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feat(h3): h3-flash-attention-v1, optional fused strict backend for h3_full_attention - #576
Adds H3FlashAttentionOp (rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/attention/h3_flash.py): fixed-order Triton flash attention with the same scope and fail-closed contract as [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] Add batch-invariant full attention #553 (BF16 contiguous BSHD [B,S,56,128], non-causal MHA, first derivatives, CUDA).
Contract: ascending key/query tile order, fixed tiles, no autotune / split-KV / atomics, FP32 accumulators, P = P_hi + P_lo second MMA, no TF32 / fast-math. Batch-invariant and head-independent (TP / Ulysses CP shards give the same bytes). Bitwise per architecture family.
Block-0 attention node (forward, real weights): 925 tokens 0.27 vs 5.61 ms, 4253 tokens 2.27 vs 113.5 ms, 8349 tokens 7.87 vs 435.6 ms (provider 0.14 / 0.97 / 3.27 ms). Whole-block strict total at 4253: 69.8 vs 181.5 ms; at 8349: 133.5 vs 562.7 ms (provider 8.4 / 17.0 ms), where the remaining gap is dominated by the interim O / gate_up / down linears, not attention.
Flash is still 1.6x to 2.3x slower than SDPA in fwd+bwd; this is the cost of the fixed-order contract.
Bitwise (925 tokens, H100): flash and #553 give 0 mismatching elements in out/dq/dk/dv over 20 repeats, batch 3 vs 1 and a 14-of-56 head shard; SDPA (provider) shows about 6e-5 mismatching dq elements in each case. flash vs #553 differ in up to 7.1% of elements (different summation order).
…full_attention
Fixed-order Triton flash attention with the same scope and fail-closed contract
as RL-Align#553 (BF16 BSHD, 56x128, non-causal, first derivatives). Optional backend;
does not modify or replace H3FullAttentionOp.
Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
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This change adds an optional fixed-order Triton attention backend for fixed-shape BF16 tensors. It also adds CUDA correctness tests, a benchmark tool, and operator documentation.
Changes: H3 Flash Attention
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Tensor contract and attention kernels rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/attention/h3_flash.py
Defines accepted inputs and adds fixed-order Triton forward and backward kernels.
Forward and backward operator wiring rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/attention/h3_flash.py
Adds launch functions, autograd integration, and the H3FlashAttentionOp wrapper.
CUDA correctness and invariance tests tests/backends/cuda/test_h3_flash_attention.py
Tests FP64-reference accuracy, repeatability, batch and head-shard invariance, rejected inputs, and backward auxiliary validation.
Benchmark tooling and operator documentation tools/validation/models/h3_flash_attention_bench.py, docs/operators/h3-flash-attention.md, docs/operators/README.md
Adds timing and comparison tooling. Documents supported inputs, execution and numerical behavior, reported measurements, and validation tools. Adds the page to the operator list.
sequenceDiagram
participant H3FlashAttentionOp
participant FlashFn
participant flash_forward
participant ForwardKernel
participant flash_backward
participant BackwardKernels
H3FlashAttentionOp->>FlashFn: call with Q, K, V
FlashFn->>flash_forward: run forward
flash_forward->>ForwardKernel: launch attention kernel
FlashFn->>flash_backward: pass saved state and grad_out
flash_backward->>BackwardKernels: compute delta, dQ, dK, and dV
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Please compute delta before BF16 output rounding. With S=2, Q=0, K=1, V rows filled with 1 and 1.0078125, and dO=1, this formula gives dQ ≈ 0.0442 instead of zero. Please preserve the FP32 output or recompute delta, and add this regression case.
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Fixed in acd66ce. The forward pass now also writes an FP32 copy of O (out32). Backward computes delta from that FP32 output instead of the BF16-rounded O, and autograd saves the FP32 tensor. This costs one extra FP32 buffer the size of O.
Regression case: test_delta_uses_fp32_output (your S=2 repro). It fails without the fix (dQ = 0.0442) and passes with it.
Verified on Hopper (H100): all 9 tests in tests/backends/cuda/test_h3_flash_attention.py pass, including the bitwise-repeatable, batch-invariance and head-shard-invariance checks. Also passes on B200.
Delta = rowsum(O * dO) was read from the BF16-rounded output, biasing dQ.
Forward now also writes an FP32 O that backward uses for delta; add a
regression for the S=2, Q=0, K=1 tie case.
Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
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Thanks, my review comment has been addressed, including the regression test. Please add the missing sign-off on acd66ce to clear DCO. Once the remaining checks pass, this is ready for approval from my side.
76-76: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Control execution order in backend comparisons.
The benchmark always measures flash, SDPA, and then #553. Cache and GPU clock effects can affect a fixed-order comparison. Alternate or randomize the order for each sample, and record the executed order with raw timings. Based on learnings, fixed-order comparisons need this control or an accepted alternative. (docs.pytorch.org)
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Update the benchmark loop over ops so backend execution order alternates or is
randomized for each sample instead of always following the same order. Record
the actual backend order alongside each sample’s raw timings.
docs/operators/README.md:9-17 says every operator page should include a public Python entry point, input and output shapes and dtypes, and a minimal usage example. The optional status does not provide an exception. Add these details to docs/operators/h3-flash-attention.md so readers do not need to derive the API from benchmark code.
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Update the H3 flash-attention documentation to include its public Python entry
point, input and output shapes and dtypes, and a minimal usage example. Document
the supported BF16 contiguous BSHD `[B,S,56,128]` non-causal MHA case and its
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- Line 31: Revise the SDPA sentence in the measurement description to qualify
nondeterminism as specific to the provider behavior observed for these timings,
rather than a general property of SDPA calls. Preserve the existing timing
context and avoid implying that all SDPA implementations use nondeterministic
fused kernels.
- Around line 30-31: Update the forward+backward slowdown range in the Flash
performance summary to include the 12-token result: lower the stated minimum to
about 1.3×, or explicitly note that the range excludes 12 tokens.
Review comments at @rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/attention/h3_flash.py:
- Line 81: Update _validate to reject inputs whose q tensor has at least 2**31
elements, raising ValueError before any kernel runs; this keeps the int32 offset
arithmetic in the attention kernels within range.
- Around line 340-370: Update flash_backward to validate out32 and lse before
launching kernels: require out32 to match q’s shape, be contiguous FP32, and
share q’s device; require lse to have shape [batch, HEADS, sequence length], be
contiguous FP32, and share q’s device. Raise ValueError for invalid inputs.
Review comments at @tests/backends/cuda/test_h3_flash_attention.py:
- Line 10: Update the module-level skip condition in the H3 flash-attention
tests to require NVIDIA CUDA, excluding ROCm via torch.version.hip, and require
hf.HAS_TRITON before running them. Keep the tests enabled only when both
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Review comments at @docs/operators/h3-flash-attention.md:
- Around line 7-8: Update the H3 flash-attention documentation to include its
public Python entry point, input and output shapes and dtypes, and a minimal
usage example. Document the supported BF16 contiguous BSHD `[B,S,56,128]`
non-causal MHA case and its first-derivative contract, including that Q/K are
already normalized and rotated; clarify that unsupported cases fail with
`ValueError` without fallback and that execution is CUDA-only.
Review comments at @tools/validation/models/h3_flash_attention_bench.py:
- Line 76: Update the benchmark loop over ops so backend execution order
alternates or is randomized for each sample instead of always following the same
order. Record the actual backend order alongside each sample’s raw timings.
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- reject tensors with 2**31 or more elements (kernels use int32 offsets)
- validate out32 and lse in flash_backward
- skip tests without NVIDIA CUDA and Triton
- add docstrings, public usage section, correct the slowdown range and
the SDPA wording in the operator page
- rotate backend measurement order per sequence length in the bench
Signed-off-by: Wenbo Ji <36562829+fusheng-ji@users.noreply.github.com>
@coderabbitai, nitpick: Control execution order in backend comparisons (h3_flash_attention_bench.py).
Fixed in 7add0ef. The measurement order is now rotated per sequence length, and each result row records the order that was used (order). It is a rotation per length, not a per-sample randomization, so a fixed order within one length is gone but this is not a full counterbalanced design; the timings stay medians and the page already notes the 10 to 30 percent run-to-run spread at small sizes.
@coderabbitai, nitpick: Add the public usage and output contract (docs/operators/h3-flash-attention.md).
Fixed in 7add0ef. The page has a new Usage section with the public entry point (H3FlashAttentionOp), input and output shapes and dtypes, the fail-closed behaviour, the 2**31 element limit, and a minimal example.
@coderabbitai, pre-merge check: Docstring coverage is 0.00% (threshold 80.00%).
Addressed in 7add0ef. The Python-level functions, methods and classes in h3_flash.py now have docstrings (_validate, _strides, flash_forward, flash_backward, _FlashFn and its forward/backward, H3FlashAttentionOp.__call__ and provenance). The @triton.jit kernels do not have docstrings yet; whether the checker reaches the 80% threshold will show on its next run.
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Alternate implementation order at each sequence length.
Rotation by idx gives each sequence length only one measurement order. timed then measures all repetitions for one implementation before it measures the next. Clock and thermal changes can therefore affect the comparison at that length. Alternate or randomize order across samples for the same length, and record each executed order with its raw timings. (docs.nvidia.com)
Based on learnings, fixed sequential benchmark comparisons need per-sample order variation and recorded raw timings.
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Summary
H3FlashAttentionOp(rl_engine/backends/shared/triton/attention/h3_flash.py): fixed-order Triton flash attention with the same scope and fail-closed contract as [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] Add batch-invariant full attention #553 (BF16 contiguous BSHD[B,S,56,128], non-causal MHA, first derivatives, CUDA).H3FullAttentionOp([WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] Add batch-invariant full attention #553) and does not claim RFC [RFC][MiniMax-H3][CUDA/ROCm] WS1/WS2 kernel roadmap, ablation matrix and integration plan #420 rowh3_full_attention; that row stays with [WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] Add batch-invariant full attention #553 / @RichApple123.P = P_hi + P_losecond MMA, no TF32 / fast-math. Batch-invariant and head-independent (TP / Ulysses CP shards give the same bytes). Bitwise per architecture family.Results (H100, one GPU,
tools/validation/models/h3_flash_attention_bench.py)Relative error vs FP64 at 925 tokens: flash 1.66e-3 (out/dq/dk/dv), #553 1.66e-3, SDPA provider 2.2e-3 to 2.4e-3.
Block-0 attention node (forward, real weights): 925 tokens 0.27 vs 5.61 ms, 4253 tokens 2.27 vs 113.5 ms, 8349 tokens 7.87 vs 435.6 ms (provider 0.14 / 0.97 / 3.27 ms). Whole-block strict total at 4253: 69.8 vs 181.5 ms; at 8349: 133.5 vs 562.7 ms (provider 8.4 / 17.0 ms), where the remaining gap is dominated by the interim O / gate_up / down linears, not attention.
Flash is still 1.6x to 2.3x slower than SDPA in fwd+bwd; this is the cost of the fixed-order contract.
Bitwise (925 tokens, H100): flash and #553 give 0 mismatching elements in out/dq/dk/dv over 20 repeats, batch 3 vs 1 and a 14-of-56 head shard; SDPA (provider) shows about 6e-5 mismatching dq elements in each case. flash vs #553 differ in up to 7.1% of elements (different summation order).
Evidence JSON/logs:
9640c2b1,pending/h3-flash-attention-v1/Tests
tests/backends/cuda/test_h3_flash_attention.py: FP64 accuracy, bitwise repeat, batch 3 vs 1, head-shard invariance, fail-closed.tests/backends/cuda/test_h3_full_attention.py([WS1][CUDA][MiniMax-H3] Add batch-invariant full attention #553) still passes: 44 passed on H100 together with the flash tests.lint.sh(black, isort, flake8, mypy, mkdocs strict): OK.Not in this PR
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