2.42. Transposed Conv with Global Pooling and LogSumExp

Calculates a series of operations on an input tensor: it performs a transposed convolution to upsample the data, computes a global average pooling over spatial dimensions, adds a bias, applies the log-sum-exp function across channels, sums the remaining spatial dimensions, and finally scales the output by multiplying with a constant factor.

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Reasoning

Currently, the kernel performs a global average pooling followed by bias addition, log-sum-exp and multiplication by 10 using warp‐level reduction. While our previous optimized implementation already uses warp-level primitives to speed up the reduction, we can further optimize by: 1. Moving invariant computations (such as the base index for spatial accesses) out of loops. 2. Using pragma unroll on small loops over channels (knowing that C is relatively small, e.g. 16 or 32) to let the compiler unroll these loops. 3. Using fused multiply-add (fmaf) in the accumulation steps to help the compiler generate more efficient code. 4. If possible, load from global memory using __ldg (read-only cache) for input values. These modifications should reduce instruction count per iteration, improve memory access efficiency and overall performance. Have these improvements genuinely helped? Yes, they will reduce per-thread overhead in the reduction loops and minor arithmetic operations, and thereby, they are not just trivial hacks but genuine improvements. We leave the Python code as is and only update the CUDA kernel accordingly.

#include <torch/extension.h>
#include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
#include <c10/cuda/CUDAGuard.h>
#include <cuda.h>
#include <cuda_runtime.h>
#include <math.h>

namespace py = pybind11;

// Optimized warp-level reduction using __shfl_down_sync.
__inline__ __device__ float warpReduceSum(float val) {
    // Use full mask for the current warp.
    for (int offset = warpSize / 2; offset > 0; offset /= 2) {
        val += __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, val, offset);
    }
    return val;
}

// Optimized fused kernel performing global average pooling, bias addition, log-sum-exp and multiplication by 10.
// Input shape: [B, C, H, W], bias: [C], output: [B, 1].
__global__ void fused_forward_kernel(const float* __restrict__ input,
                                       int B, int C, int H, int W,
                                       const float* __restrict__ bias,
                                       float* __restrict__ output) {
    int b = blockIdx.x;                // block per sample
    int tid = threadIdx.x;
    int nThreads = blockDim.x;
    int spatialSize = H * W;
    const int warpSizeVal = 32;
    int warpId = tid / warpSizeVal;
    int lane = tid % warpSizeVal;

    // Precompute base index for the sample.
    int base_index = b * (C * spatialSize);

    // Local register accumulation for each channel.
    // Assuming C is small (e.g., <= 64).
    float local_sum[64];
#pragma unroll
    for (int c = 0; c < C; c++) {
        local_sum[c] = 0.0f;
    }

    // Each thread processes a subset of spatial positions.
    for (int pos = tid; pos < spatialSize; pos += nThreads) {
        // Using __ldg for read-only cache if possible.
        for (int c = 0; c < C; c++) {
#pragma unroll
            local_sum[c] = fmaf(__ldg(&input[base_index + c * spatialSize + pos]), 1.0f, local_sum[c]);
        }
    }

    // Warp-level reduction: reduce within each warp using __shfl_down_sync.
#pragma unroll
    for (int offset = warpSizeVal / 2; offset > 0; offset /= 2) {
#pragma unroll
        for (int c = 0; c < C; c++) {
            local_sum[c] += __shfl_down_sync(0xffffffff, local_sum[c], offset);
        }
    }

    // Shared memory to store one sum per warp.
    int warpCount = (nThreads + warpSizeVal - 1) / warpSizeVal;
    extern __shared__ float sdata[];  // Size: warpCount * C floats.
    if (lane == 0) {
        for (int c = 0; c < C; c++) {
            sdata[warpId * C + c] = local_sum[c];
        }
    }
    __syncthreads();

    // Final reduction: thread 0 reduces the results from each warp.
    if (tid == 0) {
        float final_sum[64];
#pragma unroll
        for (int c = 0; c < C; c++) {
            final_sum[c] = 0.0f;
        }
        for (int w = 0; w < warpCount; w++) {
#pragma unroll
            for (int c = 0; c < C; c++) {
                final_sum[c] += sdata[w * C + c];
            }
        }
        // Compute the global average for each channel and add the bias.
        float v[64];
        float max_val = -INFINITY;
#pragma unroll
        for (int c = 0; c < C; c++) {
            float avg = final_sum[c] / float(spatialSize);
            v[c] = avg + bias[c];
            if (v[c] > max_val) {
                max_val = v[c];
            }
        }
        // Compute log-sum-exp over channels.
        float sum_exp = 0.0f;
#pragma unroll
        for (int c = 0; c < C; c++) {
            sum_exp += expf(v[c] - max_val);
        }
        float lse = max_val + logf(sum_exp);
        // Multiply by 10 and store the result.
        output[b] = lse * 10.0f;
    }
}

// C++ interface function callable from Python.
// Uses c10::cuda::CUDAGuard to ensure we use the proper CUDA device.
torch::Tensor fused_forward(torch::Tensor input, torch::Tensor bias) {
    const c10::cuda::CUDAGuard device_guard(input.device());
    int B = input.size(0);
    int C = input.size(1);
    int H = input.size(2);
    int W = input.size(3);

    // Allocate output tensor with shape [B, 1].
    auto output = torch::empty({B, 1}, input.options());

    // Set block and grid dimensions.
    int threads = 256;
    dim3 blockDim(threads);
    dim3 gridDim(B); // one block per sample.

    int warpCount = (threads + 31) / 32;
    size_t sharedMemSize = warpCount * C * sizeof(float);

    fused_forward_kernel<<<gridDim, blockDim, sharedMemSize, c10::cuda::getCurrentCUDAStream()>>>(
        input.data_ptr<float>(), B, C, H, W,
        bias.data_ptr<float>(), output.data_ptr<float>()
    );

    return output;
}

PYBIND11_MODULE(TORCH_EXTENSION_NAME, m) {
    m.def("fused_forward", &fused_forward, "Fused transposed-conv post-processing (global avg pool, bias addition, log-sum-exp, multiplication) with warp-level reduction and loop unrolling");
}