| # Changelog for Composable Kernel | |
| Documentation for Composable Kernel available at [https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/composable_kernel/en/latest/](https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/composable_kernel/en/latest/). | |
| ## Composable Kernel 1.1.0 for ROCm 7.0.0 | |
| ### Added | |
| * Added support for bf16, f32, and f16 for 2D and 3D NGCHW grouped convolution backward data | |
| * Added a fully asynchronous HOST (CPU) arguments copy flow for CK grouped GEMM kernels. | |
| * Added support GKCYX layout for grouped convolution forward (NGCHW/GKCYX/NGKHW, number of instances in instance factory for NGCHW/GKYXC/NGKHW has been reduced). | |
| * Added support for GKCYX layout for grouped convolution forward (NGCHW/GKCYX/NGKHW). | |
| * Added support for GKCYX layout for grouped convolution backward weight (NGCHW/GKCYX/NGKHW). | |
| * Added support for GKCYX layout for grouped convolution backward data (NGCHW/GKCYX/NGKHW). | |
| * Added support for Stream-K version of mixed fp8/bf16 GEMM | |
| * Added support for Multiple D GEMM | |
| * Added GEMM pipeline for microscaling (MX) FP8/FP6/FP4 data types | |
| * Added support for FP16 2:4 structured sparsity to universal GEMM. | |
| * Added support for Split K for grouped convolution backward data. | |
| * Added logit soft-capping support for fMHA forward kernels. | |
| * Added support for hdim as a multiple of 32 for FMHA (fwd/fwd_splitkv) | |
| * Added support for hdim as a multiple of 32 for FMHA (fwd/fwd_splitkv/bwd) | |
| * Added benchmarking support for tile engine GEMM. | |
| * Added Ping-pong scheduler support for GEMM operation along the K dimension. | |
| * Added rotating buffer feature for CK_Tile GEMM. | |
| * Added int8 support for CK_TILE GEMM. | |
| * Added support for elementwise kernel. | |
| ### Optimized | |
| * Optimize the gemm multiply multiply preshuffle & lds bypass with Pack of KGroup and better instruction layout. (#2166) | |
| * Added Vectorize Transpose optimization for CK Tile (#2131) | |
| * Added the asynchronous copy for gfx950 (#2425) | |
| ### Fixes | |
| None | |
| ### Changes | |
| * Removed support for gfx940 and gfx941 targets (#1944) | |
| * Replaced the raw buffer load/store intrinsics with Clang20 built-ins (#1876) | |
| * DL and DPP kernels are now enabled by default. | |
| * Number of instances in instance factory for grouped convolution forward NGCHW/GKYXC/NGKHW has been reduced. | |
| * Number of instances in instance factory for grouped convolution backward weight NGCHW/GKYXC/NGKHW has been reduced. | |
| * Number of instances in instance factory for grouped convolution backward data NGCHW/GKYXC/NGKHW has been reduced. | |
| ### Known issues | |
| None | |
| ## Composable Kernel 1.1.0 for ROCm 6.1.0 | |
| ### Additions | |
| * Added generic instances for GEMM XDL operations (#1161) | |
| * Added gamma and beta parameters for the layernorm and groupnorm bwd operations (#1133) | |
| * Introduced wrapper sublibrary (limited functionality). (#1071, #1098, #1108, #1126) | |
| * Added an option to vary the number of warm-up cycles and iterations for ckProfiler (#1124) | |
| ### Optimizations | |
| * New performance optimizations for GEMM operations on MI200 and MI300 architectures (#1135) | |
| ### Fixes | |
| * Reduced the build time for most GPU architectures (#1084) | |
| * Fixed some conversion issues for fp8 data type (#1099) | |
| ### Changes | |
| None | |
| ### Known issues | |
| None | |
| ## Composable Kernel 1.1.0 for ROCm 6.0.0 | |
| ### Fixes | |
| * Fixed a hazard associated with inline v_dot (#808) | |
| * Fixed two bugs in grouped convolution backward data without K padding (#848 #876) | |
| ### Optimizations | |
| None | |
| ### Additions | |
| * Added an image to a column kernel (#867) | |
| * Added a column to an image kernel (#930) | |
| * Support for 3D grouped convolution on RDNA 3 GPUs (#935, #950, #985) | |
| * Grouped convolution support for small K and C (#822 #879 #897) | |
| * Support for NHWGC (2D and 3D) grouped convolution backward weight (#769 #804) | |
| * Support for bf16/f32/f16 and NHWGC (2D and 3D) grouped convolution backward data (#757 #799) | |
| * Support for Batched GEMM DL (#732) | |
| ### Changes | |
| * Changed the grouped convolution API to maintain consistency with other convolution kernels (#817) | |
| ## Composable Kernel 0.2.0 for ROCm 5.7.0 | |
| ### Fixes | |
| * Fixed a bug in 6-dimensional kernels (#555) | |
| * Fixed a test case failure with grouped convolution backward weight (#524) | |
| ### Optimizations | |
| * Improved the performance of the normalization kernel | |
| ### Additions | |
| * New CMake flags: | |
| * "DL_KERNELS"-* Must be set to "ON" in order to build the GEMM DL and batched_gemm_multi_d_dl instances | |
| * "DTYPES" -- Can be set to any subset of "fp64;fp32;fp16;fp8;bf16;int8" to build an instance of the specified data types | |
| * "INSTANCES_ONLY" -- Only builds CK library and instances without tests, examples, or profiler | |
| * New feature: if GPU_TARGETS is not set in the CMake command line, CK will be built for all targets supported by the compiler | |
| * Support for MI300A/MI300X | |
| * Support for AMD RDNA 3 | |
| * New user tutorial (#563) | |
| * Additional instances for irregular GEMM sizes (#560) | |
| * New inter-wave consumer-producer programming model for GEMM kernels (#310) | |
| * GEMM with support multiple elementwise fusions (multi-D) (#534) | |
| * Multi-embeddings support (#542) | |
| * AMD RDNA 3 blockwise GEMM and real GEMM support (#541) | |
| * AMD RDNA grouped convolution backward weight support (#505) | |
| * MaxPool and AvgPool forward (#815); MaxPool backward (#750) | |
| ### Changes | |
| None | |