refactor: split fp8 into fp8_ops adapter and fp8 policy module

- fp8_ops is the only module touching the pybind (kernel interface) - fp8.py keeps scaling state, delayed amax and aten::linear dispatch - remove circular imports between old fp8_ops/fp8_state/fp8_dispatch
feat: add te-style scaled fp8 training via fp8_autocast
2026-08-14 12:25:29 +08:00 · 2026-08-14 12:14:04 +08:00 · 2026-08-14 10:43:03 +08:00 · 2026-08-14 01:42:09 +08:00 · 2026-08-14 01:24:37 +08:00 · 2026-08-14 01:08:26 +08:00
132 changed files with 10094 additions and 5077 deletions
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ jobs:
      - name: Build wheel (with CUDA kernels)
        run: |
          CSRC_KERNELS=true pip wheel . --no-deps --no-build-isolation -w dist/
+          for f in dist/*.whl; do
+            mv "$f" "dist/$(basename "$f" .whl)+${{ matrix.cuda_tag }}.whl"
+          done

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
        with:
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 !scripts/**/*.py
 !tests/**/*.py
 !csrc/**/*.py
+!csrc/CMakeLists.txt

 !csrc/**/*.cu
 !csrc/**/*.h
@@ -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
@@ -93,7 +95,7 @@ fix/feat/chore/docs/refactor/perf/test/style/ci/build/revert : short description

 ## License

-By contributing, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the [GPL-3.0 License](LICENSE).
+By contributing, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under the [Apache-2.0 License](LICENSE).

 ---

@@ -57,8 +57,13 @@ COPY docs/ ./docs/
 COPY pyproject.toml .
 COPY README.md .

-# Create non-root user
-RUN useradd -m astrai && chown -R astrai:astrai /app
+# Create non-root user matching the host uid/gid (passed via build args)
+ARG USER_UID=1000
+ARG USER_GID=1000
+RUN groupadd -g "${USER_GID}" astrai \
+    && useradd -m -u "${USER_UID}" -g astrai astrai \
+    && chown -R astrai:astrai /app
+ENV HOME=/home/astrai
 USER astrai

 ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@

 <div align="center">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.12+-blue.svg" alt="python">
-  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL--3.0-blue.svg" alt="license">
+  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue.svg" alt="license">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/tag/ViperEkura/AstrAI?label=Release&color=76bad9" alt="release">
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@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@

 ## 📖 Table of Contents

- [Features](#features)
+- [Overview](#overview)
 - [Getting Started](#getting-started)
 - [Demo](#demo)
 - [Documentation](#documentation)
@@ -40,15 +40,19 @@
 <a id="english"></a>
 ## English

-### Features
+### Overview

- 🚀 **High Performance**: Optimized for both training and inference with efficient parallelization.
- 🔧 **Flexible**: Support for seq/sft/dpo/grpo training, customizable model architectures.
- 💡 **Easy to Use**: Simple API with comprehensive examples and demos.
- 📦 **Lightweight**: Minimal dependencies, easy to deploy.
- 🔬 **Research‑Friendly**: Modular design, easy to experiment with new ideas.
- 🤗 **HuggingFace-Style API**: AutoModel/AutoTokenizer APIs inspired by HuggingFace for easy model and tokenizer loading.
- 🔌 **Dual API Compatibility**: Supports both OpenAI and Anthropic chat completion APIs out of the box.
+AstrAI is an end-to-end Transformer framework for building, training, evaluating, and serving models. It provides a compact PyTorch codebase for the complete model lifecycle, from declarative data preprocessing and distributed training to continuous-batching inference and OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible APIs.
+
+| Area | Capabilities |
+|---|---|
+| **Models** | Autoregressive language models and embedding models with GQA, MLA, MoE, RoPE, and extensible attention/FFN components |
+| **Training** | Pre-training (`seq`), supervised fine-tuning (`sft`), DPO, and GRPO with gradient accumulation, checkpointing, DDP, and FSDP |
+| **Data** | Declarative JSON preprocessing, configurable masking and packing, binary/JSONL storage, and streaming datasets |
+| **Inference** | Continuous batching, paged KV cache, radix prefix caching, streaming generation, and Torch/CUDA/FlashAttention backends |
+| **Serving** | FastAPI server with OpenAI and Anthropic chat completion protocols, including SSE streaming and tool calls |
+| **Evaluation** | Perplexity, MMLU, HumanEval, IFEval, IFD, and ROUGE evaluation tools |
+| **Extensibility** | Factory and registry architecture for models, datasets, training strategies, callbacks, kernels, and protocol components |

 ### Getting Started

@@ -56,6 +60,8 @@ 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 +138,7 @@ 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 +189,7 @@ 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
 ```

@@ -250,10 +256,10 @@ For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to

 ### License

-This project is licensed under the [GPL-3.0 License](LICENSE).
+This project is licensed under the [Apache-2.0 License](LICENSE).

 ---

 <div align="center">
  <em>A lightweight Transformer framework designed for both high performance and ease of use.</em>
-</div>
+</div>
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-__version__ = "1.3.12"
+__version__ = "1.3.13"
 __author__ = "ViperEkura"

-import logging
-import os
-
 from astrai.config import (
    AutoRegressiveLMConfig,
    BaseModelConfig,
@@ -21,7 +18,6 @@ from astrai.dataset import (
 )
 from astrai.factory import BaseFactory
 from astrai.inference import (
-    GenerationRequest,
    InferenceEngine,
    ProtocolHandler,
    SamplingPipeline,
@@ -29,6 +25,7 @@ from astrai.inference import (
    run_server,
    sample,
 )
+from astrai.logging import setup_logging
 from astrai.model import (
    AutoModel,
    AutoRegressiveLM,
@@ -56,30 +53,6 @@ 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",
@@ -98,7 +71,6 @@ __all__ = [
    "EmbeddingEncoder",
    "EncoderConfig",
    "ExecutorFactory",
-    "GenerationRequest",
    "InferenceEngine",
    "LoRAConfig",
    "Pipeline",
@@ -124,3 +96,5 @@ __all__ = [
    "setup_logging",
    "spawn_parallel_fn",
 ]
+
+setup_logging()
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ class AutoRegressiveLMConfig(BaseModelConfig):
        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
@@ -87,6 +92,12 @@ class AutoRegressiveLMConfig(BaseModelConfig):
    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
+    moe_aux_loss_coef: float = 0.01

    @field_validator("attn_type")
    def _validate_attn_type(cls, v: str) -> str:
@@ -102,6 +113,12 @@ class AutoRegressiveLMConfig(BaseModelConfig):
            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")
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ class TrainConfig(BaseConfig):
        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.
+        persistent_workers (bool): Keep DataLoader workers alive between epochs. Defaults to False.
        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.
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ class TrainConfig(BaseConfig):
        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.
@@ -97,6 +99,7 @@ class TrainConfig(BaseConfig):
    random_seed: int = 3407
    num_workers: int = 0
    prefetch_factor: Optional[int] = None
+    persistent_workers: bool = False
    pin_memory: bool = False
    collate_fn: Optional[Callable[[List[Any]], Any]] = None

@@ -112,6 +115,7 @@ class TrainConfig(BaseConfig):
    val_split: Optional[float] = None
    val_step: int = 1000
    neftune_alpha: float = 0.0
+    moe_aux_loss_coef: float = 0.01

    rollout_interval: int = 512
    rollout_temperature: float = 0.7
@@ -187,7 +191,9 @@ class TrainConfig(BaseConfig):
            raise ValueError(f"rollout_top_p must be in (0, 1], got {v}")
        return v

-    @field_validator("rollout_top_k", "num_workers", "neftune_alpha")
+    @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}")
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ from astrai.dataset.storage import (
    Streamable,
    detect_format,
 )
+from astrai.dataset.streaming import StreamingSeqDataset
 from astrai.serialization import (
    load_bin,
    save_bin,
@@ -34,4 +35,5 @@ __all__ = [
    "save_bin",
    "load_bin",
    "RDSampler",
+    "StreamingSeqDataset",
 ]
@@ -25,20 +25,50 @@ function (pure ``record -> Dict[str, Tensor]``) is forwarded to

 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from functools import partial
+from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional

 import torch
 from torch import Tensor
 from torch.utils.data import Dataset

+from astrai.config.preprocess_config import PipelineConfig
 from astrai.dataset.storage import (
    Store,
    StoreFactory,
    detect_format,
 )
 from astrai.factory import BaseFactory
+from astrai.preprocessing.transform import TokenizeTransform
 from astrai.tokenize import AutoTokenizer

+_DEFAULT_MESSAGES_CONFIG = {
+    "version": 1,
+    "input": {"sections": [{"field": "messages", "action": "$role", "template": True}]},
+    "mask": {"system": "mask", "user": "mask", "assistant": "train"},
+    "mask_default": "mask",
+    "output": {"position_ids_mode": "doc_reset"},
+}
+
+
+def _build_jsonl_transform(
+    path: str, tokenizer_path: Optional[str] = None
+) -> Optional["TokenizeTransform"]:
+    """Auto-build a TokenizeTransform for JSONL eager loading.
+
+    Reads ``dataset_config.json`` from the data dir if present, or
+    falls back to the built-in chatml SFT config when *tokenizer_path*
+    is provided.
+    """
+    root = Path(path)
+    config_path = root / "dataset_config.json" if root.is_dir() else None
+    if config_path is not None and config_path.exists():
+        return TokenizeTransform.from_config_file(str(config_path))
+    if tokenizer_path:
+        config = PipelineConfig.from_dict(_DEFAULT_MESSAGES_CONFIG)
+        return TokenizeTransform(config, tokenizer_path)
+    return None
+

 def dpo_tokenize(
    record: dict,
@@ -349,16 +379,18 @@ class DatasetFactory(BaseFactory["BaseDataset"]):
        )
        if processor is not None:
            store.load(load_path, processor=processor, **kwargs)
+        elif storage_type == "jsonl":
+            transform = _build_jsonl_transform(load_path, tokenizer_path)
+            if transform is None:
+                raise FileNotFoundError(
+                    f"JSONL dataset config not found. Expected "
+                    f"dataset_config.json alongside *.jsonl files, pass "
+                    f"tokenizer_path= for the built-in messages config, or "
+                    f"use processor= for lazy on-the-fly tokenisation."
+                )
+            store.load(load_path, transform=transform, **kwargs)
        else:
-            load_kwargs = dict(kwargs)
-            if (
-                tokenizer_path is not None
-                and storage_type == "jsonl"
-                and train_type in ("seq", "sft")
-                and "tokenizer_path" not in load_kwargs
-            ):
-                load_kwargs["tokenizer_path"] = tokenizer_path
-            store.load(load_path, **load_kwargs)
+            store.load(load_path, **kwargs)

        return cls.create(train_type, store=store)

@@ -55,9 +55,7 @@ from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 import torch
 from torch import Tensor

-from astrai.config.preprocess_config import PipelineConfig
 from astrai.factory import BaseFactory
-from astrai.preprocessing.transform import TokenizeTransform
 from astrai.serialization import (
    load_bin,
    load_bin_offsets,
@@ -536,19 +534,8 @@ class JsonlStore(Store, Streamable, Recordable):
      ``len(store)`` returns ``num_records``; stream primitives raise.
    """

-    CONFIG_NAME = "dataset_config.json"
    segments_are_records = True

-    _DEFAULT_MESSAGES_CONFIG = {
-        "version": 1,
-        "input": {
-            "sections": [{"field": "messages", "action": "$role", "template": True}]
-        },
-        "mask": {"system": "mask", "user": "mask", "assistant": "train"},
-        "mask_default": "mask",
-        "output": {"position_ids_mode": "doc_reset"},
-    }
-
    def __init__(
        self,
        window_size: int = 0,
@@ -569,22 +556,10 @@ class JsonlStore(Store, Streamable, Recordable):
            return

        if transform is None:
-            root = Path(path)
-            config_path = root / self.CONFIG_NAME if root.is_dir() else None
-            if config_path is not None and config_path.exists():
-                transform = TokenizeTransform.from_config_file(str(config_path))
-            else:
-                tokenizer_path = kwargs.get("tokenizer_path")
-                if not tokenizer_path:
-                    raise FileNotFoundError(
-                        f"JSONL dataset config not found. Expected "
-                        f"{self.CONFIG_NAME} alongside *.jsonl files, pass an "
-                        f"explicit transform, pass processor= for lazy "
-                        f"on-the-fly tokenisation, or pass tokenizer_path= to "
-                        f"use the built-in messages config."
-                    )
-                config = PipelineConfig.from_dict(self._DEFAULT_MESSAGES_CONFIG)
-                transform = TokenizeTransform(config, tokenizer_path)
+            raise ValueError(
+                "JsonlStore eager mode requires transform=. "
+                "Use DatasetFactory.load() which auto-constructs it."
+            )

        transformed = transform.apply(records)
        self._normalize(transformed)
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+"""Streaming IterableDataset for pre-training with shard-level shuffle.
+
+Unlike the map-style datasets, the streaming dataset yields windows
+sequentially through each data shard — no random access, no sampler.
+Each DataLoader worker independently streams its assigned shard subset,
+giving better OS page-cache locality for large-scale (TB+) datasets.
+
+Key properties:
+- Implements ``torch.utils.data.IterableDataset``.
+- ``__len__`` returns total window count so ``compute_total_steps`` works.
+- Shard-level shuffle with deterministic seed (reproducible across runs).
+- Distributed: each rank gets a disjoint subset of shards.
+- Multi-worker: each worker within a rank gets a disjoint subset.
+"""
+
+import random
+from typing import Iterator, Optional
+
+import torch
+import torch.distributed as dist
+from torch import Tensor
+from torch.utils.data import IterableDataset
+
+from astrai.dataset.storage import Store
+
+
+def _resolve_rank_and_world_size() -> tuple[int, int]:
+    if dist.is_available() and dist.is_initialized():
+        return dist.get_rank(), dist.get_world_size()
+    return 0, 1
+
+
+def _total_windows(token_count, window_size, stride):
+    if token_count <= window_size:
+        return 0
+    return (token_count - 1 - window_size) // stride + 1
+
+
+class StreamingSeqDataset(IterableDataset):
+    """Streaming next-token prediction dataset.
+
+    Yields ``{"input_ids": [L], "target_ids": [L]}`` dicts by sliding a
+    window sequentially through each data shard.  Shards are shuffled
+    deterministically.  Distributed and multi-worker DataLoader modes are
+    supported: each consumer gets a disjoint shard subset.
+
+    Args:
+        store: Already-loaded Store with a ``"sequence"`` key.
+        window_size: Context length per sample.
+        stride: Step between consecutive windows (default: window_size).
+        shuffle: Shuffle shard order.
+        seed: Base seed for deterministic shard shuffle.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        store: Store,
+        window_size: int,
+        stride: Optional[int] = None,
+        shuffle: bool = True,
+        seed: int = 42,
+        rank: Optional[int] = None,
+        world_size: Optional[int] = None,
+    ):
+        super().__init__()
+        if window_size <= 0:
+            raise ValueError("window_size must be positive")
+        self.store = store
+        self.window_size = window_size
+        self.stride = stride if stride is not None else window_size
+        self.shuffle = shuffle
+        self.seed = seed
+        self._rank, self._world_size = (
+            rank,
+            world_size if rank is not None else _resolve_rank_and_world_size(),
+        )
+
+        if "sequence" not in store.keys:
+            raise KeyError(
+                f"Store is missing required key 'sequence'; "
+                f"available keys: {sorted(store.keys)}"
+            )
+
+    @property
+    def num_samples(self) -> int:
+        return _total_windows(self.store.token_count, self.window_size, self.stride)
+
+    def __len__(self) -> int:
+        return self.num_samples
+
+    def __iter__(self) -> Iterator[dict[str, Tensor]]:
+        segments = self.store._data["sequence"]
+        n_shards = len(segments)
+
+        indices = list(range(n_shards))
+        if self.shuffle:
+            rng = random.Random(self.seed)
+            rng.shuffle(indices)
+
+        worker_info = torch.utils.data.get_worker_info()
+        if worker_info is None:
+            num_consumers = self._world_size
+            consumer_id = self._rank
+        else:
+            num_consumers = self._world_size * worker_info.num_workers
+            consumer_id = self._rank * worker_info.num_workers + worker_info.id
+
+        my_shards = [
+            i for idx, i in enumerate(indices) if idx % num_consumers == consumer_id
+        ]
+
+        for shard_idx in my_shards:
+            segment = segments[shard_idx]
+            seq_len = segment.shape[0]
+            for begin in range(0, seq_len - self.window_size, self.stride):
+                end = begin + self.window_size
+                yield {
+                    "input_ids": torch.as_tensor(segment[begin:end], dtype=torch.long),
+                    "target_ids": torch.as_tensor(
+                        segment[begin + 1 : end + 1], dtype=torch.long
+                    ),
+                }
@@ -18,13 +18,16 @@ SDPA is handled by the attention backend, not the wrapper functions.
 from astrai.extension.attention_backend import (
    ATTN_BACKEND,
    AttentionBackend,
+    AttentionBackendFactory,
    CudaBackend,
+    FlashAttnBackend,
    TorchNativeBackend,
    attention,
    attn_backend,
    get_backend,
 )
 from astrai.extension.attention_ops import (
+    TensorLayout,
    attn_decode,
    attn_paged_decode,
    attn_prefill,
@@ -35,8 +38,11 @@ from astrai.extension.rotary_backend import apply_rotary_emb
 __all__ = [
    "ATTN_BACKEND",
    "AttentionBackend",
+    "AttentionBackendFactory",
    "CudaBackend",
    "TorchNativeBackend",
+    "FlashAttnBackend",
+    "TensorLayout",
    "attention",
    "attn_backend",
    "get_backend",
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ Usage — mirroring ``torch.nn.attention.sdpa_kernel``:

 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.
+to a process-wide default (cuda > flash > torch, overridable via
+``ASTR_BACKEND``).

 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]``.
@@ -30,21 +31,71 @@ Layout convention: all q/k/v are ``[batch, seq_len, n_heads, head_dim]``

 import contextvars
 import enum
+import functools
+import importlib
+import os
+import threading
 from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
 from contextlib import contextmanager
-from typing import Optional, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Optional, Union

 import torch
 import torch.nn.functional as F
 from torch import Tensor

-from astrai.extension.attention_ops import attn_paged_decode, attn_prefill
-from astrai.extension.loader import is_available
-from astrai.inference.core.cache import KVCache
-
-_current_backend: contextvars.ContextVar["AttentionBackend"] = contextvars.ContextVar(
-    "attn_backend"
+from astrai.extension.attention_ops import (
+    attn_paged_decode,
+    attn_paged_prefill,
 )
+from astrai.extension.loader import is_available
+from astrai.factory import BaseFactory
+
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from astrai.inference.cache import KVCache
+
+
+_default_backend: Optional["AttentionBackend"] = None
+_default_backend_lock = threading.Lock()
+_env_backend_name: Optional[str] = None
+_env_backend: Optional["AttentionBackend"] = None
+_current_backend: contextvars.ContextVar[Optional["AttentionBackend"]] = (
+    contextvars.ContextVar("attn_backend", default=None)
+)
+
+
+@functools.lru_cache(maxsize=1)
+def flash_attn_available() -> bool:
+    if not torch.cuda.is_available():
+        return False
+    fa = _get_flash_attn()
+    if fa is None:
+        return False
+
+    try:
+        major = int(fa.__version__.split(".")[0])
+        cc = torch.cuda.get_device_capability()
+        cc_num = cc[0] * 10 + cc[1]
+    except Exception:
+        major, cc_num = 0, 0
+    if (major >= 3 and cc_num < 90) or (major < 3 and 0 < cc_num < 70):
+        return False
+
+    try:
+        if not hasattr(fa, "flash_attn_func"):
+            return False
+        x = torch.zeros(1, 1, 1, 64, device="cuda", dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+        out = fa.flash_attn_func(x, x, x, causal=True)
+        return bool(torch.isfinite(out).all().item())
+    except Exception:
+        return False
+
+
+@functools.lru_cache(maxsize=1)
+def _get_flash_attn():
+    try:
+        return importlib.import_module("flash_attn")
+    except Exception:
+        return None


 class ATTN_BACKEND(enum.Enum):
@@ -52,26 +103,126 @@ class ATTN_BACKEND(enum.Enum):

    TORCH_NATIVE = "torch_native"
    CUDA = "cuda"
+    FLASH = "flash"


-def get_backend() -> "AttentionBackend":
-    """Return the active backend for the current thread/context.
+def _priority_backends() -> list["AttentionBackend"]:
+    """Available backends in priority order: cuda -> flash -> torch."""
+    backends: list[AttentionBackend] = []
+    if is_available("attn_paged_decode") and is_available("attn_paged_prefill"):
+        backends.append(CudaBackend())
+    if flash_attn_available():
+        backends.append(FlashAttnBackend())
+    backends.append(TorchNativeBackend())
+    return backends

-    Falls back to a ``TorchNativeBackend`` singleton when no backend
-    has been activated via ``with``.
+
+def _backend_supports(
+    backend: "AttentionBackend",
+    q: Tensor,
+    kv_cache: Optional["KVCache"],
+    attn_mask: Optional[Tensor],
+    is_causal: bool,
+) -> bool:
+    """Whether ``backend`` can run this attention call.
+
+    The CUDA kernels are bf16-only, support head_dim in 32/64/128/256, and
+    need a KV cache (decode/prefill); everything else falls back to torch.
    """
-    try:
-        return _current_backend.get()
-    except LookupError:
-        return _default_backend
+    if isinstance(backend, CudaBackend):
+        return (
+            kv_cache is not None
+            and q.dtype == torch.bfloat16
+            and q.size(-1) in (32, 64, 128, 256)
+        )
+    if isinstance(backend, FlashAttnBackend):
+        if not flash_attn_available():
+            return False
+        if q.dtype not in (torch.float16, torch.bfloat16):
+            return False
+        if q.size(1) == 1 and kv_cache is not None:
+            return True
+        if attn_mask is None or is_causal:
+            return True
+        return attn_mask.dim() == 4
+    return True
+
+
+def _resolve_default_backend() -> "AttentionBackend":
+    """Pick the highest-priority available backend (cuda -> flash -> torch).
+
+    Resolved lazily on first ``get_backend()`` and cached.  Per-call
+    capability fallback happens in ``attention()``, so the default is
+    safe for training and fp32 models.
+    """
+    return _priority_backends()[0]
+
+
+def _environment_backend() -> Optional["AttentionBackend"]:
+    """Resolve the process-wide ``ASTR_BACKEND`` override, if configured."""
+    global _env_backend, _env_backend_name
+    name = os.environ.get("ASTR_BACKEND", "").strip().lower()
+    if not name:
+        return None
+    if name != _env_backend_name:
+        with _default_backend_lock:
+            if name != _env_backend_name:
+                try:
+                    _env_backend = AttentionBackendFactory.create(name)
+                except (ValueError, RuntimeError):
+                    _env_backend = None
+                _env_backend_name = name
+    return _env_backend
+
+
+def _resolve_backend(
+    backend: Optional[Union[str, ATTN_BACKEND, "AttentionBackend", type]] = None,
+) -> "AttentionBackend":
+    """Resolve a backend configuration, defaulting to the process policy."""
+    if backend is not None:
+        if isinstance(backend, ATTN_BACKEND):
+            return AttentionBackendFactory.create(backend.value)
+        if isinstance(backend, str):
+            return AttentionBackendFactory.create(backend)
+        if isinstance(backend, type) and issubclass(backend, AttentionBackend):
+            return backend()
+        if isinstance(backend, AttentionBackend):
+            return backend
+        raise TypeError(
+            f"expected a registered name, ATTN_BACKEND, AttentionBackend type, "
+            f"or instance, got {type(backend).__name__}"
+        )
+
+    global _default_backend
+    if _default_backend is None:
+        with _default_backend_lock:
+            if _default_backend is None:
+                _default_backend = _resolve_default_backend()
+    return _default_backend
+
+
+def get_backend(
+    use_default: bool = True,
+) -> Optional["AttentionBackend"]:
+    """Return the context override, optionally falling back to the process default.
+
+    ``ASTR_BACKEND`` is a process-wide override and takes precedence over the
+    context value. Pass ``use_default=False`` at request submission to retain
+    only an environment override or the caller's :func:`attn_backend` value.
+    """
+    return (
+        _environment_backend()
+        or _current_backend.get()
+        or (_resolve_backend() if use_default else None)
+    )


@contextmanager
-def attn_backend(backend: Union[ATTN_BACKEND, "AttentionBackend", type]):
+def attn_backend(backend: Union[str, 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.
+    registered name, ``ATTN_BACKEND`` enum value, backend class, or instance.

    Examples::

@@ -82,17 +233,7 @@ def attn_backend(backend: Union[ATTN_BACKEND, "AttentionBackend", type]):
        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__}"
-        )
+    instance = _resolve_backend(backend)
    token = _current_backend.set(instance)
    try:
        yield instance
@@ -112,11 +253,33 @@ def repeat_kv(x: Tensor, n_rep: int) -> Tensor:
    )


+def _write_and_gather_kv(
+    kv_cache: "KVCache",
+    k: Tensor,
+    v: Tensor,
+    layer_id: int,
+    q: Tensor,
+    attn_mask: Optional[Tensor],
+) -> tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
+    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]
+    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))
+    return kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id, indices], kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id, indices]
+
+
 def attention(
    q: Tensor,
    k: Tensor,
    v: Tensor,
-    kv_cache: Optional[KVCache] = None,
+    kv_cache: Optional["KVCache"] = None,
    layer_id: int = 0,
    attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
    is_causal: bool = False,
@@ -140,6 +303,22 @@ def attention(
        [batch, q_len, n_heads * head_dim]
    """
    backend = get_backend()
+    if not _backend_supports(backend, q, kv_cache, attn_mask, is_causal):
+        explicit = get_backend(use_default=False)
+        if explicit is not None:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"Explicitly-set backend {type(backend).__name__} cannot "
+                f"handle this attention call (shape={q.shape}, "
+                f"dtype={q.dtype}, kv_cache={'none' if kv_cache is None else 'present'}, "
+                f"attn_mask={'none' if attn_mask is None else 'present'}). "
+                f"Remove the attn_backend() context or switch to a compatible backend."
+            )
+        for candidate in _priority_backends():
+            if isinstance(candidate, type(backend)):
+                continue
+            if _backend_supports(candidate, q, kv_cache, attn_mask, is_causal):
+                backend = candidate
+                break
    return backend.forward(q, k, v, kv_cache, layer_id, attn_mask, is_causal)


@@ -172,7 +351,7 @@ class AttentionBackend(ABC):
        q: Tensor,
        k: Tensor,
        v: Tensor,
-        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        kv_cache: Optional["KVCache"],
        layer_id: int,
        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
        is_causal: bool = False,
@@ -201,7 +380,7 @@ class AttentionBackend(ABC):
        q: Tensor,
        k: Tensor,
        v: Tensor,
-        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        kv_cache: Optional["KVCache"],
        layer_id: int,
        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
        is_causal: bool = False,
@@ -214,14 +393,30 @@ class AttentionBackend(ABC):
        q: Tensor,
        k: Tensor,
        v: Tensor,
-        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        kv_cache: Optional["KVCache"],
        layer_id: int,
        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
        is_causal: bool = False,
    ) -> Tensor:
        """Multi-token prefill or training forward."""

+    @staticmethod
+    def supports_graph() -> bool:
+        """Return True if this backend supports CUDA-graph capture.

+        Override in subclasses that can run under ``torch.cuda.graph``.
+
+        Called on the *active* backend instance (or its class) — a cheap
+        boolean check with no side-effects.
+        """
+        return False
+
+
+class AttentionBackendFactory(BaseFactory[AttentionBackend]):
+    """Factory for registered attention backends."""
+
+
+@AttentionBackendFactory.register(ATTN_BACKEND.TORCH_NATIVE.value)
 class TorchNativeBackend(AttentionBackend):
    """Reference backend using torch SDPA with indirect KV cache indexing.

@@ -233,12 +428,16 @@ class TorchNativeBackend(AttentionBackend):
    runs SDPA directly on the projected q/k/v.
    """

+    @staticmethod
+    def supports(**kwargs) -> bool:
+        return True
+
    def fwd_decode(
        self,
        q: Tensor,
        k: Tensor,
        v: Tensor,
-        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        kv_cache: Optional["KVCache"],
        layer_id: int,
        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
        is_causal: bool = False,
@@ -250,7 +449,7 @@ class TorchNativeBackend(AttentionBackend):
        q: Tensor,
        k: Tensor,
        v: Tensor,
-        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        kv_cache: Optional["KVCache"],
        layer_id: int,
        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
        is_causal: bool = False,
@@ -262,161 +461,245 @@ class TorchNativeBackend(AttentionBackend):
        q: Tensor,
        k: Tensor,
        v: Tensor,
-        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        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
-            if kv_cache.page_table is not None:
-                indices = kv_cache.page_table
-            else:
-                indices = kv_cache.req_to_token[kv_cache.req_pool_indices, :max_len]
-            if kv_cache.decode_mask is not None:
-                pos_mask = kv_cache.decode_mask
-            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]
+            k, v = _write_and_gather_kv(kv_cache, k, v, layer_id, q, attn_mask)

        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 = F.scaled_dot_product_attention(
+            q.permute(0, 2, 1, 3),
+            k.permute(0, 2, 1, 3),
+            v.permute(0, 2, 1, 3),
+            attn_mask,
+            is_causal=is_causal,
+        )
        out = out.permute(0, 2, 1, 3).contiguous().flatten(2)
        return out


-_default_backend = TorchNativeBackend()
-
-
+@AttentionBackendFactory.register(ATTN_BACKEND.CUDA.value)
 class CudaBackend(AttentionBackend):
    """CUDA kernel backend with direct KV cache access.

-    Decode path: writes K/V to cache, then calls ``attn_paged_decode``
-    with ``page_size=1`` (each token slot is a single-token "page").
-    The ``req_to_token`` table serves directly as the page table.
+    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 cache, gathers full-sequence K/V via
-    indirect indexing (same as TorchNativeBackend), then calls
-    ``attn_prefill``.
+    Prefill path: writes K/V to the flat pool, then calls
+    ``attn_paged_prefill`` with ragged-batch support via qo_indptr +
+    kv_indptr.

-    Training path (``kv_cache is None``): calls ``attn_prefill`` directly
-    on the projected q/k/v.
+    ``kv_cache is None`` (training) raises — the per-call fallback to
+    torch SDPA for training / fp32 / unsupported head_dim happens in the
+    ``attention()`` entry point.

-    Falls back to ``TorchNativeBackend`` for any path where the
-    corresponding CUDA kernel is not available.
+    Raises ``RuntimeError`` if the required kernel is not available.
    """

-    def __init__(self):
-        self._fallback = TorchNativeBackend()
+    @staticmethod
+    def supports(**kwargs) -> bool:
+        head_dim = kwargs.get("head_dim", -1)
+        return (
+            torch.cuda.is_available()
+            and head_dim in (32, 64, 128, 256)
+            and is_available("attn_paged_decode")
+            and is_available("attn_paged_prefill")
+        )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def supports_graph() -> bool:
+        return True

    def fwd_decode(
        self,
        q: Tensor,
        k: Tensor,
        v: Tensor,
-        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        kv_cache: Optional["KVCache"],
        layer_id: int,
        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
        is_causal: bool = False,
    ) -> Tensor:
-        if kv_cache is None or not is_available("attn_paged_decode"):
-            return self._fallback.fwd_decode(
-                q, k, v, kv_cache, layer_id, attn_mask, is_causal
-            )
+        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
+        loc = kv_cache.out_cache_loc[:, 0]
+        kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id].index_copy_(0, loc, k[:, 0])
+        kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id].index_copy_(0, loc, v[:, 0])

-        max_len = kv_cache.max_len
+        q_3d = q.squeeze(1)

-        if kv_cache.page_table is not None:
-            page_table = kv_cache.page_table
-        else:
-            page_table = kv_cache.req_to_token[kv_cache.req_pool_indices, :max_len]
-
-        k_cache = kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id].unsqueeze(1)
-        v_cache = kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id].unsqueeze(1)
-
-        if q.size(0) == 1:
-            mask = None
-        elif kv_cache.decode_mask is not None:
-            mask = kv_cache.decode_mask
-        else:
-            mask = (
-                torch.arange(max_len, device=q.device)[None, :]
-                < kv_cache.seq_lens[:, None]
-            )
+        kv_indptr = kv_cache.kv_indptr

        out = attn_paged_decode(
-            q,
-            page_table,
-            k_cache,
-            v_cache,
-            page_size=1,
-            kv_len=max_len,
-            mask=mask,
-            is_causal=is_causal,
+            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,
+            is_causal=True,
+            o_part_buf=kv_cache.decode_o_part,
+            ml_part_buf=kv_cache.decode_ml_part,
+            out_buf=kv_cache.decode_out,
        )
-
-        out = out.flatten(2)
-        return out
+        return out.unsqueeze(1).flatten(2)

    def fwd_prefill(
        self,
        q: Tensor,
        k: Tensor,
        v: Tensor,
-        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache],
+        kv_cache: Optional["KVCache"],
        layer_id: int,
        attn_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
        is_causal: bool = False,
    ) -> Tensor:
        if kv_cache is None:
-            if is_available("attn_prefill"):
-                out = attn_prefill(q, k, v, mask=attn_mask, is_causal=is_causal)
-                return out.flatten(2)
-            return self._fallback.fwd_prefill(
-                q, k, v, kv_cache, layer_id, attn_mask, is_causal
-            )
+            raise RuntimeError("CudaBackend does not support training (kv_cache=None)")

-        if not is_available("attn_prefill"):
-            return self._fallback.fwd_prefill(
-                q, k, v, kv_cache, layer_id, attn_mask, is_causal
-            )
-
-        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]
-        pos_mask = (
-            torch.arange(max_len, device=q.device)[None, :] < kv_cache.seq_lens[:, None]
+        loc = kv_cache.out_cache_loc.reshape(-1)
+        kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id].index_copy_(
+            0, loc, k.reshape(-1, k.size(2), k.size(3))
+        )
+        kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id].index_copy_(
+            0, loc, v.reshape(-1, v.size(2), v.size(3))
        )
-        indices = torch.where(pos_mask, indices, torch.zeros_like(indices))
-        k_full = kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id, indices]
-        v_full = kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id, indices]

-        out = attn_prefill(q, k_full, v_full, mask=attn_mask, is_causal=is_causal)
+        b = q.size(0)
+        q_len = q.size(1)
+
+        kv_indptr = kv_cache.kv_indptr
+        qo_indptr = kv_cache.qo_indptr
+
+        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,
+            is_causal=is_causal,
+        )
+        return out.reshape(b, q_len, q.size(2), q.size(3)).flatten(2)
+
+
+@AttentionBackendFactory.register(ATTN_BACKEND.FLASH.value)
+class FlashAttnBackend(AttentionBackend):
+    """FlashAttention backend via the optional ``flash-attn`` package.
+
+    Decode (q_len=1, contiguous cache): uses ``flash_attn_with_kvcache``,
+    which reads K/V directly from the flat pool via cache_batch_idx +
+    cache_seqlens — no materialized KV gather.
+
+    Prefill / non-contiguous decode: falls back to KV gather +
+    ``flash_attn_func``.
+    """
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def supports(**kwargs) -> bool:
+        return flash_attn_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:
+        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:
+            if q.size(1) == 1 and kv_cache.k_buffer.size(
+                1
+            ) == kv_cache.req_to_token.size(0) * kv_cache.req_to_token.size(1):
+                return self._decode_with_kvcache(q, k, v, kv_cache, layer_id)
+            k, v = _write_and_gather_kv(kv_cache, k, v, layer_id, q, attn_mask)
+
+        n_rep = q.size(2) // k.size(2)
+        if n_rep > 1:
+            k = repeat_kv(k, n_rep)
+            v = repeat_kv(v, n_rep)
+
+        if attn_mask is not None and not is_causal and attn_mask.dim() != 4:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "FlashAttnBackend does not support a custom attention mask; "
+                "use a causal mask or select TorchNativeBackend."
+            )
+        fa = _get_flash_attn()
+        if fa is None:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                "FlashAttnBackend requires the optional 'flash-attn' package. "
+                "Install with `pip install flash-attn`."
+            )
+        out = fa.flash_attn_func(
+            q.contiguous(),
+            k.contiguous(),
+            v.contiguous(),
+            causal=is_causal or (attn_mask is not None and attn_mask.dim() == 4),
+        )
+        return out.contiguous().flatten(2)
+
+    def _decode_with_kvcache(
+        self,
+        q: Tensor,
+        k: Tensor,
+        v: Tensor,
+        kv_cache: "KVCache",
+        layer_id: int,
+    ) -> Tensor:
+        max_batch = kv_cache.req_to_token.size(0)
+        max_seq = kv_cache.req_to_token.size(1)
+        n_kv = k.size(2)
+
+        k_cache = kv_cache.k_buffer[layer_id].view(max_batch, max_seq, n_kv, k.size(3))
+        v_cache = kv_cache.v_buffer[layer_id].view(max_batch, max_seq, n_kv, v.size(3))
+
+        fa = _get_flash_attn()
+        out = fa.flash_attn_with_kvcache(
+            q=q,
+            k_cache=k_cache,
+            v_cache=v_cache,
+            k=k,
+            v=v,
+            cache_seqlens=(kv_cache.seq_lens - 1).to(torch.int32),
+            cache_batch_idx=kv_cache.req_pool_indices.to(torch.int32),
+            causal=True,
+        )
        return out.flatten(2)
-
-
-_BACKEND_REGISTRY: dict[ATTN_BACKEND, type[AttentionBackend]] = {
-    ATTN_BACKEND.TORCH_NATIVE: TorchNativeBackend,
-    ATTN_BACKEND.CUDA: CudaBackend,
-}
@@ -12,11 +12,24 @@ Interface (all functions):
    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(
@@ -29,7 +42,7 @@ def attn_decode(
    q: torch.Tensor,
    k: torch.Tensor,
    v: torch.Tensor,
-    mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
    is_causal: bool = False,
 ) -> torch.Tensor:
    """GQA decode attention (q_len == 1).
@@ -47,7 +60,7 @@ def attn_decode(
    _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=1
+        q, k, v, mask=mask, causal_offset=causal_offset, layout=TensorLayout.BLHD
    )


@@ -55,7 +68,7 @@ def attn_prefill(
    q: torch.Tensor,
    k: torch.Tensor,
    v: torch.Tensor,
-    mask: torch.Tensor | None = None,
+    mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
    is_causal: bool = False,
 ) -> torch.Tensor:
    """GQA prefill attention (q_len > 1).
@@ -73,45 +86,103 @@ def attn_prefill(
    _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=1
+        q, k, v, mask=mask, causal_offset=causal_offset, layout=TensorLayout.BLHD
    )


 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,
+    req_to_token: torch.Tensor,
+    req_pool_indices: torch.Tensor,
+    kv_indptr: torch.Tensor,
+    mask: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
    is_causal: bool = False,
+    o_part_buf: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    ml_part_buf: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
+    out_buf: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None,
 ) -> torch.Tensor:
-    """Paged GQA decode attention (q_len == 1, direct page-table access).
+    """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, 1, n_heads, head_dim] (blhd, bf16)
-        page_table: [batch, max_pages] (int64)
-        k_cache: [n_pages, page_size, n_kv_heads, head_dim] (bf16)
+        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
-        page_size: tokens per page
-        kv_len: actual sequence length per request
-        mask: 2D [batch, kv_len] or 3D [batch, 1, kv_len] (bool, True=keep)
+        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
+        mask: 2D [batch, max_context_len] (bool, True=keep) or None
+        is_causal: apply causal mask
+        o_part_buf: pre-allocated split-KV o partial buffer (workflow bypass)
+        ml_part_buf: pre-allocated split-KV m/l buffer (workflow bypass)
+        out_buf: pre-allocated output buffer [batch, n_heads, head_dim] (graph-safe)
+
+    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,
+        mask=mask,
+        causal_offset=causal_offset,
+        o_part_buf=o_part_buf,
+        ml_part_buf=ml_part_buf,
+        out_buf=out_buf,
+    )
+
+
+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,
+    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
        is_causal: apply causal mask

    Returns:
-        [batch, 1, n_heads, head_dim] (blhd, bf16)
+        [total_q, n_heads, head_dim] (bf16, 3D)
    """
-    _check_available("attn_paged_decode")
-    causal_offset = (kv_len - 1) if is_causal else -1
-    return _modules["attn_paged_decode"].attn_paged_decode(
+    _check_available("attn_paged_prefill")
+    causal_offset = 0 if is_causal else -1
+    return _modules["attn_paged_prefill"].attn_paged_prefill(
        q,
-        page_table,
        k_cache,
        v_cache,
-        page_size,
-        kv_len,
-        mask=mask,
+        req_to_token,
+        req_pool_indices,
+        kv_indptr,
+        qo_indptr,
+        mask,
        causal_offset=causal_offset,
-        layout=1,
    )
@@ -0,0 +1,284 @@
+"""FP8 training: scaling state and aten::linear dispatch.
+
+Layered (see also ``fp8_ops.py`` for the CUDA interface adapter):
+
+1. Kernel interface: "fp8_ops" — the only module touching the pybind.
+2. Training state (this module): per-tensor scales, amax history, delayed
+   scaling, and the ``fp8_autocast`` context (TE-style, like
+   ``torch.autocast``).
+3. aten::linear integration (this module): registers the CUDA impl and the
+   M/N alignment guard.
+
+Usage::
+
+    from astrai.extension.fp8 import fp8_autocast
+
+    with fp8_autocast(enabled=True):
+        logits = model(input_ids)
+        loss.backward()
+
+Importing this module registers the aten::linear CUDA implementation.
+"""
+
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+
+import torch
+from torch.library import Library
+
+from astrai.extension.fp8_ops import (
+    linear_backward_scaled,
+    linear_forward_scaled,
+)
+
+E4M3_MAX = 448.0
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Layer 2: training state (scales, amax history, delayed scaling, autocast)
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+class FP8TensorMeta:
+    """Scales + amax state for one weight tensor and its paired activations.
+
+    - weight: delayed scale from a 16-step amax history window (TE style)
+    - x/g: delayed one step, reuse the quantize kernel's free atomic amax
+    """
+
+    __slots__ = (
+        "scale",
+        "scale_inv",
+        "amax_history",
+        "idx",
+        "x_scale",
+        "x_scale_inv",
+        "g_scale",
+        "g_scale_inv",
+    )
+
+    def __init__(self, device: torch.device, update_interval: int):
+        self.scale = torch.ones(1, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
+        self.scale_inv = torch.ones(1, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
+        self.amax_history = torch.ones(
+            update_interval, device=device, dtype=torch.float32
+        )
+        self.idx = 0
+        self.x_scale = torch.ones(1, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
+        self.x_scale_inv = torch.ones(1, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
+        self.g_scale = torch.ones(1, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
+        self.g_scale_inv = torch.ones(1, device=device, dtype=torch.float32)
+
+    def record(self, amax: torch.Tensor) -> None:
+        """Push the latest amax into the ring buffer (device-side copy, no sync)."""
+        self.amax_history[self.idx] = amax.reshape(())
+        self.idx = (self.idx + 1) % self.amax_history.numel()
+
+    def refresh(self) -> None:
+        """Recompute scale from the amax history window (delayed scaling)."""
+        amax = self.amax_history.max()
+        if amax > 0:
+            self.scale.copy_(amax / E4M3_MAX)
+            self.scale_inv.copy_(E4M3_MAX / amax)
+
+
+class FP8State:
+    """Global fp8 training state, TE-style."""
+
+    def __init__(self, update_interval: int = 16):
+        self.enabled = False
+        self.update_interval = update_interval
+        self.step_count = 0
+        self._metas: dict[tuple, FP8TensorMeta] = {}
+        self._last_device: torch.device | None = None
+
+    def _get_device(self, t: torch.Tensor) -> torch.device:
+        if self._last_device is None:
+            self._last_device = t.device
+        return t.device
+
+    def get_weight_meta(self, w: torch.Tensor) -> FP8TensorMeta:
+        key = (w.data_ptr(), w.shape, w.dtype)
+        meta = self._metas.get(key)
+        if meta is None:
+            meta = FP8TensorMeta(self._get_device(w), self.update_interval)
+            self._metas[key] = meta
+        return meta
+
+    def step(self) -> None:
+        """Advance the counter and refresh all weight scales every N steps."""
+        self.step_count += 1
+        if self.step_count % self.update_interval == 0:
+            for meta in self._metas.values():
+                meta.refresh()
+
+    def reset(self) -> None:
+        self.enabled = False
+        self.step_count = 0
+        self._metas.clear()
+        self._last_device = None
+
+
+# Global singleton: autograd backward runs on the engine worker threads, so
+# thread-local state would lose the fp8 flag during loss.backward(). The GIL
+# protects Python-side mutation; the CUDA kernels take their own mutex.
+_state = FP8State()
+
+
+def fp8_state() -> FP8State:
+    return _state
+
+
+@contextmanager
+def fp8_autocast(enabled: bool = True, update_interval: int = 16):
+    """Autocast-style context: fp8 linear dispatch on this thread.
+
+    Usage::
+
+        with fp8_autocast(enabled=True):
+            logits = model(input_ids)   # aten::linear -> fp8 path
+            loss.backward()
+
+    The scale-update counter advances once per ``enter`` (one training step),
+    refreshing weight scales from their amax history every ``update_interval``.
+    """
+    state = fp8_state()
+    prev_enabled = state.enabled
+    prev_interval = state.update_interval
+    state.enabled = enabled
+    state.update_interval = update_interval
+    try:
+        if enabled:
+            state.step()
+        yield
+    finally:
+        state.enabled = prev_enabled
+        state.update_interval = prev_interval
+
+
+def _update_delayed_scale(scale, scale_inv, amax) -> None:
+    """scale = amax / 448 for the *next* call (device-side, no sync)."""
+    amax_f = amax.reshape(()).to(torch.float32).clamp_min(1e-12)
+    scale.copy_(amax_f / E4M3_MAX)
+    scale_inv.copy_(E4M3_MAX / amax_f)
+
+
+def fp8_linear_forward(x: torch.Tensor, w: torch.Tensor, bias=None):
+    """TE-style scaled fp8 linear forward (called from the aten::linear impl).
+
+    x uses the delayed scale of its paired weight meta (amax from the previous
+    forward of this linear); the quantize kernel emits the current amax for the
+    next step. No extra abs/max reduce.
+    """
+    if bias is None:
+        bias = torch.empty(0, device=x.device, dtype=x.dtype)
+    state = fp8_state()
+    meta = state.get_weight_meta(w)
+    amax_x = torch.empty(1, device=x.device, dtype=torch.float32)
+    amax_w = torch.empty(1, device=x.device, dtype=torch.float32)
+    out = linear_forward_scaled(
+        x,
+        w,
+        bias,
+        meta.x_scale,
+        meta.scale,
+        meta.x_scale_inv,
+        meta.scale_inv,
+        amax_x,
+        amax_w,
+    )
+    meta.record(amax_w)
+    _update_delayed_scale(meta.x_scale, meta.x_scale_inv, amax_x)
+    return out
+
+
+def fp8_linear_backward(g, x, w, masks):
+    """TE-style scaled fp8 linear backward (called from aten::linear_backward)."""
+    state = fp8_state()
+    meta = state.get_weight_meta(w)
+    amax_g = torch.empty(1, device=g.device, dtype=torch.float32)
+    out = linear_backward_scaled(
+        g,
+        x,
+        w,
+        masks,
+        meta.g_scale,
+        meta.scale,
+        meta.x_scale,
+        meta.g_scale_inv,
+        meta.scale_inv,
+        meta.x_scale_inv,
+        amax_g,
+    )
+    _update_delayed_scale(meta.g_scale, meta.g_scale_inv, amax_g)
+    return out
+
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Layer 3: aten::linear integration
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+def fp8_linear_enable(enabled: bool = True) -> None:
+    """Toggle fp8 dispatch for aten::linear (global; backward runs on engine
+    worker threads, so a thread-local flag would be lost during backward)."""
+    fp8_state().enabled = enabled
+
+
+def fp8_linear_enabled() -> bool:
+    return fp8_state().enabled
+
+
+def _fp8_supported(x: torch.Tensor, w: torch.Tensor) -> bool:
+    """cuBLASLt fp8 requires M % 16 == 0 and N % 16 == 0 (K is padded)."""
+    m = x.numel() // x.size(-1)
+    return m % 16 == 0 and w.size(0) % 16 == 0
+
+
+def _linear_cuda_impl(x: torch.Tensor, w: torch.Tensor, bias=None):
+    if (
+        fp8_linear_enabled()
+        and x.dtype == torch.bfloat16
+        and w.dtype == torch.bfloat16
+        and _fp8_supported(x, w)
+    ):
+        return fp8_linear_forward(x, w, bias)
+    return torch.ops.aten.linear.default.redispatch(
+        torch._C.DispatchKeySet(torch._C.DispatchKey.CompositeImplicitAutograd),
+        x,
+        w,
+        bias,
+    )
+
+
+def _linear_backward_cuda_impl(input_tensor, grad_output, weight, output_mask):
+    if (
+        fp8_linear_enabled()
+        and weight.dtype == torch.bfloat16
+        and _fp8_supported(grad_output, weight)
+    ):
+        return fp8_linear_backward(grad_output, input_tensor, weight, list(output_mask))
+    compute_dtype = weight.dtype
+    grad = grad_output.to(compute_dtype)
+    grad_2d = grad.reshape(-1, weight.size(0))
+    input_2d = input_tensor.reshape(-1, input_tensor.size(-1)).to(compute_dtype)
+    grad_input = (
+        torch.mm(grad_2d, weight)
+        if output_mask[0]
+        else torch.empty(0, device=input_tensor.device, dtype=input_tensor.dtype)
+    )
+    grad_weight = (
+        torch.mm(grad_2d.t(), input_2d)
+        if output_mask[1]
+        else torch.empty(0, device=input_tensor.device, dtype=input_tensor.dtype)
+    )
+    grad_bias = (
+        grad.sum(dim=0)
+        if output_mask[2]
+        else torch.empty(0, device=input_tensor.device, dtype=input_tensor.dtype)
+    )
+    return grad_input.reshape_as(input_tensor), grad_weight, grad_bias
+
+
+_lib = Library("aten", "IMPL", "CUDA")
+_lib.impl("linear", _linear_cuda_impl)
+_lib.impl("linear_backward", _linear_backward_cuda_impl)
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+"""FP8 CUDA kernel interface adapter (the only module touching the pybind.
+
+Isolates the ``fp8_mm`` CUDA extension behind stable Python functions:
+- availability / dtype checks and clear errors
+- torch.library ``custom::fp8_mm`` registration (meta + CPU fallback)
+- quantize-in-GEMM primitives used by ``fp8.py`` training state
+
+Policy (scales, amax history, delayed scaling, autocast) lives in ``fp8.py``;
+this module is stateless.
+"""
+
+import torch
+from torch.library import custom_op
+
+from astrai.extension.loader import get_module, is_available
+
+
+def _mod():
+    if not is_available("fp8_mm"):
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            "CUDA kernel 'fp8_mm' is not available. Build with CSRC_KERNELS=true."
+        )
+    return get_module("fp8_mm")
+
+
+@custom_op("custom::fp8_mm", mutates_args=())
+def fp8_mm(
+    a: torch.Tensor, b: torch.Tensor, sx: torch.Tensor, sw: torch.Tensor
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    """FP8 e4m3 GEMM: a[M,K] x b[N,K] -> bf16[M,N] (pre-scaled inputs)."""
+
+
+@fp8_mm.register_fake
+def _fp8_mm_fake(a, b, sx, sw):
+    return torch.empty((a.size(0), b.size(1)), device=a.device, dtype=torch.bfloat16)
+
+
+@fp8_mm.register_kernel("cuda")
+def _fp8_mm_cuda(a, b, sx, sw):
+    return _mod().fp8_mm(a, b)
+
+
+@fp8_mm.register_kernel("cpu")
+def _fp8_mm_cpu(a, b, sx, sw):
+    return torch.mm(a.float(), b.float().t()).to(torch.bfloat16)
+
+
+def linear_forward_scaled(x, w, bias, sx, sw, sx_inv, sw_inv, amax_x, amax_w):
+    """Quantize x/w with per-tensor scales + cuBLASLt GEMM + bias -> bf16.
+
+    x/w: [..., K] / [N, K] bf16; sx/sw: f32 scale tensors (device scalars);
+    sx_inv/sw_inv: 1/scale; amax_x/amax_w: f32 buffers receiving max-abs.
+    """
+    if not (x.dtype == torch.bfloat16 and w.dtype == torch.bfloat16):
+        raise TypeError(f"fp8 forward requires bf16 inputs, got {x.dtype}/{w.dtype}")
+    return _mod().fp8_linear_forward_scaled(
+        x, w, bias, sx, sw, sx_inv, sw_inv, amax_x, amax_w
+    )
+
+
+def linear_backward_scaled(g, x, w, masks, sg, sw, sx, sg_inv, sw_inv, sx_inv, amax_g):
+    """dX = g @ W, dW = g^T @ X, dB = sum(g) with per-tensor scales."""
+    if not (
+        g.dtype == torch.bfloat16
+        and x.dtype == torch.bfloat16
+        and w.dtype == torch.bfloat16
+    ):
+        raise TypeError(
+            f"fp8 backward requires bf16 inputs, got {g.dtype}/{x.dtype}/{w.dtype}"
+        )
+    return _mod().fp8_linear_backward_scaled(
+        g, x, w, masks, sg, sw, sx, sg_inv, sw_inv, sx_inv, amax_g
+    )
@@ -11,7 +11,14 @@ import logging

 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

-KERNEL_NAMES = ["attn_decode", "attn_prefill", "attn_paged_decode", "rotary_emb"]
+KERNEL_NAMES = [
+    "attn_decode",
+    "attn_prefill",
+    "attn_paged_decode",
+    "attn_paged_prefill",
+    "rotary_emb",
+    "fp8_mm",
+]

 _available: dict[str, bool] = {}
 _modules: dict[str, object] = {}
@@ -1,15 +1,29 @@
 """Inference module for continuous batching.

-Layers:
-  - core/:        Core inference loop (cache, executor, scheduler, task)
-  - api/:         HTTP orchestration (ProtocolHandler, server)
-  - protocols/:   Response builders (OpenAI, Anthropic)
-  - transport/:   SSE transport utilities
-  - engine.py:    Facade (InferenceEngine), Value Object (GenerationRequest)
-  - sample.py:    Strategy pattern (TemperatureStrategy, TopKStrategy, TopPStrategy, FrequencyPenaltyStrategy)
+Subpackages:
+  - cache/:     KV cache (buffers, strategies, pool)
+  - runtime/:   Execution + sampling (executor, CUDA graph, sampling strategies)
+  - task/:      Request lifecycle + performance metrics
+  - network/:   HTTP protocol handling (server, protocol, OpenAI/Anthropic builders)
+
+Modules:
+  - scheduler.py:  Continuous batching loop
+  - workspace.py:  Pre-allocated GPU buffers
+  - engine.py:     Facade (InferenceEngine)
 """

-from astrai.inference.api import (
+from astrai.inference.cache import (
+    Allocator,
+    KVCache,
+    KVStorage,
+    PagePool,
+    RadixCache,
+    ReqToTokenPool,
+    TaskCacheManager,
+    page_hash,
+)
+from astrai.inference.engine import InferenceEngine
+from astrai.inference.network import (
    AnthropicMessage,
    BaseToolParser,
    ChatCompletionRequest,
@@ -25,25 +39,10 @@ from astrai.inference.api import (
    get_app,
    run_server,
 )
-from astrai.inference.api.anthropic import AnthropicResponseBuilder
-from astrai.inference.api.openai import OpenAIResponseBuilder
-from astrai.inference.core import (
-    STOP,
-    Allocator,
-    Executor,
-    InferenceScheduler,
-    KVCache,
-    KVStorage,
-    PagePool,
-    PrefixCache,
-    ReqToTokenPool,
-    Task,
-    TaskManager,
-    TaskStatus,
-    page_hash,
-)
-from astrai.inference.engine import GenerationRequest, InferenceEngine
-from astrai.inference.sample import (
+from astrai.inference.network.anthropic import AnthropicResponseBuilder
+from astrai.inference.network.openai import OpenAIResponseBuilder
+from astrai.inference.runtime.executor import Executor
+from astrai.inference.runtime.sample import (
    BaseSamplingStrategy,
    FrequencyPenaltyStrategy,
    SamplingPipeline,
@@ -52,10 +51,11 @@ from astrai.inference.sample import (
    TopPStrategy,
    sample,
 )
+from astrai.inference.scheduler import InferenceScheduler
+from astrai.inference.task import STOP, Task, TaskManager, TaskStatus

 __all__ = [
    "InferenceEngine",
-    "GenerationRequest",
    "InferenceScheduler",
    "Executor",
    "STOP",
@@ -66,8 +66,9 @@ __all__ = [
    "KVCache",
    "KVStorage",
    "PagePool",
-    "PrefixCache",
+    "RadixCache",
    "ReqToTokenPool",
+    "TaskCacheManager",
    "page_hash",
    "sample",
    "BaseSamplingStrategy",
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+"""KV cache subsystem: buffers, strategies, pool management."""
+
+from astrai.inference.cache.buffer import KVCache, KVStorage, ReqToTokenPool
+from astrai.inference.cache.pool import PagePool, TaskCacheManager, page_hash
+from astrai.inference.cache.strategy import (
+    AllocationStrategy,
+    Allocator,
+    ContiguousStrategy,
+    PagedStrategy,
+    RadixCache,
+    TaskCacheState,
+)
+
+__all__ = [
+    "KVCache",
+    "KVStorage",
+    "ReqToTokenPool",
+    "Allocator",
+    "RadixCache",
+    "TaskCacheState",
+    "AllocationStrategy",
+    "ContiguousStrategy",
+    "PagedStrategy",
+    "PagePool",
+    "TaskCacheManager",
+    "page_hash",
+]
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+"""Physical KV cache buffers.
+
+Layer 1 — ``KVStorage``:   flat token-level K/V GPU buffers [n_layers, size, n_kv_heads, head_dim]
+Layer 2 — ``ReqToTokenPool``: index table [req_idx, pos] → physical token slot
+Layer 3 — ``KVCache``:       pure dataclass passed to the model for direct buffer access
+
+These classes have no knowledge of tasks, allocation policies, or scheduling.
+They are the "dumb" physical storage layer.
+"""
+
+import threading
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import List, Optional
+
+import torch
+from torch import Tensor
+
+
+class ReqToTokenPool:
+    """Maps [req_idx, pos] → physical token slot in KV storage.
+
+    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.
+    """
+
+    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 alloc(self, num_reqs: int) -> Optional[List[int]]:
+        with self._lock:
+            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 free(self, req_indices: List[int]):
+        with self._lock:
+            self.free_slots.extend(req_indices)
+
+    def write(self, indices, values):
+        self.req_to_token[indices] = values
+
+
+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_kv_heads: int,
+        head_dim: int,
+        device: torch.device,
+        dtype: torch.dtype,
+    ):
+        self.size = size
+        self.k_buffer = torch.empty(
+            (n_layers, 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 get_key_buffer(self, layer_id: int) -> Tensor:
+        return self.k_buffer[layer_id]
+
+    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
+
+
+@dataclass
+class KVCache:
+    """Pure data struct passed to model for KV cache I/O.
+
+    The attention layer does raw buffer indexing — no methods, no abstraction.
+    """
+
+    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
+    qo_indptr: Optional[Tensor] = None
+    decode_o_part: Optional[Tensor] = None
+    decode_ml_part: Optional[Tensor] = None
+    decode_out: Optional[Tensor] = None
@@ -0,0 +1,351 @@
+"""KV cache orchestration: PagePool + TaskCacheManager.
+
+PagePool owns the physical buffers (``KVStorage`` + ``ReqToTokenPool``)
+and wires them to an allocation strategy.  It assembles the ``KVCache``
+dataclass passed to the model forward.
+
+TaskCacheManager owns the ``task_id`` → ``TaskCacheState`` mapping and
+delegates physical slot allocation to the strategy, and KV bind to the pool.
+
+See ``cache_buffer.py`` for the raw buffer primitives and ``cache_strategy.py``
+for the allocation policies.
+"""
+
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Dict, List, Optional
+
+import torch
+
+from astrai.inference.cache.buffer import KVCache, KVStorage, ReqToTokenPool
+from astrai.inference.cache.strategy import (
+    AllocationStrategy,
+    Allocator,
+    ContiguousStrategy,
+    PagedStrategy,
+    RadixCache,
+    TaskCacheState,
+)
+from astrai.inference.workspace import InferenceWorkspace
+
+# Re-export everything so existing ``from astrai.inference.cache import ...``
+# continues to work unchanged after the file split.
+__all__ = [
+    "KVCache",
+    "KVStorage",
+    "ReqToTokenPool",
+    "Allocator",
+    "RadixCache",
+    "AllocationStrategy",
+    "ContiguousStrategy",
+    "PagedStrategy",
+    "PagePool",
+    "TaskCacheManager",
+    "TaskCacheState",
+    "page_hash",
+]
+
+# ---- helpers ----
+
+
+def page_hash(
+    token_ids: List[int], page_idx: int, page_size: int, parent_hash: int = 0
+) -> int:
+    start = page_idx * page_size
+    end = min(start + page_size, len(token_ids))
+    h = parent_hash
+    for i in range(start, end):
+        h = (h * 31 + token_ids[i]) & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
+    return h
+
+
+def _is_steady_increment(
+    prev_sig: Optional[tuple],
+    prev_vals: Optional[List[int]],
+    cur_sig: tuple,
+    cur_vals: List[int],
+) -> bool:
+    return (
+        prev_sig is not None
+        and prev_vals is not None
+        and prev_sig == cur_sig
+        and len(prev_vals) == len(cur_vals)
+        and all(c == p + 1 for c, p in zip(cur_vals, prev_vals))
+    )
+
+
+# ---- task-scoped bind state ----
+@dataclass
+class _BindState:
+    """Cached bind metadata for steady-state decode increment detection."""
+
+    sig: tuple
+    seq_lens: List[int]
+
+
+# ---- pool + manager ----
+
+
+class PagePool:
+    """Physical KV cache: buffers + req-to-token table + allocation strategy + bind.
+
+    Does not know about tasks — task lifecycle is managed by
+    :class:`TaskCacheManager`, which holds a reference to this pool.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        n_layers: int,
+        n_kv_heads: int,
+        head_dim: int,
+        max_batch_size: int,
+        max_seq_len: 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.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
+        self.n_tokens = max_batch_size * max_seq_len if self.contiguous else n_tokens
+
+        self._storage = KVStorage(
+            self.n_tokens, n_layers, n_kv_heads, head_dim, device, dtype
+        )
+        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._strategy: AllocationStrategy = ContiguousStrategy()
+        else:
+            n_pages = self.n_tokens // page_size
+            alloc = Allocator(n_pages)
+            prefix = RadixCache(page_size) if page_size > 1 else None
+            if prefix is not None:
+                alloc.on_evict = prefix.evict
+            self._strategy = PagedStrategy(
+                alloc, prefix, page_size, self._req_pool, device
+            )
+
+    @property
+    def strategy(self) -> AllocationStrategy:
+        return self._strategy
+
+    @property
+    def req_pool(self) -> ReqToTokenPool:
+        return self._req_pool
+
+    def bind_tasks(
+        self,
+        req_indices: List[int],
+        seq_lens: List[int],
+        workspace: InferenceWorkspace,
+        device: Optional[torch.device] = None,
+        start_pos: Optional[int] = None,
+        incremental: bool = False,
+    ) -> KVCache:
+        """Assemble the ``KVCache`` metadata for a batch of tasks.
+
+        Args:
+            req_indices: request slot indices (from ``ReqToTokenPool``).
+            seq_lens:    current sequence length per task.
+            workspace:   pre-allocated fixed-shape buffers (CUDA-graph safe).
+            start_pos:   if set, produce **prefill** cache (full q_len range).
+                         If ``None``, produce **decode** cache (last position).
+            incremental: if ``True``, reuse workspace state from previous step
+                         by incrementing counters in-place (decode hot path).
+
+        Returns:
+            ``KVCache`` dataclass with the correct output shapes for the
+            attention backend (prefill: ``[B, q_len]``, decode: ``[B, 1]``).
+        """
+        if device is None:
+            device = workspace.device
+        b = len(req_indices)
+
+        rpi_buf = workspace.req_pool_indices
+        sl_buf = workspace.seq_lens
+        kvp_buf = workspace.kv_indptr
+        inc_buf = workspace.inc
+        ocl_buf = workspace.out_cache_loc
+
+        if incremental:
+            sl_buf[:b] += 1
+            kvp_buf[: b + 1] += inc_buf[: b + 1]
+        else:
+            rpi_buf[:b].copy_(
+                torch.tensor(req_indices, dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+            )
+            sl_buf[:b].copy_(torch.tensor(seq_lens, dtype=torch.long, device=device))
+            kvp_buf[: b + 1].zero_()
+            kvp_buf[1 : b + 1] = sl_buf[:b].cumsum(0).to(torch.int32)
+
+        req_pool_indices = rpi_buf[:b]
+        seq_lens_t = sl_buf[:b]
+        kv_indptr = kvp_buf[: b + 1]
+
+        if start_pos is not None:
+            # ---- prefill: out_cache_loc covers prefix range [start_pos:seq_len] ----
+            seq_len = seq_lens[0]
+            out_cache_loc = self._req_pool.req_to_token[
+                req_pool_indices, start_pos:seq_len
+            ]
+            q_len = seq_len - start_pos
+            workspace.qo_indptr[: b + 1].copy_(
+                torch.arange(b + 1, dtype=torch.int32, device=device) * q_len
+            )
+            qo_indptr = workspace.qo_indptr[: b + 1]
+            decode_o_part = decode_ml_part = decode_out = None
+        else:
+            # ---- decode: out_cache_loc is a single column (last position) ----
+            write_pos = seq_lens_t - 1
+            loc = self._req_pool.req_to_token[req_pool_indices, write_pos].unsqueeze(-1)
+            ocl_buf[:b].copy_(loc)
+            out_cache_loc = ocl_buf[:b]
+            qo_indptr = None
+            decode_o_part = getattr(workspace, "decode_o_part", None)
+            decode_ml_part = getattr(workspace, "decode_ml_part", None)
+            decode_out = getattr(workspace, "decode_out", None)
+
+        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,
+            qo_indptr=qo_indptr,
+            decode_o_part=decode_o_part,
+            decode_ml_part=decode_ml_part,
+            decode_out=decode_out,
+        )
+
+
+class TaskCacheManager:
+    """Task ↔ KV slot lifecycle manager.
+
+    Sole owner of ``task_id → TaskCacheState``.  Delegates physical slot
+    allocation to the strategy (via ``pool.strategy``) and KV bind to
+    ``pool.bind_tasks()``.
+
+    Usage::
+
+        pool = PagePool(...)
+        mgr = TaskCacheManager(pool)
+        mgr.task_alloc("req_1", [101, 202, 303])
+        ...
+        kv = mgr.bind(["req_1"], workspace)
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, pool: PagePool):
+        self._pool = pool
+        self._strategy = pool.strategy
+        self._req_pool = pool.req_pool
+        self._max_seq_len = pool.max_seq_len
+        self._states: Dict[str, TaskCacheState] = {}
+        self._bind_state: Optional[_BindState] = None
+        self._bind_was_steady = False
+
+    # -- public task lifecycle --
+
+    def task_alloc(self, task_id: str, prompt_ids: List[int]) -> bool:
+        self._bind_state = None
+        req_slots = self._req_pool.alloc(1)
+        if req_slots is None:
+            return False
+        state = TaskCacheState(req_idx=req_slots[0])
+        self._states[task_id] = state
+        if not self._strategy.alloc(state, prompt_ids):
+            self._rollback(state, task_id)
+            return False
+        self._strategy.write_indices(state, prompt_ids)
+        state.length = len(prompt_ids)
+        return True
+
+    def task_free(self, task_id: str):
+        self._bind_state = None
+        state = self._states.pop(task_id, None)
+        if state is None:
+            return
+        self._strategy.free(state)
+        self._req_pool.free([state.req_idx])
+
+    def task_extend(self, task_id: str, pos: int) -> bool:
+        state = self._states.get(task_id)
+        if state is None or pos >= self._max_seq_len:
+            return False
+        if not self._strategy.extend(state, pos):
+            return False
+        state.length = pos + 1
+        return True
+
+    def task_cached(self, task_id: str) -> int:
+        state = self._states.get(task_id)
+        return state.cached if state is not None else 0
+
+    def task_record_hashes(
+        self, task_id: str, prompt_ids: List[int], start_logical_page: int = 0
+    ):
+        state = self._states.get(task_id)
+        if state is not None:
+            self._strategy.record_hashes(state, prompt_ids, start_logical_page)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def task_cacheable_ids(task_id: str, prompt_ids: List[int], output_ids: List[int]):
+        return list(prompt_ids) + list(output_ids[:-1])
+
+    # -- bind (assemble KVCache for the model forward) --
+
+    def bind(
+        self,
+        task_ids: List[str],
+        workspace: InferenceWorkspace,
+        device: Optional[torch.device] = None,
+        start_pos: Optional[int] = None,
+    ) -> KVCache:
+        """Build ``KVCache`` for an ordered list of task IDs."""
+        states = [self._states[tid] for tid in task_ids]
+        req_indices = [s.req_idx for s in states]
+        seq_lens = [s.length for s in states]
+        sig = tuple(req_indices)
+
+        prev = self._bind_state
+        incremental = (
+            start_pos is None
+            and prev is not None
+            and _is_steady_increment(prev.sig, prev.seq_lens, sig, seq_lens)
+        )
+        self._bind_state = _BindState(sig, list(seq_lens))
+        self._bind_was_steady = incremental
+
+        return self._pool.bind_tasks(
+            req_indices,
+            seq_lens,
+            workspace,
+            device=device,
+            start_pos=start_pos,
+            incremental=incremental,
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def bind_was_steady(self) -> bool:
+        return self._bind_was_steady
+
+    # -- internals --
+
+    def _rollback(self, state: TaskCacheState, task_id: str):
+        self._strategy.free(state)
+        self._req_pool.free([state.req_idx])
+        self._states.pop(task_id, None)
@@ -0,0 +1,320 @@
+"""KV cache allocation layer.
+
+Encapsulates the physical slot allocation policy, isolated from GPU buffers
+and task lifecycle management.
+
+- ``TaskCacheState``: data contract between strategy and manager (per-task slot state)
+- ``Allocator``:       bitmask-based page allocator with LRU eviction
+- ``RadixCache``:      page-granular prefix index (exact token match)
+- ``AllocationStrategy``: ABC for physical slot allocation
+- ``ContiguousStrategy``: statically partitioned, no dynamic allocation
+- ``PagedStrategy``:    dynamic paged allocation from a shared pool
+"""
+
+import threading
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional, OrderedDict
+
+import torch
+
+from astrai.inference.cache.buffer import ReqToTokenPool
+
+# ---- data contract: per-task slot state ----
+
+
+@dataclass
+class TaskCacheState:
+    """Per-task cache allocation state.
+
+    Co-locates all task-owned cache metadata so the alloc/free/extend
+    lifecycle is atomic.  Owned by ``TaskCacheManager``, consumed by
+    every ``AllocationStrategy`` method.
+    """
+
+    req_idx: int
+    length: int = 0
+    cached: int = 0
+    pages: List[int] = field(default_factory=list)
+
+
+# ---- allocation primitives ----
+
+
+class Allocator:
+    """Bitmask-based page allocator with ref-counting and LRU eviction."""
+
+    def __init__(self, n_pages: int):
+        self._free_mask = (1 << n_pages) - 1
+        self._refs: List[int] = [0] * n_pages
+        self._lru: OrderedDict[int, None] = OrderedDict()
+        self.on_evict: Optional[Callable[[int], None]] = None
+        self._lock = threading.Lock()
+
+    def alloc(self) -> int:
+        with self._lock:
+            if self._free_mask:
+                lsb = self._free_mask & -self._free_mask
+                idx = lsb.bit_length() - 1
+                self._free_mask ^= lsb
+                self._refs[idx] = 1
+                return idx
+            if self._lru:
+                idx, _ = self._lru.popitem(last=False)
+                if self.on_evict:
+                    self.on_evict(idx)
+                self._refs[idx] = 1
+                self._free_mask &= ~(1 << idx)
+                return idx
+            return -1
+
+    def free(self, idx: int, keep_cached: bool = False):
+        with self._lock:
+            self._refs[idx] -= 1
+            if self._refs[idx] == 0:
+                if keep_cached:
+                    self._lru[idx] = None
+                else:
+                    self._free_mask |= 1 << idx
+
+    def inc_ref(self, idx: int):
+        with self._lock:
+            self._refs[idx] += 1
+            self._lru.pop(idx, None)
+
+    def ref_count(self, idx: int) -> int:
+        with self._lock:
+            return self._refs[idx]
+
+    def touch(self, idx: int):
+        with self._lock:
+            if idx in self._lru:
+                self._lru.move_to_end(idx)
+
+
+class RadixNode:
+    """A page-aligned edge in the CPU-side prefix radix trie."""
+
+    __slots__ = ("parent", "children", "page_idx", "tokens", "lock_ref")
+
+    def __init__(self, parent=None, tokens=(), page_idx=None):
+        self.parent = parent
+        self.children: Dict[tuple, "RadixNode"] = {}
+        self.page_idx = page_idx
+        self.tokens = tuple(tokens)
+        self.lock_ref = 0
+
+
+class RadixCache:
+    """Page-granular radix prefix index with exact token matching."""
+
+    def __init__(self, page_size: int):
+        self._page_size = page_size
+        self._root = RadixNode()
+        self._page_to_node: Dict[int, RadixNode] = {}
+        self._lock = threading.Lock()
+
+    def evict(self, idx: int):
+        with self._lock:
+            node = self._page_to_node.pop(idx, None)
+            if node is None:
+                return
+            node.page_idx = None
+            parent = node.parent
+            if parent is not None:
+                parent.children.pop(node.tokens, None)
+
+    def has_page(self, idx: int) -> bool:
+        with self._lock:
+            return idx in self._page_to_node
+
+    def lookup(self, token_ids: List[int]) -> List[int]:
+        with self._lock:
+            full_pages = len(token_ids) // self._page_size
+            hits: List[int] = []
+            node = self._root
+            for i in range(full_pages):
+                start = i * self._page_size
+                page_tokens = tuple(token_ids[start : start + self._page_size])
+                child = node.children.get(page_tokens)
+                if child is None or child.page_idx is None:
+                    break
+                hits.append(child.page_idx)
+                node = child
+            return hits
+
+    def record(self, page_idx: int, token_ids: List[int], logical_page_idx: int):
+        with self._lock:
+            full_pages = len(token_ids) // self._page_size
+            if logical_page_idx >= full_pages:
+                return
+            old = self._page_to_node.pop(page_idx, None)
+            if old is not None and old.parent is not None:
+                old.parent.children.pop(old.tokens, None)
+
+            node = self._root
+            for i in range(logical_page_idx + 1):
+                start = i * self._page_size
+                page_tokens = tuple(token_ids[start : start + self._page_size])
+                child = node.children.get(page_tokens)
+                if child is None:
+                    child = RadixNode(node, page_tokens)
+                    node.children[page_tokens] = child
+                node = child
+            if node.page_idx is not None and node.page_idx != page_idx:
+                replaced = node.page_idx
+                self._page_to_node.pop(replaced, None)
+            node.page_idx = page_idx
+            self._page_to_node[page_idx] = node
+
+    def release(self, pages: List[int]) -> None:
+        with self._lock:
+            for page_idx in pages:
+                node = self._page_to_node.get(page_idx)
+                if node is not None and node.lock_ref:
+                    node.lock_ref -= 1
+
+
+class AllocationStrategy(ABC):
+    """Physical slot allocation policy.
+
+    Subclasses implement the actual allocation semantics.  This ABC declares
+    the contract; there are no default implementations.
+    """
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def alloc(self, state: TaskCacheState, prompt_ids: List[int]) -> bool: ...
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def free(self, state: TaskCacheState) -> None: ...
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def extend(self, state: TaskCacheState, pos: int) -> bool: ...
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def write_indices(self, state: TaskCacheState, prompt_ids: List[int]) -> None: ...
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def record_hashes(
+        self,
+        state: TaskCacheState,
+        prompt_ids: List[int],
+        start: int,
+    ) -> None: ...
+
+
+class ContiguousStrategy(AllocationStrategy):
+    """Static contiguous allocation: slots are pre-assigned at pool init.
+
+    No dynamic allocation or prefix caching.  All operations are no-ops
+    because ``ReqToTokenPool`` is pre-filled with contiguous ranges.
+    """
+
+    def alloc(self, state: TaskCacheState, prompt_ids: List[int]) -> bool:
+        return True
+
+    def free(self, state: TaskCacheState) -> None:
+        pass
+
+    def extend(self, state: TaskCacheState, pos: int) -> bool:
+        return True
+
+    def write_indices(self, state: TaskCacheState, prompt_ids: List[int]) -> None:
+        pass
+
+    def record_hashes(
+        self,
+        state: TaskCacheState,
+        prompt_ids: List[int],
+        start: int,
+    ) -> None:
+        pass
+
+
+class PagedStrategy(AllocationStrategy):
+    """Dynamic paged allocation from a shared bitmask pool.
+
+    ``page_size`` is a parameter, not a separate strategy: at ``page_size=1``
+    each allocated page *is* one token slot (``page * 1 + 0``), and prefix
+    caching is simply disabled (``prefix=None``).  The unified page formula
+    ``pages[page_idx] * page_size + offset`` holds for both.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        alloc: Allocator,
+        prefix: Optional[RadixCache],
+        page_size: int,
+        req_pool: ReqToTokenPool,
+        device,
+    ):
+        self._alloc = alloc
+        self._prefix = prefix
+        self._page_size = page_size
+        self._req_pool = req_pool
+        self._device = device
+
+    def alloc(self, state: TaskCacheState, prompt_ids: List[int]) -> bool:
+        if self._prefix is not None:
+            hits = self._prefix.lookup(prompt_ids)
+            state.cached = len(hits) * self._page_size
+            for p in hits:
+                self._alloc.inc_ref(p)
+            state.pages = list(hits)
+
+        remaining = len(prompt_ids) - state.cached
+        if remaining <= 0:
+            return True
+        n_new = (remaining + self._page_size - 1) // self._page_size
+        for _ in range(n_new):
+            p = self._alloc.alloc()
+            if p < 0:
+                return False
+            state.pages.append(p)
+        return True
+
+    def free(self, state: TaskCacheState) -> None:
+        if self._prefix is not None:
+            for p in state.pages:
+                keep = self._prefix.has_page(p)
+                self._alloc.free(p, keep_cached=keep)
+                if not keep:
+                    self._prefix.evict(p)
+        else:
+            for p in state.pages:
+                self._alloc.free(p)
+
+    def extend(self, state: TaskCacheState, pos: int) -> bool:
+        page_idx = pos // self._page_size
+        if page_idx >= len(state.pages):
+            p = self._alloc.alloc()
+            if p < 0:
+                return False
+            state.pages.append(p)
+        offset = pos % self._page_size
+        self._req_pool.req_to_token[state.req_idx, pos] = (
+            state.pages[page_idx] * self._page_size + offset
+        )
+        return True
+
+    def write_indices(self, state: TaskCacheState, prompt_ids: List[int]) -> None:
+        total = len(prompt_ids)
+        for pos in range(total):
+            page_idx = pos // self._page_size
+            offset = pos % self._page_size
+            if page_idx < len(state.pages):
+                self._req_pool.req_to_token[state.req_idx, pos] = (
+                    state.pages[page_idx] * self._page_size + offset
+                )
+
+    def record_hashes(
+        self,
+        state: TaskCacheState,
+        prompt_ids: List[int],
+        start: int,
+    ) -> None:
+        if self._prefix is None:
+            return
+        full = len(prompt_ids) // self._page_size
+        for i in range(start, min(full, len(state.pages))):
+            self._prefix.record(state.pages[i], prompt_ids, i)
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-"""Inference core: cache, executor, scheduler, task management."""
-
-from astrai.inference.core.cache import (
-    Allocator,
-    KVCache,
-    KVStorage,
-    PagePool,
-    PrefixCache,
-    ReqToTokenPool,
-    page_hash,
-)
-from astrai.inference.core.executor import Executor
-from astrai.inference.core.scheduler import InferenceScheduler
-from astrai.inference.core.task import STOP, Task, TaskManager, TaskStatus
-
-__all__ = [
-    "Allocator",
-    "KVCache",
-    "KVStorage",
-    "PagePool",
-    "PrefixCache",
-    "ReqToTokenPool",
-    "page_hash",
-    "Executor",
-    "InferenceScheduler",
-    "STOP",
-    "Task",
-    "TaskManager",
-    "TaskStatus",
-]
@@ -1,501 +0,0 @@
-"""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 collections import OrderedDict
-from dataclasses import dataclass
-from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional
-
-import torch
-from torch import Tensor
-
-
-def page_hash(token_ids: List[int], page_idx: int, page_size: int) -> int:
-    start = page_idx * page_size
-    end = min(start + page_size, len(token_ids))
-    h = 0
-    for i in range(start, end):
-        h = (h * 31 + token_ids[i]) & 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
-    return h
-
-
-class Allocator:
-    """Bitmask-based page allocator with ref-counting and LRU eviction."""
-
-    def __init__(self, n_pages: int):
-        self._free_mask = (1 << n_pages) - 1
-        self._refs: List[int] = [0] * n_pages
-        self._lru: OrderedDict[int, None] = OrderedDict()
-        self.on_evict: Optional[Callable[[int], None]] = None
-        self._lock = threading.Lock()
-
-    def alloc(self) -> int:
-        with self._lock:
-            if self._free_mask:
-                lsb = self._free_mask & -self._free_mask
-                idx = lsb.bit_length() - 1
-                self._free_mask ^= lsb
-                self._refs[idx] = 1
-                return idx
-            if self._lru:
-                idx, _ = self._lru.popitem(last=False)
-                if self.on_evict:
-                    self.on_evict(idx)
-                self._refs[idx] = 1
-                self._free_mask &= ~(1 << idx)
-                return idx
-            return -1
-
-    def free(self, idx: int, keep_cached: bool = False):
-        with self._lock:
-            self._refs[idx] -= 1
-            if self._refs[idx] == 0:
-                if keep_cached:
-                    self._lru[idx] = None
-                else:
-                    self._free_mask |= 1 << idx
-
-    def inc_ref(self, idx: int):
-        with self._lock:
-            self._refs[idx] += 1
-            self._lru.pop(idx, None)
-
-    def ref_count(self, idx: int) -> int:
-        with self._lock:
-            return self._refs[idx]
-
-    def touch(self, idx: int):
-        with self._lock:
-            if idx in self._lru:
-                self._lru.move_to_end(idx)
-
-
-class PrefixCache:
-    """Hash-based prefix matching: maps page hashes to physical page indices."""
-
-    def __init__(self, page_size: int):
-        self._page_size = page_size
-        self._page_to_hash: Dict[int, int] = {}
-        self._hash_to_page: Dict[int, int] = {}
-        self._lock = threading.Lock()
-
-    def evict(self, idx: int):
-        with self._lock:
-            h = self._page_to_hash.pop(idx, None)
-            if h is not None:
-                self._hash_to_page.pop(h, None)
-
-    def has_page(self, idx: int) -> bool:
-        with self._lock:
-            return idx in self._page_to_hash
-
-    def lookup(self, token_ids: List[int]) -> List[int]:
-        with self._lock:
-            full_pages = len(token_ids) // self._page_size
-            hits: List[int] = []
-            for i in range(full_pages):
-                h = page_hash(token_ids, i, self._page_size)
-                p = self._hash_to_page.get(h)
-                if p is None:
-                    break
-                hits.append(p)
-            return hits
-
-    def record(self, page_idx: int, token_ids: List[int], logical_page_idx: int):
-        with self._lock:
-            h = page_hash(token_ids, logical_page_idx, self._page_size)
-            old_h = self._page_to_hash.pop(page_idx, None)
-            if old_h is not None:
-                self._hash_to_page.pop(old_h, None)
-            self._page_to_hash[page_idx] = h
-            self._hash_to_page[h] = page_idx
-
-
-class ReqToTokenPool:
-    """Maps [req_idx, pos] -> physical token slot in KV storage.
-
-    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.
-    """
-
-    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 alloc(self, num_reqs: int) -> Optional[List[int]]:
-        with self._lock:
-            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 free(self, req_indices: List[int]):
-        with self._lock:
-            self.free_slots.extend(req_indices)
-
-    def write(self, indices, values):
-        self.req_to_token[indices] = values
-
-
-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_kv_heads: int,
-        head_dim: int,
-        device: torch.device,
-        dtype: torch.dtype,
-    ):
-        self.size = size
-        self.k_buffer = torch.empty(
-            (n_layers, 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 get_key_buffer(self, layer_id: int) -> Tensor:
-        return self.k_buffer[layer_id]
-
-    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
-
-
-@dataclass
-class KVCache:
-    """Pure data struct passed to model for KV cache I/O.
-
-    The attention layer does raw buffer indexing — no methods, no abstraction.
-
-    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
-        page_table: [batch, max_len] — precomputed gather indices for decode;
-            None for prefill or when not yet computed.
-        decode_mask: [batch, max_len] bool — precomputed position validity
-            mask for decode; None for prefill or single-batch decode.
-    """
-
-    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
-    page_table: Optional[Tensor] = None
-    decode_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None
-
-
-class PagePool:
-    """Top-level KV cache manager.
-
-    Combines KVStorage + ReqToTokenPool + Allocator + PrefixCache.
-
-    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_kv_heads: int,
-        head_dim: int,
-        max_batch_size: int,
-        max_seq_len: 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.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._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:
-        req_slots = self._req_pool.alloc(1)
-        if req_slots is None:
-            return False
-        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):
-        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:
-        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:
-        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],
-        seq_lens: List[int],
-        device: torch.device,
-        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
-            ]
-            page_table = None
-            decode_mask = None
-        else:
-            write_pos = seq_lens_t - 1
-            out_cache_loc = self._req_pool.req_to_token[
-                req_pool_indices, write_pos
-            ].unsqueeze(-1)
-            ml = max(seq_lens)
-            page_table = self._req_pool.req_to_token[req_pool_indices, :ml]
-            if len(task_ids) > 1:
-                decode_mask = (
-                    torch.arange(ml, device=device)[None, :] < seq_lens_t[:, None]
-                )
-            else:
-                decode_mask = None
-
-        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),
-            page_table=page_table,
-            decode_mask=decode_mask,
-        )
-
-    # ---- 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
@@ -1,174 +0,0 @@
-import logging
-from typing import List, Optional
-
-import torch
-
-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
-from astrai.tokenize.tokenizer import AutoTokenizer
-
-logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-
-
-class Executor:
-    """Model forward passes for prefill and decode phases."""
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        model: AutoModel,
-        tokenizer: AutoTokenizer,
-        kv_cache: PagePool,
-        device: Optional[str] = None,
-        dtype: Optional[torch.dtype] = None,
-    ):
-        self.model = model
-        self.tokenizer = tokenizer
-        self.kv_cache = kv_cache
-        self.device = device or next(model.parameters()).device
-        self.dtype = dtype or next(model.parameters()).dtype
-
-    def execute_prefill(self, tasks: List[Task], prompt_len: int, start_pos: int = 0):
-        if start_pos >= prompt_len:
-            return
-
-        tasks = sorted(tasks, key=lambda t: t.task_id)
-        batch_sz = len(tasks)
-
-        input_ids = torch.tensor(
-            [t.prompt_ids[start_pos:prompt_len] for t in tasks],
-            dtype=torch.long,
-            device=self.device,
-        )
-
-        task_ids = [t.task_id for t in tasks]
-        position_ids = (
-            torch.arange(start_pos, prompt_len, dtype=torch.long, device=self.device)
-            .unsqueeze(0)
-            .expand(batch_sz, -1)
-        )
-        input_mask = position_ids.unsqueeze(-1) >= torch.arange(
-            prompt_len, device=self.device
-        )
-
-        with torch.inference_mode():
-            self.model(
-                input_ids,
-                input_mask=input_mask,
-                position_ids=position_ids,
-                kv_cache=self.kv_cache.bind_tasks(
-                    task_ids, [prompt_len] * batch_sz, self.device, start_pos=start_pos
-                ),
-            )
-
-    def execute_decode(
-        self, tasks: List[Task], return_logprobs: bool = False
-    ) -> List[int]:
-        """Decode next token for each task.
-
-        Args:
-            return_logprobs: When ``True``, also record (and return)
-                the log-probability of each sampled token under the
-                post-strategy sampling distribution.  The logprob is
-                appended to ``task.output_logprobs`` and the return
-                list becomes ``List[Tuple[int, float]]``.
-
-        Returns:
-            ``List[int]`` of sampled token IDs, or
-            ``List[Tuple[int, float]]`` of ``(token_id, logprob)`` when
-            ``return_logprobs`` is ``True``.
-        """
-        if not tasks:
-            return []
-
-        input_ids = torch.tensor(
-            [t.output_ids[-1] if t.output_ids else t.prompt_ids[-1] for t in tasks],
-            dtype=torch.long,
-            device=self.device,
-        )
-
-        position_ids = torch.tensor(
-            [t.next_pos for t in tasks], dtype=torch.long, device=self.device
-        )
-        total_len = max(t.next_pos for t in tasks) + 1
-        input_mask = position_ids[:, None, None] >= torch.arange(
-            total_len, device=self.device
-        )
-
-        task_ids = [t.task_id for t in tasks]
-
-        temperatures = torch.tensor([t.temperature for t in tasks], device=self.device)
-        top_ks = torch.tensor([t.top_k for t in tasks], device=self.device)
-        top_ps = torch.tensor([t.top_p for t in tasks], device=self.device)
-        freq_penalties = torch.tensor(
-            [t.frequency_penalty for t in tasks], device=self.device
-        )
-
-        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
-        else:
-            padded_ids = None
-            padded_mask = None
-
-        with torch.inference_mode():
-            outputs = self.model(
-                input_ids.unsqueeze(1),
-                input_mask=input_mask,
-                kv_cache=self.kv_cache.bind_tasks(
-                    task_ids,
-                    [t.next_pos + 1 for t in tasks],
-                    self.device,
-                ),
-                position_ids=position_ids.unsqueeze(1),
-            )
-            logits = outputs["logits"][:, -1, :]
-
-        if return_logprobs:
-            tokens, logprobs = sample(
-                logits,
-                temperature=temperatures,
-                top_k=top_ks,
-                top_p=top_ps,
-                frequency_penalty=freq_penalties,
-                input_ids=padded_ids,
-                input_mask=padded_mask,
-                return_logprobs=True,
-            )
-            tokens_list = tokens.tolist()
-            logprobs_list = logprobs.tolist()
-            for t, lp in zip(tasks, logprobs_list):
-                t.output_logprobs.append(float(lp))
-            return list(zip(tokens_list, logprobs_list))
-
-        return sample(
-            logits,
-            temperature=temperatures,
-            top_k=top_ks,
-            top_p=top_ps,
-            frequency_penalty=freq_penalties,
-            input_ids=padded_ids,
-            input_mask=padded_mask,
-        ).tolist()
@@ -1,311 +0,0 @@
-import logging
-import threading
-import uuid
-from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
-
-import torch
-
-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
-from astrai.tokenize.tokenizer import AutoTokenizer
-
-logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-
-
-class InferenceScheduler:
-    """Continuous batching loop: cleanup -> refill -> prefill -> decode (all groups)."""
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        model: AutoModel,
-        tokenizer: AutoTokenizer,
-        max_batch_size: int = 16,
-        max_seq_len: Optional[int] = None,
-        device: Optional[str] = None,
-        dtype: Optional[torch.dtype] = None,
-        cache: Optional[PagePool] = None,
-    ):
-        config = model.config
-
-        if max_seq_len is not None:
-            self.max_seq_len = max_seq_len
-        elif config.max_position_embeddings is not None:
-            self.max_seq_len = config.max_position_embeddings
-        else:
-            raise ValueError(
-                "max_seq_len must be provided either as argument "
-                "or in model config (config.max_position_embeddings)"
-            )
-        self.device = device or next(model.parameters()).device
-        self.dtype = dtype or next(model.parameters()).dtype
-
-        head_dim = config.hidden_size // config.num_attention_heads
-
-        if cache is not None:
-            self._cache = cache
-        else:
-            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,
-        )
-
-        self._executor = Executor(
-            model=model,
-            tokenizer=tokenizer,
-            kv_cache=self._cache,
-            device=self.device,
-            dtype=self.dtype,
-        )
-
-        self._stop_event = threading.Event()
-        self._loop_thread: Optional[threading.Thread] = None
-
-    def add_task(self, prompt: str, **kwargs) -> str:
-        return self._task_mgr.add_task(prompt, **kwargs)
-
-    def remove_task(self, task_id: str):
-        for task in self._task_mgr.remove_task(task_id):
-            self._cache.task_free(task.task_id)
-
-    def get_stats(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        return self._task_mgr.get_stats()
-
-    def _run_generation_loop(self):
-        stop_ids = self._task_mgr.tokenizer.stop_ids
-        cache = self._cache
-        try:
-            while not self._stop_event.is_set():
-                finished = self._task_mgr.remove_finished_tasks(stop_ids)
-                for task in finished:
-                    cache.task_free(task.task_id)
-
-                active = self._task_mgr.get_active_tasks()
-                available = self._task_mgr.max_batch_size - len(active)
-                if available > 0:
-                    candidates = self._task_mgr.pull_candidates(available)
-                    failed = []
-                    for task in candidates:
-                        if cache.task_alloc(task.task_id, task.prompt_ids):
-                            self._task_mgr.activate(task)
-                        else:
-                            failed.append(task)
-                    if failed:
-                        self._task_mgr.return_to_waiting(failed)
-
-                if not self._task_mgr.has_work():
-                    self._task_mgr.wait_for_tasks(timeout=1.0)
-                    continue
-
-                active = self._task_mgr.get_active_tasks()
-
-                to_prefill = [
-                    t
-                    for t in active
-                    if t.output_tokens == 0
-                    and cache.task_cached(t.task_id) < len(t.prompt_ids)
-                ]
-                if to_prefill:
-                    for t in to_prefill:
-                        t.input_tokens = len(t.prompt_ids)
-
-                    groups: Dict[Tuple[int, int], List[Task]] = {}
-                    for t in to_prefill:
-                        key = (
-                            len(t.prompt_ids),
-                            cache.task_cached(t.task_id),
-                        )
-                        groups.setdefault(key, []).append(t)
-
-                    for (prompt_len, start_pos), group in groups.items():
-                        self._executor.execute_prefill(group, prompt_len, start_pos)
-                        start_logical_page = start_pos // getattr(
-                            cache, "page_size", 64
-                        )
-                        for t in group:
-                            cache.task_record_hashes(
-                                t.task_id, t.prompt_ids, start_logical_page
-                            )
-
-                decode_tasks = active
-
-                valid: List[Task] = []
-                for t in decode_tasks:
-                    if cache.task_extend(t.task_id, t.next_pos):
-                        valid.append(t)
-                    else:
-                        t.status = TaskStatus.ABORTED
-                        self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(t.task_id, STOP)
-
-                if valid:
-                    next_tokens = self._executor.execute_decode(valid)
-
-                    for t, ntok in zip(valid, next_tokens):
-                        t.output_ids.append(ntok)
-                        t.output_tokens += 1
-                        new_text = t.decode_new_token(self._task_mgr.tokenizer)
-                        if new_text:
-                            self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(t.task_id, new_text)
-
-                    for t in valid:
-                        if t.is_finished(stop_ids):
-                            remaining = t.flush_remaining(self._task_mgr.tokenizer)
-                            if remaining:
-                                self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(t.task_id, remaining)
-                            self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(t.task_id, STOP)
-
-        except Exception as e:
-            self._stop_event.set()
-            logger.error(f"Scheduler loop crashed: {e}", exc_info=True)
-            for task in self._task_mgr.get_active_tasks():
-                self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(task.task_id, STOP)
-                cache.task_free(task.task_id)
-            for task in self._task_mgr.get_waiting_tasks():
-                self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(task.task_id, STOP)
-            self._task_mgr.clear_queues()
-
-    def start(self):
-        if self._loop_thread is not None and self._loop_thread.is_alive():
-            return
-        self._stop_event.clear()
-        t = threading.Thread(target=self._run_generation_loop, daemon=True)
-        t.start()
-        self._loop_thread = t
-
-    def stop(self):
-        self._stop_event.set()
-        self._task_mgr.wake()
-        if self._loop_thread is not None:
-            self._loop_thread.join(timeout=2.0)
-        self._loop_thread = None
-        for task in self._task_mgr.get_active_tasks():
-            self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(task.task_id, STOP)
-            self._cache.task_free(task.task_id)
-        for task in self._task_mgr.get_waiting_tasks():
-            self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(task.task_id, STOP)
-            self._cache.task_free(task.task_id)
-        self._task_mgr.clear_queues()
-        if torch.cuda.is_available():
-            torch.cuda.empty_cache()
-
-    def run_batch(
-        self,
-        prompt_ids_list: List[List[int]],
-        *,
-        max_tokens: Optional[int] = None,
-        temperature: float = 1.0,
-        top_p: float = 1.0,
-        top_k: int = 50,
-        frequency_penalty: float = 0.0,
-        rep_window: int = 64,
-        return_logprobs: bool = False,
-    ) -> List[List[int]]:
-        """Synchronous batch generation without the scheduler thread.
-
-        Accepts already-tokenized prompts (no string round-trip) and runs
-        prefill + decode to completion on the calling thread.  Designed for
-        RL rollout, where logprobs of the behaviour policy must be collected
-        alongside generated tokens.
-
-        Args:
-            prompt_ids_list: ``B`` prompts, each a list of token IDs.
-            max_tokens: Maximum tokens to generate per prompt.  ``None``
-                uses ``self.max_seq_len - len(prompt_ids)``.
-            temperature/top_p/top_k/frequency_penalty/rep_window: Sampling
-                parameters (uniform across the batch).
-            return_logprobs: If ``True``, return ``(token_ids, logprobs)``
-                tuples per prompt (logprobs aligned 1-to-1 with token_ids).
-
-        Returns:
-            ``List[List[int]]`` of generated token IDs per prompt, or —
-            when ``return_logprobs`` is ``True`` —
-            ``List[Tuple[List[int], List[float]]]``.
-        """
-        stop_ids = self._task_mgr.tokenizer.stop_ids
-        cache = self._cache
-        seq_cap = self.max_seq_len
-
-        tasks: List[Task] = []
-        for ids in prompt_ids_list:
-            if len(ids) >= seq_cap:
-                tasks.append(None)
-                continue
-            t_max = max_tokens
-            if t_max is None:
-                t_max = seq_cap - len(ids)
-            else:
-                t_max = min(t_max, seq_cap - len(ids))
-            task = Task(
-                task_id=f"batch_{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}",
-                prompt_ids=list(ids),
-                max_tokens=t_max,
-                temperature=temperature,
-                top_p=top_p,
-                top_k=top_k,
-                frequency_penalty=frequency_penalty,
-                rep_window=rep_window,
-            )
-            if not cache.task_alloc(task.task_id, task.prompt_ids):
-                tasks.append(None)
-                continue
-            task.input_tokens = len(task.prompt_ids)
-            tasks.append(task)
-
-        try:
-            live = [t for t in tasks if t is not None]
-            prefill_groups: Dict[Tuple[int, int], List[Task]] = {}
-            for t in live:
-                key = (len(t.prompt_ids), cache.task_cached(t.task_id))
-                prefill_groups.setdefault(key, []).append(t)
-            for (prompt_len, start_pos), group in prefill_groups.items():
-                self._executor.execute_prefill(group, prompt_len, start_pos)
-
-            while live:
-                valid: List[Task] = []
-                for t in sorted(live, key=lambda x: x.task_id):
-                    if cache.task_extend(t.task_id, t.next_pos):
-                        valid.append(t)
-                    else:
-                        t.status = TaskStatus.ABORTED
-                if not valid:
-                    break
-
-                step_out = self._executor.execute_decode(
-                    valid, return_logprobs=return_logprobs
-                )
-                if return_logprobs:
-                    for t, (ntok, _lp) in zip(valid, step_out):
-                        t.output_ids.append(ntok)
-                        t.output_tokens += 1
-                else:
-                    for t, ntok in zip(valid, step_out):
-                        t.output_ids.append(ntok)
-                        t.output_tokens += 1
-
-                live = [t for t in valid if not t.is_finished(stop_ids)]
-        finally:
-            for t in tasks:
-                if t is not None:
-                    cache.task_free(t.task_id)
-
-        results: List[Any] = []
-        for t in tasks:
-            if t is None:
-                results.append(([], []) if return_logprobs else [])
-            elif return_logprobs:
-                results.append((list(t.output_ids), list(t.output_logprobs)))
-            else:
-                results.append(list(t.output_ids))
-        return results
@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@ from typing import Any, AsyncGenerator, Dict, Generator, List, Optional, Tuple,
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn

-from astrai.inference.core.cache import PagePool
-from astrai.inference.core.scheduler import InferenceScheduler
-from astrai.inference.core.task import STOP
+from astrai.extension import ATTN_BACKEND, AttentionBackend, get_backend
+from astrai.inference.cache import PagePool
+from astrai.inference.scheduler import InferenceScheduler
+from astrai.inference.task import STOP
 from astrai.tokenize import AutoTokenizer


@@ -64,44 +65,6 @@ class GenerateResult:
            return self.results.copy()


-class GenerationRequest:
-    """Request parameters for text generation."""
-
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        messages: List[Dict[str, str]],
-        top_k: int = 50,
-        top_p: float = 1.0,
-        temperature: float = 1.0,
-        max_tokens: Optional[int] = None,
-        frequency_penalty: float = 0.0,
-        rep_window: int = 64,
-        stream: bool = False,
-    ):
-        if not (isinstance(top_k, int) and top_k >= 0):
-            raise ValueError("top_k must be a non-negative integer")
-        if not (0.0 <= top_p <= 1.0):
-            raise ValueError("top_p must be a float between 0.0 and 1.0")
-        if not (isinstance(temperature, (int, float)) and temperature >= 0):
-            raise ValueError("temperature must be a non-negative number")
-        if not (
-            isinstance(frequency_penalty, (int, float))
-            and -2.0 <= frequency_penalty <= 2.0
-        ):
-            raise ValueError("frequency_penalty must be between -2.0 and 2.0")
-        if not (isinstance(rep_window, int) and rep_window > 0):
-            raise ValueError("rep_window must be a positive integer")
-
-        self.messages = messages
-        self.top_k = top_k
-        self.top_p = top_p
-        self.temperature = temperature
-        self.max_tokens = max_tokens
-        self.frequency_penalty = frequency_penalty
-        self.rep_window = rep_window
-        self.stream = stream
-
-
 class InferenceEngine:
    """Unified inference engine backed by continuous-batching scheduler."""

@@ -112,6 +75,8 @@ class InferenceEngine:
        max_batch_size: int = 1,
        max_seq_len: Optional[int] = None,
        cache: Optional[PagePool] = None,
+        enable_cuda_graph: bool = True,
+        backend: Optional[Union[str, ATTN_BACKEND, AttentionBackend, type]] = None,
    ):
        self.model = model
        self.tokenizer = tokenizer
@@ -121,6 +86,8 @@ class InferenceEngine:
            max_batch_size=max_batch_size,
            max_seq_len=max_seq_len,
            cache=cache,
+            enable_cuda_graph=enable_cuda_graph,
+            backend=backend,
        )

        self.scheduler.start()
@@ -146,28 +113,23 @@ class InferenceEngine:
        is_batch = isinstance(prompt, list)
        prompts = prompt if is_batch else [prompt]

-        if stream:
-            return self._generate_streaming(
-                prompts,
-                is_batch,
-                max_tokens,
-                temperature,
-                top_p,
-                top_k,
-                frequency_penalty,
-                rep_window,
-            )
-        else:
-            return self._generate_non_streaming(
-                prompts,
-                is_batch,
-                max_tokens,
-                temperature,
-                top_p,
-                top_k,
-                frequency_penalty,
-                rep_window,
-            )
+        if max_tokens is not None and max_tokens <= 0:
+            if stream:
+                return iter(())
+            results = [""] * len(prompts)
+            return results if is_batch else results[0]
+
+        return self._generate(
+            prompts,
+            is_batch,
+            stream,
+            max_tokens,
+            temperature,
+            top_p,
+            top_k,
+            frequency_penalty,
+            rep_window,
+        )

    def generate_async(
        self,
@@ -179,9 +141,10 @@ class InferenceEngine:
        frequency_penalty: float = 0.0,
        rep_window: int = 64,
    ) -> AsyncGenerator[str, None]:
-        sync_gen = self._generate_streaming(
+        sync_gen = self._generate(
            [prompt],
            False,
+            True,
            max_tokens,
            temperature,
            top_p,
@@ -193,51 +156,31 @@ class InferenceEngine:
        async def _agen():
            loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
            while True:
-                token = await loop.run_in_executor(None, self._next_token, sync_gen)
-                if token is None:
+                try:
+                    token = await loop.run_in_executor(None, next, sync_gen)
+                except StopIteration:
                    break
                yield token

        return _agen()

-    @staticmethod
-    def _next_token(gen: Generator) -> Optional[str]:
-        try:
-            return next(gen)
-        except StopIteration:
-            return None
-
-    def generate_with_request(
-        self, request: GenerationRequest
-    ) -> Union[Generator[str, None, None], str, List[str]]:
-        prompt = self.tokenizer.apply_chat_template(request.messages, tokenize=False)
-        return self.generate(
-            prompt=prompt,
-            stream=request.stream,
-            max_tokens=request.max_tokens,
-            temperature=request.temperature,
-            top_p=request.top_p,
-            top_k=request.top_k,
-            frequency_penalty=request.frequency_penalty,
-            rep_window=request.rep_window,
-        )
-
-    def _submit_tasks(
+    def _generate(
        self,
        prompts: List[str],
+        is_batch: bool,
+        stream: bool,
        max_tokens: Optional[int],
        temperature: float,
        top_p: float,
        top_k: int,
        frequency_penalty: float,
        rep_window: int,
-    ) -> Tuple[GenerateResult, List[str]]:
+    ) -> Union[Generator, str, List[str]]:
        n = len(prompts)
+        request_backend = get_backend(use_default=False)
        result = GenerateResult(count=n)
-        task_ids = []
-        for i, p in enumerate(prompts):
-            cb = self._make_callback(result, i)
-            task_id = self.scheduler.add_task(
+        task_ids = [
+            self.scheduler.add_task(
                prompt=p,
                max_tokens=max_tokens,
                temperature=temperature,
@@ -245,99 +188,54 @@ class InferenceEngine:
                top_k=top_k,
                frequency_penalty=frequency_penalty,
                rep_window=rep_window,
-                stream_callback=cb,
+                backend=request_backend,
+                stream_callback=lambda token, idx=i: result.append(token, idx),
            )
-            task_ids.append(task_id)
-        return result, task_ids
+            for i, p in enumerate(prompts)
+        ]

-    @staticmethod
-    def _make_callback(result: GenerateResult, idx: int):
-        def cb(token):
-            result.append(token, idx)
+        if not stream:
+            try:
+                result.wait_completion()
+            except TimeoutError:
+                for tid in task_ids:
+                    self.scheduler.remove_task(tid)
+                raise
+            for tid in task_ids:
+                self.scheduler.remove_task(tid)
+            res = result.get_results()
+            return res if is_batch else res[0]

-        return cb
-
-    def _generate_streaming(
-        self,
-        prompts: List[str],
-        is_batch: bool,
-        max_tokens: Optional[int],
-        temperature: float,
-        top_p: float,
-        top_k: int,
-        frequency_penalty: float,
-        rep_window: int,
-    ) -> Generator:
-        result, task_ids = self._submit_tasks(
-            prompts,
-            max_tokens,
-            temperature,
-            top_p,
-            top_k,
-            frequency_penalty,
-            rep_window,
-        )
-        n = len(prompts)
        remaining = n
        finished = [False] * n

        def gen():
            nonlocal remaining
-            try:
-                while remaining > 0:
-                    items = result.pop_all()
-                    for idx, token in items:
-                        if token is STOP:
-                            if not finished[idx]:
-                                finished[idx] = True
-                                remaining -= 1
-                        else:
-                            yield (idx, token) if is_batch else token
-                    if remaining > 0:
-                        result.wait(timeout=0.05)
-            finally:
-                for tid in task_ids:
-                    self.scheduler.remove_task(tid)
+            while remaining > 0:
+                items = result.pop_all()
+                for idx, token in items:
+                    if token is STOP:
+                        if not finished[idx]:
+                            finished[idx] = True
+                            remaining -= 1
+                    else:
+                        yield (idx, token) if is_batch else token
+                if remaining > 0:
+                    result.wait(timeout=0.05)

        return gen()

-    def _generate_non_streaming(
-        self,
-        prompts: List[str],
-        is_batch: bool,
-        max_tokens: Optional[int],
-        temperature: float,
-        top_p: float,
-        top_k: int,
-        frequency_penalty: float,
-        rep_window: int,
-    ) -> Union[str, List[str]]:
-        result, task_ids = self._submit_tasks(
-            prompts,
-            max_tokens,
-            temperature,
-            top_p,
-            top_k,
-            frequency_penalty,
-            rep_window,
-        )
-
-        try:
-            result.wait_completion()
-        except TimeoutError:
-            for tid in task_ids:
-                self.scheduler.remove_task(tid)
-            raise
-
-        for tid in task_ids:
-            self.scheduler.remove_task(tid)
-
-        res = result.get_results()
-        return res if is_batch else res[0]
-
    def get_stats(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        return self.scheduler.get_stats()

+    @property
+    def backend_name(self) -> str:
+        return self.scheduler.backend_name
+
+    @property
+    def cuda_graph_enabled(self) -> bool:
+        return self.scheduler.cuda_graph_enabled
+
    def shutdown(self):
        self.scheduler.stop()
        if torch.cuda.is_available():
@@ -0,0 +1,223 @@
+"""Unified per-task perf/stats: timing records, context-manager scopes, aggregate reporting."""
+
+import time
+from collections import deque
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import Any, Deque, Dict, Generator, List, Literal, Optional
+
+
+@dataclass
+class TaskTiming:
+    """Timestamp snapshots and computed metrics for one generation task.
+
+    Created by :class:`MetricsCollector` at task-registration time;
+    updated via ``record`` / ``mark_finished``.
+    """
+
+    task_id: str
+    arrival_time: float
+    prefill_start_time: Optional[float] = None
+    first_token_time: Optional[float] = None
+    finish_time: Optional[float] = None
+    input_tokens: int = 0
+    output_tokens: int = 0
+    _decode_steps: int = 0
+    _decode_total_s: float = 0.0
+
+    # derived metrics
+
+    @property
+    def queue_wait_ms(self) -> Optional[float]:
+        if self.prefill_start_time is not None:
+            return (self.prefill_start_time - self.arrival_time) * 1000
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def ttft_ms(self) -> Optional[float]:
+        if self.first_token_time is not None:
+            return (self.first_token_time - self.arrival_time) * 1000
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def prefill_tps(self) -> Optional[float]:
+        if self.prefill_start_time is not None and self.first_token_time is not None:
+            d = self.first_token_time - self.prefill_start_time
+            if d > 0 and self.input_tokens > 0:
+                return self.input_tokens / d
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def decode_tps(self) -> Optional[float]:
+        if self.first_token_time is not None and self.finish_time is not None:
+            d = self.finish_time - self.first_token_time
+            dt = self.output_tokens - 1
+            if dt > 0 and d > 0:
+                return dt / d
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def decode_avg_ms(self) -> Optional[float]:
+        if self._decode_steps > 0 and self._decode_total_s > 0:
+            return (self._decode_total_s / self._decode_steps) * 1000
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def e2e_latency_ms(self) -> Optional[float]:
+        if self.finish_time is not None:
+            return (self.finish_time - self.arrival_time) * 1000
+        return None
+
+    @property
+    def total_tps(self) -> Optional[float]:
+        if self.finish_time is not None:
+            total = self.input_tokens + self.output_tokens
+            d = self.finish_time - self.arrival_time
+            if total > 0 and d > 0:
+                return total / d
+        return None
+
+    def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        return {
+            "task_id": self.task_id,
+            "input_tokens": self.input_tokens,
+            "output_tokens": self.output_tokens,
+            "queue_wait_ms": (
+                round(self.queue_wait_ms, 2) if self.queue_wait_ms is not None else None
+            ),
+            "ttft_ms": (round(self.ttft_ms, 2) if self.ttft_ms is not None else None),
+            "prefill_tps": (
+                round(self.prefill_tps, 2) if self.prefill_tps is not None else None
+            ),
+            "decode_tps": (
+                round(self.decode_tps, 2) if self.decode_tps is not None else None
+            ),
+            "decode_avg_ms": (
+                round(self.decode_avg_ms, 2) if self.decode_avg_ms is not None else None
+            ),
+            "total_tps": (
+                round(self.total_tps, 2) if self.total_tps is not None else None
+            ),
+            "e2e_latency_ms": (
+                round(self.e2e_latency_ms, 2)
+                if self.e2e_latency_ms is not None
+                else None
+            ),
+        }
+
+
+class MetricsCollector:
+    """Single-owner perf/stats hub for all generation tasks.
+
+    Usage::
+
+        metrics = MetricsCollector()
+        metrics.register(task_id, arrival_time)
+
+        with metrics.record(task_ids, "prefill"):
+            run_prefill(...)
+
+        metrics.mark_finished(task_id, input_tokens, output_tokens)
+
+        stats = metrics.get_stats()
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, max_recent: int = 128):
+        self._timings: Dict[str, TaskTiming] = {}
+        self._completed: Deque[TaskTiming] = deque(maxlen=max_recent)
+
+        self._ttft_ms_sum = 0.0
+        self._ttft_ms_count = 0
+        self._decode_tps_sum = 0.0
+        self._decode_tps_count = 0
+        self._e2e_ms_sum = 0.0
+        self._e2e_ms_count = 0
+
+    def register(self, task_id: str):
+        """Create a timing record for a newly-created task."""
+        self._timings[task_id] = TaskTiming(task_id=task_id, arrival_time=time.time())
+
+    def mark_finished(self, task_id: str, input_tokens: int, output_tokens: int):
+        """Close timing for a finished/aborted task and move it to completed."""
+        timing = self._timings.pop(task_id, None)
+        if timing is None:
+            return
+        timing.finish_time = time.time()
+        timing.input_tokens = input_tokens
+        timing.output_tokens = output_tokens
+        self._completed.append(timing)
+        self._accumulate(timing)
+
+    def clear(self):
+        """Reset all state (e.g. on engine shutdown)."""
+        self._timings.clear()
+        self._completed.clear()
+        self._ttft_ms_sum = 0.0
+        self._ttft_ms_count = 0
+        self._decode_tps_sum = 0.0
+        self._decode_tps_count = 0
+        self._e2e_ms_sum = 0.0
+        self._e2e_ms_count = 0
+
+    # timing scopes
+
+    @contextmanager
+    def record(
+        self, task_ids: List[str], phase: Literal["prefill", "decode"]
+    ) -> Generator[None, None, None]:
+        tic = time.time()
+        yield
+        toc = time.time()
+        dt = toc - tic
+        for tid in task_ids:
+            t = self._timings.get(tid)
+            if t is None:
+                continue
+            if phase == "prefill":
+                t.prefill_start_time = tic
+                t.first_token_time = toc
+            elif phase == "decode":
+                t._decode_steps += 1
+                t._decode_total_s += dt
+
+    # access
+
+    def get_timing(self, task_id: str) -> Optional[TaskTiming]:
+        """Return the timing record for *task_id* (active or completed)."""
+        if task_id in self._timings:
+            return self._timings[task_id]
+        for t in self._completed:
+            if t.task_id == task_id:
+                return t
+        return None
+
+    # aggregate stats
+
+    def get_stats(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        stats: Dict[str, Any] = {}
+        if self._ttft_ms_count > 0:
+            stats["avg_ttft_ms"] = round(self._ttft_ms_sum / self._ttft_ms_count, 2)
+        if self._decode_tps_count > 0:
+            stats["avg_decode_tps"] = round(
+                self._decode_tps_sum / self._decode_tps_count, 2
+            )
+        if self._e2e_ms_count > 0:
+            stats["avg_e2e_latency_ms"] = round(
+                self._e2e_ms_sum / self._e2e_ms_count, 2
+            )
+        if self._completed:
+            stats["recent_tasks"] = [t.to_dict() for t in self._completed]
+        return stats
+
+    # internal
+
+    def _accumulate(self, t: TaskTiming):
+        if t.ttft_ms is not None:
+            self._ttft_ms_sum += t.ttft_ms
+            self._ttft_ms_count += 1
+        if t.decode_tps is not None:
+            self._decode_tps_sum += t.decode_tps
+            self._decode_tps_count += 1
+        if t.e2e_latency_ms is not None:
+            self._e2e_ms_sum += t.e2e_latency_ms
+            self._e2e_ms_count += 1
@@ -4,8 +4,7 @@
 lazy singleton FastAPI instance.
 """

-from astrai.inference.api.protocol import GenContext, ProtocolHandler, StopChecker
-from astrai.inference.api.server import (
+from astrai.inference.network.app import (
    AnthropicMessage,
    ChatCompletionRequest,
    ChatMessage,
@@ -15,7 +14,8 @@ from astrai.inference.api.server import (
    get_app,
    run_server,
 )
-from astrai.inference.api.tool_parser import (
+from astrai.inference.network.protocol import GenContext, ProtocolHandler, StopChecker
+from astrai.inference.network.tool_parser import (
    BaseToolParser,
    SimpleJsonToolParser,
    ToolParserFactory,
@@ -6,13 +6,13 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, List, Tuple, Union

 from pydantic import BaseModel

-from astrai.inference.api.protocol import (
+from astrai.inference.engine import InferenceEngine
+from astrai.inference.network.protocol import (
    GenContext,
    ResponseBuilder,
    StopInfo,
    sse_event,
 )
-from astrai.inference.engine import InferenceEngine


 def _extract_text(content: Union[str, List[Dict[str, Any]]]) -> str:
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ import uvicorn
 from fastapi import APIRouter, FastAPI, HTTPException
 from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

-from astrai.inference.api.anthropic import AnthropicResponseBuilder
-from astrai.inference.api.openai import OpenAIResponseBuilder
-from astrai.inference.api.protocol import ProtocolHandler
 from astrai.inference.engine import InferenceEngine
+from astrai.inference.network.anthropic import AnthropicResponseBuilder
+from astrai.inference.network.openai import OpenAIResponseBuilder
+from astrai.inference.network.protocol import ProtocolHandler
 from astrai.model import AutoModel
 from astrai.tokenize import AutoTokenizer

@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union

 from pydantic import BaseModel

-from astrai.inference.api.protocol import (
+from astrai.inference.engine import InferenceEngine
+from astrai.inference.network.protocol import (
    GenContext,
    ResponseBuilder,
    StopInfo,
    sse_event,
 )
-from astrai.inference.api.tool_parser import BaseToolParser, ToolParserFactory
-from astrai.inference.engine import InferenceEngine
+from astrai.inference.network.tool_parser import BaseToolParser, ToolParserFactory

 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

@@ -181,12 +181,10 @@ class ProtocolHandler:
        self, agen: AsyncGenerator, ctx: GenContext, stop_sequences: List[str]
    ) -> Dict[str, Any]:
        checker = StopChecker(stop_sequences)
-        chunks: List[str] = []
        body = ""
        matched = None

        async for token in agen:
-            chunks.append(token)
            body += token

            matched = checker.check(body)
@@ -195,6 +193,5 @@ class ProtocolHandler:

            ctx.completion_tokens += 1

-        content = "".join(chunks)
        stop = StopInfo(matched=matched, body=body)
-        return self.builder.format_response(ctx, content, stop)
+        return self.builder.format_response(ctx, body, stop)
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+"""Execution primitives: forward passes, CUDA graphs, and sampling."""
+
+from astrai.inference.runtime.executor import Executor
+from astrai.inference.runtime.graph import CudaGraphContext
+from astrai.inference.runtime.sample import (
+    BaseSamplingStrategy,
+    FrequencyPenaltyStrategy,
+    SamplingPipeline,
+    TemperatureStrategy,
+    TopKStrategy,
+    TopPStrategy,
+    sample,
+)
+
+__all__ = [
+    "Executor",
+    "CudaGraphContext",
+    "BaseSamplingStrategy",
+    "FrequencyPenaltyStrategy",
+    "SamplingPipeline",
+    "TemperatureStrategy",
+    "TopKStrategy",
+    "TopPStrategy",
+    "sample",
+]
@@ -0,0 +1,430 @@
+import logging
+import time
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from typing import List, Optional
+
+import torch
+from torch import Tensor
+
+from astrai.extension.attention_backend import (
+    CudaBackend,
+    get_backend,
+)
+from astrai.inference.cache import PagePool, TaskCacheManager
+from astrai.inference.runtime.graph import CudaGraphContext
+from astrai.inference.runtime.sample import sample
+from astrai.inference.task import Task
+from astrai.inference.workspace import InferenceWorkspace
+from astrai.model.automodel import AutoModel
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+@contextmanager
+def timed(label: str, log: Optional[logging.Logger] = None):
+    """GPU-precise timer via CUDA events; falls back to perf_counter on CPU."""
+    log = log or logger
+    if not log.isEnabledFor(logging.DEBUG):
+        yield
+        return
+    use_cuda = torch.cuda.is_available()
+    if use_cuda:
+        start = torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True)
+        end = torch.cuda.Event(enable_timing=True)
+        start.record()
+    else:
+        tic = time.perf_counter()
+    yield
+    if use_cuda:
+        end.record()
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+        elapsed_ms = start.elapsed_time(end)
+    else:
+        elapsed_ms = (time.perf_counter() - tic) * 1000
+    log.debug("%s %.2fms", label, elapsed_ms)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class SamplingBatchInfo:
+    """Per-batch sampling parameters, cached across decode steps.
+
+    Sampling params are constant for a given ordered task set, so they are
+    built once (pinned-memory async H2D) and reused until the task set
+    changes.  ``top_ks`` is int32 to match the native consumers.
+    """
+
+    temperatures: Tensor  # float32 [B]
+    top_ks: Tensor  # int32  [B]
+    top_ps: Tensor  # float32 [B]
+    freq_penalties: Tensor  # float32 [B]
+    has_freq: bool  # any frequency_penalty != 0 (avoids per-step GPU .any())
+
+
+@dataclass
+class DecodeSteadyState:
+    """Cached decode metadata for the steady-state case.
+
+    When the same ordered task set decodes one token per step, sampling
+    params and task signature are reused; only positions advance by 1.
+    """
+
+    task_sig: tuple
+    positions: list[int]
+    sampling_info: SamplingBatchInfo
+
+
+def _build_sampling_batch_info(tasks: List[Task], device) -> SamplingBatchInfo:
+    pin = str(device).startswith("cuda")
+    freq_penalties = torch.tensor(
+        [t.frequency_penalty for t in tasks], dtype=torch.float32, pin_memory=pin
+    ).to(device, non_blocking=True)
+    return SamplingBatchInfo(
+        temperatures=torch.tensor(
+            [t.temperature for t in tasks], dtype=torch.float32, pin_memory=pin
+        ).to(device, non_blocking=True),
+        top_ks=torch.tensor(
+            [t.top_k for t in tasks], dtype=torch.int32, pin_memory=pin
+        ).to(device, non_blocking=True),
+        top_ps=torch.tensor(
+            [t.top_p for t in tasks], dtype=torch.float32, pin_memory=pin
+        ).to(device, non_blocking=True),
+        freq_penalties=freq_penalties,
+        has_freq=bool((freq_penalties != 0).any()),
+    )
+
+
+def _warmup_cuda_graphs(
+    model: AutoModel,
+    pool: PagePool,
+    task_cache: TaskCacheManager,
+    ws: InferenceWorkspace,
+    gctx: CudaGraphContext,
+    max_batch_size: int,
+    prompt_len: int = 1,
+    device: Optional[str] = None,
+):
+    dev = device or next(model.parameters()).device
+
+    # Prefill warmup: cuBLAS auto-tunes for the actual prompt-length tensor
+    # shapes on first call (F.linear is the dominant cost).  This also warms
+    # up the CUDA context (driver init) and compiles the graph-capture trace
+    # that follows.  Custom .so kernels do NOT need this — they are pre-built.
+    warmup_len = 64
+    tid = "_warmup_prefill"
+    if task_cache.task_alloc(tid, list(range(warmup_len))):
+        with (
+            torch.inference_mode(),
+            timed("warmup prefill", logger),
+        ):
+            kv = task_cache.bind([tid], ws, start_pos=0)
+            ids_in = torch.arange(warmup_len, device=dev).unsqueeze(0)
+            pos_in = ids_in
+            model(
+                ids_in,
+                input_mask=pos_in.unsqueeze(-1) >= torch.arange(warmup_len, device=dev),
+                kv_cache=kv,
+                position_ids=pos_in,
+            )
+        task_cache.task_free(tid)
+
+    batch_sizes = [1]
+    n = 2
+    while n <= max_batch_size:
+        batch_sizes.append(n)
+        n *= 2
+    if max_batch_size not in batch_sizes:
+        batch_sizes.append(max_batch_size)
+
+    for b in batch_sizes:
+        task_ids = [f"_warmup_decode_{b}_{i}" for i in range(b)]
+        prompt_tokens = [list(range(prompt_len)) for _ in range(b)]
+        alloc_ok = True
+        for tid, pt in zip(task_ids, prompt_tokens):
+            if not task_cache.task_alloc(tid, pt):
+                alloc_ok = False
+                break
+        if not alloc_ok:
+            for tid in task_ids:
+                task_cache.task_free(tid)
+            continue
+
+        with (
+            torch.inference_mode(),
+            timed(f"warmup decode b={b}", logger),
+        ):
+            for step in range(2):
+                seq_pos = step
+                ws.position_ids[:b] = seq_pos
+                for tid in task_ids:
+                    task_cache.task_extend(tid, seq_pos)
+                kv = task_cache.bind(task_ids, ws)
+                input_mask = ws.decode_mask(ws.position_ids[:b], ws.max_seq_len)
+                ids_buf = ws.fill_input_ids([step] * b)
+                gctx.forward(
+                    model,
+                    key=(b,),
+                    input_ids=ids_buf.unsqueeze(1),
+                    input_mask=input_mask,
+                    kv_cache=kv,
+                    position_ids=ws.position_ids[:b].unsqueeze(1),
+                )
+
+        for tid in task_ids:
+            task_cache.task_free(tid)
+        torch.cuda.synchronize()
+
+
+class Executor:
+    """Model forward passes for prefill and decode phases."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        model: AutoModel,
+        kv_cache: PagePool,
+        task_cache: TaskCacheManager,
+        device: Optional[str] = None,
+        dtype: Optional[torch.dtype] = None,
+        enable_cuda_graph: bool = True,
+    ):
+        self.model = model
+        self.kv_cache = kv_cache
+        self.task_cache = task_cache
+        self.device = device or next(model.parameters()).device
+        self.dtype = dtype or next(model.parameters()).dtype
+
+        # Per-step decode cache for the steady-state case (same ordered
+        # task set decodes one token per step).  Sampling params stay
+        # constant; only positions advance.
+        self._decode_cache: Optional[DecodeSteadyState] = None
+
+        # Pre-allocated fixed-shape buffers for the decode hot path
+        # (input_ids, decode mask, KV bind metadata).  Eagerly sized at init
+        # so the workspace is CUDA-graph-capture friendly — no allocation
+        # during capture.
+        config = model.config
+        max_q_heads = config.num_attention_heads
+        head_dim = config.hidden_size // config.num_attention_heads
+        backend = get_backend()
+        self._graph_supported = backend.supports_graph() and CudaBackend.supports(
+            head_dim=head_dim
+        )
+        self._workspace = InferenceWorkspace(
+            max_batch_size=kv_cache.max_batch_size,
+            max_seq_len=kv_cache.max_seq_len,
+            max_q_heads=max_q_heads,
+            head_dim=head_dim,
+            device=self.device,
+            dtype=self.dtype,
+        )
+
+        # CUDA-graph capture: one graph per (batch_size,) key.
+        # Enabled at init-time via _warmup_cuda_graphs for CudaBackend
+        # on supported head_dims; left disabled otherwise.
+        self._graph_ctx = CudaGraphContext()
+        if enable_cuda_graph:
+            self._try_enable_cuda_graph()
+
+    def _try_enable_cuda_graph(self):
+        if not self._graph_supported:
+            return
+
+        self._graph_ctx.set_enabled(True)
+        _warmup_cuda_graphs(
+            self.model,
+            self.kv_cache,
+            self.task_cache,
+            self._workspace,
+            self._graph_ctx,
+            max_batch_size=self.kv_cache.max_batch_size,
+            device=self.device,
+        )
+
+    @property
+    def cuda_graph_enabled(self) -> bool:
+        return self._graph_ctx.enabled and self._graph_supported
+
+    def _sample_logits(
+        self,
+        logits: Tensor,
+        tasks: List[Task],
+        return_logprobs: bool = False,
+        info: Optional[SamplingBatchInfo] = None,
+    ):
+        info = info or _build_sampling_batch_info(tasks, self.device)
+        if info.has_freq:
+            history_lists = [
+                t.prompt_ids[-t.rep_window :] + t.output_ids for t in tasks
+            ]
+            history_lens = [len(ids) for ids in history_lists]
+            max_len = max(history_lens, default=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, ids in enumerate(history_lists):
+                length = len(ids)
+                padded_ids[i, :length] = torch.as_tensor(
+                    ids, dtype=torch.long, device=self.device
+                )
+                padded_mask[i, :length] = True
+        else:
+            padded_ids = None
+            padded_mask = None
+
+        result = sample(
+            logits,
+            temperature=info.temperatures,
+            top_k=info.top_ks,
+            top_p=info.top_ps,
+            frequency_penalty=info.freq_penalties,
+            input_ids=padded_ids,
+            input_mask=padded_mask,
+            return_logprobs=return_logprobs,
+        )
+        if not return_logprobs:
+            return result.tolist()
+
+        tokens, logprobs = result
+        tokens_list = tokens.tolist()
+        logprobs_list = logprobs.tolist()
+        for task, logprob in zip(tasks, logprobs_list):
+            task.output_logprobs.append(float(logprob))
+        return list(zip(tokens_list, logprobs_list))
+
+    def execute_prefill(
+        self,
+        tasks: List[Task],
+        prompt_len: int,
+        start_pos: int = 0,
+        return_logprobs: bool = False,
+    ):
+        if start_pos >= prompt_len:
+            return []
+
+        tasks = sorted(tasks, key=lambda t: t.task_id)
+        batch_sz = len(tasks)
+
+        input_ids = torch.tensor(
+            [t.prompt_ids[start_pos:prompt_len] for t in tasks],
+            dtype=torch.long,
+            device=self.device,
+        )
+
+        task_ids = [t.task_id for t in tasks]
+        position_ids = (
+            torch.arange(start_pos, prompt_len, dtype=torch.long, device=self.device)
+            .unsqueeze(0)
+            .expand(batch_sz, -1)
+        )
+        input_mask = position_ids.unsqueeze(-1) >= torch.arange(
+            prompt_len, device=self.device
+        )
+
+        with (
+            torch.inference_mode(),
+            timed(f"execute_prefill b={batch_sz} prompt_len={prompt_len}", logger),
+        ):
+            outputs = self.model(
+                input_ids,
+                input_mask=input_mask,
+                position_ids=position_ids,
+                kv_cache=self.task_cache.bind(
+                    task_ids,
+                    self._workspace,
+                    start_pos=start_pos,
+                ),
+            )
+            logits = outputs["logits"][:, -1, :]
+
+        return tasks, self._sample_logits(logits, tasks, return_logprobs)
+
+    def execute_decode(
+        self, tasks: List[Task], return_logprobs: bool = False
+    ) -> List[int]:
+        """Decode next token for each task.
+
+        Args:
+            return_logprobs: When ``True``, also record (and return)
+                the log-probability of each sampled token under the
+                post-strategy sampling distribution.  The logprob is
+                appended to ``task.output_logprobs`` and the return
+                list becomes ``List[Tuple[int, float]]``.
+
+        Returns:
+            ``List[int]`` of sampled token IDs, or
+            ``List[Tuple[int, float]]`` of ``(token_id, logprob)`` when
+            ``return_logprobs`` is ``True``.
+        """
+        if not tasks:
+            return []
+
+        b = len(tasks)
+        ws = self._workspace
+
+        # ---- pre-replay: update input buffers in-place ----
+
+        input_ids = ws.fill_input_ids(
+            [t.output_ids[-1] if t.output_ids else t.prompt_ids[-1] for t in tasks]
+        )
+
+        task_ids = [t.task_id for t in tasks]
+        cur_positions = [t.next_pos for t in tasks]
+
+        kv_cache = self.task_cache.bind(task_ids, ws)
+
+        task_sig = tuple(task_ids)
+        reuse_decode_state = (
+            self.task_cache.bind_was_steady
+            and self._decode_cache is not None
+            and self._decode_cache.task_sig == task_sig
+        )
+        if reuse_decode_state:
+            info = self._decode_cache.sampling_info
+            ws.position_ids[:b] += 1
+        else:
+            info = _build_sampling_batch_info(tasks, self.device)
+            ws.position_ids[:b].copy_(
+                torch.tensor(cur_positions, dtype=torch.long, device=self.device)
+            )
+        self._decode_cache = DecodeSteadyState(task_sig, cur_positions, info)
+
+        total_len = max(cur_positions) + 1
+        input_mask = ws.decode_mask(ws.position_ids[:b], total_len)
+
+        # ---- forward (graph replay or live run + capture) ----
+
+        use_graph = (
+            self._graph_ctx.enabled
+            and self._graph_supported
+            and get_backend().supports_graph()
+        )
+        key = (b,)
+        if use_graph:
+            input_mask = ws.decode_mask(ws.position_ids[:b], ws.max_seq_len)
+
+        with (
+            torch.inference_mode(),
+            timed(f"execute_decode forward b={b}", logger),
+        ):
+            if use_graph:
+                outputs = self._graph_ctx.forward(
+                    self.model,
+                    key=key,
+                    input_ids=input_ids.unsqueeze(1),
+                    input_mask=input_mask,
+                    kv_cache=kv_cache,
+                    position_ids=ws.position_ids[:b].unsqueeze(1),
+                )
+            else:
+                outputs = self.model(
+                    input_ids.unsqueeze(1),
+                    input_mask=input_mask,
+                    kv_cache=kv_cache,
+                    position_ids=ws.position_ids[:b].unsqueeze(1),
+                )
+            logits = outputs["logits"][:, -1, :]
+
+        return self._sample_logits(logits, tasks, return_logprobs, info=info)
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+"""CUDA-graph capture for the decode model-forward step.
+
+Mirrors SGLang's cuda-graph manager: one graph per batch size.  The graph
+pair.  The graph captures ``model.forward()`` with workspace-backed inputs
+(all at fixed addresses).  Before each replay the caller updates the input
+buffer content in-place so the graph sees fresh data at the same tensor
+addresses.
+
+Only the model forward is captured — sampling runs outside the graph
+(via ``torch.multinomial`` which consumes a mutable RNG state).
+"""
+
+import torch
+from torch import Tensor
+
+
+class CudaGraphContext:
+    """CUDA-graph capture/replay for decode steps.
+
+    Parameters:
+        enabled: When ``False``, ``forward()`` always runs the live model
+            forward without capture/replay (graphs are cleared).  Toggle at
+            runtime via the ``set_enabled()`` method.
+
+    Usage::
+
+        gctx = CudaGraphContext()
+        with torch.inference_mode():
+            outputs = gctx.forward(
+                model,
+                key=(batch_size,),
+                input_ids=workspace.input_ids[:b].unsqueeze(1),
+                input_mask=input_mask,
+                kv_cache=kv_cache,
+                position_ids=workspace.position_ids[:b].unsqueeze(1),
+            )
+
+    The first call at a given key runs *without* capture (warmup).  The
+    second call captures the graph.  Subsequent calls replay the captured
+    graph.  A ``torch.cuda.synchronize()`` before capture drains in-flight
+    work so the graph trace is clean.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, enabled: bool = False):
+        self._enabled = enabled
+        self._graphs: dict[tuple, torch.cuda.CUDAGraph] = {}
+        self._outputs: dict[tuple, dict[str, Tensor]] = {}
+        self._warmed: set[tuple] = set()
+
+    @property
+    def enabled(self) -> bool:
+        return self._enabled
+
+    def set_enabled(self, flag: bool):
+        """Enable or disable CUDA-graph capture at runtime.
+
+        Disabling clears all captured graphs (frees GPU memory) and warmup
+        state.  Re-enabling after disable starts fresh — graphs are
+        re-captured on the next warmup cycle.
+        """
+        if flag == self._enabled:
+            return
+        self._enabled = flag
+        if not flag:
+            self._graphs.clear()
+            self._outputs.clear()
+            self._warmed.clear()
+
+    def forward(self, model, *, key, **kwargs) -> dict[str, Tensor]:
+        """Run ``model(**kwargs)`` via graph replay or live forward.
+
+        Args:
+            model: callable, e.g. ``self.model.forward``.
+            key: ``(batch_size,)`` — the dispatch key (one graph per batch size).
+            **kwargs: arguments forwarded to ``model``.  All tensor arguments
+                must reside at stable addresses (workspace buffers).
+
+        Returns:
+            The dict produced by ``model(**kwargs)``, e.g.
+            ``{"logits": ..., "h0": ...}``.
+        """
+        if not self._enabled:
+            self._outputs[key] = model(**kwargs)
+            return self._outputs[key]
+
+        if key in self._graphs:
+            self._graphs[key].replay()
+        elif key in self._warmed:
+            cap_output = model(**kwargs)
+            torch.cuda.synchronize()
+            graph = torch.cuda.CUDAGraph()
+            with torch.cuda.graph(graph):
+                self._outputs[key] = model(**kwargs)
+            self._graphs[key] = graph
+            self._warmed.discard(key)
+            return cap_output
+        else:
+            self._warmed.add(key)
+            self._outputs[key] = model(**kwargs)
+        return self._outputs[key]
+
+    def has_graph(self, key: tuple) -> bool:
+        return key in self._graphs
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ class SamplingPipeline(BaseSamplingStrategy):
    @staticmethod
    def _is_greedy(temperature: Union[float, Tensor]) -> bool:
        if isinstance(temperature, Tensor):
-            return temperature.numel() == 1 and temperature.item() == 0
+            return bool((temperature == 0).all())
        return temperature == 0

    @torch.inference_mode()
@@ -305,12 +305,12 @@ class SamplingPipeline(BaseSamplingStrategy):
            return tokens, chosen

        transformed = self.apply(logits, filter_value, input_ids, input_mask)
-        log_probs = torch.log_softmax(transformed.float(), dim=-1)
        tokens = torch.multinomial(
            torch.softmax(transformed, dim=-1), num_samples=1
        ).squeeze(-1)
        if not return_logprobs:
            return tokens
+        log_probs = torch.log_softmax(transformed.float(), dim=-1)
        chosen = torch.gather(log_probs, -1, tokens.unsqueeze(-1)).squeeze(-1)
        return tokens, chosen

@@ -363,24 +363,6 @@ def sample(
        ``True`` — a ``(token_ids, chosen_logprobs)`` tuple where
        ``chosen_logprobs`` has shape ``[batch]``.
    """
-    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)
@@ -0,0 +1,408 @@
+import logging
+import threading
+import uuid
+from contextlib import nullcontext
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union
+
+import torch
+
+from astrai.extension import (
+    ATTN_BACKEND,
+    AttentionBackend,
+    attn_backend,
+    get_backend,
+)
+from astrai.inference.cache import PagePool, TaskCacheManager
+from astrai.inference.metrics import MetricsCollector
+from astrai.inference.runtime.executor import Executor
+from astrai.inference.task import STOP, Task, TaskManager, TaskStatus
+from astrai.model.automodel import AutoModel
+from astrai.tokenize.tokenizer import AutoTokenizer
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class InferenceScheduler:
+    """Continuous batching loop: cleanup -> refill -> prefill -> decode (all groups)."""
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        model: AutoModel,
+        tokenizer: AutoTokenizer,
+        max_batch_size: int = 16,
+        max_seq_len: Optional[int] = None,
+        device: Optional[str] = None,
+        dtype: Optional[torch.dtype] = None,
+        cache: Optional[PagePool] = None,
+        enable_cuda_graph: bool = True,
+        backend: Optional[Union[str, ATTN_BACKEND, AttentionBackend, type]] = None,
+    ):
+        config = model.config
+
+        if max_seq_len is not None:
+            self.max_seq_len = max_seq_len
+        elif config.max_position_embeddings is not None:
+            self.max_seq_len = config.max_position_embeddings
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "max_seq_len must be provided either as argument "
+                "or in model config (config.max_position_embeddings)"
+            )
+        self.device = device or next(model.parameters()).device
+        self.dtype = dtype or next(model.parameters()).dtype
+
+        head_dim = config.hidden_size // config.num_attention_heads
+
+        if cache is not None:
+            self._cache = cache
+        else:
+            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._metrics = MetricsCollector()
+
+        self._task_cache = TaskCacheManager(self._cache)
+
+        self._task_mgr = TaskManager(
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            max_batch_size=max_batch_size,
+            max_seq_len=self.max_seq_len,
+            metrics=self._metrics,
+        )
+
+        if backend is None:
+            self._backend = None
+            default_backend = get_backend()
+            self._backend_name = type(default_backend).__name__
+            with attn_backend(default_backend):
+                self._executor = Executor(
+                    model=model,
+                    kv_cache=self._cache,
+                    task_cache=self._task_cache,
+                    device=self.device,
+                    dtype=self.dtype,
+                    enable_cuda_graph=enable_cuda_graph,
+                )
+        else:
+            with attn_backend(backend):
+                self._backend = get_backend()
+                self._backend_name = type(self._backend).__name__
+                self._executor = Executor(
+                    model=model,
+                    kv_cache=self._cache,
+                    task_cache=self._task_cache,
+                    device=self.device,
+                    dtype=self.dtype,
+                    enable_cuda_graph=enable_cuda_graph,
+                )
+
+        self._stop_event = threading.Event()
+        self._loop_thread: Optional[threading.Thread] = None
+
+    def add_task(self, prompt: str, **kwargs) -> str:
+        return self._task_mgr.add_task(prompt, **kwargs)
+
+    def remove_task(self, task_id: str):
+        for task in self._task_mgr.remove_task(task_id):
+            self._task_cache.task_free(task.task_id)
+
+    def get_stats(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+        return self._task_mgr.get_stats()
+
+    @property
+    def backend_name(self) -> str:
+        return self._backend_name
+
+    @property
+    def cuda_graph_enabled(self) -> bool:
+        return self._executor.cuda_graph_enabled
+
+    def _backend_context(self):
+        if self._backend is None:
+            return nullcontext()
+        return attn_backend(self._backend)
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _task_backend_groups(tasks: List[Task]):
+        groups = {}
+        for task in tasks:
+            groups.setdefault(task.backend, (task.backend, []))[1].append(task)
+        return groups.values()
+
+    def _step(
+        self, tasks: List[Task], return_logprobs: bool = False
+    ) -> Tuple[List[Task], List[Task]]:
+        """Advance every active task by one token (prefill + decode).
+
+        Single shared primitive for both the continuous-batching loop and
+        the synchronous ``run_batch`` path, so the two cannot drift.
+
+        Tasks must already be allocated in the KV cache. Tasks without output
+        are prefilled first and sample their first token from the final prompt
+        position. Tasks with output extend the cache by one position and decode
+        from their latest generated token.
+
+        Args:
+            tasks: Active tasks to advance by one token.
+            return_logprobs: Forwarded to ``execute_decode``; per-token
+                logprobs are recorded on each task's ``output_logprobs``.
+
+        Returns:
+            ``(decoded, aborted)``: tasks that produced a new token (its ID
+            already appended to ``output_ids``) and tasks that hit the
+            sequence cap and were marked ``ABORTED``.
+        """
+        to_prefill = [t for t in tasks if not t.prefill_done and t.prompt_ids]
+        prefilled_ids = set()
+        produced: List[Task] = []
+        if to_prefill:
+            for t in to_prefill:
+                t.input_tokens = len(t.prompt_ids)
+
+            groups: Dict[Tuple[int, int, Optional[AttentionBackend]], List[Task]] = {}
+            for t in to_prefill:
+                start_pos = min(
+                    self._task_cache.task_cached(t.task_id), len(t.prompt_ids) - 1
+                )
+                groups.setdefault((len(t.prompt_ids), start_pos, t.backend), []).append(
+                    t
+                )
+
+            for (prompt_len, start_pos, _), group in groups.items():
+                backend = group[0].backend
+                backend_context = (
+                    attn_backend(backend) if backend is not None else nullcontext()
+                )
+                with (
+                    backend_context,
+                    self._metrics.record([t.task_id for t in group], "prefill"),
+                ):
+                    prefilled, step_out = self._executor.execute_prefill(
+                        group, prompt_len, start_pos, return_logprobs=return_logprobs
+                    )
+
+                for t, out in zip(prefilled, step_out):
+                    t.output_ids.append(out[0] if return_logprobs else out)
+                    t.output_tokens += 1
+                    t.mark_prefill_done()
+                    prefilled_ids.add(t.task_id)
+                    produced.append(t)
+
+                start_logical_page = start_pos // self._cache.page_size
+                for t in group:
+                    self._task_cache.task_record_hashes(
+                        t.task_id, t.prompt_ids, start_logical_page
+                    )
+
+        decoded: List[Task] = []
+        aborted: List[Task] = []
+        for t in tasks:
+            if t.task_id in prefilled_ids:
+                continue
+            if self._task_cache.task_extend(t.task_id, t.next_pos):
+                decoded.append(t)
+            else:
+                t.status = TaskStatus.ABORTED
+                aborted.append(t)
+
+        for backend, group in self._task_backend_groups(decoded):
+            backend_context = (
+                attn_backend(backend) if backend is not None else nullcontext()
+            )
+            with (
+                backend_context,
+                self._metrics.record([t.task_id for t in group], "decode"),
+            ):
+                step_out = self._executor.execute_decode(
+                    group, return_logprobs=return_logprobs
+                )
+            for t, out in zip(group, step_out):
+                t.output_ids.append(out[0] if return_logprobs else out)
+                t.output_tokens += 1
+                t.advance_kv()
+                produced.append(t)
+
+        return produced, aborted
+
+    def _run_generation_loop(self):
+        stop_ids = self._task_mgr.tokenizer.stop_ids
+        try:
+            with self._backend_context():
+                while not self._stop_event.is_set():
+                    finished = self._task_mgr.remove_finished_tasks(stop_ids)
+                    for task in finished:
+                        if task.status == TaskStatus.FINISHED:
+                            self._task_cache.task_record_hashes(
+                                task.task_id,
+                                self._task_cache.task_cacheable_ids(
+                                    task.task_id, task.prompt_ids, task.output_ids
+                                ),
+                            )
+                        self._task_cache.task_free(task.task_id)
+
+                    active = self._task_mgr.get_active_tasks()
+                    available = self._task_mgr.max_batch_size - len(active)
+                    if available > 0:
+                        candidates = self._task_mgr.pull_candidates(available)
+                        failed = []
+                        for task in candidates:
+                            if self._task_cache.task_alloc(
+                                task.task_id, task.prompt_ids
+                            ):
+                                self._task_mgr.activate(task)
+                            else:
+                                failed.append(task)
+                        if failed:
+                            self._task_mgr.return_to_waiting(failed)
+
+                    if not self._task_mgr.has_work():
+                        self._task_mgr.wait_for_tasks(timeout=1.0)
+                        continue
+
+                    active = self._task_mgr.get_active_tasks()
+
+                    decoded, aborted = self._step(active)
+
+                    for t in aborted:
+                        self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(t.task_id, STOP)
+
+                    for t in decoded:
+                        new_text = t.decode_new_token(self._task_mgr.tokenizer)
+                        if new_text:
+                            self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(t.task_id, new_text)
+                        if t.is_finished(stop_ids):
+                            self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(t.task_id, STOP)
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            self._stop_event.set()
+            logger.error(f"Scheduler loop crashed: {e}", exc_info=True)
+            for task in self._task_mgr.get_active_tasks():
+                self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(task.task_id, STOP)
+                self._task_cache.task_free(task.task_id)
+            for task in self._task_mgr.get_waiting_tasks():
+                self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(task.task_id, STOP)
+            self._task_mgr.clear_queues()
+
+    def start(self):
+        if self._loop_thread is not None and self._loop_thread.is_alive():
+            return
+        self._stop_event.clear()
+        t = threading.Thread(target=self._run_generation_loop, daemon=True)
+        t.start()
+        self._loop_thread = t
+
+    def stop(self):
+        self._stop_event.set()
+        self._task_mgr.wake()
+        if self._loop_thread is not None:
+            self._loop_thread.join(timeout=2.0)
+        self._loop_thread = None
+        for task in self._task_mgr.get_active_tasks():
+            self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(task.task_id, STOP)
+            self._task_cache.task_free(task.task_id)
+        for task in self._task_mgr.get_waiting_tasks():
+            self._task_mgr.invoke_callback(task.task_id, STOP)
+            self._task_cache.task_free(task.task_id)
+        self._task_mgr.clear_queues()
+        if torch.cuda.is_available():
+            torch.cuda.empty_cache()
+
+    def run_batch(
+        self,
+        prompt_ids_list: List[List[int]],
+        *,
+        max_tokens: Optional[int] = None,
+        temperature: float = 1.0,
+        top_p: float = 1.0,
+        top_k: int = 50,
+        frequency_penalty: float = 0.0,
+        rep_window: int = 64,
+        return_logprobs: bool = False,
+    ) -> List[List[int]]:
+        """Synchronous batch generation without the scheduler thread.
+
+        Accepts already-tokenized prompts (no string round-trip) and runs
+        prefill + decode to completion on the calling thread.  Designed for
+        RL rollout, where logprobs of the behaviour policy must be collected
+        alongside generated tokens.
+
+        Args:
+            prompt_ids_list: ``B`` prompts, each a list of token IDs.
+            max_tokens: Maximum tokens to generate per prompt.  ``None``
+                uses ``self.max_seq_len - len(prompt_ids)``.
+            temperature/top_p/top_k/frequency_penalty/rep_window: Sampling
+                parameters (uniform across the batch).
+            return_logprobs: If ``True``, return ``(token_ids, logprobs)``
+                tuples per prompt (logprobs aligned 1-to-1 with token_ids).
+
+        Returns:
+            ``List[List[int]]`` of generated token IDs per prompt, or —
+            when ``return_logprobs`` is ``True`` —
+            ``List[Tuple[List[int], List[float]]]``.
+        """
+        stop_ids = self._task_mgr.tokenizer.stop_ids
+        seq_cap = self.max_seq_len
+        request_backend = get_backend(use_default=False)
+
+        tasks: List[Task] = []
+        for ids in prompt_ids_list:
+            if len(ids) >= seq_cap:
+                tasks.append(None)
+                continue
+            t_max = max_tokens
+            if t_max is None:
+                t_max = seq_cap - len(ids)
+            else:
+                t_max = min(t_max, seq_cap - len(ids))
+            if t_max <= 0:
+                tasks.append(None)
+                continue
+            task = Task(
+                task_id=f"batch_{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}",
+                prompt_ids=list(ids),
+                max_tokens=t_max,
+                temperature=temperature,
+                top_p=top_p,
+                top_k=top_k,
+                frequency_penalty=frequency_penalty,
+                rep_window=rep_window,
+                backend=request_backend,
+            )
+            if not self._task_cache.task_alloc(task.task_id, task.prompt_ids):
+                tasks.append(None)
+                continue
+            task.input_tokens = len(task.prompt_ids)
+            self._metrics.register(task.task_id)
+            tasks.append(task)
+
+        try:
+            live = [t for t in tasks if t is not None]
+
+            with self._backend_context():
+                while live:
+                    decoded, _ = self._step(live, return_logprobs=return_logprobs)
+                    live = [t for t in decoded if not t.is_finished(stop_ids)]
+        finally:
+            for t in tasks:
+                if t is not None:
+                    self._metrics.mark_finished(
+                        t.task_id, t.input_tokens, t.output_tokens
+                    )
+                    self._task_cache.task_free(t.task_id)
+
+        results: List[Any] = []
+        for t in tasks:
+            if t is None:
+                results.append(([], []) if return_logprobs else [])
+            elif return_logprobs:
+                results.append((list(t.output_ids), list(t.output_logprobs)))
+            else:
+                results.append(list(t.output_ids))
+        return results
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
-import logging
 import threading
 import time
 import uuid
 from collections import deque
 from enum import Enum
-from typing import Any, Callable, Deque, Dict, List, Optional
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, Callable, Deque, Dict, List, Optional

 from tokenizers.decoders import DecodeStream

+from astrai.inference.metrics import MetricsCollector
 from astrai.tokenize.tokenizer import AutoTokenizer

-logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from astrai.extension import AttentionBackend

 STOP = object()

@@ -64,6 +65,7 @@ class Task:
        top_k: int = 50,
        frequency_penalty: float = 0.0,
        rep_window: int = 64,
+        backend: Optional["AttentionBackend"] = None,
    ):
        self.task_id = task_id
        self.prompt_ids = prompt_ids
@@ -73,16 +75,25 @@ class Task:
        self.top_k = top_k
        self.frequency_penalty = frequency_penalty
        self.rep_window = rep_window
+        self.backend = backend

        self.status = TaskStatus.PENDING
        self.output_ids: List[int] = []
        self.output_logprobs: List[float] = []
        self.input_tokens: int = 0
        self.output_tokens: int = 0
-        self.arrival_time = time.time()
-        self.finish_time: Optional[float] = None
+        self._kv_len: int = 0
        self._decoder: Optional[StreamDecoder] = None

+    def mark_prefill_done(self):
+        """Prompt KV is materialized by prefill; first output sampled but
+        not yet written to KV."""
+        self._kv_len = self.input_tokens
+
+    def advance_kv(self):
+        """One more position written to KV (after a decode forward)."""
+        self._kv_len += 1
+
    def decode_new_token(self, tokenizer: AutoTokenizer) -> str:
        """Decode the last appended output token, buffering incomplete
        multi-byte sequences across calls.
@@ -93,19 +104,15 @@ class Task:
            self._decoder = StreamDecoder(tokenizer)
        return self._decoder.push(self.output_ids[-1])

-    def flush_remaining(self, tokenizer: AutoTokenizer) -> str:
-        """Emit any text still buffered in the decoder.
-
-        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.
-        """
-        return ""
-
    @property
    def next_pos(self) -> int:
-        return self.input_tokens + len(self.output_ids)
+        """KV position where the next decode step will write."""
+        return self._kv_len
+
+    @property
+    def prefill_done(self) -> bool:
+        """True when all prompt KV entries are materialized."""
+        return self._kv_len >= self.input_tokens > 0

    def is_finished(self, stop_ids: List[int]) -> bool:
        if self.max_tokens is not None and self.output_tokens >= self.max_tokens:
@@ -123,6 +130,7 @@ class TaskManager:
        tokenizer: AutoTokenizer,
        max_batch_size: int = 16,
        max_seq_len: int = 8192,
+        metrics: Optional["MetricsCollector"] = None,
    ):
        self.tokenizer = tokenizer
        self.max_batch_size = max_batch_size
@@ -138,6 +146,8 @@ class TaskManager:
        self._total_tasks = 0
        self._total_tokens = 0

+        self._metrics = metrics
+
    def add_task(
        self,
        prompt: str,
@@ -147,6 +157,7 @@ class TaskManager:
        top_k: int = 50,
        frequency_penalty: float = 0.0,
        rep_window: int = 64,
+        backend: Optional["AttentionBackend"] = None,
        stream_callback: Optional[Callable[[str], None]] = None,
    ) -> str:
        task_id = f"task_{int(time.time())}_{uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]}"
@@ -154,11 +165,6 @@ class TaskManager:
        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 stream_callback:
-                stream_callback(STOP)
-            return task_id
-
        if max_tokens is None:
            max_tokens = self.max_seq_len - len(prompt_ids)
        else:
@@ -173,6 +179,7 @@ class TaskManager:
            top_k=top_k,
            frequency_penalty=frequency_penalty,
            rep_window=rep_window,
+            backend=backend,
        )

        with self._lock:
@@ -181,6 +188,9 @@ class TaskManager:
            if stream_callback:
                self._callbacks[task_id] = stream_callback

+        if self._metrics is not None:
+            self._metrics.register(task_id)
+
        self._task_event.set()
        return task_id

@@ -200,26 +210,33 @@ class TaskManager:
            cb(token)

    def get_stats(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-        return {
+        stats: Dict[str, Any] = {
            "total_tasks": self._total_tasks,
            "total_tokens": self._total_tokens,
            "active_tasks": len(self.active_tasks),
            "waiting_queue": len(self.waiting_queue),
        }
+        if self._metrics is not None:
+            stats.update(self._metrics.get_stats())
+        return stats

    def remove_finished_tasks(self, stop_ids: List[int]) -> List[Task]:
        with self._lock:
            finished = []
            for task in self.active_tasks:
                if task.status == TaskStatus.ABORTED:
-                    task.finish_time = time.time()
                    finished.append(task)
                elif task.is_finished(stop_ids):
                    task.status = TaskStatus.FINISHED
-                    task.finish_time = time.time()
                    finished.append(task)
                    self._total_tokens += task.output_tokens

+            if self._metrics is not None:
+                for task in finished:
+                    self._metrics.mark_finished(
+                        task.task_id, task.input_tokens, task.output_tokens
+                    )
+
            self.active_tasks = [
                t
                for t in self.active_tasks
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+"""Pre-allocated buffers for the inference decode hot path.
+
+Mirrors FlashInfer / SGLang's global workspace pattern: all per-step tensors
+are allocated eagerly at init (nothing is lazy), so the decode step
+reads/writes fixed-address tensors with zero ``torch.empty`` calls during
+the hot loop — a prerequisite for CUDA-graph capture.
+"""
+
+import torch
+from torch import Tensor
+
+_MAX_SPLITS = 32
+
+
+class InferenceWorkspace:
+    """Reusable fixed-shape per-step buffers for decode.
+
+    Families of buffers, all sized to ``max_batch_size`` / ``max_seq_len``
+    and sliced via views each step:
+
+    - ``decode_mask``: a ``[B, 1, total_len]`` validity mask, the RHS
+      ``arange`` pre-computed so only a single ``torch.ge(out=)`` runs per
+      step.
+    - ``input_ids``: per-step token IDs filled from host (pinned, double-
+      buffered so an in-flight async H2D copy never races the next fill).
+    - KV-cache bind metadata (``req_pool_indices``, ``seq_lens``,
+      ``kv_indptr``, ``inc``, ``out_cache_loc``), written by
+      ``PagePool.bind_tasks`` when the Executor passes this workspace.
+    - ``decode_o_part`` / ``decode_ml_part``: split-KV partial result buffers
+      (mirrors FlashInfer's workspace).  One global alloc, reused by every
+      decode step across all layers.  Sliced views are passed to the CUDA
+      attention kernel so its internal ``torch.empty`` hot-path alloc goes
+      through a stable address (CUDA-graph capturable).
+
+    No re-allocation while the server's bounds are respected.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        max_batch_size: int,
+        max_seq_len: int,
+        max_q_heads: int,
+        head_dim: int,
+        device: torch.device,
+        dtype: torch.dtype,
+    ):
+        self.max_batch_size = max_batch_size
+        self.max_seq_len = max_seq_len
+        self.max_q_heads = max_q_heads
+        self.head_dim = head_dim
+        self.device = device
+        self.dtype = dtype
+
+        # ``position_ids[:, None, None] >= arange`` RHS, reused every step.
+        self.arange = torch.arange(max_seq_len, device=device)
+        # Decode validity mask: [max_batch, 1, max_seq_len] bool.
+        self.input_mask = torch.empty(
+            (max_batch_size, 1, max_seq_len), dtype=torch.bool, device=device
+        )
+
+        # Per-step token IDs.  Values come from host Python lists every
+        # step, so the device buffer is pre-allocated (stable address for
+        # CUDA-graph capture) and filled via a host staging buffer.  A
+        # double buffer keeps a copy in flight from being overwritten by
+        # the next fill.
+        self.input_ids = torch.empty((max_batch_size,), dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+        self._pin = [
+            torch.empty((max_batch_size,), dtype=torch.long),
+            torch.empty((max_batch_size,), dtype=torch.long),
+        ]
+        self._pin_idx = 0
+
+        # KV-cache bind metadata (fixed shape, written by ``PagePool.bind_tasks``
+        # when the Executor passes this workspace).  Stable addresses make the
+        # decode forward CUDA-graph capturable.
+        self.req_pool_indices = torch.empty(
+            (max_batch_size,), dtype=torch.long, device=device
+        )
+        self.seq_lens = torch.empty((max_batch_size,), dtype=torch.long, device=device)
+        self.kv_indptr = torch.empty(
+            (max_batch_size + 1,), dtype=torch.int32, device=device
+        )
+        self.qo_indptr = torch.empty(
+            (max_batch_size + 1,), dtype=torch.int32, device=device
+        )
+        self.inc = torch.arange(max_batch_size + 1, dtype=torch.int32, device=device)
+        self.out_cache_loc = torch.empty(
+            (max_batch_size, 1), dtype=torch.long, device=device
+        )
+
+        # Per-step position IDs (must be at a fixed address for CUDA-graph capture).
+        self.position_ids = torch.empty(
+            (max_batch_size,), dtype=torch.long, device=device
+        )
+
+        # Split-KV partial-result buffers for decode (persistent, one global
+        # alloc per process — mirrors FlashInfer's workspace pattern).
+        # Shape: [max_batch_size, max_q_heads, _MAX_SPLITS, head_dim] (o_part)
+        #        [max_batch_size, max_q_heads, _MAX_SPLITS, 2]     (ml_part)
+        self.decode_o_part = torch.empty(
+            (max_batch_size, max_q_heads, _MAX_SPLITS, head_dim),
+            dtype=torch.float32,
+            device=device,
+        )
+        self.decode_ml_part = torch.empty(
+            (max_batch_size, max_q_heads, _MAX_SPLITS, 2),
+            dtype=torch.float32,
+            device=device,
+        )
+
+        # Decode output buffer (graph-safe pre-alloc).  Shape matches the
+        # decode kernel's output: [batch, q_head, head_dim].
+        self.decode_out = torch.empty(
+            (max_batch_size, max_q_heads, head_dim),
+            dtype=dtype,
+            device=device,
+        )
+
+    def decode_buffers(self, batch: int, q_heads: int):
+        """Return ``(o_part, ml_part)`` view sliced to live dimensions."""
+        return (
+            self.decode_o_part[:batch, :q_heads],
+            self.decode_ml_part[:batch, :q_heads],
+        )
+
+    def fill_input_ids(self, ids: "list[int]") -> Tensor:
+        """Write ``ids`` into the device buffer and return ``[B]``.
+
+        Host values are staged through the double buffer and copied into the
+        stable device buffer (``copy_`` without pinning is synchronous, so
+        the alternating buffers guard against an in-flight transfer).
+        """
+        b = len(ids)
+        pin = self._pin[self._pin_idx]
+        self._pin_idx ^= 1
+        for i, v in enumerate(ids):
+            pin[i] = v
+        self.input_ids[:b].copy_(pin[:b])
+        return self.input_ids[:b]
+
+    def decode_mask(self, position_ids: Tensor, total_len: int) -> Tensor:
+        """Return the ``[B, 1, total_len]`` validity mask for this step.
+
+        Written into the pre-allocated buffer via ``torch.ge(out=)`` — no
+        new tensor is allocated.  ``position_ids`` is the current step's
+        ``[B]`` positions; ``total_len`` must not exceed ``max_seq_len``.
+        """
+        b = position_ids.size(0)
+        out = self.input_mask[:b, :, :total_len]
+        torch.ge(position_ids[:, None, None], self.arange[:total_len], out=out)
+        return out
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import logging
+import os
+
+
+def setup_logging(level: str = "INFO"):
+    """Attach a StreamHandler to the ``astrai`` logger (idempotent).
+
+    Call once per process at the top of CLI scripts.
+    Set ``ASTR_LOG_LEVEL`` env var to override the default level.
+
+    Level names: ``DEBUG``, ``INFO``, ``WARNING``, ``ERROR``, ``CRITICAL``.
+    ``DEBUG`` enables per-step prefill/decode timing logs
+    (:func:`astrai.inference.runtime.executor.timed`).
+    """
+    logger = logging.getLogger("astrai")
+    if logger.handlers:
+        return
+    level_name = os.environ.get("ASTR_LOG_LEVEL", level).upper()
+    logger.setLevel(getattr(logging, level_name, logging.INFO))
+    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)
@@ -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
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ 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,
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ __all__ = [
    "Linear",
    "RMSNorm",
    "MLP",
+    "DeepSeekMoE",
    "Embedding",
    "GQA",
    "MLA",
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ 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 KVCache
+from astrai.inference.cache import KVCache
 from astrai.model.components.linear import Linear
 from astrai.model.components.norm import RMSNorm

@@ -1,15 +1,21 @@
 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 KVCache
+from astrai.inference.cache import KVCache
 from astrai.model.components.attention import AttnFactory
-from astrai.model.components.mlp import FFNFactory
+from astrai.model.components.mlp import FFNFactory, RouterStats
 from astrai.model.components.norm import RMSNorm


+class DecoderOutput(TypedDict):
+    hidden_states: Tensor
+    aux_loss: Optional[Tensor]
+    router_stats: Optional[RouterStats]
+
+
 class DecoderBlock(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, config, layer_id: int):
        super().__init__()
@@ -26,7 +32,20 @@ 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,
@@ -35,7 +54,7 @@ class DecoderBlock(nn.Module):
        attention_mask: Optional[Tensor] = None,
        kv_cache: Optional[KVCache] = None,
        is_causal: bool = False,
-    ) -> Tensor:
+    ) -> DecoderOutput:
        attn_output = self.attention(
            self.input_norm(x),
            rotary_emb,
@@ -44,6 +63,12 @@ class DecoderBlock(nn.Module):
            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"],
+            "router_stats": mlp_output.get("router_stats"),
+        }
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from typing import Optional, TypedDict
+
 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
 import torch.nn.functional as F
@@ -11,6 +13,28 @@ class FFNFactory(BaseFactory[nn.Module]):
    pass


+class RouterStats(TypedDict):
+    """Per-layer MoE routing statistics for training diagnostics.
+
+    Both tensors are detached monitoring data produced during forward.
+    """
+
+    probs: Tensor
+    topk_indices: Tensor
+
+
+class FFNOutput(TypedDict):
+    hidden_states: Tensor
+    aux_loss: Optional[Tensor]
+    router_stats: Optional[RouterStats]
+
+
+class RoutedOutput(TypedDict):
+    hidden_states: Tensor
+    aux_loss: Optional[Tensor]
+    router_stats: Optional[RouterStats]
+
+
@FFNFactory.register("mlp")
 class MLP(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, dim: int, dim_ffn: int, down_init_std: float = 0.02):
@@ -19,10 +43,10 @@ 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, "router_stats": None}


@FFNFactory.register("moe")
@@ -36,6 +60,9 @@ 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 +70,16 @@ 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
@@ -50,51 +87,91 @@ 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"],
+            "router_stats": routed_output["router_stats"],
+        }

    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
+        E = self.n_routed_experts

        router_logits = self.router(x)
        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)
+        topk_weights, topk_indices = torch.topk(router_probs, K, dim=-1, sorted=False)
+        if self.norm_topk_prob:
+            topk_weights = topk_weights / topk_weights.sum(dim=-1, keepdim=True)
+
+        aux_loss = None
+        router_stats = None
+        if include_aux_loss:
+            expert_load = F.one_hot(topk_indices, num_classes=E).float()
+            expert_load = expert_load.mean(dim=(0, 1))
+            router_prob = router_probs.float().mean(dim=0)
+            aux_loss = E * (expert_load * router_prob).sum()
+            router_stats = {
+                "probs": router_probs.detach(),
+                "topk_indices": topk_indices,
+            }
+
+        # Grouped dispatch: sort (token, slot) pairs by expert so each expert
+        # consumes one contiguous slice instead of a per-expert mask scan.
+        flat_experts = topk_indices.reshape(-1)
+        sorted_experts, order = torch.sort(flat_experts)
+        flat_tokens = x.repeat_interleave(K, dim=0)[order]
+        flat_weights = topk_weights.reshape(-1, 1)[order]
+        boundaries = torch.cumsum(
+            torch.bincount(sorted_experts, minlength=E), dim=0
+        ).tolist()

        output = torch.zeros(N, D, device=x.device, dtype=x.dtype)
-        for expert_idx in range(self.n_routed_experts):
-            expert_mask = topk_indices == expert_idx
-            token_idx, k_idx = expert_mask.nonzero(as_tuple=True)
-            if token_idx.numel() == 0:
+        start = 0
+        for expert_idx, end in enumerate(boundaries):
+            if end == start:
                continue
-            expert_input = x[token_idx]
-            expert_output = self.routed_experts[expert_idx](expert_input)
-            weights = topk_weights[token_idx, k_idx].unsqueeze(-1)
-            output.index_add_(0, token_idx, expert_output * weights)
+            expert_output = self.routed_experts[expert_idx](flat_tokens[start:end])[
+                "hidden_states"
+            ]
+            output.index_add_(
+                0,
+                order[start:end] // K,
+                expert_output * flat_weights[start:end],
+            )
+            start = end

-        return output
+        return {
+            "hidden_states": output,
+            "aux_loss": aux_loss,
+            "router_stats": router_stats,
+        }
@@ -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)

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import torch.nn as nn
 from torch import Tensor

 from astrai.config.model_config import AutoRegressiveLMConfig
-from astrai.inference.core.cache import KVCache
+from astrai.inference.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
@@ -113,10 +113,27 @@ class AutoRegressiveLM(AutoModel):
        attn_mask = process_attention_mask(input_mask)
        use_sdpa_causal_mask = attn_mask is None

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

        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()
+            output["router_stats"] = router_stats_list
+        return output
@@ -416,7 +416,11 @@ class MultiOutputMaskBuilder(BaseMaskBuilder):
            return None

        result: dict = {}
-        any_output = False
+        required_outputs = {
+            output_key
+            for output_key, spec in sources_spec.items()
+            if spec.get("sections")
+        }

        for output_key, spec in sources_spec.items():
            sections = spec.get("sections", [])
@@ -428,7 +432,6 @@ class MultiOutputMaskBuilder(BaseMaskBuilder):
                if ids is None:
                    continue
                result[output_key] = ids
-                any_output = True
                continue

            list_field = spec.get("list_field", False)
@@ -444,7 +447,6 @@ class MultiOutputMaskBuilder(BaseMaskBuilder):
                result[output_key] = ids
                if mask is not None:
                    result[mask_key] = mask
-                any_output = True
                continue

            ids, mask = self.renderer.process_sections(
@@ -460,9 +462,7 @@ class MultiOutputMaskBuilder(BaseMaskBuilder):
            elif "mask_key" in spec:
                result[mask_key] = mask

-            any_output = True
-
-        if not any_output:
+        if not required_outputs or not required_outputs.issubset(result):
            return None

        result["domain"] = _extract_domain(item, config.output.domain_key)
@@ -474,6 +474,11 @@ class MultiOutputMaskBuilder(BaseMaskBuilder):
            return [None] * len(items)

        results = [{} for _ in items]
+        required_outputs = {
+            output_key
+            for output_key, spec in sources_spec.items()
+            if spec.get("sections")
+        }
        for output_key, spec in sources_spec.items():
            sections = spec.get("sections", [])
            if not sections:
@@ -506,7 +511,7 @@ class MultiOutputMaskBuilder(BaseMaskBuilder):

        return [
            ({**result, "domain": _extract_domain(item, config.output.domain_key)})
-            if result
+            if required_outputs and required_outputs.issubset(result)
            else None
            for item, result in zip(items, results)
        ]
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import math
 from typing import Dict

 import torch
@@ -27,6 +28,8 @@ class GradSNRTracker:

    SNR = E[g]^2 / Var(g) = E[g]^2 / (E[g^2] - E[g]^2)

+    The reported value is the power ratio in decibels: ``10 * log10(SNR)``.
+
    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.
@@ -64,7 +67,8 @@ class GradSNRTracker:
            noise = (v - m.pow(2)).clamp(min=0).sum().item()
            total_signal += signal
            total_noise += noise
-        return total_signal / (total_noise + self.eps)
+        snr = total_signal / (total_noise + self.eps)
+        return 10.0 * math.log10(max(snr, self.eps))


 def ctx_get_loss(ctx):
@@ -88,3 +92,23 @@ def ctx_get_grad_snr(ctx):
    if tracker is None:
        return None
    return tracker.snr
+
+
+def ctx_get_moe_aux_loss(ctx):
+    return ctx.strategy._moe_metrics.get("aux_loss")
+
+
+def ctx_get_router_entropy(ctx):
+    return ctx.strategy._moe_metrics.get("router_entropy")
+
+
+def ctx_get_dead_expert_fraction(ctx):
+    return ctx.strategy._moe_metrics.get("dead_expert_fraction")
+
+
+def ctx_get_load_imbalance_mean(ctx):
+    return ctx.strategy._moe_metrics.get("load_imbalance_mean")
+
+
+def ctx_get_load_imbalance_max(ctx):
+    return ctx.strategy._moe_metrics.get("load_imbalance_max")
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Provides:
 - :class:`BaseRewardModel` — pluggable reward interface
 - :class:`RolloutGenerator` — KV-cache-backed generation of grouped
  responses + decoding (no reward); delegates the generation loop to
-  :class:`~astrai.inference.core.scheduler.InferenceScheduler.run_batch`
+  :class:`~astrai.inference.scheduler.InferenceScheduler.run_batch`
  so rollout and the production inference server share one code path
 - :class:`RolloutRunner` — orchestrates generation + scoring with a
  step-driven cache; its ``__call__`` returns ``(RolloutResult, is_fresh)``
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Tuple
 import torch
 from torch import Tensor

-from astrai.inference.core.scheduler import InferenceScheduler
+from astrai.inference.scheduler import InferenceScheduler


@dataclass(kw_only=True)
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ class RolloutGenerator:
    """Pure generation + decoding for a group of responses per prompt.

    Delegates the prefill/decode loop to
-    :meth:`~astrai.inference.core.scheduler.InferenceScheduler.run_batch`,
+    :meth:`~astrai.inference.scheduler.InferenceScheduler.run_batch`,
    which uses a real KV cache (no O(n²) recompute).  Has no dependency
    on any reward model; can be reused in isolation for offline
    generation, qualitative sampling, or eval pipelines.
@@ -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, List, Optional, TypedDict, Union

 import torch
 import torch.nn as nn
@@ -9,10 +9,22 @@ import torch.nn.functional as F
 from torch import Tensor

 from astrai.factory import BaseFactory
+from astrai.model.components.mlp import RouterStats
 from astrai.parallel.executor import broadcast_state_dict
 from astrai.trainer.rollout import RolloutResult


+class LossOutput(TypedDict):
+    loss: Tensor
+    metrics: Dict[str, float]
+
+
+class LogprobsOutput(TypedDict):
+    logprobs: Tensor
+    aux_loss: Optional[Tensor]
+    router_stats: Optional[List[RouterStats]]
+
+
 def move_to_device(batch: Dict[str, Tensor], device: str) -> Dict[str, Tensor]:
    """Move batch tensors to specified device with non-blocking transfer."""
    return {key: value.to(device, non_blocking=True) for key, value in batch.items()}
@@ -24,7 +36,7 @@ def get_logprobs(
    attn_mask: Tensor,
    loss_mask: Tensor,
    reduction: str,
-) -> Tensor:
+) -> LogprobsOutput:
    """Compute token-wise log probabilities from model outputs.

    Args:
@@ -46,10 +58,11 @@ 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(
@@ -57,13 +70,18 @@ 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"),
+        "router_stats": outputs.get("router_stats"),
+    }


 def make_doc_boundary_mask(position_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor:
@@ -82,6 +100,68 @@ def make_doc_boundary_mask(position_ids: Tensor) -> Tensor:
    return (same_doc & causal).unsqueeze(1)


+def _collect_moe_diagnostics(
+    router_stats_list: List[RouterStats],
+) -> Dict[str, float]:
+    """Collect MoE routing diagnostic metrics from per-layer router stats.
+
+    Args:
+        router_stats_list: One :class:`RouterStats` dict per MoE layer with
+            keys ``probs`` (N, E) and ``topk_indices`` (N, K), both detached.
+
+    Returns:
+        Dict with keys: router_entropy, dead_expert_fraction,
+        load_imbalance_mean, load_imbalance_max.  Values are averaged
+        across layers.
+    """
+    layer_entropies: List[Tensor] = []
+    layer_dead_fractions: List[Tensor] = []
+    layer_imbalance_means: List[Tensor] = []
+    layer_imbalance_maxs: List[Tensor] = []
+
+    for stats in router_stats_list:
+        probs = stats["probs"].float()
+        topk_indices = stats["topk_indices"]
+        num_experts = probs.shape[-1]
+        if num_experts == 0:
+            continue
+        probs = probs.reshape(-1, num_experts)
+        if probs.numel() == 0:
+            continue
+
+        # Router entropy
+        entropy = -(probs * torch.log(probs.clamp_min(1e-8))).sum(dim=-1).mean()
+
+        # Load from the actual dispatch: one-hot sum of top-k assignments.
+        expert_counts = F.one_hot(topk_indices, num_experts).sum(dim=(0, 1)).float()
+        ideal_load = expert_counts.mean()  # N*K / E
+        load_ratios = expert_counts / max(float(ideal_load), 1.0)
+        imbalance_mean = (load_ratios - 1.0).abs().mean()
+        imbalance_max = load_ratios.max()
+        dead_fraction = (expert_counts == 0).float().mean()
+
+        layer_entropies.append(entropy)
+        layer_dead_fractions.append(dead_fraction)
+        layer_imbalance_means.append(imbalance_mean)
+        layer_imbalance_maxs.append(imbalance_max)
+
+    if not layer_entropies:
+        return {}
+
+    return {
+        "router_entropy": float(torch.stack(layer_entropies).mean().cpu().item()),
+        "dead_expert_fraction": float(
+            torch.stack(layer_dead_fractions).mean().cpu().item()
+        ),
+        "load_imbalance_mean": float(
+            torch.stack(layer_imbalance_means).mean().cpu().item()
+        ),
+        "load_imbalance_max": float(
+            torch.stack(layer_imbalance_maxs).mean().cpu().item()
+        ),
+    }
+
+
 class BaseStrategy(ABC):
    """Abstract base class for training strategies.

@@ -102,6 +182,8 @@ 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._moe_metrics: Dict[str, float] = {}
        self.extra_kwargs = kwargs
        self._rollout_runner = None

@@ -117,6 +199,35 @@ 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,
+        router_stats: Optional[List[RouterStats]] = 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
+            self._refresh_moe_diagnostics(aux_loss, router_stats)
+        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.

@@ -148,22 +259,36 @@ class BaseStrategy(ABC):
        """
        pass

+    def _refresh_moe_diagnostics(
+        self,
+        aux_loss: Tensor,
+        router_stats: Optional[List[RouterStats]] = None,
+    ) -> None:
+        """Collect MoE routing diagnostics from the latest forward pass.
+
+        Populates ``self._moe_metrics`` with router entropy, dead expert
+        fraction, load imbalance, and aux_loss.  Called from
+        :meth:`_loss_output` when an MoE aux loss is present.
+        """
+        self._moe_metrics = _collect_moe_diagnostics(router_stats or [])
+        self._moe_metrics["aux_loss"] = float(aux_loss.detach().cpu().item())
+
    def on_optimizer_step(self):
        """Advance online rollout state after a successful optimizer step."""
        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"]):
@@ -190,6 +315,7 @@ class SEQStrategy(BaseStrategy):
    """Standard next-token prediction training strategy.

    Computes cross-entropy loss for next token prediction.
+    Optionally adds MoE load balancing auxiliary loss.
    """

    def __init__(
@@ -203,9 +329,13 @@ 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(),
@@ -213,7 +343,12 @@ class SEQStrategy(BaseStrategy):
            label_smoothing=self.label_smoothing,
        )

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


@StrategyFactory.register("sft")
@@ -221,6 +356,7 @@ class SFTStrategy(BaseStrategy):
    """Supervised Fine-tuning strategy with loss masking.

    Applies cross-entropy loss only to tokens where loss_mask is True.
+    Optionally adds MoE load balancing auxiliary loss.
    """

    def __init__(
@@ -234,6 +370,9 @@ 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"],
@@ -245,9 +384,10 @@ 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(),
@@ -256,7 +396,12 @@ class SFTStrategy(BaseStrategy):
            label_smoothing=self.label_smoothing,
        )

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


@StrategyFactory.register("dpo")
@@ -282,6 +427,9 @@ 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"]
@@ -297,22 +445,25 @@ 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] :]
@@ -325,7 +476,12 @@ 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,
+            policy_output.get("router_stats"),
+        )

    def supports_online(self) -> bool:
        return True
@@ -398,6 +554,9 @@ class GRPOStrategy(BaseStrategy):
            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"]
@@ -438,16 +597,23 @@ 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)
@@ -480,9 +646,13 @@ 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,
+            policy_output.get("router_stats"),
+        )

    def supports_online(self) -> bool:
        return True
@@ -17,10 +17,15 @@ from astrai.parallel import only_on_rank
 from astrai.parallel.setup import get_current_device
 from astrai.serialization import Checkpoint
 from astrai.trainer.metric_util import (
+    ctx_get_dead_expert_fraction,
    ctx_get_grad_norm,
    ctx_get_grad_snr,
+    ctx_get_load_imbalance_max,
+    ctx_get_load_imbalance_mean,
    ctx_get_loss,
    ctx_get_lr,
+    ctx_get_moe_aux_loss,
+    ctx_get_router_entropy,
    ctx_get_val_loss,
 )
 from astrai.trainer.train_context import TrainContext
@@ -257,14 +262,36 @@ class MetricCallback(TrainCallback):
            "val_loss": ctx_get_val_loss,
            "grad_norm": ctx_get_grad_norm,
            "grad_snr": ctx_get_grad_snr,
+            "moe_aux_loss": ctx_get_moe_aux_loss,
+            "router_entropy": ctx_get_router_entropy,
+            "dead_expert_fraction": ctx_get_dead_expert_fraction,
+            "load_imbalance_mean": ctx_get_load_imbalance_mean,
+            "load_imbalance_max": ctx_get_load_imbalance_max,
        }

    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):
@@ -286,8 +313,8 @@ 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():
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, random_split

 from astrai.config.train_config import TrainConfig
 from astrai.dataset import RDSampler
-from astrai.inference.core.scheduler import InferenceScheduler
+from astrai.inference.scheduler import InferenceScheduler
 from astrai.model.components.lora import inject_lora
 from astrai.parallel.executor import BaseExecutor, ExecutorFactory, create_ref_model
 from astrai.parallel.setup import get_current_device, get_rank, get_world_size
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ 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)
@@ -65,6 +66,15 @@ class TrainContext:
        )


+@dataclass
+class _PreloadedState:
+    model_config: dict = field(default_factory=dict)
+    state_dict: Optional[dict] = None
+    epoch: int = 0
+    consumed_samples: int = 0
+    checkpoint: Optional[Checkpoint] = None
+
+
 class TrainContextBuilder:
    def __init__(
        self,
@@ -80,212 +90,231 @@ class TrainContextBuilder:
        return self

    def build(self) -> TrainContext:
-        cfg = self.config
-        device = get_current_device()
+        # Resolve persisted state.
+        preloaded_state = self._load_preloaded_state()

-        executor = ExecutorFactory.create(
+        # Build the core training components and restore their persisted state.
+        executor = self._create_executor()
+        context = self._create_context(preloaded_state, executor)
+        self._prepare_model(context, executor, preloaded_state)
+        self._restore_optimizer_state(context)
+
+        # Resolve datasets.
+        train_dataset, val_dataset = self._get_datasets()
+        self._create_dataloaders(context, train_dataset, val_dataset)
+
+        # Strategies depend on the prepared model; online rollout depends on both.
+        strategy_kwargs = self._create_strategy(context, executor)
+        self._configure_rollout(context, strategy_kwargs)
+
+        return context
+
+    def _create_executor(self) -> BaseExecutor:
+        cfg = self.config
+        return ExecutorFactory.create(
            cfg.parallel_mode,
            grad_accum_steps=cfg.grad_accum_steps,
            **cfg.executor_kwargs,
        )

-        model_config = {}
+    def _load_preloaded_state(self) -> _PreloadedState:
+        cfg = self.config
+        state = _PreloadedState(
+            epoch=cfg.start_epoch,
+            consumed_samples=cfg.start_samples * get_world_size(),
+        )
        if self._param_path:
            config_path = Path(self._param_path) / "config.json"
            if config_path.exists():
-                model_config = load_json(config_path)
-
-        preloaded_state_dict = None
-        preloaded_epoch = cfg.start_epoch
-        preloaded_consumed = cfg.start_samples * get_world_size()
-        preloaded_checkpoint = None
-        if self._param_path:
+                state.model_config = load_json(config_path)
            checkpoint = Checkpoint.load_any(self._param_path)
            if checkpoint is not None:
-                preloaded_state_dict = checkpoint.state_dict
-                if checkpoint.config:
-                    model_config = checkpoint.config
+                state.state_dict = checkpoint.state_dict
+                state.model_config = checkpoint.config or state.model_config
                if self._resume:
-                    preloaded_epoch = checkpoint.epoch
+                    state.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
+                    state.consumed_samples = (
+                        checkpoint.consumed_samples // per_step * per_step
+                    )
+                    state.checkpoint = checkpoint
+        if not state.model_config and hasattr(cfg.model_fn(), "config"):
+            state.model_config = cfg.model_fn().config.to_dict()
+        return state

-        if not model_config and hasattr(cfg.model_fn(), "config"):
-            model_config = cfg.model_fn().config.to_dict()
+    def _create_context(
+        self, state: _PreloadedState, executor: BaseExecutor
+    ) -> TrainContext:
+        return TrainContext(
+            world_size=get_world_size(),
+            rank=get_rank(),
+            config=self.config,
+            model_config=state.model_config,
+            executor=executor,
+            epoch=state.epoch,
+            consumed_samples=state.consumed_samples,
+            checkpoint=state.checkpoint,
+        )

-        def _before_wrap(m):
-            m = m.to(device=device)
+    def _prepare_model(
+        self, context: TrainContext, executor: BaseExecutor, state: _PreloadedState
+    ) -> None:
+        cfg = self.config
+        device = get_current_device()
+
+        def before_wrap(model):
+            model = model.to(device=device)
            if cfg.lora is not None:
                inject_lora(
-                    m,
+                    model,
                    r=cfg.lora.r,
                    alpha=cfg.lora.alpha,
                    target_modules=set(cfg.lora.target_modules),
                )
-            if preloaded_state_dict is not None:
-                m.load_state_dict(preloaded_state_dict, strict=False)
-            return m
+            if state.state_dict is not None:
+                model.load_state_dict(state.state_dict, strict=False)
+            return model

-        def _after_wrap(m):
+        def after_wrap(model):
            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(),
-            config=cfg,
-            model_config=model_config,
-            executor=executor,
-            epoch=preloaded_epoch,
-            consumed_samples=preloaded_consumed,
-            checkpoint=preloaded_checkpoint,
-        )
+                model = torch.compile(model, mode=cfg.compile_mode)
+            return model

        context.model, context.optimizer, context.scheduler = executor.prepare(
            cfg.model_fn,
            cfg.optimizer_fn,
            cfg.scheduler_fn,
-            before_wrap=_before_wrap,
-            after_wrap=_after_wrap,
+            before_wrap=before_wrap,
+            after_wrap=after_wrap,
        )

-        train_dataset = cfg.dataset
-        val_dataset = cfg.val_dataset
+    def _get_datasets(self):
+        cfg = self.config
+        if cfg.val_dataset is not None or cfg.val_split is None:
+            return cfg.dataset, cfg.val_dataset
+        n_val = max(1, int(len(cfg.dataset) * cfg.val_split))
+        generator = torch.Generator().manual_seed(cfg.random_seed)
+        return random_split(
+            cfg.dataset, [len(cfg.dataset) - n_val, n_val], generator=generator
+        )

-        if val_dataset is None and cfg.val_split is not None:
-            n_total = len(cfg.dataset)
-            n_val = max(1, int(n_total * cfg.val_split))
-            n_train = n_total - n_val
-            generator = torch.Generator().manual_seed(cfg.random_seed)
-            train_dataset, val_dataset = random_split(
-                cfg.dataset, [n_train, n_val], generator=generator
+    def _create_dataloaders(
+        self, context: TrainContext, train_dataset, val_dataset
+    ) -> None:
+        cfg = self.config
+        sampler_offset = context.consumed_samples // context.world_size
+        if self._resume and sampler_offset > 0:
+            samples_per_replica = (
+                len(train_dataset) + context.world_size - 1
+            ) // context.world_size
+            if samples_per_replica > 0:
+                context.epoch = sampler_offset // samples_per_replica
+        context.dataloader = self._create_dataloader(
+            train_dataset, context.epoch, sampler_offset
+        )
+        if val_dataset is not None:
+            context.val_dataloader = self._create_dataloader(
+                val_dataset, 0, 0, shuffle=False
            )

-        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
-
+    def _create_dataloader(
+        self, dataset, epoch: int, start_iter: int, shuffle: bool = True
+    ):
+        cfg = self.config
        sampler = RDSampler(
-            data_source=train_dataset,
-            start_epoch=context.epoch,
-            start_iter=sampler_offset,
+            dataset,
+            start_epoch=epoch,
+            start_iter=start_iter,
            seed=cfg.random_seed,
+            shuffle=shuffle,
        )
-        context.dataloader = DataLoader(
-            train_dataset,
+        loader_kwargs = dict(
+            dataset=dataset,
            batch_size=cfg.batch_per_device,
            sampler=sampler,
            num_workers=cfg.num_workers,
            pin_memory=cfg.pin_memory,
-            prefetch_factor=cfg.prefetch_factor,
            collate_fn=cfg.collate_fn,
        )
-
-        if val_dataset is not None:
-            val_sampler = RDSampler(
-                data_source=val_dataset,
-                start_epoch=0,
-                start_iter=0,
-                seed=cfg.random_seed,
-                shuffle=False,
-            )
-            context.val_dataloader = DataLoader(
-                val_dataset,
-                batch_size=cfg.batch_per_device,
-                sampler=val_sampler,
-                num_workers=cfg.num_workers,
-                pin_memory=cfg.pin_memory,
-                prefetch_factor=cfg.prefetch_factor,
-                collate_fn=cfg.collate_fn,
-            )
-
-        if context.checkpoint and context.checkpoint.extra:
-            extra = context.checkpoint.extra
-            for name in ("optimizer", "scheduler"):
-                if name in extra:
-                    obj = getattr(context, name, None)
-                    if obj is not None:
-                        obj.load_state_dict(extra[name])
-
-        strategy_kwargs = dict(cfg.extra_kwargs)
-
-        needs_ref = cfg.strategy in (
-            "dpo",
-            "grpo",
-            "online_grpo",
-            "online_dpo",
+        # PyTorch rejects prefetch_factor/persistent_workers when workers=0.
+        if cfg.num_workers > 0:
+            loader_kwargs["persistent_workers"] = cfg.persistent_workers
+            if cfg.prefetch_factor is not None:
+                loader_kwargs["prefetch_factor"] = cfg.prefetch_factor
+        return DataLoader(
+            **loader_kwargs,
        )
-        needs_old = cfg.strategy in ("grpo", "online_grpo")

-        if needs_ref:
-            strategy_kwargs["ref_model"] = create_ref_model(
-                cfg.model_fn, executor=executor, model=context.model, device=device
+    def _restore_optimizer_state(self, context: TrainContext) -> None:
+        if context.checkpoint and context.checkpoint.extra:
+            for name in ("optimizer", "scheduler"):
+                if (
+                    name in context.checkpoint.extra
+                    and getattr(context, name, None) is not None
+                ):
+                    getattr(context, name).load_state_dict(
+                        context.checkpoint.extra[name]
+                    )
+
+    def _create_strategy(self, context: TrainContext, executor: BaseExecutor) -> dict:
+        cfg = self.config
+        kwargs = dict(cfg.extra_kwargs)
+        kwargs.setdefault("moe_aux_loss_coef", cfg.moe_aux_loss_coef)
+        if cfg.strategy in ("dpo", "grpo", "online_grpo", "online_dpo"):
+            kwargs["ref_model"] = create_ref_model(
+                cfg.model_fn,
+                executor=executor,
+                model=context.model,
+                device=get_current_device(),
            )
-
-        if needs_old:
-            strategy_kwargs["old_model"] = create_ref_model(
-                cfg.model_fn, executor=executor, model=context.model, device=device
+        if cfg.strategy in ("grpo", "online_grpo"):
+            kwargs["old_model"] = create_ref_model(
+                cfg.model_fn,
+                executor=executor,
+                model=context.model,
+                device=get_current_device(),
            )
-
        context.strategy = StrategyFactory.create(
            cfg.strategy,
            model=context.model,
-            device=device,
+            device=get_current_device(),
            executor=executor,
-            **strategy_kwargs,
+            **kwargs,
        )
+        return kwargs

-        # Enable online rollout when the train_type is an ``online_*`` variant.
-        is_online = cfg.strategy.startswith("online_")
-        if is_online:
-            if not context.strategy.supports_online():
-                raise ValueError(
-                    f"Strategy '{cfg.strategy}' does not support online rollout"
-                )
-            if cfg.reward_model_fn is None:
-                raise ValueError("reward_model_fn is required for online RL strategies")
-
-            tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(self._param_path)
-            reward_model = cfg.reward_model_fn()
-
-            group_size = strategy_kwargs.get("group_size", 1)
-            rollout_batch_size = group_size * max(1, cfg.batch_per_device)
-            max_seq_len = getattr(context.model.config, "max_position_embeddings", None)
-
-            scheduler = InferenceScheduler(
-                model=context.model,
-                tokenizer=tokenizer,
-                max_batch_size=rollout_batch_size,
-                max_seq_len=max_seq_len,
+    def _configure_rollout(self, context: TrainContext, strategy_kwargs: dict) -> None:
+        cfg = self.config
+        if not cfg.strategy.startswith("online_"):
+            return
+        if not context.strategy.supports_online():
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Strategy '{cfg.strategy}' does not support online rollout"
            )
-
-            generator = RolloutGenerator(
-                scheduler=scheduler,
-                tokenizer=tokenizer,
-                max_tokens=cfg.rollout_max_tokens,
-                group_size=group_size,
-                temperature=cfg.rollout_temperature,
-                top_k=cfg.rollout_top_k,
-                top_p=cfg.rollout_top_p,
-            )
-            runner = RolloutRunner(
+        tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(self._param_path)
+        group_size = strategy_kwargs.get("group_size", 1)
+        scheduler = InferenceScheduler(
+            model=context.model,
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            max_batch_size=group_size * max(1, cfg.batch_per_device),
+            max_seq_len=getattr(context.model.config, "max_position_embeddings", None),
+        )
+        generator = RolloutGenerator(
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            tokenizer=tokenizer,
+            max_tokens=cfg.rollout_max_tokens,
+            group_size=group_size,
+            temperature=cfg.rollout_temperature,
+            top_k=cfg.rollout_top_k,
+            top_p=cfg.rollout_top_p,
+        )
+        context.strategy.set_rollout_runner(
+            RolloutRunner(
                generator=generator,
-                reward_model=reward_model,
+                reward_model=cfg.reward_model_fn(),
                rollout_interval=cfg.rollout_interval,
            )
-            context.strategy.set_rollout_runner(runner)
-
-        return context
+        )
@@ -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
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.18)
+project(astrai_kernels LANGUAGES CUDA CXX)
+
+set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
+set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON)
+set(CMAKE_CUDA_STANDARD 17)
+
+find_package(CUDAToolkit REQUIRED)
+
+if(NOT DEFINED TORCH_HOME)
+    set(TORCH_HOME "$ENV{TORCH_HOME}")
+endif()
+if(NOT TORCH_HOME)
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "TORCH_HOME must point at the torch install dir (site-packages/torch)")
+endif()
+
+if(NOT DEFINED PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR)
+    set(PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR "/usr/include/python${PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR}.${PYTHON_VERSION_MINOR}")
+endif()
+
+if(NOT DEFINED ASTRAI_CUDA_ARCH)
+    if(DEFINED ENV{ASTRAI_CUDA_ARCH})
+        set(ASTRAI_CUDA_ARCH "$ENV{ASTRAI_CUDA_ARCH}")
+    else()
+        set(ASTRAI_CUDA_ARCH 80)
+    endif()
+endif()
+
+set(TORCH_LIB_DIR "${TORCH_HOME}/lib")
+set(CUDA_LIB_DIR "/usr/local/cuda/lib64")
+
+set(CXX_FLAGS -O3 -funroll-loops)
+set(NVCC_FLAGS -O3
+    --expt-relaxed-constexpr
+    --use_fast_math
+    "--ptxas-options=-O3,-v"
+    --extra-device-vectorization
+    --threads=16)
+
+set(TORCH_LIBS
+    "${TORCH_LIB_DIR}/libtorch_python.so"
+    "${TORCH_LIB_DIR}/libtorch_cuda.so"
+    "${TORCH_LIB_DIR}/libc10_cuda.so"
+    "${TORCH_LIB_DIR}/libtorch_cpu.so"
+    "${TORCH_LIB_DIR}/libtorch.so"
+    "${TORCH_LIB_DIR}/libc10.so"
+    CUDA::cudart)
+
+set(CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES "${ASTRAI_CUDA_ARCH}")
+
+set(KERNELS attn_decode attn_prefill attn_paged_decode attn_paged_prefill rotary_emb fp8_mm)
+
+foreach(name ${KERNELS})
+    add_library(${name} MODULE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/kernels/${name}.cu")
+
+    target_compile_definitions(${name} PRIVATE TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME=${name})
+
+    target_include_directories(${name} PRIVATE
+        "${TORCH_HOME}/include"
+        "${TORCH_HOME}/include/torch/csrc/api/include"
+        "${PYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR}")
+
+    target_link_libraries(${name} PRIVATE ${TORCH_LIBS})
+    if(${name} STREQUAL "fp8_mm")
+        target_link_libraries(${name} PRIVATE CUDA::cublasLt)
+    endif()
+    target_link_options(${name} PRIVATE "-Wl,-rpath,${TORCH_LIB_DIR}")
+
+    target_compile_options(${name} PRIVATE
+        $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CXX>:${CXX_FLAGS}>
+        $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CUDA>:${NVCC_FLAGS}>)
+
+    set_target_properties(${name} PROPERTIES
+        PREFIX ""
+        SUFFIX ".${PY_SOABI}.so"
+        LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../astrai/extension/lib")
+endforeach()
@@ -1,75 +0,0 @@
-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
-
-    if torch.cuda.is_available():
-        cap = torch.cuda.get_device_capability()
-    else:
-        cap = (8, 0)
-    ver = f"{cap[0]}{cap[1]}"
-    flags = [f"-gencode=arch=compute_{ver},code=sm_{ver}"]
-    # tensor-core mma path (mma.sync.m16n8k16.bf16) requires sm_80+; decide the
-    # kernel dispatch at build time via this define rather than at runtime.
-    if cap[0] < 8:
-        flags.append("-DASTRAI_NO_MMA")
-    return flags
-
-
-_kernels_dir = Path("csrc/kernels")
-REGISTRY: dict[str, dict] = {}
-
-CXX_FLAGS = ["-O3", "-funroll-loops"]
-NVCC_FLAGS = [
-    "-O3",
-    "--expt-relaxed-constexpr",
-    "--use_fast_math",
-    "--ptxas-options=-O3,-v",
-    "--extra-device-vectorization",
-    "--threads=16",
-]
-
-
-def register(name: str, sources: list[str] | None = None, **kwargs):
-    if sources is None:
-        sources = [str(_kernels_dir / f"{name}.cu")]
-    REGISTRY[name] = {
-        "sources": sources,
-        "cxx_flags": [*CXX_FLAGS],
-        "nvcc_flags": [*NVCC_FLAGS, *_arch_flags()],
-        "extra_link_args": kwargs.pop("extra_link_args", []),
-        **kwargs,
-    }
-
-
-register("attn_decode")
-register("attn_prefill")
-register("attn_paged_decode")
-register("rotary_emb")
@@ -1,71 +1,69 @@
 #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]
+};

+
+// Unified attention params covering BOTH addressing modes:
+//   - Contiguous K/V: dense [batch, kv_head, kv_len, head_dim] tensors (k/v).
+//   - Paged (SGLang-style): flat pool [size, kv_head, head_dim] + req_to_token.
+// Each kernel selects the addressing via a KVSource policy (see
+// attn_kv_source.cuh); a given call only touches the fields of one mode, so
+// this is a POD shared by both paths rather than two parallel structs that
+// drift out of sync.
 template<typename T, typename AT = float>
 struct AttentionParams {
+    // Shape
    int batch;
    int q_head;
    int kv_head;
-    int q_len;
-    int kv_len;
    int head_dim;
-    int use_mask;
-    int causal_offset;   // -1 = non-causal; >=0 = absolute position of first Q token
-    int num_splits;
+    int q_len;   // Per-request in contiguous mode; total_q in paged mode.
+    int kv_len;  // Contiguous mode; paged mode uses kv_indptr.
+
+    // Attention behavior
    float scale;
+    // -1 = non-causal; >=0 = absolute position of first Q token
+    int causal_offset;
+    int use_mask;

-    // Q strides (element offsets for each dim — layout-agnostic)
-    int q_stride_b, q_stride_h, q_stride_l, q_stride_d;
-    // 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], 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;
-    const T* __restrict__ v;
+    // pointers
+    const T* __restrict__ q_ptr;
+    const T* __restrict__ k_ptr;
+    const T* __restrict__ v_ptr;
+    T* __restrict__ o_ptr;
    const bool* __restrict__ mask;

-    T* __restrict__ o;
-    AT* __restrict__ o_part;
-    AT* __restrict__ ml_part;
-};
+    // strides
+    int q_b_stride;
+    int q_h_stride;
+    int q_l_stride;
+    int q_d_stride;

-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 use_mask;
-    int causal_offset;
-    float scale;
+    int kv_b_stride;
+    int kv_h_stride;
+    int kv_l_stride;
+    int kv_d_stride;

-    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, 3D, or 4D)
    int mask_b_stride;
    int mask_h_stride;
-    int mask_q_stride;
+    int mask_l_stride;

-    const T* __restrict__ q;
-    const T* __restrict__ k_cache;
-    const T* __restrict__ v_cache;
-    const bool* __restrict__ mask;
-    const int64_t* __restrict__ page_table;
+    // Paged K/V addressing
+    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 for decode
+    int max_context_len; // req_to_token stride (dim 1)

-    T* __restrict__ o;
+    // Decode split-KV workspace
+    int num_splits;
    AT* __restrict__ o_part;
    AT* __restrict__ ml_part;
+
 };
@@ -8,19 +8,43 @@ torch::Tensor attn_decode(
    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> mask,
    int64_t causal_offset,
    double scale,
-    int64_t layout
+    int64_t layout,
+    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> o_part_buf,
+    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> ml_part_buf
 ) {
+    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;
-    p.o = (bf16*)O_view.data_ptr();
+    auto O_view = (layout == BLHD) ? O.transpose(1, 2) : O;
+    p.o_ptr = (bf16*)O_view.data_ptr();

-    alloc_split_partials(p);
-    DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(p.head_dim, dispatch_decode, p);
+    if (o_part_buf.has_value() && ml_part_buf.has_value()
+        && o_part_buf->defined() && ml_part_buf->defined()) {
+        TORCH_CHECK(o_part_buf->scalar_type() == torch::kFloat32, "o_part_buf must be f32");
+        TORCH_CHECK(ml_part_buf->scalar_type() == torch::kFloat32, "ml_part_buf must be f32");
+        int64_t o_needed = (int64_t)p.batch * p.q_head * MAX_SPLITS * p.head_dim;
+        int64_t ml_needed = (int64_t)p.batch * p.q_head * MAX_SPLITS * 2;
+        TORCH_CHECK(o_part_buf->numel() >= o_needed,
+                     "o_part_buf too small: need ", o_needed, " got ", o_part_buf->numel());
+        TORCH_CHECK(ml_part_buf->numel() >= ml_needed,
+                     "ml_part_buf too small: need ", ml_needed, " got ", ml_part_buf->numel());
+        TORCH_CHECK(o_part_buf->is_cuda() && ml_part_buf->is_cuda(),
+                     "split buffers must be CUDA tensors");
+        TORCH_CHECK(o_part_buf->is_contiguous() && ml_part_buf->is_contiguous(),
+                     "split buffers must be contiguous");
+        p.o_part = (float*)o_part_buf->data_ptr();
+        p.ml_part = (float*)ml_part_buf->data_ptr();
+    } else {
+        alloc_split_partials(p);
+    }
+    DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(p.head_dim, dispatch_decode, p, stream);
+    C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaGetLastError());
    return O;
 }

@@ -32,6 +56,8 @@ 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,
+        py::arg("o_part_buf") = py::none(),
+        py::arg("ml_part_buf") = py::none(),
        "GQA decode (tensor-core head-packing on sm_80+, scalar fallback)");
 }
@@ -2,10 +2,16 @@
 #include <cuda_bf16.h>
 #include <float.h>
 #include "attn_common.h"
+#include "attn_kv_source.cuh"
 #include "attn_warp_utils.cuh"
 constexpr int DC_CHUNK = 64;

-template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+// Scalar split-KV decode (fallback for sm < 80, no tensor cores), unified
+// across contiguous and paged (SGLang flat-pool) K/V via the KV template
+// parameter.  For decode the query is the last token, so its valid range
+// [0, seq_len) IS the causal range; KV::decode_attend_len expresses that
+// bound per addressing mode (contig clips to causal_offset, paged = seq_len).
+template <int HEAD_DIM, typename KV, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
 __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    int batch = blockIdx.x / p.kv_head;
    int kv_head = blockIdx.x % p.kv_head;
@@ -15,40 +21,45 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    int lane = threadIdx.x;
    int hd_per_thread = p.head_dim / 32;

+    const int seq_len = KV::kv_len(p, batch);
+    const KVContext kctx = KV::template make_ctx<HEAD_DIM>(p, batch, kv_head);
+
    // Q: [batch, q_head, q_len=1, head_dim] — stride-based
    float q_reg[8];
-    int q_off = batch * p.q_stride_b + q_head * p.q_stride_h
-              + lane * hd_per_thread * p.q_stride_d;
+    int q_off = KV::q_decode_base(p, batch, q_head)
+              + lane * hd_per_thread * p.q_d_stride;
    for (int i = 0; i < hd_per_thread; i++)
-        q_reg[i] = __bfloat162float(p.q[q_off + i * p.q_stride_d]);
+        q_reg[i] = __bfloat162float(p.q_ptr[q_off + i * p.q_d_stride]);

-    // 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 + q_head * p.mask_h_stride;

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

-    extern __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 k_smem[];
+    extern __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 smem[];
+    bf16* k_smem = smem;
+    bf16* v_smem = smem + DC_CHUNK * p.head_dim;

    // Split-KV: each split processes a contiguous subset of chunks
-    int chunks_total = (p.kv_len + DC_CHUNK - 1) / DC_CHUNK;
+    int chunks_total = (seq_len + DC_CHUNK - 1) / DC_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);

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

-        // Load K into shared memory (gather from strided global)
+        // Load K and V into shared memory (addressing via KV policy;
+        // paged guards empty slots with zero-fill).
        int total = this_chunk * p.head_dim;
        for (int i = threadIdx.y * 32 + lane; i < total;
             i += blockDim.x * blockDim.y) {
            int s = i / p.head_dim;
            int d_dim = i % p.head_dim;
-            int kv_idx = chunk_start + s;
-            int g_off = kv_base + kv_idx * p.kv_stride_l + d_dim * p.kv_stride_d;
-            k_smem[i] = p.k[g_off];
+            int kc = chunk_start + s;
+            KVAddr a = KV::kv_addr(p, kctx, kc, d_dim, true);
+            k_smem[i] = a.valid ? *reinterpret_cast<const bf16*>(a.k) : (bf16)0.f;
+            v_smem[i] = a.valid ? *reinterpret_cast<const bf16*>(a.v) : (bf16)0.f;
        }
        __syncthreads();

@@ -65,7 +76,7 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
                    partial = -FLT_MAX;
            }
            if constexpr (IsCausal) {
-                if (kv_idx > p.causal_offset)
+                if (kv_idx >= KV::decode_attend_len(p, batch))
                    partial = -FLT_MAX;
            }

@@ -74,11 +85,10 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
            float beta  = __expf(partial - new_m);
            d = d * alpha + beta;

-            int v_off = kv_base + kv_idx * p.kv_stride_l
-                        + lane * hd_per_thread * p.kv_stride_d;
-            for (int i = 0; i < hd_per_thread; i++)
-                acc_reg[i] = fmaf(acc_reg[i], alpha,
-                                  __bfloat162float(p.v[v_off + i * p.kv_stride_d]) * beta);
+            for (int i = 0; i < hd_per_thread; i++) {
+                float vv = __bfloat162float(v_smem[s * p.head_dim + lane * hd_per_thread + i]);
+                acc_reg[i] = fmaf(acc_reg[i], alpha, vv * beta);
+            }
            m = new_m;
        }
        __syncthreads();
@@ -98,6 +108,10 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    }
 }

+// Split-combine: merges the per-split partials (o_part/ml_part) into the
+// final normalised O.  KV selects the O addressing (contig batch stride vs
+// paged row stride).
+template <typename KV>
 __global__ void attn_decode_combine_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    int bh = blockIdx.x;
    int d = threadIdx.x;
@@ -124,6 +138,6 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_combine_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    }

    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;
-    p.o[o_off] = __float2bfloat16(acc * inv);
+    int o_off = KV::q_decode_base(p, batch, q_head) + d * p.q_d_stride;
+    p.o_ptr[o_off] = __float2bfloat16(acc * inv);
 }
@@ -2,19 +2,22 @@
 #include <cfloat>
 #include <cuda_bf16.h>
 #include "attn_common.h"
+#include "attn_kv_source.cuh"
 #include "attn_mma_utils.cuh"
 #include "attn_warp_utils.cuh"

-// Split-K (FlashDecoding) tensor-core decode via GQA head-packing.
-// Decode has q_len == 1, so we pack G = q_head/kv_head query heads into the
-// M=16 rows of mma.sync.m16n8k16, turning G independent GEMVs into a single
-// GEMM that reuses each loaded K/V tile across all G heads.
+// Split-K (FlashDecoding) tensor-core decode via GQA head-packing, unified
+// across contiguous and paged (SGLang flat-pool) K/V via the KV template
+// parameter.  Decode has q_len == 1, so we pack G = q_head/kv_head query
+// heads into the M=16 rows of mma.sync.m16n8k16, turning G independent GEMVs
+// into a single GEMM that reuses each loaded K/V tile across all G heads.
 //
+// KV = ContigKV (dense tensors) or PagedKV (flat pool + req_to_token).
 // IsCausal and HasMask are compile-time bools — no runtime branch in the
 // inner compute loop.
 //
-// Traits = KernelTraits<HEAD_DIM, BC=32, WARPS=1, STAGES=<2 or 1>>.
-template <typename Traits, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+// Traits = KernelTraits<HEAD_DIM, BC=16, WARPS=1, STAGES=2>.
+template <typename Traits, typename KV, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
 __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    const int lane = threadIdx.x;
    const int gid = lane >> 2;
@@ -31,18 +34,21 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    const int G = min(MAX_G, G_total - g_begin);
    const int q_head0 = kv_head * G_total + g_begin;

+    // Per-request seq_len (paged reads kv_indptr; contig uses p.kv_len).
+    const int seq_len = KV::kv_len(p, batch);
+    const KVContext kctx = KV::template make_ctx<Traits::HEAD_DIM>(p, batch, kv_head);
+
    // Double-buffered shared memory for K/V (no sQ needed)
    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sK[Traits::STAGES * Traits::BC * Traits::LD];
    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sV[Traits::STAGES * Traits::BC * Traits::LD];

    // Load Q directly from global into mma A-operand registers.
-    // stride_row = p.q_stride_h for decode (q_len=1).
-    const int q_base = batch * p.q_stride_b + q_head0 * p.q_stride_h;
+    const int q_base = KV::q_decode_base(p, batch, q_head0);
    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,
+    load_q_mma_frags<Traits::KD>(p.q_ptr + q_base, p.q_h_stride, p.q_d_stride,
                                  qra, qrb, va, vb, tid4, Qa);

    float Oacc[Traits::DN8][4];
@@ -51,13 +57,12 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
        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 kv_base = batch * p.kv_stride_b + kv_head * p.kv_stride_h;
-    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);

-    // ---- Load tile lambda: predicated cp.async ----
+    // ---- Load tile lambda: predicated cp.async (addressing via KV policy) ----
    auto load_tile = [&](int ti, int buf) {
        int kv0 = ti * Traits::BC;
        bf16* dK = sK + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
@@ -67,11 +72,11 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
             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;
+            bool valid = kc < seq_len;
+            KVAddr a = KV::kv_addr(p, kctx, kc, d, valid);
            int off = r * Traits::LD + swiz_col(d, r, Traits::SWIZ_MASK);
-            int g_off = kv_base + kc * p.kv_stride_l + d * p.kv_stride_d;
-            cp_async_16_pred(&dK[off], &p.k[g_off], valid);
-            cp_async_16_pred(&dV[off], &p.v[g_off], valid);
+            cp_async_16_pred(&dK[off], a.k, a.valid);
+            cp_async_16_pred(&dV[off], a.v, a.valid);
        }
        cp_async_commit();
    };
@@ -96,14 +101,17 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
            Sacc[n8][0] *= p.scale, Sacc[n8][1] *= p.scale,
            Sacc[n8][2] *= p.scale, Sacc[n8][3] *= p.scale;

-        // Decode: q_len=1, so qrow0=qrow1=0
-        int maxc = IsCausal ? min(p.kv_len, p.causal_offset + 1) : p.kv_len;
+        // Decode: q_len=1, so qrow0=qrow1=0.  Paged treats [0, seq_len) as
+        // the causal range (query is the last token); contig clips to the
+        // causal_offset bound.  Dead code eliminated when IsCausal == false.
+        int maxc = IsCausal ? KV::decode_attend_len(p, batch) : seq_len;
        mma_softmax_tile<Traits, HasMask>(kv0, maxc, maxc,
                                           0, 0,
-                                           p.mask_b_stride, 0, 0,
-                                           batch, 0,
-                                           p.mask,
-                                           Sacc, Oacc, m0, m1, l0, l1, lane);
+                                            p.mask_b_stride, p.mask_h_stride, p.mask_l_stride,
+                                            batch, q_head0 + gid, q_head0 + gid + 8,
+                                            p.mask,
+                                            va, vb,
+                                            Sacc, Oacc, m0, m1, l0, l1, lane);

        mma_pv_accumulate<Traits>(Sacc, bV, lane, Oacc);
    };
@@ -114,7 +122,10 @@ __global__ void attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
            load_tile(ti_begin + i, i);

        for (int it = 0; it < ntiles; it++) {
-            cp_async_wait_group<STAGES - 1>();
+            if (it + 1 == ntiles)
+                cp_async_wait_group<0>();
+            else
+                cp_async_wait_group<STAGES - 1>();
            __syncwarp();
            process_tile(it, it & (STAGES - 1));
            __syncwarp();
@@ -1,81 +1,128 @@
 #pragma once
 // Shared attention dispatchers — used by both production .cu and test .cu.
 // No torch dependency; pure CUDA.
+//
+// The paged and contiguous kernels are unified by the KVSource policy
+// (ContigKV / PagedKV from attn_kv_source.cuh), so each launcher struct
+// below is templated on KV and the paged dispatch is just the same launcher
+// instantiated with PagedKV.  Only the grid/split math differs, and that is
+// covered by KV::host_q_len / KV::host_kv_len.

 #include <cuda_runtime.h>
 #include <algorithm>
 #include "attn_warp_utils.cuh"
+#include "attn_kv_source.cuh"
 #include "attn_prefill_split_q.cuh"
 #include "attn_decode_split_kv.cuh"
-#include "attn_paged_decode_split_kv.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"
 #endif

 // Split-KV: compute number of splits to fill all SMs for small-batch decode.
 // 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 sm_count = 0;
-    cudaDeviceGetAttribute(&sm_count, cudaDevAttrMultiProcessorCount, 0);
-    int n = (2 * sm_count + base_blocks - 1) / base_blocks;
+                               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, launcher<KV>::template launch, HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
+#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
+// Prefill launchers (KV selects ContigKV or PagedKV addressing)
 // ======================================================================

 #ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
-template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
-static inline void launch_prefill_mma(AttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
-    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);
-}
+template <typename KV>
+struct PrefillLauncherMMA {
+    template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+    static void launch(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>;
+        constexpr int ROWS = Traits::BR * WARPS;
+        dim3 grid(KV::host_q_blocks(p, ROWS), p.q_head,
+                  KV::kPaged ? 1 : p.batch);
+        dim3 block(Traits::NUM_THREADS);
+        attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel<Traits, KV, 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) {
-    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);
-}
+template <typename KV>
+struct PrefillLauncherScalar {
+    template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+    static void launch(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, cudaStream_t stream) {
+        constexpr int G = (HEAD_DIM == 32) ? 4 : 8, ROWS = 32, P_BC = 32;
+        dim3 grid(KV::host_q_blocks(p, ROWS), p.q_head,
+                  KV::kPaged ? 1 : p.batch);
+        dim3 block(G, ROWS);
+        attn_prefill_split_q_kernel_t<HEAD_DIM, KV, 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,
+                         PrefillLauncherMMA<ContigKV>::template launch,
+                         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,
+                         PrefillLauncherScalar<ContigKV>::template launch,
+                         HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
+#endif
+}
+
+template <int HEAD_DIM>
+static inline void dispatch_paged_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
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask,
+                         PrefillLauncherMMA<PagedKV>::template launch,
+                         HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
+#else
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask,
+                         PrefillLauncherScalar<PagedKV>::template launch,
+                         HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
 #endif
 }

 // ======================================================================
-// Decode
+// Decode launchers (KV selects ContigKV or PagedKV addressing)
 // ======================================================================

 #ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
@@ -83,113 +130,79 @@ static inline void dispatch_prefill(AttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
 // 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) {
-    int G = p.q_head / p.kv_head;
-    constexpr int MAX_G = 16;
-    int num_passes = (G + MAX_G - 1) / MAX_G;
-    constexpr int BC = 16;
-    int tiles_total = (p.kv_len + BC - 1) / BC;
-    p.num_splits = compute_num_splits(p.batch * p.kv_head, 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);
-}
+template <typename KV>
+struct DecodeLauncherMMA {
+    template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+    static void launch(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, 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;
+        constexpr int BC = 16;
+        int kv_len = KV::host_kv_len(p);
+        int tiles_total = (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, KV, 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) {
-    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);
+template <typename KV>
+struct DecodeLauncherScalar {
+    template <int HEAD_DIM, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+    static void launch(AttentionParams<bf16>& p, cudaStream_t stream) {
+        int kv_len = KV::host_kv_len(p);
+        int chunks_total = (kv_len + DC_CHUNK - 1) / DC_CHUNK;
+        p.num_splits = compute_num_splits(p.batch * p.kv_head, chunks_total);
+        size_t smem = 2 * DC_CHUNK * p.head_dim * sizeof(bf16);
+        int group_size = p.q_head / p.kv_head;
+        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);
+        cudaFuncSetAttribute(
+            attn_decode_split_kv_kernel<HEAD_DIM, KV, IsCausal, HasMask>,
+            cudaFuncAttributeMaxDynamicSharedMemorySize,
+            smem);
+        attn_decode_split_kv_kernel<HEAD_DIM, KV, IsCausal, HasMask>
+            <<<grid, block, smem, stream>>>(p);
+    }
+};
+
+template <int HEAD_DIM>
+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);
+
+#ifndef ASTRAI_NO_MMA
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask,
+                         DecodeLauncherMMA<ContigKV>::template launch,
+                         HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
+#else
+    DISPATCH_CAUSAL_MASK(is_causal, has_mask,
+                         DecodeLauncherScalar<ContigKV>::template launch,
+                         HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
+#endif
+
+    attn_decode_combine_kernel<ContigKV><<<p.batch * p.q_head, p.head_dim, 0, stream>>>(p);
 }

 template <int HEAD_DIM>
-static inline void dispatch_decode(AttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
+static inline void dispatch_paged_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,
+                         DecodeLauncherMMA<PagedKV>::template launch,
+                         HEAD_DIM, p, 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,
+                         DecodeLauncherScalar<PagedKV>::template launch,
+                         HEAD_DIM, p, stream);
 #endif

-    attn_decode_combine_kernel<<<p.batch * p.q_head, p.head_dim>>>(p);
-}
-
-// ======================================================================
-// Paged Decode
-// ======================================================================
-
-#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) {
-    int G = p.q_head / p.kv_head;
-    constexpr int MAX_G = 16;
-    constexpr int BC = 16;
-    int num_passes = (G + MAX_G - 1) / MAX_G;
-    int tiles_total = (p.kv_len + BC - 1) / BC;
-    p.num_splits = compute_num_splits(p.batch * p.kv_head, 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>>>(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;
-    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
-    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);
-}
-
-template <int HEAD_DIM>
-static inline void dispatch_paged_decode(PagedAttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
-    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);
-    }
-#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);
-    }
-#endif
-
-    paged_attn_decode_combine_kernel<<<p.batch * p.q_head, p.head_dim>>>(p);
+    attn_decode_combine_kernel<PagedKV><<<p.batch * p.q_head, p.head_dim, 0, stream>>>(p);
 }
@@ -8,14 +8,14 @@
 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)"); \
@@ -37,15 +37,15 @@ 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);
    p.head_dim = (int)q.size(3);
-    p.q_stride_b = (int)q.stride(0);
-    p.q_stride_h = (int)q.stride(1);
-    p.q_stride_l = (int)q.stride(2);
-    p.q_stride_d = (int)q.stride(3);
+    p.q_b_stride = (int)q.stride(0);
+    p.q_h_stride = (int)q.stride(1);
+    p.q_l_stride = (int)q.stride(2);
+    p.q_d_stride = (int)q.stride(3);
 }

 // ---- Shared mask packing ----
@@ -63,17 +63,17 @@ inline void pack_mask(const c10::optional<torch::Tensor>& mask, P& p) {
        if (m.dim() == 2) {
            p.mask_b_stride = (int)m.stride(0);
            p.mask_h_stride = 0;
-            p.mask_q_stride = 0;
+            p.mask_l_stride = 0;
        } else if (m.dim() == 3) {
            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_h_stride = 0;
-            p.mask_q_stride = (m.size(1) == 1) ? 0 : (int)m.stride(1);
+            p.mask_l_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);
+            p.mask_l_stride = (m.size(2) == 1) ? 0 : (int)m.stride(2);
        } else {
            TORCH_CHECK(false, "mask must be 2D, 3D, or 4D");
        }
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ inline void pack_mask(const c10::optional<torch::Tensor>& mask, P& p) {
        p.mask = nullptr;
        p.mask_b_stride = 0;
        p.mask_h_stride = 0;
-        p.mask_q_stride = 0;
+        p.mask_l_stride = 0;
    }
 }

@@ -106,82 +106,204 @@ inline void attn_pack_params(
    TORCH_CHECK(v.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16);
    TORCH_CHECK(k.sizes() == v.sizes(), "K and V must have identical shapes");
    TORCH_CHECK(q.dim() == 4 && k.dim() == 4, "Q/K/V must be 4D");
-
    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);
+    TORCH_CHECK(p.q_head % p.kv_head == 0,
+                "q_head must be divisible by kv_head");
    TORCH_CHECK(k.size(3) == p.head_dim, "K/V head_dim must match Q");
+    TORCH_CHECK(q.stride(3) == 1 && k.stride(3) == 1 && v.stride(3) == 1,
+                "Q/K/V head_dim must be contiguous");

-    p.kv_stride_b = (int)k.stride(0);
-    p.kv_stride_h = (int)k.stride(1);
-    p.kv_stride_l = (int)k.stride(2);
-    p.kv_stride_d = (int)k.stride(3);
+    p.kv_b_stride = (int)k.stride(0);
+    p.kv_h_stride = (int)k.stride(1);
+    p.kv_l_stride = (int)k.stride(2);
+    p.kv_d_stride = (int)k.stride(3);

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

-    p.q = (const T*)q.data_ptr();
-    p.k = (const T*)k.data_ptr();
-    p.v = (const T*)v.data_ptr();
-    p.o = nullptr;
+    p.q_ptr = (const T*)q.data_ptr();
+    p.k_ptr = (const T*)k.data_ptr();
+    p.v_ptr = (const T*)v.data_ptr();
+    p.o_ptr = nullptr;
    p.o_part = nullptr;
    p.ml_part = nullptr;

    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,
    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> mask,
    int64_t causal_offset,
    double scale,
-    int64_t layout,
-    PagedAttentionParams<T>& p
+    AttentionParams<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(q.stride(2) == 1 && k_cache.stride(2) == 1 && v_cache.stride(2) == 1,
+                "Q/K/V head_dim must be contiguous");
    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_l_stride = (int)q.stride(0);
+    p.q_h_stride = (int)q.stride(1);
+    p.q_d_stride = (int)q.stride(2);
+
+    p.k_ptr = (const T*)k_cache.data_ptr();
+    p.v_ptr = (const T*)v_cache.data_ptr();
+    p.q_ptr = (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.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>();
-    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.o = nullptr;
+    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_l_stride = 0;
+        p.mask = m.data_ptr<bool>();
+    } else {
+        p.mask = nullptr;
+        p.mask_b_stride = 0;
+        p.mask_h_stride = 0;
+        p.mask_l_stride = 0;
+    }
+
+    p.o_ptr = 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 causal_offset,
+    double scale,
+    AttentionParams<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.q_len = (int)q.size(0);
+    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(q.stride(2) == 1 && k_cache.stride(2) == 1 && v_cache.stride(2) == 1,
+                "Q/K/V head_dim must be contiguous");
+    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_l_stride = (int)q.stride(0);
+    p.q_h_stride = (int)q.stride(1);
+    p.q_d_stride = (int)q.stride(2);
+
+    p.k_ptr = (const T*)k_cache.data_ptr();
+    p.v_ptr = (const T*)v_cache.data_ptr();
+    p.q_ptr = (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.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_l_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) > 0 && m.size(2) <= p.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_l_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_l_stride = 0;
+    }
+    p.scale = (scale > 0.0) ? (float)scale : 1.0f / sqrtf((float)p.head_dim);
+
+    p.o_ptr = nullptr;
    p.o_part = nullptr;
    p.ml_part = nullptr;
-
-    pack_mask(mask, p);
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+#pragma once
+#include <cuda_bf16.h>
+#include "attn_common.h"
+
+// ============================================================================
+// KVSource policies — the single dimension along which the paged and
+// non-paged attention kernels differ.  Each kernel is templated on one of
+// these (ContigKV / PagedKV) and stays fully generic: the policy owns every
+// place where "where does K/V live" and "what is this request's seq_len"
+// are answered.  All methods are __host__ __device__ so the same policy
+// serves both the device kernels (addressing, seq_len) and the host-side
+// launchers (grid / split computation).
+//
+//   ContigKV:  K/V are dense [batch, kv_head, kv_len, head_dim] tensors.
+//              Params fields used: k, v, kv_stride_*, kv_len, q_len,
+//              q_b_stride, causal_offset.
+//   PagedKV:   K/V live in a flat pool [size, kv_head, head_dim] indexed via
+//              req_to_token.  Params fields used: k_cache, v_cache,
+//              req_to_token, req_pool_indices, kv_indptr, qo_indptr,
+//              max_context_len, q_l_stride.
+//
+// Addressing state that is constant across a whole kernel invocation for one
+// (batch, kv_head) pair is captured once by make_ctx<HEAD_DIM>() and passed
+// to kv_addr, so the load loops never redo the hoistable base computation
+// (e.g. the req_pool_indices global read) element-by-element.
+// ============================================================================
+
+// Every policy method is static + callable from both host and device code.
+#define HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE static __host__ __device__ __forceinline__
+
+using bf16 = __nv_bfloat16;
+
+// Hoisted per-(batch, kv_head) addressing context.
+struct KVContext {
+    int kv_base;          // contig: batch*kv_b_stride + kv_head*kv_h_stride
+    int64_t req_idx;      // paged: req_pool_indices[batch]
+    int64_t rtt_stride;   // paged: max_context_len
+    int64_t pool_stride;  // paged: kv_head * HEAD_DIM
+    int64_t head_off;     // paged: kv_head * HEAD_DIM
+};
+
+// Per-element K/V global addresses for one (kc, d) position of a K/V tile.
+// The pointers are ALWAYS the computed addresses (never nullptr) — callers
+// gate on `valid` (cp.async src_size=0, or a guarded scalar deref).  `valid`
+// starts as "within the request's seq_len"; the paged policy further degrades
+// it when req_to_token maps the position to a negative slot (empty padding).
+// This matches the original hand-rolled load loops, where the address was
+// always formed and the predicate decided whether anything was read.
+struct KVAddr {
+    const void* k;
+    const void* v;
+    bool valid;
+};
+
+// ---- Contiguous K/V ----
+struct ContigKV {
+    static constexpr bool kPaged = false;
+
+    // host-side length hooks (grid + split computation in the launchers)
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int host_q_blocks(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int rows) {
+        return (p.q_len + rows - 1) / rows;
+    }
+    template <int ROWS>
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE bool map_q_tile(const AttentionParams<bf16>&,
+                                         int flat_tile, int grid_batch,
+                                         int& batch, int& q_tile) {
+        batch = grid_batch;
+        q_tile = flat_tile;
+        return true;
+    }
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int host_kv_len(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
+        return p.kv_len;
+    }
+
+    // prefill: element offset of the request's Q rows (kernel adds qrow*q_l_stride)
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int q_base(
+        const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch, int q_head) {
+        return batch * p.q_b_stride + q_head * p.q_h_stride;
+    }
+    // decode: same offset (q_len == 1, so there is no row stride component)
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int q_decode_base(
+        const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch, int q_head) {
+        return batch * p.q_b_stride + q_head * p.q_h_stride;
+    }
+
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int kv_len(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch) {
+        return p.kv_len;
+    }
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int q_len(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch) {
+        return p.q_len;
+    }
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int causal_offset(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch) {
+        return p.causal_offset;
+    }
+    // decode: exclusive bound of the single query's attend range
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int decode_attend_len(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch) {
+        return (p.kv_len < p.causal_offset + 1) ? p.kv_len : (p.causal_offset + 1);
+    }
+
+    template <int HEAD_DIM>
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE KVContext make_ctx(
+        const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch, int kv_head) {
+        KVContext c = {};
+        c.kv_base = batch * p.kv_b_stride + kv_head * p.kv_h_stride;
+        return c;
+    }
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE KVAddr kv_addr(
+        const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, const KVContext& c, int kc, int d, bool valid) {
+        const int g_off = c.kv_base + kc * p.kv_l_stride + d * p.kv_d_stride;
+        return {&p.k_ptr[g_off], &p.v_ptr[g_off], valid};
+    }
+};
+
+// ---- Paged (SGLang-style flat pool) K/V ----
+struct PagedKV {
+    static constexpr bool kPaged = true;
+
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int host_q_blocks(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int rows) {
+        // sum(ceil(q_len[b] / rows)) <= ceil(total_q / rows) + batch - 1.
+        return (p.q_len + rows - 1) / rows + p.batch - 1;
+    }
+    template <int ROWS>
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE bool map_q_tile(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p,
+                                         int flat_tile, int,
+                                         int& batch, int& q_tile) {
+        int tile_base = 0;
+        for (int b = 0; b < p.batch; ++b) {
+            int len = p.qo_indptr[b + 1] - p.qo_indptr[b];
+            int tiles = (len + ROWS - 1) / ROWS;
+            if (flat_tile < tile_base + tiles) {
+                batch = b;
+                q_tile = flat_tile - tile_base;
+                return true;
+            }
+            tile_base += tiles;
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int host_kv_len(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p) {
+        return p.max_context_len;
+    }
+
+    // prefill: Q rows start at qo_indptr[batch] (ragged batch base)
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int q_base(
+        const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch, int q_head) {
+        return p.qo_indptr[batch] * p.q_l_stride + q_head * p.q_h_stride;
+    }
+    // decode: Q is [batch, q_head, head_dim], so batch is the outer row
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int q_decode_base(
+        const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch, int q_head) {
+        return batch * p.q_l_stride + q_head * p.q_h_stride;
+    }
+
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int kv_len(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch) {
+        return p.kv_indptr[batch + 1] - p.kv_indptr[batch];
+    }
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int q_len(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch) {
+        return p.qo_indptr[batch + 1] - p.qo_indptr[batch];
+    }
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int causal_offset(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch) {
+        return kv_len(p, batch) - q_len(p, batch);
+    }
+    // decode: the query is the last token, so [0, seq_len) IS its causal range
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE int decode_attend_len(const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch) {
+        return kv_len(p, batch);
+    }
+
+    template <int HEAD_DIM>
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE KVContext make_ctx(
+        const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int batch, int kv_head) {
+        KVContext c = {};
+        c.req_idx = p.req_pool_indices[batch];
+        c.rtt_stride = (int64_t)p.max_context_len;
+        c.pool_stride = (int64_t)p.kv_head * HEAD_DIM;
+        c.head_off = (int64_t)kv_head * HEAD_DIM;
+        return c;
+    }
+    HOST_DEV_FORCEINLINE KVAddr kv_addr(
+        const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, const KVContext& c, int kc, int d, bool valid) {
+        const int64_t slot = valid ? p.req_to_token[c.req_idx * c.rtt_stride + kc] : 0;
+        const bool ok = valid && (slot >= 0);
+        const int64_t gmem_off = slot * c.pool_stride + c.head_off + d;
+        return {&p.k_ptr[gmem_off], &p.v_ptr[gmem_off], ok};
+    }
+};
+
+// ---- Q-block mapping ----
+// Contiguous grids map directly to (batch, q_tile). Paged grids flatten the
+// ragged Q tiles, so one thread resolves the request and broadcasts it.
+template <int ROWS, typename KV>
+__device__ __forceinline__ bool map_q_block(
+    const AttentionParams<bf16>& p, int& batch, int& q_tile) {
+    if constexpr (!KV::kPaged) {
+        batch = blockIdx.z;
+        q_tile = blockIdx.x;
+        return true;
+    } else {
+        __shared__ int mapped_batch;
+        __shared__ int mapped_q_tile;
+
+        if ((threadIdx.x | threadIdx.y) == 0) {
+            mapped_batch = -1;
+            KV::template map_q_tile<ROWS>(
+                p, blockIdx.x, blockIdx.z, mapped_batch, mapped_q_tile);
+        }
+        __syncthreads();
+
+        batch = mapped_batch;
+        q_tile = mapped_q_tile;
+        return batch >= 0;
+    }
+}
@@ -133,8 +133,8 @@ __device__ __forceinline__ void cp_async_wait_group() {
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Q-load: load query rows directly from global memory into mma A-operand
 // register layout. One call replaces ~15 duplicated lines in each MMA kernel.
-// stride_row is p.q_stride_h for decode (q_len=1, G heads) or
-//              p.q_stride_l for prefill (multi-q rows).
+// stride_row is p.q_h_stride for decode (q_len=1, G heads) or
+//              p.q_l_stride for prefill (multi-q rows).
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 template <int KD>
 __device__ inline void load_q_mma_frags(
@@ -198,9 +198,10 @@ __device__ inline void mma_softmax_tile(
    int kv0,
    int maxc0, int maxc1,
    int qrow0, int qrow1,
-    int mask_b_stride, int mask_h_stride, int mask_q_stride,
-    int mask_batch, int mask_head,
+    int mask_b_stride, int mask_h_stride, int mask_l_stride,
+    int mask_batch, int mask_head0, int mask_head1,
    const bool* __restrict__ mask,
+    bool valid0, bool valid1,
    float Sacc[Traits::NC8][4],
    float Oacc[Traits::DN8][4],
    float& m0, float& m1,
@@ -210,16 +211,16 @@ __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 + 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;
+    int mask_base0 = mask_batch * mask_b_stride + mask_head0 * mask_h_stride + qrow0 * mask_l_stride;
+    int mask_base1 = mask_batch * mask_b_stride + mask_head1 * mask_h_stride + qrow1 * mask_l_stride;
    #pragma unroll
    for (int n8 = 0; n8 < Traits::NC8; n8++) {
        int cc = kv0 + n8 * 8 + 2 * tid4;
        int c1 = cc + 1;
-        bool b0 = (cc >= maxc0) || (HasMask && !mask[mask_base0 + cc]);
-        bool b1 = (c1 >= maxc0) || (HasMask && !mask[mask_base0 + c1]);
-        bool b2 = (cc >= maxc1) || (HasMask && !mask[mask_base1 + cc]);
-        bool b3 = (c1 >= maxc1) || (HasMask && !mask[mask_base1 + c1]);
+        bool b0 = !valid0 || (cc >= maxc0) || (HasMask && !mask[mask_base0 + cc]);
+        bool b1 = !valid0 || (c1 >= maxc0) || (HasMask && !mask[mask_base0 + c1]);
+        bool b2 = !valid1 || (cc >= maxc1) || (HasMask && !mask[mask_base1 + cc]);
+        bool b3 = !valid1 || (c1 >= maxc1) || (HasMask && !mask[mask_base1 + c1]);
        float s0 = b0 ? -FLT_MAX : Sacc[n8][0];
        float s1 = b1 ? -FLT_MAX : Sacc[n8][1];
        float s2 = b2 ? -FLT_MAX : Sacc[n8][2];
@@ -3,40 +3,79 @@

 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,
    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> mask,
    int64_t causal_offset,
    double scale,
-    int64_t layout
+    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> o_part_buf,
+    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> ml_part_buf,
+    c10::optional<torch::Tensor> out_buf
 ) {
-    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();
+    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    attn_pack_paged_decode_params(q, k_cache, v_cache,
+                                   req_to_token, req_pool_indices, kv_indptr,
+                                   mask, causal_offset, scale, p);

-    alloc_split_partials(p);
-    DISPATCH_HEAD_DIM(p.head_dim, dispatch_paged_decode, p);
+    torch::Tensor O;
+    if (out_buf.has_value() && out_buf->defined()) {
+        TORCH_CHECK(out_buf->dtype() == q.dtype(), "out_buf dtype must match q");
+        TORCH_CHECK(out_buf->is_cuda() && out_buf->is_contiguous(),
+                    "out_buf must be a contiguous CUDA tensor");
+        TORCH_CHECK(out_buf->size(0) >= q.size(0), "out_buf batch too small");
+        TORCH_CHECK(out_buf->size(1) == q.size(1), "out_buf heads must match q");
+        TORCH_CHECK(out_buf->size(2) == q.size(2), "out_buf head_dim must match q");
+        TORCH_CHECK(q.is_contiguous(),
+                    "q must be contiguous when out_buf is provided");
+        O = out_buf.value().slice(0, 0, q.size(0));
+    } else {
+        O = torch::empty({q.size(0), q.size(1), q.size(2)}, q.options());
+    }
+    p.o_ptr = (bf16*)O.data_ptr();
+
+    if (o_part_buf.has_value() && ml_part_buf.has_value()
+        && o_part_buf->defined() && ml_part_buf->defined()) {
+        TORCH_CHECK(o_part_buf->scalar_type() == torch::kFloat32, "o_part_buf must be f32");
+        TORCH_CHECK(ml_part_buf->scalar_type() == torch::kFloat32, "ml_part_buf must be f32");
+        int64_t o_needed = (int64_t)p.batch * p.q_head * MAX_SPLITS * p.head_dim;
+        int64_t ml_needed = (int64_t)p.batch * p.q_head * MAX_SPLITS * 2;
+        TORCH_CHECK(o_part_buf->numel() >= o_needed,
+                     "o_part_buf too small: need ", o_needed, " got ", o_part_buf->numel());
+        TORCH_CHECK(ml_part_buf->numel() >= ml_needed,
+                     "ml_part_buf too small: need ", ml_needed, " got ", ml_part_buf->numel());
+        TORCH_CHECK(o_part_buf->is_cuda() && ml_part_buf->is_cuda(),
+                    "split buffers must be CUDA tensors");
+        TORCH_CHECK(o_part_buf->is_contiguous() && ml_part_buf->is_contiguous(),
+                    "split buffers must be contiguous");
+        p.o_part = (float*)o_part_buf->data_ptr();
+        p.ml_part = (float*)ml_part_buf->data_ptr();
+    } else {
+        alloc_split_partials(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("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.");
+        py::arg("o_part_buf") = py::none(),
+        py::arg("ml_part_buf") = py::none(),
+        py::arg("out_buf") = py::none(),
+        "SGLang-style paged decode: flat KV pool + req_to_token + kv_indptr.");
 }
@@ -1,153 +0,0 @@
-#pragma once
-#include <cuda_bf16.h>
-#include <float.h>
-#include "attn_common.h"
-#include "attn_warp_utils.cuh"
-constexpr int PDC_CHUNK = 64;
-
-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;
-    int kv_head = blockIdx.x % p.kv_head;
-    int split = blockIdx.z;
-    int group_size = blockDim.y;
-    int q_head = kv_head * group_size + threadIdx.y;
-    int lane = threadIdx.x;
-    int hd_per_thread = p.head_dim / 32;
-
-    float q_reg[8];
-    int q_off = batch * p.q_stride_b + 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++)
-        q_reg[i] = __bfloat162float(p.q[q_off + i * p.q_stride_d]);
-
-    float m = -FLT_MAX, d = 0.0f, acc_reg[8] = {0.0f};
-
-    extern __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 k_smem[];
-
-    int chunks_total = (p.kv_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 + q_head * p.mask_h_stride;
-
-    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 total = this_chunk * p.head_dim;
-        for (int i = threadIdx.y * 32 + lane; i < total;
-             i += blockDim.x * blockDim.y) {
-            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;
-                k_smem[i] = p.k_cache[off];
-            } else {
-                k_smem[i] = __float2bfloat16(0.0f);
-            }
-        }
-        __syncthreads();
-
-        for (int s = 0; s < this_chunk; s++) {
-            float partial = 0.0f;
-            #pragma unroll
-            for (int i = 0; i < hd_per_thread; i++)
-                partial += q_reg[i] * __bfloat162float(
-                    k_smem[s * p.head_dim + lane * hd_per_thread + i]);
-            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])
-                    masked = true;
-            }
-            if constexpr (IsCausal) {
-                if (kv_idx > p.causal_offset)
-                    masked = true;
-            }
-            if (masked)
-                partial = -FLT_MAX;
-
-            float new_m = fmaxf(m, partial);
-            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 (masked) {
-                #pragma unroll
-                for (int i = 0; i < hd_per_thread; i++)
-                    acc_reg[i] = fmaf(acc_reg[i], alpha, 0.0f);
-            } else 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;
-                #pragma unroll
-                for (int i = 0; i < hd_per_thread; i++)
-                    acc_reg[i] = fmaf(acc_reg[i], alpha,
-                                      __bfloat162float(p.v_cache[v_base + lane * hd_per_thread + i]) * beta);
-            } else {
-                #pragma unroll
-                for (int i = 0; i < hd_per_thread; i++)
-                    acc_reg[i] = fmaf(acc_reg[i], alpha, 0.0f);
-            }
-            m = new_m;
-        }
-        __syncthreads();
-    }
-
-    size_t bh = (size_t)batch * p.q_head + q_head;
-    size_t slot = bh * MAX_SPLITS + split;
-    int d0 = lane * hd_per_thread;
-    #pragma unroll
-    for (int i = 0; i < hd_per_thread; i++)
-        p.o_part[slot * p.head_dim + (d0 + i)] = acc_reg[i];
-    if (lane == 0) {
-        p.ml_part[slot * 2] = m;
-        p.ml_part[slot * 2 + 1] = d;
-    }
-}
-
-__global__ void paged_attn_decode_combine_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p) {
-    int bh = blockIdx.x;
-    int d = threadIdx.x;
-    if (d >= p.head_dim) return;
-
-    int batch = bh / p.q_head;
-    int q_head = bh % p.q_head;
-
-    size_t split_base = (size_t)bh * MAX_SPLITS;
-    const float* mlp = p.ml_part + split_base * 2;
-    const float* op = p.o_part + split_base * p.head_dim;
-
-    float m = -FLT_MAX, l = 0.0f, acc = 0.0f;
-    for (int s = 0; s < p.num_splits; s++) {
-        float mi = mlp[s * 2];
-        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);
-        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;
-    p.o[o_off] = __float2bfloat16(acc * inv);
-}
@@ -1,182 +0,0 @@
-#pragma once
-#include <cfloat>
-#include <cuda_bf16.h>
-#include "attn_common.h"
-#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.
-//
-// IsCausal and HasMask are compile-time bools.
-template <typename Traits, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
-__global__ void paged_attn_decode_split_kv_mma_kernel(PagedAttentionParams<bf16> p) {
-    const int lane = threadIdx.x;
-    const int gid = lane >> 2;
-    const int tid4 = lane & 3;
-
-    const int pass = blockIdx.x / p.kv_head;
-    const int kv_head = blockIdx.x % p.kv_head;
-    const int batch = blockIdx.y;
-    const int split = blockIdx.z;
-
-    constexpr int MAX_G = 16;
-    const int G_total = p.q_head / p.kv_head;
-    const int g_begin = pass * MAX_G;
-    const int G = min(MAX_G, G_total - g_begin);
-    const int q_head0 = kv_head * G_total + g_begin;
-
-    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sK[Traits::STAGES * Traits::BC * Traits::LD];
-    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sV[Traits::STAGES * Traits::BC * Traits::LD];
-
-    #pragma unroll
-    for (int i = lane; i < Traits::STAGES * Traits::BC * Traits::LD; i += 32) {
-        sK[i] = __float2bfloat16(0.0f);
-        sV[i] = __float2bfloat16(0.0f);
-    }
-    __syncwarp();
-
-    const int q_base = batch * p.q_stride_b + 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);
-
-    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 int tiles_total = (p.kv_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;
-    const int64_t head_off    = (int64_t)kv_head * Traits::HEAD_DIM;
-
-    // ---- Load tile lambda: paged addressing ----
-    // Unified per-element page-table lookup. When page_size >= BC, all
-    // elements in a tile share the same page, so the lookup is redundant
-    // but harmless (L1-cached). This avoids a branch on page_size.
-    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 = 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);
-            if constexpr (HasMask) {
-                valid = valid && p.mask[batch * p.mask_b_stride + kc];
-            }
-            int phys_page = valid ? p.page_table[batch * p.max_pages + kc] : 0;
-            valid = valid && (phys_page >= 0);
-            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;
-            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();
-    };
-
-    // ---- 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_begin + it) * Traits::BC;
-
-        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 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, 0,
-                                           batch, 0,
-                                           p.mask,
-                                           Sacc, Oacc, m0, m1, l0, l1, lane);
-
-        mma_pv_accumulate<Traits>(Sacc, bV, lane, Oacc);
-    };
-
-    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);
-    }
-
-    auto split_slot = [&](int h) -> size_t {
-        size_t bh = (size_t)batch * p.q_head + h;
-        return bh * MAX_SPLITS + split;
-    };
-    #pragma unroll
-    for (int dn8 = 0; dn8 < Traits::DN8; dn8++) {
-        int d = dn8 * 8 + 2 * tid4;
-        int r0 = gid, r1 = gid + 8;
-        if (r0 < G) {
-            int h = q_head0 + r0;
-            float* op = p.o_part + split_slot(h) * Traits::HEAD_DIM;
-            op[d] = Oacc[dn8][0];
-            op[d + 1] = Oacc[dn8][1];
-        }
-        if (r1 < G) {
-            int h = q_head0 + r1;
-            float* op = p.o_part + split_slot(h) * Traits::HEAD_DIM;
-            op[d] = Oacc[dn8][2];
-            op[d + 1] = Oacc[dn8][3];
-        }
-    }
-    if (tid4 == 0) {
-        int r0 = gid, r1 = gid + 8;
-        if (r0 < G) {
-            int h = q_head0 + r0;
-            float* mp = p.ml_part + split_slot(h) * 2;
-            mp[0] = m0; mp[1] = l0;
-        }
-        if (r1 < G) {
-            int h = q_head0 + r1;
-            float* mp = p.ml_part + split_slot(h) * 2;
-            mp[0] = m1; mp[1] = l1;
-        }
-    }
-}
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#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 causal_offset,
+    double scale
+) {
+    const at::cuda::OptionalCUDAGuard device_guard(device_of(q));
+    auto stream = at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream();
+
+    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    attn_pack_paged_prefill_params(q, k_cache, v_cache,
+                                    req_to_token, req_pool_indices,
+                                    kv_indptr, qo_indptr, mask,
+                                    causal_offset, scale, p);
+
+    auto O = torch::empty({q.size(0), q.size(1), q.size(2)}, q.options());
+    p.o_ptr = (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("causal_offset") = -1,
+        py::arg("scale") = 0.0,
+        "SGLang-style paged prefill: flat KV pool + ragged batch.");
+}
@@ -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;
-    p.o = (bf16*)O_view.data_ptr();
+    auto O_view = (layout == BLHD) ? O.transpose(1, 2) : O;
+    p.o_ptr = (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)");
 }
@@ -2,13 +2,15 @@
 #include <cfloat>
 #include <cuda_bf16.h>
 #include "attn_common.h"
+#include "attn_kv_source.cuh"

 using bf16 = __nv_bfloat16;

 // v9: group-split register blocking. G threads cooperate on one query row,
 // each owning HEAD_DIM/G dims of qreg[]/acc[]. IsCausal and HasMask are
 // compile-time bools — the compiler eliminates dead branches.
-// Templated on <HEAD_DIM, G, ROWS, P_BC, IsCausal, HasMask>.
+// Unified across contiguous and paged (SGLang flat-pool) K/V via KV.
+// Templated on <HEAD_DIM, KV, G, ROWS, P_BC, IsCausal, HasMask>.

 template <int G>
 __device__ __forceinline__ float group_reduce_sum(float v, unsigned mask) {
@@ -30,30 +32,37 @@ __device__ __forceinline__ void ld8(const bf16* p, float* o) {
    }
 }

-template <int HEAD_DIM, int G, int ROWS, int P_BC, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+template <int HEAD_DIM, typename KV, int G, int ROWS, int P_BC, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
 __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_kernel_t(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    constexpr int DPT = HEAD_DIM / G;

-    int q_tile = blockIdx.x;
+    int batch, q_tile;
+    if (!map_q_block<ROWS, KV>(p, batch, q_tile))
+        return;
+
    int q_head = blockIdx.y;
-    int batch  = blockIdx.z;
    int gpos   = threadIdx.x;  // 0..G-1  (which d-chunk)
    int row    = threadIdx.y;  // 0..ROWS-1
    int q_row  = q_tile * ROWS + row;

-    int kv_head = q_head / (p.q_head / p.kv_head);
+    // Per-request dims (from KV policy — paged reads kv_indptr/qo_indptr).
+    const int seq_len    = KV::kv_len(p, batch);
+    const int q_len      = KV::q_len(p, batch);
+    const int causal_off = KV::causal_offset(p, batch);
+    const int kv_head = q_head / (p.q_head / p.kv_head);
+    const KVContext kctx = KV::template make_ctx<HEAD_DIM>(p, batch, kv_head);

    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sK[P_BC * HEAD_DIM];
    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sV[P_BC * HEAD_DIM];

    // Q: stride-based load [batch, q_head, q_len, head_dim]
+    const int q_base = KV::q_base(p, batch, q_head);
    float qreg[DPT];
-    if (q_row < p.q_len) {
-        int q_off = batch * p.q_stride_b + q_head * p.q_stride_h
-                  + q_row * p.q_stride_l + gpos * DPT * p.q_stride_d;
+    if (q_row < q_len) {
+        int q_off = q_base + q_row * p.q_l_stride + gpos * DPT * p.q_d_stride;
 #pragma unroll
        for (int i = 0; i < DPT; i++)
-            qreg[i] = __bfloat162float(p.q[q_off + i * p.q_stride_d]);
+            qreg[i] = __bfloat162float(p.q_ptr[q_off + i * p.q_d_stride]);
    }

    float m = -FLT_MAX, l = 0.0f;
@@ -62,10 +71,8 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_kernel_t(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    for (int i = 0; i < DPT; i++)
        acc[i] = 0.0f;

-    // 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 + q_head * p.mask_h_stride;
-    int tiles   = (p.kv_len + P_BC - 1) / P_BC;
+    int tiles   = (seq_len + P_BC - 1) / P_BC;
    int tt      = G * ROWS;
    int lid     = row * G + gpos;

@@ -75,23 +82,24 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_kernel_t(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {

    for (int ti = 0; ti < tiles; ti++) {
        int kv0  = ti * P_BC;
-        int tlen = min(P_BC, p.kv_len - kv0);
+        int tlen = min(P_BC, seq_len - kv0);

-        // Load K/V into shared memory from strided global
+        // Load K/V into shared memory (addressing via KV policy; paged
+        // guards empty slots with zero-fill).
        for (int i = lid; i < tlen * HEAD_DIM; i += tt) {
            int s = i / HEAD_DIM;
            int d_dim = i % HEAD_DIM;
-            int kv_idx = kv0 + s;
-            int g_off = kv_base + kv_idx * p.kv_stride_l + d_dim * p.kv_stride_d;
-            sK[i] = p.k[g_off];
-            sV[i] = p.v[g_off];
+            int kc = kv0 + s;
+            KVAddr a = KV::kv_addr(p, kctx, kc, d_dim, true);
+            sK[i] = a.valid ? *reinterpret_cast<const bf16*>(a.k) : (bf16)0.f;
+            sV[i] = a.valid ? *reinterpret_cast<const bf16*>(a.v) : (bf16)0.f;
        }
        __syncthreads();

        int lim = tlen;
        if constexpr (IsCausal) {
-            if (q_row < p.q_len) {
-                int ep = q_row + p.causal_offset + 1;
+            if (q_row < q_len) {
+                int ep = causal_off + q_row + 1;
                if (kv0 >= ep)
                    lim = 0;
                else if (kv0 + tlen > ep)
@@ -99,7 +107,7 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_kernel_t(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
            }
        }

-        int mask_row_base = mask_batch_base + q_row * p.mask_q_stride;
+        int mask_row_base = mask_batch_base + q_row * p.mask_l_stride;
        for (int s = 0; s < lim; s++) {
            const bf16* kr = sK + s * HEAD_DIM + gpos * DPT;
            float part = 0.0f;
@@ -138,12 +146,11 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_kernel_t(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
        __syncthreads();
    }

-    if (q_row < p.q_len) {
-        int o_off = batch * p.q_stride_b + q_head * p.q_stride_h
-                  + q_row * p.q_stride_l + gpos * DPT * p.q_stride_d;
+    if (q_row < q_len) {
+        int o_off = q_base + q_row * p.q_l_stride + gpos * DPT * p.q_d_stride;
        float rl = (l > 1e-20f) ? (1.0f / l) : 0.0f;
 #pragma unroll
        for (int i = 0; i < DPT; i++)
-            p.o[o_off + i * p.q_stride_d] = __float2bfloat16(acc[i] * rl);
+            p.o_ptr[o_off + i * p.q_d_stride] = __float2bfloat16(acc[i] * rl);
    }
 }
@@ -2,17 +2,21 @@
 #include <cfloat>
 #include <cuda_bf16.h>
 #include "attn_common.h"
+#include "attn_kv_source.cuh"
 #include "attn_mma_utils.cuh"

-// Tensor-core prefill flash attention (raw mma.sync PTX).
+// Tensor-core prefill flash attention (raw mma.sync PTX), unified across
+// contiguous and paged (SGLang flat-pool) K/V via the KV template parameter.
 // One warp owns BR=16 query rows. S = Q@K^T and O = P@V run on bf16 tensor
 // cores via mma.sync.m16n8k16 (f32 accumulate).
 //
+// KV = ContigKV (dense [batch, kv_head, kv_len, head_dim]) or PagedKV
+//      (flat pool + req_to_token, ragged batches via qo_indptr/kv_indptr).
 // IsCausal and HasMask are compile-time bools — the compiler eliminates all
 // dead branches in the inner compute loop (FA2-style).
 //
 // Traits = KernelTraits<HEAD_DIM, BC, WARPS=4, STAGES=2>.
-template <typename Traits, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
+template <typename Traits, typename KV, bool IsCausal, bool HasMask>
 __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    const int warp = threadIdx.x / 32;
    const int lane = threadIdx.x % 32;
@@ -20,9 +24,17 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    const int tid4 = lane & 3;   // 0..3

    const int q_head = blockIdx.y;
-    const int batch = blockIdx.z;
+    int batch, q_tile;
+    if (!map_q_block<Traits::BR * Traits::WARPS, KV>(p, batch, q_tile))
+        return;
    const int kv_head = q_head / (p.q_head / p.kv_head);
-    const int qrow0 = (blockIdx.x * Traits::WARPS + warp) * Traits::BR;
+    const int qrow0 = (q_tile * Traits::WARPS + warp) * Traits::BR;
+
+    // Per-request dims (from KV policy — paged reads kv_indptr/qo_indptr).
+    const int seq_len    = KV::kv_len(p, batch);
+    const int q_len      = KV::q_len(p, batch);
+    const int causal_off = KV::causal_offset(p, batch);
+    const KVContext kctx = KV::template make_ctx<Traits::HEAD_DIM>(p, batch, kv_head);

    // Static shared memory: double-buffered K/V (no sQ — Q goes direct
    // to registers in mma A-operand layout).
@@ -30,12 +42,12 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    __shared__ __align__(16) bf16 sV[Traits::STAGES * Traits::BC * Traits::LD];

    // Load Q fragments straight from global into mma A-operand layout.
-    const int q_base = batch * p.q_stride_b + q_head * p.q_stride_h;
+    const int q_base = KV::q_base(p, batch, q_head);
    const int qra = qrow0 + gid;
    const int qrb = qrow0 + gid + 8;
-    const bool va = qra < p.q_len, vb = qrb < p.q_len;
+    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,
+    load_q_mma_frags<Traits::KD>(p.q_ptr + q_base, p.q_l_stride, p.q_d_stride,
                                  qra, qrb, va, vb, tid4, Qa);

    float Oacc[Traits::DN8][4];
@@ -44,17 +56,15 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
        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;

-    // KV: stride-based base
-    const int kv_base = batch * p.kv_stride_b + kv_head * p.kv_stride_h;
-    const int tiles = (p.kv_len + Traits::BC - 1) / Traits::BC;
+    const int tiles = (seq_len + Traits::BC - 1) / Traits::BC;
    const int qr0 = qrow0 + gid;
    const int qr1 = qrow0 + gid + 8;

    // Causal tile-skip bounds (dead code when IsCausal == false)
-    const int max_kv = qrow0 + Traits::BR - 1 + p.causal_offset;
+    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
-        + p.causal_offset;
+        q_tile * Traits::WARPS * Traits::BR + Traits::WARPS * Traits::BR - 1
+        + causal_off;

    int t_end = tiles - 1;
    if constexpr (IsCausal) {
@@ -62,7 +72,7 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
        if (bt < t_end) t_end = bt;
    }

-    // ---- Load tile lambda: predicated cp.async ----
+    // ---- Load tile lambda: predicated cp.async (addressing via KV policy) ----
    auto load_tile = [&](int ti, int buf) {
        int kv0 = ti * Traits::BC;
        bf16* dK = sK + buf * Traits::BC * Traits::LD;
@@ -72,11 +82,11 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
             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;
+            bool valid = kc < seq_len;
+            KVAddr a = KV::kv_addr(p, kctx, kc, d, valid);
            int off = r * Traits::LD + swiz_col(d, r, Traits::SWIZ_MASK);
-            int g_off = kv_base + kc * p.kv_stride_l + d * p.kv_stride_d;
-            cp_async_16_pred(&dK[off], &p.k[g_off], valid);
-            cp_async_16_pred(&dV[off], &p.v[g_off], valid);
+            cp_async_16_pred(&dK[off], a.k, a.valid);
+            cp_async_16_pred(&dV[off], a.v, a.valid);
        }
        cp_async_commit();
    };
@@ -108,15 +118,16 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
                Sacc[n8][0] *= p.scale, Sacc[n8][1] *= p.scale,
                Sacc[n8][2] *= p.scale, Sacc[n8][3] *= p.scale;

-            int maxc0 = IsCausal ? min(p.kv_len, qr0 + p.causal_offset + 1)
-                                 : p.kv_len;
-            int maxc1 = IsCausal ? min(p.kv_len, qr1 + p.causal_offset + 1)
-                                 : p.kv_len;
+            int maxc0 = IsCausal ? min(seq_len, causal_off + qr0 + 1)
+                                 : seq_len;
+            int maxc1 = IsCausal ? min(seq_len, causal_off + qr1 + 1)
+                                 : seq_len;
            mma_softmax_tile<Traits, HasMask>(kv0, maxc0, maxc1,
                                               qr0, qr1,
-                                               p.mask_b_stride, p.mask_h_stride, p.mask_q_stride,
-                                               batch, q_head,
+                                               p.mask_b_stride, p.mask_h_stride, p.mask_l_stride,
+                                               batch, q_head, q_head,
                                               p.mask,
+                                               va, vb,
                                               Sacc, Oacc, m0, m1, l0, l1, lane);

            mma_pv_accumulate<Traits>(Sacc, bV, lane, Oacc);
@@ -126,21 +137,21 @@ __global__ void attn_prefill_split_q_mma_kernel(AttentionParams<bf16> p) {
    // ---- 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 = batch * p.q_stride_b + q_head * p.q_stride_h;
+    const int o_base = KV::q_base(p, batch, q_head);
    #pragma unroll
    for (int dn8 = 0; dn8 < Traits::DN8; dn8++) {
        int d = dn8 * 8 + 2 * tid4;
-        if (qr0 < p.q_len) {
+        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;
+                &p.o_ptr[o_base + qr0 * p.q_l_stride + d * p.q_d_stride]) = v;
        }
-        if (qr1 < p.q_len) {
+        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;
+                &p.o_ptr[o_base + qr1 * p.q_l_stride + d * p.q_d_stride]) = v;
        }
    }
 }
@@ -0,0 +1,441 @@
+// FP8 e4m3 matrix multiply via cuBLASLt (sm89 TN layout).
+//
+// cuBLASLt exposes fp8 kernels only for op(A)=T, op(B)=N on Ada; we exploit
+// the identity: row-major a[M,K] == A^T as col-major [K,M] (zero copy), and
+// row-major wT[N,K] == B as col-major [K,N] (zero copy). The col-major
+// result D[M,N] is C^T in row-major terms, so we transpose the output once.
+//
+// Inputs arrive pre-scaled fp8 e4m3 tensors; output is unscaled fp32.
+
+#include <torch/extension.h>
+#include <ATen/cuda/CUDAContext.h>
+#include <c10/cuda/CUDAGuard.h>
+#include <cublasLt.h>
+#include <cuda_fp8.h>
+#include <cstdint>
+#include <mutex>
+#include <unordered_map>
+
+static std::recursive_mutex g_mutex;
+
+static cublasLtHandle_t g_handle = nullptr;
+static cublasLtMatmulDesc_t g_desc = nullptr;
+static cublasLtMatrixLayout_t g_layout_a = nullptr;
+static cublasLtMatrixLayout_t g_layout_b = nullptr;
+static cublasLtMatrixLayout_t g_layout_c = nullptr;
+static cublasLtMatmulPreference_t g_pref = nullptr;
+static void* g_workspace = nullptr;
+static size_t g_ws_size = 0;
+
+struct ShapeKey {
+    int64_t m;
+    int64_t k;
+    int64_t n;
+    bool operator==(const ShapeKey& other) const {
+        return m == other.m && k == other.k && n == other.n;
+    }
+};
+
+struct ShapeKeyHash {
+    size_t operator()(const ShapeKey& s) const {
+        size_t h = std::hash<int64_t>()(s.m);
+        h ^= std::hash<int64_t>()(s.k) + 0x9e3779b9 + (h << 6) + (h >> 2);
+        h ^= std::hash<int64_t>()(s.n) + 0x9e3779b9 + (h << 6) + (h >> 2);
+        return h;
+    }
+};
+
+using AlgoCache = std::unordered_map<ShapeKey, cublasLtMatmulAlgo_t, ShapeKeyHash>;
+
+static void create_matmul_config(cublasLtMatmulDesc_t* desc,
+                                 cublasLtMatrixLayout_t* layout_a,
+                                 cublasLtMatrixLayout_t* layout_b,
+                                 cublasLtMatrixLayout_t* layout_c) {
+    cublasOperation_t ta = CUBLAS_OP_T, tb = CUBLAS_OP_N;
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescCreate(desc, CUBLAS_COMPUTE_32F, CUDA_R_32F) ==
+                CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(
+                    *desc, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_TRANSA, &ta, sizeof(ta)) ==
+                CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(
+                    *desc, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_TRANSB, &tb, sizeof(tb)) ==
+                CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutCreate(layout_a, CUDA_R_8F_E4M3, 1, 1, 1) ==
+                CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutCreate(layout_b, CUDA_R_8F_E4M3, 1, 1, 1) ==
+                CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutCreate(layout_c, CUDA_R_16BF, 1, 1, 1) ==
+                CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+}
+
+static void ensure_cublas_lt() {
+    std::lock_guard<std::recursive_mutex> lock(g_mutex);
+    if (g_handle) {
+        return;
+    }
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtCreate(&g_handle) == CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+    create_matmul_config(&g_desc, &g_layout_a, &g_layout_b, &g_layout_c);
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulPreferenceCreate(&g_pref) == CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+    size_t ws = 16 * 1024 * 1024;
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulPreferenceSetAttribute(
+                   g_pref, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_PREF_MAX_WORKSPACE_BYTES, &ws, sizeof(ws)) ==
+               CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+}
+
+static cublasStatus_t get_algo_cached(int64_t m, int64_t k, int64_t n,
+                                      AlgoCache* cache,
+                                      cublasLtMatmulAlgo_t* algo);
+
+static void fp8_gemm_into(torch::Tensor lhs, torch::Tensor rhs, torch::Tensor out,
+                          int64_t m, int64_t k, int64_t n,
+                          const float* a_scale, const float* b_scale,
+                          cudaStream_t stream);
+
+static const float k_scale_one = 1.0f;
+
+static void set_layout(cublasLtMatrixLayout_t layout, int64_t rows, int64_t cols,
+                       int64_t ld) {
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutSetAttribute(layout, CUBLASLT_MATRIX_LAYOUT_ROWS,
+                                                 &rows, sizeof(rows)) ==
+                CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutSetAttribute(layout, CUBLASLT_MATRIX_LAYOUT_COLS,
+                                                 &cols, sizeof(cols)) ==
+                CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatrixLayoutSetAttribute(layout, CUBLASLT_MATRIX_LAYOUT_LD,
+                                                 &ld, sizeof(ld)) ==
+                CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+}
+
+torch::Tensor fp8_mm(torch::Tensor a, torch::Tensor b) {
+    TORCH_CHECK(a.is_cuda() && b.is_cuda(), "CUDA tensors required");
+    TORCH_CHECK(a.scalar_type() == torch::kFloat8_e4m3fn, "a must be float8_e4m3fn");
+    TORCH_CHECK(b.scalar_type() == torch::kFloat8_e4m3fn, "b must be float8_e4m3fn");
+    TORCH_CHECK(a.dim() == 2 && b.dim() == 2, "2D tensors required");
+    const at::cuda::OptionalCUDAGuard guard(a.device());
+    auto stream = at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream();
+
+    auto a_c = a.contiguous();
+    auto b_c = b.contiguous();
+    int64_t m = a_c.size(0), k = a_c.size(1), n = b_c.size(0);
+    TORCH_CHECK(b_c.size(1) == k, "inner dim mismatch");
+
+    auto buf = torch::empty({m, n}, a_c.options().dtype(torch::kBFloat16));
+    ensure_cublas_lt();
+    fp8_gemm_into(a_c, b_c, buf, m, k, n, &k_scale_one, &k_scale_one,
+                  stream.stream());
+    return buf;
+}
+
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Quantize: bf16 * scale_inv -> fp8, one atomicMax amax per kernel call.
+// amax_ptr must be zeroed before launch; float-bits atomicMax works because
+// |v| >= 0 has a monotonic IEEE bit pattern.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+template <typename T8>
+__device__ __forceinline__ T8 cast_fp8(float v);
+
+template <>
+__device__ __forceinline__ __nv_fp8_e4m3 cast_fp8<__nv_fp8_e4m3>(float v) {
+    return __nv_fp8_e4m3(v);
+}
+
+template <>
+__device__ __forceinline__ __nv_fp8_e5m2 cast_fp8<__nv_fp8_e5m2>(float v) {
+    return __nv_fp8_e5m2(v);
+}
+
+template <typename T8>
+__global__ void quantize_kernel(const __nv_bfloat16* __restrict__ src,
+                                const float* __restrict__ scale_inv,
+                                T8* __restrict__ dst,
+                                float* __restrict__ amax_ptr, int64_t n) {
+    int64_t i = blockIdx.x * (int64_t)blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
+    float amax = 0.f;
+    if (i < n) {
+        float v = __bfloat162float(src[i]) * *scale_inv;
+        dst[i] = cast_fp8<T8>(v);
+        amax = fabsf(v);
+    }
+    for (int off = 16; off; off >>= 1)
+        amax = fmaxf(amax, __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffffu, amax, off));
+    __shared__ float sm[8];
+    if ((threadIdx.x & 31) == 0) sm[threadIdx.x >> 5] = amax;
+    __syncthreads();
+    if (threadIdx.x == 0) {
+        float m = 0.f;
+        for (int w = 0; w < blockDim.x / 32; ++w) m = fmaxf(m, sm[w]);
+        atomicMax(reinterpret_cast<unsigned*>(amax_ptr), __float_as_uint(m));
+    }
+}
+
+// Same but with a transpose (rows x cols bf16 row-major -> fp8 [cols, rows]).
+template <typename T8>
+__global__ void transpose_quantize_kernel(
+    const __nv_bfloat16* __restrict__ src, const float* __restrict__ scale_inv,
+    T8* __restrict__ dst, float* __restrict__ amax_ptr, int64_t rows,
+    int64_t cols) {
+    __shared__ T8 tile[32][33];
+    int64_t x = blockIdx.x * 32 + threadIdx.x;
+    int64_t y = blockIdx.y * 32 + threadIdx.y;
+    float amax = 0.f;
+    for (int j = 0; j < 32; j += 8) {
+        if (x < cols && y + j < rows) {
+            float v = __bfloat162float(src[(y + j) * cols + x]) * *scale_inv;
+            tile[threadIdx.y + j][threadIdx.x] = cast_fp8<T8>(v);
+            amax = fmaxf(amax, fabsf(v));
+        }
+    }
+    __syncthreads();
+
+    x = blockIdx.y * 32 + threadIdx.x;
+    y = blockIdx.x * 32 + threadIdx.y;
+    for (int j = 0; j < 32; j += 8) {
+        if (x < rows && y + j < cols) {
+            dst[(y + j) * rows + x] = tile[threadIdx.x][threadIdx.y + j];
+        }
+    }
+    for (int off = 16; off; off >>= 1)
+        amax = fmaxf(amax, __shfl_xor_sync(0xffffffffu, amax, off));
+    __shared__ float sm[8];
+    if ((threadIdx.x & 31) == 0) sm[threadIdx.x >> 5] = amax;
+    __syncthreads();
+    if (threadIdx.x == 0) {
+        float m = 0.f;
+        for (int w = 0; w < blockDim.x / 32; ++w) m = fmaxf(m, sm[w]);
+        atomicMax(reinterpret_cast<unsigned*>(amax_ptr), __float_as_uint(m));
+    }
+}
+
+__global__ void bias_add_bf16_kernel(
+    __nv_bfloat16* __restrict__ dst, const __nv_bfloat16* __restrict__ bias,
+    int64_t total, int64_t n) {
+    // GEMM and output use the same row-major [M,N] layout.
+    int64_t idx = blockIdx.x * (int64_t)blockDim.x + threadIdx.x;
+    if (idx >= total) return;
+    float v = __bfloat162float(dst[idx]);
+    dst[idx] = __float2bfloat16(v + __bfloat162float(bias[idx % n]));
+}
+
+static cublasStatus_t get_algo_cached(int64_t m, int64_t k, int64_t n,
+                                      AlgoCache* cache,
+                                      cublasLtMatmulAlgo_t* algo) {
+    std::lock_guard<std::recursive_mutex> lock(g_mutex);
+    ShapeKey key{m, k, n};
+    auto it = cache->find(key);
+    if (it != cache->end()) {
+        *algo = it->second;
+        return CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+    }
+    cublasLtMatmulHeuristicResult_t heur;
+    int returned = 0;
+    cublasStatus_t st = cublasLtMatmulAlgoGetHeuristic(
+        g_handle, g_desc, g_layout_a, g_layout_b, g_layout_c, g_layout_c, g_pref, 1,
+        &heur, &returned);
+    if (st != CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS || returned == 0)
+        return CUBLAS_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED;
+    if (heur.workspaceSize > g_ws_size) {
+        if (g_workspace) cudaFree(g_workspace);
+        TORCH_CHECK(cudaMalloc(&g_workspace, heur.workspaceSize) == cudaSuccess);
+        g_ws_size = heur.workspaceSize;
+    }
+    cache->emplace(key, heur.algo);
+    *algo = heur.algo;
+    return CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+static void fp8_gemm_into(torch::Tensor lhs, torch::Tensor rhs, torch::Tensor out,
+                          int64_t m, int64_t k, int64_t n,
+                          const float* a_scale, const float* b_scale,
+                          cudaStream_t stream) {
+    std::lock_guard<std::recursive_mutex> lock(g_mutex);
+    set_layout(g_layout_a, k, n, k);  // param A = rhs (op=T -> [N,K])
+    set_layout(g_layout_b, k, m, k);  // param B = lhs (op=N -> [K,M])
+    set_layout(g_layout_c, n, m, n);  // col-major [N,M] == row-major [M,N]
+    // Per-tensor FP32 scales applied inside the GEMM:
+    // D = alpha * A_SCALE * B_SCALE * A * B (alpha = 1).
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(
+                    g_desc, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_A_SCALE_POINTER, &a_scale,
+                    sizeof(a_scale)) == CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+    TORCH_CHECK(cublasLtMatmulDescSetAttribute(
+                    g_desc, CUBLASLT_MATMUL_DESC_B_SCALE_POINTER, &b_scale,
+                    sizeof(b_scale)) == CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS);
+    float alpha = 1.0f, beta = 0.0f;
+    static AlgoCache cache;
+    cublasLtMatmulAlgo_t algo;
+    cublasStatus_t st = get_algo_cached(m, k, n, &cache, &algo);
+    TORCH_CHECK(st == CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS,
+                "cublasLtMatmulAlgoGetHeuristic failed: ", cublasLtGetStatusName(st));
+    st = cublasLtMatmul(g_handle, g_desc, &alpha, rhs.data_ptr(), g_layout_a,
+                        lhs.data_ptr(), g_layout_b, &beta, out.data_ptr(), g_layout_c,
+                        out.data_ptr(), g_layout_c, &algo, g_workspace, g_ws_size,
+                        stream);
+    TORCH_CHECK(st == CUBLAS_STATUS_SUCCESS,
+                "cublasLtMatmul failed: ", cublasLtGetStatusName(st));
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Scaled FP8 linear forward: quantize x/w with per-tensor scales -> cublasLt
+// GEMM (scales applied inside) -> bias in-place -> bf16 [..., N].
+// sx/sw: f32 scale tensors (device scalars); sx_inv/sw_inv: 1/scale.
+// amax_x/amax_w: f32 buffers receiving max-abs of the quantized tensors.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+torch::Tensor fp8_linear_forward_scaled(torch::Tensor x, torch::Tensor w,
+                                        torch::Tensor bias, torch::Tensor sx,
+                                        torch::Tensor sw, torch::Tensor sx_inv,
+                                        torch::Tensor sw_inv,
+                                        torch::Tensor amax_x,
+                                        torch::Tensor amax_w) {
+    TORCH_CHECK(x.is_cuda() && w.is_cuda(), "CUDA tensors required");
+    TORCH_CHECK(x.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16 && w.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16,
+                "x and w must be bf16");
+    const at::cuda::OptionalCUDAGuard guard(x.device());
+    auto stream = at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream();
+
+    auto x_c = x.reshape({-1, w.size(1)}).contiguous();
+    auto w_c = w.contiguous();
+    int64_t m = x_c.size(0), k = x_c.size(1), n = w_c.size(0);
+    TORCH_CHECK(w_c.size(1) == k, "inner dim mismatch");
+    ensure_cublas_lt();
+
+    const float* sx_ptr = sx.data_ptr<float>();
+    const float* sw_ptr = sw.data_ptr<float>();
+    const float* sxi_ptr = sx_inv.data_ptr<float>();
+    const float* swi_ptr = sw_inv.data_ptr<float>();
+    float* amax_x_ptr = amax_x.data_ptr<float>();
+    float* amax_w_ptr = amax_w.data_ptr<float>();
+    C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaMemsetAsync(amax_x_ptr, 0, sizeof(float), stream.stream()));
+    C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaMemsetAsync(amax_w_ptr, 0, sizeof(float), stream.stream()));
+
+    auto x8 = torch::empty({m, k}, x_c.options().dtype(torch::kFloat8_e4m3fn));
+    auto w8 = torch::empty({n, k}, w_c.options().dtype(torch::kFloat8_e4m3fn));
+    int64_t block = 256;
+    quantize_kernel<__nv_fp8_e4m3>
+        <<<(unsigned)((m * k + block - 1) / block), block, 0, stream.stream()>>>(
+            reinterpret_cast<const __nv_bfloat16*>(x_c.data_ptr()), sxi_ptr,
+            reinterpret_cast<__nv_fp8_e4m3*>(x8.data_ptr()), amax_x_ptr, m * k);
+    quantize_kernel<__nv_fp8_e4m3>
+        <<<(unsigned)((n * k + block - 1) / block), block, 0, stream.stream()>>>(
+            reinterpret_cast<const __nv_bfloat16*>(w_c.data_ptr()), swi_ptr,
+            reinterpret_cast<__nv_fp8_e4m3*>(w8.data_ptr()), amax_w_ptr, n * k);
+    C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaGetLastError());
+
+    auto out = torch::empty({m, n}, x_c.options());
+    fp8_gemm_into(x8, w8, out, m, k, n, sw_ptr, sx_ptr, stream.stream());
+
+    if (bias.defined() && bias.numel() > 0) {
+        TORCH_CHECK(bias.scalar_type() == torch::kBFloat16 && bias.numel() == n,
+                    "bias must be bf16 with shape [N]");
+        bias_add_bf16_kernel<<<(unsigned)((m * n + block - 1) / block), block, 0, stream>>>(
+            reinterpret_cast<__nv_bfloat16*>(out.data_ptr()),
+            reinterpret_cast<const __nv_bfloat16*>(bias.data_ptr()), m * n, n);
+        C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaGetLastError());
+    }
+
+    std::vector<int64_t> shape(x.sizes().begin(), x.sizes().end() - 1);
+    shape.push_back(n);
+    return out.reshape(shape);
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Scaled FP8 linear backward: dX = g @ W, dW = g^T @ X, dB = sum(g).
+// Scales: g uses sg (immediate), w/x reuse the forward scales.
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+std::tuple<torch::Tensor, torch::Tensor, torch::Tensor> fp8_linear_backward_scaled(
+    torch::Tensor g, torch::Tensor x, torch::Tensor w,
+    std::vector<int64_t> masks, torch::Tensor sg, torch::Tensor sw,
+    torch::Tensor sx, torch::Tensor sg_inv, torch::Tensor sw_inv,
+    torch::Tensor sx_inv, torch::Tensor amax_g) {
+    const at::cuda::OptionalCUDAGuard guard(g.device());
+    TORCH_CHECK(g.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16 && x.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16 &&
+                    w.dtype() == torch::kBFloat16,
+                "g, x, and w must be bf16");
+    auto stream = at::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream();
+    auto g_c = g.reshape({-1, w.size(0)}).contiguous();
+    auto x_c = x.reshape({-1, x.size(-1)}).contiguous();
+    auto w_c = w.contiguous();
+    int64_t m = g_c.size(0);
+    int64_t n = w.size(0);
+    int64_t k = w.size(1);
+    TORCH_CHECK(x_c.size(0) == m && x_c.size(1) == k && g_c.size(1) == n,
+                "backward shape mismatch");
+
+    auto grad_input = torch::empty_like(x);
+    auto grad_weight = torch::empty_like(w);
+    auto grad_bias = torch::empty({0}, g_c.options().dtype(g.dtype()));
+    ensure_cublas_lt();
+
+    const float* sg_ptr = sg.data_ptr<float>();
+    const float* sw_ptr = sw.data_ptr<float>();
+    const float* sx_ptr = sx.data_ptr<float>();
+    const float* sgi_ptr = sg_inv.data_ptr<float>();
+    const float* swi_ptr = sw_inv.data_ptr<float>();
+    const float* sxi_ptr = sx_inv.data_ptr<float>();
+    float* amax_g_ptr = amax_g.data_ptr<float>();
+    C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaMemsetAsync(amax_g_ptr, 0, sizeof(float), stream.stream()));
+
+    auto fp8_options = g_c.options().dtype(torch::kFloat8_e4m3fn);
+    auto g8 = torch::empty({m, n}, fp8_options);
+    auto gt8 = masks[1] ? torch::empty({n, m}, fp8_options) : torch::Tensor();
+    auto wt8 = masks[0] ? torch::empty({k, n}, fp8_options) : torch::Tensor();
+    auto xt8 = masks[1] ? torch::empty({k, m}, fp8_options) : torch::Tensor();
+
+    int64_t block = 256;
+    quantize_kernel<__nv_fp8_e4m3>
+        <<<(unsigned)((m * n + block - 1) / block), block, 0, stream.stream()>>>(
+            reinterpret_cast<const __nv_bfloat16*>(g_c.data_ptr()), sgi_ptr,
+            reinterpret_cast<__nv_fp8_e4m3*>(g8.data_ptr()), amax_g_ptr, m * n);
+    dim3 threads(32, 8);
+    if (masks[0]) {
+        dim3 blocks((k + 31) / 32, (n + 31) / 32);
+        transpose_quantize_kernel<__nv_fp8_e4m3>
+            <<<blocks, threads, 0, stream.stream()>>>(
+                reinterpret_cast<const __nv_bfloat16*>(w_c.data_ptr()), swi_ptr,
+                reinterpret_cast<__nv_fp8_e4m3*>(wt8.data_ptr()), amax_g_ptr,
+                n, k);
+        fp8_gemm_into(g8, wt8, grad_input.reshape({m, k}), m, n, k, sg_ptr,
+                      sw_ptr, stream.stream());
+    }
+    if (masks[1]) {
+        dim3 g_blocks((n + 31) / 32, (m + 31) / 32);
+        dim3 x_blocks((k + 31) / 32, (m + 31) / 32);
+        transpose_quantize_kernel<__nv_fp8_e4m3>
+            <<<g_blocks, threads, 0, stream.stream()>>>(
+                reinterpret_cast<const __nv_bfloat16*>(g_c.data_ptr()), sgi_ptr,
+                reinterpret_cast<__nv_fp8_e4m3*>(gt8.data_ptr()), amax_g_ptr,
+                m, n);
+        transpose_quantize_kernel<__nv_fp8_e4m3>
+            <<<x_blocks, threads, 0, stream.stream()>>>(
+                reinterpret_cast<const __nv_bfloat16*>(x_c.data_ptr()), sxi_ptr,
+                reinterpret_cast<__nv_fp8_e4m3*>(xt8.data_ptr()), amax_g_ptr,
+                m, k);
+        fp8_gemm_into(gt8, xt8, grad_weight, n, m, k, sg_ptr, sx_ptr,
+                      stream.stream());
+    }
+    C10_CUDA_CHECK(cudaGetLastError());
+    if (masks[2]) {
+        grad_bias = g_c.sum(0).to(g.dtype());
+    }
+    return std::tuple<torch::Tensor, torch::Tensor, torch::Tensor>(
+        grad_input, grad_weight, grad_bias);
+}
+
+PYBIND11_MODULE(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, m) {
+    m.def("fp8_mm", &fp8_mm, py::arg("a"), py::arg("b"),
+          "FP8 e4m3 GEMM: a[M,K] x b[N,K] -> bf16[M,N] (pre-scaled inputs)");
+    m.def("fp8_linear_forward_scaled", &fp8_linear_forward_scaled,
+          py::arg("x"), py::arg("w"), py::arg("bias"), py::arg("sx"),
+          py::arg("sw"), py::arg("sx_inv"), py::arg("sw_inv"),
+          py::arg("amax_x"), py::arg("amax_w"),
+          "Scaled FP8 linear forward: quantize with per-tensor scales + "
+          "cublasLt GEMM (scales applied inside) + bias -> bf16");
+    m.def("fp8_linear_backward_scaled", &fp8_linear_backward_scaled,
+          py::arg("g"), py::arg("x"), py::arg("w"), py::arg("masks"),
+          py::arg("sg"), py::arg("sw"), py::arg("sx"), py::arg("sg_inv"),
+          py::arg("sw_inv"), py::arg("sx_inv"), py::arg("amax_g"),
+          "Scaled FP8 linear backward: dX = g*sw @ W, dW = (g*sx)^T @ X, "
+          "dB = sum(g)");
+}
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 #include <torch/extension.h>
+#include <c10/cuda/CUDAGuard.h>
+#include <c10/cuda/CUDAException.h>
 #include <cuda_bf16.h>

 __global__ void rotary_emb_kernel(
@@ -46,6 +48,9 @@ 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");
@@ -53,6 +58,7 @@ torch::Tensor rotary_emb(
    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);
@@ -60,6 +66,10 @@ torch::Tensor rotary_emb(
    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);

@@ -68,12 +78,13 @@ torch::Tensor rotary_emb(
    int block = 256;
    int grid = std::min((total + block - 1) / block, 1024);

-    rotary_emb_kernel<<<grid, block>>>(
+    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;
 }
@@ -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 +1,950 @@
+// 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"
+
+struct PagedDecodeDispatch { AttentionParams<bf16>& p; template<int H> void operator()() { dispatch_paged_decode<H>(p, 0); } };
+struct PagedPrefillDispatch { AttentionParams<bf16>& p; template<int H> void operator()() { dispatch_paged_prefill<H>(p, 0); } };
+
+// ---- 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_l_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_l_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, int context_capacity = 0,
+                            int fixed_seq_len = 0) {
+    // Variable seq_lens per request
+    srand(seed);
+    std::vector<int> seq_lens(B);
+    for (int b = 0; b < B; b++)
+        seq_lens[b] = fixed_seq_len ? fixed_seq_len : 8 + rand() % (max_seq - 8);
+    int max_sl = *std::max_element(seq_lens.begin(), seq_lens.end());
+    int max_ctx = context_capacity ? context_capacity : 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
+    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM;
+    p.q_l_stride = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_h_stride = HEAD_DIM; p.q_d_stride = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx;
+    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_l_stride = 0;
+    p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
+    p.q_ptr = d_q; p.k_ptr = d_k_pool; p.v_ptr = 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_ptr = d_o; p.o_part = d_op; p.ml_part = d_ml;
+
+    dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, PagedDecodeDispatch{p});
+    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 = 0.01f, rtol = 0.01f;
+    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);
+
+    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM;
+    p.q_l_stride = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_h_stride = HEAD_DIM; p.q_d_stride = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx;
+    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_l_stride = 0;
+    p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
+    p.q_ptr = d_q; p.k_ptr = d_k_pool; p.v_ptr = 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_ptr = d_o; p.o_part = d_op; p.ml_part = d_ml;
+
+    dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, PagedDecodeDispatch{p});
+    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 = 0.01f, rtol = 0.01f;
+    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
+    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM;
+    p.q_l_stride = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_h_stride = HEAD_DIM; p.q_d_stride = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx;
+    p.q_len = total_q;
+    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_l_stride = 0;
+    p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
+    p.q_ptr = d_q; p.k_ptr = d_k_pool; p.v_ptr = 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_ptr = d_o; p.o_part = nullptr; p.ml_part = nullptr;
+
+    dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, PagedPrefillDispatch{p});
+    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 = 0.01f, rtol = 0.01f;
+    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);
+
+    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM;
+    p.q_l_stride = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_h_stride = HEAD_DIM; p.q_d_stride = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx;
+    p.q_len = B * 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_l_stride = q_len;
+    p.scale = 1.0f / sqrtf((float)HEAD_DIM);
+    p.q_ptr = d_q; p.k_ptr = d_k_pool; p.v_ptr = 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_ptr = d_o; p.o_part = nullptr; p.ml_part = nullptr;
+
+    dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, PagedPrefillDispatch{p});
+    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 = 0.01f, rtol = 0.01f;
+    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);
+
+    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM;
+    p.q_l_stride = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_h_stride = HEAD_DIM; p.q_d_stride = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx;
+    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_ptr = d_q; p.k_ptr = d_k_pool; p.v_ptr = 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_ptr = d_o; p.o_part = d_op; p.ml_part = d_ml;
+
+    auto launch = [&]() {
+        dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, PagedDecodeDispatch{p});
+    };
+    // 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);
+
+    AttentionParams<bf16> p;
+    p.batch = B; p.q_head = Hq; p.kv_head = Hkv;
+    p.head_dim = HEAD_DIM;
+    p.q_l_stride = Hq * HEAD_DIM; p.q_h_stride = HEAD_DIM; p.q_d_stride = 1;
+    p.max_context_len = max_ctx;
+    p.q_len = B * 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_ptr = d_q; p.k_ptr = d_k_pool; p.v_ptr = 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_ptr = d_o; p.o_part = nullptr; p.ml_part = nullptr;
+
+    auto launch = [&]() {
+        dispatch_by_head_dim(HEAD_DIM, PagedPrefillDispatch{p});
+    };
+    // 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);
+    // Production keeps a fixed 32768-wide request table.  This forces 32
+    // splits, so seq_len > 512 gives each split multiple cp.async tiles.
+    fail += run_decode_test<64>(1, 24, 4, 1100, 0, 12, 32768, 1100);
+
+    // 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 +1,348 @@
+/*
+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"
+
+struct DecodeDispatch { AttentionParams<bf16>& p; template<int H> void operator()() { dispatch_decode<H>(p, 0); } };
+struct PrefillDispatch { AttentionParams<bf16>& p; template<int H> void operator()() { dispatch_prefill<H>(p, 0); } };
+
+// 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) {
+    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_ptr=dQ; p.k_ptr=dK; p.v_ptr=dV; p.mask=nullptr; p.o_ptr=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, DecodeDispatch{p});
+    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-4f);
+        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_ptr = dQ; p.k_ptr = dK; p.v_ptr = dV; p.mask = nullptr; p.o_ptr = 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, DecodeDispatch{p}); };
+        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_ptr=dQ; p.k_ptr=dK; p.v_ptr=dV; p.mask=nullptr; p.o_ptr=dO;
+
+    double t0=now_ms();
+    dispatch_by_head_dim(D, PrefillDispatch{p});
+    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-4f);
+        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_ptr=dQ; p.k_ptr=dK; p.v_ptr=dV; p.mask=nullptr; p.o_ptr=dO;
+
+        auto launch = [&]() { dispatch_by_head_dim(D, PrefillDispatch{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;
+        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] = {
+            {1,2,1,64,128,32,0},     // scalar fallback D=32
+            {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>
@@ -94,29 +107,29 @@ void dispatch_by_head_dim(int head_dim, Fn&& fn) {
 // Set default strides for contiguous b h l d layout on AttentionParams.
 template<typename P>
 inline void set_default_strides(P& p) {
-    p.q_stride_b  = p.q_head * p.q_len * p.head_dim;
-    p.q_stride_h  = p.q_len * p.head_dim;
-    p.q_stride_l  = p.head_dim;
-    p.q_stride_d  = 1;
-    p.kv_stride_b = p.kv_head * p.kv_len * p.head_dim;
-    p.kv_stride_h = p.kv_len * p.head_dim;
-    p.kv_stride_l = p.head_dim;
-    p.kv_stride_d = 1;
+    p.q_b_stride  = p.q_head * p.q_len * p.head_dim;
+    p.q_h_stride  = p.q_len * p.head_dim;
+    p.q_l_stride  = p.head_dim;
+    p.q_d_stride  = 1;
+    p.kv_b_stride = p.kv_head * p.kv_len * p.head_dim;
+    p.kv_h_stride = p.kv_len * p.head_dim;
+    p.kv_l_stride = p.head_dim;
+    p.kv_d_stride = 1;
    p.mask_b_stride = p.kv_len;
    p.mask_h_stride = 0;
-    p.mask_q_stride = 0;
+    p.mask_l_stride = 0;
 }

-// Set default Q strides for contiguous b h l d layout on PagedAttentionParams.
+// Set default Q strides for a paged decode params struct.
 template<typename P>
 inline void set_default_paged_strides(P& p) {
-    p.q_stride_b  = p.q_head * p.q_len * p.head_dim;
-    p.q_stride_h  = p.q_len * p.head_dim;
-    p.q_stride_l  = p.head_dim;
-    p.q_stride_d  = 1;
+    p.q_b_stride  = p.q_head * p.q_len * p.head_dim;
+    p.q_h_stride  = p.q_len * p.head_dim;
+    p.q_l_stride  = p.head_dim;
+    p.q_d_stride  = 1;
    p.mask_b_stride = p.kv_len;
    p.mask_h_stride = 0;
-    p.mask_q_stride = 0;
+    p.mask_l_stride = 0;
 }

 // Generic CPU reference for multi-query / grouped-query attention.
@@ -135,9 +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;
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ services:
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
      args:
        CUDA_TAG: ${CUDA_TAG:-cu128}
-    user: "${UID:-1000}:${GID:-1000}"
+        USER_UID: ${ASTRAI_UID:-1000}
+        USER_GID: ${ASTRAI_GID:-1000}
+    user: "${ASTRAI_UID:-1000}:${ASTRAI_GID:-1000}"
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    volumes:
@@ -33,7 +35,9 @@ services:
      dockerfile: Dockerfile
      args:
        CUDA_TAG: ${CUDA_TAG:-cu128}
-    user: "${UID:-1000}:${GID:-1000}"
+        USER_UID: ${ASTRAI_UID:-1000}
+        USER_GID: ${ASTRAI_GID:-1000}
+    user: "${ASTRAI_UID:-1000}:${ASTRAI_GID:-1000}"
    ports:
      - "8000:8000"
    volumes:
@@ -46,3 +50,44 @@ services:
      retries: 3
      start_period: 120s
    restart: unless-stopped
+
+  trainer:
+    profiles: [train]
+    build:
+      context: .
+      dockerfile: Dockerfile
+      args:
+        CUDA_TAG: ${CUDA_TAG:-cu128}
+        USER_UID: ${ASTRAI_UID:-1000}
+        USER_GID: ${ASTRAI_GID:-1000}
+    init: true
+    user: "${ASTRAI_UID:-1000}:${ASTRAI_GID:-1000}"
+    volumes:
+      - ${TRAIN_DATA_DIR:-./data}:/data:ro
+      - ${TRAIN_MODEL_DIR:-./params}:/models/base:ro
+      - ${TRAIN_CHECKPOINT_DIR:-./checkpoints}:/checkpoints
+    environment:
+      - TRAIN_JOB_NAME=${TRAIN_JOB_NAME:-astrai-train}
+      - TRAIN_CONFIG=${TRAIN_CONFIG:-}
+      - BASE_MODEL=${BASE_MODEL:-/models/base}
+      - CHECKPOINT_ROOT=/checkpoints
+      - TRAIN_GPU_COUNT=${TRAIN_GPU_COUNT:-all}
+      - CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES
+      - NCCL_P2P_DISABLE
+      - NCCL_NET_GDR_LEVEL
+    entrypoint: ["bash", "/app/scripts/docker/train-entrypoint.sh"]
+    ipc: ${TRAIN_IPC_MODE:-host}
+    stop_grace_period: ${TRAIN_STOP_GRACE_PERIOD:-10m}
+    restart: "no"
+    logging:
+      driver: json-file
+      options:
+        max-size: ${TRAIN_LOG_MAX_SIZE:-100m}
+        max-file: ${TRAIN_LOG_MAX_FILES:-5}
+    deploy:
+      resources:
+        reservations:
+          devices:
+            - driver: nvidia
+              count: all
+              capabilities: [gpu]
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@

 <div align="center">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.12+-blue.svg" alt="python">
-  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-GPL--3.0-blue.svg" alt="license">
+  <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue.svg" alt="license">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/tag/ViperEkura/AstrAI?label=Release&color=76bad9" alt="release">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/stars/ViperEkura/AstrAI?style=flat&label=Stars&color=76bad9" alt="stars">
  <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/forks/ViperEkura/AstrAI?style=flat&label=Forks&color=76bad9" alt="forks">
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@

 ## 📖 目录

- [特性](#特性)
+- [项目概览](#项目概览)
 - [快速上手](#快速上手)
 - [演示](#演示)
 - [文档](#文档)
@@ -46,15 +46,19 @@
 <a id="chinese"></a>
 ## 中文

-### 特性
+### 项目概览

- 🚀 **高性能**: 训练与推理双向优化，高效并行。
- 🔧 **灵活**: 支持 seq/sft/dpo/grpo 多种训练方式，可定制模型架构。
- 💡 **易用**: 简洁的 API 与丰富的示例、演示。
- 📦 **轻量**: 依赖少，部署简单。
- 🔬 **研究友好**: 模块化设计，便于实验新想法。
- 🤗 **HuggingFace 风格 API**: 类 HuggingFace 的 AutoModel/AutoTokenizer 接口，方便加载模型和分词器。
- 🔌 **双 API 兼容**: 同时支持 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 聊天补全 API，开箱即用。
+AstrAI 是一个覆盖模型构建、训练、评测与部署的端到端 Transformer 框架。项目以精简的 PyTorch 代码实现完整模型生命周期，包括声明式数据预处理、分布式训练、连续批处理推理，以及兼容 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 的服务接口。
+
+| 领域 | 能力 |
+|---|---|
+| **模型** | 自回归语言模型与嵌入模型，支持 GQA、MLA、MoE、RoPE，以及可扩展的 Attention/FFN 组件 |
+| **训练** | 预训练（`seq`）、监督微调（`sft`）、DPO 和 GRPO，支持梯度累积、检查点、DDP 与 FSDP |
+| **数据** | 声明式 JSON 预处理、可配置掩码与样本打包、二进制/JSONL 存储和流式数据集 |
+| **推理** | 连续批处理、分页 KV Cache、Radix 前缀缓存、流式生成，以及 Torch/CUDA/FlashAttention 后端 |
+| **服务** | 基于 FastAPI 的 OpenAI 与 Anthropic 聊天补全协议，支持 SSE 流式输出和工具调用 |
+| **评测** | Perplexity、MMLU、HumanEval、IFEval、IFD 和 ROUGE 评测工具 |
+| **扩展** | 基于工厂与注册表扩展模型、数据集、训练策略、回调、内核和协议组件 |

 ### 快速上手

@@ -62,6 +66,8 @@

 **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 +144,7 @@ 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

@@ -181,7 +187,7 @@ docker run --gpus all -it astrai:latest

 # 运行推理服务
 docker run --gpus all -p 8000:8000 astrai:latest \
-  python -m scripts.tools.server --port 8000 --device cuda
+  python scripts/tools/server.py --port 8000 --device cuda

 # 挂载数据卷
 docker run --gpus all -v /path/to/data:/data -it astrai:latest
@@ -189,7 +195,7 @@ 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
 ```

@@ -239,7 +245,7 @@ SSE 流式格式、错误码和统计端点详见[推理文档](guides/inference

 ### 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。
@@ -256,10 +262,10 @@ SSE 流式格式、错误码和统计端点详见[推理文档](guides/inference

 ### 许可证

-本项目采用 [GPL-3.0 许可证](../../LICENSE)。
+本项目采用 [Apache-2.0 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
@@ -299,7 +308,14 @@ classDiagram
            +RMSNorm input_norm
            +nn.Module mlp        # MLP or DeepSeekMoE via FFNFactory
            +RMSNorm post_attention_norm
-            +forward(x, rotary_emb, attention_mask, kv_cache) Tensor
+            +forward(x, rotary_emb, attention_mask, kv_cache, is_causal) DecoderOutput
+        }
+
+        class DecoderOutput {
+            <<TypedDict>>
+            +Tensor hidden_states
+            +Optional[Tensor] aux_loss
+            +Optional[RouterStats] router_stats
        }

        class GQA {
@@ -314,7 +330,7 @@ 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, kv_cache) Tensor
+            +forward(x, rotary_emb, attn_mask, kv_cache, is_causal) Tensor
        }

        class MLA {
@@ -334,12 +350,19 @@ 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, kv_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
+            +Optional[RouterStats] router_stats
        }

        class DeepSeekMoE {
@@ -351,7 +374,7 @@ classDiagram
            +Linear router
            +ModuleList shared_experts
            +ModuleList routed_experts
-            +forward(x) Tensor
+            +forward(x) FFNOutput
        }

        class AttnFactory {
@@ -380,9 +403,8 @@ classDiagram
            +int max_len
            +float base
            +Optional[Dict] rope_scaling
-            +Tensor cos_table
-            +Tensor sin_table
-            +forward(x, position_ids=None) Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]
+            +Tensor freqs_cis
+            +forward(x, position_ids=None) Tensor
        }

        class Embedding {
@@ -486,10 +508,6 @@ classDiagram
            +save(output_dir, domain, shard_idx, tensors)
        }

-        class H5Writer {
-            +save(output_dir, domain, shard_idx, tensors)
-        }
-
        class Pipeline {
            +PipelineConfig config
            +List[str] paths
@@ -559,7 +577,7 @@ classDiagram
        class Trainer {
            +TrainConfig train_config
            +List[TrainCallback] callbacks
-            +train(resume_dir)
+            +train(param_path=None, resume=False)
            -_get_default_callbacks() List[TrainCallback]
        }

@@ -576,13 +594,17 @@ 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 {
@@ -594,11 +616,22 @@ 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 {
@@ -636,9 +669,12 @@ 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 {
@@ -647,10 +683,18 @@ 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
        }

@@ -740,7 +784,7 @@ classDiagram
        }

        class MetricCallback {
-            +Path log_dir
+            +Path ckpt_dir
            +int save_interval
            +List[str] metrics
            +int val_step
@@ -764,9 +808,8 @@ classDiagram
            +nn.Module model
            +AutoTokenizer tokenizer
            +InferenceScheduler scheduler
-            +generate(prompt, stream, max_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k) 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(prompt, stream, max_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k, frequency_penalty, rep_window) Union[Generator, str, List[str]]
+            +generate_async(prompt, max_tokens, temperature, top_p, top_k, frequency_penalty, rep_window) AsyncGenerator
            +get_stats() Dict
            +shutdown()
        }
@@ -774,18 +817,37 @@ classDiagram
        class Executor {
            +AutoModel model
            +AutoTokenizer tokenizer
-            +KVCache page_cache
+            +PagePool kv_cache
+            +InferenceWorkspace _workspace
            +Optional[str] device
            +Optional[torch.dtype] dtype
-            +execute_prefill(tasks, prompt_len, start_pos)
-            +execute_decode(tasks) List[int]
+            +execute_prefill(tasks, prompt_len, start_pos=0)
+            +execute_decode(tasks, return_logprobs=False) Union[List[int], List[Tuple[int, float]]]
+        }
+
+        class InferenceWorkspace {
+            +int max_batch_size
+            +int max_seq_len
+            +torch.device device
+            +torch.dtype dtype
+            +Tensor arange
+            +Tensor input_mask
+            +Tensor input_ids
+            +Tensor req_pool_indices
+            +Tensor seq_lens
+            +Tensor kv_indptr
+            +Tensor qo_indptr
+            +Tensor inc
+            +Tensor out_cache_loc
+            +fill_input_ids(ids) Tensor
+            +decode_mask(position_ids, total_len) Tensor
        }

        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
@@ -795,6 +857,7 @@ 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 {
@@ -808,22 +871,21 @@ classDiagram
            +ref_count(idx) int
        }

-        class PrefixCache {
+        class RadixNode {
+            +RadixNode parent
+            +Dict children
+            +Optional[int] page_idx
+            +Tuple tokens
+            +int lock_ref
+        }
+
+        class RadixCache {
            +int _page_size
            +evict(page_idx)
            +has_page(idx) bool
            +lookup(token_ids) List[int]
            +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)
+            +release(pages)
        }

        class KVStorage {
@@ -852,8 +914,11 @@ classDiagram
            +Tensor seq_lens
            +Tensor out_cache_loc
            +int max_len
-            +Optional[Tensor] page_table
-            +Optional[Tensor] decode_mask
+            +Optional[Tensor] kv_indptr
+            +Optional[Tensor] qo_indptr
+            +Optional[Tensor] decode_o_part
+            +Optional[Tensor] decode_ml_part
+            +Optional[Tensor] decode_out
        }

        class PagePool {
@@ -862,13 +927,13 @@ classDiagram
            -KVStorage _storage
            -ReqToTokenPool _req_pool
            -Allocator _alloc
-            -PrefixCache _prefix
+            -RadixCache _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, seq_lens, device, start_pos) KVCache
+            +bind_tasks(task_ids, workspace, device, start_pos) KVCache
        }

    class Task {
@@ -878,6 +943,8 @@ classDiagram
        +float temperature
        +float top_p
        +int top_k
+        +float frequency_penalty
+        +int rep_window
        +TaskStatus status
        +List output_ids
        +int input_tokens
@@ -917,33 +984,24 @@ classDiagram
            +get_stats() Dict
        }

-        class GenerationRequest {
-            +List[Dict] messages
-            +int top_k
-            +float top_p
-            +float temperature
-            +Optional[int] max_tokens
-            +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 {
@@ -953,8 +1011,8 @@ 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 {
@@ -1029,7 +1087,7 @@ 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
        }
@@ -1037,7 +1095,7 @@ 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
        }
@@ -1045,7 +1103,7 @@ 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
        }
@@ -1153,10 +1211,13 @@ 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
        }
@@ -1173,7 +1234,8 @@ classDiagram
        class FSDPExecutor {
            -_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 {
@@ -1182,33 +1244,6 @@ 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
@@ -1230,11 +1265,8 @@ classDiagram
    BaseDataset <|-- SFTDataset
    BaseDataset <|-- DPODataset
    BaseDataset <|-- GRPODataset
-    Store <|-- H5Store
    Store <|-- MmapStore
    Store <|-- JsonlStore
-    H5Store --|> Streamable
-    H5Store --|> Recordable
    MmapStore --|> Streamable
    MmapStore --|> Recordable
    JsonlStore --|> Streamable
@@ -1243,8 +1275,6 @@ classDiagram
    BaseSamplingStrategy <|-- TopKStrategy
    BaseSamplingStrategy <|-- TopPStrategy
    BaseSamplingStrategy <|-- FrequencyPenaltyStrategy
-    ParallelModel <|-- RowParallelLinear
-    ParallelModel <|-- ColumnParallelLinear
    AutoModel <|-- AutoRegressiveLM
    AutoModel <|-- EmbeddingEncoder
    BaseConfig <|-- BaseModelConfig
@@ -1255,7 +1285,7 @@ classDiagram
    BaseConfig <|-- PipelineConfig
    BaseModelConfig <|-- AutoRegressiveLMConfig
    BaseModelConfig <|-- EncoderConfig
-    BaseFactory <|-- AutoModel
+    BaseFactory <|-- ModelFactory
    BaseFactory <|-- AttnFactory
    BaseFactory <|-- FFNFactory
    BaseFactory <|-- DatasetFactory
@@ -1286,7 +1316,6 @@ classDiagram
    PositionIdStrategy <|-- DocResetPositionId
    PositionIdStrategy <|-- ContinuousPositionId
    StoreWriter <|-- BinWriter
-    StoreWriter <|-- H5Writer
    RawRollout <|-- RolloutResult
    LaunchStrategy <|-- TorchrunStrategy
    LaunchStrategy <|-- LocalStrategy
@@ -1294,10 +1323,12 @@ classDiagram
    PagePool *-- KVStorage
    PagePool *-- ReqToTokenPool
    PagePool *-- Allocator
-    PagePool *-- PrefixCache
+    PagePool *-- RadixCache
+    RadixCache *-- RadixNode
    InferenceEngine *-- InferenceScheduler
    InferenceScheduler *-- PagePool
    InferenceScheduler *-- Executor
+    Executor *-- InferenceWorkspace
    InferenceScheduler *-- TaskManager
    AutoRegressiveLM *-- DecoderBlock
    AutoRegressiveLM *-- RotaryEmbedding
@@ -1317,8 +1348,6 @@ 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
@@ -1352,11 +1381,12 @@ 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
@@ -1369,7 +1399,8 @@ classDiagram
    Checkpoint ..> Checkpoint : serializes
    CheckpointCallback ..> Checkpoint : creates
    PagePool ..> KVCache : binds
-    InferenceEngine ..> GenerationRequest : uses
+    PagePool ..> InferenceWorkspace : fills
+    InferenceEngine ..> GenerateResult : uses
    InferenceEngine ..> GenerateResult : creates
    OpenAIResponseBuilder ..> ChatCompletionRequest : receives
    AnthropicResponseBuilder ..> MessagesRequest : receives
@@ -1399,14 +1430,14 @@ 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, 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.inference** | InferenceEngine, InferenceScheduler, Executor, InferenceWorkspace, PagePool, KVStorage, ReqToTokenPool, KVCache, Allocator, RadixCache, Task, TaskManager, TaskStatus, StreamDecoder, 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, attn_paged_prefill, 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 |
@@ -1415,21 +1446,21 @@ 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 |
+| **Strategy (Sampling)** | `TemperatureStrategy`, `TopKStrategy`, `TopPStrategy`, `FrequencyPenaltyStrategy`, `SamplingPipeline` | Composable logit transformations |
 | **Strategy (API)** | `ResponseBuilder`, `OpenAIResponseBuilder`, `AnthropicResponseBuilder` | HTTP API handler with format hooks |
 | **Builder** | `TrainContextBuilder` | Chain-building training context |
 | **Observer** | `TrainCallback`, callback implementations | Training process monitoring |
 | **Context** | `TrainContext` | Unified training state bag |
 | **Object Pool** | `Allocator`, `PagePool` | Page-based KV cache with LRU eviction |
-| **Strategy (Attention)** | `AttentionBackend`, `TorchNativeBackend`, `CudaBackend` | Attention computation backend switching via context manager |
+| **Strategy (Attention)** | `AttentionBackend`, `CudaBackend`, `FlashAttnBackend`, `TorchNativeBackend` | 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`, `H5Store`, `MmapStore`, `JsonlStore` | Format-agnostic data access with multi-segment support |
+| **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

@@ -1437,12 +1468,12 @@ classDiagram
 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`
-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).
+5. **Inference Flow**: `InferenceEngine` → `InferenceScheduler` → `AutoRegressiveLM`, backed by `PagePool` + `KVCache` + `SamplingPipeline`. Attention backend selected via `attn_backend()` context manager (cuda > flash > torch priority; `ASTR_BACKEND` env var overrides default; `TorchNativeBackend` fallback). Rotary embedding auto-dispatches to CUDA kernel when available, else torch complex multiply.
 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: 2026-07-31
+> Document Update Time: 2026-08-02
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ AstrAI includes optional custom CUDA kernels for attention and rotary embedding.
 | `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 |
+| `attn_paged_prefill` | `attn_paged_prefill.cu` | Paged KV cache prefill attention (ragged batch) |
 | `rotary_emb` | `rotary_emb.cu` | Fused rotary embedding (cos/sin lookup + rotation) |

 Additionally, optimized `.cuh` variants with tensor-core MMA (Matrix Multiply-Accumulate) exist:
@@ -17,7 +18,10 @@ Additionally, optimized `.cuh` variants with tensor-core MMA (Matrix Multiply-Ac
 |---------|------|--------------|
 | 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 |
+
+> The paged and non-paged paths are ONE kernel templated on a `KVSource`
+> policy (`ContigKV` / `PagedKV` in `attn_kv_source.cuh`); there are no
+> separate `attn_paged_*.cuh` files anymore.

 ### Rotary Embedding Kernel

@@ -50,31 +54,44 @@ 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
+
+# Or invoke CMake directly
+cmake -S csrc -B build/cmake \
+  -DTORCH_HOME=<site-packages>/torch \
+  -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=<python include> \
+  -DPY_SOABI=cpython-312-x86_64-linux-gnu
+cmake --build build/cmake -j 16
 ```

 ### Architecture flags

-`csrc/build.py` auto-detects the GPU compute capability and generates the appropriate `nvcc` gencode flag:
+`setup.py` passes the GPU compute capability to CMake via `ASTRAI_CUDA_ARCH` (default `89`, i.e. sm_89 / L20):

 - **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

+`csrc/CMakeLists.txt` defines the CUDA extension build:
+
 ```
 NVCC_FLAGS = -O3 --expt-relaxed-constexpr --use_fast_math
-             --ptxas-options=-O3,-v --extra-device-vectorization --threads=8
+             --ptxas-options=-O3,-v --extra-device-vectorization --threads=16
 ```

-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.
+Each kernel in `astrai/extension/lib` is compiled as an independent pybind11 module (one `.so` per kernel, named `<kernel>.cpython-*-x86_64-linux-gnu.so`). CMake builds all five kernel targets in parallel via `cmake --build -j N`.

 ## 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`
+- **`CudaBackend`**: CUDA kernel dispatch — decode via `attn_paged_decode` (page_size=1), prefill via `attn_paged_prefill` (ragged batch, `qo_indptr` + `kv_indptr`). Default on GPU.
+- **`FlashAttnBackend`**: Optional flash-attn dispatch with `flash_attn_with_kvcache` fast path.
+- **`TorchNativeBackend`**: SDPA with indirect KV cache gather (always-available fallback)
+
+Default priority: cuda > flash > torch. Set ``ASTR_BACKEND=cuda|torch_native|flash``
+to override the default.

 Select a backend via context manager (mirrors `torch.nn.attention.sdpa_kernel`):

@@ -85,7 +102,7 @@ with attn_backend(ATTN_BACKEND.CUDA):
    engine.generate("hello")
 ```

-`CudaBackend` falls back to `TorchNativeBackend` when a kernel is not available.
+`CudaBackend` falls back to `FlashAttnBackend` (when flash-attn is installed and supports the input dtype) or `TorchNativeBackend` otherwise.

 ### Rotary Backend

@@ -117,23 +134,22 @@ Each `csrc/tests/*.cu` file has the `nvcc` compile command in its header comment
 ```bash
 nvcc -I csrc -arch=sm_89 -O3 --use_fast_math \
     --ptxas-options=-O3,-v --extra-device-vectorization \
-     csrc/tests/attn_decode_test.cu -o /tmp/test && /tmp/test
+     -Xcompiler -fopenmp csrc/tests/attn_test.cu -o /tmp/test && /tmp/test
 ```

 Test files:
- `attn_decode_test.cu` — basic decode kernel
- `attn_paged_decode_test.cu` — paged decode kernel
- `attn_prefill_test.cu` — prefill kernel
+- `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:
+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 \
-     csrc/tests/attn_<name>_test.cu -o /tmp/test && /tmp/test
+     -Xcompiler -fopenmp csrc/tests/attn_test.cu -o /tmp/test && /tmp/test
 ```

 ## Known Optimization Targets
@@ -146,28 +162,27 @@ nvcc -I csrc -arch=sm_89 -O3 --use_fast_math \

 ```
 csrc/
-├── build.py              # Build system: REGISTRY, _arch_flags, nvcc flags
+├── CMakeLists.txt        # CMake build: 5 kernel targets, torch/pybind11 linking
 ├── kernels/
-│   ├── attn_common.h     # Shared attention params (AttentionParams, PagedAttentionParams)
+│   ├── attn_common.h     # Unified attention params (contig + paged modes)
 │   ├── attn_decode.cu    # Basic decode kernel (registered)
 │   ├── attn_prefill.cu   # Basic prefill kernel (registered)
 │   ├── attn_paged_decode.cu             # Paged decode kernel (registered)
+│   ├── attn_paged_prefill.cu            # Paged prefill 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_decode_split_kv.cuh         # Split-KV variant (contig + paged via KVSource)
+│   ├── attn_decode_split_kv_mma.cuh     # Split-KV + MMA variant (contig + paged)
+│   ├── attn_prefill_split_q.cuh         # Split-Q variant (contig + paged via KVSource)
+│   ├── attn_prefill_split_q_mma.cuh     # Split-Q + MMA variant (contig + paged)
+│   ├── attn_kv_source.cuh               # KVSource policies (ContigKV / PagedKV)
+│   ├── attn_dispatchers.cuh             # Kernel dispatch macros + KV-templated launchers
 │   ├── 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_decode_test.cu      # Decode kernel test
-    ├── attn_paged_decode_test.cu # Paged decode test
-    └── attn_prefill_test.cu     # Prefill kernel test
+    ├── 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.
@@ -14,26 +14,30 @@ This document describes the data pipeline: from raw text to model input tensors.
 ## Overview

 ```
-JSONL Lines → Pipeline (mask builder) → Tokenized Tensors
-                                              ↓
-                                      .h5 or .bin storage
-                                              ↓
-                                      Store.load()
+JSON / JSONL Records → Pipeline (mask builder) → Tokenized Tensors
+                                               ↓
+                                           .bin storage
+                                               ↓
+                                       Store.load()
                                              ↓
                                      Store.fetch(begin, end, keys)
                                              ↓
-                                      BaseDataset.__getitem__(idx)
-                                              ↓
-                                      Sampler → DataLoader → Training / Inference
+                                       Dataset.__getitem__(idx)
+                                               ↓
+                                       RDSampler → DataLoader → Training
 ```

 ## Data Preparation

-Raw text is tokenized via `AutoTokenizer.encode()` and saved as HDF5 (`.h5`) or binary (`.bin` + `meta.json`) files with keyed tensor groups.
+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 JSONL lines, applies the mask builder (see [Preprocessing](../guides/preprocessing.md)), and produces flat token sequences:
+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
@@ -42,84 +46,119 @@ 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.
+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: 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"`
+- 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 `DatasetFactory.load()` constructs a transform via `_build_jsonl_transform()` and passes it to `JsonlStore.load()`.

 ### 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.
+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**: 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).
+**JsonlStore**: Reads a `.jsonl` file or the sorted top-level `*.jsonl` files in
+a directory. Eager transform selection is owned by
+`DatasetFactory._build_jsonl_transform()` (called from `DatasetFactory.load()`) —
+the factory picks the first available route:

-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.
+1. An explicit `transform=` argument passed through `store.load()`.
+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.
+
+`JsonlStore.load()` requires `transform=` to be passed explicitly for eager mode
+(raises `ValueError` if missing).
+
+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` (→ input_ids, target_ids via offset-by-1) | stream (`fetch`) |
+| `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(
-    train_type, load_path=None, window_size=0, stride=None,
-    storage_type=None, tokenizer_path=None,
-    max_len=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)
+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)
-    → get_index(idx) → [begin, end)
+    → Store.sample_window(idx) → [begin, end)
    → Store.fetch(begin, end, keys) → Tensor / Dict[str, Tensor]

-Record datasets (DPO/GRPO via RecordDataset):
-  RecordDataset.__getitem__(idx)
+Record datasets (DPO/GRPO):
+  DPODataset/GRPODataset.__getitem__(idx)
    → Store.fetch_record(idx, keys) → Tensor / Dict[str, Tensor]
 ```

-Class hierarchy: `BaseDataset` ← `SEQDataset` / `SFTDataset` (stream); `BaseDataset` ← `RecordDataset` ← `DPODataset` / `GRPODataset` (record).
+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`).

-`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.
+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 (bin layout with per-record offsets), otherwise indexes `_data[key]` directly (H5/JSONL where each segment is one record).
+`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

-`ResumableDistributedSampler` supports checkpoint-aware distributed sampling:
+`RDSampler` supports checkpoint-aware distributed sampling:

 - Tracks `start_epoch` / `start_iter` for resume
 - Shuffle via `torch.Generator(seed + epoch)`
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+# Containerized Training Deployment
+
+Rules for running AstrAI distributed training in containers, distilled from real deployment failures. Read before touching `Dockerfile`, `docker-compose.yml`, `scripts/train.sh`, `train-entrypoint.sh`. AGENTS.md mirrors this locally; this file is the committed version.
+
+## Architecture
+
+```
+scripts/train.sh           host-side CLI: env loading, preflight, compose wrapper, lifecycle
+  └── docker-compose.yml   GPU passthrough, mounts, in-container env vars, entrypoint
+        └── train-entrypoint.sh   GPU-count resolution, parallel-mode selection, auto-resume
+              └── train.py --config /run/astrai/train.yaml
+```
+
+| Layer | Responsible for | NOT responsible for |
+|-------|-----------------|---------------------|
+| `train.sh` | host paths, `.env.train`, preflight, lifecycle | training args, GPU selection, parallel mode |
+| compose | GPU passthrough, mounts, in-container env (NCCL) | training args (beyond `TRAIN_*` forwarding) |
+| entrypoint | `--ckpt_dir/--nprocs/--parallel_mode/--param_path`, resume | hyperparameters (YAML/CLI) |
+| `train.yaml` | hyperparameters (`_merge_yaml_into_kwargs`, CLI wins) | container paths, process count |
+
+## Path Conventions
+
+| Host var | Container | Perm | Purpose |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `TRAIN_DATA_DIR` | `/data` | ro | dataset (`data_root_path` must be `/data`) |
+| `TRAIN_MODEL_DIR` | `/models/base` | ro | base model (`config.json` + `model.safetensors`) |
+| `TRAIN_CHECKPOINT_DIR` | `/checkpoints` | rw | checkpoint root, per-`TRAIN_JOB_NAME` subdirs |
+| `TRAIN_CONFIG_FILE` | `/run/astrai/train.yaml` | ro | training YAML (mounted only on `start`) |
+| code | `/app` | image | **not a mount**; rebuild image for code changes |
+
+## Hard Rules
+
+1. **Filter GPUs once**: compose passes the full physical set (`count: all`); `CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES` filters inside by physical index. Never `count: N` + physical indices (double filter leaves 1 card → `device_id out of range`).
+2. **In-container UID = host UID**: Dockerfile builds the user via `USER_UID/USER_GID` args; `train.sh` injects `ASTRAI_UID/GID` (bash `UID` is readonly). compose `user:` alone does not create the /etc/passwd entry — torch's `getpass.getuser()` then dies with `uid not found`.
+3. **In-container env vars are explicit**: `.env.train` (`--env-file`) is only compose's interpolation dictionary — never reaches the container. A var arrives only via a value-less `environment` entry (`- VAR`, read from the calling process env).
+4. **NCCL hang workaround** (this host): `NCCL_P2P_DISABLE=1` + `NCCL_NET_GDR_LEVEL=0` must be in-container.
+5. **Checkpoint complete =** `meta.json + config.json + model.safetensors + optimizer.pt + scheduler.pt`; `start` auto-resumes the latest complete one.
+6. **tqdm is silent without a TTY**: add `disable=False` in `astrai/trainer/train_callback.py`; `metric.jsonl` (per step) works as progress evidence regardless.
+
+## Operations
+
+```bash
+bash scripts/train.sh init        # first run: dirs + .env.train (edit per machine)
+bash scripts/train.sh preflight   # validate Docker/paths/GPU/model/YAML/compose
+bash scripts/train.sh start       # build + start in background (auto-resume)
+bash scripts/train.sh start --foreground -- --dry-run   # print plan only
+bash scripts/train.sh logs | status | stop | restart
+bash scripts/train.sh clean --keep 5   # prune old checkpoints (--force to delete)
+```
+
+## Files
+
+- `docker-compose.yml` — trainer service: `count: all`, `ASTRAI_UID/GID` build args + `user:`, env whitelist, mounts
+- `Dockerfile` — production stage builds user from `USER_UID/USER_GID`; `ENV HOME=/home/astrai`; `USER astrai`
+- `scripts/train.sh` — `load_env` filters `UID=` lines (readonly var); `compose()` injects `ASTRAI_UID/GID`
+- `scripts/docker/train-entrypoint.sh` — GPU-count resolution, parallel mode, resume
+- `.env.train`, `train.yaml` — host-specific; templates from `scripts/train.sh init`; scientific-notation floats (`2e-5`) parse correctly since train.py uses the YAML 1.2 float schema
@@ -41,7 +41,14 @@ 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 `cos_table` and `sin_table` (f32, `[max_len, dim/2]`). `forward()` returns a `(cos, sin)` tuple 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.
+`RotaryEmbedding` pre-computes a cos/sin table `freqs_cis` of shape
+`[max_len, dim/2, 2]` (f32 — `[cos, sin]` pairs). `forward()` returns
+a `[batch, seq_len, dim/2, 2]` slice 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.

@@ -51,13 +58,13 @@ $$ 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_{

 Next-token cross-entropy with optional label smoothing:

-$$ L_{\text{PT}} = -\sum_{t=1}^{T} \log P(x_t \mid x_{\lt t}; \theta) $$
+$$ L_{\text{PT}} = -\frac{1}{T}\sum_{t=1}^{T} \log P(x_t \mid x_{\lt t}; \theta) $$

 ### SFT (Supervised Fine-Tuning)

 Masked cross-entropy (`ignore_index=-100`) over response tokens only:

-$$ L_{\text{SFT}} = -\sum_{t=P+1}^{P+L} \log P(s_t \mid s_{\lt t}; \theta) $$
+$$ L_{\text{SFT}} = -\frac{1}{L}\sum_{t=P+1}^{P+L} \log P(s_t \mid s_{\lt t}; \theta) $$

 Prompt tokens are masked out via `loss_mask`; only response tokens contribute to the loss.

@@ -81,6 +88,14 @@ Where $\rho_t = \pi_\theta(a_t|s_t) / \pi_{\text{old}}(a_t|s_t)$ is the per-toke

 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.
@@ -90,11 +105,12 @@ on_train_begin
  model.train()
  on_epoch_begin
    for batch in dataloader:
-      on_batch_begin
      with executor.accumulate(model):
-        loss = strategy.compute_loss(batch)
-        context.loss = loss.item()
-        stand_loss = loss / executor.grad_accum_steps
+        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
@@ -104,6 +120,7 @@ on_train_begin
        if executor.sync_gradients:
          on_optimizer_step
          optimizer.step()
+          strategy.on_optimizer_step()
          optimizer.zero_grad()
          if scheduler:
            scheduler.step()
@@ -112,21 +129,23 @@ 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` |
+| `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 | `GradientClippingCallback`, `MetricCallback`, `ProgressBarCallback` |
+| `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 ends (always via finally) | `CheckpointCallback`, `MetricCallback`, `GradientCheckpointingCallback` |
+| `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), `gradient_clipping` (always registered; computes grad norm, clips only when `max_grad_norm` is not `None`).
+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

@@ -149,16 +168,20 @@ 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.
+- **Allocator + RadixCache**: Paged-mode allocation with ref-counting, LRU eviction, and exact page-aligned prefix sharing when `page_size > 1`.

-`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 precomputed `page_table` and `decode_mask` fields (computed once per decode step, shared across all layers). Attention layers access buffers directly — no methods, no abstraction.
+`PagePool` orchestrates all three. In contiguous mode (default), `req_to_token` is a trivial linear mapping. In paged mode, slots are allocated on demand. `RadixCache` walks exact token-page edges from the root, preserving parent-prefix context instead of treating a page hash as a globally unique key. Only complete pages whose KV entries have been materialized are shared; partial pages remain request-private and are released at completion. The final sampled token is excluded because it has not yet been decoded into KV.
+
+`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.
+- **`CudaBackend`** (default): 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 uses the ragged-batch `attn_paged_prefill` (addresses each request via `qo_indptr` + `kv_indptr` directly against the flat pool). Falls back to `FlashAttnBackend` when dtype unsupported.
+- **`FlashAttnBackend`**: optional flash-attn dispatch with `flash_attn_with_kvcache` fast path for contiguous cache; falls back to KV gather + `flash_attn_func`.
+- **`TorchNativeBackend`** (always-available fallback): writes K/V to cache, gathers via `req_to_token` indirect indexing, calls `F.scaled_dot_product_attention`.
+- Default priority: cuda > flash > torch. Set `ASTR_BACKEND=cuda|torch_native|flash` to override.

 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.

@@ -230,4 +253,4 @@ total_steps          = (batches_per_replica // grad_accum_steps) * n_epoch

 This accounts for data-parallel sharding — each rank processes `1/nprocs` of the dataset.

-> Document Update Time: 2026-07-31
+> Document Update Time: 2026-08-02
@@ -2,11 +2,23 @@

 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+** (CUDA 12.8 recommended for GPU support)
- NVIDIA GPU with CUDA (optional but recommended; CPU works for inference)
+- **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

@@ -24,7 +36,7 @@ pip install -e .
 # 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.
+> **CUDA kernels** are opt-in at build time (`CSRC_KERNELS=true`). Once built, `CudaBackend` is the default attention backend on GPU (cuda > flash > torch priority). Override via `ASTR_BACKEND` env var or `attn_backend()` context manager. Fused rotary embedding kernel is auto-dispatched when available. Skip for CPU-only usage.

 ## 2. Download Model Weights

@@ -55,7 +67,7 @@ python scripts/demo/stream_chat.py
 # Type your message after >>, type !exit to quit
 ```

-This starts a multi-turn interactive chat session with streaming output.
+This starts a single-turn interactive prompt loop with streaming output. Each prompt is independent; conversation history is not retained.

 ### Start an HTTP Server

@@ -192,6 +204,13 @@ See [Training Guide](guides/training.md) for loss formulas and strategies. See [

 ## 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
@@ -213,7 +232,7 @@ 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
+  python scripts/tools/server.py --port 8000 --device cuda

 # Docker Compose (GPU)
 docker compose up -d
@@ -2,6 +2,18 @@

 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
@@ -21,9 +33,6 @@ python scripts/tools/train.py \

 ```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=sft \
    --param_path ./params \
@@ -38,9 +47,6 @@ python scripts/tools/train.py \

 ```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=sft \
    --param_path ./params \
@@ -110,7 +116,7 @@ AstrAI auto-detects the launch method:

 | Detection | Strategy | Use Case |
 |-----------|----------|----------|
-| `torchelastic` / `torchrun` env vars | `TorchrunStrategy` | External orchestrator (torchrun, SLURM, K8s) |
+| `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) |

@@ -126,23 +132,28 @@ For multi-node or SLURM environments:
 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, AstrAI reads `RANK`, `WORLD_SIZE`, `LOCAL_RANK` from the environment and uses `TorchrunStrategy`. The `--nprocs` flag is ignored (the orchestrator controls process count).
+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.

-## NCCL Environment Variables
+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.

-For multi-GPU training, you **must** set these environment variables:
+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
 ```

-These are required on certain hardware configurations (see `AGENTS.md`). Without them, NCCL may hang or crash during collective operations. These are set in the training shell scripts (`train-seq.sh`, `train-sft.sh`, `train-dpo.sh`) but not in Python code — you must export them before launching.
+Apply them only after confirming the relevant NCCL transport is the source of the failure. AstrAI does not set them in Python.

 ## Checkpoint Saving

@@ -176,9 +187,6 @@ This ensures the LR schedule is correctly scaled regardless of the number of GPU

 ```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 \
    --param_path ./params \
@@ -240,7 +248,7 @@ python scripts/tools/train.py \

 | Parameter | Default | Description |
 |-----------|---------|-------------|
-| `--nprocs` | 1 | Number of GPUs / processes |
+| `--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`) |
@@ -248,8 +256,8 @@ python scripts/tools/train.py \
 | `--master_port` | `29500` | Master node port |
 | `--device_type` | `cuda` | Device type |

-> `--tp_size` is parsed but **not yet wired** — tensor parallelism is future work. `ColumnParallelLinear` / `RowParallelLinear` exist in `astrai/parallel/module.py` but are not used by the model.
+> `--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).

-> Document Update Time: 2026-07-30
+> Document Update Time: 2026-08-02
@@ -2,6 +2,29 @@

 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 |
@@ -18,7 +41,15 @@ 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.

-Common defaults: `--param_path` defaults to `./params`; dtype defaults to `bfloat16` on CUDA, `float32` on CPU.
+| 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` |

 ---

@@ -30,7 +61,7 @@ Generates completions for 164 programming problems, executes them against hidden
 python scripts/eval/evaluate_humaneval.py \
    --param_path ./params \
    --num_samples 20 \
-    --batch_size 32 \
+    --batch_size 64 \
    --max_tokens 512 \
    --output results/humaneval.json
 ```
@@ -47,7 +78,8 @@ python scripts/eval/evaluate_humaneval.py \
 | `--temperature` | 0.8 | Sampling temperature |
 | `--top_p` | 0.95 | Nucleus sampling threshold |
 | `--top_k` | 50 | Top-k sampling |
-| `--batch_size` | 32 | Generation batch size |
+| `--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 |
@@ -66,7 +98,7 @@ python scripts/eval/evaluate_humaneval.py \
 python scripts/eval/evaluate_mmlu.py \
    --param_path ./params \
    --n_shot 5 \
-    --subjects math_algebra history_us \
+    --subjects abstract_algebra high_school_us_history \
    --output results/mmlu.json
 ```

@@ -82,12 +114,13 @@ python scripts/eval/evaluate_mmlu.py \
 | `--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).
+**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`.

 ---

@@ -100,7 +133,7 @@ python scripts/eval/evaluate_ppl.py \
    --param_path ./params \
    --input_path data.jsonl \
    --output_dir ppl_results/ \
-    --batch_size 4 \
+    --batch_size 64 \
    --max_length 2048
 ```

@@ -110,7 +143,7 @@ python scripts/eval/evaluate_ppl.py \
 | `--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` | 4 | Batch size |
+| `--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 |
@@ -119,7 +152,7 @@ python scripts/eval/evaluate_ppl.py \

 **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 stats (tokens, mean/median loss, perplexity, p50/p90/p95/p99). With `--token_level`, also writes per-token JSONL with token IDs and log-probs.
+**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.

 ---

@@ -181,6 +214,7 @@ python scripts/eval/evaluate_ifd.py \
 | `--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 |
+| `--append_eos` / `--no-append_eos` | `True` | Append (or skip) EOS token to instruction/response |

 **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).

@@ -210,7 +244,8 @@ python scripts/eval/evaluate_ifeval.py \
 | `--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` | 1 | Inference batch size |
+| `--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 |

@@ -232,7 +267,7 @@ python scripts/eval/analyze_weights.py \

 | Parameter | Default | Description |
 |-----------|---------|-------------|
-| `--ckpt_dir` | required | Checkpoint dir with `model.safetensors` + `config.json` |
+| `--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 |
@@ -245,8 +280,8 @@ python scripts/eval/analyze_weights.py \
 ## Tips

 - **Quick test**: Use `--limit` (IFEval) or `--problems` (HumanEval) to run on a small subset first.
- **Auto-download**: HumanEval, MMLU, and IFEval auto-download their datasets on first run. The other scripts expect user-provided data.
+- **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**: All scripts auto-detect CUDA. To force CPU, use `--device cpu --dtype float32`.
+- **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
@@ -31,13 +31,17 @@ 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)
+  └── RadixCache             exact, page-aligned prefix matching (paged mode, page_size > 1)
 ```

 `PagePool` supports two modes:

 - **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.
+- **Paged** (`page_size=1` or `>1` with `n_tokens` set): shared token pool with on-demand allocation. `Allocator` provides ref-counted allocation and LRU eviction. When `page_size > 1`, `RadixCache` also enables prefix sharing.
+
+`RadixCache` indexes complete token pages as parent-linked radix edges. Lookup walks from the root and compares each page's exact token tuple, so an identical page can only be reused under the same parent prefix. Hash values are retained for introspection, but never determine a match.
+
+Only fully materialized KV pages enter the radix. A partial final page remains private to its request and is released when the request ends. On completion, the scheduler records the prompt plus generated tokens already decoded into KV; it excludes the final sampled token because that token has not yet passed through the model. A later request resumes prefill immediately after the longest complete-page hit.

 `bind_tasks()` returns a `KVCache` dataclass — pure data, no methods:

@@ -49,8 +53,8 @@ KVCache
  ├── 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
-  ├── page_table             [batch, max_len] — precomputed gather indices for decode (None for prefill)
-  └── decode_mask            [batch, max_len] bool — precomputed position validity mask (None for single-batch decode)
+  ├── kv_indptr              [batch + 1] int32 — prefix sum of seq_lens, precomputed once per step
+  └── qo_indptr              [batch + 1] int32 — prefix sum of per-request q_lens (prefill), precomputed once per step
 ```

 Attention layers do raw buffer indexing: `k_buffer[layer_id, out_cache_loc] = k` to write, `k_buffer[layer_id, indices]` to gather.
@@ -61,10 +65,14 @@ Attention computation (cache I/O + SDPA/kernel dispatch) is decoupled from the m

 ```
 AttentionBackend (ABC)
-  ├── TorchNativeBackend   SDPA + indirect KV cache gather (default)
-  └── CudaBackend          CUDA kernel dispatch (attn_paged_decode, attn_prefill)
+  ├── CudaBackend          CUDA kernel dispatch (default on GPU)
+  ├── FlashAttnBackend     Optional flash-attn dispatch (fallback)
+  └── TorchNativeBackend   SDPA + indirect KV cache gather (always-available fallback)
 ```

+Default priority: cuda > flash > torch.  Set ``ASTR_BACKEND=cuda|torch_native|flash``
+to override.
+
 Select via context manager (mirrors `torch.nn.attention.sdpa_kernel`):

 ```python
@@ -76,25 +84,28 @@ with attn_backend(ATTN_BACKEND.CUDA):

 `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`.
+`CudaBackend` prefill path: writes K/V, then calls `attn_paged_prefill` — a ragged-batch (paged) prefill kernel that reads K/V directly from the flat pool via `req_to_token`, addressing each request's `q_len`/`kv_len` through `qo_indptr` and `kv_indptr`. No explicit K/V gather needed.

-Fallback: `CudaBackend` delegates to `TorchNativeBackend` when a CUDA kernel is not available.
+Fallback: when `CudaBackend` cannot handle an input (wrong dtype or head_dim), `FlashAttnBackend` is tried next (if installed), then `TorchNativeBackend`.

 ### 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)
+- **CUDA kernel** (`rotary_emb.cu`): fused cos/sin lookup + rotation in a single kernel, used when the kernel is available, the input is bf16 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 `cos_table`/`sin_table` as f32 buffers and returns a `(cos, sin)` tuple from `forward()`. Both attention backends share the same rotary dispatch — it is backend-agnostic.
+`RotaryEmbedding` stores a cos/sin table `freqs_cis` of shape
+`[max_len, dim/2, 2]` (f32 — `[cos, sin]` pairs) and `forward()` returns
+a `[batch, seq_len, dim/2, 2]` slice indexed by `position_ids`. Both
+attention backends share the same rotary dispatch — it is backend-agnostic.

 ## Continuous Batching

 `InferenceScheduler` runs a daemon thread with a 4-phase loop:

 ```
-1. Cleanup → Remove finished tasks, free KV cache slots/pages
+1. Cleanup → Record complete materialized pages, then release task-owned KV resources
 2. Refill  → Pop from waiting_queue, task_alloc resources, activate
 3. Prefill → Group by (prompt_len, start_pos), run full forward
 4. Decode  → Run single-token forward for each same-position group
@@ -136,7 +147,6 @@ Adding a protocol = one builder file, no handler subclassing needed.
 ```
 InferenceEngine
  ├── generate(prompt, stream, ...) → str | List[str] | Generator
-  ├── generate_with_request(req)    → same
  ├── generate_async(prompt, ...)   → AsyncGenerator
  ├── get_stats()                   → Dict
  └── shutdown()
@@ -183,22 +193,45 @@ 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 |
-| `top_p` | float | 1.0 | Nucleus threshold |
-| `temperature` | float | 1.0 | Sampling temperature (> 0.0) |
-| `max_tokens` | Optional[int] | None | Max generation length |
-| `stream` | bool | False | Stream output |
+| `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 |
-| `frequency_penalty` | float | 0.0 | Frequency penalty |
-| `tools` | Optional[List[dict]] | None | Tool definitions for function calling |
-| `tool_choice` | Optional[str] | None | Tool selection mode |
+| `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 |

 ### SSE Streaming Format

@@ -240,6 +273,8 @@ data: {"type":"message_delta","delta":{"stop_reason":"end_turn","stop_sequence":

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

 ### Error Responses
@@ -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 |
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@
 |-----------|-------------|---------|
 | `--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

@@ -36,9 +38,9 @@ non-matrix parameters through **AdamW** (`fused=True`).
 | Parameter | Description | Default |
 |-----------|-------------|---------|
 | `--optimizer` | Built-in optimizer (`muon_adamw`, `nora_nadamw`, `mano_adamw`) | `muon_adamw` |
-| `--weight_decay` | Weight decay (applied to Muon matrix params; non-matrix use 0) | 0.1 |
+| `--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` |

@@ -56,15 +58,18 @@ under DTensor sharding and rejects layouts sharded along the last dimension.
 | `--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 **NAdamW**. Mano projects
+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` | Mano momentum factor | 0.95 |
-| `--mano_nesterov` | Enable Nesterov momentum for Mano | True |
+| `--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
@@ -78,7 +83,7 @@ with `--optimizer=muon_adamw`.
 | `--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

@@ -100,14 +105,20 @@ with `--optimizer=muon_adamw`.

 | 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

@@ -120,21 +131,25 @@ with `--optimizer=muon_adamw`.
 | `--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.

@@ -151,7 +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) |
@@ -204,14 +219,6 @@ python scripts/tools/server.py --param_path ./params --device cuda --dtype bfloa

 See [Inference Guide](inference.md) for HTTP API documentation.

-# Preprocess
-
-```bash
-python scripts/tools/preprocess.py data/*.jsonl -o output/ -c config.json
-```
-
-See [Preprocessing Guide](preprocessing.md) for config file format and examples.
-
 ## Generate (`generate.py`)

 | Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
@@ -221,13 +228,12 @@ See [Preprocessing Guide](preprocessing.md) for config file format and examples.
 | `--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 |
 | `--num_samples` | int | `1` | Responses per prompt |
-| `--max_tokens` | int | model config `max_position_embeddings` | Maximum tokens to generate |
-| `--cache_len` | int | `2048` | KV cache length |
+| `--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 |

@@ -243,14 +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.
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Declarative JSON-driven data preprocessing. `MaskBuilderFactory` supports three
 - [Configuration Reference](#configuration-reference) — all fields
 - [Mask Algorithm](#mask-algorithm)
 - [Output Layout](#output-layout)
+- [Training Compatibility](#training-compatibility)
 - [CLI](#cli)
 - [Python API](#python-api)

@@ -40,7 +41,7 @@ A single config file captures the entire pipeline, reusable and version-controll
 | Field | Type | Default | Description |
 |-------|------|---------|-------------|
 | `field` | str | -- | JSONL key to read |
-| `action` | str | -- | `"train"` / `"mask"` / `"$role"` |
+| `action` | str | -- | `"train"` / `"mask"` / `"$role"` / `"value"`; `"value"` copies raw values without tokenization |
 | `template` | bool | `false` | Apply `chat_template` per message |
 | `add_special_tokens` | bool | `true` for first non-template section | Add special tokens during encode |

@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ Config:
 }
 ```

-Output keys: `sequence` (int32), `loss_mask` (bool)
+Output keys: `sequence` (int32), `loss_mask` (bool), `position_ids` (int32)

 ### SFT Instruction

@@ -116,7 +117,7 @@ Config:
 }
 ```

-Output keys: `sequence`, `loss_mask`
+Output keys: `sequence`, `loss_mask`, `position_ids`

 ### Pretrain

@@ -142,7 +143,7 @@ Config:
 }
 ```

-Output keys: `sequence` (no `loss_mask` — all tokens trained)
+Output keys: `sequence`, `position_ids` (no `loss_mask` — all tokens trained)

 ### DPO

@@ -180,6 +181,11 @@ Config:

 Output keys: `chosen`, `chosen_mask`, `rejected`, `rejected_mask`

+The offline `Pipeline` can construct these keys, but its `.bin` output is not
+currently loadable for DPO training because the writer does not preserve
+per-record offsets. Train DPO directly from raw JSONL instead; see
+[Training Compatibility](#training-compatibility).
+
 ### GRPO

 Input JSONL:
@@ -228,6 +234,11 @@ Output keys: `prompts`, `prompts_mask`, `responses`, `masks`, `rewards` (float32
 - `mask_key: "masks"` — rename the auto-generated mask key (default: `responses_mask`)
 - `prompts_mask` is auto-generated (all masked) and unused by GRPOStrategy

+The offline `Pipeline` flattens GRPO response groups for `.bin` output without
+preserving their boundaries, and there is no automatic raw-JSONL GRPO processor
+in `DatasetFactory`. See
+[Training Compatibility](#training-compatibility) for the supported routes.
+
 ---

 ## Configuration Reference
@@ -257,7 +268,7 @@ When `sources` is set, `sections` is ignored.
 | `max_chars` | int | `2000000` | Skip text-mode items longer than this |
 | `max_items` | int or null | `null` | Stop after N documents |
 | `batch_size` | int | `256` | Records per tokenization batch |
-| `packing_strategy` | str | `"simple"` | Packing strategy: `"simple"`, `"bfd"`, `"bfd_split"` |
+| `packing_strategy` | str | `"simple"` | Packing is supported for single-output data with a `sequence` key: `"simple"`, `"bfd"`, or `"bfd_split"`. Multi-output DPO/GRPO data is not record-preserving packed output. |
 | `max_packed_len` | int | `8192` | Maximum length of a packed bin |
 | `truncation_mode` | str | `"keep_start"` | How to truncate sequences: `"keep_start"` or `"keep_end"` |

@@ -266,8 +277,8 @@ When `sources` is set, `sections` is ignored.
 | Field | Type | Default | Description |
 |-------|------|---------|-------------|
 | `domain_key` | str or null | `null` | JSONL key for domain grouping |
-| `storage_format` | str | `"bin"` | `"bin"` (mmap). Reading also supports `"jsonl"` for on-the-fly tokenization |
-| `max_tokens_per_shard` | int | `100000000` | Flush threshold in cumulative tokens |
+| `storage_format` | str | `"bin"` | Pipeline output format. Only `"bin"` has a registered writer; `"jsonl"` is accepted by config validation but cannot be emitted by `Pipeline`. |
+| `max_tokens_per_shard` | int | `100000000` | Flush threshold counted from each record's primary flat sequence: `sequence` for single-output data, otherwise the first flat source output |
 | `dtype` | dict[str, str] | `{}` | Per-key tensor dtype override (e.g. `{"loss_mask": "bool"}`) |
 | `position_ids_mode` | str | `"doc_reset"` | How to compute position_ids: `"none"`, `"doc_reset"`, `"continuous"` |

@@ -304,11 +315,13 @@ output/
      meta.json
      sequence.bin
      loss_mask.bin
+      position_ids.bin
  wiki/
    shard_0000/
      meta.json
      sequence.bin
      loss_mask.bin
+      position_ids.bin
 ```

 ### Multi-Shard (`bin`)
@@ -322,13 +335,44 @@ output/
      meta.json
      sequence.bin
      loss_mask.bin
+      position_ids.bin
    shard_0001/
      meta.json
      sequence.bin
      loss_mask.bin
+      position_ids.bin
 ```

-For `bin` format, `MmapStore` discovers all shards under the domain directory via `rglob("meta.json")`. For `h5` format, `H5Store` discovers `.h5`/`.hdf5` files via recursive glob.
+`MmapStore` discovers binary shards recursively through their `meta.json` files.
+Each shard's metadata is a top-level object keyed by tensor name:
+
+```json
+{
+  "sequence": {"shape": [123456], "dtype": "int32"},
+  "loss_mask": {"shape": [123456], "dtype": "bool"},
+  "position_ids": {"shape": [123456], "dtype": "int32"}
+}
+```
+
+An optional `offsets` array may appear for record-oriented binary data written
+through `save_bin(..., record_keys=...)`; the preprocessing `BinWriter` does not
+currently request those offsets.
+
+---
+
+## Training Compatibility
+
+| Training type | Supported input route |
+|---------------|-----------------------|
+| `seq` | Offline preprocessed `.bin`, or raw `.jsonl` eagerly transformed by `JsonlStore` using `dataset_config.json` or the built-in `messages` config |
+| `sft` | Offline preprocessed `.bin`, or raw `.jsonl` through the same eager transform routes |
+| `dpo` | Raw `.jsonl` through the automatic lazy DPO processor selected by `DatasetFactory` when `tokenizer_path` is supplied, or a caller-provided record store |
+| `grpo` | A caller-provided, already-loaded `Store` with record-shaped `prompts`, `responses`, `masks`, and `rewards`; no automatic raw-JSONL processor is currently wired |
+
+Offline DPO and GRPO preprocessing configs describe the intended token fields,
+but their `.bin` output is not currently loadable for training. DPO binary
+shards lack per-record offsets. GRPO response groups are flattened before the
+binary writer and their record/group boundaries are not preserved.

 ---

@@ -336,15 +380,20 @@ For `bin` format, `MmapStore` discovers all shards under the domain directory vi

 ```bash
 # SFT
-python scripts/tools/preprocess.py data/sft/*.jsonl -o output/sft/ -c configs/sft_chat.json
+python scripts/tools/preprocess.py data/sft/part-000.jsonl -o output/sft/ -c configs/sft_chat.json --batch_size 128

 # DPO
-python scripts/tools/preprocess.py data/dpo/*.jsonl -o output/dpo/ -c configs/dpo.json --tokenizer_path params
+python scripts/tools/preprocess.py data/dpo/part-000.jsonl -o output/dpo/ -c configs/dpo.json --tokenizer_path params

 # GRPO
-python scripts/tools/preprocess.py data/grpo/*.jsonl -o output/grpo/ -c configs/grpo.json
+python scripts/tools/preprocess.py data/grpo/part-000.jsonl -o output/grpo/ -c configs/grpo.json
 ```

+Inputs may be `.jsonl` files or `.json` files containing one object or a list of
+objects. Each positional path must exist. A wildcard such as `data/*.jsonl`
+works only when the invoking shell expands it before Click receives the
+arguments; otherwise pass the files explicitly.
+
 ---

 ## Python API
@@ -41,7 +41,12 @@ 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 `cos_table` and `sin_table` (f32, `[max_len, dim/2]`). `forward()` returns a `(cos, sin)` tuple 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.
+`RotaryEmbedding` pre-computes a cos/sin table `freqs_cis` of shape
+`[max_len, dim/2, 2]` (f32 — `[cos, sin]` pairs). `forward()` returns
+a `[batch, seq_len, dim/2, 2]` slice 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.

 ## Training Loop

@@ -52,11 +57,12 @@ on_train_begin
  model.train()
  on_epoch_begin
    for batch in dataloader:
-      on_batch_begin
      with executor.accumulate(model):
-        loss = strategy.compute_loss(batch)
-        context.loss = loss.item()
-        stand_loss = loss / executor.grad_accum_steps
+        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
@@ -66,6 +72,7 @@ on_train_begin
        if executor.sync_gradients:
          on_optimizer_step
          optimizer.step()
+          strategy.on_optimizer_step()
          optimizer.zero_grad()
          if scheduler:
            scheduler.step()
@@ -77,16 +84,18 @@ on_train_end

 | Hook | Fires | Default callback |
 |------|-------|-----------------|
-| `on_train_begin` | Before training starts | `GradientCheckpointingCallback` |
+| `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 | `GradientClippingCallback`, `MetricCallback`, `ProgressBarCallback` |
+| `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 ends (always via finally) | `CheckpointCallback`, `MetricCallback`, `GradientCheckpointingCallback` |
+| `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), `gradient_clipping` (always registered; computes grad norm, clips only when `max_grad_norm` is not `None`).
+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.
+
+Strategies return `{"loss": Tensor, "metrics": Dict[str, float]}` when called by the trainer. Built-in metrics include the task-specific loss and, for MoE models, `moe_aux_loss` plus `moe_aux_loss_weighted`. Direct `compute_loss(batch)` calls continue to return a single loss tensor.

 ## Strategies

@@ -95,7 +104,7 @@ Default callbacks (in order): `gradient_checkpointing` (activation checkpointing
 Next-token cross-entropy with optional label smoothing:

 $$
-L_{\text{PT}} = -\sum_{t=1}^{T} \log P(x_t \mid x_{\lt t}; \theta)
+L_{\text{PT}} = -\frac{1}{T}\sum_{t=1}^{T} \log P(x_t \mid x_{\lt t}; \theta)
 $$

 Keys: `input_ids`, `target_ids`. Optional: `label_smoothing`.
@@ -105,7 +114,7 @@ Keys: `input_ids`, `target_ids`. Optional: `label_smoothing`.
 Masked cross-entropy (`ignore_index=-100`) over response tokens:

 $$
-L_{\text{SFT}} = -\sum_{t=P+1}^{P+L} \log P(s_t \mid s_{\lt t}; \theta)
+L_{\text{SFT}} = -\frac{1}{L}\sum_{t=P+1}^{P+L} \log P(s_t \mid s_{\lt t}; \theta)
 $$

 Keys: `input_ids`, `target_ids`, `loss_mask`, `position_ids`. Optional: `label_smoothing`.
@@ -165,9 +174,9 @@ model factory.
 |------|-------|-------------|
 | Cosine | `CosineScheduler` | Linear warmup → cosine decay to `min_rate` |
 | SGDR | `SGDRScheduler` | Cosine annealing with warm restarts (`t_mult=2`) |
-| WSD | `WSDScheduler` | Warmup-Stable-Decay with sqrt cooldown |
+| WSD | `WSDScheduler` | Warmup-Stable-Decay with quadratic decay |

-Created by `SchedulerFactory.create(schedule_type, optimizer, **kwargs)`. Valid types: `"cosine"`, `"sgdr"`, `"wsd"`. Omit to use no scheduler.
+Created by `SchedulerFactory.create(schedule_type, optimizer, **kwargs)`. Valid types: `"cosine"`, `"sgdr"`, `"wsd"`. The training CLI always creates a scheduler and defaults `--schedule_type` to `"cosine"`.

 ## Gradient Checkpointing

@@ -185,10 +194,12 @@ Callback wraps each `DecoderBlock.forward` with `torch.utils.checkpoint.checkpoi

 ```
 Checkpoint(state_dict, epoch, consumed_samples, extra, meta, config)
-  ├── save(save_dir)    rank-0 only: meta.json (epoch/consumed_samples/timestamp) + config.json (model config) + model.safetensors + optional {key}.pt (optimizer.pt, scheduler.pt)
+  ├── save(save_dir)    meta.json (epoch/consumed_samples/timestamp) + config.json (model config) + model.safetensors + optional {key}.pt (optimizer.pt, scheduler.pt)
  └── load(save_dir, broadcast=False)    loads from local disk; set broadcast=True to broadcast metadata from rank-0
 ```

+`Checkpoint.save()` writes whenever it is called. During training, `CheckpointCallback` uses the executor checkpoint context so only rank 0 receives a state dict and calls `save()`.
+
 Optimizer/scheduler state persisted by default via `Checkpoint.extra`.  
 Model config (`context.model_config`) saved into `config.json` during training via `CheckpointCallback`.

@@ -232,4 +243,4 @@ nohup python scripts/tools/train.py \

 Full parameter reference at [params.md](params.md).

-> Document Update Time: 2026-07-31
+> Document Update Time: 2026-08-02
@@ -22,16 +22,17 @@ dependencies = [
    "pyyaml>=6.0",
 ]
 keywords = ["nlp", "datasets", "language-models", "machine-learning"]
-license = { text = "GPL-3.0" }
+license = { text = "Apache-2.0" }
 classifiers = [
    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
-    "License :: OSI Approved :: GPL-3.0",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",
    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
 ]
 urls = { Homepage = "https://github.com/ViperEkura/AstrAI" }

 [project.optional-dependencies]
 dev = ["pytest==9.0.2", "ruff", "httpx2"]
+flash = ["flash-attn>=2.6"]

 [tool.setuptools.packages.find]
 where = ["."]
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from pathlib import Path

 import torch

-from astrai.inference import InferenceEngine
+from astrai import InferenceEngine
 from astrai.model import AutoModel
 from astrai.tokenize import AutoTokenizer

@@ -1,257 +1,95 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-
-# AstrAI Docker Script
-# Build and manage Docker images
-
 set -e

-# Colors
-RED='\033[0;31m'
-GREEN='\033[0;32m'
-YELLOW='\033[1;33m'
-BLUE='\033[0;34m'
-NC='\033[0m' # No Color
+IMAGE_NAME="${ASTRAI_IMAGE:-astrai}"
+IMAGE_TAG="${ASTRAI_TAG:-latest}"
+PORT="8000"
+GPU=true
+RUN_ARGS=()

-# Default values
-IMAGE_NAME="astrai"
-IMAGE_TAG="latest"
-REGISTRY=""
-CONTAINER_ID=""
+usage() {
+    cat <<EOF
+Usage: $0 <command> [options]

-# Print colored messages
-print_info() {
-    echo -e "${BLUE}[INFO]${NC} $1"
+Commands:
+  build              Build the image
+  run [--] [ARGS]    Run a container; ARGS after -- are passed to the container
+
+Options:
+  --gpu              Enable GPU support (default)
+  --no-gpu           Disable GPU support
+  --port PORT        Host port for run (default: 8000)
+  -h, --help         Show this help
+
+Environment:
+  ASTRAI_IMAGE       Image name (default: astrai)
+  ASTRAI_TAG         Image tag (default: latest)
+
+Examples:
+  $0 build
+  $0 run
+  $0 run --port 8080 -- python -m scripts.tools.server --port 8000 --device cuda
+EOF
 }

-print_success() {
-    echo -e "${GREEN}[SUCCESS]${NC} $1"
-}
-
-print_error() {
-    echo -e "${RED}[ERROR]${NC} $1"
-}
-
-print_warning() {
-    echo -e "${YELLOW}[WARNING]${NC} $1"
-}
-
-# Check if Docker is installed
-check_docker() {
-    if ! command -v docker &> /dev/null; then
-        print_error "Docker is not installed"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-    print_success "Docker version: $(docker --version)"
-}
-
-# Build Docker image
 build_image() {
-    local dockerfile="${1:-Dockerfile}"
-    local context="${2:-.}"
-
-    if [ ! -f "$dockerfile" ]; then
-        print_error "Dockerfile not found: $dockerfile"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-
-    print_info "Building Docker image: ${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_TAG}"
-    docker build -t "${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_TAG}" -f "$dockerfile" "$context"
-    print_success "Image built successfully"
+    docker build -t "${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_TAG}" .
 }

-# Run container
 run_container() {
-    local port="${1:-8000}"
-    local gpu="${2:-false}"
-
-    print_info "Running container on port $port..."
-
-    if [ "$gpu" = true ]; then
-        docker run --gpus all -p "${port}:8000" "${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_TAG}"
-    else
-        docker run -p "${port}:8000" "${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_TAG}"
-    fi
+    local gpu_args=()
+    [ "$GPU" = true ] && gpu_args=(--gpus all)
+    docker run "${gpu_args[@]}" -p "${PORT}:8000" "${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_TAG}" "$@"
 }

-# Push image to registry
-push_image() {
-    if [ -z "$REGISTRY" ]; then
-        print_error "Registry not set. Use --registry option"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-
-    local full_tag="${REGISTRY}/${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_TAG}"
-    print_info "Tagging image: ${full_tag}"
-    docker tag "${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_TAG}" "$full_tag"
-
-    print_info "Pushing image to registry..."
-    docker push "$full_tag"
-    print_success "Image pushed successfully"
-}
-
-# Remove image
-remove_image() {
-    print_info "Removing image: ${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_TAG}"
-    docker rmi "${IMAGE_NAME}:${IMAGE_TAG}" 2>/dev/null || print_warning "Image not found"
-    print_success "Image removed"
-}
-
-# Show image info
-show_info() {
-    print_info "Image information:"
-    docker images "${IMAGE_NAME}"
-}
-
-# Show logs
-show_logs() {
-    local container_id="$1"
-    if [ -z "$container_id" ]; then
-        print_error "Container ID required"
-        exit 1
-    fi
-    docker logs "$container_id"
-}
-
-# Main function
 main() {
-    echo "========================================"
-    echo "      AstrAI Docker Management"
-    echo "========================================"
-    echo ""
+    local command=""

-    COMMAND=""
-    DOCKERFILE="Dockerfile"
-    CONTEXT="."
-    PORT="8000"
-    GPU=false
-
-    # Parse arguments
    while [[ $# -gt 0 ]]; do
-        case $1 in
-            build)
-                COMMAND="build"
+        case "$1" in
+            build|run)
+                command="$1"
                shift
                ;;
-            run)
-                COMMAND="run"
-                shift
-                ;;
-            push)
-                COMMAND="push"
-                shift
-                ;;
-            remove|rm)
-                COMMAND="remove"
-                shift
-                ;;
-            info)
-                COMMAND="info"
-                shift
-                ;;
-            logs)
-                COMMAND="logs"
-                shift
-                ;;
-            --image)
-                IMAGE_NAME="$2"
-                shift 2
-                ;;
-            --tag)
-                IMAGE_TAG="$2"
-                shift 2
-                ;;
-            --registry)
-                REGISTRY="$2"
-                shift 2
-                ;;
-            --dockerfile)
-                DOCKERFILE="$2"
-                shift 2
-                ;;
-            --context)
-                CONTEXT="$2"
-                shift 2
-                ;;
-            --port)
-                PORT="$2"
-                shift 2
-                ;;
-            --container)
-                CONTAINER_ID="$2"
-                shift 2
-                ;;
            --gpu)
                GPU=true
                shift
                ;;
-            --help)
-                echo "Usage: $0 <command> [options]"
-                echo ""
-                echo "Commands:"
-                echo "  build     Build Docker image"
-                echo "  run       Run container"
-                echo "  push      Push image to registry"
-                echo "  remove    Remove image"
-                echo "  info      Show image information"
-                echo "  logs      Show container logs"
-                echo ""
-                echo "Options:"
-                echo "  --image NAME       Image name (default: astrai)"
-                echo "  --tag TAG          Image tag (default: latest)"
-                echo "  --registry URL     Registry URL for push"
-                echo "  --dockerfile FILE  Dockerfile path (default: Dockerfile)"
-                echo "  --context PATH     Build context (default: .)"
-                echo "  --port PORT        Port for run (default: 8000)"
-                echo "  --container ID     Container ID for logs"
-                echo "  --gpu              Enable GPU support"
-                echo "  --help             Show this help message"
-                echo ""
-                echo "Examples:"
-                echo "  $0 build"
-                echo "  $0 build --tag v1.0.0"
-                echo "  $0 run --port 8080"
-                echo "  $0 run --gpu"
-                echo "  $0 logs --container abc123"
-                echo "  $0 push --registry ghcr.io/username"
+            --no-gpu)
+                GPU=false
+                shift
+                ;;
+            --port)
+                PORT="$2"
+                shift 2
+                ;;
+            --)
+                shift
+                RUN_ARGS=("$@")
+                break
+                ;;
+            -h|--help)
+                usage
                exit 0
                ;;
            *)
-                if [ -z "$COMMAND" ]; then
-                    print_error "Unknown command: $1"
-                    exit 1
-                fi
-                shift
+                echo "Unknown option: $1" >&2
+                usage >&2
+                exit 1
                ;;
        esac
    done

-    check_docker
-
-    case "$COMMAND" in
+    case "$command" in
        build)
-            build_image "$DOCKERFILE" "$CONTEXT"
+            build_image
            ;;
        run)
-            run_container "$PORT" "$GPU"
-            ;;
-        push)
-            push_image
-            ;;
-        remove)
-            remove_image
-            ;;
-        info)
-            show_info
-            ;;
-        logs)
-            show_logs "$CONTAINER_ID"
-            ;;
-        "")
-            print_error "No command specified. Use --help for usage"
-            exit 1
+            run_container "${RUN_ARGS[@]}"
            ;;
        *)
-            print_error "Unknown command: $COMMAND"
+            echo "No command specified. Use --help for usage" >&2
+            usage >&2
            exit 1
            ;;
    esac
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