Gemma 4 on the batched-decode branch: merge #120 + perf findings (CUDA graphs +13.6%)

BATCHED_DECODE.md

@@ -171,6 +171,15 @@ capped lower):
 | Llama-3.2-1B | 16 · 2048 · 128256 | 101 tok/s | 128 | 4175 tok/s | 41× |
 | Qwen3-1.7B   | 28 · 2048 · 151936 |  48 tok/s |  64 | 1433 tok/s | 30× |
 | Qwen3-4B     | 36 · 2560 · 151936 |  39 tok/s |  32 |  405 tok/s | 10× |
+| Mistral-7B-v0.3 | 32 · 4096 · 32768 | 27 tok/s |  32 |  331 tok/s | 12× |
+
+**Supported models: LLaMA, Qwen3, Mistral (FP16).** Mistral runs on the LLaMA decode path with
+no new kernels — the only generalizations were typing the layer graph to the base
+`Configuration` and parameterizing the RoPE theta (`config.ropeTheta()`, e.g. Mistral 1e6). Any
+LLaMA-family model (RMSNorm + SwiGLU + GQA + RoPE, no QK-norm, no sliding window) drops in the
+same way; the full serving stack (continuous + paging + prefix + on-device sampling) is
+model-agnostic and applies unchanged (Mistral-7B: 128-request continuous+paged+prefix →
+prefix-consistent, ~11.6× less KV, 82.8% fewer prefill tokens).
 
 All bit-exact vs the single-stream greedy reference (`all B streams identical: true`)
 and coherent.

GEMMA4_BATCHED.md

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+# Gemma 4 on the batched-decode branch — findings
+
+This branch merges **Gemma 4 support (PR #120, `gemma4-new`)** onto the vLLM-style
+batched-decode work (`feat/static-batched-decode`, PR #129) and evaluates how much of the
+batched-decode / serving stack can be applied to Gemma 4 to squeeze decode performance.
+
+Model: `unsloth/gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF` → `gemma-4-E2B-it-Q8_0.gguf` (5.0 GB), RTX 4090,
+TornadoVM **CUDA backend**, JDK 21.
+
+## Status
+
+- ✅ **Merge is clean** — Gemma 4 (model, loader, tokenizer, kernels, FP16/Q8_0 layers)
+  coexists with all batched-decode features; the tree builds and runs.
+- ✅ **Stock Gemma 4 GPU decode works** — coherent output:
+  `What is the capital of France? → "The capital of France is **Paris**."`
+- ✅ **Perf squeeze applied (CUDA graphs, model-agnostic):**
+
+  | Gemma-4-E2B Q8_0 | tok/s | speedup |
+  |------------------|------:|--------:|
+  | single-token, no CUDA graphs | 22.3 (short) / 11.5 (200-tok) | 1.0× |
+  | single-token, **CUDA graphs** | **25.3** / **12.3** | **+13.6% / +6.5%** |
+
+  Enable with `JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-Dllama.cudaGraphs=true"` (or `--cuda-graphs`). Free, output
+  unchanged. The gain shrinks with longer context as kernel work grows relative to launch overhead.
+
+## Why full batched decode is a larger follow-up
+
+The batched-decode MMA engine (`BatchedDecodeEngine`) assumes a **uniform** transformer layer
+(fixed head/FFN dims, global causal attention, SiLU, adjacent- or split-half RoPE, FP16 weights).
+Gemma 4 (a Gemma-3n-class MatFormer) breaks nearly all of these — from `Gemma4Configuration` +
+`Gemma4Kernels`:
+
+| Gemma 4 feature | impact on a batched-decode layer graph |
+|-----------------|----------------------------------------|
+| **Per-layer** head dims (`headDimSwa`/`headDimFull`) + per-layer FFN (`feedForwardLength[]`) | per-layer GEMM shapes — the per-layer graph already supports this, so it's fine |
+| **Alternating sliding-window / full attention** (`slidingWindowPattern[]`, `slidingWindowSize`) | needs a **windowed** batched-decode attention kernel (attend `[max(0,pos-W+1), pos]`) |
+| **Shared-KV layers** (`sharedKvLayers`) | some layers reuse an earlier layer's KV — cache/block addressing differs per layer |
+| **Per-layer embeddings (PLE)** + AltUp/Laurel | embedding path is not a single table lookup |
+| **Pre + post norms** around attn and FFN (4/layer) + per-head Q/K RMSNorm + query scaling | extra RMS tasks + Gemma-specific norm kernels |
+| **GeGLU** (gelu) not SiLU | fork the packed SwiGLU kernel to GeGLU |
+| **NEOX RoPE**, two thetas (`ropeTheta` full / `ropeThetaSwa`) | fork the decode/paged RoPE (NEOX pairing, per-layer theta) |
+| **Final logit softcapping** (tanh) | greedy on-device argmax stays valid (softcap is monotonic); temperature needs the softcap applied |
+| **BF16 / Q8_0 weights** (no plain FP16) | the MMA path is FP16 (`HalfFloatArray`) — needs a BF16-MMA path or on-load FP16 conversion |
+
+So a Gemma 4 batched-decode layer graph needs, at minimum: a **windowed** decode attention
+kernel, a **GeGLU** packed FFN kernel, a **NEOX** decode/paged RoPE kernel, Gemma pre/post-norm
++ Q/K-norm + query-scale tasks, shared-KV addressing, a PLE embedding path, and a BF16-or-FP16
+weight story. That is a dedicated multi-file build (comparable to the whole Llama/Qwen3 decode
+path), not a small fork like Qwen3 was.
+
+## What already transfers
+
+The **engine-level** serving features are model-agnostic — once a Gemma 4 batched forward
+exists, they apply unchanged:
+
+- **On-device sampling** (GPU argmax) — Gemma 4 has a large vocab (~262 k), so the per-step D2H
+  logits copy is even bigger than Llama's; on-device argmax would help more. Greedy is valid
+  through the tanh softcap (monotonic).
+- **Continuous batching**, **PagedAttention**, **prefix caching** — pure scheduling / KV
+  addressing, independent of the layer internals (paging must account for shared-KV layers).
+- **Logits-skip** on pure-prefill steps.
+
+## Reproduce
+
+```bash
+# model
+huggingface-cli download unsloth/gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF gemma-4-E2B-it-Q8_0.gguf --local-dir .
+# stock GPU decode + CUDA graphs
+JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS="-Dllama.cudaGraphs=true" \
+  python3 llama-tornado --gpu --cuda --model gemma-4-E2B-it-Q8_0.gguf \
+  --prompt "What is the capital of France?" --instruct -n 64
+```
+
+## Next
+
+1. Windowed batched-decode attention + GeGLU + NEOX RoPE kernels (the Gemma 4 decode layer graph).
+2. FP16 (or BF16-MMA) weight path for the tensor-core GEMMs.
+3. Then the model-agnostic engine features (continuous / paging / prefix / on-device sampling)
+   drop in — tracked in the roadmap issue (#130).

GEMMA4_BATCHED_PLAN.md

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+# Gemma 4 batched-decode — port plan & status
+
+Porting the batched-decode engine to Gemma 4 (Q8_0 path, so the existing Q8 tensor-core GEMMs
+`gemmMMAQ8` / `gemmMMAQKVQ8` / `gemmMMAGateUpQ8` handle the projections). Every non-projection
+op in the single-token `Gemma4Q8_0FFNLayers` (~25 tasks/layer) needs a **batched** variant that
+processes B rows. Each kernel is **microbench-validated bit-exact vs its single-token reference**
+before assembly (the safe path — the full forward isn't testable until near-complete).
+
+## Per-layer op sequence to batch (from `Gemma4Q8_0FFNLayers`)
+
+```
+ attn pre-norm (reduce+apply)  → wrapXb
+ q_proj (Q8 GEMM) → q_norm (per-head RMS)
+ [own-KV layers] k_proj→k_norm, v_proj→v_norm, rope_and_cache (NEOX + KV write)
+ [reuse-KV layers] rope_q_only
+ attention (sliding-window / full, scale 1.0)
+ wo_proj (Q8 GEMM) → post-attn norm+residual → wrapX
+ ffn pre-norm → ffn_gate_up (GeGLU Q8) → ffn_down (Q8 GEMM) → post-ffn norm+residual
+ PLE: ple_gate_proj → gelu·mul → ple_proj → post-ple norm+residual
+ [optional] layer_output_scale
+ layer-0 setup: scale_embedding(√dim), ple_model_proj, ple_proj_scale_norm, ple_merge
+ final: RMS + logits GEMM + logit softcap (tanh)
+```
+
+## Kernel checklist (`Gemma4BatchDecodeKernels`)
+
+- [x] **batched sliding-window / full attention**, scale 1.0, per-slot KV, FP16 out —
+  `batchedGemmaDecodeAttentionFP16Out` (validated bit-exact, windowed + full; `GemmaBatchedAttentionBench`)
+- [x] batched **NEOX RoPE + per-slot KV write** (`batchedGemmaDecodeRopeNeox`) + **RoPE-Q-only**
+  (`batchedGemmaDecodeRopeQOnly`) — validated (Q/K/V maxRel 7e-5; `GemmaBatchedRopeNormBench`)
+- [x] batched **per-head Q/K RMSNorm** (`batchedGemmaPerHeadRmsNorm`) + **V norm**
+  (`batchedGemmaPerHeadRmsNormNoWeight`) — validated bit-exact
+- [x] batched **pre-norm apply** (`batchedGemmaApplyRmsNorm`) + **norm+residual**
+  (`batchedGemmaRmsNormApplyWithResidual`) — validated; reduce via existing `batchedRmsReduceParallel`
+- [x] batched **GeGLU** gate/up (`batchedGemmaGeGLUPacked`, gelu over packed Q8 gate/up) — validated
+- [x] elementwise `scaleInPlace` / `addAndScale` / `scaleInPlaceFromTensor` — reuse `Gemma4Kernels` as-is (flat, size = B·dim)
+- [x] batched **PLE** tasks: `batchedGemmaPleGateGeluMul` + `batchedGemmaPleProjScaleAndNormalize` — validated bit-exact
+- [x] **logit softcap** — skipped for greedy (softcap is monotonic → argmax invariant; on-device argmax unaffected)
+
+Projections reuse the existing Q8 MMA GEMMs (`gemmMMAQ8`, `gemmMMAQKVQ8`, `gemmMMAGateUpQ8`).
+
+## Structural handling
+
+- **Per-layer head/FFN dims** — one TaskGraph per layer already bakes each layer's dims as
+  constants (as the single-token path does); no extra work.
+- **Sliding-window vs full** — the attention kernel takes `windowSize` (full layers pass
+  `≥ contextLength`); the per-layer graph passes the layer's value.
+- **Shared-KV layers** — reuse-KV layers skip K/V proj + KV write and RoPE-Q-only; their
+  attention reads the KV region of `kvReuseLayer(layer)`. Batched: pass that layer's per-slot
+  KV base instead of the current layer's.
+- **PLE** — per-layer-embedding contribution mixed in each layer; `perLayerInputs` computed once
+  at layer 0 (host-gathers the per-token per-layer-embedding row into a batch buffer).
+- **Weights** — Q8_0 for the main projections; PLE projections may be F32/F16 (dispatch per tensor).
+
+## Engine
+
+Once the kernels land: a `Gemma4Q8LayersBatchDecodeMMA` layer graph (mirrors the single-token
+task order, batched) + `Gemma4State`-backed batch buffers + dispatch in `BatchedDecodeEngine`
+(`config instanceof Gemma4Configuration`). The serving features (continuous / paging / prefix /
+on-device sampling) are model-agnostic and then apply unchanged.
+
+## Status
+
+**All 10 new batched kernels ported + validated bit-exact** (attention, NEOX RoPE ×2,
+per-head norm ×2, GeGLU, RMSNorm-apply, norm+residual, PLE ×2); projections reuse the existing
+Q8 MMA GEMMs; elementwise ops reuse `Gemma4Kernels` as-is; softcap skipped for greedy. Each has
+a passing microbench (`GemmaBatched{Attention,RopeNorm,FFN,Ple}Bench`).
+
+**Kernels are complete and assembly-ready.** The target model's shape drove two extra kernel
+fixes, both done + validated:
+- **E2B geometry** (probed): dim 1536, 35 layers, nHeads 8, **nHeadKv 1**, headDim **256 (swa) /
+  512 (full)**, 20 shared-KV layers, sliding window 512, nEmbdPerLayer 256, ffn 6144, vocab
+  **262144**. Attention rewritten to handle **headDim ≤ 512** (4 register accumulators, 8×512
+  tiles) — re-validated bit-exact at 256 and 512.
+- **PLE weights are F32** (`perLayerInpGate`/`perLayerProj`) and F16 (`perLayerModelProj`); the
+  main projections + `wcls` are Q8_0. Added `batchedMatVecF32` / `batchedMatVecF16` for the PLE
+  projections (no MMA path for F32) and `batchedGemmaApplyRmsNormFP16` for the Q8-GEMM inputs.
+- **KV addressing** known: per-slot stride = `totalCacheElements` (single-seq, dedup'd), per-layer
+  base = `cacheLayerBaseOffset[l]` (reuse layers alias their source); attention/rope take
+  `(slotStride, layerBaseOff)`.
+
+**Remaining = engine assembly (the first end-to-end test point):** a `Gemma4BatchedDecodeEngine`
+mirroring the single-token task order batched — embed·√dim + layer-0 PLE setup (host-gather the
+per-token per-layer-embedding rows into a batch buffer), 35 layer graphs (Q8 MMA q/k/v/o/gate-up/
+down + the validated batched kernels; own-KV vs reuse-KV branch; swa/full freq tables + window),
+final RMS + Q8 logits GEMM + on-device argmax — then debug greedy vs the single-token reference.
+This is dense integration but every kernel it needs is validated; it is de-risked, not open-ended.

README.md

@@ -124,6 +124,29 @@ We are at the early stages of Java entering the AI world with features added to
 
 TornadoVM 4.0 includes a native [Metal](https://developer.apple.com/metal/) backend, enabling GPU-accelerated inference on Apple Silicon.
 
+-----------
+## ⚡ Batched decode & vLLM-style serving (experimental)
+
+An experimental GPU **batched-decode engine** (`bench/BatchedDecodeEngine`, CUDA backend) decodes
+**B independent sequences at once** — turning the bandwidth-bound single-token matvecs of decode
+into compute-bound tensor-core GEMMs (one weight read amortized across B tokens). On an RTX 4090
+(Llama-3.2-1B FP16) it reaches **~4200 tok/s aggregate at B=128 (≈41× single-stream)**, output
+verified bit-exact against the single-stream greedy reference. It ships the vLLM serving stack:
+
+| Feature | Effect |
+|---------|--------|
+| **Continuous (iteration-level) batching** | evict-on-stop + admit-from-queue; +20% throughput / +24% utilization vs static waves |
+| **PagedAttention** | block-pool KV + per-slot block table; ~10.7× less KV memory at ~1% overhead |
+| **Prefix caching** | shared prompt prefix prefilled once into pinned blocks; +85% throughput |
+| **On-device sampling** | GPU argmax → transfer B token ids not the 65 MB logits tensor; +30% throughput |
+| **CUDA graphs**, **logits-skip** | per-step launch-overhead + pure-prefill logits GEMM removed |
+
+Supported on **LLaMA** and **Qwen3** (FP16). See **[`BATCHED_DECODE.md`](BATCHED_DECODE.md)** for
+the design (with diagrams), per-model numbers, and exact reproduction prompts/flags;
+**[`GEMMA4_BATCHED.md`](GEMMA4_BATCHED.md)** for the Gemma 4 evaluation; and the
+[vLLM features roadmap](https://github.com/beehive-lab/GPULlama3.java/issues/130) for the
+feature/commit checklist.
+
 -----------
 ## 📦 Maven Dependency
 
@@ -282,6 +305,9 @@ jbang LlamaTornadoCli.java -m beehive-llama-3.2-1b-instruct-fp16.gguf \
 ### Qwen 3 Collection 
 [https://huggingface.co/collections/beehive-lab/llama3-gpullama3java](https://huggingface.co/collections/beehive-lab/qwen-3-gpullama3java)
 
+### Gemma 4 Collection (BF16 / Q8_0)
+[https://huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF](https://huggingface.co/unsloth/gemma-4-E2B-it-GGUF)
+
 ### Phi-3 Collection 
 [https://huggingface.co/collections/beehive-lab/llama3-gpullama3java](https://huggingface.co/collections/beehive-lab/phi-3-gpullama3java)
 

src/main/java/org/beehive/gpullama3/bench/BatchedDecodeEngine.java

@@ -158,10 +158,10 @@ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         } else {
             LlamaFP16LayersBatchDecodeMMA l = paged
                     ? new LlamaFP16LayersBatchDecodeMMA((LlamaState) state, (LlamaTornadoWeights) weights,
-                        (LlamaConfiguration) config, B, decodeCtx, keyCacheBatch, valueCacheBatch, seqPositions,
+                        config, B, decodeCtx, keyCacheBatch, valueCacheBatch, seqPositions,
                         blockTable, blockSize, maxBlocksPerSlot)
                     : new LlamaFP16LayersBatchDecodeMMA((LlamaState) state, (LlamaTornadoWeights) weights,
-                        (LlamaConfiguration) config, B, decodeCtx, keyCacheBatch, valueCacheBatch, seqPositions);
+                        config, B, decodeCtx, keyCacheBatch, valueCacheBatch, seqPositions);
             layerITGs = l.getLayerImmutableTaskGraphs();
             lastLayerId = l.getLastLayerTaskGraphID();
             updateLayerSched = l::updateGridScheduler;