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families/sam2 built only one precision, mixed_bf16_fp32: bf16 GEMMs, convolutions and attention with fp32 layer norms and fp32 runtime outputs. The FP8 study of this family (#2104) found that FP8 does not beat a plain fp16 build of the same graph, and that the fp16 build is 5% to 8% faster than bf16 on the image plan with masks closer to PyTorch. This change verifies that on the whole engine set and makes fp16 the default.
Why bf16 was the default: no reason is recorded. The family was added in one commit (Python-built video tracking) with bf16 as its only precision; the README, tests and manifests give no accuracy, overflow or support reason, and no later commit changed it. The C++ box post-processing reads bf16 box maps, so the plan inputs and outputs stay bf16 here.
Exit Criteria
fp16 is the default precision (default_build_precision, and the family support default used by trtmc build); mixed_bf16_fp32 stays selectable and builds the same network as main.
The fp16 bundle has the same plan inputs and outputs, bundle layout and native runtime as the bf16 bundle.
The 5-frame video is faster than mixed_bf16_fp32 on B200 and B300 with TensorRT 11.4 (and 11.1); masks are at least as close to the PyTorch fp32 reference; no non-finite output, including stress inputs.
The existing premerge E2E case passes unchanged and a new fp16 premerge E2E case passes on B200 and B300.
TrtLayers takes the 16-bit compute type (half, bf16 or fp16, default bf16). Linear layers (linear_bf16 renamed linear_half), folded convolution + batch norm and their weights use it; fp16 weights are stored as fp16.
image_builder.py, tracker_builder.py
Every trt.bfloat16 compute cast and constant uses the compute type. bf16 plan inputs are cast to the compute type after add_input; bf16 outputs are cast back before mark_output (no-op for bf16). The memory-feature output still casts fp32 to bf16 directly.
default_precision="fp16". On main the family support default was fp32, which sam2 rejects, so trtmc build without --precision failed; it now builds the fp16 bundle.
tests/test_precision.py
Default precision, precision selection, rejected values, and for the image, prompt and recurrent graphs: fp16 keeps the bf16 plan contract, its matrix multiplies take fp16 and no bf16, the bf16 graph takes no fp16.
tests/manifests/sam2-public-core-l0-fp16.json
New premerge case, same checkpoint as the existing case, precision: fp16.
README.md
Precision section with the numbers below; the FP8 section notes that its "bf16" is the old default.
Network definitions (layers, types, output types and shapes, constant weights, I/O; hashed), TensorRT 11.4 and 11.1:
Graph
main bf16
branch mixed_bf16_fp32
branch fp16
image
1139 layers
identical (same hash)
1147 layers (+8 output casts)
prompt
882
identical
884 (+2 input casts)
recurrent H=1..4
1630 / 1652 / 1674 / 1696
identical
+3 casts each
No public API, ABI or bundle format change.
Change categories
Model or runtime behavior
Public API
ABI
Bundle or artifact format
Dependencies
Documentation only
CI or developer tooling
Validation
Commands and Results
pytest families/sam2/tests -q # 20 passed, 2 skipped (E2E without selectors) on 11.4 and 11.1, B200 and B300
pytest tools/tests/test_architecture.py -q # 57 passed on 11.4 and 11.1
python -m tools.model_ci validate # valid
pytest families/sam2/tests/test_e2e.py --e2e-model sam2 -v # 2 passed (sam2-public-core-l0, sam2-public-core-l0-fp16), B200 and B300, TensorRT 11.4
ruff check / ruff format --check <changed .py files> # clean
E2E receipts (native runtime, same oracle for both cases):
GPU
Case
Box
Score
Mask foreground pixels, frames 0..4
B200
bf16
[136, 160, 952, 1120]
1.0
229525, 209595, 201056, 198954, 198802
B200
fp16
[136, 160, 952, 1120]
1.0
231926, 210400, 201485, 198998, 198827
B300
bf16
[136, 160, 952, 1120]
1.0
228955, 209813, 201049, 199050, 198814
B300
fp16
[136, 160, 952, 1120]
1.0
232436, 211820, 201521, 199038, 198847
The oracle checks exact box, score and label, and a foreground count between 0.1% and 99.9% of the frame; no threshold changed.
Speed: both precisions built three times (11.1: once) and timed in the same job on one GPU, median of 9 interleaved rounds, median over builds. Video = 5 frames: image plan each frame, prompt plan on frame 0, recurrent plan H=1..4 on frames 1..4, memory features and object pointers passed between frames (plans only).
GPU
TensorRT
Video bf16 (ms)
Video fp16 (ms)
Speedup
Image plan (ms)
Prompt plan (ms)
Recurrent H=1 / H=4
B200
11.4
18.676
17.565
1.063x
1.954 to 1.830
0.617 to 0.525
1.065x / 1.042x
B300
11.4
18.484
17.245
1.072x
1.995 to 1.841
0.596 to 0.506
1.068x / 1.041x
B200
11.1
19.545
18.446
1.060x
2.144 to 2.012
0.617 to 0.534
1.060x / 1.036x
B300
11.1
19.172
17.911
1.070x
2.129 to 1.964
0.604 to 0.510
1.067x / 1.036x
Build-to-build spread of the video time is at most 0.13 ms (fp16, B200) and 0.04 ms (bf16). Every plan is faster in fp16. The six-plan set shrinks from 378 to 300 MiB (B200) and 381 to 302 MiB (B300).
Quality: reference = PyTorch fp32 sam2 1.1.0 video predictor on the same preprocessed pixels. COCO = 300 COCO 2017 validation images (largest object box prompt); video = 18 objects, 6 windows of 5 frames of the sam2 demo clip "bedroom"; stress = 90 frames (black, white, noise, 1- and 8-pixel checkerboards, saturated color; full, mid-size and 4-pixel boxes). TensorRT 11.4.
Set
Metric
B200 bf16
B200 fp16
B300 bf16
B300 fp16
COCO
mask IoU mean (p5)
0.9895 (0.975)
0.9956 (0.996)
0.9922 (0.973)
0.9970 (0.996)
COCO
mask IoU min
0.089
0.462
0.458
0.462
COCO
mask logit cosine mean
0.9997
0.9998
0.9997
0.9998
COCO
FPN relative L2, level 0 / 1 / 2
0.016 / 0.035 / 0.017
0.003 / 0.008 / 0.004
0.016 / 0.035 / 0.017
0.004 / 0.008 / 0.004
Video, frames 1..4
mask IoU mean
0.959 to 0.969
0.981 to 0.997
0.976 to 0.993
0.995 to 0.998
Stress
mask IoU mean (min)
0.970 (0.000)
0.999 (0.990)
0.954 (0.000)
0.999 (0.991)
All
non-finite values in any plan output
0
0
0
0
The COCO minimum of 0.46 is the same image for both precisions. Largest activation in the PyTorch model over all inputs (Hiera block and memory-attention layer outputs): 8.9, far below the fp16 range. TensorRT 11.1 (50 COCO images): fp16 mask IoU 0.9991 / 0.9993, bf16 0.9963 / 0.9956 (B200 / B300), no non-finite output.
Hardware, Environment, and Revisions
Repository: this commit on top of upstream/main at 71dcf96d.
GPUs: B200 and B300, one GPU each, one job per GPU type. TensorRT 11.4.0.106 for speed, quality and E2E; TensorRT 11.1.0.106 for unit tests, speed and a quality check. torch 2.14, sam2 1.1.0, CUDA 13.
Not Run / Remaining Gaps
GB300 and H100: not run. The E2E oracle has no numeric threshold near the measured values (exact box and a 0.1% to 99.9% foreground range), so no threshold was changed.
The caller-provisioned L4 qualification (tests/local, production checkpoint and golden masks) was not run; its golden masks come from the bf16 build. Build it with precision="mixed_bf16_fp32" to keep the old numbers, or regenerate the golden data for fp16.
E2E on TensorRT 11.1: not run (unit tests, speed and quality ran there).
fp16 plan inputs and outputs (no interface casts) were not measured; they need a native runtime change.
Contributor Self-Review
I have completed a self-review of this change.
Notes For Future Readers
Value: 1.06x to 1.07x on the 5-frame video on B200 and B300 (11.4 and 11.1), 21% smaller bundle, masks closer to PyTorch, no collapsed mask on the stress set.
The precision only changes the 16-bit compute type; the fp32 parts of the graph and the plan inputs and outputs are the same for both precisions.
trtmc build --precision bf16 is still rejected (the CLI offers fp16, bf16, fp32; the old precision is named mixed_bf16_fp32), so the old precision is selected through BuildRequest or a manifest. Mapping CLI bf16 to it is left for a follow-up.
Risk rationale: the default bundle changes from bf16 to fp16 compute, but the plan contract and runtime are unchanged, the old precision builds the identical network and stays selectable, fp16 is faster on both GPUs and both TensorRT versions with masks closer to the reference and no non-finite output, and both precisions have a premerge E2E case.
Add an fp16 precision to the SAM2 family and make it the default. The
GEMM, convolution and attention paths of the image, prompt and recurrent
plans run in fp16 instead of bf16; layer norms and the other fp32 parts
of the graph stay fp32. The plan inputs and outputs do not change (bf16
FPN levels 0 and 1, box maps and memory features), so the native runtime
and the bundle layout are the same for both precisions.
mixed_bf16_fp32 stays selectable and builds the same network as before.
The family support now reports fp16 as its default precision, so a
`trtmc build` without --precision builds the fp16 bundle.
With TensorRT 11.4 the 5-frame video (image plan plus prompt and
recurrent plans) is 1.063x faster on B200 and 1.072x faster on B300, and
the masks are closer to the PyTorch fp32 reference (COCO mask IoU 0.9956
and 0.9970 against 0.9895 and 0.9922). Add an fp16 premerge E2E case and
unit tests for the precision selection and the unchanged plan contract.
Signed-off-by: Zhenshan Xie <zhenshanx@nvidia.com>
SAM2 now defaults to fp16 instead of mixed_bf16_fp32. Both precisions remain selectable. The image, prompt, and recurrent network builders use the selected 16-bit compute type while retaining BF16 plan input and output contracts.
The change adds precision-selection tests and an FP16 premerge manifest. The README documents the default and alternative precision, with comparison data for performance, plan size, and output quality.
The PR objectives report 20 passed and 2 skipped in the SAM2 test suite, and passing BF16 and FP16 end-to-end cases on B200 and B300 with TensorRT 11.4. These results were not independently verified as completed checks on the current head. GB300, H100, TensorRT 11.1 end-to-end, caller-provisioned L4 qualification, and FP16 plan I/O measurements remain unreported or untested.
Architecture impact
Family-owned files: All eight changed files are under families/sam2/. The change keeps SAM2-specific precision selection, builder behavior, tests, manifest, and documentation within the SAM2 family.
Changed shared surfaces: None identified in the changed-file list.
New dependency directions: None identified. The changes do not show new cross-family or family-to-shared dependencies.
Affected consumers: SAM2 build configuration and its image, prompt, and recurrent network builders. The family support default means trtmc build without --precision selects FP16 for SAM2.
Unresolved blast-radius questions: Compatibility and performance remain unverified for GB300, H100, TensorRT 11.1 end-to-end, and caller-provisioned L4 environments. FP16 plan input/output behavior was not measured.
Review outcome:HUMAN REVIEW REQUIRED — the reported validation does not resolve the outstanding platform and compatibility questions. Review finding severity counts: not available.
SAM2 now defaults to FP16 and supports mixed_bf16_fp32 as an alternative. The selected compute type is passed to image and tracker network builders. BF16 interface contracts remain in place, with casts at the relevant boundaries.
Changes: SAM2 precision support
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Precision selection and shared compute operations families/sam2/model.py, families/sam2/graph_ops.py, families/sam2/support.py, families/sam2/README.md
The model accepts FP16 and mixed_bf16_fp32, maps each to a TensorRT compute type, and passes the selection to network builders. Shared layer operations support FP16 and BF16 compute. The support configuration and README identify FP16 as the default and document precision comparisons.
Image network compute and output handling families/sam2/image_builder.py
The image builder uses the selected half type for attention, projections, and inputs. It casts outputs to BF16 when required by the output contract.
sequenceDiagram
participant build_engine
participant populate_image_network
participant ImageNetworkBuilder
participant TrtLayers
participant build_extra_engines
participant populate_tracker_network
participant _TrackerBuilder
build_engine->>populate_image_network: Pass selected TensorRT type
populate_image_network->>ImageNetworkBuilder: Forward selected type
ImageNetworkBuilder->>TrtLayers: Configure half compute type
build_extra_engines->>populate_tracker_network: Pass selected TensorRT type
populate_tracker_network->>_TrackerBuilder: Forward selected type
_TrackerBuilder->>TrtLayers: Configure half compute type
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Merge Risk: Low · up to e77d8
Some FP16 profiling names may be misleading, but this does not block merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to e77d8
The new default changes numerical computation, while the inspected tensor interfaces and checkpoint-loading controls remain unchanged. No introduced security issue was established, but incomplete coverage and unverified runtime results limit confidence.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The inspected propagation reaches newly constructed image, prompt and recurrent plans. Its demonstrated effect is numerical behavior across that engine set; the source does not establish a new privileged operation or expanded cross-service access.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The inspected base and head retain the same checkpoint-loading path and requirement that build weights contain a Checkpoint instance. Selecting FP16 changes downstream arithmetic conversion, not checkpoint selection or loading authority.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Converted weight buffers are owned by individual graph instances, and precision is passed through local values rather than a shared conversion cache. This preserves construction-time isolation across repeated or concurrent builds in the inspected source. Runtime concurrency and failure behavior were not exercised.
Pre-merge checks: 7 · 1 · 1
Failed checks: 1 warning · 1 inconclusive
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Provide the benchmark implementation or timing records that show the timed regions and synchronization and transfer handling for both precisions.
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Title check
The title clearly and concisely states the main change: SAM2 now builds with FP16 by default.
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Family Ownership Boundary
The changes stay within the SAM2 family. The new precision tests import SAM2 builders and a shared model-support contract (families/sam2/tests/test_precision.py:11-15). The new manifest selects SAM2…
Shared Semantic Neutrality
The PR changes only files under families/sam2. The precision setting, manifest, and validation evidence are family-owned. No shared code changes.
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The change is family-local. All changed files are under families/sam2. The new manifest and precision tests cover SAM2, and the PR does not change shared code, contracts, tooling, or validation infr…
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The description covers the background, exit criteria, implementation, change category, validation results, hardware and revisions, remaining gaps, self-review, future notes, and risk level. It provides detailed evidence and identifies untested configurations.
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Explanation
The changes stay within the SAM2 family. The new precision tests import SAM2 builders and a shared model-support contract (families/sam2/tests/test_precision.py:11-15). The new manifest selects SAM2 (families/sam2/tests/manifests/sam2-public-core-l0-fp16.json:3-7), and its E2E path uses SAM2-owned validation (families/sam2/tests/test_e2e.py:188-213). No other family or central registry changes are required.
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The change is family-local. All changed files are under families/sam2. The new manifest and precision tests cover SAM2, and the PR does not change shared code, contracts, tooling, or validation infrastructure.
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The new report compares the same five-frame, plans-only workload for both precisions (families/sam2/README.md:25-37). The benchmark implementation and timing records are not available in the repository. The report does not establish whether synchronization or transfers are treated equally on both paths.
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Rename the stale _bf16 layer-name suffixes.
These layers now cast to self.half, which can be FP16. Names such as .input_bf16, .weight_bf16 and .bias_bf16 are misleading in FP16 plans. They show up in TensorRT profiling output (ProfilingVerbosity.DETAILED) and can mislead debugging. The same applies to names in image_builder.py and tracker_builder.py, such as hiera.input_bf16, prompt.box.unit_square_bf16 and attention.memory.spatial_bf16. Use a neutral suffix such as _half.
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Background
families/sam2built only one precision,mixed_bf16_fp32: bf16 GEMMs, convolutions and attention with fp32 layer norms and fp32 runtime outputs. The FP8 study of this family (#2104) found that FP8 does not beat a plain fp16 build of the same graph, and that the fp16 build is 5% to 8% faster than bf16 on the image plan with masks closer to PyTorch. This change verifies that on the whole engine set and makes fp16 the default.Why bf16 was the default: no reason is recorded. The family was added in one commit (Python-built video tracking) with bf16 as its only precision; the README, tests and manifests give no accuracy, overflow or support reason, and no later commit changed it. The C++ box post-processing reads bf16 box maps, so the plan inputs and outputs stay bf16 here.
Exit Criteria
fp16is the default precision (default_build_precision, and the family support default used bytrtmc build);mixed_bf16_fp32stays selectable and builds the same network asmain.mixed_bf16_fp32on B200 and B300 with TensorRT 11.4 (and 11.1); masks are at least as close to the PyTorch fp32 reference; no non-finite output, including stress inputs.Implementation
graph_ops.pyTrtLayerstakes the 16-bit compute type (half, bf16 or fp16, default bf16). Linear layers (linear_bf16renamedlinear_half), folded convolution + batch norm and their weights use it; fp16 weights are stored as fp16.image_builder.py,tracker_builder.pytrt.bfloat16compute cast and constant uses the compute type. bf16 plan inputs are cast to the compute type afteradd_input; bf16 outputs are cast back beforemark_output(no-op for bf16). The memory-feature output still casts fp32 to bf16 directly.model.pyfp16 -> float16,mixed_bf16_fp32 -> bfloat16;_PRECISION = "fp16"; other values raise.support.pydefault_precision="fp16". Onmainthe family support default wasfp32, which sam2 rejects, sotrtmc buildwithout--precisionfailed; it now builds the fp16 bundle.tests/test_precision.pytests/manifests/sam2-public-core-l0-fp16.jsonprecision: fp16.README.mdNetwork definitions (layers, types, output types and shapes, constant weights, I/O; hashed), TensorRT 11.4 and 11.1:
mainbf16mixed_bf16_fp32fp16No public API, ABI or bundle format change.
Change categories
Validation
Commands and Results
E2E receipts (native runtime, same oracle for both cases):
The oracle checks exact box, score and label, and a foreground count between 0.1% and 99.9% of the frame; no threshold changed.
Speed: both precisions built three times (11.1: once) and timed in the same job on one GPU, median of 9 interleaved rounds, median over builds. Video = 5 frames: image plan each frame, prompt plan on frame 0, recurrent plan H=1..4 on frames 1..4, memory features and object pointers passed between frames (plans only).
Build-to-build spread of the video time is at most 0.13 ms (fp16, B200) and 0.04 ms (bf16). Every plan is faster in fp16. The six-plan set shrinks from 378 to 300 MiB (B200) and 381 to 302 MiB (B300).
Quality: reference = PyTorch fp32
sam21.1.0 video predictor on the same preprocessed pixels. COCO = 300 COCO 2017 validation images (largest object box prompt); video = 18 objects, 6 windows of 5 frames of thesam2demo clip "bedroom"; stress = 90 frames (black, white, noise, 1- and 8-pixel checkerboards, saturated color; full, mid-size and 4-pixel boxes). TensorRT 11.4.The COCO minimum of 0.46 is the same image for both precisions. Largest activation in the PyTorch model over all inputs (Hiera block and memory-attention layer outputs): 8.9, far below the fp16 range. TensorRT 11.1 (50 COCO images): fp16 mask IoU 0.9991 / 0.9993, bf16 0.9963 / 0.9956 (B200 / B300), no non-finite output.
Hardware, Environment, and Revisions
upstream/mainat71dcf96d.facebook/sam2.1-hiera-small, revision6c381d9c16faed5e8a7c4a2cd99918bdca8316e4(manifest revision).sam21.1.0, CUDA 13.Not Run / Remaining Gaps
tests/local, production checkpoint and golden masks) was not run; its golden masks come from the bf16 build. Build it withprecision="mixed_bf16_fp32"to keep the old numbers, or regenerate the golden data for fp16.Contributor Self-Review
Notes For Future Readers
trtmc build --precision bf16is still rejected (the CLI offersfp16,bf16,fp32; the old precision is namedmixed_bf16_fp32), so the old precision is selected throughBuildRequestor a manifest. Mapping CLIbf16to it is left for a follow-up.model.py,graph_ops.py,image_builder.py,tracker_builder.py, tests, README.Risk level
Risk rationale: the default bundle changes from bf16 to fp16 compute, but the plan contract and runtime are unchanged, the old precision builds the identical network and stays selectable, fp16 is faster on both GPUs and both TensorRT versions with masks closer to the reference and no non-finite output, and both precisions have a premerge E2E case.
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