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submission.py
curl "https://kernelindex.com/api/v1/implementations/kernelbot-amd-mixed-mla-751787?include=source"
interfacepython
Compatibility
measured onAMD Instinct MI355X
declared hardwareAMD Instinct MI355X
architecturesgfx950
dtypesbf16, int32

Benchmark evidence

1 measurement across 1 GPU, fastest first.

Operation / workload
Hardware
Latency
Rank
Observed
AMD Instinct MI355X
199.3µs
#644 of 766
2026-04-06

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revision digestsha256:78e607d98d8105ede9a8e27fd9ef821d041e384c57b169f456e7a0549544f334
license declaredunknown
license concludedunknown
authorsNoviceCoderInfinity
imported2026-08-26

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persistent-kernelUses aiter mla_decode_fwd with fp8 Q + fp8 KV (a8w8 persistent mode).

Kernel source

submission.py125 lines
#!POPCORN leaderboard amd-mixed-mla
#!POPCORN gpu MI355X

"""
MLA decode kernel for DeepSeek R1 forward_absorb path.
Uses aiter mla_decode_fwd with fp8 Q + fp8 KV (a8w8 persistent mode).
~2-3x faster than bf16 on MI355X with negligible accuracy loss.
"""

import torch
from task import input_t, output_t

from aiter.mla import mla_decode_fwd
from aiter import dtypes as aiter_dtypes
from aiter import get_mla_metadata_info_v1, get_mla_metadata_v1

NUM_HEADS = 16
NUM_KV_HEADS = 1
QK_HEAD_DIM = 576
V_HEAD_DIM = 512
SM_SCALE = 1.0 / (QK_HEAD_DIM ** 0.5)
PAGE_SIZE = 1
NUM_KV_SPLITS = 32
FP8_DTYPE = aiter_dtypes.fp8


def _quantize_fp8(tensor: torch.Tensor):
    finfo = torch.finfo(FP8_DTYPE)
    amax = tensor.abs().amax().clamp(min=1e-12)
    scale = (amax / finfo.max).to(torch.float32).reshape(1)
    fp8_tensor = (tensor / scale).clamp(min=finfo.min, max=finfo.max).to(FP8_DTYPE)
    return fp8_tensor, scale


def _make_metadata(batch_size, max_q_len, nhead, nhead_kv, q_dtype, kv_dtype,
                   qo_indptr, kv_indptr, kv_last_page_len):
    info = get_mla_metadata_info_v1(
        batch_size, max_q_len, nhead, q_dtype, kv_dtype,
        is_sparse=False, fast_mode=False,
        num_kv_splits=NUM_KV_SPLITS, intra_batch_mode=True,
    )
    work = [torch.empty(s, dtype=t, device="cuda") for s, t in info]
    (work_metadata, work_indptr, work_info_set,
     reduce_indptr, reduce_final_map, reduce_partial_map) = work

    get_mla_metadata_v1(
        qo_indptr, kv_indptr, kv_last_page_len,
        nhead // nhead_kv,
        nhead_kv,
        True,
        work_metadata, work_info_set, work_indptr,
        reduce_indptr, reduce_final_map, reduce_partial_map,
        page_size=PAGE_SIZE,
        kv_granularity=max(PAGE_SIZE, 16),
        max_seqlen_qo=max_q_len,
        uni_seqlen_qo=max_q_len,
        fast_mode=False,
        max_split_per_batch=NUM_KV_SPLITS,
        intra_batch_mode=True,
        dtype_q=q_dtype,
        dtype_kv=kv_dtype,
    )

    return {
        "work_meta_data": work_metadata,
        "work_indptr": work_indptr,
        "work_info_set": work_info_set,
        "reduce_indptr": reduce_indptr,
        "reduce_final_map": reduce_final_map,
        "reduce_partial_map": reduce_partial_map,
    }


def custom_kernel(data: input_t) -> output_t:
    q, kv_data, qo_indptr, kv_indptr, config = data

    batch_size = config["batch_size"]
    nq = config["num_heads"]
    nkv = config["num_kv_heads"]
    dq = config["qk_head_dim"]
    dv = config["v_head_dim"]
    q_seq_len = config["q_seq_len"]

    # Quantize Q to fp8 on-the-fly (a8w8: fastest path on MI355X)
    q_fp8, q_scale = _quantize_fp8(q)

    # Use pre-quantized fp8 KV
    kv_buffer_fp8, kv_scale = kv_data["fp8"]

    total_kv_len = int(kv_indptr[-1].item())
    kv_indices = torch.arange(total_kv_len, dtype=torch.int32, device="cuda")

    # Reshape to 4D: (total_kv, page_size, nkv, dim)
    kv_4d = kv_buffer_fp8.view(kv_buffer_fp8.shape[0], PAGE_SIZE, nkv, kv_buffer_fp8.shape[-1])

    kv_last_page_len = (kv_indptr[1:] - kv_indptr[:-1]).to(torch.int32)

    meta = _make_metadata(
        batch_size, q_seq_len, nq, nkv,
        q_fp8.dtype, kv_buffer_fp8.dtype,
        qo_indptr, kv_indptr, kv_last_page_len,
    )

    o = torch.empty((q.shape[0], nq, dv), dtype=torch.bfloat16, device="cuda")
    mla_decode_fwd(
        q_fp8.view(-1, nq, dq),
        kv_4d,
        o,
        qo_indptr,
        kv_indptr,
        kv_indices,
        kv_last_page_len,
        q_seq_len,
        page_size=PAGE_SIZE,
        nhead_kv=nkv,
        sm_scale=SM_SCALE,
        logit_cap=0.0,
        num_kv_splits=NUM_KV_SPLITS,
        q_scale=q_scale,
        kv_scale=kv_scale,
        intra_batch_mode=True,
        **meta,
    )
    return o
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