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[None][fix] Compute the Cosmos3 rotary table with a broadcast multiply, not a K=1 matmul - #19532

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  • Cosmos3 rotary-frequency calculation now uses elementwise broadcast multiplication instead of batched matrix multiplication. This avoids relying on GEMM precision settings for the position-frequency product and targets TF32-related errors at large positions.
  • The change is limited to the Cosmos3 implementation. Similar matmul patterns elsewhere remain outside this change.

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  • Modified tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_cosmos3_transformer.py. The CUDA tests compare cosine and sine tables with an fp64 reference for text and fps-scaled vision positions at lengths 4096–16384, with TF32 enabled and disabled. They check output dtype, an absolute-error limit of 5e-3, and restoration of the original TF32 setting; they skip without CUDA or below SM80.
  • The test file is included in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml. No corresponding manual-QA list entry was found.
  • Coverage verdict: sufficient for the changed precision calculation. The supplied results report mixed CI outcomes; they do not establish an overall passing test status.

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  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/models/cosmos3/transformer_cosmos3.py: Verify the rotary cosine and sine tables remain accurate for large positions when TF32 is enabled and disabled. The observable change replaces matrix multiplication with elementwise multiplication; it does not change the public API.
  • tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_cosmos3_transformer.py: Covers text and vision rotary tables against an fp64 reference under both TF32 settings. The file is listed for CI in tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_b200.yml.

Description

Cosmos3 video quality degrades on Blackwell inside the NGC release images: frames past t≈40 smear and never recover (Laplacian sharpness retention 0.63 vs 0.94 on a healthy stack). Reported and confirmed by two people on GB200 during the cookbook review in NVIDIA/cosmos#310 (see NVIDIA/cosmos#310 (review)); the same image on B200 is degraded as well (0.72), H100/H200 are fine.

Root cause: NGC PyTorch images set TORCH_ALLOW_TF32_CUBLAS_OVERRIDE=1, so fp32 GEMMs run in TF32. Qwen3VLTextRotaryEmbedding.forward built the 3D mRoPE angle table as inv_freq @ position_ids, an fp32 batched matmul with inner dimension 1. On sm100 cuBLAS serves that shape with a TF32 kernel for the sequence lengths Cosmos3 produces, and TF32's 10-bit mantissa cannot represent positions above 2048. Cosmos3 positions reach ~10k (4096 text tokens, modality margin, fps-scaled vision positions), so the rotary phase of late tokens is off by up to 5 rad. Late frames carry the largest positions, hence the time-dependent smearing. On sm90 cuBLAS picks a non-TF32 kernel for that shape, and pip torch 2.13 is exact on both.

Fix: the table is an outer product, so compute it with an elementwise multiply. Same arithmetic, no GEMM, unaffected by any matmul precision setting. Output is bit-identical on stacks that were already correct (native aarch64 build and the rc27 wheel: same output sha256 before and after) and healthy inside the unchanged NGC image on GB200 (retention 0.939). No change to container environment or global torch flags.

Evidence, same GB200, same cookbook forward-dynamics request, seed 0:

stack sharpness retention
NGC rc26 image as shipped 0.632
image, TORCH_ALLOW_TF32_CUBLAS_OVERRIDE=0 0.939
image, attention pinned to flash 0.639 (attention is not the cause)
image + this fix, TF32 left on 0.939
pip rc27 wheel / native head, with or without the fix 0.939, identical bytes

Micro-check of the K=1 fp32 matmul against fp64 inside the image: H200 0.0005, B200 5.06 rad, GB200 5.06 rad; the elementwise multiply is 4.85e-4 (the fp32 floor) everywhere.

The diff is two files: the one-line change in transformer_cosmos3.py and its regression test. An earlier revision of this branch also carried a waives.txt line for an unrelated GB300 DeepSeek perf-sanity case; that has been dropped and the branch merged with current main. The case was already fixed on main by #19424, which this branch's base predated by about eight hours, so no waiver is needed.

Follow-up, not in this PR

The same inv_freq @ position_ids K=1 GEMM is still present at:

  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_gemma4_vision.py:202
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/patches/phi.py:75,116,151
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/modeling_eagle.py:245
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/modeling_nemotron_flash.py:504
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/modeling_qwen3_5_moe.py:293

Kernel selection is shape-dependent, so these are not being claimed as broken. They are the same construct under the same container flag and deserve an audit, modeling_gemma4_vision.py first since it sits on the live PyTorch backend path. Note that each of the AutoDeploy sites wraps the matmul in torch.autocast(enabled=False) under a comment about forcing float32 for long contexts; autocast and TF32 are separate switches, so that guard does not prevent this. If more than one turns out to be affected, a shared helper would beat repeating the comment at each site.

Test Coverage

  • New TestRotaryTablePrecision in tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_cosmos3_transformer.py (already in l0_b200.yml): builds the rotary table at sequence lengths 4096/6240/8192/10336/16384, fractional temporal axis included, with allow_tf32 False and True, and checks cos/sin against an fp64 reference within the fp32 floor. Skipped below SM80, where TF32 does not exist and the case would pass without covering anything. No checkpoint needed. Verified on GB200 inside the rc26 image: the old matmul fails the allow_tf32=True cases at 4096..10336 (cuBLAS picks a TF32 kernel only at some sizes; 16384 happens to be exact), the fix passes 10/10; pip torch 2.13 passes 10/10 with and without the override.
  • Manual: Cosmos3-Nano forward-dynamics cookbook request on GB200 inside nvcr.io/nvidia/tensorrt-llm/release:1.3.0rc26.dev202609060001 with and without the fix (table above).
  • Full pre-merge CI passed on the pre-merge revision of this branch: 5184 passed, 0 failed across all four pipelines.

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…y, not a K=1 matmul

The 3D mRoPE angle table was built as inv_freq @ position_ids, an fp32
batched matmul with inner dimension 1. That is an outer product, but as a
GEMM it runs in TF32 wherever fp32 GEMMs are allowed to (NGC PyTorch images
set TORCH_ALLOW_TF32_CUBLAS_OVERRIDE=1), and TF32 cannot represent positions
above 2048. Cosmos3 positions reach ~10k, so on Blackwell the rotary phase of
late tokens was off by up to 5 rad and late video frames smeared.

Use an elementwise multiply instead. Same arithmetic, no GEMM, immune to
matmul precision settings; output is bit-identical on stacks that were
already correct.

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The Cosmos3 rotary embedding now computes frequencies with elementwise multiplication. CUDA tests check cosine and sine outputs for long text and vision sequences with TF32 enabled and disabled.

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Cosmos3 RoPE precision

Layer / File(s) Summary
RoPE frequency computation
tensorrt_llm/_torch/visual_gen/models/cosmos3/transformer_cosmos3.py
Qwen3VLTextRotaryEmbedding.forward uses elementwise multiplication to combine inverse frequencies and position IDs.
Precision validation
tests/unittest/_torch/visual_gen/test_cosmos3_transformer.py
CUDA tests compare cosine and sine outputs with a float64 reference across five sequence lengths and both TF32 settings. The tests check output dtype, enforce an error below 5e-3, and restore the original TF32 setting.

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…atial ids

TF32 only exists from Ampere on, so allow_tf32=True passed trivially on
older GPUs and looked like coverage it did not provide. The third mRoPE
axis also used half-integral positions, which no Cosmos3 pathway produces:
text ids share one integer ramp across all three axes and only the vision
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The waiver commit doesn't belong here, and it's likely unnecessary on a current base — details inline. The Description section also never mentions it; only the auto-generated block does.

Title tag: [None] is thin for this one. A video-quality regression in shipped images, confirmed by two reporters on GB200, should carry an NVBug or JIRA so the fix is traceable from the bug side — the NVBUG currently in the body belongs to the unrelated waiver.

Follow-up, not for this PR: the same inv_freq @ position_ids K=1 GEMM is still live in

  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/models/modeling_gemma4_vision.py:202
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/patches/phi.py:75,116,151
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/modeling_eagle.py:245
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/modeling_nemotron_flash.py:504
  • tensorrt_llm/_torch/auto_deploy/models/custom/modeling_qwen3_5_moe.py:293

Kernel selection is shape-dependent, so I'm not claiming these are broken — but they're the same construct under the same container flag and worth an audit, Gemma4 vision especially since it's on the live PyTorch backend path. If more than one is affected, a shared helper beats six copies of your comment.

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Every Cosmos3 request calls the rotary forward with two dtypes: the text
tower passes an int64 ramp, and vision, audio and action pass fp32 when
fps modulation is on and int64 when it is off. The test only built fp32
ids, so the int64 path was unexercised. Add it as a separate
parametrization, since torch.stack needs one common dtype, and assert the
returned dtype follows the probe rather than the position ids.

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