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Add TornadoVM transformer and GPU execution optimizations
Introduced extensive performance improvements for TornadoVM, including numerical, memory, and GPU execution optimizations. Enhancements include quantized weight support, vectorized operations, key-value caching, parallelized attention, and optimized GPU memory transfers. These changes significantly improve efficiency for transformer-based models like LLaMA.
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## TornadoVM Transformer Optimizations
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### Core Numerical Optimizations
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- **Quantized Weight Support**
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- Optimized implementations for Q8_0 and Q4_0 formats
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- Block-based quantization with FP16 scale per 32-element block
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- **Vectorized Matrix Operations**
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- Uses vector parallelism with configurable unroll factors
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- Processes 4 elements at once with vectorization
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- **Loop Unrolling**
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- Strategic unrolling for performance (16x factor in matrix operations)
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- Reduces branch penalties and improves instruction-level parallelism
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- **Fused Multiply-Add (FMA)**
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- Uses fused operations for better numerical precision and performance
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- Optimizes dot product calculations
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### Memory and Caching Optimizations
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- **Key-Value Cache**
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- Efficiently stores past key-values for autoregressive generation
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- Organized by layer, position, and dimension for fast access
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- **Scale Caching**
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- Avoids redundant decompression of quantized weights
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- Caches scale factors for efficient block processing
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- **Optimized GPU Memory Transfers**
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- Minimizes host-device data movement
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- One-time transfer of static data (weights, caches)
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- Per-execution transfer of dynamic data (position, activations)
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- **Device-to-Device Data Consumption**
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- Efficient data transfer between operations
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- Reduces PCI-E bandwidth bottlenecks
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### Algorithmic Optimizations
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- **Parallel Reduction RMS Normalization**
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- Implements two-phase reduction for efficient normalization
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- Work group optimization for parallel sums
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- **Rotary Position Embeddings (RoPE)**
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- Optimized implementation for positional encoding
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- Efficient rotation of query and key vectors
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- **Optimized Float16 Decoding**
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- Fast decoder for half-precision floating point format
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- Special case handling for better performance
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- **Parallelized Attention**
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- Computes attention heads in parallel
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- Optimized softmax with max subtraction for numerical stability
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- **Fused Feed-Forward Networks**
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- Combines operations for SwiGLU variant used in LLaMA models
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- Optimized SiLU and GELU activation functions
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### GPU Execution Optimizations
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- **Layered Execution Planning**
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- Organizes computation as separate layer-based task graphs
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- Strategic scheduling of operations
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- **Work Group Optimization**
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- Tailored worker grid configurations for different operations
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- Matches GPU hardware characteristics
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- **Local Memory Optimization**
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- Strategic use of local/shared memory for reductions
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- Optimizes bandwidth-intensive operations
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## Early performance of v1.0
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![GPULlama3.java Performance Comparison](./docs/performance.png)

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