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Client Example: Grouped GEMM with FastGELU Activation

Theory

This client example demonstrates grouped GEMM fused with FastGELU activation. Grouped GEMM performs multiple independent GEMM operations (with potentially different shapes) in a single kernel launch, and FastGELU is a fast approximation of the GELU activation used in transformers and MLPs.

Mathematical Formulation: For G groups, each with its own A_g, B_g:

  • GEMM: Y_g = A_g \times B_g
  • FastGELU: E_g = \text{FastGELU}(Y_g)

FastGELU is defined as:


\text{FastGELU}(x) = x \cdot \sigma(1.702 \cdot x)

where \sigma is the sigmoid function.

Algorithmic Background:

  • Each group can have different matrix sizes and strides.
  • The kernel launches a grid covering all groups, with each block assigned to a group.
  • FastGELU is applied in the epilogue for each group.

How to Run

Prerequisites

Please follow the instructions in the main Build Guide section as a prerequisite to building and running this example.

Build and run

cd composable_kernel/client_example/17_grouped_gemm_fastgelu
mkdir build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/opt/rocm/bin/hipcc ..
make -j

# Example run
./grouped_gemm_fastgelu

Source Code Structure

Directory Layout

client_example/17_grouped_gemm_fastgelu/
├── grouped_gemm_fastgelu.cpp         # Main client example: grouped GEMM + FastGELU
├── CMakeLists.txt                    # Build configuration for the example

Key Functions

  • main() (in grouped_gemm_fastgelu.cpp):
    Sets up input matrices for each group, configures GEMM and epilogue parameters, launches the grouped kernel, and verifies the result.
  • Grouped GEMM kernel invocation:
    Uses the Composable Kernel device API to launch grouped GEMM with FastGELU activation.

Additional Details

  • Supports multiple groups with different matrix shapes.
  • Example parameters can be adjusted in the source for different workloads.


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