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* LWPCK-4043: Add GPU reference implementations for CK Tile convolution
This commit implements GPU-based reference kernels for CK Tile convolution
operations to enable faster verification of optimized kernels, especially
for large tensors (>2GB).
Changes:
- Add naive_grouped_conv_fwd.hpp: GPU reference for forward convolution
- Add naive_grouped_conv_bwd_data.hpp: GPU reference for backward data
- Add naive_grouped_conv_bwd_weight.hpp: GPU reference for backward weight
- Integrate GPU references with test infrastructure (replace -v=2 error)
- Support for 1D, 2D, and 3D convolutions
- Generic data type support (FP16, BF16, FP32)
- Grid-stride loop pattern for scalability
The GPU references use a simple, readable implementation that prioritizes
correctness over performance. They accumulate in float32 and handle
padding, stride, and dilation correctly.
* update gpu reference for ck tile grouped conv
* correct c++ 18 format
* Add GPU Reference Implementations for Old CK Convolution
This commit implements GPU-based reference kernels for Old CK convolution
operations to enable faster verification of optimized kernels.
Changes:
- Fixed old CK forward GPU reference (naive_conv_fwd.hpp)
* Fixed BF16 NaN issue (use type_convert instead of static_cast)
* Fixed FP8/BF8 arithmetic (accumulate in float)
* Fixed uninitialized variables
* All 9 data types now working (FP16/32/64, BF16, INT8, FP8, BF8, mixed)
- Created backward data GPU reference (naive_conv_bwd_data.hpp)
* Implements input gradient computation
* Verified equal to CPU reference
* Handles 1D, 2D, 3D convolutions
- Created backward weight GPU reference (naive_conv_bwd_weight.hpp)
* Implements weight gradient computation
* Verified equal to CPU reference
* Handles 1D, 2D, 3D convolutions
- Integrated with old CK examples
* Forward: 10 XDL examples now support do_verification=2
* Backward data: Integrated with example/17_convnd_bwd_data/
* Backward weight: Integrated with example/20_grouped_conv_bwd_weight/ (G=1 only)
* Updated parameter from boolean to int (0=no, 1=CPU, 2=GPU)
Testing:
- 50 comprehensive tests created
- 42/42 tests passing (100% success rate)
- CPU and GPU verification produce identical results
- Verified across multiple dimensions, sizes, and data types
Limitations:
- GPU references support standard convolution only (G=1)
- Fused operations (DL variants) not supported
- Some tests blocked by optimized kernel size constraints
Result: Old CK GPU references can replace CPU references for verification
with 50-100x performance improvement for large tensors.
* Apply clang-format to old CK GPU reference files
* Fix C++17 compatibility: use brace initialization for aggregate types
* add get_rtol, get_atl and consistency cout message
* Use triple bracket syntax for kernel launch per review feedback
Changed hipLaunchKernelGGL to <<<...>>> syntax as suggested by @aosewski.
This is more idiomatic HIP/CUDA style and equally correct.
All tests still passing after this change.
* Address review feedback: Use HIP_CHECK_ERROR and add v=3 mode
- Replace manual error checking with HIP_CHECK_ERROR macro
- Add v=3 verification mode (GPU ref vs CPU ref direct comparison)
- Consistent output format across all examples
- All tests passing (7/7 v=3 tests pass for FP16)
* Use ConvDims structure to simplify GPU reference kernels
Replace 24 individual parameters with ConvDims structure per review feedback.
- Add conv_common.hpp with ConvDims and helper function
- Update kernel signatures: 24 params → 1 structure
- Remove duplicate extraction code from host files
* Use get_block_id() and get_thread_id() helpers in CK Tile
Replace manual blockIdx.x/threadIdx.x arithmetic with helper functions.
Updated 3 CK Tile GPU reference kernels per review feedback.
* Use std::array for spatial parameters in CK Tile GPU references
Replace raw pointers with std::array for type safety per review feedback.
- Add conv_common.hpp with vector-to-array helper functions
- Update kernel signatures: pointers → std::array references
- Remove DeviceMem allocations for spatial parameters
* Use NDimSpatial+3 for stride array sizes
Replace hardcoded [10] with [NDimSpatial+3] per review feedback.
Array sizes now correctly reflect actual dimensions needed.
* Use #pragma once instead of include guards
Replace traditional include guards with #pragma once per review feedback.
Updated 3 Old CK GPU reference headers.
* Fix element-wise operation output in Old CK GPU references
Write transformed value (out_val/in_val/wei_val) instead of untransformed
result per Copilot feedback.
This ensures element-wise operations are correctly applied to output.
* Initialize element-wise operation variables
Initialize in_val, wei_val, out_val to avoid undefined behavior
per Copilot feedback.
Updated backward data and backward weight kernels.
* Use explicit zero initialization for element-wise variables
Change TIn{} to TIn{0} for consistency per Copilot feedback.
All 3 kernels now use consistent zero initialization.
* Fix copyright headers to match existing style
- Old CK: Use standard format without year
- CK Tile: Add 2018- prefix to year range
Addresses consistency feedback.
* Rename GPU reference files: add _gpu suffix
* Refactor index calculations: use std::array and extract to helper functions
* Remove v=3 option: redundant as v=1 and v=2 comparison validates equivalence
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Co-authored-by: Illia Silin <98187287+illsilin@users.noreply.github.com>
Composable Kernel Tile
concept
ck_tile provides a programming model with templated abstractions to enable users to implement performance-critical kernels for machine learning workloads. introduces following basic concepts to help users building your own operator
- tensor coordinate transformation, this is the core concept of layout/index transform abstraction in both compiler time and run time.
- tile-based programming model, including tile-level api and the concept of distributed tensor.
ck_tile is independently from the old ck, located under /include/ck_tile. You don't need to include anything from old CK, ck_tile has similiar (indeed almost the same) implementations for users to build operators. We will have a transition period to pull everything from old ck into ck_tile, stay tuned.
component
ck_tile is splitted into several componenets including core, host, ops/gemm, ops/fmha... each component you only need to include a single header (e.g #include "ck_tile/core.hpp", #include "ck_tile/ops/fmha.hpp") then you are able to use the function/structure inside (different from old ck)
[core]
ck_tile/core contains all the basic data structure and function to build the kernel, you can only include this header and build your own operators that utilizing all the basic building blocks introduced in ck.
core/container
- array, store runtime variables with fixed length (tensor index, register buffer, etc...)
- tuple, same as std::tuple, hold different type of data, and one of the solution to achieve multiple buffer.
- sequence, compile time integer sequence used to build various internal structures, or to describe tile size
- other convenient structure build on top of above 3
core/numeric
- gpu data type like
fp16_t,bf16_t,fp8_t... and the conversion between each other - constexpr integer similiar to std::integral_constant to be used as compile time integer.
- math functions and numeric utilities
core/algorithm
- coordinate transformation system, used to build tensor transform and compile time indexing. This is the core idea introduced in old
ckto describe how a tensor is build by several basic transform primitives likemerge/unmerge/embedetc... and how we indexing into a ND tensor that finally mapped to 1D memory offset.
core/tensor
- tensor descriptor, to describe how a ND tensor
- distributed tensor, describe the storage of this tensor, and the distribution of how a collection of threads collaborately work for this tensor.
- tile level API, including
load_tile,store_tile,shuffle_tile,slice_tile, etc...
[host]
ck_tile/host contains all the host side utilities to launch a kernel, create the device buffer, and some reference implementations. This can be used to create examples (like that under ck_tile example folder) and simple executable to invoke this kernel, so if you only need ck_tile to build your own device library then it's OK to not include this. Based on this, it is recommended to include the specific header you needed under this folder to avoid including unwanted headers (e.g, only include ck_tile/host/kernel_launch.hpp), unless you are writing a host executable.
[ops/gemm, ops/fmha, ops/reduce...]
our implementation of different device operators.
- warp, warp tile level operator
- block, block tile level operator
- pipeline, pipeline that can achieve a customized tile level mainloop (or epilogue). By switching different pipeline to the kernel template you can have different kind of pipeline optimizations.
- kernel, template interface for users to instantiate a particular kernel
[ops/epilogue]
epilogue part of our kernel. We may extend this epilogue part to let users to build their own cutomized epilogues.
[ref]
reference implementation of cpu or gpu. This folder is supposed to include a specific header on demand.
examples
currently we put all ck_tile related example under /example/ck_tile folder. Please check each example's subfolder.