Add cuDNN GAT and GATv2 Python APIs - #1021
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant PythonAPI
participant CscGraph
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Caller->>PythonAPI: call mha_gat or mha_gat_v2
PythonAPI->>CscGraph: validate graph and resolve reverse-CSC metadata
PythonAPI->>cuDNN: execute forward or backward attention
cuDNN-->>PythonAPI: return outputs and gradients
PythonAPI-->>Caller: return output and optional attention weights
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Invalid graph indices can crash CUDA work instead of producing a normal validation error; add bounds checking before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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16-24: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse the bound activation enum in Python.
python/gnn.cppalready exposesgnn_activation_op, butmha.pyduplicates its values as raw integers before the binding casts them tocudnnGnnActivationOp_t. Use the bound enum values so the Python layer cannot drift from the backend activation values.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@python/cudnn/gnn/graph.py`:
- Around line 55-56: Update validate_csc_graph to validate every non-empty
indices value is within [0, num_src_nodes) before graph operations can reach
counts.scatter_add_. Skip this bounds check when num_edges is zero, while
preserving the existing shape, dtype, device, and count validations.
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In `@python/cudnn/gnn/mha.py`:
- Around line 16-24: Update _ACTIVATION_TO_INT in mha.py to map activation names
to the bound gnn_activation_op enum values exposed by python/gnn.cpp instead of
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- Line 334: Reorder the cudnn.gnn.CscGraph entries in the API index so
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In `@python/gnn.cpp`:
- Around line 214-256: Add complete py::arg declarations to the
gnn_mha_gat_forward and gnn_mha_gat_v2_forward bindings, matching each lambda
parameter in order and using the public parameter names. Keep the existing
positional behavior and forward implementation unchanged.
In `@test/python/api_index/api_index.txt`:
- Around line 338-339: Update the GNN entries in the API index to use the
exported names mha_gat and mha_gat_v2, replacing the existing gat and gat_v2
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Codex bot review · model: gpt-5.6-sol
Reviewed c79c55361c3d against base 9b9f32781d0c.
Thank you for your contribution! I reviewed the full GAT/GATv2 Python API, binding, autograd, graph-metadata, documentation, and test changes. I found two approval-blocking P1 issues: accepted noncontiguous feature layouts can silently produce incorrectly interpreted gradients, and compile-time cuDNN 9.28 guards permanently remove the new bindings from artifacts built with older supported headers. Please address both before merging. The exact-head OSS pipeline also has two new Linux release-build failures; its Python test jobs remained manual.
[P1 · blocks approval] Allocate backend gradient outputs with contiguous layouts (source)
The public validation accepts noncontiguous feature tensors and forward explicitly normalizes them with .contiguous(), but backward allocates grad_src, grad_dst, and grad_edge with torch.empty_like. For a dense transpose, empty_like preserves the transposed strides. The cudnnGnnMhaGatBackward ABI receives only raw pointers and dimensions, with no stride metadata, so its contiguous writes are then interpreted through a different logical layout. The same pattern appears in GATv2 at mha_gat_v2.py:420-423 and in both fake backward allocators. Please either allocate contiguous gradient buffers (and make the fake implementation report the same layouts) or reject noncontiguous inputs. This P1 blocks approval because a normal, accepted tensor view can silently return wrong gradients rather than raising an error.
Evidence: A focused CUDA allocation probe passed a (2, 4) transposed feature with stride (1, 2) through the current GAT backward allocation path and received grad_src with the same noncontiguous stride. Writing the backend's expected contiguous sequence 0..7 into that storage makes the returned logical tensor [[0,2,4,6],[1,3,5,7]], rather than [[0,1,2,3],[4,5,6,7]]. Source inspection confirms neither C++ backward binding accepts strides. Attribution: Introduced by this PR's GAT and GATv2 backward implementations.
[P1 · blocks approval] Keep the 9.28 bindings in artifacts built with older headers (source)
The #if CUDNN_VERSION >= 92800 block removes all four shim declarations, and the matching guard in python/gnn.cpp:204 removes their pybind exports. This contradicts the include-layer hard rule to declare newer-cuDNN APIs unconditionally and gate them using detail::get_backend_version() at runtime. A wheel built against an older supported cuDNN 9.x header therefore permanently lacks these bindings; installing it next to a 9.28 backend cannot enable the advertised public APIs. Please keep a version-neutral binding ABI in the artifact and return a clear not-supported result when the loaded backend is older than 9.28. This P1 blocks approval because it makes the entire new API unavailable on a normal supported build/install path, and rebuilding the wheel is the only workaround.
Evidence: A clean Release extension build of this head against cuDNN 9.20 headers completed, but import inspection showed gnn_mha_gat_forward, gnn_mha_gat_backward, gnn_mha_gat_v2_forward, and gnn_mha_gat_v2_backward were all absent while cudnn.gnn.mha_gat remained publicly importable and failed at _require_backend. Because the pybind method table is fixed at build time, swapping in a newer runtime library cannot add those exports. Attribution: Introduced by this PR's new 9.28 shim and pybind guards.
Validation: Inspected the complete 17-file diff and traced the public API through validation, custom-op schemas, fake implementations, autograd setup/backward, pybind calls, shim calls, graph metadata, docs, and tests. Built _compiled_module in Release mode from this head against cuDNN 9.20 headers and imported the resulting package to inspect its exported symbol set and public GAT failure mode. Ran a focused CUDA layout/allocation probe on an A100 with torch 2.13.0+cu130, including a known-value contiguous-storage write demonstrating the transposed logical gradient. Ran py_compile on the changed GNN Python implementation files. Exact-head OSS pipeline 69100936 reported 17 passed, 2 new Linux release-build failures, and 6 manual jobs; the API-index, dev Linux builds, Windows release build, analysis, sanitizers, and SM80/SM90/SM100 C++ tests passed. GitHub style and documentation checks passed on the reviewed head.
Limitations: A cuDNN 9.28 backend was not available in the local environment, so I did not execute the new GAT kernels numerically; the exact-head Python test jobs were manual and did not run. The internal logs for the two exact-head Linux release-build failures were not accessible, so I did not attribute those failures to a specific source defect.
I am withholding approval for the high-risk P1 findings above and leaving a COMMENT. Please address them before merging.
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Reviewed a23ab5a7bb25 against base dae3a33463d8.
Thank you for your contribution! The noncontiguous-gradient fix looks correct: both real and fake backward allocation paths now produce compact gradients, and the updated bipartite tests compare all feature gradients against the reference. My focused old/new allocation probe fails on the old revision and passes on this head. The earlier build-time binding availability issue remains unchanged. I also traced the two previously reported release-build failures to the new reverse-CSC member guard; please address both build compatibility issues before merging.
[P1 · blocks approval] Match the reverse-CSC field guard to the headers that provide it (source)
The new CUDNN_VERSION >= 92700 branch unconditionally assigns graph.cscRevOffsets, but the headers used by both Linux release-build jobs do not provide that member. Both jobs fail at line 37 with cudnnGnnCscGraph_t has no member named cscRevOffsets. This helper is compiled independently of the 9.28 GAT binding guard, so it breaks the whole Python extension build even when GAT itself would be excluded. Please use the actual header/API availability boundary for the reverse-CSC fields and verify both the older supported build and the new GAT build. This is an approval-blocking P1 because it fails the normal wheel build on both Linux architectures, rather than just reporting that an optional operation is unsupported.
Evidence: Inspected pipeline 69100936 jobs 450025805 and 450025809: both fail compiling python/gnn.cpp:37 with the same missing-member diagnostic. That pipeline tested c79c553; python/gnn.cpp is byte-identical at a23ab5a. The assignment and its 92700 guard are new relative to the PR merge base. Attribution: Introduced by this PR's make_csc_graph extension; present before the latest Python layout fix.
- [P1 · blocks approval] Still open: Keep the 9.28 bindings in artifacts built with older headers.
Validation: Reviewed all six changed files since c79c553, including the real/fake allocation changes, updated transposed bipartite gradient assertions, documentation and navigation slug. Executed the exact real/fake allocation function definitions in a CPU harness with CUDA validation/backend calls stubbed. Covered GAT and GATv2, transposed source/destination/edge tensors, strided weights, optional edges, FP16/FP32 gradients and both deterministic settings. The old revision failed the compact-layout/packed-write checks in 32/32 cases; this head passed 32/32. Independently read both prior-head Linux release-build logs and checked that the failing native source is unchanged at the reviewed head. Confirmed the reverse-CSC assignment is new relative to the merge base.
Limitations: The allocation probe validates buffer layout and simulated packed writes, not native GAT numerical behavior. A cuDNN 9.28 backend was unavailable locally, so I did not rerun the new GPU regressions or measure GAT performance. Pipeline 69100936 tested c79c553, not this head. Its unchanged native-source failure remains relevant, but it is not a current-head CI result. No additional broad CI was triggered while these build issues remain open.
I am withholding approval for the high-risk P1 findings above and leaving a COMMENT. Please address them before merging.
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Codex bot review · model: gpt-6-astra
Reviewed 2bab7470dc71 against base a5d61f45c08d.
Thank you for your contribution! Both build-compatibility blockers from my previous review are resolved. The frontend-owned ABI types compile against older headers, and GAT/GATv2 remain exported with runtime version checks. I verified the important upgrade path directly: the extension built with cuDNN 9.26 headers runs the GAT/GATv2 tests successfully with a real 9.28 backend. The earlier noncontiguous-gradient fix is retained. No remaining approval-blocking findings.
Validation: Reviewed all five files changed since a23ab5a, including ABI layout checks, all four dynamic/linked GAT call paths, version errors, documentation and test guards. Checked intervening base changes for the affected contracts. Built the complete exact-head Python extension against cuDNN 9.26.0.51 headers. The changed binding also compiles with actual 9.23.1 and 9.28 headers under the project's warnings-as-errors flags, including its ABI assertions. H100, Torch 2.13, cuDNN 9.26: binding-export and aggregation forward/backward tests passed, 80 passed and 2 L2 cases deselected. All four actual GAT/GATv2 native entry points reject 9.26 with an explicit requires-9.28/loaded-9.26 error before CUDA initialization. Using the same 9.26-built extension with a real cuDNN 9.28 backend on H100: GAT and GATv2 suites with explicit L0 or L1 selection finished with 188 passed, 4 L2 cases deselected. This includes noncontiguous bipartite gradients, deterministic paths, optional edges, activations and precision controls. Exact-head Style and Docs workflows passed.
Limitations: Independent numerical validation was on H100; other architectures and the current-head release-wheel CI remain separate checks. No performance comparison was run for this binding-compatibility follow-up.
Approved: no P0 or high-risk P1 found. Remaining findings stay with the owner; merge timing stays with the owner.
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Codex bot review · model: CI follow-up for This confirms the CI build-compatibility fixes. The independent 188-case GAT/GATv2 numerical run on cuDNN 9.28 is recorded separately in the review above. Codex bot review — model |
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Summary
cudnn.gnn.mha_gatandcudnn.gnn.mha_gat_v2operations.high_precision_dgradandhigh_precision_wgradhigh_precision_gradCscGraphwith optional reverse-CSC metadata and awith_reverse_csc()helper.agg_simple.Why
The cuDNN backend now provides native GAT and GATv2 operations in 9.28, but they were not accessible through the cuDNN Frontend Python package.
This change exposes those operations through Python APIs that integrate with PyTorch autograd and follow the existing
cudnn.gnnconventions. It also represents bipartite graphs explicitly, exposes the backend’s deterministic and gradient-precision controls, and keeps reverse-CSC metadata on the reusable graph descriptor.Related issues
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API and compatibility impact
This PR adds the following public Python APIs:
cudnn.gnn.mha_gatcudnn.gnn.mha_gat_v2cudnn.gnn.CscGraph.has_reverse_csccudnn.gnn.CscGraph.with_reverse_cscCscGraphgains the optional, append-only fieldscsc_rev_offsetsandmap_rev_to_coo. Existing construction patterns remain supported.The operations support CUDA FP32, FP16, and BF16 features and weights, with INT32 or INT64 CSC indices. They require:
Deterministic backward requires reverse-CSC metadata.
CscGraph.with_reverse_csc()can construct it when it is not supplied by the application.For FP16 and BF16 inputs, the high-precision options request FP32 gradient computation. They have no effect for FP32 inputs. GAT does not support enabling
high_precision_dgradwithout also enablinghigh_precision_wgrad, matching the backend’s supported gradient-type combinations.No existing public API is removed.
Testing
Tested against the updated cuDNN backend debug build (
linux-x86_64-13.2--debug).