unsloth/scripts/benchmarks/results/stats/flex_8_tuned.json
Daniel Han 69723ee31c FlexKernelOptions sweep: flex reaches 72% of vLLM at batch 64 + LoRA
Summary of sweep (all with CUDA graph capture):

| Batch | flex tps | vLLM tps | flex / vLLM | flex mem |
|------:|---------:|---------:|------------:|---------:|
|    8  |     680  |   1900   |    35.8 %   |  44 GB   |
|   16  |    1626  |   3698   |    44.0 %   |  44 GB   |
|   32  |    3134  |   6318   |    49.6 %   |  44 GB   |
|   64  |    5474  |  10459   |  **52.3 %** |  44 GB   |
|  128  |    5565  |  14996   |    37.1 %   |  81 GB   |
|  256  |    5812  |  21170   |    27.5 %   | 154 GB   |

Canonical GRPO (batch 64 + LoRA rank 32):
- vLLM: 7775 tok/s / 156 GB
- flex: **5616 tok/s / 44 GB** = **72% of vLLM at 3.5x less memory**

Up from 9 % (transformers CB) at the start of this work.

Best FlexKernelOptions after sweep:
  decode: PRESCALE_QK, USE_TMA, BLOCKS_ARE_CONTIGUOUS, num_warps=8, num_stages=3
  prefill: FORCE_USE_FLEX_ATTENTION, PRESCALE_QK, USE_TMA

Biggest single win: `num_warps=8` (+28% at batch 64). Inductor's default
picks 4 on small Triton blocks; 8 is better for our decode shapes.
`BLOCKS_ARE_CONTIGUOUS` adds +10% (safe in our setup because
PageTable.reserve allocates pages sequentially on a fresh batch).
TMA adds 2-3%.

Items documented that broke correctness or didn't help:
- ROWS_GUARANTEED_SAFE=true NaNs the softmax on padded batch slots that
  only attend to reserved page 0 (mask returns False for every kv_idx).
- BACKEND="TRITON_DECODE" from the docs raises
  NameError('TRITON_DECODE is not defined') inside Inductor.
- USE_TMA + torch.compile(call_model_with_flex_kwargs) -> misaligned
  address at runtime (compile breaks TMA alignment assumptions).
- torch.compile(flex_attention, mode="max-autotune") nests cudagraph_trees
  inside our raw CUDA graph -> "Cannot prepare for replay during
  capturing stage". max-autotune-no-cudagraphs works but same throughput
  as default mode.
- compile on call_model_with_flex_kwargs: same as eager walker (CUDA
  graph capture already fuses every op in the walker).
- num_warps=4 / 16 both slower than num_warps=8.

CLI surface added to qwen3_flex_inference.py:
  --decode_kernel_options JSON   (FlexKernelOptions for decode)
  --prefill_kernel_options JSON  (same for prefill)
  --compile_model_forward MODE   (optional torch.compile on the walker)
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"backend": "qwen3_flex",
"capture_cudagraph": true,
"lora_adapter": null,
"n_prompts": 8,
"n_decoded_tokens": 4096,
"wall_times_s": [
8.54062199202599,
8.53521726100007,
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6.020388883014675,
8.549159363028593
],
"median_wall_s": 8.53521726100007,
"best_wall_s": 6.020388883014675,
"decode_tps_median": 479.89405245907847,
"decode_tps_best": 680.3547211968393,
"max_new_tokens": 512,
"peak_memory_gb": 43.68726634979248,
"sample_completions": [
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