i8: add DotProductBatch register-blocked quantized matrix-vector kernel - #302
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DotProductBatch scores many int8 weight rows against one shared int8 activation vector into int32 (results[i] = DotProduct(rows[i], vec)): the quantized GEMM matrix-vector core and the highest-impact remaining Tier 1 item in the int8 surface tracked by #132. A fused 4-row kernel keeps vec resident across the group instead of re-streaming it per row (AVX2 VPMOVSXBW/VPMADDWD/VPADDD; ARM64 SDOT into four accumulators sharing the vec register per 16-byte block). Ragged groups and the trailing rows fall back to the shared per-row dotProductBatchRows dispatch. int32 addition wraps associatively, so any row grouping is bit-identical to the scalar dotGo reference, making parity the same as bit-exactness. Measured about 1.6 to 2.6x over a per-row DotProduct loop, zero allocations, on an i7-1260P (AVX2) and a Cortex-A76 (NEON SDOT). An empty vec zeroes results, matching the empty-row rule. Ships the established discipline: pure-Go reference, AVX2 and NEON kernels, parity plus bit-exact plus zero-allocation tests, differential fuzzing, and asmcheck cross-checks for the new SDOT/ADDV WORD encodings.
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Caller->>DotProductBatch: pass rows, vec, and results
DotProductBatch->>ArchitectureDispatch: process selected rows
ArchitectureDispatch->>FourRowKernel: process complete four-row groups
ArchitectureDispatch->>RowFallback: process ragged or trailing rows
FourRowKernel-->>DotProductBatch: write four int32 results
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Public API/docs currently state a no-overlap requirement that the new tests contradict, and the docs also misuse “capacity” where “elements” is meant.
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Pull request overview
Adds a new high-throughput int8 “matrix-vector core” API (DotProductBatch) to the i8 package, backed by fused 4-row SIMD kernels (AVX2 on amd64, SDOT on arm64) and a per-row fallback that reuses the existing DotProduct dispatch.
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- Introduces
DotProductBatch(results, rows, vec)with architecture-specific dispatch to a fused 4-row kernel when gates are met. - Implements new hand-written assembly kernels:
dotProduct4AVX2(amd64) anddotProduct4SDOT(arm64). - Adds comprehensive tests, fuzzing, examples, benchmarks, and README documentation for the new API.
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| File | Description |
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| README.md | Documents DotProductBatch and adds a usage snippet in the i8 section. |
| i8/i8.go | Adds the exported DotProductBatch API and its contract documentation. |
| i8/i8_other.go | Adds non-amd64/arm64 dispatch to the Go fallback row loop. |
| i8/i8_go.go | Adds shared Go fallback dotProductBatchRows (per-row dotI8 dispatch). |
| i8/i8_arm64.s | Adds fused 4-row SDOT kernel (dotProduct4SDOT) and scalar tail. |
| i8/i8_arm64.go | Adds arm64 dispatch/gating and the dotProduct4SDOT declaration. |
| i8/i8_amd64.s | Adds fused 4-row AVX2 kernel (dotProduct4AVX2) including tails and reduction. |
| i8/i8_amd64.go | Adds amd64 dispatch/gating and the dotProduct4AVX2 declaration. |
| i8/fuzz_test.go | Adds FuzzI8DotProductBatch with a seed that reaches the 4-row kernel path. |
| i8/example_test.go | Adds ExampleDotProductBatch. |
| i8/dot_product_batch_test.go | Adds targeted correctness/edge-case tests and an independent scalar oracle. |
| i8/benchmark_test.go | Adds BenchmarkDotProductBatch and a per-row loop baseline benchmark. |
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Fixed in cbce954. Reworded the contract: rows and vec are read-only and may overlap (a row can even be vec itself, as the wraparound test relies on), so the old no-overlap requirement was wrong. results is a distinct []int32 slice. Also changed "capacity" to "elements from index n onward" since those are slice elements, not spare capacity.
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i8/dot_product_batch_test.go (1)
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TestDotProductBatchalready checks tail results, but this allocation test uses only length 64. That length has no scalar tail in either fused kernel. A length of 63 makesAllocsPerRuncover the tail path as well.Proposed test change
- vec := genI8(64, 1) + vec := genI8(63, 1) rows := make([][]int8, 8) for r := range rows { - rows[r] = genI8(64, uint32(r+2)) + rows[r] = genI8(63, uint32(r+2)) }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@i8/dot_product_batch_test.go`:
- Around line 146-149: Update the allocation assertion setup in
TestDotProductBatch to generate vectors and rows of length 63 instead of 64,
ensuring AllocsPerRun exercises the scalar tail path in both fused kernels.
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Correct the DotProductBatch aliasing contract (rows and vec are read-only and may overlap; results is a distinct int32 slice), say elements rather than capacity for the untouched tail, fix the README example comment to name the in-scope activation vector, and length the allocation assertion at 63 so the fused kernels' scalar-tail residue is exercised allocation-free.
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Thanks, applied the nitpick in cbce954: the allocation test now uses length 63 so the fused kernels' scalar-tail residue is exercised allocation-free too, not just the 16-aligned path. |
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… below nfft 32 (#305) * f32/f64/f16: zero DotProductBatch on empty vec, add scalar IRFFT pack below nfft 32 Two follow-ups deferred from #302 and #293. #303: the public f32/f64 DotProductBatch returned early on an empty vec, leaving results[:n] holding stale values from a previous call. The dot product of an empty vector is 0, which is what an empty row already yields and what i8.DotProductBatch writes. Drop the len(vec)==0 short-circuit in f32, f64 and f16 so the kernel (which already zeroes results[i]=0 per row when vecLen==0 on every build target) runs and zeroes results[:n]. All four numeric packages now share the contract. New TestDotProductBatchEmptyVec in each. #295 item 1: below nfft 32 the vectorized IRFFT pack lost to the old scalar path because packInverse (shared by IRFFT and ISTFT's irfftFrameUnscaled) calls the non-inlined RealFFTUnpack, Scale and Interleave2 Go fallbacks plus two scratch clears and a split load. Add a fused scalar packInverse and scalar output/interleave below a half<16 cutoff (nfft<32). packInverseScalar inlines the realFFTUnpack Go-fallback even/odd math bin for bin and mirrors packInverse's 0-imag signed-zero convention, so it is bit-identical to the fallback where the vector path already used it (half<=8 on amd64 f32, half<=4 on amd64 f64) and preserves the short-spectrum == zero-filled contract; elsewhere it stays within the tolerance-stable IRFFT/ISTFT contract. half is always a power of two, so nfft>=32 keeps the vector path untouched. TestIRFFTShortInputs now sweeps nfft {8,16,32} so the scalar pack's short-spectrum guards and signed-zero handling are exercised bit-exactly. BenchmarkIRFFT, count=10 (arm64 core-pinned on Cortex-A76): amd64 i7-1260P f32 nfft4 -45% nfft8 -34% nfft16 -15%; f64 -44/-32/-11% arm64 A76 f32 nfft4 -37% nfft8 -25% nfft16 -3%; f64 -39/-28/-16% nfft>=32 unchanged on both arches; zero allocations preserved. * test: cover nfft 4 in IRFFT short-input sweep, assert empty spec bit-exactly Address CodeRabbit review on #305: extend TestIRFFTShortInputs to nfft 4 (the minimal scalar transform, half=2, where the single interior bin is its own mirror), make the dst-clamp partial length adaptive (min(7, nfft-1)) so nfft 4 does not break the n==plen assertion, and assert IRFFT(nil) equals IRFFT of a zero-filled spectrum bit for bit plus zero magnitude. That catches signed-zero and stale-value regressions without the false failure a plain +0-only bit check would give, since the odd output samples are a legitimate -0.0 (dst[2j+1] = -im*scale with im == +0).
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Summary
DotProductBatch(results []int32, rows [][]int8, vec []int8)scores many int8 weight rows against one shared int8 activation vector into int32 (results[i] = DotProduct(rows[i], vec)). It is the quantized GEMM matrix-vector core and the highest-impact remaining Tier 1 item of the int8 surface.A fused 4-row kernel keeps
vecresident across the group instead of re-streaming it per row: on AVX2 it sign-extends withVPMOVSXBWand multiply-accumulates withVPMADDWD/VPADDD; on ARM64 it usesSDOTinto four accumulators that share thevecregister loaded once per 16-byte block. Ragged groups (any row shorter thanvec) and the trailing rows past the last full group fall back to the shared per-row dispatch, which itself vectorizes each row through the existingDotProductkernel. int32 addition wraps associatively, so any row grouping is bit-identical to the scalar Go reference, which makes parity the same as bit-exactness (there is no float rounding contract to preserve).The dispatch gates the fused kernel on
len(rows) >= 4andvecLen >= 16(andFEAT_DotProdon ARM64); everything below that, plain NEON, and the pure-Go platform take the per-row fallback. An emptyveczeroesresults, matching the empty-row rule. The operation is allocation-free.Measured roughly 1.6 to 2.6x over a per-row
DotProductloop across a dims x rows grid, with zero allocations, on an i7-1260P (AVX2) and a Raspberry Pi 5 Cortex-A76 (NEON SDOT); the win is largest at the small-to-medium activation widths typical of quantized inference and converges toward the memory-bound per-row loop at very large dims.Related Issues
Advances the int8 surface tracking issue #132 (Tier 1, quantized inference). The umbrella issue stays open for the remaining Tier 1/2/3 items.
Test Plan
testing.AllocsPerRun == 0asmcheckcross-checks the newSDOT/ADDVWORD encodings againstarm64asm; reserved-register and ISA/FMA gates passgo vet,golangci-lint run ./...,gofmtall cleanSummary by CodeRabbit
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DotProductBatchfor computing multiple int8 dot products against a shared vector.Performance
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