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Type of change: new feature

Add the separately ordered model-input/output boundary, intermediary-adapter and InstanceNormalization layout stages. Part 10/17 depends on part 9; merge from the bottom upward. Public registration follows in part 16.

Boundary planning preserves public and captured aliases, runtime controls, legacy initializer declarations and untouched payload owners. Output restoration requires a known four-dimensional producer or an explicit later rank-conversion stage. Preflight checks the actual registered prerequisite and rank-conversion stages before changing caller state.

Generic promotion and output planning check operator domain, overload and model-local identity. Opaque functions retain native interfaces; explicitly supported runtime schemas retain their existing route. Softmax and LogSoftmax use imported schema defaults and remap positive axes before leading dimensions are inserted, with the existing marker preventing a later duplicate update.

Normalization uses a trailing spatial singleton to preserve channels. Public Squeeze adapters follow unary paths and remove that trailing dimension. Binary branches receive a shared private leading-layout view, preserving broadcasting and shared public normalized values. Node replacement retains unrelated payload objects.

Input promotion now requires either a layout-safe operation or an explicitly registered rank/axis preparation stage. Ineligible Gemm operations retain native inputs, outputs and weight layouts, including unary output tails. Softmax, LogSoftmax and LayerNormalization preserve their imported defaults and native positive axes.

When native rank guards cannot establish support, preflight runs the actual earlier stages on a copy, including Constant conversion and shape inference, and then checks the remaining operators. Unsupported cases leave the caller unchanged. Normal Constant controls remain with their registered prerequisite stage; successful probes are released before normal transformation starts.

Scalar-index Gather requires an explicitly registered rank-conversion stage before public-output restoration. Preflight reads index rank from fixed controls or tensor metadata, including symbolic vector lengths, and rechecks Constant-produced controls after prerequisite preparation on a copy. Shape outputs and their unary tails retain their native vector rank, including a one-element result.

Usage

from modelopt.onnx.graph_surgery.make_dla_compatible import _transform_make_dla_compatible

model = _transform_make_dla_compatible(model)

This slice extends the internal sequence; the public entry point follows in part 16.

Normalization consumer planning now prepares leading-layout views and imported axes/permutations for supported readers, and native three-dimensional views for Shape, opaque functions and native Conv1D. Consecutive normalization stages retain independent channel-preserving adapters. Allocated output aliases recover native shape without adding contradictory tensor metadata. Unsupported readers refuse before mutation.

Deferred public-output restoration verifies that a low-rank Reshape has an actual registered Non4DReshape stage before inserting Squeeze. Native rank-one unary paths remain native. Producer-rank preflight checks availability before mutation without requiring intermediate Squeeze metadata or triggering a redundant model copy.

Intermediary adapter cleanup preflights every affected reader before rewiring any node. It follows shared rank-preserving paths and refuses readers without a registered axis or permutation stage. Native value-info names remain available to those later stages. Fixed Reshape targets, scalar QDQ, negative-axis LayerNormalization and contrib Gelu retain their supported behavior. Eighteen unchanged-state regressions fail before the guard; six registered-reader execution cases and six safe-normalization execution cases verify the supported paths.

Adapter preflight stops at a private rank-restoring adapter only when its known four-dimensional output matches the actual planned bypass layout. Planning computes the same bypass-versus-Reshape decision that mutation uses, and the reader cache includes that layout. Four matching round-trip cases failed before the fix; nine execution/refusal cases cover direct and unary paths, mismatched four-dimensional layouts and a five-dimensional bypass hidden behind a four-dimensional output annotation.

Testing

Windows CPU: Python 3.11.18, ONNX 1.23.2 and ONNX Runtime 1.22.0. 1840 passed across the complete restacked graph-surgery and public-compatibility suite on main 35922f1. All 51 focused execution/refusal checks for this batch also pass on the actual final package. Original save and initializer-conversion implementations are preserved. Required hooks pass with Linux CI typing semantics; commits are signed. The default Windows mypy invocation encounters the unchanged upstream os.sched_getaffinity attribute error; the temporary local platform setting retains every other repository typing option. GPU execution, DLA compilation and the complete Linux suite were not run locally; GitHub CI runs separately.

python -m pytest tests/unit/onnx/graph_surgery tests/unit/onnx/test_gqa_graph_surgery.py tests/unit/onnx/quantization/test_dq_transpose_surgery.py --noconftest -o addopts= -p no:cacheprovider -q --tb=short

Shared-path planning sample with 256 unary nodes, 128 readers and a retained 64 MiB payload: 0.002671 seconds and +0.0312 MiB sampled peak RSS. Payload bytes/identity and checked CPU outputs are preserved. Single Windows CPU sample, with 2 ms polling that can miss brief allocations.

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  • Backward compatible: yes; this slice extends internal DLA functionality.
  • Third-party code/new runtime dependencies: none added; contribution and security guidance reviewed.
  • Necessary tests: checked native execution, counterfactual regressions and refusal-state coverage included.
  • Changelog: public feature entry follows in part 16.
  • Claude approval: pending for the current commit. This remains a draft.

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Base branch: dla/review-09-dla-lstm-decomposition. Review this self-contained boundary slice against that branch.

Merge order: PR1 (merged) → Part 2/17 → Part 3/17 → Part 4/17 → Part 5/17 → Part 6/17 → Part 7/17 → Part 8/17 → Part 9/17 → Part 10/17 → Part 11/17 → Part 12/17 → Part 13/17 → Part 14/17 → Part 15/17 → Part 16/17 → Part 17/17

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  • New Features
    • Rank-2 and rank-3 model inputs and outputs can now be adapted to 4D where supported, with output ranks restored as needed.
    • Conversion supports more InstanceNormalization channel layouts and intermediary Squeeze/Unsqueeze patterns.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Validation identifies unsupported layouts, axes, and rank conversions before transformation.
    • Boundary shape handling better preserves model behavior, including when dimensions are symbolic.

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The DLA pipeline now promotes eligible non-4D inputs, restores supported output ranks, and adapts intermediary shapes and rank-3 InstanceNormalization inputs. It also validates whether configured stages support required rank conversions.

Changes: DLA model shape compatibility

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Promote non-4D model inputs
modelopt/onnx/graph_surgery/dla_transforms/dla_model_boundaries.py, modelopt/onnx/graph_surgery/utils/graph_utils.py, tests/unit/onnx/graph_surgery/dla_transforms/test_dla_model_boundaries.py
The transform promotes eligible rank-2 and rank-3 inputs, adjusts selected operator axes, and rewires consumers. Shape recovery recognizes generated graph-output Squeeze boundaries. Tests cover symbolic shapes, opaque operators, axes, and unsupported adapters.
Restore model output ranks
modelopt/onnx/graph_surgery/dla_transforms/dla_model_boundaries.py, tests/unit/onnx/graph_surgery/make_dla_compatible.py, tests/unit/onnx/graph_surgery/dla_transforms/test_dla_model_boundaries.py
The output transform restores known ranks below 4 and checks cases where output conversion cannot be applied. Tests cover output shapes, captured values, deferred conversion, and unsupported ranks.
Repair intermediary adapters and InstanceNormalization inputs
modelopt/onnx/graph_surgery/dla_transforms/dla_model_boundaries.py, tests/unit/onnx/graph_surgery/dla_transforms/test_dla_model_boundaries.py
Eligible Squeeze and Unsqueeze nodes are removed or replaced with Reshape nodes. Rank-3 InstanceNormalization inputs receive a trailing singleton dimension, with qualifying downstream updates.
Register transforms and validate rank-conversion stages
modelopt/onnx/graph_surgery/make_dla_compatible.py, tests/unit/onnx/graph_surgery/dla_transforms/test_dla_model_boundaries.py
The DLA pipeline registers the new transforms and checks configured stages for rank-conversion support. After specified validation errors, it validates a shape-inferred copy after earlier configured stages.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DLAPipeline
  participant BoundaryValidation
  participant ShapeInference
  participant ConfiguredTransforms
  DLAPipeline->>BoundaryValidation: Check boundary contract and prepared operators
  alt Validation raises ValueError or NotImplementedError
    DLAPipeline->>ShapeInference: Infer shapes on a model copy
    DLAPipeline->>ConfiguredTransforms: Apply configured stages before Non4dModelInputs
    DLAPipeline->>BoundaryValidation: Check transformed copy
  end
  DLAPipeline->>ConfiguredTransforms: Apply configured stages to original model
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The DLA boundary-promotion stages now either adapt consumers of a widened rank-3 InstanceNormalization output or refuse the model before changing it. The previously open concern is resolved, and no concrete merge-blocking risk remains. Final confidence rests on source inspection; the tests were not run here.

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