Dan Foreman-Mackey 28bbbf894f Simplify and consolidate dot algorithm control in lax.
In https://github.com/jax-ml/jax/pull/23574, we added a new `algorithm` parameter to `lax.dot_general` with the goal of giving users explicit control over the specific algorithm used to control dot product accumulation. When using this feature in real use cases, we have found that the API is both too conservative (it required the user to pass the appropriate input types) and too restrictive for common use cases. In this change, I simplify the API to bring it more in line with user expectations, and generalize it to support a broader range of use cases.

The core change is to update the dot_general lowering rule to add explicit type casts to the inputs, making sure that they always have the appropriate storage types going into the `DotGeneral` StableHLO op. Before this change, some backends would implicitly cast for some algorithms (e.g. f32 -> bf16), but error for others. It seems more user friendly to include automatic casts in all cases where a specific algorithm is requested.

Another change in behavior is to (if needed) cast the result of the `DotGeneral` op (which is defined by the algorithm's `accumulation_type`) to match the input types. This means that, regardless of the algorithm choice, the output type will match the value that a user would expect from past use of `lax.dot_general`. The `preferred_element_type` parameter can now be used to control the output type, even when an algorithm is selected.

To summarize, the updated version of `dot_general` accepts _any_ input dtypes, and the output will always match the inputs (under the existing promotion rules if the LHS and RHS don't match) unless `preferred_element_type` is used to select a specific output type. The specified "algorithm" is now more of an implementation detail, rather than the defining feature of the API, and JAX will do whatever it can to satisfy the user's request. (If an algorithm is not supported on the current device, we will still get a compile time error.)

With the above changes in mind, it's no longer really necessary to have a `transpose_algorithm` parameter, because we can now use the same algorithm for the backwards pass. For users who need to customize the algorithm on the backwards pass, that is still possible using `custom_vjp`.

Given the above changes, @sbodenstein made the excellent point that we don't really need the `algorithm` parameter anymore: just accept `DotAlgorithm` inputs to `precision`. I think this is a really nice suggestion, so I have updated the interface to implement this.

One minor negative of this approach is that `preferred_element_type` isn't a great name for what that parameter does when it is used in conjunction with an algorithm. In the long run, I'd like to rename this parameter, but keeping it as is for now seems like the best short term approach.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 683302687
2024-10-07 13:21:34 -07:00

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"""Sparse utilities."""
import functools
from typing import Any, NamedTuple, Union
import numpy as np
import jax
from jax import lax
from jax import tree_util
from jax import vmap
from jax._src import core
from jax._src import dtypes
from jax._src import stages
from jax._src.api_util import flatten_axes
import jax.numpy as jnp
from jax.util import safe_zip
from jax._src.lax.lax import _dot_general_shape_rule, DotDimensionNumbers
from jax._src.typing import Array
class SparseEfficiencyError(ValueError):
pass
class SparseEfficiencyWarning(UserWarning):
pass
class CuSparseEfficiencyWarning(SparseEfficiencyWarning):
pass
Shape = tuple[int, ...]
class SparseInfo(NamedTuple):
shape: Shape
indices_sorted: bool = False
unique_indices: bool = False
#--------------------------------------------------------------------
# utilities
# TODO: possibly make these primitives, targeting cusparse routines
# csr2coo/coo2csr/SPDDMM
def nfold_vmap(fun, N, *, broadcasted=True, in_axes=0):
"""Convenience function to apply (broadcasted) vmap N times."""
_vmap = broadcasting_vmap if broadcasted else vmap
for _ in range(N):
fun = _vmap(fun, in_axes=in_axes)
return fun
def broadcasting_vmap(fun, in_axes=0, out_axes=0):
@functools.wraps(fun)
def batched_fun(*args):
args_flat, in_tree = tree_util.tree_flatten(args)
in_axes_flat = flatten_axes("vmap in_axes", in_tree, in_axes, kws=False)
size = max(arg.shape[i] for arg, i in safe_zip(args_flat, in_axes_flat) if i is not None)
if size > 1:
if any(i is not None and arg.shape[i] not in (1, size)
for arg, i in safe_zip(args_flat, in_axes_flat)):
raise ValueError("broadcasting_vmap: mismatched input shapes")
args_flat, in_axes_flat = zip(*(
(arg, None) if i is None else (lax.squeeze(arg, (i,)), None) if arg.shape[i] == 1 else (arg, i)
for arg, i in zip(args_flat, in_axes_flat)
))
new_args = tree_util.tree_unflatten(in_tree, args_flat)
new_in_axes = tree_util.tree_unflatten(in_tree, in_axes_flat)
return vmap(fun, in_axes=new_in_axes, out_axes=out_axes)(*new_args)
return batched_fun
@jax.jit
def _csr_to_coo(indices: Array, indptr: Array) -> tuple[Array, Array]:
"""Given CSR (indices, indptr) return COO (row, col)"""
return jnp.cumsum(jnp.zeros_like(indices).at[indptr].add(1)) - 1, indices
def _csr_extract(indices: Array, indptr: Array, mat: Array) -> Array:
"""Extract values of dense matrix mat at given CSR indices."""
row, col = _csr_to_coo(indices, indptr)
return _coo_extract(row, col, mat)
def _coo_extract(row: Array, col: Array, mat: Array) -> Array:
"""Extract values of dense matrix mat at given COO indices."""
return mat[row, col]
def _count_stored_elements_per_batch(mat: Array, n_batch: int = 0, n_dense: int = 0) -> Array:
"""Return per-batch number of stored elements (nse) of a dense matrix."""
mat = jnp.asarray(mat)
mask = (mat != 0)
if n_dense > 0:
mask = mask.any(tuple(-(i + 1) for i in range(n_dense)))
mask = mask.sum(tuple(range(n_batch, mask.ndim)))
return mask
def _count_stored_elements(mat: Array, n_batch: int = 0, n_dense: int = 0) -> Array:
"""Return the number of stored elements (nse) of the given dense matrix."""
return _count_stored_elements_per_batch(mat, n_batch, n_dense).max(initial=0)
def _dot_general_validated_shape(
lhs_shape: tuple[int, ...], rhs_shape: tuple[int, ...],
dimension_numbers: DotDimensionNumbers) -> tuple[int, ...]:
"""Validate the inputs and return the output shape."""
lhs = core.ShapedArray(lhs_shape, np.float32)
rhs = core.ShapedArray(rhs_shape, np.float32)
return _dot_general_shape_rule(
lhs, rhs, dimension_numbers=dimension_numbers,
precision=None, preferred_element_type=None)