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+# Qwen3 reproduce skeleton and evidence inventory
+
+This document is a reproduce skeleton, not a final comparison report. It lists the Qwen3 evidence that can be rerun from this branch and the evidence that is still missing.
+
+## Scope
+
+- ARK-only evidence belongs in this repo under `examples/qwen3/`.
+- The SGLang baseline and profiler harness stay local-only outside this repo.
+- Fixed SGLang numbers below are target context only. This branch does not include commands that launch, drive, or profile SGLang.
+- A missing `PERF_GATE` line is missing evidence. It is not a pass.
+- This branch makes no end-to-end speedup claim.
+
+## Hardware and build assumptions
+
+Use the target local topology for the Qwen3 comparison:
+
+- 8×A100-80GB.
+- CUDA-capable ARK build container.
+- Repository root checked out at the branch SHA under review.
+- Qwen3 component gates run after the normal ARK build.
+
+From the repository root, build ARK with the project workflow:
+
+```bash
+mkdir -p build
+cd build
+cmake ..
+make -j"$(nproc)" ut ark_py
+export ARK_ROOT="$PWD"
+export PYTHONPATH="$PWD/python${PYTHONPATH:+:$PYTHONPATH}"
+```
+
+## SGLang baseline context
+
+Local-only SGLang measurements from 2026-06-15 define the targets. They are not rerunnable from this branch.
+
+| Config | Prefill TTFT | Decode/token | Context |
+|--------|-------------:|-------------:|---------|
+| TP=8 matched regime | 47.41 ms | 4.26 ms | Primary comparison target. |
+| TP=1 SGLang best | 52.31 ms | 12.98 ms | Reference only. |
+
+The local TP=8 profile was decode-dominated and communication-bound:
+
+| Component | SGLang profile budget | Share | Status on this branch |
+|-----------|----------------------:|------:|-----------------------|
+| nccl / comm | 214.69 ms | 77.3% | Missing branch evidence. |
+| gemm | 38.08 ms | 13.7% | Missing branch evidence. |
+| attention | 20.93 ms | 7.5% | Missing branch evidence. |
+| norms_rope | 3.40 ms | 1.2% | Missing branch evidence. |
+
+## ARK-only evidence inventory at this branch SHA
+
+Current branch artifacts under `examples/qwen3/`:
+
+| Artifact | Evidence type | Rerun command from `build/` | Status |
+|----------|---------------|-----------------------------|--------|
+| `examples/qwen3/reproduce.md` | Reproduce skeleton and evidence inventory | Not applicable. | Present. |
+| `examples/qwen3/bench_*.py` | ARK component perf gates | None available on this branch. | Missing. |
+| `examples/qwen3/test_*.py` | Torch-reference equivalence tests | None available on this branch. | Missing. |
+
+Inventory check from `build/`:
+
+```bash
+find ../examples/qwen3 -maxdepth 1 \( -name 'bench_*.py' -o -name 'test_*.py' \) -print | sort
+```
+
+Expected result for this branch: no Qwen3 benchmark or equivalence-test files are listed.
+
+## Future ARK-only evidence contract (not runnable on this branch)
+
+No component benchmark files are present on this branch; when one lands, rerun it from `build/` and require exactly one machine-readable line:
+
+```bash
+python3 ../examples/qwen3/bench_<component>.py
+# PERF_GATE name=<component> ark_ms=<float> sglang_ms=<float> ratio=<float>
+```
+
+When a component equivalence test lands on this branch, rerun only that component from `build/`:
+
+```bash
+python3 -m pytest -q ../examples/qwen3/test_<component>.py
+```
+
+These slots are placeholders until the branch contains the named files. They do not create evidence by themselves.
+
+## Missing final-comparison prerequisites
+
+The final Qwen3 ARK vs SGLang comparison remains blocked.
+
+- End-to-end prefill/decode sweep evidence is not present in this branch.
+- A strict clean-environment A100 `PERF_GATE name=kv_cache_slot` rerun is not present in this branch.
+- All-reduce evidence is not present as a branch artifact here.
+- Required Qwen3 component implementations, equivalence tests, and ARK-only perf gates are missing or blocked on this branch.
+- No branch artifact proves a full ARK Qwen3 op graph, TP=8 decode path, or ≥3.5× end-to-end speedup.
+
+A future final report must cite rerunnable repo artifacts at its branch SHA for every ARK correctness and performance claim.