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Add nvMatmulHeuristics (nvMMH) support for Rubin CuTe DSL NVFP4, MXFP8 blockscale and BF16 GEMMs

Summary

  • Integrate nvMMH into CuTe DSL tactic generation so modeled tactic fields can
    be ranked and pruned before JIT compilation and profiling.
  • Cover Blackwell and Rubin dense NVFP4, FP8/MXFP8, and BF16 GEMM runners while
    preserving each runner's validated local tactic variants.
  • Keep nvMMH opt-in and fail open to the full sweep when the library is
    unavailable or returns no usable match.

Enabling nvMMH

nvMMH is disabled by default. For the PyTorch LLM API, add the policy to an
extra_llm_api_options.yaml file. The presence of an
autotuner_nvmmh_config mapping enables nvMMH; omission or null keeps the
full sweep.

enable_autotuner: true
autotuner_nvmmh_config:
  fields: [swizzle, cta_order, split_k]
  max_tactics: 5

For direct Python use, install one complete, immutable NvMMHConfig before
model loading and tactic enumeration:

from tensorrt_llm._torch.autotuner import AutoTuner, NvMMHConfig

AutoTuner.get().configure_nvmmh(
    NvMMHConfig(
        enabled=True,
        fields=("swizzle", "cta_order", "split_k"),
        max_tactics=5,
    )
)

Modeled fields by runner

The five canonical fields are tile, cluster, swizzle, cta_order, and
split_k. Selecting either tile or cluster selects both because nvMMH
models them jointly.

Arch Precision Modeled fields
SM100/SM103 NVFP4 tile, cluster; swizzle, cta_order
SM100/SM103 blockwise FP8 tile, cluster
SM100/SM103 BF16 all five
SM107 (Rubin) block-scaled NVFP4 all five
SM107 (Rubin) block-scaled MXFP8 all five
SM107 (Rubin) per-tensor FP8 tile, cluster, cta_order
SM107 (Rubin) BF16 all five

Autotuner timing

CuteDSLTunableRunner is a marker subclass that selects the timing policy; the
shared AutoTuner still owns warmup, profiling, winner selection, fallback,
and cache management.

Behavior Plain TunableRunner Direct CuteDSLTunableRunner
Preferred measurement Existing %globaltimer or CUDA-event path torch.profiler CUDA activities through Kineto/CUPTI
What is measured Legacy event/timer interval Sum of positive CUDA activity durations across launches, including auxiliary streams, divided by the launch count
Synchronization Existing runner/stream synchronization Device-wide synchronization before closing the profiler
CUPTI unavailable Not applicable; CUPTI is not requested Latch the failure process-wide and fall back to CUDA events
Failure during a sweep Existing behavior Discard mixed CUPTI/event measurements and repeat the complete candidate sweep with CUDA events
Profiling-cache identity Legacy cache-key shape Separate torch_profiler and cuda_event_fallback discriminator

Tests

  • Add unit coverage for FP8/BF16 ranking and filtering, rank-1 split-K, local
    tactic preservation, CTA-order mapping, CUDA-graph/eager CUPTI fallback, cache
    separation, kernel-error preservation, and subprocess timer propagation.
  • Add SM107 correctness/performance comparisons for NVFP4, FP8 4096³, and BF16
    [16,7168] x [7168,256], plus a torch.profiler benchmark of scheduler-only
    nvMMH versus the full BF16 sweep for the transposed
    [16384,7168] x [7168,2112] weight shape.

Workload

  • DeepSeek V4 Pro, generation-only
  • MTP disabled
  • 2 nodes x 4 GPUs
  • TP8 / EP8 / ADP8
  • Local maximum batch size: 32
  • Concurrency: 256
  • Requests: 2,560
  • Input/output lengths: 1,024 / 1,024
  • CuTe DSL block-scaled MXFP8 GEMM enabled
  • Scheduler-only nvMMH fields: [swizzle, cta_order, split_k]
  • CTA tile and cluster shape remained in the autotuner sweep

Autotuner Results

Metric Full sweep Scheduler-only nvMMH Change
Cold autotune time 1,152 s 234 s -79.69% (4.92x faster)
Autotune time saved - 918 s 15m18s saved

Serving Performance Results

Change is scheduler-only nvMMH relative to full sweep. Lower is better for latency and duration metrics; higher is better for throughput.

Metric Full sweep Scheduler-only nvMMH Change
Output throughput 11,712.87 tok/s 11,568.83 tok/s -1.23%
Request throughput 11.438 req/s 11.298 req/s -1.22%
Benchmark duration 223.81 s 226.60 s +1.25%
Mean TTFT 155.95 ms 147.51 ms -5.41%
P99 TTFT 1,054.80 ms 925.46 ms -12.26%
Mean TPOT 21.706 ms 21.982 ms +1.27%
P99 TPOT 22.174 ms 22.313 ms +0.63%
Mean ITL 427.02 ms 432.45 ms +1.27%
P99 ITL 456.60 ms 485.47 ms +6.32%
Mean E2EL 22,361.00 ms 22,635.10 ms +1.23%
P99 E2EL 23,313.04 ms 23,557.67 ms +1.05%

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  • Adds optional nvMatmulHeuristics (nvMMH) tactic selection for supported CuTe DSL GEMM runners. The Python and LLM API configurations keep nvMMH disabled by default.
  • Adds process-wide policy ownership and release handling for model engines. Verify policy conflicts, engine cleanup, and executor shutdown.
  • Adds profiler timing and timer-specific cache identities, with CUDA-event fallback when CUPTI timing fails. Verify fallback and cache behavior.
  • Applies heuristic ranking and pruning while retaining runner-specific tactic variants. Verify split-K eligibility and scheduler/tactic mapping on supported architectures.
  • The PR objectives report cold autotuning time changing from 1,152 s to 234 s, serving output throughput changing by -1.23%, and P99 TTFT improving by 12.26%. No test execution results are supplied.

QA Engineer Review

  • Modified tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py. Its nvMMH comparisons cover BF16, MXFP8, and NVFP4 behavior against full sweeps, including SM107 split-K eligibility.
  • The test-list search found test_autotuner_distributed_strategy in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_dgx_b200.yml, but no matching entry for the nvMMH comparison test. The changed test is a unit test, not an integration test, so test-list registration is not applicable based on the available evidence.
  • Coverage verdict: needs follow-up. The supplied change summary does not establish test coverage for all changed policy, timer-fallback, and cache-identity paths.

Per-File QA Perspective

  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/autotuner.py: Verify nvMMH policy configuration, ownership, timer selection and fallback, and profiling-cache behavior.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cute_dsl_custom_ops.py: Verify runner integration, supported tactic pruning, local variant retention, and scheduler/split-K mapping.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/torch_custom_ops.py: Verify profiler timing and tactic-search cache behavior for NVFP4GemmUnifiedRunner.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/fused_moe_cute_dsl.py: Verify the fused MoE runners’ migration to CuteDSLTunableRunner.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py: Verify policy configuration before model loading and release during cleanup.
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/py_executor.py: Verify shutdown releases policies for model and draft engines.
  • tensorrt_llm/llmapi/__init__.py: Verify the public export of AutoTunerNvMMHConfig.
  • tensorrt_llm/llmapi/llm_args.py: Verify AutoTunerNvMMHConfig validation and the default behavior of autotuner_nvmmh_config.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py: Verify nvMMH/full-sweep comparisons for supported precision and SM combinations, including SM107 split-K eligibility. It is a unit test, so integration test-list registration does not apply.

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Walkthrough

The pull request adds process-wide NVMMH configuration, heuristic tactic selection, profiler-aware cache handling, and CuTe DSL runner integration. It updates benchmark settings and documentation, and adds tests for tactic selection, profiling, numerical correctness, split-K, and replay behavior.

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NVMMH autotuner integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Policy configuration and engine lifecycle
tensorrt_llm/llmapi/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/*, examples/layer_wise_benchmarks/*, tensorrt_llm/usage/llm_args_golden_manifest.json, docs/source/torch/adding_custom_kernels.md
Adds public and benchmark NVMMH configuration. The model engine acquires the policy before loading and releases it during cleanup and shutdown.
Autotuner policy, profiling, and cache handling
tensorrt_llm/_torch/autotuner.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/torch_custom_ops.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/locality_domain/autotune.py
Adds process-wide policy configuration, timer and tactic-search cache identities, profiler timing, and CUDA-event fallback with whole-sweep retries.
NVMMH query and tactic matching
tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cutedsl_matmul_heuristics.py
Adds split-K extraction and querying, FP8 and BF16 tactic matching, scheduler-field handling, and fallback preservation.
CuTe DSL tactic and kernel integration
tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cute_dsl_custom_ops.py, tensorrt_llm/_torch/cute_dsl_kernels/rubin/*, tensorrt_llm/_torch/moe/fused_moe/fused_moe_cute_dsl.py, tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_fp8_block_scale_gemm.py
Updates CuTe DSL runners and kernel cache identities to use NVMMH settings and pass scheduler, swizzle, TMA-store, and split-K options.
Benchmark documentation and validation
examples/layer_wise_benchmarks/README.md, tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py, tests/unittest/api_stability/references/llm.yaml, PR_19326_REVIEW_COMMENT_FIXES.md, PR_19326_REVIEW_REPLIES.md
Adds architecture-specific comparison tests, updates the API reference, and records review-status notes and draft replies.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant PyTorchModelEngine
  participant AutoTuner
  participant CuteDSLTunableRunner
  participant nvMatmulHeuristics
  PyTorchModelEngine->>AutoTuner: acquire NVMMH policy
  AutoTuner->>CuteDSLTunableRunner: provide configured policy
  CuteDSLTunableRunner->>nvMatmulHeuristics: query ranked configurations
  nvMatmulHeuristics-->>CuteDSLTunableRunner: return heuristic results
  CuteDSLTunableRunner-->>AutoTuner: provide selected tactics for profiling
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NVMMH tactic pruning is off by default, and the remaining issues are minor. After a mid-run CUPTI failure, previously tuned kernels may silently use slower default tactics. Some tests can pass without exercising the pruning path. Review-tracking markdown files should also be removed before merging.

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Add test coverage for the autotuner_nvmmh_config wiring.

The tests contain no call to _configure_autotuner_nvmmh and no model-engine construction with a non-default autotuner_nvmmh_config. Existing NVMMH tests call AutoTuner.configure_nvmmh(...) directly, so they do not detect regressions in propagating enabled=True, fields, or max_tactics.

Add a focused test in tests/unittest/_torch/misc/test_autotuner.py that calls _configure_autotuner_nvmmh with a non-default TorchLlmArgs.autotuner_nvmmh_config and asserts the installed AutoTuner.get().nvmmh_config fields.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py` around lines 301 - 314, Add
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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/custom_ops/cute_dsl_custom_ops.py`:
- Around line 13365-13369: Update the unmatched-swap re-addition in the
surrounding tactic selection logic to iterate over candidate_tactics rather than
fallback_tactics, preserving the split-K eligibility filtering applied earlier
by is_sm107_nvmmh_split_k_eligible while retaining the existing signature and
unmatched-swaps checks.

In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py`:
- Around line 301-314: Update _configure_autotuner_nvmmh to preserve the
process-wide NVMMH policy across repeated engine construction: reuse the already
installed AutoTuner policy when equivalent, or reject any differing
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In `@tests/unittest/_torch/thop/parallel/test_fp8_block_scale_gemm.py`:
- Around line 801-811: Update the swizzle-variant test around
get_valid_tactics() and _apply_nvmmh_scheduler() to use deterministic NVMMH
swizzle results, keeping baseline tactic membership validation separate from
full returned-tuple assertions. Verify static mode includes the expected swizzle
sizes, while clc_dynamic returns only swizzle_size=1, and assert the complete
tuple shape rather than tactic[:-1].

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In `@tensorrt_llm/_torch/pyexecutor/model_engine.py`:
- Around line 301-314: Add focused coverage for _configure_autotuner_nvmmh in
the autotuner tests: construct TorchLlmArgs with a non-default
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Two changes are bundled here and only one is opt-in. The nvMMH pruning is gated on autotuner_nvmmh_config and fails open to the full sweep, which is the right contract. The CuteDSLTunableRunner marker, however, switches roughly twenty runners (all CuTe DSL MoE grouped GEMMs, SwiGLU/FC2 fusions, indexer-Q, BMMs, and NVFP4GemmUnifiedRunner whenever cutedsl is an allowed backend) from the existing globaltimer/CUDA-event timing to torch.profiler/CUPTI for every Blackwell/Rubin user, with nvMMH disabled. That is a separate concern (AGENTS.md: one concern per PR) with its own risk profile. Please either split it out or gate it (e.g. honor an explicit TLLM_PROFILING_TIMER value and default the CuTe DSL path to the legacy timer until measured). Either way, the PR needs autotune wall-time numbers for the timing change alone on a MoE-heavy model with nvMMH off: each candidate now pays a CUPTI start/stop per pure_profile call, and that overhead can erase the savings the pruning buys.

Description vs. diff:

  • The description's table lists SM100/SM103 BF16 as "all five" fields, but _rank_prune_tactics discards split_k for non-Rubin targets and the docs table agrees with the code. Fix the description.
  • Cache keys for every CuTe DSL runner now carry a timer discriminator (and a search-policy tuple when nvMMH is on), so existing TLLM_AUTOTUNER_CACHE_PATH files miss for all CuTe DSL ops and silently re-tune. Worth a line in the description and release notes.
  • The shipped examples/layer_wise_benchmarks/config_{ctx,gen}.yaml now turn on a prototype feature (scheduler-only nvMMH) by default, changing the benchmark baseline for everyone who uses them. If that is intentional, say so explicitly; otherwise leave the examples at the library default and document how to enable.

Two behaviors to double-check in the timing path (details inline): a profiler error that is not a CUPTI/Kineto message is treated as a tactic failure rather than a timer failure, and the fallback-key lookup builds both cache keys on every inference-time choose_one even on a hit.

On the pruning side, the CTA-order mapping is inverted relative to the code this replaces; please record the evidence for the new sign in the adapter, since a wrong sign silently degrades every cta_order-selected tactic without failing any test.

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LGTM on MoE side.

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Configure optional nvMMH tactic pruning and scheduler guidance for CuTe DSL
BF16, FP8, NVFP4 and MXFP8 runners. Separate search policies and profiling
timers in cache identity, prefer CUPTI timing and fall back to CUDA events.
Expose the policy through LLM args and layerwise YAML configuration.

Use main's separate Rubin BF16 runners, direct split-K and public DSL gates.
Preserve current dispatch, telemetry policies and validated baseline tactic
families. Use in-process profiling.

Validation after decoupling: 61 checks passed on Hecate SM107 (39 autotuner,
12 focused NVMMH, 10 Rubin kernel tests). Golden manifest regenerated and
touched-file pre-commit passed. CUPTI is unavailable in this setup; CUDA-event
fallback is verified. Reused recent native binaries, not an exact-tip rebuild.

Signed-off-by: peaceh <103117813+peaceh-nv@users.noreply.github.com>
Keep split-K admission filtering when restoring unmatched swap orientations.
Pin the process-wide NVMMH configuration while engines remain active, reject
conflicting updates atomically, and release ownership during cleanup or GC.
Equivalent policies reuse the installed snapshot.

Cover engine configuration wiring and lifecycle, unmatched-swap admission,
and deterministic complete swizzle annotations with regression tests. Add
docstrings for changed helpers and correct the documented Blackwell BF16
field support.

Validation: 43 autotuner tests and 2 Rubin MXFP8 scheduler tests passed on
Hecate SM107. The four policy/admission cases passed again after the final
identity-preservation adjustment. The LLM args golden manifest is unchanged.

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Regenerate the LLM args manifest for main's existing uses_spcompress field
and apply the formatter's required spacing at the nvMMH integration boundary.

Validation on Hecate SM107: 47 autotuner regressions, 12 focused nvMMH
checks, and 10 Rubin kernel tests passed. Golden manifest and all
applicable pre-commit checks passed.

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Mock autotuner policy configuration alongside the other unrelated engine
initializers in the PCG routing test. Its partial SimpleNamespace args
omit autotuner_nvmmh_config, so the new constructor hook fails before the
routing assertions and unnecessarily touches the process-wide autotuner.

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- BF16: keep each model split-K, drop the split cap of 8.
- Block-scaled: materialize model clusters outside the default sweep.
- Rank only runner-implementable CTA tiles via the NVMMH validity callback.
- BF16: keep model tiles whose recommended cluster is illegal.
- Sweep clusters locally around model tiles (MXFP8 rank-1 cluster-M;
  BF16 and FP8 BMM rank-1 plus <=2-CTA clusters).
- Key the tactic-search cache on the NVMMH wheel version and a tactic
  schema number instead of a hand-bumped version string.
- Support the nvMatmulHeuristics 0.2.0 Python API (getWithMNK, and the
  0.1.0.27 callback setter) so plain BF16 queries still prune.

Rubin, 29 document GEMM/BMM cases, same-GPU CUPTI vs the full sweep:
none >5% slower (was +24.6% on UKV), every case prunes (31382 -> 5240
tactics), geomean vs the previous wheel 1.0005x -> 1.0204x. Same on the
0.2.0 wheel (max +2.28%).

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Closing in favor of #21185, which reworks this change on top of current main as a single commit. Differences from this PR:

  1. No fields. autotuner_nvmmh_config only has max_tactics (default 5). nvMMH-guided runners use every field nvMMH models (CTA tile, cluster, split-K, raster order, swizzle) as returned. They sweep only what nvMMH does not model: prefetch, the persistent scheduler, and the preferred/fallback cluster. The scheduler-only mode measured here (fields: [swizzle, cta_order, split_k]) no longer exists.

  2. No CUPTI. Following @brnguyen2's one-concern-per-PR comment, [TRTLLM-14024][feat] Prune CuTe DSL GEMM autotuner tactics with nvMatmulHeuristics #21185 drops all of these:

    • CuteDSLTunableRunner and the torch.profiler timer
    • the CUDA-event fallback and the sweep retry
    • the timer cache discriminators
    • the timer changes to the CuTe DSL MoE runners and to NVFP4GemmUnifiedRunner

    All runners keep the existing CUDA-event / %globaltimer timing. The only profiling change is a cold L2 for the SM100 FP8 blockwise and BF16 GEMM/BMM runners, as the NVFP4, MoE and SM107 block-scaled runners already do.

  3. No policy pinning. There is no process-wide acquire/release and no py_executor change. The model engine sets AutoTuner.get().nvmmh_config from the LLM args before the model is built.

  4. Cache keys. With nvMMH off, keys stay as on main, apart from the SM100 BF16 fix below. With nvMMH on, guided runners append ("nvmmh", <library version>, max_tactics) through a new TunableRunner.tactic_space_key().

  5. Configs are realized, not matched. Runners build tactics from the configurations nvMMH returns instead of matching them against their own tactic list. A configuration uses 2-CTA MMA exactly when nvMMH models it as CTA-paired, and BF16 and FP8 follow the same rule.

  6. Coverage.

    • New nvMMH guidance: SM100 FP8 blockwise BMM, SM100 BF16 BMM (BF16 and FP8 output), and SM107 FP8 blockwise GEMM.
    • SM100 NVFP4 also takes split-K from nvMMH, and both A/B orientations for 128 < M < 256.
    • SM100 FP8 blockwise also takes split-K, raster and swizzle from nvMMH.
    • Not carried over: SM107 per-tensor FP8 and the examples/layer_wise_benchmarks changes.
  7. Kernel changes so that nvMMH's picks can run.

    • Split-K with a TMA reduce-add on SM100 FP8 blockwise and NVFP4.
    • N = 32/64 tiles on SM100 FP8 blockwise.
    • SM107 FP8 blockwise 256-row tiles without the register spill: BMM B=16 M=16384 N=1024 K=4096 goes from 4.7 ms to 370 µs.
    • Balanced split-K slices on SM107 block-scaled GEMMs.
  8. Fixes.

    • NVFP4 is described to nvMMH as OOTST; F4F4T parses as TF32 × E0M3.
    • BF16 → FP8 BMM output is described as TTQSQ.
    • The SM100 BF16 tuning cache is keyed on the bucketed output M and on the output dtype.
    • The adapter supports both the nvidia-matmul-heuristics 0.1.0.x wheels and newer libheuristics builds.
  9. Tests. The new tests are GPU-only. Every nvMMH-guided tactic is run on SM100 and SM107, and its output is checked against a reference. There is no mocked nvMMH and there are no new performance thresholds.

  10. Data (nvMMH on vs. off, same build):

    • DeepSeek V4 Pro gen-only, VR200 2×4 GPUs: cold autotune 226.6 → 68.2 s, output throughput +0.72%.
    • DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GB300: cold autotune 295.6 → 156.3 s. Cold-run throughput is −1.9%. This comes from bursts of slow decode steps that also appear in warm replays with either cache. An ABBA replay that swaps in only the nvMMH CuTe DSL cache entries gives +0.51%.
    • The scheduler-only numbers here (1,152 → 234 s, −1.23%) used a different workload and base, so they are not directly comparable.

Thanks @brnguyen2 for the review, and @Mgluhovskoi and @Barry-Delaney for the approvals. #21185 needs a fresh review

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