phase 15: Tensor::empty + CUDA Graph infra — 50.3 tok/s (140% of HF, 45% roofline)

Two optimizations:

1. Tensor::empty() — skip cudaMemset for output tensors
   All kernel wrappers that fully overwrite their output now use
   Tensor::empty() instead of Tensor::zeros(). Eliminates ~756
   cudaMemset calls per decode step (21 per layer × 36 layers).
   Improvement: 46.6 → 50.3 tok/s (+8%).

2. CUDA Graph infrastructure (for future use)
   Added FFI bindings (cudaStreamBeginCapture, cudaGraphInstantiate,
   cudaGraphLaunch) and RAII CudaGraph wrapper. Not yet used in the
   forward pass due to variable kv_len, but provides foundation for
   future graph-based decode optimization.

Ablation (dash5, RTX 5090, Qwen3-8B BF16, serial decode):

| Optimization | tok/s | vs HF | Roofline |
|-------------|-------|-------|----------|
| Phase 14 baseline | 12.9 | 36% | 12% |
| + Fused kernels | 13.2 | 37% | 12% |
| + Batched decode | 13.2 (serial) | 37% | 12% |
| + Custom GEMV | 46.6 | 130% | 42% |
| + Tensor::empty | 50.3 | 140% | 45% |

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

crates/xserv-tensor/src/storage.rs

@@ -116,4 +116,18 @@ impl Storage {
             }
         }
     }
+
+    /// Allocate storage **without zeroing** on the given device.
+    /// The buffer may contain stale data from the caching allocator's pool.
+    /// Only use when the caller guarantees the kernel will fully overwrite
+    /// every element before any read.
+    pub fn empty(len_bytes: usize, device: Device) -> CudaResult<Self> {
+        match device {
+            Device::Cpu => Ok(Storage::cpu(vec![0u8; len_bytes])), // CPU still zeros (cheap)
+            Device::Cuda(dev) => {
+                let buf = xserv_cuda::allocator::cached_alloc(len_bytes)?;
+                Ok(Storage::cuda(buf, dev))
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }

crates/xserv-tensor/src/tensor.rs

@@ -65,6 +65,22 @@ impl Tensor {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Allocate a tensor **without zeroing** the backing memory.
+    /// The buffer may contain stale data. Only use when the calling kernel
+    /// will fully overwrite every element before any read.
+    pub fn empty(shape: &[usize], dtype: DType, device: Device) -> Self {
+        let numel = shape::num_elements(shape);
+        let len_bytes = numel * dtype.size_bytes();
+        let storage = Storage::empty(len_bytes, device).expect("alloc failed");
+        Self {
+            storage,
+            shape: Dims::from_slice(shape),
+            strides: shape::contiguous_strides(shape),
+            offset: 0,
+            dtype,
+        }
+    }
+
     pub fn ones(shape: &[usize], dtype: DType) -> Self {
         let numel = shape::num_elements(shape);
         match dtype {