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Add CPU offloading of row embedding token tables to tabular ICL models - #1319
Adds offload="cpu" to fit and forward of KumoTabular, TabFM and TabICLv2, which keeps the per-cell token table of the row embedding in pinned host memory and streams it through the GPU in chunks. For tables with many rows, this table is then bounded by host memory instead of GPU memory, while the GPU-only path keeps the previous speed and memory.
sdm.models.set_pinned_register_threads() # optional, use multiple threads for faster pinningmodel.fit(x_context, y_context, offload="cpu")
model.predict(x_query)
Description of the change
Public API.ICLModel.fit and ICLModel.forward take offload: Literal["cpu"] | None = None, and models opt in through the supports_offload class flag (true for KumoTabular, TabFM and TabICLv2). Offloading requires CUDA inputs, disabled gradients, estimator_batch_size=1, and no more target classes than the model predicts natively. predict replays the fitted cache and currently does not offload.
Token buffer. A new internal TokenBuffer holds the R × T × D token table of a row embedding and runs two kinds of in-place passes: row passes update rows independently, and column passes update token columns independently. Without offloading, each pass runs on the whole device tensor at once. With offload="cpu", the table lives in pinned host memory, and each pass streams chunks through three device slots, with host-to-device copies, compute and device-to-host copies on separate streams so that they overlap. Copies use cudaMemcpy2DAsync from cuda.bindings, which PyTorch's CUDA wheels already depend on.
Initial embeddings in the first pass. The first pass computes each chunk's cell and label embeddings in place, right before the first column computation on it, instead of filling the whole table first, which saves one table store and load when offloading. In TabFM and TabICLv2, this is the first column pass; in KumoTabular, it's pass 0, which accumulates the inducing-point summary for column block 0 (described next).
Row-blocked KumoTabular. KumoTabular alternates column blocks, which attend over context rows through inducing points, with row blocks. Its L column and L row passes are fused into L + 1 row passes. Pass i finishes column block i - 1 from the inducing-point summary of the previous pass, runs row block i - 1, and accumulates the inducing-point summary for column block i over the context rows of each chunk. To support this, Attention and TransformerBlock in sdm.nn gain private partial and finish methods that split attention into a mergeable partial result and the output projection, and InducedTransformerBlock gains summarize and induced_key_value. With the in-place initial embedding and fused column & row processing (KumoTabular), table copies per offloaded fit go from 24 to 12 for KumoTabular, 8 to 6 for TabFM, and 4 to 2 for TabICLv2.
Column-major storage. The buffer is stored as [..., T, R, D] (token columns outermost), and row passes see [..., R, T, D] views. The main reason is copy granularity, in preparation for an SSD backend. A chunk of N token columns becomes one contiguous block, and a chunk of N rows becomes T pieces of N × D elements, where N is in the thousands at the default slot size. With row-major storage, a chunk of N token columns was R strided pieces of N × D elements, and N shrinks to a few tokens as R grows. For example, one token is 512 bytes with D = 256 channels in float16, as in KumoTabular and TabFM.
Attention chunking.TransformerBlock chunks now align with batch dimensions: inner batch dimensions are taken whole, and one outer dimension is sliced. Every chunk is a view, which removes the gather and the index_put scatter on non-contiguous outputs. Related changes: Linear(out=) handles outputs whose leading dimensions can't be merged, and TabFM applies its row norm in storage order to avoid RMSNorm copies of strided input.
Pinned allocation. Large pinned allocations skip power-of-two rounding, using main's existing rounding threshold. PyTorch pins host memory from a single thread by default. Pinning from several threads reduces the allocation time of large pinned buffers, which users can enable in any of three ways: the new sdm.models.set_pinned_register_threads() helper (8 threads by default, as PyTorch recommends, and requires PyTorch 2.14 or newer), the PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF=pinned_use_cuda_host_register:True,pinned_num_register_threads:8 environment variable set before the process starts, or the private torch._C._accelerator_setAllocatorSettings call. Pinned host memory is released at the end of each offloaded call.
Validation
Usable GPU memory is capped at 32 GiB in all runs below, and pinned memory is allocated and released with 8 registration threads.
Comparison with main at sizes that fit on the GPU
Fit time and peak memory, comparing main (30564cd), this PR on the GPU-only path, and this PR with offload="cpu".
Model
Context rows
Estimators
Fit, main
Fit, this PR
Fit, offload
Device peak, main
Device peak, offload
Host peak, main
Host peak, offload
KumoTabular
80k
1
10.93 s
10.86 s (−0.6%)
14.96 s (+37%)
22.9 GiB
6.2 GiB
1.1 GiB
20.3 GiB
KumoTabular
80k
8
86.51 s
86.19 s (−0.4%)
95.58 s (+10%)
24.2 GiB
7.6 GiB
14.4 GiB
33.5 GiB
TabICLv2
105k
1
5.65 s
5.55 s (−1.8%)
8.25 s (+46%)
14.9 GiB
4.7 GiB
1.1 GiB
13.7 GiB
TabICLv2
105k
8
45.05 s
44.27 s (−1.7%)
48.64 s (+8.0%)
16.3 GiB
6.1 GiB
21.1 GiB
33.7 GiB
TabFM
11k
1
2.88 s
2.84 s (−1.2%)
3.55 s (+23%)
23.0 GiB
13.4 GiB
1.0 GiB
3.6 GiB
TabFM
11k
8
21.83 s
21.54 s (−1.4%)
22.31 s (+2.2%)
25.6 GiB
16.0 GiB
23.0 GiB
25.6 GiB
GPU-only path: 0.4–1.8% faster than main, with the same device and host peaks. Every predicted class probability is exactly the same as main's, except TabFM with 1 estimator, where every query's class probabilities shift by the same 2.2e-4, with no change in predicted classes. The shift appears with the column-major layout, which likely leads to different matrix multiplication kernels that sum in a different order; since float16 addition is not associative, the results round differently.
Offload accuracy: TabFM predictions match the GPU-only path exactly. KumoTabular differs from main by at most 0.025 in probability (mean 1.4e-3) with 1 estimator and 0.0084 with 8 estimators, from float16 rounding when merging per-chunk inducing-point attention. TabICLv2 differs by at most 0.045 (mean 2.4e-3) with 1 estimator and 0.020 with 8 estimators, the same float16 chunking noise as the GPU-only path shows when only SDM_CHUNK_MEMORY_FRACTION changes. Both flip 0.08–0.22% of predicted classes.
Offload overhead
Offload overhead over this PR's GPU-only path, measured in instrumented offload runs at the sizes above and split into pinning the host table plus releasing it at the end of fit, and the rest. The remaining overhead is also shown relative to the GPU-only fit time.
Model
Estimators
Offload overhead
Pinned allocation + release
Remaining
KumoTabular
1
4.60 s
3.87 s
0.73 s (+6.7%)
KumoTabular
8
9.07 s
3.86 s
5.21 s (+6.0%)
TabICLv2
1
2.71 s
2.64 s
0.07 s (+1.2%)
TabICLv2
8
3.73 s
2.58 s
1.15 s (+2.6%)
TabFM
1
0.72 s
0.64 s
0.09 s (+3.0%)
TabFM
8
0.82 s
0.62 s
0.20 s (+0.9%)
Pinning and release: both happen once per fit, since later estimators reuse the pinned block, so the relative overhead shrinks with more estimators.
Remaining overhead: it's in the streaming passes. Each pass waits for its first chunk's host-to-device copy before computing, and the next pass waits for the last chunk's device-to-host copy, while the copies of all other chunks overlap with compute. Per estimator, these first loads and last stores account for most of the remainder for TabFM (0.06 s of 0.09 s) and TabICLv2 (0.02 s of 0.04 s). For KumoTabular, they account for 0.12 s of 0.63 s; the rest comes from its 25-chunk passes computing slower than a single device pass while copies run alongside.
Offload beyond GPU memory
With 1 estimator, offload runs context sizes whose token table alone exceeds the 32 GiB GPU cap. Each model uses the largest context-row count that this system can run.
Model
Context rows
Fit
Predict
Token table (host)
Host peak
Device peak, fit
Device peak, predict
KumoTabular
170k
41.56 s
0.62 s
40.9 GiB
41.9 GiB
7.1 GiB
6.9 GiB
TabICLv2
340k
31.79 s
0.30 s
40.9 GiB
41.9 GiB
13.2 GiB
10.8 GiB
TabFM
75k
21.77 s
0.93 s
18.2 GiB
19.1 GiB
28.1 GiB
29.1 GiB
KumoTabular and TabICLv2: this system's host memory is the limit. It has 62 GiB of RAM, of which about 45 GiB was available, and pinned memory can't be swapped out. On a typical system with significantly more host memory than GPU memory, both can therefore run much larger contexts within the same GPU memory.
TabFM: device memory is still the limit. With 1 estimator, its fitted cache stays on the GPU and takes 192 KiB per context row, from 24 ICL layers that each cache a key and a value of 8 readout tokens × 256 channels per row. This cache raises the device peak of offloaded fit and of predict, which replays it and doesn't offload. At 78k rows, predict runs out of memory, so more host memory alone wouldn't help. The next step is to offload the fitted cache to host memory and stream it through the GPU in predict, which would let TabFM run workloads that exceed GPU memory capacity as well.
Tests
pytest test passes on a GPU (1640 passed, 70 skipped), including the new test/models/test_offload.py.
Additional details
- **Hardware:** NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (95 GiB, PCIe Gen5 x16), with usable memory capped through `torch.cuda.set_per_process_memory_fraction`, which also scales SDM's chunk sizes. AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX (24 cores, 48 threads), 62 GiB host RAM with about 45 GiB available.
- **Software:** PyTorch 2.14.1+cu132, `cuda-bindings` 13.4.4.
- **Data:** synthetic, generated on the GPU from `torch.Generator("cuda").manual_seed(0)`. The features are `torch.randn(R + 4000, 500)`, 500 numerical columns. The binary target is the argmax of `features @ torch.randn(500, 2)`. The first `R` rows are the context and the last 4,000 rows are the queries. The default recipes keep all 500 columns: none are constant, and the 500-column cap of KumoTabular and TabFM isn't exceeded.
- **Models:**
- `KumoTabular(task="classification", size="large")` with `nvidia/Kumo-Tabular` revision `v1.0.1`.
- `TabICLv2(task="classification")` with `tabicl-classifier-v2-20260212.ckpt`.
- `TabFM(task="classification", pretrained=False)` with random weights after `torch.manual_seed(0)`, because the pretrained weights require accepting a non-commercial license.
- **Calls:** under `torch.autocast("cuda", torch.float16)`: `model.fit(x=x_context, y=y_context, num_estimators=E, generator=torch.Generator("cuda").manual_seed(0))`, plus `offload="cpu"` for the offload variant, then `model.predict(x_query)`. Default recipes and `estimator_batch_size=1`.
- **Measurement:** each run is a fresh process with one `fit` and one `predict`, so offload includes its one-time pinning cost. Every run, including main, set `PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF=pinned_use_cuda_host_register:True,pinned_num_register_threads:8` before the process started, which is what `sdm.models.set_pinned_register_threads()` applies by default. Times are wall-clock between `torch.cuda.synchronize()` calls, and each entry is the mean of 2 runs unless noted. The device peak is `torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated()`. The host peak is the process's `VmHWM` minus its `VmRSS` before `fit`. Main was imported from an exported copy of 30564cd through `PYTHONPATH`.
- **Overhead breakdown:** measured in separate instrumented offload runs, 2 per case, that synchronize around the pinned allocation of the host table, the release of pinned memory, and each pass. The overhead is the instrumented fit time minus the GPU-only fit time from the first table. First loads and last stores are timed with CUDA events on the copy streams. Per-pass differences come from one instrumented run per model with and without offload. Within each pair of runs, pinned allocation, release and the per-pass differences add up to the measured fit overhead within 0.02 s.
- **Host memory with several estimators:** `fit` keeps every estimator's cache in pinned host memory, as on main. Per estimator, that's the ICL key/value cache, which grows with context rows, plus fixed-size column-layer caches over inducing points: 12 KB/row plus 0.73 GiB for KumoTabular, 24 KB/row plus 0.09 GiB for TabICLv2, and 192 KiB/row plus 0.75 GiB for TabFM. TabFM's per-row cost comes from its 24 ICL layers, each caching a key and a value of 8 readout tokens × 256 channels per row.
- **Copy bandwidth:** pinned memory reaches 56 GB/s in both chunk patterns. Pageable memory reaches only 16–20 GB/s and blocks the host thread for the whole copy.
- **Threaded registration:** on this system, pinning 15.5 GB took 5.9 s with 1 thread and 1.9 s with 16 threads, with no gain beyond 16. Freeing went from 2.1 s to 1.0 s.
- **Row-major storage:** tried with the fused passes and gave no gain. Row-chunk copies got faster, but compute on the row-major layout got slower by about the same amount.
- **Possible follow-ups:** offload the fitted cache, starting with TabFM; reuse pinned memory across `fit` calls; keep part of the table on the device; an SSD backend; offload with estimator batching or class decomposition; TabICLv2's `train_mask`.
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Added optional CPU offloading for supported Kumo Tabular, TabFM, and TabICLv2 workflows. Offloading requires CUDA inputs and is unavailable when gradients are enabled.
Added options to provide precomputed column means for missing-value imputation and process selected columns. Columns with no observed values use zero as their imputation mean.
Added a setting to configure pinned-memory registration threads on supported PyTorch versions.
Added chunk-based attention processing and incremental summaries for supported transformer workflows.
Bug Fixes
Improved chunked processing for multidimensional batches and non-contiguous output tensors.
Adds opt-in CPU-backed token buffering for inference in Kumo Tabular, TabFM, and TabICLv2. The base model API validates and routes offload settings. Attention gains partial processing and multidimensional batch chunking.
Adds pinned-memory registration settings and TokenBuffer for device-resident or pinned-CPU storage. The buffer streams row and column chunks and supports column-layer cache operations. Exports and API documentation include set_pinned_register_threads.
Partial attention and batch chunking sdm/nn/attention.py, sdm/nn/linear.py, sdm/nn/set_transformer.py, test/nn/test_set_transformer.py
Adds partial attention summaries and finish methods. Attention chunking indexes batch dimensions directly and assembles caches in broadcast batch shape. Linear.forward recursively processes slices when checked output strides are non-contiguous. Tests compare incremental summaries with full-pass projections.
Offload validation and model routing sdm/models/base/icl.py, sdm/models/kumo/tabular/model.py, sdm/models/tabfm/model.py, sdm/models/tabiclv2/model.py
Adds the offload option to the base model API, validates model support and CUDA input, and passes the setting through supported model implementations. forward and fit release pinned host allocator cache in a finally block when offload is enabled.
The three row embedding implementations use separate gradient-enabled and no-gradient execution paths. Their no-gradient paths use TokenBuffer; offloading with gradients is rejected. Cell embedding adds column selection, and Kumo Tabular adds cached mean imputation. Tests compare offloaded and regular outputs and check unsupported inputs and configurations.
The offload and attention paths have unresolved dependency, device-compatibility, and integration concerns. Confirm their current behavior before merging.
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sdm/_token_buffer.py: 1
235-235: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Declare the package that provides cuda.bindings. Import it before pinned allocation.
TokenBuffer._stream imports cuda.bindings.runtime only when rows or columns starts streaming. The project metadata does not declare this package. In a valid CUDA environment that lacks it, offload="cpu" can fail with ModuleNotFoundError after pinned host storage and device slots are allocated.
Declare the package as an optional offload dependency, or document it on offload. Import it during offload initialization and reuse the stored module:
Proposed change
if math.prod(B) != 1:
raise ValueError(
"'offload' requires 'estimator_batch_size=1' and no more "
"target classes than the model predicts natively"
)
+ try:+ from cuda.bindings import runtime+ except ImportError as e:+ raise ImportError(+ "'offload=\"cpu\"' requires the package providing "+ "'cuda.bindings'"+ ) from e+ self._runtime = runtime
self._pitch = R * D * dtype.itemsize
@@
- from cuda.bindings import runtime+ runtime = self._runtime
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Review comment at @sdm/_token_buffer.py at line 235:
Update TokenBuffer’s offload initialization to import and retain
cuda.bindings.runtime before allocating pinned storage or device slots, then
reuse the retained module in TokenBuffer._stream instead of importing it there.
Also declare the providing package as an optional offload dependency or document
it as a requirement for offload.
Use zip(..., strict=True) in the per-slice recursion.
If input.size(0) != out.size(0), plain zip stops at the shorter tensor. The remaining out slices are then never written, and no error is raised. This can happen with a broadcast leading dimension of size 1 in input. The bmm path below fails on such a mismatch at view, so the new branch changes a clear error into silently uninitialized output. Current callers pass matching leading dimensions. Examples are tokens[..., K:, :] in TokenBuffer slots and nan_lin(missing). The coding guidelines allow a runtime check where a bad value "could otherwise be silently accepted with wrong semantics".
Proposed change
- for input_i, out_i in zip(input, out):+ for input_i, out_i in zip(input, out, strict=True):
self.forward(input_i, out=out_i)
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Review comment at @sdm/nn/linear.py around lines 38 - 39:
Update the per-slice recursion in the forward method to use strict zip
iteration, so mismatched leading dimensions raise an error instead of leaving
output slices unwritten.
Add autocast-dtype and regression coverage for the offload path.
The parity tests run only in float32 and only for classification. The changed code has untested branches:
TokenBuffer dtype: every row embedding uses torch.get_autocast_dtype(...) when autocast is enabled. A float16/bfloat16 buffer changes _pitch, the slot byte arithmetic, and slot.view(self.dtype). The PR also reports TabICLv2 offload divergence under float16.
Regression: KumoTabular._forward and TabICLv2._forward now pass offload on the Task.regression branch. y_lin and y_mlp feed add_labels there. No test calls these paths.
Uncached ICLModel.forward(..., offload="cpu") at model level: only fit and predict are tested.
The path instructions ask for "parametrization covers relevant dtype/device variants".
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Review comment at @test/models/test_offload.py around lines 97 - 125:
Extend the offload tests around `test_row_embedding_offload` to cover autocast
dtypes and regression targets, and compare CPU-offload results with the
non-offload baseline. Also cover uncached model-level `ICLModel.forward` with
`offload="cpu"`; parameterize relevant dtype and device variants without
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sdm/_memory.py: 1
38-65: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality
Document that the offload path changes process-wide pinned-allocator settings.
TokenBuffer.__init__ calls this helper at sdm/_token_buffer.py Line 79 on every offloaded call. The helper sets pinned_use_cuda_host_register:True and a register thread count. It does not restore the previous values. After one offload="cpu" call, every later pinned allocation in the user's process follows these settings. This includes DataLoader(pin_memory=True) buffers and other libraries. set_pinned_max_round_threshold(mb=1) has the same effect. Each force=False early return protects settings that already exist. It does not protect the allocator defaults.
Use one of these options:
State this side effect in the offload docs in ICLModel.forward and ICLModel.fit.
Save and restore the allocator settings around the offloaded call.
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Update the offload documentation in ICLModel.forward and ICLModel.fit to state
that offloading changes process-wide pinned-allocator settings, does not restore
the previous settings, and can affect later pinned allocations, including
allocations made by other libraries.
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Review comments at @sdm/_token_buffer.py:
- Line 235: Update TokenBuffer’s offload initialization to import and retain
cuda.bindings.runtime before allocating pinned storage or device slots, then
reuse the retained module in TokenBuffer._stream instead of importing it there.
Also declare the providing package as an optional offload dependency or document
it as a requirement for offload.
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Review comments at @sdm/_memory.py:
- Around line 38-65: Update the offload documentation in ICLModel.forward and
ICLModel.fit to state that offloading changes process-wide pinned-allocator
settings, does not restore the previous settings, and can affect later pinned
allocations, including allocations made by other libraries.
Review comments at @sdm/nn/linear.py:
- Around line 38-39: Update the per-slice recursion in the forward method to use
strict zip iteration, so mismatched leading dimensions raise an error instead of
leaving output slices unwritten.
Review comments at @test/models/test_offload.py:
- Around line 97-125: Extend the offload tests around
`test_row_embedding_offload` to cover autocast dtypes and regression targets,
and compare CPU-offload results with the non-offload baseline. Also cover
uncached model-level `ICLModel.forward` with `offload="cpu"`; parameterize
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sdm/models/base/icl.py: 1
209-220: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Pass offload only when it is set.
forward and fit currently pass offload=None to _forward implementations. This violates the _forward contract, which states that offload is only passed to models with supports_offload. It can also expose an unexpected keyword to implementations that do not accept it. Keep the cached kwargs unchanged so predict continues without offloading.
Suggested fix
+ if offload is not None:+ kwargs["offload"] = offload
try:
outs = self._forward_members(
contexts=contexts,
queries=queries,
estimator_batch_size=estimator_batch_size,
callbacks=callbacks,
generator=generator,
- offload=offload,
**kwargs,
)
In fit, build a local copy of kwargs, add offload to that copy only when it is not None, and pass the copy to self._forward. Keep cache["kwargs"] backed by the original kwargs.
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Review comment at @sdm/models/base/icl.py around lines 209 - 220:
Update the forward path calling _forward_members to include offload only when it
is not None. In fit, pass a local copy of kwargs with offload added only when
set; keep the original kwargs unchanged so cache["kwargs"] remains suitable for
predict without offloading.
sdm/nn/attention.py: 1
269-282: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Guard the flash branch by CUDA compute capability.
The flash condition checks dtype and head dimension, but not the GPU architecture. FlashAttention requires sm80 or newer. On pre-Ampere GPUs, such as T4 or V100, fp16 inputs can reach the raw _scaled_dot_product_flash_attention op. Depending on the PyTorch version, that call can raise. F.scaled_dot_product_attention avoids this by choosing another backend. The direct op call does not.
Add a capability check so pre-Ampere GPUs use the efficient-attention path:
Proposed fix
if (
query.dtype in (torch.float16, torch.bfloat16)
and query.size(-1) % 8 == 0
and query.size(-1) <= 256
+ and torch.cuda.get_device_capability(query.device)[0] >= 8
):
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Review comment at @sdm/nn/attention.py around lines 269 - 282:
Update the CUDA flash-attention branch around
_scaled_dot_product_flash_attention to require compute capability 8.0 or newer
in addition to the existing dtype and head-dimension checks. On older GPUs,
preserve the existing fallback to the efficient-attention path.
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Use the tensor method instead of the function.
The path instructions prefer tensor methods over functions, for example x.log() over torch.log(x). Use summary_lse.logaddexp(lse).
Proposed fix
- total = torch.logaddexp(summary_lse, lse) # [..., M, H]+ total = summary_lse.logaddexp(lse) # [..., M, H]
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Update the log-add-exp calculation to use the tensor method on summary_lse,
passing lse as its argument. Preserve the existing operands and result shape.
Add device-independent tests for summarize and induced_key_value.
The docstring promises that chunked summarize followed by induced_key_value matches a single forward pass, up to rounding. The supplied tests cover this only through test/models/test_offload.py::test_row_embedding_offload. That test is @onlyCUDA and goes through the full row-embedding pipeline. These paths therefore have no CPU test coverage and no isolated test:
the CPU branch of _attention_with_lse;
the log-add-exp merge;
the multi-dimensional _batch_chunks indexing in TransformerBlock.partial.
Add a plain pytest function with these properties:
It builds an InducedTransformerBlock with a small TransformerBlock.
It splits a random key_value into uneven chunks and calls summarize on each.
It compares induced_key_value(summary) with the return_key_value=True output of forward.
It runs with torch.no_grad() and parametrizes over batch_size_limit values such as None and 1, to exercise the chunking.
It runs with at least a 2-D batch shape.
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Add an isolated pytest test for InducedTransformerBlock.summarize and
induced_key_value using a small TransformerBlock, a random key_value tensor with
at least a two-dimensional batch shape, and uneven chunks. Under
torch.no_grad(), accumulate each chunk’s summary, then compare induced_key_value
of the final summary with the key/value returned by a single forward pass;
parameterize batch_size_limit to cover both unchunked processing and a limit of
1.
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Use keyword arguments in this multi-line call.
The compute(...) call spans several lines and passes its arguments by position. The repository rule requires keyword arguments in multi-line calls. The two nested _chunk(...) calls in this loop are also positional, but they follow the existing _chunk style. Make compute keyword-based.
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Update the multi-line compute call in the chunk loop to pass its query and
key-value inputs by keyword, using the parameter names from compute’s
definition; leave the nested _chunk calls and surrounding logic unchanged.
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Review comments at @sdm/models/base/icl.py:
- Around line 209-220: Update the forward path calling _forward_members to
include offload only when it is not None. In fit, pass a local copy of kwargs
with offload added only when set; keep the original kwargs unchanged so
cache["kwargs"] remains suitable for predict without offloading.
Review comments at @sdm/nn/attention.py:
- Around line 269-282: Update the CUDA flash-attention branch around
_scaled_dot_product_flash_attention to require compute capability 8.0 or newer
in addition to the existing dtype and head-dimension checks. On older GPUs,
preserve the existing fallback to the efficient-attention path.
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Review comments at @sdm/nn/attention.py:
- Around line 958-961: Update the multi-line compute call in the chunk loop to
pass its query and key-value inputs by keyword, using the parameter names from
compute’s definition; leave the nested _chunk calls and surrounding logic
unchanged.
Review comments at @sdm/nn/set_transformer.py:
- Line 198: Update the log-add-exp calculation to use the tensor method on
summary_lse, passing lse as its argument. Preserve the existing operands and
result shape.
- Around line 164-225: Add an isolated pytest test for
InducedTransformerBlock.summarize and induced_key_value using a small
TransformerBlock, a random key_value tensor with at least a two-dimensional
batch shape, and uneven chunks. Under torch.no_grad(), accumulate each chunk’s
summary, then compare induced_key_value of the final summary with the key/value
returned by a single forward pass; parameterize batch_size_limit to cover both
unchunked processing and a limit of 1.
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sdm/models/kumo/tabular/row_embedding.py
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sdm/models/tabiclv2/model.py
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Major · Expand grouped key/value heads before CPU partial attention. · attention.py:270-272
sdm/nn/attention.py:270-272 Major · Stability & Availability · Quick win
Expand grouped key/value heads before CPU partial attention.
When num_key_value_heads < num_query_heads, SDPA.partial passes unequal head counts to the CPU flash kernel. In PyTorch 2.7, the kernel indexes key/value data by query-head index. It can read the wrong head or access data outside the key/value tensor.
Expand the heads before the CPU call and add a grouped-head summary test. The current summary test uses equal head counts.
Suggested fix
if not query.is_cuda:
+ if query.size(1) != key.size(1):+ repeats = query.size(1) // key.size(1)+ key = key.repeat_interleave(repeats, dim=1)+ value = value.repeat_interleave(repeats, dim=1)
out, lse = torch.ops.aten._scaled_dot_product_flash_attention_for_cpu(
query, key, value, scale=scale
)
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Review comment at @sdm/nn/attention.py around lines 270 - 272:
Update the CPU path in SDPA.partial to expand key and value heads to match the
query head count before calling the CPU flash-attention kernel, preserving the
grouped-head mapping. Add a summary test that exercises unequal query and
key/value head counts.
Major · Use an MPS-compatible partial-attention path · attention.py:269-273
sdm/nn/attention.py:269-273 Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Use an MPS-compatible partial-attention path
With nonempty context, Kumo Tabular inference on MPS can reach this branch even when offloading is disabled. On PyTorch 2.7 with default MPS settings, the CPU-only operator fails dispatch. Use an MPS-compatible implementation that returns both the attention output and log-sum-exp.
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Update the non-CUDA attention path so MPS tensors do not dispatch to the
CPU-only `_scaled_dot_product_flash_attention_for_cpu` operator. Use an
MPS-compatible partial-attention implementation that returns both the attention
output and log-sum-exp, while preserving the existing CPU behavior and return
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Review comments at @test/models/test_offload.py:
- Around line 131-132: Update the torch.testing.assert_close calls in the test
around the fit and predict outputs to pass atol and rtol explicitly instead of
expanding **tol. Preserve dtype-dependent defaults when dtype is None and the
existing 5e-2 tolerances otherwise.
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Review comments at @sdm/nn/attention.py:
- Around line 270-272: Update the CPU path in SDPA.partial to expand key and
value heads to match the query head count before calling the CPU flash-attention
kernel, preserving the grouped-head mapping. Add a summary test that exercises
unequal query and key/value head counts.
- Around line 269-273: Update the non-CUDA attention path so MPS tensors do not
dispatch to the CPU-only `_scaled_dot_product_flash_attention_for_cpu` operator.
Use an MPS-compatible partial-attention implementation that returns both the
attention output and log-sum-exp, while preserving the existing CPU behavior and
return contract.
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- torch.testing — PyTorch 2.14 documentation — https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/testing.html
- pytorch/torch/testing/_comparison.py at main · pytorch/pytorch · GitHub — https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/main/torch/testing/_comparison.py
- RFC: retire `torch.testing.assert_allclose` in favor of `torch.testing.assert_close` · Issue #61844 · pytorch/pytorch · GitHub — GitHub issue 61844 in pytorch/pytorch (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
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Pass atol and rtol explicitly.
The **tol expansion causes ty errors and blocks the lint workflow. Passing None for both tolerances preserves PyTorch’s dtype-dependent defaults.
Suggested fix
--- "a/test/models/test_offload.py"+++ "b/test/models/test_offload.py"@@ -126,10 +126,17 @@
outs[offload] = embedding(x, y, offload=offload)
# Chunked inducing-point summaries round differently in half precision.
- tol = {} if dtype is None else {"atol": 5e-2, "rtol": 5e-2}+ tol = None if dtype is None else 5e-2
for key in ("fit", "predict"):
- torch.testing.assert_close(outs["cpu", key], outs[None, key], **tol)- torch.testing.assert_close(outs["cpu"], outs[None], **tol)+ torch.testing.assert_close(+ actual=outs["cpu", key],+ expected=outs[None, key],+ atol=tol,+ rtol=tol,+ )+ torch.testing.assert_close(+ actual=outs["cpu"], expected=outs[None], atol=tol, rtol=tol+ )
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Update the torch.testing.assert_close calls in the test around the fit and
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Update the multi-line assertion in the test to pass the values from outs["cpu",
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Use keyword arguments in the new CUDA attention calls.
Both calls span multiple lines. The _scaled_dot_product_efficient_attention call passes None, True positionally, so a reader cannot tell which argument is attn_bias and which is compute_log_sumexp. The torch.ops.aten overloads accept the schema argument names as keywords.
As per coding guidelines, "Use keyword arguments in multi-line calls." As per path instructions, enforce "keyword arguments in multi-line calls".
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Update the multi-line calls to `_scaled_dot_product_flash_attention` and
`_scaled_dot_product_efficient_attention` to pass their arguments by keyword,
including naming the efficient attention call’s `attn_bias` and
`compute_log_sumexp` arguments. Preserve the existing values and behavior.
Add dtype coverage so the new kernel dispatch in _attention_with_lse gets tested.
This test only runs in float32 with 4 channels per head (channels=8, num_query_heads=2). On CUDA, float32 always takes the _scaled_dot_product_efficient_attention branch. The flash-attention branch in _attention_with_lse needs float16 or bfloat16, a head dimension divisible by 8, and compute capability 8 or higher. The test never reaches that branch.
Parametrize the test over dtype (torch.float32, torch.bfloat16). Use channels=16 so each head has 8 channels. Loosen the tolerances for the reduced-precision cases.
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Expand the test covering _attention_with_lse to run with torch.float32 and
torch.bfloat16, and set channels to 16 so each query head has the required
8-channel dimension. Ensure the test inputs use the selected dtype, and loosen
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- Around line 284-292: Update the multi-line calls to
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and loosen comparison tolerances for reduced-precision cases while preserving
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@seunghwak are you still planning to add more changes? Would like to know if the PR is in a ready to review state since there are so many changes in here already.
Great! Please let me know when you are done and I'll start taking a look.
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[WIP] Add CPU offloading of row embedding token tables to tabular ICL models
Add CPU offloading of row embedding token tables to tabular ICL models
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Summary
Adds
offload="cpu"tofitandforwardofKumoTabular,TabFMandTabICLv2, which keeps the per-cell token table of the row embedding in pinned host memory and streams it through the GPU in chunks. For tables with many rows, this table is then bounded by host memory instead of GPU memory, while the GPU-only path keeps the previous speed and memory.Description of the change
ICLModel.fitandICLModel.forwardtakeoffload: Literal["cpu"] | None = None, and models opt in through thesupports_offloadclass flag (true forKumoTabular,TabFMandTabICLv2). Offloading requires CUDA inputs, disabled gradients,estimator_batch_size=1, and no more target classes than the model predicts natively.predictreplays the fitted cache and currently does not offload.TokenBufferholds theR × T × Dtoken table of a row embedding and runs two kinds of in-place passes: row passes update rows independently, and column passes update token columns independently. Without offloading, each pass runs on the whole device tensor at once. Withoffload="cpu", the table lives in pinned host memory, and each pass streams chunks through three device slots, with host-to-device copies, compute and device-to-host copies on separate streams so that they overlap. Copies usecudaMemcpy2DAsyncfromcuda.bindings, which PyTorch's CUDA wheels already depend on.TabFMandTabICLv2, this is the first column pass; inKumoTabular, it's pass 0, which accumulates the inducing-point summary for column block 0 (described next).Lcolumn andLrow passes are fused intoL + 1row passes. Passifinishes column blocki - 1from the inducing-point summary of the previous pass, runs row blocki - 1, and accumulates the inducing-point summary for column blockiover the context rows of each chunk. To support this,AttentionandTransformerBlockinsdm.nngain privatepartialandfinishmethods that split attention into a mergeable partial result and the output projection, andInducedTransformerBlockgainssummarizeandinduced_key_value. With the in-place initial embedding and fused column & row processing (KumoTabular), table copies per offloaded fit go from 24 to 12 for KumoTabular, 8 to 6 for TabFM, and 4 to 2 for TabICLv2.[..., T, R, D](token columns outermost), and row passes see[..., R, T, D]views. The main reason is copy granularity, in preparation for an SSD backend. A chunk ofNtoken columns becomes one contiguous block, and a chunk ofNrows becomesTpieces ofN × Delements, whereNis in the thousands at the default slot size. With row-major storage, a chunk ofNtoken columns wasRstrided pieces ofN × Delements, andNshrinks to a few tokens asRgrows. For example, one token is 512 bytes withD = 256channels in float16, as in KumoTabular and TabFM.TransformerBlockchunks now align with batch dimensions: inner batch dimensions are taken whole, and one outer dimension is sliced. Every chunk is a view, which removes the gather and theindex_putscatter on non-contiguous outputs. Related changes:Linear(out=)handles outputs whose leading dimensions can't be merged, and TabFM applies its row norm in storage order to avoid RMSNorm copies of strided input.sdm.models.set_pinned_register_threads()helper (8 threads by default, as PyTorch recommends, and requires PyTorch 2.14 or newer), thePYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF=pinned_use_cuda_host_register:True,pinned_num_register_threads:8environment variable set before the process starts, or the privatetorch._C._accelerator_setAllocatorSettingscall. Pinned host memory is released at the end of each offloaded call.Validation
Usable GPU memory is capped at 32 GiB in all runs below, and pinned memory is allocated and released with 8 registration threads.
Comparison with main at sizes that fit on the GPU
Fit time and peak memory, comparing main (30564cd), this PR on the GPU-only path, and this PR with
offload="cpu".SDM_CHUNK_MEMORY_FRACTIONchanges. Both flip 0.08–0.22% of predicted classes.Offload overhead
Offload overhead over this PR's GPU-only path, measured in instrumented offload runs at the sizes above and split into pinning the host table plus releasing it at the end of
fit, and the rest. The remaining overhead is also shown relative to the GPU-only fit time.fit, since later estimators reuse the pinned block, so the relative overhead shrinks with more estimators.Offload beyond GPU memory
With 1 estimator, offload runs context sizes whose token table alone exceeds the 32 GiB GPU cap. Each model uses the largest context-row count that this system can run.
fitand ofpredict, which replays it and doesn't offload. At 78k rows,predictruns out of memory, so more host memory alone wouldn't help. The next step is to offload the fitted cache to host memory and stream it through the GPU inpredict, which would let TabFM run workloads that exceed GPU memory capacity as well.Tests
pytest testpasses on a GPU (1640 passed, 70 skipped), including the newtest/models/test_offload.py.Additional details
- **Hardware:** NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell (95 GiB, PCIe Gen5 x16), with usable memory capped through `torch.cuda.set_per_process_memory_fraction`, which also scales SDM's chunk sizes. AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7965WX (24 cores, 48 threads), 62 GiB host RAM with about 45 GiB available. - **Software:** PyTorch 2.14.1+cu132, `cuda-bindings` 13.4.4. - **Data:** synthetic, generated on the GPU from `torch.Generator("cuda").manual_seed(0)`. The features are `torch.randn(R + 4000, 500)`, 500 numerical columns. The binary target is the argmax of `features @ torch.randn(500, 2)`. The first `R` rows are the context and the last 4,000 rows are the queries. The default recipes keep all 500 columns: none are constant, and the 500-column cap of KumoTabular and TabFM isn't exceeded. - **Models:** - `KumoTabular(task="classification", size="large")` with `nvidia/Kumo-Tabular` revision `v1.0.1`. - `TabICLv2(task="classification")` with `tabicl-classifier-v2-20260212.ckpt`. - `TabFM(task="classification", pretrained=False)` with random weights after `torch.manual_seed(0)`, because the pretrained weights require accepting a non-commercial license. - **Calls:** under `torch.autocast("cuda", torch.float16)`: `model.fit(x=x_context, y=y_context, num_estimators=E, generator=torch.Generator("cuda").manual_seed(0))`, plus `offload="cpu"` for the offload variant, then `model.predict(x_query)`. Default recipes and `estimator_batch_size=1`. - **Measurement:** each run is a fresh process with one `fit` and one `predict`, so offload includes its one-time pinning cost. Every run, including main, set `PYTORCH_ALLOC_CONF=pinned_use_cuda_host_register:True,pinned_num_register_threads:8` before the process started, which is what `sdm.models.set_pinned_register_threads()` applies by default. Times are wall-clock between `torch.cuda.synchronize()` calls, and each entry is the mean of 2 runs unless noted. The device peak is `torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated()`. The host peak is the process's `VmHWM` minus its `VmRSS` before `fit`. Main was imported from an exported copy of 30564cd through `PYTHONPATH`. - **Overhead breakdown:** measured in separate instrumented offload runs, 2 per case, that synchronize around the pinned allocation of the host table, the release of pinned memory, and each pass. The overhead is the instrumented fit time minus the GPU-only fit time from the first table. First loads and last stores are timed with CUDA events on the copy streams. Per-pass differences come from one instrumented run per model with and without offload. Within each pair of runs, pinned allocation, release and the per-pass differences add up to the measured fit overhead within 0.02 s. - **Host memory with several estimators:** `fit` keeps every estimator's cache in pinned host memory, as on main. Per estimator, that's the ICL key/value cache, which grows with context rows, plus fixed-size column-layer caches over inducing points: 12 KB/row plus 0.73 GiB for KumoTabular, 24 KB/row plus 0.09 GiB for TabICLv2, and 192 KiB/row plus 0.75 GiB for TabFM. TabFM's per-row cost comes from its 24 ICL layers, each caching a key and a value of 8 readout tokens × 256 channels per row. - **Copy bandwidth:** pinned memory reaches 56 GB/s in both chunk patterns. Pageable memory reaches only 16–20 GB/s and blocks the host thread for the whole copy. - **Threaded registration:** on this system, pinning 15.5 GB took 5.9 s with 1 thread and 1.9 s with 16 threads, with no gain beyond 16. Freeing went from 2.1 s to 1.0 s. - **Row-major storage:** tried with the fused passes and gave no gain. Row-chunk copies got faster, but compute on the row-major layout got slower by about the same amount. - **Possible follow-ups:** offload the fitted cache, starting with TabFM; reuse pinned memory across `fit` calls; keep part of the table on the device; an SSD backend; offload with estimator batching or class decomposition; TabICLv2's `train_mask`.