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families/fnet builds google/fnet-base and google/fnet-large as pooled-feature encoders (batch 1, fixed padded window, fp16 in the TP1 manifest) and has no quantized build. No FP8 or NVFP4 checkpoint of FNet exists on the Hub, so FP8 self-quantization of the feed-forward projections (build-time per-tensor FP8 weights, ModelOpt-calibrated static activation scales) was built and measured for both checkpoints on TensorRT 11.4 and 11.1. FP8 does not pay for this family: it is only 1.03x to 1.11x faster than fp16 at batch 1, and it loses much more quality than on attention encoders (masked-LM top-1 agreement with PyTorch fp32 84% to 96%, fp16 99.6% to 99.9%). This change adds a README for the family that records the study, like the yolov10 (#2093), bart (#2004) and timesfm (#2005) studies, so that it does not have to be repeated. The FP8 code is not part of this change. NVFP4 was not tried: the family is not bound by weight reads, and FP8 is already too lossy.
The study also found a problem on main that is recorded in the README as a known issue and not fixed here: fp16 builds at the default 512-token window return NaN for 293 / 300 (fnet-base) and 300 / 300 (fnet-large) held-out passages on B200 and B300 with TensorRT 11.4 (fnet-base also on 11.1: 98 / 100), because the 2D Fourier output exceeds the fp16 range. The premerge case runs at 256 tokens, so CI does not see it. Scaling the input of the hidden-axis DFT by 1/64 and the fp32 result back by 64 removes the NaN at the same speed (masked-LM KL 5.9e-06).
Exit Criteria
The README records the recipe, the method, speed and plan size on B200 and B300 (TensorRT 11.4, 11.1), quality against PyTorch fp32, the kernel time split that explains the small speedup, the output.dense variant, NVFP4, what was not tried and when to revisit.
The README records the fp16 NaN at the 512-token window as a known issue with the measured fix probe.
No code, test, manifest or bundle change; builds are unchanged.
Non-goals: shipping FP8 or NVFP4 builds, an FP8 manifest or CI case, fixing the fp16 NaN.
Implementation
families/fnet/README.md (new): a short family description, "Known issue: fp16 NaN at the 512-token window", and the section "FP8 quantization study (not shipped)": summary and decision, recipe, method, results (speed, quality, kernel time per call), NVFP4, what was not tried, when to revisit.
Recipe that was measured (code kept out of the repository):
FP8 for intermediate.dense and output.dense of every layer (24 GEMMs base, 48 large); embeddings, the embedding projection, the Fourier transform, layer norms and GELU stay fp16 / fp32.
Weights: per-tensor scale amax / 448 at build time. Activations: static per-tensor scales from ModelOpt FP8_DEFAULT_CFG (max) on 544 WikiText-2 train passages padded to the window. fp16 Dequantize.
Why no gain: the two feed-forward GEMMs are only 18% to 30% of the fp16 time and FP8 shortens them by 15% to 26%; the largest kernel is the fp32 sequence-axis DFT (40% of the batch-1 time at 512). Leaving output.dense in fp16 halves the KL but makes FP8 slower than fp16.
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The numbers in the README come from the local study and are not re-run by this change (batch 1, TensorRT 11.4, x is fp16 time over FP8 time; at 512 fp16 is the 1/64 scaling probe, since the fp16 build at 512 returns NaN):
Model, window
GPU
fp16 ms
FP8 ms
x
MLM top-1 agree fp16 / FP8
base, 512
B200
0.752
0.715
1.05
99.83% / 93.99%
base, 512
B300
0.690
0.652
1.06
-
base, 256
B200
0.507
0.466
1.09
99.81% / 89.48%
large, 512
B200
1.598
1.547
1.03
99.91% / 95.55%
large, 256
B200
1.058
1.019
1.04
99.61% / 83.52%
TensorRT 11.1 (B200, base): 1.05x at 512, 1.07x at 256. Plan size: -33% (base), -42% (large). No NaN or Inf in FP8 builds on 300 held-out passages, 2,758 STS-B sentences and 22 stress inputs.
Hardware, Environment, and Revisions
Repository: this commit on top of upstream/main at 7dbe1d5e.
Checkpoints: google/fnet-base at d89b6fad3cf5384848b783dc480f9685f49d008c (manifest revision), google/fnet-large at 8b66d3b6d2164befbab948ce455230659c700043.
Data: Salesforce/wikitextwikitext-2-raw-v1 at b08601e04326c79dfdd32d625aee71d232d685c3 (train split for calibration, test split held out), sentence-transformers/stsb at ab7a5ac0e35aa22088bdcf23e7fd99b220e53308 (test split).
Study: B200 and B300, one GPU per job, TensorRT 11.4.0.106 (target) and 11.1.0.106, torch 2.14.0 (CUDA 13), Transformers 5.17.0, ModelOpt 0.46.1. Reference: Transformers FNetForPreTraining in fp32, TF32 off.
Not Run / Remaining Gaps
No code was run for this change; the study cannot be rerun from this repository because the FP8 code was not merged.
Not measured: per-channel weight scales, percentile or entropy calibration, SmoothQuant, FP8 for the hidden-axis DFT, H100, the native runtime with an FP8 bundle.
The fp16 NaN at the 512-token window is a problem on main; it is documented here and not fixed.
Contributor Self-Review
I have completed a self-review of this change.
Notes For Future Readers
Suggested review order: "Known issue", "Summary and decision", the kernel time table, "When to revisit".
Revisit FP8 when the sequence-axis DFT gets faster (TF32 or an FFT kernel), so that the feed-forward GEMMs are a larger share of the time, or when a recipe keeps masked-LM agreement near the fp16 level.
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Add a README for the fnet family with a short family description, the
fp16 NaN at the default 512-token window as a known issue, and the FP8
quantization study: FP8 of the feed-forward projections is only 1.03x to
1.11x faster than fp16 at batch 1 and drops masked-LM top-1 agreement
with PyTorch fp32 to 84% to 96%. Documentation only.
Signed-off-by: Zhenshan Xie <zhenshanx@nvidia.com>
Adds families/fnet/README.md to document why FP8 is not shipped for FNet and to record a known fp16 issue at the default 512-token window.
The README reports that fp16 builds produced NaNs on many held-out passages. It describes a scaling probe that removed the NaNs, but the probe is not implemented in this change. It also records an FP8 study: FP8 improved latency by 1.03x–1.11x at batch 1, while masked-LM top-1 agreement fell to 84%–96%, compared with 99.6%–99.9% for fp16. The README concludes that FP8 should not ship. These measurements are documented results, not measurements rerun by this change.
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PASS — The diff adds one family-owned documentation file. It changes no shared surfaces, dependencies, builds, manifests, or code, and introduces no new dependency direction. The documented consumers are readers of the FNet family README; no runtime consumer changes are shown. The source supports this scope assessment, but does not establish broader runtime behavior or validate the reported measurements.
The new FNet README documents supported encoders, output and precision behavior, an fp16 issue at 512 tokens, and an unshipped FP8 quantization study.
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FNet behavior and quantization study families/fnet/README.md
Documents supported encoders, output and precision setup, the reported 512-token fp16 NaN issue, and an unshipped FP8 study with its methods, measurements, limitations, and reconsideration conditions.
The README understates one benchmark result and can overstate the usable window for smaller checkpoints. These are bounded documentation issues.
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- Line 118: Update the batch-8 speedup in the FNet benchmark table to match the
listed B200 latency values, and revise the corresponding 1.05x to 1.08x range in
the summary and conclusion to reflect the corrected result.
- Around line 1-182: Update the opening description of the FNet
`text_to_pooled_features` window to state that its default is the smaller of 512
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- Speed: the two feed-forward GEMMs are only 18% to 30% of the fp16 time, and
FP8 shortens them by 15% to 26%, a saving of 4% to 7% of the call. The largest
kernel is the fp32 sequence-axis DFT, which FP8 does not touch.
- Quality: FNet mixes every token and hidden unit in every layer with a fixed
Fourier transform and no attention normalization, so the per-projection FP8
error spreads and builds up over 12 / 24 layers. For comparison, electra base
FP8 has task KL 0.0008.
- The variant that helps quality (`output.dense` left fp16) halves the KL but
removes the speed gain (0.92x to 0.98x of fp16).
- The quality bar of issue #1724 (CLS relative L2 <= 0.04 on the first 400
STS-B sentences) fails: base FP8 0 / 400 at 256 and 512 (fp16 400 / 400),
large FP8 379 / 400 at 512 and 48 / 400 at 256 (B200).
### Recipe that was measured
No FP8 or NVFP4 checkpoint of FNet exists on the Hub (only the google fp32
checkpoints and community fine-tunes), and no official quantization config
exists for it. Each quantized projection is built as
`activation -> Quantize -> Dequantize(fp16) -> MatMul -> + bias`, with the
weight `FP8 constant -> Dequantize(fp16)`.
| Choice | Decision |
|---|---|
| Quantized | per layer `intermediate.dense` and `output.dense`, the only projections in an FNet layer: 24 (base) / 48 (large) FP8 GEMMs |
| fp16 / fp32 | embeddings, embedding projection, the Fourier transform (fixed cosine / sine matrices), layer norms, GELU |
| Weight scale | per tensor, amax / 448 of the fp32 weights, at build time |
| Activation scale | static, per tensor; ModelOpt 0.46.1 `FP8_DEFAULT_CFG` (max calibration), keyed by model config and two weight sums |
| Calibration data | 544 WikiText-2 train passages (16 to 510 tokens), framed `[CLS] ... [SEP]` and padded to the window (512 and 256) as the runtime pads |
| Outlier rule | a scale above 20x the median of its kind stays fp16; measured: no outlier (largest ratio 7.4x base, 4.1x large) |
| Dequantize type | fp16; no non-finite value, fp32 Dequantize was not needed |
At 512 tokens FP8 was measured on top of the 1/64 scaling probe of "Known
issue" (`fp16+hs` below), because fp16 at 512 returns NaN; at 128 and 256 FP8 is
built on the unchanged graph.
### Method
- GPUs: B200 and B300, one GPU per job; TensorRT 11.4.0.106 (target) and
For a supported checkpoint with fewer than 512 positions, the default window is shorter. A user who expects 512 tokens can submit an input that inference rejects.
Suggested fix
-`text_to_pooled_features`: batch 1, a fixed padded window (512 tokens when-`max_sequence_length` is not given, 256 in the manifests), output = the CLS row.+`text_to_pooled_features`: batch 1, a fixed padded window (the smaller of 512+and `max_position_embeddings` when `max_sequence_length` is not given, 256 in+the manifests), output = the CLS row.
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# FNet
This family builds FNet encoders (`google/fnet-base`, `google/fnet-large`) for
`text_to_pooled_features`: batch 1, a fixed padded window (512 tokens when
`max_sequence_length` is not given, 256 in the manifests), output = the CLS row.
Token mixing is the real part of a 2D DFT, built as fixed cosine / sine
matrices: the sequence axis in fp32, the hidden axis in the work precision. The
manifests use fp16 (TP1) and fp32 (TP4). The family has no quantized build.
## Known issue: fp16 NaN at the 512-token window
fp16 builds at the default 512-token window return NaN for nearly every real
input: 293 / 300 held-out WikiText-2 passages for fnet-base and 300 / 300 for
fnet-large (B200 and B300, TensorRT 11.4; fnet-base on TensorRT 11.1: 98 / 100).
The 2D Fourier output exceeds the fp16 range (largest value in the fp32
PyTorch model: 69,042 for base and 85,324 for large at 512, above 65,504): the
hidden-axis fp16 GEMM overflows to inf and the next layer norm turns it into
NaN. Windows of 256 and 128 have no NaN (large at 256: 55,233, 16% below the
limit), and the premerge case uses 256, so CI does not see it.
A probe that scales the input of the hidden-axis DFT by 1/64 and the fp32
result back by 64 removes the NaN at the same speed (fnet-base, 512, B200:
0.752 ms vs 0.756 ms) with masked-LM KL 5.9e-06 against PyTorch fp32. Running
the hidden-axis DFT in fp32 also works but is 1.41x to 1.47x slower. Neither is
applied here; this is a known issue.
## FP8 quantization study (not shipped)
FP8 self-quantization of the feed-forward projections was built and measured
on TensorRT 11.4 (and 11.1) for fnet-base and fnet-large. It is not shipped: FP8
is only 1.03x to 1.11x faster than fp16 at batch 1 and loses much more quality
than on attention encoders (masked-LM top-1 agreement with PyTorch 84% to 96%,
fp16: 99.6% to 99.9%). This section records the recipe, the method and the
numbers, so that the study does not have to be repeated. The FP8 code was not
merged; this family has no FP8 build.
### Summary and decision
| Item | fp16 | FP8 (fp16 engine) | FP8 vs fp16 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latency, batch 1, B200 (base 128 to 512, large 256 and 512, TensorRT 11.4) | - | - | 1.03x to 1.11x |
| Latency, batch 8 x 512, B200 / B300 | - | - | 1.05x to 1.08x |
- Speed: the two feed-forward GEMMs are only 18% to 30% of the fp16 time, and
FP8 shortens them by 15% to 26%, a saving of 4% to 7% of the call. The largest
kernel is the fp32 sequence-axis DFT, which FP8 does not touch.
- Quality: FNet mixes every token and hidden unit in every layer with a fixed
Fourier transform and no attention normalization, so the per-projection FP8
error spreads and builds up over 12 / 24 layers. For comparison, electra base
FP8 has task KL 0.0008.
- The variant that helps quality (`output.dense` left fp16) halves the KL but
removes the speed gain (0.92x to 0.98x of fp16).
- The quality bar of issue #1724 (CLS relative L2 <= 0.04 on the first 400
STS-B sentences) fails: base FP8 0 / 400 at 256 and 512 (fp16 400 / 400),
large FP8 379 / 400 at 512 and 48 / 400 at 256 (B200).
### Recipe that was measured
No FP8 or NVFP4 checkpoint of FNet exists on the Hub (only the google fp32
checkpoints and community fine-tunes), and no official quantization config
exists for it. Each quantized projection is built as
`activation -> Quantize -> Dequantize(fp16) -> MatMul -> + bias`, with the
weight `FP8 constant -> Dequantize(fp16)`.
| Choice | Decision |
|---|---|
| Quantized | per layer `intermediate.dense` and `output.dense`, the only projections in an FNet layer: 24 (base) / 48 (large) FP8 GEMMs |
| fp16 / fp32 | embeddings, embedding projection, the Fourier transform (fixed cosine / sine matrices), layer norms, GELU |
| Weight scale | per tensor, amax / 448 of the fp32 weights, at build time |
| Activation scale | static, per tensor; ModelOpt 0.46.1 `FP8_DEFAULT_CFG` (max calibration), keyed by model config and two weight sums |
| Calibration data | 544 WikiText-2 train passages (16 to 510 tokens), framed `[CLS] ... [SEP]` and padded to the window (512 and 256) as the runtime pads |
| Outlier rule | a scale above 20x the median of its kind stays fp16; measured: no outlier (largest ratio 7.4x base, 4.1x large) |
| Dequantize type | fp16; no non-finite value, fp32 Dequantize was not needed |
At 512 tokens FP8 was measured on top of the 1/64 scaling probe of "Known
issue" (`fp16+hs` below), because fp16 at 512 returns NaN; at 128 and 256 FP8 is
built on the unchanged graph.
### Method
- GPUs: B200 and B300, one GPU per job; TensorRT 11.4.0.106 (target) and
- Speed: the two feed-forward GEMMs are only 18% to 30% of the fp16 time, and
FP8 shortens them by 15% to 26%, a saving of 4% to 7% of the call. The largest
kernel is the fp32 sequence-axis DFT, which FP8 does not touch.
- Quality: FNet mixes every token and hidden unit in every layer with a fixed
Fourier transform and no attention normalization, so the per-projection FP8
error spreads and builds up over 12 / 24 layers. For comparison, electra base
FP8 has task KL 0.0008.
- The variant that helps quality (`output.dense` left fp16) halves the KL but
removes the speed gain (0.92x to 0.98x of fp16).
- The quality bar of issue #1724 (CLS relative L2 <= 0.04 on the first 400
STS-B sentences) fails: base FP8 0 / 400 at 256 and 512 (fp16 400 / 400),
large FP8 379 / 400 at 512 and 48 / 400 at 256 (B200).
### Recipe that was measured
No FP8 or NVFP4 checkpoint of FNet exists on the Hub (only the google fp32
checkpoints and community fine-tunes), and no official quantization config
exists for it. Each quantized projection is built as
`activation -> Quantize -> Dequantize(fp16) -> MatMul -> + bias`, with the
weight `FP8 constant -> Dequantize(fp16)`.
| Choice | Decision |
|---|---|
| Quantized | per layer `intermediate.dense` and `output.dense`, the only projections in an FNet layer: 24 (base) / 48 (large) FP8 GEMMs |
| fp16 / fp32 | embeddings, embedding projection, the Fourier transform (fixed cosine / sine matrices), layer norms, GELU |
| Weight scale | per tensor, amax / 448 of the fp32 weights, at build time |
| Activation scale | static, per tensor; ModelOpt 0.46.1 `FP8_DEFAULT_CFG` (max calibration), keyed by model config and two weight sums |
| Calibration data | 544 WikiText-2 train passages (16 to 510 tokens), framed `[CLS] ... [SEP]` and padded to the window (512 and 256) as the runtime pads |
| Outlier rule | a scale above 20x the median of its kind stays fp16; measured: no outlier (largest ratio 7.4x base, 4.1x large) |
| Dequantize type | fp16; no non-finite value, fp32 Dequantize was not needed |
At 512 tokens FP8 was measured on top of the 1/64 scaling probe of "Known
issue" (`fp16+hs` below), because fp16 at 512 returns NaN; at 128 and 256 FP8 is
built on the unchanged graph.
### Method
- GPUs: B200 and B300, one GPU per job; TensorRT 11.4.0.106 (target) and
"Other GEMMs" in fp16 holds the hidden-axis DFT (0.136 ms at 512, the same in
both builds), the feed-forward GEMMs and the embedding projection. The fp16
feed-forward GEMMs are about 0.20 ms (512), 0.18 ms (256) and 0.49 ms (batch 8);
FP8 brings them to 0.17, 0.15 and 0.36 ms. The fp32 sequence-axis DFT (an FFMA
kernel, TF32 off) is 40% of the batch-1 time at 512 and 62% at batch 8.
### NVFP4 (not tried)
FNet at batch 1 is not bound by weight reads (the FP8 feed-forward weights, 57
MB base / 201 MB large, are read in about 0.01 to 0.03 ms of a 0.7 to 1.6 ms
call), and FP8 is already too lossy; 4-bit would lose more.
### What was not tried
| Item | Note |
|---|---|
| Per-channel weight scales, percentile or entropy calibration, SmoothQuant | not measured |
| FP8 for the hidden-axis DFT GEMM | not measured; cosine / sine values in [-1, 1] lose precision in e4m3 |
| H100, the native runtime with an FP8 bundle | not measured |
### When to revisit
- A faster sequence-axis DFT (TF32 or an FFT kernel): the feed-forward GEMMs
would then be a larger share of the time and the FP8 gain would grow.
- A recipe that keeps masked-LM top-1 agreement near the fp16 level (above 99%)
without leaving `output.dense` in fp16.
Batch 8 gave about the same ratio as batch 1 (1.05x to 1.08x), so larger batches
alone do not change the result.
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Update the opening description of the FNet `text_to_pooled_features` window to
state that its default is the smaller of 512 and the checkpoint’s
`max_position_embeddings`; retain the documented 256-token manifest setting.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Correct the batch-8 speedup.
The listed B200 latencies give 6.840 / 6.177 = 1.11x, not 1.08x. Correct the ratio or the latency values, and update the 1.05x to 1.08x range in the summary and conclusion.
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Update the batch-8 speedup in the FNet benchmark table to match the listed B200
latency values, and revise the corresponding 1.05x to 1.08x range in the summary
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families/fnetbuildsgoogle/fnet-baseandgoogle/fnet-largeas pooled-feature encoders (batch 1, fixed padded window, fp16 in the TP1 manifest) and has no quantized build. No FP8 or NVFP4 checkpoint of FNet exists on the Hub, so FP8 self-quantization of the feed-forward projections (build-time per-tensor FP8 weights, ModelOpt-calibrated static activation scales) was built and measured for both checkpoints on TensorRT 11.4 and 11.1. FP8 does not pay for this family: it is only 1.03x to 1.11x faster than fp16 at batch 1, and it loses much more quality than on attention encoders (masked-LM top-1 agreement with PyTorch fp32 84% to 96%, fp16 99.6% to 99.9%). This change adds a README for the family that records the study, like the yolov10 (#2093), bart (#2004) and timesfm (#2005) studies, so that it does not have to be repeated. The FP8 code is not part of this change. NVFP4 was not tried: the family is not bound by weight reads, and FP8 is already too lossy.The study also found a problem on main that is recorded in the README as a known issue and not fixed here: fp16 builds at the default 512-token window return NaN for 293 / 300 (fnet-base) and 300 / 300 (fnet-large) held-out passages on B200 and B300 with TensorRT 11.4 (fnet-base also on 11.1: 98 / 100), because the 2D Fourier output exceeds the fp16 range. The premerge case runs at 256 tokens, so CI does not see it. Scaling the input of the hidden-axis DFT by 1/64 and the fp32 result back by 64 removes the NaN at the same speed (masked-LM KL 5.9e-06).
Exit Criteria
output.densevariant, NVFP4, what was not tried and when to revisit.Implementation
families/fnet/README.md(new): a short family description, "Known issue: fp16 NaN at the 512-token window", and the section "FP8 quantization study (not shipped)": summary and decision, recipe, method, results (speed, quality, kernel time per call), NVFP4, what was not tried, when to revisit.Recipe that was measured (code kept out of the repository):
intermediate.denseandoutput.denseof every layer (24 GEMMs base, 48 large); embeddings, the embedding projection, the Fourier transform, layer norms and GELU stay fp16 / fp32.FP8_DEFAULT_CFG(max) on 544 WikiText-2 train passages padded to the window. fp16 Dequantize.Why no gain: the two feed-forward GEMMs are only 18% to 30% of the fp16 time and FP8 shortens them by 15% to 26%; the largest kernel is the fp32 sequence-axis DFT (40% of the batch-1 time at 512). Leaving
output.densein fp16 halves the KL but makes FP8 slower than fp16.Change categories
Validation
Commands and Results
Documentation only.
python3 -m tools.model_ci validatepytest tools/tests/test_architecture.py tools/tests/test_public_source_hygiene.py(CPU)git diff --checkpython3 tools/pr_metadata.py validateon this descriptionThe numbers in the README come from the local study and are not re-run by this change (batch 1, TensorRT 11.4, x is fp16 time over FP8 time; at 512 fp16 is the 1/64 scaling probe, since the fp16 build at 512 returns NaN):
TensorRT 11.1 (B200, base): 1.05x at 512, 1.07x at 256. Plan size: -33% (base), -42% (large). No NaN or Inf in FP8 builds on 300 held-out passages, 2,758 STS-B sentences and 22 stress inputs.
Hardware, Environment, and Revisions
upstream/mainat7dbe1d5e.google/fnet-baseatd89b6fad3cf5384848b783dc480f9685f49d008c(manifest revision),google/fnet-largeat8b66d3b6d2164befbab948ce455230659c700043.Salesforce/wikitextwikitext-2-raw-v1atb08601e04326c79dfdd32d625aee71d232d685c3(train split for calibration, test split held out),sentence-transformers/stsbatab7a5ac0e35aa22088bdcf23e7fd99b220e53308(test split).FNetForPreTrainingin fp32, TF32 off.Not Run / Remaining Gaps
Contributor Self-Review
Notes For Future Readers
Risk level
Risk rationale: documentation only; one README added, no code, build, bundle or test change.
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