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[None][perf] Fuse Kimi K3 KDA projections - #17311

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  • Fuses Kimi K3 KDA projections for prefill, decode, and MTP verification.
  • Adds bounded auxiliary-stream overlap for workloads up to 128 rows.
  • Preserves sequential fallbacks and the FP8 QKVG weight-read path.
  • Extends KimiKDARuntime.__init__ with optional aux_stream.
  • Review should verify stream synchronization, FP8 compatibility, fallback behavior, and API consistency.

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  • Added test_kda_fused_prefill_matches_separate_projections.
  • Added test_kda_qkvg_multistream_decode_matches_separate_projections.
  • Extended two-round fused verification parity coverage.
  • Tests compare projections, replay outputs, cache updates, and committed SSM state.
  • CI coverage is registered in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml and tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_gb300_multi_gpus.yml.
  • Targeted B200 validation passed with 7 passed, 0 failed, and 0 skipped.
  • Verdict: sufficient.

Description

Optimize Kimi K3 KDA projections in the PyTorch backend following the SGLang projection layout:

  • replace the decode-only [q|k|v|g|f_a|b] projection with an alignment-friendly fused QKVG projection and a padded fused [f_a|b] projection;
  • use the same fused projections during prefill and reuse QKVG's output-gate result;
  • use the fused QKVG and [f_a|b] projections in both MTP verification implementations, including output-gate reuse;
  • overlap [f_a|b] -> f_b with QKVG on the model auxiliary CUDA stream for decode and MTP workloads containing at most 128 rows;
  • preserve sequential fallbacks and the existing FP8 QKVG weight-read path.

Keeping the small f_a and b tails out of the wide QKVG output avoids degrading GEMM kernel selection while reducing projection launches in prefill, decode, and MTP verification.

Performance

+2% throughput perf gain

Test Coverage

  • Added public-forward parity coverage for fused prefill versus separate projections.
  • Added public-forward parity coverage for multi-stream decode versus separate projections, including convolution and recurrent-cache updates.
  • Extended the random-weight two-round MTP test to compare fused and sequential verification with mixed accepted-token counts and committed SSM state.
  • Initialized the older sequential parity test's load-time weight buffers so it cannot compare NaN outputs from uninitialized tensors.
  • Passed all pre-commit hooks and git diff --check.
  • Built the native targets for SM100 on an NVIDIA B200.
  • Passed test_kimi_kda_verify_parity.py and test_kimi_kda_fused_verify_parity.py on the B200: 7 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped.
  • The GPU tests construct deterministic random weights and do not load Kimi K3 checkpoint weights.

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KDA projection handling now supports shared fused qkvg and f_a/b paths across prefill, decode, and verification. The runtime accepts an auxiliary CUDA stream for bounded multistream execution. GPU parity tests cover outputs, replay behavior, and cache updates.

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KDA projection runtime

Layer / File(s) Summary
Projection fusion setup
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py
Runtime construction and post-load finalization create shared qkvg and f_a/b projection buffers for BF16 and FP8 execution.
Prefill and decode execution
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py
Prefill and decode select fused or separate projections, propagate full-rank output gates, and overlap projection chains on the auxiliary stream for bounded batch sizes.
Verification projection execution
tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_kimi_linear.py
Verification reuses shared fused projection logic, retains separate-projection fallback, and passes precomputed output gates through fused and sequential paths.
Projection and verification parity
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_kimi_kda_verify_parity.py, tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_kimi_kda_fused_verify_parity.py
GPU tests compare fused and separate runtimes for prefill, multistream decode, and verification replay, including output and cache-state parity.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f9899

This PR changes Kimi K3 projection execution to reduce launches while preserving sequential fallbacks and parity coverage; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant KimiKDARuntime
  participant MainCUDAStream
  participant AuxiliaryCUDAStream
  participant KDAState
  KimiKDARuntime->>MainCUDAStream: Launch fused qkvg projection
  KimiKDARuntime->>AuxiliaryCUDAStream: Launch fused f_a/b projection chain
  AuxiliaryCUDAStream-->>MainCUDAStream: Signal projection completion
  MainCUDAStream->>KDAState: Update recurrent and temporal caches
  KDAState-->>KimiKDARuntime: Return KDA output
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104-196: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Add FP8 fused-projection parity coverage.

The tests only call finalize_decode_weights(). They do not exercise _convert_kda_projections_to_fp8_weight_read() with finalize_decode_weights_fp8(). The changed FP8 QKVG source and BF16 BFA fusion can therefore regress without parity detection.

  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_kimi_kda_verify_parity.py#L104-L196: Add FP8 prefill and decode parity cases after model-level FP8 KDA conversion and FP8 glue finalization.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_kimi_kda_fused_verify_parity.py#L183-L247: Add an FP8 two-round verification case with multistream enabled.

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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_kimi_kda_verify_parity.py` around lines
104 - 196, Add FP8 parity coverage in
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_kimi_kda_verify_parity.py:104-196 by
converting the model-level KDA projections to FP8, finalizing FP8 decode
weights, and validating both prefill and decode outputs and cache state against
the reference. In
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_kimi_kda_fused_verify_parity.py:183-247, add
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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_kimi_kda_verify_parity.py`:
- Around line 104-196: Add FP8 parity coverage in
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_kimi_kda_verify_parity.py:104-196 by
converting the model-level KDA projections to FP8, finalizing FP8 decode
weights, and validating both prefill and decode outputs and cache state against
the reference. In
tests/unittest/_torch/modeling/test_kimi_kda_fused_verify_parity.py:183-247, add
a two-round FP8 verification case with multistream enabled; include the required
test coverage summary and coverage verdict.

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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.

Tests thoroughly cover the BF16 fused path, but the FP8 side of this change ships untested — see the inline comment at the prefill FP8 branch. Note the scope there: prefill and verify now consume the fused FP8 qkvg_proj (and reuse its g slice for the output gate) whenever the FP8 weight read is active, independent of KIMI_K3_KDA_GLUE_FP8 — that matches the description's intent, just confirm it was validated on an FP8 config.

Two smaller points:

  • The fork/join events only fire under do_multi_stream(), i.e. inside CUDA-graph execution in production; the unit tests exercise them eagerly via with_multi_stream(True). If no existing K3 CUDA-graph test replays a captured decode with this overlap active, a capture/replay parity check would close that gap — capture is where stream/event ordering bugs actually bite.
  • This is a nontrivial perf feature carrying [None] — if there's a JIRA tracking the K3 perf work, put it in the title.

No test-list changes needed: both test files are already registered by path in l0_b200.yml and by -k pattern in l0_gb300_multi_gpus.yml, so the new test functions run in CI as-is.

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