Pull Request Overview

This pull request refactors the large cast_kernels.cuh and cast_gated_kernels.cuh files into smaller, more organized header files structured by scaling mode. This improves code maintainability, readability, and navigation by creating specialized headers for different quantization and scaling implementations.

• Breaks down monolithic headers into focused, scaling-mode-specific files
• Reorganizes code structure without modifying functionality or behavior
• Creates dispatcher files to coordinate between different scaling implementations

Reviewed Changes

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Overall LGTM once we iron out the test failures.

Greptile Overview

Greptile Summary

This review covers only the changes made since the last review, not the entire PR. The latest update applies formatting-only changes to transformer_engine/common/cast/nvfp4/core_nvfp4.cuh, aligning the file with the project's clang-format configuration (Google-based style, 100-char column limit, 2-space indentation). No functional or behavioral modifications were made—function signatures and error macros were reformatted to improve consistency and readability. This change ensures that the NVFP4 core utilities, which handle FP4 quantization and conversion operations via inline PTX assembly, adhere to the repository's established formatting standards.

Important Files Changed

Confidence score: 5/5

• This PR update is safe to merge with minimal risk, as it contains only formatting changes with no functional modifications.
• Score reflects that the changes are purely cosmetic (clang-format enforcement) and cannot introduce bugs, regressions, or behavioral changes; all function logic remains identical.
• No files require special attention; this is a straightforward formatting pass to ensure style consistency across the NVFP4 core utilities.

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Greptile Overview

Greptile Summary

This review covers only the changes made since the last review, not the entire PR. This update addresses formatting inconsistencies in core_nvfp4.cuh by reformatting function signatures to comply with the project's .clang-format style guide (Google-based, 100-character column limit). The changes are purely cosmetic—multi-line function signatures like compute_decoding_scaling_factor and mul_cvt_bf16_to_fp4_4x_with_stochastic_rounding are now consistently split across lines with proper indentation, while compute_global_encode_scaling_factor_FP4 is collapsed to a single line. Additionally, the #else branches that threw errors when FP4_TYPE_SUPPORTED is undefined have been removed, simplifying the code structure. This refactoring is part of the broader PR goal to split large cast kernel headers into smaller, more maintainable files organized by scaling mode. The reformatting improves readability and navigation within device code, aligning with the project's style enforcement strategy (cpplint, clang-format, pre-commit hooks).

Important Files Changed

Confidence score: 5/5

• This PR is safe to merge with minimal risk as the changes are purely cosmetic and do not modify any logic.
• Score reflects formatting-only changes with no impact on compiled code or behavior; all modifications align with project style guidelines.
• No files require special attention; this is a straightforward formatting cleanup.

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Greptile Overview

Greptile Summary

This review covers only the changes made since the last review, not the entire PR.

This update adds a new return_max_logit feature to fused attention APIs across PyTorch, JAX, and C++ layers, while completing the cast kernel refactoring. The attention API now optionally returns the maximum attention logit per head (useful for Muon optimizer integration and numerical stability analysis). The change threads a boolean parameter through all attention forward paths and disables FP8/F16_max512 backends when return_max_logit=true since only F16_arbitrary_seqlen supports it. Additionally, the nvidia-mathdx dependency was removed from build configurations, sigmoidf was added to math.h, submodule pointers were updated, and several utility refactors (RNG API simplification, tensor creation helpers) were applied to align with the reorganized kernel structure. The bulk of the cast kernel split (FP8, MXFP8, NVFP4 into separate headers) was completed in earlier commits and is not repeated here.

PR Description Notes:

• The PR description states "No functional or behavior changes: code is moved, not modified," but this review includes the return_max_logit feature addition, which is a functional change. The description should be updated to reflect this.

Important Files Changed

Confidence score: 3/5

• This PR introduces functional changes (max_logit feature) beyond the stated "code is moved, not modified" scope, and includes critical bugs in the JAX attention extension that will silently ignore user-specified deterministic behavior.
• Score lowered due to: (1) JAX extension bug where deterministic parameter is hardcoded to false, (2) inconsistent FP8 handling in PyTorch backends where max_logit is initialized but never populated, (3) unverified tuple unpacking logic that assumes fused_attn_fwd return structure without clear guarantees, (4) potential uninitialized variables in MXFP8/NVFP4 kernels, and (5) missing documentation for nvidia-mathdx removal.
• Pay close attention to transformer_engine/jax/csrc/extensions/attention.cpp (deterministic parameter bug), transformer_engine/pytorch/attention/dot_product_attention/backends.py (FP8 max_logit handling), transformer_engine/pytorch/attention/dot_product_attention/context_parallel.py (None-checking for max_logit operations), and the NVFP4/MXFP8 quantization kernels with potential uninitialized variables.

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Greptile Overview

Greptile Summary

This review covers only the changes made since the last review, not the entire PR. The latest commit addresses formatting inconsistencies introduced during the previous code reorganization. Seven files received minor formatting adjustments: math.h condensed a one-line sigmoidf function to match the project's .clang-format rule allowing short functions on a single line; dispatch/quantize.cuh split a long boolean condition across two lines; dispatch/gated.cuh, gated_mxfp8.cuh, and core_nvfp4.cuh adjusted line breaks and continuation indentation in function signatures and error messages; quantize_transpose_nvfp4.cuh reformatted two PTX function calls; and gated_fp8.cuh received both formatting changes (line-continuation indentation) and a critical functional modification (removal of null-pointer validation checks for scale_inv and scale tensors, plus a macro change that broadens permitted output types beyond FP8). These changes ensure consistency with the project's 100-character column limit and continuation-indent rules as part of the broader refactoring to split monolithic cast kernel headers by scaling mode.

Important Files Changed

Confidence score: 2/5

• This PR introduces critical safety regressions in gated_fp8.cuh that could cause null-pointer dereferences and incorrect scaling behavior for non-FP8 outputs, despite being labeled a "no functional changes" refactoring
• Score reflects a dangerous removal of validation checks (lines 277–280 in gated_fp8.cuh) and a macro change that may silently break FP8-specific scaling logic for other data types; additional style violations in quantize_transpose_nvfp4.cuh (1-space vs. 4-space continuation indent) and include-order changes in core_nvfp4.cuh that could affect compilation
• Pay extremely close attention to transformer_engine/common/cast/fp8/gated_fp8.cuh (removed null checks, macro change) and verify that all callers guarantee scale-tensor allocation before invoking cast_gated_tma; review quantize_transpose_nvfp4.cuh and core_nvfp4.cuh for style compliance

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Greptile Overview

Greptile Summary

This review covers only the changes made since the last review, not the entire PR. The latest update addresses several issues raised in previous reviews: (1) dispatcher refactoring splits the monolithic quantize_helper into separate quantize_fwd_helper and quantize_bwd_helper functions, removing unused template parameters from forward paths; (2) parameter reordering in gated kernels moves gated_input/input before grad to establish a consistent convention across scaling modes (forward input, then gradient); (3) naming improvements rename helpers to quantize_gated_fwd_helper and quantize_gated_bwd_helper for clarity; (4) cosmetic fixes correct #endif comments, remove redundant using namespace dispatch declarations, and adjust formatting to match .clang-format conventions. All changes are code-movement or signature-reordering refactorings with no functional modifications—the dispatch logic, kernel launch sites, and validation checks remain identical to the previous version.

Important Files Changed

Confidence score: 3.5/5

• This PR is mostly safe to merge but requires careful verification that parameter reordering matches updated kernel signatures across all call sites.
• Score lowered because (1) the parameter reordering in cast.cu for backward helpers (input, activation_input, output) may break call sites if upstream callers were not updated, (2) the argument-order change in gated kernel calls (fp8::cast_gated_tma, mxfp8::quantize_gated) must be validated against the kernel signatures to ensure input/gated_input is now expected before grad, and (3) file transformer_engine/common/cast/dispatch/quantize.cuh has no summary provided, so its changes are unreviewed.
• Pay close attention to transformer_engine/common/cast/cast.cu (verify all callers of nvte_quantize_dbias* pass parameters in the new order) and transformer_engine/common/cast/dispatch/gated.cuh (confirm fp8::cast_gated_tma and mxfp8::quantize_gated kernel signatures accept input/gated_input before grad).

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