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docs(patchtsmixer): record why FP8 is not shipped - #2155
families/patchtsmixer builds ibm-granite/granite-timeseries-patchtsmixer as one time-series forecast engine (batch 1, context 512, 7 channels, prediction 96) and has no quantized build. The premerge manifest asks for fp16 but keeps every stage in fp32_layers, so its engine runs in fp32. No FP8 or NVFP4 checkpoint of this model exists on the Hub, so FP8 self-quantization of the 12 mixer linears (build-time per-tensor FP8 weights, static per-tensor activation scales from max calibration) was built and measured on TensorRT 11.4 and 11.1. FP8 does not pay for this family: it is slower than a plain fp16 engine (0.88x to 0.98x on B200 and B300), only 1.03x to 1.11x faster than the manifest engine (plain fp16 gives 1.08x to 1.23x), and its deviation from the Transformers fp32 reference (relative L2 3.2e-3, max error 0.20 on ETTh1) is at least 6x above the family accuracy gates. The model has 0.2 M parameters and GEMMs with K of 32 to 144, so the FP8 GEMMs are not faster than fp16 and the Quantize kernels add time. This change adds a README for the family with the study, like the yolov10 (#2093) and timm_efficientnet (#2102) studies, so that it does not have to be repeated. The FP8 code is not part of this change. NVFP4 was not tried.
Exit Criteria
The README records the recipe, the method, speed and plan size on B200 and B300 (TensorRT 11.4, 11.1), quality against the Transformers fp32 reference and the ground truth on held-out ETT data, the kernel time that explains the missing speedup, NVFP4, observations on main and when to revisit.
No code, test, manifest or bundle change; builds are unchanged.
Non-goals: shipping FP8 or NVFP4 builds, an FP8 manifest or CI case, changing the manifest precision.
Implementation
families/patchtsmixer/README.md (new): a short family description and the section "FP8 quantization study (not shipped)": summary and decision, recipe, method, results (speed, plan size, quality, kernel time), NVFP4, observations on main, what was not tried, when to revisit.
Recipe that was measured (code kept out of the repository):
FP8 for mlp.fc1, mlp.fc2 and gating_block.attn_layer of the patch mixer and the feature mixer in both mixer layers (12 linears); a variant also quantizes the forecast head. The patcher, layer norms, softmax gating, scaling and patchify stay fp16; base precision fp16 without fp32_layers.
Weights: per-tensor scale amax / 448 at build time. Activations: static per-tensor scale amax / 448 (ModelOpt max calibration) over 512 windows of the ETTh1 and ETTh2 training split. fp16 Dequantize. The Q/DQ pairs fuse into FP8 CUTLASS GEMMs.
Why no gain: GEMMs have 32 to 224 rows and K of 32 to 144; the FP8 engine spends as long in GEMMs as the fp16 engine (0.064 vs 0.060 ms at batch 1 on B300), and the Quantize kernels add 0.009 to 0.011 ms.
Markdown check of the README (table column counts, code fences)
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git diff --check
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python3 tools/pr_metadata.py validate on this description
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The numbers in the README come from the local study and are not re-run by this change (ms per forecast call; x is manifest-engine time over variant time):
GPU
TensorRT
Batch
manifest (fp32 engine)
fp16
FP8
x fp16 / FP8
B200
11.4
1
0.1088
0.0885
0.1006
1.23 / 1.08
B200
11.4
32
0.3617
0.3351
0.3503
1.08 / 1.03
B300
11.4
1
0.1046
0.0860
0.0946
1.22 / 1.11
B300
11.4
32
0.3523
0.3275
0.3329
1.08 / 1.06
B200
11.1
1
0.1086
0.0901
0.1024
1.21 / 1.06
ETTh1 test (726 windows) against the Transformers fp32 model: relative L2 1.0e-07 (manifest engine), 2.1e-04 (fp16), 3.2e-03 (FP8); MSE / MASE 0.44201 / 1.08854 (reference), 0.44171 / 1.08810 (FP8). No NaN or Inf on 1213 held-out windows and 11 stress inputs.
Hardware, Environment, and Revisions
Repository: this commit on top of upstream/main at 061ecdc9. The family code is unchanged between the study base (a17640d2) and 061ecdc9.
Checkpoint: ibm-granite/granite-timeseries-patchtsmixer at 90dc5a88d45f032b7dceefb5d814ca2af54f2ff9 (manifest revision).
Data: ETTh1, ETTh2 and ETTm1 (ETT-small); calibration from the training split, evaluation on the test split (1213 windows).
Study: B200 and B300, one GPU per job, all variants built and timed in the same job, TensorRT 11.4.0.106 (target) and 11.1.0.106 (B200, batch 1). Reference: the Transformers PatchTSMixerForPrediction model in fp32.
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, other checkpoints, H100, the native runtime with an FP8 bundle, batch 32 on TensorRT 11.1 (the 224-channel builds did not finish in 40 minutes).
Recorded in the README, not changed: plain fp16 is 1.22x faster than the manifest engine at batch 1 but its max error (0.015) is above the premerge threshold; add_patchify uses one slice layer per channel and patch.
Contributor Self-Review
I have completed a self-review of this change.
Notes For Future Readers
Suggested review order: "Summary and decision", the kernel time table, "When to revisit".
Revisit FP8 for a larger PatchTSMixer whose GEMMs are large enough for FP8 kernels to beat fp16, or with a forecast-metric accuracy gate for quantized builds.
Risk level
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Medium
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Risk rationale: documentation only; one new README, no code, build, bundle or test change.
Add a README for the patchtsmixer family with the FP8
self-quantization study of granite-timeseries-patchtsmixer on TensorRT
11.4 (B200, B300) and 11.1: recipe (per-tensor FP8 weights and static
per-tensor activation scales on the 12 mixer linears, fp16 base without
fp32_layers), measurement method, speed, plan size, and quality
against the Transformers fp32 model and the ground truth on held-out
ETT data. FP8 is slower than a plain fp16 engine (0.88x to 0.98x) and
only 1.03x to 1.11x faster than the manifest engine, which runs in fp32
(plain fp16 gives 1.08x to 1.23x). Its deviation from the reference
(relative L2 3.2e-3 on ETTh1) is at least 6x above the family accuracy
gates. The GEMMs are too small (K of 32 to 144) for FP8 kernels to be
faster than fp16, and the Quantize kernels add time. FP8 is not
shipped. NVFP4 was not tried.
Documentation only; no code change.
Signed-off-by: Zhenshan Xie <zhenshanx@nvidia.com>
Adds families/patchtsmixer/README.md with the TensorRT setup for PatchTSMixer and an FP8 self-quantization study. The study reports that FP8 is not shipped: it is slower than plain fp16 on the tested B200 and B300 configurations, and its ETTh1 relative L2 deviation exceeds the documented accuracy gates. The README records the measured recipe, performance, plan size, quality, kernel timings, limitations, and conditions for revisiting FP8. NVFP4 was not tested.
The change adds one family-owned documentation file. It does not change code or shared interfaces. The reported study results were not rerun for this change.
Dependency directions: No code dependencies are added.
Affected consumers: No implementation consumers are changed. The README documents PatchTSMixer setup and study results.
Unresolved blast-radius questions: The study measurements were not rerun for this change. Their reproducibility is not established by the diff.
Review outcome:HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED — the measured claims are documented, but were not independently revalidated for this change. This is not a finding of an architecture violation.
Review severity counts: Not available.
The PatchTSMixer README now describes TensorRT setup and an FP8 quantization study. It records the study’s recipe, measurements, methodology, and stated decision not to ship FP8.
Changes: PatchTSMixer documentation
Layer / File(s)
Summary
FP8 study and configuration details families/patchtsmixer/README.md
The README documents PatchTSMixer configuration and an unshipped FP8 study, including its quantization recipe, measurements, comparisons, methodology, observations, untried options, and revisit criteria.
The documented timings could be mistaken for batch-32 engine performance. Correct the workload label before using the results for comparisons.
Architecture risk: Low · up to 0182a
The change affects 1 system.
Changed systems:families
Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Review details
Systems and components
observed — families (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.
Before / after behavior
observed — Modified behavior in families/patchtsmixer/README.md: The README adds PatchTSMixer configuration details and documents an unshipped FP8 study: its quantization recipe, measurements against the manifest engine and plain fp16, stated decision not to ship, methodology, observations, untried cases, and revisit criteria.
Pre-merge checks: 8 · 1
Failed checks: 1 inconclusive
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Explanation
Resolution
Benchmark Validation Integrity
The new report compares manifest, fp16 and FP8 latency, but the benchmark implementation is unavailable. families/patchtsmixer/README.md:74-91 describes a common CUDA graph method. It does not estab…
Provide the study harness or equivalent evidence that shows the timed region, synchronization, transfers and validation for each compared variant.
Passed checks: 8 passed
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Explanation
Title check
The title clearly and concisely describes the README’s documentation of why FP8 is not shipped.
Description check
The description covers the required template sections, including background, exit criteria, implementation, change category, validation, environment, remaining gaps, self-review, future-reader notes, …
Docstring Coverage
No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentat…
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 PR adds only families/patchtsmixer/README.md. It introduces no dependency on another model family or central family registry.
Shared Semantic Neutrality
The PR adds only families/patchtsmixer/README.md. It does not change shared code, so the check does not apply.
Shared Change Blast Radius
The PR adds only families/patchtsmixer/README.md. The diff documents a family-specific study and does not change a shared surface.
Full details: Description check
Explanation
The description covers the required template sections, including background, exit criteria, implementation, change category, validation, environment, remaining gaps, self-review, future-reader notes, and risk rationale.
Full details: Docstring Coverage
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No eligible functions found in the changed files. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 0 functions across 0 files. (1 skipped: 1 unsupported.)
Full details: Benchmark Validation Integrity
Explanation
The new report compares manifest, fp16 and FP8 latency, but the benchmark implementation is unavailable. families/patchtsmixer/README.md:74-91 describes a common CUDA graph method. It does not establish the timing boundaries for each variant. The FP8 study code was not merged, and the repository search found no study artifact for these results. The report also identifies the batch-32 workload as 32 windows packed into 224 channels, rather than a supported engine batch.
Resolution
Provide the study harness or equivalent evidence that shows the timed region, synchronization, transfers and validation for each compared variant.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Label this workload as 224 channels, not batch 32.
The measured engine has batch 1 and 224 channels. Its channel-dependent patchify graph differs from a batch-32, 7-channel graph, so these timings do not establish batch-32 performance. Label this row and the other batch-32 claims with the measured shape. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
As per coding guidelines, “Workload accounting keeps execution units and task units distinct.”
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Review comment at @families/patchtsmixer/README.md at line 27:
Update the latency table row and other batch-32 claims to identify the measured
workload as batch 1 with 224 channels; do not present these timings as evidence
of batch-32 performance.
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Background
families/patchtsmixerbuildsibm-granite/granite-timeseries-patchtsmixeras one time-series forecast engine (batch 1, context 512, 7 channels, prediction 96) and has no quantized build. The premerge manifest asks for fp16 but keeps every stage infp32_layers, so its engine runs in fp32. No FP8 or NVFP4 checkpoint of this model exists on the Hub, so FP8 self-quantization of the 12 mixer linears (build-time per-tensor FP8 weights, static per-tensor activation scales from max calibration) was built and measured on TensorRT 11.4 and 11.1. FP8 does not pay for this family: it is slower than a plain fp16 engine (0.88x to 0.98x on B200 and B300), only 1.03x to 1.11x faster than the manifest engine (plain fp16 gives 1.08x to 1.23x), and its deviation from the Transformers fp32 reference (relative L2 3.2e-3, max error 0.20 on ETTh1) is at least 6x above the family accuracy gates. The model has 0.2 M parameters and GEMMs with K of 32 to 144, so the FP8 GEMMs are not faster than fp16 and the Quantize kernels add time. This change adds a README for the family with the study, like the yolov10 (#2093) and timm_efficientnet (#2102) studies, so that it does not have to be repeated. The FP8 code is not part of this change. NVFP4 was not tried.Exit Criteria
Implementation
families/patchtsmixer/README.md(new): a short family description and the section "FP8 quantization study (not shipped)": summary and decision, recipe, method, results (speed, plan size, quality, kernel time), NVFP4, observations on main, what was not tried, when to revisit.Recipe that was measured (code kept out of the repository):
mlp.fc1,mlp.fc2andgating_block.attn_layerof the patch mixer and the feature mixer in both mixer layers (12 linears); a variant also quantizes the forecast head. The patcher, layer norms, softmax gating, scaling and patchify stay fp16; base precision fp16 withoutfp32_layers.Why no gain: GEMMs have 32 to 224 rows and K of 32 to 144; the FP8 engine spends as long in GEMMs as the fp16 engine (0.064 vs 0.060 ms at batch 1 on B300), and the Quantize kernels add 0.009 to 0.011 ms.
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 (ms per forecast call; x is manifest-engine time over variant time):
ETTh1 test (726 windows) against the Transformers fp32 model: relative L2 1.0e-07 (manifest engine), 2.1e-04 (fp16), 3.2e-03 (FP8); MSE / MASE 0.44201 / 1.08854 (reference), 0.44171 / 1.08810 (FP8). No NaN or Inf on 1213 held-out windows and 11 stress inputs.
Hardware, Environment, and Revisions
upstream/mainat061ecdc9. The family code is unchanged between the study base (a17640d2) and061ecdc9.ibm-granite/granite-timeseries-patchtsmixerat90dc5a88d45f032b7dceefb5d814ca2af54f2ff9(manifest revision).PatchTSMixerForPredictionmodel in fp32.Not Run / Remaining Gaps
add_patchifyuses one slice layer per channel and patch.Contributor Self-Review
Notes For Future Readers
Risk level
Risk rationale: documentation only; one new README, no code, build, bundle or test change.
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