Avoid unintended FP64 promotion in float kernels by maxwbuckley · Pull Request #3133 · NVIDIA/raft

maxwbuckley · 2026-09-01T14:32:31Z

Summary

Three device-code sites force double-precision arithmetic into kernels that are instantiated with float (or with integer output types). FP64 runs at 1/64 the FP32 rate on consumer GPUs, so in each case the promotion dominated the kernel it appeared in.

These were found by compiling ~134 of the test TUs for sm_120, dumping SASS with cuobjdump, and flagging kernels whose demangled signature contains no double but that emit DADD/DMUL/DFMA/DSETP/F2F.*F64/MUFU.RCP64H. Across ~4000 kernels these are the only three sites; everything else is either legitimately double-instantiated or CUDA's own sinf/cosf Payne–Hanek slow path.

1. `reduce_rows_by_key` — ternary promoted the inner loop to FP64

thread_sums.x += (row_key == 0) ? static_cast<SumsT>(val) : 0.0;

The common type of float and double is double, so with SumsT = float every iteration of the innermost loop of a bandwidth-bound reduction paid four double adds plus float↔double conversions (F2F.F64.F32 x5, DADD x4, F2F.F32.F64 x4 in SASS). Changed to SumsT(0) / DataType(0).

The comment above the loop reads "with floats we can hope something around 2x" — the promotion was eating exactly that. Before this change the float path was slower than the double path on the same shape (195 GB/s vs 611 GB/s), which is the clearest symptom.

Note that plain x = 0.0 assignments and x != 0.0 comparisons elsewhere in the same file are already folded by the compiler and emit no FP64; only the mixed-type ternaries needed changing.

2. `multi_variable_gaussian` — `pow(x, 0.5)` binds to `double pow(double, double)`

matrix[m_i] = pow(W[Wi], 0.5) * (matrix[m_i]);

Regardless of T, this selects the double overload, which nvcc inlines as a software routine — 93 FP64 instructions including 41 DFMA and a MUFU.RCP64H, in what should be a single instruction. raft::sqrt is equivalent for the non-negative inputs already guarded by the branch above it, is correctly rounded (so if anything more accurate than pow(x, 0.5)), and helps the double instantiation too since hardware DSQRT beats software pow.

3. `normalInt` — Box-Muller hardcoded to `double`

custom_next for NormalIntDistParams<IntType> used double for the transform no matter how wide the integer output was, so generating int8/int32 normals ran FP64 sqrt/log/sincos. The compute type is now selected from the output width, keeping double only where float's 24-bit mantissa is insufficient (64-bit integer outputs, which are unchanged).

Benchmarks

RTX 5090 (sm_120), CUDA 13.2, -O3 -DNDEBUG, 20–50 timed iterations after warmup:

Benchmark	baseline	patched	speedup
`reduce_rows_by_key<float>` 4.2M x 32, nkeys=4	2.834 ms (195 GB/s)	1.397 ms (396 GB/s)	2.03x
`reduce_rows_by_key<float>` 1.0M x 128, nkeys=4	2.522 ms (215 GB/s)	1.366 ms (396 GB/s)	1.85x
`reduce_rows_by_key<float>` 16.8M x 8, nkeys=4	3.269 ms (185 GB/s)	1.022 ms (591 GB/s)	3.20x
`reduce_rows_by_key<double>` 4.2M x 32, nkeys=4	1.784 ms	1.783 ms	1.00x (unchanged)
`combined_dot_product<float>` dim=1024	0.133 ms	0.010 ms	12.9x
`combined_dot_product<float>` dim=4096	2.058 ms	0.135 ms	15.2x
`combined_dot_product<double>` dim=4096	2.068 ms	0.240 ms	8.6x
`normalInt<int8_t>` n=67.1M	3.563 ms (18.8 Gsamples/s)	0.100 ms (669 Gsamples/s)	35.6x
`normalInt<int32_t>` n=67.1M	3.566 ms (18.8 Gsamples/s)	0.183 ms (368 Gsamples/s)	19.5x
`normalInt<int64_t>` n=67.1M	3.572 ms	3.571 ms	1.00x (kept on double by design)

normalInt and reduce_rows_by_key both move from FP64-compute-bound to memory-bound after the change.

SASS

No FP64 instructions remain in any float-instantiated kernel. Instruction counts:

Kernel	before	after
`sum_rows_by_key_small_nkeys_kernel<float, ...>`	464	408
`combined_dot_product<float>`	560	96
`combined_dot_product<double>`	552	192
`rngKernel<int, PCGenerator, NormalIntDistParams<int>>`	824	328
`rngKernel<int, PhiloxGenerator, NormalIntDistParams<int>>`	1088	480

sum_rows_by_key_small_nkeys_kernel<double, ...> is byte-identical at 768 instructions, as intended.

Testing

Built for sm_120 and run on an RTX 5090. The full raft C++ suite (all 17 ctest targets) passes. The one exception is Raft.InterruptibleOpenMP in CORE_TEST, which fails at the same rate on unmodified main on this machine: 67.0% vs 64.7% over 300 interleaved runs, Fisher p = 0.61. It's a WSL2 scheduling issue unrelated to this PR.

New tests in random/rng_int.cu:

RngNormalIntLargeMu (S32, S64): the deviate is independent of mu, so draws with mu and with 0 from the same seed must differ by exactly mu, including past the float/double mantissa.
RngNormalIntUnsigned (U32, U64, U32DeviateAboveInt32Max): samples fall on both sides of mu; deviates above INT32_MAX survive on uint32_t; negative out-of-range deviates saturate to 0.
RngNormalIntSaturates (U32, S32, U64, S64): with mu next to each bound, about half the samples saturate there and none wrap to the far end.
RngNormalIntBool: normalInt<bool> still instantiates.

Every new test was checked to fail on the code it guards against.

Out-of-range handling (shift_by_deviate) was also checked against an exact 128-bit reference, on host and device, for every integer width and bool. That covered 4M cases per type, including bound-adjacent mu, deviates beyond the type range, and |deviate| < 1: no mismatches.

Behavioral note for reviewers

normalInt output values change:

For integer types of 32 bits or fewer, the random stream itself changes, because a float draw consumes 32 bits of generator state where a double draw consumed 64. The distributions are unaffected.
For all integer widths, mu is now applied in the output type rather than inside the Box-Muller transform, so it is exact rather than rounded to the mantissa of the compute type. This also removes a truncation bias of up to one unit away from mu (sample mean error over 64K draws at mu = 1e8, sigma = 10: -0.48 before, +0.01 after).
A sample whose exact value mu + deviate falls outside the output type saturates to its lowest()/max(). That matches what main produces on the device, where converting the out-of-range double sum saturates; on the host the old conversion was undefined. Applying mu separately initially broke this for unsigned outputs (negative deviates were clamped to 0 or wrapped), and that is fixed here, with tests.

Compared directly against main (same seeds, 1M samples per case, 8 integer types × 7 mu/sigma configurations × 2 generators), the 64-bit outputs keep the same random stream:

They are 100% identical at mu = 0, including uint64 with sigma = 10, where 54% of samples saturate to 0 on both.
At mu = 100 they differ by at most 1, from truncating after adding mu.
Near 2^62–2^64 they differ by at most 513–1029, which is the double spacing at those magnitudes, i.e. main rounding mu.

Anyone depending on exact reproducibility of a normalInt sequence across versions will see different values. Happy to gate the first point behind an opt-in if that is a concern; the second is a correctness fix.

One residual, called out deliberately: sigma is still converted to the compute type, so a sigma above 2^24 on a 32-bit output is rounded. That is a ~6e-8 relative change to the spread of a random draw, below the granularity the samples already have at that magnitude. Say the word if you would rather it be exact.

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Three device-code sites forced double-precision arithmetic into kernels instantiated with float (or with integer output types). FP64 runs at 1/64 the FP32 rate on consumer GPUs, so these dominated the kernels they appeared in. 1. reduce_rows_by_key: the accumulate ternaries used a `0.0` alternative, so the common type of `(cond) ? SumsT(val) : 0.0` was double. Every iteration of the innermost loop of a bandwidth-bound reduction paid four double adds plus float/double conversions. Use `SumsT(0)` / `DataType(0)`. The float path was measurably *slower* than the double path before this change (195 GB/s vs 611 GB/s on the same shape). 2. multi_variable_gaussian: `pow(W[Wi], 0.5)` binds to `double pow(double, double)` regardless of T, which nvcc inlines as a software routine (41 DFMA + MUFU.RCP64H in SASS). `raft::sqrt` is equivalent for the non-negative inputs guarded above it, and is both faster and correctly rounded. The double instantiation benefits too. 3. normalInt: the Box-Muller transform was hardcoded to double no matter how wide the integer output was, so generating int8/int32 normals ran FP64 sqrt/log/sincos. Select the compute type from the output width, keeping double only where float's 24-bit mantissa is insufficient (64-bit integer outputs). Measured on an RTX 5090 (sm_120, CUDA 13.2), 20-50 timed iterations after warmup: reduce_rows_by_key<float> 4.2M x 32, nkeys=4 2.834 -> 1.397 ms 2.03x reduce_rows_by_key<float> 1.0M x 128, nkeys=4 2.522 -> 1.366 ms 1.85x reduce_rows_by_key<float> 16.8M x 8, nkeys=4 3.269 -> 1.022 ms 3.20x reduce_rows_by_key<double> 4.2M x 32, nkeys=4 1.784 -> 1.783 ms 1.00x combined_dot_product<float> dim=1024 0.133 -> 0.010 ms 12.9x combined_dot_product<float> dim=4096 2.058 -> 0.135 ms 15.2x combined_dot_product<double> dim=4096 2.068 -> 0.240 ms 8.6x normalInt<int8_t> n=67.1M 3.563 -> 0.100 ms 35.6x normalInt<int32_t> n=67.1M 3.566 -> 0.183 ms 19.5x normalInt<int64_t> n=67.1M 3.572 -> 3.571 ms 1.00x Verified in SASS (cuobjdump) that no FP64 instructions remain in the float-instantiated kernels, and that the double instantiations are unchanged where they should be. Note: change 3 alters the normalInt random stream for integer types of 32 bits or fewer, since a float draw consumes 32 bits of generator state instead of 64. The distributions are unaffected. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vj4qbCmCuATAoLSP9XzY31

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Row reduction and Gaussian computation use type-matched numerical operations. Integer normal generation applies deviates to the mean using same-width bounds checks and saturates out-of-range shifts. Tests cover signed and unsigned outputs, large means, saturation boundaries, and boolean output.

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Numerical type safety

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Typed numeric operations `cpp/include/raft/linalg/detail/reduce_rows_by_key.cuh`, `cpp/include/raft/random/detail/multi_variable_gaussian.cuh`	Row reduction uses typed zero values. Gaussian computation uses `raft::sqrt` and a type-matched zero comparison.

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Integer normal generation and validation `cpp/include/raft/random/detail/rng_device.cuh`, `cpp/tests/random/rng_int.cu`	Integer normal generation applies deviates to the mean with same-width unsigned bounds checks and saturates at output limits. Tests cover large means, signed and unsigned outputs, both generators, and boolean output.

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Review feedback: with the deviate computed in float for 32-bit outputs, folding mu into the Box-Muller transform rounds mu itself once it exceeds float's mantissa. The damage is larger than just mu, because the deviate is added to mu inside the transform and then rounded to the spacing at that magnitude. For int32_t with mu = 2e9 the float spacing is 128, so a sigma of 10 disappears completely and every sample comes back as exactly mu: mu=2e9 sigma=10, 64K draws, distinct values / observed range main: 81 [1999999962, 2000000045] previous commit: 1 [2000000000, 2000000000] this commit: 81 [1999999959, 2000000040] Draw a zero-mean deviate instead and shift by mu in the output type. mu is then exact for every value of IntType, and the deviate keeps the full resolution the output type can represent. Reverting 32-bit outputs to double would also fix mu, but gives up the speedup and still rounds the deviate at 2^53 for 64-bit outputs; this fixes both widths. The int64_t path is improved for the same reason: mu was previously rounded to double, which collapses the deviate above 2^53. This also removes a truncation bias. Casting mu + deviate to an integer truncates towards zero, biasing the sample away from mu by up to one unit; casting the deviate alone is symmetric about mu. Sample mean error over 64K draws at mu = 1e8, sigma = 10: -0.48 before, +0.01 now. Costs nothing: the generated kernels are unchanged in size (328 instructions for PCGenerator, 480 for PhiloxGenerator) and normalInt still runs at 0.183 ms / 67.1M int32 samples, versus 3.566 ms on main. Adds RngNormalIntLargeMu, which pins the invariant that makes this work: the deviate does not depend on mu, so drawing with mu and with 0 from the same seed must give identical deviates. That is exact and needs no statistical tolerance. Verified to fail against the previous commit for every mu tested, and against main for the 64-bit cases. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Vj4qbCmCuATAoLSP9XzY31

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Thanks for your work and tokens! I'm a bit surprised that nvcc doesn't optimize the away constant doubles. The only risky change is to rng_device, but it seems to be legitimately tested. LGTM!

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Applying mu in the output type means the zero-mean deviate is converted to IntType before the shift. For unsigned IntType a negative deviate makes that conversion undefined, and the device saturates it to 0, so every sample below mu collapsed onto mu. The host wraps instead, which is what Rng/TestW/NormalIntT (host_api_test) caught in CI. Convert through the signed type of the same width so the shift wraps modulo 2^n. Signed outputs are unchanged. Add RngNormalIntUnsigned tests that check samples fall on both sides of mu; the shifted-vs-centered check cannot see this bug because both draws collapse identically. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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make_signed_t<bool> is ill-formed, so normalInt<bool> stopped compiling, and a uint32_t deviate above INT32_MAX overflowed the int32_t step and was clamped on the device. Branch on the sign and convert only the deviate's magnitude to IntType, which handles both. In-range results are unchanged since truncation toward zero is symmetric. Add tests for a uint32_t deviate above INT32_MAX and for normalInt<bool>. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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When the deviate carries mu + deviate outside IntType, the magnitude path wrapped modulo 2^n for unsigned outputs (mu = 0 with a negative deviate gave values near UINT32_MAX). Saturate to lowest()/max() instead, which is what main produces on the device: it converts the double sum mu + deviate to IntType, and device conversions saturate. shift_by_deviate checks the headroom in the unsigned type of the same width, so nothing overflows and a negative deviate is never converted to an unsigned type. Checked against an exact 128-bit reference on host and device for every integer width and bool (4M cases each, including bound-adjacent mu, deviates beyond the type range and |deviate| < 1): no mismatches. Tests: U32DeviateAboveInt32Max now checks that negative deviates saturate to 0 rather than relying on wraparound, and RngNormalIntSaturates covers mu next to each bound for 32- and 64-bit, signed and unsigned. All five fail on the previous commit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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maxwbuckley · 2026-09-24T21:28:16Z

@achirkin since your approval I've fixed a bug CI caught in normalInt for unsigned outputs: negative deviates were clamped to 0 on device. Out-of-range samples now saturate to the type's bounds, matching main's device behaviour. There are new tests in rng_int.cu, and the PR description is updated with the details. Could you take another look and /ok to test 3ed10185?

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Avoid unintended FP64 promotion in float kernels - #3133

Avoid unintended FP64 promotion in float kernels#3133
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1. reduce_rows_by_key — ternary promoted the inner loop to FP64

2. multi_variable_gaussian — pow(x, 0.5) binds to double pow(double, double)

3. normalInt — Box-Muller hardcoded to double

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1. `reduce_rows_by_key` — ternary promoted the inner loop to FP64

2. `multi_variable_gaussian` — `pow(x, 0.5)` binds to `double pow(double, double)`

3. `normalInt` — Box-Muller hardcoded to `double`

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