Cross Entropy Optimization Problem ==================================== Problem Setting --------------- Design and optimize high-performance Triton kernels for Cross Entropy loss computation on GPU. This problem focuses on implementing efficient cross entropy loss kernels using Triton's JIT compilation system. The challenge involves optimizing: - **Loss computation**: Efficient computation of negative log-likelihood loss - **Memory access patterns**: Efficient loading and storing of logits and targets - **Numerical stability**: Handling log-sum-exp operations with proper numerical stability - **Block tiling**: Optimal block sizes for GPU execution across different batch sizes - **Performance benchmarking**: Achieving speedup over baseline PyTorch implementations Target ------ - **Primary**: Maximize geometric mean speedup over baseline (higher is better) - **Secondary**: Ensure correctness across diverse batch sizes and vocabulary sizes - **Tertiary**: Minimize kernel launch overhead and memory usage API Specification ----------------- Implement a `Solution` class that returns a Triton kernel implementation: ```python class Solution: def solve(self, spec_path: str = None) -> dict: """ Returns a dict with either: - {"code": "python_code_string"} - {"program_path": "path/to/kernel.py"} """ # Your implementation pass ``` Your kernel implementation must provide: ```python import torch import triton import triton.language as tl def cross_entropy(logits: torch.Tensor, targets: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: """ Cross entropy loss computation. Args: logits: Input tensor of shape (M, N) - logits for M samples and N classes targets: Input tensor of shape (M,) - target class indices (int64) Returns: Output tensor of shape (M,) - negative log-likelihood loss for each sample """ pass ``` API Usage Notes --------------- - The evaluator looks for a `cross_entropy` function in the module namespace - Function must handle tensor strides and memory layouts correctly - Must use Triton JIT compilation for kernel definition - Should leverage Triton's autotuning features for optimization - Kernel must handle variable batch sizes and vocabulary sizes efficiently - Output must be float32 tensor of shape (M,) Scoring (0-100) --------------- Performance is measured against GPU baseline implementations: ``` geometric_mean_gpu_time = geometric_mean(gpu_baseline_times) geometric_mean_answer_time = geometric_mean(answer_times) # Linear interpolation: 0 points = 1x GPU baseline, 100 points = 3x GPU baseline target_time_0 = geometric_mean_gpu_time # 0 points (1x GPU baseline) target_time_100 = geometric_mean_gpu_time / 3.0 # 100 points (3x speedup over GPU) score = 100 * (target_time_0 - geometric_mean_answer_time) / (target_time_0 - target_time_100) ``` - 0 points = 1x GPU baseline performance - 100 points = 3x speedup over GPU baseline - Score is linearly interpolated between these two points Note: Correctness is verified against GPU baseline, and scoring spans from 1x GPU baseline (0 points) to 3x GPU baseline (100 points). Evaluation Details ------------------ - Tested on multiple batch sizes: M ∈ {256, 512, 1024} (default) - Fixed vocabulary size: N=8192 (configurable via metadata) - Can also test custom shapes specified in metadata - Correctness verified with tolerance: rtol=1e-3, atol=5e-4 - Performance measured using median execution time - Requires CUDA backend and GPU support - All tests must pass for any score > 0