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Starrick Liu 421db17d53 feat: Major optimization and robustness improvements (#31)
This release introduces significant performance optimizations, memory efficiency
improvements, and enhanced system robustness:

🚀 Performance Optimizations:
- Add three new fused CUDA kernels (rope_index, rot_pos_emb, get_window_index)
  for accelerated multimodal preprocessing
- Implement FSDP2 support for distributed training with improved memory efficiency
- Add Torch.compile integration for additional performance gains
- Optimize memory usage: reduce peak allocation from 48GB to 24GB on 8-GPU setup

🔧 System Robustness:
- Fix missing token position inputs in prediction pipeline
- Add type-robust negation operations in RoPE CUDA kernels (half/bfloat16 support)
- Fix dataset root parameter initialization in LeRobot data loader
- Enhanced error handling and input validation across fusion operators

📚 Documentation & Usability:
- Add comprehensive memory usage benchmarks and hardware recommendations
- Update citation format with proper arXiv reference
- Improve training configuration documentation with quick start guide
- Add detailed API documentation for new fusion operators

🛠️ Technical Details:
- Version bump to 1.0.1
- New CUDA kernels: rope_index.cu, rot_pos.cu, window_index.cu
- FSDP2 state dict loading with distribute_tensor support
- Enhanced multimodal RoPE with 3D position encoding
- Window attention optimization for Vision Transformers

Breaking Changes: None - all changes are backward compatible
2025-09-17 23:09:20 +08:00

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# Fusion Operators (CSRC)
High-performance CUDA kernels for accelerating model training, with specialized support for multimodal and MoE architectures.
## Operators
### Asymmetric Dual Expert GEMM
- `asym_dual_gmm`: Simultaneous matrix multiplication for two experts
- Supports all transpose combinations (NN, TN, NT, TT)
### Token Permutation
- `permute`: Token permutation for MoE routing
- `unpermute`: Token recovery after expert computation
- `unpermute_bwd`: Backward pass for token recovery
### Multimodal RoPE
- `rope`: Rotary Position Embedding forward pass
- `rope_bwd`: RoPE backward pass
- `rope_index`: Generates position indices for multimodal RoPE
- `rot_pos_emb`: Fused rotary position embedding computation
### Vision Transformer Optimization
- `get_window_index`: Window attention index generation
## Acknowledgments
The `permute` and `unpermute` operators are adapted from [fanshiqing/grouped_gemm](https://github.com/fanshiqing/grouped_gemm). Thanks for their open-source contributions.