[AutoDeploy]: MLA optimizations for DS-R1
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🚀 The feature, motivation and pitch
- Torch operators: MLA MHA-mode (no weight absorption) with and without cache.
- FlashInfer operators: MLA MQA-mode (weight absorption) with cache; for decode and mixed decode+prefill (flattened). Uses
flashinfer.mla.BatchMLAPagedAttentionWrapperandflashinfer.append_paged_mla_kv_cache - Weight absorption optimizer pass
- Patch deepseek R1
- Pytorch and FlashInfer MLA backends
- Cuda graph for FlashInfer MLA operator
- All correctness tests are passing
In a future task:
- FlashInfer MLA MHA-mode (no weight absorption) with cache; ragged; for prefill-only. Uses
flashinfer.BatchPrefillWithRaggedKVCacheWrapper
This kernel is performant in prefill-only use-cases.
To support mixed decode+prefill we need to:
1. Compute newckv+k_peand append to the cache (paged)
2. Read from the cache and write to a new ragged layout (paged cache has "holes") and the kernel only useskv_indptrwithout lengths.
3. Compute the output
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