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Background

families/k2_horizon_uno runs greedy linear speculative decoding on one dynamic bf16 engine (1 to 8 rows per call, per-row lora_mask). Issue #2054 lists two costs on main, found in the FP8 study (#2039):

1. The native runtime never replays calls as CUDA graphs.
2. The LoRA branch (rank 128 on q, k, v, o, gate, up, down) runs on every row of every call, also for prompt, verify and autoregressive calls whose mask is all 0. Without the branch a call is 1.21x to 1.24x faster.

This change skips the LoRA branch for all-0 masks with a second engine profile and replays draft calls as a CUDA graph. Prompt, verify and autoregressive calls are bit-identical to main and 1.21x to 1.24x faster per call. Speculative decode in the native runtime keeps the same tokens and is 1.07x (B200) and 1.02x (B300) faster; prompt time is 1.17x to 1.20x and autoregressive decode 1.16x faster. The end-to-end gain is smaller than the per-call gain because the host side of an 8-row call (float32 logits copy and a CPU argmax over 8 x 250624 values, about 7 ms) is longer than the engine time (about 5 ms); see Notes For Future Readers.

Addresses part of #2054.

Exit Criteria

• Calls whose lora_mask is all 0 run without the LoRA GEMMs and give logits and K/V bit-identical to the all-0 mask on the main engine.
• Draft calls are replayed as a CUDA graph by the native runtime.
• The manifest case k2-horizon-7b-uno-linear-psi-spec-l0 and the AR control case pass unchanged (same tokens, text, forwards and lookaheads); speculative decode gives the same tokens as main on a prompt set.
• No regression in per-call time, speculative decode, prompt time or autoregressive decode on B200 and B300.
• Non-goals: CUDA graphs for prompt and verify calls (measured; a recapture costs more than the replay saves, see Implementation); the host-side logits argmax; FP8.

Implementation

The engine keeps one network and adds a second optimization profile over the same weights (plan 17.45 GiB, +10 MiB):

Profile	token_id, position_id	lora_mask	Used for
0 (LoRA)	1 to 8 rows	1 to 8 values, one per row	draft calls (mask has a nonzero value)
1 (base)	1 to 8 rows	empty	prompt, verify and autoregressive calls (mask all 0)

In every conditional projection the LoRA branch reads the first len(lora_mask) rows of its input; the projection output is xW + mask * scale * (xA)B on those rows and xW on the other rows (slice and concatenation with shape tensors). On profile 1 the LoRA GEMMs get no rows.

The native runtime deserializes the engine once (create_dual_profile_modules), keeps one execution context per profile on the same KV cache, and sends a call to the LoRA context only when its mask has a nonzero value; otherwise it binds an empty mask on the base context. The LoRA context replays a CUDA graph: draft calls keep 8 rows except in the last cycle. The base context runs without a graph: its row count changes in every request (prompt chunks of 8, k and 1 rows, then 8-row verify blocks), a module keeps one graph per context, and a recapture (2 to 13 ms) costs more than the replay saves on this context (about 0.2 ms per call). Measured with both contexts graphed: same decode speed, but prompt time 2.6 to 3.8 ms slower than main.

File	Change
model.py	add_lora_and_base_profiles (two profiles), _lora_rows, _row_slice; _conditional_projection runs the LoRA branch on the mask rows only.
runtime/plugin.cpp	Loads one engine with two contexts; requires two profiles (profile 1 with an empty lora_mask); the I/O inventory is unchanged.
runtime/pipeline.cpp, pipeline.h	Two decoders on one KV cache; context chosen per call from the mask; CUDA graph on the LoRA context.
runtime/algorithm.cpp, algorithm.h	k2_horizon_uno_mask_uses_lora (any nonzero value; NaN keeps the LoRA context as before).
tests/test_lora_profiles.py (new)	GPU test on a small projection: profile 0 applies the mask, profile 1 equals the base projection for 8, 3 and 1 rows and is bit-identical to an all-0 mask on profile 0.
tests/cpp/test_k2_horizon_uno_algorithm.cpp	Context choice for draft, all-0, partial and negative-zero masks.
README.md	New section "Engine profiles and CUDA graph" with the numbers below; section 7 items 1 and 2 marked addressed.

Compatibility: bundles built before this change have one profile; the runtime rejects them with "requires a LoRA profile and a base profile; rebuild the bundle". Engine inputs, outputs and runtime.json are unchanged.

Change categories

• Model or runtime behavior
• Public API
• ABI
• Bundle or artifact format
• Dependencies
• Documentation only
• CI or developer tooling

Validation

Commands and Results

Command	TensorRT 11.4.0.106	TensorRT 11.1.0.106
pytest families/k2_horizon_uno/tests -q (B200 and B300; includes the new GPU test)	14 passed, 2 skipped (both GPUs)	14 passed, 2 skipped (both GPUs)
pytest families/k2_horizon_uno/tests/test_e2e.py with TRTMC_E2E=1 (native runtime, both manifest cases)	2 passed, twice on B200 and twice on B300	not run (native runtime built against 11.4)
C++ tests test_k2_horizon_uno_algorithm, _chat_template, _runtime_config	pass	not run
pytest tools/tests/test_architecture.py -q	57 passed	not run
python -m tools.model_ci validate	valid	not run
ruff check families/k2_horizon_uno; ruff format --check on model.py and tests/test_lora_profiles.py; clang-format on the changed C++ files	clean	not run

The skips are the E2E cases, which need explicit selectors.

Bit checks (one engine call at cache position 120 or 504, random cache, main engine vs this engine, both GPUs, max_sequence_length 256 and 1024): profile 1 with an empty mask, 8 rows and 1 row, equals the main engine with an all-0 mask bit for bit (logits and written K/V); so does profile 0 with an all-0 mask. Profile 0 with the draft mask [0, 1, ..., 1] differs in the last bits (max abs logit difference 0.4 to 1.8): the LoRA rows run through other GEMM kernels. Two builds of the main engine are bit-identical, so this is not build noise.

Speed of one call (ms, 8 rows unless noted, max_sequence_length 256 and in brackets 1024, TensorRT 11.4, median of interleaved rounds; "no graph" is enqueue plus synchronize). Bold: what the runtime runs.

Call	B200 main no graph	B200 main graph	B200 this, no graph	B200 this, graph	B300 main no graph	B300 main graph	B300 this, no graph	B300 this, graph
Draft, profile 0	5.51 (5.64)	5.22 (5.34)	5.73 (5.76)	4.73 (4.88)	5.06 (5.12)	4.89 (4.95)	5.89 (6.08)	4.91 (5.00)
Verify / prompt, profile 1	5.51 (5.63)	5.22 (5.33)	4.53 (4.59)	4.33 (4.39)	5.04 (5.12)	4.86 (4.95)	4.16 (4.18)	3.99 (4.01)
1 row, profile 1	5.61 (5.75)	5.32 (5.46)	4.56 (4.73)	4.36 (4.53)	5.13 (5.16)	4.95 (4.98)	4.13 (4.24)	3.95 (4.03)
main engine without the LoRA branch (control)	4.54 (4.59)	4.35 (4.39)			4.20 (4.26)	4.03 (4.10)

Profile 0 has more kernels than main (1190 against 830 per 8-row call: separate LoRA-A GEMMs and the row slices), so without a graph it is slower than main; in a graph it is 1.10x faster (B200) and equal (B300). Capture plus instantiation: 8.5 to 21 ms for profile 0, 2.3 to 13 ms for profile 1.

Native runtime end to end (max_sequence_length 256, the manifest build; 16 chat prompts, chat template, greedy, linear_spec_lora block 8, 128 new tokens, 3 rounds in one process; autoregressive mode 64 new tokens, 1 round; decode tokens/s = new tokens / decode time; median round):

Metric	B200 main	B200 this	Speedup	B300 main	B300 this	Speedup
Speculative decode, tokens/s	141.6	151.6	1.07x	148.9	151.6	1.02x
Prompt time, ms per request	26.6	22.2	1.20x	24.2	20.6	1.17x
Autoregressive decode, tokens/s	153.7	177.7	1.16x	166.5	193.7	1.16x
Same tokens as main		48/48 runs, 16/16 AR			48/48 runs, 16/16 AR

Manifest case through the CLI (2 rounds per GPU): main and this change give the same 26 token ids and forwards=18 committed_tokens=26 lookaheads=1 (AR control: forwards=25).

Hardware, Environment, and Revisions

• Repository: this commit on top of upstream/main at ed2bda88. Tests ran before the rebase, on 4e3465ba; the commits in between do not touch families/k2_horizon_uno.
• Checkpoints: IFM/K2-Horizon-7B-Uno at ec92bbd768f4a404319625204544782e3377bcd7 on IFM/K2-Horizon-7B at 586b03f0fd1fbbf2f13eeafc33749e95ae34dd10 (manifest revisions).
• GPUs: NVIDIA B200 and B300, one GPU per job. TensorRT 11.4.0.106 (target) and 11.1.0.106; native runtime built with CUDA 13.4 for SM 100 and 103 against TensorRT 11.4; Transformers 5.15.0 and safetensors 0.8.0 for the E2E reference (family pins).

Not Run / Remaining Gaps

• Native E2E ran with TensorRT 11.4 only (the native runtime links 11.4); 11.1 is covered by the family tests, including the GPU profile test.
• CUDA graphs for prompt and verify calls: not enabled (see Implementation). A module keeps one graph per context; graphing them without recaptures needs more contexts (a backend API for more than two profiles) or a graph per row count in the core module.
• H100 not measured.

Contributor Self-Review

• I have completed a self-review of this change.

Notes For Future Readers

• The largest remaining cost of a speculative-decode call is on the host: forward() copies the float32 logits (8 x 250624 x 4 = 8 MB) to pageable memory (0.5 ms), the pipeline copies them again (0.5 ms), and k2_horizon_uno_argmax_rows scans them with a per-element finite check (5.7 to 6.3 ms for 8 rows). A call takes about 11.9 ms of which the engine is about 5 ms. An exact faster argmax (same lowest-index result, same non-finite error) measured 1.5 ms for 8 rows; with it, speculative decode would be 1.63x to 1.67x faster on main and 1.74x to 1.83x with this change. Not part of this change.
• Draft logits differ in the last bits from main (other GEMM kernels on profile 0). This can change which draft token is proposed at a near tie, so the number of forwards can differ (3150 to 3162 against 3156 on the prompt set); committed tokens are the verify argmax and did not change.
• Suggested review order: model.py (_conditional_projection, add_lora_and_base_profiles), runtime/pipeline.cpp, runtime/plugin.cpp, tests/test_lora_profiles.py.

Risk level

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• Medium
• High

Risk rationale: prompt, verify and autoregressive calls are bit-identical to main, and both manifest cases pass with the same tokens and counters. Draft calls change in the last bits, which can change draft acceptance (not the output) at near ties. Existing bundles must be rebuilt (clear error at load).

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Summary

Summary

K2-Horizon Uno now builds engines with two optimization profiles and uses two execution contexts on the same engine and KV cache. Calls with any nonzero lora_mask use the LoRA profile. Calls with an all-zero mask use the base profile and pass an empty mask, so the LoRA branch processes no rows.

The runtime enables CUDA graph replay for LoRA-profile calls. It runs base-profile calls without graph capture. The change requires bundles to be rebuilt; the runtime rejects engines that do not have both profiles.

The added tests cover profile behavior and mask-based routing. The supplied results report 14 family tests passed and 2 skipped, and both E2E manifest cases passed on B200 and B300 with TensorRT 11.4. The reported native E2E coverage does not include H100 or TensorRT versions other than 11.4. Performance and output-equivalence results are author-reported, not independently verified here.

Architecture impact

• Family-owned files: All nine changed files are under families/k2_horizon_uno/. The model graph, runtime routing, profile validation, documentation, and tests remain within the owning family.
• Changed shared surfaces: No shared implementation or public shared interface changed in this diff. The family now calls the existing IBackend::create_dual_profile_modules API.
• Dependency direction: The family runtime depends on the shared backend API. No new dependency from shared code to a family, or between model families, is shown.
• Affected consumers: The changed pipeline constructor is referenced only in the K2-Horizon Uno family in the inspected search results. Other existing users of create_dual_profile_modules are not changed by this PR.
• Compatibility and blast radius: Previously built K2-Horizon Uno bundles with one profile are rejected and must be rebuilt. The supplied evidence does not establish bundle rollout or migration impact beyond this runtime behavior.
• Review outcome: HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED. The evidence supports family ownership and identifies no changed shared surface, but the compatibility and rollout impact of rejecting existing bundles remains for human review. This outcome is not an all-clear.

K2-Horizon Uno now builds a two-profile engine with shared weights and KV cache. The native pipeline selects the LoRA decoder for masks containing nonzero values and the base decoder for all-zero masks. CUDA graph execution is enabled on the LoRA decoder.

Changes: LoRA and base profile execution

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Define profiles and row-wise projection families/k2_horizon_uno/model.py, families/k2_horizon_uno/tests/test_lora_profiles.py	The model registers separate LoRA and base profiles. The projection applies the LoRA delta only to selected rows. The TensorRT test checks both profiles, including empty masks and varying row counts.
Load and route profile contexts families/k2_horizon_uno/runtime/algorithm.h, families/k2_horizon_uno/runtime/algorithm.cpp, families/k2_horizon_uno/runtime/plugin.cpp, families/k2_horizon_uno/runtime/pipeline.h, families/k2_horizon_uno/runtime/pipeline.cpp, families/k2_horizon_uno/tests/cpp/test_k2_horizon_uno_algorithm.cpp, families/k2_horizon_uno/README.md	The plugin loads and validates both profile contexts. The pipeline binds both to the shared KV cache and routes calls by mask contents. The LoRA decoder uses CUDA graphs; the README describes the profiles, timing measurements, and output comparisons. The C++ test covers mask-based selection.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Refactor

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Plugin
  participant Engine
  participant Pipeline
  participant MaskCheck
  participant LoRADecoder
  participant BaseDecoder
  participant KVCache
  Plugin->>Engine: Create LoRA and base profile contexts
  Plugin->>KVCache: Bind cache to both contexts
  Plugin->>Pipeline: Provide both decoder contexts
  Pipeline->>MaskCheck: Check whether any mask value is nonzero
  alt Mask contains a nonzero value
    Pipeline->>LoRADecoder: Run block with the row mask
  else Mask is all zero
    Pipeline->>BaseDecoder: Run block with an empty mask
  end

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Possibly related issues

• Issue 2054 — The PR adds a base profile for all-zero masks and CUDA graph replay for draft calls. Prompt and verify calls are not CUDA-graphed, so the issue is only partly addressed.

Merge Risk: Minimal · previous review 33d6e

The change adds a base profile that skips LoRA work for all-zero masks, and no merge-blocking issue was found. A small extra test for LoRA calls with fewer rows would harden coverage but is not required before merging. Existing bundles must be rebuilt, as the PR already states.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 33d6e

The inspected execution path preserves input checks and shared-state ownership, with no demonstrated new security bypass. The change requires compatible rebuilt bundles and reuses more execution state between calls; interruption recovery and deployment-wide compatibility remain incompletely established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• observed — The inspected construction path scopes the changed mutable state to one pipeline's two decoder contexts and shared GPU KV cache. It does not establish how pipelines are assigned to tenants or how GPU processes are shared in production.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Caller-controlled prompts and generation settings pass through configuration resolution, vocabulary validation, and fixed KV-capacity checks before execution. Internal block execution rejects empty, mismatched, or oversized token/mask inputs before choosing a decoder. The routing change retains these controls in the inspected path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Shape changes and changed external buffer addresses invalidate captured graphs. Graph capture and launch failures throw rather than return successful block output. Failed alias-output binding destroys the affected execution context and graph, preventing enqueue with mixed state addresses.
• observed — Cache reset clears logical sequence metadata rather than wiping physical KV storage, and execution-context reset preserves stable contexts and graphs. The logical-reset behavior predates this PR; the PR adds a second context and graph reuse to the lifecycle. This is not evidence of newly introduced cross-request disclosure.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Define when a pipeline must be discarded after interrupted execution or a failed graph launch, and validate request-state isolation across those failures and subsequent profile switches. This would strengthen the recovery contract; it is not a verified bypass or disclosure finding.

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Failed checks: 1 warning · 1 inconclusive

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 33.33% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Benchmark Validation Integrity		The per-call benchmark comparison cannot be verified. The README compares non-graph calls before the change with graph replay after it. The PR describes enqueue plus synchronization for non-graph timi…	Provide the per-call benchmark harness or the timing contract for both paths, including synchronization and any transfers or output validation.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title names the two main changes: skipping the LoRA branch for all-0 masks and graphing draft calls. It fits the changeset. It follows the conventional-commit style with a scope and a short, speci…
Description check		The description follows the repository template closely. It has Background, Exit Criteria, Implementation (with change categories), Validation (commands, hardware and revisions, not-run gaps), a compl…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Family Ownership Boundary		The changes stay within k2_horizon_uno. The new test imports its own family model, and the runtime uses the shared dual-profile backend contract in core/runtime/include/trtmc/runtime/trt_backend.h…
Shared Semantic Neutrality		The PR changes only files under families/k2_horizon_uno. It does not change shared code. The new projection test imports the family model, and the README documents family-specific behavior.
Shared Change Blast Radius		The changes are family-local. The diff changes only families/k2_horizon_uno, and the new runtime uses an existing shared backend API without changing it. The two-profile bundle requirement affects t…

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families/k2_horizon_uno/tests/test_lora_profiles.py: 1

106-106: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add LoRA-profile coverage for fewer than 8 rows.

The LoRA profile is only run with 8 rows (Line 103). The runtime also sends draft calls with fewer rows to that profile. Block lengths from 1 to 8 are accepted, and the last cycle can be shorter. These calls use the _row_slice and mask-reshape path with a different dynamic row count. They also make the CUDA-graph context recapture. Without a test, a row-slicing regression on the LoRA profile at fewer rows would pass this file.

Add a loop that checks the LoRA profile at 3 and 1 rows against the reference.

Proposed test addition

     assert not torch.allclose(lora[1:], base[1:], rtol=2e-2, atol=2e-2)
+
+    for rows in (3, 1):
+        partial_mask = [0.0] + [1.0] * (rows - 1)
+        partial = _run(engine, model.LORA_PROFILE, tokens[:rows], partial_mask)
+        partial_expected = base[:rows] + delta[:rows] * torch.tensor(partial_mask)[:, None]
+        torch.testing.assert_close(partial, partial_expected, rtol=2e-2, atol=2e-2)

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Extend the LoRA-profile test using `_run` to cover calls with 3 and 1 rows,
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profile-mask behavior. Keep the existing 8-row assertions unchanged.

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