Use torch.repeat instead of expand on key & value in Triton MQA to prevent NaNs with certain h_dims #442
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For h_dim=8, we see NaNs due to a
.expand
of the key value tensors, which can be resolved with.repeat
. While h_dim=8 is an edge case, we are not sure if there are other cases of h_dims for which this might be problematic, or if there might be silent failures.Note that this does come at a performance hit, see MFU for 7b, so it may be desirable to revert this change in the future.
(blue curve:
.expand()
green curve.repeat()
red curve.expand().clone()
)