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Read ddx's fill as a fold's default, so masked gradients run dense - #129
Masked gradient steps of ddx (an XQL Systems project for automatic differentiation of SQL queries) now run on einfold's dense algorithm instead of DataFusion's plan. On attention's dK step at 1,024 tokens, from spike S31, that's 32 ms against 418 ms before, and 418 ms on DataFusion. dQ is the same shape. The two take 0.6 s of einfold's 1.7–2.1 s per attention gradient.
Each step of a ddx gradient left-joins its result to the table it differentiates, and fills a group no row reached with 0.0:
CASE WHEN k.x IS NULL THEN NULL WHEN r.v IS NULL THEN 0.0 ELSE r.v END
The detector found these folds from a domain, but never gave the node the domain's default, so a group no row reached was NULL. The dense algorithm can't tell such a group from a group of zeros when an operand has missing rows. A causal mask's lower triangle has them, so the dense algorithm declined, and a fold joined back to its domain then runs the host's plan. With the fill read as the default, the node computes 0.0 there, and the fill above it leaves 0.0 as it is.
Decisions to review
What counts as a fill (fill_default). The projection over the left join must read the sum only through COALESCE(sum, c), or a CASE whose last test is sum IS NULL THEN c with ELSE sum, or sum IS NOT NULL THEN sum ELSE c, which is how DataFusion writes COALESCE. c is a DOUBLE constant, and no earlier branch may read the sum. Each such fill gives c for c as it gave it for NULL, so computing c changes no row. A later branch could test the sum again and treat c differently from NULL, so it doesn't count, and neither does any other read of the sum. The alternative was to rewrite the projection as well, which would change plans for no gain.
A default of -0.0 isn't kept for a fold joined back (join_back.rs). That node computes 0.0 + value, which is what SUM of one value computes, and that turns -0.0 into 0.0. A fold from a domain keeps -0.0, and the dense algorithm then doesn't take holes, since it only does so for +0.0.
The node's value stays nullable (FoldNode::with_nullable_value). With a default, the kernels' schema makes the value non-nullable. That would no longer match the plan it replaces, whose schema an optimizer rule must keep, and a fold joined back can still make a value NULL where the domain's own test holds.
How it is tested
The property test detect_vs_host reads the fold's sum through seven spellings, drawn at random. Three are ddx's CASE and COALESCE, with 0.0, -0.0 and 1.0. The others are look-alikes: the bare sum, a CASE that tests the sum again after its NULL test, and a fill plus another read of the sum. The invariants, over 4,000 cases:
the same rows as DataFusion, bit for bit;
each node with a domain carries exactly the default its query implies, and none under a look-alike.
Some tables now hold only finite values, since a NaN or an infinity in an operand keeps the dense algorithm from taking holes. With them, folds joined back run dense in 74 of 300 cases, against 60 before.
A hand test, masked_gradients_from_their_domain_run_dense, is S31's dK written as ddx writes it, over a causal triangle. It checks the default, dense_folds=1, and that the host's plan never runs. It fails without this change.
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Fold detection now recognizes supported fill expressions and uses their shared constant as the missing-sum default. Fold nodes update value-field nullability. Tests cover these defaults, masked gradient execution, and NaN comparisons.
The detector recognizes supported COALESCE and CASE fills when they use the same bitwise-identical constant. Domain folds use that constant as their missing value. The fold node can mark its last schema field nullable.
Apply defaults to joined-back folds crates/einfold-datafusion/src/join_back.rs
The joined-back path derives a fill default from the projection. It keeps the default only when adding it to 0.0 preserves its bit representation, and configures the fold node with a nullable value field.
Validate defaults and execution crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/detect_vs_host.rs, crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/datafusion_behaviors.rs
Generated tests check fill defaults against physical plans and host results. A masked gradient test checks dense execution. A behavior test checks comparisons for two NaN values.
sequenceDiagram
participant Projection
participant DetectFolds
participant FoldNode
participant EinFoldExec
Projection->>DetectFolds: provide projection expressions
DetectFolds->>DetectFolds: recognize a shared fill default
DetectFolds->>FoldNode: set missing value and nullable schema
FoldNode->>EinFoldExec: provide the configured fold node
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Possibly related issues
Issue 39: The PR adds a masked gradient fold test that checks dense execution, matching the issue’s attention-gradient workload context.
Issue 79: The PR enables dense execution for a masked gradient fold, but does not implement the full contraction-chain requirement or memory measurements.
Issue 128: The new NaN comparison test covers the DataFusion behavior described in the issue.
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🪭 Claude (einfold)
This sets einfold for Python's version to `0.2.0rc1`. Once it merges and
`python-v0.2.0rc1` is tagged on it, the release candidate goes to PyPI.
Users then get it with `pip install --upgrade --pre
"einfold[datafusion]"`, and the plain install keeps 0.1.0. It's for
xarray-sql's acceptance testing. xarray-sql is an XQL Systems project
that queries Xarray datasets with SQL.
It holds the first part of M3, from [spike
S31](docs/spikes/s31-ddx-gradient-steps/README.md):
- #129 reads ddx's fill as a domain's default. ddx is an XQL Systems
project for automatic differentiation of SQL queries.
- #131 finds products whose factors read three or more relations.
- #132 runs DataFusion's own functions in einfold's library rather than
through the FFI.
On xarray-sql's demos, from a local build of these changes on an
i7-8700, in medians of 3 runs:
| | 0.1.0 | 0.2.0rc1 | DataFusion | DuckDB |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| attention gradient, 1,024 tokens, window | 2.30 s | 0.90 s | 4.03 s |
5.42 s |
| attention gradient, 1,024 tokens, `GROUP BY` | 1.89 s | 0.59 s | 4.67
s | 7.60 s |
| GPT training step, nanoGPT's CPU size | 4.03 s | 2.61 s | 12.05 s | |
That's 4.5× and 7.9× DataFusion on attention's gradient, and 4.6× on the
GPT step, past M3's gate of 4× (design v20).
Two of the gate's items aren't met yet, and stay open for M3:
- A flat chain of three matrix products is faster than both hosts at 64
and 96, but ties DataFusion at 32 × 32. Choosing the contraction order
would fix that.
- einfold changes none of TPC-H's 22 plans, but from Python each query
pays the FFI's fixed cost: 1.06× DataFusion's time at scale factor 1.
## Decisions to review
- **A release candidate now,** before M3 is done, so that xarray-sql
tests the gradient work while the rest of M3 continues: the contraction
order, the FFI's per-query cost (#81, #58), and the fused backward pass,
which waits on xqlsystems/ddx#243.
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The simulation, einfold's random differential test against plain
DataFusion, now generates the three shapes that #129 and #131 taught
detection to find. Each run before this one reached none of them.
Nothing changes for users. These are the generators for the soak of
0.2.0rc1.
## Decisions to review
- **Fills with other constants**
([`fill`](https://github.com/xqlsystems/einfold/blob/8ec90e5/crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/simulation/queries.rs#L430)).
A fold from a domain, or joined back to one, now reads its sum through
`COALESCE`, ddx's `CASE`, and the `IS NOT NULL` form DataFusion writes
for `COALESCE`. ddx is an XQL Systems project for automatic
differentiation of SQL queries. The constant is `0.0`, `-0.0`, `1.0`,
`-2.5`, NaN or `-inf`. Some fills sit inside an expression or inside
another fill. The look-alikes are:
- the bare sum;
- the sum filled with a column;
- two fills of one sum.
The two fills test the sum with `IS NULL` and with `IS NOT NULL`. If
both tested it the same way, DataFusion would compute the shared test in
a projection below, and no fill would reach detection. I first wrote
them alike, and a planted bug went unseen.
- **Finite values in some cases**
([`data.rs`](https://github.com/xqlsystems/einfold/blob/8ec90e5/crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/simulation/data.rs#L203)).
With values that are all finite or NULL, in 30% of cases, the dense
algorithm can take operands with missing rows, which is #129's purpose.
A NaN or an infinity anywhere kept it from doing so before. The tally
counts these cases, and a run of 10,000 cases or more asserts that one
happened (4 in 2,000 here).
- **Products over three relations**
([`three_relations`](https://github.com/xqlsystems/einfold/blob/8ec90e5/crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/simulation/queries.rs#L598)).
The third relation is `d` as `m`. It joins `l`, `r` or both, and the
factor on its side reads it, or neither factor does. The join order is
drawn, or the joins are written as a comma join. Factors use `*`, `-`,
`%`, or (with inexact values) `/`, and groups may be `m`'s keys. The
look-alikes are both factors reading `m`, and `m` joining both sides
with neither factor reading it. `d` and the operands get NULL keys more
often
([here](https://github.com/xqlsystems/einfold/blob/8ec90e5/crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/simulation.rs#L271)),
since a NULL key in the regrouped join must join nothing.
- **Float `/` and `%` in factors**
([`factor`](https://github.com/xqlsystems/einfold/blob/8ec90e5/crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/simulation/queries.rs#L114)).
With exact values these are `v / v`, `1.5 % v` and `v / 2.0`, all exact.
With inexact values it is `1.0 / v`, whose magnitude the bound's twin
tables still give.
- **Integer `/` and `%` that fail only on dropped rows**
([here](https://github.com/xqlsystems/einfold/blob/8ec90e5/crates/einfold-datafusion/tests/simulation/queries.rs#L131)).
The divisor is 0 exactly where the join key is NULL. The existing
fallible factor casts `v` to `BIGINT`, and that cast already keeps the
factor above the join, so no factor before this one tested whether
integer division moves.
## How it is tested
The invariants are unchanged: the same rows as the host, bit for bit
with exact values; the same errors; and the rest listed at the top of
`simulation.rs`. To check that the new generators reach the new code, I
planted bugs in it. Each ran for 2,000 cases from seed 777000.
| Planted bug | Caught |
|---|---|
| `fill_default` accepts two fills of different constants | 6 `[rows]`
and `[kernels]` failures |
| Integer `%` counts as movable | 10 `[error]` failures |
| The regrouped join makes NULL equal NULL | 3 in 500 cases forced to
three relations with einfold's kernels; about 1 in 10,000 in the normal
mix |
| `join_back.rs` keeps a `-0.0` default | not seen |
Bug 4 can't change a result. With a `-0.0` default, the dense algorithm
doesn't take missing rows, so the node runs the host's plan
(`host_plans=1`). The filter is a second guard that no output shows.
On main, 2,000 cases from seed 777000 pass.
## Not in this pull request
- A soak of 0.2.0rc1 with these generators, dispatched in CI once this
is up. Findings will go to issues.
- An invariant for #132: that relinking DataFusion's functions in the
Python bridge changes no function's answer, under session settings such
as a time zone. It belongs in Python tests.
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Sets einfold for Python's version to `0.2.0`. Once this merges, the tag
`python-v0.2.0` publishes it to PyPI, and `pip install --upgrade
"einfold[datafusion]"` gets it without `--pre`. It's the same code as
0.2.0rc2, which xarray-sql acceptance-tested. xarray-sql is an XQL
Systems project that queries Xarray datasets with SQL. The maintainer
approved the release.
Since 0.1.0:
- #129, #131 and #143 add folds with a fill as the domain's default,
regrouped operands, and chains of three products in the cheaper order,
under a float guard. A chain of matrix products is 3× DataFusion at `n =
32`, 22× at 64, and 450× at 128.
- #132 and #140 run DataFusion's default functions in einfold's library,
with the session's configuration. `to_unixtime` reads text in the
session's time zone (#136).
- #141 checks that einfold changes no built-in function's answer from
Python. #134 and #142 extend the simulation to the new shapes.
Known issues, for later releases:
- #145 and #146: a `DataFrame` that reads an in-memory table fails once
its `SessionContext` is dropped. The cause is in datafusion-python; the
workaround is to keep the context alive.
- The Python bridge's fixed cost per query (#81, #58): a chain whose
last factor is a vector is 0.8× DataFusion at `n = 32`, and TPC-H is
1.06× DataFusion's time.
## Decisions to review
None.
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Masked gradient steps of ddx (an XQL Systems project for automatic differentiation of SQL queries) now run on einfold's dense algorithm instead of DataFusion's plan. On attention's
dKstep at 1,024 tokens, from spike S31, that's 32 ms against 418 ms before, and 418 ms on DataFusion.dQis the same shape. The two take 0.6 s of einfold's 1.7–2.1 s per attention gradient.Each step of a ddx gradient left-joins its result to the table it differentiates, and fills a group no row reached with
0.0:The detector found these folds from a domain, but never gave the node the domain's default, so a group no row reached was NULL. The dense algorithm can't tell such a group from a group of zeros when an operand has missing rows. A causal mask's lower triangle has them, so the dense algorithm declined, and a fold joined back to its domain then runs the host's plan. With the fill read as the default, the node computes
0.0there, and the fill above it leaves0.0as it is.Decisions to review
fill_default). The projection over the left join must read the sum only throughCOALESCE(sum, c), or aCASEwhose last test issum IS NULL THEN cwithELSE sum, orsum IS NOT NULL THEN sum ELSE c, which is how DataFusion writesCOALESCE.cis aDOUBLEconstant, and no earlier branch may read the sum. Each such fill givescforcas it gave it for NULL, so computingcchanges no row. A later branch could test the sum again and treatcdifferently from NULL, so it doesn't count, and neither does any other read of the sum. The alternative was to rewrite the projection as well, which would change plans for no gain.-0.0isn't kept for a fold joined back (join_back.rs). That node computes0.0 + value, which is whatSUMof one value computes, and that turns-0.0into0.0. A fold from a domain keeps-0.0, and the dense algorithm then doesn't take holes, since it only does so for+0.0.FoldNode::with_nullable_value). With a default, the kernels' schema makes the value non-nullable. That would no longer match the plan it replaces, whose schema an optimizer rule must keep, and a fold joined back can still make a value NULL where the domain's own test holds.How it is tested
The property test
detect_vs_hostreads the fold's sum through seven spellings, drawn at random. Three are ddx'sCASEandCOALESCE, with0.0,-0.0and1.0. The others are look-alikes: the bare sum, aCASEthat tests the sum again after its NULL test, and a fill plus another read of the sum. The invariants, over 4,000 cases:Some tables now hold only finite values, since a NaN or an infinity in an operand keeps the dense algorithm from taking holes. With them, folds joined back run dense in 74 of 300 cases, against 60 before.
A hand test,
masked_gradients_from_their_domain_run_dense, is S31'sdKwritten as ddx writes it, over a causal triangle. It checks the default,dense_folds=1, and that the host's plan never runs. It fails without this change.Filed DataFusion 55: a NaN's sign decides comparisons, so -NaN < 1.0 < NaN — draft for upstream #128. One look-alike first compared the sum with
> 1.0. It disagreed with DataFusion on a sum that was NaN in both, because DataFusion orders a NaN by its sign bit, and the sign depends on the order of additions. The test now compares NaN only withIS NULL. DataFusion 55: a NaN's sign decides comparisons, so -NaN < 1.0 < NaN — draft for upstream #128 is an issue labeledupstream, pinned bynan_compares_by_its_sign.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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