (multi-turn, maintains history)
+# Single-turn interactive streaming prompt loop (no conversation history)
 python scripts/demo/stream_chat.py
 # Type your message after >>, type !exit to quit

@@ -183,7 +185,7 @@ docker run --gpus all -v /path/to/data:/data -it astrai:latest
 # Docker Compose (GPU, default)
 docker compose up -d

-# Docker Compose (CPU only)
+# Docker Compose CPU server profile (CUDA-only generation scripts/demos are unavailable)
 docker compose --profile cpu up -d
 ```

@@ -213,18 +215,23 @@ curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/messages \
 curl http://localhost:8000/health
 ```

-See [Inference Guide](assets/docs/inference.md) for SSE streaming format, error codes, and stats endpoint.
+See [Inference Guide](docs/guides/inference.md) for SSE streaming format, error codes, and stats endpoint.

 ### Documentation

 | Document | Description |
 |----------|-------------|
-| [CLI Reference](./assets/docs/params.md) | Parameters for all CLI tools (train, server, generate, preprocess) |
-| [Architecture](./assets/docs/architecture.md) | System architecture, class diagram & design patterns |
-| [Training](./assets/docs/training.md) | Training loop, strategies & formulas |
-| [Inference](./assets/docs/inference.md) | KVCache, continuous batching, sampling & HTTP API |
-| [Data Flow](./assets/docs/dataflow.md) | Data pipeline, storage backends & dataset architecture |
-| [Preprocessing](./assets/docs/preprocessing.md) | Declarative JSON-driven data preprocessing |
+| [Get Started](./docs/get-started.md) | Installation and quickstart |
+| [CLI Reference](./docs/guides/params.md) | Parameters for all CLI tools (train, server, generate, preprocess) |
+| [Preprocessing](./docs/guides/preprocessing.md) | Declarative JSON-driven data preprocessing |
+| [Training](./docs/guides/training.md) | Training loop, strategies & formulas |
+| [Inference](./docs/guides/inference.md) | KVCache, continuous batching, sampling & HTTP API |
+| [Evaluation](./docs/guides/evaluation.md) | HumanEval, MMLU, PPL, ROUGE, IFD, IFEval |
+| [Distributed](./docs/guides/distributed.md) | Multi-GPU DDP / FSDP training |
+| [Architecture](./docs/developer/architecture.md) | System architecture, class diagram & design patterns |
+| [Data Flow](./docs/developer/dataflow.md) | Data pipeline, storage backends & dataset architecture |
+| [Internals](./docs/developer/internals.md) | Training internals: loss formulas, callback lifecycle, KV cache |
+| [CUDA Kernels](./docs/developer/cuda_kernels.md) | Custom CUDA attention kernels & benchmarks |

 ### Contributing

@@ -251,4 +258,4 @@ This project is licensed under the [GPL-3.0 License](LICENSE).

 <div align="center">
  <em>A lightweight Transformer framework designed for both high performance and ease of use.</em>
-</div>
+</div>
@@ -1,130 +0,0 @@
-# Data Flow
-
-This document describes the data pipeline: from raw text to model input tensors. For creating preprocessing configs, see [Preprocessing Guide](preprocessing.md).
-
-## Contents
-
- [Overview](#overview)
- [Data Preparation](#data-preparation) — tokenization, format detection, backends
- [Data Keys by Training Type](#data-keys-by-training-type)
- [Dataset Architecture](#dataset-architecture)
- [Sampler](#sampler)
- [DataLoader](#dataloader)
-
-## Overview
-
-```
-JSONL Lines → Pipeline (mask builder) → Tokenized Tensors
-                                              ↓
-                                      .h5 or .bin storage
-                                              ↓
-                                      Store.load()
-                                              ↓
-                                      Store.fetch(begin, end, keys)
-                                              ↓
-                                      BaseDataset.__getitem__(idx)
-                                              ↓
-                                      Sampler → DataLoader → Training / Inference
-```
-
-## Data Preparation
-
-Raw text is tokenized via `AutoTokenizer.encode()` and saved as HDF5 (`.h5`) or binary (`.bin` + `meta.json`) files with keyed tensor groups.
-
-### Tokenization
-
-The `Pipeline` reads JSONL lines, applies the mask builder (see [Preprocessing](preprocessing.md)), and produces flat token sequences:
-
-```python
-# Per JSONL line: messages → chat template → token IDs + loss mask
-tokens = tokenizer.encode(rendered_text)        # List[int]
-loss_mask = [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]        # 0=masked, 1=train
-# Stored as flat tensors, packed with other lines by packing strategy
-```
-
-The output `meta.json` records the storage format, key names, dtype, total token count, and tensor shapes for each shard.
-
-### Format Detection
-
-`detect_format(load_path)` inspects the path:
-
- If `load_path` is a file: checks suffix — `.h5`/`.hdf5` → `"h5"`, `.jsonl` → `"jsonl"`, unknown suffix raises `ValueError`
- If `load_path` is a directory: recursively globs for `*.h5`/`*.hdf5` files → `"h5"`, `*.bin` + `**/meta.json` → `"bin"`, or `*.jsonl` + `dataset_config.json` → `"jsonl"`
-
-### Store Backends
-
-Storage format is auto-detected by `detect_format()`; backends are dispatched via registry:
-
-```
-StoreFactory.create("h5")    → H5Store
-StoreFactory.create("bin")   → MmapStore
-StoreFactory.create("jsonl") → JsonlStore
-```
-
-All three inherit `Store` (base, owns `_data`/`_cum`/`_offsets`/`_normalize`) plus the `Streamable` and `Recordable` mixins, so every backend supports both `fetch(begin, end, keys)` (stream) and `fetch_record(index, keys)` (record) APIs.
-
-**H5Store**: Reads HDF5 files. Tensors are loaded into host memory and normalized into segmented storage. `segments_are_records=True` — each `data_i` dataset is one record.
-
-**MmapStore**: Memory-maps `.bin` files. OS page cache sharing is native — no explicit `share_memory_()` needed. Uses `torch.from_numpy(np.memmap(...))`. `segments_are_records=False` — bin segments are contiguous streams; record access is driven by `_offsets` (written when `save_bin(..., record_keys=...)` was used at preprocessing time).
-
-**JsonlStore**: On-the-fly tokenization of raw JSONL files at load time. Requires a `dataset_config.json` alongside the `.jsonl` files following the same `PipelineConfig` schema with an additional `tokenizer_path` field. Two modes: eager (default, applies `TokenizeTransform` to all records at load) and lazy (`processor=fn` given, defers tokenisation to `fetch_record` — used by DPO/GRPO).
-
-All backends normalise tensors into `Store._data[Dict[str, List[Tensor]]]` + `Store._cum[Dict[str, List[int]]]` (cumulative lengths for bisect-based stream indexing) + `Store._offsets[Dict[str, List[int]]]` (per-record offsets for record-mode indexing). Nested keys (GRPO `responses`/`masks` as `List[List[Tensor]]`) are stored as-is and excluded from both bookkeepings — they are only accessed record-by-record.
-
-## Data Keys by Training Type
-
-| Type | Storage Keys | Access Mode |
-|------|-------------|-------------|
-| `seq` | `sequence` (→ input_ids, target_ids via offset-by-1) | stream (`fetch`) |
-| `sft` | `sequence`, `loss_mask`, `position_ids` | stream (`fetch`) |
-| `dpo` | `chosen`, `rejected`, `chosen_mask`, `rejected_mask` | record (`fetch_record`) |
-| `grpo` | `prompts`, `responses`, `masks`, `rewards` | record (`fetch_record`) |
-
-## Dataset Architecture
-
-```
-DatasetFactory.load(train_type, load_path, window_size, stride=None,
-                    storage_type=None, tokenizer_path=None,
-                    max_position_embeddings=2048, store=None)
-  → BaseDataset.load(load_path, storage_type=None)
-    → detect_format(load_path)
-    → StoreFactory.create(storage_type)
-    → Store.load(load_path)
-      → _normalize(raw)  # base Store, shared by both backends
-        → Store._data[Dict[str, List[Tensor]]]
-          + _cum[Dict[str, List[int]]]   (stream mode)
-          + _offsets[Dict[str, List[int]]]  (record mode)
-
-Stream datasets (SEQ/SFT):
-  BaseDataset.__getitem__(idx)
-    → get_index(idx) → [begin, end)
-    → Store.fetch(begin, end, keys) → Tensor / Dict[str, Tensor]
-
-Record datasets (DPO/GRPO via RecordDataset):
-  RecordDataset.__getitem__(idx)
-    → Store.fetch_record(idx, keys) → Tensor / Dict[str, Tensor]
-```
-
-Class hierarchy: `BaseDataset` ← `SEQDataset` / `SFTDataset` (stream); `BaseDataset` ← `RecordDataset` ← `DPODataset` / `GRPODataset` (record).
-
-`window_size` = max input length, `stride` = step between consecutive samples (defaults to `window_size`, optional). Only meaningful for stream datasets — record datasets ignore both. `storage_type` defaults to `None` (auto-detect via `detect_format`).
-
-`tokenizer_path` triggers lazy on-the-fly tokenisation for record datasets on raw JSONL (DPO builds a `dpo_processor`; SEQ/SFT/pre-tokenised backends ignore it). `store` (pre-built `Store`) bypasses `load_path`/`storage_type`/`tokenizer_path` entirely — the caller controls Store construction.
-
-`Store.fetch(begin, end, keys)` (stream mode, on `Streamable`): accepts a single key (`str`) returning a `Tensor`, or a list of keys returning `Dict[str, Tensor]`. Internally uses `bisect` across multi-segment tensors. Raises `RuntimeError("Store not loaded")` if called before `load()`.
-
-`Store.fetch_record(index, keys)` (record mode, on `Recordable`): same key API. Uses `_offsets[key]` when present (bin layout with per-record offsets), otherwise indexes `_data[key]` directly (H5/JSONL where each segment is one record).
-
-## Sampler
-
-`ResumableDistributedSampler` supports checkpoint-aware distributed sampling:
-
- Tracks `start_epoch` / `start_iter` for resume
- Shuffle via `torch.Generator(seed + epoch)`
- Per-replica index slicing for DDP
-
-## DataLoader
-
-Standard PyTorch `DataLoader` with configurable `batch_size`, `num_workers`, `pin_memory`, `prefetch_factor`. Sampler produces indices; dataloader fetches tensor batches via `__getitem__`.
-
-> Document Update Time: 2026-07-19
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
-__version__ = "1.3.11"
+__version__ = "1.3.12"
 __author__ = "ViperEkura"

+import logging
+import os
+
 from astrai.config import (
    AutoRegressiveLMConfig,
    BaseModelConfig,
@@ -53,6 +56,30 @@ from astrai.trainer import (
    Trainer,
 )

+
+def setup_logging(level: str = "INFO"):
+    """Attach a handler to the ``astrai`` logger (only, not root).
+
+    Call once per process, e.g. at the top of CLI scripts.
+    Set ``ASTR_LOG_LEVEL`` to override the default ``INFO``.
+    """
+    _logger = logging.getLogger("astrai")
+    if _logger.handlers:
+        return
+    _level = getattr(
+        logging, os.environ.get("ASTR_LOG_LEVEL", level).upper(), logging.INFO
+    )
+    _logger.setLevel(_level)
+    _handler = logging.StreamHandler()
+    _handler.setFormatter(
+        logging.Formatter(
+            "%(asctime)s | %(levelname)-7s | %(name)s | %(message)s",
+            datefmt="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S",
+        )
+    )
+    _logger.addHandler(_handler)
+
+
 __all__ = [
    "AutoRegressiveLM",
    "AutoRegressiveLMConfig",
@@ -94,5 +121,6 @@ __all__ = [
    "only_on_rank",
    "run_server",
    "sample",
+    "setup_logging",
    "spawn_parallel_fn",
 ]
@@ -1,92 +1,32 @@
 import json
-from dataclasses import MISSING, dataclass, fields
+from dataclasses import asdict
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Self, Union, get_type_hints
+from typing import Any, Dict, Self, Union
+
+from pydantic import ConfigDict
+from pydantic.dataclasses import dataclass


-@dataclass
+@dataclass(config=ConfigDict(use_attribute_docstrings=True))
 class BaseConfig:
    def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        d = {}
-        for fld in fields(self):
-            v = getattr(self, fld.name)
-            if isinstance(v, (str, int, float, bool)):
-                d[fld.name] = v
-            elif v is None:
-                d[fld.name] = None
-            elif isinstance(v, (dict, list, tuple)):
-                try:
-                    val = list(v) if isinstance(v, tuple) else v
-                    json.dumps(val)
-                    d[fld.name] = val
-                except (TypeError, ValueError):
-                    pass
-            elif isinstance(v, BaseConfig):
-                d[fld.name] = v.to_dict()
-            elif hasattr(v, "__dataclass_fields__"):
-                sub = {}
-                for f in fields(v):
-                    a = getattr(v, f.name)
-                    sub[f.name] = list(a) if isinstance(a, tuple) else a
-                d[fld.name] = sub
-        return d
+        result = {}
+        for k, v in asdict(self).items():
+            if isinstance(v, tuple):
+                v = list(v)
+            try:
+                json.dumps(v)
+                result[k] = v
+            except (TypeError, ValueError):
+                # Skip non-serializable runtime objects (e.g. model_fn, dataset).
+                # TrainConfig mixes hyperparams with callables/datasets; only the
+                # JSON-serializable subset is written to checkpoint meta.
+                pass
+        return result

    @classmethod
    def from_dict(cls, d: Dict[str, Any]) -> Self:
-        hints = get_type_hints(cls)
-        inst = cls.__new__(cls)
-        for fld in fields(cls):
-            if fld.name in d:
-                v = d[fld.name]
-                target = cls._unwrap_optional(hints.get(fld.name))
-                if target is not None:
-                    try:
-                        v = cls._coerce(v, target)
-                    except (TypeError, ValueError):
-                        pass
-                object.__setattr__(inst, fld.name, v)
-            elif fld.default is not MISSING:
-                object.__setattr__(inst, fld.name, fld.default)
-            elif fld.default_factory is not MISSING:
-                object.__setattr__(inst, fld.name, fld.default_factory())
-            else:
-                object.__setattr__(inst, fld.name, None)
-        return inst
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def _unwrap_optional(tp) -> Optional[type]:
-        if tp is None:
-            return None
-        origin = getattr(tp, "__origin__", None)
-        if origin is not None:
-            args = getattr(tp, "__args__", ())
-            non_none = [a for a in args if a is not type(None)]
-            return non_none[0] if non_none else None
-        return tp
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def _coerce(value: Any, target_type: type) -> Any:
-        if target_type is bool and isinstance(value, bool):
-            return value
-        if (
-            target_type is int
-            and isinstance(value, (int, float))
-            and not isinstance(value, bool)
-        ):
-            return int(value)
-        if (
-            target_type is float
-            and isinstance(value, (int, float))
-            and not isinstance(value, bool)
-        ):
-            return float(value)
-        if target_type is str and isinstance(value, str):
-            return value
-        if isinstance(value, target_type):
-            return value
-        if isinstance(value, dict) and issubclass(target_type, BaseConfig):
-            return target_type.from_dict(value)
-        raise TypeError
+        return cls(**d)

    @classmethod
    def from_file(cls, path: Union[str, Path]) -> Self:
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
-from dataclasses import dataclass
 from typing import Any, Dict, Optional

+from pydantic import field_validator
+from pydantic.dataclasses import dataclass
+
 from astrai.config.base import BaseConfig
 from astrai.factory import BaseFactory

+_ATTN_TYPES = frozenset({"gqa", "mla"})
+_FFN_TYPES = frozenset({"mlp", "moe"})
+

 class ConfigFactory(BaseFactory[BaseConfig]):
    """Factory that dispatches config classes by ``model_type``."""
@@ -17,7 +22,12 @@ class ConfigFactory(BaseFactory[BaseConfig]):

@dataclass
 class BaseModelConfig(BaseConfig):
-    """Base config with ``model_type`` dispatch and file I/O."""
+    """Base config with ``model_type`` dispatch and file I/O.
+
+    Args:
+        model_type (Optional[str]): Model type identifier for AutoModel dispatch. Defaults to None.
+        neftune_alpha (float): NEFTune noise alpha, 0=disabled, typical: 5.0. Defaults to 0.0.
+    """

    model_type: Optional[str] = None
    neftune_alpha: float = 0.0
@@ -26,7 +36,39 @@ class BaseModelConfig(BaseConfig):
@dataclass
@ConfigFactory.register("autoregressive_lm")
 class AutoRegressiveLMConfig(BaseModelConfig):
-    """Configuration for autoregressive language model."""
+    """Configuration for autoregressive language model.
+
+    Args:
+        model_type (Optional[str]): Model type identifier for AutoModel dispatch. Defaults to None.
+        neftune_alpha (float): NEFTune noise alpha, 0=disabled, typical: 5.0. Defaults to 0.0.
+        vocab_size (Optional[int]): Vocabulary size. Defaults to None.
+        hidden_size (Optional[int]): Hidden dimension size. Defaults to None.
+        num_hidden_layers (Optional[int]): Number of transformer layers. Defaults to None.
+        rms_norm_eps (Optional[float]): Epsilon for RMSNorm. Defaults to None.
+        intermediate_size (Optional[int]): Intermediate size in FFN. Defaults to None.
+        tie_word_embeddings (Optional[bool]): Whether to tie embedding and lm_head weights. Defaults to None.
+        max_position_embeddings (Optional[int]): Maximum sequence length the model was trained with. Defaults to None.
+        rope_theta (Optional[float]): Base frequency for RoPE. Defaults to None.
+        rope_scaling (Optional[dict]): RoPE scaling config, e.g. {"type": "linear", "factor": 4.0}. Defaults to None.
+        attn_type (str): Attention type: 'gqa' or 'mla'. Defaults to "gqa".
+        num_attention_heads (Optional[int]): Number of query attention heads. Defaults to None.
+        num_key_value_heads (Optional[int]): Number of key/value heads for GQA. Defaults to None.
+        use_qk_norm (Optional[bool]): Whether to apply RMSNorm to Q/K. Defaults to None.
+        use_gated_attention (Optional[bool]): Whether to use gated attention. Defaults to None.
+        kv_lora_rank (Optional[int]): KV compression rank, MLA only. Defaults to None.
+        qk_nope_head_dim (Optional[int]): Non-RoPE head dimension, MLA only. Defaults to None.
+        qk_rope_head_dim (Optional[int]): RoPE head dimension, MLA only. Defaults to None.
+        ffn_type (str): FFN type: 'mlp' or 'moe'. Defaults to "mlp".
+        n_routed_experts (Optional[int]): Number of routed experts, MoE only. Defaults to None.
+        n_shared_experts (Optional[int]): Number of shared experts, MoE only. Defaults to None.
+        n_activated_experts (Optional[int]): Number of activated experts per token, MoE only. Defaults to None.
+        topk_method (Optional[str]): Top-k routing method, MoE only. Defaults to None.
+        moe_intermediate_size (Optional[int]): Expert hidden dim, defaults to intermediate_size if None. MoE only.
+        shared_expert_intermediate_size (Optional[int]): Shared expert hidden dim, defaults to intermediate_size if None. MoE only.
+        norm_topk_prob (bool): Normalize top-k routing probabilities. Defaults to True.
+        decoder_sparse_step (int): Frequency of MoE layers, 1=every layer. Defaults to 1.
+        mlp_only_layers (Optional[list[int]]): Layer indices using dense MLP instead of MoE. Defaults to None.
+    """

    vocab_size: Optional[int] = None
    hidden_size: Optional[int] = None
@@ -34,49 +76,102 @@ class AutoRegressiveLMConfig(BaseModelConfig):
    rms_norm_eps: Optional[float] = None
    intermediate_size: Optional[int] = None
    tie_word_embeddings: Optional[bool] = None
-
    max_position_embeddings: Optional[int] = None
    rope_theta: Optional[float] = None
    rope_scaling: Optional[dict] = None
-
    attn_type: str = "gqa"
    num_attention_heads: Optional[int] = None
    num_key_value_heads: Optional[int] = None
    use_qk_norm: Optional[bool] = None
    use_gated_attention: Optional[bool] = None
-
    kv_lora_rank: Optional[int] = None
    qk_nope_head_dim: Optional[int] = None
    qk_rope_head_dim: Optional[int] = None
-
    ffn_type: str = "mlp"
    n_routed_experts: Optional[int] = None
    n_shared_experts: Optional[int] = None
    n_activated_experts: Optional[int] = None
    topk_method: Optional[str] = None
+    moe_intermediate_size: Optional[int] = None
+    shared_expert_intermediate_size: Optional[int] = None
+    norm_topk_prob: bool = True
+    decoder_sparse_step: int = 1
+    mlp_only_layers: Optional[list[int]] = None
+
+    @field_validator("attn_type")
+    def _validate_attn_type(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _ATTN_TYPES:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"attn_type must be one of {sorted(_ATTN_TYPES)}, got {v!r}"
+            )
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("ffn_type")
+    def _validate_ffn_type(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _FFN_TYPES:
+            raise ValueError(f"ffn_type must be one of {sorted(_FFN_TYPES)}, got {v!r}")
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("decoder_sparse_step")
+    def _validate_decoder_sparse_step(cls, v: int) -> int:
+        if v < 1:
+            raise ValueError(f"decoder_sparse_step must be at least 1, got {v}")
+        return v


@dataclass
@ConfigFactory.register("embedding")
 class EncoderConfig(BaseModelConfig):
-    """Configuration for embedding encoder model."""
+    """Configuration for embedding encoder model.
+
+    Args:
+        model_type (Optional[str]): Model type identifier for AutoModel dispatch. Defaults to None.
+        neftune_alpha (float): NEFTune noise alpha, 0=disabled, typical: 5.0. Defaults to 0.0.
+        vocab_size (Optional[int]): Vocabulary size. Defaults to None.
+        hidden_size (Optional[int]): Hidden dimension size. Defaults to None.
+        num_hidden_layers (Optional[int]): Number of transformer layers. Defaults to None.
+        rms_norm_eps (Optional[float]): Epsilon for RMSNorm. Defaults to None.
+        intermediate_size (Optional[int]): Intermediate size in FFN. Defaults to None.
+        max_position_embeddings (Optional[int]): Maximum sequence length the model was trained with. Defaults to None.
+        rope_theta (Optional[float]): Base frequency for RoPE. Defaults to None.
+        rope_scaling (Optional[dict]): RoPE scaling config, e.g. {"type": "linear", "factor": 4.0}. Defaults to None.
+        attn_type (str): Attention type: 'gqa' or 'mla'. Defaults to "gqa".
+        num_attention_heads (Optional[int]): Number of query attention heads. Defaults to None.
+        num_key_value_heads (Optional[int]): Number of key/value heads for GQA. Defaults to None.
+        use_qk_norm (Optional[bool]): Whether to apply RMSNorm to Q/K. Defaults to None.
+        use_gated_attention (Optional[bool]): Whether to use gated attention. Defaults to None.
+        ffn_type (str): FFN type: 'mlp' or 'moe'. Defaults to "mlp".
+        pooling_type (Optional[str]): Pooling strategy for embedding, e.g. 'mean', 'cls'. Defaults to None.
+        normalize_embeddings (Optional[bool]): Whether to L2-normalize output embeddings. Defaults to None.
+    """

    vocab_size: Optional[int] = None
    hidden_size: Optional[int] = None
    num_hidden_layers: Optional[int] = None
    rms_norm_eps: Optional[float] = None
    intermediate_size: Optional[int] = None
-
    max_position_embeddings: Optional[int] = None
    rope_theta: Optional[float] = None
    rope_scaling: Optional[dict] = None
-
    attn_type: str = "gqa"
    num_attention_heads: Optional[int] = None
    num_key_value_heads: Optional[int] = None
    use_qk_norm: Optional[bool] = None
    use_gated_attention: Optional[bool] = None
-
    ffn_type: str = "mlp"
    pooling_type: Optional[str] = None
    normalize_embeddings: Optional[bool] = None
+
+    @field_validator("attn_type")
+    def _validate_attn_type(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _ATTN_TYPES:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"attn_type must be one of {sorted(_ATTN_TYPES)}, got {v!r}"
+            )
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("ffn_type")
+    def _validate_ffn_type(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _FFN_TYPES:
+            raise ValueError(f"ffn_type must be one of {sorted(_FFN_TYPES)}, got {v!r}")
+        return v
@@ -5,11 +5,19 @@ modes, both driven declaratively through ``input.sections`` or
 ``input.sources``.
 """

-from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from dataclasses import field
 from typing import Dict, List, Optional

+from pydantic import field_validator
+from pydantic.dataclasses import dataclass
+
 from astrai.config.base import BaseConfig

+_PACKING_STRATEGIES = frozenset({"simple", "bfd", "bfd_split"})
+_TRUNCATION_MODES = frozenset({"keep_start", "keep_end"})
+_STORAGE_FORMATS = frozenset({"bin", "jsonl"})
+_POSITION_IDS_MODES = frozenset({"none", "doc_reset", "continuous"})
+

@dataclass
 class InputConfig(BaseConfig):
@@ -25,6 +33,10 @@ class InputConfig(BaseConfig):
            "chosen": {"sections": [{"field": "chosen", ...}]},
            "rejected": {"sections": [{"field": "rejected", ...}]},
        }}}
+
+    Args:
+        sections (Optional[List[Dict]]): Section list for single-output mode. Defaults to None.
+        sources (Optional[Dict[str, Dict]]): Source map for multi-output mode, DPO/GRPO. Defaults to None.
    """

    sections: Optional[List[Dict]] = None
@@ -33,34 +45,17 @@ class InputConfig(BaseConfig):

@dataclass
 class ProcessingConfig(BaseConfig):
-    """Processing configuration.
+    """Processing configuration for tokenization and packing.

-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    max_seq_len : int
-        Maximum sequence length (default: 2048).
-    min_chars : int
-        Minimum number of characters to keep (default: 50).
-    max_chars : int
-        Maximum number of characters to keep (default: 2_000_000).
-    max_items : Optional[int]
-        Maximum number of items to process (default: None, unlimited).
-    batch_size : int
-        Number of records tokenized together (default: 256).
-    packing_strategy : str
-        How to pack sequences into a contiguous stream.
-
-        - ``"simple"``: sequential concatenation (default, backward compatible).
-        - ``"bfd"``: best-fit decreasing bin packing, minimises wasted tokens.
-        - ``"bfd_split"``: BFD with over-length sequences split into chunks.
-    max_packed_len : int
-        Maximum length of a packed bin. Sequences longer than this are
-        truncated or split depending on ``packing_strategy`` (default: 8192).
-    truncation_mode : str
-        How to truncate sequences longer than ``max_packed_len``.
-
-        - ``"keep_start"``: keep the first ``max_packed_len`` tokens (default).
-        - ``"keep_end"``: keep the last ``max_packed_len`` tokens.
+    Args:
+        max_seq_len (int): Maximum sequence length. Defaults to 2048.
+        min_chars (int): Minimum number of characters to keep. Defaults to 50.
+        max_chars (int): Maximum number of characters to keep. Defaults to 2_000_000.
+        max_items (Optional[int]): Maximum number of items to process, None=unlimited. Defaults to None.
+        batch_size (int): Number of records tokenized together. Defaults to 256.
+        packing_strategy (str): How to pack sequences: 'simple', 'bfd', or 'bfd_split'. Defaults to "simple".
+        max_packed_len (int): Maximum length of a packed bin. Defaults to 8192.
+        truncation_mode (str): How to truncate over-length sequences: 'keep_start' or 'keep_end'. Defaults to "keep_start".
    """

    max_seq_len: int = 2048
@@ -72,27 +67,45 @@ class ProcessingConfig(BaseConfig):
    max_packed_len: int = 8192
    truncation_mode: str = "keep_start"

+    @field_validator("packing_strategy")
+    def _validate_packing_strategy(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _PACKING_STRATEGIES:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"packing_strategy must be one of {sorted(_PACKING_STRATEGIES)}, got {v!r}"
+            )
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("truncation_mode")
+    def _validate_truncation_mode(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _TRUNCATION_MODES:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"truncation_mode must be one of {sorted(_TRUNCATION_MODES)}, got {v!r}"
+            )
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("max_seq_len", "batch_size", "max_packed_len")
+    def _validate_positive_int(cls, v: int) -> int:
+        if v <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"must be positive, got {v}")
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("min_chars")
+    def _validate_non_negative(cls, v: int) -> int:
+        if v < 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"min_chars must be non-negative, got {v}")
+        return v
+

@dataclass
 class OutputConfig(BaseConfig):
-    """Output configuration.
+    """Output configuration for storage.

-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    domain_key : Optional[str]
-        Domain key for the output store (default: None).
-    storage_format : str
-        Storage format, one of ``"bin"``, ``"jsonl"`` (default: ``"bin"``).
-    max_tokens_per_shard : int
-        Maximum tokens per shard before splitting (default: 100_000_000).
-    dtype : Dict[str, str]
-        Per-key dtype overrides, e.g. ``{"input_ids": "int32"}`` (default: {}).
-    position_ids_mode : Optional[str]
-        How to compute position_ids in packed sequences.
-
-         - ``"none"``: do not generate (default).
-        - ``"doc_reset"``: reset to 0 at each document boundary.
-        - ``"continuous"``: sequential 0, 1, 2, ... (pretrain, single doc).
+    Args:
+        domain_key (Optional[str]): Domain key for the output store. Defaults to None.
+        storage_format (str): Storage format: 'bin' or 'jsonl'. Defaults to "bin".
+        max_tokens_per_shard (int): Maximum tokens per shard before splitting. Defaults to 100_000_000.
+        dtype (Dict[str, str]): Per-key dtype overrides, e.g. {"input_ids": "int32"}. Defaults to {}.
+        position_ids_mode (str): Position ids mode: 'none', 'doc_reset', or 'continuous'. Defaults to "doc_reset".
    """

    domain_key: Optional[str] = None
@@ -101,9 +114,36 @@ class OutputConfig(BaseConfig):
    dtype: Dict[str, str] = field(default_factory=dict)
    position_ids_mode: str = "doc_reset"

+    @field_validator("storage_format")
+    def _validate_storage_format(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _STORAGE_FORMATS:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"storage_format must be one of {sorted(_STORAGE_FORMATS)}, got {v!r}"
+            )
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("position_ids_mode")
+    def _validate_position_ids_mode(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _POSITION_IDS_MODES:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"position_ids_mode must be one of {sorted(_POSITION_IDS_MODES)}, got {v!r}"
+            )
+        return v
+

@dataclass
 class PipelineConfig(BaseConfig):
+    """Top-level preprocessing pipeline config.
+
+    Args:
+        version (int): Config schema version. Defaults to 1.
+        input (InputConfig): Input mapping config.
+        mask (Dict[str, str]): Per-field mask labels, e.g. {"system": "mask", "assistant": "train"}. Defaults to {}.
+        mask_default (str): Default mask label for unlisted fields. Defaults to "mask".
+        preprocessing (ProcessingConfig): Processing config.
+        output (OutputConfig): Output config.
+    """
+
    version: int = 1
    input: InputConfig = field(default_factory=InputConfig)
    mask: Dict[str, str] = field(default_factory=dict)
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
-from dataclasses import dataclass, field, fields
+from dataclasses import field
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional

 import torch.nn as nn
+from pydantic import ConfigDict, field_validator, model_validator
+from pydantic.dataclasses import dataclass
 from torch.optim import Optimizer
 from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import LRScheduler
 from torch.utils.data import Dataset
@@ -9,173 +11,208 @@ from torch.utils.data import Dataset
 from astrai.config.base import BaseConfig
 from astrai.model.components.lora import LoRAConfig

-
-def required(**kw):
-    return {"required": True, **kw}
+_TRAIN_TYPES = frozenset({"seq", "sft", "dpo", "grpo", "online_grpo", "online_dpo"})
+_PARALLEL_MODES = frozenset({"none", "ddp", "fsdp"})
+_BACKENDS = frozenset({"nccl", "gloo"})
+_START_METHODS = frozenset({"spawn", "fork", "forkserver"})
+_COMPILE_MODES = frozenset({"default", "reduce-overhead", "max-autotune"})


-@dataclass
+@dataclass(config=ConfigDict(arbitrary_types_allowed=True))
 class TrainConfig(BaseConfig):
-    # basic setting
-    model_fn: Callable[[], nn.Module] = field(
-        default=None, metadata=required(help="Model factory for training.")
-    )
-    strategy: str = field(default=None, metadata=required(help="Training strategy."))
-    dataset: Dataset = field(
-        default=None, metadata=required(help="Dataset for training.")
-    )
-    optimizer_fn: Callable[[nn.Module], Optimizer] = field(
-        default=None, metadata=required(help="Optimizer factory for training.")
-    )
-    scheduler_fn: Callable[[Optimizer], LRScheduler] = field(
-        default=None, metadata=required(help="Scheduler factory for training.")
-    )
-    n_epoch: int = field(default=1, metadata={"help": "Number of epochs for training."})
-    batch_per_device: int = field(
-        default=4, metadata={"help": "Batch size per device."}
-    )
-    grad_accum_steps: int = field(
-        default=1, metadata={"help": "Number of iterations between steps."}
-    )
-    max_grad_norm: Optional[float] = field(
-        default=1.0,
-        metadata={"help": "Maximum gradient norm. None disables clipping."},
-    )
-    gradient_checkpointing_modules: List[str] = field(
-        default_factory=list,
-        metadata={"help": "Module types to enable activation checkpointing for."},
-    )
+    """Training configuration.

-    # checkpoint setting
-    start_epoch: int = field(default=0, metadata={"help": "Start epoch for training."})
-    start_samples: int = field(
-        default=0,
-        metadata={
-            "help": "Start samples count (per rank). Superseded by checkpoint consumed_samples."
-        },
-    )
-    ckpt_dir: str = field(
-        default="./checkpoint", metadata={"help": "Checkpoint directory."}
-    )
-    ckpt_interval: int = field(
-        default=5000,
-        metadata={"help": "Number of optimizer steps between checkpoints."},
-    )
+    Combines hyperparameters with runtime objects (model_fn, dataset, etc.).
+    Only JSON-serializable fields are written to checkpoint meta via to_dict().

-    # lora setting
-    lora: Optional[LoRAConfig] = field(
-        default=None,
-        metadata={"help": "LoRA config. None means full fine-tuning."},
-    )
+    Args:
+        model_fn (Callable[[], nn.Module]): Model factory for training.
+        strategy (str): Training strategy (seq, sft, dpo, grpo, online_*).
+        dataset (Dataset): Dataset for training.
+        optimizer_fn (Callable[[nn.Module], Optimizer]): Optimizer factory for training.
+        optimizer_name (Optional[str]): Serializable built-in optimizer identifier. Defaults to None.
+        optimizer_hyperparameters (Dict[str, Any]): Serializable optimizer settings. Defaults to {}.
+        scheduler_fn (Callable[[Optimizer], LRScheduler]): Scheduler factory for training.
+        n_epoch (int): Number of epochs for training. Defaults to 1.
+        batch_per_device (int): Batch size per device. Defaults to 4.
+        grad_accum_steps (int): Number of iterations between optimizer steps. Defaults to 1.
+        max_grad_norm (Optional[float]): Maximum gradient norm. None disables clipping. Defaults to 1.0.
+        gradient_checkpointing_modules (List[type]): Module types to enable activation checkpointing for. Defaults to [].
+        compile_mode (Optional[str]): torch.compile mode: 'default', 'reduce-overhead', 'max-autotune', or None. Defaults to None.
+        start_epoch (int): Start epoch for training. Defaults to 0.
+        start_samples (int): Start samples count (per rank). Superseded by checkpoint consumed_samples. Defaults to 0.
+        ckpt_dir (str): Checkpoint directory. Defaults to "./checkpoint".
+        ckpt_interval (int): Number of optimizer steps between checkpoints. Defaults to 5000.
+        lora (Optional[LoRAConfig]): LoRA config. None means full fine-tuning. Defaults to None.
+        metrics (List[str]): Metrics to record during training. Defaults to ["loss", "lr", "grad_norm"].
+        random_seed (int): Random seed. Defaults to 3407.
+        num_workers (int): Number of workers for dataloader. Defaults to 0.
+        prefetch_factor (Optional[int]): Prefetch factor for dataloader. Defaults to None.
+        pin_memory (bool): Pin memory for dataloader. Defaults to False.
+        collate_fn (Optional[Callable[[List[Any]], Any]]): Collate function for dataloader (e.g. dpo_collate_fn). Defaults to None.
+        nprocs (int): Number of processes for distributed training. Defaults to 1.
+        backend (str): Distributed training backend. Defaults to "nccl".
+        master_addr (str): Master address for distributed training. Defaults to "localhost".
+        master_port (str): Master port for distributed training. Defaults to "29500".
+        parallel_mode (str): Parallel strategy: none, ddp, fsdp. Defaults to "none".
+        start_method (str): Multiprocessing start method: spawn/fork/forkserver. Defaults to "spawn".
+        device_type (str): Device type for distributed training. Defaults to "cuda".
+        val_dataset (Optional[Dataset]): Dataset for validation. Defaults to None.
+        val_split (Optional[float]): Ratio to split from training dataset for validation, e.g. 0.05. Defaults to None.
+        val_step (int): Number of optimizer steps between validation runs. Defaults to 1000.
+        neftune_alpha (float): NEFTune noise alpha, 0=disabled, typical: 5.0. Defaults to 0.0.
+        moe_aux_loss_coef (float): Weight applied to the MoE load-balancing loss. Defaults to 0.01.
+        rollout_interval (int): Number of optimizer steps between online rollouts. Defaults to 512.
+        rollout_temperature (float): Sampling temperature for online rollout. Defaults to 0.7.
+        rollout_top_k (int): Top-k filtering for online rollout, 0=disable. Defaults to 0.
+        rollout_top_p (float): Top-p (nucleus) filtering for online rollout. Defaults to 0.9.
+        rollout_max_tokens (int): Maximum generated tokens per response in rollout. Defaults to 1024.
+        reward_model_fn (Optional[Callable]): Factory for reward model, required for online RL strategies. Defaults to None.
+        executor_kwargs (Dict[str, Any]): Extra kwargs passed to ExecutorFactory.create(). Defaults to {}.
+        extra_kwargs (Dict[str, Any]): Other arguments. Defaults to {}.
+    """

-    # metric setting
-    log_dir: str = field(
-        default="./checkpoint/logs", metadata={"help": "Directory for metric logs."}
-    )
-    metrics: List[str] = field(
-        default_factory=lambda: ["loss", "lr", "grad_norm"],
-        metadata={"help": "Metrics to record during training."},
-    )
+    model_fn: Callable[[], nn.Module]
+    strategy: str
+    dataset: Dataset
+    optimizer_fn: Callable[[nn.Module], Optimizer]
+    scheduler_fn: Callable[[Optimizer], LRScheduler]
+    optimizer_name: Optional[str] = None
+    optimizer_hyperparameters: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)
+    n_epoch: int = 1
+    batch_per_device: int = 4
+    grad_accum_steps: int = 1
+    max_grad_norm: Optional[float] = 1.0
+    gradient_checkpointing_modules: List[type] = field(default_factory=list)
+    compile_mode: Optional[str] = None

-    # dataloader setting
-    random_seed: int = field(default=3407, metadata={"help": "Random seed."})
-    num_workers: int = field(
-        default=0, metadata={"help": "Number of workers for dataloader."}
-    )
-    prefetch_factor: Optional[int] = field(
-        default=None, metadata={"help": "Prefetch factor for dataloader."}
-    )
-    pin_memory: bool = field(
-        default=False, metadata={"help": "Pin memory for dataloader."}
-    )
-    collate_fn: Optional[Callable[[List[Any]], Any]] = field(
-        default=None,
-        metadata={"help": "Collate function for dataloader (e.g. dpo_collate_fn)."},
-    )
+    start_epoch: int = 0
+    start_samples: int = 0
+    ckpt_dir: str = "./checkpoint"
+    ckpt_interval: int = 5000

-    # distributed training
-    nprocs: int = field(
-        default=1, metadata={"help": "Number of processes for distributed training."}
-    )
-    backend: str = field(
-        default="nccl", metadata={"help": "Distributed training backend."}
-    )
-    master_addr: str = field(
-        default="localhost",
-        metadata={"help": "Master address for distributed training."},
-    )
-    master_port: str = field(
-        default="29500", metadata={"help": "Master port for distributed training."}
-    )
-    parallel_mode: str = field(
-        default="none",
-        metadata={"help": "Parallel strategy: none, ddp, fsdp."},
-    )
-    start_method: str = field(
-        default="spawn",
-        metadata={"help": "Multiprocessing start method (spawn/fork/forkserver)."},
-    )
+    lora: Optional[LoRAConfig] = None

-    # others
-    device_type: str = field(
-        default="cuda", metadata={"help": "Device type for distributed training."}
-    )
-    val_dataset: Optional[Dataset] = field(
-        default=None, metadata={"help": "Dataset for validation."}
-    )
-    val_split: Optional[float] = field(
-        default=None,
-        metadata={
-            "help": "Ratio to split from training dataset for validation (e.g. 0.05). Ignored if val_dataset is set."
-        },
-    )
-    val_step: int = field(
-        default=1000,
-        metadata={"help": "Number of optimizer steps between validation runs."},
-    )
-    neftune_alpha: float = field(
-        default=0.0,
-        metadata={"help": "NEFTune noise alpha (0=disabled, typical: 5.0)."},
-    )
+    metrics: List[str] = field(default_factory=lambda: ["loss", "lr", "grad_norm"])

-    # online rollout
-    rollout_interval: int = field(
-        default=512,
-        metadata={"help": "Number of optimizer steps between online rollouts."},
-    )
-    rollout_temperature: float = field(
-        default=0.7, metadata={"help": "Sampling temperature for online rollout."}
-    )
-    rollout_top_k: int = field(
-        default=0, metadata={"help": "Top-k filtering for online rollout (0=disable)."}
-    )
-    rollout_top_p: float = field(
-        default=0.9,
-        metadata={"help": "Top-p (nucleus) filtering for online rollout."},
-    )
-    rollout_max_tokens: int = field(
-        default=1024,
-        metadata={"help": "Maximum generated tokens per response in rollout."},
-    )
-    reward_model_fn: Optional[Callable] = field(
-        default=None,
-        metadata={
-            "help": "Factory for reward model (required for online RL strategies)."
-        },
-    )
+    random_seed: int = 3407
+    num_workers: int = 0
+    prefetch_factor: Optional[int] = None
+    pin_memory: bool = False
+    collate_fn: Optional[Callable[[List[Any]], Any]] = None

-    executor_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = field(
-        default_factory=dict,
-        metadata={"help": "Extra kwargs passed to ExecutorFactory.create()."},
-    )
-    extra_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = field(
-        default_factory=dict, metadata={"help": "Other arguments."}
-    )
+    nprocs: int = 1
+    backend: str = "nccl"
+    master_addr: str = "localhost"
+    master_port: str = "29500"
+    parallel_mode: str = "none"
+    start_method: str = "spawn"

-    def __post_init__(self):
-        self.validate()
+    device_type: str = "cuda"
+    val_dataset: Optional[Dataset] = None
+    val_split: Optional[float] = None
+    val_step: int = 1000
+    neftune_alpha: float = 0.0
+    moe_aux_loss_coef: float = 0.01

-    def validate(self):
-        for fld in fields(self):
-            if fld.metadata.get("required") and getattr(self, fld.name) is None:
-                raise ValueError(f"TrainConfig.{fld.name} is required but got None.")
+    rollout_interval: int = 512
+    rollout_temperature: float = 0.7
+    rollout_top_k: int = 0
+    rollout_top_p: float = 0.9
+    rollout_max_tokens: int = 1024
+    reward_model_fn: Optional[Callable] = None
+
+    executor_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)
+    extra_kwargs: Dict[str, Any] = field(default_factory=dict)
+
+    @field_validator("strategy")
+    def _validate_strategy(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _TRAIN_TYPES:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"strategy must be one of {sorted(_TRAIN_TYPES)}, got {v!r}"
+            )
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("parallel_mode")
+    def _validate_parallel_mode(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _PARALLEL_MODES:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"parallel_mode must be one of {sorted(_PARALLEL_MODES)}, got {v!r}"
+            )
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("backend")
+    def _validate_backend(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _BACKENDS:
+            raise ValueError(f"backend must be one of {sorted(_BACKENDS)}, got {v!r}")
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("start_method")
+    def _validate_start_method(cls, v: str) -> str:
+        if v not in _START_METHODS:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"start_method must be one of {sorted(_START_METHODS)}, got {v!r}"
+            )
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("compile_mode")
+    def _validate_compile_mode(cls, v: Optional[str]) -> Optional[str]:
+        if v is not None and v not in _COMPILE_MODES:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"compile_mode must be one of {sorted(_COMPILE_MODES)} or None, got {v!r}"
+            )
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator(
+        "n_epoch",
+        "batch_per_device",
+        "grad_accum_steps",
+        "ckpt_interval",
+        "val_step",
+        "rollout_interval",
+        "rollout_max_tokens",
+    )
+    def _validate_positive_int(cls, v: int) -> int:
+        if v <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"must be positive, got {v}")
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("rollout_temperature")
+    def _validate_positive_float(cls, v: float) -> float:
+        if v <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"must be positive, got {v}")
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("rollout_top_p")
+    def _validate_top_p(cls, v: float) -> float:
+        if not 0 < v <= 1:
+            raise ValueError(f"rollout_top_p must be in (0, 1], got {v}")
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator(
+        "rollout_top_k", "num_workers", "neftune_alpha", "moe_aux_loss_coef"
+    )
+    def _validate_non_negative(cls, v):
+        if v < 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"must be non-negative, got {v}")
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("max_grad_norm")
+    def _validate_max_grad_norm(cls, v: Optional[float]) -> Optional[float]:
+        if v is not None and v <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"max_grad_norm must be positive or None, got {v}")
+        return v
+
+    @field_validator("val_split")
+    def _validate_val_split(cls, v: Optional[float]) -> Optional[float]:
+        if v is not None and not 0 < v < 1:
+            raise ValueError(f"val_split must be in (0, 1) or None, got {v}")
+        return v
+
+    @model_validator(mode="after")
+    def _validate_online_strategy(self) -> "TrainConfig":
+        if self.strategy.startswith("online_") and self.reward_model_fn is None:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"reward_model_fn is required for online RL strategy {self.strategy!r}"
+            )
+        return self
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from astrai.dataset.dataset import (
 )
 from astrai.dataset.sampler import RDSampler
 from astrai.dataset.storage import (
-    H5Store,
    JsonlStore,
    MmapStore,
    Recordable,
@@ -17,9 +16,7 @@ from astrai.dataset.storage import (
 )
 from astrai.serialization import (
    load_bin,
-    load_h5,
    save_bin,
-    save_h5,
 )

 __all__ = [
@@ -31,12 +28,9 @@ __all__ = [
    "Streamable",
    "Recordable",
    "StoreFactory",
-    "H5Store",
    "MmapStore",
    "JsonlStore",
    "detect_format",
-    "save_h5",
-    "load_h5",
    "save_bin",
    "load_bin",
    "RDSampler",
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ class DatasetFactory(BaseFactory["BaseDataset"]):
                stream datasets (SEQ/SFT).  Record datasets ignore it.
            stride: Stride between consecutive stream samples
                (default: same as *window_size*).
-            storage_type: Storage backend ("h5", "bin", "jsonl") or
+            storage_type: Storage backend ("bin", "jsonl") or
                None for auto-detection.
            tokenizer_path: Path to tokenizer for lazy JSONL
                tokenisation (record datasets only).
@@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ class DatasetFactory(BaseFactory["BaseDataset"]):
        """Build an on-the-fly tokenisation processor if applicable.

        Only raw JSONL + record datasets (DPO/GRPO) need a processor;
-        pre-tokenised backends (H5/bin) and stream datasets (SEQ/SFT)
+        pre-tokenised backends (bin) and stream datasets (SEQ/SFT)
        return ``None`` so no tokenizer is loaded.
        """
        if tokenizer_path is None or storage_type != "jsonl":
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ class DPODataset(BaseDataset):

    Two loading paths (handled by :class:`DatasetFactory`):

-    - **Pre-tokenized** (H5/bin): ``store.load(path)`` reads per-record
+    - **Pre-tokenized** (bin): ``store.load(path)`` reads per-record
      tensors; ``__getitem__`` returns them directly.
    - **Raw JSONL** (``tokenizer_path=...``): builds a lazy processor
      via :func:`dpo_processor` that tokenises on the fly — no packing,
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ Architecture (composition over inheritance):
    Streamable (mixin)        — raw token slice  fetch(begin, end, keys)
    Recordable (mixin)        — raw record slice fetch_record(idx, keys)

-    H5Store(Store, Streamable, Recordable)
    MmapStore(Store, Streamable, Recordable)
    JsonlStore(Store, Streamable, Recordable)

@@ -36,9 +35,9 @@ control.  ``store.token_count`` is the total stream token count (what
 ``len(store)`` used to mean in the legacy stream-only API).

 ``segments_are_records`` (class attribute on each Store subclass)
-tells ``_normalize`` whether segments are inherently per-record (H5/
-JSONL) or opaque shards (bin).  Record access for bin relies on
-``_offsets`` instead.
+tells ``_normalize`` whether segments are inherently per-record (JSONL)
+or opaque shards (bin).  Record access for bin relies on ``_offsets``
+instead.

 :class:`JsonlStore` supports a lazy mode (``processor=fn``) that keeps
 raw records and defers tokenisation to ``fetch_record`` — used by DPO
@@ -62,7 +61,6 @@ from astrai.preprocessing.transform import TokenizeTransform
 from astrai.serialization import (
    load_bin,
    load_bin_offsets,
-    load_h5,
 )

 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -83,19 +81,10 @@ def detect_format(load_path: str) -> str:
    root = Path(load_path)
    if root.is_file():
        suffix = root.suffix.lower()
-        if suffix in (".h5", ".hdf5"):
-            return "h5"
        if suffix == ".jsonl":
            return "jsonl"
        raise ValueError(f"Unsupported file format: {suffix}")

-    h5_files = [
-        Path(p)
-        for pattern in ("*.h5", "*.hdf5")
-        for p in glob.glob(str(root / "**" / pattern), recursive=True)
-    ]
-    if h5_files:
-        return "h5"
    bin_files = [Path(p) for p in glob.glob(str(root / "**" / "*.bin"), recursive=True)]
    if bin_files:
        has_meta = (root / "meta.json").exists() or len(
@@ -185,7 +174,7 @@ class Store(ABC):
        """Number of records available via :meth:`fetch_record`.

        Non-zero only when the backing layout provides per-record
-        indexing (H5/JSONL segments or bin ``_offsets``).
+        indexing (JSONL segments or bin ``_offsets``).
        """
        return self._num_records

@@ -269,7 +258,7 @@ class Store(ABC):
        Record mode: if *offsets* is provided (bin layout),
        ``_offsets[key]`` stores cumulative per-record offsets into the
        single concatenated segment.  Otherwise, when
-        ``segments_are_records`` is True (H5/JSONL), ``_data[key]`` is
+        ``segments_are_records`` is True (JSONL), ``_data[key]`` is
        a per-record list and ``fetch_record`` indexes it directly.

        Nested keys (GRPO ``responses``/``masks`` as
@@ -305,7 +294,7 @@ class Store(ABC):
                    logger.warning(
                        "Key '%s' has %d segments with offsets — record mode "
                        "disabled for this key (multi-shard bin+offsets not "
-                        "supported). Merge shards or use H5/JSONL.",
+                        "supported). Merge shards or use JSONL.",
                        key,
                        len(segs),
                    )
@@ -330,7 +319,7 @@ class Streamable:
    Stateless trait relying on ``self._data``, ``self._cum``,
    ``self._length`` maintained by :class:`Store`.  Stream mode is
    active when the owning store has ``window_size > 0``; for stores
-    that can also serve record access (H5/JSONL/bin+offsets), the
+    that can also serve record access (JSONL/bin+offsets), the
    ``fetch_record`` API from :class:`Recordable` is used instead.
    """

@@ -415,33 +404,6 @@ class StoreFactory(BaseFactory["Store"]):
    """Factory for creating Store instances by type name."""


-@StoreFactory.register("h5")
-class H5Store(Store, Streamable, Recordable):
-    """HDF5-based storage backend (pre-tokenized data).
-
-    Each key is stored as a group of per-record datasets (``data_0``,
-    ``data_1``, …).  Supports both access modes:
-
-    - **Stream**: ``fetch(begin, end, key)`` and ``store[i]`` slice
-      across concatenated records via ``_cum`` — used by SEQ/SFT.
-    - **Record**: ``fetch_record(i, key)`` and ``store[i]`` (when
-      ``window_size == 0``) index ``_data[key]`` directly — used by
-      DPO/GRPO.
-    """
-
-    segments_are_records = True
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        window_size: int = 0,
-        stride: Optional[int] = None,
-    ):
-        super().__init__(window_size=window_size, stride=stride)
-
-    def load(self, path: str, **kwargs):
-        self._normalize(load_h5(path))
-
-
@StoreFactory.register("bin")
 class MmapStore(Store, Streamable, Recordable):
    """Memory-mapped binary storage backend.
@@ -4,27 +4,48 @@ Public API:
    - ``attn_decode`` — single-query decode attention
    - ``attn_prefill`` — multi-query prefill attention
    - ``attn_paged_decode`` — paged decode attention (direct page-table access)
+    - ``AttentionBackend`` — ABC for attention computation strategies
+    - ``TorchNativeBackend`` — default SDPA backend with KV cache I/O
+    - ``CudaBackend`` — CUDA kernel backend with paged decode + prefill

-Interface (shared by all wrappers):
-    causal_offset: -1 = non-causal; >=0 = absolute position of first Q token
-    mask:       2D [batch, kv_len] or 3D [batch, q_len, kv_len] (bool, True = keep)
-    scale:      0.0 = auto (1/sqrt(head_dim)); >0 = explicit
-    layout:     "bhld" (default) or "blhd"
+Layout convention: all q/k/v are ``[batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim]``
+(blhd). Scale is always ``1/sqrt(head_dim)``.

-Causal and mask can coexist — both are applied simultaneously.
-
-Each wrapper dispatches to its compiled CUDA kernel (``astrai.extension.attn_*``)
-when available, otherwise falls back to ``torch.nn.functional.scaled_dot_product_attention``.
+Each wrapper calls its compiled CUDA kernel directly. Fallback to torch
+SDPA is handled by the attention backend, not the wrapper functions.
 """

+from astrai.extension.attention_backend import (
+    ATTN_BACKEND,
+    AttentionBackend,
+    CudaBackend,
+    TorchNativeBackend,
+    attention,
+    attn_backend,
+    get_backend,
+)
+from astrai.extension.attention_ops import (
+    TensorLayout,
+    attn_decode,
+    attn_paged_decode,
+    attn_prefill,
+)
 from astrai.extension.loader import KERNEL_NAMES, is_available
-from astrai.extension.ops import attention, attn_decode, attn_paged_decode, attn_prefill
+from astrai.extension.rotary_backend import apply_rotary_emb

 __all__ = [
+    "ATTN_BACKEND",
+    "AttentionBackend",
+    "CudaBackend",
+    "TorchNativeBackend",
+    "TensorLayout",
+    "attention",
+    "attn_backend",
+    "get_backend",
    "attn_decode",
    "attn_paged_decode",
    "attn_prefill",
-    "attention",
    "is_available",
    "KERNEL_NAMES",
+    "apply_rotary_emb",
 ]
@@ -0,0 +1,401 @@
+"""Attention backend abstraction with context-manager switching.
+
+The backend encapsulates KV cache I/O and attention computation. The
+attention module (GQA/MLA) keeps projections, rotary, QK-norm, gating,
+and output projection; the backend handles everything from "write K/V
+to cache" through "SDPA output".
+
+Usage — mirroring ``torch.nn.attention.sdpa_kernel``:
+
+    from astrai.extension import attn_backend, ATTN_BACKEND
+
+    with attn_backend(ATTN_BACKEND.TORCH_NATIVE):
+        engine.generate("hello")
+
+    # or with an instance:
+    with attn_backend(TorchNativeBackend()):
+        ...
+
+    # or the shorthand (instance is itself a context manager):
+    with TorchNativeBackend():
+        ...
+
+Thread-safe via ``contextvars`` — each scheduler thread gets its own
+active backend. ``get_backend()`` returns the active one, falling back
+to a process-wide ``TorchNativeBackend`` singleton.
+
+Layout convention: all q/k/v are ``[batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim]``
+(blhd). The backend returns ``[batch, seq_len, n_heads * head_dim]``.
+"""
+
+import contextvars
+import enum
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from typing import Optional, Union
+
+import torch
+import torch.nn.functional as F
+from torch import Tensor
+
+from astrai.extension.attention_ops import (
+    attn_paged_decode,
+    attn_paged_prefill,
+)
+from astrai.inference.core.cache import KVCache
+
+_current_backend: contextvars.ContextVar["AttentionBackend"] = contextvars.ContextVar(
+    "attn_backend"
+)
+
+
+class ATTN_BACKEND(enum.Enum):
+    """Backend selector enum, mirroring ``torch.nn.attention.SDPBackend``."""
+
+    TORCH_NATIVE = "torch_native"
+    CUDA = "cuda"
+
+
+def get_backend() -> "AttentionBackend":
+    """Return the active backend for the current thread/context.
+
+    Falls back to a ``TorchNativeBackend`` singleton when no backend
+    has been activated via ``with``.
+    """
+    try:
+        return _current_backend.get()
+    except LookupError:
+        return _default_backend
+
+
+@contextmanager
+def attn_backend(backend: Union[ATTN_BACKEND, "AttentionBackend", type]):
+    """Context manager to select an attention backend.
+
+    Mirrors ``torch.nn.attention.sdpa_kernel``. Accepts an
+    ``ATTN_BACKEND`` enum value, a backend class, or a backend instance.
+
+    Examples::
+
+        with attn_backend(ATTN_BACKEND.TORCH_NATIVE):
+            ...
+        with attn_backend(TorchNativeBackend):
+            ...
+        with attn_backend(TorchNativeBackend()):
+            ...
+    """
+    if isinstance(backend, ATTN_BACKEND):
+        instance = _BACKEND_REGISTRY[backend]()
+    elif isinstance(backend, type) and issubclass(backend, AttentionBackend):
+        instance = backend()
+    elif isinstance(backend, AttentionBackend):
+        instance = backend
+    else:
+        raise TypeError(
+            f"expected ATTN_BACKEND, AttentionBackend type, or instance, "
+            f"got {type(backend).__name__}"
+        )
+    token = _current_backend.set(instance)
+    try:
+        yield instance
+    finally:
+        _current_backend.reset(token)
+
+
+def repeat_kv(x: Tensor, n_rep: int) -> Tensor:
+    """Expand KV heads to match Q heads for GQA."""
+    bs, slen, n_heads, head_dim = x.shape
+    if n_rep == 1:
+        return x
+    return (
+        x[:, :, :, None, :]
+        .expand(bs, slen, n_heads, n_rep, head_dim)
+        .reshape(bs, slen, n_heads * n_rep, head_dim)
+    )
+
+
+def attention(
+    q: Tensor,
+    k: Tensor,
+    v: Tensor,
+    kv_cache: Optional[KVCache] = None,
+    layer_id: int = 0,
+    attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
+    is_causal: bool = False,
+) -> Tensor:
+    """Functional attention entry point — mirrors ``F.scaled_dot_product_attention``.
+
+    Delegates to the active backend (set via ``with attn_backend(...)``).
+    Handles KV cache I/O, GQA head expansion, and causal masking so the
+    caller only needs to provide projected q/k/v.
+
+    Args:
+        q: [batch, q_len, n_heads, head_dim] (blhd)
+        k: [batch, q_len, n_kv_heads, head_dim] (blhd)
+        v: [batch, q_len, n_kv_heads, head_dim] (blhd)
+        kv_cache: cache dataclass, or None for training (no cache).
+        layer_id: transformer layer index for buffer access.
+        attn_mask: pre-built attention mask (SDPA-compatible).
+        is_causal: whether to apply causal masking.
+
+    Returns:
+        [batch, q_len, n_heads * head_dim]
+    """
+    backend = get_backend()
+    return backend.forward(q, k, v, kv_cache, layer_id, attn_mask, is_causal)
+
+
+class AttentionBackend(ABC):
+    """Abstract base for attention computation strategies.
+
+    Subclasses implement ``fwd_decode`` (q_len == 1, with cache) and
+    ``fwd_prefill`` (q_len > 1, with or without cache). The public
+    ``forward`` method dispatches based on q_len.
+
+    Three equivalent ways to activate a backend::
+
+        with attn_backend(ATTN_BACKEND.TORCH_NATIVE):  # enum
+            ...
+        with attn_backend(TorchNativeBackend):          # class
+            ...
+        with TorchNativeBackend():                       # instance
+            ...
+    """
+
+    def __enter__(self) -> "AttentionBackend":
+        self._token = _current_backend.set(self)
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, *exc) -> None:
+        _current_backend.reset(self._token)
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        q: Tensor,
+        k: Tensor,
+        v: Tensor,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        layer_id: int,
+        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
+        is_causal: bool = False,
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        """Dispatch to decode or extend based on q_len.
+
+        Args:
+            q: [batch, q_len, n_heads, head_dim]
+            k: [batch, q_len, n_kv_heads, head_dim]
+            v: [batch, q_len, n_kv_heads, head_dim]
+            kv_cache: cache dataclass, or None for training (no cache).
+            layer_id: transformer layer index for buffer access.
+            attn_mask: pre-built attention mask compatible with SDPA.
+            is_causal: whether to apply causal masking.
+
+        Returns:
+            [batch, q_len, n_heads * head_dim]
+        """
+        if kv_cache is not None and q.size(1) == 1:
+            return self.fwd_decode(q, k, v, kv_cache, layer_id, attn_mask, is_causal)
+        return self.fwd_prefill(q, k, v, kv_cache, layer_id, attn_mask, is_causal)
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def fwd_decode(
+        self,
+        q: Tensor,
+        k: Tensor,
+        v: Tensor,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        layer_id: int,
+        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
+        is_causal: bool = False,
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        """Single-token decode with KV cache."""
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def fwd_prefill(
+        self,
+        q: Tensor,
+        k: Tensor,
+        v: Tensor,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        layer_id: int,
+        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
+        is_causal: bool = False,
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        """Multi-token prefill or training forward."""
+
+
+class TorchNativeBackend(AttentionBackend):
+    """Reference backend using torch SDPA with indirect KV cache indexing.
+
+    Writes new K/V into the cache buffers, gathers the full sequence K/V
+    via ``req_to_token`` indirect indexing, then calls
+    ``F.scaled_dot_product_attention``.
+
+    For training (``kv_cache is None``), skips cache I/O entirely and
+    runs SDPA directly on the projected q/k/v.
+    """
+
+    def fwd_decode(
+        self,
+        q: Tensor,
+        k: Tensor,
+        v: Tensor,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        layer_id: int,
+        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
+        is_causal: bool = False,
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        return self._forward(q, k, v, kv_cache, layer_id, attn_mask, is_causal)
+
+    def fwd_prefill(
+        self,
+        q: Tensor,
+        k: Tensor,
+        v: Tensor,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        layer_id: int,
+        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
+        is_causal: bool = False,
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        return self._forward(q, k, v, kv_cache, layer_id, attn_mask, is_causal)
+
+    def _forward(
+        self,
+        q: Tensor,
+        k: Tensor,
+        v: Tensor,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        layer_id: int,
+        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
+        is_causal: bool = False,
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        if kv_cache is not None:
+            kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id, kv_cache.out_cache_loc] = k
+            kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id, kv_cache.out_cache_loc] = v
+
+            max_len = kv_cache.max_len
+            indices = kv_cache.req_to_token[kv_cache.req_pool_indices, :max_len]
+            # Zero out padding positions so gather never touches invalid slots.
+            # Decode: attn_mask[:,0,0] is exactly the per-position validity
+            # mask ([B, max_len], True=keep).  Prefill: fall back to seq_lens.
+            if q.size(1) == 1 and attn_mask is not None and attn_mask.dim() == 4:
+                pos_mask = attn_mask[:, 0, 0]
+            else:
+                pos_mask = (
+                    torch.arange(max_len, device=q.device)[None, :]
+                    < kv_cache.seq_lens[:, None]
+                )
+            indices = torch.where(pos_mask, indices, torch.zeros_like(indices))
+            k = kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id, indices]
+            v = kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id, indices]
+
+        n_rep = q.size(2) // k.size(2)
+        if n_rep > 1:
+            k = repeat_kv(k, n_rep)
+            v = repeat_kv(v, n_rep)
+
+        q = q.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
+        k = k.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
+        v = v.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
+
+        out = F.scaled_dot_product_attention(q, k, v, attn_mask, is_causal=is_causal)
+        out = out.permute(0, 2, 1, 3).contiguous().flatten(2)
+        return out
+
+
+_default_backend = TorchNativeBackend()
+
+
+class CudaBackend(AttentionBackend):
+    """CUDA kernel backend with direct KV cache access.
+
+    Decode path: writes K/V to the flat pool, then calls
+    ``attn_paged_decode`` with req_to_token + kv_indptr.
+
+    Prefill path: writes K/V to the flat pool, then calls
+    ``attn_paged_prefill`` with ragged-batch support via qo_indptr +
+    kv_indptr.
+
+    ``kv_cache is None`` (training) is not handled — use
+    ``TorchNativeBackend`` for training.
+
+    Raises ``RuntimeError`` if the required kernel is not available.
+    """
+
+    def fwd_decode(
+        self,
+        q: Tensor,
+        k: Tensor,
+        v: Tensor,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        layer_id: int,
+        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
+        is_causal: bool = False,
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        if kv_cache is None:
+            raise RuntimeError("CudaBackend does not support training (kv_cache=None)")
+
+        kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id, kv_cache.out_cache_loc] = k
+        kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id, kv_cache.out_cache_loc] = v
+
+        b = q.size(0)
+        q_3d = q.squeeze(1)
+
+        kv_indptr = kv_cache.kv_indptr
+
+        out = attn_paged_decode(
+            q_3d,
+            kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id],
+            kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id],
+            kv_cache.req_to_token,
+            kv_cache.req_pool_indices,
+            kv_indptr,
+            kv_cache.max_len,
+            mask=attn_mask,
+            is_causal=is_causal,
+        )
+        return out.unsqueeze(1).flatten(2)
+
+    def fwd_prefill(
+        self,
+        q: Tensor,
+        k: Tensor,
+        v: Tensor,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        layer_id: int,
+        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
+        is_causal: bool = False,
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        if kv_cache is None:
+            raise RuntimeError("CudaBackend does not support training (kv_cache=None)")
+
+        kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id, kv_cache.out_cache_loc] = k
+        kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id, kv_cache.out_cache_loc] = v
+
+        b = q.size(0)
+        q_len = q.size(1)
+
+        kv_indptr = kv_cache.kv_indptr
+        qo_indptr = torch.arange(b + 1, dtype=torch.int32, device=q.device) * q_len
+
+        q_flat = q.reshape(b * q_len, q.size(2), q.size(3))
+
+        out = attn_paged_prefill(
+            q_flat,
+            kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id],
+            kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id],
+            kv_cache.req_to_token,
+            kv_cache.req_pool_indices,
+            kv_indptr,
+            qo_indptr,
+            attn_mask,
+            q_len,
+            is_causal=is_causal,
+        )
+        return out.reshape(b, q_len, q.size(2), q.size(3)).flatten(2)
+
+
+_BACKEND_REGISTRY: dict[ATTN_BACKEND, type[AttentionBackend]] = {
+    ATTN_BACKEND.TORCH_NATIVE: TorchNativeBackend,
+    ATTN_BACKEND.CUDA: CudaBackend,
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
+"""Attention kernel wrapper functions — one entry point per compiled kernel.
+
+Each wrapper calls its CUDA kernel directly. If the kernel is not
+available, raises ``RuntimeError``. Fallback to torch SDPA is the
+responsibility of the attention backend, not this module.
+
+Layout convention: all q/k/v are ``[batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim]``
+(blhd). Scale is always ``1/sqrt(head_dim)``.
+
+Interface (all functions):
+    is_causal: True = causal mask; False = non-causal
+    mask:      2D [batch, kv_len] or 3D [batch, q_len, kv_len] (bool, True=keep)
+"""
+
+import enum
+from typing import Optional
+
+import torch
+
+from astrai.extension.loader import _available, _modules
+
+
+class TensorLayout(enum.IntEnum):
+    """Q/K/V tensor layout, mirrors the C++ ``TensorLayout`` enum in ``attn_common.h``.
+
+    Kernels internally operate on BHLD; BLHD inputs are transposed at entry.
+    """
+
+    BHLD = 0  # [batch, n_heads, seq_len, head_dim]
+    BLHD = 1  # [batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim]
+
+
+def _check_available(name: str):
+    if not _available.get(name):
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"CUDA kernel '{name}' is not available. "
+            f"Build with CSRC_KERNELS=true or use a torch-native backend."
+        )
+
+
+def attn_decode(
+    q: torch.Tensor,
+    k: torch.Tensor,
+    v: torch.Tensor,
+    mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    is_causal: bool = False,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """GQA decode attention (q_len == 1).
+
+    Args:
+        q: [batch, 1, n_heads, head_dim] (blhd, bf16)
+        k: [batch, kv_len, n_kv_heads, head_dim] (blhd, bf16)
+        v: [batch, kv_len, n_kv_heads, head_dim] (blhd, bf16)
+        mask: 2D [batch, kv_len] or 3D [batch, 1, kv_len] (bool, True=keep)
+        is_causal: apply causal mask
+
+    Returns:
+        [batch, 1, n_heads, head_dim] (blhd, bf16)
+    """
+    _check_available("attn_decode")
+    causal_offset = (k.size(1) - 1) if is_causal else -1
+    return _modules["attn_decode"].attn_decode(
+        q, k, v, mask=mask, causal_offset=causal_offset, layout=TensorLayout.BLHD
+    )
+
+
+def attn_prefill(
+    q: torch.Tensor,
+    k: torch.Tensor,
+    v: torch.Tensor,
+    mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    is_causal: bool = False,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """GQA prefill attention (q_len > 1).
+
+    Args:
+        q: [batch, q_len, n_heads, head_dim] (blhd, bf16)
+        k: [batch, kv_len, n_kv_heads, head_dim] (blhd, bf16)
+        v: [batch, kv_len, n_kv_heads, head_dim] (blhd, bf16)
+        mask: 2D [batch, kv_len] or 3D [batch, q_len, kv_len] (bool, True=keep)
+        is_causal: apply causal mask
+
+    Returns:
+        [batch, q_len, n_heads, head_dim] (blhd, bf16)
+    """
+    _check_available("attn_prefill")
+    causal_offset = (k.size(1) - q.size(1)) if is_causal else -1
+    return _modules["attn_prefill"].attn_prefill(
+        q, k, v, mask=mask, causal_offset=causal_offset, layout=TensorLayout.BLHD
+    )
+
+
+def attn_paged_decode(
+    q: torch.Tensor,
+    k_cache: torch.Tensor,
+    v_cache: torch.Tensor,
+    req_to_token: torch.Tensor,
+    req_pool_indices: torch.Tensor,
+    kv_indptr: torch.Tensor,
+    max_seq_len: int,
+    mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    is_causal: bool = False,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """SGLang-style paged decode (q_len == 1, flat KV pool).
+
+    Reads K/V directly from a flat pool [size, kv_head, head_dim] via
+    req_to_token indirect indexing.  Each request has its own seq_len
+    (from kv_indptr), eliminating padding waste.
+
+    Args:
+        q: [batch, n_heads, head_dim] (bf16, 3D — no seq dim)
+        k_cache: [pool_size, n_kv_heads, head_dim] (bf16, flat)
+        v_cache: same as k_cache
+        req_to_token: [num_reqs, max_context_len] (int64) — token -> slot
+        req_pool_indices: [batch] (int64) — rows into req_to_token
+        kv_indptr: [batch+1] (int32) — prefix sum of per-request seq_lens
+        max_seq_len: max per-request seq_len (Python int, for split computation)
+        mask: 2D [batch, max_seq_len] (bool, True=keep) or None
+        is_causal: apply causal mask
+
+    Returns:
+        [batch, n_heads, head_dim] (bf16, 3D)
+    """
+    _check_available("attn_paged_decode")
+    causal_offset = 0 if is_causal else -1
+    return _modules["attn_paged_decode"].attn_paged_decode(
+        q,
+        k_cache,
+        v_cache,
+        req_to_token,
+        req_pool_indices,
+        kv_indptr,
+        max_seq_len,
+        mask=mask,
+        causal_offset=causal_offset,
+    )
+
+
+def attn_paged_prefill(
+    q: torch.Tensor,
+    k_cache: torch.Tensor,
+    v_cache: torch.Tensor,
+    req_to_token: torch.Tensor,
+    req_pool_indices: torch.Tensor,
+    kv_indptr: torch.Tensor,
+    qo_indptr: torch.Tensor,
+    mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    max_q_len: int = 0,
+    is_causal: bool = False,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """SGLang-style paged prefill (ragged batch, flat KV pool).
+
+    Reads K/V directly from a flat pool [size, kv_head, head_dim] via
+    req_to_token.  Supports ragged batches: each request has its own
+    q_len and kv_len, addressed via qo_indptr and kv_indptr.
+
+    Args:
+        q: [total_q, n_heads, head_dim] (bf16, 3D — flattened across requests)
+        k_cache: [pool_size, n_kv_heads, head_dim] (bf16, flat)
+        v_cache: same as k_cache
+        req_to_token: [num_reqs, max_context_len] (int64)
+        req_pool_indices: [batch] (int64)
+        kv_indptr: [batch+1] (int32) — prefix sum of per-request kv_lens
+        qo_indptr: [batch+1] (int32) — prefix sum of per-request q_lens
+        mask: 4D [batch, 1, q_len, kv_len] (bool, True=keep) or None
+        max_q_len: max per-request q_len (Python int, for grid computation)
+        is_causal: apply causal mask
+
+    Returns:
+        [total_q, n_heads, head_dim] (bf16, 3D)
+    """
+    _check_available("attn_paged_prefill")
+    causal_offset = 0 if is_causal else -1
+    return _modules["attn_paged_prefill"].attn_paged_prefill(
+        q,
+        k_cache,
+        v_cache,
+        req_to_token,
+        req_pool_indices,
+        kv_indptr,
+        qo_indptr,
+        mask,
+        max_q_len,
+        causal_offset=causal_offset,
+    )
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+"""Compiled CUDA kernel modules (``*.so``) live here, kept separate from Python source."""
@@ -11,14 +11,20 @@ import logging

 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

-KERNEL_NAMES = ["attn_decode", "attn_prefill", "attn_paged_decode"]
+KERNEL_NAMES = [
+    "attn_decode",
+    "attn_prefill",
+    "attn_paged_decode",
+    "attn_paged_prefill",
+    "rotary_emb",
+]

 _available: dict[str, bool] = {}
 _modules: dict[str, object] = {}

 for _name in KERNEL_NAMES:
    try:
-        _mod = importlib.import_module(f".{_name}", package=__package__)
+        _mod = importlib.import_module(f".lib.{_name}", package=__package__)
        _available[_name] = True
        _modules[_name] = _mod
    except ImportError:
@@ -1,298 +0,0 @@
-"""GQA attention wrapper functions — one entry point per compiled kernel.
-
-Each wrapper dispatches to its CUDA kernel (loaded in ``loader.py``) when
-available, otherwise falls back to ``torch`` SDPA.
-
-Interface (all functions):
-    causal_offset: -1 = non-causal; >=0 = absolute position of first Q token
-    mask:       2D [batch, kv_len] or 3D [batch, q_len, kv_len] (bool)
-    scale:      0.0 = auto (1/sqrt(head_dim)); >0 = explicit
-    layout:     "bhld" (default) or "blhd"
-
-Add new kernel wrappers here; split into per-variant files only if this file
-grows large.
-"""
-
-import math
-
-import torch
-import torch.nn.functional as F
-
-from astrai.extension.loader import _available, _modules
-
-_LAYOUT_CODES: dict[str, int] = {"bhld": 0, "blhd": 1}
-
-
-def _parse_layout(layout: str | int) -> int:
-    if isinstance(layout, int):
-        return layout
-    code = _LAYOUT_CODES.get(layout.lower())
-    if code is None:
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"unknown layout '{layout}', expected one of {list(_LAYOUT_CODES)}"
-        )
-    return code
-
-
-def _to_bhld(t: torch.Tensor, layout: int) -> torch.Tensor:
-    """Normalize to b h l d view. Zero-copy transpose if layout==1 (b l h d)."""
-    if layout == 1:
-        return t.transpose(1, 2)
-    return t
-
-
-def _expand_kv_heads(
-    k: torch.Tensor, v: torch.Tensor, q_head: int
-) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-    """Expand K/V heads to match Q heads for GQA fallback."""
-    kv_head = k.size(1)
-    if kv_head == q_head:
-        return k, v
-    group = q_head // kv_head
-    k = k.repeat_interleave(group, dim=1)
-    v = v.repeat_interleave(group, dim=1)
-    return k, v
-
-
-def _build_attn_mask(
-    q: torch.Tensor,
-    k: torch.Tensor,
-    mask: torch.Tensor | None,
-    causal_offset: int,
-    scale: float,
-) -> tuple[torch.Tensor | None, float]:
-    """Build SDPA-compatible attn_mask + resolved scale.
-
-    q and k must already be in b h l d layout.
-    Causal and mask can coexist: causal sets -inf above the diagonal, mask
-    sets -inf for padded positions. Both are OR'd into a single bool mask.
-    """
-    q_len = q.size(2)
-    kv_len = k.size(2)
-    head_dim = q.size(3)
-    resolved_scale = scale if scale and scale > 0 else 1.0 / math.sqrt(head_dim)
-
-    attn_mask = None
-
-    if mask is not None:
-        if mask.dim() == 2:
-            # [batch, kv_len] → [batch, 1, 1, kv_len]
-            attn_mask = mask[:, None, None, :]
-        elif mask.dim() == 3:
-            # [batch, q_len, kv_len] → [batch, 1, q_len, kv_len]
-            attn_mask = mask[:, None, :, :]
-        else:
-            raise ValueError(f"mask must be 2D or 3D, got {mask.dim()}D")
-
-    if causal_offset >= 0:
-        batch = q.size(0)
-        # q row i attends to kv cols 0..(causal_offset + i)
-        q_idx = torch.arange(q_len, device=q.device).unsqueeze(1)  # [q_len, 1]
-        kv_idx = torch.arange(kv_len, device=q.device).unsqueeze(0)  # [1, kv_len]
-        causal_bool = kv_idx > (causal_offset + q_idx)  # True = masked out
-        causal_mask = causal_bool.unsqueeze(0).expand(
-            batch, -1, -1
-        )  # [batch, q_len, kv_len]
-        causal_mask = causal_mask[:, None, :, :]  # [batch, 1, q_len, kv_len]
-
-        if attn_mask is not None:
-            attn_mask = attn_mask | causal_mask
-        else:
-            attn_mask = causal_mask
-
-    return attn_mask, resolved_scale
-
-
-def _torch_fallback(
-    q: torch.Tensor,
-    k: torch.Tensor,
-    v: torch.Tensor,
-    mask: torch.Tensor | None,
-    causal_offset: int,
-    scale: float,
-    q_layout: int,
-    kv_layout: int | None = None,
-) -> torch.Tensor:
-    """Reference attention via ``scaled_dot_product_attention``.
-
-    q_layout / kv_layout: 0 = b h l d, 1 = b l h d.
-    If kv_layout is None, uses q_layout (Q and K/V share the same layout).
-    """
-    if kv_layout is None:
-        kv_layout = q_layout
-    q = _to_bhld(q, q_layout)
-    k = _to_bhld(k, kv_layout)
-    v = _to_bhld(v, kv_layout)
-    k, v = _expand_kv_heads(k, v, q.size(1))
-    attn_mask, resolved_scale = _build_attn_mask(q, k, mask, causal_offset, scale)
-    out = F.scaled_dot_product_attention(
-        q, k, v, attn_mask=attn_mask, is_causal=False, scale=resolved_scale
-    )
-    # Restore Q's original layout
-    if q_layout == 1:
-        out = out.transpose(1, 2)
-    return out
-
-
-def _gather_kv_from_pages(
-    page_table: torch.Tensor,
-    k_cache: torch.Tensor,
-    v_cache: torch.Tensor,
-    page_size: int,
-    kv_len: int,
-) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-    """Gather contiguous K/V from paged cache for torch SDPA fallback.
-
-    Shapes:
-        page_table : [batch, max_pages] (int64)
-        k_cache    : [n_pages, page_size, n_kv_heads, head_dim]
-        v_cache    : same as k_cache
-    Returns:
-        k, v : [batch, kv_len, n_kv_heads, head_dim]  (b l h d)
-    """
-    batch, max_pages = page_table.shape
-    _, ps, n_kv_heads, head_dim = k_cache.shape
-    if ps != page_size:
-        raise ValueError(f"k_cache page_size mismatch: {ps} vs {page_size}")
-
-    # Vectorized gather: build physical page + offset indices, then advanced-index
-    positions = torch.arange(kv_len, device=page_table.device)
-    logical_pages = positions // page_size  # [kv_len]
-    page_offsets = positions % page_size  # [kv_len]
-
-    phys_pages = page_table[:, logical_pages]  # [batch, kv_len]
-    # k_cache[phys_pages, page_offsets] → [batch, kv_len, n_kv_heads, head_dim] (b l h d)
-    k = k_cache[phys_pages, page_offsets]
-    v = v_cache[phys_pages, page_offsets]
-    return k, v
-
-
-def attn_decode(
-    q: torch.Tensor,
-    k: torch.Tensor,
-    v: torch.Tensor,
-    mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-    causal_offset: int = -1,
-    scale: float = 0.0,
-    layout: str = "bhld",
-) -> torch.Tensor:
-    li = _parse_layout(layout)
-    if _available["attn_decode"]:
-        return _modules["attn_decode"].attn_decode(
-            q,
-            k,
-            v,
-            mask=mask,
-            causal_offset=causal_offset,
-            scale=scale,
-            layout=li,
-        )
-    return _torch_fallback(q, k, v, mask, causal_offset, scale, q_layout=li)
-
-
-def attn_prefill(
-    q: torch.Tensor,
-    k: torch.Tensor,
-    v: torch.Tensor,
-    mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-    causal_offset: int = -1,
-    scale: float = 0.0,
-    layout: str = "bhld",
-) -> torch.Tensor:
-    li = _parse_layout(layout)
-    if _available["attn_prefill"]:
-        return _modules["attn_prefill"].attn_prefill(
-            q,
-            k,
-            v,
-            mask=mask,
-            causal_offset=causal_offset,
-            scale=scale,
-            layout=li,
-        )
-    return _torch_fallback(q, k, v, mask, causal_offset, scale, q_layout=li)
-
-
-def attn_paged_decode(
-    q: torch.Tensor,
-    page_table: torch.Tensor,
-    k_cache: torch.Tensor,
-    v_cache: torch.Tensor,
-    page_size: int,
-    kv_len: int,
-    mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-    causal_offset: int = -1,
-    scale: float = 0.0,
-    layout: str = "bhld",
-) -> torch.Tensor:
-    li = _parse_layout(layout)
-    if _available["attn_paged_decode"]:
-        return _modules["attn_paged_decode"].attn_paged_decode(
-            q,
-            page_table,
-            k_cache,
-            v_cache,
-            page_size,
-            kv_len,
-            mask=mask,
-            causal_offset=causal_offset,
-            scale=scale,
-            layout=li,
-        )
-    # Gathered K/V are always b l h d
-    k, v = _gather_kv_from_pages(page_table, k_cache, v_cache, page_size, kv_len)
-    return _torch_fallback(
-        q, k, v, mask, causal_offset, scale, q_layout=li, kv_layout=1
-    )
-
-
-def attention(
-    q: torch.Tensor,
-    k: torch.Tensor,
-    v: torch.Tensor,
-    mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
-    causal_offset: int = -1,
-    scale: float = 0.0,
-    layout: str = "bhld",
-) -> torch.Tensor:
-    """Dispatch to decode or prefill attention based on the query length.
-
-    A query length of one is the decode case; longer queries use prefill.
-    The paged-cache decode path cannot be selected here because its page-table
-    arguments are not part of this interface.
-    """
-    li = _parse_layout(layout)
-
-    if q.ndim not in (2, 3, 4) or k.ndim != q.ndim or v.ndim != q.ndim:
-        raise ValueError(
-            "q, k, and v must all have the same rank in {2, 3, 4}, "
-            f"got {q.ndim}D, {k.ndim}D, {v.ndim}D"
-        )
-    if k.shape != v.shape:
-        raise ValueError(
-            f"k and v must have the same shape, got {k.shape} and {v.shape}"
-        )
-
-    original_ndim = q.ndim
-    if original_ndim == 2:
-        # [L, D] -> [1, 1, L, D] or [1, L, 1, D]
-        q = q.unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(1 if li == 0 else 2)
-        k = k.unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(1 if li == 0 else 2)
-        v = v.unsqueeze(0).unsqueeze(1 if li == 0 else 2)
-    elif original_ndim == 3:
-        # [B, L, D] -> single-head 4D input.
-        q = q.unsqueeze(1 if li == 0 else 2)
-        k = k.unsqueeze(1 if li == 0 else 2)
-        v = v.unsqueeze(1 if li == 0 else 2)
-
-    q_len = q.size(2 if li == 0 else 1)
-    if q_len == 1:
-        out = attn_decode(q, k, v, mask, causal_offset, scale, layout)
-    else:
-        out = attn_prefill(q, k, v, mask, causal_offset, scale, layout)
-
-    if original_ndim == 2:
-        return out.squeeze(0).squeeze(0 if li == 0 else 1)
-    if original_ndim == 3:
-        return out.squeeze(1 if li == 0 else 2)
-    return out
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+"""Rotary embedding with auto-dispatch to CUDA kernel.
+
+Single entry point ``apply_rotary_emb(x, freqs_cis)`` — uses the fused
+CUDA kernel when available, falls back to torch complex multiply otherwise.
+
+Layout: x is [batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim] (bf16).
+freqs_cis is [batch, seq_len, dim/2, 2] (f32) — [cos, sin] pairs.
+"""
+
+import torch
+from torch import Tensor
+
+from astrai.extension.loader import is_available
+
+_cache = {"available": None}
+
+
+def _cuda_available() -> bool:
+    if _cache["available"] is None:
+        _cache["available"] = is_available("rotary_emb")
+    return _cache["available"]
+
+
+def _torch_apply(x: Tensor, freqs_cis: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+    cos, sin = freqs_cis[..., 0], freqs_cis[..., 1]
+    dtype = x.dtype
+    x_ = x.float().reshape(*x.shape[:-1], -1, 2)
+    x_complex = torch.view_as_complex(x_)
+    freqs_cis_complex = torch.complex(cos, sin).unsqueeze(2)
+    x_rotated = x_complex * freqs_cis_complex
+    x_out = torch.view_as_real(x_rotated).flatten(-2)
+    return x_out.to(dtype)
+
+
+def apply_rotary_emb(x: Tensor, freqs_cis: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+    """Apply rotary embedding to x.
+
+    Args:
+        x: [batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim] (bf16)
+        freqs_cis: [batch, seq_len, dim/2, 2] (f32) — [cos, sin] pairs
+
+    Returns:
+        [batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim] (bf16)
+    """
+    if (
+        _cuda_available()
+        and not torch.is_grad_enabled()
+        and x.is_cuda
+        and x.dtype == torch.bfloat16
+    ):
+        from astrai.extension.rotary_ops import rotary_emb as _cuda_rotary
+
+        return _cuda_rotary(x, freqs_cis)
+    return _torch_apply(x, freqs_cis)
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+"""Rotary embedding CUDA kernel wrapper.
+
+Calls the compiled CUDA kernel directly. If the kernel is not available,
+raises ``RuntimeError``. Fallback to torch complex multiply is the
+responsibility of ``astrai.extension.rotary_backend.apply_rotary_emb``.
+
+Layout: x is [batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim] (bf16, contiguous).
+freqs_cis is [batch, seq_len, head_dim/2, 2] (f32, contiguous) — [cos, sin] pairs.
+"""
+
+import torch
+
+from astrai.extension.loader import _available, _modules
+
+
+def _check_available():
+    if not _available.get("rotary_emb"):
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            "CUDA kernel 'rotary_emb' is not available. "
+            "Build with CSRC_KERNELS=true or use the torch fallback."
+        )
+
+
+def rotary_emb(x: torch.Tensor, freqs_cis: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """Fused rotary embedding kernel.
+
+    Args:
+        x: [batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim] (bf16, contiguous)
+        freqs_cis: [batch, seq_len, head_dim/2, 2] (f32, contiguous) — [cos, sin] pairs
+
+    Returns:
+        [batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim] (bf16)
+    """
+    _check_available()
+    if not x.is_contiguous():
+        x = x.contiguous()
+    if not freqs_cis.is_contiguous():
+        freqs_cis = freqs_cis.contiguous()
+    return _modules["rotary_emb"].rotary_emb(x, freqs_cis)
@@ -13,41 +13,63 @@ from typing import (
    Type,
    TypeVar,
    Union,
+    get_args,
+    get_origin,
 )
-from typing import get_args as _get_args
-from typing import get_origin as _get_origin

 T = TypeVar("T")


-def _resolve_type(
+def _resolve_base_type(
    arg: Union[Type, str, ForwardRef], factory_cls: type
 ) -> Optional[Type]:
-    """Resolve a generic type-arg (str forward-ref, ForwardRef, or class)."""
-    if not isinstance(arg, (str, ForwardRef)):
+    """Resolve the generic type-arg T to a concrete class.
+
+    - Concrete class (``BaseFactory[MyBase]``): returned directly.
+    - Forward reference (``BaseFactory["MyBase"]``): ``Base["X"]``
+      produces a ``ForwardRef("X")`` at class-creation time.  We
+      extract the name and evaluate it in the factory module's
+      global namespace — the same mechanism ``typing.get_type_hints``
+      uses internally.
+    """
+    if isinstance(arg, type):
        return arg

-    name = arg if isinstance(arg, str) else arg.__forward_arg__
-    if name == factory_cls.__name__:
-        return factory_cls
+    if isinstance(arg, str):
+        name = arg
+    elif isinstance(arg, ForwardRef):
+        name = arg.__forward_arg__
+    else:
+        return None

    mod = sys.modules.get(factory_cls.__module__)
    if mod is None:
        return None
-    ns = vars(mod)
+    try:
+        return eval(name, vars(mod))  # noqa: S307
+    except NameError:
+        return None

-    if isinstance(arg, ForwardRef):
-        return arg._evaluate(ns, None, recursive_guard=frozenset())

-    return ns.get(name)
+def _validate_component(component_cls: Type, base: Optional[Type]) -> None:
+    """Validate that *component_cls* inherits from *base*.
+
+    No-op when *base* is ``None`` (e.g. forward-ref resolution failed).
+    """
+    if base is not None and not issubclass(component_cls, base):
+        raise TypeError(f"{component_cls.__name__} must inherit from {base.__name__}")


 class BaseFactory(ABC, Generic[T]):
-    """Generic factory with decorator-based component registration.
+    """Generic factory with decorator-based registration.
+
+    Create a factory by subclassing with the desired base type::

        class MyFactory(BaseFactory[MyBase]):
            pass

+    Register components with the ``register`` decorator::
+
        @MyFactory.register("custom")
        class CustomComponent(MyBase):
            ...
@@ -64,13 +86,10 @@ class BaseFactory(ABC, Generic[T]):
    def __init_subclass__(cls, **kwargs):
        super().__init_subclass__(**kwargs)
        for orig_base in getattr(cls, "__orig_bases__", ()):
-            if _get_origin(orig_base) is BaseFactory:
-                (arg,) = _get_args(orig_base)
+            if get_origin(orig_base) is BaseFactory:
+                (arg,) = get_args(orig_base)
                cls._entries = {}
-                try:
-                    cls._component_base = _resolve_type(arg, cls)
-                except Exception:
-                    cls._component_base = None
+                cls._component_base = _resolve_base_type(arg, cls)
                return

    @classmethod
@@ -82,7 +101,7 @@ class BaseFactory(ABC, Generic[T]):
        """

        def decorator(component_cls: Type[T]) -> Type[T]:
-            cls._validate_component(component_cls)
+            _validate_component(component_cls, cls._component_base)
            if name in cls._entries:
                raise ValueError(f"Component '{name}' is already registered")
            cls._entries[name] = component_cls
@@ -95,12 +114,11 @@ class BaseFactory(ABC, Generic[T]):
        """Create a component instance by name, filtering kwargs to match
        the component's ``__init__`` signature.
        """
-        entry = cls._entries.get(name)
-        if entry is None:
+        component_cls = cls._entries.get(name)
+        if component_cls is None:
            raise ValueError(
                f"Unknown component: '{name}'. Supported types: {sorted(cls._entries)}"
            )
-        component_cls = entry
        sig = inspect.signature(component_cls.__init__)
        has_var_kwargs = any(
            p.kind == inspect.Parameter.VAR_KEYWORD for p in sig.parameters.values()
@@ -114,18 +132,6 @@ class BaseFactory(ABC, Generic[T]):
            kwargs = {k: v for k, v in kwargs.items() if k in valid}
        return component_cls(*args, **kwargs)

-    @classmethod
-    def _validate_component(cls, component_cls: Type[T]):
-        """Validate the decorated class inherits from the factory's base type.
-
-        Override for custom validation beyond ``issubclass``.
-        """
-        base = cls._component_base
-        if base is not None and not issubclass(component_cls, base):
-            raise TypeError(
-                f"{component_cls.__name__} must inherit from {base.__name__}"
-            )
-
    @classmethod
    def get_component_class(cls, name: str) -> Type[T]:
        """Get the registered component class without instantiating it."""
@@ -30,21 +30,16 @@ from astrai.inference.api.openai import OpenAIResponseBuilder
 from astrai.inference.core import (
    STOP,
    Allocator,
-    CacheView,
-    ContiguousCache,
-    ContiguousCacheView,
    Executor,
    InferenceScheduler,
    KVCache,
-    PageCache,
-    PageCacheView,
+    KVStorage,
    PagePool,
    PrefixCache,
-    Storage,
+    ReqToTokenPool,
    Task,
    TaskManager,
    TaskStatus,
-    TaskTable,
    page_hash,
 )
 from astrai.inference.engine import GenerationRequest, InferenceEngine
@@ -68,16 +63,11 @@ __all__ = [
    "TaskManager",
    "TaskStatus",
    "Allocator",
-    "CacheView",
    "KVCache",
-    "ContiguousCache",
-    "ContiguousCacheView",
-    "PageCache",
-    "PageCacheView",
+    "KVStorage",
    "PagePool",
    "PrefixCache",
-    "Storage",
-    "TaskTable",
+    "ReqToTokenPool",
    "page_hash",
    "sample",
    "BaseSamplingStrategy",
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ def _create_engine(
    device: str = "cuda",
    dtype: torch.dtype = torch.bfloat16,
    max_batch_size: int = 16,
+    max_seq_len: Optional[int] = None,
 ) -> InferenceEngine:
    if not param_path.exists():
        raise FileNotFoundError(f"Parameter directory not found: {param_path}")
@@ -123,6 +124,7 @@ def _create_engine(
        model=model,
        tokenizer=tokenizer,
        max_batch_size=max_batch_size,
+        max_seq_len=max_seq_len,
    )
    logger.info(f"Inference engine initialized with max_batch_size={max_batch_size}")
    return engine
@@ -186,6 +188,7 @@ def run_server(
    device: str = "cuda",
    dtype: torch.dtype = torch.bfloat16,
    max_batch_size: int = 16,
+    max_seq_len: Optional[int] = None,
 ):
    app = get_app()
    app.state.server_config = {
@@ -193,6 +196,7 @@ def run_server(
        "dtype": dtype,
        "param_path": param_path,
        "max_batch_size": max_batch_size,
+        "max_seq_len": max_seq_len,
    }
    uvicorn.run(
        app,
@@ -22,13 +22,10 @@ class BaseToolParser(ABC):
    Maintains streaming state internally so that each call to :meth:`feed`
    can diff against previously emitted content.

-    Parameters
-    ----------
-    tools : list of dict, optional
-        Tool definitions from the request.
-    tool_choice : str
-        ``"auto"`` / ``"required"`` / ``"none"`` or a named tool choice
-        dict.
+    Args:
+        tools (list of dict, optional): Tool definitions from the request.
+        tool_choice (str): ``"auto"`` / ``"required"`` / ``"none"`` or a named
+            tool choice dict.
    """

    def __init__(self, tools: Optional[List[Dict]] = None, tool_choice: str = "auto"):
@@ -51,14 +48,12 @@ class BaseToolParser(ABC):

        Returns an empty list when nothing new should be emitted.

-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        body : str
-            The complete accumulated generated text so far.
-        current_token_ids : list of int, optional
-            All token IDs decoded into *body* (cumulative).
-        delta_token_ids : list of int, optional
-            Only the token IDs for this chunk.
+        Args:
+            body (str): The complete accumulated generated text so far.
+            current_token_ids (list of int, optional): All token IDs decoded
+                into *body* (cumulative).
+            delta_token_ids (list of int, optional): Only the token IDs for
+                this chunk.
        """

    @abstractmethod
@@ -2,16 +2,11 @@

 from astrai.inference.core.cache import (
    Allocator,
-    CacheView,
-    ContiguousCache,
-    ContiguousCacheView,
    KVCache,
-    PageCache,
-    PageCacheView,
+    KVStorage,
    PagePool,
    PrefixCache,
-    Storage,
-    TaskTable,
+    ReqToTokenPool,
    page_hash,
 )
 from astrai.inference.core.executor import Executor
@@ -20,16 +15,11 @@ from astrai.inference.core.task import STOP, Task, TaskManager, TaskStatus

 __all__ = [
    "Allocator",
-    "CacheView",
    "KVCache",
-    "ContiguousCache",
-    "ContiguousCacheView",
-    "PageCache",
-    "PageCacheView",
+    "KVStorage",
    "PagePool",
    "PrefixCache",
-    "Storage",
-    "TaskTable",
+    "ReqToTokenPool",
    "page_hash",
    "Executor",
    "InferenceScheduler",
@@ -1,7 +1,21 @@
+"""KV cache architecture: three-layer separation (SGLang-inspired).
+
+Layer 1 — KVStorage:      flat token-level K/V buffers [n_layers, size, H, D]
+Layer 2 — ReqToTokenPool:  index table [req_idx, pos] → physical token slot
+Layer 3 — Allocator:       slot/page allocation with ref-counting and LRU
+
+PagePool orchestrates all three plus PrefixCache (content addressing).
+KVCache is a pure dataclass passed to the model for direct buffer access.
+
+Two modes:
+  - contiguous (default): pre-allocated per-request blocks, no dynamic alloc
+  - paged: shared pool with on-demand allocation, prefix caching support
+"""
+
 import threading
-from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from collections import OrderedDict
-from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional

 import torch
 from torch import Tensor
@@ -108,418 +122,369 @@ class PrefixCache:
            self._hash_to_page[h] = page_idx


-class PagePool:
-    """Orchestrates allocator (page management) and PrefixCache (content addressing)."""
+class ReqToTokenPool:
+    """Maps [req_idx, pos] -> physical token slot in KV storage.

-    def __init__(self, allocator: Allocator, prefix: PrefixCache):
-        self._alloc = allocator
-        self._prefix = prefix
-        self._alloc.on_evict = prefix.evict
+    Each row is one request; each column is a sequence position. The value
+    at [req_idx, pos] is the flat index into the KV storage buffers.
+    """

-    @property
-    def allocator(self) -> Allocator:
-        return self._alloc
-
-    @property
-    def prefix(self) -> PrefixCache:
-        return self._prefix
-
-    def alloc(self) -> int:
-        return self._alloc.alloc()
-
-    def free(self, idx: int):
-        keep = self._prefix.has_page(idx)
-        self._alloc.free(idx, keep_cached=keep)
-        if not keep:
-            self._prefix.evict(idx)
-
-    def inc_ref(self, idx: int):
-        self._alloc.inc_ref(idx)
-
-    def lookup(self, token_ids: List[int]) -> List[int]:
-        hits = self._prefix.lookup(token_ids)
-        for p in hits:
-            self._alloc.touch(p)
-        return hits
-
-    def record(self, page_idx: int, token_ids: List[int], logical_page_idx: int):
-        self._prefix.record(page_idx, token_ids, logical_page_idx)
-
-
-class TaskTable:
-    """Maps task_ids to page tables and cached token counts."""
-
-    def __init__(self, page_size: int):
-        self._page_size = page_size
-        self._pages: Dict[str, List[int]] = {}
-        self._cached: Dict[str, int] = {}
+    def __init__(self, size: int, max_context_len: int, device: torch.device):
+        self.size = size
+        self.max_context_len = max_context_len
+        self.req_to_token = torch.zeros(
+            (size, max_context_len), dtype=torch.long, device=device
+        )
+        self.free_slots = list(range(size))
        self._lock = threading.Lock()

-    def set(self, task_id: str, page_table: List[int], cached: int):
+    def alloc(self, num_reqs: int) -> Optional[List[int]]:
        with self._lock:
-            self._pages[task_id] = page_table
-            self._cached[task_id] = cached
+            if num_reqs > len(self.free_slots):
+                return None
+            slots = self.free_slots[:num_reqs]
+            self.free_slots = self.free_slots[num_reqs:]
+            return slots

-    def get(self, task_id: str) -> List[int]:
+    def free(self, req_indices: List[int]):
        with self._lock:
-            return self._pages.get(task_id, [])
+            self.free_slots.extend(req_indices)

-    def get_cached(self, task_id: str) -> int:
-        with self._lock:
-            return self._cached.get(task_id, 0)
-
-    def pop(self, task_id: str) -> Tuple[List[int], int]:
-        with self._lock:
-            pages = self._pages.pop(task_id, [])
-            cached = self._cached.pop(task_id, 0)
-            return pages, cached
-
-    def get_ref(self, task_id: str) -> List[int]:
-        with self._lock:
-            return self._pages.setdefault(task_id, [])
-
-    def table_tensor(self, task_ids: List[str], device: torch.device) -> Tensor:
-        with self._lock:
-            states = [self._pages.get(tid, []) for tid in task_ids]
-            max_pages = max((len(s) for s in states), default=0)
-            rows = [s + [-1] * (max_pages - len(s)) for s in states]
-            return torch.tensor(rows, dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+    def write(self, indices, values):
+        self.req_to_token[indices] = values


-class Storage:
-    """KV-cache tensor storage with paged write/gather."""
+class KVStorage:
+    """Token-level KV cache storage.
+
+    Buffers: [n_layers, size, n_kv_heads, head_dim]. Each token occupies
+    one slot indexed by ReqToTokenPool.
+    """

    def __init__(
        self,
+        size: int,
        n_layers: int,
-        n_pages: int,
-        page_size: int,
        n_kv_heads: int,
        head_dim: int,
        device: torch.device,
        dtype: torch.dtype,
    ):
-        self.page_size = page_size
-        self.k_cache = torch.empty(
-            (n_layers, n_pages, page_size, n_kv_heads, head_dim),
-            device=device,
-            dtype=dtype,
+        self.size = size
+        self.k_buffer = torch.empty(
+            (n_layers, size, n_kv_heads, head_dim), device=device, dtype=dtype
        )
-        self.v_cache = torch.empty(
-            (n_layers, n_pages, page_size, n_kv_heads, head_dim),
-            device=device,
-            dtype=dtype,
+        self.v_buffer = torch.empty(
+            (n_layers, size, n_kv_heads, head_dim), device=device, dtype=dtype
        )

-    def write(
-        self,
-        layer_id: int,
-        page_table: Tensor,
-        start_pos: int,
-        k: Tensor,
-        v: Tensor,
-    ):
-        seq_len = k.size(1)
-        if seq_len == 0:
-            return
-        page_size = self.page_size
-        written = 0
-        first_page = start_pos // page_size
-        last_page = (start_pos + seq_len - 1) // page_size
-        for pi in range(first_page, last_page + 1):
-            phys_pages = page_table[:, pi]
-            page_start = pi * page_size
-            write_start = max(page_start, start_pos)
-            write_end = min(page_start + page_size, start_pos + seq_len)
-            offset = write_start - page_start
-            chunk = write_end - write_start
-            valid = phys_pages >= 0
-            if not valid.all():
-                if valid.any():
-                    valid_pages = phys_pages[valid]
-                    self.k_cache[layer_id, valid_pages, offset : offset + chunk] = k[
-                        valid, written : written + chunk
-                    ]
-                    self.v_cache[layer_id, valid_pages, offset : offset + chunk] = v[
-                        valid, written : written + chunk
-                    ]
-                written += chunk
-                continue
-            self.k_cache[layer_id, phys_pages, offset : offset + chunk] = k[
-                :, written : written + chunk
-            ]
-            self.v_cache[layer_id, phys_pages, offset : offset + chunk] = v[
-                :, written : written + chunk
-            ]
-            written += chunk
+    def get_key_buffer(self, layer_id: int) -> Tensor:
+        return self.k_buffer[layer_id]

-    def gather(
-        self, layer_id: int, page_table: Tensor, total_len: int
-    ) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
-        safe = page_table.clamp(min=0)
-        k = self.k_cache[layer_id, safe]
-        v = self.v_cache[layer_id, safe]
-        k = k.flatten(1, 2)
-        v = v.flatten(1, 2)
-        if (page_table < 0).any():
-            invalid = (
-                (page_table < 0)
-                .unsqueeze(-1)
-                .expand(-1, -1, self.page_size)
-                .flatten(1, 2)
-            )
-            invalid = invalid[:, :, None, None].expand_as(k)
-            k = k.masked_fill(invalid, 0.0)
-            v = v.masked_fill(invalid, 0.0)
-        k = k[:, :total_len]
-        v = v[:, :total_len]
-        return k, v
+    def get_value_buffer(self, layer_id: int) -> Tensor:
+        return self.v_buffer[layer_id]
+
+    def set_kv_buffer(self, layer_id: int, loc: Tensor, k: Tensor, v: Tensor) -> None:
+        self.k_buffer[layer_id, loc] = k
+        self.v_buffer[layer_id, loc] = v


-class CacheView(ABC):
-    """Abstract view passed to attention layers for KV-cache I/O."""
+@dataclass
+class KVCache:
+    """Pure data struct passed to model for KV cache I/O.

-    @abstractmethod
-    def write(self, layer_id: int, k: Tensor, v: Tensor): ...
+    The attention layer does raw buffer indexing — no methods, no abstraction.

-    @abstractmethod
-    def gather(self, layer_id: int) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]: ...
+    Attributes:
+        k_buffer: [n_layers, size, n_kv_heads, head_dim]
+        v_buffer: [n_layers, size, n_kv_heads, head_dim]
+        req_to_token: [num_reqs, max_ctx_len] — index table
+        req_pool_indices: [batch_size] — row indices into req_to_token
+        seq_lens: [batch_size] — per-request total sequence lengths
+        out_cache_loc: [batch, new_seq_len] or [batch, 1] — write indices
+        max_len: max(seq_lens) as Python int — avoids GPU sync in decode
+        kv_indptr: [batch+1] int32 — prefix sum of seq_lens, precomputed once
+            per step so the attention backend avoids rebuilding it per layer.
+    """
+
+    k_buffer: Tensor
+    v_buffer: Tensor
+    req_to_token: Tensor
+    req_pool_indices: Tensor
+    seq_lens: Tensor
+    out_cache_loc: Tensor
+    max_len: int = 0
+    kv_indptr: Optional[Tensor] = None


-class KVCache(ABC):
-    """Abstract KV-cache facade for scheduler/executor."""
+class PagePool:
+    """Top-level KV cache manager.

-    @abstractmethod
-    def task_alloc(self, task_id: str, prompt_ids: List[int]) -> bool: ...
+    Combines KVStorage + ReqToTokenPool + Allocator + PrefixCache.

-    @abstractmethod
-    def task_free(self, task_id: str): ...
-
-    @abstractmethod
-    def task_extend(self, task_id: str, pos: int) -> bool: ...
-
-    @abstractmethod
-    def bind_tasks(
-        self,
-        task_ids: List[str],
-        total_len: int,
-        device: torch.device,
-        write_positions: Optional[Tensor] = None,
-    ) -> CacheView: ...
-
-    def task_cached(self, task_id: str) -> int:
-        return 0
-
-    def task_record_hashes(
-        self, task_id: str, prompt_ids: List[int], start_logical_page: int = 0
-    ): ...
-
-
-class PageCacheView(CacheView):
-    """Bundles Storage + page_table + total_len for attention layers."""
-
-    def __init__(self, storage: Storage, page_table: Tensor, total_len: int = 0):
-        self._storage = storage
-        self._page_table = page_table
-        self._total_len = total_len
-
-    def write(self, layer_id: int, k: Tensor, v: Tensor):
-        start_pos = self._total_len - k.size(1)
-        self._storage.write(layer_id, self._page_table, start_pos, k, v)
-
-    def gather(self, layer_id: int) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
-        return self._storage.gather(layer_id, self._page_table, self._total_len)
-
-
-class PageCache(KVCache):
-    """Paged KV-cache with prefix sharing."""
+    Args:
+        n_layers: Number of transformer layers.
+        n_kv_heads: Number of KV attention heads.
+        head_dim: Dimension per head.
+        max_batch_size: Maximum concurrent requests.
+        max_seq_len: Maximum sequence length per request.
+        device, dtype: Tensor device and dtype.
+        page_size: Page size for paged mode (1 = token-level).
+        n_tokens: Total token slots for paged mode. None = contiguous mode
+            (pre-allocates max_batch_size * max_seq_len).
+    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        n_layers: int,
-        n_pages: int,
-        page_size: int,
        n_kv_heads: int,
        head_dim: int,
-        device: torch.device,
-        dtype: torch.dtype,
-    ):
-        self.page_size = page_size
-        self._pool = PagePool(Allocator(n_pages), PrefixCache(page_size))
-        self._table = TaskTable(page_size)
-        self._storage = Storage(
-            n_layers, n_pages, page_size, n_kv_heads, head_dim, device, dtype
-        )
-
-    def task_alloc(self, task_id: str, prompt_ids: List[int]) -> bool:
-        hits = self._pool.lookup(prompt_ids)
-        cached = len(hits) * self.page_size
-        for p in hits:
-            self._pool.inc_ref(p)
-
-        remaining = len(prompt_ids) - cached
-        n_new = (
-            (remaining + self.page_size - 1) // self.page_size if remaining > 0 else 0
-        )
-        new_pages: List[int] = []
-        if n_new > 0:
-            for _ in range(n_new):
-                p = self._pool.alloc()
-                if p < 0:
-                    for hp in hits:
-                        self._pool.free(hp)
-                    for np in new_pages:
-                        self._pool.free(np)
-                    return False
-                new_pages.append(p)
-
-        self._table.set(task_id, hits + new_pages, cached)
-        return True
-
-    def task_free(self, task_id: str):
-        page_table, _ = self._table.pop(task_id)
-        for idx in page_table:
-            self._pool.free(idx)
-
-    def task_extend(self, task_id: str, pos: int) -> bool:
-        page_table = self._table.get(task_id)
-        needed = (pos + 1 + self.page_size - 1) // self.page_size
-        while len(page_table) < needed:
-            p = self._pool.alloc()
-            if p < 0:
-                return False
-            page_table.append(p)
-        return True
-
-    def task_cached(self, task_id: str) -> int:
-        return self._table.get_cached(task_id)
-
-    def task_record_hashes(
-        self, task_id: str, prompt_ids: List[int], start_logical_page: int = 0
-    ):
-        page_table = self._table.get(task_id)
-        full_pages = len(prompt_ids) // self.page_size
-        for i in range(start_logical_page, full_pages):
-            self._pool.record(page_table[i], prompt_ids, i)
-
-    def bind_tasks(
-        self,
-        task_ids: List[str],
-        total_len: int,
-        device: torch.device,
-        write_positions: Optional[Tensor] = None,
-    ) -> PageCacheView:
-        page_table = self._table.table_tensor(task_ids, device)
-        return PageCacheView(self._storage, page_table, total_len)
-
-
-class ContiguousCacheView(CacheView):
-    """Contiguous KV-cache view for attention layers."""
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        cache: "ContiguousCache",
-        batch_indices: Tensor,
-        total_len: int = 0,
-        write_positions: Optional[Tensor] = None,
-    ):
-        self._cache = cache
-        self._batch_indices = batch_indices
-        self._total_len = total_len
-        self._write_positions = write_positions
-
-    def write(self, layer_id: int, k: Tensor, v: Tensor):
-        seq_len = k.size(1)
-        indices = self._batch_indices
-        if self._write_positions is not None and seq_len == 1:
-            pos = self._write_positions
-            self._cache.k[layer_id, indices, pos] = k.squeeze(1)
-            self._cache.v[layer_id, indices, pos] = v.squeeze(1)
-        else:
-            start_pos = self._total_len - seq_len
-            self._cache.k[layer_id, indices, start_pos : start_pos + seq_len] = k
-            self._cache.v[layer_id, indices, start_pos : start_pos + seq_len] = v
-
-    def gather(self, layer_id: int) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
-        max_len = self._total_len
-        indices = self._batch_indices
-        k = self._cache.k[layer_id, indices, :max_len]
-        v = self._cache.v[layer_id, indices, :max_len]
-        return k, v
-
-
-class ContiguousCache(KVCache):
-    """Contiguous per-slot KV cache (default implementation)."""
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        n_layers: int,
        max_batch_size: int,
        max_seq_len: int,
-        n_kv_heads: int,
-        head_dim: int,
        device: torch.device,
        dtype: torch.dtype,
+        page_size: int = 1,
+        n_tokens: Optional[int] = None,
    ):
+        self.page_size = page_size
+        self.max_batch_size = max_batch_size
        self.max_seq_len = max_seq_len
-        self.k = torch.zeros(
-            n_layers,
-            max_batch_size,
-            max_seq_len,
-            n_kv_heads,
-            head_dim,
-            device=device,
-            dtype=dtype,
+        self.device = device
+        self.dtype = dtype
+        self.n_layers = n_layers
+        self.n_kv_heads = n_kv_heads
+        self.head_dim = head_dim
+
+        self.contiguous = n_tokens is None
+        if self.contiguous:
+            self.n_tokens = max_batch_size * max_seq_len
+        else:
+            self.n_tokens = n_tokens
+
+        self._storage = KVStorage(
+            self.n_tokens, n_layers, n_kv_heads, head_dim, device, dtype
        )
-        self.v = torch.zeros(
-            n_layers,
-            max_batch_size,
-            max_seq_len,
-            n_kv_heads,
-            head_dim,
-            device=device,
-            dtype=dtype,
-        )
-        self._slot_len: Dict[int, int] = {}
-        self._task_slot: Dict[str, int] = {}
-        self._free_slots = list(range(max_batch_size))
-        self._device = device
+        self._req_pool = ReqToTokenPool(max_batch_size, max_seq_len, device)
+
+        if self.contiguous:
+            for i in range(max_batch_size):
+                self._req_pool.req_to_token[i] = torch.arange(
+                    i * max_seq_len, (i + 1) * max_seq_len, device=device
+                )
+            self._alloc: Optional[Allocator] = None
+            self._prefix: Optional[PrefixCache] = None
+        else:
+            n_pages = self.n_tokens // page_size
+            self._alloc = Allocator(n_pages)
+            self._prefix = PrefixCache(page_size) if page_size > 1 else None
+            if self._prefix is not None:
+                self._alloc.on_evict = self._prefix.evict
+
+        self._task_req: Dict[str, int] = {}
+        self._task_len: Dict[int, int] = {}
+        self._task_cached: Dict[str, int] = {}
+        self._task_slots: Dict[str, List[int]] = {}
+        self._task_pages: Dict[str, List[int]] = {}
+        self._lock = threading.Lock()
+
+    # ---- task lifecycle ----

    def task_alloc(self, task_id: str, prompt_ids: List[int]) -> bool:
-        if not self._free_slots:
+        req_slots = self._req_pool.alloc(1)
+        if req_slots is None:
            return False
-        slot = self._free_slots.pop(0)
-        self._task_slot[task_id] = slot
-        self._slot_len[slot] = 0
+        req_idx = req_slots[0]
+        self._task_req[task_id] = req_idx
+
+        if self.contiguous:
+            self._task_len[req_idx] = len(prompt_ids)
+            self._task_cached[task_id] = 0
+            return True
+
+        n_tokens_needed = len(prompt_ids)
+        cached = 0
+
+        if self._prefix is not None:
+            hits = self._prefix.lookup(prompt_ids)
+            cached = len(hits) * self.page_size
+            for p in hits:
+                self._alloc.inc_ref(p)
+            self._task_pages[task_id] = list(hits)
+            self._task_slots[task_id] = []
+        else:
+            self._task_pages[task_id] = []
+            self._task_slots[task_id] = []
+
+        remaining = n_tokens_needed - cached
+        if remaining > 0:
+            if self.page_size == 1:
+                slots = self._alloc_tokens(remaining)
+                if slots is None:
+                    for p in self._task_pages[task_id]:
+                        self._alloc.free(p)
+                    self._req_pool.free([req_idx])
+                    del self._task_req[task_id]
+                    return False
+                self._task_slots[task_id] = slots
+            else:
+                n_new_pages = (remaining + self.page_size - 1) // self.page_size
+                new_pages = []
+                for _ in range(n_new_pages):
+                    p = self._alloc.alloc()
+                    if p < 0:
+                        for hp in self._task_pages[task_id]:
+                            self._alloc.free(hp)
+                        for np_ in new_pages:
+                            self._alloc.free(np_)
+                        self._req_pool.free([req_idx])
+                        del self._task_req[task_id]
+                        return False
+                    new_pages.append(p)
+                self._task_pages[task_id].extend(new_pages)
+
+        self._write_req_to_token(task_id, prompt_ids, cached)
+        self._task_len[req_idx] = len(prompt_ids)
+        self._task_cached[task_id] = cached
        return True

    def task_free(self, task_id: str):
-        slot = self._task_slot.pop(task_id, None)
-        if slot is not None:
-            self._slot_len.pop(slot, None)
-            self._free_slots.append(slot)
+        req_idx = self._task_req.pop(task_id, None)
+        if req_idx is None:
+            return
+        self._task_len.pop(req_idx, None)
+        self._task_cached.pop(task_id, None)
+
+        if not self.contiguous:
+            if self._prefix is not None:
+                for p in self._task_pages.get(task_id, []):
+                    keep = self._prefix.has_page(p)
+                    self._alloc.free(p, keep_cached=keep)
+                    if not keep:
+                        self._prefix.evict(p)
+            else:
+                for p in self._task_pages.get(task_id, []):
+                    self._alloc.free(p)
+            self._task_pages.pop(task_id, None)
+            self._task_slots.pop(task_id, None)
+
+        self._req_pool.free([req_idx])

    def task_extend(self, task_id: str, pos: int) -> bool:
-        return pos < self.max_seq_len
+        req_idx = self._task_req.get(task_id)
+        if req_idx is None:
+            return False
+
+        if self.contiguous:
+            return pos < self.max_seq_len
+
+        if self.page_size == 1:
+            slots = self._alloc_tokens(1)
+            if slots is None:
+                return False
+            self._task_slots.setdefault(task_id, []).extend(slots)
+            self._req_pool.req_to_token[req_idx, pos] = slots[0]
+        else:
+            page_idx = pos // self.page_size
+            existing = self._task_pages.get(task_id, [])
+            if page_idx >= len(existing):
+                p = self._alloc.alloc()
+                if p < 0:
+                    return False
+                existing.append(p)
+                self._task_pages[task_id] = existing
+            page_offset = pos % self.page_size
+            page = existing[page_idx]
+            token_slot = page * self.page_size + page_offset
+            self._req_pool.req_to_token[req_idx, pos] = token_slot
+
+        self._task_len[req_idx] = pos + 1
+        return True

    def task_cached(self, task_id: str) -> int:
-        slot = self._task_slot.get(task_id)
-        if slot is None:
-            return 0
-        return self._slot_len.get(slot, 0)
+        return self._task_cached.get(task_id, 0)
+
+    def task_record_hashes(
+        self, task_id: str, prompt_ids: List[int], start_logical_page: int = 0
+    ):
+        if self._prefix is None or self.contiguous:
+            return
+        pages = self._task_pages.get(task_id, [])
+        full_pages = len(prompt_ids) // self.page_size
+        for i in range(start_logical_page, min(full_pages, len(pages))):
+            self._prefix.record(pages[i], prompt_ids, i)
+
+    # ---- bind for forward ----

    def bind_tasks(
        self,
        task_ids: List[str],
-        total_len: int,
+        seq_lens: List[int],
        device: torch.device,
-        write_positions: Optional[Tensor] = None,
-    ) -> ContiguousCacheView:
-        slots = [self._task_slot[tid] for tid in task_ids]
-        batch_indices = torch.tensor(slots, dtype=torch.long, device=device)
-        for slot in slots:
-            if total_len > self._slot_len.get(slot, 0):
-                self._slot_len[slot] = total_len
-        return ContiguousCacheView(
-            self, batch_indices, total_len, write_positions=write_positions
+        start_pos: Optional[int] = None,
+    ) -> KVCache:
+        req_indices = [self._task_req[tid] for tid in task_ids]
+        req_pool_indices = torch.tensor(req_indices, dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+        seq_lens_t = torch.tensor(seq_lens, dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+
+        if start_pos is not None:
+            seq_len = seq_lens[0]
+            out_cache_loc = self._req_pool.req_to_token[
+                req_pool_indices, start_pos:seq_len
+            ]
+        else:
+            write_pos = seq_lens_t - 1
+            out_cache_loc = self._req_pool.req_to_token[
+                req_pool_indices, write_pos
+            ].unsqueeze(-1)
+
+        kv_indptr = torch.zeros(len(seq_lens) + 1, dtype=torch.int32, device=device)
+        kv_indptr[1:] = seq_lens_t.cumsum(0).to(torch.int32)
+
+        return KVCache(
+            k_buffer=self._storage.k_buffer,
+            v_buffer=self._storage.v_buffer,
+            req_to_token=self._req_pool.req_to_token,
+            req_pool_indices=req_pool_indices,
+            seq_lens=seq_lens_t,
+            out_cache_loc=out_cache_loc,
+            max_len=max(seq_lens),
+            kv_indptr=kv_indptr,
        )
+
+    # ---- internals ----
+
+    def _alloc_tokens(self, n: int) -> Optional[List[int]]:
+        if self.page_size != 1:
+            raise RuntimeError("_alloc_tokens is for page_size=1 only")
+        slots = []
+        for _ in range(n):
+            p = self._alloc.alloc()
+            if p < 0:
+                for s in slots:
+                    self._alloc.free(s)
+                return None
+            slots.append(p)
+        return slots
+
+    def _write_req_to_token(self, task_id: str, prompt_ids: List[int], cached: int):
+        req_idx = self._task_req[task_id]
+        total = len(prompt_ids)
+
+        if self.contiguous:
+            return
+
+        if self.page_size == 1:
+            slots = self._task_slots.get(task_id, [])
+            all_slots = slots[: total - cached]
+            if all_slots:
+                self._req_pool.req_to_token[req_idx, cached:total] = torch.tensor(
+                    all_slots, dtype=torch.long, device=self.device
+                )
+        else:
+            pages = self._task_pages.get(task_id, [])
+            for pos in range(cached, total):
+                page_idx = pos // self.page_size
+                page_offset = pos % self.page_size
+                if page_idx < len(pages):
+                    token_slot = pages[page_idx] * self.page_size + page_offset
+                    self._req_pool.req_to_token[req_idx, pos] = token_slot
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from typing import List, Optional

 import torch

-from astrai.inference.core.cache import KVCache
+from astrai.inference.core.cache import PagePool
 from astrai.inference.core.task import Task
 from astrai.inference.sample import sample
 from astrai.model.automodel import AutoModel
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ class Executor:
        self,
        model: AutoModel,
        tokenizer: AutoTokenizer,
-        kv_cache: KVCache,
+        kv_cache: PagePool,
        device: Optional[str] = None,
        dtype: Optional[torch.dtype] = None,
    ):
@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ class Executor:
                input_ids,
                input_mask=input_mask,
                position_ids=position_ids,
-                paged_cache=self.kv_cache.bind_tasks(task_ids, prompt_len, self.device),
+                kv_cache=self.kv_cache.bind_tasks(
+                    task_ids, [prompt_len] * batch_sz, self.device, start_pos=start_pos
+                ),
            )

    def execute_decode(
@@ -103,36 +105,42 @@ class Executor:
            [t.frequency_penalty for t in tasks], device=self.device
        )

-        history_lists = []
-        history_lens = []
-        for t in tasks:
-            window = t.rep_window
-            prompt_part = t.prompt_ids[-window:]
-            ids = prompt_part + t.output_ids
-            history_lists.append(ids)
-            history_lens.append(len(ids))
+        has_freq = bool((freq_penalties != 0).any())
+        if has_freq:
+            history_lists = []
+            history_lens = []
+            for t in tasks:
+                window = t.rep_window
+                prompt_part = t.prompt_ids[-window:]
+                ids = prompt_part + t.output_ids
+                history_lists.append(ids)
+                history_lens.append(len(ids))

-        max_len = max(history_lens) if history_lens else 0
-        padded_ids = torch.zeros(
-            len(tasks), max_len, dtype=torch.long, device=self.device
-        )
-        padded_mask = torch.zeros(
-            len(tasks), max_len, dtype=torch.bool, device=self.device
-        )
-        for i, h in enumerate(history_lists):
-            L = history_lens[i]
-            padded_ids[i, :L] = torch.as_tensor(h, dtype=torch.long, device=self.device)
-            padded_mask[i, :L] = True
+            max_len = max(history_lens) if history_lens else 0
+            padded_ids = torch.zeros(
+                len(tasks), max_len, dtype=torch.long, device=self.device
+            )
+            padded_mask = torch.zeros(
+                len(tasks), max_len, dtype=torch.bool, device=self.device
+            )
+            for i, h in enumerate(history_lists):
+                L = history_lens[i]
+                padded_ids[i, :L] = torch.as_tensor(
+                    h, dtype=torch.long, device=self.device
+                )
+                padded_mask[i, :L] = True
+        else:
+            padded_ids = None
+            padded_mask = None

        with torch.inference_mode():
            outputs = self.model(
                input_ids.unsqueeze(1),
                input_mask=input_mask,
-                paged_cache=self.kv_cache.bind_tasks(
+                kv_cache=self.kv_cache.bind_tasks(
                    task_ids,
-                    total_len,
+                    [t.next_pos + 1 for t in tasks],
                    self.device,
-                    write_positions=position_ids,
                ),
                position_ids=position_ids.unsqueeze(1),
            )
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple

 import torch

-from astrai.inference.core.cache import ContiguousCache, KVCache
+from astrai.inference.core.cache import PagePool
 from astrai.inference.core.executor import Executor
 from astrai.inference.core.task import STOP, Task, TaskManager, TaskStatus
 from astrai.model.automodel import AutoModel
@@ -23,10 +23,9 @@ class InferenceScheduler:
        tokenizer: AutoTokenizer,
        max_batch_size: int = 16,
        max_seq_len: Optional[int] = None,
-        max_prompt_len: int = 2048,
        device: Optional[str] = None,
        dtype: Optional[torch.dtype] = None,
-        cache: Optional[KVCache] = None,
+        cache: Optional[PagePool] = None,
    ):
        config = model.config

@@ -47,21 +46,20 @@ class InferenceScheduler:
        if cache is not None:
            self._cache = cache
        else:
-            self._cache = ContiguousCache(
-                config.num_hidden_layers,
-                max_batch_size,
-                self.max_seq_len,
-                config.num_key_value_heads,
-                head_dim,
-                self.device,
-                self.dtype,
+            self._cache = PagePool(
+                n_layers=config.num_hidden_layers,
+                n_kv_heads=config.num_key_value_heads,
+                head_dim=head_dim,
+                max_batch_size=max_batch_size,
+                max_seq_len=self.max_seq_len,
+                device=self.device,
+                dtype=self.dtype,
            )

        self._task_mgr = TaskManager(
            tokenizer=tokenizer,
            max_batch_size=max_batch_size,
            max_seq_len=self.max_seq_len,
-            max_prompt_len=max_prompt_len,
        )

        self._executor = Executor(
@@ -111,9 +109,11 @@ class InferenceScheduler:
                    self._task_mgr.wait_for_tasks(timeout=1.0)
                    continue

+                active = self._task_mgr.get_active_tasks()
+
                to_prefill = [
                    t
-                    for t in self._task_mgr.get_active_tasks()
+                    for t in active
                    if t.output_tokens == 0
                    and cache.task_cached(t.task_id) < len(t.prompt_ids)
                ]
@@ -139,10 +139,10 @@ class InferenceScheduler:
                                t.task_id, t.prompt_ids, start_logical_page
                            )

-                decode_tasks = self._task_mgr.get_active_tasks()
+                decode_tasks = active

                valid: List[Task] = []
-                for t in sorted(decode_tasks, key=lambda t: t.task_id):
+                for t in decode_tasks:
                    if cache.task_extend(t.task_id, t.next_pos):
                        valid.append(t)
                    else:
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ from collections import deque
 from enum import Enum
 from typing import Any, Callable, Deque, Dict, List, Optional

+from tokenizers.decoders import DecodeStream
+
 from astrai.tokenize.tokenizer import AutoTokenizer

 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -14,37 +16,30 @@ STOP = object()


 class StreamDecoder:
-    """Incremental decoder for byte-level BPE streaming.
+    """Incremental decoder backed by the tokenizers library's DecodeStream.

-    Byte-level BPE may split a single Unicode character (e.g. em-dash,
-    smart quotes) across multiple tokens. Decoding such a token in
-    isolation produces U+FFFD (replacement char). This decoder
-    accumulates token IDs and only emits text once the trailing
-    characters are complete, buffering incomplete multi-byte sequences
-    until the next token arrives.
+    Delegates to the Rust-native streaming decoder which maintains an
+    O(1) bounded token buffer internally (via prefix drain), avoiding
+    the O(n²) cost of re-decoding the full history on each step.
+
+    Multi-byte UTF-8 sequences split across token boundaries are
+    buffered until complete; ``push`` returns "" while the trailing
+    sequence is still incomplete.
    """

-    __slots__ = ("_tokenizer", "_ids", "_emitted")
+    __slots__ = ("_stream", "_tok")

    def __init__(self, tokenizer: AutoTokenizer):
-        self._tokenizer = tokenizer
-        self._ids: List[int] = []
-        self._emitted: str = ""
+        self._tok = tokenizer._tokenizer
+        self._stream = DecodeStream(skip_special_tokens=True)

    def push(self, token_id: int) -> str:
        """Append a token ID and return newly completed text.

        Returns "" while a multi-byte character is still incomplete.
        """
-        self._ids.append(token_id)
-        full = self._tokenizer.decode(self._ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
-        if full.endswith("\ufffd"):
-            return ""
-        if len(full) > len(self._emitted):
-            diff = full[len(self._emitted) :]
-            self._emitted = full
-            return diff
-        return ""
+        chunk = self._stream.step(self._tok, token_id)
+        return chunk or ""


 class TaskStatus(Enum):
@@ -101,18 +96,11 @@ class Task:
    def flush_remaining(self, tokenizer: AutoTokenizer) -> str:
        """Emit any text still buffered in the decoder.

-        Called when generation terminates (max_tokens reached, stop
-        sequence, or external removal) to avoid dropping a final
-        incomplete-looking fragment that is actually complete when
-        adjacent to the stop token.
+        With the Rust-native DecodeStream, the stream is always in a
+        correct state — any completed text was already emitted by the
+        last ``push``.  A trailing incomplete multi-byte sequence has no
+        valid text to emit, so this is a no-op.
        """
-        if self._decoder is None or not self.output_ids:
-            return ""
-        full = tokenizer.decode(self.output_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
-        if len(full) > len(self._decoder._emitted):
-            diff = full[len(self._decoder._emitted) :]
-            self._decoder._emitted = full
-            return diff
        return ""

    @property
@@ -135,12 +123,10 @@ class TaskManager:
        tokenizer: AutoTokenizer,
        max_batch_size: int = 16,
        max_seq_len: int = 8192,
-        max_prompt_len: int = 512,
    ):
        self.tokenizer = tokenizer
        self.max_batch_size = max_batch_size
        self.max_seq_len = max_seq_len
-        self.max_prompt_len = max_prompt_len

        self.waiting_queue: Deque[Task] = deque()
        self.active_tasks: List[Task] = []
@@ -165,10 +151,10 @@ class TaskManager:
    ) -> str:
        task_id = f"task_{int(time.time())}_{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}"
        prompt_ids = self.tokenizer.encode(prompt)
-        if len(prompt_ids) > self.max_prompt_len:
-            prompt_ids = prompt_ids[-self.max_prompt_len :]
+        if len(prompt_ids) > self.max_seq_len:
+            prompt_ids = prompt_ids[-self.max_seq_len :]

-        if len(prompt_ids) >= self.max_seq_len:
+        if len(prompt_ids) > self.max_seq_len:
            if stream_callback:
                stream_callback(STOP)
            return task_id
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ from typing import Any, AsyncGenerator, Dict, Generator, List, Optional, Tuple,
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn

-from astrai.inference.core.cache import KVCache
+from astrai.inference.core.cache import PagePool
 from astrai.inference.core.scheduler import InferenceScheduler
 from astrai.inference.core.task import STOP
 from astrai.tokenize import AutoTokenizer
@@ -111,9 +111,7 @@ class InferenceEngine:
        tokenizer: AutoTokenizer,
        max_batch_size: int = 1,
        max_seq_len: Optional[int] = None,
-        max_prompt_len: int = 2048,
-        page_size: int = 128,
-        cache: Optional[KVCache] = None,
+        cache: Optional[PagePool] = None,
    ):
        self.model = model
        self.tokenizer = tokenizer
@@ -122,7 +120,6 @@ class InferenceEngine:
            tokenizer=self.tokenizer,
            max_batch_size=max_batch_size,
            max_seq_len=max_seq_len,
-            max_prompt_len=max_prompt_len,
            cache=cache,
        )

@@ -343,6 +343,10 @@ def sample(
    When **temperature** is exactly 0 (scalar or single-element tensor)
    the function short-circuits to ``argmax`` for deterministic decode.

+    When **frequency_penalty** is 0 (the common decode case), the entire
+    frequency penalty computation — including the O(batch * vocab) count
+    tensor allocation — is skipped.
+
    Args:
        logits: Raw logits ``[batch, vocab_size]``.
        frequency_penalty: Penalty per occurrence for repeated tokens
@@ -359,14 +363,39 @@ def sample(
        ``True`` — a ``(token_ids, chosen_logprobs)`` tuple where
        ``chosen_logprobs`` has shape ``[batch]``.
    """
-    return SamplingPipeline(
-        [
-            TemperatureStrategy(temperature),
-            TopKStrategy(top_k),
-            TopPStrategy(top_p),
-            FrequencyPenaltyStrategy(frequency_penalty),
-        ]
-    ).sample(
+    greedy = (
+        (
+            isinstance(temperature, Tensor)
+            and temperature.numel() == 1
+            and temperature.item() == 0
+        )
+        if isinstance(temperature, Tensor)
+        else temperature == 0
+    )
+
+    if greedy:
+        tokens = logits.argmax(dim=-1)
+        if not return_logprobs:
+            return tokens
+        log_probs = torch.log_softmax(logits.float(), dim=-1)
+        chosen = torch.gather(log_probs, -1, tokens.unsqueeze(-1)).squeeze(-1)
+        return tokens, chosen
+
+    has_freq = (
+        (isinstance(frequency_penalty, Tensor) and (frequency_penalty != 0).any())
+        if isinstance(frequency_penalty, Tensor)
+        else frequency_penalty != 0
+    )
+
+    strategies: List[BaseSamplingStrategy] = [
+        TemperatureStrategy(temperature),
+        TopKStrategy(top_k),
+        TopPStrategy(top_p),
+    ]
+    if has_freq:
+        strategies.append(FrequencyPenaltyStrategy(frequency_penalty))
+
+    return SamplingPipeline(strategies).sample(
        logits,
        filter_value=filter_value,
        input_ids=input_ids,
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from astrai.model.components.lora import (
    merge_lora,
    save_lora,
 )
-from astrai.model.components.mlp import MLP
+from astrai.model.components.mlp import MLP, DeepSeekMoE
 from astrai.model.components.norm import RMSNorm
 from astrai.model.encoder import EmbeddingEncoder
 from astrai.model.transformer import AutoRegressiveLM
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ __all__ = [
    "Linear",
    "RMSNorm",
    "MLP",
+    "DeepSeekMoE",
    "GQA",
    "DecoderBlock",
    # Models
@@ -40,11 +40,12 @@ def _disable_random_init(enable: bool = True):
            setattr(nn.init, n, fn)


-class AutoModel(BaseFactory["AutoModel"], nn.Module):
-    """
-    Autoregressive language model base class.
-    Provides model loading/saving, registration, and generation.
-    """
+class ModelFactory(BaseFactory[nn.Module]):
+    """Pure factory for model dispatch, separated from nn.Module state."""
+
+
+class AutoModel(nn.Module):
+    """Model base class with loading/saving and generation."""

    def __init__(self, config: BaseModelConfig):
        super().__init__()
@@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ class AutoModel(BaseFactory["AutoModel"], nn.Module):
        config = ConfigFactory.load(raw)
        model_type = config.model_type or "autoregressive_lm"

-        actual_cls = AutoModel.get_component_class(model_type)
+        actual_cls = ModelFactory.get_component_class(model_type)

        with _disable_random_init(enable=disable_random_init):
            model = actual_cls(config)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-from astrai.model.components.attention import GQA, MLA, repeat_kv
+from astrai.extension.rotary_backend import apply_rotary_emb
+from astrai.model.components.attention import GQA, MLA
 from astrai.model.components.decoder_block import DecoderBlock
 from astrai.model.components.embedding import Embedding
 from astrai.model.components.linear import Linear
-from astrai.model.components.mlp import MLP
+from astrai.model.components.mlp import MLP, DeepSeekMoE
 from astrai.model.components.norm import RMSNorm
 from astrai.model.components.rope import (
    RotaryEmbedding,
-    apply_rotary_emb,
    get_rotary_emb,
 )

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ __all__ = [
    "Linear",
    "RMSNorm",
    "MLP",
+    "DeepSeekMoE",
    "Embedding",
    "GQA",
    "MLA",
@@ -21,5 +22,4 @@ __all__ = [
    "RotaryEmbedding",
    "apply_rotary_emb",
    "get_rotary_emb",
-    "repeat_kv",
 ]
@@ -5,22 +5,12 @@ import torch.nn as nn
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 from torch import Tensor

+from astrai.extension import attention
+from astrai.extension.rotary_backend import apply_rotary_emb
 from astrai.factory import BaseFactory
-from astrai.inference.core.cache import CacheView
+from astrai.inference.core.cache import KVCache
 from astrai.model.components.linear import Linear
 from astrai.model.components.norm import RMSNorm
-from astrai.model.components.rope import apply_rotary_emb
-
-
-def repeat_kv(x: Tensor, n_rep: int) -> Tensor:
-    bs, slen, n_heads, head_dim = x.shape
-    if n_rep == 1:
-        return x
-    return (
-        x[:, :, :, None, :]
-        .expand(bs, slen, n_heads, n_rep, head_dim)
-        .reshape(bs, slen, n_heads * n_rep, head_dim)
-    )


 class AttnFactory(BaseFactory[nn.Module]):
@@ -75,7 +65,7 @@ class GQA(nn.Module):
        x: Tensor,
        rotary_emb: Tensor,
        attn_mask: Tensor = None,
-        paged_cache: Optional[CacheView] = None,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache] = None,
        is_causal: bool = False,
    ) -> Tensor:
        q = self._split_heads(self.q_proj(x), self.n_heads)
@@ -86,19 +76,7 @@ class GQA(nn.Module):
        if self.use_qk_norm:
            q, k = self.q_norm(q), self.k_norm(k)

-        if paged_cache is not None:
-            paged_cache.write(self.layer_id, k, v)
-            k, v = paged_cache.gather(self.layer_id)
-
-        k, v = repeat_kv(k, self.n_rep), repeat_kv(v, self.n_rep)
-
-        q, k, v = q.permute(0, 2, 1, 3), k.permute(0, 2, 1, 3), v.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
-        sdqa_out = (
-            F.scaled_dot_product_attention(q, k, v, attn_mask, is_causal=is_causal)
-            .permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
-            .contiguous()
-            .flatten(2)
-        )
+        sdqa_out = attention(q, k, v, kv_cache, self.layer_id, attn_mask, is_causal)

        if self.use_gated_attention:
            sdqa_out = sdqa_out * F.sigmoid(self.gate(x))
@@ -161,7 +139,7 @@ class MLA(nn.Module):
        x: Tensor,
        rotary_emb: Tensor,
        attn_mask: Tensor = None,
-        paged_cache: Optional[CacheView] = None,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache] = None,
        is_causal: bool = False,
    ) -> Tensor:
        bsz, seq_len, _ = x.size()
@@ -193,18 +171,7 @@ class MLA(nn.Module):
            q = self.q_norm(q)
            k = self.k_norm(k)

-        if paged_cache is not None:
-            paged_cache.write(self.layer_id, k, v)
-            k, v = paged_cache.gather(self.layer_id)
-
-        q = q.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
-        k = k.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
-        v = v.permute(0, 2, 1, 3)
-
-        attn_out = F.scaled_dot_product_attention(
-            q, k, v, attn_mask, is_causal=is_causal
-        )
-        attn_out = attn_out.permute(0, 2, 1, 3).contiguous().flatten(2)
+        attn_out = attention(q, k, v, kv_cache, self.layer_id, attn_mask, is_causal)

        if self.use_gated_attention:
            attn_out = attn_out * F.sigmoid(self.gate(x))
@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
 from dataclasses import asdict
-from typing import Optional
+from typing import Optional, TypedDict

 import torch.nn as nn
 from torch import Tensor

-from astrai.inference.core.cache import CacheView
+from astrai.inference.core.cache import KVCache
 from astrai.model.components.attention import AttnFactory
 from astrai.model.components.mlp import FFNFactory
 from astrai.model.components.norm import RMSNorm


+class DecoderOutput(TypedDict):
+    hidden_states: Tensor
+    aux_loss: Optional[Tensor]
+
+
 class DecoderBlock(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, config, layer_id: int):
        super().__init__()
@@ -26,24 +31,39 @@ class DecoderBlock(nn.Module):
        self.attention = AttnFactory.create(config.attn_type, **cfg, layer_id=layer_id)
        self.input_norm = RMSNorm(config.hidden_size, config.rms_norm_eps)
        self.post_attention_norm = RMSNorm(config.hidden_size, config.rms_norm_eps)
-        self.mlp = FFNFactory.create(config.ffn_type, **cfg)
+        ffn_type = self._resolve_ffn_type(config, layer_id)
+        self.mlp = FFNFactory.create(ffn_type, **cfg)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _resolve_ffn_type(config, layer_id: int) -> str:
+        if config.ffn_type != "moe":
+            return config.ffn_type
+        mlp_only = config.mlp_only_layers or []
+        if layer_id in mlp_only:
+            return "mlp"
+        if config.decoder_sparse_step > 1:
+            if (layer_id + 1) % config.decoder_sparse_step != 0:
+                return "mlp"
+        return "moe"

    def forward(
        self,
        x: Tensor,
        rotary_emb: Tensor,
        attention_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
-        paged_cache: Optional[CacheView] = None,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache] = None,
        is_causal: bool = False,
-    ) -> Tensor:
+    ) -> DecoderOutput:
        attn_output = self.attention(
            self.input_norm(x),
            rotary_emb,
            attention_mask,
-            paged_cache,
+            kv_cache,
            is_causal,
        )
        x = attn_output + x
-        x = self.mlp(self.post_attention_norm(x)) + x
+        normalized = self.post_attention_norm(x)
+        mlp_output = self.mlp(normalized)
+        x = mlp_output["hidden_states"] + x

-        return x
+        return {"hidden_states": x, "aux_loss": mlp_output["aux_loss"]}
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 import logging
-from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
+from dataclasses import asdict
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Optional, Set

 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 import torch.nn.functional as F
+from pydantic.dataclasses import dataclass

 from astrai.model.components.linear import Linear
 from astrai.serialization import (
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from typing import Optional, TypedDict
+
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 import torch.nn.functional as F
@@ -11,6 +13,16 @@ class FFNFactory(BaseFactory[nn.Module]):
    pass


+class FFNOutput(TypedDict):
+    hidden_states: Tensor
+    aux_loss: Optional[Tensor]
+
+
+class RoutedOutput(TypedDict):
+    hidden_states: Tensor
+    aux_loss: Optional[Tensor]
+
+
@FFNFactory.register("mlp")
 class MLP(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, dim: int, dim_ffn: int, down_init_std: float = 0.02):
@@ -19,10 +31,10 @@ class MLP(nn.Module):
        self.gate = Linear(dim, dim_ffn)
        self.down = Linear(dim_ffn, dim, init_std=down_init_std)

-    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> FFNOutput:
        gated = self.up(x) * F.silu(self.gate(x))
        out = self.down(gated)
-        return out
+        return {"hidden_states": out, "aux_loss": None}


@FFNFactory.register("moe")
@@ -36,6 +48,9 @@ class DeepSeekMoE(nn.Module):
        n_activated_experts: int = 2,
        topk_method: str = "greedy",
        n_layers: int = 1,
+        moe_intermediate_size: Optional[int] = None,
+        shared_expert_intermediate_size: Optional[int] = None,
+        norm_topk_prob: bool = True,
    ):
        super().__init__()
        self.dim = dim
@@ -43,6 +58,16 @@ class DeepSeekMoE(nn.Module):
        self.n_shared_experts = n_shared_experts
        self.n_activated_experts = n_activated_experts
        self.topk_method = topk_method
+        self.norm_topk_prob = norm_topk_prob
+
+        expert_dim_ffn = (
+            moe_intermediate_size if moe_intermediate_size is not None else dim_ffn
+        )
+        shared_dim_ffn = (
+            shared_expert_intermediate_size
+            if shared_expert_intermediate_size is not None
+            else dim_ffn
+        )

        self.router = Linear(dim, n_routed_experts, bias=False)
        moe_scale = 1 / max(n_shared_experts, 1) + 1 / n_activated_experts
@@ -50,33 +75,37 @@ class DeepSeekMoE(nn.Module):

        self.shared_experts = nn.ModuleList(
            [
-                MLP(dim, dim_ffn, down_init_std=down_init_std)
+                MLP(dim, shared_dim_ffn, down_init_std=down_init_std)
                for _ in range(n_shared_experts)
            ]
        )
        self.routed_experts = nn.ModuleList(
            [
-                MLP(dim, dim_ffn, down_init_std=down_init_std)
+                MLP(dim, expert_dim_ffn, down_init_std=down_init_std)
                for _ in range(n_routed_experts)
            ]
        )

-    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+    def forward(self, x: Tensor) -> FFNOutput:
+        include_aux_loss = self.training and torch.is_grad_enabled()
        bsz, seq_len, dim = x.shape
        x_flat = x.view(-1, dim)

        shared_out = self._shared_forward(x_flat)
-        routed_out = self._routed_forward(x_flat)
+        routed_output = self._routed_forward(x_flat, include_aux_loss)

-        out = (shared_out + routed_out).view(bsz, seq_len, dim)
-        return out
+        out = (shared_out + routed_output["hidden_states"]).view(bsz, seq_len, dim)
+        return {"hidden_states": out, "aux_loss": routed_output["aux_loss"]}

    def _shared_forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
        if self.n_shared_experts == 0:
            return torch.zeros_like(x)
-        return sum(e(x) for e in self.shared_experts) / self.n_shared_experts
+        return (
+            sum(e(x)["hidden_states"] for e in self.shared_experts)
+            / self.n_shared_experts
+        )

-    def _routed_forward(self, x: Tensor) -> Tensor:
+    def _routed_forward(self, x: Tensor, include_aux_loss: bool) -> RoutedOutput:
        N, D = x.shape
        K = self.n_activated_experts

@@ -84,7 +113,17 @@ class DeepSeekMoE(nn.Module):
        router_probs = torch.softmax(router_logits.float(), dim=-1).to(x.dtype)

        topk_weights, topk_indices = torch.topk(router_probs, K, dim=-1)
-        topk_weights = topk_weights / topk_weights.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+        if self.norm_topk_prob:
+            topk_weights = topk_weights / topk_weights.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+
+        aux_loss = None
+        if include_aux_loss:
+            expert_load = F.one_hot(
+                topk_indices, num_classes=self.n_routed_experts
+            ).float()
+            expert_load = expert_load.mean(dim=(0, 1))
+            router_prob = router_probs.float().mean(dim=0)
+            aux_loss = self.n_routed_experts * (expert_load * router_prob).sum()

        output = torch.zeros(N, D, device=x.device, dtype=x.dtype)
        for expert_idx in range(self.n_routed_experts):
@@ -92,9 +131,11 @@ class DeepSeekMoE(nn.Module):
            token_idx, k_idx = expert_mask.nonzero(as_tuple=True)
            if token_idx.numel() == 0:
                continue
+            expert = self.routed_experts[expert_idx]
            expert_input = x[token_idx]
-            expert_output = self.routed_experts[expert_idx](expert_input)
+            expert_output = expert(expert_input)["hidden_states"]
+
            weights = topk_weights[token_idx, k_idx].unsqueeze(-1)
            output.index_add_(0, token_idx, expert_output * weights)

-        return output
+        return {"hidden_states": output, "aux_loss": aux_loss}
@@ -11,28 +11,23 @@ def get_rotary_emb(
    base: float = 10000,
    device: Optional[torch.device] = None,
 ) -> Tensor:
+    """Precompute cos/sin tables for rotary embedding.
+
+    Returns:
+        [max_len, dim/2, 2] (f32) — [cos, sin] pairs.
+    """
    theta = base ** (-torch.arange(0, dim, 2, dtype=torch.float64, device=device) / dim)
    t = torch.arange(0, max_len, dtype=torch.float64, device=device)
    freqs = torch.outer(t, theta).float()
    cos = torch.cos(freqs)
    sin = torch.sin(freqs)
-    return torch.complex(cos, sin)
+    return torch.stack([cos, sin], dim=-1)


 def ntk_base(base: float, dim: int, factor: float) -> float:
    return base * (factor ** (dim / (dim - 2)))


-def apply_rotary_emb(x: torch.Tensor, freqs_cis: Tensor) -> Tensor:
-    dtype = x.dtype
-    x_ = x.float().reshape(*x.shape[:-1], -1, 2)
-    x_complex = torch.view_as_complex(x_)
-    freqs_cis = freqs_cis.unsqueeze(2)
-    x_rotated = x_complex * freqs_cis
-    x_out = torch.view_as_real(x_rotated).flatten(-2)
-    return x_out.to(dtype)
-
-
 class RotaryEmbedding(nn.Module):
    def __init__(
        self,
@@ -56,16 +51,23 @@ class RotaryEmbedding(nn.Module):
        self._set_rotary_buffer(self.max_len)

    def _set_rotary_buffer(self, max_len: int):
-        rotary_emb = get_rotary_emb(self.dim, max_len, self.base)
-        freqs_cis = torch.view_as_real(rotary_emb)
+        freqs_cis = get_rotary_emb(self.dim, max_len, self.base)
        self.register_buffer("freqs_cis", freqs_cis, persistent=False)

    def forward(self, x: Tensor, position_ids: Optional[Tensor] = None) -> Tensor:
+        """Lookup cos/sin for the given positions.
+
+        Args:
+            x: [batch, seq_len, ...] — only batch and seq_len are used.
+            position_ids: [batch, seq_len] optional position indices.
+
+        Returns:
+            [batch, seq_len, dim/2, 2] (f32) — [cos, sin] pairs.
+        """
        if position_ids is None:
            position_ids = (
                torch.arange(x.size(1), device=x.device)
                .unsqueeze(0)
                .expand(x.size(0), -1)
            )
-        position_freq_cis = self.freqs_cis[position_ids].float()
-        return torch.view_as_complex(position_freq_cis)
+        return self.freqs_cis[position_ids].float()
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import torch.nn as nn
 from torch import Tensor

 from astrai.config.model_config import EncoderConfig
-from astrai.model.automodel import AutoModel
+from astrai.model.automodel import AutoModel, ModelFactory
 from astrai.model.components.decoder_block import DecoderBlock
 from astrai.model.components.embedding import Embedding
 from astrai.model.components.norm import RMSNorm
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from astrai.model.components.rope import RotaryEmbedding
 from astrai.model.transformer import process_attention_mask


-@AutoModel.register("embedding")
+@ModelFactory.register("embedding")
 class EmbeddingEncoder(AutoModel):
    def __init__(self, config: EncoderConfig):
        super().__init__(config)
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ class EmbeddingEncoder(AutoModel):
        attn_mask = process_attention_mask(input_mask)

        for layer in self.layers:
-            x = layer(x, rotary_emb, attn_mask)
+            x = layer(x, rotary_emb, attn_mask)["hidden_states"]

        hidden_states = self.norm(x)

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ import torch.nn as nn
 from torch import Tensor

 from astrai.config.model_config import AutoRegressiveLMConfig
-from astrai.inference.core.cache import CacheView
-from astrai.model.automodel import AutoModel
+from astrai.inference.core.cache import KVCache
+from astrai.model.automodel import AutoModel, ModelFactory
 from astrai.model.components.decoder_block import DecoderBlock
 from astrai.model.components.embedding import Embedding
 from astrai.model.components.linear import Linear
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ def process_attention_mask(
    return input_mask


-@AutoModel.register("autoregressive_lm")
+@ModelFactory.register("autoregressive_lm")
 class AutoRegressiveLM(AutoModel):
    """Autoregressive language model with paged KV cache."""

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ class AutoRegressiveLM(AutoModel):
        self,
        input_ids: Tensor,
        input_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
-        paged_cache: Optional[CacheView] = None,
+        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache] = None,
        position_ids: Optional[Tensor] = None,
    ) -> Dict[str, Tensor]:
        assert input_ids.ndim == 2
@@ -113,10 +113,23 @@ class AutoRegressiveLM(AutoModel):
        attn_mask = process_attention_mask(input_mask)
        use_sdpa_causal_mask = attn_mask is None

+        aux_losses = []
        for layer in self.layers:
-            x = layer(x, rotary_emb, attn_mask, paged_cache, use_sdpa_causal_mask)
+            layer_output = layer(
+                x,
+                rotary_emb,
+                attn_mask,
+                kv_cache,
+                use_sdpa_causal_mask,
+            )
+            x = layer_output["hidden_states"]
+            if layer_output["aux_loss"] is not None:
+                aux_losses.append(layer_output["aux_loss"])

        hidden_states = self.norm(x)
        logits = self.lm_head(hidden_states)

-        return {"logits": logits, "hidden_states": hidden_states}
+        output = {"logits": logits, "hidden_states": hidden_states}
+        if aux_losses:
+            output["aux_loss"] = torch.stack(aux_losses).mean()
+        return output
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+"""Optimizer implementations and factory registration."""
+
+from astrai.optim.composite import (
+    OptimizerFactory,
+    composite_state_dict,
+    composite_step,
+    composite_zero_grad,
+    refresh_param_groups,
+)
+from astrai.optim.mano_adamw import Mano, ManoAdamW
+from astrai.optim.muon_adamw import MuonAdamW
+from astrai.optim.nora_nadamw import (
+    NAdamW,
+    Nora,
+    NoraNAdamW,
+    OptimizerParameterGroups,
+    nora_direction,
+    nora_lr_scale,
+    partition_optimizer_parameters,
+)
+
+__all__ = [
+    "Mano",
+    "ManoAdamW",
+    "MuonAdamW",
+    "NAdamW",
+    "Nora",
+    "NoraNAdamW",
+    "OptimizerFactory",
+    "OptimizerParameterGroups",
+    "composite_state_dict",
+    "composite_step",
+    "composite_zero_grad",
+    "nora_direction",
+    "nora_lr_scale",
+    "partition_optimizer_parameters",
+    "refresh_param_groups",
+]
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+"""Shared infrastructure for the optim package.
+
+This module hosts two things:
+
+* ``OptimizerFactory`` — the registry for built-in optimizers. Defining it
+  here (rather than in ``__init__.py``) lets each optimizer module import it
+  and register itself with a decorator, avoiding circular imports.
+* Composite-optimizer helpers — ``step``/``zero_grad``/``state_dict``/
+  ``param_groups`` delegation shared by every optimizer that routes different
+  parameter groups through distinct sub-optimizers.
+"""
+
+from typing import Any
+
+import torch
+from torch.optim import Optimizer
+
+from astrai.factory import BaseFactory
+
+
+class OptimizerFactory(BaseFactory[Optimizer]):
+    """Factory for built-in training optimizers."""
+
+
+def composite_step(
+    sub_optimizers: list[Optimizer],
+    closure=None,
+) -> torch.Tensor | None:
+    """Run ``step`` on every sub-optimizer, invoking the closure once.
+
+    The closure (if given) is executed inside ``torch.enable_grad`` exactly
+    once before any sub-optimizer steps, matching the contract of a single
+    ``Optimizer.step``. Sub-optimizers receive ``None`` so they do not
+    re-execute it.
+    """
+    loss = None
+    if closure is not None:
+        with torch.enable_grad():
+            loss = closure()
+    for sub in sub_optimizers:
+        sub.step()
+    return loss
+
+
+def composite_zero_grad(
+    sub_optimizers: list[Optimizer],
+    set_to_none: bool = True,
+) -> None:
+    for sub in sub_optimizers:
+        sub.zero_grad(set_to_none=set_to_none)
+
+
+def composite_state_dict(
+    named_sub_optimizers: dict[str, Optimizer | None],
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """Serialize sub-optimizers, preserving ``None`` slots."""
+    return {
+        name: sub.state_dict() if sub is not None else None
+        for name, sub in named_sub_optimizers.items()
+    }
+
+
+def refresh_param_groups(
+    sub_optimizers: list[Optimizer],
+) -> list[dict]:
+    """Concatenate param_groups from every non-None sub-optimizer."""
+    groups: list[dict] = []
+    for sub in sub_optimizers:
+        if sub is not None:
+            groups.extend(sub.param_groups)
+    return groups
@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+"""Mano manifold optimizer combined with AdamW.
+
+Mano projects the momentum onto the tangent space of the Oblique manifold
+(axis-wise tangent projection) and normalizes it, replacing the expensive
+Newton-Schulz iteration in Muon with a cheaper manifold normalization.
+
+Reference: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.23000
+"""
+
+import math
+
+import torch
+from torch import nn, optim
+from torch.optim import Optimizer
+
+from astrai.optim.composite import (
+    OptimizerFactory,
+    composite_state_dict,
+    composite_step,
+    composite_zero_grad,
+    refresh_param_groups,
+)
+from astrai.optim.nora_nadamw import partition_optimizer_parameters
+
+
+class Mano(Optimizer):
+    """Manifold Normalized Optimizer for two-dimensional matrices.
+
+    Each step alternates the projection axis (dim 0 / dim 1) to restrike the
+    manifold along both rows and columns. The tangent momentum is computed
+    without normalizing the parameter itself (v2 simplification) and the
+    epsilon is added (not clamped) to the norm denominator.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        params,
+        lr: float = 1e-3,
+        weight_decay: float = 0.1,
+        momentum: float = 0.95,
+        nesterov: bool = True,
+        eps: float = 1e-8,
+    ):
+        if lr < 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid learning rate: {lr}")
+        if weight_decay < 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid weight decay: {weight_decay}")
+        if not 0 <= momentum <= 1:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid momentum: {momentum}")
+        if eps <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid epsilon: {eps}")
+
+        defaults = {
+            "lr": lr,
+            "weight_decay": weight_decay,
+            "momentum": momentum,
+            "nesterov": nesterov,
+            "eps": eps,
+            "steps": 0,
+        }
+        super().__init__(params, defaults)
+        for group in self.param_groups:
+            for param in group["params"]:
+                if param.ndim != 2:
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        f"Mano only supports 2D matrices, got shape {tuple(param.shape)}"
+                    )
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def step(self, closure=None):
+        loss = None
+        if closure is not None:
+            with torch.enable_grad():
+                loss = closure()
+
+        for group in self.param_groups:
+            lr = group["lr"]
+            weight_decay = group["weight_decay"]
+            momentum = group["momentum"]
+            nesterov = group["nesterov"]
+            eps = group["eps"]
+            dim = int(group["steps"] % 2)
+
+            for param in group["params"]:
+                if param.grad is None:
+                    continue
+                if param.grad.is_sparse:
+                    raise RuntimeError("Mano does not support sparse gradients")
+
+                grad = param.grad
+                state = self.state[param]
+                momentum_buffer = state.get("momentum_buffer")
+                if momentum_buffer is None:
+                    momentum_buffer = torch.zeros_like(grad)
+                momentum_buffer.mul_(momentum).add_(grad)
+                update = (
+                    grad.add(momentum_buffer, alpha=momentum)
+                    if nesterov
+                    else momentum_buffer
+                )
+
+                tangent = update - (
+                    torch.sum(update * param.data, dim=dim, keepdim=True) * param.data
+                )
+                direction = tangent / (
+                    torch.norm(tangent, p=2, dim=dim, keepdim=True) + eps
+                )
+
+                if weight_decay != 0:
+                    param.mul_(1 - lr * weight_decay)
+                adjusted_lr = lr * 0.2 * math.sqrt(direction.shape[dim])
+                param.add_(direction, alpha=-adjusted_lr)
+                state["momentum_buffer"] = momentum_buffer
+
+            group["steps"] += 1
+
+        return loss
+
+
+@OptimizerFactory.register("mano_adamw")
+class ManoAdamW(Optimizer):
+    """Mano for internal linear weights and AdamW for remaining parameters."""
+
+    optimizer_name = "mano_adamw"
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        model: nn.Module,
+        lr: float = 3e-4,
+        weight_decay: float = 0.1,
+        momentum: float = 0.95,
+        nesterov: bool = True,
+    ):
+        groups = partition_optimizer_parameters(model)
+        all_params = [
+            *groups.nora,
+            *groups.nadamw_decay,
+            *groups.nadamw_no_decay,
+        ]
+        if not all_params:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Cannot build an optimizer for a model with no trainable parameters"
+            )
+        super().__init__(all_params, {})
+
+        self.mano = (
+            Mano(
+                groups.nora,
+                lr=lr,
+                weight_decay=weight_decay,
+                momentum=momentum,
+                nesterov=nesterov,
+            )
+            if groups.nora
+            else None
+        )
+
+        adamw_groups = []
+        if groups.nadamw_decay:
+            adamw_groups.append(
+                {"params": groups.nadamw_decay, "weight_decay": weight_decay}
+            )
+        if groups.nadamw_no_decay:
+            adamw_groups.append({"params": groups.nadamw_no_decay, "weight_decay": 0.0})
+        self.adamw = (
+            optim.AdamW(
+                adamw_groups,
+                lr=lr,
+                betas=(0.9, 0.95),
+                fused=True,
+            )
+            if adamw_groups
+            else None
+        )
+        self.param_groups = refresh_param_groups([self.mano, self.adamw])
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def step(self, closure=None):
+        return composite_step(
+            [opt for opt in (self.mano, self.adamw) if opt is not None],
+            closure,
+        )
+
+    def zero_grad(self, set_to_none: bool = True):
+        composite_zero_grad(
+            [opt for opt in (self.mano, self.adamw) if opt is not None],
+            set_to_none,
+        )
+
+    def state_dict(self) -> dict:
+        return composite_state_dict({"mano": self.mano, "adamw": self.adamw})
+
+    def load_state_dict(self, state_dict: dict):
+        if "muon" in state_dict or "nora" in state_dict:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Checkpoint uses a different optimizer; select the matching "
+                "--optimizer to resume it"
+            )
+        if "mano" not in state_dict or "adamw" not in state_dict:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Checkpoint optimizer state is not compatible with mano_adamw"
+            )
+
+        saved_mano = state_dict["mano"]
+        saved_adamw = state_dict["adamw"]
+        if (self.mano is None) != (saved_mano is None):
+            raise ValueError("Checkpoint Mano parameter groups do not match the model")
+        if (self.adamw is None) != (saved_adamw is None):
+            raise ValueError("Checkpoint AdamW parameter groups do not match the model")
+        if self.mano is not None:
+            self.mano.load_state_dict(saved_mano)
+        if self.adamw is not None:
+            self.adamw.load_state_dict(saved_adamw)
+        self.param_groups = refresh_param_groups([self.mano, self.adamw])
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+"""Legacy Muon + AdamW combined optimizer."""
+
+from typing import Any
+
+import torch
+from torch import Tensor, nn, optim
+
+from astrai.optim.composite import (
+    OptimizerFactory,
+    composite_state_dict,
+    composite_step,
+    composite_zero_grad,
+    refresh_param_groups,
+)
+
+
+@OptimizerFactory.register("muon_adamw")
+class MuonAdamW(optim.Optimizer):
+    """Combined Muon (matrix) + AdamW (non-matrix) optimizer."""
+
+    optimizer_name = "muon_adamw"
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        model: nn.Module,
+        lr: float = 3e-4,
+        weight_decay: float = 0.1,
+        momentum: float = 0.95,
+        nesterov: bool = True,
+        ns_steps: int = 5,
+        adjust_lr_fn: str = "match_rms_adamw",
+    ):
+        defaults = {
+            "lr": lr,
+            "weight_decay": weight_decay,
+            "momentum": momentum,
+            "nesterov": nesterov,
+            "ns_steps": ns_steps,
+            "adjust_lr_fn": adjust_lr_fn,
+        }
+        params = [param for param in model.parameters() if param.requires_grad]
+        super().__init__(params, defaults)
+
+        matrix_params: list[Tensor] = []
+        other_params: list[Tensor] = []
+        for name, param in model.named_parameters():
+            if not param.requires_grad:
+                continue
+            if (
+                param.dim() >= 2
+                and "norm" not in name
+                and "bias" not in name
+                and "embed" not in name
+                and "lm_head" not in name
+            ):
+                matrix_params.append(param)
+            else:
+                other_params.append(param)
+
+        self.muon = optim.Muon(
+            matrix_params,
+            lr=lr,
+            weight_decay=weight_decay,
+            momentum=momentum,
+            nesterov=nesterov,
+            ns_steps=ns_steps,
+            adjust_lr_fn=adjust_lr_fn,
+        )
+        self.adamw = optim.AdamW(
+            [{"params": other_params, "weight_decay": 0.0}],
+            lr=lr,
+            betas=(0.9, 0.95),
+            fused=True,
+        )
+
+        self.param_groups = refresh_param_groups([self.muon, self.adamw])
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def step(self, closure=None):
+        return composite_step([self.muon, self.adamw], closure)
+
+    def zero_grad(self, set_to_none: bool = True):
+        composite_zero_grad([self.muon, self.adamw], set_to_none)
+
+    def state_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return composite_state_dict({"muon": self.muon, "adamw": self.adamw})
+
+    def load_state_dict(self, state_dict: dict[str, Any]):
+        if "muon" not in state_dict or "adamw" not in state_dict:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Checkpoint optimizer state is not compatible with muon_adamw"
+            )
+        self.muon.load_state_dict(state_dict["muon"])
+        self.adamw.load_state_dict(state_dict["adamw"])
+        self.param_groups = refresh_param_groups([self.muon, self.adamw])
@@ -0,0 +1,372 @@
+"""Nora matrix optimizer combined with Nesterov AdamW."""
+
+import math
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Any
+
+import torch
+from torch import Tensor, nn
+from torch.distributed.tensor import DTensor, Shard
+from torch.optim import Optimizer
+
+from astrai.model.components.embedding import Embedding
+from astrai.model.components.linear import Linear
+from astrai.model.components.lora import LoRALinear
+from astrai.model.components.norm import RMSNorm
+from astrai.optim.composite import (
+    OptimizerFactory,
+    composite_state_dict,
+    composite_step,
+    composite_zero_grad,
+    refresh_param_groups,
+)
+
+NORA_EPS = 1e-10
+
+
+def _row_normalize(tensor: Tensor, eps: float) -> Tensor:
+    return tensor / tensor.norm(dim=-1, keepdim=True).clamp(min=eps)
+
+
+def nora_direction(update: Tensor, param: Tensor, eps: float = NORA_EPS) -> Tensor:
+    """Project an update onto each parameter row's tangent space and normalize."""
+    theta_hat = _row_normalize(param.to(torch.float32), eps)
+    update_fp32 = update.to(torch.float32)
+    radial = (update_fp32 * theta_hat).sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True) * theta_hat
+    direction = _row_normalize(update_fp32 - radial, eps)
+    return direction.to(update.dtype)
+
+
+def nora_lr_scale(lr: float, shape: torch.Size) -> float:
+    """Scale Nora's LR for tall ``[d_out, d_in]`` linear weights."""
+    return lr * math.sqrt(max(1.0, shape[-2] / shape[-1]))
+
+
+def _validate_complete_rows(param: Tensor) -> None:
+    if not isinstance(param, DTensor):
+        return
+    last_dim = param.ndim - 1
+    for placement in param.placements:
+        if isinstance(placement, Shard) and placement.dim % param.ndim == last_dim:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Nora requires complete parameter rows, but this DTensor is sharded "
+                "along its last dimension"
+            )
+
+
+class Nora(Optimizer):
+    """Normalized Orthogonal Row Alignment for two-dimensional matrices."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        params,
+        lr: float = 5e-3,
+        weight_decay: float = 0.0,
+        momentum: float = 0.95,
+        beta: float = 0.95,
+        nesterov: bool = True,
+        eps: float = NORA_EPS,
+    ):
+        if lr < 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid learning rate: {lr}")
+        if weight_decay < 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid weight decay: {weight_decay}")
+        if not 0 <= momentum <= 1:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid momentum: {momentum}")
+        if not 0 <= beta < 1:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid beta: {beta}")
+        if eps <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid epsilon: {eps}")
+
+        defaults = {
+            "lr": lr,
+            "weight_decay": weight_decay,
+            "momentum": momentum,
+            "beta": beta,
+            "nesterov": nesterov,
+            "eps": eps,
+        }
+        super().__init__(params, defaults)
+        for group in self.param_groups:
+            for param in group["params"]:
+                if param.ndim != 2:
+                    raise ValueError(
+                        f"Nora only supports 2D matrices, got shape {tuple(param.shape)}"
+                    )
+                _validate_complete_rows(param)
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def step(self, closure=None):
+        loss = None
+        if closure is not None:
+            with torch.enable_grad():
+                loss = closure()
+
+        for group in self.param_groups:
+            lr = group["lr"]
+            weight_decay = group["weight_decay"]
+            momentum = group["momentum"]
+            beta = group["beta"]
+            nesterov = group["nesterov"]
+            eps = group["eps"]
+            for param in group["params"]:
+                if param.grad is None:
+                    continue
+                if param.grad.is_sparse:
+                    raise RuntimeError("Nora does not support sparse gradients")
+
+                grad = param.grad
+                state = self.state[param]
+                momentum_buffer = state.get("momentum_buffer")
+                if momentum_buffer is None:
+                    momentum_buffer = torch.zeros_like(grad)
+                momentum_buffer.lerp_(grad, 1 - beta)
+                update = (
+                    grad.lerp(momentum_buffer, momentum)
+                    if nesterov
+                    else momentum_buffer
+                )
+                direction = nora_direction(update, param, eps)
+
+                if weight_decay != 0:
+                    param.mul_(1 - lr * weight_decay)
+                param.add_(direction, alpha=-nora_lr_scale(lr, param.shape))
+                state["momentum_buffer"] = momentum_buffer
+
+        return loss
+
+
+class NAdamW(Optimizer):
+    """AdamW using the reference Nesterov first-moment update."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        params,
+        lr: float = 3e-4,
+        betas: tuple[float, float] = (0.9, 0.999),
+        eps: float = 1e-8,
+        weight_decay: float = 0.1,
+    ):
+        beta1, beta2 = betas
+        if lr < 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid learning rate: {lr}")
+        if not 0 <= beta1 < 1 or not 0 <= beta2 < 1:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid betas: {betas}")
+        if eps <= 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid epsilon: {eps}")
+        if weight_decay < 0:
+            raise ValueError(f"Invalid weight decay: {weight_decay}")
+        defaults = {
+            "lr": lr,
+            "betas": betas,
+            "eps": eps,
+            "weight_decay": weight_decay,
+        }
+        super().__init__(params, defaults)
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def step(self, closure=None):
+        loss = None
+        if closure is not None:
+            with torch.enable_grad():
+                loss = closure()
+
+        for group in self.param_groups:
+            beta1, beta2 = group["betas"]
+            eps = group["eps"]
+            lr = group["lr"]
+            weight_decay = group["weight_decay"]
+            for param in group["params"]:
+                if param.grad is None:
+                    continue
+                if param.grad.is_sparse:
+                    raise RuntimeError("NAdamW does not support sparse gradients")
+
+                grad = param.grad
+                state = self.state[param]
+                if not state:
+                    state["step"] = 0
+                    state["m"] = torch.zeros_like(param)
+                    state["v"] = torch.zeros_like(param)
+
+                state["step"] += 1
+                first_moment = state["m"]
+                second_moment = state["v"]
+                first_moment.mul_(beta1).add_(grad, alpha=1 - beta1)
+                second_moment.mul_(beta2).addcmul_(grad, grad, value=1 - beta2)
+
+                bias_correction1 = 1 - beta1 ** state["step"]
+                bias_correction2 = 1 - beta2 ** state["step"]
+                nesterov_moment = (
+                    beta1 * first_moment + (1 - beta1) * grad
+                ) / bias_correction1
+                corrected_second_moment = second_moment / bias_correction2
+
+                if weight_decay != 0:
+                    param.mul_(1 - lr * weight_decay)
+                param.addcdiv_(
+                    nesterov_moment,
+                    corrected_second_moment.sqrt().add_(eps),
+                    value=-lr,
+                )
+
+        return loss
+
+
+@dataclass
+class OptimizerParameterGroups:
+    nora: list[Tensor]
+    nadamw_decay: list[Tensor]
+    nadamw_no_decay: list[Tensor]
+
+
+def partition_optimizer_parameters(model: nn.Module) -> OptimizerParameterGroups:
+    """Partition trainable parameters by module role and parameter identity."""
+    nora_ids: set[int] = set()
+    no_decay_ids: set[int] = set()
+
+    for module_name, module in model.named_modules():
+        if isinstance(module, LoRALinear):
+            for param in module.parameters(recurse=False):
+                if param.requires_grad:
+                    no_decay_ids.add(id(param))
+            continue
+
+        if isinstance(module, (Embedding, RMSNorm)):
+            for param in module.parameters(recurse=False):
+                if param.requires_grad:
+                    no_decay_ids.add(id(param))
+            continue
+
+        if not isinstance(module, Linear):
+            continue
+
+        if module.bias is not None and module.bias.requires_grad:
+            no_decay_ids.add(id(module.bias))
+        if not module.weight.requires_grad:
+            continue
+        if module_name.rsplit(".", 1)[-1] == "lm_head":
+            no_decay_ids.add(id(module.weight))
+        elif module.weight.ndim == 2:
+            nora_ids.add(id(module.weight))
+
+    nora: list[Tensor] = []
+    nadamw_decay: list[Tensor] = []
+    nadamw_no_decay: list[Tensor] = []
+    seen: set[int] = set()
+    for param in model.parameters():
+        param_id = id(param)
+        if not param.requires_grad or param_id in seen:
+            continue
+        seen.add(param_id)
+        if param_id in no_decay_ids or param.ndim <= 1:
+            nadamw_no_decay.append(param)
+        elif param_id in nora_ids:
+            nora.append(param)
+        else:
+            nadamw_decay.append(param)
+
+    trainable_ids = {id(param) for param in model.parameters() if param.requires_grad}
+    grouped_ids = {id(param) for param in [*nora, *nadamw_decay, *nadamw_no_decay]}
+    if grouped_ids != trainable_ids:
+        missing = len(trainable_ids - grouped_ids)
+        extra = len(grouped_ids - trainable_ids)
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"Optimizer parameter partition is incomplete: missing={missing}, extra={extra}"
+        )
+
+    return OptimizerParameterGroups(nora, nadamw_decay, nadamw_no_decay)
+
+
+@OptimizerFactory.register("nora_nadamw")
+class NoraNAdamW(Optimizer):
+    """Nora for internal linear weights and NAdamW for remaining parameters."""
+
+    optimizer_name = "nora_nadamw"
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        model: nn.Module,
+        lr: float = 3e-4,
+        weight_decay: float = 0.1,
+        nora_lr: float = 5e-3,
+        nora_weight_decay: float = 0.0,
+        nora_beta: float = 0.95,
+        nora_momentum: float = 0.95,
+    ):
+        groups = partition_optimizer_parameters(model)
+        all_params = [
+            *groups.nora,
+            *groups.nadamw_decay,
+            *groups.nadamw_no_decay,
+        ]
+        if not all_params:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Cannot build an optimizer for a model with no trainable parameters"
+            )
+        super().__init__(all_params, {})
+
+        self.nora = (
+            Nora(
+                groups.nora,
+                lr=nora_lr,
+                weight_decay=nora_weight_decay,
+                momentum=nora_momentum,
+                beta=nora_beta,
+            )
+            if groups.nora
+            else None
+        )
+
+        nadamw_groups = []
+        if groups.nadamw_decay:
+            nadamw_groups.append(
+                {"params": groups.nadamw_decay, "weight_decay": weight_decay}
+            )
+        if groups.nadamw_no_decay:
+            nadamw_groups.append(
+                {"params": groups.nadamw_no_decay, "weight_decay": 0.0}
+            )
+        self.nadamw = NAdamW(nadamw_groups, lr=lr) if nadamw_groups else None
+        self.param_groups = refresh_param_groups([self.nora, self.nadamw])
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def step(self, closure=None):
+        return composite_step(
+            [opt for opt in (self.nora, self.nadamw) if opt is not None],
+            closure,
+        )
+
+    def zero_grad(self, set_to_none: bool = True):
+        composite_zero_grad(
+            [opt for opt in (self.nora, self.nadamw) if opt is not None],
+            set_to_none,
+        )
+
+    def state_dict(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        return composite_state_dict({"nora": self.nora, "nadamw": self.nadamw})
+
+    def load_state_dict(self, state_dict: dict[str, Any]):
+        if "muon" in state_dict or "adamw" in state_dict:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Checkpoint uses muon_adamw state; select optimizer='muon_adamw' "
+                "to resume it"
+            )
+        if "nora" not in state_dict or "nadamw" not in state_dict:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Checkpoint optimizer state is not compatible with nora_nadamw"
+            )
+
+        saved_nora = state_dict["nora"]
+        saved_nadamw = state_dict["nadamw"]
+        if (self.nora is None) != (saved_nora is None):
+            raise ValueError("Checkpoint Nora parameter groups do not match the model")
+        if (self.nadamw is None) != (saved_nadamw is None):
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Checkpoint NAdamW parameter groups do not match the model"
+            )
+        if self.nora is not None:
+            self.nora.load_state_dict(saved_nora)
+        if self.nadamw is not None:
+            self.nadamw.load_state_dict(saved_nadamw)
+        self.param_groups = refresh_param_groups([self.nora, self.nadamw])
@@ -4,12 +4,12 @@ from astrai.parallel.executor import (
    BaseExecutor,
    DDPExecutor,
    ExecutorFactory,
-    FSDP2Executor,
    FSDPExecutor,
    GradientState,
    NoneExecutor,
+    broadcast_state_dict,
+    create_ref_model,
 )
-from astrai.parallel.module import ColumnParallelLinear, RowParallelLinear
 from astrai.parallel.setup import (
    get_current_device,
    get_rank,
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ __all__ = [
    "only_on_rank",
    "setup_parallel",
    "spawn_parallel_fn",
-    "RowParallelLinear",
-    "ColumnParallelLinear",
    "ExecutorFactory",
    "BaseExecutor",
    "GradientState",
@@ -36,5 +34,6 @@ __all__ = [
    "NoneExecutor",
    "DDPExecutor",
    "FSDPExecutor",
-    "FSDP2Executor",
+    "create_ref_model",
+    "broadcast_state_dict",
 ]
@@ -4,18 +4,15 @@ import contextlib
 import logging
 import os
 from contextlib import contextmanager
-from typing import Any, Callable, Optional, Tuple
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Optional, Tuple

 import torch
 import torch.distributed as dist
 import torch.nn as nn
 from torch.distributed.fsdp import (
    FSDPModule,
-    FullStateDictConfig,
-    StateDictType,
    fully_shard,
 )
-from torch.distributed.fsdp import FullyShardedDataParallel as FSDP
 from torch.distributed.tensor import DTensor
 from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP
 from torch.optim import Optimizer
@@ -27,6 +24,82 @@ from astrai.parallel.setup import get_rank, get_world_size
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


+def broadcast_state_dict(
+    state_dict: Optional[Dict[str, torch.Tensor]],
+    src: int = 0,
+) -> Optional[Dict[str, torch.Tensor]]:
+    """Broadcast a state_dict from *src* rank to all ranks.
+
+    Tensors stay on their original device (GPU) for the broadcast.
+    All ranks must call this collectively.
+
+    On non-distributed runs, returns *state_dict* unchanged.
+    """
+    if not dist.is_initialized() or dist.get_world_size() == 1:
+        return state_dict
+
+    rank = dist.get_rank()
+
+    # Broadcast metadata (keys, shapes, dtypes, device) so non-src ranks
+    # can allocate matching empty tensors on the correct device.
+    if rank == src:
+        device = next(iter(state_dict.values())).device
+        metadata = [
+            (k, tuple(v.shape), v.dtype, str(device)) for k, v in state_dict.items()
+        ]
+    else:
+        metadata = None
+    metadata_list = [metadata]
+    dist.broadcast_object_list(metadata_list, src=src)
+    metadata = metadata_list[0]
+
+    # Non-src ranks allocate empty tensors with the broadcasted metadata.
+    if rank != src:
+        state_dict = {
+            k: torch.empty(s, dtype=d, device=torch.device(dev))
+            for k, s, d, dev in metadata
+        }
+
+    # Broadcast each tensor in-place.
+    for tensor in state_dict.values():
+        dist.broadcast(tensor, src=src)
+
+    return state_dict
+
+
+def create_ref_model(
+    model_fn: Callable[[], nn.Module],
+    executor: Optional["BaseExecutor"] = None,
+    model: Optional[nn.Module] = None,
+    state_dict: Optional[Dict[str, torch.Tensor]] = None,
+    device: Optional[str] = None,
+) -> Optional[nn.Module]:
+    """Create a frozen reference model from executor or state dict.
+
+    In distributed mode (FSDP), ``unwrap_model`` returns ``None`` on
+    non-rank-0.  The state_dict is broadcast from rank-0 to all ranks
+    so every rank gets a complete copy.
+    """
+    if state_dict is None and executor is not None and model is not None:
+        state_dict = executor.unwrap_model(model)
+
+    # FSDP's unwrap_model returns None on non-rank-0. Broadcast from
+    # rank-0 so every rank receives a complete state_dict.
+    if executor is not None and executor.use_distributed:
+        state_dict = broadcast_state_dict(state_dict)
+
+    if state_dict is None:
+        return None
+
+    ref_model = model_fn()
+    ref_model.load_state_dict(state_dict)
+    ref_model.requires_grad_(False)
+    ref_model.eval()
+    if device is not None:
+        ref_model = ref_model.to(device=device)
+    return ref_model
+
+
 class GradientState:
    def __init__(self, grad_accum_steps: int = 1):
        self.num_steps = max(grad_accum_steps, 1)
@@ -95,11 +168,14 @@ class BaseExecutor:
        optimizer_fn: Optional[Callable[[nn.Module], Optimizer]] = None,
        scheduler_fn: Optional[Callable[[Optimizer], LRScheduler]] = None,
        before_wrap: Optional[Callable[[nn.Module], nn.Module]] = None,
+        after_wrap: Optional[Callable[[nn.Module], nn.Module]] = None,
    ) -> Tuple[nn.Module, Optional[Optimizer], Optional[LRScheduler]]:
        model = model_fn()
        if before_wrap is not None:
            model = before_wrap(model)
        model = self._prepare_model(model)
+        if after_wrap is not None:
+            model = after_wrap(model)
        optimizer = None
        scheduler = None
        if optimizer_fn is not None:
@@ -238,88 +314,11 @@ class DDPExecutor(BaseExecutor):

@ExecutorFactory.register("fsdp")
 class FSDPExecutor(BaseExecutor):
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        grad_accum_steps: int = 1,
-        process_group=None,
-        sharding_strategy=None,
-        cpu_offload=None,
-        auto_wrap_policy=None,
-        backward_prefetch=None,
-        mixed_precision=None,
-        ignored_modules=None,
-        param_init_fn=None,
-        sync_module_states: bool = False,
-        forward_prefetch: bool = False,
-        limit_all_gathers: bool = True,
-        ignored_states=None,
-        device_mesh=None,
-    ):
-        super().__init__(grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps)
-        self._fsdp_kwargs = {
-            k: v
-            for k, v in dict(
-                process_group=process_group,
-                sharding_strategy=sharding_strategy,
-                cpu_offload=cpu_offload,
-                auto_wrap_policy=auto_wrap_policy,
-                backward_prefetch=backward_prefetch,
-                mixed_precision=mixed_precision,
-                ignored_modules=ignored_modules,
-                param_init_fn=param_init_fn,
-                sync_module_states=sync_module_states,
-                forward_prefetch=forward_prefetch,
-                limit_all_gathers=limit_all_gathers,
-                use_orig_params=True,
-                ignored_states=ignored_states,
-                device_mesh=device_mesh,
-            ).items()
-            if v is not None
-        }
-        self._original_model: Optional[nn.Module] = None
-
-    def _prepare_model(self, model: nn.Module) -> nn.Module:
-        if not self.use_distributed:
-            logger.warning("FSDP backend selected but world_size=1, model not wrapped")
-            return model
-        self._original_model = model
-        device_id = torch.device("cuda", get_rank())
-        model = FSDP(model, device_id=device_id, **self._fsdp_kwargs)
-        logger.info("Model wrapped with FSDP (world_size=%d)", get_world_size())
-        return model
-
-    def _no_sync(self, model: nn.Module):
-        if isinstance(model, FSDP):
-            return model.no_sync()
-        return contextlib.nullcontext()
-
-    def clip_grad_norm(self, model: nn.Module, max_norm: float) -> float:
-        if isinstance(model, FSDP) and self.use_distributed:
-            total_norm = model.clip_grad_norm_(max_norm)
-            if isinstance(total_norm, torch.Tensor):
-                return total_norm.item()
-            return total_norm
-        return super().clip_grad_norm(model, max_norm)
-
-    def unwrap_model(self, model: nn.Module):
-        if isinstance(model, FSDP) and self.use_distributed:
-            with FSDP.state_dict_type(
-                model,
-                StateDictType.FULL_STATE_DICT,
-                FullStateDictConfig(offload_to_cpu=True, rank0_only=True),
-            ):
-                return model.state_dict()
-
-        return model.state_dict()
-
-
-@ExecutorFactory.register("fsdp2")
-class FSDP2Executor(BaseExecutor):
-    """FSDP2 executor using `torch.distributed.fsdp.fully_shard` (per-module API).
+    """FSDP executor using `torch.distributed.fsdp.fully_shard` (per-module API).

    Wraps each child module individually via ``fully_shard``.
    Skips the root model because ``ABC + Generic[T]`` in the MRO makes
-    FSDP2's dynamic ``__class__`` assignment fail at the CPython level.
+    ``fully_shard``'s dynamic ``__class__`` assignment fail at the CPython level.
    Original ``Parameter`` objects are preserved (as DTensors) — no
    ``FlatParameter``, no ``use_orig_params=True`` hack.
    """
@@ -329,7 +328,7 @@ class FSDP2Executor(BaseExecutor):
        grad_accum_steps: int = 1,
        mesh: Optional[Any] = None,
        mp_policy: Optional[Any] = None,
-        reshard_after_forward: bool = True,
+        reshard_after_forward: bool = False,
    ):
        super().__init__(grad_accum_steps=grad_accum_steps)
        self._mesh = mesh
@@ -338,7 +337,7 @@ class FSDP2Executor(BaseExecutor):

    def _prepare_model(self, model: nn.Module) -> nn.Module:
        if not self.use_distributed:
-            logger.warning("FSDP2 backend selected but world_size=1, model not wrapped")
+            logger.warning("FSDP backend selected but world_size=1, model not wrapped")
            return model

        kwargs = dict(
@@ -356,7 +355,7 @@ class FSDP2Executor(BaseExecutor):
                fully_shard(child, **kwargs)

        logger.info(
-            "FSDP2 wrapping applied to %d direct children (root skipped for ABC compat)",
+            "FSDP wrapping applied to %d direct children (root skipped for ABC compat)",
            len(list(model.children())),
        )
        return model
@@ -376,32 +375,54 @@ class FSDP2Executor(BaseExecutor):
            yield

    def clip_grad_norm(self, model: nn.Module, max_norm: float) -> float:
-        if self.use_distributed:
-            total_norm = torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(model.parameters(), max_norm)
-            if isinstance(total_norm, torch.Tensor):
-                return total_norm.item()
-            return total_norm
-        return super().clip_grad_norm(model, max_norm)
+        if not self.use_distributed:
+            return super().clip_grad_norm(model, max_norm)
+
+        # FSDP params are DTensors (sharded across ranks).
+        # torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_ computes LOCAL norm per rank,
+        # so we must all-reduce to get the global norm before clipping.
+        local_norm = torch.nn.utils.get_total_norm(
+            [p.grad for p in model.parameters() if p.grad is not None],
+        )
+        if isinstance(local_norm, DTensor):
+            local_norm = local_norm.to_local()
+        total_norm_sq = local_norm**2
+        dist.all_reduce(total_norm_sq, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM)
+        total_norm = total_norm_sq.sqrt()
+
+        clip_coef = max_norm / (total_norm + 1e-6)
+        clip_coef_clamped = torch.clamp(clip_coef, max=1.0)
+        for p in model.parameters():
+            if p.grad is not None:
+                p.grad.mul_(clip_coef_clamped)
+
+        return total_norm.item()

    def unwrap_model(self, model: nn.Module):
        if not self.use_distributed:
            return model.state_dict()

-        if get_rank() != 0:
-            return None
-
+        # unshard() and full_tensor() are collective ops — all ranks must
+        # participate. Non-rank-0 ranks still call them but discard results.
        for module in model.modules():
            if isinstance(module, FSDPModule):
                module.unshard()

        state_dict = model.state_dict()
-        result = {
-            k: (v.full_tensor() if isinstance(v, DTensor) else v)
-            for k, v in state_dict.items()
-        }
+        result = {}
+        for k, v in state_dict.items():
+            if isinstance(v, DTensor):
+                full = v.full_tensor()
+                if get_rank() == 0:
+                    result[k] = full
+            elif get_rank() == 0:
+                result[k] = v

        for module in model.modules():
            if isinstance(module, FSDPModule):
                module.reshard()

+        if get_rank() != 0:
+            return None
+
        return result
@@ -1,115 +0,0 @@
-from typing import Dict
-
-import torch
-import torch.distributed as dist
-import torch.nn as nn
-import torch.nn.functional as F
-from torch import Tensor
-
-
-class ParallelModel(nn.Module):
-    def __init__(self, process_group: dist.ProcessGroup):
-        super().__init__()
-        self.process_group = process_group
-        self.rank = dist.get_rank(self.process_group)
-        self.world_size = dist.get_world_size(self.process_group)
-
-
-class RowParallelLinear(ParallelModel):
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        process_group: dist.ProcessGroup,
-        in_features: int,
-        out_features: int,
-        bias: bool = True,
-        reduce_results: bool = True,
-    ):
-        super().__init__(process_group)
-
-        self.in_features = in_features
-        self.out_features = out_features
-        self.in_features_per_rank = in_features // self.world_size
-        self.reduce_results = reduce_results
-
-        if in_features % self.world_size != 0:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"in_features must be divisible by world_size. Got {in_features} and {self.world_size}"
-            )
-
-        self.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.empty(out_features, self.in_features_per_rank))
-        self.bias = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(out_features)) if bias else None
-
-    def forward(self, input: Tensor) -> Tensor:
-        output = F.linear(input, self.weight)
-
-        if self.reduce_results:
-            dist.all_reduce(output, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM, group=self.process_group)
-
-        if self.bias is not None:
-            output += self.bias
-
-        return output
-
-    def load_state_dict(self, state_dict: Dict[str, Tensor]):
-        full_weight = state_dict.get("weight")
-        full_bias = state_dict.get("bias")
-
-        start_idx = self.rank * self.in_features_per_rank
-        end_idx = start_idx + self.in_features_per_rank
-        weight_slice = full_weight[:, start_idx:end_idx]
-        self.weight.data.copy_(weight_slice)
-
-        if self.bias is not None:
-            self.bias.data.copy_(full_bias)
-
-
-class ColumnParallelLinear(ParallelModel):
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        process_group: dist.ProcessGroup,
-        in_features: int,
-        out_features: int,
-        bias: bool = True,
-        gather_results: bool = True,
-    ):
-        super().__init__(process_group)
-
-        self.in_features = in_features
-        self.out_features = out_features
-        self.out_features_per_rank = out_features // self.world_size
-        self.gather_results = gather_results
-
-        if out_features % self.world_size != 0:
-            raise ValueError(
-                f"out_features must be divisible by world_size. Got {out_features} and {self.world_size}"
-            )
-
-        self.weight = nn.Parameter(
-            torch.empty(self.out_features_per_rank, self.in_features)
-        )
-        self.bias = (
-            nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(self.out_features_per_rank)) if bias else None
-        )
-
-    def forward(self, input: Tensor) -> Tensor:
-        output = F.linear(input, self.weight, self.bias)
-
-        if self.gather_results:
-            output_list = [torch.empty_like(output) for _ in range(self.world_size)]
-            dist.all_gather(output_list, output, group=self.process_group)
-            output = torch.cat(output_list, dim=-1)
-
-        return output
-
-    def load_state_dict(self, state_dict: Dict[str, Tensor]):
-        full_weight = state_dict.get("weight")
-        full_bias = state_dict.get("bias")
-
-        start_idx = self.rank * self.out_features_per_rank
-        end_idx = start_idx + self.out_features_per_rank
-        weight_slice = full_weight[start_idx:end_idx, :]
-        self.weight.data.copy_(weight_slice)
-
-        if self.bias is not None:
-            bias_slice = full_bias[start_idx:end_idx]
-            self.bias.data.copy_(bias_slice)
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import torch
 import torch.distributed as dist
 import torch.multiprocessing as mp

-from astrai.parallel.signal_handler import install_early_signal_handlers
+from astrai.signal_handler import install_early_signal_handlers

 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """Config-driven JSONL preprocessing pipeline.

 Composes a :class:`BaseMaskBuilder` (selected by ``input.type``) with
-sharding and flush to ``.h5`` / ``.bin`` storage.  Packing, position-id
+sharding and flush to ``.bin`` storage.  Packing, position-id
 generation and storage writing are each delegated to pluggable strategies,
 dispatched by configuration keys.

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """Storage writer strategies for pipeline output.

 The :class:`StoreWriter` abstraction decouples the pipeline from the
-concrete storage format (bin / h5).  The pipeline builds a ``{key:
+concrete storage format (bin).  The pipeline builds a ``{key:
 List[Tensor]}`` dict and delegates the write to the writer selected
 by ``output.storage_format``.
 """
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ from typing import Dict, List
 import torch

 from astrai.factory import BaseFactory
-from astrai.serialization import save_bin, save_h5
+from astrai.serialization import save_bin

 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

@@ -54,22 +54,3 @@ class BinWriter(StoreWriter):
                exc_info=True,
            )
            raise
-
-
-@StoreWriterFactory.register("h5")
-class H5Writer(StoreWriter):
-    def save(self, output_dir, domain, shard_idx, tensors):
-        chunk_dir = os.path.join(output_dir, domain)
-        file_path = os.path.join(chunk_dir, f"data_{shard_idx:04d}.h5")
-        try:
-            save_h5(chunk_dir, f"data_{shard_idx:04d}", tensors)
-        except Exception:
-            if os.path.exists(file_path):
-                os.remove(file_path)
-            logger.error(
-                "Failed to write shard %s/data_%04d.h5, cleaned up partial output",
-                domain,
-                shard_idx,
-                exc_info=True,
-            )
-            raise
@@ -20,9 +20,7 @@ from astrai.serialization.checkpoint import (
 from astrai.serialization.dataset import (
    load_bin,
    load_bin_offsets,
-    load_h5,
    save_bin,
-    save_h5,
 )

 __all__ = [
@@ -39,7 +37,5 @@ __all__ = [
    "save_torch",
    "load_bin",
    "load_bin_offsets",
-    "load_h5",
    "save_bin",
-    "save_h5",
 ]
@@ -1,55 +1,14 @@
-"""Dataset storage serialization helpers (HDF5 / memory-mapped binary)."""
+"""Dataset storage serialization helpers (memory-mapped binary)."""

 import json
 import os
-from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional

-import h5py
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 from torch import Tensor


-def save_h5(file_path: str, file_name: str, tensor_group: Dict[str, List[Tensor]]):
-    os.makedirs(file_path, exist_ok=True)
-    full_file_path = os.path.join(file_path, f"{file_name}.h5")
-    with h5py.File(full_file_path, "w") as f:
-        for key, tensors in tensor_group.items():
-            grp = f.create_group(key)
-            for idx, tensor in enumerate(tensors):
-                arr = tensor.cpu().numpy()
-                grp.create_dataset(f"data_{idx}", data=arr)
-
-
-def load_h5(file_path: str, share_memory=True) -> Dict[str, List[Tensor]]:
-    tensor_group: Dict[str, List[Tensor]] = {}
-
-    root_path = Path(file_path)
-    if root_path.is_file() and root_path.suffix in (".h5", ".hdf5"):
-        h5_files = [root_path]
-    else:
-        h5_files = list(root_path.rglob("*.h5")) + list(root_path.rglob("*.hdf5"))
-
-    for h5_file in h5_files:
-        with h5py.File(h5_file, "r") as f:
-            for key in f.keys():
-                grp = f[key]
-                dsets = []
-                for dset_name in grp.keys():
-                    dset = grp[dset_name]
-                    tensor = torch.from_numpy(dset[:])
-                    if share_memory:
-                        tensor = tensor.share_memory_()
-                    dsets.append(tensor)
-
-                if tensor_group.get(key) is None:
-                    tensor_group[key] = []
-                tensor_group[key].extend(dsets)
-
-    return tensor_group
-
-
 def save_bin(
    file_path: str,
    tensor_group: Dict[str, List[Tensor]],
@@ -65,7 +24,7 @@ def save_bin(
    offsets, preserving backward compatibility.

    Nested keys (``List[List[Tensor]]`` such as GRPO ``responses``) are
-    not supported in bin format — use H5 for those.
+    not supported in bin format — use JSONL for those.
    """
    os.makedirs(file_path, exist_ok=True)
    record_keys = set(record_keys or [])
@@ -74,7 +33,7 @@ def save_bin(
        if tensors and isinstance(tensors[0], list):
            raise ValueError(
                f"Nested key '{key}' (List[List[Tensor]]) is not supported "
-                f"in bin format. Use H5 or JSONL storage instead."
+                f"in bin format. Use JSONL storage instead."
            )
        cat = torch.cat(tensors, dim=0)
        entry: Dict[str, Any] = {
@@ -112,7 +71,7 @@ def load_bin_offsets(file_path: str) -> Dict[str, List[int]]:

    Returns an empty dict when no key has offsets (legacy bin files),
    in which case record-mode access falls back to per-record segment
-    indexing (H5/JSONL layout).
+    indexing (JSONL layout).
    """
    with open(os.path.join(file_path, "meta.json"), "r") as f:
        meta = json.load(f)
@@ -38,12 +38,27 @@ class ChatTemplate:
        The compiled :class:`~jinja2.Template` holds a dynamically-generated
        ``root`` render function whose ``__module__`` is ``None``; under
        ``pickle`` it falls back to ``__main__`` and breaks ``spawn``-based
-        multiprocessing.  By deferring compilation to first access, the
-        default pickle protocol serialises only ``template_str``; each
-        worker rebuilds the cache on first render.
+        multiprocessing.  :meth:`__getstate__` drops the cached template so
+        that pickle serialises only ``template_str``; each worker rebuilds
+        the cache on first render.
        """
        return Template(self.template_str)

+    def __getstate__(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        """Exclude the cached Jinja2 template from pickling.
+
+        ``Template.root_render_func`` is a dynamically generated closure
+        that cannot be pickled by reference.  Dropping ``_compiled`` here
+        lets :class:`cached_property` rebuild it on first access after
+        unpickle.
+        """
+        state = self.__dict__.copy()
+        state.pop("_compiled", None)
+        return state
+
+    def __setstate__(self, state: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
+        self.__dict__.update(state)
+
    @classmethod
    def from_string(
        cls,
@@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ Messages = List[Message]
 class AutoTokenizer:
    """Base tokenizer class with automatic loading support"""

-    TOKENIZER_CLASSES = {}  # Registry for auto-loading
-
    def __init__(
        self,
        path: Optional[Union[str, Path]] = None,
@@ -108,17 +106,6 @@ class AutoTokenizer:
        with open(save_path / "tokenizer_config.json", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            json.dump(config, f, ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)

-    @classmethod
-    def register_tokenizer(cls, name: str, tokenizer_class: type):
-        """
-        Register a new tokenizer class.
-
-        Args:
-            name: Name to register the tokenizer class under
-            tokenizer_class: The tokenizer class to register
-        """
-        cls.TOKENIZER_CLASSES[name] = tokenizer_class
-
    def encode(
        self,
        tokens: Union[str, List[str]],
@@ -22,6 +22,51 @@ def grad_norm(model: nn.Module, per_param: bool = False) -> float | Dict[str, fl
    return total_sq.sqrt().item()


+class GradSNRTracker:
+    """Track gradient signal-to-noise ratio via EMA of first/second moments.
+
+    SNR = E[g]^2 / Var(g) = E[g]^2 / (E[g^2] - E[g]^2)
+
+    The tracker accumulates per-parameter EMA moments across optimizer steps.
+    Call ``update`` after backward (before ``optimizer.step``) and read
+    ``snr`` to get the aggregate SNR across all parameters.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, beta: float = 0.999, eps: float = 1e-8):
+        self.beta = beta
+        self.eps = eps
+        self._first: Dict[int, torch.Tensor] = {}
+        self._second: Dict[int, torch.Tensor] = {}
+
+    @torch.no_grad()
+    def update(self, model: nn.Module) -> None:
+        beta = self.beta
+        for param in model.parameters():
+            if param.grad is None:
+                continue
+            pid = id(param)
+            g = param.grad.detach()
+            if pid not in self._first:
+                self._first[pid] = g.clone()
+                self._second[pid] = g.pow(2).clone()
+            else:
+                self._first[pid].mul_(beta).add_(g, alpha=1 - beta)
+                self._second[pid].mul_(beta).addcmul_(g, g, value=1 - beta)
+
+    @property
+    def snr(self) -> float:
+        if not self._first:
+            return 0.0
+        total_signal = 0.0
+        total_noise = 0.0
+        for m, v in zip(self._first.values(), self._second.values()):
+            signal = m.pow(2).sum().item()
+            noise = (v - m.pow(2)).clamp(min=0).sum().item()
+            total_signal += signal
+            total_noise += noise
+        return total_signal / (total_noise + self.eps)
+
+
 def ctx_get_loss(ctx):
    return ctx.loss

@@ -36,3 +81,10 @@ def ctx_get_val_loss(ctx):

 def ctx_get_grad_norm(ctx):
    return ctx.grad_norm
+
+
+def ctx_get_grad_snr(ctx):
+    tracker = getattr(ctx, "grad_snr_tracker", None)
+    if tracker is None:
+        return None
+    return tracker.snr
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """Training strategy implementations with factory pattern."""

 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
-from typing import Callable, Dict, Union
+from typing import Callable, Dict, Optional, TypedDict, Union

 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
@@ -9,18 +9,18 @@ import torch.nn.functional as F
 from torch import Tensor

 from astrai.factory import BaseFactory
+from astrai.parallel.executor import broadcast_state_dict
 from astrai.trainer.rollout import RolloutResult


-def create_ref_model(
-    model_fn: Callable[[], nn.Module], state_dict: Dict[str, Tensor]
-) -> nn.Module:
-    """Create a frozen reference model from model_fn + full state dict."""
-    ref_model = model_fn()
-    ref_model.load_state_dict(state_dict)
-    ref_model.requires_grad_(False)
-    ref_model.eval()
-    return ref_model
+class LossOutput(TypedDict):
+    loss: Tensor
+    metrics: Dict[str, float]
+
+
+class LogprobsOutput(TypedDict):
+    logprobs: Tensor
+    aux_loss: Optional[Tensor]


 def move_to_device(batch: Dict[str, Tensor], device: str) -> Dict[str, Tensor]:
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ def get_logprobs(
    attn_mask: Tensor,
    loss_mask: Tensor,
    reduction: str,
-) -> Tensor:
+) -> LogprobsOutput:
    """Compute token-wise log probabilities from model outputs.

    Args:
@@ -56,10 +56,11 @@ def get_logprobs(
    shifted_input_ids = input_ids[:, 1:]
    shifted_loss_mask = loss_mask[:, 1:]

-    logits = model(
+    outputs = model(
        input_ids[:, :-1],
        attn_mask[:, :, :-1, :-1] if attn_mask.dim() == 4 else attn_mask[:, :-1],
-    )["logits"]
+    )
+    logits = outputs["logits"]
    log_probs = torch.log_softmax(logits.float(), dim=-1)

    token_logprobs = torch.gather(
@@ -67,13 +68,14 @@ def get_logprobs(
    ).squeeze(-1)

    if reduction == "mean":
-        return (token_logprobs * shifted_loss_mask).sum(dim=-1) / shifted_loss_mask.sum(
+        logprobs = (token_logprobs * shifted_loss_mask).sum(
            dim=-1
-        ).clamp(min=1.0)
+        ) / shifted_loss_mask.sum(dim=-1).clamp(min=1.0)
    elif reduction == "sum":
-        return (token_logprobs * shifted_loss_mask).sum(dim=-1)
+        logprobs = (token_logprobs * shifted_loss_mask).sum(dim=-1)
    else:
-        return token_logprobs * shifted_loss_mask
+        logprobs = token_logprobs * shifted_loss_mask
+    return {"logprobs": logprobs, "aux_loss": outputs.get("aux_loss")}


 def make_doc_boundary_mask(position_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor:
@@ -112,6 +114,7 @@ class BaseStrategy(ABC):
        self.model = model
        self.device = device
        self.executor = kwargs.pop("executor", None)
+        self.moe_aux_loss_coef = kwargs.pop("moe_aux_loss_coef", 0.01)
        self.extra_kwargs = kwargs
        self._rollout_runner = None

@@ -127,6 +130,33 @@ class BaseStrategy(ABC):
        """
        raise NotImplementedError

+    def compute_loss_output(self, batch: Dict[str, Tensor]) -> LossOutput:
+        return self._normalize_output(self.compute_loss(batch))
+
+    def _loss_output(
+        self,
+        task_loss: Tensor,
+        metrics: Dict[str, Tensor],
+        aux_loss: Optional[Tensor] = None,
+    ) -> LossOutput:
+        total_loss = task_loss
+        if aux_loss is not None:
+            weighted_aux_loss = self.moe_aux_loss_coef * aux_loss
+            total_loss = total_loss + weighted_aux_loss
+            metrics["moe_aux_loss"] = aux_loss
+            metrics["moe_aux_loss_weighted"] = weighted_aux_loss
+        metrics["loss"] = total_loss
+        return {
+            "loss": total_loss,
+            "metrics": {name: value.detach().item() for name, value in metrics.items()},
+        }
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _normalize_output(output: Union[LossOutput, Tensor]) -> LossOutput:
+        if isinstance(output, dict):
+            return output
+        return {"loss": output, "metrics": {"loss": output.detach().item()}}
+
    def supports_online(self) -> bool:
        """Whether this strategy can operate with a rollout runner.

@@ -163,17 +193,17 @@ class BaseStrategy(ABC):
        if self._rollout_runner is not None:
            self._rollout_runner.step()

-    def __call__(self, batch: Dict[str, Tensor]) -> Tensor:
+    def __call__(self, batch: Dict[str, Tensor]) -> LossOutput:
        """Run offline or online forward depending on runner injection."""
        if self._rollout_runner is None:
-            return self.compute_loss(batch)
+            return self.compute_loss_output(batch)

        result, is_fresh = self._rollout_runner(batch)
        if is_fresh:
            self._on_rollout_refresh()

        train_batch = self.prepare_from_rollout(result)
-        return self.compute_loss(train_batch)
+        return self.compute_loss_output(train_batch)


 class StrategyFactory(BaseFactory["BaseStrategy"]):
@@ -213,9 +243,13 @@ class SEQStrategy(BaseStrategy):
        self.label_smoothing = label_smoothing

    def compute_loss(self, batch: Dict[str, Tensor]) -> Tensor:
+        return self.compute_loss_output(batch)["loss"]
+
+    def compute_loss_output(self, batch: Dict[str, Tensor]) -> LossOutput:
        batch = move_to_device(batch, self.device)
        input_ids, target_ids = batch["input_ids"], batch["target_ids"]
-        logits = self.model(input_ids=input_ids)["logits"]
+        outputs = self.model(input_ids=input_ids)
+        logits = outputs["logits"]

        loss = F.cross_entropy(
            input=logits.flatten(0, 1).float(),
@@ -223,7 +257,7 @@ class SEQStrategy(BaseStrategy):
            label_smoothing=self.label_smoothing,
        )

-        return loss
+        return self._loss_output(loss, {"task_loss": loss}, outputs.get("aux_loss"))


@StrategyFactory.register("sft")
@@ -244,6 +278,9 @@ class SFTStrategy(BaseStrategy):
        self.label_smoothing = label_smoothing

    def compute_loss(self, batch: Dict[str, Tensor]) -> Tensor:
+        return self.compute_loss_output(batch)["loss"]
+
+    def compute_loss_output(self, batch: Dict[str, Tensor]) -> LossOutput:
        batch = move_to_device(batch, self.device)
        input_ids, target_ids, position_ids, loss_mask = (
            batch["input_ids"],
@@ -255,9 +292,10 @@ class SFTStrategy(BaseStrategy):
        ignore_index = -100
        input_mask = make_doc_boundary_mask(position_ids)
        target_ids = target_ids.masked_fill(~loss_mask, ignore_index)
-        logits = self.model(
+        outputs = self.model(
            input_ids=input_ids, position_ids=position_ids, input_mask=input_mask
-        )["logits"]
+        )
+        logits = outputs["logits"]

        loss = F.cross_entropy(
            input=logits.flatten(0, 1).float(),
@@ -266,7 +304,7 @@ class SFTStrategy(BaseStrategy):
            label_smoothing=self.label_smoothing,
        )

-        return loss
+        return self._loss_output(loss, {"task_loss": loss}, outputs.get("aux_loss"))


@StrategyFactory.register("dpo")
@@ -292,6 +330,9 @@ class DPOStrategy(BaseStrategy):
        self.reduction = reduction

    def compute_loss(self, batch: Dict[str, Tensor]) -> Tensor:
+        return self.compute_loss_output(batch)["loss"]
+
+    def compute_loss_output(self, batch: Dict[str, Tensor]) -> LossOutput:
        batch = move_to_device(batch, self.device)
        chosen_ids, rejected_ids = batch["chosen"], batch["rejected"]
        chosen_mask, rejected_mask = batch["chosen_mask"], batch["rejected_mask"]
@@ -307,22 +348,25 @@ class DPOStrategy(BaseStrategy):
        )[None, None, :, :]  # [1, 1, S, S]
        full_mask = key_pad & causal  # [B*2, 1, S, S] — composed

-        log_pi = get_logprobs(
+        policy_output = get_logprobs(
            self.model,
            concat_ids,
            full_mask,
            concat_loss_mask,
            self.reduction,
        )
+        log_pi = policy_output["logprobs"]
+        aux_loss = policy_output["aux_loss"]

        with torch.no_grad():
-            log_ref = get_logprobs(
+            ref_output = get_logprobs(
                self.ref_model,
                concat_ids,
                full_mask,
                concat_loss_mask,
                self.reduction,
            )
+            log_ref = ref_output["logprobs"]

        log_pi_chosen = log_pi[: chosen_ids.shape[0]]
        log_pi_rejected = log_pi[chosen_ids.shape[0] :]
@@ -335,7 +379,7 @@ class DPOStrategy(BaseStrategy):
        ratio_diff = pi_log_ratio - ref_log_ratio
        dpo_loss = -F.logsigmoid(self.beta * ratio_diff).mean()

-        return dpo_loss
+        return self._loss_output(dpo_loss, {"dpo_loss": dpo_loss}, aux_loss)

    def supports_online(self) -> bool:
        return True
@@ -401,9 +445,16 @@ class GRPOStrategy(BaseStrategy):

    def sync_old_model(self):
        """Copy current policy weights to old model."""
-        self.old_model.load_state_dict(self.executor.unwrap_model(self.model))
+        state_dict = self.executor.unwrap_model(self.model)
+        if self.executor.use_distributed:
+            state_dict = broadcast_state_dict(state_dict)
+        if state_dict is not None:
+            self.old_model.load_state_dict(state_dict)

    def compute_loss(self, batch: Dict[str, Tensor]) -> Tensor:
+        return self.compute_loss_output(batch)["loss"]
+
+    def compute_loss_output(self, batch: Dict[str, Tensor]) -> LossOutput:
        batch = move_to_device(batch, self.device)
        prompts = batch["prompts"]
        responses = batch["responses"]
@@ -444,16 +495,23 @@ class GRPOStrategy(BaseStrategy):
        # get_logprobs returns [B*G, S-1] (S = prompt_len + response_len).
        # Response token logprobs occupy the last ``response_len`` positions
        # (the first response token is predicted from the last prompt token).
-        token_log_probs_policy = get_logprobs(
+        policy_output = get_logprobs(
            self.model, full_sequences, attn_mask, full_masks, "none"
-        )[:, prompt_len - 1 :]
+        )
+        token_log_probs_policy = policy_output["logprobs"]
+        aux_loss = policy_output["aux_loss"]
+        token_log_probs_policy = token_log_probs_policy[:, prompt_len - 1 :]
        with torch.no_grad():
-            token_log_probs_old = get_logprobs(
+            old_output = get_logprobs(
                self.old_model, full_sequences, attn_mask, full_masks, "none"
-            )[:, prompt_len - 1 :]
-            token_log_probs_ref = get_logprobs(
+            )
+            token_log_probs_old = old_output["logprobs"]
+            token_log_probs_old = token_log_probs_old[:, prompt_len - 1 :]
+            ref_output = get_logprobs(
                self.ref_model, full_sequences, attn_mask, full_masks, "none"
-            )[:, prompt_len - 1 :]
+            )
+            token_log_probs_ref = ref_output["logprobs"]
+            token_log_probs_ref = token_log_probs_ref[:, prompt_len - 1 :]

        # Reshape to [B, G, response_len]
        token_log_probs_policy = token_log_probs_policy.view(batch_size, group_size, -1)
@@ -486,9 +544,12 @@ class GRPOStrategy(BaseStrategy):
        kl_per_token = r - torch.log(r + eps) - 1.0
        kl_penalty = self.kl_coef * (kl_per_token * token_masks).sum() / token_count

-        total_loss = policy_loss + kl_penalty
-
-        return total_loss
+        task_loss = policy_loss + kl_penalty
+        return self._loss_output(
+            task_loss,
+            {"policy_loss": policy_loss, "kl_loss": kl_penalty},
+            aux_loss,
+        )

    def supports_online(self) -> bool:
        return True
@@ -510,5 +571,5 @@ class GRPOStrategy(BaseStrategy):
 # Factory aliases: online variants use the same strategy class; the
 # ``RolloutRunner`` is injected by ``TrainContextBuilder`` to enable
 # online mode, so no separate subclass is needed.
-StrategyFactory._entries["online_grpo"] = GRPOStrategy
-StrategyFactory._entries["online_dpo"] = DPOStrategy
+StrategyFactory.register("online_grpo")(GRPOStrategy)
+StrategyFactory.register("online_dpo")(DPOStrategy)
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from astrai.parallel.setup import get_current_device
 from astrai.serialization import Checkpoint
 from astrai.trainer.metric_util import (
    ctx_get_grad_norm,
+    ctx_get_grad_snr,
    ctx_get_loss,
    ctx_get_lr,
    ctx_get_val_loss,
@@ -235,7 +236,7 @@ class ProgressBarCallback(TrainCallback):
 class MetricCallback(TrainCallback):
    def __init__(
        self,
-        log_dir: str,
+        ckpt_dir: str,
        save_interval: int,
        metrics: List[str] = None,
        val_step: int = 0,
@@ -246,8 +247,7 @@ class MetricCallback(TrainCallback):
        self.val_step = val_step
        self._next_val_step = 0

-        self.log_dir = Path(log_dir) if log_dir else Path.cwd() / "logs"
-        self.log_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        self.ckpt_dir = Path(ckpt_dir) if ckpt_dir else Path.cwd() / "checkpoint"

        self.log_cache = []

@@ -256,14 +256,32 @@ class MetricCallback(TrainCallback):
            "lr": ctx_get_lr,
            "val_loss": ctx_get_val_loss,
            "grad_norm": ctx_get_grad_norm,
+            "grad_snr": ctx_get_grad_snr,
        }

    def _metrics(self, context: TrainContext, names):
-        return {
-            m: self._metric_funcs[m](context)
-            for m in names
-            if self._metric_funcs[m](context) is not None
-        }
+        metrics = dict(context.metrics)
+        for name in names:
+            metric_fn = self._metric_funcs.get(name)
+            if metric_fn is None:
+                continue
+            value = metric_fn(context)
+            if value is not None:
+                metrics[name] = value
+        selected = set(context.metrics) | set(names)
+        selected.discard("*")
+        result = {name: metrics[name] for name in selected if name in metrics}
+        if context.world_size > 1 and dist.is_initialized() and result:
+            metric_names = sorted(result)
+            values = torch.tensor(
+                [result[name] for name in metric_names],
+                dtype=torch.float32,
+                device=get_current_device(),
+            )
+            dist.all_reduce(values, op=dist.ReduceOp.SUM)
+            values /= context.world_size
+            result.update(zip(metric_names, values.tolist()))
+        return result

    @only_on_rank(0)
    def _append(self, event_type: str, context: TrainContext, **extra):
@@ -285,8 +303,8 @@ class MetricCallback(TrainCallback):

        with torch.no_grad():
            for batch in context.val_dataloader:
-                loss = context.strategy(batch)
-                total_loss += loss.item()
+                loss_output = context.strategy(batch)
+                total_loss += loss_output["loss"].item()
                num_batches += 1

        if context.world_size > 1 and dist.is_initialized():
@@ -306,13 +324,15 @@ class MetricCallback(TrainCallback):

    @only_on_rank(0)
    def _flush(self, epoch, step):
-        log_file = self.log_dir / f"epoch_{epoch}_step_{step}_metric.jsonl"
+        log_file = self.ckpt_dir / f"epoch_{epoch}_step_{step}" / "metric.jsonl"
        log_file.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
        with open(log_file, "w") as f:
            for log in self.log_cache:
                f.write(json.dumps(log) + "\n")

    def on_optimizer_step(self, context):
+        context.grad_snr_tracker.update(context.model)
+
        if (
            context.val_dataloader is not None
            and self.val_step > 0
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import logging
 import threading
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -11,13 +12,16 @@ from astrai.config.train_config import TrainConfig
 from astrai.dataset import RDSampler
 from astrai.inference.core.scheduler import InferenceScheduler
 from astrai.model.components.lora import inject_lora
-from astrai.parallel.executor import BaseExecutor, ExecutorFactory
+from astrai.parallel.executor import BaseExecutor, ExecutorFactory, create_ref_model
 from astrai.parallel.setup import get_current_device, get_rank, get_world_size
 from astrai.protocols import OptimizerProtocol, SchedulerProtocol
 from astrai.serialization import Checkpoint, load_json
 from astrai.tokenize import AutoTokenizer
+from astrai.trainer.metric_util import GradSNRTracker
 from astrai.trainer.rollout import RolloutGenerator, RolloutRunner
-from astrai.trainer.strategy import BaseStrategy, StrategyFactory, create_ref_model
+from astrai.trainer.strategy import BaseStrategy, StrategyFactory
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)


@dataclass
@@ -34,7 +38,9 @@ class TrainContext:
    epoch: int = field(default=0)
    consumed_samples: int = field(default=0)
    loss: float = field(default=0.0)
+    metrics: Dict[str, float] = field(default_factory=dict)
    grad_norm: Optional[float] = field(default=None)
+    grad_snr_tracker: GradSNRTracker = field(default_factory=GradSNRTracker)
    val_dataloader: Optional[DataLoader] = field(default=None)
    val_loss: Optional[float] = field(default=None)

@@ -101,18 +107,13 @@ class TrainContextBuilder:
                if checkpoint.config:
                    model_config = checkpoint.config
                if self._resume:
-                    preloaded_epoch = checkpoint.epoch or cfg.start_epoch
-                    if checkpoint.consumed_samples > 0:
-                        per_step = (
-                            cfg.batch_per_device
-                            * get_world_size()
-                            * cfg.grad_accum_steps
-                        )
-                        preloaded_consumed = (
-                            checkpoint.consumed_samples // per_step
-                        ) * per_step
-                    else:
-                        preloaded_consumed = cfg.start_samples * get_world_size()
+                    preloaded_epoch = checkpoint.epoch
+                    per_step = (
+                        cfg.batch_per_device * get_world_size() * cfg.grad_accum_steps
+                    )
+                    preloaded_consumed = (
+                        checkpoint.consumed_samples // per_step
+                    ) * per_step
                    preloaded_checkpoint = checkpoint

        if not model_config and hasattr(cfg.model_fn(), "config"):
@@ -131,6 +132,12 @@ class TrainContextBuilder:
                m.load_state_dict(preloaded_state_dict, strict=False)
            return m

+        def _after_wrap(m):
+            if cfg.compile_mode is not None:
+                logger.info("torch.compile enabled (mode=%s)", cfg.compile_mode)
+                m = torch.compile(m, mode=cfg.compile_mode)
+            return m
+
        context = TrainContext(
            world_size=get_world_size(),
            rank=get_rank(),
@@ -147,6 +154,7 @@ class TrainContextBuilder:
            cfg.optimizer_fn,
            cfg.scheduler_fn,
            before_wrap=_before_wrap,
+            after_wrap=_after_wrap,
        )

        train_dataset = cfg.dataset
@@ -162,6 +170,15 @@ class TrainContextBuilder:
            )

        sampler_offset = context.consumed_samples // context.world_size
+
+        if self._resume and sampler_offset > 0:
+            offset = context.world_size - 1
+            num_samples_per_replica = (
+                len(train_dataset) + offset
+            ) // context.world_size
+            if num_samples_per_replica > 0:
+                context.epoch = sampler_offset // num_samples_per_replica
+
        sampler = RDSampler(
            data_source=train_dataset,
            start_epoch=context.epoch,
@@ -205,6 +222,7 @@ class TrainContextBuilder:
                        obj.load_state_dict(extra[name])

        strategy_kwargs = dict(cfg.extra_kwargs)
+        strategy_kwargs.setdefault("moe_aux_loss_coef", cfg.moe_aux_loss_coef)

        needs_ref = cfg.strategy in (
            "dpo",
@@ -215,17 +233,14 @@ class TrainContextBuilder:
        needs_old = cfg.strategy in ("grpo", "online_grpo")

        if needs_ref:
-            ref_model = create_ref_model(
-                cfg.model_fn, executor.unwrap_model(context.model)
-            ).to(device=device)
-            strategy_kwargs["ref_model"] = ref_model
+            strategy_kwargs["ref_model"] = create_ref_model(
+                cfg.model_fn, executor=executor, model=context.model, device=device
+            )

-        old_model = None
        if needs_old:
-            old_model = create_ref_model(
-                cfg.model_fn, executor.unwrap_model(context.model)
-            ).to(device=device)
-            strategy_kwargs["old_model"] = old_model
+            strategy_kwargs["old_model"] = create_ref_model(
+                cfg.model_fn, executor=executor, model=context.model, device=device
+            )

        context.strategy = StrategyFactory.create(
            cfg.strategy,
@@ -257,7 +272,6 @@ class TrainContextBuilder:
                tokenizer=tokenizer,
                max_batch_size=rollout_batch_size,
                max_seq_len=max_seq_len,
-                max_prompt_len=max_seq_len or 4096,
            )

            generator = RolloutGenerator(
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import torch.distributed as dist

 from astrai.config import TrainConfig
 from astrai.parallel.setup import spawn_parallel_fn
-from astrai.parallel.signal_handler import (
+from astrai.signal_handler import (
    register_signal_handlers,
    unregister_signal_handlers,
 )
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ class Trainer:
            ),
            CallbackFactory.create(
                "metric",
-                log_dir=cfg.log_dir,
+                ckpt_dir=cfg.ckpt_dir,
                save_interval=cfg.ckpt_interval,
                metrics=cfg.metrics,
                val_step=cfg.val_step,
@@ -82,9 +82,10 @@ class Trainer:
                        break
                    with executor.accumulate(context.model):
                        self._call_callbacks("on_batch_begin", context)
-                        loss = context.strategy(batch)
-                        context.loss = loss.item()
-                        stand_loss = loss / executor.grad_accum_steps
+                        loss_output = context.strategy(batch)
+                        context.loss = loss_output["loss"].item()
+                        context.metrics = loss_output["metrics"]
+                        stand_loss = loss_output["loss"] / executor.grad_accum_steps
                        executor.backward(stand_loss)
                        context.consumed_samples += (
                            context.config.batch_per_device * context.world_size
@@ -1,6 +1,32 @@
 from pathlib import Path


+def cuda_toolkit_version() -> tuple[int, int] | None:
+    """Return ``(major, minor)`` of the nvcc on PATH, or ``None``.
+
+    Used by ``setup.py`` to detect nvcc/torch CUDA version mismatches
+    (e.g. nvcc 13.0 with a cu128 torch wheel) which cause cryptic ABI errors.
+    """
+    import shutil
+    import subprocess
+
+    nvcc = shutil.which("nvcc")
+    if nvcc is None:
+        return None
+    try:
+        out = subprocess.check_output(
+            [nvcc, "--version"], stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, text=True
+        )
+        for line in out.splitlines():
+            if "release" in line:
+                ver = line.split("release")[1].split(",")[0].strip()
+                major, minor = ver.split(".")
+                return (int(major), int(minor))
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    return None
+
+
 def _arch_flags() -> list[str]:
    import torch

@@ -27,7 +53,7 @@ NVCC_FLAGS = [
    "--use_fast_math",
    "--ptxas-options=-O3,-v",
    "--extra-device-vectorization",
-    "--threads=8",
+    "--threads=16",
 ]


@@ -46,3 +72,5 @@ def register(name: str, sources: list[str] | None = None, **kwargs):
 register("attn_decode")
 register("attn_prefill")
 register("attn_paged_decode")
+register("attn_paged_prefill")
+register("rotary_emb")
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 #pragma once

+// Tensor layout for Q/K/V tensors passed to attention kernels.
+// Internally, kernels always operate on BHLD [batch, n_heads, seq_len, head_dim].
+// When the caller passes BLHD, dims 1 and 2 are transposed at entry.
+enum TensorLayout : int {
+    BHLD = 0,  // [batch, n_heads, seq_len, head_dim]
+    BLHD = 1,  // [batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim]
+};
+

 template<typename T, typename AT = float>
 struct AttentionParams {
@@ -19,9 +27,11 @@ struct AttentionParams {
    // KV strides (K and V share the same layout — only base pointers differ)
    int kv_stride_b, kv_stride_h, kv_stride_l, kv_stride_d;

-    // Mask: 2D [batch, kv_len] (mask_q_stride=0) or 3D [batch, q_len, kv_len]
-    int mask_b_stride;   // = kv_len (both 2D and 3D)
-    int mask_q_stride;   // 2D: 0 (all q rows share); 3D: kv_len
+    // Mask: 2D [batch, kv_len], 3D [batch, q_len, kv_len],
+    // or 4D [batch, n_heads, q_len, kv_len] (head dim broadcasts when stride=0)
+    int mask_b_stride;   // batch stride
+    int mask_h_stride;   // head stride (0 = broadcast across heads)
+    int mask_q_stride;   // q stride (0 = all q rows share)

    const T* __restrict__ q;
    const T* __restrict__ k;
@@ -33,34 +43,55 @@ struct AttentionParams {
    AT* __restrict__ ml_part;
 };

+// ---- PagedAttentionParams ----
+// SGLang-style indirect params over a shared KV pool.
+// k_cache/v_cache: [size, kv_head, head_dim] (bare buffers, no gather).
+// req_to_token:    [num_reqs, max_context_len] token -> slot.
+// req_pool_indices:[batch] rows of the current batch into req_to_token.
+// kv_indptr:       [batch+1] prefix sum of per-request seq_lens (device).
+// qo_indptr:       [batch+1] prefix sum of per-request q_len (prefill) or
+//                  nullptr for decode (q_len == 1 everywhere).
 template<typename T, typename AT = float>
 struct PagedAttentionParams {
    int batch;
    int q_head;
    int kv_head;
-    int q_len;
-    int kv_len;
    int head_dim;
+    int num_splits;
    int use_mask;
-    int causal_offset;
+    int causal_offset;   // -1 = non-causal; >=0 = causal (per-request offset
+                         //   computed inside kernel from kv_indptr/qo_indptr)
    float scale;

-    int num_splits;
-    int page_size;
-    int max_pages;
-
-    // Q strides (layout-agnostic)
-    int q_stride_b, q_stride_h, q_stride_l, q_stride_d;
-
-    // Mask strides (2D or 3D)
-    int mask_b_stride;
-    int mask_q_stride;
+    // Q: [total_q, q_head, head_dim] (3D flattened — no batch dim).
+    // For decode total_q == batch (q_len=1 per request).
+    // For prefill total_q == qo_indptr[batch].
+    int q_stride_l, q_stride_h, q_stride_d;

+    // Q: [total_q, q_head, head_dim]
    const T* __restrict__ q;
+
+    // Flat KV pool: [size, kv_head, head_dim]
    const T* __restrict__ k_cache;
    const T* __restrict__ v_cache;
+
+    // Indexing
+    const int64_t* __restrict__ req_to_token;      // [num_reqs, max_context_len]
+    const int64_t* __restrict__ req_pool_indices;   // [batch]
+    const int* __restrict__ kv_indptr;               // [batch+1]
+    const int* __restrict__ qo_indptr;               // [batch+1] or nullptr (decode)
+    int max_context_len;  // req_to_token stride (dim 1)
+    int max_seq_len;      // max per-request seq_len (host-side, for split computation)
+    int total_q;          // total Q tokens across all requests (host-side, for grid)
+    int max_q_len;        // max per-request q_len (host-side, for prefill grid)
+
+    // Mask: [batch, max_seq_len] (decode) or [batch, 1, q_len, kv_len]
+    // (prefill, optional).  mask_h_stride/mask_q_stride are 0 when those
+    // dims are size 1 (broadcast).
+    int mask_b_stride;
+    int mask_h_stride;
+    int mask_q_stride;
    const bool* __restrict__ mask;
-    const int64_t* __restrict__ page_table;

    T* __restrict__ o;
    AT* __restrict__ o_part;
@@ -10,17 +10,21 @@ torch::Tensor attn_decode(
    double scale,
    int64_t layout
 ) {
+    const at::cuda::OptionalCUDAGuard device_guard(device_of(q));
+    auto stream = at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream();
+
    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
    attn_pack_params(q, k, v, mask, causal_offset, scale, layout, p);
    TORCH_CHECK(p.q_len == 1, "Q seq_len must be 1");
    TORCH_CHECK(p.head_dim % 32 == 0, "head_dim must be multiple of 32");

    auto O = torch::empty_strided(q.sizes(), q.strides(), q.options());
-    auto O_view = (layout == 1) ? O.transpose(1, 2) : O;
+    auto O_view = (layout == BLHD) ? O.transpose(1, 2) : O;
    p.o = (bf16*)O_view.data_ptr();

    alloc_split_partials(p);
-    DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(p.head_dim, dispatch_decode, p);
+    DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(p.head_dim, dispatch_decode, p, stream);
+    C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaGetLastError());
    return O;
 }

@@ -32,6 +36,6 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, m) {
        py::arg("mask") = py::none(),
        py::arg("causal_offset") = -1,
        py::arg("scale") = 0.0,
-        py::arg("layout") = 0,
+        py::arg("layout") = (int64_t)BHLD,
        "GQA decode (tensor-core head-packing on sm_80+, scalar fallback)");
 }
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {

    // KV: [batch, kv_head, kv_len, head_dim] — stride-based base
    int kv_base = batch * p.kv_stride_b + kv_head * p.kv_stride_h;
-    int mask_base = batch * p.mask_b_stride;
+    int mask_base = batch * p.mask_b_stride + q_head * p.mask_h_stride;

    float m = -FLT_MAX, d = 0.0f, acc_reg[8] = {0.0f};

@@ -70,8 +70,8 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
            }

            float new_m = fmaxf(m, partial);
-            float alpha = expf(m - new_m);
-            float beta  = expf(partial - new_m);
+            float alpha = __expf(m - new_m);
+            float beta  = __expf(partial - new_m);
            d = d * alpha + beta;

            int v_off = kv_base + kv_idx * p.kv_stride_l
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_combine_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
        if (mi <= -FLT_MAX) continue;
        float li = mlp[s * 2 + 1];
        float nm = fmaxf(m, mi);
-        float corr = expf(m - nm);
-        float e = expf(mi - nm);
+        float corr = __expf(m - nm);
+        float e = __expf(mi - nm);
        acc = fmaf(acc, corr, op[s * p.head_dim + d] * e);
        l = fmaf(l, corr, li * e);
        m = nm;
@@ -76,26 +76,17 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
        cp_async_commit();
    };

-    constexpr int BUF_MASK = (Traits::STAGES > 1) ? (Traits::STAGES - 1) : 0;
-
-    // Prologue
-    if (ti_begin < ti_end) {
-        load_tile(ti_begin, 0);
-    }
-
-    for (int ti = ti_begin; ti < ti_end; ti++) {
-        int buf = (ti - ti_begin) & BUF_MASK;
-
-        cp_async_wait_group<0>();
-        __syncwarp();
-        if constexpr (Traits::STAGES > 1) {
-            if (ti + 1 < ti_end)
-                load_tile(ti + 1, (ti + 1 - ti_begin) & BUF_MASK);
-        }
+    // ---- Multi-stage cp.async pipeline ----
+    // Prologue loads STAGES tiles; each loop iteration waits only for the
+    // oldest outstanding group (wait_group<STAGES-1>) so the STAGES-1 newer
+    // tile loads stay in flight and overlap with the current tile's compute.
+    constexpr int STAGES = Traits::STAGES;
+    const int ntiles = ti_end - ti_begin;

+    auto process_tile = [&](int it, int buf) {
        const bf16* bK = sK + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
        const bf16* bV = sV + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
-        int kv0 = ti * Traits::BC;
+        int kv0 = (ti_begin + it) * Traits::BC;

        float Sacc[Traits::NC8][4];
        mma_compute_scores<Traits>(Qa, bK, lane, Sacc);
@@ -109,18 +100,35 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
        int maxc = IsCausal ? min(p.kv_len, p.causal_offset + 1) : p.kv_len;
        mma_softmax_tile<Traits, HasMask>(kv0, maxc, maxc,
                                           0, 0,
-                                           p.mask_b_stride, 0,
-                                           batch,
+                                           p.mask_b_stride, 0, 0,
+                                           batch, 0,
                                           p.mask,
                                           Sacc, Oacc, m0, m1, l0, l1, lane);

        mma_pv_accumulate<Traits>(Sacc, bV, lane, Oacc);
-        __syncwarp();
+    };

-        if constexpr (Traits::STAGES == 1) {
-            if (ti + 1 < ti_end)
-                load_tile(ti + 1, 0);
+    if (ntiles >= STAGES) {
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int i = 0; i < STAGES; i++)
+            load_tile(ti_begin + i, i);
+
+        for (int it = 0; it < ntiles; it++) {
+            cp_async_wait_group<STAGES - 1>();
+            __syncwarp();
+            process_tile(it, it & (STAGES - 1));
+            __syncwarp();
+            if (it + STAGES < ntiles)
+                load_tile(ti_begin + it + STAGES, (it + STAGES) & (STAGES - 1));
        }
+    } else {
+        // Fewer tiles than stages: load all, wait for all, process.
+        for (int i = 0; i < ntiles; i++)
+            load_tile(ti_begin + i, i);
+        cp_async_wait_group<0>();
+        __syncwarp();
+        for (int it = 0; it < ntiles; it++)
+            process_tile(it, it);
    }

    // ---- write UN-normalised partials for this split ----
@@ -8,65 +8,82 @@
 #include "attn_prefill_split_q.cuh"
 #include "attn_decode_split_kv.cuh"
 #include "attn_paged_decode_split_kv.cuh"
+#include "attn_paged_prefill_split_q.cuh"
 #ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
 #include "attn_prefill_split_q_mma.cuh"
 #include "attn_decode_split_kv_mma.cuh"
 #include "attn_paged_decode_split_kv_mma.cuh"
+#include "attn_paged_prefill_split_q_mma.cuh"
 #endif

 // Split-KV: compute number of splits to fill all SMs for small-batch decode.
-inline int compute_num_splits(int base_blocks, int tiles_total) {
-    int sm_count = 0;
-    cudaDeviceGetAttribute(&sm_count, cudaDevAttrMultiProcessorCount, 0);
-    int n = (2 * sm_count + base_blocks - 1) / base_blocks;
-    return std::max(1, std::min(n, std::min(tiles_total, MAX_SPLITS)));
+// Caps splits so each split processes at least `min_tiles_per_split` tiles,
+// avoiding excessive loop/prologue overhead when tiles are small.
+//
+// Target total grid blocks (`TARGET_BLOCKS`) rather than scaling splits by SM
+// count.  Decode blocks are single-warp (32 threads) and a SM hosts ~11 of
+// them, so the old `2*sm/base` cap badly undersplit at large batch (B=16 got
+// 3 splits, optimal ~8).  Measured (L20, grid search): bandwidth saturates
+// near 256-512 total blocks; 512 minimizes worst-case latency across the
+// B x kv grid; more is pure oversplit overhead.
+constexpr int DECODE_TARGET_BLOCKS = 512;
+inline int compute_num_splits(int base_blocks, int tiles_total,
+                               int min_tiles_per_split = 1) {
+    int n = (DECODE_TARGET_BLOCKS + base_blocks - 1) / base_blocks;
+    int max_by_work = tiles_total / min_tiles_per_split;
+    return std::max(1, std::min(n, std::min(max_by_work, MAX_SPLITS)));
 }

+// Dispatch IsCausal × HasMask — eliminates the duplicated 4-way if/else
+// ladder that appeared in each dispatch_* function.  FN must be a function
+// template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>; HEAD_DIM is forwarded
+// as the first template argument so callers only spell it once.
+//
+// Usage:  DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask, launch_decode_mma, HEAD_DIM, p, group_size);
+#define DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask, FN, HEAD_DIM, ...) \
+    do { \
+        if (is_causal) { \
+            if (has_mask) FN<HEAD_DIM, true,  true>(__VA_ARGS__); \
+            else          FN<HEAD_DIM, true,  false>(__VA_ARGS__); \
+        } else { \
+            if (has_mask) FN<HEAD_DIM, false, true>(__VA_ARGS__); \
+            else          FN<HEAD_DIM, false, false>(__VA_ARGS__); \
+        } \
+    } while (0)
+
 // ======================================================================
 // Prefill
 // ======================================================================

 #ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
 template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
-static inline void launch_prefill_mma(AttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
+static inline void launch_prefill_mma(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, cudaStream_t stream) {
    constexpr int WARPS = 4;
    constexpr int BC = (HEAD_DIM <= 128) ? 32 : 16;
    using Traits = KernelTraits<HEAD_DIM, BC, WARPS, 2>;
    dim3 grid((p.q_len + Traits::BR * WARPS - 1) / (Traits::BR * WARPS), p.q_head, p.batch);
    dim3 block(Traits::NUM_THREADS);
-    attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel<Traits, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, block>>>(p);
+    attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel<Traits, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, block, 0, stream>>>(p);
 }
 #endif

 template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
-static inline void launch_prefill_scalar(AttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
+static inline void launch_prefill_scalar(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, cudaStream_t stream) {
    constexpr int G = 8, ROWS = 32, P_BC = 32;
    dim3 grid((p.q_len + ROWS - 1) / ROWS, p.q_head, p.batch);
    dim3 block(G, ROWS);
-    attn_prefill_split_q_kernel_t<HEAD_DIM, G, ROWS, P_BC, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, block>>>(p);
+    attn_prefill_split_q_kernel_t<HEAD_DIM, G, ROWS, P_BC, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, block, 0, stream>>>(p);
 }

 template <int HEAD_DIM>
-static inline void dispatch_prefill(AttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
+static inline void dispatch_prefill(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, cudaStream_t stream) {
    bool is_causal = (p.causal_offset >= 0);
    bool has_mask = (p.use_mask && p.mask);

 #ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
-    if (is_causal) {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_prefill_mma<HEAD_DIM, true, true>(p);
-        else               launch_prefill_mma<HEAD_DIM, true, false>(p);
-    } else {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_prefill_mma<HEAD_DIM, false, true>(p);
-        else               launch_prefill_mma<HEAD_DIM, false, false>(p);
-    }
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask, launch_prefill_mma, HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
 #else
-    if (is_causal) {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_prefill_scalar<HEAD_DIM, true, true>(p);
-        else               launch_prefill_scalar<HEAD_DIM, true, false>(p);
-    } else {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_prefill_scalar<HEAD_DIM, false, true>(p);
-        else               launch_prefill_scalar<HEAD_DIM, false, false>(p);
-    }
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask, launch_prefill_scalar, HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
 #endif
 }

@@ -75,121 +92,132 @@ static inline void dispatch_prefill(AttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
 // ======================================================================

 #ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
+// BC=16: halves smem (16KB vs 32KB) → doubles occupancy (6 vs 3 blocks/SM).
+// For D=256, BC=16 also reduces register pressure (fewer Sacc/PV frags),
+// enabling STAGES=2 (double-buffer) within the 32KB smem budget — eliminates
+// the 176-byte spill that STAGES=1+BC=32 suffered.
 template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
-static inline void launch_decode_mma(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int group_size) {
+static inline void launch_decode_mma(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int group_size, cudaStream_t stream) {
    int G = p.q_head / p.kv_head;
    constexpr int MAX_G = 16;
    int num_passes = (G + MAX_G - 1) / MAX_G;
-    int tiles_total = (p.kv_len + 32 - 1) / 32;
-    p.num_splits = compute_num_splits(p.batch * p.kv_head, tiles_total);
-    constexpr int STAGES = (HEAD_DIM <= 128) ? 2 : 1;
-    using Traits = KernelTraits<HEAD_DIM, 32, 1, STAGES>;
+    constexpr int BC = 16;
+    int tiles_total = (p.kv_len + BC - 1) / BC;
+    p.num_splits = compute_num_splits(p.batch * p.kv_head * num_passes, tiles_total, 2);
+    constexpr int STAGES = 2;
+    using Traits = KernelTraits<HEAD_DIM, BC, 1, STAGES>;
    dim3 grid(p.kv_head * num_passes, p.batch, p.num_splits);
-    attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel<Traits, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, 32>>>(p);
+    attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel<Traits, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, 32, 0, stream>>>(p);
 }
 #endif

 template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
-static inline void launch_decode_scalar(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int group_size) {
+static inline void launch_decode_scalar(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int group_size, cudaStream_t stream) {
    int chunks_total = (p.kv_len + DC_CHUNK - 1) / DC_CHUNK;
    p.num_splits = compute_num_splits(p.batch * p.kv_head, chunks_total);
    size_t smem = DC_CHUNK * p.head_dim * sizeof(bf16);
    int g = min(group_size, 32);  // cap at 32 to respect 1024-thread limit
    dim3 grid(p.batch * p.kv_head, 1, p.num_splits);
    dim3 block(32, g);
-    attn_decode_split_kv_kernel<HEAD_DIM, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, block, smem>>>(p);
+    attn_decode_split_kv_kernel<HEAD_DIM, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, block, smem, stream>>>(p);
 }

 template <int HEAD_DIM>
-static inline void dispatch_decode(AttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
+static inline void dispatch_decode(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, cudaStream_t stream) {
    bool is_causal = (p.causal_offset >= 0);
    bool has_mask = (p.use_mask && p.mask);
    int group_size = p.q_head / p.kv_head;

 #ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
-    if (is_causal) {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_decode_mma<HEAD_DIM, true, true>(p, group_size);
-        else               launch_decode_mma<HEAD_DIM, true, false>(p, group_size);
-    } else {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_decode_mma<HEAD_DIM, false, true>(p, group_size);
-        else               launch_decode_mma<HEAD_DIM, false, false>(p, group_size);
-    }
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask, launch_decode_mma, HEAD_DIM, p, group_size, stream);
 #else
-    if (is_causal) {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_decode_scalar<HEAD_DIM, true, true>(p, group_size);
-        else               launch_decode_scalar<HEAD_DIM, true, false>(p, group_size);
-    } else {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_decode_scalar<HEAD_DIM, false, true>(p, group_size);
-        else               launch_decode_scalar<HEAD_DIM, false, false>(p, group_size);
-    }
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask, launch_decode_scalar, HEAD_DIM, p, group_size, stream);
 #endif

-    attn_decode_combine_kernel<<<p.batch * p.q_head, p.head_dim>>>(p);
+    attn_decode_combine_kernel<<<p.batch * p.q_head, p.head_dim, 0, stream>>>(p);
 }

 // ======================================================================
-// Paged Decode
+// Paged Decode (SGLang-style: flat pool + req_to_token + kv_indptr)
 // ======================================================================

 #ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
 template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
-static inline void launch_paged_decode_mma(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>& p, int group_size) {
+static inline void launch_paged_decode_mma(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>& p, cudaStream_t stream) {
    int G = p.q_head / p.kv_head;
    constexpr int MAX_G = 16;
-    bool page_ok = (p.page_size >= 32);
-    if (G >= 1 && page_ok) {
-        int num_passes = (G + MAX_G - 1) / MAX_G;
-        int tiles_total = (p.kv_len + 32 - 1) / 32;
-        p.num_splits = compute_num_splits(p.batch * p.kv_head, tiles_total);
-        constexpr int STAGES = (HEAD_DIM <= 128) ? 2 : 1;
-        using Traits = KernelTraits<HEAD_DIM, 32, 1, STAGES>;
-        dim3 grid(p.kv_head * num_passes, p.batch, p.num_splits);
-        paged_attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel<Traits, IsCausal, HasMask> <<<grid, 32>>>(p);
-    } else {
-        int chunks_total = (p.kv_len + PDC_CHUNK - 1) / PDC_CHUNK;
-        p.num_splits = compute_num_splits(p.batch * p.kv_head, chunks_total);
-        size_t smem = PDC_CHUNK * p.head_dim * sizeof(bf16);
-        dim3 grid(p.batch * p.kv_head, 1, p.num_splits);
-        dim3 block(32, group_size);
-        paged_attn_decode_split_kv_kernel<HEAD_DIM, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, block, smem>>>(p);
-    }
+    constexpr int BC = 16;
+    int num_passes = (G + MAX_G - 1) / MAX_G;
+    int tiles_total = (p.max_seq_len + BC - 1) / BC;
+    p.num_splits = compute_num_splits(p.batch * p.kv_head * num_passes, tiles_total, 2);
+    constexpr int STAGES = 2;
+    using Traits = KernelTraits<HEAD_DIM, BC, 1, STAGES>;
+    dim3 grid(p.kv_head * num_passes, p.batch, p.num_splits);
+    paged_attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel<Traits, IsCausal, HasMask> <<<grid, 32, 0, stream>>>(p);
 }
 #endif

 template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
-static inline void launch_paged_decode_scalar(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>& p, int group_size) {
-    int chunks_total = (p.kv_len + PDC_CHUNK - 1) / PDC_CHUNK;
+static inline void launch_paged_decode_scalar(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>& p, int group_size, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    int chunks_total = (p.max_seq_len + PDC_CHUNK - 1) / PDC_CHUNK;
    p.num_splits = compute_num_splits(p.batch * p.kv_head, chunks_total);
    size_t smem = PDC_CHUNK * p.head_dim * sizeof(bf16);
-    int g = min(group_size, 32);  // cap at 32 to respect 1024-thread limit
+    int g = min(group_size, 32);
    dim3 grid(p.batch * p.kv_head, 1, p.num_splits);
    dim3 block(32, g);
-    paged_attn_decode_split_kv_kernel<HEAD_DIM, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, block, smem>>>(p);
+    paged_attn_decode_split_kv_kernel<HEAD_DIM, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, block, smem, stream>>>(p);
 }

 template <int HEAD_DIM>
-static inline void dispatch_paged_decode(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
+static inline void dispatch_paged_decode(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>& p, cudaStream_t stream) {
    bool is_causal = (p.causal_offset >= 0);
    bool has_mask = (p.use_mask && p.mask);
    int group_size = p.q_head / p.kv_head;

 #ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
-    if (is_causal) {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_paged_decode_mma<HEAD_DIM, true, true>(p, group_size);
-        else               launch_paged_decode_mma<HEAD_DIM, true, false>(p, group_size);
-    } else {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_paged_decode_mma<HEAD_DIM, false, true>(p, group_size);
-        else               launch_paged_decode_mma<HEAD_DIM, false, false>(p, group_size);
-    }
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask, launch_paged_decode_mma, HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
 #else
-    if (is_causal) {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_paged_decode_scalar<HEAD_DIM, true, true>(p, group_size);
-        else               launch_paged_decode_scalar<HEAD_DIM, true, false>(p, group_size);
-    } else {
-        if (has_mask)      launch_paged_decode_scalar<HEAD_DIM, false, true>(p, group_size);
-        else               launch_paged_decode_scalar<HEAD_DIM, false, false>(p, group_size);
-    }
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask, launch_paged_decode_scalar, HEAD_DIM, p, group_size, stream);
 #endif

-    paged_attn_decode_combine_kernel<<<p.batch * p.q_head, p.head_dim>>>(p);
+    paged_attn_decode_combine_kernel<<<p.batch * p.q_head, p.head_dim, 0, stream>>>(p);
+}
+
+// ======================================================================
+// Paged Prefill (SGLang-style: flat pool + ragged batch)
+// ======================================================================
+
+#ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
+template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+static inline void launch_paged_prefill_mma(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>& p, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    constexpr int WARPS = 4;
+    constexpr int BC = (HEAD_DIM <= 128) ? 32 : 16;
+    using Traits = KernelTraits<HEAD_DIM, BC, WARPS, 2>;
+    int max_q_tiles = (p.max_q_len + Traits::BR * WARPS - 1) / (Traits::BR * WARPS);
+    dim3 grid(max_q_tiles, p.q_head, p.batch);
+    dim3 block(Traits::NUM_THREADS);
+    paged_attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel<Traits, IsCausal, HasMask><<<grid, block, 0, stream>>>(p);
+}
+#endif
+
+template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+static inline void launch_paged_prefill_scalar(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>& p, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    constexpr int G = 8, ROWS = 32, P_BC = 32;
+    int max_q_tiles = (p.max_q_len + ROWS - 1) / ROWS;
+    dim3 grid(max_q_tiles, p.q_head, p.batch);
+    dim3 block(G, ROWS);
+    paged_attn_prefill_split_q_kernel<HEAD_DIM, G, ROWS, P_BC, IsCausal, HasMask>
+        <<<grid, block, 0, stream>>>(p);
+}
+
+template <int HEAD_DIM>
+static inline void dispatch_paged_prefill(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>& p, cudaStream_t stream) {
+    bool is_causal = (p.causal_offset >= 0);
+    bool has_mask = (p.use_mask && p.mask);
+
+#ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask, launch_paged_prefill_mma, HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
+#else
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask, launch_paged_prefill_scalar, HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
+#endif
 }
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #pragma once
+#include <float.h>
 #include <torch/extension.h>
 #include <c10/cuda/CUDAGuard.h>
 #include "attn_common.h"
@@ -7,24 +8,28 @@
 using bf16 = __nv_bfloat16;

 // Dispatch head_dim: shared macro — avoids C++20 lambda template syntax.
-// Usage: DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(hd, fn, arg)
-//   Expands to: fn<32>(arg); fn<64>(arg); etc.
-#define DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(hd, fn, arg) \
+// Usage: DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(hd, fn, args...)
+//   Expands to: fn<32>(args...); fn<64>(args...); etc.
+#define DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(hd, fn, ...) \
    switch (hd) { \
-        case 32:  fn<32>(arg); break; \
-        case 64:  fn<64>(arg); break; \
-        case 128: fn<128>(arg); break; \
-        case 256: fn<256>(arg); break; \
+        case 32:  fn<32>(__VA_ARGS__); break; \
+        case 64:  fn<64>(__VA_ARGS__); break; \
+        case 128: fn<128>(__VA_ARGS__); break; \
+        case 256: fn<256>(__VA_ARGS__); break; \
        default: \
            TORCH_CHECK(false, "unsupported head_dim ", hd, \
                         " (supported: 32, 64, 128, 256)"); \
    }

+// The split kernel unconditionally writes every (batch, q_head, split) slot it
+// owns — including empty split ranges, which store m = -FLT_MAX so the combine
+// skips them. Allocators are therefore left uninitialized (torch::empty); the
+// per-call memset (torch::zeros / torch::full) was pure overhead.
 template<typename P>
 inline void alloc_split_partials(P& p) {
    auto fopt = torch::TensorOptions().dtype(torch::kFloat32).device(torch::kCUDA);
-    auto o_part = torch::empty({p.batch, p.q_head, MAX_SPLITS, p.head_dim}, fopt);
-    auto ml_part = torch::empty({p.batch, p.q_head, MAX_SPLITS, 2}, fopt);
+    auto o_part = torch::empty(at::IntArrayRef{p.batch, p.q_head, MAX_SPLITS, p.head_dim}, fopt);
+    auto ml_part = torch::empty(at::IntArrayRef{p.batch, p.q_head, MAX_SPLITS, 2}, fopt);
    p.o_part = (float*)o_part.data_ptr();
    p.ml_part = (float*)ml_part.data_ptr();
 }
@@ -32,7 +37,7 @@ inline void alloc_split_partials(P& p) {
 // ---- Shared Q-dims + strides extraction ----
 template <typename P>
 inline void extract_q_dims_and_strides(torch::Tensor& q, int64_t layout, P& p) {
-    if (layout == 1) q = q.transpose(1, 2);
+    if (layout == BLHD) q = q.transpose(1, 2);
    p.batch = (int)q.size(0);
    p.q_head = (int)q.size(1);
    p.q_len = (int)q.size(2);
@@ -44,6 +49,9 @@ inline void extract_q_dims_and_strides(torch::Tensor& q, int64_t layout, P& p) {
 }

 // ---- Shared mask packing ----
+// Accepts 2D [batch, kv_len], 3D [batch, q_len, kv_len],
+// or 4D [batch, n_heads, q_len, kv_len].
+// Head/q dimensions with size 1 broadcast (stride set to 0).
 template <typename P>
 inline void pack_mask(const c10::optional<torch::Tensor>& mask, P& p) {
    if (p.use_mask) {
@@ -54,18 +62,26 @@ inline void pack_mask(const c10::optional<torch::Tensor>& mask, P& p) {
        TORCH_CHECK(m.size(m.dim() - 1) == p.kv_len, "mask kv_len mismatch");
        if (m.dim() == 2) {
            p.mask_b_stride = (int)m.stride(0);
+            p.mask_h_stride = 0;
            p.mask_q_stride = 0;
        } else if (m.dim() == 3) {
-            TORCH_CHECK(m.size(1) == p.q_len, "mask q_len mismatch");
+            TORCH_CHECK(m.size(1) == 1 || m.size(1) == p.q_len, "mask q_len mismatch");
            p.mask_b_stride = (int)m.stride(0);
-            p.mask_q_stride = (int)m.stride(1);
+            p.mask_h_stride = 0;
+            p.mask_q_stride = (m.size(1) == 1) ? 0 : (int)m.stride(1);
+        } else if (m.dim() == 4) {
+            TORCH_CHECK(m.size(2) == 1 || m.size(2) == p.q_len, "mask q_len mismatch");
+            p.mask_b_stride = (int)m.stride(0);
+            p.mask_h_stride = (m.size(1) == 1) ? 0 : (int)m.stride(1);
+            p.mask_q_stride = (m.size(2) == 1) ? 0 : (int)m.stride(2);
        } else {
-            TORCH_CHECK(false, "mask must be 2D [batch, kv_len] or 3D [batch, q_len, kv_len]");
+            TORCH_CHECK(false, "mask must be 2D, 3D, or 4D");
        }
        p.mask = m.data_ptr<bool>();
    } else {
        p.mask = nullptr;
        p.mask_b_stride = 0;
+        p.mask_h_stride = 0;
        p.mask_q_stride = 0;
    }
 }
@@ -93,7 +109,7 @@ inline void attn_pack_params(

    extract_q_dims_and_strides(q, layout, p);

-    if (layout == 1) k = k.transpose(1, 2), v = v.transpose(1, 2);
+    if (layout == BLHD) k = k.transpose(1, 2), v = v.transpose(1, 2);

    p.kv_head = (int)k.size(1);
    p.kv_len = (int)k.size(2);
@@ -118,54 +134,178 @@ inline void attn_pack_params(
    pack_mask(mask, p);
 }

-// ---- attn_pack_paged_params ----
+// ---- attn_pack_paged_decode_params ----
+// SGLang-style: flat KV pool + req_to_token indexing + variable
+// seq_lens via kv_indptr.  Q is [batch, q_head, head_dim] (q_len=1 per req).
 template<typename T>
-inline void attn_pack_paged_params(
+inline void attn_pack_paged_decode_params(
    torch::Tensor q,
-    torch::Tensor page_table,
    torch::Tensor k_cache,
    torch::Tensor v_cache,
-    int64_t page_size,
-    int64_t kv_len,
+    torch::Tensor req_to_token,
+    torch::Tensor req_pool_indices,
+    torch::Tensor kv_indptr,
+    int64_t max_seq_len,
    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> mask,
    int64_t causal_offset,
    double scale,
-    int64_t layout,
    PagedAttentionParams<T>& p
 ) {
    const at::cuda::OptionalCUDAGuard device_guard(device_of(q));

-    TORCH_CHECK(q.is_cuda() && page_table.is_cuda() && k_cache.is_cuda() && v_cache.is_cuda());
+    TORCH_CHECK(q.is_cuda() && k_cache.is_cuda() && v_cache.is_cuda());
+    TORCH_CHECK(req_to_token.is_cuda() && req_pool_indices.is_cuda() && kv_indptr.is_cuda());
    TORCH_CHECK(q.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16, "q must be bf16");
    TORCH_CHECK(k_cache.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16, "k_cache must be bf16");
    TORCH_CHECK(v_cache.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16, "v_cache must be bf16");
-    TORCH_CHECK(page_table.dtype() == torch::kLong, "page_table must be int64");
-    TORCH_CHECK(k_cache.sizes() == v_cache.sizes(), "k_cache and v_cache must have identical shapes");
+    TORCH_CHECK(req_to_token.dtype() == torch::kLong, "req_to_token must be int64");
+    TORCH_CHECK(req_pool_indices.dtype() == torch::kLong, "req_pool_indices must be int64");
+    TORCH_CHECK(kv_indptr.dtype() == torch::kInt32, "kv_indptr must be int32");
+    TORCH_CHECK(k_cache.sizes() == v_cache.sizes(), "k_cache and v_cache must match");
+    TORCH_CHECK(k_cache.dim() == 3, "k_cache must be 3D [size, kv_head, head_dim]");
+    TORCH_CHECK(q.dim() == 3, "q must be 3D [batch, q_head, head_dim]");

-    extract_q_dims_and_strides(q, layout, p);
-
-    p.kv_head = (int)k_cache.size(2);
-    p.kv_len = (int)kv_len;
-    p.page_size = (int)page_size;
-    p.max_pages = (int)page_table.size(1);
-
-    TORCH_CHECK(q.size(2) == 1, "Q seq_len must be 1 (decode)");
+    p.batch = (int)q.size(0);
+    p.q_head = (int)q.size(1);
+    p.head_dim = (int)q.size(2);
+    p.kv_head = (int)k_cache.size(1);
+    TORCH_CHECK(k_cache.size(2) == p.head_dim, "k_cache head_dim mismatch");
    TORCH_CHECK(p.head_dim % 32 == 0, "head_dim must be multiple of 32");
-    TORCH_CHECK(k_cache.size(1) == page_size,
-                "k_cache dim 1 must equal page_size, got ",
-                k_cache.size(1), " vs ", page_size);
+    TORCH_CHECK(p.q_head % p.kv_head == 0, "q_head must be divisible by kv_head");
+
+    p.q_stride_l = (int)q.stride(0);
+    p.q_stride_h = (int)q.stride(1);
+    p.q_stride_d = (int)q.stride(2);
+
+    p.k_cache = (const T*)k_cache.data_ptr();
+    p.v_cache = (const T*)v_cache.data_ptr();
+    p.q = (const T*)q.data_ptr();
+    p.req_to_token = req_to_token.data_ptr<int64_t>();
+    p.req_pool_indices = req_pool_indices.data_ptr<int64_t>();
+    p.kv_indptr = kv_indptr.data_ptr<int>();
+    p.qo_indptr = nullptr;
+    p.max_context_len = (int)req_to_token.size(1);
+    p.max_seq_len = (int)max_seq_len;
+    p.total_q = p.batch;  // decode: 1 Q token per request
+    p.max_q_len = 1;

    p.causal_offset = (int)causal_offset;
    p.use_mask = (mask.has_value() && mask.value().defined()) ? 1 : 0;
    p.scale = (scale > 0.0) ? (float)scale : 1.0f / sqrtf((float)p.head_dim);

-    p.page_table = page_table.data_ptr<int64_t>();
+    if (p.use_mask) {
+        auto m = mask.value();
+        TORCH_CHECK(m.is_cuda() && m.dtype() == torch::kBool, "mask must be bool CUDA");
+        TORCH_CHECK(m.size(0) == p.batch, "mask batch mismatch");
+        p.mask_b_stride = (int)m.stride(0);
+        p.mask_h_stride = 0;
+        p.mask_q_stride = 0;
+        p.mask = m.data_ptr<bool>();
+    } else {
+        p.mask = nullptr;
+        p.mask_b_stride = 0;
+        p.mask_h_stride = 0;
+        p.mask_q_stride = 0;
+    }
+
+    p.o = nullptr;
+    p.o_part = nullptr;
+    p.ml_part = nullptr;
+}
+
+// ---- attn_pack_paged_prefill_params ----
+// SGLang-style: flat KV pool + req_to_token + ragged batch via qo_indptr.
+// Q is [total_q, q_head, head_dim] (flattened across all requests).
+template<typename T>
+inline void attn_pack_paged_prefill_params(
+    torch::Tensor q,
+    torch::Tensor k_cache,
+    torch::Tensor v_cache,
+    torch::Tensor req_to_token,
+    torch::Tensor req_pool_indices,
+    torch::Tensor kv_indptr,
+    torch::Tensor qo_indptr,
+    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> mask,
+    int64_t max_q_len,
+    int64_t causal_offset,
+    double scale,
+    PagedAttentionParams<T>& p
+) {
+    const at::cuda::OptionalCUDAGuard device_guard(device_of(q));
+
+    TORCH_CHECK(q.is_cuda() && k_cache.is_cuda() && v_cache.is_cuda());
+    TORCH_CHECK(req_to_token.is_cuda() && req_pool_indices.is_cuda());
+    TORCH_CHECK(kv_indptr.is_cuda() && qo_indptr.is_cuda());
+    TORCH_CHECK(q.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16, "q must be bf16");
+    TORCH_CHECK(k_cache.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16, "k_cache must be bf16");
+    TORCH_CHECK(v_cache.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16, "v_cache must be bf16");
+    TORCH_CHECK(req_to_token.dtype() == torch::kLong, "req_to_token must be int64");
+    TORCH_CHECK(req_pool_indices.dtype() == torch::kLong, "req_pool_indices must be int64");
+    TORCH_CHECK(kv_indptr.dtype() == torch::kInt32, "kv_indptr must be int32");
+    TORCH_CHECK(qo_indptr.dtype() == torch::kInt32, "qo_indptr must be int32");
+    TORCH_CHECK(k_cache.sizes() == v_cache.sizes(), "k_cache and v_cache must match");
+    TORCH_CHECK(k_cache.dim() == 3, "k_cache must be 3D [size, kv_head, head_dim]");
+    TORCH_CHECK(q.dim() == 3, "q must be 3D [total_q, q_head, head_dim]");
+
+    p.q_head = (int)q.size(1);
+    p.head_dim = (int)q.size(2);
+    p.kv_head = (int)k_cache.size(1);
+    p.batch = (int)req_pool_indices.size(0);
+    TORCH_CHECK(k_cache.size(2) == p.head_dim, "k_cache head_dim mismatch");
+    TORCH_CHECK(p.head_dim % 16 == 0, "head_dim must be multiple of 16");
+    TORCH_CHECK(p.q_head % p.kv_head == 0, "q_head must be divisible by kv_head");
+    TORCH_CHECK(kv_indptr.size(0) == p.batch + 1, "kv_indptr must be [batch+1]");
+    TORCH_CHECK(qo_indptr.size(0) == p.batch + 1, "qo_indptr must be [batch+1]");
+
+    p.q_stride_l = (int)q.stride(0);
+    p.q_stride_h = (int)q.stride(1);
+    p.q_stride_d = (int)q.stride(2);
+
    p.k_cache = (const T*)k_cache.data_ptr();
    p.v_cache = (const T*)v_cache.data_ptr();
    p.q = (const T*)q.data_ptr();
+    p.req_to_token = req_to_token.data_ptr<int64_t>();
+    p.req_pool_indices = req_pool_indices.data_ptr<int64_t>();
+    p.kv_indptr = kv_indptr.data_ptr<int>();
+    p.qo_indptr = qo_indptr.data_ptr<int>();
+    p.max_context_len = (int)req_to_token.size(1);
+    p.total_q = (int)q.size(0);  // prefill: flattened Q across all requests
+    p.max_q_len = (int)max_q_len;
+    // max_seq_len is unused by the prefill path (decode uses it for split
+    // computation); fill with max_q_len only to keep the POD struct defined.
+    p.max_seq_len = p.max_q_len;
+
+    p.causal_offset = (int)causal_offset;
+    p.use_mask = (mask.has_value() && mask.value().defined()) ? 1 : 0;
+    if (p.use_mask) {
+        auto m = mask.value();
+        TORCH_CHECK(m.is_cuda() && m.dtype() == torch::kBool, "mask must be bool CUDA");
+        TORCH_CHECK(m.size(0) == p.batch, "mask batch mismatch");
+        if (m.dim() == 2) {
+            TORCH_CHECK(m.size(1) <= p.max_context_len, "mask kv_len mismatch");
+            p.mask_b_stride = (int)m.stride(0);
+            p.mask_h_stride = 0;
+            p.mask_q_stride = 0;
+        } else if (m.dim() == 4) {
+            TORCH_CHECK(m.size(1) == 1 || m.size(1) == p.q_head, "mask head mismatch");
+            TORCH_CHECK(m.size(2) == 1 || m.size(2) == p.max_q_len, "mask q_len mismatch");
+            TORCH_CHECK(m.size(3) <= p.max_context_len, "mask kv_len mismatch");
+            p.mask_b_stride = (int)m.stride(0);
+            p.mask_h_stride = (m.size(1) == 1) ? 0 : (int)m.stride(1);
+            p.mask_q_stride = (m.size(2) == 1) ? 0 : (int)m.stride(2);
+        } else {
+            TORCH_CHECK(false, "mask must be 2D or 4D");
+        }
+        p.mask = m.data_ptr<bool>();
+    } else {
+        p.mask = nullptr;
+        p.mask_b_stride = 0;
+        p.mask_h_stride = 0;
+        p.mask_q_stride = 0;
+    }
+    p.scale = (scale > 0.0) ? (float)scale : 1.0f / sqrtf((float)p.head_dim);
+
    p.o = nullptr;
    p.o_part = nullptr;
    p.ml_part = nullptr;
-
-    pack_mask(mask, p);
 }
@@ -3,6 +3,12 @@
 #include <cuda_fp16.h>
 #include <cuda_runtime.h>

+// Predicated cp.async (4-operand form) requires CUDA 11.2+.
+// bf16 mma.sync requires sm_80+ (guarded at build time by ASTRAI_NO_MMA).
+#if CUDART_VERSION < 11020
+#error "AstrAI CUDA kernels require CUDA 11.2 or later (CUDART_VERSION >= 11020)."
+#endif
+
 // ============================================================================
 // KernelTraits — FlashAttention-v2 style compile-time configuration bundle.
 //
@@ -192,8 +198,8 @@ __device__ inline void mma_softmax_tile(
    int kv0,
    int maxc0, int maxc1,
    int qrow0, int qrow1,
-    int mask_b_stride, int mask_q_stride,
-    int mask_batch,
+    int mask_b_stride, int mask_h_stride, int mask_q_stride,
+    int mask_batch, int mask_head,
    const bool* __restrict__ mask,
    float Sacc[Traits::NC8][4],
    float Oacc[Traits::DN8][4],
@@ -204,8 +210,8 @@ __device__ inline void mma_softmax_tile(
    int tid4 = lane & 3;

    float rmax0 = -FLT_MAX, rmax1 = -FLT_MAX;
-    int mask_base0 = mask_batch * mask_b_stride + qrow0 * mask_q_stride;
-    int mask_base1 = mask_batch * mask_b_stride + qrow1 * mask_q_stride;
+    int mask_base0 = mask_batch * mask_b_stride + mask_head * mask_h_stride + qrow0 * mask_q_stride;
+    int mask_base1 = mask_batch * mask_b_stride + mask_head * mask_h_stride + qrow1 * mask_q_stride;
    #pragma unroll
    for (int n8 = 0; n8 < Traits::NC8; n8++) {
        int cc = kv0 + n8 * 8 + 2 * tid4;
@@ -3,40 +3,44 @@

 torch::Tensor attn_paged_decode(
    torch::Tensor q,
-    torch::Tensor page_table,
    torch::Tensor k_cache,
    torch::Tensor v_cache,
-    int64_t page_size,
-    int64_t kv_len,
+    torch::Tensor req_to_token,
+    torch::Tensor req_pool_indices,
+    torch::Tensor kv_indptr,
+    int64_t max_seq_len,
    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> mask,
    int64_t causal_offset,
-    double scale,
-    int64_t layout
+    double scale
 ) {
-    PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p;
-    attn_pack_paged_params(q, page_table, k_cache, v_cache,
-                           page_size, kv_len, mask, causal_offset, scale, layout, p);
+    const at::cuda::OptionalCUDAGuard device_guard(device_of(q));
+    auto stream = at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream();

-    auto O = torch::empty_strided(q.sizes(), q.strides(), q.options());
-    auto O_view = (layout == 1) ? O.transpose(1, 2) : O;
-    p.o = (bf16*)O_view.data_ptr();
+    PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    attn_pack_paged_decode_params(q, k_cache, v_cache,
+                                   req_to_token, req_pool_indices, kv_indptr,
+                                   max_seq_len, mask, causal_offset, scale, p);
+
+    auto O = torch::empty({q.size(0), q.size(1), q.size(2)}, q.options());
+    p.o = (bf16*)O.data_ptr();

    alloc_split_partials(p);
-    DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(p.head_dim, dispatch_paged_decode, p);
+    DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(p.head_dim, dispatch_paged_decode, p, stream);
+    C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaGetLastError());
    return O;
 }

 PYBIND11_MODULE(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, m) {
    m.def("attn_paged_decode", &attn_paged_decode,
        py::arg("q"),
-        py::arg("page_table"),
        py::arg("k_cache"),
        py::arg("v_cache"),
-        py::arg("page_size"),
-        py::arg("kv_len"),
+        py::arg("req_to_token"),
+        py::arg("req_pool_indices"),
+        py::arg("kv_indptr"),
+        py::arg("max_seq_len"),
        py::arg("mask") = py::none(),
        py::arg("causal_offset") = -1,
        py::arg("scale") = 0.0,
-        py::arg("layout") = 0,
-        "Paged GQA decode — split-KV with direct page-table access.");
+        "SGLang-style paged decode: flat KV pool + req_to_token + kv_indptr.");
 }
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 #include "attn_warp_utils.cuh"
 constexpr int PDC_CHUNK = 64;

+// Scalar paged decode (fallback for sm < 80, no tensor cores).
+// Reads K/V from flat pool via req_to_token indexing.
 template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
 __global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    int batch = blockIdx.x / p.kv_head;
@@ -15,8 +17,11 @@ __global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p)
    int lane = threadIdx.x;
    int hd_per_thread = p.head_dim / 32;

+    const int seq_len = p.kv_indptr[batch + 1] - p.kv_indptr[batch];
+    const int64_t req_idx = p.req_pool_indices[batch];
+
    float q_reg[8];
-    int q_off = batch * p.q_stride_b + q_head * p.q_stride_h
+    int q_off = batch * p.q_stride_l + q_head * p.q_stride_h
              + lane * hd_per_thread * p.q_stride_d;
    #pragma unroll
    for (int i = 0; i < hd_per_thread; i++)
@@ -26,16 +31,19 @@ __global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p)

    extern __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 k_smem[];

-    int chunks_total = (p.kv_len + PDC_CHUNK - 1) / PDC_CHUNK;
+    int chunks_total = (seq_len + PDC_CHUNK - 1) / PDC_CHUNK;
    int chunks_per_split = (chunks_total + p.num_splits - 1) / p.num_splits;
    int ch_begin = split * chunks_per_split;
    int ch_end = min(chunks_total, ch_begin + chunks_per_split);

    const int mask_base = batch * p.mask_b_stride;
+    const int64_t pool_stride = (int64_t)p.kv_head * p.head_dim;
+    const int64_t head_off = (int64_t)kv_head * p.head_dim;
+    const int64_t rtt_stride = (int64_t)p.max_context_len;

    for (int ci = ch_begin; ci < ch_end; ci++) {
        int chunk_start = ci * PDC_CHUNK;
-        int this_chunk = min(PDC_CHUNK, p.kv_len - chunk_start);
+        int this_chunk = min(PDC_CHUNK, seq_len - chunk_start);

        int total = this_chunk * p.head_dim;
        for (int i = threadIdx.y * 32 + lane; i < total;
@@ -43,14 +51,9 @@ __global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p)
            int s = i / p.head_dim;
            int d_dim = i % p.head_dim;
            int pos = chunk_start + s;
-            int logical_page = pos / p.page_size;
-            int page_offset = pos % p.page_size;
-            int phys_page = p.page_table[batch * p.max_pages + logical_page];
-            if (phys_page >= 0) {
-                int64_t off = (int64_t)phys_page * p.page_size * p.kv_head * p.head_dim
-                            + (int64_t)page_offset * p.kv_head * p.head_dim
-                            + (int64_t)kv_head * p.head_dim
-                            + d_dim;
+            int64_t slot = p.req_to_token[req_idx * rtt_stride + pos];
+            if (slot >= 0) {
+                int64_t off = slot * pool_stride + head_off + d_dim;
                k_smem[i] = p.k_cache[off];
            } else {
                k_smem[i] = __float2bfloat16(0.0f);
@@ -67,28 +70,30 @@ __global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p)
            partial = warp_reduce_sum(partial) * p.scale;

            int kv_idx = chunk_start + s;
+            bool masked = false;
            if constexpr (HasMask) {
                if (!p.mask[mask_base + kv_idx])
-                    partial = -FLT_MAX;
-            }
-            if constexpr (IsCausal) {
-                if (kv_idx > p.causal_offset)
-                    partial = -FLT_MAX;
+                    masked = true;
            }
+            // Decode: the query is the last token, so its valid range [0,
+            // seq_len) IS the causal range.  IsCausal is accepted for dispatch
+            // uniformity but must not apply causal_offset masking here.
+            if (masked)
+                partial = -FLT_MAX;

            float new_m = fmaxf(m, partial);
-            float alpha = expf(m - new_m);
-            float beta  = expf(partial - new_m);
+            float alpha = __expf(m - new_m);
+            float beta  = __expf(partial - new_m);
            d = d * alpha + beta;

            int pos = chunk_start + s;
-            int logical_page = pos / p.page_size;
-            int page_offset = pos % p.page_size;
-            int phys_page = p.page_table[batch * p.max_pages + logical_page];
-            if (phys_page >= 0) {
-                int64_t v_base = (int64_t)phys_page * p.page_size * p.kv_head * p.head_dim
-                               + (int64_t)page_offset * p.kv_head * p.head_dim
-                               + (int64_t)kv_head * p.head_dim;
+            int64_t slot = p.req_to_token[req_idx * rtt_stride + pos];
+            if (masked) {
+                #pragma unroll
+                for (int i = 0; i < hd_per_thread; i++)
+                    acc_reg[i] = fmaf(acc_reg[i], alpha, 0.0f);
+            } else if (slot >= 0) {
+                int64_t v_base = slot * pool_stride + head_off;
                #pragma unroll
                for (int i = 0; i < hd_per_thread; i++)
                    acc_reg[i] = fmaf(acc_reg[i], alpha,
@@ -133,14 +138,14 @@ __global__ void paged_attn_decode_combine_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p) {
        if (mi <= -FLT_MAX) continue;
        float li = mlp[s * 2 + 1];
        float nm = fmaxf(m, mi);
-        float corr = expf(m - nm);
-        float e = expf(mi - nm);
+        float corr = __expf(m - nm);
+        float e = __expf(mi - nm);
        acc = fmaf(acc, corr, op[s * p.head_dim + d] * e);
        l = fmaf(l, corr, li * e);
        m = nm;
    }

    float inv = (l > 1e-20f) ? (1.0f / l) : 0.0f;
-    int o_off = batch * p.q_stride_b + q_head * p.q_stride_h + d * p.q_stride_d;
+    int o_off = batch * p.q_stride_l + q_head * p.q_stride_h + d * p.q_stride_d;
    p.o[o_off] = __float2bfloat16(acc * inv);
 }
@@ -5,12 +5,16 @@
 #include "attn_mma_utils.cuh"
 #include "attn_warp_utils.cuh"

-// Paged split-KV tensor-core decode via GQA head-packing.
-// Reads K/V directly from the page pool through a page table — one tile
-// (BC=32) fits within a single page (page_size >= 32), so the page-table
-// lookup happens once per tile for cp.async.
+// SGLang-style split-KV tensor-core decode.
 //
-// IsCausal and HasMask are compile-time bools.
+// Reads K/V directly from a flat pool [size, kv_head, head_dim] via
+// req_to_token indexing — no gather, no page-table dimension.
+// Each batch element has its own seq_len (from kv_indptr), eliminating
+// padding waste: short sequences only process the tiles they own.
+//
+// For decode (q_len=1), causal masking is implicit — each request attends
+// to [0, seq_len) which is exactly its valid range.  The IsCausal flag
+// is accepted for dispatch uniformity but does not change maxc.
 template <typename Traits, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
 __global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    const int lane = threadIdx.x;
@@ -22,6 +26,10 @@ __global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>
    const int batch = blockIdx.y;
    const int split = blockIdx.z;

+    // Per-request seq_len from device-side kv_indptr — no padding.
+    const int seq_len = p.kv_indptr[batch + 1] - p.kv_indptr[batch];
+    const int64_t req_idx = p.req_pool_indices[batch];
+
    constexpr int MAX_G = 16;
    const int G_total = p.q_head / p.kv_head;
    const int g_begin = pass * MAX_G;
@@ -31,13 +39,14 @@ __global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>
    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sK[Traits::STAGES * Traits::BC * Traits::LD];
    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sV[Traits::STAGES * Traits::BC * Traits::LD];

-    const int q_base = batch * p.q_stride_b + q_head0 * p.q_stride_h;
+    const int q_base = batch * p.q_stride_l + q_head0 * p.q_stride_h;
    const int qra = gid;
    const int qrb = gid + 8;
    const bool va = qra < G, vb = qrb < G;
    unsigned Qa[Traits::KD][4];
-    load_q_mma_frags<Traits::KD>(p.q + q_base, p.q_stride_h, p.q_stride_d,
-                                  qra, qrb, va, vb, tid4, Qa);
+    load_q_mma_frags<Traits::KD>(p.q + q_base,
+                                   p.q_stride_h, p.q_stride_d,
+                                   qra, qrb, va, vb, tid4, Qa);

    float Oacc[Traits::DN8][4];
    #pragma unroll
@@ -45,33 +54,35 @@ __global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>
        Oacc[j][0] = Oacc[j][1] = Oacc[j][2] = Oacc[j][3] = 0.0f;
    float m0 = -FLT_MAX, m1 = -FLT_MAX, l0 = 0.0f, l1 = 0.0f;

-    const int tiles_total = (p.kv_len + Traits::BC - 1) / Traits::BC;
+    const int tiles_total = (seq_len + Traits::BC - 1) / Traits::BC;
    const int tiles_per_split = (tiles_total + p.num_splits - 1) / p.num_splits;
    const int ti_begin = split * tiles_per_split;
    const int ti_end = min(tiles_total, ti_begin + tiles_per_split);

-    const int64_t page_stride = (int64_t)p.page_size * p.kv_head * Traits::HEAD_DIM;
-    const int64_t pos_stride  = (int64_t)p.kv_head * Traits::HEAD_DIM;
+    // Flat pool stride: [size, kv_head, head_dim] — contiguous.
+    const int64_t pool_stride = (int64_t)p.kv_head * Traits::HEAD_DIM;
    const int64_t head_off    = (int64_t)kv_head * Traits::HEAD_DIM;
+    const int64_t rtt_stride  = (int64_t)p.max_context_len;

-    // ---- Load tile lambda: paged addressing ----
+    // ---- Load tile lambda: SGLang addressing ----
+    // slot = req_to_token[req_idx * max_context_len + kc]
+    // gmem = k_cache[slot * pool_stride + head_off + d]
    auto load_tile = [&](int ti, int buf) {
        int kv0 = ti * Traits::BC;
        bf16* dK = sK + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
        bf16* dV = sV + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
-        int logical_page = kv0 / p.page_size;
-        int phys_page = p.page_table[batch * p.max_pages + logical_page];
-        bool page_valid = (phys_page >= 0);
        #pragma unroll
        for (int i = lane * Traits::VEC; i < Traits::TOTAL;
             i += Traits::NUM_THREADS * Traits::VEC) {
            int r = i / Traits::HEAD_DIM, d = i % Traits::HEAD_DIM;
            int kc = kv0 + r;
-            bool valid = (kc < p.kv_len) && page_valid;
-            int page_off = kc % p.page_size;
-            int64_t gmem_base = (int64_t)phys_page * page_stride
-                              + (int64_t)page_off * pos_stride
-                              + head_off;
+            bool valid = (kc < seq_len);
+            if constexpr (HasMask) {
+                valid = valid && p.mask[batch * p.mask_b_stride + kc];
+            }
+            int64_t slot = valid ? p.req_to_token[req_idx * rtt_stride + kc] : 0;
+            valid = valid && (slot >= 0);
+            int64_t gmem_base = slot * pool_stride + head_off;
            int off = r * Traits::LD + swiz_col(d, r, Traits::SWIZ_MASK);
            cp_async_16_pred(&dK[off], &p.k_cache[gmem_base + d], valid);
            cp_async_16_pred(&dV[off], &p.v_cache[gmem_base + d], valid);
@@ -79,25 +90,13 @@ __global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>
        cp_async_commit();
    };

-    constexpr int BUF_MASK = (Traits::STAGES > 1) ? (Traits::STAGES - 1) : 0;
-
-    if (ti_begin < ti_end) {
-        load_tile(ti_begin, 0);
-    }
-
-    for (int ti = ti_begin; ti < ti_end; ti++) {
-        int buf = (ti - ti_begin) & BUF_MASK;
-
-        cp_async_wait_group<0>();
-        __syncwarp();
-        if constexpr (Traits::STAGES > 1) {
-            if (ti + 1 < ti_end)
-                load_tile(ti + 1, (ti + 1 - ti_begin) & BUF_MASK);
-        }
+    constexpr int STAGES = Traits::STAGES;
+    const int ntiles = ti_end - ti_begin;

+    auto process_tile = [&](int it, int buf) {
        const bf16* bK = sK + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
        const bf16* bV = sV + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
-        int kv0 = ti * Traits::BC;
+        int kv0 = (ti_begin + it) * Traits::BC;

        float Sacc[Traits::NC8][4];
        mma_compute_scores<Traits>(Qa, bK, lane, Sacc);
@@ -107,23 +106,41 @@ __global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>
            Sacc[n8][0] *= p.scale, Sacc[n8][1] *= p.scale,
            Sacc[n8][2] *= p.scale, Sacc[n8][3] *= p.scale;

-        int maxc = IsCausal ? min(p.kv_len, p.causal_offset + 1) : p.kv_len;
-        mma_softmax_tile<Traits, HasMask>(kv0, maxc, maxc,
+        // For decode, maxc = seq_len regardless of IsCausal — the valid
+        // range [0, seq_len) IS the causal range (query is the last token).
+        mma_softmax_tile<Traits, HasMask>(kv0, seq_len, seq_len,
                                           0, 0,
-                                           p.mask_b_stride, 0,
-                                           batch,
+                                           p.mask_b_stride, 0, 0,
+                                           batch, 0,
                                           p.mask,
                                           Sacc, Oacc, m0, m1, l0, l1, lane);

        mma_pv_accumulate<Traits>(Sacc, bV, lane, Oacc);
-        __syncwarp();
+    };

-        if constexpr (Traits::STAGES == 1) {
-            if (ti + 1 < ti_end)
-                load_tile(ti + 1, 0);
+    if (ntiles >= STAGES) {
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int i = 0; i < STAGES; i++)
+            load_tile(ti_begin + i, i);
+
+        for (int it = 0; it < ntiles; it++) {
+            cp_async_wait_group<STAGES - 1>();
+            __syncwarp();
+            process_tile(it, it & (STAGES - 1));
+            __syncwarp();
+            if (it + STAGES < ntiles)
+                load_tile(ti_begin + it + STAGES, (it + STAGES) & (STAGES - 1));
        }
+    } else {
+        for (int i = 0; i < ntiles; i++)
+            load_tile(ti_begin + i, i);
+        cp_async_wait_group<0>();
+        __syncwarp();
+        for (int it = 0; it < ntiles; it++)
+            process_tile(it, it);
    }

+    // ---- write partials ----
    auto split_slot = [&](int h) -> size_t {
        size_t bh = (size_t)batch * p.q_head + h;
        return bh * MAX_SPLITS + split;
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#include "attn_dispatchers.cuh"
+#include "attn_entry_utils.cuh"
+
+torch::Tensor attn_paged_prefill(
+    torch::Tensor q,
+    torch::Tensor k_cache,
+    torch::Tensor v_cache,
+    torch::Tensor req_to_token,
+    torch::Tensor req_pool_indices,
+    torch::Tensor kv_indptr,
+    torch::Tensor qo_indptr,
+    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> mask,
+    int64_t max_q_len,
+    int64_t causal_offset,
+    double scale
+) {
+    const at::cuda::OptionalCUDAGuard device_guard(device_of(q));
+    auto stream = at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream();
+
+    PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    attn_pack_paged_prefill_params(q, k_cache, v_cache,
+                                    req_to_token, req_pool_indices,
+                                    kv_indptr, qo_indptr, mask,
+                                    max_q_len, causal_offset, scale, p);
+
+    auto O = torch::empty({q.size(0), q.size(1), q.size(2)}, q.options());
+    p.o = (bf16*)O.data_ptr();
+
+    DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(p.head_dim, dispatch_paged_prefill, p, stream);
+    C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaGetLastError());
+    return O;
+}
+
+PYBIND11_MODULE(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, m) {
+    m.def("attn_paged_prefill", &attn_paged_prefill,
+        py::arg("q"),
+        py::arg("k_cache"),
+        py::arg("v_cache"),
+        py::arg("req_to_token"),
+        py::arg("req_pool_indices"),
+        py::arg("kv_indptr"),
+        py::arg("qo_indptr"),
+        py::arg("mask") = py::none(),
+        py::arg("max_q_len"),
+        py::arg("causal_offset") = -1,
+        py::arg("scale") = 0.0,
+        "SGLang-style paged prefill: flat KV pool + ragged batch.");
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,126 @@
+#pragma once
+#include <cuda_bf16.h>
+#include <float.h>
+#include "attn_common.h"
+
+using bf16 = __nv_bfloat16;
+
+// Scalar paged prefill (fallback for sm < 80, no tensor cores).
+// Reads K/V from a flat pool via req_to_token, supports ragged batches
+// via qo_indptr + kv_indptr.  Mirrors the split-Q MMA kernel's indexing:
+// grid (max_q_tiles, q_head, batch), block (G, ROWS).
+//
+// HasMask: 4D mask [batch, 1, q_len, kv_len] (True=keep), columns are
+// request-local kv positions.  q_head is the q-index (mask_h broadcast).
+//
+// group_reduce_sum<G> is provided by attn_prefill_split_q.cuh (already
+// included via the dispatcher).
+template <int HEAD_DIM, int G, int ROWS, int P_BC, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+__global__ void paged_attn_prefill_split_q_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p) {
+    constexpr int DPT = HEAD_DIM / G;
+
+    const int q_tile = blockIdx.x;
+    const int q_head = blockIdx.y;
+    const int req_b  = blockIdx.z;
+    const int gpos   = threadIdx.x;  // 0..G-1 (d-chunk)
+    const int row    = threadIdx.y;  // 0..ROWS-1 (q row within tile)
+    const int q_row  = q_tile * ROWS + row;
+
+    const int seq_len    = p.kv_indptr[req_b + 1] - p.kv_indptr[req_b];
+    const int q_len      = p.qo_indptr[req_b + 1] - p.qo_indptr[req_b];
+    const int causal_off = seq_len - q_len;
+    const int64_t req_idx = p.req_pool_indices[req_b];
+    const int kv_head = q_head / (p.q_head / p.kv_head);
+
+    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sK[P_BC * HEAD_DIM];
+    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sV[P_BC * HEAD_DIM];
+
+    // Q base: absolute token = qo_indptr[req_b] + q_row.
+    float qreg[DPT];
+    if (q_row < q_len) {
+        int q_off = (p.qo_indptr[req_b] + q_row) * p.q_stride_l
+                  + q_head * p.q_stride_h + gpos * DPT * p.q_stride_d;
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int i = 0; i < DPT; i++)
+            qreg[i] = __bfloat162float(p.q[q_off + i * p.q_stride_d]);
+    }
+
+    float m = -FLT_MAX, l = 0.0f, acc[DPT];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0; i < DPT; i++) acc[i] = 0.0f;
+
+    const int64_t pool_stride = (int64_t)p.kv_head * p.head_dim;
+    const int64_t head_off    = (int64_t)kv_head * p.head_dim;
+    const int64_t rtt_stride  = (int64_t)p.max_context_len;
+    const int mask_base = req_b * p.mask_b_stride + q_head * p.mask_h_stride
+                        + q_row * p.mask_q_stride;
+
+    int tiles = (seq_len + P_BC - 1) / P_BC;
+    int tt = G * ROWS;
+    int lid = row * G + gpos;
+
+    // Each warp holds (32/G) q-rows; reduce only within this row's G lanes.
+    int lane_in_warp = lid & 31;
+    unsigned gmask = (G == 32) ? 0xFFFFFFFFu
+                               : (((1u << G) - 1u) << (lane_in_warp & ~(G - 1)));
+
+    for (int ti = 0; ti < tiles; ti++) {
+        int kv0 = ti * P_BC;
+        int tlen = min(P_BC, seq_len - kv0);
+
+        // Load K/V tile into shared memory via req_to_token (request-local pos).
+        for (int i = lid; i < tlen * HEAD_DIM; i += tt) {
+            int s = i / HEAD_DIM, d_dim = i % HEAD_DIM;
+            int pos = kv0 + s;
+            int64_t slot = p.req_to_token[req_idx * rtt_stride + pos];
+            int64_t off = slot * pool_stride + head_off + d_dim;
+            sK[i] = (slot >= 0) ? p.k_cache[off] : __float2bfloat16(0.0f);
+            sV[i] = (slot >= 0) ? p.v_cache[off] : __float2bfloat16(0.0f);
+        }
+        __syncthreads();
+
+        int lim = tlen;
+        if constexpr (IsCausal) {
+            if (q_row < q_len) {
+                int ep = causal_off + q_row + 1;
+                if (kv0 >= ep)
+                    lim = 0;
+                else if (kv0 + tlen > ep)
+                    lim = ep - kv0;
+            }
+        }
+
+        for (int s = 0; s < lim; s++) {
+            bool keep = true;
+            if constexpr (HasMask) {
+                if (q_row < q_len && !p.mask[mask_base + kv0 + s])
+                    keep = false;
+            }
+            float w = 0.0f;
+            #pragma unroll
+            for (int i = 0; i < DPT; i++)
+                w += qreg[i] * __bfloat162float(sK[s * HEAD_DIM + gpos * DPT + i]);
+            w = group_reduce_sum<G>(w, gmask) * p.scale;
+            if (!keep) w = -FLT_MAX;
+
+            float nm = fmaxf(m, w);
+            float alpha = __expf(m - nm);
+            float beta = __expf(w - nm);
+            l = l * alpha + beta;
+            #pragma unroll
+            for (int i = 0; i < DPT; i++)
+                acc[i] = acc[i] * alpha
+                       + __bfloat162float(sV[s * HEAD_DIM + gpos * DPT + i]) * beta;
+            m = nm;
+        }
+        __syncthreads();
+    }
+
+    if (q_row >= q_len) return;
+    float inv = (l > 1e-20f) ? (1.0f / l) : 0.0f;
+    int o_off = (p.qo_indptr[req_b] + q_row) * p.q_stride_l
+              + q_head * p.q_stride_h + gpos * DPT * p.q_stride_d;
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int i = 0; i < DPT; i++)
+        p.o[o_off + i * p.q_stride_d] = __float2bfloat16(acc[i] * inv);
+}
@@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
+#pragma once
+#include <cfloat>
+#include <cuda_bf16.h>
+#include "attn_common.h"
+#include "attn_mma_utils.cuh"
+
+// SGLang-style split-Q tensor-core prefill.
+//
+// Reads K/V directly from a flat pool [size, kv_head, head_dim] via
+// req_to_token — no gather, no temporary tensor.  Supports ragged batches:
+// each request has its own q_len and kv_len, addressed via qo_indptr and
+// kv_indptr.
+//
+// Grid: (max_q_tiles, q_head, batch) — one batch element per blockIdx.z.
+// Blocks beyond a request's q_len exit early after writing sentinel-free
+// no-ops.  This avoids the binary-search approach and guarantees every Q
+// token is covered, even when q_len < BR*WARPS (e.g. decode-like prefill).
+//
+// Q layout: [total_q, q_head, head_dim] (3D, flattened across requests).
+// O layout: same as Q.
+//
+// IsCausal is a compile-time bool.  When true, each Q row qi (within its
+// request) attends to [0, causal_offset_b + qi + 1) where
+// causal_offset_b = kv_len_b - q_len_b (position of first Q token).
+template <typename Traits, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+__global__ void paged_attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p) {
+    const int warp = threadIdx.x / 32;
+    const int lane = threadIdx.x % 32;
+    const int gid = lane >> 2;
+    const int tid4 = lane & 3;
+
+    const int q_head = blockIdx.y;
+    const int req_b  = blockIdx.z;
+    const int qrow0  = (blockIdx.x * Traits::WARPS + warp) * Traits::BR;
+
+    const int seq_len    = p.kv_indptr[req_b + 1] - p.kv_indptr[req_b];
+    const int q_len      = p.qo_indptr[req_b + 1] - p.qo_indptr[req_b];
+    const int causal_off = seq_len - q_len;
+    const int64_t req_idx = p.req_pool_indices[req_b];
+
+    // No per-warp early exit — all warps must participate in __syncthreads.
+    // Warps beyond q_len get zero-filled Q frags (va=vb=false) and skip output.
+    const int kv_head = q_head / (p.q_head / p.kv_head);
+
+    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sK[Traits::STAGES * Traits::BC * Traits::LD];
+    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sV[Traits::STAGES * Traits::BC * Traits::LD];
+
+    // Q base: offset by qo_indptr[req_b] to get absolute token address.
+    const int q_base = p.qo_indptr[req_b] * p.q_stride_l + q_head * p.q_stride_h;
+    const int qra = qrow0 + gid;
+    const int qrb = qrow0 + gid + 8;
+    const bool va = qra < q_len, vb = qrb < q_len;
+    unsigned Qa[Traits::KD][4];
+    load_q_mma_frags<Traits::KD>(p.q + q_base, p.q_stride_l, p.q_stride_d,
+                                   qra, qrb, va, vb, tid4, Qa);
+
+    float Oacc[Traits::DN8][4];
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int j = 0; j < Traits::DN8; j++)
+        Oacc[j][0] = Oacc[j][1] = Oacc[j][2] = Oacc[j][3] = 0.0f;
+    float m0 = -FLT_MAX, m1 = -FLT_MAX, l0 = 0.0f, l1 = 0.0f;
+
+    const int64_t pool_stride = (int64_t)p.kv_head * Traits::HEAD_DIM;
+    const int64_t head_off    = (int64_t)kv_head * Traits::HEAD_DIM;
+    const int64_t rtt_stride  = (int64_t)p.max_context_len;
+
+    const int tiles = (seq_len + Traits::BC - 1) / Traits::BC;
+    const int qr0 = qrow0 + gid;
+    const int qr1 = qrow0 + gid + 8;
+
+    // Causal tile-skip (dead code when IsCausal == false)
+    const int max_kv = qrow0 + Traits::BR - 1 + causal_off;
+    const int block_max_kv =
+        blockIdx.x * Traits::WARPS * Traits::BR + Traits::WARPS * Traits::BR - 1
+        + causal_off;
+
+    int t_end = tiles - 1;
+    if constexpr (IsCausal) {
+        int bt = block_max_kv / Traits::BC;
+        if (bt < t_end) t_end = bt;
+    }
+
+    // ---- Load tile lambda: SGLang addressing ----
+    auto load_tile = [&](int ti, int buf) {
+        int kv0 = ti * Traits::BC;
+        bf16* dK = sK + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
+        bf16* dV = sV + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
+        #pragma unroll
+        for (int i = threadIdx.x * Traits::VEC; i < Traits::TOTAL;
+             i += Traits::NUM_THREADS * Traits::VEC) {
+            int r = i / Traits::HEAD_DIM, d = i % Traits::HEAD_DIM;
+            int kc = kv0 + r;
+            bool valid = kc < seq_len;
+            int64_t slot = valid ? p.req_to_token[req_idx * rtt_stride + kc] : 0;
+            valid = valid && (slot >= 0);
+            int64_t gmem_base = slot * pool_stride + head_off;
+            int off = r * Traits::LD + swiz_col(d, r, Traits::SWIZ_MASK);
+            cp_async_16_pred(&dK[off], &p.k_cache[gmem_base + d], valid);
+            cp_async_16_pred(&dV[off], &p.v_cache[gmem_base + d], valid);
+        }
+        cp_async_commit();
+    };
+
+    // ---- Prologue + main loop (FA2-style double-buffer) ----
+    load_tile(0, 0);
+
+    for (int ti = 0; ti <= t_end; ti++) {
+        int buf = ti & 1;
+
+        cp_async_wait_group<0>();
+        __syncthreads();
+        if (ti < t_end) load_tile(ti + 1, (ti + 1) & 1);
+
+        const bf16* bK = sK + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
+        const bf16* bV = sV + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
+        int kv0 = ti * Traits::BC;
+
+        if (!IsCausal || kv0 <= max_kv) {
+            float Sacc[Traits::NC8][4];
+            mma_compute_scores<Traits>(Qa, bK, lane, Sacc);
+
+            #pragma unroll
+            for (int n8 = 0; n8 < Traits::NC8; n8++)
+                Sacc[n8][0] *= p.scale, Sacc[n8][1] *= p.scale,
+                Sacc[n8][2] *= p.scale, Sacc[n8][3] *= p.scale;
+
+            int maxc0 = IsCausal ? min(seq_len, causal_off + qr0 + 1)
+                                 : seq_len;
+            int maxc1 = IsCausal ? min(seq_len, causal_off + qr1 + 1)
+                                 : seq_len;
+            // HasMask: mask[batch, q_head, qi, kc] — kc is request-local.
+            mma_softmax_tile<Traits, HasMask>(kv0, maxc0, maxc1,
+                                              qr0, qr1,
+                                              p.mask_b_stride, p.mask_h_stride,
+                                              p.mask_q_stride,
+                                              req_b, q_head,
+                                              p.mask,
+                                              Sacc, Oacc, m0, m1, l0, l1, lane);
+
+            mma_pv_accumulate<Traits>(Sacc, bV, lane, Oacc);
+        }
+    }
+
+    // ---- write output: packed bf16x2 stores ----
+    float rl0 = (l0 > 1e-20f) ? (1.0f / l0) : 0.0f;
+    float rl1 = (l1 > 1e-20f) ? (1.0f / l1) : 0.0f;
+    const int o_base = p.qo_indptr[req_b] * p.q_stride_l + q_head * p.q_stride_h;
+    #pragma unroll
+    for (int dn8 = 0; dn8 < Traits::DN8; dn8++) {
+        int d = dn8 * 8 + 2 * tid4;
+        if (qr0 < q_len) {
+            __nv_bfloat162 v = __floats2bfloat162_rn(Oacc[dn8][0] * rl0,
+                                                       Oacc[dn8][1] * rl0);
+            *reinterpret_cast<__nv_bfloat162*>(
+                &p.o[o_base + qr0 * p.q_stride_l + d * p.q_stride_d]) = v;
+        }
+        if (qr1 < q_len) {
+            __nv_bfloat162 v = __floats2bfloat162_rn(Oacc[dn8][2] * rl1,
+                                                       Oacc[dn8][3] * rl1);
+            *reinterpret_cast<__nv_bfloat162*>(
+                &p.o[o_base + qr1 * p.q_stride_l + d * p.q_stride_d]) = v;
+        }
+    }
+}
@@ -10,15 +10,19 @@ torch::Tensor attn_prefill(
    double scale,
    int64_t layout
 ) {
+    const at::cuda::OptionalCUDAGuard device_guard(device_of(q));
+    auto stream = at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream();
+
    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
    attn_pack_params(q, k, v, mask, causal_offset, scale, layout, p);
    TORCH_CHECK(p.head_dim % 16 == 0, "head_dim must be multiple of 16");

    auto O = torch::empty_strided(q.sizes(), q.strides(), q.options());
-    auto O_view = (layout == 1) ? O.transpose(1, 2) : O;
+    auto O_view = (layout == BLHD) ? O.transpose(1, 2) : O;
    p.o = (bf16*)O_view.data_ptr();

-    DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(p.head_dim, dispatch_prefill, p);
+    DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(p.head_dim, dispatch_prefill, p, stream);
+    C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaGetLastError());
    return O;
 }

@@ -30,6 +34,6 @@ PYBIND11_MODULE(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, m) {
        py::arg("mask") = py::none(),
        py::arg("causal_offset") = -1,
        py::arg("scale") = 0.0,
-        py::arg("layout") = 0,
+        py::arg("layout") = (int64_t)BHLD,
        "GQA prefill (tensor-core mma on sm_80+, scalar fallback)");
 }
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_kernel_t(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {

    // KV: stride-based base
    int kv_base = batch * p.kv_stride_b + kv_head * p.kv_stride_h;
-    int mask_batch_base = batch * p.mask_b_stride;
+    int mask_batch_base = batch * p.mask_b_stride + q_head * p.mask_h_stride;
    int tiles   = (p.kv_len + P_BC - 1) / P_BC;
    int tt      = G * ROWS;
    int lid     = row * G + gpos;
@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
                                 : p.kv_len;
            mma_softmax_tile<Traits, HasMask>(kv0, maxc0, maxc1,
                                               qr0, qr1,
-                                               p.mask_b_stride, p.mask_q_stride,
-                                               batch,
+                                               p.mask_b_stride, p.mask_h_stride, p.mask_q_stride,
+                                               batch, q_head,
                                               p.mask,
                                               Sacc, Oacc, m0, m1, l0, l1, lane);

@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+#include <torch/extension.h>
+#include <c10/cuda/CUDAGuard.h>
+#include <c10/cuda/CUDAException.h>
+#include <cuda_bf16.h>
+
+__global__ void rotary_emb_kernel(
+    const __nv_bfloat16* __restrict__ x,
+    const float* __restrict__ freqs_cis,
+    __nv_bfloat16* __restrict__ out,
+    int batch,
+    int seq_len,
+    int n_heads,
+    int head_dim
+) {
+    const int half_dim = head_dim >> 1;
+    const int total = batch * seq_len * n_heads * half_dim;
+
+    for (int idx = blockIdx.x * blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
+         idx < total;
+         idx += gridDim.x * blockDim.x) {
+
+        int pair = idx % half_dim;
+        int tmp = idx / half_dim;
+        int head = tmp % n_heads;
+        tmp /= n_heads;
+        int seq = tmp % seq_len;
+        int b = tmp / seq_len;
+
+        int x_offset = ((b * seq_len + seq) * n_heads + head) * head_dim + (pair << 1);
+        int cs_offset = ((b * seq_len + seq) * half_dim + pair) * 2;
+
+        __nv_bfloat162 x_pair = *reinterpret_cast<const __nv_bfloat162*>(x + x_offset);
+        float x_even = __bfloat162float(__low2bfloat16(x_pair));
+        float x_odd  = __bfloat162float(__high2bfloat16(x_pair));
+
+        float c = freqs_cis[cs_offset];
+        float s = freqs_cis[cs_offset + 1];
+
+        float out_even = x_even * c - x_odd * s;
+        float out_odd  = x_even * s + x_odd * c;
+
+        __nv_bfloat162 out_pair = __floats2bfloat162_rn(out_even, out_odd);
+        *reinterpret_cast<__nv_bfloat162*>(out + x_offset) = out_pair;
+    }
+}
+
+torch::Tensor rotary_emb(
+    torch::Tensor x,
+    torch::Tensor freqs_cis
+) {
+    const at::cuda::OptionalCUDAGuard device_guard(device_of(x));
+    auto stream = at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream();
+
+    TORCH_CHECK(x.is_cuda(), "x must be on CUDA");
+    TORCH_CHECK(freqs_cis.is_cuda(), "freqs_cis must be on CUDA");
+    TORCH_CHECK(x.scalar_type() == torch::kBFloat16, "x must be bf16");
+    TORCH_CHECK(x.dim() == 4, "x must be 4D [batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim]");
+    TORCH_CHECK(x.is_contiguous(), "x must be contiguous");
+    TORCH_CHECK(freqs_cis.dim() == 4, "freqs_cis must be 4D [batch, seq_len, dim/2, 2]");
+    TORCH_CHECK(freqs_cis.is_contiguous(), "freqs_cis must be contiguous");
+    TORCH_CHECK(freqs_cis.scalar_type() == torch::kFloat32, "freqs_cis must be f32");
+
+    int batch = x.size(0);
+    int seq_len = x.size(1);
+    int n_heads = x.size(2);
+    int head_dim = x.size(3);
+
+    TORCH_CHECK(head_dim % 2 == 0, "head_dim must be even");
+    TORCH_CHECK(freqs_cis.size(0) == batch, "freqs_cis batch mismatch");
+    TORCH_CHECK(freqs_cis.size(1) == seq_len, "freqs_cis seq_len mismatch");
+    TORCH_CHECK(freqs_cis.size(2) == head_dim / 2, "freqs_cis dim/2 mismatch");
+    TORCH_CHECK(freqs_cis.size(3) == 2, "freqs_cis last dim must be 2 [cos, sin]");
+
+    auto out = torch::empty_like(x);
+
+    int half_dim = head_dim / 2;
+    int total = batch * seq_len * n_heads * half_dim;
+    int block = 256;
+    int grid = std::min((total + block - 1) / block, 1024);
+
+    rotary_emb_kernel<<<grid, block, 0, stream>>>(
+        reinterpret_cast<const __nv_bfloat16*>(x.data_ptr()),
+        freqs_cis.data_ptr<float>(),
+        reinterpret_cast<__nv_bfloat16*>(out.data_ptr()),
+        batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim
+    );
+    C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaGetLastError());
+
+    return out;
+}
+
+PYBIND11_MODULE(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, m) {
+    m.def("rotary_emb", &rotary_emb,
+        py::arg("x"),
+        py::arg("freqs_cis"),
+        "Fused rotary embedding (bf16 x, f32 freqs_cis [b,s,d/2,2], bf16 out)"
+    );
+}
@@ -1,185 +0,0 @@
-/*
-Pure-C test — uses shared dispatcher.
-nvcc -I csrc -arch=sm_89 -O3 \
-    --use_fast_math --ptxas-options=-O3 --extra-device-vectorization \
-    csrc/tests/attn_decode_test.cu -o test && ./test
-*/
-
-#include "test_utils.cuh"
-#include "../kernels/attn_dispatchers.cuh"
-
-// Split-K scratch (torch-free)
-struct DecodeScratch {
-    float* o_part = nullptr;
-    float* ml_part = nullptr;
-};
-
-static void setup_scratch(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, DecodeScratch& sc) {
-    int max_splits = 32;
-    cudaMalloc(&sc.o_part, (size_t)p.batch * p.q_head * max_splits * p.head_dim * sizeof(float));
-    cudaMalloc(&sc.ml_part, (size_t)p.batch * p.q_head * max_splits * 2 * sizeof(float));
-}
-
-static void free_scratch(DecodeScratch& sc) {
-    cudaFree(sc.o_part); cudaFree(sc.ml_part);
-}
-
-// Warmed-up, CUDA-event timed sweep over the production decode MMA path.
-static void bench() {
-    const int cfgs[][5] = {
-        {1, 32, 4, 512, 128},
-        {1, 32, 4, 1024, 128},
-        {1, 32, 4, 2048, 128},
-        {1, 32, 4, 4096, 128},
-        {16, 32, 4, 2048, 128},
-        {32, 32, 4, 1024, 128},
-    };
-    const int WARMUP = 10, ITERS = 100;
-    printf("\n===== DECODE BENCH (warmup=%d iters=%d) =====\n", WARMUP, ITERS);
-    print_bench_header();
-
-    for (int ci = 0; ci < 6; ci++) {
-        int B = cfgs[ci][0], Hq = cfgs[ci][1], Hk = cfgs[ci][2];
-        int sl = cfgs[ci][3], D = cfgs[ci][4];
-        size_t nQ = (size_t)B * Hq * D;
-        size_t nKV = (size_t)B * Hk * sl * D;
-
-        bf16 *dQ, *dK, *dV, *dO;
-        cudaMalloc(&dQ, nQ*2); cudaMalloc(&dK, nKV*2);
-        cudaMalloc(&dV, nKV*2); cudaMalloc(&dO, nQ*2);
-        size_t big = nQ > nKV ? nQ : nKV; bf16* tmp = new bf16[big];
-        for (size_t i = 0; i < nQ; i++)  tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
-        cudaMemcpy(dQ, tmp, nQ*2, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-        for (size_t i = 0; i < nKV; i++) tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
-        cudaMemcpy(dK, tmp, nKV*2, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-        for (size_t i = 0; i < nKV; i++) tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
-        cudaMemcpy(dV, tmp, nKV*2, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-        delete[] tmp;
-
-        AttentionParams<bf16> p;
-        p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hk; p.q_len = 1; p.kv_len = sl;
-        p.head_dim = D; p.use_mask = 0; p.causal_offset = -1;
-        p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)D);
-        set_default_strides(p);
-        p.q = dQ; p.k = dK; p.v = dV; p.mask = nullptr; p.o = dO;
-
-        DecodeScratch sc;
-        setup_scratch(p, sc);
-        p.o_part = sc.o_part; p.ml_part = sc.ml_part;
-
-        auto launch = [&]() { dispatch_by_head_dim(D, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_decode<H>(p); }); };
-        double flops = 4.0 * B * Hq * (double)sl * D;
-        double bytes = 2.0 * (2.0 * nKV * sizeof(bf16));
-        BenchResult r = bench_kernel(launch, WARMUP, ITERS, flops, bytes);
-
-        char cfg[64];
-        snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg),
-                 "B=%2d Hq=%2d Hk=%d q=%4d kv=%4d D=%3d causal=%d",
-                 B, Hq, Hk, 1, sl, D, 0);
-        print_bench_row(cfg, r);
-
-        cudaFree(dQ); cudaFree(dK); cudaFree(dV); cudaFree(dO);
-        free_scratch(sc);
-    }
-}
-
-static int run_test(int B, int Hq, int Hk, int sl, int D, int causal) {
-    int gs = Hq / Hk;
-    printf("=== B=%d Hq=%d Hk=%d seq=%d D=%d gs=%d causal=%d ===\n",
-           B,Hq,Hk,sl,D,gs,causal);
-
-    size_t nQ = B*Hq*1*D, nKV = B*Hk*sl*D;
-    float *hQ=new float[nQ], *hK=new float[nKV], *hV=new float[nKV];
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) hQ[i]=randf();
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++){hK[i]=randf();hV[i]=randf();}
-
-    bool* hMask=new bool[B*sl];
-    for (int i=0;i<B*sl;i++) hMask[i]=true;
-
-    bf16 *dQ,*dK,*dV,*dO,*tmp;
-    bool* dMask;
-    cudaMalloc(&dQ,nQ*2); cudaMalloc(&dK,nKV*2);
-    cudaMalloc(&dV,nKV*2); cudaMalloc(&dO,nQ*2);
-    cudaMalloc(&dMask,B*sl);
-
-    tmp=new bf16[max(nQ,nKV)];
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hQ[i]);
-    cudaMemcpy(dQ,tmp,nQ*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hK[i]);
-    cudaMemcpy(dK,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hV[i]);
-    cudaMemcpy(dV,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-    cudaMemcpy(dMask,hMask,B*sl,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-
-    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
-    p.batch=B; p.q_head=Hq; p.kv_head=Hk; p.q_len=1; p.kv_len=sl; p.head_dim=D;
-    p.use_mask=0; p.causal_offset=causal?0:-1;
-    p.scale=1.0f/sqrtf((float)D);
-    set_default_strides(p);
-    p.q=dQ; p.k=dK; p.v=dV; p.mask=nullptr; p.o=dO;
-
-    DecodeScratch sc;
-    setup_scratch(p, sc);
-    p.o_part = sc.o_part; p.ml_part = sc.ml_part;
-
-    double t0=now_ms();
-    dispatch_by_head_dim(D, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_decode<H>(p); });
-    cudaDeviceSynchronize();
-    double kms=now_ms()-t0;
-    cudaError_t err=cudaGetLastError();
-    if (err!=cudaSuccess){printf("CUDA err: %s\n",cudaGetErrorString(err));return 1;}
-
-    bf16* hOut=new bf16[nQ];
-    cudaMemcpy(hOut,dO,nQ*2,cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
-
-    float* ref=new float[nQ];
-    cpu_attention_ref(hQ, hK, hV, hMask, ref, B, Hq, Hk, 1, sl, D, causal ? 0 : -1);
-
-    float max_abs_err=0, max_rel_err=0;
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++){
-        float err=fabsf(bf2f(hOut[i])-ref[i]);
-        if(err>max_abs_err) max_abs_err=err;
-        float rel=err/fmaxf(fabsf(ref[i]), 1e-8f);
-        if(rel>max_rel_err) max_rel_err=rel;
-    }
-    const float atol=0.01f, rtol=0.01f;
-    bool pass=true;
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++){
-        float err=fabsf(bf2f(hOut[i])-ref[i]);
-        if (err > atol + rtol * fabsf(ref[i])) { pass=false; break; }
-    }
-    printf("kernel: %.3f ms  max_abs_err: %.6e  max_rel_err: %.6e  %s\n\n",
-           kms, max_abs_err, max_rel_err, pass?"PASS":"FAIL");
-
-    cudaFree(dQ);cudaFree(dK);cudaFree(dV);cudaFree(dO);cudaFree(dMask);
-    free_scratch(sc);
-    delete[]hQ;delete[]hK;delete[]hV;delete[]hMask;delete[]hOut;delete[]ref;delete[]tmp;
-
-    return pass ? 0 : 1;
-}
-
-int main() {
-    const int configs[][6] = {
-        {1, 2, 1, 64, 32, 0},
-        {1, 32, 4, 512, 128, 0},
-        {1, 32, 4, 1024, 128, 0},
-        {1, 32, 4, 512, 128, 1},
-    };
-    int n_cfgs = sizeof(configs) / sizeof(configs[0]);
-    int fail = 0;
-
-    for (int ci = 0; ci < n_cfgs; ci++) {
-        int B = configs[ci][0], Hq = configs[ci][1], Hk = configs[ci][2];
-        int sl = configs[ci][3], D = configs[ci][4], causal = configs[ci][5];
-        fail += run_test(B, Hq, Hk, sl, D, causal);
-        if (fail) break;
-    }
-
-    if (fail) {
-        printf("FAILED\n");
-        return fail;
-    }
-    printf("All tests passed!\n");
-    bench();
-    return 0;
-}
@@ -1,308 +0,0 @@
-// Compile:
-//   nvcc -I csrc -arch=sm_89 -O3 --use_fast_math --ptxas-options=-O3 \
-//        --extra-device-vectorization csrc/tests/attn_paged_decode_test.cu \
-//        -o /tmp/test_paged && /tmp/test_paged
-
-#include <cstring>
-#include "test_utils.cuh"
-#include "../kernels/attn_dispatchers.cuh"
-
-static void gather_kv_cpu(
-    const bf16* h_k_pool, const bf16* h_v_pool,
-    const int64_t* h_pt, int B, int Hkv, int kv_len,
-    int page_size, int head_dim,
-    bf16* h_k, bf16* h_v)
-{
-    int max_pages = (kv_len + page_size - 1) / page_size;
-    size_t page_stride = (size_t)page_size * Hkv * head_dim;
-    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) {
-        for (int pos = 0; pos < kv_len; pos++) {
-            int log_pg = pos / page_size;
-            int pg_off = pos % page_size;
-            int phys = (int)h_pt[b * max_pages + log_pg];
-            for (int h = 0; h < Hkv; h++) {
-                size_t src_base = (size_t)phys * page_stride
-                                + (size_t)pg_off * Hkv * head_dim
-                                + h * head_dim;
-                size_t dst_base = ((size_t)b * Hkv + h) * kv_len * head_dim
-                                  + (size_t)pos * head_dim;
-                memcpy(h_k + dst_base, h_k_pool + src_base, head_dim * sizeof(bf16));
-                memcpy(h_v + dst_base, h_v_pool + src_base, head_dim * sizeof(bf16));
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-template <int HEAD_DIM>
-static int run_test(int B, int Hq, int Hkv, int kv_len, int page_size, int causal, int seed) {
-    printf("B=%d Hq=%d Hkv=%d kv_len=%d page_sz=%d head_dim=%d causal=%d ... ",
-           B, Hq, Hkv, kv_len, page_size, HEAD_DIM, causal);
-    fflush(stdout);
-
-    int max_pages = (kv_len + page_size - 1) / page_size;
-    int n_phys_pages = B * max_pages;
-    int max_splits = 32;
-
-    size_t sz_q  = (size_t)B * Hq * 1 * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
-    size_t sz_o  = sz_q;
-    size_t sz_kv = (size_t)n_phys_pages * page_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
-    size_t sz_pt = (size_t)B * max_pages * sizeof(int64_t);
-    size_t sz_op = (size_t)B * Hq * max_splits * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float);
-    size_t sz_ml = (size_t)B * Hq * max_splits * 2 * sizeof(float);
-
-    bf16 *d_q, *d_o_paged;
-    bf16 *d_k_pool, *d_v_pool;
-    int64_t* d_pt;
-    float *d_op, *d_ml;
-
-    cudaMalloc(&d_q, sz_q);
-    cudaMalloc(&d_o_paged, sz_o);
-    cudaMalloc(&d_k_pool, sz_kv);
-    cudaMalloc(&d_v_pool, sz_kv);
-    cudaMalloc(&d_pt, sz_pt);
-    cudaMalloc(&d_op, sz_op);
-    cudaMalloc(&d_ml, sz_ml);
-
-    srand(seed);
-    auto rnd = [&]() { return (rand() / (float)RAND_MAX) * 2.0f - 1.0f; };
-
-    bf16* h_q = (bf16*)malloc(sz_q);
-    for (int i = 0; i < B * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++)
-        h_q[i] = __float2bfloat16(rnd());
-    cudaMemcpy(d_q, h_q, sz_q, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-
-    bf16* h_k_pool = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv);
-    bf16* h_v_pool = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv);
-    size_t ps = (size_t)page_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM;
-    for (int pg = 0; pg < n_phys_pages; pg++) {
-        for (int off = 0; off < page_size; off++) {
-            for (int h = 0; h < Hkv; h++) {
-                for (int d = 0; d < HEAD_DIM; d++) {
-                    float v = sinf((float)(pg * 7919 + off * 1049 + h * 331 + d));
-                    size_t idx = (size_t)pg * ps + (size_t)off * Hkv * HEAD_DIM
-                                 + h * HEAD_DIM + d;
-                    h_k_pool[idx] = __float2bfloat16(v);
-                    h_v_pool[idx] = __float2bfloat16(v * 0.3f);
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-    cudaMemcpy(d_k_pool, h_k_pool, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-    cudaMemcpy(d_v_pool, h_v_pool, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-
-    int64_t* h_pt = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_pt);
-    int next_pg = 0;
-    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++)
-        for (int p = 0; p < max_pages; p++)
-            h_pt[b * max_pages + p] = next_pg++;
-    cudaMemcpy(d_pt, h_pt, sz_pt, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-
-    bf16* h_k_cont = (bf16*)malloc((size_t)B * kv_len * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16));
-    bf16* h_v_cont = (bf16*)malloc((size_t)B * kv_len * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16));
-    gather_kv_cpu(h_k_pool, h_v_pool, h_pt, B, Hkv, kv_len, page_size, HEAD_DIM, h_k_cont, h_v_cont);
-
-    float* h_q_f = (float*)malloc((size_t)B * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
-    float* h_k_f = (float*)malloc((size_t)B * kv_len * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
-    float* h_v_f = (float*)malloc((size_t)B * kv_len * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
-    for (int i = 0; i < B * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) h_q_f[i] = bf2f(h_q[i]);
-    for (int i = 0; i < B * kv_len * Hkv * HEAD_DIM; i++) {
-        h_k_f[i] = bf2f(h_k_cont[i]);
-        h_v_f[i] = bf2f(h_v_cont[i]);
-    }
-
-    float* h_o_ref = (float*)calloc(B * Hq * HEAD_DIM, sizeof(float));
-    cpu_attention_ref(h_q_f, h_k_f, h_v_f, nullptr, h_o_ref, B, Hq, Hkv,
-                      1, kv_len, HEAD_DIM, causal ? 0 : -1);
-
-    PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p;
-    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv; p.q_len = 1;
-    p.kv_len = kv_len; p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM;
-    p.use_mask = 0; p.causal_offset = causal ? 0 : -1;
-    set_default_paged_strides(p);
-    p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
-    p.page_size = page_size; p.max_pages = max_pages;
-    p.page_table = d_pt;
-    p.k_cache = d_k_pool; p.v_cache = d_v_pool;
-    p.q = d_q; p.mask = nullptr; p.o = d_o_paged;
-    p.o_part = d_op; p.ml_part = d_ml;
-
-    dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_paged_decode<H>(p); });
-    cudaDeviceSynchronize();
-
-    bf16* h_o_bf16 = (bf16*)malloc(sz_o);
-    cudaMemcpy(h_o_bf16, d_o_paged, sz_o, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
-    float* h_o_paged = (float*)malloc(B * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
-    for (int i = 0; i < B * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++)
-        h_o_paged[i] = __bfloat162float(h_o_bf16[i]);
-
-    float max_abs_err = 0.0f, max_rel_err = 0.0f;
-    int bad_idx = -1;
-    for (int i = 0; i < B * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) {
-        float e = fabsf(h_o_paged[i] - h_o_ref[i]);
-        if (e > max_abs_err) { max_abs_err = e; bad_idx = i; }
-        float rel = e / fmaxf(fabsf(h_o_ref[i]), 1e-8f);
-        if (rel > max_rel_err) max_rel_err = rel;
-    }
-
-    const float atol = 0.01f, rtol = 0.01f;
-    bool pass = true;
-    for (int i = 0; i < B * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) {
-        float e = fabsf(h_o_paged[i] - h_o_ref[i]);
-        if (e > atol + rtol * fabsf(h_o_ref[i])) { pass = false; break; }
-    }
-
-    if (pass) {
-        printf("PASS (max_abs_err=%.4e max_rel_err=%.4e)\n", max_abs_err, max_rel_err);
-    } else {
-        int b = bad_idx / (Hq * HEAD_DIM);
-        int h = (bad_idx / HEAD_DIM) % Hq;
-        int d = bad_idx % HEAD_DIM;
-        printf("FAIL (max_abs_err=%.4e max_rel_err=%.4e at [%d,%d,%d]: ref=%.4f got=%.4f)\n",
-               max_abs_err, max_rel_err, b, h, d, h_o_ref[bad_idx], h_o_paged[bad_idx]);
-        printf("  ref[0..7]:");
-        for (int i = 0; i < 8 && i < HEAD_DIM; i++)
-            printf(" %.4f", h_o_ref[i]);
-        printf("\n  got[0..7]:");
-        for (int i = 0; i < 8 && i < HEAD_DIM; i++)
-            printf(" %.4f", h_o_paged[i]);
-        printf("\n");
-    }
-
-    free(h_q); free(h_k_pool); free(h_v_pool); free(h_pt);
-    free(h_k_cont); free(h_v_cont);
-    free(h_q_f); free(h_k_f); free(h_v_f);
-    free(h_o_ref); free(h_o_bf16); free(h_o_paged);
-    cudaFree(d_q); cudaFree(d_o_paged);
-    cudaFree(d_k_pool); cudaFree(d_v_pool); cudaFree(d_pt);
-    cudaFree(d_op); cudaFree(d_ml);
-
-    return pass ? 0 : 1;
-}
-
-struct TestCase {
-    int head_dim;
-    int B, Hq, Hkv, kv_len, page_size, causal, seed;
-};
-
-static const TestCase TESTS[] = {
-    {128, 1, 1, 1, 8, 128, 0, 1},
-    {128, 1, 4, 4, 128, 128, 0, 2},
-    {128, 2, 4, 4, 256, 128, 0, 3},
-    {128, 1, 4, 1, 64, 64, 0, 4},
-    {128, 1, 8, 2, 64, 128, 0, 5},
-    {128, 2, 16, 4, 128, 128, 0, 6},
-    {64, 1, 4, 2, 32, 128, 0, 7},
-    {256, 1, 2, 1, 16, 128, 0, 8},
-    {32, 1, 4, 2, 32, 64, 0, 9},
-    {128, 3, 8, 2, 256, 128, 0, 10},
-    {128, 2, 32, 8, 512, 128, 0, 11},
-    {128, 1, 16, 2, 256, 128, 0, 12},
-    {128, 2, 32, 4, 512, 128, 0, 13},
-    {128, 2, 8, 2, 128, 128, 1, 14},   // causal
-};
-
-static int dispatch_test(const TestCase& tc) {
-    int r = 0;
-    dispatch_by_head_dim(tc.head_dim, [&]<int D>() {
-        r = run_test<D>(tc.B, tc.Hq, tc.Hkv, tc.kv_len, tc.page_size, tc.causal, tc.seed);
-    });
-    return r;
-}
-
-template <int HEAD_DIM>
-static void bench_config(int B, int Hq, int Hkv, int kv_len, int page_size) {
-    int max_pages = (kv_len + page_size - 1) / page_size;
-    int n_phys_pages = B * max_pages;
-    int max_splits = 32;
-
-    size_t sz_q  = (size_t)B * Hq * 1 * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
-    size_t sz_kv = (size_t)n_phys_pages * page_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
-    size_t sz_pt = (size_t)B * max_pages * sizeof(int64_t);
-    size_t sz_op = (size_t)B * Hq * max_splits * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float);
-    size_t sz_ml = (size_t)B * Hq * max_splits * 2 * sizeof(float);
-
-    bf16 *d_q, *d_o, *d_k_pool, *d_v_pool;
-    int64_t* d_pt;
-    float *d_op, *d_ml;
-    cudaMalloc(&d_q, sz_q); cudaMalloc(&d_o, sz_q);
-    cudaMalloc(&d_k_pool, sz_kv); cudaMalloc(&d_v_pool, sz_kv);
-    cudaMalloc(&d_pt, sz_pt);
-    cudaMalloc(&d_op, sz_op); cudaMalloc(&d_ml, sz_ml);
-
-    bf16* tmp = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv > sz_q ? sz_kv : sz_q);
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_q / sizeof(bf16); i++) tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
-    cudaMemcpy(d_q, tmp, sz_q, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_kv / sizeof(bf16); i++) tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
-    cudaMemcpy(d_k_pool, tmp, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-    cudaMemcpy(d_v_pool, tmp, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-
-    int64_t* h_pt = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_pt);
-    int next_pg = 0;
-    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++)
-        for (int p = 0; p < max_pages; p++)
-            h_pt[b * max_pages + p] = next_pg++;
-    cudaMemcpy(d_pt, h_pt, sz_pt, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-    free(h_pt);
-
-    PagedAttentionParams<bf16> pa;
-    pa.batch = B; pa.q_head = Hq; pa.kv_head = Hkv; pa.q_len = 1;
-    pa.kv_len = kv_len; pa.head_dim = HEAD_DIM;
-    pa.use_mask = 0; pa.causal_offset = -1;
-    set_default_paged_strides(pa);
-    pa.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
-    pa.page_size = page_size; pa.max_pages = max_pages;
-    pa.page_table = d_pt;
-    pa.k_cache = d_k_pool; pa.v_cache = d_v_pool;
-    pa.q = d_q; pa.mask = nullptr; pa.o = d_o;
-    pa.o_part = d_op; pa.ml_part = d_ml;
-
-    const int WARMUP = 10, ITERS = 100;
-    auto launch = [&]() {
-        dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_paged_decode<H>(pa); });
-    };
-    double flops = 4.0 * B * Hq * (double)kv_len * HEAD_DIM;
-    size_t nKV = (size_t)B * Hkv * kv_len * HEAD_DIM;
-    double bytes = 2.0 * (2.0 * nKV * sizeof(bf16));
-    BenchResult r = bench_kernel(launch, WARMUP, ITERS, flops, bytes);
-
-    char cfg[64];
-    snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg),
-             "B=%2d Hq=%2d Hk=%d q=%4d kv=%4d D=%3d page=%3d",
-             B, Hq, Hkv, 1, kv_len, HEAD_DIM, page_size);
-    print_bench_row(cfg, r);
-
-    free(tmp);
-    cudaFree(d_q); cudaFree(d_o);
-    cudaFree(d_k_pool); cudaFree(d_v_pool); cudaFree(d_pt);
-    cudaFree(d_op); cudaFree(d_ml);
-}
-
-static void bench() {
-    printf("\n===== PAGED DECODE BENCH =====\n");
-    print_bench_header();
-    bench_config<128>(1, 32, 4, 512, 128);
-    bench_config<128>(1, 32, 4, 1024, 128);
-    bench_config<128>(1, 32, 4, 2048, 128);
-    bench_config<128>(1, 32, 4, 4096, 128);
-    bench_config<128>(16, 32, 4, 2048, 128);
-    bench_config<128>(32, 32, 4, 1024, 128);
-}
-
-int main() {
-    int n = sizeof(TESTS) / sizeof(TESTS[0]);
-    int fail = 0;
-    printf("=== Paged Decode vs CPU reference (%d cases) ===\n\n", n);
-
-    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
-        fail += dispatch_test(TESTS[i]);
-        if (fail) break;
-    }
-
-    if (fail) {
-        printf("\nFAILED (%d/%d tests failed)\n", fail, n);
-        return fail;
-    }
-    printf("\nAll %d tests passed!\n", n);
-    bench();
-    return 0;
-}
@@ -0,0 +1,945 @@
+// Compile:
+//   nvcc -I csrc -arch=sm_89 -O3 --use_fast_math --ptxas-options=-O3 \
+//        --extra-device-vectorization -Xcompiler -fopenmp \
+//        csrc/tests/attn_paged_test.cu \
+//        -o /tmp/test_paged && /tmp/test_paged
+
+#include <cstring>
+#include <vector>
+#include "test_utils.cuh"
+#include "../kernels/attn_dispatchers.cuh"
+
+// ---- CPU reference: paged decode with variable seq_lens ----
+// Q: [B, Hq, D], K/V pool: [pool_size, Hkv, D]
+// req_to_token: [num_reqs, max_ctx_len], req_pool_indices: [B]
+// kv_indptr: [B+1].  mask: [B, max_seq_len] bool (True=keep) or NULL.
+static void cpu_paged_decode_ref(
+    const float* Q, const float* K_pool, const float* V_pool,
+    const int64_t* req_to_token, const int64_t* req_pool_indices,
+    const int* kv_indptr, const bool* mask, int mask_b_stride,
+    int B, int Hq, int Hkv, int D, int max_ctx_len,
+    float* O)
+{
+    float scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)D);
+    int n_rep = Hq / Hkv;
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) {
+        int seq_len = kv_indptr[b + 1] - kv_indptr[b];
+        int64_t req_idx = req_pool_indices[b];
+        #pragma omp parallel for schedule(dynamic)
+        for (int h = 0; h < Hq; h++) {
+            int kv_h = h / n_rep;
+            float mv = -INFINITY, sv = 0.0f;
+            float accum[256] = {0.0f};
+            for (int kj = 0; kj < seq_len; kj++) {
+                if (mask && !mask[b * mask_b_stride + kj]) continue;
+                int64_t slot = req_to_token[req_idx * max_ctx_len + kj];
+                float dot = 0.0f;
+                for (int d = 0; d < D; d++)
+                    dot += Q[(b * Hq + h) * D + d] *
+                           K_pool[slot * Hkv * D + kv_h * D + d];
+                dot *= scale;
+                float nm = fmaxf(mv, dot);
+                float a = expf(mv - nm);
+                float be = expf(dot - nm);
+                sv = sv * a + be;
+                for (int d = 0; d < D; d++)
+                    accum[d] = accum[d] * a +
+                               V_pool[slot * Hkv * D + kv_h * D + d] * be;
+                mv = nm;
+            }
+            float inv = 1.0f / sv;
+            for (int d = 0; d < D; d++)
+                O[(b * Hq + h) * D + d] = accum[d] * inv;
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// ---- CPU reference: paged prefill with ragged batch ----
+// Q: [total_q, Hq, D], K/V pool: [pool_size, Hkv, D]
+// req_to_token: [num_reqs, max_ctx_len], req_pool_indices: [B]
+// kv_indptr: [B+1], qo_indptr: [B+1].
+// mask: [B, max_q_len, max_seq_len] bool (True=keep, q-local + kv-local
+//   positions) or NULL.  Used only when causal==0 to apply an arbitrary
+//   attention mask on top of the (unused) causal logic.
+static void cpu_paged_prefill_ref(
+    const float* Q, const float* K_pool, const float* V_pool,
+    const int64_t* req_to_token, const int64_t* req_pool_indices,
+    const int* kv_indptr, const int* qo_indptr,
+    const bool* mask, int mask_q_stride, int mask_kv_stride,
+    int B, int Hq, int Hkv, int D, int max_ctx_len, int causal,
+    float* O)
+{
+    float scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)D);
+    int n_rep = Hq / Hkv;
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) {
+        int seq_len = kv_indptr[b + 1] - kv_indptr[b];
+        int q_len = qo_indptr[b + 1] - qo_indptr[b];
+        int causal_off = seq_len - q_len;
+        int64_t req_idx = req_pool_indices[b];
+        #pragma omp parallel for collapse(2) schedule(dynamic)
+        for (int h = 0; h < Hq; h++) {
+            for (int qi = 0; qi < q_len; qi++) {
+                int kv_h = h / n_rep;
+                float mv = -INFINITY, sv = 0.0f;
+                float accum[256] = {0.0f};
+                int lim = causal ? min(seq_len, causal_off + qi + 1) : seq_len;
+                for (int kj = 0; kj < lim; kj++) {
+                    if (mask && !mask[b * mask_q_stride * mask_kv_stride
+                                     + qi * mask_kv_stride + kj]) continue;
+                    int64_t slot = req_to_token[req_idx * max_ctx_len + kj];
+                    float dot = 0.0f;
+                    for (int d = 0; d < D; d++)
+                        dot += Q[(qo_indptr[b] + qi) * Hq * D + h * D + d] *
+                               K_pool[slot * Hkv * D + kv_h * D + d];
+                    dot *= scale;
+                    float nm = fmaxf(mv, dot);
+                    float a = expf(mv - nm);
+                    float be = expf(dot - nm);
+                    sv = sv * a + be;
+                    for (int d = 0; d < D; d++)
+                        accum[d] = accum[d] * a +
+                                   V_pool[slot * Hkv * D + kv_h * D + d] * be;
+                    mv = nm;
+                }
+                float inv = 1.0f / sv;
+                for (int d = 0; d < D; d++)
+                    O[(qo_indptr[b] + qi) * Hq * D + h * D + d] = accum[d] * inv;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+// ---- paged validation table (kernel vs CPU ref, abs error only) ----
+inline void print_paged_header() {
+    printf("%-58s | %11s | %6s\n",
+           "config", "max_err", "result");
+    printf("----------------------------------------------------------------"
+           "--------------------------------\n");
+}
+
+inline void print_paged_row(const char* cfg, float max_err, bool pass) {
+    printf("%-58s | %11.3e | %s\n",
+           cfg, max_err, pass ? "PASS" : "FAIL");
+}
+
+// ======================================================================
+// DECODE TEST
+// ======================================================================
+template <int HEAD_DIM>
+static int run_decode_test(int B, int Hq, int Hkv, int max_seq,
+                            int causal, int seed) {
+    // Variable seq_lens per request
+    srand(seed);
+    std::vector<int> seq_lens(B);
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++)
+        seq_lens[b] = 8 + rand() % (max_seq - 8);
+    int max_sl = *std::max_element(seq_lens.begin(), seq_lens.end());
+    int max_ctx = max_sl + 16;
+
+    int pool_size = B * max_ctx;
+    int num_reqs = B + 4;
+
+    char cfg[80];
+    snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg), "DECODE B=%d Hq=%d Hkv=%d D=%d max_sl=%d causal=%d",
+             B, Hq, Hkv, HEAD_DIM, max_sl, causal);
+
+    size_t sz_q  = (size_t)B * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_kv = (size_t)pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_rtt = (size_t)num_reqs * max_ctx * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_rpi = (size_t)B * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_kvi = (size_t)(B + 1) * sizeof(int);
+    size_t sz_op = (size_t)B * Hq * MAX_SPLITS * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float);
+    size_t sz_ml = (size_t)B * Hq * MAX_SPLITS * 2 * sizeof(float);
+
+    bf16 *d_q, *d_o, *d_k_pool, *d_v_pool;
+    int64_t *d_rtt, *d_rpi;
+    int *d_kvi;
+    float *d_op, *d_ml;
+    cudaMalloc(&d_q, sz_q); cudaMalloc(&d_o, sz_q);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_k_pool, sz_kv); cudaMalloc(&d_v_pool, sz_kv);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_rtt, sz_rtt); cudaMalloc(&d_rpi, sz_rpi);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_kvi, sz_kvi);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_op, sz_op); cudaMalloc(&d_ml, sz_ml);
+
+    auto rnd = [&]() { return (rand() / (float)RAND_MAX) * 2.0f - 1.0f; };
+
+    bf16* h_q = (bf16*)malloc(sz_q);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_q / sizeof(bf16); i++) h_q[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+    cudaMemcpy(d_q, h_q, sz_q, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    bf16* h_k_pool = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv);
+    bf16* h_v_pool = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_kv / sizeof(bf16); i++) {
+        h_k_pool[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+        h_v_pool[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+    }
+    cudaMemcpy(d_k_pool, h_k_pool, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    cudaMemcpy(d_v_pool, h_v_pool, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    // req_to_token: assign unique slots per request (scattered, not contiguous)
+    int64_t* h_rtt = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rtt);
+    int next_slot = 0;
+    for (int r = 0; r < num_reqs; r++)
+        for (int p = 0; p < max_ctx; p++) {
+            h_rtt[r * max_ctx + p] = next_slot % pool_size;
+            next_slot++;
+        }
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rtt, h_rtt, sz_rtt, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    // req_pool_indices: pick B random request rows
+    int64_t* h_rpi = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rpi);
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_rpi[b] = b;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rpi, h_rpi, sz_rpi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    // kv_indptr: prefix sum of seq_lens
+    int* h_kvi = (int*)malloc(sz_kvi);
+    h_kvi[0] = 0;
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_kvi[b + 1] = h_kvi[b] + seq_lens[b];
+    cudaMemcpy(d_kvi, h_kvi, sz_kvi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    // CPU reference
+    float* h_q_f = (float*)malloc(B * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    float* h_k_f = (float*)malloc(pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    float* h_v_f = (float*)malloc(pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    for (int i = 0; i < B * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) h_q_f[i] = bf2f(h_q[i]);
+    for (int i = 0; i < pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM; i++) {
+        h_k_f[i] = bf2f(h_k_pool[i]);
+        h_v_f[i] = bf2f(h_v_pool[i]);
+    }
+    float* h_o_ref = (float*)calloc(B * Hq * HEAD_DIM, sizeof(float));
+    cpu_paged_decode_ref(h_q_f, h_k_f, h_v_f, h_rtt, h_rpi, h_kvi,
+                            nullptr, 0,
+                            B, Hq, Hkv, HEAD_DIM, max_ctx, h_o_ref);
+
+    // Kernel launch
+    PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM; p.total_q = B;
+    p.q_stride_l = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_h = HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_d = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx; p.max_seq_len = max_sl;
+    p.causal_offset = causal ? 0 : -1; p.use_mask = 0;
+    p.mask = nullptr; p.mask_b_stride = 0;
+    p.mask_h_stride = 0; p.mask_q_stride = 0;
+    p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
+    p.q = d_q; p.k_cache = d_k_pool; p.v_cache = d_v_pool;
+    p.req_to_token = d_rtt; p.req_pool_indices = d_rpi;
+    p.kv_indptr = d_kvi; p.qo_indptr = nullptr;
+    p.o = d_o; p.o_part = d_op; p.ml_part = d_ml;
+
+    dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_paged_decode<H>(p, 0); });
+    cudaDeviceSynchronize();
+
+    bf16* h_o_bf = (bf16*)malloc(sz_q);
+    cudaMemcpy(h_o_bf, d_o, sz_q, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
+    float* h_o_got = (float*)malloc(B * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    for (int i = 0; i < B * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) h_o_got[i] = bf2f(h_o_bf[i]);
+
+    const float atol = 0.02f, rtol = 0.02f;
+    bool pass = true;
+    float max_err = 0.0f;
+    for (int i = 0; i < B * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) {
+        float e = fabsf(h_o_got[i] - h_o_ref[i]);
+        if (e > max_err) max_err = e;
+        if (e > atol + rtol * fabsf(h_o_ref[i])) { pass = false; break; }
+    }
+
+    print_paged_row(cfg, max_err, pass);
+
+    free(h_q); free(h_k_pool); free(h_v_pool); free(h_rtt); free(h_rpi);
+    free(h_kvi); free(h_q_f); free(h_k_f); free(h_v_f);
+    free(h_o_ref); free(h_o_bf); free(h_o_got);
+    cudaFree(d_q); cudaFree(d_o); cudaFree(d_k_pool); cudaFree(d_v_pool);
+    cudaFree(d_rtt); cudaFree(d_rpi); cudaFree(d_kvi); cudaFree(d_op); cudaFree(d_ml);
+    return pass ? 0 : 1;
+}
+
+// ======================================================================
+// DECODE WITH MASK TEST (regression: 2D mask on mixed seq_lens)
+// ======================================================================
+template <int HEAD_DIM>
+static int run_decode_mask_test(int B, int Hq, int Hkv, int max_seq,
+                                int seed) {
+    srand(seed);
+    std::vector<int> seq_lens(B);
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++)
+        seq_lens[b] = 8 + rand() % (max_seq - 8);
+    int max_sl = *std::max_element(seq_lens.begin(), seq_lens.end());
+    int max_ctx = max_sl + 16;
+    int pool_size = B * max_ctx;
+    int num_reqs = B + 4;
+
+    char cfg[80];
+    snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg), "DECODE-MASK B=%d Hq=%d Hkv=%d D=%d max_sl=%d",
+             B, Hq, Hkv, HEAD_DIM, max_sl);
+
+    size_t sz_q  = (size_t)B * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_kv = (size_t)pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_rtt = (size_t)num_reqs * max_ctx * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_rpi = (size_t)B * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_kvi = (size_t)(B + 1) * sizeof(int);
+    size_t sz_mask = (size_t)B * max_sl * sizeof(bool);
+    size_t sz_op = (size_t)B * Hq * MAX_SPLITS * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float);
+    size_t sz_ml = (size_t)B * Hq * MAX_SPLITS * 2 * sizeof(float);
+
+    bf16 *d_q, *d_o, *d_k_pool, *d_v_pool;
+    int64_t *d_rtt, *d_rpi;
+    int *d_kvi;
+    bool *d_mask;
+    float *d_op, *d_ml;
+    cudaMalloc(&d_q, sz_q); cudaMalloc(&d_o, sz_q);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_k_pool, sz_kv); cudaMalloc(&d_v_pool, sz_kv);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_rtt, sz_rtt); cudaMalloc(&d_rpi, sz_rpi);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_kvi, sz_kvi);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_mask, sz_mask);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_op, sz_op); cudaMalloc(&d_ml, sz_ml);
+
+    auto rnd = [&]() { return (rand() / (float)RAND_MAX) * 2.0f - 1.0f; };
+
+    bf16* h_q = (bf16*)malloc(sz_q);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_q / sizeof(bf16); i++) h_q[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+    cudaMemcpy(d_q, h_q, sz_q, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    bf16* h_k_pool = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv);
+    bf16* h_v_pool = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_kv / sizeof(bf16); i++) {
+        h_k_pool[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+        h_v_pool[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+    }
+    cudaMemcpy(d_k_pool, h_k_pool, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    cudaMemcpy(d_v_pool, h_v_pool, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int64_t* h_rtt = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rtt);
+    int next_slot = 0;
+    for (int r = 0; r < num_reqs; r++)
+        for (int p = 0; p < max_ctx; p++) {
+            h_rtt[r * max_ctx + p] = next_slot % pool_size;
+            next_slot++;
+        }
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rtt, h_rtt, sz_rtt, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int64_t* h_rpi = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rpi);
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_rpi[b] = b;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rpi, h_rpi, sz_rpi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int* h_kvi = (int*)malloc(sz_kvi);
+    h_kvi[0] = 0;
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_kvi[b + 1] = h_kvi[b] + seq_lens[b];
+    cudaMemcpy(d_kvi, h_kvi, sz_kvi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    // Mask: keep first half of each request's kv range, drop the rest —
+    // exercises the HasMask path with per-request seq_len.
+    bool* h_mask = (bool*)malloc(sz_mask);
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++)
+        for (int k = 0; k < max_sl; k++)
+            h_mask[b * max_sl + k] = (k < seq_lens[b]) && (k % 2 == 0);
+    cudaMemcpy(d_mask, h_mask, sz_mask, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    float* h_q_f = (float*)malloc(B * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    float* h_k_f = (float*)malloc(pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    float* h_v_f = (float*)malloc(pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    for (int i = 0; i < B * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) h_q_f[i] = bf2f(h_q[i]);
+    for (int i = 0; i < pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM; i++) {
+        h_k_f[i] = bf2f(h_k_pool[i]);
+        h_v_f[i] = bf2f(h_v_pool[i]);
+    }
+    float* h_o_ref = (float*)calloc(B * Hq * HEAD_DIM, sizeof(float));
+    cpu_paged_decode_ref(h_q_f, h_k_f, h_v_f, h_rtt, h_rpi, h_kvi,
+                            h_mask, max_sl,
+                            B, Hq, Hkv, HEAD_DIM, max_ctx, h_o_ref);
+
+    PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM; p.total_q = B;
+    p.q_stride_l = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_h = HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_d = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx; p.max_seq_len = max_sl;
+    p.causal_offset = -1; p.use_mask = 1;
+    p.mask = d_mask; p.mask_b_stride = max_sl;
+    p.mask_h_stride = 0; p.mask_q_stride = 0;
+    p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
+    p.q = d_q; p.k_cache = d_k_pool; p.v_cache = d_v_pool;
+    p.req_to_token = d_rtt; p.req_pool_indices = d_rpi;
+    p.kv_indptr = d_kvi; p.qo_indptr = nullptr;
+    p.o = d_o; p.o_part = d_op; p.ml_part = d_ml;
+
+    dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_paged_decode<H>(p, 0); });
+    cudaDeviceSynchronize();
+
+    bf16* h_o_bf = (bf16*)malloc(sz_q);
+    cudaMemcpy(h_o_bf, d_o, sz_q, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
+    float* h_o_got = (float*)malloc(B * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    for (int i = 0; i < B * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) h_o_got[i] = bf2f(h_o_bf[i]);
+
+    const float atol = 0.02f, rtol = 0.02f;
+    bool pass = true;
+    float max_err = 0.0f;
+    for (int i = 0; i < B * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) {
+        float e = fabsf(h_o_got[i] - h_o_ref[i]);
+        if (e > max_err) max_err = e;
+        if (e > atol + rtol * fabsf(h_o_ref[i])) { pass = false; break; }
+    }
+
+    print_paged_row(cfg, max_err, pass);
+
+    free(h_q); free(h_k_pool); free(h_v_pool); free(h_rtt); free(h_rpi);
+    free(h_kvi); free(h_mask); free(h_q_f); free(h_k_f); free(h_v_f);
+    free(h_o_ref); free(h_o_bf); free(h_o_got);
+    cudaFree(d_q); cudaFree(d_o); cudaFree(d_k_pool); cudaFree(d_v_pool);
+    cudaFree(d_rtt); cudaFree(d_rpi); cudaFree(d_kvi); cudaFree(d_mask);
+    cudaFree(d_op); cudaFree(d_ml);
+    return pass ? 0 : 1;
+}
+
+// ======================================================================
+// PREFILL TEST
+// ======================================================================
+template <int HEAD_DIM>
+static int run_prefill_test(int B, int Hq, int Hkv,
+                             std::vector<int>& q_lens,
+                             std::vector<int>& kv_lens,
+                             int causal, int seed) {
+    int total_q = 0;
+    int max_sl = 0;
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) {
+        total_q += q_lens[b];
+        max_sl = max(max_sl, kv_lens[b]);
+    }
+    int max_ctx = max_sl + 16;
+    int pool_size = B * max_ctx;
+    int num_reqs = B + 4;
+
+    char cfg[80];
+    snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg), "PREFILL B=%d Hq=%d Hkv=%d D=%d max_sl=%d causal=%d",
+             B, Hq, Hkv, HEAD_DIM, max_sl, causal);
+
+    size_t sz_q  = (size_t)total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_kv = (size_t)pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_rtt = (size_t)num_reqs * max_ctx * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_rpi = (size_t)B * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_kvi = (size_t)(B + 1) * sizeof(int);
+    size_t sz_qoi = (size_t)(B + 1) * sizeof(int);
+
+    bf16 *d_q, *d_o, *d_k_pool, *d_v_pool;
+    int64_t *d_rtt, *d_rpi;
+    int *d_kvi, *d_qoi;
+    cudaMalloc(&d_q, sz_q); cudaMalloc(&d_o, sz_q);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_k_pool, sz_kv); cudaMalloc(&d_v_pool, sz_kv);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_rtt, sz_rtt); cudaMalloc(&d_rpi, sz_rpi);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_kvi, sz_kvi); cudaMalloc(&d_qoi, sz_qoi);
+
+    srand(seed);
+    auto rnd = [&]() { return (rand() / (float)RAND_MAX) * 2.0f - 1.0f; };
+
+    bf16* h_q = (bf16*)malloc(sz_q);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_q / sizeof(bf16); i++) h_q[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+    cudaMemcpy(d_q, h_q, sz_q, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    bf16* h_k_pool = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv);
+    bf16* h_v_pool = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_kv / sizeof(bf16); i++) {
+        h_k_pool[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+        h_v_pool[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+    }
+    cudaMemcpy(d_k_pool, h_k_pool, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    cudaMemcpy(d_v_pool, h_v_pool, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int64_t* h_rtt = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rtt);
+    int next_slot = 0;
+    for (int r = 0; r < num_reqs; r++)
+        for (int p = 0; p < max_ctx; p++) {
+            h_rtt[r * max_ctx + p] = next_slot % pool_size;
+            next_slot++;
+        }
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rtt, h_rtt, sz_rtt, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int64_t* h_rpi = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rpi);
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_rpi[b] = b;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rpi, h_rpi, sz_rpi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int* h_kvi = (int*)malloc(sz_kvi);
+    h_kvi[0] = 0;
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_kvi[b + 1] = h_kvi[b] + kv_lens[b];
+    cudaMemcpy(d_kvi, h_kvi, sz_kvi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int* h_qoi = (int*)malloc(sz_qoi);
+    h_qoi[0] = 0;
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_qoi[b + 1] = h_qoi[b] + q_lens[b];
+    cudaMemcpy(d_qoi, h_qoi, sz_qoi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    // CPU reference
+    float* h_q_f = (float*)malloc(total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    float* h_k_f = (float*)malloc(pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    float* h_v_f = (float*)malloc(pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    for (int i = 0; i < total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) h_q_f[i] = bf2f(h_q[i]);
+    for (int i = 0; i < pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM; i++) {
+        h_k_f[i] = bf2f(h_k_pool[i]);
+        h_v_f[i] = bf2f(h_v_pool[i]);
+    }
+    float* h_o_ref = (float*)calloc(total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM, sizeof(float));
+    cpu_paged_prefill_ref(h_q_f, h_k_f, h_v_f, h_rtt, h_rpi, h_kvi, h_qoi,
+                             nullptr, 0, 0,
+                             B, Hq, Hkv, HEAD_DIM, max_ctx, causal, h_o_ref);
+
+    // Kernel launch
+    PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM; p.total_q = total_q;
+    p.q_stride_l = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_h = HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_d = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx; p.max_seq_len = max_sl;
+    int max_ql = 0;
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) max_ql = max(max_ql, q_lens[b]);
+    p.max_q_len = max_ql;
+    p.causal_offset = causal ? 0 : -1; p.use_mask = 0;
+    p.mask = nullptr; p.mask_b_stride = 0;
+    p.mask_h_stride = 0; p.mask_q_stride = 0;
+    p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
+    p.q = d_q; p.k_cache = d_k_pool; p.v_cache = d_v_pool;
+    p.req_to_token = d_rtt; p.req_pool_indices = d_rpi;
+    p.kv_indptr = d_kvi; p.qo_indptr = d_qoi;
+    p.o = d_o; p.o_part = nullptr; p.ml_part = nullptr;
+
+    dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_paged_prefill<H>(p, 0); });
+    cudaDeviceSynchronize();
+
+    bf16* h_o_bf = (bf16*)malloc(sz_q);
+    cudaMemcpy(h_o_bf, d_o, sz_q, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
+    float* h_o_got = (float*)malloc(total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    for (int i = 0; i < total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) h_o_got[i] = bf2f(h_o_bf[i]);
+
+    const float atol = 0.02f, rtol = 0.02f;
+    bool pass = true;
+    float max_err = 0.0f;
+    for (int i = 0; i < total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) {
+        float e = fabsf(h_o_got[i] - h_o_ref[i]);
+        if (e > max_err) max_err = e;
+        if (e > atol + rtol * fabsf(h_o_ref[i])) { pass = false; break; }
+    }
+
+    print_paged_row(cfg, max_err, pass);
+
+    free(h_q); free(h_k_pool); free(h_v_pool); free(h_rtt); free(h_rpi);
+    free(h_kvi); free(h_qoi); free(h_q_f); free(h_k_f); free(h_v_f);
+    free(h_o_ref); free(h_o_bf); free(h_o_got);
+    cudaFree(d_q); cudaFree(d_o); cudaFree(d_k_pool); cudaFree(d_v_pool);
+    cudaFree(d_rtt); cudaFree(d_rpi); cudaFree(d_kvi); cudaFree(d_qoi);
+    return pass ? 0 : 1;
+}
+
+// ======================================================================
+// PREFILL WITH MASK TEST (regression: 4D causal mask on single request)
+// ======================================================================
+template <int HEAD_DIM>
+static int run_prefill_mask_test(int Hq, int Hkv, int q_len, int seed) {
+    srand(seed);
+    int B = 1;
+    int total_q = q_len;
+    int seq_len = q_len;  // pure prefill: kv_len == q_len
+    int max_ctx = seq_len + 16;
+    int pool_size = B * max_ctx;
+    int num_reqs = B + 4;
+
+    char cfg[80];
+    snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg), "PREFILL-MASK Hq=%d Hkv=%d D=%d q_len=%d",
+             Hq, Hkv, HEAD_DIM, q_len);
+    fflush(stdout);
+
+    size_t sz_q  = (size_t)total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_kv = (size_t)pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_rtt = (size_t)num_reqs * max_ctx * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_rpi = (size_t)B * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_kvi = (size_t)(B + 1) * sizeof(int);
+    size_t sz_qoi = (size_t)(B + 1) * sizeof(int);
+    size_t sz_mask = (size_t)B * q_len * q_len * sizeof(bool);
+
+    bf16 *d_q, *d_o, *d_k_pool, *d_v_pool;
+    int64_t *d_rtt, *d_rpi;
+    int *d_kvi, *d_qoi;
+    bool *d_mask;
+    cudaMalloc(&d_q, sz_q); cudaMalloc(&d_o, sz_q);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_k_pool, sz_kv); cudaMalloc(&d_v_pool, sz_kv);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_rtt, sz_rtt); cudaMalloc(&d_rpi, sz_rpi);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_kvi, sz_kvi); cudaMalloc(&d_qoi, sz_qoi);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_mask, sz_mask);
+
+    auto rnd = [&]() { return (rand() / (float)RAND_MAX) * 2.0f - 1.0f; };
+
+    bf16* h_q = (bf16*)malloc(sz_q);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_q / sizeof(bf16); i++) h_q[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+    cudaMemcpy(d_q, h_q, sz_q, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    bf16* h_k_pool = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv);
+    bf16* h_v_pool = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_kv / sizeof(bf16); i++) {
+        h_k_pool[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+        h_v_pool[i] = f2bf(rnd());
+    }
+    cudaMemcpy(d_k_pool, h_k_pool, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    cudaMemcpy(d_v_pool, h_v_pool, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int64_t* h_rtt = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rtt);
+    int next_slot = 0;
+    for (int r = 0; r < num_reqs; r++)
+        for (int p = 0; p < max_ctx; p++) {
+            h_rtt[r * max_ctx + p] = next_slot % pool_size;
+            next_slot++;
+        }
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rtt, h_rtt, sz_rtt, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int64_t* h_rpi = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rpi);
+    h_rpi[0] = 0;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rpi, h_rpi, sz_rpi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int* h_kvi = (int*)malloc(sz_kvi);
+    h_kvi[0] = 0; h_kvi[1] = seq_len;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_kvi, h_kvi, sz_kvi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int* h_qoi = (int*)malloc(sz_qoi);
+    h_qoi[0] = 0; h_qoi[1] = q_len;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_qoi, h_qoi, sz_qoi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    // 4D causal mask [B, 1, q_len, q_len], True=keep.
+    bool* h_mask = (bool*)malloc(sz_mask);
+    for (int qi = 0; qi < q_len; qi++)
+        for (int kj = 0; kj < q_len; kj++)
+            h_mask[qi * q_len + kj] = (kj <= qi);
+    cudaMemcpy(d_mask, h_mask, sz_mask, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    float* h_q_f = (float*)malloc(total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    float* h_k_f = (float*)malloc(pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    float* h_v_f = (float*)malloc(pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    for (int i = 0; i < total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) h_q_f[i] = bf2f(h_q[i]);
+    for (int i = 0; i < pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM; i++) {
+        h_k_f[i] = bf2f(h_k_pool[i]);
+        h_v_f[i] = bf2f(h_v_pool[i]);
+    }
+    float* h_o_ref = (float*)calloc(total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM, sizeof(float));
+    // CPU ref with causal=0 so it consults the mask (not the causal flag).
+    cpu_paged_prefill_ref(h_q_f, h_k_f, h_v_f, h_rtt, h_rpi, h_kvi, h_qoi,
+                             h_mask, q_len, q_len,
+                             B, Hq, Hkv, HEAD_DIM, max_ctx, 0, h_o_ref);
+
+    PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM; p.total_q = total_q;
+    p.q_stride_l = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_h = HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_d = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx; p.max_seq_len = q_len;
+    p.max_q_len = q_len;
+    p.causal_offset = -1; p.use_mask = 1;
+    p.mask = d_mask; p.mask_b_stride = q_len * q_len;
+    p.mask_h_stride = 0; p.mask_q_stride = q_len;
+    p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
+    p.q = d_q; p.k_cache = d_k_pool; p.v_cache = d_v_pool;
+    p.req_to_token = d_rtt; p.req_pool_indices = d_rpi;
+    p.kv_indptr = d_kvi; p.qo_indptr = d_qoi;
+    p.o = d_o; p.o_part = nullptr; p.ml_part = nullptr;
+
+    dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_paged_prefill<H>(p, 0); });
+    cudaDeviceSynchronize();
+
+    bf16* h_o_bf = (bf16*)malloc(sz_q);
+    cudaMemcpy(h_o_bf, d_o, sz_q, cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
+    float* h_o_got = (float*)malloc(total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float));
+    for (int i = 0; i < total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) h_o_got[i] = bf2f(h_o_bf[i]);
+
+    const float atol = 0.02f, rtol = 0.02f;
+    bool pass = true;
+    float max_err = 0.0f;
+    for (int i = 0; i < total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM; i++) {
+        float e = fabsf(h_o_got[i] - h_o_ref[i]);
+        if (e > max_err) max_err = e;
+        if (e > atol + rtol * fabsf(h_o_ref[i])) { pass = false; break; }
+    }
+
+    print_paged_row(cfg, max_err, pass);
+
+    free(h_q); free(h_k_pool); free(h_v_pool); free(h_rtt); free(h_rpi);
+    free(h_kvi); free(h_qoi); free(h_mask); free(h_q_f); free(h_k_f); free(h_v_f);
+    free(h_o_ref); free(h_o_bf); free(h_o_got);
+    cudaFree(d_q); cudaFree(d_o); cudaFree(d_k_pool); cudaFree(d_v_pool);
+    cudaFree(d_rtt); cudaFree(d_rpi); cudaFree(d_kvi); cudaFree(d_qoi);
+    cudaFree(d_mask);
+    return pass ? 0 : 1;
+}
+
+// ======================================================================
+// BENCH
+// ======================================================================
+template <int HEAD_DIM>
+static void bench_decode(int B, int Hq, int Hkv, int seq_len) {
+    int max_ctx = seq_len + 16;
+    int pool_size = B * max_ctx;
+    int num_reqs = B;
+
+    size_t sz_q  = (size_t)B * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_kv = (size_t)pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_rtt = (size_t)num_reqs * max_ctx * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_rpi = (size_t)B * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_kvi = (size_t)(B + 1) * sizeof(int);
+    size_t sz_op = (size_t)B * Hq * MAX_SPLITS * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(float);
+    size_t sz_ml = (size_t)B * Hq * MAX_SPLITS * 2 * sizeof(float);
+
+    bf16 *d_q, *d_o, *d_k_pool, *d_v_pool;
+    int64_t *d_rtt, *d_rpi;
+    int *d_kvi;
+    float *d_op, *d_ml;
+    cudaMalloc(&d_q, sz_q); cudaMalloc(&d_o, sz_q);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_k_pool, sz_kv); cudaMalloc(&d_v_pool, sz_kv);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_rtt, sz_rtt); cudaMalloc(&d_rpi, sz_rpi);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_kvi, sz_kvi);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_op, sz_op); cudaMalloc(&d_ml, sz_ml);
+
+    bf16* tmp = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv > sz_q ? sz_kv : sz_q);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_q / sizeof(bf16); i++) tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
+    cudaMemcpy(d_q, tmp, sz_q, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_kv / sizeof(bf16); i++) tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
+    cudaMemcpy(d_k_pool, tmp, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    cudaMemcpy(d_v_pool, tmp, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int64_t* h_rtt = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rtt);
+    for (int r = 0; r < num_reqs; r++)
+        for (int p = 0; p < max_ctx; p++)
+            h_rtt[r * max_ctx + p] = (r * max_ctx + p) % pool_size;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rtt, h_rtt, sz_rtt, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    int64_t* h_rpi = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rpi);
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_rpi[b] = b;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rpi, h_rpi, sz_rpi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    int* h_kvi = (int*)malloc(sz_kvi);
+    h_kvi[0] = 0;
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_kvi[b + 1] = h_kvi[b] + seq_len;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_kvi, h_kvi, sz_kvi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM; p.total_q = B;
+    p.q_stride_l = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_h = HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_d = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx; p.max_seq_len = seq_len;
+    p.causal_offset = 0; p.use_mask = 0;
+    p.mask = nullptr; p.mask_b_stride = 0;
+    p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
+    p.q = d_q; p.k_cache = d_k_pool; p.v_cache = d_v_pool;
+    p.req_to_token = d_rtt; p.req_pool_indices = d_rpi;
+    p.kv_indptr = d_kvi; p.qo_indptr = nullptr;
+    p.o = d_o; p.o_part = d_op; p.ml_part = d_ml;
+
+    auto launch = [&]() {
+        dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_paged_decode<H>(p, 0); });
+    };
+    // Decode: q_len=1, query is the last token → attends to all [0, seq_len).
+    // FLOPs = 2 * (QK^T + PV) = 4 * B * Hq * seq_len * D.
+    double flops = 4.0 * B * Hq * (double)seq_len * HEAD_DIM;
+    BenchResult r = bench_kernel(launch, 3, 10, flops);
+
+    char cfg[64];
+    snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg), "DEC B=%2d Hq=%2d Hk=%d kv=%4d D=%3d",
+             B, Hq, Hkv, seq_len, HEAD_DIM);
+    print_bench_row(cfg, r);
+
+    free(tmp); free(h_rtt); free(h_rpi); free(h_kvi);
+    cudaFree(d_q); cudaFree(d_o); cudaFree(d_k_pool); cudaFree(d_v_pool);
+    cudaFree(d_rtt); cudaFree(d_rpi); cudaFree(d_kvi); cudaFree(d_op); cudaFree(d_ml);
+}
+
+template <int HEAD_DIM>
+static void bench_prefill(int B, int Hq, int Hkv, int q_len, int kv_len, int causal) {
+    int total_q = B * q_len;
+    int max_ctx = kv_len + 16;
+    int pool_size = B * max_ctx;
+    int num_reqs = B;
+
+    size_t sz_q  = (size_t)total_q * Hq * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_kv = (size_t)pool_size * Hkv * HEAD_DIM * sizeof(bf16);
+    size_t sz_rtt = (size_t)num_reqs * max_ctx * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_rpi = (size_t)B * sizeof(int64_t);
+    size_t sz_kvi = (size_t)(B + 1) * sizeof(int);
+    size_t sz_qoi = (size_t)(B + 1) * sizeof(int);
+
+    bf16 *d_q, *d_o, *d_k_pool, *d_v_pool;
+    int64_t *d_rtt, *d_rpi;
+    int *d_kvi, *d_qoi;
+    cudaMalloc(&d_q, sz_q); cudaMalloc(&d_o, sz_q);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_k_pool, sz_kv); cudaMalloc(&d_v_pool, sz_kv);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_rtt, sz_rtt); cudaMalloc(&d_rpi, sz_rpi);
+    cudaMalloc(&d_kvi, sz_kvi); cudaMalloc(&d_qoi, sz_qoi);
+
+    bf16* tmp = (bf16*)malloc(sz_kv > sz_q ? sz_kv : sz_q);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_q / sizeof(bf16); i++) tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
+    cudaMemcpy(d_q, tmp, sz_q, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < sz_kv / sizeof(bf16); i++) tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
+    cudaMemcpy(d_k_pool, tmp, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    cudaMemcpy(d_v_pool, tmp, sz_kv, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    int64_t* h_rtt = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rtt);
+    for (int r = 0; r < num_reqs; r++)
+        for (int p = 0; p < max_ctx; p++)
+            h_rtt[r * max_ctx + p] = (r * max_ctx + p) % pool_size;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rtt, h_rtt, sz_rtt, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    int64_t* h_rpi = (int64_t*)malloc(sz_rpi);
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_rpi[b] = b;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_rpi, h_rpi, sz_rpi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    int* h_kvi = (int*)malloc(sz_kvi);
+    h_kvi[0] = 0;
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_kvi[b + 1] = h_kvi[b] + kv_len;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_kvi, h_kvi, sz_kvi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    int* h_qoi = (int*)malloc(sz_qoi);
+    h_qoi[0] = 0;
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) h_qoi[b + 1] = h_qoi[b] + q_len;
+    cudaMemcpy(d_qoi, h_qoi, sz_qoi, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM; p.total_q = total_q;
+    p.q_stride_l = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_h = HEAD_DIM; p.q_stride_d = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx; p.max_seq_len = kv_len;
+    p.total_q = total_q; p.max_q_len = q_len;
+    p.causal_offset = causal ? 0 : -1; p.use_mask = 0;
+    p.mask = nullptr; p.mask_b_stride = 0;
+    p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
+    p.q = d_q; p.k_cache = d_k_pool; p.v_cache = d_v_pool;
+    p.req_to_token = d_rtt; p.req_pool_indices = d_rpi;
+    p.kv_indptr = d_kvi; p.qo_indptr = d_qoi;
+    p.o = d_o; p.o_part = nullptr; p.ml_part = nullptr;
+
+    auto launch = [&]() {
+        dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_paged_prefill<H>(p, 0); });
+    };
+    // FLOPs = 2 * (QK^T + PV) = 4 * effective_qk_pairs * Hq * D.
+    // Non-causal: effective = q_len * kv_len.
+    // Causal: Q row qi attends to [0, causal_off + qi + 1) where
+    //   causal_off = kv_len - q_len.  Total KV accesses per request:
+    //   sum_{qi=0}^{q_len-1} (kv_len - q_len + qi + 1)
+    //   = q_len * (kv_len - q_len) + q_len * (q_len + 1) / 2.
+    double eff_kv;
+    if (causal) {
+        eff_kv = (double)q_len * (kv_len - q_len)
+               + (double)q_len * (q_len + 1) / 2.0;
+    } else {
+        eff_kv = (double)q_len * kv_len;
+    }
+    double flops = 4.0 * B * Hq * eff_kv * HEAD_DIM;
+    BenchResult r = bench_kernel(launch, 3, 10, flops);
+
+    char cfg[80];
+    snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg), "PRE B=%d Hq=%2d Hk=%d q=%4d kv=%4d D=%3d c=%d",
+             B, Hq, Hkv, q_len, kv_len, HEAD_DIM, causal);
+    print_bench_row(cfg, r);
+
+    free(tmp); free(h_rtt); free(h_rpi); free(h_kvi); free(h_qoi);
+    cudaFree(d_q); cudaFree(d_o); cudaFree(d_k_pool); cudaFree(d_v_pool);
+    cudaFree(d_rtt); cudaFree(d_rpi); cudaFree(d_kvi); cudaFree(d_qoi);
+}
+
+int main() {
+    int fail = 0;
+
+    // ===== DECODE TESTS =====
+    printf("=== Paged Decode Tests ===\n");
+    print_paged_header();
+    fail += run_decode_test<128>(1, 32, 4, 512, 0, 1);
+    fail += run_decode_test<128>(1, 32, 4, 1024, 0, 2);
+    fail += run_decode_test<128>(4, 32, 4, 512, 0, 3);
+    fail += run_decode_test<128>(8, 32, 4, 1024, 0, 4);
+    fail += run_decode_test<128>(4, 32, 8, 2048, 0, 5);
+    fail += run_decode_test<128>(1, 16, 1, 256, 0, 6);
+    fail += run_decode_test<128>(2, 8, 2, 512, 1, 7);
+    fail += run_decode_test<64>(1, 4, 2, 256, 0, 8);
+    fail += run_decode_test<256>(1, 2, 1, 256, 0, 9);
+    fail += run_decode_test<128>(16, 32, 4, 2048, 0, 10);
+    fail += run_decode_test<128>(32, 32, 4, 1024, 0, 11);
+
+    // Decode with 2D mask (regression: mixed seq_lens + HasMask)
+    fail += run_decode_mask_test<128>(2, 8, 2, 256, 30);
+    fail += run_decode_mask_test<128>(4, 32, 4, 512, 31);
+    fail += run_decode_mask_test<64>(2, 4, 2, 128, 32);
+
+    if (fail) { printf("\nFAILED decode tests\n"); return fail; }
+
+    // ===== PREFILL TESTS =====
+    printf("\n=== Paged Prefill Tests ===\n");
+    print_paged_header();
+    // Single request, pure prefill (q_len == kv_len)
+    {
+        std::vector<int> ql = {512};
+        std::vector<int> kl = {512};
+        fail += run_prefill_test<128>(1, 32, 4, ql, kl, 1, 20);
+    }
+    {
+        std::vector<int> ql = {1024};
+        std::vector<int> kl = {1024};
+        fail += run_prefill_test<128>(1, 32, 4, ql, kl, 1, 21);
+    }
+    {
+        std::vector<int> ql = {2048};
+        std::vector<int> kl = {2048};
+        fail += run_prefill_test<128>(1, 32, 4, ql, kl, 1, 22);
+    }
+    // Ragged batch: different q_lens and kv_lens
+    {
+        std::vector<int> ql = {128, 256, 64};
+        std::vector<int> kl = {128, 256, 64};
+        fail += run_prefill_test<128>(3, 32, 4, ql, kl, 1, 23);
+    }
+    {
+        std::vector<int> ql = {64, 128, 256, 32};
+        std::vector<int> kl = {64, 128, 256, 32};
+        fail += run_prefill_test<128>(4, 32, 4, ql, kl, 1, 24);
+    }
+    // Extend: kv_len > q_len (append to existing cache)
+    {
+        std::vector<int> ql = {64, 128};
+        std::vector<int> kl = {256, 512};
+        fail += run_prefill_test<128>(2, 32, 4, ql, kl, 1, 25);
+    }
+    // Non-causal
+    {
+        std::vector<int> ql = {256, 128};
+        std::vector<int> kl = {256, 128};
+        fail += run_prefill_test<128>(2, 32, 4, ql, kl, 0, 26);
+    }
+    // Single token (q_len=1 per request, like decode but via prefill path)
+    {
+        std::vector<int> ql = {1, 1, 1, 1};
+        std::vector<int> kl = {128, 256, 64, 512};
+        fail += run_prefill_test<128>(4, 32, 4, ql, kl, 1, 27);
+    }
+    // D=64
+    {
+        std::vector<int> ql = {128, 64};
+        std::vector<int> kl = {128, 64};
+        fail += run_prefill_test<64>(2, 4, 2, ql, kl, 1, 28);
+    }
+    // D=256
+    {
+        std::vector<int> ql = {128, 64};
+        std::vector<int> kl = {128, 64};
+        fail += run_prefill_test<256>(2, 2, 1, ql, kl, 1, 29);
+    }
+
+    // Prefill with 4D causal mask (regression: single-request mask path)
+    fail += run_prefill_mask_test<128>(32, 4, 512, 40);
+    fail += run_prefill_mask_test<128>(32, 4, 1024, 41);
+    fail += run_prefill_mask_test<64>(4, 2, 256, 42);
+
+    if (fail) { printf("\nFAILED prefill tests\n"); return fail; }
+    printf("\nAll tests passed!\n");
+
+    // ===== BENCH =====
+    printf("\n===== PAGED DECODE BENCH =====\n");
+    print_bench_header();
+    bench_decode<128>(1, 32, 4, 512);
+    bench_decode<128>(1, 32, 4, 1024);
+    bench_decode<128>(1, 32, 4, 2048);
+    bench_decode<128>(1, 32, 4, 4096);
+    bench_decode<128>(4, 32, 4, 2048);
+    bench_decode<128>(16, 32, 4, 2048);
+    bench_decode<128>(32, 32, 4, 1024);
+
+    printf("\n===== PAGED PREFILL BENCH =====\n");
+    print_bench_header();
+    bench_prefill<128>(1, 32, 4, 512, 512, 0);
+    bench_prefill<128>(1, 32, 4, 1024, 1024, 0);
+    bench_prefill<128>(1, 32, 4, 2048, 2048, 0);
+    bench_prefill<128>(1, 32, 4, 2048, 2048, 1);
+    bench_prefill<128>(4, 32, 4, 2048, 2048, 1);
+    bench_prefill<128>(1, 32, 4, 4096, 4096, 1);
+
+    return 0;
+}
@@ -1,169 +0,0 @@
-/*
-Pure-C test — uses shared dispatcher.
-nvcc -I csrc -arch=sm_89 -O3 \
-    --use_fast_math --ptxas-options=-O3 --extra-device-vectorization \
-    csrc/tests/attn_prefill_test.cu -o test && ./test
-*/
-
-#include "test_utils.cuh"
-#include "../kernels/attn_dispatchers.cuh"
-
-// Warmed-up, CUDA-event timed throughput sweep over the production MMA path.
-static void bench() {
-    const int cfgs[][7] = {
-        {1,32,4,512,512,128,0},
-        {1,32,4,1024,1024,128,0},
-        {1,32,4,2048,2048,128,0},
-        {1,32,4,2048,2048,128,1},
-        {4,32,4,2048,2048,128,1},
-        {1,32,4,4096,4096,128,1},
-    };
-    int n = sizeof(cfgs)/sizeof(cfgs[0]);
-    const int WARMUP = 10, ITERS = 50;
-    printf("\n===== PREFILL BENCH (warmup=%d iters=%d) =====\n", WARMUP, ITERS);
-    printf("%-46s | %10s | %10s | %10s\n",
-           "config", "latency", "bandwidth", "throughput");
-    printf("---------------------------------------------------------------"
-           "----------------------------\n");
-
-    for (int ci = 0; ci < n; ci++) {
-        int B=cfgs[ci][0], Hq=cfgs[ci][1], Hk=cfgs[ci][2];
-        int ql=cfgs[ci][3], kl=cfgs[ci][4], D=cfgs[ci][5], causal=cfgs[ci][6];
-        size_t nQ=(size_t)B*Hq*ql*D, nKV=(size_t)B*Hk*kl*D;
-
-        bf16 *dQ,*dK,*dV,*dO,*tmp;
-        cudaMalloc(&dQ,nQ*2); cudaMalloc(&dK,nKV*2);
-        cudaMalloc(&dV,nKV*2); cudaMalloc(&dO,nQ*2);
-        size_t big = nQ>nKV?nQ:nKV; tmp=new bf16[big];
-        for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++)  tmp[i]=f2bf(randf());
-        cudaMemcpy(dQ,tmp,nQ*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-        for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(randf());
-        cudaMemcpy(dK,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-        for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(randf());
-        cudaMemcpy(dV,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-
-        AttentionParams<bf16> p;
-        p.batch=B; p.q_head=Hq; p.kv_head=Hk; p.q_len=ql; p.kv_len=kl; p.head_dim=D;
-        p.use_mask=0; p.causal_offset=causal?0:-1;
-        set_default_strides(p);
-        p.scale=1.0f/sqrtf((float)D);
-        p.q=dQ; p.k=dK; p.v=dV; p.mask=nullptr; p.o=dO;
-
-        auto launch = [&]() { dispatch_by_head_dim(D, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_prefill<H>(p); }); };
-        for (int i=0;i<WARMUP;i++) launch();
-        cudaDeviceSynchronize();
-        cudaError_t err=cudaGetLastError();
-        if (err!=cudaSuccess){printf("CUDA err: %s\n",cudaGetErrorString(err));return;}
-
-        cudaEvent_t s,e; cudaEventCreate(&s); cudaEventCreate(&e);
-        cudaEventRecord(s);
-        for (int i=0;i<ITERS;i++) launch();
-        cudaEventRecord(e); cudaEventSynchronize(e);
-        float ms=0; cudaEventElapsedTime(&ms,s,e); ms/=ITERS;
-
-        double flops = 4.0*B*Hq*(double)ql*kl*D;
-        if (causal) flops *= 0.5;
-        double tflops = flops/(ms*1e-3)/1e12;
-        double bytes = 2.0 * (2.0*nQ + 2.0*nKV);
-        double gbps = bytes/(ms*1e-3)/1e9;
-
-        char cfg[64];
-        snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg),
-                 "B=%2d Hq=%2d Hk=%d q=%4d kv=%4d D=%3d causal=%d",
-                 B,Hq,Hk,ql,kl,D,causal);
-        printf("%-46s | %7.4f ms | %7.1f GB/s | %6.2f TFLOP/s\n",
-               cfg, ms, gbps, tflops);
-
-        cudaFree(dQ);cudaFree(dK);cudaFree(dV);cudaFree(dO);
-        delete[]tmp; cudaEventDestroy(s); cudaEventDestroy(e);
-    }
-}
-
-static int run_test(int B, int Hq, int Hk, int ql, int kl, int D, int causal) {
-    printf("=== B=%d Hq=%d Hk=%d q=%d kv=%d D=%d causal=%d ===\n",
-           B,Hq,Hk,ql,kl,D,causal);
-
-    size_t nQ = B*Hq*ql*D, nKV = B*Hk*kl*D;
-    float *hQ=new float[nQ], *hK=new float[nKV], *hV=new float[nKV];
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) hQ[i]=randf();
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++){hK[i]=randf();hV[i]=randf();}
-
-    bf16 *dQ,*dK,*dV,*dO,*tmp;
-    cudaMalloc(&dQ,nQ*2); cudaMalloc(&dK,nKV*2);
-    cudaMalloc(&dV,nKV*2); cudaMalloc(&dO,nQ*2);
-    tmp=new bf16[max(nQ,nKV)];
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hQ[i]);
-    cudaMemcpy(dQ,tmp,nQ*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hK[i]);
-    cudaMemcpy(dK,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hV[i]);
-    cudaMemcpy(dV,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
-
-    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
-    p.batch=B; p.q_head=Hq; p.kv_head=Hk; p.q_len=ql; p.kv_len=kl; p.head_dim=D;
-    p.use_mask=0; p.causal_offset=causal?0:-1;
-    set_default_strides(p);
-    p.scale=1.0f/sqrtf((float)D);
-    p.q=dQ; p.k=dK; p.v=dV; p.mask=nullptr; p.o=dO;
-
-    double t0=now_ms();
-    dispatch_by_head_dim(D, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_prefill<H>(p); });
-    cudaDeviceSynchronize();
-    double kms=now_ms()-t0;
-    cudaError_t err=cudaGetLastError();
-    if (err!=cudaSuccess){printf("CUDA err: %s\n",cudaGetErrorString(err));return 1;}
-
-    bf16* hOut=new bf16[nQ];
-    cudaMemcpy(hOut,dO,nQ*2,cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
-
-    float* ref=new float[nQ];
-    cpu_attention_ref(hQ, hK, hV, nullptr, ref, B, Hq, Hk, ql, kl, D, causal ? 0 : -1);
-
-    float max_abs_err=0, max_rel_err=0;
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) {
-        float err=fabsf(bf2f(hOut[i])-ref[i]);
-        if(err>max_abs_err) max_abs_err=err;
-        float rel=err/fmaxf(fabsf(ref[i]), 1e-8f);
-        if(rel>max_rel_err) max_rel_err=rel;
-    }
-    const float atol=0.01f, rtol=0.01f;
-    bool pass=true;
-    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) {
-        float err=fabsf(bf2f(hOut[i])-ref[i]);
-        if (err > atol + rtol * fabsf(ref[i])) { pass=false; break; }
-    }
-    printf("kernel: %.3f ms  max_abs_err: %.6e  max_rel_err: %.6e  %s\n\n",
-           kms, max_abs_err, max_rel_err, pass?"PASS":"FAIL");
-
-    cudaFree(dQ);cudaFree(dK);cudaFree(dV);cudaFree(dO);
-    delete[]hQ;delete[]hK;delete[]hV;delete[]hOut;delete[]ref;delete[]tmp;
-
-    return pass ? 0 : 1;
-}
-
-int main() {
-    const int configs[][7] = {
-        {1,2,1,64,128,64,0},     // tiny: B,Hq,Hk,q,kv,D,causal
-        {1,32,4,512,512,128,0},  // standard
-        {1,32,4,128,256,128,0},  // medium
-        {1,4,2,256,256,128,1},   // causal
-    };
-    int n_configs = sizeof(configs) / sizeof(configs[0]);
-    int fail = 0;
-
-    for (int ci = 0; ci < n_configs; ci++) {
-        int B=configs[ci][0], Hq=configs[ci][1], Hk=configs[ci][2];
-        int ql=configs[ci][3], kl=configs[ci][4], D=configs[ci][5];
-        int causal=configs[ci][6];
-        fail += run_test(B, Hq, Hk, ql, kl, D, causal);
-        if (fail) break;
-    }
-
-    if (fail) {
-        printf("FAILED\n");
-        return fail;
-    }
-    printf("All tests passed!\n");
-    bench();
-    return 0;
-}
@@ -0,0 +1,346 @@
+/*
+Pure-C test — uses shared dispatcher.  Combines the decode (split-KV) and
+prefill (split-Q) correctness checks + benchmarks into one binary.
+nvcc -I csrc -arch=sm_89 -O3 \
+    --use_fast_math --ptxas-options=-O3 --extra-device-vectorization \
+    -Xcompiler -fopenmp csrc/tests/attn_test.cu -o test && ./test
+*/
+
+#include "test_utils.cuh"
+#include "../kernels/attn_dispatchers.cuh"
+
+// Split-K scratch (torch-free)
+struct DecodeScratch {
+    float* o_part = nullptr;
+    float* ml_part = nullptr;
+};
+
+static void setup_scratch(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, DecodeScratch& sc) {
+    int max_splits = 32;
+    cudaMalloc(&sc.o_part, (size_t)p.batch * p.q_head * max_splits * p.head_dim * sizeof(float));
+    cudaMalloc(&sc.ml_part, (size_t)p.batch * p.q_head * max_splits * 2 * sizeof(float));
+}
+
+static void free_scratch(DecodeScratch& sc) {
+    cudaFree(sc.o_part); cudaFree(sc.ml_part);
+}
+
+// ======================================================================
+// DECODE
+// ======================================================================
+
+static int run_decode_test(int B, int Hq, int Hk, int sl, int D, int causal) {
+    int gs = Hq / Hk;
+
+    size_t nQ = B*Hq*1*D, nKV = B*Hk*sl*D;
+    float *hQ=new float[nQ], *hK=new float[nKV], *hV=new float[nKV];
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) hQ[i]=randf();
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++){hK[i]=randf();hV[i]=randf();}
+
+    bool* hMask=new bool[B*sl];
+    for (int i=0;i<B*sl;i++) hMask[i]=true;
+
+    bf16 *dQ,*dK,*dV,*dO,*tmp;
+    bool* dMask;
+    cudaMalloc(&dQ,nQ*2); cudaMalloc(&dK,nKV*2);
+    cudaMalloc(&dV,nKV*2); cudaMalloc(&dO,nQ*2);
+    cudaMalloc(&dMask,B*sl);
+
+    tmp=new bf16[max(nQ,nKV)];
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hQ[i]);
+    cudaMemcpy(dQ,tmp,nQ*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hK[i]);
+    cudaMemcpy(dK,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hV[i]);
+    cudaMemcpy(dV,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    cudaMemcpy(dMask,hMask,B*sl,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch=B; p.q_head=Hq; p.kv_head=Hk; p.q_len=1; p.kv_len=sl; p.head_dim=D;
+    p.use_mask=0; p.causal_offset=causal?0:-1;
+    p.scale=1.0f/sqrtf((float)D);
+    set_default_strides(p);
+    p.q=dQ; p.k=dK; p.v=dV; p.mask=nullptr; p.o=dO;
+
+    DecodeScratch sc;
+    setup_scratch(p, sc);
+    p.o_part = sc.o_part; p.ml_part = sc.ml_part;
+
+    double t0=now_ms();
+    dispatch_by_head_dim(D, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_decode<H>(p, 0); });
+    cudaDeviceSynchronize();
+    (void)t0;
+    cudaError_t err=cudaGetLastError();
+    if (err!=cudaSuccess){printf("CUDA err: %s\n",cudaGetErrorString(err));return 1;}
+
+    bf16* hOut=new bf16[nQ];
+    cudaMemcpy(hOut,dO,nQ*2,cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
+
+    float* ref=new float[nQ];
+    cpu_attention_ref(hQ, hK, hV, hMask, ref, B, Hq, Hk, 1, sl, D, causal ? 0 : -1);
+
+    float max_abs_err=0, max_rel_err=0;
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++){
+        float err=fabsf(bf2f(hOut[i])-ref[i]);
+        if(err>max_abs_err) max_abs_err=err;
+        float rel=err/fmaxf(fabsf(ref[i]), 1e-8f);
+        if(rel>max_rel_err) max_rel_err=rel;
+    }
+    const float atol=0.01f, rtol=0.01f;
+    bool pass=true;
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++){
+        float err=fabsf(bf2f(hOut[i])-ref[i]);
+        if (err > atol + rtol * fabsf(ref[i])) { pass=false; break; }
+    }
+    char cfg[64];
+    snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg), "B=%2d Hq=%2d Hk=%d seq=%4d D=%3d causal=%d",
+             B, Hq, Hk, sl, D, causal);
+    print_test_row(cfg, max_abs_err, max_rel_err, pass);
+
+    cudaFree(dQ);cudaFree(dK);cudaFree(dV);cudaFree(dO);cudaFree(dMask);
+    free_scratch(sc);
+    delete[]hQ;delete[]hK;delete[]hV;delete[]hMask;delete[]hOut;delete[]ref;delete[]tmp;
+
+    return pass ? 0 : 1;
+}
+
+static void bench_decode() {
+    const int cfgs[][5] = {
+        {1, 32, 4, 512, 128},
+        {1, 32, 4, 1024, 128},
+        {1, 32, 4, 2048, 128},
+        {1, 32, 4, 4096, 128},
+        {16, 32, 4, 2048, 128},
+        {32, 32, 4, 1024, 128},
+    };
+    const int WARMUP = 3, ITERS = 10;
+    printf("\n===== DECODE BENCH (warmup=%d iters=%d) =====\n", WARMUP, ITERS);
+    print_bench_header();
+
+    for (int ci = 0; ci < 6; ci++) {
+        int B = cfgs[ci][0], Hq = cfgs[ci][1], Hk = cfgs[ci][2];
+        int sl = cfgs[ci][3], D = cfgs[ci][4];
+        size_t nQ = (size_t)B * Hq * D;
+        size_t nKV = (size_t)B * Hk * sl * D;
+
+        bf16 *dQ, *dK, *dV, *dO;
+        cudaMalloc(&dQ, nQ*2); cudaMalloc(&dK, nKV*2);
+        cudaMalloc(&dV, nKV*2); cudaMalloc(&dO, nQ*2);
+        size_t big = nQ > nKV ? nQ : nKV; bf16* tmp = new bf16[big];
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < nQ; i++)  tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
+        cudaMemcpy(dQ, tmp, nQ*2, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < nKV; i++) tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
+        cudaMemcpy(dK, tmp, nKV*2, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+        for (size_t i = 0; i < nKV; i++) tmp[i] = f2bf(randf());
+        cudaMemcpy(dV, tmp, nKV*2, cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+        delete[] tmp;
+
+        AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+        p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hk; p.q_len = 1; p.kv_len = sl;
+        p.head_dim = D; p.use_mask = 0; p.causal_offset = -1;
+        p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)D);
+        set_default_strides(p);
+        p.q = dQ; p.k = dK; p.v = dV; p.mask = nullptr; p.o = dO;
+
+        DecodeScratch sc;
+        setup_scratch(p, sc);
+        p.o_part = sc.o_part; p.ml_part = sc.ml_part;
+
+        auto launch = [&]() { dispatch_by_head_dim(D, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_decode<H>(p, 0); }); };
+        double flops = 4.0 * B * Hq * (double)sl * D;
+        BenchResult r = bench_kernel(launch, WARMUP, ITERS, flops);
+
+        char cfg[64];
+        snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg),
+                 "B=%2d Hq=%2d Hk=%d q=%4d kv=%4d D=%3d causal=%d",
+                 B, Hq, Hk, 1, sl, D, 0);
+        print_bench_row(cfg, r);
+
+        cudaFree(dQ); cudaFree(dK); cudaFree(dV); cudaFree(dO);
+        free_scratch(sc);
+    }
+}
+
+// ======================================================================
+// PREFILL
+// ======================================================================
+
+static int run_prefill_test(int B, int Hq, int Hk, int ql, int kl, int D, int causal) {
+    size_t nQ = B*Hq*ql*D, nKV = B*Hk*kl*D;
+    float *hQ=new float[nQ], *hK=new float[nKV], *hV=new float[nKV];
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) hQ[i]=randf();
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++){hK[i]=randf();hV[i]=randf();}
+
+    bf16 *dQ,*dK,*dV,*dO,*tmp;
+    cudaMalloc(&dQ,nQ*2); cudaMalloc(&dK,nKV*2);
+    cudaMalloc(&dV,nKV*2); cudaMalloc(&dO,nQ*2);
+    tmp=new bf16[max(nQ,nKV)];
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hQ[i]);
+    cudaMemcpy(dQ,tmp,nQ*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hK[i]);
+    cudaMemcpy(dK,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(hV[i]);
+    cudaMemcpy(dV,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch=B; p.q_head=Hq; p.kv_head=Hk; p.q_len=ql; p.kv_len=kl; p.head_dim=D;
+    p.use_mask=0; p.causal_offset=causal?0:-1;
+    set_default_strides(p);
+    p.scale=1.0f/sqrtf((float)D);
+    p.q=dQ; p.k=dK; p.v=dV; p.mask=nullptr; p.o=dO;
+
+    double t0=now_ms();
+    dispatch_by_head_dim(D, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_prefill<H>(p, 0); });
+    cudaDeviceSynchronize();
+    (void)t0;
+    cudaError_t err=cudaGetLastError();
+    if (err!=cudaSuccess){printf("CUDA err: %s\n",cudaGetErrorString(err));return 1;}
+
+    bf16* hOut=new bf16[nQ];
+    cudaMemcpy(hOut,dO,nQ*2,cudaMemcpyDeviceToHost);
+
+    float* ref=new float[nQ];
+    cpu_attention_ref(hQ, hK, hV, nullptr, ref, B, Hq, Hk, ql, kl, D, causal ? 0 : -1);
+
+    float max_abs_err=0, max_rel_err=0;
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) {
+        float err=fabsf(bf2f(hOut[i])-ref[i]);
+        if(err>max_abs_err) max_abs_err=err;
+        float rel=err/fmaxf(fabsf(ref[i]), 1e-8f);
+        if(rel>max_rel_err) max_rel_err=rel;
+    }
+    const float atol=0.01f, rtol=0.01f;
+    bool pass=true;
+    for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++) {
+        float err=fabsf(bf2f(hOut[i])-ref[i]);
+        if (err > atol + rtol * fabsf(ref[i])) { pass=false; break; }
+    }
+    char cfg[64];
+    snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg), "B=%2d Hq=%2d Hk=%d q=%4d kv=%4d D=%3d causal=%d",
+             B, Hq, Hk, ql, kl, D, causal);
+    print_test_row(cfg, max_abs_err, max_rel_err, pass);
+
+    cudaFree(dQ);cudaFree(dK);cudaFree(dV);cudaFree(dO);
+    delete[]hQ;delete[]hK;delete[]hV;delete[]hOut;delete[]ref;delete[]tmp;
+
+    return pass ? 0 : 1;
+}
+
+static void bench_prefill() {
+    const int cfgs[][7] = {
+        {1,32,4,512,512,128,0},
+        {1,32,4,1024,1024,128,0},
+        {1,32,4,2048,2048,128,0},
+        {1,32,4,2048,2048,128,1},
+        {4,32,4,2048,2048,128,1},
+        {1,32,4,4096,4096,128,1},
+    };
+    int n = sizeof(cfgs)/sizeof(cfgs[0]);
+    const int WARMUP = 3, ITERS = 10;
+    printf("\n===== PREFILL BENCH (warmup=%d iters=%d) =====\n", WARMUP, ITERS);
+    print_bench_header();
+
+    for (int ci = 0; ci < n; ci++) {
+        int B=cfgs[ci][0], Hq=cfgs[ci][1], Hk=cfgs[ci][2];
+        int ql=cfgs[ci][3], kl=cfgs[ci][4], D=cfgs[ci][5], causal=cfgs[ci][6];
+        size_t nQ=(size_t)B*Hq*ql*D, nKV=(size_t)B*Hk*kl*D;
+
+        bf16 *dQ,*dK,*dV,*dO,*tmp;
+        cudaMalloc(&dQ,nQ*2); cudaMalloc(&dK,nKV*2);
+        cudaMalloc(&dV,nKV*2); cudaMalloc(&dO,nQ*2);
+        size_t big = nQ>nKV?nQ:nKV; tmp=new bf16[big];
+        for (size_t i=0;i<nQ;i++)  tmp[i]=f2bf(randf());
+        cudaMemcpy(dQ,tmp,nQ*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+        for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(randf());
+        cudaMemcpy(dK,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+        for (size_t i=0;i<nKV;i++) tmp[i]=f2bf(randf());
+        cudaMemcpy(dV,tmp,nKV*2,cudaMemcpyHostToDevice);
+
+        AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+        p.batch=B; p.q_head=Hq; p.kv_head=Hk; p.q_len=ql; p.kv_len=kl; p.head_dim=D;
+        p.use_mask=0; p.causal_offset=causal?0:-1;
+        set_default_strides(p);
+        p.scale=1.0f/sqrtf((float)D);
+        p.q=dQ; p.k=dK; p.v=dV; p.mask=nullptr; p.o=dO;
+
+        auto launch = [&]() { dispatch_by_head_dim(D, [&]<int H>() { dispatch_prefill<H>(p, 0); }); };
+        for (int i=0;i<WARMUP;i++) launch();
+        cudaDeviceSynchronize();
+        cudaError_t err=cudaGetLastError();
+        if (err!=cudaSuccess){printf("CUDA err: %s\n",cudaGetErrorString(err));return;}
+
+        cudaEvent_t s,e; cudaEventCreate(&s); cudaEventCreate(&e);
+        cudaEventRecord(s);
+        for (int i=0;i<ITERS;i++) launch();
+        cudaEventRecord(e); cudaEventSynchronize(e);
+        float ms=0; cudaEventElapsedTime(&ms,s,e); ms/=ITERS;
+
+        double flops = 4.0*B*Hq*(double)ql*kl*D;
+        if (causal) flops *= 0.5;
+        double tflops = flops/(ms*1e-3)/1e12;
+        BenchResult r{ms, tflops};
+
+        char cfg[64];
+        snprintf(cfg, sizeof(cfg),
+                 "B=%2d Hq=%2d Hk=%d q=%4d kv=%4d D=%3d causal=%d",
+                 B,Hq,Hk,ql,kl,D,causal);
+        print_bench_row(cfg, r);
+
+        cudaFree(dQ);cudaFree(dK);cudaFree(dV);cudaFree(dO);
+        delete[]tmp; cudaEventDestroy(s); cudaEventDestroy(e);
+    }
+}
+
+// ======================================================================
+// MAIN
+// ======================================================================
+
+int main() {
+    int fail = 0;
+
+    // ---- DECODE ----
+    {
+        const int configs[][6] = {
+            {1, 2, 1, 64, 32, 0},
+            {1, 32, 4, 512, 128, 0},
+            {1, 32, 4, 1024, 128, 0},
+            {1, 32, 4, 512, 128, 1},
+        };
+        int n_cfgs = sizeof(configs) / sizeof(configs[0]);
+        printf("=== DECODE TESTS ===\n");
+        print_test_header();
+        for (int ci = 0; ci < n_cfgs; ci++) {
+            int B = configs[ci][0], Hq = configs[ci][1], Hk = configs[ci][2];
+            int sl = configs[ci][3], D = configs[ci][4], causal = configs[ci][5];
+            fail += run_decode_test(B, Hq, Hk, sl, D, causal);
+            if (fail) break;
+        }
+        if (fail) { printf("FAILED decode tests\n"); return fail; }
+        bench_decode();
+    }
+
+    // ---- PREFILL ----
+    {
+        const int configs[][7] = {
+            {1,2,1,64,128,64,0},     // tiny: B,Hq,Hk,q,kv,D,causal
+            {1,32,4,512,512,128,0},  // standard
+            {1,32,4,128,256,128,0},  // medium
+            {1,4,2,256,256,128,1},   // causal
+        };
+        int n_configs = sizeof(configs) / sizeof(configs[0]);
+        printf("\n=== PREFILL TESTS ===\n");
+        print_test_header();
+        for (int ci = 0; ci < n_configs; ci++) {
+            int B=configs[ci][0], Hq=configs[ci][1], Hk=configs[ci][2];
+            int ql=configs[ci][3], kl=configs[ci][4], D=configs[ci][5];
+            int causal=configs[ci][6];
+            fail += run_prefill_test(B, Hq, Hk, ql, kl, D, causal);
+            if (fail) break;
+        }
+        if (fail) { printf("FAILED prefill tests\n"); return fail; }
+        bench_prefill();
+    }
+
+    printf("\nAll tests passed!\n");
+    return 0;
+}
@@ -29,19 +29,18 @@ inline double now_ms() {

 struct BenchResult {
    float ms;
-    double gbps;
    double tflops;
 };

 template <typename Fn>
 BenchResult bench_kernel(Fn launch, int warmup, int iters,
-                         double flops, double bytes) {
+                         double flops) {
    for (int i = 0; i < warmup; i++) launch();
    cudaDeviceSynchronize();
    cudaError_t err = cudaGetLastError();
    if (err != cudaSuccess) {
        printf("CUDA error before bench: %s\n", cudaGetErrorString(err));
-        return {0, 0, 0};
+        return {0, 0};
    }

    cudaEvent_t s, e;
@@ -52,19 +51,33 @@ BenchResult bench_kernel(Fn launch, int warmup, int iters,
    float ms = 0; cudaEventElapsedTime(&ms, s, e); ms /= iters;
    cudaEventDestroy(s); cudaEventDestroy(e);

-    return {ms, bytes / (ms * 1e-3) / 1e9, flops / (ms * 1e-3) / 1e12};
+    return {ms, flops / (ms * 1e-3) / 1e12};
 }

 inline void print_bench_header() {
-    printf("%-46s | %10s | %10s | %10s\n",
-           "config", "latency", "bandwidth", "throughput");
+    printf("%-46s | %10s | %10s\n",
+           "config", "latency", "TFLOP/s");
    printf("---------------------------------------------------------------"
           "----------------------------\n");
 }

 inline void print_bench_row(const char* cfg, const BenchResult& r) {
-    printf("%-46s | %7.4f ms | %7.1f GB/s | %6.2f TFLOP/s\n",
-           cfg, r.ms, r.gbps, r.tflops);
+    printf("%-46s | %7.4f ms | %6.2f\n",
+           cfg, r.ms, r.tflops);
+}
+
+// ---- validation table (kernel vs CPU reference) ----
+inline void print_test_header() {
+    printf("%-46s | %11s | %11s | %6s\n",
+           "config", "max_abs_err", "max_rel_err", "result");
+    printf("----------------------------------------------------------------"
+           "----------------------------\n");
+}
+
+inline void print_test_row(const char* cfg, float max_abs_err,
+                           float max_rel_err, bool pass) {
+    printf("%-46s | %11.3e | %11.3e | %s\n",
+           cfg, max_abs_err, max_rel_err, pass ? "PASS" : "FAIL");
 }

 template <int... Ds>
@@ -103,6 +116,7 @@ inline void set_default_strides(P& p) {
    p.kv_stride_l = p.head_dim;
    p.kv_stride_d = 1;
    p.mask_b_stride = p.kv_len;
+    p.mask_h_stride = 0;
    p.mask_q_stride = 0;
 }

@@ -114,6 +128,7 @@ inline void set_default_paged_strides(P& p) {
    p.q_stride_l  = p.head_dim;
    p.q_stride_d  = 1;
    p.mask_b_stride = p.kv_len;
+    p.mask_h_stride = 0;
    p.mask_q_stride = 0;
 }

@@ -133,9 +148,10 @@ static void cpu_attention_ref(
    float scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)D);
    int n_rep = Hq / Hk;
    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++) {
+        #pragma omp parallel for collapse(2) schedule(dynamic)
        for (int h = 0; h < Hq; h++) {
-            int kv_h = h / n_rep;
            for (int qi = 0; qi < q_len; qi++) {
+                int kv_h = h / n_rep;
                float mv = -INFINITY, sv = 0.0f;
                float accum[256] = {0.0f};
                int lim = kv_len;
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ services:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
+      args:
+        CUDA_TAG: ${CUDA_TAG:-cu128}
    user: "${UID:-1000}:${GID:-1000}"
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
@@ -29,6 +31,8 @@ services:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
+      args:
+        CUDA_TAG: ${CUDA_TAG:-cu128}
    user: "${UID:-1000}:${GID:-1000}"
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 <div align="center">
  
-  <img src="../images/logo.png" width="auto" alt="Logo">
+  <img src="./images/logo.png" width="auto" alt="Logo">
  
  <div>
-    <a href="../../README.md">English</a> • 
+    <a href="../README.md">English</a> • 
    <a href="#chinese">中文</a>
  </div>
  
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 <br>

 <div align="center">
-  <a href="../../README.md">English</a> •
+  <a href="../README.md">English</a> •
  <a href="#chinese">中文</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/ViperEkura/AstrAI/issues">问题追踪</a> •
  <a href="https://github.com/ViperEkura/AstrAI/discussions">讨论区</a> •
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@

 **1. 安装**

+AstrAI 需要 Python 3.12+，并精确固定 PyTorch 版本为 `2.11.0`。训练、`scripts/tools/generate.py`、生成式评估和生成演示需要 CUDA；CPU 支持仅适用于提供明确 CPU 设备路径的组件，例如 HTTP 服务和直接打分评估。
+
 ```bash
 git clone https://github.com/ViperEkura/AstrAI.git
 cd AstrAI
@@ -138,7 +140,7 @@ curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
 # 下载模型权重（运行演示前必需）
 python scripts/demo/download.py                      # model → params/

-# 交互式流式聊天（多轮对话，保持历史记录）
+# 单轮交互式流式提示循环（不保留对话历史）
 python scripts/demo/stream_chat.py
 # 在 >> 后输入消息，输入 !exit 退出

@@ -189,7 +191,7 @@ docker run --gpus all -v /path/to/data:/data -it astrai:latest
 # Docker Compose（GPU，默认）
 docker compose up -d

-# Docker Compose（仅 CPU）
+# Docker Compose CPU 服务配置（不支持仅限 CUDA 的生成脚本和演示）
 docker compose --profile cpu up -d
 ```

@@ -219,22 +221,27 @@ curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/messages \
 curl http://localhost:8000/health
 ```

-SSE 流式格式、错误码和统计端点详见[推理文档](./inference.md)。
+SSE 流式格式、错误码和统计端点详见[推理文档](guides/inference.md)。

 ### 文档

 | 文档 | 说明 |
 |------|------|
-| [CLI 参考](./params.md) | 所有 CLI 工具参数（训练、服务、生成、预处理） |
-| [架构文档](./architecture.md) | 系统架构、类图与设计模式 |
-| [训练文档](./training.md) | 训练循环、策略与公式 |
-| [推理文档](./inference.md) | KVCache、连续批处理、采样与 HTTP API |
-| [数据流程](./dataflow.md) | 数据管道、存储后端与数据集架构 |
-| [数据预处理](./preprocessing.md) | 声明式 JSON 驱动数据预处理 |
+| [快速上手](./get-started.md) | 安装与快速入门 |
+| [CLI 参考](./guides/params.md) | 所有 CLI 工具参数（训练、服务、生成、预处理） |
+| [数据预处理](./guides/preprocessing.md) | 声明式 JSON 驱动数据预处理 |
+| [训练文档](./guides/training.md) | 训练循环、策略与公式 |
+| [推理文档](./guides/inference.md) | KVCache、连续批处理、采样与 HTTP API |
+| [评估文档](./guides/evaluation.md) | HumanEval、MMLU、PPL、ROUGE、IFD、IFEval |
+| [分布式训练](./guides/distributed.md) | 多卡 DDP / FSDP 训练 |
+| [架构文档](./developer/architecture.md) | 系统架构、类图与设计模式 |
+| [数据流程](./developer/dataflow.md) | 数据管道、存储后端与数据集架构 |
+| [内部实现](./developer/internals.md) | 训练原理：损失公式、回调生命周期、KV Cache |
+| [CUDA 内核](./developer/cuda_kernels.md) | 自定义 CUDA 注意力内核与基准测试 |

 ### 贡献

-我们欢迎贡献！请参阅[贡献指南](../../CONTRIBUTING.md)了解详情。
+我们欢迎贡献！请参阅[贡献指南](../CONTRIBUTING.md)了解详情。

 1. Fork 本仓库。
 2. 创建功能分支。
@@ -251,10 +258,10 @@ SSE 流式格式、错误码和统计端点详见[推理文档](./inference.md)

 ### 许可证

-本项目采用 [GPL-3.0 许可证](../../LICENSE)。
+本项目采用 [GPL-3.0 许可证](../LICENSE)。

 ---

 <div align="center">
  <em>专为高性能与易用性设计的轻量级 Transformer 框架。</em>
-</div>
+</div>
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@

 - [Class Diagram](#class-diagram) — Full Mermaid class diagram across 10+ namespaces
 - [Module Overview](#module-overview) — Component inventory per module
- [Design Patterns](#design-patterns) — 13 documented patterns with classes
+- [Design Patterns](#design-patterns) — 15 documented patterns with classes
 - [Core Relationships](#core-relationships) — 11 key inter-component relationships

 ## Class Diagram
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ classDiagram
            +Optional[int] n_shared_experts
            +Optional[int] n_activated_experts
            +Optional[str] topk_method
+            +Optional[int] moe_intermediate_size
+            +Optional[int] shared_expert_intermediate_size
+            +bool norm_topk_prob
+            +int decoder_sparse_step
+            +Optional[List[int]] mlp_only_layers
        }

        class EncoderConfig {
@@ -63,6 +68,7 @@ classDiagram
            +Optional[int] num_attention_heads
            +Optional[int] num_key_value_heads
            +Optional[bool] use_qk_norm
+            +Optional[bool] use_gated_attention
            +str ffn_type
            +Optional[dict] rope_scaling
            +Optional[str] pooling_type
@@ -114,22 +120,25 @@ classDiagram
            +Dataset dataset
            +Callable optimizer_fn
            +Callable scheduler_fn
+            +Optional[str] optimizer_name
+            +Dict[str, Any] optimizer_hyperparameters
            +int n_epoch
            +int batch_per_device
            +int grad_accum_steps
            +Optional[float] max_grad_norm
            +list gradient_checkpointing_modules
+            +Optional[str] compile_mode
            +int start_epoch
            +int start_samples
            +str ckpt_dir
            +int ckpt_interval
-            +str log_dir
            +List[str] metrics
            +Optional[LoRAConfig] lora
            +int random_seed
            +int num_workers
            +Optional[int] prefetch_factor
            +bool pin_memory
+            +Optional[Callable] collate_fn
            +int nprocs
            +str backend
            +str master_addr
@@ -140,6 +149,7 @@ classDiagram
            +Optional[float] val_split
            +int val_step
            +float neftune_alpha
+            +float moe_aux_loss_coef
            +str parallel_mode
            +int rollout_interval
            +float rollout_temperature
@@ -149,7 +159,6 @@ classDiagram
            +Optional[Callable] reward_model_fn
            +dict executor_kwargs
            +dict extra_kwargs
-            +validate()
        }

    }
@@ -205,10 +214,6 @@ classDiagram
            -_fetch_record_key(key, index) Tensor
        }

-        class H5Store {
-            +load(path)
-        }
-
        class MmapStore {
            +List _mmap_refs
            +load(path)
@@ -260,11 +265,15 @@ classDiagram
    }

    namespace model {
-        class AutoModel {
-            +BaseModelConfig config
+        class ModelFactory {
            +Dict _entries
            +register(name) decorator
            +get_component_class(name) Type
+        }
+
+        class AutoModel {
+            <<nn.Module>>
+            +BaseModelConfig config
            +from_pretrained(path, disable_random_init, strict) nn.Module
            +save_pretrained(save_directory)
            +to(*args, **kwargs) Self
@@ -277,7 +286,7 @@ classDiagram
            +ModuleList layers
            +RMSNorm norm
            +Linear lm_head
-            +forward(input_ids, input_mask, paged_cache, position_ids) Dict[str, Tensor]
+            +forward(input_ids, input_mask, kv_cache, position_ids) Dict[str, Tensor]
            +load_state_dict(state_dict, strict, assign)
            +state_dict()
        }
@@ -299,7 +308,13 @@ classDiagram
            +RMSNorm input_norm
            +nn.Module mlp        # MLP or DeepSeekMoE via FFNFactory
            +RMSNorm post_attention_norm
-            +forward(x, rotary_emb, attention_mask, paged_cache) Tensor
+            +forward(x, rotary_emb, attention_mask, kv_cache, is_causal) DecoderOutput
+        }
+
+        class DecoderOutput {
+            <<TypedDict>>
+            +Tensor hidden_states
+            +Optional[Tensor] aux_loss
        }

        class GQA {
@@ -314,7 +329,7 @@ classDiagram
            +Linear q_proj, k_proj, v_proj, o_proj
            +Linear gate  # only if use_gated_attention
            +RMSNorm q_norm, k_norm  # only if use_qk_norm
-            +forward(x, rotary_emb, attn_mask, paged_cache) Tensor
+            +forward(x, rotary_emb, attn_mask, kv_cache, is_causal) Tensor
        }

        class MLA {
@@ -334,12 +349,18 @@ classDiagram
            +Linear gate  # only if use_gated_attention
            +RMSNorm kv_norm
            +RMSNorm q_norm, k_norm  # only if use_qk_norm
-            +forward(x, rotary_emb, attn_mask, paged_cache) Tensor
+            +forward(x, rotary_emb, attn_mask, kv_cache, is_causal) Tensor
        }

        class MLP {
            +Linear up, gate, down
-            +forward(x) Tensor
+            +forward(x) FFNOutput
+        }
+
+        class FFNOutput {
+            <<TypedDict>>
+            +Tensor hidden_states
+            +Optional[Tensor] aux_loss
        }

        class DeepSeekMoE {
@@ -351,7 +372,7 @@ classDiagram
            +Linear router
            +ModuleList shared_experts
            +ModuleList routed_experts
-            +forward(x) Tensor
+            +forward(x) FFNOutput
        }

        class AttnFactory {
@@ -380,6 +401,7 @@ classDiagram
            +int max_len
            +float base
            +Optional[Dict] rope_scaling
+            +Tensor freqs_cis
            +forward(x, position_ids=None) Tensor
        }

@@ -484,10 +506,6 @@ classDiagram
            +save(output_dir, domain, shard_idx, tensors)
        }

-        class H5Writer {
-            +save(output_dir, domain, shard_idx, tensors)
-        }
-
        class Pipeline {
            +PipelineConfig config
            +List[str] paths
@@ -557,7 +575,7 @@ classDiagram
        class Trainer {
            +TrainConfig train_config
            +List[TrainCallback] callbacks
-            +train(resume_dir)
+            +train(param_path=None, resume=False)
            -_get_default_callbacks() List[TrainCallback]
        }

@@ -574,13 +592,17 @@ classDiagram
            +int epoch
            +int consumed_samples
            +float loss
-            +float grad_norm
+            +Dict[str, float] metrics
+            +Optional[float] grad_norm
+            +GradSNRTracker grad_snr_tracker
            +DataLoader val_dataloader
-            +float val_loss
+            +Optional[float] val_loss
            +int world_size
            +int rank
            +dict kwargs
-            +optimizer_step() int
+            +stop_requested (property) bool
+            +optimizer_step (property) int
+            +request_stop()
        }

        class TrainContextBuilder {
@@ -592,11 +614,22 @@ classDiagram
        class BaseStrategy {
            +Callable model
            +Optional[BaseExecutor] executor
-            +Optional[Callable] model_fn
+            +float moe_aux_loss_coef
            +dict extra_kwargs
            +str device
-            +__call__(batch) Tensor
+            +__call__(batch) LossOutput
            +compute_loss(batch) Tensor
+            +compute_loss_output(batch) LossOutput
+            +supports_online() bool
+            +set_rollout_runner(runner)
+            +prepare_from_rollout(result) Dict
+            +on_optimizer_step()
+        }
+
+        class LossOutput {
+            <<TypedDict>>
+            +Tensor loss
+            +Dict[str, float] metrics
        }

        class StrategyFactory {
@@ -634,9 +667,12 @@ classDiagram

        class RawRollout {
            +Tensor prompts
+            +Tensor prompt_mask
            +Tensor responses
            +Tensor response_mask
            +Tensor logprobs_old
+            +List[str] prompt_texts
+            +List[List[str]] response_texts
        }

        class RolloutResult {
@@ -645,10 +681,18 @@ classDiagram

        class BaseRewardModel {
            <<abstract>>
-            +score(prompts, responses) Tensor
+            +score(List[str] prompts, List[List[str]] responses) Tensor
        }

        class RolloutGenerator {
+            +InferenceScheduler scheduler
+            +int max_tokens
+            +int group_size
+            +float temperature
+            +int top_k
+            +float top_p
+            +float frequency_penalty
+            +int rep_window
            +generate(batch) RawRollout
        }

@@ -738,7 +782,7 @@ classDiagram
        }

        class MetricCallback {
-            +Path log_dir
+            +Path ckpt_dir
            +int save_interval
            +List[str] metrics
            +int val_step
@@ -762,9 +806,9 @@ classDiagram
            +nn.Module model
            +AutoTokenizer tokenizer
            +InferenceScheduler scheduler
-            +generate(prompt, stream, max_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k) Union[Generator, str, List[str]]
+            +generate(prompt, stream, max_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k, frequency_penalty, rep_window) Union[Generator, str, List[str]]
            +generate_with_request(request) Union[Generator, str, List[str]]
-            +generate_async(prompt, max_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k) AsyncGenerator
+            +generate_async(prompt, max_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k, frequency_penalty, rep_window) AsyncGenerator
            +get_stats() Dict
            +shutdown()
        }
@@ -772,18 +816,18 @@ classDiagram
        class Executor {
            +AutoModel model
            +AutoTokenizer tokenizer
-            +KVCache page_cache
+            +PagePool kv_cache
            +Optional[str] device
            +Optional[torch.dtype] dtype
            +execute_prefill(tasks, prompt_len, start_pos)
-            +execute_decode(tasks) List[int]
+            +execute_decode(tasks, return_logprobs=False) Union[List[int], List[Tuple[int, float]]]
        }

        class InferenceScheduler {
-            +KVCache _page_cache
+            +PagePool _cache
            +Executor _executor
            +TaskManager _task_mgr
-            +bool _running
+            +Event _stop_event
            +Thread _loop_thread
            +int max_seq_len
            +str device
@@ -793,6 +837,7 @@ classDiagram
            +start()
            +stop()
            +get_stats() Dict
+            +run_batch(prompt_ids_list, max_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k, frequency_penalty, rep_window, return_logprobs) Union[List[List[int]], List[Tuple[List[int], List[float]]]]
        }

        class Allocator {
@@ -814,85 +859,48 @@ classDiagram
            +record(page_idx, token_ids, logical_page_idx)
        }

-        class PagePool {
-            -Allocator _alloc
-            -PrefixCache _prefix
-            +alloc() int
-            +free(idx)
-            +inc_ref(idx)
-            +lookup(token_ids) List[int]
-            +record(page_idx, token_ids, logical_page_idx)
+        class KVStorage {
+            +int size
+            +Tensor k_buffer
+            +Tensor v_buffer
+            +get_key_buffer(layer_id) Tensor
+            +get_value_buffer(layer_id) Tensor
+            +set_kv_buffer(layer_id, loc, k, v)
        }

-        class Storage {
-            +int page_size
-            +Tensor k_cache
-            +Tensor v_cache
-            +write(layer_id, page_table, start_pos, k, v)
-            +gather(layer_id, page_table, total_len) Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]
+        class ReqToTokenPool {
+            +int size
+            +int max_context_len
+            +Tensor req_to_token
+            +alloc(num_reqs) List[int]
+            +free(req_indices)
+            +write(indices, values)
        }

        class KVCache {
-            <<abstract>>
-            +task_alloc(task_id, prompt_ids) bool
-            +task_free(task_id)
-            +task_extend(task_id, pos) bool
-            +task_cached(task_id) int
-            +task_record_hashes(task_id, prompt_ids, start_logical_page)
-            +bind_tasks(task_ids, total_len, device) CacheView
+            +Tensor k_buffer
+            +Tensor v_buffer
+            +Tensor req_to_token
+            +Tensor req_pool_indices
+            +Tensor seq_lens
+            +Tensor out_cache_loc
+            +int max_len
+            +Optional[Tensor] kv_indptr
        }

-        class PageCache {
+        class PagePool {
            +int page_size
-            -PagePool _pool
-            -Storage _storage
-            -TaskTable _table
+            +bool contiguous
+            -KVStorage _storage
+            -ReqToTokenPool _req_pool
+            -Allocator _alloc
+            -PrefixCache _prefix
            +task_alloc(task_id, prompt_ids) bool
            +task_free(task_id)
            +task_extend(task_id, pos) bool
            +task_cached(task_id) int
            +task_record_hashes(task_id, prompt_ids, start_logical_page)
-            +bind_tasks(task_ids, total_len, device) PageCacheView
-        }
-
-        class ContiguousCache {
-            +int max_seq_len
-            +Tensor k, v
-            +task_alloc(task_id, prompt_ids) bool
-            +task_free(task_id)
-            +task_extend(task_id, pos) bool
-            +bind_tasks(task_ids, total_len, device) ContiguousCacheView
-        }
-
-        class CacheView {
-            <<abstract>>
-            +write(layer_id, k, v)
-            +gather(layer_id) Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]
-        }
-
-        class PageCacheView {
-            -Storage _storage
-            +Tensor _page_table
-            +int _total_len
-            +write(layer_id, k, v)
-            +gather(layer_id) Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]
-        }
-
-        class ContiguousCacheView {
-            -ContiguousCache _cache
-            +Tensor _batch_indices
-            +int _total_len
-            +write(layer_id, k, v)
-            +gather(layer_id) Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]
-        }
-
-        class TaskTable {
-            +set(task_id, page_table, cached)
-            +get(task_id) List[int]
-            +get_cached(task_id) int
-            +get_ref(task_id) List[int]
-            +pop(task_id) Tuple[List[int], int]
-            +table_tensor(task_ids, device) Tensor
+            +bind_tasks(task_ids, seq_lens, device, start_pos) KVCache
        }

    class Task {
@@ -902,6 +910,8 @@ classDiagram
        +float temperature
        +float top_p
        +int top_k
+        +float frequency_penalty
+        +int rep_window
        +TaskStatus status
        +List output_ids
        +int input_tokens
@@ -924,7 +934,6 @@ classDiagram
            +AutoTokenizer tokenizer
            +int max_batch_size
            +int max_seq_len
-            +int max_prompt_len
            +Deque waiting_queue
            +List active_tasks
            +add_task(prompt, max_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k, stream_callback) str
@@ -948,27 +957,29 @@ classDiagram
            +float top_p
            +float temperature
            +Optional[int] max_tokens
+            +float frequency_penalty
+            +int rep_window
            +bool stream
        }

        class BaseSamplingStrategy {
            <<abstract>>
-            +apply(logits, filter_value) Tensor
+            +apply(logits, filter_value, input_ids, input_mask) Tensor
        }

        class TemperatureStrategy {
            +float temperature
-            +apply(logits, filter_value) Tensor
+            +apply(logits, filter_value, input_ids, input_mask) Tensor
        }

        class TopKStrategy {
            +int top_k
-            +apply(logits, filter_value) Tensor
+            +apply(logits, filter_value, input_ids, input_mask) Tensor
        }

        class TopPStrategy {
            +float top_p
-            +apply(logits, filter_value) Tensor
+            +apply(logits, filter_value, input_ids, input_mask) Tensor
        }

        class FrequencyPenaltyStrategy {
@@ -978,8 +989,8 @@ classDiagram

        class SamplingPipeline {
            +List[BaseSamplingStrategy] strategies
-            +apply(logits, filter_value) Tensor
-            +sample(logits, filter_value) Tensor
+            +apply(logits, filter_value, input_ids, input_mask) Tensor
+            +sample(logits, filter_value, input_ids, input_mask, return_logprobs) Union[Tensor, Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]]
        }

        class StreamDecoder {
@@ -1054,7 +1065,7 @@ classDiagram
            <<abstract>>
            +prepare(request, engine) Tuple[str, GenContext, List[str]]
            +format_stream_start(ctx) List[str]
-            +format_chunk(token) List[str]
+            +format_chunk(token, **kwargs) List[str]
            +format_stream_end(ctx, stop) List[str]
            +format_response(ctx, content, stop) Dict
        }
@@ -1062,7 +1073,7 @@ classDiagram
        class OpenAIResponseBuilder {
            +prepare(request, engine) Tuple
            +format_stream_start(ctx) List[str]
-            +format_chunk(token) List[str]
+            +format_chunk(token, **kwargs) List[str]
            +format_stream_end(ctx, stop) List[str]
            +format_response(ctx, content, stop) Dict
        }
@@ -1070,7 +1081,7 @@ classDiagram
        class AnthropicResponseBuilder {
            +prepare(request, engine) Tuple
            +format_stream_start(ctx) List[str]
-            +format_chunk(token) List[str]
+            +format_chunk(token, **kwargs) List[str]
            +format_stream_end(ctx, stop) List[str]
            +format_response(ctx, content, stop) Dict
        }
@@ -1178,10 +1189,13 @@ classDiagram

        class BaseExecutor {
            +GradientState gradient_state
-            +prepare(model_fn, optimizer_fn, scheduler_fn, before_wrap) tuple
+            +prepare(model_fn, optimizer_fn, scheduler_fn, before_wrap, after_wrap) tuple
            +accumulate(model) context manager
            +backward(loss)
            +unwrap_model(model) dict
+            +checkpoint_context(model) context manager
+            +clip_grad_norm(model, max_norm) float
+            +use_distributed (property) bool
            +sync_gradients (property) bool
            +grad_accum_steps (property) int
        }
@@ -1196,14 +1210,10 @@ classDiagram
        }

        class FSDPExecutor {
-            -_prepare_model(model) nn.Module
-            +unwrap_model(model) dict
-        }
-
-        class FSDP2Executor {
            -_prepare_model(model) nn.Module
            -_no_sync(model) context manager
-            +unwrap_model(model) dict
+            +unwrap_model(model) Optional[dict]
+            +clip_grad_norm(model, max_norm) float
        }

        class ExecutorFactory {
@@ -1212,33 +1222,6 @@ classDiagram
            +create(parallel_mode, **kwargs) BaseExecutor
        }

-        class ParallelModel {
-            +dist.ProcessGroup process_group
-            +int rank
-            +int world_size
-        }
-
-        class ColumnParallelLinear {
-            +int in_features
-            +int out_features
-            +int out_features_per_rank
-            +bool gather_results
-            +Parameter weight
-            +Optional[Parameter] bias
-            +forward(x) Tensor
-            +load_state_dict(state_dict)
-        }
-
-        class RowParallelLinear {
-            +int in_features
-            +int out_features
-            +int in_features_per_rank
-            +bool reduce_results
-            +Parameter weight
-            +Optional[Parameter] bias
-            +forward(x) Tensor
-            +load_state_dict(state_dict)
-        }
    }

    %% Relationships — UML notation: <|-- generalization, *-- composition, o-- aggregation, --> association, ..> dependency
@@ -1260,11 +1243,8 @@ classDiagram
    BaseDataset <|-- SFTDataset
    BaseDataset <|-- DPODataset
    BaseDataset <|-- GRPODataset
-    Store <|-- H5Store
    Store <|-- MmapStore
    Store <|-- JsonlStore
-    H5Store --|> Streamable
-    H5Store --|> Recordable
    MmapStore --|> Streamable
    MmapStore --|> Recordable
    JsonlStore --|> Streamable
@@ -1273,8 +1253,6 @@ classDiagram
    BaseSamplingStrategy <|-- TopKStrategy
    BaseSamplingStrategy <|-- TopPStrategy
    BaseSamplingStrategy <|-- FrequencyPenaltyStrategy
-    ParallelModel <|-- RowParallelLinear
-    ParallelModel <|-- ColumnParallelLinear
    AutoModel <|-- AutoRegressiveLM
    AutoModel <|-- EmbeddingEncoder
    BaseConfig <|-- BaseModelConfig
@@ -1285,7 +1263,7 @@ classDiagram
    BaseConfig <|-- PipelineConfig
    BaseModelConfig <|-- AutoRegressiveLMConfig
    BaseModelConfig <|-- EncoderConfig
-    BaseFactory <|-- AutoModel
+    BaseFactory <|-- ModelFactory
    BaseFactory <|-- AttnFactory
    BaseFactory <|-- FFNFactory
    BaseFactory <|-- DatasetFactory
@@ -1303,7 +1281,6 @@ classDiagram
    BaseExecutor <|-- NoneExecutor
    BaseExecutor <|-- DDPExecutor
    BaseExecutor <|-- FSDPExecutor
-    BaseExecutor <|-- FSDP2Executor
    ResponseBuilder <|-- OpenAIResponseBuilder
    ResponseBuilder <|-- AnthropicResponseBuilder
    BaseToolParser <|-- SimpleJsonToolParser
@@ -1317,21 +1294,16 @@ classDiagram
    PositionIdStrategy <|-- DocResetPositionId
    PositionIdStrategy <|-- ContinuousPositionId
    StoreWriter <|-- BinWriter
-    StoreWriter <|-- H5Writer
    RawRollout <|-- RolloutResult
    LaunchStrategy <|-- TorchrunStrategy
    LaunchStrategy <|-- LocalStrategy
-    KVCache <|-- PageCache
-    KVCache <|-- ContiguousCache
-    CacheView <|-- PageCacheView
-    CacheView <|-- ContiguousCacheView
-
    %% --- Composition (strong ownership, part destroyed with whole) ---
-    PageCache *-- PagePool
-    PageCache *-- Storage
-    PageCache *-- TaskTable
+    PagePool *-- KVStorage
+    PagePool *-- ReqToTokenPool
+    PagePool *-- Allocator
+    PagePool *-- PrefixCache
    InferenceEngine *-- InferenceScheduler
-    InferenceScheduler *-- KVCache
+    InferenceScheduler *-- PagePool
    InferenceScheduler *-- Executor
    InferenceScheduler *-- TaskManager
    AutoRegressiveLM *-- DecoderBlock
@@ -1352,15 +1324,11 @@ classDiagram
    %% --- Aggregation (weak ownership) ---
    AutoModel o-- BaseModelConfig
    AutoTokenizer o-- ChatTemplate
-    PagePool o-- Allocator
-    PagePool o-- PrefixCache
    Trainer o-- TrainCallback
    TrainContext o-- BaseStrategy
    TrainContext o-- BaseScheduler
    TrainContext o-- Checkpoint
    TrainContext o-- BaseExecutor
-    PageCacheView o-- Storage
-    ContiguousCacheView o-- ContiguousCache
    SamplingPipeline o-- BaseSamplingStrategy
    BaseDataset o-- Store
    Pipeline o-- PipelineConfig
@@ -1389,15 +1357,15 @@ classDiagram
    FFNFactory ..> DeepSeekMoE : creates
    DecoderBlock ..> AttnFactory : uses
    DecoderBlock ..> FFNFactory : uses
-    StoreFactory ..> H5Store : creates
    StoreFactory ..> MmapStore : creates
    StoreFactory ..> JsonlStore : creates
    ConfigFactory ..> AutoRegressiveLMConfig : creates
    ConfigFactory ..> EncoderConfig : creates
+    ModelFactory ..> AutoRegressiveLM : creates
+    ModelFactory ..> EmbeddingEncoder : creates
    ExecutorFactory ..> NoneExecutor : creates
    ExecutorFactory ..> DDPExecutor : creates
    ExecutorFactory ..> FSDPExecutor : creates
-    ExecutorFactory ..> FSDP2Executor : creates
    ToolParserFactory ..> BaseToolParser : creates
    TrainContextBuilder ..> ExecutorFactory : creates
    Trainer ..> TrainContextBuilder : uses
@@ -1406,8 +1374,7 @@ classDiagram
    TrainContextBuilder ..> RDSampler : creates
    Checkpoint ..> Checkpoint : serializes
    CheckpointCallback ..> Checkpoint : creates
-    PageCache ..> PageCacheView : binds
-    ContiguousCache ..> ContiguousCacheView : binds
+    PagePool ..> KVCache : binds
    InferenceEngine ..> GenerationRequest : uses
    InferenceEngine ..> GenerateResult : creates
    OpenAIResponseBuilder ..> ChatCompletionRequest : receives
@@ -1438,14 +1405,15 @@ classDiagram
 | Module | Components | Description |
 |--------|------------|-------------|
 | **astrai.config** | BaseConfig, BaseModelConfig, AutoRegressiveLMConfig, EncoderConfig, ConfigFactory, TrainConfig, PipelineConfig, InputConfig, ProcessingConfig, OutputConfig | Configuration management (to_dict/from_dict, to_file/from_file) |
-| **astrai.preprocessing** | SectionRenderer, BaseMaskBuilder, MaskBuilderFactory, SectionedMaskBuilder, SingleOutputMaskBuilder, MultiOutputMaskBuilder, Pipeline, TokenizeTransform, PackingStrategy, PackingStrategyFactory, SimplePacking, BFDPacking, BFDSplitPacking, PositionIdStrategy, PositionIdStrategyFactory, NoPositionId, DocResetPositionId, ContinuousPositionId, StoreWriter, StoreWriterFactory, BinWriter, H5Writer | Declarative JSON-driven data preprocessing |
-| **astrai.dataset** | BaseDataset, SEQDataset, SFTDataset, DPODataset, GRPODataset, Store, Streamable, Recordable, H5Store, MmapStore, JsonlSource, JsonlStore, StoreFactory, RDSampler, DatasetFactory | Dataset loading and management |
+| **astrai.preprocessing** | SectionRenderer, BaseMaskBuilder, MaskBuilderFactory, SectionedMaskBuilder, SingleOutputMaskBuilder, MultiOutputMaskBuilder, Pipeline, TokenizeTransform, PackingStrategy, PackingStrategyFactory, SimplePacking, BFDPacking, BFDSplitPacking, PositionIdStrategy, PositionIdStrategyFactory, NoPositionId, DocResetPositionId, ContinuousPositionId, StoreWriter, StoreWriterFactory, BinWriter | Declarative JSON-driven data preprocessing |
+| **astrai.dataset** | BaseDataset, SEQDataset, SFTDataset, DPODataset, GRPODataset, Store, Streamable, Recordable, MmapStore, JsonlSource, JsonlStore, StoreFactory, RDSampler, DatasetFactory | Dataset loading and management |
 | **astrai.serialization** | Checkpoint | Model serialization |
-| **astrai.model** | AutoModel, AutoRegressiveLM, EmbeddingEncoder, DecoderBlock, GQA, MLA, MLP, DeepSeekMoE, AttnFactory, FFNFactory, RMSNorm, Linear, LoRAConfig, LoRALinear, RotaryEmbedding, Embedding | Neural network model |
+| **astrai.model** | ModelFactory, AutoModel, AutoRegressiveLM, EmbeddingEncoder, DecoderBlock, GQA, MLA, MLP, DeepSeekMoE, AttnFactory, FFNFactory, RMSNorm, Linear, LoRAConfig, LoRALinear, RotaryEmbedding, Embedding | Neural network model |
 | **astrai.tokenize** | AutoTokenizer, ChatTemplate | Tokenizer and chat template |
 | **astrai.trainer** | Trainer, TrainContext, TrainContextBuilder, BaseStrategy–GRPOStrategy, StrategyFactory, BaseScheduler–WSDScheduler, SchedulerFactory, TrainCallback(Protocol)–MetricCallback, CallbackFactory, RawRollout, RolloutResult, BaseRewardModel, RolloutGenerator, RolloutRunner | Training workflow |
-| **astrai.inference** | InferenceEngine, InferenceScheduler, Executor, KVCache–ContiguousCache/PageCache, CacheView–ContiguousCacheView/PageCacheView, Allocator–Storage, Task, TaskManager, TaskStatus, StreamDecoder, GenerationRequest, GenerateResult, BaseSamplingStrategy–SamplingPipeline, FrequencyPenaltyStrategy, ProtocolHandler, ResponseBuilder, OpenAIResponseBuilder, AnthropicResponseBuilder, StopChecker, GenContext, StopInfo, ChatMessage, FunctionDef, ToolDef, ChatCompletionRequest, AnthropicMessage, MessagesRequest, BaseToolParser, ToolParserFactory, SimpleJsonToolParser | Inference service |
-| **astrai.parallel** | spawn_parallel_fn, setup_parallel, get_rank/get_world_size/get_current_device, only_on_rank, LaunchStrategy, TorchrunStrategy, LocalStrategy, BaseExecutor, ExecutorFactory, NoneExecutor, DDPExecutor, FSDPExecutor, FSDP2Executor, GradientState, AccumOptimizer, AccumScheduler, ParallelModel, RowParallelLinear, ColumnParallelLinear | Distributed parallel & gradient accumulation |
+| **astrai.inference** | InferenceEngine, InferenceScheduler, Executor, PagePool, KVStorage, ReqToTokenPool, KVCache, Allocator, PrefixCache, Task, TaskManager, TaskStatus, StreamDecoder, GenerationRequest, GenerateResult, BaseSamplingStrategy–SamplingPipeline, FrequencyPenaltyStrategy, ProtocolHandler, ResponseBuilder, OpenAIResponseBuilder, AnthropicResponseBuilder, StopChecker, GenContext, StopInfo, ChatMessage, FunctionDef, ToolDef, ChatCompletionRequest, AnthropicMessage, MessagesRequest, BaseToolParser, ToolParserFactory, SimpleJsonToolParser | Inference service |
+| **astrai.extension** | AttentionBackend, TorchNativeBackend, CudaBackend, attn_backend, ATTN_BACKEND, attn_decode, attn_prefill, attn_paged_decode, rotary_emb, apply_rotary_emb, rotary_backend, is_available | CUDA attention + rotary kernels, backend abstraction, auto-dispatch |
+| **astrai.parallel** | spawn_parallel_fn, setup_parallel, get_rank/get_world_size/get_current_device, only_on_rank, LaunchStrategy, TorchrunStrategy, LocalStrategy, BaseExecutor, ExecutorFactory, NoneExecutor, DDPExecutor, FSDPExecutor, GradientState, AccumOptimizer, AccumScheduler | Distributed parallel & gradient accumulation |
 | **astrai.factory** | BaseFactory | Component registration |
 | **astrai.protocols** | OptimizerProtocol, SchedulerProtocol | Structural subtyping for optimizer/scheduler wrappers |

@@ -1453,7 +1421,7 @@ classDiagram

 | Pattern | Classes | Purpose |
 |---------|---------|---------|
-| **Factory** | `AttnFactory`, `FFNFactory`, `StrategyFactory`, `DatasetFactory`, `SchedulerFactory`, `CallbackFactory`, `StoreFactory`, `ConfigFactory`, `ExecutorFactory`, `MaskBuilderFactory`, `StoreWriterFactory`, `PackingStrategyFactory`, `PositionIdStrategyFactory`, `ToolParserFactory` | Decorator-based component creation |
+| **Factory** | `ModelFactory`, `AttnFactory`, `FFNFactory`, `StrategyFactory`, `DatasetFactory`, `SchedulerFactory`, `CallbackFactory`, `StoreFactory`, `ConfigFactory`, `ExecutorFactory`, `MaskBuilderFactory`, `StoreWriterFactory`, `PackingStrategyFactory`, `PositionIdStrategyFactory`, `ToolParserFactory` | Decorator-based component creation |
 | **Registry** | `BaseFactory` | Component registration |
 | **Strategy** | `SEQStrategy`, `SFTStrategy`, `DPOStrategy`, `GRPOStrategy` | Training strategy switching |
 | **Strategy (Sampling)** | `TemperatureStrategy`, `TopKStrategy`, `TopPStrategy`, `SamplingPipeline` | Composable logit transformations |
@@ -1462,23 +1430,25 @@ classDiagram
 | **Observer** | `TrainCallback`, callback implementations | Training process monitoring |
 | **Context** | `TrainContext` | Unified training state bag |
 | **Object Pool** | `Allocator`, `PagePool` | Page-based KV cache with LRU eviction |
-| **Executor** | `BaseExecutor`, `NoneExecutor`, `DDPExecutor`, `FSDPExecutor`, `FSDP2Executor` | Gradient accumulation & model distribution |
-| **Storage** | `Store`, `H5Store`, `MmapStore`, `JsonlStore` | Format-agnostic data access with multi-segment support |
+| **Strategy (Attention)** | `AttentionBackend`, `TorchNativeBackend`, `CudaBackend` | Attention computation backend switching via context manager |
+| **Auto-dispatch (Rotary)** | `apply_rotary_emb`, `rotary_backend.py`, `rotary_ops.py` | Rotary embedding CUDA kernel auto-dispatch with torch fallback |
+| **Executor** | `BaseExecutor`, `NoneExecutor`, `DDPExecutor`, `FSDPExecutor` | Gradient accumulation & model distribution |
+| **Storage** | `Store`, `MmapStore`, `JsonlStore` | Format-agnostic data access with multi-segment support |
 | **Producer-Consumer** | `InferenceScheduler`, `Task`, queues | Continuous batching |
-| **AutoModel Registry** | `AutoModel`, `AutoRegressiveLM`, `EmbeddingEncoder` | Model-type dynamic loading |
+| **Model Registry** | `ModelFactory`, `AutoRegressiveLM`, `EmbeddingEncoder` | Model-type dynamic loading |

 ## Core Relationships

 1. **Config → Training**: `TrainConfig` holds `model_fn`, `dataset`, `optimizer_fn`, `scheduler_fn`, `parallel_mode`, `executor_kwargs`
 2. **Training Flow**: `Trainer` → `TrainContextBuilder` → `TrainContext`, uses `BaseStrategy` for loss, `BaseExecutor` for gradient accumulation + model distribution
 3. **Strategy Selection**: `StrategyFactory` creates strategy by `train_type`
-4. **Executor Selection**: `ExecutorFactory.create(cfg.parallel_mode, grad_accum_steps=cfg.grad_accum_steps, **cfg.executor_kwargs)` → `NoneExecutor` / `DDPExecutor` / `FSDPExecutor` / `FSDP2Executor`
-5. **Inference Flow**: `InferenceEngine` → `InferenceScheduler` → `AutoRegressiveLM`, backed by `KVCache` + `SamplingPipeline`
+4. **Executor Selection**: `ExecutorFactory.create(cfg.parallel_mode, grad_accum_steps=cfg.grad_accum_steps, **cfg.executor_kwargs)` → `NoneExecutor` / `DDPExecutor` / `FSDPExecutor`
+5. **Inference Flow**: `InferenceEngine` → `InferenceScheduler` → `AutoRegressiveLM`, backed by `PagePool` + `KVCache` + `SamplingPipeline`. Attention backend selected via `attn_backend()` context manager (`TorchNativeBackend` default, `CudaBackend` for CUDA kernels). Rotary embedding auto-dispatches to CUDA kernel when available (inference mode), else torch complex multiply (training).
 6. **Distributed**: `spawn_parallel_fn` + `setup_parallel` for multi-process DDP
-7. **Dataset Loading**: `DatasetFactory` creates datasets, `Store` (H5Store/MmapStore/JsonlStore) loads data with explicit `_length` and multi-segment `_data`
-8. **Checkpoint**: `Checkpoint` saves/loads safetensors + metadata (rank-0 only), extra state saved as `{key}.pt`
+7. **Dataset Loading**: `DatasetFactory` creates datasets, `Store` (`MmapStore`/`JsonlStore`) loads data with explicit `_length` and multi-segment `_data`
+8. **Checkpoint**: `Checkpoint` saves/loads safetensors + metadata; `CheckpointCallback` performs rank-0 training saves, with extra state saved as `{key}.pt`
 9. **Scheduler**: `SchedulerFactory` creates `CosineScheduler`/`SGDRScheduler`/`WSDScheduler`
 10. **AutoModel**: `from_pretrained()` loads `config.json` + `model.safetensors`, `_disable_random_init` replaces `nn.init.*` with no-ops
 11. **Protocols**: `OptimizerProtocol` / `SchedulerProtocol` — structural subtyping for `AccumOptimizer` / `AccumScheduler` wrappers

-> Document Update Time: 2026-07-20
+> Document Update Time: 2026-08-02
@@ -0,0 +1,173 @@
+# CUDA Kernels
+
+AstrAI includes optional custom CUDA kernels for attention and rotary embedding. These are built when `nvcc` is available and CUDA is detected, and are dispatched via the `CudaBackend` attention backend or auto-dispatched for rotary.
+
+## Overview
+
+| Kernel | File | Description |
+|--------|------|-------------|
+| `attn_decode` | `attn_decode.cu` | GQA decode attention (split-KV) |
+| `attn_prefill` | `attn_prefill.cu` | GQA prefill attention (split-Q) |
+| `attn_paged_decode` | `attn_paged_decode.cu` | Paged KV cache decode attention |
+| `rotary_emb` | `rotary_emb.cu` | Fused rotary embedding (cos/sin lookup + rotation) |
+
+Additionally, optimized `.cuh` variants with tensor-core MMA (Matrix Multiply-Accumulate) exist:
+
+| Variant | File | Optimization |
+|---------|------|--------------|
+| Split-KV MMA decode | `attn_decode_split_kv_mma.cuh` | Split KV across warps + MMA (sm_80+) |
+| Split-Q MMA prefill | `attn_prefill_split_q_mma.cuh` | Split Q across warps + MMA (sm_80+) |
+| Paged split-KV MMA decode | `attn_paged_decode_split_kv_mma.cuh` | Paged cache + split-KV + MMA |
+
+### Rotary Embedding Kernel
+
+The `rotary_emb` kernel (`csrc/kernels/rotary_emb.cu`) fuses cos/sin lookup and rotation into a single kernel:
+
+- One thread per (head, dim-pair), vectorized `__nv_bfloat162` load/store
+- f32 cos/sin input, bf16 compute and output
+- 256-thread blocks, grid-stride loop
+- Auto-dispatched via `apply_rotary_emb` in `astrai/extension/rotary_backend.py` (CUDA when available + inference mode, else torch complex-multiply fallback)
+- No context-manager backend needed — rotary is backend-agnostic, both attention backends benefit
+
+Standalone benchmark vs torch complex-multiply (48 calls = 24 layers × q+k): 6-9x faster, max diff 0 (decode) to 3e-2 (large prefill, bf16).
+
+## Build System
+
+### Auto-detection
+
+Kernels are built when **both** of these conditions are met:
+1. `nvcc` is available on `PATH`
+2. `torch.cuda.is_available()` returns `True`
+
+Unless `CSRC_KERNELS=false` is set explicitly.
+
+### Manual build
+
+```bash
+# During install
+CSRC_KERNELS=true pip install -e . --no-build-isolation
+
+# Rebuild after editing .cu/.cuh files
+CSRC_KERNELS=true python setup.py build_ext --inplace
+# Output: astrai/extension/lib/*.so
+```
+
+### Architecture flags
+
+`csrc/build.py` auto-detects the GPU compute capability and generates the appropriate `nvcc` gencode flag:
+
+- **sm_80+** (Ampere and later): enables tensor-core MMA path (`mma.sync.m16n8k16.bf16`)
+- **Below sm_80**: adds `-DASTRAI_NO_MMA` to disable the MMA path at compile time
+
+### Build configuration
+
+```
+NVCC_FLAGS = -O3 --expt-relaxed-constexpr --use_fast_math
+             --ptxas-options=-O3,-v --extra-device-vectorization --threads=8
+```
+
+The `REGISTRY` in `csrc/build.py` lists all registered kernels (currently 4). Each entry maps a kernel name to its source files and build flags.
+
+## Attention Backend
+
+`astrai/extension/attention_backend.py` provides the backend abstraction:
+
+- **`AttentionBackend`** (ABC): `fwd_decode` / `fwd_prefill` abstract methods, `forward` dispatches by q_len
+- **`TorchNativeBackend`**: SDPA with indirect KV cache gather (default)
+- **`CudaBackend`**: CUDA kernel dispatch — decode via `attn_paged_decode` (page_size=1), prefill via `attn_prefill`
+
+Select a backend via context manager (mirrors `torch.nn.attention.sdpa_kernel`):
+
+```python
+from astrai.extension import attn_backend, ATTN_BACKEND
+
+with attn_backend(ATTN_BACKEND.CUDA):
+    engine.generate("hello")
+```
+
+`CudaBackend` falls back to `TorchNativeBackend` when a kernel is not available.
+
+### Rotary Backend
+
+`astrai/extension/rotary_backend.py` provides `apply_rotary_emb(x, (cos, sin))` with auto-dispatch:
+
+- **CUDA path**: calls `rotary_emb` kernel directly when available, input is bf16 on CUDA, and `torch.is_grad_enabled()` is `False` (inference)
+- **Torch fallback**: complex multiply (`torch.view_as_complex` → `torch.complex` multiply → `torch.view_as_real`), used during training (supports autograd) or when kernel unavailable
+
+No context-manager switching needed — the dispatch is automatic per call.
+
+## Python Wrappers
+
+`astrai/extension/attention_ops.py` provides Python wrappers for each compiled attention kernel. Each wrapper calls its CUDA kernel directly and raises `RuntimeError` if the `.so` is not available. Fallback to torch SDPA is handled by the attention backend, not the wrapper functions.
+
+`astrai/extension/rotary_ops.py` provides the wrapper for the rotary embedding kernel. Fallback to torch complex multiply is handled by `rotary_backend.py`.
+
+Interface (all functions):
+```
+is_causal: True = causal mask; False = non-causal
+mask:      2D [batch, kv_len] or 3D [batch, q_len, kv_len] (bool, True=keep)
+```
+
+Layout convention: all q/k/v are `[batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim]` (blhd). Scale is always `1/sqrt(head_dim)`.
+
+## Standalone Testing
+
+Each `csrc/tests/*.cu` file has the `nvcc` compile command in its header comment. Example:
+
+```bash
+nvcc -I csrc -arch=sm_89 -O3 --use_fast_math \
+     --ptxas-options=-O3,-v --extra-device-vectorization \
+     -Xcompiler -fopenmp csrc/tests/attn_test.cu -o /tmp/test && /tmp/test
+```
+
+Test files:
+- `attn_test.cu` — decode + prefill kernels (correctness tables + benchmarks)
+- `attn_paged_test.cu` — paged decode/prefill kernels
+
+## Benchmarks
+
+Hardware: NVIDIA L20 (sm_89, 46 GB), CUDA 12.8, driver 570.86.
+
+Reproduce (decode + prefill in `attn_test.cu`, paged in `attn_paged_test.cu`):
+```bash
+nvcc -I csrc -arch=sm_89 -O3 --use_fast_math \
+     --ptxas-options=-O3,-v --extra-device-vectorization \
+     -Xcompiler -fopenmp csrc/tests/attn_test.cu -o /tmp/test && /tmp/test
+```
+
+## Known Optimization Targets
+
+- **Decode D=256**: spill eliminated (BC=16 + STAGES=2), but still 248 regs — further tiling could help.
+- **Prefill single-batch**: bandwidth low (22 GB/s at q=kv=2048) — compute-bound at ~94 TFLOP/s (near L20 bf16 ceiling ~193 TFLOP/s for non-causal).
+- **Decode single-batch**: bandwidth low (113 GB/s at kv=512, 13% of 864 GB/s theoretical) — small kv underutilizes SMs despite split-KV; scales to 757 GB/s (88%) at B=16+.
+
+## File Layout
+
+```
+csrc/
+├── build.py              # Build system: REGISTRY, _arch_flags, nvcc flags
+├── kernels/
+│   ├── attn_common.h     # Shared attention params (AttentionParams, PagedAttentionParams)
+│   ├── attn_decode.cu    # Basic decode kernel (registered)
+│   ├── attn_prefill.cu   # Basic prefill kernel (registered)
+│   ├── attn_paged_decode.cu             # Paged decode kernel (registered)
+│   ├── rotary_emb.cu                    # Fused rotary embedding kernel (registered)
+│   ├── attn_decode_split_kv.cuh         # Split-KV variant
+│   ├── attn_decode_split_kv_mma.cuh     # Split-KV + MMA variant
+│   ├── attn_prefill_split_q.cuh         # Split-Q variant
+│   ├── attn_prefill_split_q_mma.cuh     # Split-Q + MMA variant
+│   ├── attn_paged_decode_split_kv.cuh   # Paged + split-KV variant
+│   ├── attn_paged_decode_split_kv_mma.cuh  # Paged + split-KV + MMA variant
+│   ├── attn_dispatchers.cuh             # Kernel dispatch macros
+│   ├── attn_entry_utils.cuh             # Entry point helpers
+│   ├── attn_mma_utils.cuh               # MMA utilities
+│   └── attn_warp_utils.cuh              # Warp-level utilities
+└── tests/
+    ├── test_utils.cuh           # Shared test utilities
+    ├── attn_test.cu             # Decode + prefill kernels
+    └── attn_paged_test.cu       # Paged decode/prefill kernels
+```
+
+Compiled `.so` files are placed in `astrai/extension/lib/`, separate from Python source files.
+
+> Document Update Time: 2026-07-31
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+# Data Flow
+
+This document describes the data pipeline: from raw text to model input tensors. For creating preprocessing configs, see [Preprocessing Guide](../guides/preprocessing.md).
+
+## Contents
+
+- [Overview](#overview)
+- [Data Preparation](#data-preparation) — tokenization, format detection, backends
+- [Data Keys by Training Type](#data-keys-by-training-type)
+- [Dataset Architecture](#dataset-architecture)
+- [Sampler](#sampler)
+- [DataLoader](#dataloader)
+
+## Overview
+
+```
+JSON / JSONL Records → Pipeline (mask builder) → Tokenized Tensors
+                                               ↓
+                                           .bin storage
+                                               ↓
+                                       Store.load()
+                                              ↓
+                                      Store.fetch(begin, end, keys)
+                                              ↓
+                                       Dataset.__getitem__(idx)
+                                               ↓
+                                       RDSampler → DataLoader → Training
+```
+
+## Data Preparation
+
+The offline `Pipeline` accepts `.jsonl` records and `.json` files containing one
+object or a list of objects. It tokenizes them and writes binary shards (`.bin`
+plus `meta.json`) with keyed tensor groups. Binary is the only registered output
+writer; the pipeline cannot emit JSONL.
+
+### Tokenization
+
+The `Pipeline` reads JSON/JSONL records, applies the mask builder (see
+[Preprocessing](../guides/preprocessing.md)), and produces token sequences:
+
+```python
+# Per JSONL line: messages → chat template → token IDs + loss mask
+tokens = tokenizer.encode(rendered_text)        # List[int]
+loss_mask = [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]        # 0=masked, 1=train
+# Stored as flat tensors, packed with other lines by packing strategy
+```
+
+For default single-output preprocessing, the stored keys are `sequence` and
+`position_ids`, plus `loss_mask` when masking is required. Packing is supported
+for single-output data with a `sequence` key. Shard flushing counts the primary
+flat sequence for each record: `sequence` in single-output mode, otherwise the
+first flat source output.
+
+The exact shard `meta.json` schema is a top-level mapping from key to tensor
+metadata. It does not contain a storage-format or total-token field:
+
+```json
+{
+  "sequence": {"shape": [123456], "dtype": "int32"},
+  "loss_mask": {"shape": [123456], "dtype": "bool"},
+  "position_ids": {"shape": [123456], "dtype": "int32"}
+}
+```
+
+Record-aware binary data may also include `"offsets": [0, ...]` inside a key's
+metadata, but the preprocessing `BinWriter` currently does not write offsets.
+
+### Format Detection
+
+`detect_format(load_path)` inspects the path:
+
+- If `load_path` is a file: `.jsonl` selects `"jsonl"`; other suffixes raise `ValueError`.
+- If `load_path` is a directory: any recursive `*.bin` plus a `meta.json` selects `"bin"`; otherwise any recursive `*.jsonl` selects `"jsonl"`.
+- Detection does not require `dataset_config.json`; configuration is selected later when `JsonlStore.load()` chooses a transform.
+
+### Store Backends
+
+Storage format is auto-detected by `detect_format()`; backends are dispatched via registry:
+
+```
+StoreFactory.create("bin")   → MmapStore
+StoreFactory.create("jsonl") → JsonlStore
+```
+
+Both stores inherit `Store` and compose the `Streamable` and `Recordable`
+access methods.
+
+**MmapStore**: Memory-maps `.bin` files. OS page cache sharing is native — no explicit `share_memory_()` needed. Uses `torch.from_numpy(np.memmap(...))`. `segments_are_records=False` — bin segments are contiguous streams; record access is driven by `_offsets` (written when `save_bin(..., record_keys=...)` was used at preprocessing time).
+
+**JsonlStore**: Reads a `.jsonl` file or the sorted top-level `*.jsonl` files in
+a directory. Eager transform selection uses the first available route:
+
+1. An explicit `transform=` argument.
+2. `dataset_config.json` in the JSONL directory. It follows `PipelineConfig` and may add `tokenizer_path`; when omitted, the config directory is used.
+3. The built-in `messages` transform when `tokenizer_path=` is supplied. It masks system/user turns, trains assistant turns, and emits document-reset position IDs.
+
+Only DPO gets an automatic lazy route from `DatasetFactory`: raw JSONL plus
+`tokenizer_path` installs `dpo_processor` and tokenizes each record in
+`fetch_record`. GRPO does not currently have an automatic lazy processor.
+
+Eager-loaded stores normalize tensors into `Store._data[Dict[str, List[Tensor]]]` + `Store._cum[Dict[str, List[int]]]` (cumulative lengths for stream indexing) + `Store._offsets[Dict[str, List[int]]]` (per-record offsets for record indexing). Nested JSONL keys such as GRPO `responses`/`masks` are kept as record values and excluded from stream bookkeeping. Lazy DPO instead retains raw records and processes them in `fetch_record`.
+
+## Data Keys by Training Type
+
+| Type | Storage Keys | Access Mode |
+|------|-------------|-------------|
+| `seq` | `sequence`, `position_ids` by default (`SEQDataset` consumes only `sequence`) | stream (`fetch`) |
+| `sft` | `sequence`, `loss_mask`, `position_ids` | stream (`fetch`) |
+| `dpo` | `chosen`, `rejected`, `chosen_mask`, `rejected_mask` | record (`fetch_record`) |
+| `grpo` | `prompts`, `responses`, `masks`, `rewards` | record (`fetch_record`) |
+
+Offline `.bin` output from DPO/GRPO preprocessing is not currently loadable for
+training. DPO shards are written without record offsets, while GRPO response
+groups are flattened without preserving record/group boundaries. Supported raw
+routes are eager JSONL for SEQ/SFT and automatic lazy JSONL for DPO. GRPO
+requires a caller-built, already-loaded record store.
+
+## Dataset Architecture
+
+```
+DatasetFactory.load(...)
+  → detect_format(load_path)
+  → optionally build dpo_processor for raw JSONL
+  → StoreFactory.create(storage_type, window_size, stride)
+  → Store.load(load_path, transform=... or processor=...)
+  → DatasetFactory.create(train_type, store=store)
+
+Stream datasets (SEQ/SFT):
+  BaseDataset.__getitem__(idx)
+    → Store.sample_window(idx) → [begin, end)
+    → Store.fetch(begin, end, keys) → Tensor / Dict[str, Tensor]
+
+Record datasets (DPO/GRPO):
+  DPODataset/GRPODataset.__getitem__(idx)
+    → Store.fetch_record(idx, keys) → Tensor / Dict[str, Tensor]
+```
+
+Class hierarchy: `BaseDataset` is the direct base of `SEQDataset`, `SFTDataset`,
+`DPODataset`, and `GRPODataset`. There is no `RecordDataset` class.
+
+`window_size` = max input length, `stride` = step between consecutive samples (defaults to `window_size`, optional). Only meaningful for stream datasets — record datasets ignore both. `storage_type` defaults to `None` (auto-detect via `detect_format`).
+
+For raw JSONL, `tokenizer_path` builds the lazy processor only for DPO. For
+SEQ/SFT it is forwarded to `JsonlStore` so the built-in eager `messages`
+transform can be selected when no `dataset_config.json` exists. GRPO receives no
+automatic processor. A pre-built `store` bypasses path, format, tokenizer,
+window, and stride setup entirely.
+
+`Store.fetch(begin, end, keys)` (stream mode, on `Streamable`): accepts a single key (`str`) returning a `Tensor`, or a list of keys returning `Dict[str, Tensor]`. Internally uses `bisect` across multi-segment tensors. Raises `RuntimeError("Store not loaded")` if called before `load()`.
+
+`Store.fetch_record(index, keys)` (record mode, on `Recordable`): same key API. Uses `_offsets[key]` when present for binary record layouts; otherwise it indexes per-record JSONL tensors directly.
+
+## Sampler
+
+`RDSampler` supports checkpoint-aware distributed sampling:
+
+- Tracks `start_epoch` / `start_iter` for resume
+- Shuffle via `torch.Generator(seed + epoch)`
+- Per-replica index slicing for DDP
+
+## DataLoader
+
+Standard PyTorch `DataLoader` with configurable `batch_size`, `num_workers`, `pin_memory`, `prefetch_factor`. Sampler produces indices; dataloader fetches tensor batches via `__getitem__`.
+
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+# Internals
+
+Mathematical foundations and internal algorithms for AstrAI's training, inference, and preprocessing pipelines. For practical usage guides, see [Training](../guides/training.md), [Inference](../guides/inference.md), and [Preprocessing](../guides/preprocessing.md).
+
+## Contents
+
+- [Autoregression & Causal Masking](#autoregression--causal-masking)
+- [Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE)](#rotary-position-embedding-rope)
+- [Training Loss Formulas](#training-loss-formulas)
+- [Training Loop Internals](#training-loop-internals)
+- [Callback Lifecycle](#callback-lifecycle)
+- [KV Cache Mathematics](#kv-cache-mathematics)
+- [Mask Algorithm Internals](#mask-algorithm-internals)
+- [Gradient Accumulation Mechanics](#gradient-accumulation-mechanics)
+
+## Autoregression & Causal Masking
+
+Given a token sequence, the model predicts the probability of the next token. Each generated token is appended to the input and fed back, repeating until an end-of-sequence token or max length.
+
+```
+sequence : [[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]]
+input_ids: [[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]]
+target_ids: [[2, 3, 4, 5, 6]]
+```
+
+A lower-triangular causal mask prevents attending to future positions:
+
+```
+[[0, -inf, -inf, -inf, -inf],
+ [0,    0, -inf, -inf, -inf],
+ [0,    0,    0, -inf, -inf],
+ [0,    0,    0,    0, -inf],
+ [0,    0,    0,    0,    0]]
+```
+
+This ensures position $i$ can only attend to positions $\leq i$, which is essential for autoregressive generation.
+
+## Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE)
+
+RoPE embeds position into Q/K vectors via complex rotation:
+
+$$ q_i = R_i W_q x_i, \quad k_j = R_j W_k x_j, \quad q_i^T k_j = x_i^T W_q^T R_{i-j} W_k x_j $$
+
+`RotaryEmbedding` pre-computes a complex `freqs_cis` buffer. `forward()` returns
+a tensor indexed by `position_ids`. `apply_rotary_emb` applies the rotation:
+during training it uses torch complex multiply (autograd-compatible); during
+inference it auto-dispatches to a fused CUDA kernel when available. The key
+property is that the dot product $q_i^T k_j$ depends only on the relative
+position $i - j$, not the absolute positions.
+
+**Critical for inference**: RoPE is applied **before** KV cache write, not after. If applied after caching, position encoding drift occurs because cached K/V would have stale rotation factors.
+
+## Training Loss Formulas
+
+### SEQ (Pre-training)
+
+Next-token cross-entropy with optional label smoothing:
+
+$$ L_{\text{PT}} = -\frac{1}{T}\sum_{t=1}^{T} \log P(x_t \mid x_{\lt t}; \theta) $$
+
+### SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning)
+
+Masked cross-entropy (`ignore_index=-100`) over response tokens only:
+
+$$ L_{\text{SFT}} = -\frac{1}{L}\sum_{t=P+1}^{P+L} \log P(s_t \mid s_{\lt t}; \theta) $$
+
+Prompt tokens are masked out via `loss_mask`; only response tokens contribute to the loss.
+
+### DPO (Direct Preference Optimization)
+
+Frozen reference model, preference margin via log-ratio:
+
+$$ L_{\text{DPO}} = -\mathbb{E}\left[\log\sigma\left(\beta\log\frac{\pi_\theta(y_w\mid x)}{\pi_{\text{ref}}(y_w\mid x)} - \beta\log\frac{\pi_\theta(y_l\mid x)}{\pi_{\text{ref}}(y_l\mid x)}\right)\right] $$
+
+Parameters: `beta=0.1`, `reduction="sum"`.
+
+### GRPO (Group Relative Policy Optimization)
+
+Token-level PPO with group-normalized advantages:
+
+$$ \text{Advantage}_i = \frac{r_i - \mu}{\sigma + \epsilon} $$
+
+$$ L_{\text{GRPO}} = -\mathbb{E}_t\left[\min\left(\rho_t A,\; \text{clip}\left(\rho_t, 1-\epsilon, 1+\epsilon\right)A\right)\right] + \lambda \cdot \mathbb{E}_t\left[\frac{\pi_{\text{ref}}}{\pi_\theta} - \log\frac{\pi_{\text{ref}}}{\pi_\theta} - 1\right] $$
+
+Where $\rho_t = \pi_\theta(a_t|s_t) / \pi_{\text{old}}(a_t|s_t)$ is the per-token importance sampling ratio. Advantages are derived from scalar per-response rewards, group-normalized, and broadcast across all response tokens. Only response tokens contribute to the loss.
+
+Parameters: `group_size=4`, `clip_eps=0.2`, `kl_coef=0.01`.
+
+### MoE Load Balancing
+
+MoE layers add a differentiable load-balancing term based on mean router probabilities and top-k expert assignment frequency. The training objective is:
+
+$$ L = L_{\text{task}} + \lambda_{\text{MoE}} L_{\text{aux}} $$
+
+`TrainConfig.moe_aux_loss_coef` controls $\lambda_{\text{MoE}}$ (default `0.01`). The unweighted and weighted auxiliary losses are logged separately.
+
+## Training Loop Internals
+
+Two-level loop: **epoch** → **batch**. Optimizer step fires every `grad_accum_steps` batches.
+
+```
+on_train_begin
+  model.train()
+  on_epoch_begin
+    for batch in dataloader:
+      with executor.accumulate(model):
+        on_batch_begin
+        loss_output = strategy(batch)
+        context.loss = loss_output["loss"].item()
+        context.metrics = loss_output["metrics"]
+        stand_loss = loss_output["loss"] / executor.grad_accum_steps
+        executor.backward(stand_loss)
+        context.consumed_samples += (
+            context.config.batch_per_device * context.world_size
+        )
+        on_batch_end
+
+        if executor.sync_gradients:
+          on_optimizer_step
+          optimizer.step()
+          strategy.on_optimizer_step()
+          optimizer.zero_grad()
+          if scheduler:
+            scheduler.step()
+    on_epoch_end
+on_train_end
+```
+
+The loss is divided by `grad_accum_steps` before `backward()`, so accumulated gradients sum to the correct mean.
+Strategy metrics are detached and converted to Python `float` values before the
+`LossOutput` is returned; only `LossOutput.loss` remains a differentiable tensor.
+
+## Callback Lifecycle
+
+| Hook | Fires | Default callback |
+|------|-------|-----------------|
+| `on_train_begin` | Before training starts | `GradientCheckpointingCallback`, `CheckpointCallback`, `MetricCallback` |
+| `on_epoch_begin` | Start of each epoch | `ProgressBarCallback` |
+| `on_batch_begin` | Every batch | — |
+| `on_optimizer_step` | Every accumulation window | `MetricCallback`, `ProgressBarCallback`, `GradientClippingCallback` |
+| `on_batch_end` | Every batch | `CheckpointCallback` |
+| `on_epoch_end` | End of each epoch | `MetricCallback`, `ProgressBarCallback` |
+| `on_error` | On exception during training | `CheckpointCallback`, `MetricCallback` |
+| `on_train_end` | Training exits after `on_train_begin` completes (via `finally`) | `GradientCheckpointingCallback`, `CheckpointCallback`, `MetricCallback` |
+
+Default callbacks (in order): `gradient_checkpointing` (activation checkpointing, optional), `checkpoint` (safetensors, rank-0), `metric` (JSONL + validation, rank-0), `progress_bar` (tqdm, rank-0), `gradient_clipping`. The gradient-clipping callback is always registered and always calls `executor.clip_grad_norm()` with the numeric `max_grad_norm` value.
+
+## KV Cache Mathematics
+
+At decode time, only the last query token matters. All previous K/V are cached to avoid recomputation:
+
+$$ o_n = \sum_j \text{softmax}\left(\frac{q_n k_j}{\sqrt{d_k}}\right) v_j $$
+
+The cache stores $k_j$ and $v_j$ for all previous positions. At each decode step, only $q_n$ (the current query) is computed fresh, and attention is computed against the cached K/V.
+
+**RoPE ordering**: RoPE is applied to Q/K **before** writing to the KV cache. This is essential because:
+1. The cached K values already contain the rotation for their original positions.
+2. The new Q is rotated for its current position.
+3. The dot product $q_n^T k_j$ then correctly depends on $n - j$ (relative position).
+
+If RoPE were applied after caching, the rotation factors would be inconsistent between cached and new tokens.
+
+### Cache Architecture
+
+Three-layer separation (SGLang-inspired):
+
+- **KVStorage**: Flat token-level buffers `[n_layers, size, n_kv_heads, head_dim]`.
+- **ReqToTokenPool**: Index table `[req_idx, pos] → physical token slot`, shared across all layers.
+- **Allocator + PrefixCache**: Paged-mode slot allocation with ref-counting, LRU eviction, and hash-based prefix sharing.
+
+`PagePool` orchestrates all three. In contiguous mode (default), `req_to_token` is a trivial linear mapping. In paged mode, slots are allocated on demand with prefix caching support. `bind_tasks()` returns a `KVCache` dataclass with `kv_indptr`, a prefix-sum index over sequence lengths computed once per step and shared across layers. Attention layers access buffers directly — no methods, no abstraction.
+
+### Attention Backend
+
+Attention computation is decoupled from the model via `AttentionBackend` ABC (`astrai/extension/attention_backend.py`):
+
+- **`TorchNativeBackend`** (default): writes K/V to cache, gathers via `req_to_token` indirect indexing, calls `F.scaled_dot_product_attention`.
+- **`CudaBackend`**: decode path uses `attn_paged_decode` with `page_size=1` (the `req_to_token` table serves as the page table, each token slot is a single-token "page"); prefill path gathers K/V then calls `attn_prefill`. Falls back to `TorchNativeBackend` when kernel unavailable.
+
+Rotary embedding is applied via `apply_rotary_emb` in `astrai/extension/rotary_backend.py`, which auto-dispatches to the fused CUDA kernel (`rotary_emb.cu`) during inference or torch complex multiply during training (for autograd compatibility). Both attention backends share the same rotary dispatch.
+
+Backend selection is thread-safe via `contextvars`, mirroring `torch.nn.attention.sdpa_kernel`:
+
+```python
+from astrai.extension import attn_backend, ATTN_BACKEND
+
+with attn_backend(ATTN_BACKEND.CUDA):
+    engine.generate("hello")
+```
+
+Layout convention: all q/k/v are `[batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim]` (blhd). Scale is always `1/sqrt(head_dim)`.
+
+## Mask Algorithm Internals
+
+### Template mode (`template: true`)
+
+1. Prepend BOS token (masked)
+2. For each message in the field's array:
+   1. Render through `chat_template` for that single message
+   2. Encode rendered text
+   3. Apply mask rule for the message's role
+
+### Non-template mode
+
+Encode the field value as text. Mask value is 1 (train) or 0 (mask) per the section's `action`.
+
+### Text config detection
+
+When no section uses `template` and all sections have `action: "train"`, the builder omits `loss_mask` from the output — all tokens are trained.
+
+### Position ID strategies
+
+| Mode | Behavior |
+|------|----------|
+| `none` | No position IDs generated |
+| `doc_reset` | Reset position to 0 at each document boundary in packed sequences |
+| `continuous` | Continuous position IDs across packed documents |
+
+Default is `doc_reset`, which ensures each document in a packed bin starts from position 0, preventing position encoding drift between unrelated documents.
+
+## Gradient Accumulation Mechanics
+
+Three cooperating layers enable gradient accumulation:
+
+1. **`GradientState`** — tracks the micro-step counter. Fires `sync_gradients=True` every `grad_accum_steps` micro-batches. The counter is incremented at the **start** of `accumulate()`, before the forward pass.
+
+2. **`executor._no_sync(model)`** — suppresses gradient synchronization on non-sync micro-steps:
+   - `NoneExecutor`: `nullcontext` (nothing to skip)
+   - `DDPExecutor`: `model.no_sync()` (PyTorch's built-in — skips all-reduce of gradient buckets)
+   - `FSDPExecutor`: `set_requires_gradient_sync(False, recurse=True)` on each `FSDPModule` (FSDP2's native mechanism)
+
+3. **`AccumOptimizer` / `AccumScheduler`** — wrap the real optimizer/scheduler. `step()` and `zero_grad()` are gated on `sync_gradients` — they only forward to the inner optimizer when the sync flag is True.
+
+The loss is divided by `grad_accum_steps` before `backward()`, so gradients sum to the correct mean across micro-steps. `consumed_samples` increments by `batch_per_device * world_size` every micro-batch.
+
+### Effective batch size
+
+$$ \text{Effective batch} = \text{nprocs} \times \text{batch\_per\_device} \times \text{grad\_accum\_steps} $$
+
+### Total optimizer steps
+
+```
+samples_per_replica = ceil(dataset_len / nprocs)
+batches_per_replica  = ceil(samples_per_replica / batch_per_device)
+total_steps          = (batches_per_replica // grad_accum_steps) * n_epoch
+```
+
+This accounts for data-parallel sharding — each rank processes `1/nprocs` of the dataset.
+
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+# Getting Started
+
+This guide walks you through installing AstrAI, downloading a model, running inference, preprocessing data, and launching your first training job.
+
+## Contents
+
+- [Prerequisites](#prerequisites)
+- [1. Install](#1-install)
+- [2. Download Model Weights](#2-download-model-weights)
+- [3. Run Inference](#3-run-inference)
+- [4. Preprocess Data](#4-preprocess-data)
+- [5. Train](#5-train)
+- [6. Evaluate](#6-evaluate)
+- [7. Docker](#7-docker)
+- [Next Steps](#next-steps)
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+- **Python 3.12+**
+- **PyTorch 2.11.0** (the exact version pinned by AstrAI; CUDA 12.8 build recommended for GPU support)
+- NVIDIA GPU with CUDA for training, `scripts/tools/generate.py`, generation evaluations, and demos. The HTTP server and direct-scoring evaluations can run on CPU where their CLI exposes a CPU device.
+
+## 1. Install
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/ViperEkura/AstrAI.git
+cd AstrAI
+
+# Basic install (pure PyTorch, no custom CUDA kernels)
+pip install -e .
+
+# With CUDA kernels (optional, for fused attention and rotary embedding)
+# CSRC_KERNELS=true pip install -e . --no-build-isolation
+
+# With dev dependencies (pytest, ruff)
+# pip install -e ".[dev]"
+```
+
+> **CUDA kernels** are opt-in. They are not built by default. When built, they can be activated via `with attn_backend(ATTN_BACKEND.CUDA):` for accelerated decode/prefill, and the fused rotary embedding kernel is auto-dispatched when available. You can skip them for normal usage.
+
+## 2. Download Model Weights
+
+AstrAI uses HuggingFace-style model directories. Download the default 1B instruction-tuned model:
+
+```bash
+python scripts/demo/download.py
+# → Downloads to params/
+```
+
+To use a different model:
+
+```bash
+python scripts/demo/download.py --repo-id <HF_REPO_ID> --local-dir ./my_model
+```
+
+The model directory contains:
+- `config.json` — model architecture configuration
+- `model.safetensors` — model weights
+- `tokenizer.json` + `tokenizer_config.json` — tokenizer files (including chat template)
+
+## 3. Run Inference
+
+### Interactive Chat (Simplest)
+
+```bash
+python scripts/demo/stream_chat.py
+# Type your message after >>, type !exit to quit
+```
+
+This starts a single-turn interactive prompt loop with streaming output. Each prompt is independent; conversation history is not retained.
+
+### Start an HTTP Server
+
+```bash
+# Terminal 1: start server
+python scripts/tools/server.py --param_path ./params --device cuda
+
+# Terminal 2: query (OpenAI-compatible API)
+curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \
+  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
+  -d '{"messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}],"max_tokens":512}'
+```
+
+The server also supports the Anthropic API at `/v1/messages`. See [Inference Guide](guides/inference.md) for full API documentation.
+
+### Batch Generation from a File
+
+Create an input JSONL file (one JSON object per line):
+
+```json
+{"question": "What is machine learning?"}
+{"question": "Explain gradient descent."}
+```
+
+```bash
+python scripts/tools/generate.py \
+    --param_path ./params \
+    --input_json_file input.jsonl \
+    --output_json_file output.jsonl
+```
+
+## 4. Preprocess Data
+
+AstrAI uses a declarative JSON config to define the preprocessing pipeline. Create a config file for your training type:
+
+### Pretraining (seq)
+
+Input JSONL:
+```json
+{"text": "Artificial intelligence is..."}
+```
+
+Config (`pretrain.json`):
+```json
+{
+    "input": {
+        "sections": [{"field": "text", "action": "train"}]
+    },
+    "preprocessing": {"max_seq_len": 2048},
+    "output": {"storage_format": "bin"}
+}
+```
+
+### SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning)
+
+Input JSONL:
+```json
+{"messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hi"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Hello!"}]}
+```
+
+Config (`sft.json`):
+```json
+{
+    "input": {
+        "sections": [{"field": "messages", "action": "$role", "template": true}]
+    },
+    "mask": {
+        "system": "mask",
+        "user": "mask",
+        "assistant": "train"
+    },
+    "mask_default": "mask",
+    "preprocessing": {"max_seq_len": 2048},
+    "output": {"storage_format": "bin", "dtype": {"loss_mask": "bool"}}
+}
+```
+
+### Run Preprocessing
+
+```bash
+python scripts/tools/preprocess.py data/*.jsonl -o output/ -c pretrain.json
+```
+
+See [Preprocessing Guide](guides/preprocessing.md) for DPO/GRPO configs and all options.
+
+## 5. Train
+
+### Single GPU
+
+```bash
+python scripts/tools/train.py \
+    --train_type=seq \
+    --data_root_path=/path/to/dataset \
+    --param_path=./params \
+    --batch_per_device=4 \
+    --grad_accum_steps=8 \
+    --max_lr=1e-4 \
+    --window_size=2048 \
+    --ckpt_dir=./checkpoint \
+    --nprocs=1 \
+    --parallel_mode=none
+```
+
+### Multi-GPU (DDP)
+
+```bash
+export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3
+export NCCL_P2P_DISABLE=1
+export NCCL_NET_GDR_LEVEL=0
+
+python scripts/tools/train.py \
+    --train_type=seq \
+    --data_root_path=/path/to/dataset \
+    --param_path=./params \
+    --parallel_mode=ddp \
+    --nprocs=4 \
+    --batch_per_device=4 \
+    --grad_accum_steps=8 \
+    --max_lr=1e-4 \
+    --window_size=2048 \
+    --ckpt_dir=./checkpoint
+```
+
+### Training Types
+
+| `--train_type` | Description | Data Keys |
+|----------------|-------------|-----------|
+| `seq` | Pre-training (next-token prediction) | `sequence` |
+| `sft` | Supervised fine-tuning (masked loss) | `sequence`, `loss_mask` |
+| `dpo` | Direct Preference Optimization | `chosen`, `rejected`, `*_mask` |
+| `grpo` | Group Relative Policy Optimization | `prompts`, `responses`, `masks`, `rewards` |
+
+See [Training Guide](guides/training.md) for loss formulas and strategies. See [Distributed Guide](guides/distributed.md) for DDP/FSDP details.
+
+## 6. Evaluate
+
+HumanEval and MMLU download their benchmark data through HuggingFace
+`datasets`, which is not part of the base install:
+
+```bash
+pip install datasets
+```
+
+```bash
+# HumanEval (code generation, auto-downloads dataset)
+python scripts/eval/evaluate_humaneval.py --param_path ./params --num_samples 20
+
+# MMLU (knowledge, auto-downloads dataset)
+python scripts/eval/evaluate_mmlu.py --param_path ./params --n_shot 5
+
+# Perplexity on custom data
+python scripts/eval/evaluate_ppl.py --param_path ./params --input_path data.jsonl --output_dir ppl_results/
+```
+
+See [Evaluation Guide](guides/evaluation.md) for all benchmarks.
+
+## 7. Docker
+
+```bash
+# Build
+docker build -t astrai:latest .
+
+# Run inference server with GPU
+docker run --gpus all -p 8000:8000 astrai:latest \
+  python -m scripts.tools.server --port 8000 --device cuda
+
+# Docker Compose (GPU)
+docker compose up -d
+```
+
+## Next Steps
+
+| Topic | Document |
+|-------|----------|
+| CLI parameters (train, server, generate, preprocess) | [CLI Reference](guides/params.md) |
+| Preprocessing pipeline details | [Preprocessing Guide](guides/preprocessing.md) |
+| Training loop, strategies, schedulers | [Training Guide](guides/training.md) |
+| KV cache, continuous batching, HTTP API | [Inference Guide](guides/inference.md) |
+| Evaluation benchmarks | [Evaluation Guide](guides/evaluation.md) |
+| Multi-GPU DDP / FSDP | [Distributed Guide](guides/distributed.md) |
+| System architecture | [Architecture](developer/architecture.md) |
+| Data pipeline internals | [Data Flow](developer/dataflow.md) |
+
+> Document Update Time: 2026-07-31
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+# Distributed Training
+
+AstrAI supports three parallel modes: **single GPU** (`none`), **Data Parallel** (`ddp`), and **Fully Sharded Data Parallel** (`fsdp`). This guide covers when to use each, how to launch multi-GPU training, and how gradient accumulation works.
+
+## Contents
+
+- [Quick Start](#quick-start)
+- [Parallel Modes](#parallel-modes)
+- [Gradient Accumulation](#gradient-accumulation)
+- [Process Launching](#process-launching)
+- [NCCL Troubleshooting](#nccl-troubleshooting)
+- [Checkpoint Saving](#checkpoint-saving)
+- [Total Steps Calculation](#total-steps-calculation)
+- [Real Examples](#real-examples)
+- [CLI Parameters](#cli-parameters)
+
+## Quick Start
+
+### Single GPU
+
+```bash
+python scripts/tools/train.py \
+    --train_type=sft \
+    --param_path ./params \
+    --data_root_path ./dataset \
+    --parallel_mode=none \
+    --nprocs=1 \
+    --batch_per_device=4 \
+    --grad_accum_steps=8
+```
+
+### Multi-GPU DDP (4 GPUs)
+
+```bash
+export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3
+python scripts/tools/train.py \
+    --train_type=sft \
+    --param_path ./params \
+    --data_root_path ./dataset \
+    --parallel_mode=ddp \
+    --nprocs=4 \
+    --batch_per_device=4 \
+    --grad_accum_steps=8
+```
+
+### Multi-GPU FSDP (4 GPUs)
+
+```bash
+export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3
+python scripts/tools/train.py \
+    --train_type=sft \
+    --param_path ./params \
+    --data_root_path ./dataset \
+    --parallel_mode=fsdp \
+    --nprocs=4 \
+    --batch_per_device=4 \
+    --grad_accum_steps=8
+```
+
+> `--parallel_mode` defaults to `fsdp`. You can omit it for FSDP.
+
+## Parallel Modes
+
+| Mode | `--parallel_mode` | Param Layout | Memory | When to Use |
+|------|-------------------|--------------|--------|-------------|
+| Single GPU | `none` | Full, replicated | Highest | Small models, DPO/GRPO, debugging |
+| DDP | `ddp` | Full, replicated | High | Most multi-GPU training |
+| FSDP | `fsdp` | Sharded (DTensor) | Lowest | Large models that don't fit in single GPU |
+
+### NoneExecutor
+
+No wrapping. The model runs as-is on a single device. Gradient accumulation still works via `AccumOptimizer`/`AccumScheduler` (they gate `step()` on the sync counter). Checkpoint saving is a plain `state_dict()` call.
+
+### DDPExecutor
+
+Wraps the model with `torch.nn.parallel.DistributedDataParallel`. Each rank has a full copy of the model; gradients are all-reduced across ranks. Uses `gradient_as_bucket_view=True` and `broadcast_buffers=False` by default (hardcoded in `train.py`).
+
+During gradient accumulation, non-sync micro-steps use `model.no_sync()` to skip gradient all-reduce. Only the final micro-step triggers the all-reduce.
+
+### FSDPExecutor (FSDP2 / `fully_shard`)
+
+Uses PyTorch's FSDP2 per-module API (`torch.distributed.fsdp.fully_shard`). Each model child (e.g., each `DecoderBlock`) is individually sharded — parameters become `DTensor`s distributed across ranks. No `FlatParameter`, original parameter names are preserved.
+
+Key differences from DDP:
+- **Lower memory**: parameters are sharded, not replicated.
+- **Custom grad norm**: FSDP gradients are `DTensor`s, so `clip_grad_norm` computes the local norm, then all-reduces to get the global norm.
+- **Collective checkpoint ops**: `unshard()` and `full_tensor()` are collective — all ranks must call them even though only rank-0 saves. The executor handles this via `dist.barrier()` in `checkpoint_context`.
+- **Root skipped**: `fully_shard` is applied to direct children only (not the root model) due to an `ABC + Generic[T]` MRO incompatibility.
+
+## Gradient Accumulation
+
+Gradient accumulation lets you simulate a larger effective batch size by accumulating gradients over multiple micro-batches before calling `optimizer.step()`.
+
+```
+Effective batch = nprocs × batch_per_device × grad_accum_steps
+```
+
+Example: 4 GPUs × batch 4 × accum 8 = effective batch 256.
+
+### How it works
+
+Three cooperating layers:
+
+1. **`GradientState`** — tracks the micro-step counter. Fires `sync_gradients=True` every `grad_accum_steps` micro-batches.
+2. **`executor._no_sync(model)`** — suppresses gradient synchronization on non-sync micro-steps:
+   - `none`: `nullcontext` (nothing to skip)
+   - `ddp`: `model.no_sync()` (skips all-reduce)
+   - `fsdp`: `set_requires_gradient_sync(False)` on each `FSDPModule`
+3. **`AccumOptimizer` / `AccumScheduler`** — gate `step()` and `zero_grad()` on `sync_gradients`, so the optimizer only fires on the last micro-step.
+
+The loss is divided by `grad_accum_steps` before `backward()`, so gradients sum to the correct mean.
+
+## Process Launching
+
+AstrAI auto-detects the launch method:
+
+| Detection | Strategy | Use Case |
+|-----------|----------|----------|
+| `torchelastic` / `torchrun` env vars | `TorchrunStrategy` | External orchestrator (`torchrun`, K8s) |
+| `RANK` + `WORLD_SIZE` env vars | `TorchrunStrategy` | External launch |
+| Neither | `LocalStrategy` | `python scripts/tools/train.py` (in-process spawn) |
+
+### Local (default)
+
+When you run `python scripts/tools/train.py --nprocs=4`, AstrAI uses `torch.multiprocessing.start_processes` to spawn 4 child processes. The parent process manages signal forwarding (SIGTERM/SIGINT) and waits for all children to finish.
+
+### Torchrun
+
+For multi-node or SLURM environments:
+
+```bash
+torchrun --nproc_per_node=4 scripts/tools/train.py \
+    --train_type=sft \
+    --parallel_mode=ddp \
+    --nprocs=4 \
+    --param_path ./params \
+    --data_root_path ./dataset \
+    --batch_per_device=4
+```
+
+When launched via `torchrun`, the launcher creates the worker processes. AstrAI reads `RANK`, `WORLD_SIZE`, and `LOCAL_RANK` from the environment and uses `TorchrunStrategy`; `--nprocs` does not control process creation in this mode.
+
+The current training CLI still uses `--nprocs` when calculating scheduler `total_steps`. Set it to the global `WORLD_SIZE` so the step count reflects data-parallel sharding, including multi-node runs.
+
+Raw Slurm variables such as `SLURM_PROCID`, `SLURM_NTASKS`, and `SLURM_LOCALID` are not recognized automatically. Launch through `torchrun`, or map the scheduler's variables to `RANK`, `WORLD_SIZE`, `LOCAL_RANK`, `MASTER_ADDR`, and `MASTER_PORT` before starting AstrAI. The same requirement applies to launchers that expose only OpenMPI-specific variables.
+
+## NCCL Troubleshooting
+
+The following variables are troubleshooting options for hardware or network configurations where NCCL hangs or fails. They are not general requirements and can reduce performance by disabling peer-to-peer or GPUDirect RDMA paths:
+
+```bash
+export NCCL_P2P_DISABLE=1
+export NCCL_NET_GDR_LEVEL=0
+```
+
+Apply them only after confirming the relevant NCCL transport is the source of the failure. AstrAI does not set them in Python.
+
+## Checkpoint Saving
+
+Checkpoints are saved by **rank-0 only**. The flow:
+
+1. `executor.checkpoint_context(model)` — wraps with `dist.barrier()` before and after (distributed only).
+2. `executor.unwrap_model(model)` — gathers the full state dict:
+   - `none`: `model.state_dict()`
+   - `ddp`: `model.module.state_dict()`
+   - `fsdp`: `unshard()` → `full_tensor()` → `reshard()` (collective on all ranks, result kept only on rank-0)
+3. Non-rank-0 ranks get `None` — the save is skipped.
+4. Rank-0 writes `meta.json`, `config.json`, `model.safetensors`, and optional `{key}.pt` (optimizer/scheduler state).
+
+> **FSDP note**: Even though only rank-0 saves, all ranks must participate in `unwrap_model` because `unshard()` and `full_tensor()` are collective operations. The barriers in `checkpoint_context` keep all ranks in lockstep.
+
+## Total Steps Calculation
+
+The scheduler's total step count accounts for data-parallel sharding:
+
+```
+samples_per_replica = ceil(dataset_len / nprocs)
+batches_per_replica  = ceil(samples_per_replica / batch_per_device)
+total_steps          = (batches_per_replica // grad_accum_steps) * n_epoch
+```
+
+This ensures the LR schedule is correctly scaled regardless of the number of GPUs.
+
+## Real Examples
+
+### Pretraining (seq, DDP, 4 GPUs)
+
+```bash
+export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES=0,1,2,3
+python scripts/tools/train.py \
+    --train_type=seq \
+    --param_path ./params \
+    --data_root_path ./dataset/cached \
+    --parallel_mode=ddp \
+    --nprocs=4 \
+    --n_epoch=1 \
+    --max_lr=2e-4 \
+    --schedule_type=wsd \
+    --warmup_ratio=0.02 \
+    --window_size=2048 \
+    --batch_per_device=4 \
+    --grad_accum_steps=32 \
+    --ckpt_interval=2000
+# Effective batch = 4 × 4 × 32 = 512
+```
+
+### SFT (DDP, 4 GPUs)
+
+```bash
+python scripts/tools/train.py \
+    --train_type=sft \
+    --param_path ./AstrAI-V1-base \
+    --data_root_path ./dataset/cached_sft \
+    --parallel_mode=ddp \
+    --nprocs=4 \
+    --n_epoch=2 \
+    --max_lr=2e-5 \
+    --schedule_type=cosine \
+    --warmup_ratio=0.02 \
+    --min_rate=0.05 \
+    --window_size=2048 \
+    --batch_per_device=4 \
+    --grad_accum_steps=8
+# Effective batch = 4 × 4 × 8 = 128
+```
+
+### DPO (Single GPU)
+
+```bash
+python scripts/tools/train.py \
+    --train_type=dpo \
+    --param_path ./checkpoint/epoch_1_step_6000 \
+    --data_root_path ./alpaca_dpo.jsonl \
+    --parallel_mode=none \
+    --nprocs=1 \
+    --max_lr=5e-6 \
+    --schedule_type=cosine \
+    --warmup_ratio=0.1 \
+    --min_rate=0.1 \
+    --window_size=1024 \
+    --batch_per_device=4 \
+    --grad_accum_steps=8 \
+    --dpo_beta=0.1 \
+    --max_grad_norm=50
+```
+
+## CLI Parameters
+
+| Parameter | Default | Description |
+|-----------|---------|-------------|
+| `--nprocs` | 1 | Local process count for AstrAI's launcher; under `torchrun`, set it to global `WORLD_SIZE` for total-step calculation |
+| `--parallel_mode` | `fsdp` | `none`, `ddp`, or `fsdp` |
+| `--start_method` | `spawn` | Multiprocessing start method (`spawn`, `fork`, `forkserver`) |
+| `--backend` | `nccl` | Distributed backend (`nccl`, `gloo`) |
+| `--master_addr` | `localhost` | Master node address |
+| `--master_port` | `29500` | Master node port |
+| `--device_type` | `cuda` | Device type |
+
+> `--tp_size` is accepted by the CLI but discarded before configuration. Tensor parallelism is not implemented, and there is no tensor-parallel module or model integration.
+
+Full parameter reference: [CLI Reference](params.md). Training loop and strategies: [Training Guide](training.md).
+
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+# Evaluation
+
+AstrAI provides 7 evaluation scripts in `scripts/eval/` covering code generation, knowledge QA, perplexity, summarization, data quality, instruction following, and weight analysis.
+
+## Contents
+
+- [Prerequisites](#prerequisites)
+- [Overview](#overview)
+- [HumanEval](#humaneval-code-generation)
+- [MMLU](#mmlu-knowledge-qa)
+- [Perplexity](#perplexity-ppl)
+- [ROUGE](#rouge)
+- [IFD](#ifd-instruction-following-difficulty)
+- [IFEval](#ifeval-instruction-following)
+- [Weight Analysis](#weight-analysis)
+- [Tips](#tips)
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+HumanEval, MMLU, and IFEval import HuggingFace `datasets` to download their benchmark data. This package is not installed by AstrAI's base dependencies, so install it before running those scripts:
+
+```bash
+pip install datasets
+```
+
+The generation-based scripts require CUDA because they load the model on `cuda` with `bfloat16`. Direct-scoring and metric scripts support the devices shown below.
+
+## Overview
+
+| Script | Metric | Model Invocation | External Dataset |
+|--------|--------|-------------------|-------------------|
+| `evaluate_humaneval.py` | Code-gen pass@1/10/100 | `InferenceEngine.generate` | HF `openai/openai_humaneval` (auto-download) |
+| `evaluate_mmlu.py` | MCQ accuracy (log-likelihood) | Direct `model()` forward | HF `cais/mmlu` (auto-download) |
+| `evaluate_ppl.py` | Perplexity / token loss | Direct `model()` forward | User JSONL |
+| `evaluate_rouge.py` | ROUGE-1/2/L | None (pure metric) | User JSONL |
+| `evaluate_ifd.py` | Instruction-Following Difficulty | Direct `model()` forward | User JSONL |
+| `evaluate_ifeval.py` | Instruction-following constraints | `InferenceEngine.generate` | HF `google/IFEval` (auto-download) |
+| `analyze_weights.py` | SVD effective rank / weight stats | None (loads safetensors) | Checkpoint dir |
+
+Two invocation patterns exist:
+- **Generation benchmarks** (HumanEval, IFEval): use `InferenceEngine` to generate responses, then score them.
+- **Scoring benchmarks** (MMLU, PPL, IFD): call `model()` directly under `torch.inference_mode()` for log-likelihood computation.
+
+| Script | Device support |
+|--------|----------------|
+| HumanEval | CUDA for generation; `--test_only` can score existing completions without loading a model |
+| IFEval | CUDA only |
+| MMLU | CUDA or CPU via `--device`; auto-selects CUDA when available |
+| PPL | CUDA or CPU via `--device`; auto-selects CUDA when available |
+| IFD | CUDA or CPU via `--device`; auto-selects CUDA when available |
+| ROUGE | CPU-only metric computation; no model is loaded |
+| Weight analysis | CUDA by default; CPU supported via `--device cpu` |
+
+---
+
+## HumanEval (Code Generation)
+
+Generates completions for 164 programming problems, executes them against hidden tests, and reports pass@k.
+
+```bash
+python scripts/eval/evaluate_humaneval.py \
+    --param_path ./params \
+    --num_samples 20 \
+    --batch_size 64 \
+    --max_tokens 512 \
+    --output results/humaneval.json
+```
+
+| Parameter | Default | Description |
+|-----------|---------|-------------|
+| `--param_path` | `./params` | Model directory |
+| `--data_path` | `./humaneval/HumanEval.jsonl` | HumanEval JSONL (auto-downloaded if missing) |
+| `--output` | None | Save results JSON (also writes `_completions.json`) |
+| `--test_only` | None | Test an existing completions JSON (skip generation) |
+| `--generate_only` | False | Only generate, skip execution/testing |
+| `--num_samples` | 200 | Completions per problem (pass@k needs >= k) |
+| `--max_tokens` | 512 | Max generation length |
+| `--temperature` | 0.8 | Sampling temperature |
+| `--top_p` | 0.95 | Nucleus sampling threshold |
+| `--top_k` | 50 | Top-k sampling |
+| `--batch_size` | 64 | Generation batch size |
+| `--max_seq_len` | 4096 | KV cache sequence length |
+| `--test_workers` | 8 | ProcessPoolExecutor workers for test execution |
+| `--test_timeout` | 3.0 | Per-subprocess timeout (seconds) |
+| `--problems` | None | Restrict to specific problem indices |
+
+**Output**: stdout prints `pass@1`, `pass@10`, `pass@100`. With `--output`, writes per-problem results + `_summary` aggregate and a `_completions.json` file.
+
+**Data**: Auto-downloads `openai/openai_humaneval` from HuggingFace on first run. Each problem has `task_id`, `entry_point`, `prompt`, `test`.
+
+---
+
+## MMLU (Knowledge QA)
+
+57-subject multiple-choice accuracy via log-likelihood comparison. Supports n-shot few-shot prompting and option permutation.
+
+```bash
+python scripts/eval/evaluate_mmlu.py \
+    --param_path ./params \
+    --n_shot 5 \
+    --subjects abstract_algebra high_school_us_history \
+    --output results/mmlu.json
+```
+
+| Parameter | Default | Description |
+|-----------|---------|-------------|
+| `--param_path` | `./params` | Model directory |
+| `--data_dir` | `./mmlu_data` | MMLU data directory (per-subject CSVs) |
+| `--download` | False | Force re-download |
+| `--n_shot` | 5 | Few-shot examples (0 = zero-shot) |
+| `--subjects` | all 57 | Specific subjects to evaluate |
+| `--output` | None | Output JSON path |
+| `--split` | `test` | `test` or `val` |
+| `--device` | auto | Device (`cuda` / `cpu`) |
+| `--dtype` | auto | `bfloat16` on CUDA, `float32` on CPU |
+| `--seed` | 0 | Seed for option permutation (0 = enabled, -1 = disabled) |
+| `--batch_size` | 4 | Questions per batch; each question produces four choice rows |
+
+**How it works**: For each question, builds a prompt with n-shot examples, then scores each choice (A/B/C/D) by computing the summed log-likelihood of the choice token given the context. The choice with the highest log-prob is the prediction.
+
+**Output**: stdout prints per-subject accuracy and overall. With `--output`, writes per-subject `{accuracy, correct, total}` + `_overall` aggregate.
+
+**Data**: Auto-downloads `cais/mmlu` from HuggingFace. Stored as per-subject CSVs in `<data_dir>/<split>/` and `<data_dir>/dev/` (for few-shot). `--subjects` accepts canonical MMLU names such as `abstract_algebra`, `college_computer_science`, `high_school_us_history`, and `world_religions`.
+
+---
+
+## Perplexity (PPL)
+
+Token-level negative-log-likelihood and perplexity on arbitrary text data. Supports streaming mode (memory-efficient) and non-streaming mode (exact per-token stats).
+
+```bash
+python scripts/eval/evaluate_ppl.py \
+    --param_path ./params \
+    --input_path data.jsonl \
+    --output_dir ppl_results/ \
+    --batch_size 64 \
+    --max_length 2048
+```
+
+| Parameter | Default | Description |
+|-----------|---------|-------------|
+| `--param_path` | required | Model directory |
+| `--input_path` | required | Input file, glob, or directory |
+| `--output_dir` | required | Output directory for `summary.json` + token JSONL |
+| `--text_key` | `text` | Key for the text field in input data |
+| `--batch_size` | 64 | Batch size |
+| `--max_length` | 2048 | Max sequence length (tokens) |
+| `--token_level` | False | Store per-token log_probs + token-type analysis |
+| `--max_samples` | None | Random subsample per file |
+| `--device` | auto | Device |
+| `--dtype` | auto | Torch dtype |
+
+**Input**: JSONL or JSON files. Each item must have a field named by `--text_key` (default `text`). If `--input_path` is a directory, recursively collects `*.jsonl` and `*.json`.
+
+**Output**: `summary.json` with per-file token count, mean loss, perplexity, and p50/p90/p95/p99 loss. Median loss is included only with `--token_level`; that mode also writes per-token JSONL with token IDs and log-probs.
+
+---
+
+## ROUGE
+
+ROUGE-1/2/L (precision, recall, F1) for summarization. Self-contained implementation with no external dependencies.
+
+```bash
+python scripts/eval/evaluate_rouge.py \
+    --data_path predictions.jsonl \
+    --output results/rouge.json
+```
+
+| Parameter | Default | Description |
+|-----------|---------|-------------|
+| `--data_path` | required | JSONL with `reference`/`candidate` per line |
+| `--output` | None | Output JSON path |
+
+**Input**: JSONL, one object per line:
+```json
+{"reference": "Ground truth text", "candidate": "Model output text"}
+```
+
+**Output**: stdout prints `rouge-1`, `rouge-2`, `rouge-l` each as P/R/F1. With `--output`, writes JSON with `aggregate` and `per_item` scores.
+
+Can also be imported as a library:
+```python
+from scripts.eval.evaluate_rouge import compute_rouge
+scores = compute_rouge(reference, candidate)
+```
+
+---
+
+## IFD (Instruction-Following Difficulty)
+
+Data quality metric: `IFD = L_conditional / L_unconditional`. Measures how much harder it is to predict a response given its instruction vs. without it. Useful for filtering instruction-tuning data.
+
+```bash
+python scripts/eval/evaluate_ifd.py \
+    --param_path ./params \
+    --input_path sft_data.jsonl \
+    --output_dir ifd_results/ \
+    --format messages \
+    --batch_size 8
+```
+
+| Parameter | Default | Description |
+|-----------|---------|-------------|
+| `--param_path` | required | Model directory |
+| `--input_path` | required | Input file, glob, or directory |
+| `--output_dir` | required | Output directory |
+| `--max_len` | 2048 | Max token length |
+| `--format` | `plain` | `plain` (instruction/response fields) or `messages` (chat format) |
+| `--instr_key` | `instruction` | Instruction field key (plain format) |
+| `--resp_key` | `response` | Response field key (plain format) |
+| `--batch_size` | 8 | Items per model-forward flush |
+| `--device` | auto | Device |
+| `--dtype` | auto | Torch dtype |
+| `--sentinel_text` | `\n` | Prefix for unconditional pass (`""` → bos/pad fallback) |
+| `--per_token` | False | Include per-token IFD breakdown |
+| `--max_samples` | None | Random subsample per file |
+
+**How it works**: Two forward passes per batch — (1) conditional: packed BFD sequence with context + response, (2) unconditional: response prefixed with a sentinel. IFD = mean_conditional_loss / mean_unconditional_loss. IFD > 1 means the instruction makes the response harder to predict (higher quality data).
+
+**Output**: Per-file `<label>_ifd.jsonl` with IFD scores per item. `summary.json` aggregates per-file stats.
+
+---
+
+## IFEval (Instruction Following)
+
+Google's IFEval benchmark: generates responses and verifies 27 types of constraints (keywords, format, length, case, punctuation, etc.).
+
+```bash
+python scripts/eval/evaluate_ifeval.py \
+    --param_path ./params \
+    --num_samples 1 \
+    --max_tokens 512 \
+    --output results/ifeval.json
+```
+
+| Parameter | Default | Description |
+|-----------|---------|-------------|
+| `--param_path` | `./params` | Model directory |
+| `--data_path` | `./ifeval/input_data.jsonl` | IFEval JSONL (auto-downloaded if missing) |
+| `--output` | None | Output JSON path |
+| `--max_tokens` | 512 | Max generation tokens |
+| `--temperature` | 0.1 | Sampling temperature (low for instruction-following) |
+| `--top_p` | 0.95 | Top-p sampling |
+| `--top_k` | 50 | Top-k sampling |
+| `--num_samples` | 1 | Samples per problem (best-of-n scoring) |
+| `--batch_size` | 64 | Inference batch size |
+| `--max_seq_len` | 4096 | KV cache sequence length |
+| `--limit` | None | Limit to first N problems (quick testing) |
+| `--dump_responses` | None | Path to dump raw responses as JSONL |
+
+**Output**: stdout prints overall accuracy + per-constraint-type accuracy table. With `--output`, writes per-problem results + `_summary`.
+
+**Data**: Auto-downloads `google/IFEval` from HuggingFace. Each problem has `key`, `prompt`, `instruction_id_list`, `kwargs`.
+
+---
+
+## Weight Analysis
+
+SVD-based effective rank and weight statistics for checkpoint diagnostics. Does not load the model graph or run any forward pass.
+
+```bash
+python scripts/eval/analyze_weights.py \
+    --ckpt_dir ./checkpoint/epoch_1_step_6000 \
+    --output results/weights.json
+```
+
+| Parameter | Default | Description |
+|-----------|---------|-------------|
+| `--ckpt_dir` | required | Checkpoint directory containing `model.safetensors` |
+| `--compare` | None | Additional checkpoint dirs to compare |
+| `--no_svd` | False | Skip SVD; show only weight stats (faster) |
+| `--output` | None | Save results as JSON |
+| `--device` | `cuda` | Device for SVD |
+
+**Output**: SVD effective rank by component (ER@90/95/99%, entropic rank, condition number), per-layer effective rank grid, and weight value statistics (mean/std/min/max). Provides a utilization verdict (HIGH >0.85 / MODERATE >0.5 / LOW).
+
+---
+
+## Tips
+
+- **Quick test**: Use `--limit` (IFEval) or `--problems` (HumanEval) to run on a small subset first.
+- **Auto-download**: After installing `datasets`, HumanEval, MMLU, and IFEval auto-download their datasets on first run. The other scripts expect user-provided data.
+- **Output formats**: `--output` writes a single JSON for most scripts. PPL and IFD write an `--output_dir` containing `summary.json` plus per-file artifacts.
+- **CPU mode**: MMLU, PPL, and IFD support `--device cpu --dtype float32`; weight analysis supports `--device cpu`. HumanEval generation and IFEval are CUDA-only.
+
+> Document Update Time: 2026-07-30
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@

 - [KV Cache](#kv-cache)
 - [KVCache System](#kvcache-system)
+- [Attention Backend](#attention-backend)
 - [Continuous Batching](#continuous-batching)
 - [Sampling](#sampling-strategy-pattern)
 - [Protocol Handlers](#protocol-handlers-strategy-pattern)
@@ -23,30 +24,71 @@ RoPE is applied **before** KV cache write, not after — otherwise position enco

 ## KVCache System

-Seven classes working together, with two concrete cache implementations:
-
-### ContiguousCache (default)
+Three-layer separation (SGLang-inspired): storage, index table, allocator.

 ```
-ContiguousCache (simple contiguous per-slot cache)
-  ├── ContiguousCacheView  bundles k/v tensors + slot indices for attention layers
+PagePool (top-level manager, orchestrates all layers)
+  ├── KVStorage              k_buffer / v_buffer [n_layers, size, n_kv_heads, head_dim]
+  ├── ReqToTokenPool         req_to_token [num_reqs, max_ctx_len] → physical token slot
+  ├── Allocator              bitmask-based page allocator + ref-count + LRU (paged mode only)
+  └── PrefixCache            hash-based prefix matching (paged mode only)
 ```

-Created by default when no cache is passed to `InferenceScheduler`. Each task occupies a fixed slot of `[max_seq_len, num_key_value_heads, head_dim]`. Simple and efficient for small-to-medium batch sizes.
+`PagePool` supports two modes:

-### PageCache (paged with prefix sharing)
+- **Contiguous (default)**: pre-allocates `max_batch_size * max_seq_len` token slots. `req_to_token` is a trivial linear mapping (`slot = req_idx * max_seq_len + pos`). No dynamic allocation.
+- **Paged** (`page_size=1` or `>1` with `n_tokens` set): shared token pool with on-demand allocation. Allocator + PrefixCache enable prefix sharing and LRU eviction.
+
+`bind_tasks()` returns a `KVCache` dataclass — pure data, no methods:

 ```
-PageCache (paged KV cache with prefix sharing, alternative)
-  ├── PagePool               orchestrates page allocation + prefix matching
-  │     ├── Allocator         bitmask-based page allocator + ref-count + LRU
-  │     └── PrefixCache       hash-based prefix matching (page_hash via polynomial hash)
-  ├── TaskTable              maps task_id → page_table + cached token count
-  ├── Storage                k_cache / v_cache tensors (num_hidden_layers × n_pages × page_size × num_key_value_heads × head_dim)
-  └── PageCacheView          bundles Storage + page_table + total_len for attention layers
+KVCache
+  ├── k_buffer, v_buffer     [n_layers, size, n_kv_heads, head_dim]
+  ├── req_to_token           [num_reqs, max_ctx_len]
+  ├── req_pool_indices       [batch_size]
+  ├── seq_lens               [batch_size]
+  ├── out_cache_loc          [batch, seq_len] — write indices for this forward
+  ├── max_len                int — max(seq_lens), avoids GPU sync in decode
+  └── kv_indptr              [batch + 1] int32 — prefix sum of seq_lens, precomputed once per step
 ```

-`isinstance(cache, KVCache)` checks dispatch to the correct view. Both implement the abstract `KVCache` interface used by `Executor` and `InferenceScheduler`.
+Attention layers do raw buffer indexing: `k_buffer[layer_id, out_cache_loc] = k` to write, `k_buffer[layer_id, indices]` to gather.
+
+## Attention Backend
+
+Attention computation (cache I/O + SDPA/kernel dispatch) is decoupled from the model via `AttentionBackend` ABC:
+
+```
+AttentionBackend (ABC)
+  ├── TorchNativeBackend   SDPA + indirect KV cache gather (default)
+  └── CudaBackend          CUDA kernel dispatch (attn_paged_decode, attn_prefill)
+```
+
+Select via context manager (mirrors `torch.nn.attention.sdpa_kernel`):
+
+```python
+from astrai.extension import attn_backend, ATTN_BACKEND
+
+with attn_backend(ATTN_BACKEND.CUDA):
+    engine.generate("hello")
+```
+
+`CudaBackend` decode path: writes K/V to cache, then calls `attn_paged_decode` with `page_size=1` — the `req_to_token` table serves directly as the page table, each token slot is a single-token "page". No explicit K/V gather needed.
+
+`CudaBackend` prefill path: writes K/V, gathers full-sequence K/V via indirect indexing (same as `TorchNativeBackend`), then calls `attn_prefill`.
+
+Fallback: `CudaBackend` delegates to `TorchNativeBackend` when a CUDA kernel is not available.
+
+### Rotary Embedding Backend
+
+Rotary embedding is applied via `apply_rotary_emb` in `astrai/extension/rotary_backend.py`, which auto-dispatches:
+
+- **CUDA kernel** (`rotary_emb.cu`): fused cos/sin lookup + rotation in a single kernel, used when the kernel is available, input is on CUDA, and `torch.is_grad_enabled()` is `False` (inference mode)
+- **Torch fallback**: complex multiply path (`torch.view_as_complex` → `torch.complex` multiply → `torch.view_as_real`), used during training (supports autograd backward) or when the CUDA kernel is not available
+
+`RotaryEmbedding` stores a complex `freqs_cis` buffer and returns a tensor
+from `forward()`. Both attention backends share the same rotary dispatch — it
+is backend-agnostic.

 ## Continuous Batching

@@ -142,17 +184,57 @@ curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/v1/messages \
  -d '{"model":"astrai","system":"You are helpful.","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}],"max_tokens":512}'
 ```

-Supports `stop_sequences` and streaming via `event: content_block_delta`.
+Supports `stop_sequences` and streaming via `event: content_block_delta`. Anthropic streams also end with the shared `data: [DONE]` sentinel after `event: message_stop`.

-### GenerationRequest Parameters
+### Request Parameters
+
+The HTTP protocols and direct engine API have distinct request models and defaults.
+
+**OpenAI** (`ChatCompletionRequest`):

 | Param | Type | Default | Description |
 |-------|------|---------|-------------|
+| `model` | str | `"astrai"` | Model name returned in responses |
 | `messages` | List[dict] | required | Chat messages (role, content) |
-| `top_k` | int | 50 | Top-k count |
+| `temperature` | Optional[float] | 1.0 | Sampling temperature (0.0-2.0) |
+| `top_p` | Optional[float] | 1.0 | Nucleus threshold (0.0-1.0) |
+| `top_k` | Optional[int] | 50 | Top-k count |
+| `max_tokens` | Optional[int] | 2048 | Max generation length |
+| `stream` | Optional[bool] | False | Stream output |
+| `stop` | Optional[Union[str, List[str]]] | None | Stop sequences |
+| `n` | Optional[int] | 1 | Number of choices requested |
+| `presence_penalty` | Optional[float] | 0.0 | Presence penalty (-2.0 to 2.0) |
+| `frequency_penalty` | Optional[float] | 0.0 | Frequency penalty (-2.0 to 2.0) |
+| `logit_bias` | Optional[Dict[int, float]] | None | Per-token logit bias |
+| `user` | Optional[str] | None | End-user identifier |
+| `tools` | Optional[List[ToolDef]] | None | Tool definitions for function calling |
+| `tool_choice` | Optional[Union[str, Dict[str, Any]]] | `"auto"` | Tool selection mode or explicit tool choice |
+
+**Anthropic** (`MessagesRequest`):
+
+| Param | Type | Default | Description |
+|-------|------|---------|-------------|
+| `model` | str | `"astrai"` | Model name returned in responses |
+| `messages` | List[AnthropicMessage] | required | User/assistant messages |
+| `system` | Optional[str] | None | System prompt |
+| `max_tokens` | int | 1024 | Max generation length |
+| `temperature` | Optional[float] | 1.0 | Sampling temperature (0.0-2.0) |
+| `top_p` | Optional[float] | 1.0 | Nucleus threshold (0.0-1.0) |
+| `top_k` | Optional[int] | 50 | Top-k count |
+| `stream` | Optional[bool] | False | Stream output |
+| `stop_sequences` | Optional[List[str]] | None | Stop sequences |
+
+**Engine** (`GenerationRequest`):
+
+| Param | Type | Default | Description |
+|-------|------|---------|-------------|
+| `messages` | List[Dict[str, str]] | required | Messages to format before generation |
+| `top_k` | int | 50 | Top-k count; 0 disables filtering |
 | `top_p` | float | 1.0 | Nucleus threshold |
-| `temperature` | float | 1.0 | Sampling temperature (> 0.0) |
+| `temperature` | float | 1.0 | Sampling temperature; 0 enables greedy decoding |
 | `max_tokens` | Optional[int] | None | Max generation length |
+| `frequency_penalty` | float | 0.0 | Frequency penalty (-2.0 to 2.0) |
+| `rep_window` | int | 64 | Recent-token window used by the frequency penalty |
 | `stream` | bool | False | Stream output |

 ### SSE Streaming Format
@@ -195,6 +277,8 @@ data: {"type":"message_delta","delta":{"stop_reason":"end_turn","stop_sequence":

 event: message_stop
 data: {"type":"message_stop"}
+
+data: [DONE]
 ```

 ### Error Responses
@@ -249,4 +333,4 @@ async for token in engine.generate_async("Hello", ...):    # -> AsyncGenerator[s
    print(token)
 ```

-> Document Update Time: 2026-07-09
+> Document Update Time: 2026-07-31
@@ -13,9 +13,11 @@

 | Parameter | Description | Default |
 |-----------|-------------|---------|
+| `--config`, `-c` | YAML config file; explicit CLI options override YAML values | None |
 | `--train_type` | Training type (`seq`, `sft`, `dpo`, `grpo`, `online_grpo`, `online_dpo`) | required |
 | `--data_root_path` | Dataset root directory | required |
 | `--param_path` | Model parameters or checkpoint path | required |
+| `--resume` | Resume training from `--param_path` | False |
 | `--n_epoch` | Total training epochs | 1 |
 | `--batch_per_device` | Batch size per device | 1 |
 | `--grad_accum_steps` | Gradient accumulation steps between optimizer steps | 1 |
@@ -26,20 +28,53 @@
 |-----------|-------------|---------|
 | `--warmup_ratio` | Fraction of total steps used for LR warmup | 0.05 |
 | `--max_lr` | Maximum learning rate (cosine decay after warmup) | 3e-4 |
-| `--max_grad_norm` | Maximum gradient norm for clipping (None disables) | 1.0 |
+| `--max_grad_norm` | Maximum gradient norm for clipping; the current CLI requires a positive number | 1.0 |

-### Optimizer (MuonMix)
+### Optimizer

-Combined optimizer: matrix parameters via **Muon**, non-matrix via **AdamW** (`fused=True`).
+The default `muon_adamw` optimizer sends matrix parameters through **Muon** and
+non-matrix parameters through **AdamW** (`fused=True`).

 | Parameter | Description | Default |
 |-----------|-------------|---------|
-| `--weight_decay` | Weight decay (applied to Muon matrix params; non-matrix use 0) | 0.1 |
+| `--optimizer` | Built-in optimizer (`muon_adamw`, `nora_nadamw`, `mano_adamw`) | `muon_adamw` |
+| `--weight_decay` | Weight decay for optimizer parameter groups that are eligible for decay | 0.1 |
 | `--muon_momentum` | Muon momentum factor | 0.95 |
-| `--muon_nesterov` | Enable Nesterov momentum for Muon | True |
+| `--muon_nesterov`, `--no-muon_nesterov` | Enable or disable Nesterov momentum for Muon | enabled |
 | `--muon_ns_steps` | Newton-Schulz iteration steps for Muon | 5 |
 | `--muon_adjust_lr` | Muon LR adjustment strategy (`original`, `match_rms_adamw`) | `match_rms_adamw` |

+`nora_nadamw` routes internal `Linear.weight` matrices to **Nora** and
+embeddings, the LM head, norms, biases, LoRA factors, and fallback parameters to
+**NAdamW**. Parameters are classified by module role and identity, so tied
+embedding/head weights occur in exactly one group. Nora requires complete rows
+under DTensor sharding and rejects layouts sharded along the last dimension.
+
+| Parameter | Description | Default |
+|-----------|-------------|---------|
+| `--nora_lr` | Nora learning rate | 5e-3 |
+| `--nora_beta` | Nora momentum-buffer EMA factor | 0.95 |
+| `--nora_momentum` | Nora Nesterov interpolation factor | 0.95 |
+| `--nora_weight_decay` | Nora matrix weight decay | 0.0 |
+
+`mano_adamw` routes internal `Linear.weight` matrices to **Mano** (manifold
+normalized optimizer) and the remaining parameters to **AdamW**. Mano projects
+the momentum onto the tangent space of the Oblique manifold and normalizes it,
+alternating the projection axis (row/column) each step — replacing Muon's
+Newton-Schulz iteration with a cheaper normalization.
+
+| Parameter | Description | Default |
+|-----------|-------------|---------|
+| `--mano_momentum` | Accepted by the CLI but currently ignored by optimizer construction | 0.95 |
+| `--mano_nesterov`, `--no-mano_nesterov` | Accepted by the CLI but currently ignored by optimizer construction | enabled |
+
+The two Mano-specific flags are reserved for future wiring; do not rely on them
+to change optimizer behavior in the current release.
+
+Optimizer identity and hyperparameters are saved in checkpoint metadata. Optimizer
+states are intentionally not interchangeable: resume older MuonAdamW checkpoints
+with `--optimizer=muon_adamw`.
+
 ### Data Loading

 | Parameter | Description | Default |
@@ -48,7 +83,7 @@ Combined optimizer: matrix parameters via **Muon**, non-matrix via **AdamW** (`f
 | `--stride` | Stride for sliding window over sequences | None |
 | `--random_seed` | Random seed for reproducibility | 3407 |
 | `--num_workers` | DataLoader worker processes | 4 |
-| `--no_pin_memory` | Disable pin_memory (enabled by default) | (flag) |
+| `--pin_memory`, `--no-pin_memory` | Enable or disable DataLoader pinned memory | enabled |

 ### Checkpoint & Resume

@@ -70,41 +105,51 @@ Combined optimizer: matrix parameters via **Muon**, non-matrix via **AdamW** (`f

 | Parameter | Description | Default |
 |-----------|-------------|---------|
-| `--log_dir` | Directory for metric logs | checkpoint/logs |
-| `--metrics` | Metrics to log (e.g. --metrics loss lr val_loss) | ["loss", "lr", "grad_norm"] |
+| `--metrics` | Repeatable metric option (for example, `--metrics loss --metrics lr --metrics val_loss`) | `loss`, `lr`, `grad_norm`, `grad_snr` |

 ### Gradient Checkpointing

 | Parameter | Description | Default |
 |-----------|-------------|---------|
-| `--gradient_checkpointing` | Enable activation checkpointing for DecoderBlock modules | False |
+| `--gradient_checkpointing`, `--no-gradient_checkpointing` | Enable or disable activation checkpointing for DecoderBlock modules | disabled |
+
+### Miscellaneous
+
+| Parameter | Description | Default |
+|-----------|-------------|---------|
+| `--compile` | Enable `torch.compile` with mode `default`, `reduce-overhead`, or `max-autotune`; omit to disable | None |
+| `--dry-run` | Validate the merged configuration and print the training plan without training | False |

 ### Distributed Training

 | Parameter | Description | Default |
 |-----------|-------------|---------|
 | `--nprocs` | Number of GPUs / processes | 1 |
-| `--parallel_mode` | Parallel strategy (`none`, `ddp`, or `fsdp`) | none |
+| `--parallel_mode` | Parallel strategy (`none`, `ddp`, `fsdp`) | fsdp |
 | `--device_type` | Device type | cuda |
 | `--start_method` | Multiprocessing start method (`spawn`, `fork`, `forkserver`) | spawn |
 | `--backend` | Distributed training backend | nccl |
 | `--master_addr` | Master node address | localhost |
 | `--master_port` | Master node port | 29500 |
+| `--tp_size` | Reserved tensor-parallel size; accepted but currently ignored | None |

 ### Strategy-specific

 | Parameter | Description | Default | Used by |
 |-----------|-------------|---------|---------|
-| `--dpo_beta` | DPO beta value | 0.1 | `dpo` |
+| `--dpo_beta` | DPO beta value | 0.1 | `dpo`, `online_dpo` |
 | `--label_smoothing` | Label smoothing for cross-entropy loss | 0.0 | `seq`, `sft` |
-| `--group_size` | GRPO group size | 4 | `grpo` |
-| `--grpo_clip_eps` | GRPO clipping epsilon | 0.2 | `grpo` |
-| `--grpo_kl_coef` | GRPO KL penalty coefficient | 0.01 | `grpo` |
+| `--group_size` | GRPO/rollout group size | 4 | `grpo`, `online_grpo`, `online_dpo` |
+| `--grpo_clip_eps` | GRPO clipping epsilon | 0.2 | `grpo`, `online_grpo` |
+| `--grpo_kl_coef` | GRPO KL penalty coefficient | 0.01 | `grpo`, `online_grpo` |
 | `--neftune_alpha` | NEFTune noise alpha (0=disabled, typical: 5.0) | 0.0 | `sft` |

 ### Online Rollout

-These options apply to `online_grpo` and `online_dpo`. Online strategies require
+`online_grpo` and `online_dpo` are factory aliases for the existing `grpo` and
+`dpo` strategy classes; online behavior is enabled by rollout components rather
+than separate strategy subclasses. These options apply to the online aliases.
+Online strategies require
 a `BaseRewardModel` factory in `TrainConfig`; `train.py` does not currently
 provide a command-line option for configuring one.

@@ -121,7 +166,7 @@ provide a command-line option for configuring one.
 | Parameter | Description | Default |
 |-----------|-------------|---------|
 | `--schedule_type` | LR scheduler type (`cosine`, `sgdr`, `wsd`) | cosine |
-| `--min_rate` | Minimum LR as fraction of base LR | None (scheduler default: 0.05 for cosine/SGDR, 0.0 for WSD) |
+| `--min_rate` | Minimum LR as fraction of base LR | None (all current schedulers use their effective default of 0.01) |
 | `--cycle_length` | SGDR first cycle length in steps | None (total_steps - warmup_steps) |
 | `--t_mult` | SGDR cycle length multiplier per restart | 2 |
 | `--stable_steps` | WSD stable plateau steps | None (80% of post-warmup steps) |
@@ -164,6 +209,7 @@ nohup python scripts/tools/train.py \
 | `--device` | str | `cuda` | Device to load model on |
 | `--dtype` | str | `bfloat16` | Model weights dtype (`bfloat16`, `float16`, `float32`) |
 | `--max_batch_size` | int | `16` | Maximum batch size for continuous batching |
+| `--max_seq_len` | int | model config `max_position_embeddings` | Maximum sequence length (KV cache size + prompt truncation) |
 | `--reload` | flag | `False` | Enable auto-reload for development |

 Usage:
@@ -182,11 +228,14 @@ See [Inference Guide](inference.md) for HTTP API documentation.
 | `--output_json_file` | str | required | Path to the output JSONL file |
 | `--question_key` | str | `question` | Key for the question in input JSON |
 | `--response_key` | str | `response` | Key for the response in output JSON |
-| `--temperature` | float | `0.60` | Sampling temperature |
-| `--top_k` | int | `30` | Top-k filtering |
+| `--temperature` | float | `0.8` | Sampling temperature |
+| `--top_k` | int | `50` | Top-k filtering |
 | `--top_p` | float | `0.95` | Nucleus sampling threshold |
 | `--batch_size` | int | `1` | Batch size for generation |
-| `--max_tokens` | int | model config `max_position_embeddings` | Maximum tokens to generate |
+| `--num_samples` | int | `1` | Responses per prompt |
+| `--max_seq_len` | int | `2048` | KV cache sequence length |
+| `--frequency_penalty` | float | `0.0` | Frequency penalty |
+| `--rep_window` | int | `64` | Window size for frequency penalty |

 Usage:
 ```bash
@@ -200,14 +249,15 @@ python scripts/tools/generate.py \

 | Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
 |-----------|------|---------|-------------|
-| `input_files` | path(s) | required | Input JSONL file(s), supports glob (`data/*.jsonl`) |
+| `input_files` | path(s) | required | One or more existing `.jsonl` or `.json` paths. Wildcards work only when expanded by the invoking shell; the CLI does not expand globs itself. |
 | `--output_dir`, `-o` | path | required | Output directory for processed data |
 | `--config`, `-c` | path | required | Preprocessing pipeline config (JSON) |
 | `--tokenizer_path` | str | `params` | Path to tokenizer directory |
+| `--batch_size` | int | config value (`256` by default) | Override records processed per batch; must be at least 1 |

 Usage:
 ```bash
-python scripts/tools/preprocess.py data/*.jsonl -o output/ -c sft.json
+python scripts/tools/preprocess.py data/part-000.jsonl data/part-001.jsonl -o output/ -c sft.json
 ```

 See [Preprocessing Guide](preprocessing.md) for config file format and examples.
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				"""Compiled CUDA kernel modules (``*.so``) live here, kept separate from Python source."""