Avoid accidental FP64 promotion in UMAP, t-SNE and HDBSCAN float kernels - #8538
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Several float kernels in these three algorithms contain unsuffixed double-precision literals (`0.5`, `1e-8`, `pow(x, 2.0 * b)`) or `double` locals. In C++ these silently promote the surrounding float expression to double, so the compiler emits FP64 instructions in kernels that are otherwise entirely single-precision. This costs little on datacenter parts, but consumer GPUs have heavily reduced FP64 throughput (1/64 of FP32 on GeForce Blackwell), so the promoted arithmetic is disproportionately expensive there. Verified by compiling to sm_120 SASS and counting FP64-class opcodes (DADD/DMUL/DFMA/DSETP/MUFU.RCP64H plus F2F/I2F conversions) in kernels whose demangled signature contains no `double`. Across umap.cu, tsne.cu and the hdbscan translation units this drops from 2173 to 12; the remaining 12 are in upstream raft::random Box-Muller code. The `double` instantiations of these same templates are unaffected -- no kernel with `double` in its signature changed its FP64 count. Results are unchanged to float round-off. UMAP and HDBSCAN outputs match to ~1e-8 relative (HDBSCAN membership vectors are bit-identical); t-SNE embeddings have the same scale and structure but are not bit-reproducible against the previous build, since the changed rounding diverges over a long iterative optimisation. One change is a deliberate reduction in working precision: compute_membership_strength_kernel previously accumulated in `double` regardless of `value_t`. It now follows `value_t`, which is what the rest of the fuzzy simplicial set construction already uses. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NbvBYReympEzkFon5cCnFM
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WalkthroughThe change aligns CUDA numeric literals and intermediate values with template types across HDBSCAN, t-SNE, and UMAP. It also replaces equivalent power-based square-root calculations with explicit square-root operations. ChangesCUDA numeric type alignment
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In `@cpp/src/tsne/fft_tsne.cuh`:
- Line 58: Update FunctionalSqrt to preserve value_t precision by returning
value_t and using sqrt(x) instead of converting x to float and calling sqrtf.
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| __host__ __device__ float operator()(const value_t& x) const | ||
| { | ||
| return pow(x, 0.5); | ||
| return sqrtf(static_cast<float>(x)); |
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Preserve value_t precision in FunctionalSqrt.
When value_t is double, static_cast<float>(x) rounds each force before sqrtf. thrust::transform writes the rounded result back to the value_t force buffer, which feeds grad_norm and early stopping. Return value_t and call sqrt(x) instead.
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In `@cpp/src/tsne/fft_tsne.cuh` at line 58, Update FunctionalSqrt to preserve
value_t precision by returning value_t and using sqrt(x) instead of converting x
to float and calling sqrtf.
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Summary
A handful of float kernels in UMAP, t-SNE and HDBSCAN contain unsuffixed double literals (
0.5,1e-8,pow(x, 2.0 * b)) ordoublelocals. C++ promotes the surrounding float expression to double, so nvcc emits FP64 instructions in kernels that are otherwise entirely single-precision.This is close to free on datacenter parts, but consumer GPUs have heavily reduced FP64 throughput — 1/64 of FP32 on GeForce Blackwell — so the promoted arithmetic is disproportionately expensive there. This PR types those literals to
value_t/Tso the float instantiations stay in float.Please read the benchmark section before treating this as a performance PR — the end-to-end gains are small, and zero for UMAP.
How the sites were found
Source grep alone is far too noisy (most double literals are compile-time conversions that nvcc folds away — e.g.
smooth_knn_dist_kernelandoptimize_batch_kernellook suspicious in source but emit no FP64 at all, and are deliberately left alone here).Instead each candidate was compiled to sm_120 SASS, and FP64-class opcodes (
DADD/DMUL/DFMA/DSETP/MUFU.RCP64HplusF2F.F64.F32/I2F.F64conversions) were counted per kernel, keeping only kernels whose demangled signature contains nodouble.-lineinfoplusnvdisasm -gthen attributed each instruction to a source line.Across
umap.cu,tsne.cuand the HDBSCAN TUs, FP64-class instructions in float-only kernels drop from 2173 to 12. The remaining 12 are in upstreamraft::randomBox-Muller code, outside this repo.Kernels with
doublein their signature were checked separately: zero of them changed their FP64 count, so the double instantiations are unaffected.Benchmarks (RTX 5090, CUDA 13.2, sm_120)
Per kernel the improvements are large:
FunctionalSqrttransform (1M)Optimize::map_kernel(1M)dist_membership_vectorsoftmax map (200k×32)compute_membership_strength_kernel(500k×15)FFT::IntegrationKernel(500k)Those numbers are misleading as a headline, though. Whole-run profiling shows the kernels this PR touches account for 3.89 ms of 2193.6 ms of GPU kernel time (0.18%) across a combined UMAP + t-SNE + HDBSCAN session. End to end, on 200k×64 synthetic blobs:
all_points_membership_vectors, 20 clustersall_points_membership_vectors, 500 clustersSo realistically:
optimize_batch_kernel, which had no FP64 to begin with.min_grad_normearly.IntegrationKerneland the gradient-norm transform run every iteration, so the saving scales withn_iter.I would suggest taking this on correctness/hygiene grounds — unintended type promotion in a single-precision kernel is a bug even where it is cheap — rather than as a performance improvement. It is a small diff and it makes the intent of the arithmetic explicit.
Numerics
Output buffers were fingerprinted (sum, sum-of-squares, max, NaN count) in both builds:
FunctionalSqrt: bit-identicalOptimize::f: identical to 10 significant digitsOne caveat worth flagging: full-length t-SNE embeddings are no longer bit-reproducible against the previous build. Total spread agrees to 0.04% (
sumsq1.70359e8 vs 1.70430e8) and the embedding is equally good, but the changed rounding diverges over 1000 iterations. Tests that score trustworthiness are fine; anything pinning exact t-SNE coordinates would need regenerating.One change is a deliberate reduction in working precision rather than a no-op:
compute_membership_strength_kernelpreviously accumulated indoubleregardless ofvalue_t, and now followsvalue_tlike the rest of the fuzzy simplicial set construction. That is the change most worth a reviewer's eye.Testing
I have not been able to run the C++ gtests (
cpp/tests/sg/{umap_parametrizable,tsne,hdbscan}_test.cu) locally — my build is configured with a restrictedCUML_ALGORITHMSset. Validation so far is the SASS analysis and the output fingerprinting above, so CI coverage on these three algorithms would be worth watching.🤖 Generated with Claude Code