feat: Add int8 Sol-attention (CORE-391) - #117
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Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant CUDABackend
participant Preprocess
participant Route
participant Exact
Caller->>CUDABackend: call sol_attn
CUDABackend->>Preprocess: quantize Q/K/V and compute statistics
Preprocess->>Route: pass centroids, scales, thresholds, and pooled values
Route->>Exact: pass routed blocks and softmax state
Exact->>CUDABackend: write normalized output
CUDABackend->>Caller: return output
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change adds new CUDA attention paths, but unresolved alignment issues may cause runtime faults and biased non-sink blocks can produce incorrect attention outputs; the uncapped build dependency also threatens reproducible wheel builds. These concrete runtime, correctness, and packaging risks should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2✅ Passed checks (2 passed)
✨ Finishing Touches🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)
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In @.github/workflows/build-wheels.yml:
- Line 130: Update the nanobind requirement in pyproject.toml’s
build-system.requires to >=2.0.0,<3, matching the cap used by the wheel workflow
and constraining the isolated PEP 517 build environment.
In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/__init__.py`:
- Around line 2348-2349: Update the top-k budget calculation near _topk_count so
the requested k value never exceeds s.size(-1), including the single-column case
where kk + 1 becomes 2. Preserve the existing threshold computation and return
path while clamping kk + 1 to the available key columns before calling s.topk.
In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/dlpack_bindings.cpp`:
- Around line 1521-1523: Validate all caller-supplied buffer dimensions before
launching Sol-Attn kernels: at comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/dlpack_bindings.cpp
lines 1521-1523, require ndim() == 4 and bfloat16 for q, k, v, and out before
stride access, and validate out/workspace capacity; at lines 1554-1557, validate
qkv against m * 3 * num_heads * 128, fab against seq_len * rot_dim * 2, and
kmean/vscale against num_heads * 128; at lines 1574-1580, validate out against
batch * seq_len * num_heads * 128 alongside stats. Use the existing
check_block_len and stats validation pattern.
In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/sage_attention/sol_attn_producer.cu`:
- Line 102: Clamp each V scale to a minimum of 1e-8f before computing its
reciprocal in the attention preprocessing path, matching the existing fmaxf
behavior so zero scales cannot produce infinities or NaNs during quantization.
Update the calculation around vscale and preserve the subsequent q8 processing.
In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/sage_attention/sol_layout.cuh`:
- Around line 136-142: Align every array used by 16-byte uint4 accesses to 16
bytes: in comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/sage_attention/sol_layout.cuh lines
136-142 and 186-193, update out in quant_q_rows and quant_k_rows; in
comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/sage_attention/sol_attn_preprocess.cu lines 133-134,
update shared sQ and sK in prep_k; in
comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/sage_attention/sol_attn_producer.cu lines 57-58 and
105-114, update shared sT and col; and in
comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/sage_attention/sol_attn_vtranspose.cu lines 48-61,
update out and shared sV. Add __align__(16) while preserving each existing type,
extent, and shared-memory qualifier.
- Around line 225-227: Enforce the rot % 8 == 0 precondition in sol_attn_chunked
after deriving rot from rope_freqs and before launching the producer or calling
norm_rope_rows. Reject non-multiple-of-8 values through the existing
validation/error path so invalid rotations cannot reach the lane-partner
calculation using poff.
In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/eager/sol_attn.py`:
- Around line 203-205: Replace the threshold-based top-k mask around _topk_count
and ranked.topk with explicit selection of non-sink candidate indices, handling
n == 1 and no available candidates without requesting or selecting invalid
entries. Preserve a fixed route count with deterministic tie handling so tied
scores, including zero Q/K scores, do not reduce or exceed the budget, and apply
the same policy in the CUDA implementation.
In `@comfy_kitchen/constraints.py`:
- Around line 296-307: Extend the sink validation in the constraints path to
normalize key_bias and reject any nonzero or masked bias block that falls
outside sink_blocks, matching the direct CUDA entry point’s rule. Preserve
zero-bias behavior and ensure the check covers all bias blocks before allowing
the pooled branch.
In `@comfy_kitchen/tensor/base.py`:
- Line 385: Update the isinstance dispatch checks in dequantize_args and
_get_layout_from_args to use the class tuple (list, tuple) instead of list |
tuple, avoiding runtime union creation while preserving the existing list/tuple
matching behavior.
In `@tests/test_sol_attn.py`:
- Around line 149-150: In tests/test_sol_attn.py lines 149-150 and 295-297,
remove the ordered cosine-monotonicity assertions. Replace each with eager
parity checks for every tau or topk_ratio value, or directly validate the
routed-block cardinality, while preserving coverage for the respective sol_attn
behavior.
- Line 59: Update the t value in _chunked_case to remain across the 1024-token
chunk boundary while not being divisible by 64, so test_chunked_vsa_mode
exercises a genuinely ragged final attention block and its existing tail-size
logic is tested.
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103-104: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse token-weighted K-mean averaging for ragged blocks.
prep_reduce_kvstores block means, butprep_pooled_statsweights each block equally. ForT = 65, the one-token tail has the same weight as the 64-token block, whileprep_sums_to_meansusestotal / tokens. This produces different centering in the direct and producer paths. Use token-weighted averaging and add a 65-token parity test.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/dlpack_bindings.cpp`:
- Around line 1581-1587: Update sol_producer_chunk_py to validate metadata
before any CUDA launch: require supported/valid RoPE dimensions, batch == 1, and
for non-empty chunks require t0 >= 0, t0 aligned to the producer’s token block,
and t0 + m <= seq_len; reject t0 == seq_len when the chunk is non-empty while
allowing the valid empty-range case as appropriate. Ensure invalid inputs raise
before workspace or kernel execution, and add native-binding tests verifying
each rejection occurs without launching CUDA.
- Around line 1506-1511: The need_bthd validator must enforce the Sol-Attn
staging-load layout contract in addition to shape and dtype: require a unit
stride on the last dimension, 16-byte data-pointer alignment, and strides
divisible by 8 BF16 elements for each leading dimension whose size exceeds one.
Add native coverage for a strided [..., ::2] view and a one-element-offset BF16
view, ensuring both are rejected.
Apply the same fix in
`@comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/sage_attention/sol_attn_producer.cu` around lines
105 - 114: The producer's byte-aligned `col` is reinterpreted as a 16-byte
vector load.
In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/eager/sol_attn.py`:
- Around line 205-206: Update the top-k threshold logic around _topk_count so kk
== 0 produces no exact selections: initialize the non-forced exact mask to false
and bypass row_thr computation or inclusive comparison when the budget is zero.
Preserve the existing tied-boundary behavior for positive kk and keep forced
selections unchanged.
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In `@comfy_kitchen/backends/cuda/sage_attention/sol_attn_preprocess.cu`:
- Around line 103-104: The K-mean aggregation in prep_pooled_stats currently
weights ragged blocks equally; update it to weight each stored block mean by its
actual token count, matching prep_sums_to_means and preserving correct centering
for partial tails. Add a parity test covering 65 tokens to verify direct and
producer paths produce equivalent results.
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Add sol_attn: training-free block-sparse attention (CUDA + eager)
Sol-Attn (arXiv 2607.24027): each 64-token query block attends a routed subset of key blocks exactly; all other blocks contribute one pooled term, so nothing leaves the softmax. Cost becomes O(T² · density) with a quality knob (tau).
MiniMax-H3 at T=80k/56 heads: 23.4 → 13.0 s/it (1.80x) end to end vs dense INT8 attention, at cos ≈ 0.97 vs dense (≥ 0.998 vs its own full-precision reference).
Additions to the original method:
key_bias: key-only additive bias, SDPA-style shapes incl. bool (e.g. LTX guide strength / padding).
Below ~12k tokens dense is usually faster.
Cost of the PR: +213 KB SASS (+0.96%), ~+1.5–2 MB per CI wheel, zero wall-time change, ~40 s extra CPU per wheel job.
Temporary custom node to test it:
sol_attn_minimax_v5.py