Experiment · runtime perf

Open Kernel whole-row single-token dense and router reductions

Whole-row FP32 reductions improve the measured long single-token projections while retaining the short O-projection path. QKV, pooler, unpooler and router measured 10.619, 16.461, 3.348 and 4.242 microseconds versus selected prior 12.569, 17.890, 5.867 and 10.089. Their separate profiles each contain one whole-row kernel; the pooler kernel takes 16.1 microseconds. Hardware bandwidth and occupancy were not measured. Retained outcome: worked with caveat.

Outcome
worked with caveat
Family
runtime perf
Evidence confidence
exact
Record
infrastructure

Evidence readout

2026-10-23 H200 check 350b4c2c87ef4312 passed all nine fresh correctness cases with no flags: 1.1131x aggregate, reported 95% interval 1.0964-1.1298x. The point estimate is 4.29 percent above selected dense 1.0673x, whose reported interval is 1.0513-1.0834x. These intervals do not overlap. This is an off-board check, not a scored submission.

What the attempt taught

Whole-row FP32 reductions improve the measured long single-token projections while retaining the short O-projection path. QKV, pooler, unpooler and router measured 10.619, 16.461, 3.348 and 4.242 microseconds versus selected prior 12.569, 17.890, 5.867 and 10.089. Their separate profiles each contain one whole-row kernel; the pooler kernel takes 16.1 microseconds. Hardware bandwidth and occupancy were not measured.

Why it stopped or stayed bounded

The standalone candidate was not scored. Its whole-row reductions were composed into final layer beb82b4224554523, which passed at 1.2503x; that combined result does not isolate their contribution.

Method and scope

  • Experiment family: runtime perf.
  • Record kind: infrastructure.

Disposition

Experiment closed after scored run beb82b4224554523 finished at rank 283/749, outside the owner top-100 target. Retain the research artifact; no further jobs.

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