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Yashvardhan Agarwal 15e81397a4 [CK_TILE] Epilogue chaining (Lwpck 3373) (#2773)
* Epilogue chainer

* epilogue chainer with context to share state in between epilogues
* chain-able epilogues for cshuffle

* clang-format

* rebase related changes

- Added separate chainer test
-  clang format

* comment resolutions

* clang-format

* Policy based chaining

- basic Policy structure to control blanket looping and barrier
placement.

- to be extended for fine grianed control

- to  be modified to move possible auto-compute values and SFC  access
count to policy

* Refactoring as per spec

- Introduced epilogue schedule, graph
- modified chainer to function with graph and schedule

* minor_changes

- made functions to overload in the epilogue_graph file

* clang-format

* Documentation and Comments

- Added comments to files
- Noted changes in changelog
- Added README to explain the chainer and current status, exact use
steps to be added

* Comment resolutions

- README modified with the suggested changes
- Comment fixed accordingly

* major refactoring

- modified the chainer files to match the new design
- updated comments
- updated readme
- multi-d example shocases use of the chainer

* minor cleanup

* tensor and rowcol quant chainer epilogue

- added scalarepilogue for tensor quant
- added schedule for tensorquant
- modified quant example to use chainer and appropriate schedules

* Refactor epilogue chainer: generalize ops and standardize context interface

Address review comments.

Changes:
- Rename CastToLdsOp to CastAndStoreToLdsOp for clarity
- Standardize context member names (working_tile, out_tile, aux_windows)
- Update README documentation with correct operation names
- Clean up parameter naming in epilogue_chainer.hpp (OutWindow, AccTile,
AuxWindows)
- common_epilogue_ops.hpp: General-purpose ops (ScaleScalarOp,
CastAndStoreToLdsOp,
  LoadFromLdsOp, ElementwiseOp, StoreOp, MoveWindowsOp)
- cshuffle_epilogue_chainer_ops.hpp: CShuffle-specific context and slice
operations
- epilogue_chainer.hpp: Cleaned up parameter naming for generality
- Removed test files that are no longer needed. These were added for
intermediate use

* update cshuffle chainer ops file w.r.t cshuffle_epilogue.hpp updates & add chainer to quant gemm example

* fix compile errors

- CI uses c++17 while the code had c++20 features

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Co-authored-by: Illia Silin <98187287+illsilin@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Adam Osewski <19374865+aosewski@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-12-18 10:02:02 +01:00
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CK Tile Example Suite

This directory contains a comprehensive suite of examples demonstrating the CK Tile programming model for high-performance GPU kernels. Each example illustrates a key deep learning or HPC operation, implemented using tile-based parallelism, modular pipelines, and data movement policy.


What is CK Tile?

CK Tile is a composable GPU programming API that expresses kernels as a composition of "tiles"—rectangular blocks of computation and data movement. The pipeline & policy orchestrates data movement (global <-> LDS <-> registers), computation, and synchronization, enabling high efficiency and flexibility.


Example Index

Example Operation Description
01_fmha Fused Multi-Head Attention Tile-based FMHA with masking, quantization, and epilogue fusion
02_layernorm2d LayerNorm2D Blockwise layer normalization with fusion and quantization
03_gemm GEMM Matrix multiplication with tilewise parallelism
04_img2col im2col Image-to-column transformation for GEMM-based convolution
05_reduce Reduction Tilewise sum, max, mean reductions
06_permute Permute Generic tensor permutation (up to rank-8)
09_topk_softmax TopK-Softmax Rowwise softmax and top-k selection for MoE gating
10_rmsnorm2d RMSNorm2D Root mean square normalization for LLMs
11_add_rmsnorm2d_rdquant Add + RMSNorm2D + RDQuant Fused add, RMSNorm, and rowwise dynamic quantization
12_smoothquant SmoothQuant Per-channel scaling and quantization for int8 inference
13_moe_sorting MoE Sorting Token-to-expert rearrangement for MoE dispatch
14_moe_smoothquant MoE-SmoothQuant Expert-dependent quantization fused with top-k selection
15_fused_moe Fused MoE End-to-end fused MoE block: sorting, group-GEMM, activation, weighting
16_batched_gemm Batched GEMM Parallel computation of multiple GEMMs
17_grouped_gemm Grouped GEMM Multiple independent GEMMs with different shapes
18_flatmm FLATMM Flattened matrix multiplication for packed layouts
19_gemm_multi_d Multi-D GEMM GEMM with multiple side inputs (bias, residual, etc.)
35_batched_transpose Batched Transpose NCHW <-> NHWC and other layout conversions
36_copy Copy Minimal example for tile-based memory movement
37_transpose Block Transpose High-performance tiled transpose for large tensors

Technical Highlights


How to Build & Run

mkdir build && cd build
sh ../script/cmake-ck-dev.sh ../ <arch>
make -j

Each example produces its own executable in build/bin/.


Learning and Extending


References


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