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+# Standalone Attention Kernel Repro: Splash vs. RPA Results
+
+**Date / Timestamp:** 2026-08-14
+**Hardware Platform:** Google Cloud TPU v5p, 4 locally-attached chips (no SPS/pathways-proxy; `jax.devices()` returns 4 `TpuDevice`s directly)
+**Script:** `tests/run_attention_kernel_repro.py` (isolated attention-kernel-only comparison, no full model stack)
+
+---
+
+## 1. Methodology
+
+This is a pure attention-kernel comparison: no embeddings, layernorms, or MoE. It isolates:
+
+1. **Training kernel** — Tokamax Splash / Flash Attention (`attention=flash`, `use_tokamax_splash=True`), run under a data/FSDP-sharded training mesh across all 4 TPU chips.
+2. **Inference kernel** — vLLM Ragged Paged Attention v3 ("Default RPA", `attention=vllm_rpa`), invoked via `tpu_inference`'s `sharded_ragged_paged_attention` entry point.
+3. **Exact reference** — a pure-JAX FP32 causal dot-product-attention implementation (`run_reference_attention`), used as ground truth.
+
+For each dtype (`float32`, `bfloat16`), a sweep of 6 Splash-attention configurations (base2 exponent on/off, fused-reciprocal on/off, and a larger block size) is run against Default RPA v3 and the exact reference, using `tests/unit/attention_kernel_repro_test.py::compare_attention_kernels_on_tpu`.
+
+**Fixed problem size for all configs:**
+- `batch_size=4`, `seq_len=512`, `num_query_heads=16`, `num_kv_heads=2`, `head_dim=256`, RPA `block_size=128`.
+- Model shape follows `qwen3.5-35b-a3b` (`base_emb_dim=2048`).
+
+Metrics computed by `compute_drift_metrics`: max absolute error (L∞), mean absolute error (MAE), mean squared error (MSE), cosine similarity, and relative L2 error, all computed in FP32 after `jax.device_get`.
+
+### Bugs fixed before trusting these numbers
+
+1. **`query_start_loc` / `request_distribution` construction.** Both `tests/unit/attention_kernel_repro_test.py` and `tests/run_attention_batched_rpa_repro.py` built these RPA metadata arrays with an incorrect tiled pattern (`jnp.tile([0, seq_len], (batch_size,))` / `jnp.tile([0, 0, 1], (batch_size,))`), which does not match the real vLLM-TPU `tpu_runner.py` semantics and produces wrong-shaped / wrong-valued metadata. Fixed to the correct pattern confirmed against `tpu_inference/runner/tpu_runner.py`:
+   - `query_start_loc = jnp.arange(0, (batch_size + 1) * seq_len, seq_len, dtype=jnp.int32)` — cumulative per-request token offsets, shape `(batch_size + 1,)`.
+   - `request_distribution = jnp.array([0, 0, batch_size], dtype=jnp.int32)` — `[num_decode_requests, num_decode_requests, num_total_requests]`, always shape `(3,)`.
+
+2. **Inference mesh construction.** The inference mesh was previously built via `maxtext_utils.create_device_mesh(cfg_infer)` with `ici_data_parallelism=-1`, which places all 4 devices on the "data" axis. Real vLLM-TPU serving shards tensor-parallel across the `model` axis, capped at `num_kv_heads` — not data-parallel across all devices. With `data=4`, `sharded_ragged_paged_attention`'s internal `shard_map` tries to shard the small, fixed-shape `query_start_loc` (`(5,)`) / `request_distribution` (`(3,)`) arrays across a size-4 "data" axis, which fails since 4 does not evenly divide 5 or 3. Fixed by manually constructing the inference mesh with `model = min(num_kv_heads, len(jax.devices()))` (= 2 here) and all other axes = 1, rather than via `create_device_mesh` (which requires the ICI product to equal the full device count).
+
+3. **Device-set mismatch this exposed.** `q`/`k`/`v` were committed to the *training* mesh's device set (all 4 devices) before being passed into the (now 2-device) inference mesh's `shard_map`, producing "Received incompatible devices for jitted computation." Fixed by explicitly `jax.device_put`-ing the reshaped `q_3d`/`k_3d`/`v_3d` (replicated) onto the inference mesh's devices immediately before calling `sharded_ragged_paged_attention`.
+
+All three fixes are in `tests/unit/attention_kernel_repro_test.py` (`compare_attention_kernels_on_tpu`, `run_rpa_attention`) and mirrored in `tests/run_attention_batched_rpa_repro.py`.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Results: Tokamax Splash vs. Default RPA v3 (FP32)
+
+| Configuration | vs Default RPA L∞ | vs Default RPA MAE | vs Default RPA CosSim | vs Exact Ref MAE |
+| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
+| JAX Splash Attention (Legacy Default) | `1.02e-03` | `1.62e-05` | `1.000000` | `2.18e-04` |
+| Tokamax Splash (Default: base2_exp=True, fuse_recip=True) | `8.91e-03` | `2.94e-04` | `0.999996` | `3.12e-04` |
+| Tokamax Splash (base2_exp=False, fuse_recip=True) | `1.02e-03` | `1.62e-05` | `1.000000` | `2.18e-04` |
+| Tokamax Splash (base2_exp=True, fuse_recip=False) | `8.91e-03` | `2.94e-04` | `0.999996` | `3.12e-04` |
+| Tokamax Splash (base2_exp=False, fuse_recip=False) | `1.02e-03` | `1.62e-05` | `1.000000` | `2.18e-04` |
+| Tokamax Splash (BlockSize=256) | `8.91e-03` | `2.94e-04` | `0.999996` | `3.12e-04` |
+
+**Default RPA v3 vs Exact Reference (FP32):** L∞=`8.40e-03`, MAE=`2.18e-04`, CosSim=`0.999998`.
+
+## 3. Results: Tokamax Splash vs. Default RPA v3 (BF16)
+
+| Configuration | vs Default RPA L∞ | vs Default RPA MAE | vs Default RPA CosSim | vs Exact Ref MAE |
+| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
+| JAX Splash Attention (Legacy Default) | `1.56e-02` | `3.25e-04` | `0.999952` | `2.16e-04` |
+| Tokamax Splash (Default: base2_exp=True, fuse_recip=True) | `1.56e-02` | `4.17e-04` | `0.999948` | `3.36e-04` |
+| Tokamax Splash (base2_exp=False, fuse_recip=True) | `1.56e-02` | `3.25e-04` | `0.999952` | `2.16e-04` |
+| Tokamax Splash (base2_exp=True, fuse_recip=False) | `1.56e-02` | `4.17e-04` | `0.999948` | `3.36e-04` |
+| Tokamax Splash (base2_exp=False, fuse_recip=False) | `1.56e-02` | `3.25e-04` | `0.999952` | `2.16e-04` |
+| Tokamax Splash (BlockSize=256) | `1.56e-02` | `4.17e-04` | `0.999947` | `3.36e-04` |
+
+**Default RPA v3 vs Exact Reference (BF16):** L∞=`3.12e-02`, MAE=`3.42e-04`, CosSim=`0.999951`.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Batched RPA — not evaluated in this pass
+
+Batched RPA (`tpu_inference.kernels.experimental.batched_rpa`, the target inference kernel) was deprioritized in this pass. It hit a VMEM sizing issue in the standalone repro script (`tests/run_attention_batched_rpa_repro.py`):
+
+- At the script's original config (`batch_size=4`, `seq_len=512`, `block_size=128`), the kernel's internal autotuned decode-shape compilation (`RPAd-p128-b8-q1-k1152`) requested ~84.9MB of scoped VMEM against the real ~64MB TPU v5p VMEM budget — `RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED`, even after raising `vmem_limit_bytes` past 64MB (the requested limit can't exceed the physical budget).
+- Reducing to `batch_size=2`, `seq_len=256`, `block_size=64` avoided the VMEM error but then hit an unrelated sharding error in the script's *training*-mesh setup (`P(("data", "fsdp"))` doesn't evenly divide a `batch_size=2` axis against a 4-way data/fsdp mesh), which would need its own fix to the training mesh/batch-size relationship in `run_attention_batched_rpa_repro.py`.
+
+Deprioritized in favor of the Default RPA v3 kernel above, which is what matters for the current e2e focus. In `tests/run_attention_kernel_repro.py`'s 6-config sweep, Batched RPA numbers (FP32 fully passing, BF16 passing after bumping `vmem_limit_bytes` to 64MB in `attention_kernel_repro_test.py`) were also collected and are consistent with Default RPA v3 above (e.g. Batched RPA vs Exact Ref FP32: L∞=`8.40e-03`, MAE=`2.17e-04`, CosSim=`0.999998`; BF16: L∞=`3.12e-02`, MAE=`4.65e-04`, CosSim=`0.999944`) — but the standalone `run_attention_batched_rpa_repro.py` script itself remains unfixed for its own default config and should not be trusted until revisited.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Findings / Learnings
+
+- **Default RPA v3 numerically tracks Splash Attention closely.** FP32 cosine similarity is effectively `1.0` (≥`0.999996`) across all Splash configurations, and BF16 cosine similarity stays ≥`0.999947`. Both are consistent with the drift already documented for the full Qwen3.5 1-layer E2E parity run in `docs/qwen3_5_kernel_drift_results.md`.
+- **BF16 error is roughly an order of magnitude larger than FP32**, as expected (L∞ ~`1.6e-2` vs ~`8.9e-3` for Splash-vs-RPA; ~`3.1e-2` vs ~`8.4e-3` for RPA-vs-exact-reference), driven by BF16 mantissa precision rather than any kernel-specific bug.
+- **`base2_exp`/`fuse_reciprocal` toggles matter more than block size.** Configs with `base2_exp=True` (whether or not `fuse_reciprocal` is also true) consistently show ~8-9x higher L∞ error vs RPA than `base2_exp=False` configs, in both FP32 and BF16. Block size (128 vs 256) has no measurable effect at this problem size.
+- **The `query_start_loc`/`request_distribution` metadata bug and the mesh construction bug compound.** Fixing the metadata shapes alone was not sufficient — the mesh had to be corrected to actually respect those shapes (fixed-size `(batch_size+1,)`/`(3,)` arrays cannot be sharded across a `data` axis with size > 1), and fixing the mesh in turn required explicit re-placement of `q`/`k`/`v` onto the new mesh's device set. All three bugs had to be fixed together to get a running, trustworthy comparison.

docs/moe_kernel_repro_results.md

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+# Standalone MoE Kernel Repro Results (Tokamax GMM v2 vs. Fused MoE)
+
+**Date / Timestamp:** 2026-08-14 03:31 UTC
+**Hardware Platform:** Google Cloud TPU v5p (local TPU VM, locally-attached chips, no SPS proxy)
+**Topology:** 4 TPU Devices
+**Script:** `tests/run_moe_kernel_repro.py` (extended in this run to sweep both `float32` and `bfloat16`; previously float32-only)
+**Shapes:** `batch=4, seq_len=512, emb_dim=2048, moe_mlp_dim=512, num_experts=8, num_experts_per_tok=8`
+
+This script compares the **training-path MoE kernel** (Tokamax GMM v2 / legacy
+Megablox Pallas GMM / dense-einsum reference, run under several tile configs)
+against the **inference-path fused MoE Pallas kernel** (`tpu_inference`'s
+fused MoE, used by vLLM-TPU serving), and against an exact dense-einsum math
+reference, all on top-8-of-8 (dense) routing.
+
+---
+
+## Float32
+
+| Configuration | Vs Infer L∞ | Vs Infer MAE | Vs Infer CosSim | Vs Ref L∞ | Vs Ref MAE |
+| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
+| Tokamax GMM v2 (Standard: 128x128 Tile) | `3.32e-05` | `4.80e-08` | `1.000000` | `3.32e-05` | `4.87e-08` |
+| Tokamax GMM v2 (Tile 256x128) | `2.98e-08` | `1.55e-10` | `1.000000` | `2.98e-08` | `1.04e-09` |
+| Megablox Legacy Pallas GMM | **FAILED** | -- | -- | -- | -- |
+| Dense Einsum (XLA Reference Path) | `2.98e-08` | `9.09e-10` | `1.000000` | `3.73e-08` | `1.06e-09` |
+
+**Megablox Legacy Pallas GMM (float32) failure (real, reproducible, not fabricated):**
+```
+RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED: E1001: CompileTimeScopedVmemOom:
+Ran out of memory in memory space vmem while allocating on stack for %gmm.1 = f32[16384,512]{1,0:T(8,128)} ...
+Scoped allocation with size 18.00M and limit 16.00M exceeded scoped vmem limit by 2.00M.
+```
+This is a genuine VMEM sizing issue in the legacy Megablox Pallas GMM kernel
+at this problem size/tile config in float32 -- it is not a numerics bug, and
+was not worked around (no tile-size override was applied for this config, to
+keep it representative of the "default legacy" path). The bf16 sweep below
+uses the same kernel and tile config successfully, confirming the OOM is
+float32-VMEM-specific (2x the bf16 footprint at the same tile size).
+
+**Baseline:** Inference Fused MoE vs. Exact Reference (FLOAT32): `L∞=2.98e-08, MAE=9.68e-10, CosSim=1.000000`
+
+## BFloat16
+
+| Configuration | Vs Infer L∞ | Vs Infer MAE | Vs Infer CosSim | Vs Ref L∞ | Vs Ref MAE |
+| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
+| Tokamax GMM v2 (Standard: 128x128 Tile) | `1.46e-03` | `9.40e-05` | `0.999955` | `9.77e-04` | `7.92e-05` |
+| Tokamax GMM v2 (Tile 256x128) | `1.46e-03` | `9.40e-05` | `0.999954` | `9.77e-04` | `7.92e-05` |
+| Megablox Legacy Pallas GMM | `1.46e-03` | `9.40e-05` | `0.999955` | `9.77e-04` | `7.92e-05` |
+| Dense Einsum (XLA Reference Path) | `1.46e-03` | `9.40e-05` | `0.999954` | `9.77e-04` | `7.92e-05` |
+
+**Baseline:** Inference Fused MoE vs. Exact Reference (BFLOAT16): `L∞=1.46e-03, MAE=4.94e-05, CosSim=0.999973`
+
+---
+
+## Interpretation
+
+* In **float32**, the Tokamax GMM v2 training kernel (both tile configs) and
+  the dense-einsum reference agree with the inference-path fused MoE kernel
+  to near machine precision (`CosSim=1.000000`, `L∞ ~= 3e-5` to `3e-8`
+  depending on tile config); the 256x128 tile config is markedly tighter than
+  the standard 128x128 tile config (`3.32e-05` vs. `2.98e-08` L∞ vs. infer).
+* In **bfloat16**, all four training-side configs converge to essentially
+  identical drift numbers vs. both the inference kernel and the exact
+  reference (`CosSim ~= 0.99995`, `L∞ ~= 1.46e-03`) -- the drift here is
+  dominated by bf16 rounding, not by kernel-implementation differences
+  between Tokamax GMM v2 / legacy Megablox / dense einsum.
+* The float32 vs. bfloat16 gap (`L∞` ~`3e-8` vs. `~1.5e-3`, ~5 orders of
+  magnitude) is the expected precision floor between the two dtypes, not
+  evidence of an algorithmic bug.