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perf(ddx-ad): join a contraction's cotangent on keys the join makes equal - #220
In batched, multi-head attention's backward, ddx's contraction of v with the output's cotangent was a cross product over every pair of sequences and heads: (sequences × heads × positions)² rows. At xarray-sql's GPT size that is 9,437,184 rows, 23 s of a 66 s step on DuckDB, and the step's 9.2 GB memory peak (#217).
The output joins a.seq = v.seq AND a.h = v.h AND a.j = v.pos and groups by a.seq, a.i, a.h, v.c. The contraction rule builds t, v joined to the cotangent and summed, from the keys v and the cotangent share directly: only c. v.seq equals the cotangent's seq only through a.
How
shape puts the region's columns in classes that its equalities (= or IS NOT DISTINCT FROM, within a side or between them) hold equal, transitively. A key between the sides records, for each side, a grouping key in its class. When side x is transposed, t joins the cotangent on y.key IS NOT DISTINCT FROM c.group for each such key, and sums by that group column once instead of by the key.
The classes, and the split of the inputs into sides that was there before, share one small union-find, Classes.
Each key pair is stated once in t's join with the cotangent, and in X's with t: a plan may repeat a join key, as DuckDB's does.
It is right because every row of the region satisfies every equality, so a pair of a Y row and a cotangent row that fails the new condition can join no row of X through t's keys. Attention's contraction has sequences × heads × positions² rows, at most twice the scores'.
Edge cases
NULL keys. Each class is "equal or both NULL in every joined row", which holds for = and IS NOT DISTINCT FROM alike. t still drops Y's NULL keys for a key joined with =.
A key equal to a grouping key on Y's own side adds nothing: the cotangent already meets Y on that key.
Tests
contraction_transpose.rs:
batched_attention_matches_the_general_rule: 60 random cases with sequences and heads, missing rows and NULL sequence keys in v. The gradients of q, k and v match a general-rule loss, and neither join is rebuilt.
batched_attention_pairs_no_two_sequences_or_heads: every contraction step has at most S·H·T² rows. It fails on main with 2,301 rows.
The issue's repro now gives 384 rows (was 2,304), with the same gradient on DuckDB and DataFusion. At the GPT size it gives 196,608 rows (was 9,437,184), and the attention backward takes 2.1 s on DuckDB.
Improved gradient calculations for batched, multi-head causal attention, including cases where join keys overlap with grouping keys.
Reduced redundant join mappings during contraction processing.
Tests
Added checks comparing contraction-based gradients with general-rule gradients across randomized attention inputs and verifying row-count limits for fixed-size inputs.
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In batched attention's backward, the contraction of v with the output's
cotangent joined the two on the channel alone and grouped by both sides'
sequence, head and position: (sequences × heads × positions)² rows, 9.4M
at xarray-sql's GPT size. v's sequence and head equal the cotangent's only
through the weights (a.seq = v.seq, and a.seq is grouped by).
The contraction rule now takes the classes of columns the region's
equalities hold equal, transitively. A join key in the class of a
grouping key of the side being transposed joins t's cotangent on that
key too, and t is summed by it once. Attention's contraction has
sequences × heads × positions² rows: 196,608 at the GPT size.
Closes#217.
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Contraction shapes now track grouping keys transitively equal to join keys. Transpose construction uses these keys in cotangent joins, intermediate aggregation, and joins back to the differentiated side. New batched-attention tests compare gradients and check contraction result sizes.
Shape.keys now stores structured keys with side columns, null-equality mode, and matching grouping keys. Shape construction derives these relationships from recognized join equalities.
Use grouping keys in transpose construction crates/ddx-ad/src/contraction.rs, crates/ddx-datafusion/tests/contraction_transpose.rs
Transpose construction uses matching grouping keys in cotangent joins, intermediate aggregation, and joins back to the differentiated side. Tests compare contraction and general-rule gradients across 60 randomized cases and check contraction row counts for a fixed input.
Exit: xarray-sql's ML demos differentiate on DuckDB #150: Requires correct gradients in DuckDB ML demos; these changes verify gradient agreement for batched attention but do not establish completion of that broader objective.
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xqlsystems/ddx#207: Deduplicates repeated join-key and grouping columns in the contraction transpose path modified here.
xqlsystems/ddx#209: Releases the earlier contraction fix from PR #207, which this change extends.
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🌀 Claude: I tried this branch (fd82ce7) on xarray-sql's GPT at nanoGPT's CPU size on DuckDB 1.5.6. The training step goes from 66 s to 30.3 s and the peak from 9.2 GB to 5.8 GB, and the gradients still match JAX. #217's repro gives 384 rows on both backends.
Most of what's left is a second join of the same kind that this PR doesn't reach: the softmax normalizer is joined to the weights on i alone, inside the steps. That's #222, with a repro. Fine to land this as is and fix that separately.
Add provenance for the target contraction before asserting its bound.
The scores/v path is the contraction for the saved_0 aggregate with v as the other side. Its materialized name is only contraction_<step>, so the fixed test cannot identify it. rebuilds is also insufficient: it returns false both when the contraction replaces the join and when no matching backward join exists.
Expose the saved aggregate and contraction side to the test, or add an equivalent structural matcher. Assert that the saved_0/v contraction exists and that its materialized row count is within the bound.
The randomized test detects a fallback only when the saved_0/v contribution is processed and the general rule emits the matching join. It does not detect an omitted target path, and it uses a different wrt set.
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Add a deterministic matching-NULL transitive-key test.
The null-safe forward query can reach the new grouping-key cotangent join without the IS NOT NULL filter. If that join uses ordinary equality, the NULL sequence row does not join and its gradient contribution is omitted.
The current batched test cannot detect this case. It uses ordinary equality for the forward joins, and its fixture makes only v.s nullable. The existing nullable-key test covers direct joins, not this transitive grouping-key path.
Add a caller-level test with one deterministic row in each of q, k, and v, using s = NULL, non-NULL h, t, and d, and IS NOT DISTINCT FROM for the sequence joins. Use non-NULL values so the dropped contribution produces a measurable gradient difference.
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Batched attention's output joins the softmax normalizer on the sequence,
head and position. DuckDB's plan states the sequence and head through v
(v.s = n.s AND v.s = a.s), so the side weights JOIN norm was rebuilt on
the position alone, pairing each score with every sequence's and head's
normalizer. A later join on those keys dropped the extra rows, so the
gradient was right, but the step was S·H times larger than it needed.
Each side is now rebuilt with the equalities its own columns hold through
the region's: the fewest that tie each class's columns on the side. One
is = where its class is all =, so DataFusion hashes it with the side's
own = keys, and IS NOT DISTINCT FROM otherwise. Every row of the region
holds them, so they drop only rows that join no row of it.
The issue's repro: each normalizer join has the weights' 216 rows, not
1,296. At nanoGPT's CPU size on DuckDB, cotangent_2, 14.6 s with #220,
is no longer among the slowest steps: a training step takes 27 s
against 34 s, measured interleaved on a loaded machine, and peaks at
2.3 GB of memory, against the 5.8 GB the issue reported.
Closes#222.
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…lies
Batched attention's output joins the softmax normalizer on the sequence,
head and position. DuckDB's plan states the sequence and head through v
(v.s = n.s AND v.s = a.s), so the side weights JOIN norm was rebuilt on
the position alone, pairing each score with every sequence's and head's
normalizer. A later join on those keys dropped the extra rows, so the
gradient was right, but the step was S·H times larger than it needed.
Each side is now rebuilt with the equalities its own columns hold through
the region's: the fewest that tie each class's columns on the side. One
is = where its class is all =, so DataFusion hashes it with the side's
own = keys, and IS NOT DISTINCT FROM otherwise. Every row of the region
holds them, so they drop only rows that join no row of it.
The issue's repro: each normalizer join has the weights' 216 rows, not
1,296. At nanoGPT's CPU size on DuckDB, cotangent_2, 14.6 s with #220,
is no longer among the slowest steps: a training step takes 27 s
against 34 s, measured interleaved on a loaded machine, and peaks at
2.3 GB of memory, against the 5.8 GB the issue reported.
Closes#222.
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…lies (#225)
Batched attention's output joins the softmax normalizer on the sequence,
head and position. DuckDB's plan states the sequence and head through v
(v.s = n.s AND v.s = a.s), so the side weights JOIN norm was rebuilt on
the position alone, pairing each score with every sequence's and head's
normalizer. A later join on those keys dropped the extra rows, so the
gradient was right, but the step was S·H times larger than it needed.
Each side is now rebuilt with the equalities its own columns hold through
the region's: the fewest that tie each class's columns on the side. One
is = where its class is all =, so DataFusion hashes it with the side's
own = keys, and IS NOT DISTINCT FROM otherwise. Every row of the region
holds them, so they drop only rows that join no row of it.
The issue's repro: each normalizer join has the weights' 216 rows, not
1,296. At nanoGPT's CPU size on DuckDB, cotangent_2, 14.6 s with #220,
is no longer among the slowest steps: a training step takes 27 s
against 34 s, measured interleaved on a loaded machine, and peaks at
2.3 GB of memory, against the 5.8 GB the issue reported.
Closes#222.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Attention's backward joins its cotangent on the keys its join holds
equal (#220), and rebuilds each side with the equalities that implies
(#225): nanoGPT's CPU training step on DuckDB takes about 27 s rather
than 34-48 s, and peaks at 2.3 GB rather than 5.8 GB. A run drops each
intermediate table once nothing later reads it (#223). In Python, a
step whose column names would grow exponentially runs as SQL (#221),
and DuckDB calls read the catalog once and replay without the planner
(#224). Nothing public breaks; ddx-ad adds inlined_size.
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Why
In batched, multi-head attention's backward, ddx's contraction of
vwith the output's cotangent was a cross product over every pair of sequences and heads: (sequences × heads × positions)² rows. At xarray-sql's GPT size that is 9,437,184 rows, 23 s of a 66 s step on DuckDB, and the step's 9.2 GB memory peak (#217).The output joins
a.seq = v.seq AND a.h = v.h AND a.j = v.posand groups bya.seq, a.i, a.h, v.c. The contraction rule buildst,vjoined to the cotangent and summed, from the keysvand the cotangent share directly: onlyc.v.seqequals the cotangent'sseqonly througha.How
shapeputs the region's columns in classes that its equalities (=orIS NOT DISTINCT FROM, within a side or between them) hold equal, transitively. A key between the sides records, for each side, a grouping key in its class. When sidexis transposed,tjoins the cotangent ony.key IS NOT DISTINCT FROM c.groupfor each such key, and sums by that group column once instead of by the key.The classes, and the split of the inputs into sides that was there before, share one small union-find,
Classes.Each key pair is stated once in
t's join with the cotangent, and inX's witht: a plan may repeat a join key, as DuckDB's does.It is right because every row of the region satisfies every equality, so a pair of a
Yrow and a cotangent row that fails the new condition can join no row ofXthrought's keys. Attention's contraction has sequences × heads × positions² rows, at most twice the scores'.Edge cases
=andIS NOT DISTINCT FROMalike.tstill dropsY's NULL keys for a key joined with=.Y's own side adds nothing: the cotangent already meetsYon that key.Tests
contraction_transpose.rs:batched_attention_matches_the_general_rule: 60 random cases with sequences and heads, missing rows and NULL sequence keys inv. The gradients ofq,kandvmatch a general-rule loss, and neither join is rebuilt.batched_attention_pairs_no_two_sequences_or_heads: every contraction step has at most S·H·T² rows. It fails on main with 2,301 rows.The issue's repro now gives 384 rows (was 2,304), with the same gradient on DuckDB and DataFusion. At the GPT size it gives 196,608 rows (was 9,437,184), and the attention backward takes 2.1 s on DuckDB.
Closes #217.
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