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perf(qwen3_5): prefill text prompts in multi-token chunks - #2191
Qwen3.5 bundles have one one-token decoder engine, so the runtime prefills every text prompt one launch per token: a 142-token prompt takes 10.9 s on GB10 for qwen35-9b. AIPerf MMLU measures 8004 ms per request against 445 ms for the PyTorch reference on GB10 for qwen35-9b, and 5-18x slower across the Qwen3.5 profiles on GB10 and Thor.
Exit Criteria
Text-only single-GPU Qwen3.5 bundles prefill prompts in chunks of up to 64 tokens and decode on the unchanged one-token engine.
Generated tokens match the token-by-token prefill, and AIPerf accuracy still passes.
Bundles built before this change keep working.
Non-goals: vision bundles, MTP and draft-model builds, tensor-parallel builds, and NVFP4 builds; they keep the token loop.
Implementation
families/qwen3_5/deltanet_rows.py (new) builds the Gated DeltaNet mixer over S rows as one chunked delta rule. With gamma_t = sum_{i<=t} g_i and Gamma_t = exp(gamma_t):
(I + A) U = beta V - diag(beta Gamma) K S_0, A_ij = beta_i exp(gamma_i - gamma_j) k_i.k_j (j < i)
O = diag(Gamma) Q S_0 + (exp(gamma_t - gamma_i) q_t.k_i)_{i<=t} U
S_S = exp(gamma_S) S_0 + (K * exp(gamma_S - gamma))^T U
The chunk's total decay gamma_S is the last cumulative sum, and the exp(gamma_S - gamma_i) exponent is clamped at zero: a separate reduction, summed in another order, can exceed gamma_i by many ulps at large decays and overflow (this made the Nemotron-H SSD chunk state non-finite on some prompts).
I + A is unit lower triangular and is inverted on a fixed 64-row padding (the padded rows are identity): 8x8 diagonal blocks with a Neumann product, then 2x2 block inversion level by level, batched over the blocks of each level. A single Neumann product over 32 or more rows loses accuracy when keys are nearly parallel and beta is close to one; the block inverse does not. add_short_conv_rows runs the depthwise causal conv over the previous conv state plus the chunk.
families/qwen3_5/model.py:
build_engine(..., prefill_rows=None) builds the prefill engine when prefill_rows is set: token_id / position_id[S] and attention_mask [S, cache + S] with one profile 1..64 (opt 32); DeltaNet layers use the chunked rule, full-attention layers attend over the cache plus the chunk's causal prefix, and the logits come from the last row. It rejects media inputs, MTP hidden-state outputs and draft features. Without prefill_rows the one-token graph is unchanged (the step code moved into _add_deltanet_mixer_step).
build() writes prefill.plan for text-only single-GPU builds without MTP, a draft model or NVFP4 weights, and sets decoder_engine_layout: "split".
families/qwen3_5/runtime/: plugin.cpp accepts "split" (single-GPU, no MTP) and loads prefill.plan on the decoder's stream; pipeline.cpp prefills prompts that fit the cache in chunks of up to 64 rows (run_prefill_chunks) and then decodes as before, while longer prompts keep the token loop whose KV cache slides; hybrid_state binds the prefill engine to the shared KV cache and recurrent state (bind_prefill), then appends its present_k/v rows and advances the recurrent state after each chunk (commit_prefill, Qwen35KvCache::append_prefill_from).
Tests: tests/test_chunked_prefill.py builds a tiny checkpoint as the one-token engine and as the prefill engine and checks that an 11-token prompt prefilled in two chunks (7 + 4) and one decode step on the one-token engine give the same argmax and, relative to each tensor's scale, the same logits, KV rows and recurrent states as token-by-token steps; that the prefill engine rejects media, MTP and draft-feature builds and more than 64 rows; and that the batched block inverse matches NumPy on nearly parallel keys with beta near one.
Bundle compatibility: new bundles carry a second engine section and need a runtime with this change; older bundles ("single") load as before. No public API or ABI change.
Review follow-up: the prefill engine carries its own copy of every weight, so it is built only when both engines' weights fit in 80% of GPU memory (_two_engines_fit); otherwise prompts run through the decode engine and the bundle stays loadable. Every current single-GPU profile (up to 9B, about 36 GB for both engines) keeps it. run_prefill_chunks drains the prefill stream before rethrowing an error from the chunk loop, so queued chunks never read a released request.
Change categories
Model or runtime behavior
Public API
ABI
Bundle or artifact format
Dependencies
Documentation only
CI or developer tooling
Validation
Commands and Results
Python on GB300: pytest families/qwen3_5/tests/test_chunked_prefill.py with the GPU visible -> 3 passed (also after the gamma_S commit; the inference results and the first qualification results below were measured before it); CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES='' pytest families/qwen3_5/tests -m "not gpu" -> 73 passed, 8 skipped; ctest -R qwen3_5 -> 3/3 passed.
Inference, main (base) and this branch (fix) bundles built with python -m tensorrt_model_connect build <snapshot> --task text_generation --precision fp16 --max-sequence-length 256 [--quantization fp8], trtmc run <bundle> --runtime-root <build> --prompt <prompt> --max-new-tokens 8 --top-k 1, 4 prompts of 5-142 tokens, each twice. Tokens are identical to base on every prompt; prefill time of the 142-token prompt:
profile
platform
prefill, base -> fix
decode ms/token, base -> fix
qwen35-9b
GB10
10870 -> 279 ms
76.5 -> 74.4
qwen35-9b-fp8
GB10
6944 -> 201 ms
48.8 -> 50.6
qwen35-4b
Thor
5266 -> 199 ms
36.5 -> 37.7-48.9 (see below)
qwen35-0.8b
Thor
1320-1375 -> 82-85 ms
8.8 -> 11.4-14.3 (see below)
The base bundle on the fix runtime gives the same tokens and timing as base.
Qualification, AIPerf MMLU 0-shot, concurrency 1, against the PyTorch reference, with this branch:
qwen35-2b on GB10: accuracy 58.44 vs 58.40, pass; task-call time p50 101 ms vs 179 ms (main: 1900 ms vs 177 ms).
qwen35-2b on GB10 again with the gamma_S commit (branch head): accuracy 58.31 vs 58.40 over 2,209 problems, pass (margin 1.0); AIPerf latency p50 102 ms vs 173 ms.
qwen35-4b on Jetson AGX Thor: accuracy 75.33 vs 75.42, pass; task-call time p50 201 ms vs 302 ms (main: 3949 ms vs 302 ms).
Format: clang-format --dry-run --Werror (22.1.8) and ruff check (0.16.4) on the changed files -> clean.
Decode time on Thor
On Thor a single trtmc run decodes 8-30% slower per token after the split prefill. The decode engine is unchanged: with 64 decode tokens, the fix bundle's engine.plan alone (layout "single") decodes at 8.72-8.87 ms/token like base (8.77-8.85), while the base engine.plan with the fix's prefill.plan (layout "split") takes 9.96-10.01. Sampling the Thor memory clock (bwmgr devfreq) shows the cause: base's 1.3 s token-loop prefill raises it to 4266 MHz before decoding starts, while after the 80 ms split prefill decoding starts at 3200 MHz. With 256 decode tokens the gap shrinks to 8.44-8.48 vs 9.09-9.18 ms/token as the clock rises. GB10 shows no such gap (76.5 -> 74.4 ms/token for qwen35-9b).
Review follow-up, DGX Spark (GB10): the runtime (trtmc, trtmc_backend_trt, trtmc_model_qwen3_5) builds; families/qwen3_5/tests/test_chunked_prefill.py 4 passed on GPU (including test_the_prefill_engine_is_built_only_when_a_second_weight_copy_fits); qwen35-0.8b (FP16) still builds its prefill engine and answers "Paris" twice with identical tokens (prefill of 12 tokens 26 ms, decode 8.8 ms/token).
DGX Spark (GB10, sm_121) and Jetson AGX Thor (sm_110), Ubuntu 24.04 aarch64, TensorRT 11.4.0.106, CUDA 13.4, Release build; unit tests on GB300 (sm_103).
Models: Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B at c202236235762e1c871ad0ccb60c8ee5ba337b9a, Qwen/Qwen3.5-4B at 851bf6e806efd8d0a36b00ddf55e13ccb7b8cd0a, Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8B at 2fc06364715b967f1860aea9cf38778875588b17, Qwen/Qwen3.5-2B at 15852e8c16360a2fea060d615a32b45270f8a8fc (qwen35-9b-fp8 is Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B built with --quantization fp8).
Not Run / Remaining Gaps
NVFP4 bundles keep the token loop: TensorRT 11.4 fails Myelin lowering of NVFP4 dynamic activation quantization over a runtime row count (quantize_lowering CHECK). On qwen35-9b-nvfp4 (GB10, layout unchanged) the fix and base bundles differ in the first generated token on 2 of 4 prompts; two builds of main itself differ in the same way (the same first tokens), so this is build-to-build variation of NVFP4 engines.
Vision, MTP and draft-model bundles keep the token loop; their prefill is not covered here.
GB300 end-to-end runs were not repeated with this change.
Contributor Self-Review
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Notes For Future Readers
The prefill engine is a second engine, not a second profile of the decode engine: a dual-profile decoder runs every decode step through the dynamic-row graph, which on Thor cost 44-80% per decode step in an earlier version of this change. The 64-row bound comes from the static padding of the triangular solve; longer prompts run several chunks. Catalog Qwen3.5 bundles must be rebuilt to get the speedup.
Risk level
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Medium
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Risk rationale: it adds a second engine, a new layout and a new DeltaNet formulation to Qwen3.5 bundles; the decode engine and older bundles are unchanged, tokens matched on every prompt and profile tried, and AIPerf accuracy passes.
Text-only single-GPU bundles get a second engine (prefill.plan) that runs
1..64 prompt rows per launch: Gated DeltaNet layers run each chunk as one
chunked delta rule (the unit lower-triangular solve is a batched block
inversion) and full-attention layers attend over the cache plus the
chunk. The runtime prefills in chunks on that engine and decodes on the
unchanged one-token engine (decoder_engine_layout "split"). NVFP4
bundles keep the token loop.
Signed-off-by: chaofengw <chaofengw@nvidia.com>
This change adds chunked text prefill for eligible Qwen3.5 bundles. Single-GPU, text-only, non-MTP, non-draft, non-NVFP4 builds create prefill.plan when both engine weight copies fit within 80% of GPU memory. The prefill engine processes up to 64 rows per chunk. Decoding remains on the one-token engine.
Long prompts, unsupported bundles, and memory-limited builds use the existing token loop. Existing single bundles remain loadable. The model adds row-based DeltaNet, causal convolution, and full-attention paths.
The supplied reports state that the chunked-prefill tests, non-GPU family tests, and Qwen3.5 CTest checks passed. Completed checks on the current head are not available. NVFP4 chunked prefill and GB300 end-to-end behavior were not validated.
Architecture impact
Family-owned files: All 11 changed files are under families/qwen3_5/. Model graph construction, runtime orchestration, state/cache handling, and tests remain family-owned.
Changed shared surfaces: No shared or cross-family implementation files changed. The family-local Qwen35InferenceState contract gains prefill operations with rejecting defaults.
Dependency direction: The model uses the family-owned row helper. The plugin loads prefill.plan and passes it to RecurrentPipeline. The pipeline uses Qwen35HybridState and Qwen35KvCache to bind and commit chunks.
Affected consumers: Qwen3.5 native bundle loading, RecurrentPipeline, Qwen35HybridState, and Qwen35KvCache. The implementation resets state before each request and drains queued prefill work before rethrowing errors.
No unresolved material blast-radius question was found in the inspected implementation.
Review outcome: PASS. No standards or specification violation was found in the reviewed evidence. This is not proof that the change is correct.
The change adds a multi-row prefill engine for eligible Qwen3.5 text builds. It adds row-aware DeltaNet and attention graph construction, runtime support for binding and committing prefill state, and chunked prompt processing. Prompts outside the supported conditions retain token-by-token processing.
Changes: Qwen3.5 chunked prefill
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Summary
Row-aware DeltaNet and attention engine families/qwen3_5/deltanet_rows.py, families/qwen3_5/model.py, families/qwen3_5/tests/test_chunked_prefill.py
Adds row-processing helpers and uses them in DeltaNet and full-attention layers. Prefill builds use dynamic row profiles and select the final hidden row for logits. Tests compare the triangular solve with a NumPy reference, check supported build options, and compare chunked execution with token-by-token execution.
Split engine build and loading families/qwen3_5/model.py, families/qwen3_5/runtime/plugin.cpp
Eligible builds add prefill.plan and record a split decoder layout. Runtime accepts single or split layouts and loads the prefill module for split bundles.
Prefill state and cache updates families/qwen3_5/runtime/inference_state.h, families/qwen3_5/runtime/hybrid_state.h, families/qwen3_5/runtime/hybrid_state.cpp, families/qwen3_5/runtime/kv_cache.h, families/qwen3_5/runtime/kv_cache.cpp
Adds state binding and commit hooks. The hybrid state binds prefill inputs and commits processed rows to the KV cache and recurrent state.
The pipeline processes eligible prompts in chunks, commits each chunk, and copies final logits to the host. Prompts outside the prefill module’s supported conditions use the existing token-by-token path.
Eligible Qwen3.5 builds now carry a second engine, which raises device memory use. A memory check guards this, but it is skipped when GPU capacity cannot be determined, so a bundle may fail to load on a memory-constrained GPU. Resolve this before merging, or explicitly accept it.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 306b9
The optimization bounds prompt processing and preserves normal request-state reset. The main identified risk is additional memory demand preventing startup on a device that could otherwise run the workload. Some asynchronous-buffer and deployment isolation guarantees remain unverified.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: Optional acceleration becomes mandatory for loading a split bundle. The builder permits a second weight-bearing engine when GPU capacity is unknown and otherwise checks the build device's total memory. The loader requires that engine and throws if it cannot load. Consequently, a deployment that can accommodate decoding alone may lose task availability rather than retain token-by-token processing. The known-capacity weight budget limits this risk, but does not establish target-device fit or runtime fallback.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — Caller-controlled prompt tokens reach the new execution path and its task-owned GPU state. The capacity concern concerns bundle construction and task loading, not a demonstrated prompt-triggered privilege gain. The inspected path establishes task-local effects; wider tenant or service exposure depends on deployment sharing that was not supplied.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Prompt data cannot select the prefill artifact or enlarge its profile through the inspected generation path. The builder supplies matching engine configuration, the pipeline limits chunk rows, and cache commit checks capacity. Prefill cache binding checks dtype but does not independently validate full geometry, leaving compatibility dependent on bundle construction.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Normal sequential reuse has explicit reset and ordering controls. Concurrent reuse or interruption safety is not established by the inspected synchronous generation interface. Because mutable state and reset already existed in the base, this uncertainty does not establish a newly introduced cross-request disclosure.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Make host-input consumption explicit before the next prepare_step overwrites position and mask buffers, through a documented backend guarantee or owned staging/completion tracking. Current storage is ordinary host-vector memory, so an actual lifetime failure was not established; same-stream GPU ordering alone does not specify host-buffer reuse.
proposed — If independently assembled split bundles are supported, validate prefill cache, recurrent-state, and present-output geometry before sharing device buffers. Matching construction currently supplies the principal counterevidence; acceptance of hostile bundles was not established.
Pre-merge checks: 6 · 3
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Linked Issues check
Issue [#2179] requires multi-token prefill for the listed Qwen3.5 profiles, including qwen35-9b-nvfp4. This PR adds chunked prefill only for eligible non-NVFP4 bundles. NVFP4 bundles retain the one-…
Add a supported multi-token prefill path for NVFP4 text bundles, or update the linked issue scope before merging. Add automated coverage for the NVFP4 path and its generated-token or accuracy behavior.
Docstring Coverage
Docstring coverage is 42.42% 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-step report still changes meaning. Before the PR, it included prompt and decode run_step calls. Split prefill bypasses those counters, so the same label covers decode only, or disappears whe…
Report prefill and decode breakdowns separately, with explicit phase and unit labels. Use equivalent synchronization boundaries for the single-token and chunked prefill wall-clock reports, including completion of the final state updates.
Passed checks: 6 passed
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Title check
The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: processing Qwen3.5 text prompts in multiple prefill chunks.
Out of Scope Changes check
The new DeltaNet row formulation, prefill engine, runtime state binding, KV-cache updates, split bundle layout, compatibility handling, and tests directly support the chunked-prefill objective in issu…
Description check
The pull request description covers all required sections. It explains the motivation, exit criteria, implementation, affected components, change categories, validation commands and results, hardware …
Family Ownership Boundary
No cross-family dependency or central registry change was found. model.py:87,2072-2079,2144-2154 uses the new Qwen3.5 helper. test_chunked_prefill.py:17-19 uses a Qwen3.5 fixture. The runtime load…
Shared Semantic Neutrality
The PR changes only Qwen3.5-owned Python, runtime, and test files. It does not change shared code in the scope of this check.
Shared Change Blast Radius
The reviewed changes are confined to families/qwen3_5. The split bundle layout is written and consumed by the Qwen3.5 family code. No shared surface changes were identified.
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The new DeltaNet row formulation, prefill engine, runtime state binding, KV-cache updates, split bundle layout, compatibility handling, and tests directly support the chunked-prefill objective in issue [#2179]. The changes do not demonstrate unrelated behavior.
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The pull request description covers all required sections. It explains the motivation, exit criteria, implementation, affected components, change categories, validation commands and results, hardware and revisions, remaining gaps, self-review, future notes, and risk rationale.
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No cross-family dependency or central registry change was found. model.py:87,2072-2079,2144-2154 uses the new Qwen3.5 helper. test_chunked_prefill.py:17-19 uses a Qwen3.5 fixture. The runtime loads the prefill plan built by the same family (model.py:2631-2637; runtime/plugin.cpp:182-192). All changed files are within families/qwen3_5.
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Issue [#2179] requires multi-token prefill for the listed Qwen3.5 profiles, including qwen35-9b-nvfp4. This PR adds chunked prefill only for eligible non-NVFP4 bundles. NVFP4 bundles retain the one-token loop, so the issue requirement remains unmet. The PR includes relevant implementation and tests for the supported profiles.
Resolution
Add a supported multi-token prefill path for NVFP4 text bundles, or update the linked issue scope before merging. Add automated coverage for the NVFP4 path and its generated-token or accuracy behavior.
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Docstring coverage is 42.42% 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. Documentation-only edits and deletions within surviving functions are included; unchanged diff context and fully deleted functions are excluded. Analyzed 33 functions across 11 files.
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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Full details: Benchmark Validation Integrity
Explanation
The per-step report still changes meaning. Before the PR, it included prompt and decode run_step calls. Split prefill bypasses those counters, so the same label covers decode only, or disappears when there is no decode call (pipeline.cpp:222–226, 241, 442–451, 468–501, 619–623). The prefill wall-clock boundary also differs. The base path ends after run_step queues the final state copies, without waiting for them. The split path synchronizes after commit_prefill queues those copies (pipeline.cpp:478–491; kv_cache.cpp:240–245). Thus the reported prefill times do not guarantee the same completion boundary.
Resolution
Report prefill and decode breakdowns separately, with explicit phase and unit labels. Use equivalent synchronization boundaries for the single-token and chunked prefill wall-clock reports, including completion of the final state updates.
Test the 64-row solve with the production TF32 setting.
The nearly parallel matrix test disables TF32, but the production builder allows it. Add a test with the default setting and compare the result with NumPy. Keep the full-FP32 test. The current end-to-end test does not cover a 64-row chunk.
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Review comment at @families/qwen3_5/deltanet_rows.py around lines 215 - 229:
Extend the test covering the nearly parallel matrix solve to exercise a 64-row
chunk through the solve path using the production-default TF32 setting, and
compare its result with NumPy. Keep the existing full-FP32 test unchanged;
locate the solve implementation via _inverse_unit_lower and SOLVE_ROWS.
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Review comment at @families/qwen3_5/runtime/kv_cache.cpp around lines 250 - 261:
Update the test exercising Qwen35KvCache::append_prefill_from to assert that
each present K/V output matches its corresponding cache tensor’s expected shape
and dtype before tensor assignment; ensure the checks cover both present_k_ and
present_v_ outputs so dtype conversion cannot conceal a mismatch.
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Review comments at @families/qwen3_5/model.py:
- Around line 2599-2604: Update the split-build path around model.build_engine
and writer.add_bytes to support a single-engine option for memory-constrained
builds or make the split plans share weights so they are not duplicated.
Preserve the existing split behavior when enabled, and measure bundle size and
device-memory overhead for supported profiles to verify the change.
Review comments at @families/qwen3_5/runtime/pipeline.cpp:
- Around line 468-491: Update RecurrentPipeline::run_prefill_chunks to drain the
prefill stream if an exception occurs during chunk preparation, forward_async,
or commit_prefill, then rethrow the original exception. Keep the normal sync and
logits handling unchanged, and ensure a sync failure during cleanup does not
replace the original error.
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Review comments at @families/qwen3_5/deltanet_rows.py:
- Around line 215-229: Extend the test covering the nearly parallel matrix solve
to exercise a 64-row chunk through the solve path using the production-default
TF32 setting, and compare its result with NumPy. Keep the existing full-FP32
test unchanged; locate the solve implementation via _inverse_unit_lower and
SOLVE_ROWS.
Review comments at @families/qwen3_5/runtime/kv_cache.cpp:
- Around line 250-261: Update the test exercising
Qwen35KvCache::append_prefill_from to assert that each present K/V output
matches its corresponding cache tensor’s expected shape and dtype before tensor
assignment; ensure the checks cover both present_k_ and present_v_ outputs so
dtype conversion cannot conceal a mismatch.
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Add a supported multi-row prefill path for the NVFP4 profile so its text prompts
do not use the one-token prefill loop, and add automated coverage for that path.
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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage
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Report prefill and decode breakdowns separately with explicit phase and unit
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families/qwen3_5/model.py
families/qwen3_5/runtime/hybrid_state.cpp
families/qwen3_5/runtime/hybrid_state.h
families/qwen3_5/runtime/inference_state.h
families/qwen3_5/runtime/kv_cache.cpp
families/qwen3_5/runtime/kv_cache.h
families/qwen3_5/runtime/pipeline.cpp
families/qwen3_5/runtime/pipeline.h
families/qwen3_5/runtime/plugin.cpp
families/qwen3_5/tests/test_chunked_prefill.py
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- Weight Streaming — NVIDIA TensorRT for RTX — https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/tensorrt-rtx/latest/inference-library/weight-streaming.html
- How TensorRT Works — NVIDIA TensorRT — https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/tensorrt/11.4.1/architecture/how-trt-works.html
- How TensorRT-RTX Works — NVIDIA TensorRT for RTX — https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/tensorrt-rtx/latest/architecture/how-trt-rtx-works.html
- TensorRT: nvinfer1 Namespace Reference — https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/tensorrt/11.4.1/_static/c-api/namespacenvinfer1.html
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Keep a single-engine option for memory-constrained builds.
The split build stores the model weights in both plans, and the runtime keeps both engines loaded. This increases device memory use and can prevent a model from loading when the single-engine bundle fits.
Provide a single-engine opt-out or share the weights between engines. Measure the bundle size and device memory overhead for supported profiles.
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Update the split-build path around model.build_engine and writer.add_bytes to
support a single-engine option for memory-constrained builds or make the split
plans share weights so they are not duplicated. Preserve the existing split
behavior when enabled, and measure bundle size and device-memory overhead for
supported profiles to verify the change.
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The chunk state's exp(gamma_S - gamma_i) used a separate reduction for
gamma_S. Summed in another order it can exceed gamma_i by many ulps at
large decays and overflow; the same pattern made the Nemotron-H SSD
chunk state non-finite on some prompts. gamma_S is now the last
cumulative sum, and the exponent is clamped at zero.
Signed-off-by: chaofengw <chaofengw@nvidia.com>
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Add a supported multi-token prefill path for NVFP4 text bundles and automated
coverage that verifies the path.
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Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage
threshold.
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Report prefill and decode breakdowns separately with explicit phase and unit
labels. Keep before-and-after metrics on an equivalent accounting basis.
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The prefill engine carries its own copy of every weight; build it only when
both engines' weights fit in 80% of GPU memory, and run prompts through the
decode engine otherwise. Drain the prefill stream before rethrowing an error
from the chunk loop, so queued chunks never read a released request.
Signed-off-by: chaofengw <chaofengw@nvidia.com>
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- Around line 2468-2469: Update the split decision that uses gpu_bytes and
_TWO_ENGINE_MEMORY_FRACTION so a None capacity is not treated as sufficient for
two engines; keep the single-engine layout unless capacity is confirmed or an
explicit override is provided. Adjust the relevant test_chunked_prefill.py
expectation to reflect the unknown-capacity behavior.
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Do not treat unknown GPU capacity as a confirmed fit.
When Torch is absent or CUDA cannot be queried, _gpu_memory_bytes() returns None. This branch then enables split without a memory check. If the target GPU fits engine.plan but not both plans, the runtime attempts to load both engines and the bundle can fail to load. Keep the single-engine layout when capacity is unknown, or require an explicit override. Line 213 of test_chunked_prefill.py should change with this behavior. TensorRT documents that an engine normally allocates its weights on the device at deserialization. (docs.nvidia.com)
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Review comment at @families/qwen3_5/model.py around lines 2468 - 2469:
Update the split decision that uses gpu_bytes and _TWO_ENGINE_MEMORY_FRACTION so a None capacity is not treated as sufficient for two engines; keep the single-engine layout unless capacity is confirmed or an explicit override is provided. Adjust the relevant test_chunked_prefill.py expectation to reflect the unknown-capacity behavior.
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Background
Fixes #2179.
Qwen3.5 bundles have one one-token decoder engine, so the runtime prefills every text prompt one launch per token: a 142-token prompt takes 10.9 s on GB10 for
qwen35-9b. AIPerf MMLU measures 8004 ms per request against 445 ms for the PyTorch reference on GB10 forqwen35-9b, and 5-18x slower across the Qwen3.5 profiles on GB10 and Thor.Exit Criteria
Implementation
families/qwen3_5/deltanet_rows.py(new) builds the Gated DeltaNet mixer overSrows as one chunked delta rule. Withgamma_t = sum_{i<=t} g_iandGamma_t = exp(gamma_t):The chunk's total decay
gamma_Sis the last cumulative sum, and theexp(gamma_S - gamma_i)exponent is clamped at zero: a separate reduction, summed in another order, can exceedgamma_iby many ulps at large decays and overflow (this made the Nemotron-H SSD chunk state non-finite on some prompts).I + Ais unit lower triangular and is inverted on a fixed 64-row padding (the padded rows are identity): 8x8 diagonal blocks with a Neumann product, then 2x2 block inversion level by level, batched over the blocks of each level. A single Neumann product over 32 or more rows loses accuracy when keys are nearly parallel andbetais close to one; the block inverse does not.add_short_conv_rowsruns the depthwise causal conv over the previous conv state plus the chunk.families/qwen3_5/model.py:build_engine(..., prefill_rows=None)builds the prefill engine whenprefill_rowsis set:token_id/position_id[S]andattention_mask [S, cache + S]with one profile1..64(opt 32); DeltaNet layers use the chunked rule, full-attention layers attend over the cache plus the chunk's causal prefix, and the logits come from the last row. It rejects media inputs, MTP hidden-state outputs and draft features. Withoutprefill_rowsthe one-token graph is unchanged (the step code moved into_add_deltanet_mixer_step).build()writesprefill.planfor text-only single-GPU builds without MTP, a draft model or NVFP4 weights, and setsdecoder_engine_layout: "split".families/qwen3_5/runtime/:plugin.cppaccepts"split"(single-GPU, no MTP) and loadsprefill.planon the decoder's stream;pipeline.cppprefills prompts that fit the cache in chunks of up to 64 rows (run_prefill_chunks) and then decodes as before, while longer prompts keep the token loop whose KV cache slides;hybrid_statebinds the prefill engine to the shared KV cache and recurrent state (bind_prefill), then appends itspresent_k/vrows and advances the recurrent state after each chunk (commit_prefill,Qwen35KvCache::append_prefill_from).Tests:
tests/test_chunked_prefill.pybuilds a tiny checkpoint as the one-token engine and as the prefill engine and checks that an 11-token prompt prefilled in two chunks (7 + 4) and one decode step on the one-token engine give the same argmax and, relative to each tensor's scale, the same logits, KV rows and recurrent states as token-by-token steps; that the prefill engine rejects media, MTP and draft-feature builds and more than 64 rows; and that the batched block inverse matches NumPy on nearly parallel keys withbetanear one.Bundle compatibility: new bundles carry a second engine section and need a runtime with this change; older bundles (
"single") load as before. No public API or ABI change._two_engines_fit); otherwise prompts run through the decode engine and the bundle stays loadable. Every current single-GPU profile (up to 9B, about 36 GB for both engines) keeps it.run_prefill_chunksdrains the prefill stream before rethrowing an error from the chunk loop, so queued chunks never read a released request.Change categories
Validation
Commands and Results
pytest families/qwen3_5/tests/test_chunked_prefill.pywith the GPU visible -> 3 passed (also after thegamma_Scommit; the inference results and the first qualification results below were measured before it);CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES='' pytest families/qwen3_5/tests -m "not gpu"-> 73 passed, 8 skipped;ctest -R qwen3_5-> 3/3 passed.main(base) and this branch (fix) bundles built withpython -m tensorrt_model_connect build <snapshot> --task text_generation --precision fp16 --max-sequence-length 256 [--quantization fp8],trtmc run <bundle> --runtime-root <build> --prompt <prompt> --max-new-tokens 8 --top-k 1, 4 prompts of 5-142 tokens, each twice. Tokens are identical to base on every prompt; prefill time of the 142-token prompt:The base bundle on the fix runtime gives the same tokens and timing as base.
qwen35-2bon GB10: accuracy 58.44 vs 58.40, pass; task-call time p50 101 ms vs 179 ms (main: 1900 ms vs 177 ms).qwen35-2bon GB10 again with thegamma_Scommit (branch head): accuracy 58.31 vs 58.40 over 2,209 problems, pass (margin 1.0); AIPerf latency p50 102 ms vs 173 ms.qwen35-4bon Jetson AGX Thor: accuracy 75.33 vs 75.42, pass; task-call time p50 201 ms vs 302 ms (main: 3949 ms vs 302 ms).clang-format --dry-run --Werror(22.1.8) andruff check(0.16.4) on the changed files -> clean.Decode time on Thor
On Thor a single
trtmc rundecodes 8-30% slower per token after the split prefill. The decode engine is unchanged: with 64 decode tokens, the fix bundle'sengine.planalone (layout"single") decodes at 8.72-8.87 ms/token like base (8.77-8.85), while the baseengine.planwith the fix'sprefill.plan(layout"split") takes 9.96-10.01. Sampling the Thor memory clock (bwmgrdevfreq) shows the cause: base's 1.3 s token-loop prefill raises it to 4266 MHz before decoding starts, while after the 80 ms split prefill decoding starts at 3200 MHz. With 256 decode tokens the gap shrinks to 8.44-8.48 vs 9.09-9.18 ms/token as the clock rises. GB10 shows no such gap (76.5 -> 74.4 ms/token forqwen35-9b).trtmc,trtmc_backend_trt,trtmc_model_qwen3_5) builds;families/qwen3_5/tests/test_chunked_prefill.py4 passed on GPU (includingtest_the_prefill_engine_is_built_only_when_a_second_weight_copy_fits);qwen35-0.8b(FP16) still builds its prefill engine and answers "Paris" twice with identical tokens (prefill of 12 tokens 26 ms, decode 8.8 ms/token).Hardware, Environment, and Revisions
mainatba057d32; the GB10 and Thor runs usedmainat58295ed5as base. Between the two,families/qwen3_5only bounds the NVFP4 decoder context memory (fix(qwen3_5): bound NVFP4 decoder context memory #2013) and changes the qualification config (feat(aiperf): qualify against the native model under torch.compile #2020).Qwen/Qwen3.5-9Batc202236235762e1c871ad0ccb60c8ee5ba337b9a,Qwen/Qwen3.5-4Bat851bf6e806efd8d0a36b00ddf55e13ccb7b8cd0a,Qwen/Qwen3.5-0.8Bat2fc06364715b967f1860aea9cf38778875588b17,Qwen/Qwen3.5-2Bat15852e8c16360a2fea060d615a32b45270f8a8fc(qwen35-9b-fp8isQwen/Qwen3.5-9Bbuilt with--quantization fp8).Not Run / Remaining Gaps
quantize_loweringCHECK). Onqwen35-9b-nvfp4(GB10, layout unchanged) the fix and base bundles differ in the first generated token on 2 of 4 prompts; two builds ofmainitself differ in the same way (the same first tokens), so this is build-to-build variation of NVFP4 engines.Contributor Self-Review
Notes For Future Readers
The prefill engine is a second engine, not a second profile of the decode engine: a dual-profile decoder runs every decode step through the dynamic-row graph, which on Thor cost 44-80% per decode step in an earlier version of this change. The 64-row bound comes from the static padding of the triangular solve; longer prompts run several chunks. Catalog Qwen3.5 bundles must be rebuilt to get the speedup.
Risk level
Risk rationale: it adds a second engine, a new layout and a new DeltaNet formulation to Qwen3.5 bundles; the decode engine and older bundles are unchanged, tokens matched on every prompt and profile tried, and AIPerf accuracy passes.
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