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Fuse pipelines whose producer is a row expression - #101
🪭 Claude (einfold): This is the second implementation PR for #97, following the design in #99. A pipeline's producer had to be a SUM of products, whose block of values for a pair of tiles is a matrix product. Now it can also be a SUM of a row expression (#100), such as a Gaussian kernel's -power(t.x - s.x, 2) between a target and a source point.
What changes
The kernel. The fused kernel places every column the expression reads, as it places a product's factors. It then evaluates the expression over the block's pairs at each position of the summed dimension, in order. With no dimension to sum, as in a CROSS JOIN of points, it's the expression itself, with SQL's bits for each pair.
The evaluator.einfold-kernels/src/expression.rs keeps each value in the smallest shape it varies in: a scalar, a row, a column or a block. So t.x * 2 is computed once per row, and only operators of both operands' values work per pair. Every operator is the IR's apply, element by element.
Speed. A block of an operator of both operands' values has one loop per operator, over strides, so that no pair branches on the lanes' shapes or the operator. That took the control (4,096 targets × 16,384 sources) from 0.62 s to 0.53 s. The rest of the time is mostly libm's pow and exp, which give DataFusion's bits. That speedup is this PR's second commit, and Add row expressions to the fold IR #100's second commit makes the IR's apply#[inline] so that it inlines across crates.
Products keep the matrix product, so attention's speed doesn't change.
One row per pair. Placing the columns checks that each pair has exactly one row, as before. A producer with nothing to sum needs this: two rows for one pair would be two weights exp(s) in SQL, not one exp(2s).
Schemas.Pipeline::try_new and pipeline_schema accept such a producer, whose columns must be Float64. schema for a plain fold still takes einsums only, so the dense and discrimination algorithms never see an expression.
The tests check these invariants
Tiles match the definition (a_tile_has_each_pairs_value): every pair of a tile has Expression::evaluate's bits, whatever shapes the operators combine. The values include ±0, NaN and ±inf.
The pipeline matches SQL (pipeline_matches_sql, which now has 800 cases locally): producers are now drawn from:
products;
Gaussian and Laplacian kernels of q.x - k.x;
a product written as an expression;
a mixed expression with exp.
Each is summed over d, or in a quarter of cases, taken over a CROSS JOIN with nothing to sum. They're drawn with the masks, scales, shifts, normalizers and special values the test already drew. The invariants are unchanged:
it runs on complete tables;
it declines or gives SQL's answer on the others;
it gives SQL's rows and values;
it gives the same bits for any arrival order and thread count.
Dropping the sum over d fails the test.
The detector doesn't produce such pipelines yet. That's the next PR.
After CodeRabbit's review
The fused algorithm declines a producer whose expression doesn't read both operands, such as a constant. Only the operands it reads are placed, and placing an operand is what checks that it has every row, so such a producer gave 0 rows where SQL gave 16. The generator now draws such producers.
The pipeline and fused kernel now support eligible SUM producers whose row values are expressions as well as products. The kernel places referenced columns and evaluates expressions across tiles. Tests compare generated pipeline results with SQL results for expression and product producers.
Changes: Row-expression producer fusion
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Summary
Producer eligibility and schema validation crates/einfold-ir/src/pipeline.rs, crates/einfold-kernels/src/schema.rs
Pipeline validation accepts a SUM producer with no domain and a product or expression row value. Kernel schema construction validates expression columns as Float64 and retains the einsum check for schema.
A private evaluator represents scalar, row, column, and block values. It evaluates unary and binary expressions over tiles. Tests compare its results with scalar evaluation.
Fused execution places referenced columns and values. It uses matrix multiplication for product scores and tile expression evaluation for expression scores. Property tests cover feature-dimension joins and CROSS JOIN cases.
sequenceDiagram
participant Pipeline as fused::pipeline
participant Placement as place
participant Tile as tile
participant Evaluator as expression::evaluate
Pipeline->>Placement: Place referenced columns and values
Pipeline->>Tile: Pass scores and values
Tile->>Evaluator: Evaluate expression for tile pairs
Evaluator-->>Tile: Return lane values
Tile->>Tile: Accumulate values across E positions
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Possibly related issues
xqlsystems/einfold#50: This PR extends fused pipeline execution from product producers to row-expression producers.
xqlsystems/einfold#97: This PR adds row-expression execution support, although detector support remains outside the change.
xqlsystems/einfold#76: This PR adds execution support for a SUM of a row expression, although detection remains outside the change.
Possibly related PRs
xqlsystems/einfold#99: Defines row expressions as fold values and specifies tile evaluation for pipeline producers; this PR implements producer validation and execution.
xqlsystems/einfold#107: Adds expression-based pipeline weights and uses the expression evaluator and producer-expression path added here.
xqlsystems/einfold#102: Detects pipeline producers whose scores are row expressions; this PR adds validation and fused execution for those producers.
Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 4b886
The previously identified incorrect-results path is guarded, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 4b886
The new execution path retains the examined validation, input-ownership, and result-publication controls. No introduced security violation was established. Authorization and resource containment for complex expressions remain dependent on callers and were not fully verified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The directly demonstrated exposure is computation over the supplied q, k, and values batches and resource use in the invoking process. The examined code does not establish which tenants or remote users can supply those inputs; broader service exposure remains unverified.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The relevant boundary is validated IR and Arrow inputs entering kernel execution. Operand bounds, schema checks, selected-column identity, and exact-one-row placement constrain expression evaluation. The public wrapper relies on its documented schema precondition rather than independently revalidating it.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Expression evaluation is recursive and allocates lane or tile-sized intermediate vectors; placement also creates a matrix for each distinct referenced column. Individual tile dimensions bound each block, but total resource demand additionally depends on expression structure and referenced-column count.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — For deployments accepting untrusted expressions, establish caller-enforced expression complexity and referenced-column budgets, including placement matrices and intermediate lanes in resource accounting. This is a containment proposal, not a verified denial-of-service finding.
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Review comments at @crates/einfold-kernels/src/expression.rs:
- Line 44: Replace the ambiguous boolean parameter in `Lanes::write` and the
`with` closure’s `left` parameter with an enum that names the intended
operation. Update the relevant callers in `fused.rs` to pass the appropriate
enum variant, and use an explicit match where the operation is applied.
Review comments at @crates/einfold-kernels/src/fused.rs:
- Around line 188-193: Update the RowValue::Expression branch that collects and
deduplicates e.columns() to return Ok(None) when the expression reads no column
from either operand 0 or operand 1. Keep the existing column collection and
deduplication behavior when both operands are represented.
Review comments at @crates/einfold-kernels/src/schema.rs:
- Around line 146-147: Update the `pipeline_schema` documentation to describe
its producer requirements directly: it accepts a `SUM` of products, as in
`schema`, or a `SUM` of a row expression whose columns are all `Float64`. Remove
the misleading link that attributes row-expression support to `schema`, and do
not link to the private helper.
Review comments at @crates/einfold-kernels/tests/pipeline_vs_sql.rs:
- Around line 168-198: Update row_value to include generated expressions that
read only q.x, only k.x, or no columns, with matching SQL expressions. Ensure
these cases are exercised in both cross and feature-dimension test paths,
preserving checks that complete inputs match SQL and incomplete inputs either
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A pipeline's producer had to be a SUM of products, whose block of values
for a pair of tiles is a matrix product. Its producer can now also be a
SUM of a row expression, such as a Gaussian kernel's -power(t.x - s.x, 2)
between a target and a source point, with or without a dimension to sum.
The fused kernel then places every column the expression reads as it
places a product's factors, and evaluates the expression over the block's
pairs at each summed position, in order. Each value is kept in the
smallest shape it varies in (a scalar, a row, a column or a block), so
only operators of both operands' values work per pair. A product keeps
the matrix product.
Placing the columns checks that each pair has exactly one row, which a
producer with nothing to sum needs: two rows would be two weights in SQL.
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The block of an operator of both operands' values matched on the lanes'
shapes and on the operator for every pair, a fifth of the time of a
Gaussian kernel's pipeline. Lanes now give strides, and each operator has
its own loop. On a Nadaraya-Watson average of 4,096 targets over 16,384
sources, the pipeline takes 0.53 s instead of 0.62 s; the rest is libm's
pow and exp, which give the host's bits.
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…n kernel's (#102)
🪭 Claude (einfold): This is the last PR for #97, following the design in
#99, on top of #100 and #101. Demo 1's control is the Nadaraya–Watson
estimator, a Gaussian-kernel weighted average used in regridding. It
weights each source point by `exp(-dist²/h²)` of its distance to a
target point, over a `CROSS JOIN` of the two, and averages the sources'
values with those weights. Its scores aren't a `SUM` of products, so the
pipeline rule didn't find it, and DataFusion ran a cross join of every
pair. Now the query from #97, unchanged, plans as:
```
EinFoldExec: a ; b -> a,b of (-((power((#0.1 - #1.1), 2) + power((#0.2 - #1.2), 2))) / 0.25); softmax(over joined rows) * b -> a
```
**What changes**
- **One analysis for both kinds of fold.** The fold analysis is now
`fold_over`: the `SUM` of a value over an inner join, grouped by keys.
The value is a product of one factor per side, as before, or, for a
pipeline's scores, a row expression.
- The largest parts of the expression that read one side, and may be
computed on every row of it, become columns of that side's operand. The
host computes them below the join, as it does factors.
- The rest must be operators of the closed set, on `DOUBLE`s. None of
these raises an error in DataFusion, and `power` needs a positive
constant exponent.
- Plain folds still take products only, since the dense and
discrimination algorithms compute einsums only.
- **Pipeline detection finds such scores in three shapes:**
- a `SUM` of a row expression, such as `SUM(-power(q.x - k.x, 2))` over
a coordinate `d`;
- weights computed on each pair of a join with no equalities, such as
the control's `CROSS JOIN`. Each pair's one row is its score. Two rows
for one pair would be two weights, and the fused algorithm declines that
when it places each pair;
- unshifted weights that DataFusion merged into their scores'
projection, `exp(SUM(…))` directly over the aggregate. Attention's
`exp(s)` spelling can take this shape too.
- **`EXPLAIN`** shows a row expression after the fold's outputs. A
separate commit drops a stray comma from `softmax(, over joined rows)`.
**Speed.** On the control, the whole query runs from Arrow rows to Arrow
rows:
| targets × sources | einfold | DataFusion |
|---:|---:|---:|
| 1,024 × 4,096 | 0.039 s | 0.065 s |
| 4,096 × 4,096 | 0.133 s | 0.253 s |
| 4,096 × 16,384 | 0.53 s | 1.83 s |
That's 1.7–3.4×, far below attention's margin. Neither side gets a
matrix product here, and about 70% of einfold's time is libm's `pow` and
`exp`. Those are the functions DataFusion calls, so they give its bits.
Replacing `power(x, 2)` with `x * x` would differ from `pow` in rare
cases. The second commit on #101 removed per-pair branching in the
evaluator, which took 0.62 s down to 0.53 s at the largest size. The
machine has 6 cores and 12 threads.
**The tests check these invariants**
- **Detection** (`einfold_finds_pipelines_and_changes_no_answer`, 600
cases locally) now also draws kernel smoothers:
- `exp(-power(q.x - k.x, 2) / 0.5)` or `exp(-abs(q.x - k.x) * 2)`, over
a `CROSS JOIN` of one coordinate per point;
- `exp(SUM(-power(q.x - k.x, 2)))` summed over every coordinate.
They're drawn with the same masks as attention, bands included. Each
must be found as a pipeline, run fused on complete tables, and give
DataFusion's rows and values.
- **The control as reported** (`the_nadaraya_watson_control_fuses`): the
query from #97, with 64 targets and 256 sources in two coordinates,
fuses and gives DataFusion's averages to within 1e-12.
Fixes#97.
## After CodeRabbit's review
- The temporary projection that merges weights with their scores keeps
the weight column's own name, so a key named `s` no longer fails the
query.
- `merged_weights` takes a projection only beside exactly one score
column. The property test has a look-alike that shows both a score and
its weight.
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…es (#107)
🪭 Claude (einfold): This answers the review question on #59 and #69,
whether fold pipelines are general or specific to attention.
Fusing a pipeline needs only one condition: each producer group pairs a
consumer group with values of the dimensions the consumer sums away.
That holds for many queries besides attention, and since #101 the
producer can be any einsum or row expression. The consumer, though, was
fixed to a softmax: weights `exp(score)`, averaged. This PR makes it
general too.
**What changes**
- **The IR.** A pipeline's weight is now a `Weight`:
- `Weight::Exp { scale, shift }`, a softmax's `exp(score − shift)`, as
before;
- `Weight::Of(expression)`, any row expression of the producer's value.
Examples are a sigmoid `1 / (1 + exp(-s))` for sigmoid attention, a
Cauchy kernel `1 / (1 + d²)` of a squared distance, or `s` itself.
The sum is normalized, as before, or, with the new `Normalizer::None`,
not. A chain of two einsums, `SUM(scores.s * v.x)` over `scores = q ·
k`, is then a pipeline, fused without materializing the `N×M` scores.
- **The kernel.** A weight of an expression is evaluated over each row's
scores of a block, with the same evaluator as row expressions (#101),
and the row's state is plain sums. Only a softmax uses the scaled
accumulator. With no normalizer there's no division at the end, so a
shifted row whose every score is `-inf` is set to NaN outright, as SQL's
`exp(-inf - -inf)` makes it.
- **The detector.** It finds these weights in the forms it found
softmaxes in:
- over a scores relation;
- merged by DataFusion into the scores' projection, such as `1 / (1 +
exp(-SUM(…) / 8))` directly over the aggregate, or the scores
themselves;
- on each pair of a `CROSS JOIN`, where any weight other than `exp`
becomes the pair's score itself.
- **Display.** `EXPLAIN` shows `weights(<expression>)` for such a
weight, and `unnormalized` for a sum without a normalizer.
- **Design.** Section 9.6 now says the consumer's weight is any row
expression, normalized or not.
**The tests check these invariants**
- **The IR**
(`a_weight_of_an_expression_reads_only_the_producers_value`): a weight
of an expression reads only the producer's value.
- **The kernel against SQL** (`pipeline_matches_sql`, 1,500 cases
locally) now draws:
- a sigmoid or Cauchy weight, or the score itself;
- any of the three normalizers;
together with the producers, masks and special values it drew before.
Unnormalized sums are compared within 1e-9 of each group's `Σ |w · v|`,
as SQL computes it; averages are compared as before. The `-inf` case
above was found by this test.
- **Detection** (`einfold_finds_pipelines_and_changes_no_answer`, 800
cases locally) adds three queries:
- a sigmoid of attention's scores, averaged;
- a Cauchy kernel of points over a `CROSS JOIN`, averaged;
- `SUM(scores.s * v.x)`, the chain of einsums.
Each must be found, fuse on complete tables, and give DataFusion's rows
and values.
## After CodeRabbit's review
- **The fused algorithm declines where it can't match SQL's special
values,** so that the host's plan runs:
- where a larger score rescales a row whose sums of finite terms
overflowed to infinity (NaN where SQL gave 0, in normalized pipelines
too);
- where unnormalized or expression weights meet a weight or value that
isn't finite (#116 tracks fusing these exactly).
The property tests now expect a fused run only on complete, finite
inputs, and pass on 6,000 cases.
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🪭 Claude (einfold): This is the second implementation PR for #97, following the design in #99. A pipeline's producer had to be a
SUMof products, whose block of values for a pair of tiles is a matrix product. Now it can also be aSUMof a row expression (#100), such as a Gaussian kernel's-power(t.x - s.x, 2)between a target and a source point.What changes
CROSS JOINof points, it's the expression itself, with SQL's bits for each pair.einfold-kernels/src/expression.rskeeps each value in the smallest shape it varies in: a scalar, a row, a column or a block. Sot.x * 2is computed once per row, and only operators of both operands' values work per pair. Every operator is the IR'sapply, element by element.powandexp, which give DataFusion's bits. That speedup is this PR's second commit, and Add row expressions to the fold IR #100's second commit makes the IR'sapply#[inline]so that it inlines across crates.exp(s)in SQL, not oneexp(2s).Pipeline::try_newandpipeline_schemaaccept such a producer, whose columns must beFloat64.schemafor a plain fold still takes einsums only, so the dense and discrimination algorithms never see an expression.The tests check these invariants
Tiles match the definition (
a_tile_has_each_pairs_value): every pair of a tile hasExpression::evaluate's bits, whatever shapes the operators combine. The values include ±0, NaN and ±inf.The pipeline matches SQL (
pipeline_matches_sql, which now has 800 cases locally): producers are now drawn from:q.x - k.x;exp.Each is summed over
d, or in a quarter of cases, taken over aCROSS JOINwith nothing to sum. They're drawn with the masks, scales, shifts, normalizers and special values the test already drew. The invariants are unchanged:Dropping the sum over
dfails the test.The detector doesn't produce such pipelines yet. That's the next PR.
After CodeRabbit's review
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