* ggml : add ggml_flash_attn_ext API
* ggml : fix GQA support in ggml_flash_attn_ext
* ggml : online attention (CPU)
* metal : initial implementation
* metal : f16 precision
* metal : reduce branches
* metal : specialize for head size
* wip : 8 rows per simd group
* wip : 4 rows per simd group
* wip : template for rows per warp
* metal : parallelize across KV size
* metal : parallel reduce across heads
* metal : efficient flash_attn_f16 implementation
* metal : avoid redundant loads of the attention
* metal : scale and mask in matrix form
* metal : fix comment
* llama : avoid ggml_cast, use F32 query
* metal : add parallel reduce version (disabled)
* metal : move output into local memory + optimize
- the result from each simdgroup now stays in the registers
- significantly reduced SRAM usage
- more efficient skipping of -INF blocks
- avoid simdgroup barrier in hot loop
- add comments
* metal : add tests, fix scaling, support C > 32
* metal : improve precision
* ggml : fix f16 mad
* metal : minor
* metal : support Q > 8
* tests : add ATTN tests
* metal : disable buffer allocation logs
* tests : more
* metal : faster inner loop for C == 32
* metal : fix array initialization
* tests : ifdef
* ggml : switch to padded F16 mask for ggml_soft_max, ggml_flash_attn_ext
* ggml : fix ggml_soft_max mask requirement
* cuda : fix soft_max to use correct mask size
* cuda : add flash_attn kernel (wip)
* metal : optimize softmax for C > 32
* metal : optimize softmax
* tests : minor fix
* cuda : avoid zeroing fragments
* tests : update dims
* cuda : fix __hisinf() result check
* cuda : avoid warp_reduce for smax
* cuda : use int instead of int64_t
Noticeably improves performance (thanks to Johannes)
* cuda : make loops use the same loop values
Thanks Johannes again for the tip
* cuda : unroll some of the loops
* cuda : avoid __hisinf branches
* cuda : use half2 in softmax
* cuda : switch to 1 warp for bs > 16
* cuda : speed-up reduce part of the kernel
* cuda : unroll Q*K^T loop
* cuda : fix -INF block check
* cuda : simplify softmax
* cuda : fix matrix names
* cuda : minor
* llama : adapt to F16 KQ_pos
* llama : adapt new models to F16 KQ_mask
* ggml : fix F16 store (ARM NEON)
* llama : fix type of KQ_mask and KQ_pos
* ggml : fix CPU soft_max
* tests : add hs=256
* cuda : fix build
* metal : improve perf via smaller int registers
* cuda : adapt soft_max to F16 mask and pos
* CUDA: faster FlashAttention, kernel for bs == 1
* 16 cols for Phi-2
* no vec for hs, no hs==256 ncols==32 for Volta
* adjust kernel selection logic
* 4 warps, 256 stride for all D
* no ncols == 64
* Multiple parallel blocks for batch size 1
* fix compile warnings
* fix excessive KQ_b loads
* fix cmake build
* fix KV cache padding, NaN from INFINITY (llama/6438)
* llama : flash_attn cparam + fix defrag
* server: support flash_attn param
* server: bench: enable flash_attn param
* CUDA: refactor host code, dyn. par. blocks
* fix flash_attn_vec_f16 race condition
* flush softmax exp below threshold to 0
* store temp KQ in registers
* Calculate KQ as FP32 if KQV has GGML_PREC_F32
* Add __hgt2_mask implementation for CUDA 11
* fix KQ FP32 precision fpr parallel_blocks > 1
* llama-bench : add -fa,--flash-attn arg
* metal : add BS=1 kernel for flash attention (llama/6508)
* metal : add BS=1 kernel for flash attention (wip)
* metal : support more than 1 warps
* metal : opts
* metal : opt
* metal : switch to parallel reduce
* metal : reduce registers
* metal : simplify
* metal : initial FA vec kernel
* metal : use F32 attention accumulators
* batched-bench : add fattn arg
* llama : simplify llama_build_kv_store
ggml-ci
* llama : adapt build_olmo to changes
* ggml : fix arm fp16 store on windows
* metal : clean-up
* metal : clean-up kernel code
* metal : minor
* tests : remove benchmarks
ggml-ci
* ggml : fix avx512 const correctness
ggml-ci
* ggml : fix soft_max with bias on CPU
ggml-ci
* common : print --flash-attn in help
* ggml : fix num dimensions in ggml_flash_attn_ext
* llama : force disable flash attention for incompatible models
* ggml : ggml_soft_max support F16/F32 mask/pos
ggml-ci
* cuda : uint -> uint32_t
* cuda : "constexpr dim3" -> "const dim3"
ggml-ci
* cuda : try to fix __hgt2_mask
ggml-ci
* ggml : add TODO's for F16/F32 mask/pos support in other backends
* llama : replace bool need_kq_pos with use_alibi
* llama : prep ALiBi support for BERT models
ggml-ci
* llama : fix n_batch requirements
ggml-ci
* cont
* server : add help for --flash-attn arg
* llama : disable FA for AMD
* tests : remove TMP_ATTN_BENCH
ggml-ci
* llama : support save/load state with FA enabled
ggml-ci
* ci : add CUDA save-load-state tests
ggml-ci
* llama : llama_kv_cache_clear zeroes data + fix save-load seq
ggml-ci
* llama : fix copy-paste errors, add TODO
* llama : disallow incompatible states
* llama : update llama_state_get_size after v_trans field
* metal : remove tmp log
* llama : add static reminder for llama_state_get_size
* metal : fix max nsg
ggml-ci
* ci : fix arg order
ggml-ci
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Co-authored-by: Johannes Gäßler <johannesg@5d6.de>
Co-authored-by: Pierrick HYMBERT <pierrick.hymbert@gmail.com>
