- repeat_kv CUDA kernel: fwd head-block gather, bwd DETERMINISTIC group-sum (each
kv head sums its group of query-head grads; no atomics) + Tensor/ops node.
- Config gains num_kv_heads (default = n_heads → MHA); wk/wv project to kv_dim;
attention() repeat_kv-broadcasts K/V to nh heads before the UNCHANGED composed
& flash SDPA → GQA on both paths. group=1 is identity → MHA bit-identical.
- --kv-heads flag on train/train_ddp/export_safetensors/greedy_sample; export
writes real num_key_value_heads (xserv repeat_kv grouping aligned).
- Tests: repeat_kv grad-check (group>1 grad-sum + group=1 identity); model gqa.rs
(GQA flash==composed fp32/bf16, group=1 bit-identical to MHA, kv-proj shape);
parity_dump+parity.py GQA path (repeat_interleave) via XTRAIN_PARITY_KV_HEADS.
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autograd: flash_attention_batched_bwd (dQ/dK/dV finite-diff, seq>tile)
+ flash_matches_composed_fwd. model/tests/flash.rs: flash==composed
on-vs-off (logits/loss/every param grad), fp32 + bf16. parity_dump:
XTRAIN_PARITY_FLASH dumps the flash path for the same parity.py oracle
(PyTorch SDPA parity at B>1). train + train_ddp get the --flash flag.
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forward_batched(ids[B*S], batch)/loss_batched: run B equal-length sequences as
ONE forward over flattened [B*S] ids, so every linear is one big [B*S,dim] GEMM.
Attention reshapes to [B*nh,S,hd], runs the fused batched causal SDPA (per-seq
mask + RoPE period=S, no cross-sequence attention), writes back [B*S,dim]. The
old per-(batch,head) loop + host-round-tripping split/merge_heads + the additive
causal_mask leaf are gone. forward(ids[seq]) is now forward_batched(ids,1), so
the sampler / inference path (batch=1) is unchanged.
+batched_ids_tensor helper. New batched.rs test: batched forward == looped
single-sequence (logits identical 0.0, grads 6.4e-4, loss identical). PyTorch
parity now exercises B>1 (B=2,S=4): loss 5e-8, logits 6.9e-6, all 25 param
grads within rtol — verifying per-seq RoPE position + per-seq causal masking.
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xserv's Qwen3 forward unconditionally applies per-head RMSNorm to Q and K
(q_norm/k_norm, shape [head_dim]) before RoPE — even gamma=1 is a real RMS
divide, not identity. xtrain never had this, so an exact xserv<->xtrain loop
was structurally impossible. Add it (reusing the 2D rms_norm op on the
[seq*nh, hd] head rows, inserted between reshape and rope to mirror
qwen3.rs's order) so the trained model is genuinely Qwen3-compatible.
params() inserts q_norm,k_norm after wv; num_params() counts them; the
PyTorch parity refs (parity.py / adamw_parity.py) + their name lists add the
same step so the dumps stay self-consistent.
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parity_dump.rs (#[ignore] fixture generator) dumps the model's exact
weights, ids, forward logits, loss, and per-param grads after one
backward. parity.py rebuilds the IDENTICAL model in PyTorch (same x@W
convention, RoPE rotate_half pos=row, RMSNorm, SwiGLU, causal SDPA),
runs fwd+bwd, and compares logits + every grad within rtol.
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