Wave 42 built the BF16 kernel ladder against synthetic
weights. Wave 46 closes the loop on REAL bytes: a 7.4 GiB
nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-BF16 single-file
safetensors checkpoint (one of the four models in the
current coverage question), pulled to the external drive
and driven through the full substrate stack.
NEW examples/bf16_bringup.rs — verification harness
1. Load via dispatch::read_any_model (wave 41 sniffs the
extension, wave 34 reader parses) — NOT the
format-specific entry point; this exercises the
dispatcher on a real file.
2. Pick the 3 largest 2-D BF16 matrices.
3. Run m=1 (single-token decode shape) matmul through
all three routes: fused scalar / fused NEON /
bulk-dequant→f32.
4. Cross-check routes at 1e-4 rel; exit 1 on mismatch.
MEASURED (Apple Silicon dev box, single thread)
checkpoint load (read_any_model) 1.69 s / 7.4 GiB
263 tensors, 94 2-D BF16 matrices
backbone.embeddings.weight 131072×3136 784 MiB
scalar 310.4 ms neon 49.2 ms (6.3×) dequant 423.4 ms
lm_head.weight 131072×3136 784 MiB
scalar 312.4 ms neon 48.4 ms (6.5×) dequant 333.9 ms
backbone.layers.0.mixer.in_proj.weight 17504×3136
scalar 42.1 ms neon 6.6 ms (6.4×) dequant 56.7 ms
Max relative divergence across routes on real weight
bytes: 3.2e-6. ALL ROUTES AGREE.
WHAT THE NUMBERS SAY
The NEON bf16 decode (vshll_n_u16 widening shift IS the
whole conversion) sustains ~16 GB/s of weight traffic
single-threaded — 6.3-6.5× over scalar, consistent
across a 7.5× spread of matrix sizes.
The dequant→f32 route LOSES to fused even at 784 MiB:
the 2× widened slab (1.53 GiB) blows every cache level.
It only wins with the AMX cblas_sgemm backend + m ≥ 2 —
exactly the routing rule wave 42's docs predicted, now
confirmed on real weights.
BENCHMARKS.md: new section with the table above.
Checkpoint cached at hf_hub on the external drive
(HF_HUB_CACHE=/Volumes/macos_4TB_external_1/hf_hub) for
future waves — the Mamba-family layout (backbone.layers.N
.mixer.*) is also the right test target for an eventual
hybrid-SSM forward pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
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//! Wave 46 real-checkpoint bring-up: run the BF16 kernel
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//! ladder (scalar / NEON / bulk-dequant→f32) against REAL
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//! weight bytes from a BF16 safetensors checkpoint.
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//!
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//! ```bash
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//! cargo run --release --example bf16_bringup -- path/to/model-00001-of-N.safetensors
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//! ```
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//!
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//! For each of the largest BF16 matrices in the file:
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//! 1. slice the raw bytes out of the mmap
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//! 2. run a [1, k] × [n, k] matmul through all three routes
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//! 3. cross-check the routes against each other (1e-4 rel)
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//! 4. report wall-clock per route
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//!
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//! Exit code 1 if any route disagrees — this is a
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//! verification harness, not a benchmark.
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use jouleclaw_loader_gguf::dispatch::{read_any_model, AnyModel};
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use jouleclaw_loader_gguf::matmul_bf16::{
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dequant_bf16_to_f32, matmul_bf16_neon, matmul_bf16_scalar,
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};
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use jouleclaw_loader_gguf::matmul_f::matmul_f32_scalar;
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use jouleclaw_loader_gguf::safetensors_reader::SafetensorsDtype;
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use std::path::PathBuf;
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use std::time::Instant;
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fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
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let args: Vec<String> = std::env::args().collect();
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if args.len() < 2 {
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eprintln!("usage: bf16_bringup <path.safetensors>");
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std::process::exit(1);
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}
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let path = PathBuf::from(&args[1]);
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println!("checkpoint: {}", path.display());
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let t0 = Instant::now();
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let model = read_any_model(&path).map_err(|e| format!("dispatch: {e}"))?;
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let st = match model {
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AnyModel::Safetensors(s) => s,
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other => {
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return Err(format!(
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"expected a safetensors checkpoint, dispatcher said {other:?}"
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).into());
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}
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};
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println!("loaded via read_any_model in {:.3}s — {} tensors, {}",
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t0.elapsed().as_secs_f64(),
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st.tensors.len(),
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humanize(st.mmap.len() as u64),
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);
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// Pick the largest 2-D BF16 tensors.
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let mut bf16_mats: Vec<_> = st.tensors.iter()
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.filter(|t| t.dtype == SafetensorsDtype::BF16 && t.shape.len() == 2)
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.collect();
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bf16_mats.sort_by_key(|t| std::cmp::Reverse(t.data_len));
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if bf16_mats.is_empty() {
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return Err("no 2-D BF16 tensors in this file".into());
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}
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println!("\n{} 2-D BF16 matrices; verifying the 3 largest:\n", bf16_mats.len());
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let mut failures = 0u32;
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for t in bf16_mats.iter().take(3) {
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let n = t.shape[0] as usize;
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let k = t.shape[1] as usize;
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let w = st.tensor_bytes(t);
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println!("== {} [{} x {}] {}", t.name, n, k, humanize(t.data_len));
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// Synthetic but deterministic activation row.
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let m = 1usize;
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let a: Vec<f32> = (0..k).map(|i| ((i % 31) as f32 - 15.0) * 0.05).collect();
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// Route 1: fused scalar.
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let mut out_scalar = vec![0f32; m * n];
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let t1 = Instant::now();
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matmul_bf16_scalar(&a, w, &[], m, n, k, &mut out_scalar);
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let d_scalar = t1.elapsed();
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// Route 2: fused NEON.
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let mut out_neon = vec![0f32; m * n];
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let t2 = Instant::now();
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matmul_bf16_neon(&a, w, &[], m, n, k, &mut out_neon);
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let d_neon = t2.elapsed();
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// Route 3: bulk dequant → f32 matmul.
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let mut w_f32 = vec![0f32; n * k];
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let t3 = Instant::now();
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dequant_bf16_to_f32(w, &mut w_f32);
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let mut out_dequant = vec![0f32; m * n];
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matmul_f32_scalar(&a, &w_f32, &[], m, n, k, &mut out_dequant);
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let d_dequant = t3.elapsed();
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// Cross-check all three routes.
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let mut max_rel = 0f32;
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for j in 0..n {
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let s = out_scalar[j];
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for (label, v) in [("neon", out_neon[j]), ("dequant", out_dequant[j])] {
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let denom = s.abs().max(1.0);
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let rel = ((s - v) / denom).abs();
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if rel > max_rel {
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max_rel = rel;
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}
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if rel > 1e-4 {
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eprintln!(" MISMATCH col {j} {label}: scalar={s}, {label}={v}");
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failures += 1;
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}
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}
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}
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println!(" scalar {:>9.2} ms", d_scalar.as_secs_f64() * 1e3);
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println!(" neon {:>9.2} ms ({:.1}x vs scalar)",
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d_neon.as_secs_f64() * 1e3,
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d_scalar.as_secs_f64() / d_neon.as_secs_f64().max(1e-9));
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println!(" dequant {:>9.2} ms (incl. widen of {})",
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d_dequant.as_secs_f64() * 1e3, humanize((n * k * 4) as u64));
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println!(" max relative divergence across routes: {max_rel:.2e}");
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// Sanity: output is finite and non-degenerate.
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let finite = out_scalar.iter().all(|v| v.is_finite());
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let nonzero = out_scalar.iter().any(|v| *v != 0.0);
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println!(" output finite: {finite}, non-degenerate: {nonzero}\n");
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if !finite || !nonzero {
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failures += 1;
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}
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}
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if failures > 0 {
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eprintln!("FAILED: {failures} mismatches");
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std::process::exit(1);
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}
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println!("ALL ROUTES AGREE on real checkpoint bytes.");
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Ok(())
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}
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fn humanize(n: u64) -> String {
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const KB: u64 = 1024;
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const MB: u64 = KB * 1024;
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const GB: u64 = MB * 1024;
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if n >= GB {
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format!("{:.2} GiB", n as f64 / GB as f64)
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} else if n >= MB {
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format!("{:.2} MiB", n as f64 / MB as f64)
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} else if n >= KB {
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format!("{:.2} KiB", n as f64 / KB as f64)
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} else {
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format!("{} B", n)
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}
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}
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