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Sum the rows and weights of each cluster in a fixed order instead of with atomics, and use cub::DeviceReduce for the centroid shift and the weight sum. Identical fits now return bitwise-identical centroids, so the convergence check no longer stops at a different iteration from run to run.
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Use the environment-based cub::DeviceReduce with an explicit cuda::execution::determinism::run_to_run requirement for the cluster cost, the weight sum and the centroid shift. Temporary storage comes from the caller's workspace buffer through a small memory resource, so the reductions do not allocate on every call. Also let the per-cluster row sums take any data iterator and optional weights, and process the rows in passes of at most 2^22 to bound the workspace.
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This fixes the flaky KmeansFitBatchedTestF.Result/4 (11 CI hits, H100), which failed on centroid mismatches. The underlying problem is that two identical kmeans::fit calls (same data, same init=Array centroids) return different centroids. In reproducer #2787 on main, the new KmeansFitBatchedTest{F,D}.Reproducible test failed 400/400 in all 12 configs on H100 (run 38063498592). With this PR it failed 0/400 (run 38065210370, details).
- Root cause: the centroid update summed each cluster's rows and weights with atomics (
raft::linalg::reduce_rows_by_key/reduce_cols_by_key, main). The centroid shift and the weight sum usedmapThenSumReduce, which also combines with atomics. So the float summation order changed from run to run, and through the tolerance-based early stop it could change the iteration count (#2657). - Fix: the per-cluster sums use a fixed summation order: a stable radix sort by label, 256-row pieces, and a fixed-order combine. The scalar reductions use
cub::DeviceReducewith an explicitrun_to_rundeterminism requirement. I'm not using fixed-point accumulation. - Perf / accuracy (in the description; interleaved A/B in #2803, run 38154672010): per-iteration time ranges from 25% faster to 2% slower for n ≥ 1M on A100/H100. The big wins are at small k, where the atomics were contended. n≈100K with k ≥ 100 or d = 1024 is 5–11% slower (+0.05–0.1 ms/iter). Every config is bitwise reproducible. The max cluster-mean error against a long-double reference drops from 1.4e-3 to 7.7e-5 (common offset 100) and from 4.1e-8 to 3.3e-9 (U(-1, 1)). I ask about the small-n regression inline.
- CI: this PR's own run failed
SpectralClusteringTestF.Result/3and/7on arm64 / 12.2.2 / A100 in both attempts (attempt 1, attempt 2). That is the L2-expanded clamp flake that #2794 fixes, not a k-means regression. The stress branch #2793 (head23d182e3) contains both PRs and passed the same job in 4 of 4 attempts of run 38160969192. I suggest merging #2794 first and then re-running CI here.
| /** | ||
| * Deterministic per-cluster (weighted) row sums for the k-means centroid updates. | ||
| * | ||
| * Accumulating the rows of each cluster with atomics (as raft::linalg::reduce_rows_by_key does) | ||
| * makes the floating-point summation order, and therefore the centroids, vary from run to run. | ||
| * Through the convergence check this can change the number of Lloyd iterations, so two identical | ||
| * fits can return noticeably different centroids. Here the summation order is a function of the | ||
| * input only: | ||
| * | ||
| * 1. Row indices are stably sorted by label (cub::DeviceRadixSort), so each cluster becomes a | ||
| * contiguous segment. | ||
| * 2. Each segment is cut into pieces of at most `kRowsPerPiece` rows. One thread block reduces a | ||
| * piece with a fixed assignment of rows to threads and a fixed-order combine. | ||
| * 3. One thread block per cluster adds up that cluster's piece sums in the same fixed way, and | ||
| * adds the result to the output. | ||
| * | ||
| * The order depends only on the labels and the sizes, not on scheduling or on the launch | ||
| * configuration. | ||
| * | ||
| * Why not a CCCL reduction: cub::DeviceSegmentedReduce (run_to_run) and | ||
| * cub::DeviceReduce::ReduceByKey (run_to_run) reduce one scalar per segment or run. A | ||
| * [n_rows x n_cols] matrix would need n_clusters * n_cols segments that read the gathered rows | ||
| * column by column (strided, uncoalesced), and DeviceSegmentedReduce gives each segment to one | ||
| * thread block, which serializes large clusters when n_clusters is small. The per-cluster weight | ||
| * sum alone could use them, but it comes for free here in the same pass over the rows. |
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This replaces the atomic accumulation in compute_centroid_adjustments on main. There, the order in which rows reached each centroid_sums[c, j] depended on scheduling, so identical fits gave different centroids, even with max_iter=1 (#2783).
The order here depends only on the labels and the sizes:
- the stable sort puts each cluster's rows in input order;
- each 256-row piece is reduced by a fixed thread-to-row assignment plus a lane-ordered combine in shared memory (
fixed_order_column_sums); - the piece sums are added per cluster in piece order.
The last paragraph explains why I didn't use DeviceSegmentedReduce / ReduceByKey for the [n x d] row sums.
| constexpr int kBlockThreads = 256; | ||
| constexpr int kRowsPerPiece = 256; |
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These two constants (together with column_threads(n_cols)) define the summation order. Changing them later keeps fits deterministic, but it changes the bitwise result.
Question for reviewers: are fixed 256/256 constants acceptable, given that they define the reproducible result? Or would you want them tuned per architecture or problem size, at the cost of results that differ between GPUs or versions? (Results already differ across architectures, because the distance kernels do; see the gpu_to_gpu note in run_to_run_reduce.)
| /** Rows per pass of `weighted_sums_by_label`; bounds the workspace and fits 32-bit indices. */ | ||
| constexpr int64_t kMaxRowsPerPass = int64_t{1} << 22; |
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Workspace: 16 bytes per row of a pass (sort keys and row indices, double-buffered), plus (ceil(n/256) + k) · (d + 1) piece sums. On main the workspace was n_samples bytes (main). Capping a pass at 4M rows bounds the workspace, and keeps the indices 32-bit. Passes are accumulated in order (L395-L413), so a split into passes is still deterministic.
| sums_by_label::weighted_sums_by_label(handle, | ||
| X.data_handle(), | ||
| sample_weights.data_handle(), | ||
| cluster_labels, | ||
| X.extent(0), | ||
| X.extent(1), | ||
| n_clusters, | ||
| centroid_sums.data_handle(), | ||
| weight_per_cluster.data_handle(), | ||
| workspace, | ||
| reset_sums); | ||
| } |
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This is the call site that used to be reduce_rows_by_key + reduce_cols_by_key. Per the Performance section (#2803, run 38154672010), for n ≥ 1M it ranges from 25% faster to 2% slower per iteration on A100/H100. The large gains are where the atomics were contended, for example k=10 (1M x 32: -25%; 10M x 1024, k=100: -17% / -20%). At n≈100K with k ≥ 100 or d = 1024, it is 5–11% (about 0.05–0.1 ms) slower per iteration. Nsight Systems (A100, 100K x 128, k=100) shows why. The two cheap, uncontended atomic kernels (about 124 µs per iteration) become the sort, the segment/scan and the piece and cluster sums (about 195 µs per iteration), and the fixed cost of sorting by label dominates at that size.
Question for reviewers: is the small-n regression acceptable in exchange for bitwise-reproducible fits everywhere? Alternatively, I could add a size-based dispatch that keeps the atomic path below some n, but fits in that range would lose determinism again, and that is the range where the flaky test runs.
| run_to_run_reduce( | ||
| handle, | ||
| cuda::transform_iterator( | ||
| cuda::counting_iterator<IndexT>(0), | ||
| SquaredDiffOp<DataT, IndexT>{old_centroids.data_handle(), new_centroids.data_handle()}), | ||
| static_cast<IndexT>(old_centroids.size()), | ||
| sqrd_norm_out.data_handle(), | ||
| cuda::std::plus<>{}, | ||
| DataT{0}, | ||
| workspace); |
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sqrd_norm_out feeds the convergence check norm_err < tol (check_convergence on main). On main this used mapThenSumReduce (main), which combines block results with atomics. So the shift itself was noisy, and near tol the noise decided whether a fit stopped at iteration i or i+1. The cluster cost (L366-L367) and the weight sum (L284-L291) go through the same run_to_run_reduce now.
Question for reviewers: run_to_run_reduce uses the environment-based cub::DeviceReduce::Reduce with a small cuda::mr resource (workspace_buffer_resource) that hands out the caller's workspace. That way the determinism requirement is explicit rather than relying on cub's current default. Is that resource acceptable here, or would you rather keep the two-phase temp-storage API and rely on the default?
| // Fit the same data from the same initial centroids several times and require bitwise-identical | ||
| // results, both for device (in-memory) and host (batched) input. | ||
| void runReproducibleCheck() |
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This is the regression test: 3 fits from the same initial centroids, for both device and host-batched input, compared bitwise (centroids, inertia, n_iter). On main it failed 400/400 in every config on H100 (run 38063498592), and with this PR 0/400 (run 38065210370).
Question for reviewers: #2249 removed ASSERT_TRUE(centroids_match) from the float Result test (L763-L775), which hid this symptom on main. With that assertion restored on top of this fix, Result/* passed 400/400 on H100 (same run). The test comment still points at cuTile's TF32 assignment with outer host batches. Should I restore the float centroid check here, or keep it out because of that?
| * Why not a CCCL reduction: cub::DeviceSegmentedReduce (run_to_run) and | ||
| * cub::DeviceReduce::ReduceByKey (run_to_run) reduce one scalar per segment or run. A | ||
| * [n_rows x n_cols] matrix would need n_clusters * n_cols segments that read the gathered rows | ||
| * column by column (strided, uncoalesced), and DeviceSegmentedReduce gives each segment to one | ||
| * thread block, which serializes large clusters when n_clusters is small. The per-cluster weight | ||
| * sum alone could use them, but it comes for free here in the same pass over the rows. |
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Question for reviewers: the per-cluster sums can also be written as a matrix product, S = Lᵀ · diag(w) · X, where L is the n_rows × k one-hot label matrix. Library routes that read X coalesced:
- Dense GEMM (cuBLAS). GEMM is documented as bitwise reproducible from run to run on the same GPU model and toolkit, but it does
k · n · dmultiply-adds instead ofn · d(1000× the work at k=1000), and needs the one-hot matrix materialized (k × n). - Sparse × dense (cuSPARSE SpMM).
Lᵀin CSR has one row per cluster, with that cluster's row indices as column indices and the weights as values. That is exactly what the stable sort andsegment_kernelhere already produce (sorted_rows+cluster_offsets), so SpMM could replacepiece_sums_kernel/cluster_sums_kernelbut not the sort. The work isO(n · d). I haven't checked which SpMM CSR algorithms are run-to-run deterministic, nor how they perform with very uneven row lengths (one row per cluster, k as small as 10).
Is either worth benchmarking against the custom kernels, or do you prefer keeping the summation self-contained here?
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min(n_clusters, n_rows)when sizingmax_pieces. The current bound over-allocatespiece_sumswhen k is large.Only a cluster with at least one row creates pieces. The real piece count is therefore at most
ceil(n_rows / 256) + min(n_clusters, n_rows). The current bound adds the fulln_clusters. Thepiece_sumsbuffer then reserves aboutn_clusters * (n_cols + 1) * sizeof(DataT)bytes even when a pass has only a few rows.This matters for host-batched fits. There,
n_rowsis limited bydevice_buffer_samples, and k can be much larger than that. For k = 65536, d = 1024, float, the buffer needs about 270 MB more workspace than necessary. This adds to the k×dcentroid_sumsalready held, so it can cause an OOM wheremainused onlyn_samplesbytes. The grid size at Line 323 uses the same bound and also shrinks with this change.The summation order does not depend on
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kmeans::fitaccumulated the per-cluster sums of rows and weights with atomics (raft::linalg::reduce_rows_by_key/reduce_cols_by_key). It also usedmapThenSumReducefor the centroid shift and the weight sum. As a result, identical fits returned different centroids from run to run, and the noise could change the iteration at which the convergence check stops (#2657).This PR:
cub::DeviceRadixSortby label, fixed-size pieces, and a fixed-order combine. The code comment explains whyDeviceSegmentedReduce/ReduceByKeydon't fit an [n x d] matrix.cub::DeviceReducewith an explicitcuda::execution::determinism::run_to_runrequirement for the cluster cost, the weight sum and the centroid shift. Temporary storage comes from the caller's workspace.Repeated fits are now bitwise identical. Adds a
KmeansFitBatchedTest{F,D}.Reproducibletest.This only changes regular k-means (
kmeans::fit, including host-data batched fits). Balanced k-means, and therefore the IVF-Flat/PQ/SQ/RaBitQ and CAGRA (IVF-PQ graph) builds, do not use the changed code.Performance
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main(24b0b17) andmain+ this PR are built identically in the same CI run (CUDA 13.3, driver 595.91). One benchmark binary is linked against eachlibcuvs.so. Variants are interleaved in 5 rounds with rotating order, 1 warmup + 2 timed fits per round (10 samples). Data is uniform random, Array init from the first k rows, andmax_iter=10(3 when 2nkd > 3e12), so every fit runs the same number of iterations. Values are median time per Lloyd iteration, and the change is in the median. A third build with code identical tomainfor k-means (#2804) is run as a control: on A100 it stays within ±0.6% ofmainfor every fixed-iteration config. The H100 job was noisier (±3–10% A/A).The full sweep covers n in {100K, 1M, 10M}, d in {32, 128, 1024}, k in {10, 100, 1000, 10000} (except 10M x 1024 x 10000), plus weights, double, batched host data and k-means++ init: 53 configs per GPU. On A100, 19 configs are more than 3% faster and 7 are more than 3% slower. Six of the slower ones are the n=100K configs in the table. The seventh is an early-stopping case where this PR converges after 2 iterations instead of 4–20, so its per-iteration time is not comparable (total time drops from 69 ms to 23 ms). On GH200, GB300, RTX PRO 6000 and L4 (8 configs each, 1M–10M rows), the change ranges from -11.1% to +1.2%.
Regression at small n. For n ≈ 100K with k ≥ 100 (or d = 1024), each iteration is 0.05–0.1 ms (5–11%) slower. Nsight Systems on A100 for 100K x 128, k=100 shows the cause. On
main, the centroid update is 2 kernels, about 124 µs per iteration (sum_rows_by_key115 µs +reduce_cols_by_key9 µs). With this PR it is 9 kernels, about 195 µs per iteration: radix sort by label (histogram + onesweep, about 31 µs), init/segment/scan (about 22 µs), piece sums (130 µs) and cluster sums (9 µs). With few rows and uncontended atomics, the fixed cost of sorting by label dominates. For large n or few clusters, the atomics are contended and the sorted version is up to 4–7x faster (microbenchmark: 1M x 128 x k=10: 1.46 → 0.74 ms; 10M x 2 x k=8: 5.9 → 0.9 ms). The same profile showsFusedDistanceNN6–7% slower for d=128 in this PR's build. These profiles were sequential, not interleaved, and the interleaved runs do not show this at larger k, so I haven't attributed it to this PR.Accuracy
mainreturned a different result in nearly every fit (52 of 53 configs on A100).main(100K x 32, k=100), and 2.8e-7 vs. 1.6e-6 (1M x 128, k=1000). Inertia agrees withmainto 6–7 significant digits. Because the centroid shift is no longer noisy, a converged fit stops as soon as the centroids stop moving. For 1M x 32, k=1000 with weights, this PR stops after 2 iterations andmainruns 4–20.Logs: full sweep https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuvs/actions/runs/38154672010 (A100 k-means job, H100 k-means job), profiles https://github.com/NVIDIA/cuvs/actions/runs/38160888485. Benchmark code: #2803. The A100 sweep ran on an arm64 host. The H100 sweep and the A100 profiles ran on amd64.
Closes #2657. Part of #2783.